Posts by darkspilver

the city of key west has reached an agreement to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a former city bus driver who claimed religious discrimination fueled his firing after he refused to work during the nudity-filled fantasy fest.. bobby walker jr. sued the city march 3, 2016, nearly three months after the equal employment opportunity commission dismissed his claim over his firing.

he accused his bosses of mocking his religious beliefs and making derogatory comments about his race before firing him from the $13-an-hour job in retaliation when he complained.

darkspilver

Florida Keys News, Saturday 8 April 2017

Key West to settle religious discrimination suit by former bus driver
The city of Key West has reached an agreement to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a former city bus driver who claimed religious discrimination fueled his firing after he refused to work during the nudity-filled Fantasy Fest.
Bobby Walker Jr. sued the city March 3, 2016, nearly three months after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dismissed his claim over his firing. He accused his bosses of mocking his religious beliefs and making derogatory comments about his race before firing him from the $13-an-hour job in retaliation when he complained.

http://www.flkeysnews.com/news/local/article143507709.html

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Pretoria resident says - before high court in South Africa - he is the anointed one !

by ZAPPA-ESQUE in

pretoria [ south africa] - an unusual urgent application served before the gauteng high court this week,in which a lyttelton manor resident, who said he is was known as the “anointed one” among jehovah’s witnesses, asked the court to officially swear him in as the worldwide leader of the organisation.. ernest gericke, in papers before the court, told judge bill prinsloo that the “first business of the christ is the legal establishment of the kingdom of god on earth, known as the jehovah’s kingdom.” .

gericke said this involved the the conducting of a covenant for a kingdom, which is to take place on april 11. .

“in order to effect the legal requirements for the kingdom this honourable court is requested to hear the public oath of the office of the king.

darkspilver

FYI update

The Citizen, Saturday 8 April 2017

Judge dismisses ‘anointed one’s’ court application

http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1481652/judge-dismisses-anointed-ones-court-application/

The above gives his name as Ernest Ronald Gericke - not sure if the same as below?

IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
(Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg)
In the matter between: FIRSTRAND BANK LIMITED, Judgment Creditor, and ERNEST RONALD GERICKE, 1st Judgment Debtor, and CANDICE LYNN GERICKE (formally RUTHERFORD), 2nd Judgment Debtor.

https://www.greengazette.co.za/notices/_20140905-LNB-37961-16707-00014.pdf

haha, notice wife's maiden name??

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RUSSIA: (6 April 2017) Day 2 - Jehovah's Witnesses hearing under way

by jwleaks in

jw
friends

tighter security today and much greater police presence.

great weather.. .

lunchtime view over moscow.. .

darkspilver

Updates are coming through in Russian here:

https://www.jw-russia.org/pages/17040614-132.html

Either copy and paste into Google Translate

https://translate.google.co.uk/

or use a 'direct link'

https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jw-russia.org%2Fpages%2F17040614-132.html&edit-text=&act=url

jwleaks might max-out their allowable number of forum posts within any 24 hours period....

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RUSSIA: (5 April 2017) Jehovah's Witnesses hearing under way

by jwleaks in

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friends

the trial has begun.

the crowd on the street (see photo) is now inside and the gallery is packed.. yesterday jehovah's witnesses presented a written legal argument - "objections to the administrative claim of the ministry of justice of the russian federation" - to the supreme court of russia which, in paragraph 254, argued that if the ministry for justice liquidates and bans the activities of jehovah's witnesses then this will force individual members to renounce or abandon their religion for fear of persecution.. download legal argument (russian).

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darkspilver

From todays i newspaper - it's in the print version of what was the Independant newspaper which is now only online.

The i - Thursday 6 April 2017 - page 25, top

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Protest against Jehovah's Witness organization in Poland on March 26th, 2017, covered by a local news TV

by WTS Archive in

watch it here: .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8koav8xzck .

the protest was organized by a former jw elder and pioneer couple - alex and iza.

darkspilver

that's cool - thanks

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Protest against Jehovah's Witness organization in Poland on March 26th, 2017, covered by a local news TV

by WTS Archive in

watch it here: .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8koav8xzck .

the protest was organized by a former jw elder and pioneer couple - alex and iza.

darkspilver

What happened in the end? TIA

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5116768873873408/help-needed-from-folks-uk-esp-scotland

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NYTimes Article - Russia Moves to Ban Jehovah's Witnesses as 'Extremist'

by AndersonsInfo in

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/europe/russia-moves-to-ban-jehovahs-witnesses-as-extremist.html?_r=0.

vorokhobino, russia — a dedicated pacifist who has never even held a gun, andrei sivak discovered that his government considered him a dangerous extremist when he tried to change some money and the teller “suddenly looked up at me with a face full of fear.”.

his name had popped up on the exchangalee bureau’s computer system, along with those of members of al qaeda, the islamic state and other militant groups responsible for shocking acts of violence.. the only group the 43-year-old father of three has ever belonged to, however, is jehovah’s witnesses, a christian denomination committed to the belief that the bible must be taken literally, particularly its injunction “thou shalt not kill.”.

darkspilver

FYI - the article that AndersonsInfo linked to in the OP was featured on the middle of the front page of the New York Times

The high-profile nature of the case is sparking coverage by international news outlets, including... a front-page article in the print edition of The New York Times (“Pacifist, Christian and Threatened by Russian Ban as ‘Extremist’”) on April 5.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/releases/by-region/russia/supreme-court-begins-case-against-jehovahs-witnesses/

Large (readable) PDF scan of the New York Times 5 April 2017, front page:

http://www.nytimes.com/images/2017/04/05/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf