A rich Mexican probably has armed guards and razor wire around his "palatial mansion" to keep guys like this away from the boss.
Posts by JeffT
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18Ralph Walls implausible 2021 Convention field service story
by RULES & REGULATIONS inanother implausible field service story told by ralph walls at the 2021 convention.
get ready for this unrealistic, stupid, dull and boring, made up fiction that is presented at this assembly.. some years ago ( tells a story but doesn't know exact date ), a brother ( doesn't give his name ) in mexico ( doesn't name the town) from the rurals, dressed in a very simple garb ( to show he was not showy ) knocked at the door of a palatial mansion.
( a very rich ''worldly'' person must live here ).
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You Tube Questions about Watchtower Property
by Listener inkim and mikey made a youtube yesterday claiming that a business called watchtower property co. was connected to the watchtower.
they used a recording done by youtuber smurf girl of a call she made to a julie at the company.
i believe the call was doctored as it has her saying that (no) "we're connected to the jehovahs witnesses directly.
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JeffT
This is not complicated. At issue is whether or not Watchtower Property Company is in some way a business partner of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society - the allegation made by Kim and Mikey and/or Smurfgirl.
I posted links to the sources of the information I gathered about Watchtower property. I believe that information, from third party sources, shows there is no connection between Watchtower Property Company and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. If some one posts information, sourced from similar unbiased third parties, showing that such a connection does in fact exist, I will apologize and ask Simon to delete my post.
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You Tube Questions about Watchtower Property
by Listener inkim and mikey made a youtube yesterday claiming that a business called watchtower property co. was connected to the watchtower.
they used a recording done by youtuber smurf girl of a call she made to a julie at the company.
i believe the call was doctored as it has her saying that (no) "we're connected to the jehovahs witnesses directly.
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JeffT
OK, this is long, but I’ve uncovered some information. I feel strongly this needs to be discussed.
To repeat my background, I’m a retired accountant with twenty-six years of professional experience in the real estate industry. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve done extensive research on copyright and privacy rights as a freelance writer.
On to the details.
https://www.bizapedia.com/pa/watchtower-property-co.html
The above site contains information about Watchtower Property Company. The following is a cut and paste.
“Watchtower Property Co is a Pennsylvania Domestic Fictitious Names filed On August 21, 2017. The company’s filing status is listed as Active and its File Number is 6595538. The company’s principal address is 2929 Walnut Street Ste 1540 Philadelphia, PA 19104.
The company has 4 principals on record. The principals are Andrew Eisenstein from Springfield PA, Fe304, LLC from Philadelphia PA, Jason Friedland from Philadelphia PA, and Matthew Canno from Philadelphia PA.”I had never seen the term “fictitious names” and had to look it up. It is nothing nefarious, it is Pennsylvania equivalent of “Doing Business As,” the more commonly used term.
Here are the bio’s for three of the four principals, taken from Iron Stone’s website. (http://iron-stone.com/leadership-team/) I can’t find anything about Fe203 except that it’s a Limited Liability Corporation, and it got some money from the feds under the payroll protection plan. “Fe” is the chemical abbreviation for Iron, so I suppose that is somebody’s clever play on the Iron Stone name.
Andrew Eisenstein is the founder of Iron Real Estate Partners. Since the mid-1990s, he has completed over $400 million in private equity and real estate transactions. He has established a successful business model leading Iron Stone into opportunistic real estate development, special situations investing and mortgage debt acquisition. Mr. Eisenstein has a background in general contracting, historic property restoration, and construction in high-rise buildings. As a construction manager and developer, Mr. Eisenstein has built a solid track record of entrepreneurial and creative projects that rely on this specialized construction expertise. Mr. Eisenstein has served on several not-for-profit boards including Legacy Youth Tennis and Settlement Music School. When not working, he can be found playing tennis, running in the Wissahickon or splitting firewood for his outdoor pizza oven that he converted from an early 18th century smoke house. Mr. Eisenstein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jason Friedland joined Iron Stone in 2002. He is intimately involved with the acquisition, execution, repositioning and management of the Iron Stone real estate portfolio. He has significant experience with construction management, financing, zoning, asset acquisition via bankruptcy, historic and new markets tax credits, affordable housing, and property management. Mr. Friedland is a trustee of the Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the Prints, Drawings and Photographs Committee at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a member of the Childhood Friends of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. From 2010-2019, he served as trustee and then Chairman of the Board of The Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, with campuses in Northampton, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Jacksonville. When not working, he can be found hiking in the Wissahickon or playing guitar, charango or the Chapman Stick. Born in Denver, CO, Mr. Friedland received a B.A from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Matthew Canno has been with Iron Stone Partners since 2001. Mr. Canno is responsible for acquisitions, contract negotiations and serves as general counsel. In addition to his real estate expertise, Mr. Canno was a founding partner at the law firm of Binder & Canno, a boutique law firm specializing in real estate and litigation. He was featured in the February 2007 edition of Philadelphia Magazine for his entrepreneurial success and selected by The Philadelphia Business Journal as one of its “40 under 40. He served as the Treasurer of the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and, until 2012, served as the Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Self, Inc. a long-standing charity in Philadelphia that oversees many of the City’s homeless shelters and initiatives for people suffering from financial and social hardships. He is currently on the Finance Committee of The Philadelphia School. When not working, he can be found playing tennis or spending time with his family. Mr. Canno specialized in real estate and finance while obtaining a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a J.D. from The University of Pennsylvania Law School and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
From what I can see cruising around the internet today, this is a typical structure in the real estate industry. There is a senior company (Iron Stone) with at least one subsidiary (Watchtower Property) and probably another (Fe203). These perform separate functions and shield the various companies from liability, such as a lawsuit) created by one part of the company.
