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In 2006 North wrote on his blog, "if being wrong gets one closer to the truth – as it does – then it is worth putting up half-formed speculation and letting the debate rage."[30]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/11/foxtel_austar_deal_close/
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Foxtel gets closer to Austar swoop
Regulatory approval still pending for monopoly
Posted in Business, 11th July 2011 23:09 GMT
The phone-hacking scandal might have slammed the brakes on Murdoch's bid for BSkyB in the UK, but in Australia Foxtel is getting closer to creating a national Australian Pay-TV monopoly with the acquisition of rival Austar.
Definitive agreements have been announced between Austar's parent company, Liberty Global, and the Murdoch-owned Foxtel, under which Foxtel will buy all of the issued shares in Austar for $1.52 per share. The announcement came following the meeting of conditions which had been outlined previously in an indicative, non-binding conditional proposal from Foxtel.
Definitive agreements have been announced between Austar's parent company, Liberty Global, and the Murdoch-owned Foxtel, under which Foxtel will buy all of the issued shares in Austar for $1.52 per share. The announcement came following the meeting of conditions which had been outlined previously in an indicative, non-binding conditional proposal from Foxtel.
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6059
Climategate, Amazongate, Bob Ward and the Murdoch empire by Christopher Booker
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Rather more shadowy still, however, are the Murdoch family's links with Bill Clinton's Climate Change Initiative. The head of strategy and communications for this influential and lavishly funded body is James Murdoch's wife Kathryn. The "Climate Initiative" is in turn part of the William J. Clinton Foundation, fast-becoming one of the richest foundations in the world. It is supported to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by the likes of Bill Gates of Microsoft. Thanks not least to its involvement with climate change, it likes to boast that it has recently been named as one of the world's "Top 10 Green NGOs".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scared_Straight!
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Scared Straight! is a 1979 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. Filmed at Rahway State Prison, a group of inmates known as the "lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to "scare them straight" (hence the film's title) so that those teenagers will avoid prison life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Booker
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From 1964 he became a Spectator columnist, writing on the press and TV, and in 1969 published The Neophiliacs: A
Study of the Revolution in English Life In The Fifties and Sixties, a highly critical analysis of the role played by fantasy in the political and social life of those decades.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/jun/24/sunday-times-amazongate-ipcc
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Sunday Times admits 'Amazongate' story was rubbish. But who's to blame?
Newspaper has apologised over the IPCC's Amazon claim, but questions remain over how falsehoods made it into print
• Roy Greenslade: Sunday Times apologises for climate story
• Forests expert officially complains about 'distorted' article
• Richard North responds
• Roy Greenslade: Sunday Times apologises for climate story
• Forests expert officially complains about 'distorted' article
• Richard North responds
A boat sits near a huge sand bank near Santarem in Brazil's Amazon state of Para on October 26, 2005. A decline in rainfall since January has lowered the main trunk of the Amazon river by some two 2 meters (6.6 feet) from its average water depth of 17 meters (55.8 feet). Photograph: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
http://looktruenorth.com/limited-government/climate-change/15663-house-votes-to-defund-ipcc.html
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http://looktruenorth.com/limited-government/climate-change/15663-house-votes-to-defund-ipcc.html
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| House Votes To Defund IPCC |  |  |  |
| Written by Elmer Beaureguard |
| Monday, 21 February 2011 08:13 |
On February 19, the war on the Global Warming Hoax Scored a stunning victory. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to eliminate U.S. funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Republican majority, said that it no longer wishes to have the IPCC prepare its comprehensive international climate science assessments. The amendment was sponsored by second-term Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Missouri), Luetkemeyer: Scientists manipulated climate data, suppressed legitimate arguments in peer-reviewed journals, and researchers were asked to destroy emails, so that a small number of climate alarmists could continue to advance their environmental agenda. Since then, more than 700 acclaimed international scientists have challenged the claims made by the IPCC, in this comprehensive 740-page report. These 700 scientists represent some of the most respected institutions at home and around the world, including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, U.S. Air Force and Navy, and even the Environmental Protection Agency. For example, famed Princeton University physicist Dr. Robert Austin, who has published 170 scientific papers and was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Austin told a congressional committee that, unfortunately, climate has become a political science. It is tragic the some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best. Mr. Chairman, if the families in my district have been able to tighten their belts, surely the federal government can do the same and stop funding an organization that is fraught with waste and abuse. My amendment simply says that no funds in this bill can go to the IPCC. This would save taxpayers millions of dollars this year and millions of dollars in years to come. In fact, the President has requested an additional $13 million in his fiscal 2012 budget request. My constituents should not have to continue to foot the bill for an organization to keep producing corrupt findings that can be used as justification to impose a massive new energy tax on every American. Cross-posted and comments welcome at Minnesotans For Global Warming. |
| http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/14/rupert-murdoch-bskyb-austar/ Excerpt: There has been some discussion about the Australia Networkcontract, but the more obvious starting point would be to focus on Foxtel’s $2 billion bid for Austar, which will create a pay-TV monopoly in Australia under the management control of News Corp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Murdoch_(philanthropist) Excerpt: |
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC, DBE (born 8 February 1909) is an Australian philanthropist. She is the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch, and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. When Keith Murdoch was knighted in 1933, she was styled Lady Murdoch. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963 and styled as Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.
