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#18789923 at 2023-05-03 11:18:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23059: KEK SPEAKS! Edition
Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal: A timeline
Murdoch built a media empire on newspapers, and now one - News of the World - could be his downfall. A chronography of when and how things went awry
Rupert Murdoch at the printing presses of the New York Post in 1985: The media mogul is now engulfed in a massive phone-hacking scandal that threatens his empire.
January 11, 2015
An electronic-eavesdropping scandal that started at Rupert Murdoch's Sunday tabloid News of the World is rapidly escalating into a full-fledged conflagration that threatens Murdoch, his global media empire, and the British government - and has already resulted in the arrest or resignation of several previously untouchable figures. How did allegations of listening in on the voicemails of the royal family snowball into a threat to one of the world's most powerful media titans? Here, a timeline of key events in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal:
1843
News of the World is first published, by John Browne Bell
1969
Australian Rupert Murdoch buys the newspaper, his first toehold in Great Britain
1984
Murdoch revamps News of the World from a broadsheet to a tabloid format
1989
Rebekah Wade (she married horse trainer Charlie Brooks in 2009 and took his name) is hired at News of the World, as a secretary
2000
Wade becomes editor of News of the World at age 32, making her Britain's youngest national newspaper editor
March 2002
Milly Dowler, 13, disappears on a walk home in a London suburb. Days later, private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, working for News of the World, allegedly starts intercepting Dowler's cellphone voicemail messages, and erasing them to make room for more. The deletion of messages gives Dowler's family and the police false hope that Dowler is alive, until her remains are found in September 2002.
January 2003
Wade becomes editor of sister News Corp. paper The Sun; her deputy since 2000, Andrew Coulson, becomes editor of News of the World
March 2003
Wade tells a committee of the lower house of Parliament that News of the World has paid police officers for information; parent company News International says that is not common practice.
November 2005
News of the World publishes a story on Prince William's knee injury, with confidential information that leads royal court officials to complain to police about intercepted voicemails. The police open an investigation.
August 8, 2006
Mulcaire and News of the World royal-family editor Clive Goodman are arrested for phone-hacking
January 26, 2007
Mulcaire and Goodman are jailed for six and four months, respectively. Coulson resigns as editor of News of the World, claiming "ultimate responsibility" for the hacking, but denying any knowledge of it.
May 2007
News International lawyers conclude there is "no evidence" Coulson knew about Goodman's illegal activities. Coulson is hired as communications director for the Conservative Party and its leader, David Cameron.
December 2007
James Murdoch, son of Rupert, becomes chief executive of News Corp.'s European and Asian operations
June 2009
Rebekah Wade is named CEO of News International, effective in September. She marries Charlie Brooks; then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown (Labour) and current Prime Minister David Cameron (Tory) attend the wedding.
July 2009
The Guardian reports that several News of the World journalists had intercepted the voicemails of celebrities and politicians, with the knowledge of senior staff, and that its parent company had paid more than $1.6 million to settle phone-hacking cases that could have unearthed evidence of broader hacking at the paper. Scotland Yard says it isn't reopening the case.
February 2010
The House of Commons Culture, Media, and Sports Committee issues a scathing report saying it's "inconceivable" that News of the World managers didn't know about the "near industrial scale" phone-hacking at the tabloid.
May 2010
Cameron becomes prime minister, and hires Coulson as his media chief.
September 2010
The New York Times publishes a report, based on information from several former News of the World reporters and editors, that Coulson knew about and regularly discussed phone-hacking during his tenure; the Times article is also critical of Scotland Yard's efforts to investigate the hacking.
January 21, 2011
Coulson resigns as Cameron's communications chief.
January 26, 2011
Scotland Yard opens a new investigation of News of the World phone-hacking, citing new evidence.
#13061871 at 2021-02-27 18:24:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16635: Tidy The Dough Edition
'Money, Money, Money!' - Farage Accuses British Elites of Covering up Chinese Takeover
Brexit leader Nigel Farage accused the British establishment of prioritising money over protecting the country from the "neo-colonialist" Chinese Communist Party after the revelation that UK schools were being bought up by the Asian nation.
