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Woods said that if the company paid the guild's minimum rates for child and adult actors it would add 40 percent to the cost of producing the live-action shows, which in some cases would prevent them from turning a profit. "We'd love to come to an agreement with SAG, but not at the expense of turning over the keys to them," he said.

But Masur said that explanation was ridiculous. He said Saban earned more than $300 million on "Power Rangers" alone in 1996 and that other children's programmers, such as Warner Bros. and Disney, manage to earn a profit while paying SAG rates. The guild president said performers on Saban productions are paid a small fraction of the standard rate for the entertainment industry, and often do not receive benefits such as pension, health and residual income from rebroadcasts. He said that actors with speaking parts in Saban productions earn $200 a day, instead of the $559 that SAG has established as the industry minimum.

Same fight, a different day (the article’s from January 1998). They were making $300M dollars a year, but “couldn’t” pay SAG minimums of $559 a day for speaking actors.

ACTORS GUILD FACES OFF AGAINST 'POWER RANGERS'

Maybe try teaching the guy more, and caring about his hair less.

If only there was a party which wouldn’t antagonize you because of your religion. If only.

Every country on earth should be calling on Arab states, Israelis, and Palestinians to deescalate this situation right now. More violence is never the answer.

Being born in Afghanistan anytime since 1980 has just been so unlucky. Their state has not known peace since Russia first invaded, through the current brutal Taliban rule.

Mother Nature’s just pilling on at this point.

Stares into the CSPAN camera: “Not another squeakquel”

"Israel has a right to self-defence, but it has to be done within international law ... cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law," said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday (10 October).

He repeated the view more than once in his press briefing. "The Palestinian people are also suffering," he added.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. This cycle of violence and repression needs to stop.

Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a motion that urged U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to put guardrails in place to protect the possible jurors in Donald Trump’s election-subversion case.

This seems like common sense when Trump has threatened multiple judges and their families already.

When Mace first won election in 2020, she edged Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Cunningham by 1%, under 5,400 votes. In 2022, following redistricting driven by the 2020 census results, Mace won reelection by 14%. She is one of eight right-flank Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker.

The reason that House Republicans have gone so wacky is that they are no longer afraid of running in a general election as their districts are so heavily gerrymandered. When you’re only thinking about Republican primary voters, you’ll always be inclined to move further to the right.

Time for the Supreme Court to rule that this is a-okay.

Yesterday: Far-right AfD says it is now ‘major all-German party’ after state elections

“A jail is not equipped to be an emergency room,” said Joel Pruce of the Montgomery County Jail Coalition, a community organization pushing for reform at the facility. “People come in with medical needs that are extreme and significant, and a jail is not equipped to deal with them.

“I think everybody bears responsibility. At the end of the day, [it’s] the sheriff, the county commissioners, county administrators and Naphcare.”

Naphcare, a private company headquartered in Alabama, holds a $13m contract with Montgomery county to provide mental and physical healthcare to people housed at the jail.

cops + for profit healthcare

On Aug. 23, an inmate brutally attacked an officer and DOC Commissioner Louis Molina released a statement saying, "I want to commend the second officer who intervened and stopped the attack."

But the new report says the attack was stopped by another inmate and, "The second officer only came on the scene after a second incarcerated individual had pulled off the assailant."

It’s total chaos in Rikers

“Donald Trump is a fucking asshole.”

Couldn’t have put it better myself

Ignoring allegations of ignoring allegations? It’s almost too perfect.

What the world didn’t need right now was another war. I hope this ends as swiftly and peacefully as possible.

As someone who grew up in the Philly suburbs (a critical area in a swing state), I empathize with how bad the ads in Iowa are going to be for the next few months.

Pakistan’s Interior Ministry announced that migrants residing illegally in the country had 28 days to leave voluntarily, and it offered a “reward” for information leading to their arrests once that deadline passed.

These “report your neighbor” laws are only going to turn your society into a mistrustful and lifeless shell of itself. They had to build a wall to keep the East Germans in.