The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

Snatched from Ozfille over at Livejournal land



Another rat loving fox hating serpent adds her eleventy smugs worth to the schadenfreude score
Oh make that eleventy times eleventy

Let's pass the humble pie around and join in the pity party

After 40 something years naming and shaming and claiming the moral high ground, it is a most deserved fate indeed. All this hand wringing and regret - not for what they did but for getting caught - should fool no one. The Big M is a "Whatever it takes" kind of guy and he made sure that all his staff knew it. Just keep the profits rolling in. Rules are for fools and nice guys finish last
We thinks old Rupert should get the Alexander Downer Memorial Award for number of "I don't know"s and "Nobody told me"s in a court hearing


We interrupt the fox hunting fun for an interesting attempt at a comeback by a certain muggle media mogul who shall remain nameless

Murdoch to buy "The Daily Prophet"

Just a quick squiggle to say that the lack of serpent squiggles in Cyberia of late is not due to the usual innate hermit tendencies but a cranky grumpy usb dongle Portkey

Last week Izzie visited a nasty elearning site owned by News Corporation. The goblin bosses are basically threatening staff with being taken off the roster if they don't tick the proper boxes on time.
Got disconnected five times while visiting that site and since then it's now taking twenty minutes (compared to the usual 20 seconds) or more to get online and can get cut off at any time. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this strange behaviour.
It could simply be old age - that the Huewai usb soap on a rope is reaching its use by date. But whenever there's even a sniff of the wily old fox to be found, there is no such thing as coincidence. Conspiracy and conniving are the order of the day.
But the long and the short of it is that access has become difficult and unpredictable and there's books to read and decks to design and 101 other less frustrating activities to occupy a serpent's free time until we get this stuff sorted out


News Corporation and their head henchman Rupert Murdoch are the same mob who brought us Fox News and under the company name "News International" they own the vile rag "News of the World" If it looks like a fox, slinks and stinks like a fox then one could safely assume that it is a fox
This is the sort of publication that makes "The National Enquirer" look like the Encylopedia Brittanica. Their bosses and 'journalists' think nothing of tapping the phones of royals, celebrities and politicians but have descended to the depths of depravity by hacking into the mobile phone of a 13 year old murdered girl. Their activities of emptying the inbox so that they could read other messages gave her parents false hope that she was still alive.
Of course they used subcontractors to do the dirty work but the shit has now come back to the source

The ma and pa used to read this rag when the serpent was a mere flobberworm. It was full of salacious sleaze and lies. But what would provide a few days entertainment for the gossip gobbling readers could destroy the lives and reputations of those unlucky enough to find their names within the pages. It and its sister "Sun" was all tits and titillation and no facts or brains. You couldn't even trust the scum to get the date right on the front page

It was bad enough that some celebrity sacked her personal assistant with the accusation she was selling all sorts of salacious tidbits to the paparazzi. After all how else could they possibly have gotten them. But when it came out that the Screws Spooks were snooping and tapping her phone and the personal assistant was totally innocent, she didn't get her job back and got no compensation for the damage to her reputation
They had also been digging dirt on assorted members of the British Parliament. They were all quite aware that nasty things get printed about pollies who speak out against or vote against the Big Fat Greedy Fox in his crusade to be Master of the Media Universe

But they must have gotten rather smug and arrogant and have gone way too far this time. Even the fox's friends and fans are squirming with embarrassment
It wasn't their mob who murdered the girl but by tampering with her phone and therefore giving her parents false hope, it was like killing her again and again.

Here's hoping that there's a very nasty large trap with the tightest teeth in store for the filthy old fox and his miserable muck racking minions.