All Discussions Tagged 'Max' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T22:12:40Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Max&feed=yes&xn_auth=noResistance Round Table April 7, 2015 - Wolfgang Halbig (Live)... 7 pm centraltag:12160.info,2015-04-07:2649739:Topic:15506122015-04-07T21:43:31.201ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
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<p>Wolfgang Vs Corrupticut & Monte Frank of Cohen and Wolf</p>
<p>Guest: Wolfgang Halbig<br></br> Panel Members: KateSlate, SOS, DITRH, QKUltra, TNN, ZeeRoe3<br></br> Co-Host:<br></br>
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<p>Its becoming blindingly obvious there is a concerted effort…</p>
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<p>Wolfgang Vs Corrupticut & Monte Frank of Cohen and Wolf</p>
<p>Guest: Wolfgang Halbig<br/> Panel Members: KateSlate, SOS, DITRH, QKUltra, TNN, ZeeRoe3<br/>
Co-Host:<br/>
Host: SwanSong<br/>
Organizer & Co-Host: UpNorthOfThe49th<br/>
Hangout Producer: Brian Roberts</p>
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<p>Its becoming blindingly obvious there is a concerted effort by Monte Frank of Cohen and Wolf as well as the Connecticut FOIA Commission Office of conspiring to commit Obstruction Of Justice. We will talk to Wolfgang Halbig about this and his plans to move forward after having no one show up for the hearing!</p>
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<p>Thanks,<br/> +Max Resistance</p> Debt Super Committee Needs a Hero? I'll be your Huckleberrytag:12160.info,2011-11-25:2649739:Topic:7138422011-11-25T05:32:40.338ZDon Mashakhttps://12160.info/profile/DonMashak
<p><a href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/9GQdhzY0F4y4LNTAT1MRhG6UkPCuUzFG*Wzejsus9nITlC89zqtVpEwVls-FHhoOw4yXxvBdgrvwYXQtiDkX22YjWeClSF7O/BenFranklinWatch500x332.jpg" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/9GQdhzY0F4y4LNTAT1MRhG6UkPCuUzFG*Wzejsus9nITlC89zqtVpEwVls-FHhoOw4yXxvBdgrvwYXQtiDkX22YjWeClSF7O/BenFranklinWatch500x332.jpg?width=300" style="padding: 1px;" width="300"></img></a> Well the deadline has come and gone for the Debt Super Committee? The Stock Market is roiled and America risks having its credit rating down graded. What should be done?</p>
<p>This morning this author took his breakfast at the Monticello MN <a href="http://bit.ly/w3K82o" rel="nofollow">McDonald’s…</a></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/9GQdhzY0F4y4LNTAT1MRhG6UkPCuUzFG*Wzejsus9nITlC89zqtVpEwVls-FHhoOw4yXxvBdgrvwYXQtiDkX22YjWeClSF7O/BenFranklinWatch500x332.jpg"><img width="300" class="align-right" style="padding: 1px;" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/9GQdhzY0F4y4LNTAT1MRhG6UkPCuUzFG*Wzejsus9nITlC89zqtVpEwVls-FHhoOw4yXxvBdgrvwYXQtiDkX22YjWeClSF7O/BenFranklinWatch500x332.jpg?width=300" width="300"/></a>Well the deadline has come and gone for the Debt Super Committee? The Stock Market is roiled and America risks having its credit rating down graded. What should be done?</p>
<p>This morning this author took his breakfast at the Monticello MN <a href="http://bit.ly/w3K82o" rel="nofollow">McDonald’s</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/w3K82o" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/w3K82o</a> (buck breakfast burritos with buck Sweet Tea) Watching on their big screen TV, this author was angered as he listened to one of the CNN talking heads report about the failings of the <a rel="nofollow">Debt Super Committee</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/vcOoLt" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/vcOoLt</a></p>
<p>Along the way, the CNN talking head made some ”life imitating art” reference to the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-minneapolis/Debt%20Super%20Committee" rel="nofollow">Debt Super Committee</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/vcOoLt" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/vcOoLt</a> needing a hero and <a href="http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-minneapolis/Bonnie%20Tyler%27s%20song%20%E2%80%9CI%20need%20a%20hero%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow">Bonnie Tyler’s song “I need a hero”</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/snk74H" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/snk74H</a></p>
<p>In keeping in that mindset of life imitating art, this author advises that he is not qualified to be the Super Committee’s hero…. But “<a href="http://bit.ly/t1T7dQ" rel="nofollow">I’ll be your huckleberry</a>”. <a href="http://bit.ly/t1T7dQ" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/t1T7dQ</a><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/21Rf0URZfLQ?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>
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<p>This huckleberry has suggested some of the following courses of action before but no one listened. Perhaps now at the 11th hour, some will be willing to listen to this huckleberry.</p>
<p>This huckleberry certainly can't be as smart of any of you folks in Congress.</p>
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<p>And, mind you, this huckleberry doesn't have a clue what the numbers are. There is no transparency in our alleged Constitutionally limited Representative Republic Government. Further, all of this huckleberry’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding budgets have been denied.</p>
<p>And this huckleberry certainly doesn't have enough information to know who is and who is not paying enough taxes. All of this huckleberry’s requests to put the budget and/or actual revenues and expenses on the internet in layman's terms with no aggregates greater than 100 dollars have also been rejected.</p>
<p>But with all of that forewarning by this huckleberry, here goes.</p>
<p>First, get the politics out of the process as much as possible. All you incumbent ruling class elite politicians are too busy jockeying to protect your benefactors to make this process intelligent and logical.</p>
<p>Your method of working upon this issue, with all of your hidden agendas, is farcical.</p>
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<p align="center"><strong><u>STEP 1 - BREAK THE BUDGET INTO LOGICAL DIVISIONS</u></strong></p>
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<p>The United States Budget is.....</p>
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<p>Continue reading for free on <a href="http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-minneapolis/debt-super-committe-needs-a-hero-i-ll-be-your-huckleberry">Examiner.com</a></p>
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<p>In Closing,</p>
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<p>Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking your valuable time to read and reflect upon what is written here.</p>
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<p>Please join with me in mutually pledging to each other and our fellow citizens our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to our mutual endeavors of restoring liberty and economic opportunity to WE THE PEOPLE as our Founding Fathers envisioned and intended. [Last sentence, US Declaration of Independence ( <a href="http://bit.ly/ruPE7z" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/ruPE7z</a> )]</p>
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<p>This article is written with the same intentions as Thomas Paine <a href="http://ushistory.org/paine" rel="nofollow">http://ushistory.org/paine</a>. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” <a href="http://amzn.to/kbRuar" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/kbRuar</a></p>
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<p>Keep Fighting the Good Fight!</p>
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<p>Those were my thoughts.</p>
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<p>In Liberty,</p>
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<p>Don Mashak<br/> The Cynical Patriot<br/>
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<p>It has been exposed rather prematurely that on the anniversary of 9-11 approaching this year in 2011, the BBC will be doing a Conspiracy theory hit-piece calling all 9-11 truthers paranoid cult members.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This has been cleverly exposed by Australian MAX IGAN in his recorded Skype conversation with ex- UK truther and Love Police member Charlie Veitch. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch">http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>He arrogantly calls…</p>
<p>It has been exposed rather prematurely that on the anniversary of 9-11 approaching this year in 2011, the BBC will be doing a Conspiracy theory hit-piece calling all 9-11 truthers paranoid cult members.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This has been cleverly exposed by Australian MAX IGAN in his recorded Skype conversation with ex- UK truther and Love Police member Charlie Veitch. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch">http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>He arrogantly calls 911truth the Church of Conspiracy Theory. Whilst I agree that some forums can be like that. *cough* RTR *cough*, the unique parallel with everyone is that the official version is a steaming load. Charlie here no longer thinks so. Charlie thinks 19 arabs with boxcutters and questionable piloting skills out manoeuvred the entire NORAD grid.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>C'MON</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The sad thing that is at the whole centre of this is that the BBC payed for him to be flown to America and who knows how much cash he has been payed to say this. What price is Charlies soul worth?</p>
<p> </p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SavpCQlu2GA" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe>