Here is the danger:
First, I can see no connection to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. I had thought perhaps that the owner(s) might be Witnesses and used the Watchtower name because they liked it. However, the biographies of the three owners look very unwitness-like to me, so I doubt that.
Now, here is where we get into dangerous territory. If Iron Stone, Watchtower Property, or Ms. Foyle think they’ve been labeled and sue, you could be in a world of hurt, as Watchtower Property could claim their business was hurt by a false claim of association with the religion.
There are generally two defenses to a charge of libel: 1) I never said that or 2) what I said is true. “1” doesn’t apply because we have a video of what was said; if you want to invoke “2,” you need to find a connection between Watchtower Property and Watchtower Society.
To try to end on an upbeat note, I will repeat an offer I’ve made in the past. I generally have time available these days, if you have questions about subjects like this holler at me, I will take a swing at finding the answer.
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You Tube Questions about Watchtower Property
by Listener inkim and mikey made a youtube yesterday claiming that a business called watchtower property co. was connected to the watchtower.
they used a recording done by youtuber smurf girl of a call she made to a julie at the company.
i believe the call was doctored as it has her saying that (no) "we're connected to the jehovahs witnesses directly.
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JeffT
Some time in the next day or two when I have a minute I will do some research and get back to everybody. For some reason I can't get into the Pennsylvania Secretary of State, it looks like they're doing server updates or something. When I get in I should be able to find out who owns Watchtower Property and some other information. It's also too late to watch the videos all the way through.
As I've brought up before I worked as an accountant in Commercial and Multi-family Residential real estate. Kim and Mickey make a big deal about the Watchtower Property website linking to a website for a Fermi property site. It is common practice in the industry to form different entities to do different things. Absent evidence of something wrong, it means nothing that Julie Fermi owns multiple companies.
This company also seems only to deal with properties in Philadelphia, if the Watchtower was serious about this, they'd form an international corporation to run their properties. They already have a lot of the necessary infrastructure to do so.
As I said, I'll do some research and get back on here.
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck,,,,do you care about them?
by minimus ini’m sick and tired of seeing pictures and articles about their rekindled romance.
who cares???
do you enjoy seeing news articles about celebrity daters?.
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JeffT
I recognize the names, but probably couldn't pull either one of them out of a line up.
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The right to not be exposed to ideas I don’t like or agree with?
by EdenOne inok, i would like to submit to the forum the following question: in abstract, do you think that there is a right to not being exposed to ideas that you don’t like or disagree with?
please think it through and its implications on both ends of the spectrum.. it’s not the right to conscientious objection to do something you vehemently disagree with; it’s not about the liberty to chose which ideas you want to embrace or advocate.
it’s something different.. given that, as exjws, we understand the importance of being exposed to different opinions in order to form our own opinion, should someone claim the right not to be exposed to opinions or ideas that they don’t like?
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JeffT
Of course you have a right to refuse to hear or see anything you disagree with. In my book you have a complete freedom to stick your head up your ass and leave it there forever.
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Karen trailer
by LoveUniHateExams ina new horror film is coming out, called, er, karen.. yes, a film about an entitled white woman called karen (geddit?
) who clashes with a new couple (who are black) in her neighbourhood.
so, karen is also a racist.. brilliant!.
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JeffT
They should call it "Cliche."
And of course the cops are all going to side with Karen, because they have nothing else to do.
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Go Bag and Catastrophes
by StephaneLaliberte ini live with my parents in law and yesterday, my mother in-law was very nervous about an email she got from the brothers in her congregation.
it was asking if she would be able to receive people over at our house should there be a catastrophe.
so, she asked me if i would agree with this.
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JeffT
I wonder why they didn't promote go bags in 1975? Weren't those Witnesses just as important as those today? What changed?
I became a JW (at age 22) in 1973. With oil shortages, wars etc lots of people were preparing for trouble. We all knew Mormons were supposed to have 7 years of food. But we all congratulated ourselves for being so much more faithful. We didn't need to get ready because when the time came, Jehovah would protect us.
From my standpoint, I'd say what changed is they lost faith - in the GB, the elders, the magazines, each other, and themselves.
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I'm launching a new website
by JeffT ini just launched a new website to talk about my books.
the website has links to all three books in the alternate history trilogy i published over the last year.
of more interest to this group there is a description of the suspense/thriller i plan to release this summer.
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JeffT
Great Teacher I will take a look tomorrow. I'm working with a website designer, who has been fantastic on the layout and graphics. Not the first time I caught a spelling problem. I will look at the setup from my cell phone, not the desktop.
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I'm launching a new website
by JeffT ini just launched a new website to talk about my books.
the website has links to all three books in the alternate history trilogy i published over the last year.
of more interest to this group there is a description of the suspense/thriller i plan to release this summer.
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JeffT
Truthseeker, good for you. If you want advice or help poke me, I now know lots of ways not to do it.