http://www.antiwar.com/orig/weiner6.html
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(PNAC's chairman, Bill Kristol, is the editor of Rupert Murdoch's The Weekly Standard.) In short, PNAC had a lock on military policy-creation in the Bush Administration.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weekly_Standard_Magazine
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The Weekly Standard magazine is considered the prime voice of Republican neoconservatives, and one of the most influential publications in Washington under the Bush Administration. [1] Founded under Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it was first published on September 17, 1995. On June 17, 2009, Philip F. Anschutz's Clarity Media Group announced it had acquired The Weekly Standard.[2]
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/9139841.Daniel_Morgan_s_brother__disturbed__by_News_of_the_World__harassment__of_murder_detective/
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THE brother of murdered private eye Daniel Morgan says the News of the World’s (NotW) alleged interference in the police investigation is “deeply disturbing”.
NotW staff are accused of harassing detective David Cook in 2002, while he was investigating the murder of Mr Morgan, as a favour to one of the suspects, Jonathan Rees.
Private eye Mr Rees, aged 57, worked as an investigator for NotW from 1993 to 2000, and was reportedly re-hired by Andy Coulson, the newspaper’s former editor, in 2007.
Speaking to News Shopper, Mr Morgan’s brother Alistair said: “These claims the News of the World intervened in the investigation are deeply disturbing and sinister.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_F._Anschutz
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Philip F. Anschutz is the billionaire co-founder of Qwest Communications[1], among the largest land-owners in Colorado, a major player in the oil, railroad, and media markets, and according to Forbes, he is the 33rd wealthiest man in America. He also has large and plentiful investments in sports teams (such as several soccer teams[2], the LA Lakers and the LA Kings), stadiums and newspapers (San Francisco Examiner and the SF Independent).[3]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clarity_Media_Group
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Clarity Media Group is the holding company for media properties owned by Philip F. Anschutz. These include the San Francisco Examiner and the Washington Examiner. An Examiner newspaper in Baltimore was shut down in February 2009.[1]
Clarity Media has trademarked the name "Examiner" for possible future newspapers in dozens of other U.S. cities.[2] The company also operates news portal websites in numerous cities under the "examiner.com" name, and is seeking editors to oversee regional and local content for those websites.[3][4]
On June 17, 2009, Clarity Media Group acquired The Weekly Standard, a conservative opinion journal, from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.[5]
Ryan McKibben is Clarity Media Group's CEO.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/william-kristol
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William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard, which, together with Fred Barnes and John Podhoretz, he founded in 1995. One of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators, Kristol regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel.
Before starting The Weekly Standard, Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future. Prior to that, Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9609b2767410ec92984a7dc3f8df691c
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Rupert Murdoch Owns Your Soul -- The Evil Empire Buys MySpace
New America Media, Youth Commentary, Nick Datesman, Posted: Nov 30, 2005 
Editor's Note: A young man says the publishing magnate's acquisition of MySpace.com, a popular social networking site, is just plain scary. OAKLAND--If you've ever watched television than you've probably watched something owned by media kingpin Rupert Murdoch. Why? Because Murdoch owns all kinds of American media. Those stupid reality shows you watch? Murdoch owns them. The news you watch every morning? It could be owned by Murdoch and may be edited to fit right-wing Christian views. Murdoch also owns 175 newspapers and 35 American television stations. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. His empire also includes satellite television and magazine and book publishing that reach from the United States to the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia.
But his most recent acquisition might be the scariest. Murdoch just paid $580 million to buy something huge. The social networking Web site MySpace -- "a place for friends" -- is now owned by Murdoch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sarah_Payne
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Sarah's Law
The campaign for Sarah's Law was spearheaded by the News of the World newspaper, which began in July 2000 in response to the murder of Sarah Payne. Sarah Payne's parents backed up the campaign as they were sure that a child sex offender had been responsible for their daughter's death. Their belief was proved correct 17 months later when Roy Whiting was found guilty of killing Sarah Payne, and it was revealed that he already had a conviction for abducting and indecently assaulting an eight-year-old girl.
The aim of the campaign was for the government to allow controlled access to the Sex Offenders Register, so parents with young children could know if a child sex-offender was living in their area. Sarah Payne's mother has always insisted that such a law would have saved her daughter's life.
