Wow just stumbled on this research tool

[bonito]

Check it out if you like it pass it around. http://www.namebase.org/nbhome.html

[Ian David]

1. Look what it turned up for me: The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise

Bruck, Connie. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders.

New York: Penguin Books, 1989. 399 pages.
This book, originally published in 1988 by Simon and Schuster, was the first to blow the whistle on Michael Milken. Connie Bruck, a staff writer for the New York Times, worked on it for two and a half years, and interviewed almost 300 people. Fred Joseph, CEO at Drexel, agreed to cooperate with Bruck in February, 1986 -- a time when the business press universally admired Drexel for their ability to turn junk into gold. Drexel felt unassailable, and for months Bruck kept scribbling while they kept bragging. Then in November, 1986, Ivan Boesky pleaded guilty to insider trading and Drexel circled their wagons. Milken offered Bruck $250,000 not to publish the book, while Milken's attorney Arthur Liman (remember Iran-contra?) obtained a copy of the manuscript despite Simon and Schuster's security precautions, and planned an all-out counterattack with the help of Linda Robinson and her PR firm.

Bruck says that when she started this book, her sympathies were more with Milken than with the corporate establishment that Milken was attacking. It was her willingness to be driven by the evidence that caused Jason McManus, Time Inc.'s editor in chief, to regard this book as "the finest piece of business investigative journalism since the turn-of-the-century muckrakers, Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair."
ISBN 0-14-012090-4

This book was recently listed at UsedBookCentral.com

More:
http://www.namebase.org/sources/XI.html

The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk ... ROHATYN FELIX GEORGE (101, 141, 196-7, 206-7, 229); ROMNEY W MITT (366) ...



Name index for Bruck,C. The Predators' Ball. 1989

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[FogerRox]

15. Here is an interesting namebase search

bilderberg group

[Richard Steele]

2. research kick!

[fed-up]

3. kick/rec just found my brother on it! n/t

[SoCalDem]

4. Your brother's k-fed?

:rofl:

[fed-up]

5. nope, I don't think he has time to post here, he's on the list in a good way :) nt

[bonito]

6. kicking for visibility n/t

[Robbien]

7. interesting

thanks

I can see this being very helpful.

[file83]

8. Kick for the Researchers!! Keep diggin'...

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

9. Nifty mapping device... lookey Bill Kristol's network of friends:

:D

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_KRISTOL_WILLIAM_

[Duppers]

10. vaaary interesting

thanks. I bookmarked the link.

[pnorman]

11. You're right on it being a great source!

I recall more than a few years ago, buying (by telephone) his program for my C/PM machine. Later I upgraded it for my DOS machine replacement. I kept upgrading. The internet, as we now know it today, simply did not exist! It's almost impossible to exaggerate the feeling of empowerment such tools gave a person then. Ultimately, he put the entire thing on the web, and at no charge.

As I recall, he was a 60's New Left radical, but one who had little patience for the knee-jerk "Luddism" that so many then espoused. He taught himself such computer science as was then available, and then went on to learn programming. All his Namebase (Originally called Spy Base or something similar), was done by himself. He then went on the web.

pnorman

[pnorman]

12. Be sure to gothrough the Tutorial!

It uses Columbia University as an example, and this is on the last page:

We have no idea what it means; we're just trying to demo NameBase. But by comparing the 1968 trustees to the 2000 trustees, we can say that a shift has occurred. In 1968, the connections of Columbia trustees to U.S. intelligence and the military-industrial complex were massive. These have been largely replaced by connections to international business and investment banking. Today there is only one trustee with significant connections to U.S. intelligence (although it's also true that he's chairman of the CU board).

This reflects the New World Order after the cold war. Covert funding and arm-twisting for cultural programs, academic area studies, and general political and mass-media influence are no longer needed; nothing on the horizon can threaten U.S. hegemony. At the same time, technology has made it easier for businesses to cross borders. Isn't it wonderful? Just count all the money that the trustees are making. (Be sure not to factor in most of the people in this country, not to mention the rest of the world, because they don't count anyway.)

If you can afford Columbia's tuition, you're invited to join in the fun. On top of your tuition, the university needs your soul and your conscience as a down payment on future wealth and success in the new monoculturized, globalized economy. That's not too much to ask, is it?

Because someday this rising tide will lift all boats. Don't take our word for it. Just ask the professors who've been hired by Columbia's trustees.

And ask your library or student government to subscribe to NameBase ($200 for two years of unrestricted access from any campus computer) so that we can continue to add names, and you can continue to find them.

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I had an early "pocket computer" that I always kept close at hand --- the HP 200, which had DOS 3.1 built into its ROM. I loaded that Namebase program into it, and was always amazing people (including myself) with it!

pnorman
On edit: I can't find his contact information on his page any more, but here's one Google hit: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9601/msg00044.html

It's a bit dated, but still informative.

On further edit: I may have been doing something wrong/careless, but I had to use Google to find this website: http://www.namebase.org/ This too is very informative.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Thanks!

As I love research! :hi:

[FogerRox]

14. I've been using namebase for about 2 yrs.

Much research on the net is a matter of culling. You may find yourself going from namebase, back to google to check out one name, to find out who/what that name is, back to google. But namebase is complimentary to other mainstream tools.

Given time, you will likely find a number of things google, ask, alta vista, etc., do not generate search returns on. I have a growing list of links that still work, but cannot be googled. >wink<

Warning: continued use of namebase can result in a visit from Agent mike. It happens these days more often than not.