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WT Hedge Fund operations

by drewcoul in

i seldom check out e-watchman's website, but i happened to look at it tonight, and it seems the wt society is comfortable hob-knobbing with hedge fund managers at this conference which costs about $5000 usd to attend.. here's the link:.

http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/product/13793/forthcoming-events/investhedge-forum-2011.html?elementid=9960.

drewcoul

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I didn't know this has been brought up before in June by El Curioso

The Watchtower Society Hedge Fund

Several weeks ago it came to my attention via the e-jehovahs-witnesses discussion board that the Watchtower Society had devised a new money raising scheme. The scheme is to beg and borrow money from each individual congregation account, which they deem to be in excess of the congregation's actual expenses. I half jokingly responded to the topic then that the Watchtower has become a hedge fund. Well, as it turns out, that is pretty much what they have become.

An organization called Hedge Fund Intelligence - Global Review hosts an annual pow-wow in London for all the big banks and hedge fund managers, and listed on the roster from the September, 2010, meeting is none other than the Watch Tower Society. Of course, their merely attending a hedge fund meeting does not of itself prove that the Watchtower has become a hedge fund. But, coupled with their scheme to get more money from the congregations and selling off valuable property in Brooklyn, it certainly appears as if they are trying to a acquire a massive pool of money to play the global markets.

Apparently the Watchtower is no longer content to park their money in a bank or in boring money market accounts or certificates of deposit. Forget 3% interest rates. Yawn. The Bethel money managers are apparently going after the BigMoney. They are now rubbing shoulders with the titans of the London/Wall Street global financial system.

valuable Brooklyn real estate portfolio as collateral to borrow millions or even billions. I have no proof of that, but I have never heard of a hedge fund that does not borrow to leverage their positions. It is not at all uncommon for market bets to be leveraged 10 - 1. Meaning, if a market player bets a hundred million they may have borrowed ten times that to a billion. Some positions are leveraged nearly 1 to 100!

The hedge funds operate on the herd mentality. Hedge funds pile into tech stocks. Boom! They blow up a bubble and get rich, while the late comers and holders-on get burned. Hedge funds pile into mortgage backed securities. Boom! they blow up a big bubble, make 20% on their bets, pay off their loans and pull out, leaving the suckers holding worthless notes. They may even turn around and short a market they had previously helped stampede the herd into, thus making money on the collapse phase of a bubble. Hedge funds bet billions on commodities, the latest big thing; thus driving up the cost of all the necessities of life, from oil to precious foodstuffs, basically forcing millions on the lower end of the economy into near starvation.

While it is doubtful the Watchtower is actually registered as an independent hedge fund and they may not even directly place bets. It is more probable that they are putting money into real hedge funds and trying to learn the system. In either case, the Watchtower is knowingly playing a part in a greedy, rapacious system, which it also hypocritically condemns, that is callously driving hundreds of millions of people, even Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third World, into poverty and misery. And as we have seen recently, when the big banks make bad bets, then they have the political clout to con the politicians to make the taxpayers cover their losses. The leadership of the Watchtower Inc is now overtly throwing in their lot with the most notorious pirate gangs of the British imperial, monetary system, evidently hoping to share the plunder. No wonder Jehovah indicts the leaders for stripping the flesh off the bones of his people and grinding their faces into the very dust. (See chapter: Amos and Obadiah)

One note on hedge funds: Thousands of hedge funds are registered to British offshore islands, like the Cayaman Islands, British Virgin Islands and The Isle of Mann. The reason being to set themselves out of reach from national governments. Hedge funds and banks are widely known as money laundering facilities for all kinds of dirty money operations, primarily dope and illegal arms sales. About one trillion dollars anually is laundered by the banks and hedge funds in behalf of Dope incorporated. It may well be that if the Watchtower is putting millions into a big offshore hedge funds they are sharing a common pool with drug kingpins and arms dealers. (EIR on Dope Inc)

Click for larger graph at source Interestingly, the New York TimesMagazine just published an article about the relative average incomes of various religious groups. Jehovah's Witnesses were second to last, just a notch above the poorer Pentecostals. This, due in no small measure to the fact that the Watchtower has strongly discouraged Jehovah's Witnesses from acquiring a higher education.

