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THERE is a publication in Australia where for every one story you read which agrees society should take firm steps to combat climate change, there are four stories suggesting w…
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THERE is a publication in Australia where for every one story you read which agrees society should take firm steps to combat climate change, there are four stories suggesting w…
Continue readingIf you know of Steve Coogan you know of a very funny man who made his fame as the blustery TV host, Alan Partridge and in movies such as “Tropic Thunder” and “Our Idiot Brother” (don’t hold that last one against him). He’s also a quick wit, a some…
Continue readingYou don’t have to be under criminal investigation for tapping voicemails to be a corrupt organization. If you’re a news outfit, all you have to do is print yellowed, sensationalistic profiles solely intended to demean anything or anyone outside your ideological world view.
Such is the case with legendary 60′s icon and . . . → Read More: Rupert Murdoch fear mongers Robert Crumb from visiting Sydney
Continue readingYou don’t have to have criminal prosecutions for tapping voicemails to be a corrupt organization. If you’re a news outfit, all you have to do is print yellowed, sensationalistic profiles solely intended to demean anything or anyone outside your ideolog…
Continue readingThe late Dalton Camp, former president of the now defunct federal Progressive Conservative Party, tells a story in his book: Whose Country is This Anyway, of a group of young conservatives who had disrupted a speech by Jean Charest.Charest at the time,…
Continue readingGotcha! Britain’s Private Eye magazine satirizes the Murdoch Fambly Saga across the Pond. Nothing like the Eye in Canada, more’s the pity! (Where is Michael Bate now that we need him?) Below: Rupert Murdoch, in happier times; Kory Teneycke, late of…
Continue readingYou could almost be forgiven for thinking that the scumbag hacks & corporate puppetmasters couldn’t possibly sink any lower than what had already been revealed. I mean, Murdoch’s crew of despicable skinbags hacked the phone of a murdered teenage gi…
Continue readingNo doubt Breitbart’s money and backing will get him off in the long run but for now it is somewhat satisfying to see that Shirley Sherrod still has some room to continue her libel suit against the Murdoch-like web entrepreneur.Leon denied Breitbart’s i…
Continue readingFrom a fine website called Think Progress.
I’d love to take the axe to that tentacle on the right!
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As if this week’s Rupert Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal wasn’t enough, it now appears that the University of East Anglia CRU email hacking scandal (a.k.a. Climategate) might …
Continue readingFridays are the days I usually focus on good news. I think the best news around these days is that Rupert Murdoch and his right-wing, democracy-corrupting News International is finally being subjected to the harsh light of public and criminal investiga…
Continue readingDuring his testimony to the British Parliament, Rupert Murdoch claimed not to know about the phone hacking.However, two former executives with News Corp disputed the claim, saying that Murdoch was warned several times that phone hacking at one of the c…
Continue readingThis low.From Murdoch’s The Times.
Continue readingWhat we know so far about the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp scandal may just be the tip of the iceberg. Keith Olbermann wrote yesterday on his blog about the connection between Murdoch’s News Corp and the stolen “climate-gate” emails: The …
Continue readingWell this article is an interesting addition to the swirl of debate and exposé that’s happening around Rupert Murdoch. The attached article is from J-Wire and is written by Isi Leibler. As all this scandal and humiliation was unfolding, I hadn’t consi…
Continue readingDid anyone else get an Uncle Leo vibe from Murdoch’s “old man” routine yesterday? It is the oldest trick in the book, the old “I can’t be guilty because I am a doddering old coot”.
Continue readingMy friend Gary, who has developed quite a talent for epistolary irony, sent me an email this morning on the Murdoch appearance yesterday before the British Parliament. With his permission, I am posting it here:Hi Lorne: I was pleased to see and hear t…
Continue readingPoor guy. Some “rogue” employees at News of The World decide to hack into some phones, and he’s forced to shutter the 148 year old tabloid (the first newspaper he bought, incidentally), plus his bid to buy a majority bid into SkyNews …
Continue readingWell I must admit that I was a bit disappointed by yesterday’s episode of The Rupert, James, and Rebekah show.All of them blamed everybody but themselves, and the old man ate so much humble pie I thought he was going to shit himself.Murdoch admitt…
Continue readingHighlights from the Murdoch family’s and Rebekah Brooks’ testimony today in Britain. Complete with foreboding music which seems quite appropriate and not ginned up, actually.The leaders knew nothing, people let them down, the buck stops down the chain….
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