Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: I Feel Old Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:37:36 -0800 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 125 Message-ID: <87vb6y45un.fsf@garlic.com> References: <9dcde262-7129-4a8f-b034-105b67d61cf5@googlegroups.com> <5e6c5439-02aa-48ff-88b4-ee4022aad672@googlegroups.com> <1175249634.474034975.970106.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <3f13b1c9-8b58-4ad8-aaa8-6ae60e4055b7@googlegroups.com> <87vb6y21eg.fsf@garlic.com> <0862a878-0310-4031-820d-88c20c7bca9a@googlegroups.com> <8b4050ca-56e4-44e5-af12-5f06d2796316@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="2325"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19tBxwnSDmk06vsJ2OKDEYHBcWxsU3QO+0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bxAuJwcMeXO1ra5oiAfXLERjhII= sha1:wTCjw+fMWjBzK/uZNIggvsfjgVY= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:156567 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes: > Just today the Phila Inqr reported on the breakup of duPont. They > describe how the Koch Bros bought a unit and are milking it dry, not > investing a dime in it, but taking the profits to promote anti-tax > political candidates. > > http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20160112_Cuts_to_DuPont_s_research__business_draw_mixed_reactions.html > > New owners of duPont do not want to invest anything in R&D. > http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/philly/columnists/joseph-distefano&id=364586981 > > http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/364799621.html standard process for private-equity http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity there is "Smedley Butler" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler with "War Is a Racket" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket perpetual war http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war but also (Prescott Bush): Business Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot 1934: The Plot Against America http://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/1934-the-plot-against-america/ How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar Prescott Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush and Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/politics/father-of-koch-brothers-helped-build-nazi-oil-refinery-book-says.html But the book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II. One venture was a partnership with the American Nazi sympathizer William Rhodes Davis, who, according to Ms. Mayer, hired Mr. Koch to help build the third-largest oil refinery in the Third Reich, a critical industrial cog in Hitler's war machine. ... snip ... June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria with major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do business with the Nazis, Intrepid, loc1901-4: One prominent figure at the German victory celebration was Torkild Rieber, of Texaco, whose tankers eluded the British blockade. The company had already been warned, at Roosevelt's instigation, about violations of the Neutrality Law. But Rieber had set up an elaborate scheme for shipping oil and petroleum products through neutral ports in South America. With the Germans now preparing to turn the English Channel into what Churchill thought would become "river of blood," other industrialists were eager to learn from Texaco how to do more business with Hitler. ... snip ... VP (& former replacement CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such activities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating financial industry ... creating S&L crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis along with other members of his family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan and another http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260 and another presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis. also Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3 Million Consulting "Job" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job more recent: Wall Street Fine Print: Retirees Want FBI Probe Of Pension Investment Deals http://www.ibtimes.com/wall-street-fine-print-retirees-want-fbi-probe-pension-investment-deals-2250476 John Foster Dulles plays major role in rebuilding German's economy and military ... recent references http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#26 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#71 Why do we have wars? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#86 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#35 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#53 Western Union envisioned internet functionality http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#29 Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#7 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#0 How Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#26 Putin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#28 rationality http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) When 1943 Strategic Bombing Program was looking for plans and location of German military and industrial targets, they got the information from wallstreet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970