Giant Hint from Space Aliens....

From Clif High over at Half Past Human.  An omen of future weirdness to come sooner than later?  Maybe not.  Maybe, though.. Excerpts:

Remember to think about how you are reacting as you first see the Giant Hint from our space alien brothers. Remember to look and count stuff. It was instantly apparent to me that part of the message refers to the 28 day lunar cycle. The whole seven by 4 with waning involved...

Then there is the many other layers of archetypes that jump out. The 'relaxed grip'. The connection by counting to the development process of the chakra system of both humans and universe (hint: 7 chakras, and each goes through 4 specific stages of development in the enlightenment process).

Then there is the whole question of 'assumed context'. If this is a message from our space alien brothers, then what do they know? It is clear what message they intend to convey, but why stress this aspect of human behavior?

Is something wicked this way coming such that we need to take the steps suggested? And are we meant to continue it as a solid practice for the next 28 days?

Read the whole thing, and click the link.  While this may or may not be a hoaxed image is not relevant to the message.  What's that message?  Smoke it if you got it:  Here come The Freak.  Buckle up, babies, The Window has opened.

Maybe not, though.  Summer 2011 has been so weird, it's gonna take some Major Shenanigans to top this level of Batshit.  But as we keep learning, that's not an impossible task, so we shall see.

I've said variations before:  While there are some seriously evil and crazy energies at play all around us all, at all times..  This really is an amazing, interesting, scary as hell, and hopefully, hopeful time to be alive.  What.     Will.     Happen.    Next?   

Regarding sequence, I have no idea.

NewsCorp Go Boom! July 27, 2011

DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper  The Independent.  Excerpts:

The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there were a "vast array" of News of the World phone-hacking victims.

Lord Macdonald, who has since been hired by the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, was sent a memo nearly six months before the reporter Clive Goodman and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were convicted, revealing that the charges they were facing related to just a fraction of the potential victims.

However, the hacking investigation was never widened despite pressure on the police and Lord Macdonald, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service at the time, to do so.

In a letter released yesterday, the former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith revealed: "The Director [of Public Prosecutions] and I were aware that the particular cases referred to were not isolated examples." Lord Goldsmith said protocol prevented him from speaking to the police, but this did not apply to the Crown Prosecution Service, which Lord Macdonald led at the time, and whose lawyers briefed him on other victims of hacking.

The Met had to reopen its inquiries into criminality by the NOTW in January this year when it became apparent that police and prosecutors had failed to fully investigate the widespread phone hacking by the newspaper five years ago.

Now it's the lawyers' turn to be sucked into the phone-hacking scandal    The Guardian UK.  Excerpts:

Now it's the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been intercepted with the intention of influencing court cases.

Several prominent solicitors fear their mobile phones have been hacked. Some have been formally informed of the risk by police after detectives discovered their numbers among a private investigator's notes.

Graham Shear, of Berwin Leighton Paisner who has represented celebrities such as Robbie Williams and Jude Law, is one of those who has lodged a claim against the News of the World for damages over breach of privacy.

"In January this year I was contacted by senior officers in Operation Weeting [the Metropolitan police inquiry into phone hacking]," Shear said. "They told me that, contrary to what had been said previously, a number of my clients were referred to in documents from [Glenn] Mulcaire's file. My name was among them."

If messages had been intercepted, he said, it would have been a breach of confidential relationship with clients.

The media lawyer Mark Stephens expressed similar anxieties. "I asked [Scotland Yard] if I'd been hacked - they came back to me in 90 minutes and said yes," he told Channel 4 News. "It confirmed my worst suspicions, that I was in Mulcaire's notebook. There is nothing I can do about it, but the important thing is to ascertain which client [was the target] so I can advise them. My concern is for them, not myself."

My favorite Murdoch story to date, courtesy of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal..  Murdoch Threat To Expose Obama As “Christ-Child” Ignites Western Fury  Excerpts:

An amazing report circulating in the Kremlin today authored by the Federal Security Service (FSB) states that the ever-growing scandal in the United Kingdom related to the phone-hacking and police bribery claims being made against the global media empire of the man Time Magazine in 2007 called “The Last Tycoon” is, instead, due to the Australian-American billionaire Rupert Murdoch planning to publish a new book claiming that the American President, Barack Obama, is a “direct-line” descendent of Jesus Christ.

First, he was The Anti-Christ.  Now he's Christ.  Soon, I'm sure, he'll be The Anti-Christ again.  Awesome.  This is why I'll always love What Does It Mean?.  Who else could up the conspriracy ante on the already waaay over the top frenzy that is the Murdoch scandal?

In light of this story, this McCain ad looks a little different, now..

WSJ admits coverage of News Corp hacking scandal was poor  Americablog.  Excerpts:

The Wall Street Journal "could have done a better job" when it published an interview with proprietor Rupert Murdoch in which he said News Corporation had made only "minor mistakes" in managing the phone-hacking scandal, according to the paper's special editorial committee.