The Society also routinely rebukes and condemns Jehovah's Witnesses for getting involved in get-rich-quick schemes. However, Bethel is not shy about cajoling Jehovah's Witnesses into giving their hard-earned income to the Watchtower Society to finance their risky money-making scheme, all for the kingdom, of course.

Meanwhile, word is the Watchtower is intent on building a sprawling new headquarters complex in New York State. They really are riding the gravy train. They use Jehovah's Witnesses for free labor and use their non-profit, tax exempt status to avoid taxes, all the while playing high stakes poker with the cash they acquire, just like the Wall Street boys. The banksters ought to really envy the Watchtower. After all, the banks have to pay enormous salaries and commissions to their derivatives whiz kids. The Watchtower just sends some volunteers to London to learn how to play the game and they work commission free! They really have fattened their hearts for the day of slaughter.

As I have written about extensively, the Watchtower is going to collapse in a big way, as a judgment from Jehovah. It may well be that Bethel's wise guys may end up on the wrong end of a big bet and bankrupt the Watchtower. After all, numerous hedge funds, pension funds and municipalities that thought they were sophisticated enough to play with derivatives have lost billions. Look what happened to the investment bank, Bear Stearns. Swim with the sharks and you are likely to be eaten.

At the very latest the Watchtower hedge fund is going to go bust when the day of Jehovah erupts in all its ferocity. That is when the letter of James will come into force. "Come, now, you rich men, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted, and your outer garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are rusted away, and their rust will be as a witness against you and will eat your fleshy parts. Something like fire is what you have stored up in the last days. Look! The wages due the workers who harvested your fields but which are held up by you, keep crying out, and the calls for help on the part of the reapers have entered into the ears of Jehovah of armies. You have lived in luxury upon the earth and have gone in for sensual pleasure. You have fattened your hearts on the day of slaughter. You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. Is he not opposing you?"

http://e-watchman.com/home/2011/5/18/the-watchtower-society-hedge-fund.html

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WT Hedge Fund operations

by drewcoul in

i seldom check out e-watchman's website, but i happened to look at it tonight, and it seems the wt society is comfortable hob-knobbing with hedge fund managers at this conference which costs about $5000 usd to attend.. here's the link:.

http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/product/13793/forthcoming-events/investhedge-forum-2011.html?elementid=9960.

drewcoul

It's one thing to invest in things like CD's, and low risk Money Market funds. But hedge funds are risky, not to mention the fact that they are becoming part of the Global business system of things which they claim will be destroyed at armageddon.

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WT Hedge Fund operations

by drewcoul in

i seldom check out e-watchman's website, but i happened to look at it tonight, and it seems the wt society is comfortable hob-knobbing with hedge fund managers at this conference which costs about $5000 usd to attend.. here's the link:.

http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/product/13793/forthcoming-events/investhedge-forum-2011.html?elementid=9960.

drewcoul

On the list of attendees, they are listed as "Watch Tower Society." It doesn't state the name of the individual(s) attending, only the corporation they represent.

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WT Hedge Fund operations

by drewcoul in

i seldom check out e-watchman's website, but i happened to look at it tonight, and it seems the wt society is comfortable hob-knobbing with hedge fund managers at this conference which costs about $5000 usd to attend.. here's the link:.

http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/product/13793/forthcoming-events/investhedge-forum-2011.html?elementid=9960.

drewcoul

Why would they be attending a conference of this type. If I remember correctly, "Religion, Business, and Political Powers" are all part of Satan's orgainzation that are doomed for destruction at armageddon.

