Rebekah Brooks charged :)

[NicholasTeakozy]

Short version here I'll have a dig for more details. Oh happy day! :o

Didn't mean journalist, couldn't find/think of the word I wanted perhaps editor/mercenary/hack writer?

I'd go for 'operator' or tactician.

Yes absolutely Aboutlastnight

I know what comes to my mind. Third world dictator in General's uniform doesn't mean he's ever been a soldier.

I'm puzzled by the statement that Brooks is a brilliant journalist. What did she ever DO? Apart from lick Murdoch's arse?

Is she a journalist?

"What did she ever DO? Apart from lick Murdoch's arse?"

I can just imagine him saying 'While you're down there ...'

Well even if she did I don't suppose either of them will recall the incident(s).

I'm pretty sure she never worked as a journalist at all - ie an 'on the road' reporter.

'Graham Ball was the features editor on Eddie Shah's famously short-lived Post newspaper when the 20-year-old Rebekah approached him in its Warrington offices.
"She came up to me and said 'I am going to come and work with you on the features desk as the features secretary or administrator'."
"I said 'I'm afraid that's not going to be possible because next week I'm going to London,' and I thought nothing more of it.
"The following Monday, I got to our new office in London, and there she was," he said.
"She did everything with great finesse, she was very clever."'

I've heard this anecdote before - she just turned up & finessed herself into a job

from \link{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13117456\BBC profile}

It looks as though she expected to 'finesse' herself out of being charged. But it hasn't worked so far. Still we shall have to wait and see how things progress.

I think if Levison enquiry and her bungling attempts to destroy evidence show us anything, it is that she not this all powerful svengali figure, but a smoke and mirrors merchant.

Kind of reminded me of the end of the wizzard of Oz.

I'm going for the principle of occam's razor which is that the simplest explanation is probalbly the right one.

So a lazy and dim person not au fait with IT issues might have thought that discarding a laptop in the nearest bin would make it go away.

Rebekah is probably reasonably au fait with the many reasons people might go through rubbish. But maybe because she relies too much on other people she didn't chuck it herself.

Tessa Jowell at Leveson - turns out Elizabeth Murdoch was a 'good friend'. And Sue Akers has 'retired'. If this was a movie we would be groaning now, saying 'what a preposterous plot!'.

It is quite staggering really, when you think about it, how much power Murdoch has...

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt being investigated for allegedly failing to declare donations from 'media firms' while in oposition.

Strange re. Sue Akers, why would someone heading up a crucial, high-profile investigation reaching into the very heights of government retire in the middle? If she was due for retirement, why did they give it to her in the first place?

They (the inner circle of Murdoch) certainly covered all the bases when it came to getting close to everyone and anyone that could possibly oil the wheels of world domination. For everyone slimy politician that claims to be 'good friends' with them, I wonder how many rejected their offers of cosy kitchen suppers, leaving those that did feeling like they were the chosen ones. I don't know Jowell personally but watching her performance today didn't leave me feeling they invited her for her sparkling charisma.

Re the Hulture secretary, this will be the thing that brings him down, neatly having to avoid any further embarrassing questions or a glaringly guilty resignation.

The phone hacking thing is just a smokescreen for a whole load of government corruption which involved the leaders of both major parties over a 15 year period, and which influenced the award of major government contracts to a number of leading businesses.

Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch have so far escaped attention, but it's they who brokered the relationships between the press and politicians; the politicians in turn who made it easier for Shine and especially Freud Communications' clients to do business.

Matthew Freud knows everyone, and has dirt on everyone. His parties are legendary for their debauchery, which he encourages. Everyone is frightened of him, frightened of what he knows, and frightened of who he knows. Want to know how Tony Blair got so rich so quick? Matthew will tell you.

The powers that be are protecting him in order to protect themselves. Rebekah Brooks and possibly James Murdoch are going to take the rap for this, but are not the ones pulling the strings. Sienna Miller, Millie Dowler etc are all a distraction from the less sexy but infinitely worse skullduggery going on behind closed doors.

I did have more than a suspicion that all this was about more than the hacking of phones. I think they have enough dirt on a lot of powerful people to rock this country to its foundations. I am intrigued as to how Tony Blair has become so rich. Doesn't he charge tens of thousands for after dinner speaking and such like. I must say I find it hard to swallow that somebody would pay that much to listen to him.

Tony Blair made deals on behalf of a lot of Arab firms and countries with British firms. Middle East peace envoy my arse.

He's the godfather of Rupert Murdoch's daughter. The godmother is Queen Rania of Jordan.

Queen Rania and the Jordanian government are both clients of Freud Communications. Matthew Freud set Tony Blair up in the role of envoy.

It doesn't take a genius to join the dots using information in the public domain.

Why is no-one discussing this openly in the papers?

Madeleine McCann was the News of the World's bestselling story.

When the McCann fund could no longer afford the services of Clarence Mitchell, their press officer, Freud Communications gave him a job.

EVERYONE who works in media and marketing knows FC uses its relationship with the Murdochs to manipulate the media in favour of its clients. And vice versa.

I am intrigued as to how Tony Blair has become so rich

I think like many ex-statesmen / women they end up working for Banks. Blair earns huge sums from an American investment bank, Major ditto...

is from Charlie Brooker's news wipe. If you can ignore the sinister music track it's quite interesting.. skip to 2:30 for his comments on the banks / politicians.

Kensington, RB was quizzed at theh Leveson enquiry, a few days before her arrest, about her involvement in putting pressure on the gvt to re-open the Mccann case, and about the payments she made the Mccanns.. she squirmed and squirmed. I didn't see her testimony reported in the UK papers - looks like she is still well-connected enough to keep some stuff from being reported.