Heavy hitters. With obvious cognitive abilities WHY are they involved with Watchtower?
Balaamsass2
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Watchtower in the NEWS. DUBLIN: "Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venture"
by Balaamsass2 inslate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group".
slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group.
28 aug 2024. john mulligan.
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Watchtower in the NEWS. DUBLIN: "Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venture"
by Balaamsass2 inslate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group".
slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group.
28 aug 2024. john mulligan.
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Balaamsass2
Heavy hitters for certain. No window washers at this "Irish Bethel".
EFG Names Senior UBS Banking Veteran to its Board
https://www.finews.com/news/english-news/56502-philip-lofts-efg-board-susanne-brandenberger
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Watchtower in the NEWS. DUBLIN: "Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venture"
by Balaamsass2 inslate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group".
slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group.
28 aug 2024. john mulligan.
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Balaamsass2
Fascinating development with plenty to dig into. I agree with JeffT, and Bandicoot. A relative who was a Gilead Grad and Branch Overseer confided to me in my early 20s. " Copy what Watchtower does, not what they say", when I pressed him to explain, he said: "The Org is very careful with spending and always has careful plans laid out for years in the future".
Does Watchtower think they may soon loose their Tax Free Status? Are they worried about something else? Are they doing things that are fully taxable...not religious? What?
Are these Watchtower experts forgoing their 200k++++ corporate salaries and moving to Ireland to work for free as Bethelites, or simply working PT online, or something else?
Silicon Valley Corporations (Apple, Facebook, Seagate, and Intel) have moved many operations to Ireland in recent years after Ireland reduced their Corporate tax rate to 12.5% (recently raised to 15% I believe). USA Corporate tax rate is 21%, California adds 8.84%, New York adds approximately 7.25%.
https://www.ocorian.com/insights-news-press-releases/six-reasons-why-companies-incorporate-ireland
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Watchtowers billion$
by lastmanstanding inserena williams was baptised as a jehovah's witness last year.
photo: pa. .
john mulligan.
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Balaamsass2
Last Man standing, my apologies, but I reposted your story in a manner to get more SEO and get around the Paper's paywall.
The story appears to be authentic, the paper has been around for 100 years, and the story is getting picked up by reputable services.
Lots of interesting things to dig into from this story, THANKS!
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Watchtower in the NEWS. DUBLIN: "Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venture"
by Balaamsass2 inslate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group".
slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group.
28 aug 2024. john mulligan.
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Balaamsass2
8/27 the "Irish Independent" Dublin, Ireland.
"Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venture
Slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group"
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Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venture
Slate of industry heavy-hitters sign up to management company run by religious group
- Irish Independent
- 28 Aug 2024
- JOHN MULLIGAN
The Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group has established a new asset management firm in Ireland that features a slate of heavy-hitting directors, including the former chief risk officer at Swiss banking giant UBS and other seasoned investment bankers.
The experienced financial directors are all understood to also have ties to the religious movement.
The religious group is thought to have tens of billions of dollars in assets and relies on anonymous donations from its members to support all of its activities.
It has established three companies in Ireland in recent weeks, including Mina Asset Management, Mina Treasury Services and Lepta Payment Solutions. All three are based at the community’s Irish headquarters in Co Wicklow.
The directors of Mina Asset Management include three US-based directors and others based in Germany and Australia.
One of the directors is Philip Lofts. He worked for UBS in the United States for three decades and was the group chief risk officer from 2009 to 2010, and from 2012 to 2015. He also served as CEO of UBS Americas in 2011.
He was a non-executive director of UBS Group Americas from 2017 until 2023. He is currently a non-executive board member of major Swiss private banking group EFG International.
Vassilios Pappas, with an address in Germany, is also a director of Mina Asset Management.
He is the co-founder and managing director of leading global asset management firm Assenagon Asset Management. It has about €57bn of assets under management.
Tobias Broweleit is currently an adjunct professor at Germany’s for-profit IU International University of Applied Sciences and lists his address in New York at the Jehovah’s Witnesses property.
