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- 43rd Week Wed. Oct. 1,
2008
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2008
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2008
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- 46th Week October 20,
2008
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- 47th Week October 27,
2008
Google's
World ofWiTel - The
WiTels®©) device, which
will run on Google's new Android operating
system, will go on sale for $179. A
mass-market device with a sharp touch
screen and slide-out keyboard that brings
the experience of mobile Web surfing
closer to that of a personal
computer. MORE
STORY ABOUT
gPHONE
Google - 10 years Later 1998 - 2008 -
Sergey Brin Speaks / MORE
STORY ABOUT
gPHONE
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10a
- One
Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game -
Q&A
How much foreclosure relief will Borrowers
get from bailout plan?
It
all depends on the "IF" answere: WAS AN
INSURANCE COMPANY INVOLVED AS part of the
$$ Payoff. The financial system
includes measures designed to stem the
rising tide of foreclosures. But First,
take a look at the strategy USED BY
LENDERS in the
Bail-Out.
The $700 Bill Bailout Chronology:
October 3, 2008
The House approves the $700-billion Wall
Street rescue package and President Bush
signs the bill.
Employers shed a net 159,000 jobs
in September, the worst one-month drop in
more than five years.
The Dow Jones industrial average
falls 157 points to a three-year low.
Wells Fargo agrees to buy Wachovia
for $$15 billion, sparking protests form
Citigroup, which had planned to buy
Wachovia's banking operations.
California officials, needing $7
billion ot cover state bills, watch the
credit markets in hopes of getting a
short-term loan
soon.
October 6, 2008
The
$700-billion rescue package for the
financial system MUST include MEASURES
that applies to the One Satisfaction
Rule that are designed to stem the
rising tide of foreclosures. Here's a
look at the
specifics.
Under the One Satisfaction Rule --
How does the bailout plan help homeowners
facing
foreclosure?-
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10b
FICO The Credit Rating Agencies -
Fraudulent FICO
SCORES
WASHINGTON --
When Congress voted for the Wall Street
Bail-Out on October 6, 2008 -- Federal
regulators blamed the "BIG CRASH" on some
of the smooth "insiders" controlling the
financial Benchmark Rating firms. By the
issuance of fraudulent, self-serving
reports for a few top executives needing
to cash-in their back-dated stock option
to raise capital for their firms, did the
job for a while.
The transfer
of "$peedollar$ to their bank accounts
"insured" by the Feds, under the
guidelines of
the
"One
Satisfation Rule," -- did the job," said a
spokesman for the TeleKey
Group.
Congress
had a big hand in oversight failures and
deregulation, in part, says Speedollar
spokesman, Mark Sovol, "by the reduction
of government's role in the private
sector's beflief in enlarging the
"cashless
society."
Rep. Waxman begins hearings
today.
North
Dakota's Dorgan, a Democrat, takes a
harsher view. He faults the decision to
deregulate banks that occurred after
passage of the modernization act.
"In 1999,
when the bill was debated, I warned, 'This
bill will also raise the likelihood of
future massive taxpayer bailouts.' . . . I
also think we will, in 10 years time, look
back and say, 'We forgot the lessons of
the past,' " Dorgan said, adding, "I take
no satisfaction that I was right."
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10c
- Fipping Real Estate Is Illegal.
Scammers of Deeds of Trusts in
California were involved high-end house
flips on Wall Sreet usesing Deeds of
Trust.
Lehman
Bros. Bank, which last month spiraled into
bankruptcy amid the nation's deepening
financial crisis, and another lender, RBC
Mortgage Co., lost about $42 million on
the loans, according to prosecutors and
the civil suits.
HOW DID
THEY DO
IT? -
They allegedly bought inexpensive houses
in exclusive areas at market value,
fabricated records showing them to be
worth two or three times as much, and then
secured $142 million in loans based on the
inflated numbers.
Assistant U.S. Atty. Jeremy D.
Matz, the lead prosecutor, called the
scheme "an extreme case" of fraud. He and
a former general counsel for RBC
Mortgage Co. said the damage reached
beyond the financial institutions that
lost money.
Attorney Elizabeth Edelman told the
court that losses of more than $20 million
helped prompt the sale of RBC. -
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STORY..
