RUPERT MURDOCH >How Much Destructive Power is Enough Destructive Power?

[Stephanie]

You would think that with his looks he'd be too busy fending off the women to worry about acquiring more power. Lest we forget - this Iraq War was brought to you by none other than -

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said on January 10, 2005 it would to buy out the shareholders of its unit Fox Entertainment Group Inc. in an exchange offer valued at roughly $6 billion. Under the terms of the deal, holders of Fox Class A shares will receive 1.90 shares of News Corp.'s Class A shares. That represents a premium of about 7.4 percent over Fox's closing price Friday of $31.22. Murdoch(R) and his son Lachlan listen to questions during a media conference after the News Corp annual meeting in Adelaide, Australia October 26, 2004. (Stringer/Australia/Reuters)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050110/photos_en/mdf818323

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http://truthout.org/docs_02/022203A.htm

Of Gods and Mortals and Empire
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Friday 21 February 2003

<snip> Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

PNAC is staffed by men who previously served with groups like Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, which supported America's bloody gamesmanship in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and with groups like The Committee for the Present Danger, which spent years advocating that a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was "winnable."

PNAC has recently given birth to a new group, The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in order to formulate a plan to "educate" the American populace about the need for war in Iraq. CLI has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to support the Iraqi National Congress and the Iraqi heir presumptive, Ahmed Chalabi. Chalabi was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court in 1992 to 22 years in prison for bank fraud after the collapse of Petra Bank, which he founded in 1977. Chalabi has not set foot in Iraq since 1956, but his Enron-like business credentials apparently make him a good match for the Bush administration's plans.

PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report is the institutionalization of plans and ideologies that have been formulated for decades by the men currently running American government. The PNAC Statement of Principles is signed by Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, as well as by Eliot Abrams, Jeb Bush, Bush's special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, and many others. William Kristol, famed conservative writer for the Weekly Standard, is also a co-founder of the group. The Weekly Standard is owned by Ruppert Murdoch, who also owns international media giant Fox News.

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[tridim]

1. Matt Groening needs to break his Simpsons contract immediately

I can't imagine The Simpsons without the ability to make fun of Rupert and Faux.

[DireStrike]

2. So are they trading news for entertainment?

If so, that sounds like a good signal.

[StClone]

3. Murdoch is proof why we need strong Government

There is not enough power and money in the world to satisfy the ego of a Murdoch. Limiting his media empire is important for the free exchange information and ideas.

[Stephanie]

4. Proof that billions of dollars can't make you good looking

or attractive to women . So what is it for? I forget.