Sorry. Knocking-away the barrel of an automatic weapon pointed at you is not a crime. It's the most basic human right: self-defense. Anyone stupid enough to let the barrel of their weapon get close enough for someone to grab is not a soldier or cop. He's an amateur and possibly a terrorist.

From the accounts posted here of the judge's questions and demeanor at the DE trial, plus the new CTO just waiting to get started, I am more optimistic about CLYW than I have been since 2010. Will be acquiring more shares.

I want to add my gratitude to you for all the work you've been doing in informing us owners of WTF! is going on.

$1,900, actually.

pps just doubled. Somebody know something about the judge's likely ruling?

One word: billions. That's all you have to remember to understand Calypso's machinations. Keep the faith.

I'm sorry, but with a screen name of Toss Out Dave Williams, I cannot believe your summary regarding Williams' court appearance.

Oh. I see. You have an instantcam in the court room to watch the proceedings live? How did you manage this?

So much for the quick, one day trial that the judge will find easy to adjudicate. It galls me that Turrini is using company money -- our money -- to defend himself and Pierce.

Every question you ask can be answered with two words: patent suppression.

The Coming Tech-led Boom (and Turrini and friends are trying to kill our key patent).

n January 1912, the United States emerged from a two-year recession. Nineteen more followed—along with a century of phenomenal economic growth. Americans in real terms are 700% wealthier today.

In hindsight it seems obvious that emerging technologies circa 1912—electrification, telephony, the dawn of the automobile age, the invention of stainless steel and the radio amplifier—would foster such growth. Yet even knowledgeable contemporary observers failed to grasp their transformational power.

In January 2012, we sit again on the cusp of three grand technological transformations with the potential to rival that of the past century. All find their epicenters in America: big data, smart manufacturing and the wireless revolution.

Entire article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577140413041646048.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Sen. Grassley Says LightSquared E-mails Smack of Improper Contact

John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 1/23/2012 3:16:33 PM

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who has been seeking information from the Federal Communications Commission and others about LightSquared's waiver to launch a 4g wholesale wireless network, has written to LightSquared principal Philip Falcone to ask him to explain what the senator calls a questionable contact with the Senator's office over the issue.

In the letter, Grassley said that contact, comprising e-mails from both Falcone and a person claiming to represent LightSquared, "that intimated benefits for Grassley if he softened his inquiry of government approval of the project."
Grassley said Falcone's e-mail -- he supplied a redacted copy to the press -- suggested that the network could be a "win" for Grassley, while the second example--an e-mail string with someone who Grassley says also arranged a Fox News Channel booking for Falcone, "hinted" that Iowa could get a call center. According to the e-mail's, after Grassley's office signaled that they thought the suggestion was inappropriate, the representative said he was only pointing out the local connection of the issue for the Senator.

"Mr. Ruelle does not, nor has he ever, worked for Mr. Falcone, Harbinger or LightSquared as an employee or a consultant," said Harbinger spokesman Lew Phelps. "No one at Harbinger or LightSquared has had any discussions or negotiations with Mr. Ruelle with respect to approaching or contacting Senator Grassley's office regarding an alleged quid pro quo, or a call center in Iowa, which in any event would be inconsistent with the LightSquared wholesale business model. If such conversations occurred, Mr. Ruelle was acting entirely on his own and without the knowledge, authority, or endorsement of Mr. Falcone, Harbinger or LightSquared."


Grassley is concerned that the FCC rushed the waiver of the network without sufficiently vetting the impact of the network on GPS. The FCC made the waiver conditional on resolving government GPS issues, and has since said it would not approve the network until those issues are resolved.

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration is currently preparing a report to the FCC on recent government testing of LightSquared that concluded it produced too much interference with GPS to be viable in either the short or long-term, results LightSquared has dismissed as bogus and controlled by GPS interests.

Grassley has also threatened to block any attempt seat two new FCC commissioners until the FCC produces documents related to the waiver. The FCC has put some correspondence online related to FOIA requests, but Grassley's office says that is not responsive to the request and that in the meantime the hold threat remains.

They're going to have to use our patent. Worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Too bad we won't get a cent for it.

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Roberts: Tests Confirm LightSquared Interferes with GPS PDF Print E-mail
Written by Annette Tucker
Friday, 20 January 2012

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas on Thursday called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny licensing to LightSquared, a broadband provider, after more testing confirms interference with critical Global Positioning Systems (GPS).

Roberts said “While (he) will continue to support efforts to expand broadband across the U.S., particularly in underserved rural parts of Kansas, any proposal that could have negative impacts on aviation, navigation and safety, is unacceptable and cannot go forward without unequivocally proving that it doesn't interfere with these systems. The results are clear—the FCC should deny this license."

Last week, an interagency group of Department of Defense and Department of Transportation officials, known as the National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (EXCOM), sent a letter to the head of National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), summarizing results of the most recent testing conducted by multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration, showing that LightSquared's proposed terrestrial broadband network would interfere with critical GPS dependent aviation systems.

In November, Roberts introduced an amendment to prohibit FCC from using any appropriated funds to allow LightSquared to build out a broadband network until the agency could prove the expansion will not interfere with GPS. Similar legislation was signed into law as part of the consolidated Appropriations bill.

In my experience, you are dead wrong. Turrini and Pierce have one goal: destroy the company, steal the patent, and get megarich. And please ... no series of 30 posts screaming at me -- IN CAPS -- about how "wrong" I am and am in cahoots with Williams.