10d
- BackDatingFraud. Former McAfee, Inc.
lawyer is acquitted in stock options
backdating
trial
The
scandal over improper options-related
accounting led to investigations at
hundreds of companies and criminal charges
against 21 people, including executives
at Broadcom Corp., Monster Worldwide Inc.
and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
Kent
Roberts, who served as the software
maker's general counsel until he was fired
in 2006, was accused of tampering with
grants to increase his shares' value by
$200,000.
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USING BENCHMARKS TO BUY-SELL
STORY.
10e -Why Do You
Believe?
A
new study of what Marx was getting at --
not if there is a God and not whether it
makes sense that humans should believe,
but simply why humans
believe.
The
study analyzes the results mostly in terms
of political divisions. It found that
politically conservative Christians
described a godless world "as one of
incessant conflict and chaos, expressing
strong apprehension regarding people's
inability to control their impulses and
the attendant breakdown of social
relationships and societal
institutions."
Liberal
Christians, on the other hand, had a
different set of concerns. For them, a
world without God would be "barren or
lifeless, lacking in color and texture, an
empty wasteland that would not sustain
them" and in which they would feel
lost.
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THOUGHTS
RELIGION - Getting
Ready for the Holidays Nov/Dec
20081
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-Why Do You
Believe?
A
new study of what Marx was getting at --
not if there is a God and not whether it
makes sense that humans should believe,
but simply why humans believe.
Was
James The Step Brother of Jesus? Click For
Answer
Q&A01a
BeliefGodWhy?
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-Why Do You
Believe
Q&A01b
- Burial Box Bears Inscription of 'James
... Brother of
Jesus
Q&A01c
- Discovery Consistent With
Bible
Q&A01d
IN THEORY - Are archeological findings
relevant in matters of
faith?
Q&A02a
Priest Scandal Could Set History in
Motion
Q&A02b
THE
NATION
Billy
Graham Apologizes for '72
Remarks
Q&A02c
- 911 / Billy Graham / Nixon Recording:
Subject: White House - Finally, The Truth
on National
TV
Q&A03a
China's Next Challenge: Christians and the
Microchip
Q&A04b
Do
You Believe In
God?
-
Survey Measures Thoughts on Religion
From Various Wire Reports. In a look at
Americans' beliefs, a new survey shows
that 44% think the Bible, the Koran and
the Book of Mormon express the same
spiritual
truths.
// END OF YEAR
2008
Google
Yahoo Deal on Hold. The partnership is
under scrutiny by the Justice Department.
The Chrome
is going
through as planned
On October 4,
2008, Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. agreed to
a brief delay while discussions
with the Justice Department continue,
Yahoo and Google said Friday. Google Chief
Executive Eric Schmidt said in August that
the partnership would start in early
October.
Competitors,
consumer advocates and customers
questioned whether the partnership would
give Google too much control over
advertising and information on the
Web.
Gina
Talamona at the Justice Department
declined to comment.
If
the companies had proceeded before the
review was complete, the Justice
Department could have sought an
injunction, said NBS spokesman. Google and
Yahoo have said they don't legally need
the agency's approval.
"There
is a material risk that the government
will either say, 'We're going to court to
block this deal,' or 'Unless you make the
following changes, we will go to court,' "
said Levin, who once served as the Federal
Communications Commission's chief of
staff.
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/// OCT - NOV ENDS
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The
10th Anniversary of Google. October marks
the Beginnings of the Browser War &
Chrome's Shiny
Features
The Los
Angeles Times
reported,
"if
Explorer and Firefox are the Toyotas of
browsers, Chrome is the sporty Mini
Cooper."
Chrome's
developers promoted it as a speedier,
safer and more reliable way to navigate
the Web that will give consumers more and
better options. Chrome, in the works for
about two years, was first tested on
thousands of finicky Google employees --
including co-founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin. CLICK
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FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
FCC
-- Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin proposed putting
a nationwide swath of public safety
airwavwes up for sale again after cutting
the minimum price by 42%.
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MORE STORY
Apple
Settles "backdated option awards"
Apple
Inc. settled a lawsuit claiming that
company directors and managers, including
Chief Executive Steve Jobs, lied to
shareholders about how they backdated
option awards to maximize personal
profit.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy
Fogel in San Jose tentatively approved the
settlement of the so-called derivative
lawsuit brought by Apple investors on
behalf of the company against directors
and officers for breach of corporate
duties, said Fogel's clerk, Christian
Delaney.
Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple
said last year that it backdated 6,428
stock-option grants issued from 1997 to
2002. Apple investigated the backdating,
found no misconduct by Jobs, and recorded
$84 million in charges to correct its
accounting. The Justice Department in July
closed its criminal probe of Apple and its
executives over backdating. MORE
STORY
Is
A Wireless Telephone Quality Control
Service Needed? Consumers say Yes to WTQC
and No to Violation of Cramming
laws
AT & T buries customer rights
are spelled out in their copyrighted
2,500-page 'guidebook'
Judging
from the phone company's voluminous new
online customer manual, if you have a
problem with your bill, too bad, said
WTQCA spokeswoman.
(Cramming)-
...Witteman said the online
guidebook and ambiguous notification
policy appear to violate a California
statute requiring that consumers "be given
sufficient information to make informed
choices."
AT&T's
service agreement is written in dense
legalese and essentially gives the company
as much latitude as possible -- while
limiting customers' ability to seek
redress.
"If
you do not agree with the provisions of
this agreement, your sole option is to
cancel your services . . . within 30 days
after receipt of this agreement," it
says.
An
analysis of the agreement prepared for PUC
staffers found fault with a variety of
AT&T's provisions, including this one:
"You also agree to pay for all charges for
services provided under this agreement
even if such calls were not authorized by
you."
The
analysis said this "is in direct violation
to cramming laws," which protect consumers
from having unauthorized charges placed on
their bills.
Witteman
said the online guidebook and ambiguous
notification policy appear to violate a
California statute requiring that
consumers "be given sufficient information
to make informed choices."
AT&T's
service agreement is written in dense
legalese and essentially gives the company
as much latitude as possible -- while
limiting customers' ability to seek
redress.
"If
you do not agree with the provisions of
this agreement, your sole option is to
cancel your services . . . within 30 days
after receipt of this agreement," it
says.
An
analysis of the agreement prepared for PUC
staffers found fault with a variety of
AT&T's provisions, including this one:
"You also agree to pay for all charges for
services provided under this agreement
even if such calls were not authorized by
you."
The
analysis said this "is in direct violation
to cramming laws," which protect consumers
from having unauthorized charges placed on
their bills. (See
Article 109AT&Tfraud.htm )
MORE
STORY
MCI Founder of
AT&T vs MCI fame dies.
V.
Orville Wright Played Key Role in Breaking
up AT & T, and was president and
chief executive of MCI Communications
during its transformation from a start-up
into the leading challenger of AT&T in
the 1970s and 1980s. He was 87.
V. Orville Wright wasa pivotal backstage
figure in disrupting AT&T's virtual
monopoly on long-distance phone service
and communications technology.
As the company sought to break
into AT&T's long-distance terrain, MCI
chief executive, McGowan successfully
pushed for the Justice Department to file
an antitrust suit seeking to break up
AT&T's Bell telephone companies. The
10-year battle resulted in one of the
largest corporate reorganizations in
history, the creation of seven regional
operating companies, the "Baby Bells," in
1984.
(See
Article 114Orville
WrightMCIvsAT&T) MORE
STORY
Google
gPhone Unveiled on Sept.
23rd.
For
those who have been anticipating the
so-called Google Phone as if it were the
next iPhone, the wait is almost over.
T-Mobile
USA said Tuesday that it would unveil the
much-anticipated mobile phone loaded with
Google Inc.'s Android software next
Tuesday at a news conference in New York.
The G1 phone, which is being manufactured
by HTC, won't be for sale until October.
But expect T-Mobile to finally divulge
some key details such as pricing.
T-Mobile
is just the first carrier to market the
phone. Other cellphone manufacturers and
carriers are expected to dial for dollars
using the Google brand as bait, but they
apparently have hit some snags. The
Android phone is being positioned as a
rival to Apple's iPhone and Research in
Motion's BlackBerry.
For
Google, this seems like a no-lose
proposition. The Internet search giant
wants to make sure that all of its
services, including its lucrative
advertising, are available on all
cellphones. So it created software for
mobile phones that does that.
Pundits
have been saying for years that the mobile
Web will dwarf the nonmobile Web once
enough people have access to so-called
smart phones and all of the bells and
whistles that come with them. Already
Google is readying a store for
downloadable mobile software similar to
the one that has proved so successful for
the iPhone.
Google
showed off the handset at a developer
conference in London on Tuesday.