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<p>From the content of this audio we can expect to see a massive smear campaign against 9-11 truthers this anniversary..</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>This comment summed it all up:</p>
<div class="content"><div class="comment-text" dir="ltr"><p>Has he no shame? People like Alex Jones, guys from WeAreChange, Corbett, PressForTruth and many others welcomed him into their movement, called him over into their shows, they trusted him, helped him get out of the prison in Toronto, supported him, and now he calls their movement occult? conspira-noid? religious? laughing at their loyalty to the cause?</p>
<p>Did he forget what group of people actually practice the occult? I am disgusted with this remorseless piece of garbage</p>
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</div> Max Keiser on Alex Jones Show Septemebr 20th - $16,000 in shares for “Alex in Wonderland”tag:12160.info,2010-09-16:2649739:Topic:2376962010-09-16T16:58:05.788ZLocaltarianhttps://12160.info/profile/Awho
<a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/projects/68">http://www.piratemyfilm.com/projects/68</a><br />
<br />
$16,000 in shares for “Alex in Wonderland” (TRUTH) were reserved after last month’s Max appearance. This month the goal is get $30,000 in new reservations. One idea that is gaining support is to fly Alex over to Paris and Athens and shoot TRUTH on location.<br />
<br />
Reserve shares now in TRUTH if you want to participate in this offering. The funding sum will be raised next week and all reservations on standby…
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<br />
$16,000 in shares for “Alex in Wonderland” (TRUTH) were reserved after last month’s Max appearance. This month the goal is get $30,000 in new reservations. One idea that is gaining support is to fly Alex over to Paris and Athens and shoot TRUTH on location.<br />
<br />
Reserve shares now in TRUTH if you want to participate in this offering. The funding sum will be raised next week and all reservations on standby will become validated. Lights Camera...... Derivative Trading (A Invention by Max Keiser)tag:12160.info,2010-05-25:2649739:Topic:1860382010-05-25T17:33:14.199ZLocaltarianhttps://12160.info/profile/Awho
<div id="hed"><div id="h1">Lights, Camera … Derivative Trading!</div>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="dek"><h1>Why betting on the financial performance of movies is a dangerous idea.</h1>
<a href="http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2010/05/24/lights-camera-derivative-trading?page=0,3">http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2010/05/24/lights-camera-derivative-trading?page=0,3</a><br></br><p><br></br></p>
<p><br></br></p>
<p>Max Keiser is unhappy. “I feel like Robert Oppenheimer. I invented something…</p>
</div>
<div id="hed">
<div id="h1">Lights, Camera … Derivative Trading!</div>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="dek"><h1>Why betting on the financial performance of movies is a dangerous idea.</h1>
<a href="http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2010/05/24/lights-camera-derivative-trading?page=0,3">http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2010/05/24/lights-camera-derivative-trading?page=0,3</a><br/><p><br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>Max Keiser is unhappy. “I feel like Robert Oppenheimer. I invented something and it destroyed civilization.”</p>
<p>Keiser, unlike Oppenheimer, didn’t have access to atomic bombs. His lethal weapon is more the financial kind, and after a long hibernation
it has become the root of this year’s biggest controversy in<br />
Tinseltown: an exchange on which traders could bet on the performance<br />
of movies. What Keiser created along with Michael Burns in 1996 was the<br />
Hollywood Stock Exchange, a virtual technology where over 350,000<br />
registered players traded shares of movies and celebrities using fake<br />
dollars. If Congress approves the idea, <a href="http://www.cantorexchange.com/Market-Overview/Market-Launch-Announcement.aspx">real trading should go live on exchange as soon as June 28</a>—with real money.</p>
<p>For much of its life, the HSX has functioned as a prediction market, and pretty accurately; in 1999, its users correctly called 82 percent
of the major Oscar nominees. Keiser’s technology eventually got<br />
acquired by Wall Street bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, then<br />
warehoused in favor of different technology created by Cantor<br />
itself—although the name and idea of his creation have lived on for the<br />
past 12 years.</p>
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<p>Now that it is trading with real money, the question raises itself: Is this really a good idea? Given the rampant recent history of
derivatives trading destroying investors and investment banks,<br />
shouldn’t we be afraid of an investment instrument that combines the<br />
worst of two greed- and gossip-driven entities, Wall Street and<br />
Hollywood? The financial reform bill currently being hammered out in<br />
