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The Water Cooler Title: Murdoch Fallout Spreads: Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton Resigns Les Hinton, the chief operating officer of Dow Jones, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, is resigning, the newspaper's website said late Friday. Word of Hinton's resignation comes amid an unprecedented wave of scandals that has rocked News Corporation's British newspaper holdings, forcing the resignation of News International CEO Rebekah Brooks earlier this morning. Hinton is the former chief of News International, which oversees global media mogul Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers. As one of Murdoch's top deputies for over 50 years, Hinton oversaw the News Corp. subsidiary while a number of its papers were allegedly engaging in phone hacking and bribery, targeting British officials, celebrities, terrorist attack victims, the families of dead soldiers and others. He's on record as claiming just one of the company's journalists was responsible for the phone hacking, which he allegedly determined after an internal investigation. "Let me emphasize one point - News Corporation is not Rupert Murdoch," Murdoch wrote in a memo to Dow Jones employees. "It is the collective creativity and effort of many thousands of people around the world, and few individuals have given more to this company than Les Hinton." "I want you all to know the pride and pleasure I have taken working at Dow Jones for the past three-and-a-half years. I have never been with better, more dedicated people, or had more fun in a job," Hinton wrote in his resignation letter. U.S. officials with the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation have formally launched investigations into the New York-based News Corp. to determine whether any of its employees targeted U.S. citizens or officials in their schemes. British officials were already investigating the firm. Australia, where Murdoch is a citizen, said it too is considering launching an investigation. So far, nine arrests have been made by British police. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest OMG!!! Will you still get your CHECK, Baghdad Bob??? It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow Orwells' mottos: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished. Stephen King once observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [and] …logic can be happily tossed out the window. This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY. Because THEY are religious zealots... Their God... is the STATE. #2. To: Brian S (#0) Fox News Viewers are increasing to see when FOX actually starts talking about this. The problem for Fox is Every Hacking Story that comes along and that it's in the MSM Band on the Field, but it's Off key, Out of Step, and playing the wrong song. Jeff Sparrow The Phony Populism of Rupert Murdoch Susil Gupta Murdoch's Mafia David Swanson The Blood on Murdoch's Hands
#3. To: All (#2) 4000 Hacked calls in the UK and None in the US? Since 9/11. Promis software. 1. Rigged Software Claimed to Hack Intelligence Files, by Valerie ... http://www.american-buddha.com/rigged.software.htm - Cached You +1'd this publicly. Undo RIGGED SOFTWARE CLAIMED TO HACK INTELLIGENCE FILES ... The Promis software was at the centre of a major U.S. scandal a decade ago. Bill and Nancy Hamilton, ... Å8; 2. Wackenhut Corporation and the Inslaw Promis Software, at American ... http://www.american-buddha.com/wackenhut.htm - Cached You +1'd this publicly. Undo WACKENHUT CORPORATION AND THE INSLAW PROMIS SOFTWARE .... About Murder and ... # # PROMIS Software: What You Need to Know theminorityreport.forummo...promis-software-what-yo... - Cached You +1'd this publicly. Undo 1 post - Last post: Sep 6, 2010 Subject: PROMIS Software: What You Need to Know Mon Sep 06, ... With this system, votes could be stolen and any computer hacked. ... Get more discussion results # Abernathy Murder: The Promis Software Affair http://www.rocks4brains.com/promis.html - CachedSimilar You +1'd this publicly. Undo This back door would allow outside intelligence agencies to hack computers where Promis was installed. As someone who's worked as a software professional on ...
#4. To: Capitalist Eric, All (#1) Attention Everyone. Capitalist Eric is a paid op of Murdoch. I'll need an Alt Arguement to explain why he's defending the Rat bAstard....;} 8D After a week of silence on the matter....8D
#5. To: All (#4) on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 16:18 #1460780 CEO of dow jones, publisher of wall street, right hand of Murdoch resigns Newsroom gasped, went silent as the memos hit. From Murdoch: Let me emphasize one point - News Corporation is not Rupert Murdochless than a minute ago via web Favorite
#6. To: All (#5) (Edited) 21.30 Les Hinton was chairman of News International from 1995 to 2007, the period in which phone hacking is alleged to have taken place but from his base in New York, he had managed to remain offstage as the scandal's drama played out. Did he resign today because he knew that with Rebekah Brooks gone he could be next in the firing line? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8617707/News-of-the-World-phone-hacking-live.html
Like a bleeding shark in a school of pihranas...;}
#7. To: All (#6) You'd think that FOX would be All over this story. It has Everything! Will the Prime Minister or Murdoch go first.
The week that ended Brooks's career www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...International-career.html
#8. To: All (#7) :: Thursday July 14 – Rupert Murdoch and his son James bow to pressure and agree to join Ms Brooks in giving evidence to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Mr Murdoch senior tells the Wall Street Journal he will challenge the "total lies" told about News Corporation when he appears before MPs on the following Tuesday. Former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis is arrested on suspicion on phone hacking, putting Scotland Yard under pressure to explain why it employed him as a PR consultant in 2009-10.
