Scratches to Sketches
Monday, 18 July 2011
Head of Scotland Yard Quits Over Tabloid Scandal - NYTimes.com
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Hinton and Brooks Resign From Murdoch Organization - NYTimes.com
Friday, 15 July 2011
Libyan rebels capture demoralised Gaddafi troops | World news | The Guardian
Phone hacking prompts Australian debate over Murdoch's power | Media | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/14/australia-media-inquiry-phone-hacking?intcmp=239
FBI to investigate News Corporation over 9/11 hacking allegations | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/14/fbi-news-corp-hacking-claims?CMP=EMCGT_150711
Thursday, 14 July 2011
British Columbia Man Faces Six Months in Jail for Growing Food : TreeHugger
Republican bill to ban energy-saving lightbulbs fades | Environment | guardian.co.uk
I am neither Republican or Democrat just an observer. But, Republican credibility is a great as who they propose Americans to vote for and the ludicrousness of their latest thinking on serious environmental and economic issues! They do need help of the fundamental form.
We can all wonder at the mad hatters that put together Republican environmental policy which is full of stupid ideas, YES! stupid stupid stupid stupid ideas! Stupid people producing stupid ideas!!!
What creepy crawly hole does the minimum brain of these ideas come from. They are so damaging to the Republican cause as to create wonder and amazement that people could be so blind to the obvious needs of the sensitive people and fragile world they live it.
Well, let's just light up a cigarette and vote Republican! Maybe American will become a one party nation if the stupidity of the policy makers at the Republican headquarters continues unabated.
Obama is a shoe in!
Is This the Beginning of the End of the House of Murdoch? - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2082885,00.html
Debt ceiling: With irresponsibility comes power | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/07/debt-ceiling
A security breach at Booz Allen Hamilton: Hackers strike at a foe | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/07/security-breach-booz-allen-hamilton?fsrc=nwl
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Sheer Panic; EU Revives Default, Buyback Ideas; New Strategy Coming "Shortly", No Timeline Set; Here's a clue: They are Clueless
Would Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland ever become fascist states outside the EU? Unthinkable or likely?
No our best bet is massive default, a few really big bank failures, and countries paying their way afterwards?!
How long can the IMF now keep the illusion going that people will tolerate unreasonable transfers of wealth to unscrupulous banks. It is not thinkable as a sustainable international monetary policy.
Banks need to shrink, the big implode happen and shareholders in banks take a massive loss for their sins!
Big bangs have to have big implosions or have we forgotten the cyclical physics!
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/07/sheer-panic-eu-revives-default-buyback.html
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: University of California Economist Bradford DeLong is Blind: "I Don’t See Any Argument Against QE3"
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/07/university-of-california-economist.html
Cyclebabble - James Randerson & Peter Walker | Guardian bookshop
http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780852652305
US politicians demand phone-hacking investigation after 9/11 claims | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/13/us-senators-phone-hacking-inquiry?intcmp=239
Bill Gross: Google+ Will Get 100 Million Users Faster Than Any Service In History
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-google-will-get-100-million-users-2011-7
Journalists’ tears replaced by anger - FT.com
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/26c8ca90-a8d5-11e0-b877-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S4qWThFb
The Murdoch empire at bay: Digger in a hole - FT.com
But, having heard and read reams of stuff about how immoral News of the World had become, I see hypocrisy throughout.
I put it down to the post Solviet period or post cold war period in which people let their standards drop. It was a period similar to that after the First World War.
Be warned that such letting down of the social fabric of society results in ..... Worse!
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cc8759f4-a99a-11e0-a04a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S4qWThFb
J.K. Rowling is just fabulous
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b145788-a98f-11e0-a04a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S4qWThFb
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Are we causing a mass extinction in our oceans? - CSMonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0729/Are-we-causing-a-mass-extinction-in-our-oceans
EU unveils plan to revive dwindling fish stocks - CSMonitor.com
Scientists to debate possible discovery of unknown hominin in South Siberia | Science | RIA Novosti
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011
News of the World ‘was offered royal numbers’ | Daily Guide Newspaper
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
Murdoch gambit ... UK reacts to closure of News of the World - CSMonitor.com
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Police corruption and phone hacking penalties - Google Search
Who kidnapped Muriel McKay in Wimbledon in 1969?
General!
Rupert Murdoch connection?
http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/mckay-kidnapping/crime.html
Muriel McKay mistaken for Anna Murdoch, Rupert's wife!
http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/mckay-kidnapping/crime.html
http://www.search.co.tt/trinidad/hoseinbrothers/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rawlinson,_Baron_Rawlinson_of_Ewell
My memory is that in 1969, there was a kidnapping/murder in Wimbledon associated with Mr Alick McKay, the Deputy Chairman of the News of the World
As a young man, I was interviewed by police after the kidnapping/murder in Wimbledon! News of World was shaken by this kidnapping/murder!
Burglary at home of Alick McKay of the News of the World!!!!!
Muriel McKay was missing? Mystery? No one knows what happened to her!
