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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

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  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  Friday afternoon. What does the World think? Wallstreet Journal:

  "2,200-Point Drop in Dow Ends Brutal Week for Stocks

  Blue chips enter correction as Nasdaq, S&P plunge nearly 6%; more than $6 trillion erased from market in two days"

  https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-tariffs-trade-war-04-04-2025

  
  

  "What Happened in Markets Today

  Markets are in free fall. China retaliated against U.S. tariffs, escalating the biggest trade war in a century and sending global stocks to a second washout day in a row. The Nasdaq entered a bear market while sliding 5.8% at the close. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about 2200 points, or 5.5%. The carnage was widespread, with fewer than two dozen S&P 500 stocks rising for the day. The marketwide toll from the two-day tariff rout surged past a record $6 trillion.

  Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned of economic harm. He said the U.S. economy was likely to face a period of higher prices and weaker growth than seemed possible a few weeks ago because of larger-than-anticipated tariff hikes. His remarks carried an undercurrent of caution about how the Fed would be able to address any fallout because the central bank will want to ensure one-time price increases don’t lead to persistently higher inflation.

  The economy is still strong. Investors drew little solace from an unexpectedly strong jobs report that showed the economy added 228,000 jobs last month, well above the 140,000 economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected.

  Uncertainty is the only certainty for investors right now. Even as Trump left the door open to making deals, he vowed new tariffs on drugs and microchips. JPMorgan analysts on Thursday boosted their odds on a global recession to 60%. Trump remained unbowed, saying now is a "great time to get rich" and that "China played it wrong, they panicked."

  Investors rushed into Treasurys. That pushed 10-year yields below 4%. Bonds in other big economies, like Japan, Germany and the U.K., also rallied. Bond yields fall as prices rise. The dollar, which fell sharply Thursday, rebounded somewhat but remains near its weakest levels of the year.

  This analysis comes from the Journal's Heard on the Street team. Subscribe to their free daily afternoon newsletter here."

  
  

  My 2 cents. You can't plan factory moves, expansions, or even create accurate spread-sheets with daily changes from a "leader" tweeting new policies every day.
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

  1. social
  2. current

  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  4/3 5:39 et wsj opinion.

  1. Opinion
  2. Review & Outlook
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  Trump and His ‘Little Disturbance’ From Tariffs

  The effective U.S. tariff rate is now higher than after Smoot-Hawley. "President Trump said there would be “a little disturbance” from his tariffs, but how does he define little? The stock market Thursday suffered its worst day since the government shut down the economy in March 2020. Not to worry, the White House says tariffs will eventually be worth the pain. Feeling better?"

  https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-disturbance-markets-trade-243b36ef?st=qYgLW7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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  Top Jehovahs witnesses Historians

  by Paul Bonanno in

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  2. friends

  hi .

  who do you think are the best historian/historians about the history of jehovahs witnesses?.

  paul.

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  Barbra Anderson's site;

  https://watchtowerdocuments.org/
  
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  1/2 of the Jehovah’s witnesses have gone

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.

  some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.

  7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.

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  About half of the California hall JW attendees I knew are gone (dead, dfed, now pomo) and not replaced with converts or kids. Entire congregations in the Silicon Valley have been dissolved, with halls sold and circuit sections (a,b,c) combined.

  When surfing old JW congregation members, friends, and JW family Facebook profiles, I am surprised at how many now have birthday, Christmas, and political subject family photos of themselves and their now non JW kids.
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  JWs In the news:"Pittsburgh-area Jehovah's Witnesses member gets up to 30 years for sexually abusing two children"

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  3/28/25 cbs news: the wheels of justice slowly grind along.

  will this statewide investigation eventually include the watchtower leaders/co-conspirators who hampered police?

  only time will tell...."a pittsburgh-area member of the jehovah's witnesses has been sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing two children, state prosecutors announced on friday.the pennsylvania attorney general said 67-year-old marc brown of allegheny county was given 12 to 30 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children and related misdemeanors.. brown was one of five men charged after the 49th statewide investigating grand jury heard testimony about several jehovah's witnesses members who sexually assaulted children.. prosecutors said brown was a member of the congregation when he assaulted the children dozens of times between 2004 and 2006. according to testimony that grand jurors heard, brown groped the children, watched them shower and would sneak into a bedroom at night to assault them.