Congress perpetuates the idea that derivative trading is out of control<br />
and carries high risk. So why does anyone think we can effectively<br />
regulate movie star futures if we had to bail out <a href="http://www.thebigmoney.com/search/interactivedata/AIG" title="American International Group">AIG</a> (AIG)?</p>
<p>Championing the idea are Cantor Fitzgerald and Veriana, a company looking to create the new Trend Exhange on which to trade derivatives
based on Hollywood movies. Except this time, Wall Street firms don’t<br />
want to use fake dollars to bet on movies; they want to use real money.<br />
Instead of trading imaginary “shares” based on Hollywood movies, they<br />
want to create derivatives, like the ones that allow traders to bet on<br />
everything from corn prices to the weather.</p>
<p>Opposing the idea is the Motion Picture Association of America, which believes that derivatives will skew the movie business’s
important opening weekends, that rivals could sabotage films by betting<br />
against them, that insider trading would be rampant as gossip leaked<br />
from every set in the incestuous world of Hollywood. Hollywood is based<br />
on hype, and a derivative of hype is zero, Keiser argues. “This could<br />
be the Enron of 2011 or 2012,” Keiser warns. He adds with sarcasm,<br />
“Let’s take the fantasy of Hollywood and mix it with the fraud of Wall<br />
Street. That’s a winner. You’re mating two species of egomaniacs.”</p>
<p><br/></p>
<br/><p>In the middle is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is deciding whether to approve these kinds of derivatives. "I think it is
pretty cool," <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hQXmUPyHc3X-B2JZuNLT0PxT2U7gD9FQ95K81">CFTC member Bart Chilton told the Associated Press last week</a>. "But I'm not sure that cool means a business."</p>
<p>There are a lot of technical arguments on both sides as to why the derivatives will or won’t work, but the debate comes down to your
ability to trust Wall Street, Hollywood, and human nature, despite<br />
their collective checkered pasts. Those who believe that markets can<br />
and must be free, that money can be won and lost without defrauding<br />
others, and that most of the people in those markets will act<br />
honorably—well, those people are likely to support the exchanges. Those<br />
who believe that Wall Street is predisposed to greed and Hollywood to<br />
venality, and that the financial system is inherently flawed and<br />
derivatives inherently problematic, will oppose the derivatives.</p>
<p>This particular year, it’s fair to say that much of the public probably falls into the latter camp. So we have to dig deeper: How
prone are these Hollywood derivatives to manipulation and insider<br />
trading? In a completely cynical, venal world, what, exactly, about<br />
them could be manipulated?</p>
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<p>It turns out: quite a bit. Hollywood is completely opaque about its finances and has a horrible track record of success. So lumpy and
random are its successes that when studios invite investors to fund a<br />
slate of films, investors usually don’t get to choose which specific<br />
films they’ll put their money into. It’s all or nothing, because<br />
Hollywood needs the money to pay for the dogs as well as the swans.</p>
<p>Critical to success is the opening weekend. Hollywood studios will work on a movie for two years or more, then earn about 40 percent of
the cost of the movie back in just the opening weekend. Hollywood has<br />
long based the success of those opening weekends on smoke and<br />
mirrors—on the creation of image and the manufacturing of hype, on<br />
tremendous marketing budgets to create television ads, branded toys,<br />
and snack foods all centered on the biggest movies.</p>
<p>In a Hollywood derivative, the bets are all based on opening weekend dollars, and those opening weekends are in turn completely a function
of the success of big Hollywood marketing budgets. Mess with the<br />
marketing budget, you mess with the opening weekend’s results.</p>
<p><br/></p>
<br/><p>That’s why there’s a big difference between betting on opening weekends and betting on the weather: You can’t change the weather by
betting on it. There is, by contrast, a good possibility that you can<br />
change the outcome of an opening weekend by betting against it—not by<br />
driving moviegoers away, but by allowing Hollywood studios to radically<br />
change the marketing budget.</p>
<p>Rob Swagger, the CEO of Veriana takes issue with that characterization. He believes that some Hollywood studios are being
disingenuous about the influence of box-office numbers; ever since <em>USA Today</em><br />
started publishing box-office returns over a decade ago, the general<br />
public has taken an interest in the results. The information is out<br />
there already, he said. He maintains that Hollywood hype has been due<br />
for a reality check, and that allowing traders to gauge the real market<br />
