Rupert Murdoch's right wing news empire just took a HUGE blow in the courts!! BIG NEWS COMING

[Snoutport]

Rupert Murdoch, aside from owning FOX News and the Wall Street Journal has also managed to scoop up a large portion of Britain's newspapers. Well, it ends up Murdoch's papers have been hacking the phones of the liberal politicians and using the info gleaned to chase them out of office, ruin their character, etc. Besides politicians they have been hacking phones of both the rich and the famous...including the Princes of England.

Rupert Murdoch has been able to keep things quiet with a few huge payoffs and by having many of the investigating policeman paid off by the newspapers by hiring them as writers, etc. Well, the whole mess is unraveling...details that the hacking by just ONE investigator might have tallied up to over 4000 people, several of Murdoch's top employees have been implicated up to the right hand man of the Conservative Prime Minister. But throughout this entire debacle one thing has kept Murdoch's papers safe...the police have refused to share the information that they discovered in this one investigator's house...

Murdoch has already been sued by 5 or 6 peeps and it cost him close to a million dollars per lawsuit, settled out of court, with an agreement of silence so nobody has got to see the evidence. If all 4000 people sue...times a million bucks a piece.... even murdoch will not be able to hold onto his entire company. Since there has been several big checks written for hush money even Murdoch's son might be sued like crazy since he OK'd the payoffs (most likely)

so, ladies and gentlemen of DU, I present you this fabulous article that just may well be the beginning of the end for a large chunk of Rupert Murdoch's right wing sway over the media. Once all this info is out we might start seeing that Murdoch's AMerican news companies have been hacking phones and emails as well.

From the Guardian UK: Met must hand over News of the World phone-hacking evidence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/18/met-news-world-hacking-evidence

The SH** is about to hit the fan. :0)

[Segami]

1. A BIG K&R!!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

48. WORLD WAS SOMEWHAT CALM UNTIL MUD FACE HIT THE LIME LIGHT

HIS LIFE PURPOSE IS TO DESTABILIZE

[Lifelong Protester]

2. K & R and hope there is more to follow in this vein.

[jacquelope]

3. Let's push to get a thousand recs for this thread!!!! n/t

.

[TorchTheWitch]

8. what for?

All rec does is put an OP on the greatest page for a short period of time. Big deal.

I'll never understand this wild obsession with rec/unrec and will be so damn happy when it's gone.

[Tunkamerica]

12. What for? If you don't pay attention then what's your beef?

[TorchTheWitch]

104. what do I need to pay attention to rec/unrec???

It doesn't really do anything. As I said, all it does is put an OP on the greatest page for a short time. What the fuck does that matter so much for??? I never gave shit one about rec/unrec and don't need it at all in order to "pay attention" and neither does anyone else. Frankly, using the greatest page as a filter for what it is you're willing to pay attention to makes you paying a hell of a lot less attention than those of us that don't.

It's thanks to rec/unrec that has made GD in particular crammed with a barrage of OP's that are nothing but half thoughts or no thoughts that make the good well written and sourced OP's that are deserving of attention sink like a rock and all for the warm fuzzies it apparently gives people to get an OP of theirs on the greatest page... as if that actually matters.

Rec/unrec turned out to be a plague on DU, and I can't bloody wait till it's gone so I can stop wasting so much time seeking out those good threads that are actually worth reading.

[sabrina 1]

112. Well, I would have missed this if it had not been at the top

of the greatest list. So long as what gets rec'd is worth reading, it's a good way to draw attention to important posts, like this one. I do agree that a lot gets rec'd that is not especially important while far more important OPs don't.

[Veilex]

113. You may not care for the Rec/Unrec function....

You may not care for the Rec/Unrec function, and that’s fine, but there are many who do find it useful… both for its ability to bring immediate attention to stories that people feel are important and as a way to show solidarity with others on the board.
While you’re certainly entitled to your opinion as to what is and is not quality “good well written and sourced OP's”, I find it curious that you have chosen to abstain from using the one provided tool that permits you to bring said stories to the forefront for others to read.
Complaining that others aren’t reading the quality postings and then stating that you refuse to use rec/unrec seems akin to complaining about how the good politicians aren’t getting voted for and then refusing to vote for them yourself.

