Rupert Murdoch's China Connection/Why are these guys still quoting Wall Street Journal's polls? OMG!

Is it just me?  I am sitting here watching and listening with one eye and two ears and trying to multi-task.  The TV is laughable to me that these folks on MSNBC on the one hand are showing Rupert Murdoch in the negative (HUMBLE MY ASS)  and then quoting the Wall Street Journal?  hmmmmmmmm, doesn't Murdoch own the WSJ?  OMG!!!

The guy on TV was using a poll from the WSJ.  OMG!!!

Is WSJ still reputable?  What about Dow Jones?

Jude Law's phone was hacked by Rupert Murdoch company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxdTqKB0pjI

Rebekeh Brooks admits paying police
http://www.casttv.com/video/be18m1e/rebekah-brooks-admits-to-paying-police-video

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Conservative_Party
Excerpt:
Conservative Campaign Headquarters
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7222 9000
Web: http://www.conservatives.com/

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/04/06/wsjnbc-poll-a-donald-trump-surprise/ (Don't go in here as I have on 2 computers and they both went bad.  It shows a poll.)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wall_Street_Journal
Excerpt:
The Wall Street Journal, an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, is owned by News Corporation, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. It typically misinforms its readers about climate change.


http://www.japonica.com/2004_Photos_ChinaConnection.html
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David Coulter, Robert A. Zoellick, John Thornton, Ronnie C. Chan, Nicholas Platt, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, Maurice Greenberg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Coulter
Excerpt:
David A. Coulter is an American banker.
Currently he is Managing Director and Senior Advisor of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (financial services and retail banking) from January 2001 to September 2005. Prior to the merger with J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated, he was Vice Chairman of The Chase Manhattan Corporation (bank holding company) from August 2000 to December 2000. He was a partner in the Beacon Group, L.P. (investment banking firm) from January 2000 to July 2000, and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America Corporation and Bank of America NT&SA from May 1996 to October 1998.^[1] Coulter has been a director of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company since 1996. He also is a director of Metavante Technologies and Strayer Education, Inc.
Born in Ford City, Pennsylvania, he was educated at Carnegie Mellon University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zoellick
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Robert Bruce Zoellick (German pronunciation: [ˈtsœlɪk], but usually English pronunciation: /ˈzelɪk/; born July 25, 1953) is the eleventh president of the World Bank, a position he has held since July 1, 2007.^[2] He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs,^[3] United States Deputy Secretary of State (resigning on July 7, 2006) and U.S. Trade Representative, from February 7, 2001 until February 22, 2005.
President George W. Bush nominated Zoellick on May 30, 2007 to replace Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank.^[4] On June 25, 2007, Zoellick was approved by the World Bank's executive board.^[2][5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Thornton
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John Lawson Thornton (b.1954) is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs. In 1983, Thornton founded and developed Goldman Sachs' European mergers and acquisitions business. He served as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International in London from 1995 to 1996. Thornton was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia from 1996 to 1998, where he expanded the firm's regional franchise during the Asian financial crisis. Thornton is a director of Intel, Pacific Century Group, Ford Motor Company, China Netcom, HSBC Holdings,and News Corporation. He is also Chairman of the Board of The Brookings Institution.

[edit] Early life and career

Thornton graduated from the Hotchkiss School, a prestigious boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. He is currently President of the Hotchkiss School Board of Trustees.
Thornton earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, bachelor's and master's degrees from Oxford University, and a master's degree from Yale School of Management.
Thornton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he serves as trustee or advisory board member for a wide range of organizations, including the Asia Society, China Institute, China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Eisenhower Fellowships, Financial Services Volunteer Corps, The Hotchkiss School, International Advisory Committee of the China Reform Forum, Morehouse College, National Committee on United States-China Relations, Nelson Mandela Legacy Foundation (US), Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Beijing), the Yale School of Management ^[1] and Co-Chairs the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.
In 2006, Thornton funded the establishment of the John L. Thornton China Center at the The Brookings Institution.^[2]
In 2009, he also became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation.^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Chan
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He was also a director of Enron Corporation when it filed for bankruptcy as a result of fraud.^[3]

http://www.apfn.org/ENRON/chan.htm
Excerpt:

ENRON'S Ronnie C. Chan

FIRSTROW, FROM LEFT, Ken L. Harrison, John A. Urquhart, Robert A. Belfer, Norman P. Blake, Jr., Robert K. Jaedicke, Ronnie C. Chan, Jeffrey K. Skilling, Kenneth L. Lay and Wendy L. Gramm. Second Row, from left, Bruce G. Willison, John H. Duncan, Joe H. Foy, Charls E. Walker, John Wakeham, Jerome J. Meyer, Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. and Charles A LeMaistre.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nicholas_Platt
Excerpt:
Nicholas Platt, "the fifth president of the Asia Society, has spent most of his life working on relations between the US and Asia. He assumed the presidency of Asia Society in 1992 after a 34-year career as an American diplomat in Asia which culminated in service as US Ambassador to the Philippines (1987-1991) and Pakistan (1991-1992).

http://www.monju.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/EW4a.htm
Excerpt:

Patten and Murdoch  Quarrel -

David and Goliath Again?

