Posts by OrphanCrow

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Site Updates

by Simon in

just a heads-up that i will be testing some updates this evening.. the nature of the changes means it's difficult to test every scenario in advance offline (translation: it's a lot more effort and i just can't be bothered) so i'm going to go with the "wing-it" approach:.

deploy, check for errors, try to fix errors before anyone else notices them.. i can switch between the new and old version pretty quickly so if there are significant issues, i'll rollback and revert the changes while i work on the fixes.

worse case is the pages won't display quite right (dates might be a giveaway) but a full page refresh should fix things.. http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/.

OrphanCrow

Aaargh...the Topic Preview has stopped working for me.

It is stuck on "full"

It won't go back to "none"

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RC 2017 talk: Safeguard Your Children From “What Is Evil”

by wifibandit in

you read that right.

there is a whole talk on the topic.. .

outline: safeguard your children from “what is evil” co-tk17-26-e. .

OrphanCrow

steve2: A man who somehow 'knows' what JW writers intended and does a more tactful job.

And he still gets it wrong. He uses 100 words to say the same thing as 10 words. And he is still wrong.

Tactfully wrong.

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RC 2017 talk: Safeguard Your Children From “What Is Evil”

by wifibandit in

you read that right.

there is a whole talk on the topic.. .

outline: safeguard your children from “what is evil” co-tk17-26-e. .

OrphanCrow

fastjehu: Maybe the link is wrong

You are right - the link is wrong.

I tried to find the document to link to, but I am not having any success.

It should be in the "Exhibit's" list of the ARC website for Case 29. I have it saved to a hard drive but I can't seem to unearth it on the ARC website.

The document that quote comes from is:

SUBM.1029.001.0002

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Laura and Lorenz Reibling starting Family Foundation

by TheWonderofYou in

http://reiblingfoundation.org/press/.

reilings's foundation active in supporting certain project .

- holocaust education, boston university, film festivial about concentration camps and persecution of jw in wwii,.

OrphanCrow

Wonder: it seems that Laura and Lorenz are alway starting something knew, waiting in the starting blocks.

The next contribution that the Reiblings made in 2006/7 was certainly another "starting block". Or, more accurately, it was probably "seed money" - to grow another sprout off the PBM tree.

That contribution - for the Medical Society for Blood Management, in Vienna Austria - grew a pretty big tree. Huge tree, in fact. It is this society - the MSBM - that allows the Reiblings to make the claim that they supported the medical research that is linked at their site. And, it grew into the society as the 'push' behind the European Commission publishing the two documents that are also linked there.

This will take a while to unpack.

First - what/who is the Medical Society for Blood Management?

That particular society - another "bloodless" one - didn't show up until around 2006/7. And, it seems to be a pretty obscure and exclusive society. It doesn't have the visibility of its predecessor - the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (formed 2000/1) - and I had a difficult time chasing down the very few mentions of it online.

So far, from what I can put together, the MSBM was formed with individuals who also held the membership in the SABM - notably, Shannon Farmer and Axel Hofmann.

Both Farmer and Hofmann are Jehovah's Witnesses. (Farmer ascended the HLC ladder). At the time they would have received a 'contribution' from the Reibling foundation, they were working on government contracts in Australia to promote and implement the PBM program in all of Australia. Two JWs - in charge of an entire country's blood supply.*

*there is lots about that unlikely alliance online, including current practices in PBM in Australia

It appears like the MSBM was set up as a liaison between Shannon/Farmer...just another part of the web...the blood management web that the WTS started and the JWs are an active part of. This blood management society was set up in Austria - Hofmann's turf. Right about the time of the Australian PBM launch.

We know that the Hofmann is part of MSBM because this study, published in 2011, says this

Correspondence: Axel Hofmann, M.E., Medical Society for Blood Management, Schlossplatz 14, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria. Telephone:
43-664-3005092; Fax: 43-2627-47854; e-mail: [email protected] Received March 22, 2011;

We also know that Farmer is connected to the MSBM because the study (published 2017) that the Reibling page links to, says this:

Shannon L.Farmer reports personal fees from Thieme (Stuttgart, Germany)
and Elsevier Science USA and nonfinancial support from the
National Blood Authority (Australia), the Medical Society for Blood Management, and The Health Round Table, outside the
submitted work.

That successful alliance has led to this:

https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/sante/item-detail.cfm?item_id=57139

Axel and Shannon have put Reibling's seed money to good use. With a little help from their friends.

The friends that the WTS has so rigorously and religiously pursued. Those guys. The ones that the WTS/HLC has targeted to join their "bloodless cult"

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Met JWs today - they lied about who they were

by Xanthippe in

so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.

when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?

' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.

OrphanCrow

ruby: I mean isn't everyone here taking advantage of ambiguity?

No.

In fact, quite the opposite.

*you are a different breed, aren't you?

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Laura and Lorenz Reibling starting Family Foundation

by TheWonderofYou in

http://reiblingfoundation.org/press/.

reilings's foundation active in supporting certain project .

- holocaust education, boston university, film festivial about concentration camps and persecution of jw in wwii,.

OrphanCrow

In 2005/6 (2007 return), the Reiblings gave $26,000 to the Blood Conversation Support Foundation and then again, the following year, they gave the same foundation $148,000 for a total of $174,000.

