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Story - Are the
survivors of Government Frequency Take Over's
commencing in 1908, entitled to payments for their
$32 Billion in losses, like the
Surviving
family members of Jewish Hungarian Nazi war
victims?
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millions of Nathan B. Stubblefield • Marconi
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so . . . the following story will help you explain
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SMART-DAAF Boys.
Surviving
family members of Jewish Hungarian Nazi war
victims,
destroyed by several
Governments during war time, seeks payment from
U.S.A. -- for loss of tangible property. For the
Art work and property lost and stolen during the
end of the World War II era, SEE
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Now 60 years later the U.S.
is facing a critical court hearing this week in
December 2004. Justice Department attorneys and
lawyers representing Hungarian survivors who have
filed the only Holocaust reparations suit against
the U.S. government are far from reaching a
settlement, parties close to the negotiations
said.
-----The survivors sued in
U.S. district court in Miami in May 2001. They are
seeking compensation for property seized by the
Nazis in 1944 and recovered by the U.S. Army a year
later but never returned to the original
owners.
----- Justice
Department lawyers have maintained that the suit
should be thrown out for two primary reasons: The
statute of limitations had run out years before the
suit was filed, and the government was entitled to
immunity.
-----In August 2002,
however, U.S. District Judge Patricia A. Seitz said
that the plaintiffs were entitled to have the
statute of limitations waived, and that the
government's immunity argument was only partially
valid.
-----Seitz has been urging
the two sides to settle the case. She ordered
mediation this year, and Fred F. Fielding, a
prominent Washington lawyer, was selected as
mediator.
-----Fielding, who worked in
the White House during the Nixon and Reagan
administrations and served on the Sept. 11
commission, said recently: "The only thing I can
tell you is that we're still at the table. There is
a potentially defining moment coming up." He was
referring to Monday's hearing on the government's
motion to dismiss the
case.
-----A lawyer who has been
involved in the negotiations said: "Based on where
we are today, it is unlikely that there will be a
settlement by next week, because the sides are too
far apart." The lawyer, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said the sides were divided on two key
issues -- the amount of a settlement and what the
government would say about its responsibility for
events that occurred in
1945.
-----Rabbi Israel Singer,
chairman of the World Jewish Congress, said he had
participated in a mediation session on Dec. 6 in
Washington. He said the session had "begun to bring
the parties to an understanding of the other side's
position." However, he added, the two sides were
nowhere near agreement on a settlement "sufficient
to even address the symbolic nature" of a payment
he expected the government eventually to
make.
-----The Justice Department
attorneys, Singer said, "have to understand that
there are Holocaust survivors in this group who
have thrice been harmed -- once by the Nazis, once
by the Communists and once by the
U.S.".
-----Members of Congress who
have been urging the Bush administration to settle
the case have expressed anger and frustration about
a lack of
progress.
-----"The response of the
Bush administration thus far has been disgraceful,"
said Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.). "It is
incomprehensible why the Bush administration has
not followed the same rules and guidelines that we
have correctly demanded of other countries and
companies" in Holocaust-related litigation, he
said. "It's a stain on America."
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D-N.Y.) said that if the case was not resolved
promptly, members of the Senate ought to question
White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales about it
next month in hearings on his nomination for
attorney general -- "a post that can and should
play a direct role in resolving an issue affecting
thousands of aging survivors who are sadly dying as
their case continues to
languish."
-----On Friday, a dozen
members of Congress sent a letter to Gonzales
urging him to get the case resolved "quickly and
fairly." The group took particular umbrage at the
Justice
Department.
-----Led by Rep. Anthony D.
Weiner (D-N.Y.), the lawmakers emphasized that the
department, in its attempts to get the case
dismissed, had "attacked the survivors themselves
for lacking 'due diligence' in failing to bring the
case before 2001, though the facts of the
mishandling [of stolen goods] were only
publicly revealed by a commission in
1999.".
-----No Deal Near in
Holocaust Survivors'
Suit.
-----Hungarian Jews, in a
case against the U.S., are seeking compensation for
property seized by the Nazis and recovered by the
U.S.
Army.
-----The Justice Department
declined to
comment.
-----White House spokeswoman
Erin Healy said that Gonzales would reserve any
comments on the issue until his confirmation
hearing.
-----Although most of the
lawmakers pressing the issue are Democrats, some
Republicans have joined in. Rep. Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen of Florida has urged several key
members of the administration -- including Karl
Rove, the president's chief political advisor -- to
settle the
case.
-----"We've asked the world
to provide restitution to survivors," she said
recently. "Now it is our
turn.".
-----The case stems from the
Nazis' seizure of more than $200 million in gold,
jewelry, Oriental rugs, fabrics and artwork --
among them paintings by Durer and
Rembrandt.
-----The spoils were loaded
on dozens of rail cars -- which came to be known as
the Gold Train -- bound for Germany. However, the
train was abandoned by the Nazis in Austria and
recovered by the U.S. Army. Most of the treasures
vanished, according to a report issued by the
Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust
Assets in the U.S. in
1999.