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#4)
Please provide your "evidence." Oh, can't DO it? Then SHUT THE FUCK UP. It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow Orwells' mottos: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished. Stephen King once observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [and] …logic can be happily tossed out the window. This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY. Because THEY are religious zealots... Their God... is the STATE. #10. To: Capitalist Eric (#9) Then SHUT THE FUCK UP. That must mean you plead guilty.
#11. To: Capitalist Eric (#9) Eric is a paid op of Murdoch. That you attack the Very minimal posting at LF pointing out that Murdoch, One of THE MSM Architects of the 10 Year War of Terror, who has NEVER apologized for the Lies that have now, 10 Years later cost millions of lives and $6 Trillion... And Your FIRST post on the Promis Phone Hacking, and God knows what else, is to attack(and in doin g defending Murdoch/FOX... Breaking: "Scotland Yard's most senior officers tried to convince the Guardian during two private meetings that its coverage of phone hacking was exaggerated and incorrect without revealing they had hired Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, as an adviser. The first meeting in December 2009, which included the Metropolitan police commissioner Paul Stephenson, was two months after Wallis was employed by the Yard as a public relations consultant. Wallis, 60, who was deputy to Andy Coulson, the NoW editor at the time of the phone hacking, was arrested on Thursday as part of Operation Weeting."
#12. To: All (#11) The Laugh Riot's going to be when FOX NEWS (what a joke) tries to bring the sheeple up to speed on why FOX NEWS is being dismantled like it's News ofthe World/Sun Media in England... I'm watching FOX All the time now, wondering when they'll Break the News....LMFAO 8D
#13. To: mininggold (#10) LMFAO 8D BTW.... BUMP
#14. To: All (#13) So when do we find out how many "PR Advisors" the FBI has hired from FOX NEWS.....8D "Scotland Yard's most senior officers tried to convince the Guardian during two private meetings that its coverage of phone hacking was exaggerated and incorrect without revealing they had hired Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World, as an adviser. The first meeting in December 2009, which included the Metropolitan police commissioner Paul Stephenson, was two months after Wallis was employed by the Yard as a public relations consultant. Wallis, 60, who was deputy to Andy Coulson, the NoW editor at the time of the phone hacking, was arrested on Thursday as part of Operation Weeting."
#15. To: All (#14) FOX NEWS Advisor to FBI: "I advise you to grab ALL photos/vids from 9/11 and put them in a NIST file. Then DEEP SIX the NIST file into Classified...."
#16. To: mcgowanjm (#11) Capitalist Eric: Please provide your "evidence." Translation: There IS no evidence, so maybe hot air will sufficiently distract. Thanks for playing, ass-hat. You did exactly what I expected. It was fun. It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow Orwells' mottos: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished. Stephen King once observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [and] …logic can be happily tossed out the window. This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY. Because THEY are religious zealots... Their God... is the STATE. #17. To: Capitalist Eric, mcgowanjm (#16) I haven't seen mcgowanjm this animated about anything since the Columbia Express crashed in his backyard
#18. To: Capitalist Eric (#16) Translation: There IS no evidence, so maybe hot air will sufficiently distract. And if it was up to you no evidence would ever be allowed to be uncovered.
#19. To: mininggold (#10) That must mean you plead guilty.
Rule of Disinformation #15. Fit the facts to alternate conclusions. This requires creative thinking unless the crime was planned with contingency conclusions in place. I'm sick of you socialists. I'm sick of your lies and how proud you are of you dull stupity. Oh, you say how "intolerant" I am, when you try to piss on my shoes and then tell me it's raining. I'm tired of your bullshit statements, which are straight from the MSM. It's like somebody pulls a little ring on your back, and "ACK! Democrats GOOOOOOD, Republicans BAAAAAAAAD." You fools. You MORONS. You think socialism will save this country, when the reality is that socialism (and corporatism) have DESTROYED it. It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow Orwells' mottos: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished. Stephen King once observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [and] …logic can be happily tossed out the window. This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY. Because THEY are religious zealots... Their God... is the STATE. #20. To: Get Outta Dodge!, Capitalist Eric, All (#17) Thanx alot Newcomer!!! It's Soo Easy when Humpty Dumpty falls.... You've changed your moniker, eh? 8D Long time no hear. A few more hints to your ID....;} Giuliani and Netanyahu WITHIN BLOCKS of each other and the Subway Blast. Cheney and Murdoch and 9/11 sitting in a tree... K I S S I N G
#21. To: Capitalist Eric (#16) So how did I get off your Black List, CE? Say something to rile you? Going broke fast is a very compelling problem. For ordinary people it tends to induce chicken-with-no-head syndrome - a mad burst of pointless locomotion ending in sudden collapse.
#22. To: Get Outta Dodge!, Capitalist Eric, Jim, All (#20) The Talking Clock: Sean Hoare: After Diana, Dr. David Kelly ... talking-clock.blogspot.com/.../sean-hoare-after-diana-dr-david-kelly.html Jul 20, 2011 – Jean Charles de Menezes - at the time, he was an 'Islamist terrorist' wearing a suicide bomb belt shot by heroic cops. Only later did it emerge that he was simply an unarmed Brazilian who had ... So, good luck in selling Sean Hoare's death to the British ..... 13 hours ago. Adventures in Time Travel ... FOX quiet as a Mouse.... SHHHHHHH I'm Hunting WABBITS.......8D
#23. To: mcgowanjm (#22) Be VEWWY, VEWWY quiet then.
