Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

[ymu]

Yep. Murdoch will have to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through his heart.

His power is not innate.

But, if you insist, I can get on board with that plan. I'll keep an eye out for some suitable driftwood to make the stake out of.

 

[Pickman's model]

His power is not innate.

But, if you insist, I can get on board with that plan. I'll keep an eye out for some suitable driftwood to make the stake out of.

i don't know why. you can get a perfectly good stake at any reputable diy store or garden centre. but if you want to wander up and down a beach looking for driftwood instead of spending a couple of quid at b&q don't let me stop you.

 

[ymu]

i don't know why. you can get a perfectly good stake at any reputable diy store or garden centre. but if you want to wander up and down a beach looking for driftwood instead of spending a couple of quid at b&q don't let me stop you.

I live on a narrowboat. We don't pay for wood when we're surrounded by free stuff.

 

[twentythreedom]

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[bendeus]

dirty scumbags

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14133767
wonder why it's being held in Swansea!
cunts

They were so concerned about the team being 'got at' by corrupt officers or their sympathisers that the Entire investigating team was based behind the wire at RAF St. Athan rather than a normal police station. Incredible stuff.

 

[sunny jim]

as i said earlier NI is around 5% of newscorp annual revenues and less than 1% of annual newscorp profits and also less than 1% of overall newscorp market value

newscorp annual revenues are around $33bn

bskyb annual revenues around $9bn (this is the 100% figure, not the news corp share)

NI annual revenues around $1.6bn

With owning newspapers you gain massive political influence - you can easily get your man in power.

 

[London_Calling]

After this momentous, historic day for the democracy, the Daily Mail's headline:

 

[ymu]

They were so concerned about the team being 'got at' by corrupt officers or their sympathisers that the Entire investigating team was based behind the wire at RAF St. Athan rather than a normal police station. Incredible stuff.

I think this case is relevant to the NI storm, not least because of the fantastic timing ... but there is a good thread where it's being discussed already. Might be better to keep non-NI related comment on that one?

 

[laptop]

After this momentous, historic day for the democracy, the Daily Mail's headline:

That'll be the paper that took out more contracts with private dicks than any other.

This has not escaped notice...

 

[bendeus]

I think this case is relevant to the NI storm, not least because of the fantastic timing ... but there is a good thread where it's being discussed already. Might be better to keep non-NI related comment on that one?

Point taken. Fair dos

 

[little_legs]

gif of the day, ladies & gents:

 

[ymu]

Point taken. Fair dos

Wasn't aimed at you specifically - I just bounced off your post. That thread hasn't been bumped for a while, so I figured maybe people didn't know it was there. It started long before the case got to court too, so lots of good stuff on it.

 

[ymu]

gif of the day, ladies & gents:

I just watched the vid. That .gif might just be the moment that brings this government down.

Needs cutting in with Clegg closing his eyes in despair and Osbourne's head sinking even further into his collar-bone to fully capture the moment though.

 

[claphamboy]

This was mentioned on BBC World news this morning...

News Corp. Investigation Fever Sweeping Congress.

What a difference a day makes: News Corp.'s scandal was barely on the Congressional radar screen early in the week, but by midweek, investigation fever was spreading fast on Capitol hill. Four Democratic senators dashed off letters to Attorney General Eric Holder and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro requesting the DOJ and SEC investigate whether News Corp. broke any laws in the U.S. And now that Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has joined the growing Congressional chorus, the call for the feds to get involved took on some extra, bipartisan heft.

"It is horrifying to consider the possibility that the victims of the 9/11 tragedy would be victimized again by an international newspaper seeking information about their personal suffering,," King said in a letter he wrote to the FBI asking for an investigation.

King was referring to a report in London's Daily Mirror that journalists from thenow-defunct News of the World may have tried to hack the phones of 9/11 victims. Lawmakers are also concerned about the possibility that News Corp. may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it illegal for a U.S. company to bribe foreign officials.

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/news-corp-investigation-fever-sweeping-congress-133399

Demands Mount in U.S. Congress for News Corp. Hacking Probes

Outrage over alleged bribery and phone hacking at a News Corp. tabloid in London mounted in Washington as lawmakers demanded probes of whether the company violated anti-corruption laws and Sept. 11 victims' privacy.

<snip>

At least six U.S. lawmakers yesterday urged government agencies including the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate possible violations of U.S. law. Among them were Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Barbara Boxer of California, and Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

"The reported allegations against News Corporation are very serious, indicate a pattern of illegal activity, and involve thousands of potential victims," Boxer and Rockefeller said in a joint statement. "It is important to ensure that no United States laws were broken and no United States citizens were victimized."

Anti-Corruption Law

Rockefeller, Boxer and Lautenberg wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder and SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro asking their agencies to examine whether News Corp. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act following allegations that employees of the News of the World had bribed U.K. police.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...-7TUR0CSVC0REQO3LU78PJ2P082.DTL#ixzz1S3QR8QwX

The pundit on the BBC reckons there will be a Congress hearing and Murdoch will be appearing before it within the next couple of months.

 

[claphamboy]

BBC Breakfast has now picked-up on the earlier BBC World story and is leading on problems ahead in the US for News Corp, as the main item for it's coverage of the whole NotW/News corp story.

 

[Badgers]

The pundit on the BBC reckons there will be a Congress hearing and Murdoch will be appearing before it within the next couple of months.

Good times ahead maybe

 

[Jeff Robinson]

"The only reliable, durable, and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit" James Murdoch, 2009.

Try telling that to all the people who's privacy has been egregiously violated in search of juicy stories by your criminal scum organisation James you fucking worthless lump of shit.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I hope both the eichmanns and the little eichmanns @ NI are targetted by vigilantes. It's about time these hack scum and their vermin bosses are subjected to the sort of harrasment and intimidation they've abused their power inflicting on others over the years.

 

[_angel_]

I hope both the eichmanns and the little eichmanns @ NI are targetted by vigilantes. It's about time these hack scum and their vermin bosses are subjected to the sort of harrasment and intimidation they've abused their power inflicting on others over the years.

Read the Guardian

 

[killer b]

must we?

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Read the Guardian

Guardian ,

Guardian ??

 

[_angel_]

must we?

 

[MellySingsDoom]

must we?

No no no. It's all about the Morning Star, peeople

 

[killer b]

i got the morning star a few months ago.

i'm not sure if i need to know that much about unions tbh.

 

[Idris2002]

when you read the morning star,

it makes no difference who you are,

Socialist ideology will come, to you.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

i got the morning star a few months ago.

i'm not sure if i need to know that much about unions tbh.

Can see what you mean there, but I'd say that's probably preferable to another Graun puff-piece about some "socialist" who turns out to be another neo-liberal drum banger (albeit one who eats organic vegetables and likes The Vaccines (ha ha ha)).

 

[MellySingsDoom]

There's also that old Crisis song, "Back In The USSR", which namechecks the Morning Star. (Might be on YouTube.....I'm not linking to it though, as the main songwriters went on to Death In June, and apparently Wakeford wrote "White Youth" whilst in Crisis as some sort of "racialist" anthem).

 

[ymu]

Steve Bell is loving this.

 

[Ted Striker]

Osbourne's head sinking even further into his collar-bone

I love George Osbourne - he's like the perfect comedy political financial villian.

 

[killer b]

tom watson reckons they can compel the murdochs to appear in front of the committee btw, if they are in the UK. which makes more sense, when you think about it...