The problem is her background. She's a paid lobbyist for the studios, not really an artist herself. Given how she worked as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at
Time Warner, I doubt she'd know much about what artists need to survive. And the fact that artists speak up against her is very telling. She needs new ideas because the current ones just aren't working.
I would not say that this was all the Bank's fault when it was Congress who forced the Banks to do mortgages to poorer people who could hardly afford it. They want poor people to have the same rights as richer people to get a home even if they were much more risky.
Do you realize the bank lobbyists are second only to the pharmaceutical industry in political clout?
Also, I remember exactly why the system wasn't allowed to fix this problem. Freddie and Fannie lobbied Congress by giving Newt $1.6 million dollars to ignore the problems. This does not even begin to describe all of the problems that were ignored in the push for deregulation of the banks to promote unsafe loans.
The banks lost a great deal of money and here we are. At least Congress cleaned up their own mess even if they are not the ones who pay for it
No, the public cleaned up their mess. The banks lost money, haven't invested in new businesses, gave the CEOs a lot of money in loans, foreclosed on houses illegally, and have exposed how much money runs through the system and ends up as lobbying money for new rules favorable to the big banks.
Congress for the most part, sold out the public for private interests.
The media has reported allegations that Shurtleff allows political donations or personal relationships to affect regulatory or prosecutorial decisions. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] He has also faced allegations of taking donations from companies he knows to be in the midst of legal proceedings for which he has responsibility.[30]
A second plea deal — after a judge rejected the first as too lenient — will cost an accused swindler $4.1 million more than first proposed.
It comes in a case where both sides had accused Attorney General Mark Shurtleff of unfairly meddling amid political pressure, and Shurtleff in turn said a bribe was offered.
Marc Sessions Jenson, 48, of Holladay, pleaded no contest Thursday to three felony counts of selling unregistered securities in a plea bargain accepted by 3rd District Judge Robin Reese.
This piece is one that exposes the problem of the link of business and government in the worst possible light. If Mark survives this year of elections, the system has failed miserably. He should be indicted on a number of charges including perjury, corruption charges and obstruction of justice (plea bargaining) among the other charges to put him away for a LOOOONG time.
I can understand why they did that one. You only need to read the history of The Great Depression to see back then what happened when the Government did NOTHING to help the banks or much else.
But this is the exact reason for Occupy Wall Street. When you look at the history, the banks were bailed out because of how much they lobbied the government to make favorable rules for them. No one was arrested for predatory loans where the people made 7x the loan on minorities or become a part of the revolving door problem.
A few banks collapsed and this led to a snowball effect with hundreds and then thousands of branches all over the country then collapsing. People no longer trusted the banks who lost their money so they began to horde gold under their mattresses instead.
Yes, but let's not forget that Alan Greenspan lowered the interest rate to induce borrowing which began to destroy the economy. Now, those same banks are holding onto free money while funding private prisons and doing questionable bank foreclosures.
This situation lasted for too many years until the Government helped the banks, stimulated the economy and invested in jobs. Not to forget banning gold hoarding should people now be tempted.
Look again, the Fed. Reserve was doing the same thing to the economy and the banks were the ones holding onto the money until WWII. The downside of Keynesian economics was not discovered until Citizens United exposed the problem.
So it was the lesser of two great evils and I believe life is better off now because of it.
No, it's not. The middle class is becoming less significant, the government is censoring and locking up its populace and most of our presidential nominees are so out of touch with those being affected by the laws that they will never make rules that will actually better society.
A one sided court order that kept getting extended...
Dear gods, why are you being so obtuse about this?
Everytime Dajaz1 tried to see the court order or figure out when the hearing would be, ICE stone walled them. And here you are, supporting the 1 year censorship of a blog that had authorized links on it.
They've had the ratings disabled since the July takedowns.
You can tell how much they're pushing the bull and stepping in its remains.
I kind of find it funny though... Morton seems to believe that SD cards are thieving devices. So when is he going to take down SanDisk for illegal theft of American jobs?
I have to agree. I've been looking into his holdings with the Bain company he represents. They are better known for destroying jobs and moving them overseas than saving anything.
Further, Romney is using overseas accounts to hold onto his capital gains. He's a big banker that is just pandering based on all of the evidence presented about him.
Is there any chance that the oversight committee has old decisions made by the FCC? The reason that I ask is because Michael Powell made a decision that was disagreeable in the 90s that comes back to haunt us in the form of consolidation in the broadband marketplace.
This coming from a lobbyist, it's quite a lot of BS.
Judging from the stories involved, she was making an online library and ICE shut it down.
And all you can do is point to Google and try to extract money from them for the politicians they have to buy. Bravo.
But let's make a few things clear here. I do give money to Techdirt. The amount is none of your business. Same with if I gave money to Ninjavideo, the Salvation Army, or the Red Cross. If you want to tell how much you give to charity, or to another group for a viewpoint, be my guest. But far be it for me to tell you my personal choices. What I will tell you is that the $10,000 they received was an amassed donation from a lot of people that felt they could find good legal counsel to help them. Unfortunately they didn't.