-----The plaintiffs assert
that the U.S. knew or could have discovered the
provenance of much of the booty and had acted
illegally by failing to return the goods to the
rightful owners, particularly since the Army had
inventories prepared by the
Nazis.
-----The plaintiffs are
seeking a full accounting from the government and
as much as $10,000 in damages each. It has been
estimated that there could be 30,000
beneficiaries.
-----Reports released by the
commission in 1999 and 2000 stated that the chief
U.S. military official in western Austria at the
end of World War II had requisitioned a hoard of
the goods from a U.S. military warehouse in
Salzburg, Austria -- including enough china and
silverware for 45 people, a dozen silver
candlesticks, 30 sets of table linens, carpets and
furs.
-----The special U.S.
commission report called the Gold Train affair "an
example of an egregious failure of the United
States to follow its own policy regarding
restitution of Holocaust victims'
property.".
-----The Justice Department
has countered that because some Hungarian Jews knew
as early as 1947 that the U.S. Army had taken
possession of the Gold Train, the six-year statute
of limitations for filing such a case expired no
later than
1953.
-----In court papers filed
in June, the government said the U.S. "bears
neither the legal nor the moral responsibility" for
the plundered valuables of the Hungarian
Jews.
-----Singer said he was
saddened by the government's position. The U.S.
"fought against the Nazis and liberated people in
concentration camps," Singer said. But some members
of the government "fell short" in returning the
seized possessions that are the subject of the
survivors' lawsuit. He said the government should
settle the case and make a formal
apology.
-----"We are a nation strong
enough to say 'I'm sorry,' " Singer said
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Donald
Trump Winner of NBS100 EMw 2004 Image Award.
January
1, 2005 / Donald Trump was selected as the
winner of TVI's
"Person of
the Year" - and 2004 Winner of NBS100 2004 EMw
Image Award.
"The NBS100 award commitee had no choice but to
give the front cover award to Mr. Trump", said Troy
Cory. Donald Trump was selected, not only once as
TVI Magazine, "Person of the Week", but three times
for his efforts in telecasting worth-while
"wireless" television productions.
-----
"EMw
Images"
- or the
images produced on the TV screen connected to a
wireless telephone, a computer or inside a tv set
-- was the audio/visual look-radio product
envisioned by the Smart Daaf Boys, the inventors of
the Electromagnetic Wave, EMw signals at the turn
of the 1900s. In
1898 and in 1908 the patents for "firewire", the
"wireless telephone", and the "Wi-Fi" systems used
for modern day Internet connections, was
established by Nathan B.
Stubblefield.
-----
The Donald
is using the best of product placement techniques,
ever invented, to produce -- "The Apprentice". He
has demonstrated throughout 2004, how the
"lookradio" or EMw image connected to a wireless
radio telephone transmitter, can help sell anything
that can be seen and heard by viewers watching a
television screen.
-----
"And Why
Not," says publisher/entertainer Troy Cory . . .
"that's exactly what you are supposed to do on
television, entertain, . . . especially when you're
both the star and also the producer . . . it's very
effective. Look at what his good friend, Ron Rice,
has done with his suntan lotion, Hawaiian Tropic
and his beauty pageants performing within our
"China Moon Concert" - series, during the last
decade in the People Republic of China. It's a
great thing . . . it's "promotion in
motion."
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05
Sprint Agrees to Buy Nextel
The
$33.8-billion proposed deal would create a company
with 38.5 million customers
-----
Furthering the consolidation
of the wireless industry, Sprint Corp. on Wednesday
unveiled plans to acquire rival Nextel
Communications Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth
$33.8
billion.
-----Sprint would remain the
country's No. 3 cellular provider, but Nextel's
15.3 million high-revenue subscribers would make
the combined company a stronger competitor in a
winnowing field. The new company &emdash; to be
called Sprint Nextel &emdash; would have 38.5
million customers, compared with Cingular Wireless'
47.6 million subscribers and Verizon Wireless' 42.1
million.
-----For Nextel, which has
won over business users with its walkie-talkie
function, the deal would save the company from
having to spend as much as $3 billion on network
upgrades so that customers could use their phones
to send e-mail and other data at high
speeds.
-----In an announcement that
had been anticipated for about a week, Sprint and
Nextel executives portrayed the deal as a merger of
equals that would result in $12 billion in savings
over three
years.
-----Many analysts looked
favorably on the deal, although it doused rumors of
an even bigger consolidation scenario &emdash;
Verizon buying Sprint &emdash; that had helped run
up Sprint's stock
price.
-----Sprint shares fell
$1.08 to $24.02 on the New York Stock Exchange on
Wednesday, while Nextel shares dropped $1.29 to
$28.70 on
Nasdaq.
-----"It was the old 'buy on
the rumor, sell on the news' situation," said Zach
Wagner, an analyst with Edward Jones in St.
Louis.
-----Investors may also have
been skeptical about some of the cost-cutting
forecasts made by Sprint and Nextel executives,
said analyst Albert Lin of American Technology
Research in San
Francisco.
-----"These are two
companies that have very different cultures and
different technologies," Lin said. "Saving $1.2
billion to $1.5 billion in the first year &emdash;
which they said they could do &emdash; by putting
them together is a tall
order."