The scheme was introduced in four pilot areas of England and Wales in September 2008. In August 2010 the Home Office announced that after proving successful, Sarah's Law would be extended to cover the whole of England and Wales by spring 2011.[33]
http://thecurrerball.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/don%E2%80%99t-blame-the-news-of-the-world/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kinnock
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Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware quoted one of Kinnock's speeches but forgot to credit him during his 1988 presidential campaign.[15] This led to Biden's withdrawing from the race.[16]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Centre_for_European_Reform
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Centre for European Reform
29 Tufton Street
London, SW1P 3QL
Phone: 44 (0)20 7233 1199
Fax: 44 (0)20 7233 1117
Web:http://www.cer.org.uk/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/03/AR2005050301695.html
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Not so many years ago the Sun, which is owned by Australian-born Rupert Murdoch, was firmly on the side of the Conservative Party. Its editorials and punchy, hammering headlines helped the legendary Margaret Thatcher win three successive terms in office between 1979 and 1987. In 1992, despite its distaste for Thatcher's bland successor, John Major, the Sun stuck with the Tories, and led a brutal assault on Neil Kinnock and Labor -- "Nightmare on Kinnock Street" was the headline on an eight-page attack a few days before the election. It was an important factor in Major's narrow electoral victory, and "It Was The Sun Wot Won It," the newspaper boasted a day later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Brown_(wife_of_Gordon_Brown)
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She first met Gordon Brown briefly at a Labour event, but they did not speak at length until 1994 when they shared a flight from London to Scotland for the Scottish Labour Party conference. After this meeting the two began dating.[8]
The relationship was kept secret until 1997, when the News of the World published a picture of them together in a restaurant in London.[9] Allegedly, the scene was staged by spin doctor Charlie Whelan and had to be reshot when Brown failed to look suitably loving.[6]
They were married on 3 August 2000 in Brown's home town, North Queensferry, Fife.[10]
In 2001, she left Hobsbawm Macaulay after finding out she was pregnant with her first child.[11] On 28 December 2001 she gave birth prematurely to a daughter, Jennifer Jane, who died when she was only 10 days old.[12][13] In 2002 she founded charity Piggy Bank Kids, which began as a research fund to tackle complications in pregnancy, and has now expanded into a range of projects helping disadvantaged children. Gordon Brown has spoken of Sarah's bravery after the death of their daughter.[14]
On 17 October 2003 she gave birth to her second child, a boy, John[15] and then on 17 July 2006 she had another boy, James Fraser.[16] In November of that year, James Fraser was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.[17]
[edit] Friendships
Friends from the worlds of politics and media have included jounalist and television presenter Mariella Frostrup, Labour spin doctor Charlie Whelan,[21] Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi and his daughter Elisabeth, the television presenter Claudia Winkleman and newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks.[22]http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc20050816_5029_tc024.htm
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Aug. 16, 2005
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NEWS ANALYSIS By Steve Rosenbush
The Birth of Murdoch.com
The MySpace acquisition shows the News Corp. mogul aims to create "an original type of portal." That could be bad news for Yahoo! and AOL
Rupert Murdoch stunned the broadcasting industry in 1994 when News Corp. (NWS ) outbid rival CBS (VIA.B ) for the right to televise the NFL's National Conference games. The deal established News Corp.'s young Fox Network as powerful rival to establishment players CBS, ABC (DIS ) and NBC (GE ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_CBS
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CBS apparently underestimated the value of its rights with respect to its advertising revenues and to its promotionial opportunities for other network programming. The vast resources of Fox founder Rupert Murdoch allowed that network to grow quickly, primarily to the detriment of CBS. Also, CBS Sports suffered from the fact that in light of their money-bleeding, $1 billion deal with Major League Baseball (1990–1993), it suddenly entered a cost cutting mode.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-rabin-havt/rupert-murdoch-lied-to-me_b_685180.html
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Rupert Murdoch lied to me.
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Last night, Bloomberg News reported that NewsCorp gave $1,000,000 to the Republican Governors Association, making them the organizations largest single contributor.
Rupert Murdoch was singing a different tune back in April when I confronted him at the National Press Club about Fox News' support of the Tea Parties. At the time he told me:
Phone-hacking scandal: Jonathan Rees obtained information using dark arts
Freemason set up network of corrupt police, customs officials, taxmen and bank staff to gain valuable information
Jonathan Rees (left) alleged to have arranged the murder of Private Eye Daniel Morgan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Rees
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After the collapse of the Old Bailey trial in March 2011 it was revealed that Jonathan Rees had earned £150,000 a year from the News of the World for supplying illegally obtained information about people in the public eye.[4][5]
After Rees completed his prison sentence for perverting the course of justice, he had been hired again by the News of the World, at the time edited by Andy Coulson.[4] Rees worked regularly on behalf of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror,[2] as well as the News of the World, investigating the bank accounts of the royal family,[2] and obtaining information on other public figueres.[2] He had a network of contacts with corrupt police officers,[2] who obtained confidential records for him. He was routinely able to obtain confidential data from bank accounts, telephone records, car registration details and computers.[2] He was also alleged to have commissioned burglaries on behalf of journalists.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Morgan_(private_investigator)
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Daniel Morgan was a private investigator brutally murdered in Sydenham, south east London, in March 1987. He was said to have been close to exposing important police corruption. His death was the subject of several failed police inquiries and in 2011 was at the centre of allegations concerning the suspect conduct of News of the World journalists. Morgan's unsolved murder has been described as a reminder of the old London police culture of corruption and unaccountability.
