Following yesterday’s shocking and sudden shutdown of the 168 year old, Rupert Murdoch-own tabloid News Of The World, conspiracies theories are running rampant.
We’ve already noted that many people suspect Murdoch shut down the paper to protect its former editor Rebekah Brooks who, by all accounts, is like a second daughter to Rupe.
More obvious, is that Murdoch is trying to protect his big BSkyB deal, which has been in the works for months and needs government approval. In this case, it may be too little too late.
Meanwhile, Reuters law reporter Alison Frankel thinks his motives might be more nefarious. Now that Murdoch has shut down the paper he can destroy its records.
Per Frankel: Murdoch may not be “not be obliged to retain documents that could be relevant to civil and criminal claims against the newspaper–even in cases that are already underway. That could mean that dozens of sports, media, and political celebrities who claim News of the World hacked into their telephone accounts won’t be able to find out exactly what the tabloid knew and how it got the information.”
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."
ahrmand
agree with you 100 %.
By Deception,Thou Shalt Make War is the jew Mossad motto. Every time they get caught in a lie, they have to come up with another one to try to cover the one caught in. It goes on and on with them, but that's all they know.
There are some here though that are dumber then smut that have themselves convinced it's the way to go.
Sad if true? Nothing more than speculation for right now.Corporate espionage is nothing new even on a world wide basis.
"Brooks who, by all accounts, is like a second daughter"
That's a charitable comparison, considering that Brooks is a few months older than the 80-year-old Murdoch's third and current wife and a decade older than his eldest child.
"Rupe" will do whatever makes him the most money and/or gives him the most political power, just as he always does.
Why would he not do so? Any business person with common sense would do the same.
No, believe it or not, Cougar, there are many business people with a sense of ethics. Murdoch shows little sign of being one of them.
Ethics? With some yes! The majority no! What proof do you have that Murdoch is not? I suggest that you get out from behind your desk & get into the real world!
So most business people are unethical, and those who live in the Appalachians are inbred (as you suggested elsewhere today)? Seems to me that a lot of business people and Appalachian folks are conservatives, Cougar–and despite that, I wouldn't agree with you about either of those things. But hey, thanks for sharing your real opinions.
It is well documented that in-breeding is much more prevalent in the Appalachian Mountains of which most pledge no allegiance to either party. Additionally at no time did i insinuate that all who live in the Appalachians are in-breeds. Most business people both Liberal & Conservatives fudge or cheat on their tax returns when it comes to business deductions. As usual you speak on issues without facts! Just typical incompetent spin & lies by you. Do you have nothing of value to add to a comment or article other than insults, name calling, lies & spin? Which is typical for you & your alias Ellen, 1oldcoyote & iireuel. Think about this! Every time any of you try to engage with me in a serious debate on a issue i end up making you simply look foolish!
I see you're applying your typical spin, or demonstrating your lack of comprehension skills yet again, Cougar.
Even if it were true that "most business people … fudge or cheat on their tax returns," that's a far cry from someone doing "whatever makes him the most money and/or gives him the most political power"–which is what you said "Any business person with common sense would do."
"It is well documented that in-breeding is much more prevalent in the Appalachian Mountains "
I'd love to see some of that "documentation–how about it?
"of which most pledge no allegiance to either party"
Really? Says who? Besides, no one made any said claim–I said "a lot of Appalachianfolks" are conservative. I said nothing about party, and especially as a southerner you should know that even Democrats in the Appalachian regions of West Virginia, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia
James you sound as if you are just repeating my comments pertaining to spin & comprehension skills! Gee are you related to 1coyote2?
James you are wrong! Do not try to convey something that i did not say!Go back & read all of my comments on business ethics. Gee you are so slow!
James further i never said that you stated such but in fact i made the comment & not you pertaining to illiteracy being high within remote regions in the Appa-
-lachian Mtns. & a lack of political allegiances to either party.
Your third grade comment pertaining to there being Democrats within the Appa-
lachian Region & geography lesson was totally unneeded but as usual you try to window dress your comments so to hopefully make you appear intelligent.
Appalachian mountains Human In-Breeding
Are there inbred families in the Appalachians?
October 28, 2005
The Appalachian Mountains, which extend nearly 2,000 miles from Alabama to Newfoundland and encompass the Chattooga watershed. Northerners, evidently including Canadians, figure the southern end of the range is crammed with mental defectives, an assumption worth examining. Is southern Appalachia characterized by an unusually high incidence of (a) inbreeding and (b) mental retardation and genetic defects, and if so, has (a) led to (b)?
1. Does Appalachia have more mental retardation, etc? In a 1974 paper tactfully entitled "The Geography of Stupidity in the U.S.A.," researcher Nathaniel Weyl notes that the three states having the highest white failure rate on the Armed Forces Qualification Test in 1968 were Kentucky (14.8 percent), Tennessee (14.2 percent), and West Virginia (13.4 percent). Weyl attributes the "abnormally large proportion of white mental defectives in the Appalachian region" to, among other things, "the notoriously high rates of inbreeding among the Appalachian population." Lest you think Weyl has it in for Scotch-Irish hillbillies, he blames Maine's high failure rate (8.8 percent, 11th worst) on "the fact that a large proportion of her population descend from French Canadian immigrants"–and surely, Josh, you know what trash they are. Weyl's article, incidentally, appeared in Mankind Quarterly, which publishes a lot of research by the biology-is-destiny crowd.
