Rupert Murdoch
<p>This remorseless rise owes something to Murdoch's undoubted knack of identifying and pandering to the lowest tastes of the public, but far more important has been the backing of four multi-national mega-money moguls. Murdoch first started to move in these circles when his father asked Lord Beaverbrook to train young Rupert in the newspaper business. Beaverbrook introduced Murdoch to Harry Oppenheimer, head of the massive Anglo-American Corporation and the deBeers diamond and gold cartel, and Edgar Bronfman. Impressed by the young Murdoch, they told him to call on them if he ever needed help.
<b>Harry Oppenheimer</b>. One of Murdoch's fantastically rich financial backers
Within a few years Murdoch was acting as the front-man for media buy- ups financed by Oppenheimer and Bronfman, as well as being helped by the conman Armand Hammer and the Rothschild empire. This almost limitless financial backing is the real force behind Murdoch's mercurial rise to control, among his other media interests, a yearly newspaper circulation of 3.5 billion copies.
<b>Nor is Murdoch shy of using this enormous power to further his, and his backers' own political agenda. As far back as 1972, after Australian Labour Party leader Whitlam had agreed to pursue a 100 per-cent pro-Israeli policy and to protect Murdoch's media monopoly, the power of that monopoly was used to run a block-busting campaign which steamrollered Whitlam into power. When Whitlam promptly reneged on the deal Murdoch's media turned on him as part of the successful campaign to have Whitlam removed from office and replaced by the fervently pro-Zionist Bob Hawke.</b>
More recently, American media mogul Ted Turner was forced to apologise to the Anti-Defamation League after likening his rival to the "late Fuehrer", alleging that, like Hitler, Murdoch uses the media outlets over which he has control to further his political agenda. Included on that agenda are attacks on Murdoch's enemies, among which he includes the Germans, the Irish, the Arabs and anti-Zionists, "the supreme traitors".
In addition to his shadowy backers, a number of the key positions around the "Dirty Digger" are held by Jews. These include Peter Chernin, who heads Murdoch's film studio and oversees his TV production, and David Elstein, Head of Programming at BSkyB until his recent promotion to the still more powerful post of Chief Executive of C 5. Chief Executive of BSkyB is Sam Chisholm, while Raymond Jaffe is the Director of Publicity and Promotion at Sky TV.
The Managing Director of The Sun and News of the World scandal sheets is A. A. Fischer, while their Managing Editors are William Newman and Stuart Kuttner respectively. Since becoming Editor of the News of the World, Wendy Henry has presided over a further degeneration of her paper, which has to be acknowledged as a remarkable achievement. Her boss Kuttner has spoken at meetings of the Board of Deputies of British Jews on the question of sensitisity in the portrayal of Jews and Israel in the media. The City Editor of the Times is Melvyn Marckus.
In October 1996 seventy Israeli tax inspectors raided the Jerusalem offices of Murdoch's News Datacom computer software subsidiary. The operation took place after the issue of a warrant alleging "tax transgressions, tax evasion and helping others to evade taxes between the years 1989 and 1996 of an amount of about $150 million. Also raided were a factory in Haifa and New Datacom's lawyers, the eminent firm of Herzog, Fox and Neeman, whose founder was the former Israeli president, Chaim Herzog. Murdoch's company protested its innocence and blamed "defamatory" comments in the Israeli media on "a continuing campaign against the company by former employees who have been sued in the UK... for defrauding (us) of millions of dollars." Whatever the truth of this affair, it provides a tantalising glimpse of the behind-the-scenes connections of the Murdoch empire. </p>
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Rupert Murdoch has 2 knight hoods Knight of Malta
<a href="http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/kmlst1.htm">http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/kmlst1.htm</a>
interesting list but no anotation
He is also a Knight of St Gregory
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St.Gregory_the_Great#Notable_members">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St.Gregory_the_Great#Notable_members</a>
General stuff on knight hoods
Of the Papal Orders the highest, and most infrequently awarded, is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Christ(papacy)" title="Order of Christ (papacy)">Supreme Order of Christ</a>. The second Order is the equally rare <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Golden_Spur" title="Order of the Golden Spur">Order of the Golden Spur</a>, the third is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Pius_IX" title="Order of Pius IX">Order of Pius IX</a>, the fourth is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Gregory_the_Great" title="Order of Saint Gregory the Great">Order of Saint Gregory the Great</a>, and the fifth is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St.Sylvester" title="Order of St. Sylvester">Order of Saint Sylvester Pope and Martyr</a>. The awards of the Orders of Christ and the Golden Spur are made at the express wish of the Pope, in consultation with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Secretary_of_State" title="Cardinal Secretary of State">Cardinal Secretary of State</a>. Awards of the Order of Pius are made to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">heads of state</a> and senior members of their household at the time of official visits to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a>, to senior members of diplomatic missions accredited to the Vatican, and exceptionally, to those who have particularly served the Pope or the Holy See, at the discretion of the Cardinal Secretary of State. Awards of the latter two orders are generally made on the recommendation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan_bishop" title="Diocesan bishop">diocesan bishops</a>, with the support of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Nuncio" title="Apostolic Nuncio">Apostolic Nuncio</a>.
from this page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Orders_of_Knighthood#Teutonic_Knights">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Orders_of_Knighthood#Teutonic_Knights</a>
It is interesting how many movers and shakers are recipients of papal knighthoods even many Jewish people one would have thought that a conflict of interest .
Funny connections .</p>