[Snoutport]

116. zing!

Very good points!

[truedelphi]

129. I am curious abt something completely off topic...

Is "Zing" the new "Snap?"

[Snoutport]

145. i don't know...it just seemed to fit nt

[Butch350]

114. K&R !

[Snoutport]

115. I don't use the greatest page at all... i use the forum page

it shows the number of hits, the number of comments and the number of recs. It is a great tool to see how many people are commenting (discussion is a good thing and the reason we are here) and the rec shows the number of people making a suggestion to read the article. How can that be bad?

Just skip the greatest page if it makes you so upset.

[greiner3]

56. "All rec does is put an OP on the greatest page for a short period of time. Big deal."

I agree. The fewer DU'ers who see a major development such as this OP the better. I mean Knowledge is Ignorance or something like that, right?

[Snoutport]

102. when I see a message with a ton of recs i'm more prone to open it

I figure if it has that many recs it must contain interesting information.

[TorchTheWitch]

106. you use the greatest page as a filter then?

That's yet another problem the rec/unrec feature created. Before the rec/unrec plague OP's were generally good threads worth reading and simple to find because the better ones would be somewhere on the first page of each forum. Now the forums - GD in particular - is full of threads of OP's that are nothing but worthless crap since because of rec/unrec practically everyone had to make there every thought, partial thought and no thought into an OP just for the warm fuzzies of recs.

NOT using the greatest page as a filter to what I pay attention to here makes me seeing a hell of a lot more threads deserving of attention than those who like to filter out what they want to read by a popularity consensus.

I you're using the greatest page as a filter to what to pay attention to then it's you that's missing out on increased knowledge.

[bettyellen]

148. it makes a great filter when you just have a few minutes, sheesh

[nolabear]

59. So that whole "going viral" thing is pointless, right?

Knowledge is not power. The media is not the message. Ignorance IS bliss.

The rec function moves things out of obscurity and into the much-more-public eye. Then it has more of a chance to get into the "Hey, did you see this?" e-mail, FB, trending, DU-scouting eddies that then feed into the mainstream. Murdoch knows this; that's why it's in his interest to push the boundaries. And in ours to stop him.

Rec, rec, reccity rec rec.

[jacquelope]

107. If an extremely worthy liberal message doesn't get much attention on a LIBERAL BOARD!!!

Then how do we ever hope to get it heard by others?

[TorchTheWitch]

108. that's a pant load

All it does is move a thread onto the greatest page for a short time. If people are using the greatest page as a filter to determine what they see that's THEIR problem. My NOT using the greatest page filter gives me the opportunity to see a hell of a lot more worthwhile threads. There is no "moving threads out of obscurity" unless you do that to yourself. I don't and won't. It's the people that use the greatest page as a filter to what they see that are actively making themselves blissfully ignorant. And it's thanks to the rec feature that has made people have the need to make every single thought, partial thought and no thought into an OP for the warm fuzzies of getting recs which just clogs up the forums with dupes and crap thereby further obscuring worthwhile threads.

A pox on rec/unrec. I'll be so thrilled when it's gone.

[TheEuclideanOne]

71. I am going to UnRec because of your comment

So there!!! :)

[Hissyspit]

109. It's can be somewhat instructive to see whom it annoys or out of whom it gets a reaction. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Oh, very nice!

[napoleon_in_rags]

5. Not Fox News! No!

Glenn Beck practically brags about illegal phone taps on the air. He made a comment about somebody like Van Jones, like "These are only the things they've that said that we can SHOW you, the more extreme things they said we can't show you..." Gee, I wonder why they couldn't show the other comments. Could it be how they were attained?

[luv_mykatz]

6. Oh, please, let it be so!

:toast: :bounce: :applause: :popcorn:

[Parker CA]

7. Kick and Rec!!!!

[tabatha]

9. A huge K&R

[Kablooie]

10. But don't get your hopes too high yet. They have 21 days to appeal.

And plenty of money can be spread around in those three weeks to move this issue to the back burner where Murdoch can accidentally push it off to fall behind the stove.

I hope someone there has the bazookas to hold out for justice instead of sucking in a barrel of cash.
I have my doubts though.

