[patriots] Rothschild, Cheney & Murdoch links with Syrian Oil

From: "Chris Pead" <cpead@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Patriots JGroup" <patriots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 17:41:28 -0000

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posted by Gordon

<https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/no-brake-and-no-disclosure-
on-media-owners-interests/> No Brake and No Disclosure on Media Owners
Interests

by Lou Collins on December 5, 2015

The Times on Saturday carried an article on ISIS oil interests, Syria and
Turkey. Nowhere does it inform its readers that the owner of the newspaper,
Rupert Murdoch, has a vested interest in this subject through his role and
shares in
<https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/09/why-murdoch-pushes-for-war/

Genie Energy, an Israeli company granted oil rights in Syria by the

Israeli government. Dick Cheney and Lord Rothschild are also shareholders.

No, they really are. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a conspiracy.

That Israel should grant oil rights within Syria is of course a striking
example of contempt for international law, but then that is the basis on
which Israel normally operates. Of course Genies share value will be
substantially boosted by the installation of a neo-con puppet regime in
Damascus which can be bought to underwrite the oil concession granted by
Israel. Contempt for international law has been the single most important
defining characteristic of neo-conservatism, and the need to uphold
international law the recurring theme of this blog. I never thought the UK
government would make the withdrawal of its support for the concept of
international law explicit, as Cameron has done by
<http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/26/ministerial-code-no-10-showing-c
ontempt-for-international-law> removing the obligation to comply with
international law from the Ministerial Code. That is truly, truly
disgraceful.

But to return to Murdochs oil interests in Syria, it seems to me a
fundamental flaw that when Fox News, Sky News, the Times, the Sun and
Murdochs numerous other media outlets bang the drum for Western military
action in Syria, there is no requirement for the consumer of this propaganda
to be told that the outlet is pushing a policy in line with the financial
interests of its owner. Even for those actively seeking information, there
is no register of the interests of media proprietors.

It is a wonderful irony that there is
<https://www.ipso.co.uk/assets/82/Register_of_interests_for_Complaints_Commi
ttee_April_2015.pdf> a register of the interests of the board members of
the Independent Press Standards Organisation, but no register of the
interests of media proprietors!

This is not an accident. The Leveson Inquiry did receive evidence and
<http://leveson.sayit.mysociety.org/hearing-16-july-2012/dr-rowan-cruft>
questioned a witness Dr Rowan Cruft of the University of Stirling who
suggested that a proprietors financial interest in a story should be
revealed. Robert Jay, QC to the counsel asked:

Robert Jay

This is on your page 8, our page 00885. You say:
First of all, the code could do more to require proprietors, editors and
journalist to declare their financial and also their political interests and
to declare these to readers as well as editors.
I dont think the code does anything to require proprietors, editors and
journalist to do that.

Dr Rowan Cruft
Thats right.

Robert Jay QC goes on first to suggest any duty to declare financial
interests should only apply to specifically financial journalists. He then
moves quickly on to discuss the implications of declaring political
interests of proprietors. Robert Jay QC is a clever man and he managed to
avoid any discussion of the financial interests of proprietors whatsoever.
Shortly after the Inquiry concluded, he was promoted by the Government to be
a High Court Judge.

The Leveson Inquiry totally ignored the real rot in Britains media the
massive concentration of media ownership and its subservience to other
corporate interests. The revised <https://www.ipso.co.uk/IPSO/cop.html>
Code of Conduct which was its result does not contain any reference to
proprietors interests even in the very limited context of writing about
stocks and shares. A financial journalist has a duty to declare any interest
which he or his family have in a company he writes about, but no duty to
declare any interest of his proprietor the person who is paying him to
write.

If you think this is an accident, you are extremely naïve. It is just a tiny
glimpse into one aspect of the UKs extraordinarily dense web of elite
corruption.

Source:
<https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/no-brake-and-no-disclosure-
on-media-owners-interests/>
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/no-brake-and-no-disclosure-o
n-media-owners-interests/

Kind regards,

Chris

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