Yes, I would like to see code citations and quotes to CA legal treatises.
You're a lawyer and have access to Lexis and Westlaw. Look them up.
Justitia Themis
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Watchtower's Billion Dollars of Property Cannot Be Sold until Outcome of Conti Appeal
by Dogpatch in30 minutes ago i just got off the phone with some important players in this case, and some things were relayed to me concerning a lot of details of the outcome of the last two days of court.
i am passing this on.
cynthia hampton, one of the main players in the candace conti case (and a close friend of 28 years), just informed me of a further, far more powerful move by the state of california against the watch tower bible and tract society of new york, inc.. by order of the superior court of the state of california - county of alameda (see documents below), until the watch tower's appeal, which won't begin until august 13th and will take up to two years to settle due to due process of law, has forbidden the watch tower to sell any more of its $1 billion in assets in the borough of brooklyn until the appeals case is finished, to assure they won't shelter their monies in the light of this most huge and devastating sexual abuse scandal ever to hit the watch tower society, and perhaps any other single-victim lawsuit.
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There is NOT "Spiritual Confidentiality" privilege for sexual abuse claims!
by 3Mozzies in.
i just love this section from the case:.
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Justitia Themis
Thanks...I forgot. Does anyone know where the briefs, etc. are located?
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There is NOT "Spiritual Confidentiality" privilege for sexual abuse claims!
by 3Mozzies in.
i just love this section from the case:.
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Watchtower found guilty ruled to pay 7 million to 1 victim? wow
by yourmomma inis this recent?
http://www.silentlambs.org/oaklandlawsuit.htm.
i havent seen anyone post about it, the link has a pdf on it of the court documents, and it looks like the stamp is from 5/12 but its blurry.. .
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Your thoughts on these clearly explained ideas for curing cancer?
by Fernando inevery cancer can be cured in weeks explains dr. leonard coldwell .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbdnnfotwm.
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Justitia Themis
Just look at cancer patients that were given placebos and told their hair would fall out as a side effect. Half the people on that trial 'believed' they were on the real drug and experienced hair loss.
Do you have a citation for or a link to this study? Granted, references to this supposed study are rampant on websites promoting 'natural' cures, yet I can't find any citation. In addition, the results seem to vary. You say a full "half" of the people lost hair; most say that only 20% lost hair. Which is it? If it was a cancer study, as some indicate, were these people on other drugs that might have contributed to hair loss? Some sites say it was done in the 50s, so they could have been on other cancer treatments that can lead to hairloss, but perhaps that knowledge wasn't available at the time. Even then, if this study is correct, please see the next paragraph.
There was no reason for this other than belief. Now, what if they were to believe they could be healed? Who knows? Some people may benefit from that.
Nonetheless, the placebo effect is acknowledged and embraced by science. Yet, each of these 'natural' website attempts to make it appear as if the medical community is totally unaware and dismissive of the effect. Why do you think they have a placebo arm attached to these studies? It is to mathmatically account for the effect!
Several sites went so far as to attack researches who feel it ethically wrong to have a placebo arm in some studies. The site intimates that these doctors are nefariously trying to hide something concering the wonderful placebo healing effect. I am quite aware of this debate, and it centers on Phase II and Phase III studies. To qualify for a Phase II or Phase III study, the drug must have demonstrated some efficacy. If it is a Phase II or as Phase III cancer study, then the researchers are dealing with a drug that has shown some efficacy against the specific cancer with which the volunteers are stricken. So now, the ethical question becomes as follows: Is it ethical even to have a placebo arm because it will mean that some volunteers with this cancer will receive absolutely NO treatment during this study? These sites insinuate that the doctors who question the ethics of this practice (demanded by the FDA) are REALLY just trying to stop research into the placebo effect.
I would never dismiss medical intervention...but I see no harm in trying other methods as well.
I agree, and most cancer doctors and cancer treatment centers now treat the 'whole person" with complementary approaches. But this louse that Fernando has posted is one of the quacks who is trying to boost his sales by promoting the 'conspiracy theory' that medical science is hiding something. He is trying to create the same distrust of the general medical community that the WTBTS tries to create in order to bolster its dangerous medical claims about blood.
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Nephew Readying for Harvard
by snowbird insince he disregarded the elders' "encouragement" to turn down the fellowship offer from harvard, he's being deleted as a ministerial servant.. he leaves in august.. i'm so happy for and proud of him!.
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Justitia Themis
Excellent news!
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Your thoughts on these clearly explained ideas for curing cancer?
by Fernando inevery cancer can be cured in weeks explains dr. leonard coldwell .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbdnnfotwm.
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Justitia Themis
As expected, a quick search of the internet finds others who point out the flaws in his cures.