[Snoutport]

13. the police that were covering for him are now running for cover

so, it is unraveling rather quickly. I've been following it for months and this is really a big break through. :0) all those broken laws and lawsuits. :0)

[tsuki]

20. I noticed the paper did not name Andy Colson who resigned the

Tory government.

[Snoutport]

103. Yeah--maybe I should find the link for the timeline of the whole case... nt

[tsuki]

155. Here's a source.

http://article.wn.com/view/2011/01/21/Andy_Coulson_resigns_as_phonehacking_scandal_rocks_Downing_S/

It has links to The Guardian, The Observer and the BBC.

[NCcoast]

86. So you think it has reached the point...

where it's going to spill out in every direction? Any further attempt to keep the lid on will lead to prosecutions? Is there indication that Murdoch approved of the wire taps?

[Snoutport]

111. spill...yes.... murdoch approved?

Yeah, I think the dam is about to burst. The implication is, since such large sums of money were paid to hush things up, that this is going to reach quite high in the murdoch chain. All the way to Murdoch? Probably not...but if 3 or 4000 people sue it will shake things all the way up to the top and he might have to start liquidating his holdings to pay off the lawsuits.

[Snoutport]

169. yeah...because the current govt. is cutting so much, upsetting everyone so much

and the left knows they can't hack right now so I think they will take their opportunity to at least muzzle the beast...if not kill it.

[FredStembottom]

66. Luckily the plaintiffs in these suits are celebrities...

...of course, that shouldn't make a difference but, of course, it does.

[Snoutport]

117. the celebrities got it going...because everyone was curious

but then the political stuff started surfacing and that is pretty.... well, close to treasonous behavior trying to undermine parliament and the British government.

[Sonicwall]

97. Murdoch's appeal will be denied, denied and denied.

And finally slapped with barratry for trying to stay out of a disaster that they are about to befell into.

[Jamastiene]

11. K&R

:popcorn:

[Scuba]

14. Quit suing. Start indicting. n/t

[Snoutport]

118. i think they are getting close to that.

I think they will be arresting police officers here pretty soon!

[wtmusic]

15. Hmm. Not a peep at Foxnews.com.

:D

[socialist_n_TN]

60. Not a peep at ANY American MSM outlet........

that I can tell anyway. So what's new?

[malaise]

16. Excellent

Rec

[Rex]

17. If this is true, watch out you Tea bagging idiots!

Your teddy bear is about to be thrown in the furnace.

[Angry Dragon]

18. K&R

[tomp]

19. first, i'll believe it when i see it. second,....

...and some other rich fucking right wing asshole won't take over where he left off?

we are battling the rich as a class. there is no end to their resources.

[BooScout]

21. This is old news....

It's been well known and going on for quite a while here in the UK. I don't expect Murdoch's global empire to come crashing down anytime soon.

[nolabels]

23. I have been trying to ignore gossip type of news but somehow......

the lid has been twisted off as of late. The other outlets need to sell something or run the risk of being forgotten. Combined with people be less afraid to confront their government and the powers that be, there might be more to come.

[Snoutport]

119. I think it might lead to the Right losing power and Newscorp might get broken up

I've been following this for a while and I personally think that the British people are going to be so disgusted by what has been going on that they will vote out the politicians who are close to murdoch's empire. Not all of them, of course, but it will make a dent.

And Murdoch might have to sell off some papers to pay off some lawsuits--also not a bad thing. What the British press should be looking into is how many other investigators on the books were doing the same thing. That could add thousands of more lawsuits.

[SpiralHawk]

22. Murdoch's Republicon Family Pharisee Values are disgusting

and the Suckers in England the USA who slurp up his Fox propaganda have to be furious at themselves for being so stupid as to believe the crap he and his Fox puppets shovel out onto the airwaves...

Sorry Republicon Suckers. You have been had. Big time.

[xchrom]

24. Recommend

[WhiteTara]

25. and he's being sued by shareholders

for 400 million pounds! for treating the company like a personal candy store (he bought his daughter's company for 400 million pounds)

[Sonicwall]

137. I would sue for all of Murdoch's assets

Including Faux News and if I win, it's immediately shut down ASAP and all assets sold off to any liberal media for pennies.