Murder without a body?
http://www.yourdiscovery.com/web/crime-museum-uk/episode-guide/vanishing-victims/
Smoking gun?
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,,106506,00.html
http://www.magforum.com/notprivateeye.htm
Maxwell claimed 'war of jungle' effort by Murdoch against him! What did he really mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell
Why are people terrified of the Murdoch family?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Murdoch outsmarted Maxwell the same year 1969 to take over News of the World.
Any connection? Would you do the forensic research?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World
Murdoch lived where in 1969 or near that time? Wimbledon?
More than a tale of tabloid skulduggery
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7519f70c-b9be-11df-968f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1RRg5YbUM
News of the World ... You are Fired! Murdoch and Rebekah you both should be arrested!
Why? What bothers you now?
We need arrests now! Yours?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=murdoch+hacking+scandal&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
news of world to close down - Google Search
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=news+of+world+to+close+down&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
What is legal in hacking?
Why not!
It should be because there is intent to break the law! It's like the collecting of photos by pedophiles!
Hackers should be listed like pedophiles and restrictions placed on their ownership and use of electronic devices.
Your name and details could be secretly sold or collected and that should be illegal.
That is serious stuff!
Having such private information should be considered criminal! Being singled out for hacking should be seen as criminal!
Baroness RAWLINGS Misses the Point About the Phone Hackings and Murdoch's Negative Influence
In viewing debate in the House of Lords, we observe The Baroness Rawlings state that she and the government are bound by the rule of law.
She does not see how deep the corruption is presently seated.
It is like a severe pneumonia killing of democratic institutions.
The British tools of law enforcement were found glaringly wanting, and without law there will be a wave of discontent that could pull us close to a fascist state where a rule of law dictated by individuals rather than government prevail. The rapid rise of Herr Himmler and Herr Hitler in Germany during the 1930's comes to mind. They controlled the press! Power corrupts and Rupert Murdoch has had too much power. We see how it has corrupted him, the media, and the British police! We need to end that process by contrivance within the law before it is too late.
We should not mistake that the next decade are defining years for British democracy. We need to get it right and provide for higher ethical standards.
One way is to stop advertising in Murdoch controlled media!
The new subversive army of the modern age is made up of private spies than are paid by unscrupulous individuals, such as Rupert Murdoch and Colonel Quadaffi, who see themselves as international forces for 'good' as defined by their own ethical rules, but which are considered outside national laws!
Since at least 2000, the police were supposed to enforce the law on the phone hackings, but we find they were controlled by agents of media and international moneyed interests.
We are still seeing only the scum on the surface because we don't have an independent media, but one controlled by corrupting international investors bent on taking away our long sought after freedoms and privileges.
We are affected by a monstrous lag between law enforcement and the committing of criminal acts.
There is not enough money in the coffers to enforce the law.
In such a situation, people need to look after their own interests.
Law and order has broken down because there is not enough money and influence to pay for it's enforcement! We are at the mercy of the profits made by unscrupulous media groups who seem determined to defy, change and break the law to their advantage.
People like Murdoch who have money define the law in such a way as to make more money and commit more acts of defiance against the law.
They even avoid taxation the only way law can be legal enforced!
We are thus left in a bind of having a permanent breaking of the law as an institution controlled by Rupert Murdoch and profitable media enterprise!???????
Behind Rupert's throne: The story of Rebekah Brooks - Press, Media - The Independent
We the public will not buy your goods and services and will have long memories that you supported Rupert's influence on Britain!
Phone Hacking Scandal Stirs Outrage in British Parliament and the British Public .. Enough is enough!
Now we see it for what it is... Profiteering by unethical newspapers destroys our trust. We saw this in banking and now in the media!
Some of us are beyond anger!
We have long had our suspicions that Rupert Murdoch's interests did not coincide with those of a democracy. We realized increasingly how much our publishing industry had changed because of our inability to control excesses in the media and through the media to all institutions we rely on for security and moral social behavior.
We feel betrayed by Murdoch and his corrosive agents. We want action to close his influence down.
We are really upset that any one could promote unethical behavior for profit. We want Murdoch's influence minimized!
We saw the role of Murdoch's immoral media empire to erode our best values taking them to the gutter. We are saddened by what has happened and horrified that it could continue. We will not tolerate corruption.
We propose a boycott against agents of such low dealing and unethical behavior.
We also saw moral corruption spread via the unethical media throughout parliament, throughout the banking industry, and throughout political processes.
We now know that the framework of our democracy is based on morality and ethics. We realize that our media need to be ethical and that the Murdoch business model works against this!
We realize that Murdoch's business model is increasing in conflict with our democratic ideals. We see increasingly a deficit in ethics emanating from the press where everything goes.
We realize that this is due to Murdoch's business model which is corrosive to ethics and which spreads the behavioral disease of unethical behavior throughout the publications world into all media and into our police force.
We learn that Murdoch's influence is like a contagious flu that sickens our society and reduces the works we see and hear in our media to the lowest of human experience.
