Rupert Murdoch + Israeli Shin Bet = Pay TV PIRACY SCAM

With the fallout of the News of the World Hacking scandal still coming down, more damage and criminal behaviour is evidenced By this four year investigation into Pay TV piracy in Australia.. and this is not a big population country, but Murdoch's "monopoly" of the media is exposed for what it is, a criminal organisation  plus a collaboration with an Israeli Shin Bet front company. 

Pay TV piracy hits Murdoch

A secret unit within Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation promoted a wave of high-tech piracy in Australia that damaged Austar, Optus and Foxtel at a time when News was moving to take control of the Australian pay TV industry, 


a four-year investigation by The Australian Financial Review has revealed.

The piracy cost the Australian pay TV companies up to $50 million a year and helped cripple the finances of Austar, which Foxtel is now in the process of acquiring.

The AFR investigation  has revealed a global trail of corporate dirty tricks directed against competitors by a secretive group of former policemen and intelligence officers within News Corp known as Operational Security.

Their actions devastated News's competitors, and the resulting waves of high-tech piracy assisted News to bid for pay TV businesses at reduced prices – including DirecTV in the US, Telepiu in Italy and Austar. These targets each had other commercial weaknesses quite apart from piracy.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is still deliberating on final details before approving Foxtel's $1.9 billion takeover bid for Austar, which will cement Foxtel's position as the dominant pay TV provider in Australia.

News Corp has categorically denied any involvement in promoting piracy and points to a string of court actions by competitors making similar claims, from which it has emerged victorious. In the only case that went to court, in 2008, the plaintiff EchoStar was ordered to pay nearly $19 million in legal costs.

The issue is particularly sensitive because Operational 

Security, which is headed by Reuven Hasak, a former deputy director of the Israeli domestic secret service, Shin Bet, operates in an area which historically has had close supervision by the Office of the Chairman, Rupert Murdoch.

The security group was initially set up in a News Corp subsidiary, News Datacom Systems (later known as NDS), to battle internal fraud and to target piracy against its own pay TV companies. 

But documents uncovered by the Financial Review reveal that NDS encouraged and facilitated piracy by hackers not only of its competitors but also of companies, such as Foxtel, for whom NDS provided pay TV smart cards. 

The documents show NDS sabotaged business rivals, fabricated legal actions and obtained telephone records illegally.

The actions are documented in an archive of 14,400 emails held by former Metropolitan Police commander Ray Adams who was European chief for Operational Security between 1996 and 2002. 
The Financial Review is publishing thousands of the emails on its website at afr.com. 
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READ the full Australia Financial Review report HERE

And, below is some background info on the company NDS, that is involved in this.... read it for yourselves, criminals and spies.

Company Profile and History of NDS


Company Name

The company started out as News Datacom (NDC) in 1989, and later changed its name to News Digital Systems, hence its current name.

Management

NDS CEO Abe Peled is a former Israeli Army platoon commander who served during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states. The head of Security at NDS is Reuven Hasak, the former deputy head of Israel's Shin Bet security service. This role is conducted through Shafran Ltd., a Tel Aviv based `security consultancy' firm headed by Hasak and three other former senior Shin Bet officers.

Canal Plus lawsuit

NDS has in the past been accused of breaking other companies' satellite encryption schemes, and was involved in a lawsuit brought by Canal Plus. The lawsuit, filed on July 25 2003 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleged that NDS spent huge sums to break Canal Plus's conditional access technology and published the code on the internet which allowed fraudsters to manufacture counterfeit smart cards. The company filed an amended complaint on October 9; however, this was dismissed. Other legal action by Echostar/NagraStar was being pursued as late as August 2005 accusing NDS of the same wrongdoing.

The Guardian, an independent UK broadsheet newspaper, broke the story with accusations that the NDS laboratory in Haifa, Israel had been working on breaking the France Telecom produced MediaGuard smartcards used by Canal+, ITV Digital and other non-Murdoch owned TV companies throughout Europe. In the front-page story, the Guardian accused NDS of deliberately extracting the UserROM code from the MediaGuard cards and then leaking it onto the internet. The theory was lent credibility by the fact that extraction of the code from the cards would have required extremely specialized knowledge and expensive equipment — specifically, a scanning electron microscope. SEMs are tracked and controlled, and thus obtaining them without leaving a paper trail is difficult.Template:Fact

Tax Evasion

NDS was investigated in 1996 for tax evasion in Israel. NDS offices were raided in October 1996 amid allegations of tens of millions of dollars of unpaid tax.

Subsidiaries

NDS owns Orbis, a leading provider of online gaming technology and Jungo who provide software for residential gateways." (end snip)

Here's Wikipedia's version as well...

Plus you'll notice that it is mentioned that Information Technology Giant CISCO have made a bid to aquire NDS just this month...

Cisco's relationship with the spooks and deep state government is well known...

AND http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/07/china-enlists-cisco-to-spy-on-the-public/

Very Interesting..The connections are all there aren't they??

UPDATE: Minister recommends the FEDERAL POLICE INVESTIGATE THIS REPORT.

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NORTH KOREA AIMS MISSILES TOWARDS AUSTRALIA

This is obviously blogworthy..
I read this morning that Nth Korea is strategically moving it's targeting of It's Missile defence systems towards South East Asia....Not a good thing, considering the very strange relationship that Our "allies" the USA has with them..

North Korea directs missiles towards Australia

NORTH KOREA'S forthcoming missile launch will be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia for the first time, the US has warned.


The warning was delivered in person yesterday to the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, by a senior official in the Obama Administration, Kurt Campbell, during a visit to Sydney.