[madmax]

26. K & R for Justice

[madokie]

27. That pig has done more to undermine our country than anyone other person I can think of

I wouldn't piss on him to put the fire out if I found him on fire. I'd probably dance in circles, something that would be difficult for me to do. If ever someone needs brought down its murdock.

[Raksha]

28. K & R

[Crowman1979]

29. Great! Now if only Sky Sports no longer existed..

...and football returned to the BBC.

[sam sarrha]

30. don't settle out of court.. PUT THE SON OF SATAN IN JAIL..!!

[sam sarrha]

31. bug.

[old mark]

32. K&R- I have NO DOUBT that he has been doing it here as well-maybe worse.

I will cheer to see his efforts go down the toilet...I WANT HIM TO FAIL!

Thanks for this post! You made my day!;)
mark

[glinda]

43. Any co-incidence that Hillary and Murdoch both like eavesdropping?

They claim to get along well.

[defendandprotect]

33. kr

[Auntie Bush]

34. Sounds like he's going to get his!...................ass kicked

soon

[Botany]

35. Well there were all those Bushco wire taps

" ... Murdoch's AMerican news companies have been hacking phones and emails as well ..."

[Snoutport]

121. what? i didn't hear about this!

[Enthusiast]

36. Shouldn't we "look forward"?

This will cause 'trouble'.

[sulphurdunn]

37. Whatever Murdoch

has been doing there, he's been doing here.

[The Backlash Cometh]

38. Couldn't happen to a better person.

[joeunderdog]

39. Some of the Privelaged Pols he tapped might not settle for HUSH money.

That's when things will get really interesting and we will see the rest of the rats who were involved in this mess, including some of our own Rethug friends here in the US.

Bring it on...

[greymattermom]

40. trial lawyers love deep pockets

and they won't give up. His are really deep.

[underpants]

41. I have suspected for a while that this is going on here which explains the Dems repeated bowing to W

over and over and over

The only reason other than complete spinelessness was that they were being blackmailed.

[FredStembottom]

69. I agree.

I've said for nearly 10 years here at DU that "spinelessness" just isn't strong enough of a reason for the behavior of our D.C. Dems.

Bribery, blackmail, a "fifth column" within the party. Something much stronger than spinelessness is in operation in the background.

[Plucketeer]

76. I tend to agree as well.

Whatever it is, it's chronic.

[Raksha]

100. I've had the same suspicions.

Re "Something much stronger than spinelessness is in operation in the background."

[FredStembottom]

132. And I don't mean to imply that I know what it is.....

We may never know - even after getting out of this situation (afterall, even blackmailers and bribers eventually die).

[Snoutport]

141. It really does make a lot of sense!

[uponit7771]

93. +1!!!!

[arikara]

101. I read somewhere that

the way they keep pols under control is by blackmail, buying them off, threats to them or their families, manufactured ridicule and if they can't get them by any of those ways then they Wellstone them. I believe it.

[Snoutport]

140. or afraid to be the brunt of FOX news and their angry lynch mobs

makes a whole lot of sense, eh?

There were british investigators told not to look into it or Murdoch's paper would tear them apart.

[lostnfound]

42. Rachel Maddow..have you gotten this? Nt

[polichick]

44. Let's hope so - she'll do it justice!

[tpsbmam]

45. I'm VERY cautiously optimistic.....

They still have time to appeal and I have little doubt they will. What makes me more cautious is the fact that potentially complicit cops now have control of the evidence. So what key aspects of that evidence will be destroyed by the time it's handed over? Since it's not known exactly what they possess, evidence destruction would be pretty easy.

[femrap]

46. No one deserves to be

buried in a huge pile of human feces more than Murdoch....OK, maybe a few thousand more billionaires deserve it as well.

[WillyT]

47. HUGE K & R !!!

:bounce::woohoo::bounce:

:kick:

[delunapark]

50. Fox............

Are the Koch Brothers under the sheets with Rupert?

K & R

[Snoutport]

157. They must be! or they take turns funding fundies nt

[ck4829]

49. "of both the rich and the famous" That sounds like a recipe for extortion

"Don't want this story to run about you? Then you know where to send the check."