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  3/28/25 CBS news: The wheels of justice slowly grind along. Will this Statewide investigation eventually include the Watchtower leaders/co-conspirators who hampered police? Only time will tell...."A Pittsburgh-area member of the Jehovah's Witnesses has been sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing two children, state prosecutors announced on Friday.

  The Pennsylvania attorney general said 67-year-old Marc Brown of Allegheny County was given 12 to 30 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children and related misdemeanors.

  Brown was one of five men charged after the 49th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury heard testimony about several Jehovah's Witnesses members who sexually assaulted children.

  Prosecutors said Brown was a member of the congregation when he assaulted the children dozens of times between 2004 and 2006. According to testimony that grand jurors heard, Brown groped the children, watched them shower and would sneak into a bedroom at night to assault them.

  "This defendant ultimately could not escape accountability for heinous conduct perpetrated years ago, thanks to the hard work of investigators and the grand jurors, and the bravery of the survivors," Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said in a news release. "This significant period of incarceration is appropriate for someone who repeatedly harms children." https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/jehovahs-witnessess-member-sentenced-sexual-abuse-allegheny-county/
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  The Share of Religious Americans will continue to decline- New York Times. Why? New Pew Study

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  locally, in northern california i have seen/heard a drop in jw and mainstream church attendance especially in person attendance.

  (exception: a new creepy local new-age charismatic/pentecostal group: "bethel church" 11,000 and growing mega church(kundalini yoga/sex combined with prosperity gospel, trumpism, guns, rock music, dancing, glitter, speaking in tongues, and faith healing).. for me this paragraph sums it up regarding jehovah's witnesses: " ...smith described organized religion to me as having become a “polluted” idea in the american mainstream, because of the publicity around sex abuse scandals and financial malfeasance in many different faiths in the ’80s and ’90s as millennials came of age.

  “the scandals violated most of the virtues believed to make religion good,” smith wrote.

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  It looks like even some Atheists are turned off by dogma and the dogmatic. WSJ today-- :)

  Losing My Nonreligion

  I resigned from the Freedom From Religion Foundation when it turned into a gender fundamentalist organization.

  https://www.wsj.com/opinion/losing-my-nonreligion-transgender-ideology-essay-resign-b7e6d745?st=Sz6jBY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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  WT June 2025: We Are Not Blind We Just Don't Know

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/7xumqjq3zfc?si=ivcg96t4dtgze4ft.

  so this is from the brand new watchtower study edition of june 2025 which has just been posted on jw.org .under the title: modestly accept what you do not know, a let’s read paragraphs in question 4 &5: “read matthew 24:36. we do not know when the end of this system of things will come.

  even jesus, while on earth, did not know the ‘day and hour.’ he later told the apostles that jehovah, who is the great timekeeper, keeps the timing of certain events ‘in his own jurisdiction,’ or authority.

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  lol. After 100+ years of "knowing," they admit they are clueless?

  Blind guides and false prophets.
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  bomb for jehova italy

  by andr in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  italy meets another bomb in front of the kingdom hall, after having caused a scandal on tv, now it is also dangerous to go to the hall.

  here is the image of the press release.

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  What was the scandal?
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  3 Changes The Watchtower Made on Babylon The Great in the Last 6 Months

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/vpws6ncqpla?si=dqnf7-hupfr4pdta.

  for decades, jehovah’s witnesses have been banging on about babylon the great—the so-called world empire of false religion—being on the brink of collapse.

  any day now, they assured us, churches would empty out, priests would be left twiddling their thumbs, and humanity would collectively bin organised religion.

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  Going by Watchtower's two witness rule....how do we know this was an actual prophecy? An old man has a strange dream while incarcerated on an island with hallucinogenic plants. What makes his dream inspired? Says who?

  I had a wild dream last week. Was it a prophecy? :)
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  Is jehovahs-witness.com legitimately and reliably independent of WTB&TS and peripheral, aligned entities?

  by great-trivialization in

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  i am new to this forum and uncertain that this is legitimately and entirely independent of conniving jw controllers or the wtb&ts and its related entities.

  markers like the use of jw.org in the forum description and the policies seem controlled/controlling vs other xjw forums.

  this is not an accusation, it is an attempt to know enough to be comfortable with motives of the ownership and controllers of the forum.

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  Again, this site is independent of Watchtower.

  Based on a conversation with a relative who was a member of the Bethel legal dept., multiple Bethelies were assigned to monitor this type of site. (I can only imagine the cognitive dissonance this would cause.) :) lol -imagine the turnover!