The swift decline of UK media titan Rebekah Brooks  Newsday.

Arrest of ex-Murdoch CEO Rebekah Brooks seals plunge from powerful news exec to public villain

NewsCorp Go Boom! July 25, 2011

The Case Against Piers Morgan.  Wow.  I have had a visceral disgust with this douche always.  I find his very presence vomitous and anger inspiring.  Because I never wanted to know anything about him, I only recently found out he was one of Murdoch's minions, editing The Daily Mirror during times of alleged hacking.  How very validated my intuition feels! 

Gawker.  Excerpts:

As British blogger Guido Fawkes noted today, in 2006 former Daily Mirror reporter James Hipwell told the Guardian unequivocally that hacking went on during his time at the paper—which overlapped entirely with Morgan's tenure as editor. "Many of the Daily Mirror's stories would come from hacking into a celebrity's voicemail," Hipwell told the Guardian

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Hipwell, it should be noted, was fired from the Mirror in 2000 over accusations that he invested in a company whose stock he was promoting in a business column. He was eventually jailed for stock manipulation. Morgan was investing in the same company, but for some reason he didn't get fired.

In January, former member of Parliament Paul Marsden announced that he had been a victim of phone-hacking by a Daily Mirror reporter in 2003—again, during Morgan's tenure—and that he was pursuing a lawsuit against the paper.

Former Daily Mirror reporter Gary Jones was secretly recorded by British police telling private investigator Jonathan Rees—an accused (and acquitted) axe murderer at the heart of the hacking scandal who is accused of everything from voicemail snooping to conducting "burglaries of public figures to steal material for newspapers"—that "some of what he was doing for the Mirror was illegal." Jones was employed by the Mirror as a reporter for the entirety of Morgan's tenure there.

News Corp's James Murdoch under pressure over hacking testimony    Yahoo.  Excerpts:

News Corp executive James Murdoch was under pressure on Monday over his handling of a phone-hacking scandal that has hit the Murdoch family's media empire and could jeopardize his own position at the company.

British police are considering a request from opposition Labor politician Tom Watson to investigate claims the 38-year-old son of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch gave "mistaken" testimony to a high profile hearing in parliament last week.

Separately Labor lawmaker Chris Bryant has written to News Corp's independent directors calling on them to suspend both James and his 80-year-old father for failing to exercise proper corporate control.

And:

News Corp's British arm News International had maintained until then that previously known about incidents of the illegal practice at its News of the World tabloid was the work of a lone "rogue reporter."

However, two former senior figures at its British newspaper arm on Friday disputed James Murdoch's claim at the committee hearing that he had been unaware in 2008 of an e-mail that suggested such wrongdoing was more widespread.

The email related to a 700,000 pound ($1.1 million) out-of-court settlement paid to the head of English soccer's players union and signed off by James Murdoch in 2008, shortly after he took charge of News Corp's European operations.

Murdoch-detector browser add-ons warn you when you’re reading Murdoch-tainted news  BoingBoing.  Excerpts:

Two new browser plugins are here to help you with your Murdoch-detecting needs: Murdoch Block is a Chrome extension that warns you when you’re about to visit a news site controlled by the Murdoch empire and gives you the chance to turn away before the phone-hacking, ethics-lacking propaganda meets your eyes; and Murdoch Alert puts a helpful warning bar at the bottom of your browser whenever you land on a Murdoch-controlled news page.

Fox reporter claims network has covered Murdoch scandal ‘very seriously’  Charlie Gasparino, fresh from CNBC, and already on bended knees..

..“Actually, the coverage on Fox and The Wall Street Journal of the story has been embarrassing for journalism,” The Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington pointed out. “Editorials in The Wall Street Journal — forget Fox, nobody really expects Fox to do this seriously…”

“Fox has covered this very seriously, Arianna,” Gasparino objected.

“The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial is whitewashing what is a very serious scandal that we have not seen the end of,” Huffington continued.

“I think we have covered this well. We have straight news reporters that have covered this all day,” Gasparino claimed.

And:

In fact, the Pew Research Center found that Fox News’ coverage of the Murdoch scandal trailed far behind CNN and MSNBC between July 6 and July 15.

Fox News had devoted less than 30 minutes to the story, while CNN and MSNBC each devoted over 140 minutes.

Report: News Corp UK execs threatened British Members of Parliament  Americablog.  Excerpts:

Lib Dem insiders say NI (News International) officials took their lobbying campaign well beyond acceptable limits and even threatened, last autumn, to persecute the party if Vince Cable, the business secretary, did not advance its case.

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The accounts are only now coming to light, say sources, because the minister involved feared the potential for damage to the party, which was already suffering a dramatic slide in popularity after going into coalition with the Tories. They chime with reports from senior figures in the Labour party who say that Murdoch executives issued threats to Ed Miliband's office after the Labour leader turned on NI when the news broke that murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked into by the News of the World.

The drips continue.