So going on and on about this is specifically your choice, but it's a misleading argument. People donated what they could to a site they liked to find good legal representation. The point that I've made (there's a difference between the high court of Righthaven and lawyers vs the low court of the Ninjavideo admins) still stands. The other point (the law is being twisted in order to criminalize innocent people) about CCI being a misleading misnomer here is also something you love to ignore.
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Time Warner, I doubt she'd know much about what artists need to survive. And the fact that artists speak up against her is very telling. She needs new ideas because the current ones just aren't working.
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Do you realize the bank lobbyists are second only to the pharmaceutical industry in political clout?
Also, I remember exactly why the system wasn't allowed to fix this problem. Freddie and Fannie lobbied Congress by giving Newt $1.6 million dollars to ignore the problems. This does not even begin to describe all of the problems that were ignored in the push for deregulation of the banks to promote unsafe loans.
The banks lost a great deal of money and here we are. At least Congress cleaned up their own mess even if they are not the ones who pay for it
No, the public cleaned up their mess. The banks lost money, haven't invested in new businesses, gave the CEOs a lot of money in loans, foreclosed on houses illegally, and have exposed how much money runs through the system and ends up as lobbying money for new rules favorable to the big banks.
Congress for the most part, sold out the public for private interests.
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Look at his Wikipage:
The media has reported allegations that Shurtleff allows political donations or personal relationships to affect regulatory or prosecutorial decisions. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] He has also faced allegations of taking donations from companies he knows to be in the midst of legal proceedings for which he has responsibility.[30]
Yes, that's 19 [citations] in ONE section. This is one of the stories:
A second plea deal — after a judge rejected the first as too lenient — will cost an accused swindler $4.1 million more than first proposed.
It comes in a case where both sides had accused Attorney General Mark Shurtleff of unfairly meddling amid political pressure, and Shurtleff in turn said a bribe was offered.
Marc Sessions Jenson, 48, of Holladay, pleaded no contest Thursday to three felony counts of selling unregistered securities in a plea bargain accepted by 3rd District Judge Robin Reese.
This piece is one that exposes the problem of the link of business and government in the worst possible light. If Mark survives this year of elections, the system has failed miserably. He should be indicted on a number of charges including perjury, corruption charges and obstruction of justice (plea bargaining) among the other charges to put him away for a LOOOONG time.
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But this is the exact reason for Occupy Wall Street. When you look at the history, the banks were bailed out because of how much they lobbied the government to make favorable rules for them. No one was arrested for predatory loans where the people made 7x the loan on minorities or become a part of the revolving door problem.
A few banks collapsed and this led to a snowball effect with hundreds and then thousands of branches all over the country then collapsing. People no longer trusted the banks who lost their money so they began to horde gold under their mattresses instead.
Yes, but let's not forget that Alan Greenspan lowered the interest rate to induce borrowing which began to destroy the economy. Now, those same banks are holding onto free money while funding private prisons and doing questionable bank foreclosures.
This situation lasted for too many years until the Government helped the banks, stimulated the economy and invested in jobs. Not to forget banning gold hoarding should people now be tempted.
Look again, the Fed. Reserve was doing the same thing to the economy and the banks were the ones holding onto the money until WWII. The downside of Keynesian economics was not discovered until Citizens United exposed the problem.
So it was the lesser of two great evils and I believe life is better off now because of it.
No, it's not. The middle class is becoming less significant, the government is censoring and locking up its populace and most of our presidential nominees are so out of touch with those being affected by the laws that they will never make rules that will actually better society.
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Telling
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How you can't figure this out, I have no idea.
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Dear gods, why are you being so obtuse about this?
Everytime Dajaz1 tried to see the court order or figure out when the hearing would be, ICE stone walled them. And here you are, supporting the 1 year censorship of a blog that had authorized links on it.
You're still full of it.
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Immigration - Destroying American families
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You can tell how much they're pushing the bull and stepping in its remains.
I kind of find it funny though... Morton seems to believe that SD cards are thieving devices. So when is he going to take down SanDisk for illegal theft of American jobs?
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Further, Romney is using overseas accounts to hold onto his capital gains. He's a big banker that is just pandering based on all of the evidence presented about him.
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Another question
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Judging from the stories involved, she was making an online library and ICE shut it down.
And all you can do is point to Google and try to extract money from them for the politicians they have to buy. Bravo.
But let's make a few things clear here. I do give money to Techdirt. The amount is none of your business. Same with if I gave money to Ninjavideo, the Salvation Army, or the Red Cross. If you want to tell how much you give to charity, or to another group for a viewpoint, be my guest. But far be it for me to tell you my personal choices. What I will tell you is that the $10,000 they received was an amassed donation from a lot of people that felt they could find good legal counsel to help them. Unfortunately they didn't.
So going on and on about this is specifically your choice, but it's a misleading argument. People donated what they could to a site they liked to find good legal representation. The point that I've made (there's a difference between the high court of Righthaven and lawyers vs the low court of the Ninjavideo admins) still stands. The other point (the law is being twisted in order to criminalize innocent people) about CCI being a misleading misnomer here is also something you love to ignore.
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