I don’t want to spend any time on most of it, as this would be unhealthy. But a couple of parts of it are so egregious that I just can’t help myself. Someone is wrong on the internet. So these are not his only problems, just the ones that made my brain bleed. 1) Around 2 minutes he starts talking about blood oxygenation as therapy:
A great friend of mine Dr Martin in Germany, he is using an oxygen step therapy, for example, where you take the blood out, it gets ionized oxygen, that you lead the blood back in. And you do this 12 times, and basically you have brand new blood, like a newborn baby. So you already eliminated the lack of oxygen. And you see the blood coming out looks like black. They put the oxygen in and it becomes pink. And it’s like legal doping. You get it, and you feel so energized. There are several issues here, the first being “ionized oxygen”.
He is non-specific about the kind of ion he’s making with his oxygen, but there are not many choices if we are talking about oxygen that isn’t in some kind of compound. Superoxide is the most common and the most biologically relevant form in animals. It’s a metabolic waste product that forms during respiration. It also happens to be a really potent mutagen and knockouts of the enzyme that we use to destroy superoxide are uniformly unhealthy mice/flies/yeast/whatevers as a result. But hey, no, “ionized oxygen” sounds totally health-inducing.
My second beef with this section is this “blood of a newborn”. Apart from being short on antibodies of their own and way tweaked out with growth factors, the main way that newborn blood differs from adult blood is the absence of adult hemoglobin. Instead they have the fetal form, which binds oxygen a little more tightly. (Don’t try this at home. Seriously.) This is really only useful if you need to strip oxygen from a relatively oxygen-poor environment (say, mother’s bloodstream), as it also limits the ability of your blood to give up that oxygen to the rest of your body. Of course, the fetal form is also better than nothing, so switching a patient to the fetal form is sometimes done to treat sickle-cell disease. So it is *possible* to give someone blood more like a newborn’s- but not by dumping oxygen into them. It’s done with drugs (chemicals!). Last, there is a cute little sleight of hand going on here that is a large part of why it is so goddamned important for people to learn basic chemistry. They take venous blood (unless the phlebotomist is crazy) which is oxygen poor before it passes by the heart and reaches the lungs. They then dope it up with oxygen. (It’s a miracle! It turned red!) Then they pump it back in. This is what your lungs are for.
2) So that had me worked up a bit. Then around 4:45 he gets to talking about salt: The problem is, they are talking about table salt. Very often table salt is 1/3 glass, 1/3 sand, and 1/3 salt. So the glass and the sand come scratching the arteries and they start to bleed. I’m going to set aside the blood-pressure nonsense that he’s spouting here and deal simply with his ideas about the composition of table salt.
First, I just want to point out that if there were glass and sand particles in your salt that were big enough to be scratching your arteries, this would imply that particles of that size had crossed the intestinal wall. Good luck figuring out how that could happen at all, let alone happen without hemorrhaging in the intestines (unless you think that’s a common feature of hypertensive patients?) But biology aside, if he were somehow right about the composition of table salt including 1/3 sand and 1/3 glass, this is an ostensibly testable claim. In fact, this is one that you can try yourself at home! Get yourself a couple of glasses(first clue?), some salt, some sand and some glass beads. Fill them up with clean water (not all the way) and add 3 teaspoons of salt to one. Add 1 teaspoon of sand and one of glass (you can do this by weight if you think that’s how he means the divisions) to the other cup. Stir them both up a bit until it looks like nothing more will dissolve. Pour out the liquid (carefully so that you don’t lose anything that was undissolved. If this guy has things right, at least as much undissolved material will remain in the 3/3 salt cup (which, according to him contains 1/3 glass and 1/3 sand) as in the 1/3 glass, 1/3 sand cup.
One last thought: So, if you look at the facts and if you look what they know what they don’t know, you know that Dr. Gary Null stated that, a lot of other people, the medical profession, medical doctor statistically have the shortest life span of 56 years of age. The highest abuse rate of alcohol and drugs. The highest suicide rate, only the psychiatrist is higher. And, you go to somebody that has a lowest life span, highest suicide rate, highest drug abuse rate, to ask them how to have a healthy happy long life. I think we should rethink our way of thinking. I can’t believe I’m about to defend M.D.s in general here, but I have to say that if I were a doctor and I had a patient come to me with goiter because some jackass told him that his table salt was full of glass? I’d drink, too.
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Your thoughts on these clearly explained ideas for curing cancer?
by Fernando inevery cancer can be cured in weeks explains dr. leonard coldwell .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbdnnfotwm.
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Justitia Themis
OMG! This was hilarious! I hope you meant this as a spoof Fernando. He said so many ridiculous things, anyone who has taken Biology 101, Chemistry 101, or Genetics 101 can easily spot them.
