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22-10-2010, 07:51
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US based BILLIONAIRE Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch backs cuts to services he doesn't use.
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIn...siness+News%29
What is it about rich folk, we had 35 top business men writing a letter to to Condems the other day telling them to go ahead with these measures and we had half of the Condems sniggering whilst Osbourne outlined the cuts in parliament on Wednesday. Why do the rich despise the poor, sick and needy members of our society?
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22-10-2010, 08:03
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Maybe they realise that each poor person has a government debt allocation of £15k each?
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22-10-2010, 08:09
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Originally Posted by websters gue
US based BILLIONAIRE Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch backs cuts to services he doesn't use.
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIn...siness+News%29
What is it about rich folk, we had 35 top business men writing a letter to to Condems the other day telling them to go ahead with these measures and we had half of the Condems sniggering whilst Osbourne outlined the cuts in parliament on Wednesday. Why do the rich despise the poor, sick and needy members of our society? |
tbh I think it's fair for rich businessmen to comment where they have a significant stake in the economy doing well, somebody like Sir Stuart Rose for example whose company Marks & Spencer is likely to be hit by poor consumer confidence. I'm not sure how Murdoch's empire has or will be affected, will people buy less papers, cancel their Sky subscription? They seem to be doing ok and I don't know anybody so cash strapped that they have stopped getting their daily paper or Sky TV. Is he fishing for favours? 
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22-10-2010, 08:12
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Maybe they realise that each poor person has a government debt allocation of £15k each?
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Could you explain this a bit more Tony, it's new to me and probably is to others on here.
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22-10-2010, 08:14
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Originally Posted by websters gue
US based BILLIONAIRE Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch backs cuts to services he doesn't use.
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIn...siness+News%29
What is it about rich folk, we had 35 top business men writing a letter to to Condems the other day telling them to go ahead with these measures and we had half of the Condems sniggering whilst Osbourne outlined the cuts in parliament on Wednesday. Why do the rich despise the poor, sick and needy members of our society? |
Murdoch has been the chief cheer leader of this government from the start. He has an agenda to spread American style 'Neo Con' politics as far and wide as possible, because it is through such policies that the last legal barriers to stop scumbags like him from buying power and influence are removed. The sad irony is that the simple minded folk who enable him to do this by believing what they read in the Sun actually seem to think he is acting in the best interests of the people, when quite the reverse is true.
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22-10-2010, 08:57
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... Is he fishing for favours? |
Always. At the moment he's trying to get complete control of BskyB and doesn't want any opposition from the govt. UK govts. are generally opposed to this kind of media consolidation so he's giving Cameron's back a good scratch.
OTOH Murdoch's endorsement of the cuts could just be a 'thank you' for the cuts imposed on the BBC. He wants all our football to be his 
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22-10-2010, 12:01
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Originally Posted by websters gue
US based BILLIONAIRE Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch backs cuts to services he doesn't use.
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Get your facts straights, eh? Murdoch is NOT a BILLIONAIRE. Neither is he a billionaire (lower case). In fact, he's only on slightly more than the minimum wage.
How did I come to this conclusion? Simple. It's been printed (not by his media empire mind you) that Murdoch pays about £5,000 income tax a year. Which means he's on, what, about £20000 a year?
So, unless he's practising tax avoidance (and that's unlikely, because we know how much he loathes those who sponge off the state) then he's hardly a billionaire at all... in fact, he's not even close to being a millionaire.
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22-10-2010, 12:04
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...somebody like Sir Stuart Rose for example whose company Marks & Spencer is likely to be hit by poor consumer confidence.
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All the more reason NOT to add tens of thousands to the dole queue then.
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22-10-2010, 12:06
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The same Murdoch who is now in bed with Cameron? Hardly surprising, really.
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22-10-2010, 12:36
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What is it about rich folk, we had 35 top business men writing a letter to to Condems the other day telling them to go ahead with these measures and we had half of the Condems sniggering whilst Osbourne outlined the cuts in parliament on Wednesday. Why do the rich despise the poor, sick and needy members of our society?