-----Though cost savings are
important, Sprint Chief Financial Officer Robert
Dellinger said the biggest long-term benefit for
the company would be the addition of Nextel's
all-wireless customer
base.
-----"Now we get about 50%
of our revenue from wireless," he said. "Putting us
together gives us a company that gets about 74%
from
wireless."
-----And wireless is the
fastest-growing part of the telecom business,
Dellinger
said.
-----At least part of that
growth is expected to come from data transmission.
Sprint is already building a next-generation
network for data. Nextel hasn't started building
its own next-generation network; by merging with
Sprint, it would save an estimated $2 billion to $3
billion, said Nextel Chief Operating Officer Tom
Kelly.
-----If the transaction is
approved by regulators and shareholders, the
company would spin off Sprint's local telephone
business while retaining its long-distance
customers. Nextel spokeswoman Audrey Schaefer said
the fiber-optic network at the heart of Sprint's
long-distance business was a valuable long-term
asset.
-----Consumer advocates
fretted that a Sprint-Nextel combination, coming on
the heels of Cingular's $41-billion acquisition of
AT&T Wireless, would ultimately lead to higher
prices. If the deal goes through, the top three
wireless carriers would serve about 75% of the
country's cellular
customers.
-----"We fear the cellphone
market will start to function the way the cable and
satellite market has, where prices go up year in
and year out due to lack of competition," said Gene
Kimmelman, director of public policy at Consumers
Union in Washington.
----- Under terms of the
deal, Nextel shareholders would receive stock and a
small amount of cash, with a total value equal to
1.3 shares of Sprint. The exact amount of stock and
cash will be determined at the close of the deal,
though the companies said that if the calculation
were made Wednesday, each Nextel share would be
worth about 1.28 Sprint shares plus about 50
cents.
-----Top jobs in Sprint
Nextel would be split among the two companies.
Sprint Chief Executive Gary Forsee would hold that
job at Sprint Nextel, and Nextel CEO Timothy
Donahue would become the combined company's
chairman. The board would consist of 12 directors,
six from each
company.
-----Sprint Nextel would
have its executive headquarters in Nextel's current
home of Reston, Va., and its operational
headquarters would be in Overland Park, Kan., where
Sprint is based.
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NEWS
CONVERGENCE
TIMELINE:
Donald John Trump - Born June
14, 1946.
Birthplace: New York, New York
Best Known As: New York real estate mogul who says
"You're fired!" on TV's The Apprentice
-----
1966 - After
attending the Wharton business school, he joined
the family real estate business. A self-promoting
and flamboyant dealmaker, he was able to secure
loans with minimal collateral in the free-wheeling
1980s and created an empire in real estate,
casinos, sports, and transportation. Trump Shuttle
(bought in 1989), he retained Trump Tower in New
York City and control of his three casinos in
Atlantic City. By the 1970s, Trump had made
himself a deal-maker in Manhattan, somehow getting
city government and banks to finance his ambitious
developments.
-----
In 1982 - he built
the grandiose Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, and soon
he moved into the casino business in New
Jersey.
-----
Outspoken and flamboyant,
Trump was a favorite of the press, and his two
marriages and subsequent divorces were regular
tabloid;
-----
(1988) - Book: The Art of
the Deal, An
accomplished author, Mr. Trump's first
autobiography, The Art of the Deal, has become one
of the most successful business best-sellers of all
time, having sold in excess of three million
copies, and being a New York Times number one
best-seller for 32 weeks.
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3.
Editor's Note
/ How
They Promoted and Sold the Wireless Telephone,
(Radio} in 1908 -
A perspective by R. Burt (Copyright 1908, by
United Wireless Telegraph Company
(DeForest)
THE
WIRELESS TELEPHONE
By R. Burt / Copyright 1908 by The
Aerogram Publishing
Company)
"The Aerogram" was a publication issued by the
United Wireless Telegraph Company, a dit dah --
telegraph company, that could only send morse code
signals, and as such, might have been used to give
investors inaccurate information about growth
opportunities into the field of voice transmission
invented and just filed for patent by N.B.
Stubblefield, April 7, 1907. The Wireless Telephone
Patent and trademark was issued to Nathan B.
Stubblefield in May, 1908
However, because United
Wireless was being run mainly as a stock promotion
scheme, more often the magazine merely drummed up
enthusiasm for stock sales, by getting potential
investors excited about developments where the
company actually had no real plans. CLICK FOR
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ByLines:
Editors Note
Donald Trump's name
is synonymous
with New York and
Florida's sunshine and beauty pageants, in fact
that where TVI magazine's publishers first met him,
in 1996 at one of Ron Rice's Hawaiian Tropic
functions. He later married one of the winners,
Marla Maples. Trump got his start in his father's
New York real estate business, and fodder. (Trump
was married to model Ivana Zelnicek Trump had three
children with his wife Ivana: Donald Jr., Ivanka
and Eric;
Other business tycoons of Trump's era and were
selecteddc as TVI's Person of the week include Bill
Gates, Richard Branson, Allen and Jeff
Bezos.
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B. Stubblefield, Murray State University,
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about Murray State, and the NBS
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