for Hollywood films is a necessary counterpoint to the hype machine.<br />
“That opinion of the public is more transparent, more real than<br />
anything the studios can come out with,” Swagger said. “The people who<br />
are buying tickets to see a movie, they love to have an opinion and a<br />
thought. They deserve to communicate with other people. Is an exchange<br />
going to affect that? No, it existed long before an exchange.”</p>
<p>Swagger has a point; <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5699">Twitter, of all things, turns out to be a far better predictor of movie opening weekends</a> than, say, a marketing budget, and even better than the Hollywood Stock
Exchange itself. In fact, Twitter is one of the things that Swagger<br />
wants to factor into his contracts, along with the risk of global wars,<br />
weather that might drive people away from the box office, political<br />
upheavals, and other issues that would affect opening weekends.</p>
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<p>There is also the cultural issue. Hollywood runs on relationships and image; Wall Street runs on money. The two are likely to clash.
Every actor or actress is an “insider” and could trade on, or leak,<br />
information from a working set that would influence how the derivatives<br />
trade. The movie industry is essentially an unregulated monopoly that<br />
won’t know how to adapt its chaotic, emotional behavior to strict rules<br />
on derivatives trading. “In Hollywood, insider information is legal. In<br />
the mind of a Hollywood executive it is—because they can’t tell the<br />
difference between markets and marketing. They see no legal<br />
difference,” Keiser objects.</p>
<p>Keiser points to the popular phrase “Hollywood accounting,” a euphemism for the opaque and often dishonest ways of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting">keeping the books to maximize studio profits</a>. “They’re going to take an industry famous for its false accounting, and
create a derivative on that!” Keiser said. In addition, many of the<br />
biggest movie studios are part of giant public companies like <a href="http://www.thebigmoney.com/search/interactivedata/DIS" title="Disney">Disney</a> (DIS). If movie executives participate in the trading of derivatives, it could create a nightmare of regulatory disclosures.</p>
<p>Swagger counters that while there are a lot of potential insiders who could leak damning information about movies, they only have the
power of gossip. “They know what happens on the set, but not what the<br />
box office would be,” he said. The derivatives contracts would start<br />
trading only four weeks before a movie’s release, meaning that the<br />
movie would be well past the production stage and all the gossip from<br />
the set would have leaked already. There is not a lot of key<br />
information that can change a movie’s box office four weeks out, he<br />
argued.</p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>Swagger is half right. Gossip won’t take a movie down four weeks before it launches. But the existence of a derivative whose price is
easy to find would inevitably influence Hollywood executives to scale<br />
down—or scale up—their marketing budgets according to the derivative’s<br />
price. Rival studios could theoretically sabotage the derivative,<br />
vengefully buying or selling the derivatives to manipulate its price in<br />
order to make their nemeses’ opening weekends look weaker. While<br />
Swagger maintains that executives would be unwise to do so—and that<br />
they would be banned from the exchange—Hollywood’s rivalries are known<br />
to become incredibly bitter regardless of restrictions.</p>
<p>Swagger also maintains that the structure of his derivatives doesn’t allow a lot of room for manipulation. Trend Exchange plans to launch
two kinds of derivatives this fall if it gets CFTC approval.</p>
<p>The first derivative is a binary one, allowing investors to bet on opening weekends and be either right or wrong about a certain dollar
amount. The other derivative will allow for more leeway, paying back<br />
investors based on how close they were to the actual box-office<br />
receipts.</p>
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<p>Almost anybody can play this game. The minimum contract size is $5,000—a paltry amount in Wall Street terms, which indicates that there
will be a wide audience of potential traders for the product. That<br />
means that the people trading these futures don’t have to be—and are<br />
not likely to be—Wall Street professionals who deal with contracts<br />
millions of dollars in size.</p>
<p>“There are more people in the movie business than the six studios at the MPAA. The market is far larger,” Swagger said. Swagger says if the
studios are concerned, they should hire risk-management specialists or<br />
consultants to advise them. Even more, he encourages them to use the<br />
derivatives to hedge their own risks in launching movies. He also wants<br />