What/who is The Blood Conservation Support Foundation?

https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-8429198

2007
MISSION STATEMENT
To educate medical professionals, medical Institutions, medical service payers, and the general public, Including those in developing countries, with conservation and avoidance techniques for the use of blood in medicine.
PRINCIPAL OFFICER
Barak K. Baker, President

And...who is Barak. K. Baker? The president of this blood conservation foundation?

http://jwemployees.bravehost.com/NewsReports/2062.html

Leroy Dale Baker was the founding incorporator of the Wyoming Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dale Baker's son and business partner, Barak Kerns Baker, aka "Barry" Baker is/was a member of the Cascade Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Leroy Dale Baker made his millions as the founder of Grand Rapids' "Dale Baker Automotive Group". A subsidiary, Circuit Leasing, Inc., once leased automobiles to the WatchTower Society for its 500 or more traveling "Overseers" assigned throughout the United States -- until Baker eventually sold out his auto business operations.

Barak K. Baker was the Manager of Circuit Leasing, Inc. (Thereafter, the WatchTower Society cut out the middleman and formed its own "Circuit Vehicles" auto leasing subsidiary, which allows this subsidiary company to purchase vehicles directly from auto manufacturers and lease such back to the main corporation.) "Barry" Baker is currently President of the BLOOD CONSERVATION SUPPORT FOUNDATION, whose large expenditures over the years seems to indicate a significant asset for the WatchTower Society's anti-blood transfusion agenda.
L. Dale Baker is also a founding Trustee of JAH-JIREH HOMES OF AMERICA, which is a Jehovah's Witness owned, operated, and occupied retirement community located near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Dale Baker is also the father-in-law of Judah B. Schroeder, who is a former WatchTower Society Attorney and the son of deceased WatchTower Governing Body member, Albert D. Schroeder.

Baker's blood conservation foundation doesn't seem to be active anymore:

This organization has not appeared on the IRS Business Master File in a number of months. It may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.
This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence are warranted.

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Met JWs today - they lied about who they were

by Xanthippe in

so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.

when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?

' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.

OrphanCrow

Ruby: I think rank and file jws are quite honest and sincere and would not see it as lying or even as being deceptive - I think they are taking advantage of ambiguity.

Lol! You are absolutely right about that. The r&f have no idea about the difference between honesty and deception. They have no clue whatsoever.

Honest and sincere? Yes...they sincerely think they are being honest and don't even know that they have been trained in JW speak where a lie = truth. They have been lied to for so long that they need to live the lie. They have no truth to tell - their lie is their truth.

Taking advantage of ambiguity is willfully deceptive behavior.

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Laura and Lorenz Reibling starting Family Foundation

by TheWonderofYou in

http://reiblingfoundation.org/press/.

reilings's foundation active in supporting certain project .

- holocaust education, boston university, film festivial about concentration camps and persecution of jw in wwii,.

OrphanCrow

Hi Nonnie :)

Okay, WonderofYou, I had a bit of time to put some stuff together about the "Laura and Lorenz Riebling Family Foundation" (I smell another Reibling installment....)

Firstly, your title is a bit misleading - the foundation is not "starting". It has been around since 2006.

I downloaded the information from the 990 forms for the "Laura and Lorenz Riebling Family Foundation" and I will condense the activity that has occurred with the foundation since 2004/5.

2006 - 990 return

gift to foundation - 15,000

paid out - 38,500

2007 - 990 return

gift to foundation - 336,000

paid out - 56,000

2008 - 990 return

gifts - 0

paid out - 195,500

2009 - 990 return

gifts - 0

paid out - 14,500

2010 - 990 return

gifts - 0

paid out - 7,500

(2011-2012 - no activity)

2013 - 990 return

gifts - 0

paid out - 1,500

THE GOETHE-INSTITUT BOSTON FUNDCULTURAL 500 170 BEACON ST PROGRAMS 02116 LAWRENCE LANGER-HOLOCAUST FUNDHOLOCAUST 1,000 SYMPOSIUM BOSTON UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM 1SILBERWAY 02215 1,500

2014 - 990 return

gifts - 0

paid out - 5,000

Paid during the year BOSTON COLLEDGE THE FILMS STUDIES FUND 5,000 140 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE CHESTNUT - 5,000

2015 - 990 return

gifts- 0

paid out - 21,500

Returns for 2015 and 2016 were not available.

There are several noteworthy contributions to various entities that deserve some more comments and background information. I will return with a better look at the "bloodless" $support that the Reiblings have offered to that indu$try.

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Appeal date set for Russian Supreme Court

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

the appeal date is june 13, 2017.

11:40 am.

http://vsrf.ru/moving_case.php?findbynember=%c0%ca%cf%c817-238.

OrphanCrow

The appeal date is June 13, 2017. 11:40 am

http://vsrf.ru/moving_case.php?findByNember=%C0%CA%CF%C817-238

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Met JWs today - they lied about who they were

by Xanthippe in

so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.

when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?

' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.

OrphanCrow

Ruby, it is deceptive behavior.

"How can they be lying about their identity if..."

Well, if you have to ask that question, your concept of "honest" and "deceptive" is different than mine is.