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Iran Oil Bourse - March 2006
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if you are not familiar with the iran oil bourse, you need to google it promptly.

thankfully, many reporters, commentators, and scholars that operate in the 10% zone not controlled by the big five have wrote outstanding articles and analysis regarding the true implications of the iran oil bourse.

in fact, there seems to be a new article on the subject, released daily.
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State of the U.S. economy - bleak
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january saturday 21st 2006 (01h49) : .

collapse of u.s. economy imminent .

in its attempt to establish a world empire dominating every nation on the planet, the u.s. has exhausted its ability to finance the expansion and the country now faces imminent financial collapse.
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Lots going on in JW-world
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in the past month or so we've seen..... - the article that was published by baylor university (the big news).

- announcement of massive layoffs within the wts.

- the wts losing the worker's comp suit.
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Any current bethelites here affected by the layoffs?
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let us know how you feel.

what is the general mood like over there?.
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Hint of disillusionment among bethelites regarding downsizing?
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here is an email i got from a jw friend regarding the downsizing.. can you sense the uneasiness in the last part of the message?.

"bros vandewall, jaracz, pierce and weaver gave a talk.

to the bethelites after the watchtower study monday.
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OCTOBER 29, 1911- Russell's hanky panky headline in Brooklyn paper
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russell and wife maria, before divorce.

pittsburg, october 27 - the suit for a separation brought by martha (sic)f. russell against charles taz russell, her husband, popularly known as pastor russell, who has just entered a libel suit against the brooklyn eagle, is remembered here as one of the most sensational court proceedings in the history of allegheny county.

pastor russell's advertising methods had already attracted a good deal of attention to himself, and while many referred to him as "the crank preacher of allegheny," his unusual lectures and effective publicity methods drew good-sized crowds to his bible house on arch street.
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Another wrong prophetic start date
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according to the prophecy in daniel ch.

9, the messiah was to appear exactly 69 weeks after the decree was made to rebuild jerusalem.. historical records show that artaxerxes longanimus made the decree for the jews to rebuild jerusalem in nisan 30 445 bc.

the wt states that that this happened in 455 bc.. they got 607 bc as the date of the destruction of jerusalem wrong and now this one as well.. although this date is not as critical as 607 bc to the wt doctrines, it still shows how they write their own history as they please.
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Is it possible to hijack your publisher card from cong. records?
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i wonder if anyone has any ideas on how to remove your publisher card from the cong.

secretary?.

i've completely faded but ppl in my former cong.
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JW acting skills put to the test
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i've completely stopped taking part in any jw activities for close to a year now and will be visiting my jw family for the next couple of weeks.

they have no idea that i have become "apostate".

for all they know i am still an active jw.
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Let's play a game - Follow the WTS $$ trail
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a huge question that i have in the back of my mind regarding the wts is where all of the money ends up.

no one really has a conclusive answer to that.

i think it would reveal a lot if we were able to find out.. i know there have been various threads in the past where it revealed a clue here and a clue there.