Its just not Rupert’s week. www.thesun.co.uk has been hacked…
Very impressive! How did they do that (loads up front page then redirects to this Twitter account)?
Wow, they seem to have brought down newsinternational.co.uk and newsint.co.uk!
ETA: and newsinternational.com
ETA2: and times.co.uk
Holy shit.
Heh. I don’t always approve of LulzSec but this is golden.
Just as an aside, Kemp has spent the last few years making interesting documentaries in dangerous circumstances, all over the world, and not just gung-ho ones either. He seems like a decent bloke. We’ll draw a discreet veil over his role as Henno Garvie in Ultimate Force, I think.
Cameron seems to be nothing more than the PR man he really is. I think he may well be fatally damaged.
Is it DNS jiggery-pokery? If so, why did The Sun site redirect after a while?
parent.location was changed on the breaking news banner script. Don’t know after that. Looks like the admins have taken everything off-line for the moment.
When even the lefty, soft-on-drugs, alternative minded Guardian (which is substantially responsible for breaking this whole phone hacking story) is running an article saying the guy was in extremely poor health and that"In the end, his body would not take it any more. He said he started to have fits, that his liver was in such a terrible state that a doctor told him he must be dead" you are seriously, seriously off into conspiracy theory la-la land to post what you just did.
There isn’t even the slightest hint that this guy was in any way the cornerstone to future prosecutions. What do you think? That News is going to bump off all of the dozens of witnesses one by one? Do you think anyone might notice?
Get a grip. The essence of conspiracy theory nutjob-ism is grabbing at every bump in the road, every anomaly, every card that falls the bad guys’ way and assuming without evidence that it is the work of some all powerful hand behind the scenes.
Notice the author of that article: Nick Davies, of Flat Earth News, digging up all this stuff, and the journalist that has been on this for years.
Erm, better add that I think there is no conspiracy here!
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Rebekah Brooks’ husband ‘accidentally’ has computer thrown out
And who hasn’t done that? And then thrown it out in the wrong garbage can too?
This is them cooperating fully with the investigation, right?
Normally, if you wanted to discredit someone by hacking their website, you would fill it with massive libels and pornography. Seeing as its the Sun, they already had that covered.
Yea right. Key witness to events that could bring down empire of ruthless international billionaire dies days after public inquiry into events announced. Move along now, nothing to see here.
Is he a key witness? Cite? The detailed article I’ve linked to says nothing of the kind. Have you looked it up or did you just assume he was because otherwise the Dark Ones wouldn’t have knocked him off?
What would it take for you to believe he wasn’t bumped off by mysterious assassins? Let me guess: nothing. Any evidence to suggest his death was of natural causes you will dismiss as being merely part of the conspiracy, right?
Once you reach that point, you are living in conspiracy theory la la land.
And no - while apologists wave call everything a coincidence, no one will notice.
He did probably die naturally, but in these circumstances the police (not that they can be trusted to investigate anything connected with this case, as has been demonstrated) should not be so quick to say nothing was suspicious.
That rush to judgement is itself suspicious.
I am extraordinarily offended to be called an “apologist”, having been thrilled since the start of this scandal at the battering News Corp. is taking. Whether the British police saying “nothing suspicious” was premature or not (they may well have a decent idea how he died,or at least see no signs of violent death), it would be just stupid to have the guy bumped off; there are dozens or even hundreds more people to talk anyway, and it looks just suspicious enough to compound your PR problems. People and news sources are dismissing the possibility of murder because they’re actually thinking things through. For news sources, that’s kind of a big part of their job.
While the timing of the death was suspicious, one might consider that a man already in precarious health might have started drinking and smoking even more heavily once the shit started coming down. That plus the stress could well have been the final straws.
The BBC Parliament Channel is currently airing that (in)famous 2003 committee meeting where both Wade/Brooks and Coulsen where asked about the ethics of tabloid journalism and the role of the Press Complains Commission. According to them everything in the garden was loverly, the papers never intruded on people’s privacy and the PPC was effective in righting any wrongs. It’s interesting to view this in the light of all the revelations that have surfaced in the last few weeks.
He’s the only NotW journo prepared to go, and who did go, public that Coulson knew everything. (Cite was Radio 4 last night, will try to find something online.)
He may be the only one who went public, but it’s a moot point: unless British law is completely unlike that of Canada or the United States, most of the NotW journalists will be available to talk in the near future, thanks to the joy that is legal compulsion (i.e. by the courts or by Parliament). Unless he knows things that nobody else does, he’s not that important.