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They weren't just sniggering. They were shouting "more, more". These people seem to be gloating at the fact that they are making life more difficult for the poor, so much for "we are all in this together" and the claim that these cuts are only being done out of necessity.
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22-10-2010, 12:36
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Does anybody know if Murdoch has much market share for news publications and TV in Europe? Or is it mainly English speaking countries (English as the first language)?
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22-10-2010, 12:43
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Does anybody know if Murdoch has much market share for news publications and TV in Europe? Or is it mainly English speaking countries (English as the first language)?
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There's a list of his tentacles here...rather more than an octopus !
BSkyB has almost 10 million subscribers now so no suprise that Murdoch wants to own it outright.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...t-2113647.html
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22-10-2010, 12:45
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Does anybody know if Murdoch has much market share for news publications and TV in Europe? Or is it mainly English speaking countries (English as the first language)?
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News Corp wholly owns Sky Italia (Italy's most popular pay TV company according to News Corp's website) and has a significant holding in Sky Deutschland
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22-10-2010, 12:54
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News Corp wholly owns Sky Italia (Italy's most popular pay TV company according to News Corp's website) and has a significant holding in Sky Deutschland
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Bloody hell 
Octopus! Millipede more like! Thanks both.
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22-10-2010, 12:55
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News Corp wholly owns Sky Italia (Italy's most popular pay TV company according to News Corp's website) and has a significant holding in Sky Deutschland
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Would be interesting if murdoch decided to go up against berlusconi directly 
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22-10-2010, 13:12
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Murdoch has been the chief cheer leader of this government from the start. He has an agenda to spread American style 'Neo Con' politics as far and wide as possible, because it is through such policies that the last legal barriers to stop scumbags like him from buying power and influence are removed. The sad irony is that the simple minded folk who enable him to do this by believing what they read in the Sun actually seem to think he is acting in the best interests of the people, when quite the reverse is true.
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Not quite. He backed Labour for around 10 years until they screwed up the economy. Now he's backing the coalition to clear up the mess they left behind.
I'm not quite sure how that squares with your accusations of an agenda to spread American style 'Neo Con' politics as far and wide as possible.
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22-10-2010, 13:25
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Not quite. He backed Labour for around 10 years until they screwed up the economy. Now he's backing the coalition to clear up the mess they left behind.
I'm not quite sure how that squares with your accusations of an agenda to spread American style 'Neo Con' politics as far and wide as possible.
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Not quite. His support for Labour was never exactly gushing was it?
The Sun always likes to be on the winning side so when the Cons were looking likely winners they swapped to Smarmy Dave's outfit, and in any case New Labour hardly threatened him or his empire when they could have lanced the Dirty Digger once and for all.
Say it as many times as you like but Labour didn't wreck the economy it was the GLOBAL CREDIT CRUNCH caused by the neo-con policies of the septic tanks in their great mortgage free for all.
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22-10-2010, 13:42
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Not quite. He backed Labour for around 10 years until they screwed up the economy. Now he's backing the coalition to clear up the mess they left behind.
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No, he backed New Labour because they knew better than to stand up to his demands. Didn't New Labour want to change the rules on foreign ownership of British media just for Murdoch, so he purchase Channel 5 as well?
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I'm not quite sure how that squares with your accusations of an agenda to spread American style 'Neo Con' politics as far and wide as possible.
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Murdoch was the main cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq. So it's only fair he should be supportive of the Help for Heroes charity. After all, he is a major reason why our boys are coming home in bits or in bodybags.
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22-10-2010, 13:45
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He nailed his badge to the mast now he has to live with his choice and accept the consequences. He wouldn't be accepted anywhere else.
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22-10-2010, 13:57
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Would be interesting if murdoch decided to go up against berlusconi directly |
A winner takes all fistfight between the two media heavyweights sounds great!
Stick it on pay TV and I might even consider subscribing to Sky
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