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by John Whitley
11-21-2003
from
Rense Website
From southern France, Christopher
Jones summarizes and comments on a report on the
assassination of President Kennedy. Need I stress that WAIS
censors only direct attacks on other WAISers and grossly improper
language.
Christopher says:
"I glanced at the Kennedy
assassination site and found this; it fits into our discussion
of Hollywood stereotypes and the slavish behavior of the US
press after the 9/11 tragedy and in the run up to the invasion
of Iraq. In a quick rundown, the website recapitulates an old
story that I heard back in the late sixties and early seventies
in California: that Kennedy was liquidated by the mafia whose
kingpin was Meyer Lansky (pal of Lucky Luciano).
In fact, I could add a small tidbit
which the author may or may not have covered: that Marilyn
Monroe was murdered by the mafia as a warning to her lovers;
Bobby and Jack Kennedy. The story of the Corsican hit squad was
documented in a TV documentary in Europe. Of course it would be
interesting to know more about Auguste Ricord and his
collaboration with the Gestapo and if he had anything to do with
our old friend, Mandel Szkolnikoff.
"Today, seven Jewish Americans
run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed
press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing
industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries
are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the following
seven individuals:
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Gerald Levin, CEO and
Director of AOL Time Warner
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Michael Eisner, Chairman and
CEO of the Walt Disney Company
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr.,
Chairman of Seagram Company Ltd
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Edgar Bronfman, Jr,
President and CEO of Seagram Company Ltd and head of
Universal Studios
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Sumner Redstone, Chairman
and CEO of Viacom, Inc
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Dennis Dammerman, Vice
Chairman of General Electric
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Peter Chernin, President and
Co-COO of News Corporation Limited
Those seven Jewish men collectively
control ABC, NBC, CBS, the Turner Broadcasting System, CNN, MTV,
Universal Studios, MCA Records, Geffen Records, DGC Records, GRP
Records, Rising Tide Records, Curb/Universal Records, and
Interscope Records.
Most of the larger independent newspapers are owned by Jewish
interests as well.
An example:
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media mogul is Samuel I.
"Si" Newhouse, who owns two dozen daily
newspapers from Staten Island to Oregon, plus the Sunday
supplement Parade
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Conde Nast collection of
magazines, including Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair,
Allure, GQ, and Self
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publishing firms of Random
House, Knopf, Crown, and Ballantine, among other imprints
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cable franchises with over one
million subscribers."
I could add that Michael Eisner
could depart Disney tomorrow but the company will remain in the
hands of Shamrock Holdings, whose principal office is now
located in Israel".
http://wais.stanford.edu/History/history_KennedyAssassination(092803).html
Bronfman Group Buys
Time Warner Music
Reuters 2003
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner
Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it would
sell its Warner Music business to a group led by media mogul
Edgar Bronfman Jr. for $2.6 billion, in a move to trim the media
group's debts and signaling a return of the former Seagram
chairman to the music business.
The Bronfman group beat out a bid by EMI (EMI.L: Quote, Profile,
Research) for the recorded music portion of the business for an
estimated $1 billion.
By choosing the Bronfman bid, Time Warner is forsaking $250
million to $300 million in cost savings it could have realized
by combining with EMI, home to such acts as The Beatles and
Radiohead. Warner Music artists include Madonna, Led Zeppelin
and R.E.M.
On the other hand, Time Warner is getting more cash up front by
selling the entire business, which includes the music publishing
company, and will have an easier path to regulatory approval. In
the past, European and U.S. regulators have frowned on
consolidation within the music business.
Bronfman's team, backed by some of America's biggest private
equity houses including Thomas H. Lee Partners, is betting it
can slash costs and turn Warner Music around ahead of a comeback
in sales, a major challenge in an industry currently in decline.
Bronfman has had long ties to the music business, first as a
songwriter for the likes of Dionne Warwick and Celine Dion, and
later as head of Seagram when he bought entertainment group MCA
from Japan's Matsushita for $5.7 billion. On his watch, the
renamed Universal Music bought Polygram, creating the world's
largest record company.
Bronfman merged his family's entertainment empire with France's
Vivendi three years ago, only to see the family fortune
disintegrate. When Vivendi put its entertainment assets on the
block earlier this year, Bronfman led a group to buy the assets
back but was ultimately outbid by NBC.
Hit by rampant piracy and competition from other entertainment
such as video games, music sales are expected to fall for the
fourth year in a row in 2004.
Earlier this month Sony Music (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research)
agreed to merge with Bertelsmann AG's (BERT.UL: Quote, Profile,
Research) BMG.
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