North Korea, which claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon in 2009, has for years worked to improve its long-range ballistic missile capability. 
Previous missile tests have been launched east, over Japan. 

But US intelligence suggests the launch announced for mid-April will be aimed south for the first time.

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"If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines," Dr Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, said yesterday.

"We have never seen this trajectory before. We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued."

After the meeting Mr Carr told the Herald: "The North Korean nuclear and long-range missile plans represent a real and credible threat to the security of the region and to Australia."

The launch would be "in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions."

Mr Carr said he and Dr Campbell had "shared views on how both the US and Australia could engage our regional partners and allies to encourage North Korea to abandon its plans".

The US President, Barack Obama, will be among some 50 leaders, including Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to meet in a summit in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Monday to discuss nuclear disarmament. North Korea's abrupt announcement last week of its missile test is expected to dominate discussion.

The announcement from Pyongyang startled observers because it came less than three weeks after it had sealed a new agreement with the US in return for food aid.

South Korea has called the move a "grave provocation". Its president, Lee Myung-bak, has said he will ask Mr Obama to revise an alliance agreement that limits his country to missiles with a 300-kilometre range.

Japan's Defence Minister, Naoki Tanaka, said yesterday Tokyo was prepared to shoot down the North Korean long-range rocket if it threatened the country. (end snip)

Considering also, that the USA is about to send over the FIRST of it's NEW PERMANENT REVOLVING MARINE BASE personel to Darwin Australia (in the top far north) of Australia...

and this new presence was always going to cause tension within the region...

This reaffirms that WE need the USA to "defend" us...and that we are also a very strategic target, interesting, as the USA seems keen to hold onto this strategic alliance, even though, economically we are being bought out by foreign interests, China is just one country involved in this..

So really, is this just a scare tactic??? or manipulation and posturing?
If this missile test goes ahead, will it be seen as extreme provocation and retaliated against? Is this what is required?

ALSO : http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/australia-usas-deputy-dawg-now-in_17.html


and HERE: http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/there-goes-neighbourhood.html

Australian Billionaire + CIA Conspiracy

Well, I thought this was quite odd, a few days ago when this story came out in the Media.
That one of Australia's billionaire mining magnates, Clive Palmer, would come out with this...That there is lobbying and "influence" by the CIA in Australian politics.


There have been numerous articles written since, debunking much of this story plus legal action threatened and even Government MP's distancing themselves very publicly..Very interesting:


CIA threatens Australian coal industry: Palmer

Mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused the Australian Greens and Queensland environmental campaigners of "treason" in conspiring with US powers to destroy the nation's coal industry.

Mr Palmer was expected to give his response to the passing of the Gillard government's mining tax at a media conference called this afternoon, but the multi-billionaire was concerned only with perceived collusion between the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the environmental lobby.

Mr Palmer turned his attention to a report by Greenpeace and other anti-coal groups, titled Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom, which outlined an environmental campaign designed to disrupt and delay the expansion of the industry.

While brandishing a copy of the report this afternoon, Mr Palmer said it was the result of a CIA conspiracy involving the US-based Rockefeller Foundation.

"This is funded by the CIA," he said.

"You only have to go back and read ... the report to the US Congress that sets up the Rockefeller Foundation as a conduit of CIA funding.

"You only have to look at the secret budget which was passed by Congress last year - bigger than our whole national economy - with the CIA to ensure that.

"You only have to read the reports to US Congress where the CIA reported to the president that their role was to ensure the US competitive advantage - that's how you know it's funded by the CIA."

Mr Palmer argued descendants of US oil magnate John Rockefeller had bankrolled the Greenpeace report, in a bid to disrupt and damage the Australian coal industry.

The author of the report, Greenpeace senior campaigner John Hepburn, strongly refuted the accusations, saying Greenpeace's cause was funded by tens of thousands of individuals across Australia.

‘‘First up, Greenpeace does not accept funding from the CIA, nor from any other secret service for that matter,’’ he said.

‘‘Neither do we accept money from any government or corporation.

‘‘Right now, the scale and speed of the coal export boom are out of control. Clive Palmer's vast proposed 'China First' mine would destroy Bimblebox nature refuge and he is part of a plan to build the world's biggest coal port at Abbot Point, in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.’’

Mr Palmer went on to say that the document confirmed local environmental campaigners, including Lock the Gate Alliance president Drew Hutton and Greens leader Bob Brown, were improperly collaborating with foreign multinationals.

"The Greens have not been providing you with the full information about where their money comes from or what it's about," he said.

"I think the Greens [candidates] in this upcoming state election ... should resign if they're being funded by an offshore political power.

"It's tantamount to treason and something needs to be done about it."

Greens Leader Bob Brown held a press conference in Canberra this evening to refute the allegations.

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Clive palmer has also VERY RECENTLY  had a very public spat with Frank LOWY of "westfield shopping centre and 911 world trade centre fame" plus other "activities" involving fighting for the Haganah and Goloni Brigade ...


And for those of you who are interested Frank has his very own "INSTITUTE"...Quaint :) 


Seems to be a sort of a tink thank..

Very interesting..maybe Clive Palmer will have a nasty accident?? 


or something like that? 
But there has been a HUGE back lash against what he said and that gets this Monkey thinking..


I mean who ever believes rich miners? MEGA rich miners at that...


Who believes Politicians? any of them..


Plus the Media,(scrape) of course who are very busily complicitly and uncomfortably laughing it off as the mutterings of a madman..who knows..maybe he's been excluded from the "big boys" ? 


It has the stench of some truth about it..sniff sniff..


but then again we ask "to who's benefit?" don't they all eat out of the same trough?


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