Next
week, Google and T-Mobile should start to
reveal whether Android will live up to the
hype. MORE gWiTEL
STORY
Copyrights:
Walt Disney. Whose Mouse Is
It?
Today,
title-card claims are no longer required.
But when courts rule on historical
copyright issues, they follow the laws in
place at the time -- in this case, says
Hedenkamp, the 1909 law requiring that the
word copyright or its symbol be
"accompanied by the name of the copyright
proprietor" -- a rule scholars said means
in the immediate proximity.
Disney legal advisors were
not amused. General Counsel Louis
Meisinger wrote back that it would be
"inconceivable that any modern court would
find any confusion about the identity of
the proprietor of Mickey Mouse
cartoons."
He even threatened Hedenkamp with
legal action if the young scholar openly
advanced such
claims.
"With respect to your plans
to otherwise promote these as being in the
public domain," Meisinger added, "please
be advised that slander of title remains
actionable under California law for both
compensatory and punitive
damages."
Nonetheless, Hedenkamp let
the genie out of the bottle, spelling out
his arguments in the Virginia Sports and
Entertainment Law Journal, a publication
of the University of Virginia's law
school. It attracted little attention
off-campus.MORE
STORY((See Article
109CopyrightMickyMouse)
A
South African Dynasty bids for rights to
purchase and sell the NBS WiTEL WiFi
and WiMax Wireless
Telephone©® effects
throughout
Africa.
The Kuumba Royal Dynasty group,
which is bidding to purchase the 1908
RF300 WiTEL effects owned by NBS Wireless
Telephone©®, U.S. -- said
Friday that they were on their first leg
to look for suitors throughout
Africa.
Daniel Amaonwu, spokesman for the
NBS WiTEL organization, Africa, says,
"thus far, the NBS Wireless
Telephone©® U.S. registered
trademarks, copyrights and patent have
been fully accepted, and will be honored
throughout
Africa."
African TeleCom executives are
dismissing any ideas from both the U.S.
and European bankers who say, "Africans
are unqualified to run a Billion Dollar
digital TeleCom
business."
The African group has put forth "no
substantive plan" for how the members of
their Quality TeleCom Administration, or
FCC equivalents will utilize the new WiFi,
WiMAX effects of the Wireless
Telephone throughout Africa.
Amaonwu, said, "if they do it themselves,
they'll do it with their own University
Hi-Tech grads."
Daniel said in a
email to the NBS WiTEL organization, "each
African nation signing on, will do it, as
if they were working within the U.S.,
following the guidelines established by
the FCC, and the laws established by the
1905, U.S. Patent Office."
Is
the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Bill of
Rights a dead law?
If
it is still alive and valid --
then
the property seizure of the effects of NBS
WiTel®©
-- by various world governments -- should
now be paid for.
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STORY.
But maybe a feature film like
NBS FireWire or SecretKeeper is the wrong
way to approach and educate the world on
who really invented the Wireless
Telephone®© and how to pay
him the $Billions of dollars for the
patent, trademark, copyrights and its
effects, "says says Melody Jensen,
spokesperson for VRA TelePlay
Pictures.
"The 100th anniversary of the
WiTEL®© invention could be
described as an unscripted reality show
with a new set of 'Key Words," and new
players, like China, Nigeria, South
Africa, Korea, etc. -- and not a movie,"
says Jensen.
"A TV reality show is still
what I think would be closer to the mark
for telling the Wireless
Telephone®© story and its
enormous value in today's world of cell
phones, and world leaders that want to get
involved."
The proliferation and
educational value of this form of
entertainment having so whetted the
American public's taste for truth telling,
and to those officials that follow the
FCC's annual auction sales that brings in
$Billion of dollars from the RF-300 WiTEL
spectrums. Look at what they're doing to
the once "free analog waves." The 'not so
free converter boxes' are replacing the
analog antenna and FREE TV in February
2009."
Personally, I had my eureka
moment when I read the Bill of Rights and
original version of the WiTEL article
several months ago, which states.
Feature
Story / Settling
the USC@5 $Billion WiTEL Controversy. The
NBS100 Wireless Telephone®
organization, like Google, Inc. -- let's
people use the effects of it's goods,
products, and services FREE. For decades,
the WiTEL organization, like Google, pays
itself back for the Freebies it gives out,
by sharing the income derived from its
name branded goods, and services within
radio, movie and web
content.
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