movie theater owners to use the derivatives to protect their returns on<br />
ticket sales. If the studios are really concerned, he said, they should<br />
take an economic interest in the exchange and participate in it. “There<br />
are a lot of natural buyers and sellers within a studio market,” he<br />
insists. “They don’t know how this works, so they’re scared.”</p>
<p>That’s a fair assessment. The question is: Should they be scared? And should we be?</p>
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</div> Pink Floyd, Queen May Ditch EMI as Buyout ‘Implodes’tag:12160.info,2010-03-10:2649739:Topic:1577442010-03-10T21:50:14.337ZLocaltarianhttps://12160.info/profile/Awho
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=awYLuU9wnoTc&pos=14">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=awYLuU9wnoTc&pos=14</a><br></br><br></br><p>Once again Max Keiser is on top of his predictions game. He and Stacy predicted this would happen and that the US/UK tax payers would be 'given' EMI records in return of bailing out Citi Group in 2008.<br></br></p>
<p><br></br></p>
<p><br></br></p>
<p>March 10 (Bloomberg) --…</p>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=awYLuU9wnoTc&pos=14">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=awYLuU9wnoTc&pos=14</a><br/><br/><p>Once again Max Keiser is on top of his predictions game. He and Stacy predicted this would happen and that the US/UK tax payers would be 'given' EMI records in return of bailing out Citi Group in 2008.<br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p><br/></p>
<p>March 10 (Bloomberg) -- <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Pink+Floyd&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Pink Floyd</a> and Queen, bands that have been with EMI Music for about <a href="http://www.emimusic.fr/download/historique_emi.pdf" target="_blank">four decades</a>, may head for the door, according to two people familiar with their talks, as<br/> concern mounts about the U.K. record label’s finances.</p>
<p>Pink Floyd, whose catalog includes such albums as <a href="http://www.emimusic.com/about/history/1970-1979/" target="_blank">“Dark Side of the Moon”</a> and “The Wall,” and Queen, with its best- selling single “Bohemian Rhapsody,” have met with other major<br/> record labels about leaving, said the people, who spoke on<br/> condition of anonymity because the discussions are private.</p>
<p><a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Guy+Hands&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Guy Hands</a>, whose Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. bought EMI for 4 billion pounds ($6 billion) at the height of the buyout boom in 2007, has until June to convince the firm’s<br/> investors to inject new capital to keep EMI afloat. Without that<br/> funding, EMI may end up in the hands of creditor Citigroup Inc.<br/> and may merge with a rival, analysts said.</p>
<p>“This is how a company implodes,” said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Claire+Enders&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Claire Enders</a>, a former EMI executive and the head of Enders Analysis Ltd., a London-based music and entertainment research firm. EMI rivals<br/> Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=WMG%3AUS">Warner Music<br/> Group Inc.</a> are likely courting the label’s top artists such as<br/> <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Lily+Allen&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Lily Allen</a> and <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Katy+Perry&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Katy Perry</a>, she said.</p>
<p>Adding to the turmoil, Hands is suing Citigroup, saying the bank tricked Terra Firma into buying EMI in 2007. The company also today said EMI Music Chief Executive Officer <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Elio+Leoni-%0ASceti&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Elio Leoni-<br/> Sceti</a> will step down effective March 31. It asked 53-year-old<br/> <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Charles+Allen&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Charles Allen</a>, currently non-executive chairman, to assume the<br/> role of CEO.</p>
<p>Under Pressure</p>
<p>In a letter to Hands, part of court documents filed Feb. 4 in New York, Leoni-Sceti had written that morale at the company had reached a low and that artists were questioning whether to<br/> stay.</p>
<p>EMI is in talks with artists, “all of whom are questioning to some degree whether it is wise to continue a relationship with EMI,” Leoni-Sceti wrote in the Oct. 2 letter, saying their<br/> concerns were sparked by a Citigroup report on EMI’s prospects.<br/> Hands had named Leoni-Sceti to the top job in July 2008 with no<br/> music industry experience.</p>
<p><a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Neil+Bennett&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Neil Bennett</a>, a spokesman for EMI, the world’s fourth- largest record company, declined to comment for this story.</p>