K&R

[Zorra]

51. Time for the US DOJ to start seriously investigating Murdoch and his flying monkeys.

What other kind of nasty mass invasions of privacy is Murdoch conducting?

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

[indimuse]

52. KNR! n/t

[greiner3]

53. If the wheels of 'justive' in England grind;

At the same pace as here in the US, then this headline and article will be ancient history when the final outcome are known.

"Vos rejected that argument, giving the Met 28 days to comply with his order and 21 days to appeal."

So does any DU'er think Rupert's bribes have concluded? I mean a few million here and a few million there can drag out this mess for years just in the lower courts and then there are appeals, stays, briefs and any number of backroom deals. Good call by the judge but...

[mwooldri]

72. Justice moves at the pace it wants to in the UK.

It can be very quick or it can be very slow. Completely depends on the case, what level it is at and how high profile it is.

Unless Murdoch has bought out the Metropolital Police, then generally the Met will comply, unless there's something that will either bring the police force down if it got out or is considered a matter of grave national security.

[caseymoz]

54. Fun, but how does it help us against him here?

Though it implies he's been doing exactly the same thing here, I mean, why would he restrain himself? We really need the same sort of evidence to bring him down.

We need a whistleblower or two. Wikileaks, want to step up?

It's entertaining, finally, that the morality of these Randites is being exposed cesspool that it is. Also, what their actual regard for free speech really is.

I'm hoping for something like the end I always wanted to see in Atlas Shrugged: where Dagny Taggart slits John Galt throat in his sleep and then blows her brains out. A happy, ironic ending. The villains died.

[Snoutport]

146. if he gets sued enough

he might have to start unloading some of his media holdings.... and it might break some of the RW strangle-hold on the media.

[caseymoz]

159. A start. But not enough. nt

[Snoutport]

160. the public will get to see the files here pretty soon

and then there will at least be a better idea. and this is only one crooked hacker ...they were probably employing dozens!

[Blue Owl]

55. throw that fucking POS in jail

He's caused more damage to this country than people give him credit for.

[sarcasmo]

57. Any negative news for Murdoch gets a big kick from me.

[Marr]

58. In the US, I suspect he has state support in doing this.

We're talking about Fox News-- the GOP's PR outlet. And the USA, where illegal state surveillance is just something "serious people" accept.

If our government hasn't set up a cozy little department specifically for tapping communications at the request of people like Murdoch I'd be shocked.

[Snoutport]

158. or he does it for them

and lets out the info in the media

[Cass]

61. Wow!! K & R

[peace frog]

62. Entusiastic K 'n' R

Now someone needs to bring to light his dirt here in the US so we can hound him out of our markets as well.

[The Wizard]

63. Some say Czar Rupert

needs the Romanov treatment.

[socialist_n_TN]

64. Hmm. I wonder if Anonymous could help to keep.......

this from being buried.

[Snoutport]

149. I wish!

a pity they can't just pull up phone company records about who has been hacked.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

65. REC!!

Fucking REC!!!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

MORE MORE MORE!!!!! :bounce: !!

[jillan]

67. I'll believe it when I see it.

[chillspike]

68. K & R!!!!

[polly7]

70. Very Nice! Hope he's sweatin'. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

73. Even if Murdoch is involved (and I didn't see any mention of that in the article) I doubt...

it will bring down Newscorp.

Even if they find Murdoch guilty of wiretapping and extortion, his stake in the company is relatively small.

The U.S. government didn't shut down Enron over its illegal practices. The company declared bankruptcy because stockholders found out that it was falsifying earnings and dumped its stock.

Newscorp is huge and brings in a lot of revenue. It will still be around even if Murdoch (or, more likely some of his underlings) ends up in jail.

[quakerboy]

74. I will believe that this will come to something

When it actually does. Until then its a local story of "might be's", with no real import to the "empire".

Justice does not come for the wealthy or powerful.

[lisa58]

75. If they did hack the princes it's treason.

[Plucketeer]

77. Bring newscorp to it's KNEES! nt

[Snoutport]

161. they lost a court case against the bbc today

well, didn't lose it, they tried to make the bbc divulge info and the bbc doesn't have to. it is on the same page of the guardian as the original article for this post.