#24. To: Fred Mertz (#23) Be VEWWY, VEWWY quiet then. 8D
#25. To: All (#24) And so. To continue. "Rebekah Still Doesn’t Get It by craig on July 19, 2011 9:06 am in Uncategorized The continuing hubris of the News International lot is really quite astonishing. These people do not seem to have realised they no longer have the world in their pocket. I thought this one really took the biscuit; Rebekah Brooks’ lawyer complains that the police have damaged her reputation. To which the reply is, what reputation? When you consider how Hayman, Coulson and Brooks conspired to trash the reputation of newly murdered Jean Charles De Menezes by publishing deliberate lies about him, that is sick. Even more sick when you consider that Cressida Dick, who orchestrated Menezes’ murder, is now in charge of the anti-terrorist squad as a result of all the resignations." We're to the 7/7 Bombing now.... Unraveling fast: Anthrax/ Fort Dietrick Wikimedia - Bruce Ivins in 2003 Salon, July 19, 2011 Ever since the FBI claimed (for a second time) that it had discovered in 2008 the identity of the anthrax attacker -- the recently-deceased-by-suicide Army researcher Bruce Ivins -- it was glaringly obvious, as I documented many times, that the case against him was exceedingly weak, unpersuasive and full of gaping logical, scientific, and evidentiary holes. So dubious are the FBI's claims that serious doubt has been raised and independent investigations demanded not by marginalized websites devoted to questioning all government claims, but rather, by the nation's most mainstream, establishment venues, ones that instinctively believe and defend such claims -- including the editorial pages of the nation's largest newspapers, leading scientific journals, the nation's preeminent science officials, and key politicians from both parties (led by those whose districts, or offices, were most affected by the attacks).
#26. To: All (#25) "Since that initial wave of doubt, the FBI's case against Ivins has continuously deteriorated even further. In February of this year, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences released its findings solely regarding the bureau's alleged scientific evidence (independent investigations of the full case against Ivins have been successfully blocked by the Obama administration), and found -- as The New York Times put it -- that "the bureau overstated the strength of genetic analysis linking the mailed anthrax to a supply kept by" Ivins; the Washington Post headline summarized the impact of those findings: "Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI case against Bruce Ivins." But the biggest blow yet to the FBI's case has just occurred as the result of an amazing discovery by PBS' Frontline, which is working on a documentary about the case with McClatchy and ProPublica: The Justice Department has called into question a key pillar of the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins. . . . On July 15 [], Justice Department lawyers acknowledged in court papers that the sealed area in Ivins' lab -- the so-called hot suite -- did not contain the equipment needed to turn liquid anthrax into the refined powder that floated through congressional buildings and post offices in the fall of 2001." www.salon.com/news/opinio.../07/19/anthrax/index.html
#27. To: All (#26) An unholy alliance, surely? Mr Murdoch is the co-owner, with Prince Walid, of Fox News - one of the most virulently anti-Muslim television stations in the world. The station gives a megaphone to the likes of Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Sarah Palin. In the US, Fox's role was to throw gallons of petrol on the flames Islamophobia which were leading to the burning of the Holy Quran by vigilantes. Then there is the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy. The planned building was, of course, not at Ground Zero. It was not a mosque but an Islamic centre. The centre was partially funded by Prince Walid, the co-owner with Murdoch of Islamophobic media fire-raisers including Fox News and the New York Post. Prince Walid it will be recalled was roundly insulted by the government of New York City when they returned the cheque he donated to the victims of the 9/11 attacks. A glutton for punishment no doubt. Murdoch's newspapers in Britain are little better than their US-counterparts and include photographs and sexualised images which would never see the light of day in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. As a whole it is safe to say that Murdoch's nearly 200 newspapers - and his television stations in so far as he can compel the latter which are more tightly regulated - are bastions of fanatically pro-Israel, anti-Muslim bigotry. Yet they are co-owned by a member of the Saudi Royal family who not only approves of these practices, but regards the mogul Murdoch as his "good friend".
#28. To: All (#27) When they couldn’t palm it off on Dr. Steven Hatfill – because he bravely fought back, and was fully exonerated after a life-shattering battle – they looked around for another scapegoat, and found a likely one in Ivins. One profile, published in the Los Angeles Times, starts out like this: “He roamed the University of Cincinnati campus with a loaded gun. When his rage overflowed, the brainy microbiology major would open fire inside empty buildings, visualizing a wall clock or other object as a person who had done him wrong.” Ivins was convicted in the media, and driven to suicide, and yet the same media has since joined with several prominent politicians and scientists to challenge the verdict. The government admits the evidence [.pdf] against Ivins is purely circumstantial, and is coming under increasing pressure to reopen the investigation as, one by one, the pillars of its case against Ivins have collapsed.
#29. To: All (#28) What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to - ordering the country's armed forces to war?
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