<p><a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Mark+Fenwick&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Mark Fenwick</a>, the manager for Pink Floyd, declined to discuss the contract with EMI. The group, which first signed with the label in 1967, last year sued EMI and Terra Firma for<br/> what it said were miscalculated royalty payments. At a hearing<br/> in London yesterday, the band’s lawyer argued for royalties on<br/> online and single-track sales.</p>
<p><a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jim+Beach&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Jim Beach</a>, the manager of Queen, declined to comment on plans for its EMI contract. Queen signed with EMI in 1972.</p>
<p>Disappearing Revenue</p>
<p>Pink Floyd’s exit may be especially painful for EMI because of the loss of future sales of the band’s works, such as the still-popular 1973 album “Dark Side of the Moon.”</p>
<p>“That’s just a constant revenue stream that would suddenly disappear,” said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Larry+Kenswil&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Larry Kenswil</a>, a music industry attorney for Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>OK Go, a rock band that has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/opinion/20kulash.html" target="_blank">criticized</a> EMI over the availability of its videos online, <a href="http://www.okgo.net/" target="_blank">announced today</a> that it has left the label to create its own company called Paracadute.</p>
<p>EMI’s management style since Hands took over sparked outbursts from several top artists, including Lily Allen and <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Joss+Stone&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Joss Stone</a>. Industry executives have accused Hands of running<br/> the label like a hedge fund rather than a creative shop.</p>
<p>Terra Firma’s acquisition of EMI Group Ltd. just weeks before the credit markets collapsed in 2007 was the firm’s largest. Hands started the firm in 2002 raising 2.1 billion<br/> euros ($2.9 billion) for investments such as the German rest-<br/> stop chain Autobahn Tank & Rast Holding GmbH.</p>
<p>Artistic Differences</p>
<p>Radiohead and the Rolling Stones abandoned EMI when Hands took over, and as contracts with Pink Floyd, Queen and <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Robbie%0AWilliams&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Robbie Williams</a> come up for renewal, EMI faces the prospect of one or<br/> all leaving.</p>
<p>EMI Grammy Award winner <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Joss+Stone&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Joss Stone</a> last month asked on her Web page, “What manager will want their band signed to a company which might not exist in its current form in a year’s<br/> time?”</p>
<p>“The mistake Hands made is basically coming into a business he didn’t fully understand,” said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Colin+Lester&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Colin Lester</a>, who signed the Arctic Monkeys and Travis and manages Grammy Award-<br/> nominated <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Craig+David&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Craig David</a>. “It’s important to have relationships<br/> with artists and it’s not based on the same matrix as other<br/> businesses.”</p>
<p>EMI, home to the Beatles, last month posted a 1.5 billion- pound annual loss and said its liabilities exceeded assets by 408 million pounds as of March 31, 2009. Terra Firma has asked<br/> EMI for a new business plan and needs the approval of 75 percent<br/> of investors to put more capital in by end-June.</p>
<p>Back to Warner?</p>
<p>Speculation that <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=WMG%3AUS">Warner Music Group</a> will bid for the U.K. music company has also heated up. Should EMI breach debt covenants, Citigroup could take control of the company and sell<br/> it to Warner Music. New York-based Warner Music made way for<br/> Hands to buy EMI after abandoning a takeover in July 2007. On<br/> Feb. 9, Warner Music Chief Executive Officer <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Edgar+Bronfman+Jr&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Edgar Bronfman Jr</a>.<br/>
said regulatory hurdles shouldn’t prevent his company, the<br/>
world’s third-largest record label, from buying EMI.</p>
<p>“The current expectation is that EMI will cease to be owned by Terra Firma and Citigroup will take it over and sell it Warner,” Enders said. <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Amanda+Collins&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Amanda Collins</a>, a spokeswoman for Warner<br/> Music, declined to comment.</p>