Mr Farage said that the limited attention placed communist-linked businesses buying up British independent schools was a result of elites in the country - including those in the civil service, the government, and in business - being effectively bought by the communist regime which he described as "neo-colonialist" bent on "global domination".
In a televised debate on Turkish public broadcaster TRT World, Farage said that it was down to "money, money, money," adding: "you only have to look, for example, at Huawei... look at the people that have served on the advisory board since 2014, and what you'll find are former big global businessmen, you'll find former senior civil servants former political figures."
Some of the figures who have been a part of the advisory board for Chinese telecom Huawei - which has been accused of being effectively state-owned - include former CEO of British Petroleum (BP) Lord John Browne, prominent former civil servant Sir Andrew Cahn, and former chancellor of the University of Southampton, Dame Helen Alexander.
The former head of the BT Group (formerly British Telecom) Sir Michael Rake stepped down from the Huawei board earlier this month.
Mr Farage also pointed to former Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, who is currently heading up a Chinese investment scheme seeking to raise over £700 million in investments from the communist nation. The investment plan, dubbed the UK-China Fund, was founded by prominent Conservative Party donor Lord Peter Gummer.
Mr Cameron is not the only former Prime Minister to have connections to the CCP, as a 2015 investigation found that former Labour PM Tony Blair served as a liaison between Abu Dhabi and the "highest levels of the Communist Party and state-run corporations" in the Xinjiang region of China, which is reportedly interning millions of Uyghurs in concentration camps.
Blair was also found to have received £237,000 in compensation for a speech given in the Chinese industrial city of Dongguan in 2007, more than his yearly salary when he served as Prime Minister.
"If you sell your soul for money to a regime that has no respect for human rights, democracy, freedom of speech then I think you deserve what's coming to you," Farage said.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/27/money-money-money-farage-accuses-british-elites-of-covering-up-chinese-takeover/
#11966074 at 2020-12-09 19:57:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15276: SKY Event Edition
John Browne
A Statesmen Voice
Newsmax 2;53
CALLS out pedoJoe "doorway to global socialism" hunter swallowswell rotten swamp and they got the major beep and sellers censoring so many khommies
#7275134 at 2019-07-31 13:26:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9308: 24 Hr Notice Edition
'''Spygate playa [JULIE BISHOP] joins BILLION DOLLAR DC-based Telesales/AI start up firm AFINITI - CALL FOR DIGGZ!
Headed by former British PM David Cameron, who joined in May.
https://www.afiniti.com/ - disturbing takeover montage of kids on homepage
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron is to chair a U.S. artificial intelligence firm's advisory board.
Cameron will work for Washington-based Afiniti, whose advisory board also includes former French PM François Fillon and ex-BP chief executive John Browne, the Financial Times reported.
Afiniti was founded in 2005 by U.S-Pakistani entrepreneur Zia Chishti, and specializes in the use of AI in call centres.
https://www.politico.eu/article/david-cameron-takes-job-with-ai-company/
#6638469 at 2019-05-31 19:41:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition
David Cameron takes job with US artificial intelligence firm
Former UK prime minister to chair advisory board of Washington-based Afiniti
David Cameron has taken a job as chair of a US artificial intelligence firm's advisory board, it was announced on Friday.
The former prime minister "will be responsible for curating and overseeing the strategic guidance" the board provides to Afiniti, the company said in a statement.
The position represents one of Cameron's most prominent appointments since he stood down as prime minister in 2016. He has previously taken a number of roles at not-for-profit organisations and has a memoir, For the Record, due out later this year.
Cameron said he was "delighted" to take the job working on "transforming the future of customer service and interpersonal communications".
The advisory board features an array of high-profile figures including John Browne, former chief executive of BP and François Fillon, the former prime minister of France. Afiniti was set up by the US-Pakistani entrepreneur Zia Chishti and specialises in the use of AI in call centres.
Cameron resigned as prime minister after the remain campaign lost the Brexit referendum. Since then he has become president of Alzheimer's Research UK, chair of the National Citizen Service's board of patrons and chair of the LSE-Oxford commission on state fragility.