[Taverner]

78. BURN, NEWSCORP, BURN!!!!

Burn to tha muthafuckin GROUND!

[nadinbrzezinski]

79. Ah lovely

[Turborama]

80. K&R For an excellent synopsis and well written introduction. Oh! And for the article, too.

:kick:

Thanks a lot. Good news like this is very sorely needed at times like this.

Anyone who hasn't been following this should check out The Guardian's section which is FULL of background info (560 pages & counting): http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/phone-hacking

[BrklynLiberal]

81. Not many are more deserving of having the s**t hit them in the face than Murdoch....

[catrose]

82. If he was doing this in the UK

Which has stricter laws about such things,

What has he been doing here?

Can we find out?

[zentrum]

83. His secrets protect him.

The royals, the rich can be blackmailed by the information he's gained on them. They won't pursue this. They'll even protect him so that nothing on them comes out. He'll make a few pay offs to a few others, and his empire will for the most part remain unscathed.

[kestrel91316]

84. This will only make him more popular in the US with TPTB, I suspect.

Unless there is evidence that Murdoch personally spied on AMERICANS IN THE US, nothing whatsoever will come of this. Even if the Brits try and convict him of something, he will still hold sway over the US media.

[lob1]

85. K&R. I hope this buries him.

[Thunderstruck]

87. Where are you, Keef??!??

Series!

[wordpix]

88. ready for that to hit on Mon.

[LeftishBrit]

89. Oh I hope! (but Rupert will be very hard to beat!)

[DeSwiss]

90. K&R

- Hey Rupert! Karma's a bitch, huh?

[jwirr]

91. And if he is doing it there - is he doing it here?

[emulatorloo]

124. It is highly likely he is doing it here. n/t

[glinda]

143. He is definitely doing it here. Most likely using info to silence and control people.

[Snoutport]

168. That is my guess too. How could they resist doing it if they know it works?!

Very sketchy stuff...and they are so slimy they must be doing it here!

[disillusioned73]

92. k & r

:dem:

[Initech]

94. Fuck you Murdoch.

[on point]

95. I knew that James Bond movie was modeled on SOME media mogul ;-

Let's hope he goes down with his ship too.

[Sonicwall]

96. If anything at all, Murdoch's empire should be CONFINED

in Australia, and revoke his worldwide citizenship to his native country.

Even that, his empire is going to go bankrupt within the next few years. Morally and financially bankrupt.

And they won't have any fundings at all whatsoever after the Dems will take care of the Fair Doctrine clause that has been missing since 1995.

[Cobalt-60]

98. His head will look great on the tower of london

[certainot]

99. fox is the visual icing on the talk radio lie turd pie

fantastic news but the fox effect is overblown in the US and a distraction/media red herring - it rides the talk radio bandwagon on most RW crap- that's where the ground work is done and usually by the time it shows up and is noticed on fox by the left it has already been pounded into the earholes of 50 million radio listeners.

fox cannot create like the unchallenged repetition from 1000 think tank-coordinated radio megaphones, protected by call screeners and reinforced with paid callers.

but putting murdoch in jail would definitely help

[toddwv]

105. Corporate shit rolls downhill...

it very rarely roles up it.

[northoftheborder]

110. Karma finally comes to the evil

[bullwinkle428]

120. Phone hacking? Someone needs to examine O'Keefe's passport.

K&R.

[fascisthunter]

122. Rupert Murdoch a right wing Asshole has been Wire Tapping Politicians

I owning a large chunk of media to promote fascism and division wasn't enough. I want to see this man and his ilk behind bars where they all belong. Another fanatic....

[Snoutport]

163. The evidence will be out very soon.

I just hope they find some links to the US side of things!

[Paka]

123. I'll happily rec it...

I'd love to see that swine brought down. Just reading about the possibility is enough to rec it as I see it. }(

[MJJP21]

125. IF

If its going on over there it is likely it is going on over here. The intelligence agencies usually share info. I will be waiting for the FBI to release info as well.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

126. pleased to kick this and recommend

thanks for posting it. i agree, likely RM is blackmailing folks in US too.