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[edit] Biography
Daniel Morgan was born in Singapore.,[1] the son of an army officer.[2] He grew up with an elder brother and younger sister in Monmouthshire, where he attended agricultural college in Usk before spending time in Denmark gaining experience of farming.[1] He married in his late twenties and moved to London where he and his wife settled and had two children.[1]Daniel Morgan had an exceptional memory for small details, such as car registration numbers[1] and in 1984 he set up a detective agency, Southern Investigations, in Thornton Heath, Surrey.[2]
[edit] Murder
On March 10, 1987 after having a drink with Jonathan Rees, his partner in Southern Investigations, at the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, Morgan was found dead in the pub car park[3] next to his car, with an axe wound to the back of his head[4] Although a watch had been stolen his wallet had been left and a large sum of money was still in his jacket pocket. The pocket of his trousers had been torn open and notes he had earlier been seen writing were missing. Subsequently a match to the DNA sample found on Morgan's trouser pocket was allegedly made.[5] Morgan was alleged to have been investigating drug-related police corruption in south London before his death.[5]Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery, stationed at Catford police station, was assigned to the case but did not reveal to superiors that he had been working unofficially for Southern Investigations.[4] In April 1987 six individuals including Sid Fillery and Jonathan Rees, the brothers Glenn and Garry Vian and two Metropolitan police officers were arrested on suspicion of murder but all were eventually released without charge.[4]
At the inquest into Morgan's death in April 1988 it was alleged that Jonathan Rees, who had had disagreements with Morgan, told Kevin Lennon, an accountant at Southern Investigations, that police officers at Catford police station who were friends of his were either going to murder Danny Morgan or would arrange it, and Sid Fillery would replace Morgan as Rees's partner. When asked, Rees denied murdering Daniel Morgan.[6] Sid Fillery, who had retired from the Metropolitan Police on medical grounds and joined Southern Investigations as Rees's business partner, was alleged by witnesses to have tampered with evidence and attempted to interfere with witnesses during the inquiry.[7]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-561629/Two-charged-1987-axe-murder-private-detective-Daniel-Morgan.html
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Daniel Morgan: The private detective was found with an axe buried in his head in a pub car park in 1987
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/11/daniel-morgan-axe-murder-defendants
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Daniel Morgan murder case: the defendants
Profiles of Jonathan Rees, Garry and Glenn Vian, Sidney Fillery and James Cook
Court artist's Elizabeth Cook's impression of (left to right) Jonathan Rees, Glen Vian, Sidney Fillery, Gary Vian and James Cook. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA
Jonathan Rees
Morgan's partner at Southern Investigations. Married to Sharon, the sister of Glenn and Garry Vian. Rees, 59, counted many police officers as friends, and according to internal Scotland Yard reports from surveillance operations, used corrupt police officers to pass him information which he sold to tabloid newspapers. In 2000 he was jailed for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice for attempting to plant drugs on an innocent woman in a child custody case. He was charged with Morgan's murder.Garry and Glenn Vian
Garry Vian, 50 and his brother Glenn Vian, 53, knew Rees through their sister Sharon. Rees occasionally employed them as security for his agency. Garry Vian was jailed in 2005 for 14 years for conspiring to supply controlled drugs; he tried to smuggle millions of pounds' worth of Class A drugs into the UK in hollow pianos. When convicted he was described in court as a drug dealer on a "commercial" scale. Both men were charged with Morgan's murder.Sidney Fillery
At the time of Morgan's murder, Fillery, 63, was a detective at Catford CID in south-east London. He was a friend of Rees and one of a number of officers moonlighting at Southern Investigations. As a member of the Catford crime squad Fillery was involved in the first murder inquiry but did not reveal his connection with Rees or the agency. After Morgan's death he left the Met after obtaining a medical discharge and became Rees's partner at Southern Investigations. In 2003 Fillery was convicted of making indecent images of children. Fillery was charged in the Daniel Morgan case with attempting to pervert the course of justice: the allegation was that he threatened a potential witness in relation to the murder. The charge against him was stayed in February 2010 after the judge ruled evidence from a key supergrass was inadmissible.
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