In the past year I spoke to both Turrini and Williams. Turrini proved to be a liar (repeatedly); Williams an angry guy but far more reliable.

Fine. The "settlement" was allegedly signed in August. It is now January.

The alleged settlement has been hidden from the company's owners -- us. That alone is enough reason to get rid of Turrini and Pierce, and possibly an unlawful act on their part. The 8Ks have no basis in any information supplied to shareholders or the SEC. The years of zero deals is more reason to get rid of these people.

>>In the past 2 years, Turrini and Pierce have been working hard trying to get things going. While Dave's plan have been to put this company in the dark.

Patently false. Not one deal in years of their "leadership." Totally unsat. They are deep into patent suppression.

How?

Links don't work. Which case/action is this?

Not as far as I know.

Roger that.

I am reliably informed that a law firm has been contacted to review the situation and determine if a suit against both the officers and certain other individuals for damages is likely to succeed.

The only business situations that make sense of this blatant patent suppression are: (1) a secret deal with the officers that pays them -- now or later -- through the back door to do it; they have to be getting more money for this than their shares are likely to be worth; or (2) a plan to kill the company, keep possession of the patent for themselves, and then lease it out for huge bucks.

They didn't count upon historically passive shareholders suddenly taking a close and angry interest in company workings. I am certain that fear has suddenly been added to their calculations and makes predicting future events even more difficult.

No crook would fight this hard and this long if the patent weren't worth billions of dollars. Have faith. This year, shareholder lawsuits against the "officers" are coming.

Can someone -- ANYONE -- list the pending court actions re. CLYW and their dates? Thanks.

>>Everyone who wants to see the settlement before we condemn Dave, Raise your hand!!!!

Me!

>>Everything Dave Williams has said about Turrini , Pierce , Pattin, Drago the different attorneys is a lie.

Documentation? I thought not.

My personal observation is that Turrini, Pierce, and several others are liars and cheats. I don't need anyone else's opinion.

LightSquared cries foul over GPS advisory board


7:08 p.m. EST, January 12, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Telecom startup LightSquared is asking for an investigation of a possible conflict of interest by a member of an advisory board that has already warned against its technology because of interference with the global positioning system.

LightSquared, which needs government approval of its high-speed wireless technology by the end of the month to keep its major partner on board, lodged its probe request with NASA Inspector General Paul Martin late Wednesday.

The petition charges that Bradford Parkinson, sometimes referred to as the father of GPS, serves as vice chairman of the National Space-Based Position, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board while also a director for Trimble Navigation Ltd, which makes GPS equipment and has been a vocal opponent of LightSquared's network.

Lightsquared said Parkinson may have violated a federal conflict of interest law and ethics regulations.

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It charges that any GPS interference is the result of GPS receivers "looking in" to LightSquared's spectrum.

LightSquared said Trimble could take a financial hit if regulators approved LightSquared's network, which would force the company "to address the problematic design and manufacturing process that has resulted in its high-precision receivers looking into LightSquared's spectrum."

The Coalition to Save Our GPS, formed last March by Trimble and other companies concerned with LightSquared's impact on the satellite-based GPS system, said the allegations have no merit and instead point to LightSquared's increasing desperation.

Coalition spokesman Dale Leibach said Parkinson's role as a leading expert on GPS justified his roles at both the advisory board and Trimble. Parkinson was the original program director and chief architect of GPS.

"It appears that LightSquared has now run out of solutions and has nothing left but baseless allegations about process," Leibach said.

Preliminary analysis of U.S. government tests found that LightSquared's signal would cause "harmful interference" to a majority of GPS devices. Final analysis and additional testing are still pending.

Reston, Va.-based LightSquared has teamed up with other companies to design filters for GPS equipment.

Deployment of LightSquared's network depends on regulatory approval from both the Federal Communications Commission and a green light from the Defense Department.

LightSquared intends to invest $14 billion over the next eight years to build its network, and aims to sell wholesale wireless services to companies which would then resell the service under their own brand names.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone has bet more than $3 billion of his Harbinger Capital Partners money on LightSquared.

Sprint Nextel Corp, would share some of the network and help build it out for $9 billion, but the agreement is contingent on LightSquared getting regulatory clearance by the end of January.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/consumer/sns-rt-us-lightsquared-trimbletre80c00i-20120112,0,2792474.story

And if he is? Will those balls of fire Turrini and Pierce then go out and make some great deals for us? History says no -- that they are only interested in stealing the patent.

>>You are still trying to shift the focus away from Dave and on the true people who have saved this company.

Don't get carried away. If Turrini and Pierce were finance officers in the Navy with one-tenth the evidence we have against them, they would have been court-martialed and tossed-out on their asses.

I am amazed that, despite both Williams' and Walsh's statements that they have never seen the "settlement," the judge didn't care and denied their motions.

No one would fight this hard if the patent weren't worth billions of dollars.

Lots of words.

How does this ruling jibe with what is supposed to be heard on 1 February?

So someone help me. How does CLYW make any deals with Daic still the assignee of the patent? - or - what else has the BOD lied about re. the settlement? And, WTF are we going to do about Turrini and Pierce?

Then the 8K about the settlement is a lie, yes?

Yes, right after they released the settlement agreement, I just knew they were working in our best interest.

Why should they do that with visions of stealing the patent dancing in their heads?

Please summarize the suit you plan to bring against him.