[Atypical Liberal]

127. K&R

Is anyone surprised that this kind of thing goes on? Glad to see it come to light and hope this guy gets nailed to the wall.

[azul]

128. This media power prevented congress from impeaching Bush:

AMY GOODMAN: Why stop short of hearings on impeachment?

REP. JOHN CONYERS: Well, because, unless we’re going to impeach the Vice President and the President within this space of time, I think we could be very seriously compromising the greatest important—most important thing, in addition to documenting any misdeeds that may have happened, whether we continue to have Bush enablers continue to shatter and tear the Constitution to shreds. And so, all of this, academically, is great. I’ve got a number of books from my friends about which articles would be best and which ones we should go after more. But it seems to me that the time element and also the feasibility of whether or not there is any possible chance of success—there is a very stark reality that with the corporatization of the media, we could end up with turning people who should be documented in history as making many profound errors and violating the Constitution from villains into victims. And those are the kinds of considerations that have entered my mind in thinking about this process, Amy.


http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/20/to_impeach_or_not_to_impeach


Just stop it.

[Corruption Winz]

130. Hopefully... Murdoch doesn't buy the fan. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

131. wow

[RainDog]

133. k&r n/t

[RoccoR5955]

134. Proud to be rec #502!

I have never seen this many recs for any post here!
Awesome.
K & R!

[orbitalman]

135. K & R

[Liberty Belle]

136. I wonder if he's eavesdroppping on politicians over here.

How might someone find out?

[madrchsod]

138. he`s also being sued by investors/stockholders.

seems he and his daughter made multi million dollar/pound deal that investors did`t know about..

[bluewaffle]

139. Will this help rid our televisions of Glenn Beck?

[FogerRox]

142. Rec number 523. Which if you didnt know is a hell of a lot

[glinda]

144. #526 and counting.

[Snoutport]

156. I'm TOTALLY shocked. I've been following this story for a year pretty much

and there hasn't been a lot of interest but things are bubbling up and it is turning into a very good read. I saw on the Guardian website that the article was one of their top read. Very good news!

[Blue Owl]

147. DEATH BLOW DEATH BLOW DEATH BLOW

n/t

[Major Hogwash]

150. Wow, and here I thought the fan smelled pretty bad already!

What's it going to be like for the people who sit in front of that fan when the sh** hits it?

Splatterbarrel!!!

[peacetalksforall]

151. For years I've wondered where their confidence and arrogance comes from. A person

who knows secrets and doesn't expect to fail can own confidence and arrogance. It explains a lot to me.

[peacetalksforall]

152. One think I like is that this is a crime take-down and not a wikileaks - Beck and the rest

can't blame wikileaks, Assange, Manning, Anon - none of them. Right?

A question: I fome on this thread say they have been following this for a long time - where has it been discussed - what venue was used to reveal and discuss? Which kind of celebrities are involved.

[Snoutport]

153. DU HAS PUSHED THIS STORY INTO THE TOP FIVE MOST READ AT THE GUARDIAN WEBSITE

Over 25,000 people have read this article and many have hit the link which has pushed it up into the Guardian UKs top read articles. VERY awesome considering that Murdoch owns many of the British papers and they are not running this story at all. Power to the people, eh?

Keep on reading!

[Nothing Without Hope]

154. And blackmail is a traditional way to control politicians

When bribes are not enough...just threaten to tell about their mistress or gay affair or financial corruption, and they're all yours.

[Amonester]

162. Off-court settlements for Rupert 'Gaddafi' Murder... uh... Murdoch...

Little 'spare change' for that ignoble dicktator.

[Ganja Ninja]

164. I hope that SOB has to go live in exile in China and have his every move monitored

and controlled by the government. I hope they tax his ass until he's blue in the face.

[Snoutport]

165. UPDATE: the cop in charge of the investigation just got hauled for questioning

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/24/phone-hacking-starmer-yates-evidence

[Chimichurri]

166. Wow-ee. The cops have been co-opted too. This man has no bounds.

[muriel_volestrangler]

167. Have you a link for 'just got hauled off for questioning'?

You link is about Yates giving evidence to a House of Commons committee. That's not 'hauled off for questioning'.