[edit] Family
Dame Elisabeth was born as Elisabeth Joy Greene in Melbourne, the third daughter of Marie Grace De Lancey (Forth) and Rupert Greene. Her grandfather, William Henry Greene, was a Scottish railway engineer who emigrated to Australia, and married Fanny, the fourth of the ten daughters of George Govett.[1] Elisabeth was educated at St Catherine's School in Toorak, and at Clyde School in St Kilda. She married Keith Murdoch, 23 years her senior, in 1928 and inherited the bulk of his fortune when he died in 1952.Apart from Rupert, her children are Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury (1929-2004). At the time of a 2003 interview she had seventy-three descendants. Her namesake granddaughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, is prominent in the British business world and is married to Matthew Freud, having previously been married to Elkin Pianim, the son of Ghanaian financier Kwame Pianim.
[edit] Philanthropy
Apart from raising her children, Dame Elisabeth has devoted her life to philanthropy. Before her marriage she worked as a volunteer for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She joined the management committee of the Royal Children's Hospital in 1933, serving as its president from 1954 to 1965.A 2003 article in the Melbourne newspaper The Age (see link below) said: "Few can rival Dame Elisabeth's enormous contribution. Her interests are so many they need to be alphabetically catalogued: academia, the arts, children, flora and fauna, heritage, medical research, social welfare. Many of Melbourne and Australia's most cherished institutions, from the Royal Children's Hospital to the Australian Ballet and the Botanic Gardens, have benefited from her involvement. But Dame Elisabeth also devoted herself to less popular causes: prisoners, children in care, those battling mental illness and substance abuse."
Dame Elisabeth retains a substantial stake in the Murdoch family's media businesses and uses the proceeds to fund her extensive donations to charity.[citation needed] She is known to have disapproved of the behaviour of some of his British tabloid newspapers and, as a result, Rupert is reputed to have reined in some of their sexual content.
Dame Elisabeth is a Life Governor of the Royal Women's Hospital. She is Patron of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and of the Australian American Association (Victoria), founded by her husband. She is a patron and founding member of disability organisation EW Tipping Foundation and a founding member of the Deafness Foundation of Victoria.[2] The first woman on the council of trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, Dame Elisabeth was a founding member of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. Dame Elisabeth is a member of the Patrons Council of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria.
The garden at Dame Elisabeth's property, Cruden Farm at Langwarrin, near Frankston (south-east of Melbourne), is one of Australia's finest examples of landscape gardening and is regularly open to the public. It was originally designed by Edna Walling. Dame Elisabeth is a popular figure in the area, where she has donated to many local charities and is known locally as "the Dame".
[edit] Honours
Dame Elisabeth is a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She also holds an award from the French government for funding an exhibition of works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin in Melbourne in 2002. She is an honorary fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and helped to establish the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and the Australian Garden History Society.In 1968, Dame Elisabeth was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Melbourne in acknowledgement of her contributions to research, the arts and philanthropy. Trinity College, Melbourne installed her as a Fellow in 2000. Following extensive donations to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, a Tasmanian species of Boronia (B. elisabethiae) was named after her. In 2004 a high school, Langwarrin Secondary College, was renamed Elisabeth Murdoch College to honour Dame Elisabeth's work within the local community, and in 2010 Geelong Grammar School completed a new girls' boarding house named in her honor.[3]
In January 2007, aged 97 years 11 months, she surpassed Dame Alice Chisholm as Australia's oldest dame.[4] As of 2011[update] at age 102, Dame Elisabeth remains in good health, maintaining a busy schedule of committee meetings and charity functions.[citation needed] This high level of charity work earned her the Victorian of the Year award in 2005 at the age of 96.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Murdoch
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Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (12 August 1885 - 4 October 1952) was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Limited
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| Founded | Adelaide, South Australia, 1923 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Key people | John Hartigan (CEO) |
| Parent | News Corporation |
| Website | news.com.au |
News Limited is an Australian newspaper publisher. Until the formation of News Corporation in 1979, it was the principal holding for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch. Since then, News Limited has been wholly owned by News Corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_News_(Adelaide)
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The newspaper was established in 1869 as the Evening Journal. In 1933, a controlling stake was taken by The Advertiser, controlled by the Herald and Weekly Times. HWT sold off The News in 1949, and Sir Keith Murdoch took control of the paper two years later. It was the main asset passed to his son Rupert upon his death. It was the latter's first media interest and commenced the foundation of what was to become News Limited and subsequently the international media conglomerate, News Corporation.
Later Murdoch acquired the city's other local newspaper, the morning daily broadsheet, The Advertiser in 1987. Rupert Murdoch sold The News that year and many of its journalists moved to The Advertiser. The News closed in 1992.
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