We speculate on how far this process will destroy our willingness to live together as a happy community. One rotten apple, that of Murdoch's media world has rotted our media world!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/world/europe/07britain.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
Maid's lawyer tells New York district attorney to quit DSK Strauss-Kahn case | World news | The Guardian
Surprise....not!
We have long had our doubts because the case was always too easy and rape just seemed so very unlikely in the circumstances despite the history of womanizing of DSK!
We learned hat the woman is not a saint as portrayed earlier. We learn that money was to be gained by fraud and misrepresentation.
We learn of criminal involvement, and we wonder more and more about the naughty if the New York prosecutor's Office. We learn of the prosecutor's political ambitions.
More and more, we lose confidence in the legal process and more and more we feel sorry for DSK.
We wonder who was pulling hidden strings and whether therecwas a hidden political agenda originating from France.
We see French political interests too focussed on destroying the career of DSK, and we learn of the dangerous political processes evident in France that we anticipate leaked over into the US legal process.
We see the prosecutor's office as a victim of political intrigue emanating from Guinea and France.
These learnings are not easily removed now the cat is out of the bag! DSK has suffered enough....from this nonsense!
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Fwd: 48 hours to stop Murdoch -- incredible response!
Wow! 70,000 messages for a hacking inquiry and to stop Murdoch's deal! We have 48 hours to get the government to act -- forward this to everyone:
Dear friends across the UK,
Last week Jeremy Hunt said he'll allow Murdoch to own all of BSkyB. Now a series of reports of criminal and indecent Murdoch journalism are coming out -- hacking murdered Milly Dowler, the Soham girls, and the 7/7 families! We have 48 hours to flood the BSkyB public consultation and stop the deal.
Jeremy Hunt says he'll let Rupert Murdoch own all of BSkyB, despite the hacking outrages. We have 48 hours to flood the public consultation with requests to stop the deal, and call on the government to initiate a public inquiry into the hacking scandals. Let's save our media and democracy. Send a message now.
We've done it before -- in the last consultation Hunt said our avalanche of 40,000 messages delayed the deal as his officials had to read each email carefully, fearing a legal challenge. Now our voices could halt the deal and get a full inquiry into this vile hacking.
Murdoch's media tramples standards and ignores ethics, and the whole country is horrified. But the government is pushing to give him full control of our largest commercial broadcaster. It's an outrage and threatens the very pillars of our democracy! The official consultation ends on Friday. Send a message now calling on Hunt and Cameron to refuse Murdoch's BSkyB deal until there's a full Competition Commission review and a full public inquiry into phone hacking:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/?vl
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation already owns 40% of British newspapers and 40% of BSkyB, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster. In the US, Australia and elsewhere this degree of media dominance would not be allowed. News Corporation has admitted responsibility for hacking the phones of politicians and celebrities, and now stands accused of listening to messages of a murdered 13 year old girl. But our government wants to give Murdoch power over half of our media, allowing him to then squeeze out his rivals one by one.
Since November we've repeatedly rallied to stop Murdoch. We've sent messages, phoned ministers, done stunts, and funded adverts and legal challenges. Jeremy Hunt says our actions have delayed the deal and persuaded him to make changes to how Sky News will be treated if Murdoch takes over BSkyB. He's had to hire extra lawyers and is nervous about a battle in the courts. We're making an impact, but the conditions Hunt plans to put on the takeover won't work, as Murdoch regularly runs rings round regulators.
Now is the moment to stand up for our media and our democracy and build pressure on the government. Let's send messages calling on Jeremy Hunt and David Cameron to refuse Murdoch's BSkyB deal until the deal has been reviewed by the Competition Commission and a full judge led public inquiry into the hacking scandal is conducted and completed. Send a message now, and encourage your friends to do so.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/murdoch_messages_2/?vl
An independent and diverse media is vital for holding governments to account and should not be in the hands of someone known for unethical journalistic practices and who often seeks favours in return for endorsing politicians and parties. But people power can stop this deal. If we all stand up together now in the UK, we'll give hope to independent media advocates across the world.
With hope and determination,
Alex, Sam, Brianna, Alice, Ricken, Luis and the whole Avaaz team
More information
Power that threatens both an industry and democracy
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-power-that-threatens-both-an-industry-and-democracy-2305054.html
News Corp's battle for BSkyB shows global ambition
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8612669/News-Corps-battle-for-BSkyB-shows-global-ambition.html
News Corp/BSkyB deal underlines Murdoch's political clout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/30/news-corp-bskyb-murdoch?intcmp=239
Rupert Murdoch: Empire of the Sun
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/30/rupert-murdoch-empire-the-sun
Police to meet NoW executives over Milly hacking claims
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14024668
Cameron: Dowler phone hack allegations 'truly dreadful'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8617387/David-Cameron-allegations-of-Milly-Dowler-phone-hacking-are-truly-dreadful.html
7/7 families may be phone hacking victims
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/News-Of-The-World-Phone-Hacking-New-Claims-Families-Of-7-7-Victim-Targeted/Article/201107116025018?
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