 © Terry Boardman  March 1998

This article first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in April 1998

Last year on May 29th at a sumptuous dinner in New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, global media mogul Rupert Murdoch must have been feeling smug as he received from the hands of  friend Henry Kissinger  the Humanitarian of the Year award from  the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York, a group that calls itself "the largest philanthropic organisation in the world". But then Murdoch, as he said on that occasion, has always maintained his "faith and News Corporation’s faith in the integrity and worthiness of the Zionist undertaking". (1) Seen by both corporate rivals such as Ted Turner of CNN and by leftwingers worldwide as only slightly cooler than the devil incarnate, Murdoch the anti-Establishment crusader must have been feeling even more amused on January 11th this year when Cardinal Roger Mahoney invested him and his Catholic wife Anna with  papal knighthoods - Knight Commander and Dame of the 167 year-old Order of St Gregory - the highest lay order the Pope bestows - on those "of unblemished character". Cardinal Mahony told the honorees: "You are examples of good peer pressure, positive influences on society and culture." (2)One can wonder whether the Pope had ever seen episodes of  such salacious and seamy Murdoch media productions  as the American TV shows "The Simpsons" or "Married With Children". Perhaps he was taking heart from the fact that Murdoch has recently formed a business alliance  with rightwing Christian evangelist and media boss Pat Robertson, that bulwark of traditional Christian family values, although, as a Protestant fundamentalist, Robertson is not exactly well-disposed towards the Vatican.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_G._A._Kraemer
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Kraemer, a Lutheran with a dislike for Nazis, escaped Nazi Germany for America in 1939, leaving behind his wife and son. He was drafted and became a U.S. citizen as an inductee and joined the United States Army in April 1943 ("with two PhDs and one monocle") as an infantryman in the 84th Infantry Division (the “Railsplitter”). During the war, he recruited Henry Kissinger into the military intelligence section of the division.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-98227/Prince-Charles-took-1-million-gift-Enron.html
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Prince Charles took £1 million gift from Enron

by SIMON WALTERS, Mail on Sunday

Prince Charles was dragged into the Enron scandal last night after it was revealed he lunched with Ken Lay, boss of the collapsed American energy giant, at the tycoon's Texas mansion.
In a further embarrassing disclosure, it was confirmed that Enron executives were regular visitors to St James's Palace after the company gave the Prince's Trust charity £1million.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=25492
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Maybe it’s because of a report from the Information Commissioner in 2006.
It investigated newspapers’ dealings with a firm of private investigators involved in illegally trading personal details.
It found that the Daily Mail had used the firm the most, listing 1,218 instances at the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
Dacre has been editor of the paper since 1992.

John Taylor Skilling, the son of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, in an undated Facebook image.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/john-taylor-skilling-son-jailed-enron-chief-jeffrey/story?id=12843040
Excerpt:
John Taylor Skilling, or JT as he was called, was 15 when his father was sentenced to a 24 years in a federal prison in Englewood, Colo.
His lawyers reported that the older Skilling was " heartbroken and distraught and devastated" by the tragedy.
Friends told ABC News that the younger Skilling had not seemed depressed and were adamant that people not equate the death with Skilling's emotional state over his father.
"They had a very strong relationship," said one close Texas friend, who asked to remain anonymous. "He loved his Dad so much, and through everything that has happened over the years, he stuck by his Dad's side. That surprised a lot of people."



http://www.businessinsider.com/when-the-cement-shoe-fits-let-rupert-wear-it--murdoch-loses-an-innuendo-in-court-to-elena-baturina-2011-3
Excerpt:

When The Cement Shoe Fits, Let Rupert Murdoch Wear It -- Murdoch Losts An Innuendo In Court To Elena Baturina

John Helmer, Dances With Bears | Mar. 28, 2011, 8:02 AM | 567 |  

Elena Baturina won an unusual battle against Rupert Murdoch’s journalism last week. It is yet another demonstration that when it comes to dispensing Russian justice, the London courts are the only ones who do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelena_Baturina
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Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina (Еле́на Никола́евна Бату́рина) (born 8 March 1963) is a Russian oligarch, Russia's richest woman^[1] and the only Russian woman worth more than a billion dollars. She is the joint 993rd richest person in the world currently, after tumbling from a much higher wealth.^[2] Her husband, Yuriy Luzhkov, was mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118589043953483378.html
Excerpt:

By SARAH ELLISON and MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG

A century of Bancroft-family ownership at Dow Jones & Co. is over.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sealed a $5 billion agreement to purchase the publisher of The Wall Street Journal after three months of drama in the controlling family and public debate about journalistic values.
One of the oldest and best-known franchises in the newspaper industry, beset in recent years by business pressures, now enters a new era as part of a world-wide media conglomerate. The 76-year-old Mr. Murdoch, whose properties range from the Fox television network to the Times of London, negotiated hard to win the paper he long coveted. He has promised to invest more in Dow Jones journalism.