France corruption including Sarkozy??? hmmmmmm

Mitt Romney Defends The Boston Herald, Longtime Press Nemesis (AUDIO) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YIeZcmKVNc  (Romney better watch what he says about Boston Herald as it's owned by criminal Rupert Murdoch)  ...cal

First Posted: 05/18/11 06:20 PM ET Updated: 05/18/11 06:35 PM ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/sarkozy-corruption-accusations_n_976455.html
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PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy has distanced himself from a suspected corruption scandal that has roiled the French political class after an investigating magistrate began legal action against two of his close allies.
Investigators are probing whether a French defense deal in the 1990s with Pakistan involving suspected kickbacks set the stage for a Karachi car bombing in 2003 that killed 15 people – mostly French defense contractors.
In a statement Thursday, Sarkozy's office said his name is not mentioned in any documents linked to the investigation, and lashed out at "slander and political manipulation" over the case.
Investigators on Wednesday filed preliminary charges linked to alleged corruption against two Sarkozy confidants – former officials Nicolas Bazire and Thierry Gaubert.

http://www.3wisemenessentials.com/2011_bilderbergers.html
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Bazire, Nicolas, Managing Director, Groupe Arnault /LVMH, France; wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Arnault
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Bernard Arnault (pronounced: [bɛʁnaːʁ aʁno]) (born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman best known as the chairman and CEO of the French conglomerate LVMH.^[2][3][4] According to Forbes Magazine, Arnault is the world's 4th and Europe's richest person, with a 2011 net worth of US$41 billion.^[5]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozys-best-man-investigated-for-kickbacks-from-arms-deals-2359445.html
Excerpt:
Sarkozy's best man investigated for kickbacks from arms deals
Spreading financial scandal threatens to engulf President and his closest friends
By John Lichfield in Paris
Friday, 23 September 2011
Nicolas Sarkozy, pictured with his heavily pregnant wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has been the subject of a number of allegations over recent months

An explosive financial scandal threatened President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday after two of his associates were formally accused of handling illegal kickbacks on arms contracts.
One of the President's closest friends, Nicolas Bazire – who was best man at Mr Sarkozy's wedding to Carla Bruni in February 2008 – was placed under formal investigation yesterday for "receiving embezzled funds".
Mr Bazire, 54, now a luxury goods executive, is suspected of illegally handling cash kickbacks from arms sales to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in 1994 and 1995 to fund the failed presidential campaign of the former Prime Minister, Édouard Balladur.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nicolas-sarkozy/8779962/Nicolas-Sarkozys-close-friends-detained-over-Karachi-gate-affair.html
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Nicolas Sarkozy's close friends detained over Karachi-gate affair

Two of Nicolas Sarkozy's close friends were detained for questioning on Wednesday over the "Karachi affair", as the political corruption case drew closer to the French president.

Nicolas Bazire, left, and Thierry Gaubert have been detained for questioning Photo: AFP/GETTY

By Henry Samuel, Paris

11:53PM BST 21 Sep 2011

Uploaded by 2009ALOR on Nov 26, 2010

KARACHIGATE 01 LA HONTE,NWO MADE IN FRANCE (anybody able to translate 2 youtubes?) ...cal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDhTAp-ihak

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfq18l_karachigate-maitre-olivier-morice_news

http://www.france24.com/en/20110712-indonesia-harry-potter-fans-curse-film-boycott-hollywood
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Latest update: 12/07/2011 

- cinema - culture - Hollywood - Indonesia

Harry Potter fans curse Indonesian boycott

Indonesian fans of Harry Potter who will miss out on the latest installment of the wizard’s adventures are casting angry curses on their government for imposing a film tax that has led Hollywood studios to boycott the country.

http://womansday.ninemsn.com.au/celebrityheadlines/1046714/actress-tells-my-scientology-nightmare
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http://www.slideshare.net/burntfilm/media-ownership
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Herald
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Murdoch purchases The Herald American
The Herald American converted to tabloid format in September 1981, but Hearst faced steep declines in circulation and advertising. The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town—on December 3, 1982. When the deadline came, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch was negotiating to buy the paper and save it. He closed on the deal after 30 hours of talks with Hearst and newspaper unions—and five hours after Hearst had sent out notices to newsroom employees telling them they were terminated. The newspaper announced its own survival the next day with a full-page headline: "You Bet We're Alive!"^[9]

[edit] The Boston Herald once again

Murdoch changed the paper's name back to the Boston Herald. The Herald continued to grow, expanding its coverage and increasing its circulation until 2001, when nearly all newspapers fell victim to declining circulations and revenue.