Note: "Cancer" is simply cell super-reproduction. DNA mutates, and the cells start reproducing at accelerated rates, which causes cancerous growths. We now know that there is no one form of cancer because researchers have mapped many of their DNA, and they can point to the precise location of the mutation.
This quacks recommendations?
#1: Change the PH balance. Yet changing the PH balance does not change DNA. Epic fail!
#2: Oxygenate the blood. Yet..again..oxygenating the blood does not change the DNA. Epic fail!
#3: Vitamin C. A good antioxidant, but it does not change DNA. Epic fail!
#4: Vitamin E. Another good antioxidant, but it does not change DNA. Epic fail!
#5: Then he goes off on this weird thing about salt. Granted, I prefer sea salt, but this guy says that table salt is "part glass and sand" and the sand supposedly gets into the bloodstream and injures the arteries. LOL! And just how does the sand get reduced into a particles small enough to cross from the intestines into the blood stream? ROTGLMAO!!
#6: And then, he spews this crap about doctors' average lifespan being only 50 something years; if they can't heal themselves, how can they help us? Utter nonsense!
Please see the following: http://www.ncahf.org/nl/1996/3-4.html DEAD DOCTORS DON'T LIE! BUT THIS LIVING VETERINARIAN DOES!
Maverick veterinarian Joel Wallach is selling video and audio tapes titled Dead Doctors Don't Lie! proclaiming that physicians have a life expectancy of only 58 years. This sends the message that doctors are so wrongheaded that they themselves live significantly shorter lives than the general population. It is not clear where Wallach gets his data, but it is a lie.
Physicians have long had life expectancies that are longer than the general population. Goodman [1] reviewed reports on physician life expectancies in 1925, 1938-42, 1949-51, and 1971. His study covered the 1971 population of 344,823 physicians, and the deaths of 19,086 from 1969 through 1973. He found that both male and female physicians had greater life expectancy than the general population.
The American Medical Association's Center For Health Care Policy published data on the life expectancies of U.S. medical graduate physicians by specialty in 1988. [2] It showed that the life expectancy of physicians is somewhere between 75 and 88, depending upon the age and gender that one chooses.
Wallach also claims to have been nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1991. According to the Nobel Committee, this would be impossible for him to know because the names of nominees are confidential. Wallach could have been "nominated" by himself or one of his admirers, but that would not make him a serious candidate. The Nobel Committee denies that Wallach has ever been a legitimate Nobel Prize nominee. NCAHF has been aware of Wallach's activities for many years. In the early 1980s Wallach worked out of the Northcoast Naturopathic Clinic at Cannon Beach, Oregon, where he practiced as a "Manner Metabolic Physician." This designation meant that he dispensed a the unapproved cancer therapy centered around laetrile (cyanide derived from apricot pits).
Citations. 1) Goodman, "Longevity and mortality of American physicians, 1969-73," MMFQ Summer, 1975:353-75; 2) "Expected life and work life of active USMG physicians" in Physician Supply & Utilization By Specialty, AMA, 1988; 3) FDA Enforcement Report, 10/4/89.
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"Blunders that led to World War"
by Jeffro inon the watchtower.org site at the moment, they are featuring a link to an article that first appeared in the august 2009 awake!
that purportedly talks about how world war i began.. in jw make-believe land, world war i began suddenly, and was essentially a big surprise.
so it's interesting to note that the one of the most significant things that led to world war ithe first and second balkan warsare completely omitted from the article.
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Justitia Themis
My comment was confined to the current article cited in the original post. I'm hardly a jw apologist, but I just can't see much to attack in this instance.
Justitia wrote: When the WTBTS writes generally on the historical subject, it tracks closer to reality because it assumes, usually correctly, that most JWs will not make the link. When it writes about history as applied to them specifically, 1914, and whether they are God's channel, it twists the subject matter.
I agree. This article is discussing history in general and asks whether it might be repeated in the form of WW3, The purpose of the article was to create fear in the rank/file that Armageddon is nigh, not to intimate that the FDS had God-given foreknowledge of WW1 because Jehovah had annointed them. Therefore, the WTBTS had no need to re-cast history.
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Summer reading
by mrsjones5 inok folks, it's that time of year.
school's out, the kids are running around (well actually staring at the video screen), the days are longer and the night are cool.
with the lazy hot days of summer ahead what's on your reading list?.
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Justitia Themis
D*mn IE9.
I have been on break for two weeks, and in that time, I have consumed The Pillars of the Earth and the first two in the Game of Thrones trilogy. I just started the third in the trilogy. All of them have been very engrossing.