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PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses

An anonymous reader writes "A woman in Bushton, Wilts, has been told by the Performing Rights Society (PRS for Music) that she needs to pay an annual fee in order to play classical music from the radio to the horses in her stable, something that she has been doing for the past 20 years. The PRS claims that it's not about the horses — rather, it's about her staff of over two people, which puts Mrs. Greenway in the same category as shops, bars and cafes. 'The staff are not bothered whether they have the radio on or not, in fact they don't particularly like my music and turn if off when I'm not around,' said Mrs. Greenway, 62. 'Especially on windy days I try to play it — it gives [the horses] a nice quiet atmosphere, you can only exercise one horse at a time so it helps the others to stay calm. We are right next to the RAF Lyneham air base so it dulls the noise from the aircraft as well.'"

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  1. Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
    (Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

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    Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund

    - Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read.

    - President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organization known as IRGUN who is obsessed with gun control and compulsory service to the country in a capacity which he has yet to define. (Think brown-shirts.) Barack is intimately connected to disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat). Barack Obama is also connected to William Ayers (who ghost-wrote his books); Ayers is a man who promotes the concept that civilian co

  2. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report by Enki+X · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ooh, I completely failed to read that. Again. Maybe it's time for a new strategy?

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  3. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I trimmed it down for you, one whitespace.

    Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports
    (Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

    Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary

    Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says
    Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds
    The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass
    China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar
    China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency
    What are the reserve currencies?
    Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors
    Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people'
    Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats
    Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers
    A False Choice
    Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com
    Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands
    Socialising and Privatising
    Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses
    Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply

    Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund

    - Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read.

    - President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organization known as IRGUN who is obsessed with gun control and compulsory service to the country in a capacity which he has yet to define. (Think brown-shirts.) Barack is intimately connected to disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat). Barack Obama is also connected to William Ayers (who ghost-wrote his books); Ayers i

  4. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report by daveime · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you are so convinced of your position, why are you so ashamed to put your name to it ?

    Or could it be you are just an attention seeking troll hiding in your bedroom behind a mask of anonymity, meaninglessly copy-pasting bullshit from elsewhere ?

    The truth carries no weight when posted by Anonymous Cowards.

  5. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The best is that it's a big ol' hate-filled diatribe, and doesn't seem to contain a single suggested solution - at least based on a random sample.

    It's also written by a deranged person - check this logic out: "Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA"... why? "Obama himself is a racist..."

    Oh! Now I get it! LOL.

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