.... I wrote about the case on Alternet, but it has not been reported in the corporate press. Victor Posner, who died in 2002, was a crook known as the original 'corporate raider,' famed for engineering hostile takeovers of companies and looting them. He had a history of corrupt dealings. He owned a Delaware factory called NVF that made Vulcan rubber. NVF had a workers compensation policy with an AIG company, which reinsured it with ...

...is being sacrificed to pay the gamblers. AMY GOODMAN: Nomi Prins, how has Wall Street changed? And how does this meet everyday people? Lehman, bankrupt; you’ve got AIG nationalized, same with Freddie and Fannie; you’ve got the takeover of Merrill Lynch, now part of Bank of America—happened over a weekend. NOMI PRINS: It’s insane, actually. It’s bad math, and it’s a bad precedent, because they’re not simply bailing it out with putting ...

... for this recklessness. Yet, rather than considering the massive risks of merging commercial and speculative banking interests, given the overwhelming evidence, federal officials actually pushed for Bank of America's $50 billion all-stock takeover of Merrill Lynch, rather than questioned it. I worked on Wall Street, at Lehman and Bear and Goldman Sachs. Take my word for it: You cannot merge risk management systems more quickly than ...

... resentful enough and indignant enough over what has happened to their country, over the loss of dignity in the world, over the starving of human resources in the United States, the starving of education and health, the takeover of the political mechanism by corporate power and the result this has on the everyday lives of the American people. [There is also] the higher and higher food prices, the more and more insecurity, the sending of ...

... end up case studies at business schools to understand why. One perhaps most mentioned with wry cyncism was AOL's takeover of Time-Warner. Yes, we tend to forget that it was AOL which took over Time-Warner, especially now that AOL has become Time- Warner's albatross. Or the Hewlett-Packard takeover of Compaq. Remember Compaq. Forget Compaq. HP would have done far better without it and it certainly didn't do ...

... - and end up case studies at business schools to understand why. One perhaps most mentioned with wry cyncism was AOL's takeover of Time-Warner. Yes, we tend to forget that it was AOL which took over Time-Warner, especially now that AOL has become Time- Warner's albatross. Or the Hewlett-Packard takeover of Compaq. Remember Compaq. Forget Compaq. HP would have done far better without it and it certainly didn't do ...

... question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, | murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... | | <SNIP> | | Nowhere in that statement by anybody did anybody say we should topple | the regime or takeover the country? Also, there were no weapons of | mass destruction, so that's a red herring; everybody across both | parties agreed on the need to stop him from doing that. The BIG, BIG, | BIG difference is Bushie told...

.. if you analyze the last 30 years it is evident the takeover of the Republican Party by the Christian and Jewish Right is complete. Probably the scariest part of it was watching G W Bush GIVE our Defense Department to the Likud Jews and let their Zionist surrogates run it....Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Elliot Abrams.....with former Senator Helms adviser, arguably the backdoor double agent Danielle Pletka acting as information courier...

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