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2004-04-23 Britain

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Posted by tipper 2004-04-23 11:25:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For others who had trouble following this difficult, but funny and enlightening story...

Porn Producer Richard Desmond, who has links to the American mafia and has said that his mission in life is defeating the Daily Mail, owns the Daily Express, which is under joint ownership of Express Newspapers and the Telegraph Group, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph. The partnership is because they co-own the printing press, one of the biggest in Europe. Other than that, they hate each other. On the day his (Desmond's Express) newspaper announced that it was switching its support from Labour to the Conservatives, he has a[nother] mental breakdown, apparently because of the German Axel Springer groupâs bid to buy Hollinger International, the Telegraphâs owner.....
So Desmond, who is Jewish, loses it and starts goose-stepping around the room, calling everyone Nazi's. The Telgraph defends it's new owner, self, saying (and this is interesting!!!) Axel Springer made the reconciliation of Germans and Jews a publishing principle and that the groupâs staff were required under their contracts to support the state of Israel.

The article ends with:
"The Labour Party is going to have to explain why they gave him (Daffy Desmond) permission to take over the Express in the first place."

Hmmm...could it be those mafia ties?

The American Mafia owns the printing industry (and porn), here in the US. And the mafia is, here in the US, how shall I say it....more friendly with the DNC than with the RNC.

Just yesterday, I saw on the news that the gaming industry is attempting to expand their business into the UK. So...then am I the only one who finds it interesting that their boy, Mr. Desmond, goes and buys a paper there??? Coincidence?? You decide.

And one last question.....should we wonder why the Daily Express, purchased by the Mafia's guy, (possibly to help expand their gambling empire into the UK) ..... has suddenly done an about face and its editorals have suddenly come out in support of labour?

There's more to this story. I'd like to know what it is.

Posted by B 2004-04-23 12:37:26 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:37:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 oops...last sentence should = come out in support of tories

Posted by B 2004-04-23 12:38:03 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:38:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I know I'm talking to myself here...but seeing as how the Islamists have purchased more of the Labour party than they have of the conservatives or GOP....doesn't it make you wonder???

I mean...gambling and Islam go together well right? Makes me wonder about the fact that the Boston Globe has also made a strange shift away from their expected party line. In other articles today, they seem to have given Kerry the boot. Is the Boston Globe (no mafia in Boston, right?) starting to get a clue that a rise of Islam in Europe will be bad for business?

Posted by B 2004-04-23 12:45:11 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:45:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 ooops..did it again!! Last sentence should have said, Is the American Mafia starting to get a clue that a rise of Islam in Europe will be bad for business? Freudian slip.

Posted by B 2004-04-23 12:47:16 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:47:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hi B! Hate to see a lonely poster ;> Good stuff tho.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-23 4:24:01 PM|| 2004-04-23 4:24:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks! I appreciate that. Was afraid I was just wasting Fred's bandwidth. Nice to know it wasn't unread :-)

Posted by B 2004-04-23 4:45:30 PM|| 2004-04-23 4:45:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I read all comments :)

Posted by djohn66 2004-04-23 9:28:58 PM|| 2004-04-23 9:28:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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