He worked for German banking giant Sparkasse as a portfolio manager from 2007 to 2009 and also held other roles at the group.
Nolan Vengethasamy is also a director. He worked as a bond trader with ABN Amro from 1997 to 2001. He also worked for South Africa’s Standard Bank Group.
Another director of Mina Asset Management is New Zealander Stuart Bull, who gives his address as the headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses office in the UK was asked for comment.
There are about 8.8 million Jehovah’s Witnesses in the world, and an estimated 8,000 across the island of Ireland. About 1.2 million are in the United States.
It has amassed considerable assets since the movement was founded in Pittsburgh in 1872 by Charles Taze Russell.
In 2015, it put its worldwide headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, up for sale in various lots.
It was expected to fetch as much as $1bn as the group planned a move to upstate New York. In 2018, the group sold the last of the properties it owned in Brooklyn, bringing to 37 the total number of properties it sold in the borough since 2004.
In 2018, just one of the apartment blocks it sold in Brooklyn fetched $202m when it was sold to Florida-based private equity firm Kayne Anderson Real Estate.
Among the well-known Jehovah’s Witnesses are tennis champion Serena Williams, who was baptised by the group in Florida last year.
‘The religious group is thought to have tens of billions of dollars in assets and relies on donations’
Article Name:Former top UBS executive joins Jehovah’s Witnesses’ new Ireland-based asset venturePublication:Irish IndependentAuthor:JOHN MULLIGANNote: re-post of earlier group post.
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Questions about demons, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Charlotte murder trial. The Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer.
by Balaamsass2 in8/20/24 "the charlotte (nc) observer".
questions about demons, jehovah’s witnesses in charlotte murder trial.
what do you think about demonic possessions?
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8/20/24 "The Charlotte (NC) Observer"
Questions about demons, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Charlotte murder trial
What do you think about demonic possessions? The supernatural? How about Jehovah’s Witnesses? During a unique Monday afternoon jury selection for the trial in a 2010 murder and rape that involved incest charges, those questions unleashed waves of potential jurors’ own traumatic stories. The questions also suggested the defendant’s arguments may lean into claims he and his family, who are Jehovah’s Witnesses, previously made to police. When his cousin died, Derek Ward told police “a demon had her,” Charlotte prosecutor Kimberly Gardner said in court. The family didn’t call police first, she said, they called a church. Police say Ward raped and strangled his cousin, Brittini Ward, when he was 24 and she was 23. Ward was previously found mentally unfit to stand trial but is now defending himself, which is known as a pro se trial. He has spent 14 years in jail without trial since officers arrested him in May 2010. In court Monday, he wore an orange Mecklenburg County Detention Center uniform. An advising assistant public defender, Michael Kabakoff, sat next to him. An article about Derek Ward’s arrest in his cousin’s murder, published in The Charlotte Observer on May 26, 2010. Newspapers.com Answering questions from Gardner, most jurors said their own thoughts about religion wouldn’t affect their ability to weigh evidence. One said all the talk about demonic possessions felt “a little ridiculous.” Ward asked Chief Superior Court Judge Carla Archie to remove that juror. She did. Gardner also asked jurors about their relationship with rape, murder and mental health. Two women had been sexually assaulted, they told a room of strangers. And one man’s schizophrenic grandmother once tried to suffocate him in his sleep. TENSE PRO SE MURDER TRIAL Following an afternoon break, Gardner asked Archie to remind Ward of how to act inside the courtroom. He was “looking meanly” and “glaring” at Gardner while she questioned jurors, Gardner said, and he told the judge to “crash and burn, crash and burn, crash and burn,” while being escorted out of the courtroom by a deputy. Ward contended he was muttering to himself and said he is not a threat to anyone. He wasn’t even in handcuffs, he said. “If I didn’t have a very positive look on my face,” he said, “I’m sorry, but my life has not been very positive. I’ve been in jail for 14 years.” He also criticized Gardner’s questions to potential jurors. “This is a murder and rape case with facts,” he said. “She’s opening up Pandora’s box talking about demons.” The Charlotte Observer, on June 4, 2010, published an article about Dawn Ward’s arrest in her daughter’s murder. She was once charged with murder and incest with her nephew, Derek Ward. Newspapers.com Police, two weeks after arresting Ward, charged Dawn Ward — Brittini’s mother — with murder, accessory to a felony and incest in June 2010. The incest charge, police previously said, involved her relationship with Ward — her nephew. Dawn Ward pleaded guilty to concealing Brittini’s death in 2012 and served several years on probation. Since then, Gardner told jurors, she has attempted to kill herself several times. Jury selection will continue Tuesday. This story was originally published August 20, 2024, 5:00 AM.
Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article291196400.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article291196400.html
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Is 1st Century advice on marriage still relevant in today’s modern world?
by liam inrepublicans want to make a law that forbids ‘uncontested divorce”.
they based this on this scripture.. matthew 19. is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”.
4 “haven’t you read,” jesus replied, “that at the beginning the creator ‘made them male and female,’and said, ‘for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ so they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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Balaamsass2
I keep hearing right wing commenters on TV state the USA is a "Christian Nation!" and always has been.
Ummm....the original inhabitants of North America...first nations etc. have a VARIETY of beliefs...NOT Christian.
The Spanish were here before the English...and they were Catholic.
The first English and Dutch Colonies were a mishmash of conflicting Catholic and Protestant beliefs, who persecuted "Heretics" like the Quakers.
Many of the so called founding fathers were agnostics, "Spiritual but not religious", and even Masons, who the right wing evangelicals hate now.
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2025 Convention Theme leak
by ukpimo inaccording to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.
the theme of the convention for next year is.
pure worship.
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Balaamsass2
PURE worship. lol. I remember the frequently used illustration of a nice clean clear glass of water ....with just a few drops of POISON.
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Lost aoul
by LostSoulUK inhi everyone, i just joined and i have been lost a long time, growing up i was a witness with my mum.
i walked away when i was older, did drugs, sex, travelling all my life never stopping anywhere more than 3 months my entire life, relationship after relationship, pain and hurt after pain and hurt.
i always felt like there was something missing, and tried to find what it was.
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Balaamsass2
Welcome to the group. It is always a good thing to question what we believe, and our place in the Universe. I highly recommend sharing your feelings with a licensed mental health professional who can help you ask the right questions and really get in touch with your feelings and life experiences.
Try not to latch on to any belief system based on "feelings". Ask questions and do research. I highly recommend a website "JWfacts.com" well researched and to the point.
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Voting, why make it easier to vote??
by moomanchu indemocrats are always harping on and on about voting rights and how the ability to vote should be easier and access unrestricted.
the most progressive ones want to allow prisoners, and illegals with no voter id the ability to vote along with the criminals, drug addicts, and uneducated low lives who already can vote.. .
after they push for everyone and anyone to be able to vote they then tell us it is a sacred privilege, a duty and honor, and a big responsibility blah, blah ect..... if it is all those grandiose things are true i think it should be harder to vote not easier.
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Balaamsass2
Moo,
Was my comment insulting? No, not in my opinion. A 100 IQ is average in the USA, just like the average male height is 5' 9". Factually, half the population is below average in IQ and height. Both realities affect abilities in some areas. 10% of Americans never graduated from High School. 38% of Americans have graduated college. Some studies claim 40% of America doesn't watch or read ANY news daily.
My point is if you are, or have been living in ANY kind of bubble it is important to question WHAT you believe, WHY you believe it, and what your information source is/was. Having grown up and existed in the JW CULT for the majority of my life I constantly have to question my long held JW beliefs/world view and information sources for them, and avoid simply replacing them with just as faulty beliefs.
I believe that overestimating ones understanding is a common issue for current and ex-JWs that existed in the Watchtower knowledge and opinion bubble for years. "The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them from accurately assessing their own skills."