Cameron said on Friday: "The government I led took a wide range of steps to ensure the UK was successful in the new tech industries ... As part of this work, I was excited to see the rapid development in artificial intelligence and the huge potential AI has to address some of the challenges that societies face today ... I am therefore delighted to have been asked to chair Afiniti's advisory board, helping support their work to transform the future of customer service and interpersonal communications."
Chishti, the chair and chief executive of Afiniti, said the company was "delighted" at Cameron's appointment. "David's deep personal commitment to this issue makes him perfectly placed to lead our advisory board and support Afiniti in our next stage of growth."
Cameron is also involved in a new UK-China investment fund, although this has so far failed to complete its first financial fundraising. His memoir is due to be published this autumn after the rights were sold to the publisher William Collins for £800,000 three years ago. The launch will be a year later than planned.
This stinks of elites making moves.
#5425088 at 2019-02-28 01:12:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6935: Traditional America Edition
>>5424994
that teneo link stands out….
and then there is this confab back in 2016.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160906005784/en/Time-Host-2016-FortuneTime-Global-Forum-Rome
Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) will host the 2016 Fortune/Time Global Forum in Rome and at the Vatican, December 2 and 3, it was announced today by Chairman & CEO Joe Ripp. The unprecedented gathering will convene select global Fortune 500 CEOs, members of the Time 100 and non-profit, academic, religious and labor leaders to address the need for a global economic system that both encourages growth and spreads its benefits more broadly. The two-day conference will culminate in an address by His Holiness Pope Francis.
The 2016 Global Forum Host Committee (Rogues Gallery):
Dominic Barton, Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company
Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Koos Bekker, Chairman, Naspers
Rich Lesser, President and CEO, The Boston Consulting Group
Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group
Andrew Liveris, Chairman, President and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company
John Browne, Executive Chairman, L1 Energy
Federica Marchionni, CEO, Lands' End
Victor L. L. Chu, Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group
Mike McNamara, CEO, Flex
Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy
Denise Morrison, President, Director and CEO, Campbell Soup Company
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO, E.L. Rothschild
Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Claudio Descalzi, CEO, Eni
Stefano Pessina, CEO, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Cathy Engelbert, CEO, Deloitte
Maria Ramos, CEO, Barclays Africa Group
Laurence Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock
Giuseppe Recchi, Executive Chairman, Telecom Italia
Roger Ferguson, President, Director and CEO, TIAA
Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation
Alex Gorsky, Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson
Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM
Hugh Grant, Chairman and CEO, Monsanto
Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP
Mo Ibrahim, Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Andrew Stern, Senior Fellow, Columbia University
Joseph Jimenez, CEO, Novartis AG
John Stumpf, Chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo
Fisk Johnson, Chairman and CEO, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
Joe Kaeser, CEO, Siemens
Tom Wilson, Chairman, President and CEO, Allstate
Declan Kelly, Chairman and CEO, Teneo Holdings
#1612397 at 2018-06-02 02:16:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2028: "Re_read drops - you have more than you know" Edition
Does any anon have any idea what this could be about?
Pope Francis is hosting a gathering next week at the Vatican with executives of major oil producers and investment firms to talk about how the companies can address climate change, according to several people familiar with the event.
Why it matters: It's one of the most significant developments showing how corporations are working with other world leaders on climate change amid President Trump's whole-scale retreat on the issue.
Show less
Situational awareness: One year ago today, Trump announced his intention to withdraw America from the Paris climate deal, which now has support from every country except the United States. Three years ago, Pope Francis wrote his encyclical - a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church - on the importance of addressing climate change, a first in the church's history.
Here's a list of some of the participants in the private conference, with more expected:
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, world's largest asset manager.
Bob Dudley, CEO of BP.
Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil.
Eldar Sætre, CEO of Equinor, oil and energy producer partially owned by the Norwegian government (formerly Statoil).
Ernest Moniz, former U.S. Energy Secretary under then-President Obama.
Lord John Browne, former CEO of BP and current executive chairman of L1 Energy, an oil and gas investment firm.
Ben Van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, was invited but declined because he had an obligation elsewhere, according to an official.
#1396442 at 2018-05-13 14:35:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1751 Revolution is my Name
Len Blavatnik (billionaire, OLIGARCH, Russia (Ukraine), emigrate, Harvard, Columbia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Blavatnik
>In 1986, Blavatnik founded Access Industries, an international conglomerate company located in New York, of which he is chairman and president. Access has long-term holdings in Europe and North and South America. Initially, he moved into Russian investments, just after the fall of communism. He and a friend from university, Viktor Vekselberg, formed the Renova investment vehicle, and then the two joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture.[7] Access has since diversified its portfolio to include investments in industries such as oil, entertainment, coal, aluminum, petrochemicals and plastics, telecommunications, media, and real estate.[citation needed]
<viktor vekelsberg
>Blavatnik is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Centre for International Business and Management at Cambridge University, a member of the board of Dean's Advisors at the Harvard Business School and a member of the academic board at Tel Aviv University.[22]
>AAR gained a controlling stake in Russian oil company TNK through privatization auctions, then in 2003 sold a 50% stake to British Petroleum to form TNK-BP, one of Russia's largest oil companies, where Blavatnik served on the board of directors. On March 21, 2013, Rosneft completed its $55 billion acquisition of TNK-BP. Blavatnik also has interests in UC Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer, where he sits on the board. On May 6, 2011, Warner Music Group announced its sale to Access for US$3.3 billion.[11]
Political donations[edit]
In 2011, Blavatnik donated both President Barack Obama and his GOP rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.[29]
Blavatnik is a supporter of the US Republican Party, and in 2015-2016 donated a total of $7.35 million to six Republican political candidates, including South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Arizona Senator John McCain.[30] In February 2016, Blavatnik donated over $1 million to an anti-Donald Trump GOP group.[31] He also donated $1 million to the committee for the inauguration of Donald Trump.[30] In August 2017, political scientist Bo Rothstein resigned from the Blavatnik School of Government out of opposition to Blavatnik's politics.[32]
Blavatnik and his American wife, Emily, also donated to Democratic Party candidates Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.[33]
<In 2017, after two senior Trump administration officials went on record as being lobbyists for Blavatnik's Access Industries[34], Blavatnik was mentioned in investigations led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian donations to the administration.[35] Since April 2016 Blavatnik contributed $383,000 to the Republican National Committee and $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. However he did not give directly to the Trump campaign.[36]
Personal life[edit]
Blavatnik is married to Emily Appelson Blavatnik.[38] The couple have four children.
He owns a grade II listed building in Kensington Palace Gardens which is valued at £200 million.[39]
Blavatnik is friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[40]
Blavatnik is also a longtime friend and business partner of Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg,[7] one of Russia's richest men, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.[30]
Blavatnik & Edgar Bronfman Jr & Lord John Browne & Huawei & Mikhail Fridman & Alfa Bank the Icelandic Financial Crisis & Shapburg Limited & Time & Warner Music & LyondellBasell & Meredith Corporation & Accretive LLC & Access Industries & f*ck all this is too big for me! HELP!!!!!!
I will be tagging to this post from a few devices (hence a few different ID's.mmmkay?)
8chan/8kun QResearch UK Posts (2)
#15381708 at 2022-01-15 16:41:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #42: "One Year Delta" Edition
Farage Predicts 'A Lot More' Chinese Spies Will be Found in Westminster
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that there are likely "a lot more" Chinese Communist spies operating in Westminster after it was revealed that an alleged Chinese spy had donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to left-wing politicians in Britain.
Concerns over Chinese espionage within Britain have been escalated this week after it was revealed that the UK's secret service MI5 had warned the speaker of the House of Commons that Christine Lee, the founder of the British Chinese Project, is believed to be working clandestinely as a spy for Beijing.
It has been reported that Lee had given some ?700,000 in political donations, the vast majority of which was directed to the Labour Party, in particular leftist Corbyn acolyte Barry Gardiner MP. The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davy, also received ?5,000 from Ms Lee. Both politicians have denied that they have been influenced by the CCP.
Commenting on the spying scandal, Brexit's Nigel Farage said that he was not surprised by the revelations, noting that the "British establishment have been sucking up to China for a long time."
"If there's one Chinese spy in parliament, you can bet your life there's a lot more than that," he said, going on to call for a "complete root and branch" investigation into Communist China's connections to the British political class.
