Wall Street Won't Like This: Swiss Pharmaceutical Executive Hands Back Golden Parachute

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Tuesday February 19, 2013 · 2:30 AM PST

2013/02/19 · 02:30

In a move that will not earn him many friends on Wall Street Swiss pharmaceutical executive Daniel Vasella, CEO of Novartis, the world's second largest pharmaceutical corporation after Pfizer, has announced today that he will not cash in on a contractual clause worth 72 million Swiss francs (approximately US-$ 78 million) after his resignation next month. By handing back his Golden Parachute after just four days of public outrage Vasella is obviously setting a very bad example for corporate executives world wide.

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Sunday November 29, 2009 · 12:46 PM PST

2009/11/29 · 12:46

In a referendum this sunday Swiss voters supportedan initiative that bans minarets from being built in Switzerland by 57,5,% to 42,5%. In the parlance of US constitutional law, this is a "bill of attainder", i.e. a law that selectively disenfranchises a specifically trageted social group. It is, in other words, a discriminatory law. It can also be used, by Islamist fundamenalist recruiters, as the final proof that Western democracy is indeed, as they have always claimed, fundamentally anti-Islamic. Just when you thought Obama was closing down Guantanamo and robbing Al Qaeda of their primary recruiting tool, the Swiss step in and help the Islamists out.

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 9:09 AM PDT

2008/09/12 · 09:09

This may not pass the diary threshold for some, and what follows will not translate into an action plan. But I thought it might be of interest, what with Obama lagging in the polls and all.

Browsing through some German language newspaper websites, I wanted to know how the Palin interview went over with European audiences.

She does not do well.

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 5:38 AM PDT

2008/09/09 · 05:38

As the bounce panic slowly settles, let's remind readers of a very simple fact. Obama is the only candidate who has never had to re-tool his campaign message. In fact, everyone who has come up against him has reached a point where they had to concede that his theme of "hope" and "change" was right, and that theirs was wrong. It happened to Hillary, and she lost. It just happened to John McCain, and he will lose, too.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 2:36 AM PDT

2008/09/01 · 02:36

dailykos diaries often remind me of the column that Variety editor in chief Peter Bart, a former studio executive, used to write for Weekly Variety, where he handed out advice to those who did not ask for it: They read like uncommissioned campaign strategy memos written in the hope that someone at Camp Obama will read it, pick up the good advice and turn it into a winner for the campaign. Less ambitious diarists settle for well-intentioned attempts to police their fellow bloggers by handing out advice as to what to write about and how.

This is one such diary. But it's very brief.

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