<p>To cut debt, EMI considered selling Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded most of their songs, only to withdraw the plan last month after a public outcry led to the site being<br/> put on a protected list by English Heritage.</p>
<p>Lily Allen, Robbie Williams</p>
<p>“They could have a yard sale and sell the gold records off the wall, but I don’t think that’s going to solve the problem,” said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Ted+Cohen&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Ted Cohen</a>, a former senior vice president of EMI’s global<br/> digital operation.</p>
<p>For artists renegotiating contracts, the lure of a financially sound company such as Universal Music or Sony is obvious, said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jonathan+Shalit&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Jonathan Shalit</a>, who manages Myleene Klass and<br/> Jamelia. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that<br/> you’d sign with a solid company.”</p>
<p>Lily Allen early last year told The Word magazine she “hated” Terra Firma. “They don’t know how to run a creative business. They are killing us, frankly.”</p>
<p>Robbie Williams’s manager, <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Tim+Clark&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Tim Clark</a>, who two years ago said Hands behaved like a “plantation owner,” has changed his tune, telling Music Week magazine in February that EMI “really<br/> got a grip with things” on its operational side. Clark didn’t<br/> respond to messages seeking comment.</p>
<p>‘Period of Flux’</p>
<p>EMI has had some victories. Lady Antebellum, a country band signed to EMI, was this year’s first to sell a million albums in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was the fastest to<br/> cross the million-mark since 2005, SoundScan said. EMI has also<br/> had 200 new signings globally in the last 18 months, including<br/> Cypress Hill and American Voodoo.</p>
<p>Still, <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Scott+Booker&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Scott Booker</a>, manager of the Flaming Lips, said the cloud over Terra Firma and EMI does influence whether he would advise one of his acts to sign with the label.</p>
<p>“Would I sign to EMI right now? No,” said Booker, who also heads of the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma. “I’d wait to see where the dust settles;<br/> there is going to be a period of flux over there. Why get in the<br/> middle of that? They just can’t afford to promote and market the<br/> same way they used to.”</p>
<p>Changing Hands</p>
<p>EMI’s challenges come against the backdrop of the music industry grappling with declining CD sales amid piracy and a shift in consumer preference for digital downloads. U.S. compact<br/> disc sales fell 65 percent from 2000 to 2009, according to<br/> SoundScan. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=VIV%3AFP">Vivendi SA’s</a> Universal Music Group, the world’s<br/> largest record label, reported revenue fell 6.2 percent last<br/>
year to 4.36 billion euros.</p>
<p>EMI’s Leoni-Sceti has said <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=EMI%3ALN">the company’s revenue</a> will rise in the current year, after gaining 4.6 percent in the 12 months ended in March 2009. Earnings before interest, taxes,<br/> depreciation and amortization more than tripled to 163 million<br/> pounds. EMI has said it sees earnings by that measure rising to<br/> 200 million pounds this year.</p>
<p>After buying EMI, Hands changed the management team. Former CEO <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Eric+Nicoli&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Eric Nicoli</a> left shortly after Hands bought the company. He was replaced by cleaning-products executive Leoni-Sceti, the<br/> former head of Europe for Reckitt Benckiser Plc.</p>
<p>“Hands came with a clear statement of intent to do things differently,” said <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Mark+Mulligan&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Mark Mulligan</a>, a music industry analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in London. “Hands and Terra Firma’s<br/> principles are very sound and he made some very shrewd moves,<br/> but at the same time he reacted just as strongly on what he saw<br/> as excesses.”</p>
<p>‘EMI’s Heritage’</p>
<p>Terra Firma in November offered to inject 1 billion pounds into EMI in return for a similar cut in the music company’s 2.5 billion-pound debt held by <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=C%3AUS">Citigroup</a>, people with knowledge of<br/> the talks said then. Citigroup spurned the offer, saying it<br/> would have forced the bank to write off debt without getting<br/> equity in EMI.</p>
<p>“My hope is that EMI either gains strength by being able to borrow what it needs or merge with another label,” said Lester, the manager who signed Arctic Monkeys. “The heritage of<br/> EMI is important to the music industry.”</p>
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