2. Does inbreeding lead to genetic abnormalities? Time to waffle. Last year I wrote a column saying cousin marriage wasn't guaranteed to produce genetic defects. It's not, strictly speaking. However, defects may be more common than I let on. The problem is "inbreeding depression," the emergence of undesirable traits when closely related parents each contribute a normally dormant gene. According to one paper (Jaber et al, Community Genetics, 1998), congenital malformations are 2.5 times more common among offspring of inbred couples than of unrelated parents. A famous example is the "blue Fugates," members of an inbred Kentucky hill clan who suffered from a rare genetic blood disorder that made their skin look blue.
You sure spend a lot of time explaining your favorite pastime. Now you're including your cousins too. Your paragraph #2 above, clearly shows you are the undisputed authority on the subject, which stands to reason considering the vast experience you have with your "loving" family members. It also explains your mental retardation and genetic defects.
WOW, you are even writing columns on it!!!
So sorry to hear you have "inbreeding depression,"
1oldcoyote2 is this the best you can do? Please do continue though for the hours of amusement that i get from reading your post is simply priceless! Ii could not get better entertainment even at a comedy club.
What's with the i ? Then the Ii???
Plenty people are laughing at you for expressing how smart you think you are, then doing what you are bitching about.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…
1oldcoyote2 what amazes me is just how ignorant you truly are! You embarrass yourself! The L occurred by my mistakenly hitting the key! What is your excuse for being such a mental reject?
Beats me why anyone would want an L where there should be a capital I. Oh well, the deranged have weird ways.
1oldcoyote2 No! A capital i is not needed there. I have already explained to you that the L occurred in error when i mistakenly
hit the L key.
Please go back to school!
"No! A capital i is not needed there."
Huh? You might want to go back and double check that with your second-grade teacher. Or with your father-in-law. Or use that "six-figure income" of yours to hire a tutor.
We are discussing two separate issues here & we are both right!
The sentence you are talking of i was in fact in error by not capitalizing the I & accidentally inserting a L by mistakenly hitting the key.
The post i was referring to began with 1oldcoyote2's name not i. Therefore the i did not need to capitalize
the I.
Now that i have cleared that issue up exactly what do you two Einstein's wish to discuss now?
Perhaps the five lower-case i's that should have been capitalized in that comment alone?
James you are correct & you have made the same error as well in prior post or responses. I tend to get in a hurry since I must respond to not only your comments but as well to your alias Ellen, ireuel & 1oldcoyote2. Still no excuse! Now do you have anything serious or relevant to this article to comment on? You are such a Weiner!
1oldcoyote unlike you or James McPherson & his alias Ellen & his boyfriend ireuel or Forrest Gump or whatever he may be calling himself today? I provide facts & not spin & lies as the majority of you do.
'…..Most business people both Liberal & Conservatives fudge or cheat on their tax returns when it comes to business deductions.'
And you follow that with……'As usual you speak on issues without facts!' Of course you have the facts to make that first statement, right?
CalBob yes i do! But you being a intelligent grown man i am sure that you can find the information as easily as i did.
CalBob refer to The New York Times article titled Freakonomics The Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen J. Dubner dated March 27, 2009.
About two-thirds of all underreporting of income happens on the individual income tax. Of that, business income — as opposed to wages or investment income — accounts for about two-thirds.
Most striking is the huge variation in the rate of misreporting by type of income. Only 1 percent of wages and salaries and only 4 percent of taxable interest and dividends is underreported. In sharp contrast, 57 percent of non-farm proprietor income is not reported.
Why the disparity? Payments of wages and salaries, interest, and dividends must all be reported to the I.R.S. by those who pay them; moreover, wages and salaries are subject to employer withholding. Most self-employment business income is subject to neither information reporting nor withholding, so the I.R.S. knows little absent a thorough audit.
The I.R.S. estimates that the net misreporting rate is 53.9 percent, 8.5 percent, and 4.5 percent for income types subject to “little or no,” “some,” and “substantial” information reporting, respectively, and is just 1.2 percent for those amounts subject to both withholding and substantial information reporting.
Replace "Rupe With "Soros" in you last sentences and that would also be a true statement.
Indeed.
Now We All Can See How Much Power George Soros Has, Yikeess, God Bless America And Sarah Palin.
I think I hear duelling banjos around here.
Me to, QQ
No that just Alexia/Cougar nerve endings tightening up. Just tweaking a little having to reply to all these realist.
But seriously, birth certificate issue is solved. He was born in Hawaii.
ireuel / James or whoever you are today?You have no proof! You can say he was born in Hawaii all that you want but you can not prove it. I have never said that he was not born in Hawaii but i have said that his birth certificate he presented on line is a fake & i have proven so in detail. Facts are that no one you or me can say for certain where Obama was born & for any one to say so definitively is very foolish to do so.
ireuel you mean respond to all the liberal quacks! My nerve endings are fine but no really sure about you though?
Correction: not really
How Did this thread go from delete e-mail to inbred to cheating on taxes to Banjos?
And I am call stupid!
WOW
Mamma always told me "Stupid is ,what stupid does"
She also told me I was "Special"
True! You were a special ed student.
The banjos part is related to the inbreeding comments.
"Lewis: Your name Griner?
First Griner: What you wanna know for?
Lewis: I was wondering if you and your brother could take a couple of trucks down to Aintry for us. We'll be there about Sunday noon.
First Griner: Drive 'em down there for what?
Lewis: Me and my buddy here are taking a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee. We'd like our cars to be down in Aintry when we get there. Be there about Sunday noon.
First Griner: [sarcastically] Canoe trip?
Lewis: That's right, a canoe trip.
First Griner: What the hell you wanna go **** around with that river for?
Lewis: Because it's there.
First Griner: It's there all right. You get in there and can't get out, you gonna wish it wasn't.
Ed: [to Lewis, whispering] Look, Lewis, let's go back to town and, ah…play golf. "
ireuel you are stupid if you can not read the treads in order so to understand how.
Correction: threads