[edit] Independent ownership

In February 1994, Murdoch's News Corporation was forced to sell the paper, in order that its subsidiary Fox Television Stations could legally consummate its purchase of Fox affiliate WFXT (Channel 25). Patrick J. Purcell, who was the publisher of the Boston Herald and a former News Corporation executive, purchased the Herald and established it as an independent newspaper. Several years later, Purcell would give the Herald a suburban presence it never had by purchasing the money-losing Community Newspaper Company from Fidelity Investments. Although the companies merged under the banner of Herald Media, Inc., the suburban papers maintained their distinct editorial and marketing identity.
After years of operating profits at Community Newspaper and losses at the Herald, Purcell in 2006 sold the suburban chain to newspaper conglomerate Liberty Group Publishing of Illinois, which soon after changed its name to GateHouse Media. The deal, which also saw GateHouse acquiring The Patriot Ledger and The Enterprise in south suburban Quincy and Brockton, netted $225 million for Purcell, who vowed to use the funds to clear the Herald's debt and reinvest in the Paper.^[10]

[edit] Awards

The Herald's four Pulitzer Prizes for editorial writing, in 1924, 1927, 1949 and 1954, are among the most awarded to a single newspaper in the category. In 1957 Harry Trask was a young staff photographer at the Traveler when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his photo sequence of the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria in July 1956. Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter (known as "The soiling of Old Glory") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis. In 2006 the Herald won two SABEW awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for its breaking news coverage of the takeover of local company Gillette Co. and for overall excellence.^[11]

[edit] Columnists

• Howie Carr writes extensively on local politics and is a radio talk show host and frequent TV commentator.
• Margery Eagan and Peter Gelzinis are longtime metro columnists, as is Joe Fitzgerald, who was formerly a sports columnist.
• Michael Graham is an op-ed columnist for the Boston Herald.
• Ron Borges is a sports columnist and former long-time columnist for The Boston Globe.
• Gerry Callahan is a sports columnist and talk show host for WEEI.
• Steve Buckley is a longtime sports columnist and frequent co-host on WEEI.
• Dave Wedge is a political columnist, longtime reporter and frequent TV and radio commentator.
• Jessica Heslam covers the media.
• Joe Sciacca is the tabloid's new editor-in-chief, taking over in July 2010 for Kevin Convey, who left the Herald to become editor of the New York Daily News.^[12] Sciacca is a former political reporter and columnist who is a regular panelist on "Beat the Press" on the WGBH TV show Greater Boston, which is hosted by Emily Rooney.
• Laurel Sweet is an award-winning reporter who covers courts and crime.
• Lauren Beckham Falcone covers pop culture, style and all things feature-y for the Boston Herald.
• Jessica Van Sack is an award-winning reporter who covers local innovation, worldwide technology trends and social media. She also reviews tech gadgets and writes the weekly Booting Up column.
• Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, along with their assistant Megan Johnson, write the Herald's Inside Track^[13] and cover celebrity news.

[edit] Boston Herald in Education Program

The Boston Herald in Education Program provides teachers throughout Massachusetts with classroom newspapers and educational materials at no cost. Teachers use the newspapers in the classroom along with frameworks-compatible teacher guides and in-paper educational series. Each day, the Boston Herald distributes approximately 10,000 newspapers to participating classrooms in over 184 communities throughout Massachusetts.^[14] October 2007, the In Education program partnered with the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation and Got Books? to support school communities and place fundraising book donation containers at schools across the state in order to help raise money for schools and supplement costs of the newspaper program.^[15]