Did Kennedy’s strong negotiations lead to the Berlin Wall and the Cuban missile crisis.

For years, the US and every other nation with any sense of their place in the global community, have been concerned that Iran would someday acquire the technology to produce a nuclear weapon. The destabilizing effect that such a development would have…

Big surprise to no one, except The One.

Paul_in_NJ on September 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM

When the pacifist backs away, the agressor keeps on coming.
The cowards will never learn.

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for trade concessions, including an end to restrictions on high-tech transfers to Russia, following U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to abandon a missile shield in Europe.

“I’m counting on other decisions to follow this correct and brave decision, including the complete elimination of restrictions on cooperation with Russia and on transfers of high technology to Russia as well as an intensification of World Trade Organization expansion to include Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan,” Putin said at a business forum in Sochi today.

Big surprise to no one, except The One.

b.) Yet, piggybacked (oink, oink) on the coattails of Teddy and the money men.

This or Amtrak, take your pick.

Anti-trust suits

When it ran into problems competing with AT&T, which at the time had a government-supported monopoly in telephone service, it moved to Washington, D.C. to be close to federal regulators and lawmakers. The joke is that in its early years, MCI had more lawyers than land lines or that it was “A law firm with an antenna on the roof”[citation needed]. MCI ordered interconnections from the local exchange carriers, which in most cases was a Bell Operating Company, owned by AT&T. The relationship between MCI and the Bell Operating companies were not that of a typical supplier and customer, as the local operating companies were generally reluctant to do business with a company that its parent was attempting to put out of business. In a decision that became a turning point in the competitive telecommunications industry, Illinois Bell disconnected MCI circuits for what MCI believed was no other reason than to restrain trade. MCI filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T in 1974, and eventually changed the telecommunications industry. On June 13, 1980, a jury in Chicago awarded MCI 1.8 billion dollars in damages to be paid by AT&T. The suit, coupled with the Department of Justice antitrust suit also brought against AT&T eventually led to the voluntary breakup of the Bell System.

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Merger offers

In 1991, British Telecommunications PLC purchased 20% of the company and later made an offer to purchase the rest in 1996. At the same time, GTE, now a part of Verizon, made a bid to purchase MCI for an all-cash purchase. While these offers were being considered by the MCI board, WorldCom, Inc. announced it was also interested in purchasing MCI and made a higher offer than either the BT or GTE offers. On November 10, 1997 in a stock-swap deal valued at US$34.7 billion, MCI accepted the buy-out from WorldCom. On September 15, 1998 the new company, MCI WorldCom, opened for business.”

So what we take from this is that JoeyB is
a.) Not a crook
b.) Yet, piggybacked (oink, oink) on the coattails of Teddy and the money men.
c.) Has been in the verrry pocket of the special interest groups he currently denounces.

In 1983, in conjunction with Mike Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert, the company issued a $1.1 billion hybrid security – at the time the largest debt financing in history. The financing allowed company management to put an extra $500 million in cash on their balance sheet so that customers, suppliers and investors would know they were financially strong. The immediate effect was that management no longer was forced to spend so much time raising capital. By 1990, MCI had become the nation’s second-largest telecommunications company, establishing a fiber-optic network spanning more than 46,000 miles. The company offered more than 50 services in more than 150 countries that included voice, data and telex transmissions, MCI Mail and MCI Fax.

In the 1980s Western Union organized its cable systems properties and its right-of-way rights of its telegraph lines into a subsidiary called Western Union International. In 1990 it sold this subsidiary to MCI Communications which renamed it to MCI International and moved its headquarters from New York City to Westchester County, New York.

Who, what where?

=”The FCC issued a final ruling on Docket 16509, MCI’s licensing request, on 14 August 1969. By a decision of 4–3 MCI was licensed for operation. This ruling was quickly appealed by AT&T, and after a denial of the appeal

I’d really like the classes attention here (non/s), please read the following from das wiki:

Following the FCC approval for MCI to begin building microwave relay stations between Chicago and St. Louis, Microwave Communications of America began to form subsidiary corporations and file applications with the FCC to create microwave relays between other city pairs. Between September 1969 and February 1971 fifteen new regional carriers were created allowing for interconnection between a number of major cities in the United States. In July 1969, MICOM also purchasing an equity position in Interdata, an independent regional carrier that was applying to build a microwave relay chain between New York City and Washington, D.C. MCI began selling data transmission services to paying customers on 1 January 1972. To pay for the microwave transmission and relay equipment needed for build out, MICOM began a series of private stock offerings on May 1971. In July 1971 MICOM was restructured into MCI Communications, and the restructured company began the process of absorbing the regional carriers into a single corporation. MCI went public on 22 June 1972, selling an initial offering of 3.3 million shares.”>

Question the first.
Was this a Delaware corporation?
Numero dos.
What shares??
Three (3)
Who owned said shares?
4thly
Follow the mONEY!

Why does this fool remind me of Howdy Doody?

Better!

Should the Arabs just be pushed into the sea?

The Calibur

Yes.

Limerick on September 17, 2009 at 4:27 PM

Limerick you were spectacular! Did you remember to blow the smoke off the end of your gun?