Should a hitman 'retire' Rupert Murdoch?

[max_tranmere]

I agree there are other powerful people pulling certain strings, like people who run massive corporations and so on. One thing we used to have here, but thankfully don't anymore, is undisclosed Party financing. Tony Blair changed the rules in 1997 and made it so all political parties had to publish any donation they received over ?5,000. Prior to then it was all in secret. Many times were Margaret Thatcher, and later John Major, asked where their Party financing was coming from and they would never say. No one knew if 5% of it was coming from abroad or whether it was 95%. No one knew if dodgy foreign regimes where bankrolling our ruling Party or what. Much of the Government's policies could (and probably were) influenced by these people, and no one knew who they were or whether they were domestic or foreign. I admire Blair for making the whole thing transparent. So yes, there is Murdoch and there are big corporations too. I would imagine western governments may be more or less inclined to enter wars internationally based on what big oil barons want for example. In terms of domestic policy making, and the relationship we have with Europe though, I can't think of anyone (like I said above) who influences things as much as old Rupert does.

[supsim96]

If you took a sample group of "British" teens nowadays you'd probably find them:

1) - wearing american nike sneakers
2) - eating american mcdonalds hamburgers
3) - drinking american coca cola
4) - listening to american gangster rap music
5) - watching their favourite of 500 channels of crud american tv
6) - smoking american marlboro cigarettes
7) - fitting american Levi blue jeans
8) - holidaying at their american disney utopia
9) - dreaming of their first american budweiser lager
etc etc etc etc

Why? Because they have been brainwashed by Mr Rupert and his american movies, american tv programmes and adverts for american products . . . .

Millions of people in Japan, China, South Korea spend their early Sunday morning hours glued to English Premier League football matches.

Why? Because they have been brainwashed by Mr Rupert and his satellite tv friends into becoming "fans" of soccer - a sport alien to their cultures.

Q: How many British spend their late nights watching table tennis from Shanghai?, Sumo from Yokohama? etc etc etc

A: Zero!

Mr Rupert has been at the forefront of the British American Project - an organisation with aspirations to anglicise the world and continue american global financial and "cultural" (sic) domination. Satellite TV, the Internet and Hollywood have been the vanguard of this Reagan-Thatcher agenda.

If I was Rupert, on waking-up on September 12th 2001, I'd have said: "Oh f*ck, I've really done it now" - what were al-qaeda attacking against? Imposition of Western "Values", culture, inequality, hedonism etc etc via the powerful media of music, satellite TV, hollywood films and the Internet.

Rupert can't be killed, the UK, US, Australian and Israeli governments that built him up won't allow for harm to ever come his way!

[Robches]

Actually the News of the Screws weren't bugging phones, they were hacking into the voicemails of people too stupid to change the factory setting default code. It used to be piss easy to listen in on old analogue mobile phones, modern digital ones are a different matter.

[max_tranmere]

rob, but what were they bugging them for? Regardless of how easy it might be, there had to have been a reason for what they were doing. If Murdoch could get 'the dirt' on various people that would help him in his quest to determine who will be running the country from next year onwards. There are things he could use against those concerned.

[jj]

max_tranmere wrote:
> rob, but what were they bugging them for?

4WIW, the CIA used to phone-tap [stlll do?] anyone, in any
country, that they regarded as 'iffy'.
It's a peculiarly inept form of surveillance [as the people in
Eastern Europe quickly discovered]; once one becomes aware
of it, it's pretty easy to circumvent.