Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty A Deep Dive Into Both Fyre Festival Documentaries The Fyre Festival is the most talked about scam on the internet right now. Only rivaled by the financial aid foolishness at Howard University. ABCNews took a deep dive into both the Netflix and Hulu documentaries about the pain that so many people suffered as a result of greedy white men. This is so f**ked up. SMH. Continue reading →
The Game On The Hook For $7.1 Million Judgment In Grope Case The judge isn’t playing when it comes to forcing The Game to pay up on a $7.1 million judgment for sexually assaulting his reality show co-star. A fed up judge Tuesday held The Game in contempt of court and ordered a bench warrant if he doesn’t cough up his financial docs to “She’s Got Game” contestant Priscilla Rainey by Oct. 5, BOSSIP has learned. Rainey won a $7.13 million judgment against The Game after suing him for assaulting her during an after hours date while they filmed the reality show. We exclusively revealed that Rainey has been trying for months to get The Game’s financial records so that she can begin collecting her multi million dollar judgment. But she’s complained that The Game not only ignored her requests, but resorted to hiding his assets in a bid to get out of paying up. The judge apparently had enough after the West Coast rapper failed to turn up to another court hearing, and issued the demand. The judge wants the U.S. Marshals to arrest The Game and hold him until he sends Rainey the financial paperwork. The Game has not responded as of Oct. 3. He is due back in court next week.
Miley Cyrus posting in front of a fence while random people look on, is pretty representative of her life, you know the caged animal who can’t escape the prison her life has become, working for the illuminati to brain wash the masses, as we watch on like idiots, so they can take over the financial system, eventually imprisoning us more than they already have… Which happens to be my new porn…I love a good sexy cry for help…all lean and tight bodied…knowing she’s a fucking spoiled brat. cuz caged women with tight little bodie who are puppets for Disney execs..and the devil…is erotic.
The ESPN Body Issue is officially on sale. And while folks all over the country are busy ogling Miesha Tate nude and other star athletes in their birthday suits, critics are left to roll their eyes and wonder: Is such an edition of the magazine really in the name of good health and fitness? Or is ESPN just looking to increase sales via provocative images? The issue, after all, originated as a response to the decline in advertising spending that resulted from the financial crisis of 2007–2010. Take a moment to stop ogling and vote now: The ESPN Body Issue is… An important promotion of good health A cheap stunt to increase sales View Poll »
They’re blaming the Government for “too stringent terms”?!?! And to the tune of $25 billion! Via Gawker : A.I.G., the backbone that runs one inch beneath the surface of the global economy, has gotten itself millions of dollars worth of free PR today by just considering joining a lawsuit against the U.S. government. To sue, or not to sue? To be ungrateful bastards, or to potentially miss a payday? It’s not a complicated question, really. The background, as far as it goes, is that A.I.G. was woven ever so tightly into the fabric of the financial system that when it all came crashing down in 2008, the U.S. government chose to bail the company out to the tune of $182 billion, rather than to let it go bankrupt, pulling down many, many of the little people with it. A classic case of Too Big to Fail. A.I.G. subsequently paid back the bailout, with interest. Now, Hank Greenberg—A.I.G.’s flinty, sour-faced former chairman who’s still the company’s largest shareholder, and who almost certainly sits at home all day stroking his evil cat and counting golden doubloons—is suing the government for $25 billion, claiming that the government’s terms were too stringent. A.I.G. itself is reportedly contemplating whether or not to join this lawsuit, and possibly reap some of those billions. The terms of these deals are complex, and there are fairly high-level financial and legal claims at play. But for A.I.G., the entire decision really comes down to this: Will the money potentially won in the lawsuit outweigh the damage in good will the company will inflict on itself by joining the lawsuit? Because A.I.G. is, of course, fresh off becoming one of the most infamous symbols of greed and outrageously insular corporate conduct (some good background on the company’s various PR outrages during the financial crisis can be found here). Is the possibility of bringing in several billion dollars enough to make up for saying, in effect, “Fuck you” to A) the government legislators and regulators who crafted the company’s bailout package and B) the general public, which suffered without a bailout of any sort while A.I.G. executives reaped bonuses? The moral answer is “no, of course not.” The practical answer is “maybe, depending on how likely you think the revolution really is.” (Unlikely, considering the fact that even at the height of the financial collapse, no A.I.G. executives were lynched by angry mobs.) How likely are Americans to even organize a boycott against such an amorphous and massively connected company? Is such a thing even possible? A few hundred million in PR spending and several million more in lobbying fees could make everyone forget, anyhow. Americans have short memories. The moral of this story: Don’t bail out corporations. Now take your ungrateful azz and sit the fawk down! SMH. Images via AP
from the real news network with paul jay and michael hudson… More at The Real News Paul Jay: In Greece, the financial elites of Europe have gotten agreement from the G reek government to another round of what some people are calling savage austerity measures, for example, lowering the minimum wage by 22 percent, a new round of privatizations, and cuts to pensions and many other social programs. … Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : And, yes, I DO take it personally Discovery Date : 15/02/2012 05:59 Number of articles : 2
For those weary of parsing which part of the post- Dirty Harry , post-Tarantino cops and robbers homage is demonstrating its fondness for the genre and which is just declaring it, writer and director John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard is more exhausting than entertaining. Ideally one would have better things to do while in the act of watching a movie — like say watching the movie — but from its assaultive, nihilistic prologue to its last flat invocation of American culture, The Guard foregrounds the extent to which it is leaning on artifice and affect to get over.
When word hit that Kevin Smith was aiming for the Oscars with a qualifying theatrical run for his divisive film, Red State , critics split over his perceived goals and, more specifically, the financial terms of his week-long engagement at L.A.’ s beloved, family-run New Beverly Cinema . Reached for comment, Smith explained his award season intent and why he’s charging $20 for a screening and Q&A at a theater where you can get a double feature for $7 every night, often with an amazing Q&A for free.
Devin Wenig is the CEO of the Markets Division of Thomson Reuters and former COO of Reuters. Devin Wenig is the Chief Executive Officer of the Markets Division of Thomson Reuters. He leads the global financial services and media businesses, which provide indispensable information to professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Previously, Mr. Wenig served as Chief Operating Officer and a Board Director of Reuters Group PLC and held a number of senior management positio
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