Mr Farage noted that political figures such as George Osborne - the former right-hand man of ex-Prime Minister David Cameron - had previously celebrated fostering a "golden era" between Britain and China during their time in office.
Mr Cameron, himself, has also faced criticism over his connections to China after he tried to establish a ?1 billion investment fund for Greensill Capital with Chinese partners.
Cameron is not the only former PM to seek financial ties to China, with former Labour Party Prime Minister going on to serve as a liaison between Abu Dhabi and the "highest levels of the Communist Party and state-run corporations" in the Xinjiang region of China.
Blair also reportedly earned ?237,000 - more than his entire yearly salary as PM - for a single speech delivered in the Chinese industrial city of Dongguan in 2007.
Nigel Farage went on to note that many in the civil service, politicians and business leaders have accepted high-profile positions with firms from China. For example, the former head of the BT Group (formerly British Telecom) Sir Michael Rake served on the board of controversial telecom Huawei from 2019 until 2021.
Other prominent British figures such as the former CEO of British Petroleum (BP) Lord John Browne, top civil servant Sir Andrew Cahn, and former chancellor of the University of Southampton, Dame Helen Alexander have all served in an advisory capacity to Huawei, which has been accused of being effectively state-owned.
On Saturday, the Daily Mail uncovered a Youtube video published by the UK Chinese Journal News account in 2015, in which the alleged Chinese spy revealed that she had lobbied 480 MPs on behalf of the "Chinese community" for the British Chinese Project.
"We were able to force our concerns to the Parliament directly," she said.
Lee added that her law firm - which was the only firm in Britain allowed to operate in China - facilitated Chinese firms open up business ties in the UK as well as helping British businesses operate in China.
The paper went on to report that Ms Lee's website, which has since been deleted, had described her as a legal advisor to the Chinese embassy in the UK.
On top of lobbying MPs for the "Chinese community", Lee also reportedly campaigned for the pro-EU Remain movement during the 2016 Brexit referendum, raising questions over possible Chinese influence over the vote.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/01/15/nigel-farage-predicts-many-chinese-spies-will-be-found-in-westminster/
#6410652 at 2019-05-04 10:19:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #6 April Showers Bring May Flowers
TRIVIA QUESTION
What do these people have in common?
David Alliance, Baron Alliance Liberal Democrats
Ros Altmann, Baroness Altmann Conservative
Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin Conservative
Jeremy Beecham, Baron Beecham Labour
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff Conservative
Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil Labour
Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein Labour
Alma Birk, Baroness Birk,[51] Labour
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley Crossbench
Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech Crossbench
Bernard Delfont, Baron Delfont Labour
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen Crossbench
Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree, Conservative
Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman Conservative,
Lynne Featherstone, Baroness Featherstone Liberal Democrats
Daniel Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein Conservative
Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden Labour
David Freud, Baron Freud, Conservative
Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead Crossbench
Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell,[51] Labour
Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, Labour
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman Labour
David Gold, Baron Gold Conservative
Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith,[52][53] Labour
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman,[54] Labour
Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner Labour and later Crossbench
Desmond Hirshfield, Baron Hirshfield Labour
Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading Conservative
Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson, Crossbench[55]
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits Crossbench
Howard Leigh, Baron Leigh of Hurley Conservative
Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken Crossbench
Michael Levy, Baron Levy[56] Labour
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham, Liberal
Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, Crossbench
Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum, Labour
Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, Conservative
Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, Conservative
Peter Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, Labour
Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, Labour
Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, Labour
Roger Nathan, 2nd Baron Nathan, Crossbench
Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, Crossbench
David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Crossbench
David Pannick, Baron Pannick Crossbench
Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End ,[57] Labour
Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer,[51] Labour
Stuart Polak, Baron Polak Conservative
Gail Rebuck, Baroness Rebuck Labour
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild Labour
Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks, Crossbench
Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, SDP
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Labour
John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover Conservative
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted Conservative
Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted Conservative
Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota,[51] Labour
Herbert Stern, 1st Baron Michelham Conservative
Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg Conservative
Alan Sugar, Baron Sugar, Labour and later Crossbench
David Triesman, Baron Triesman Labour
Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg, Labour
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld Labour and later SDP
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson[17] Conservative
Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise Conservative
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf,[58] Crossbench
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham, Conservative