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WT Hedge Fund operations

by drewcoul in

i seldom check out e-watchman's website, but i happened to look at it tonight, and it seems the wt society is comfortable hob-knobbing with hedge fund managers at this conference which costs about $5000 usd to attend.. here's the link:.

http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/product/13793/forthcoming-events/investhedge-forum-2011.html?elementid=9960.

drewcoul

I seldom check out e-watchman's website, but I happened to look at it tonight, and it seems the WT Society is comfortable hob-knobbing with hedge fund managers at this conference which costs about $5000 USD to attend.

Here's the link:

http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/Product/13793/Forthcoming-Events/InvestHedge-Forum-2011.html?ElementId=9960

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Cheesy Songs Thread

by littlerockguy in

post some of the cheesiest songs you can think of.

i'll start off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuvzsu36sw4&feature=related.

drewcoul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc&ob=av3e

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Homeless, laid off Bethelites living in tents in VA.

by koolaid-man in

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a regular caller to our six screens of the watchtower conference call david w. contacted the six screens tele-network on sept. 1, 2011 and reported that allegedly some laid off bethelites were living in tents behind a giant food store in virginia.. david stated their were two well dressed men and a young women around 30 years old temporally living behind the supermarket.. the woman according to david said she was trying to get to florida but did not have the money for the trip.. david said the police arrived and questioned the homeless people and they told the police that they were recently released from the watchtower org in ny.

the police made no charges.. has anyone else heard of this happening?.

david w. will give more details on the dialogue program sat.

drewcoul

He's not necessarily lying.......He's only guilty of heresay. He hasn't proven anytning, and won't. He's just saying what someone told him.

That being said, there are enough active JW's on this board that if this were really happening, we would know about it. For crying out loud, WE ALL HAD THE NEW ELDERS BOOK BEFORE THE ELDERS DID!!!!!!! Don't you think we would know if Bethelites were being forced out we would know about it from a credible source?

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WT Nov. 1, 2011 (public) - When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed - Part 2

by AnnOMaly in

out now.. yes, yes, yessssss!

on p. 26-27 they talk about how the lunar positions on vat 4956 fit 588/7 bce!!!.

"clearly, much of the astronomical data in vat 4956 fits the year 588 b.c.e.

drewcoul

BTT......Thank you Alleymom for posting that

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WT Nov. 1, 2011 (public) - When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed - Part 2

by AnnOMaly in

out now.. yes, yes, yessssss!

on p. 26-27 they talk about how the lunar positions on vat 4956 fit 588/7 bce!!!.

"clearly, much of the astronomical data in vat 4956 fits the year 588 b.c.e.

drewcoul

I am not an astronomer, in fact, I have never had much of an interest in it, but what I read of the link to Olof Johnsson is amazing.

IMHO, this type of article is one that has been specifically assigned by the GB. Either there is rumor going around the organization about the flaws in the 607 doctrine, especially with 2014 getting so close, and the GB needs to shore up support for their doctrine, or, they decided to reinvestigate it, much like Fred Franz assigned Ray Franz to do in '78 or so, and whoever investigated came up with this absurd explanation so they wouldn't rock the boat by telling the GB the truth.

Could others have ruled
between the reigns of these kings? If so, additional
years would have to be added to
the Neo-Babylonian period. Therefore, neither
the Babylonian chronicles nor the business
tablets provide a basis to establish with
certainty that Jerusalem was destroyed in
587 B.C.E.

This reminds me of the explanation Fred Franz gave for what the Bible means when it says "Door to door." He said, "they could go in the front door and leave out the back door." I'm not sure the exact quote, and I don't have time to look it up, but that was the gist of it.

Just my $.02

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Desperation Personal letter to Watchtower leader

by Marvin Shilmer in

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desperation personal letter to watchtower leader.

today i uploaded a letter to my blog written in 1986 to governing body member albert schroeder.

the author was, at the time, a long-time elder who had done substitute co work and much, much more.

drewcoul

The brother who wrote that letter is the type of brother I miss in the organization. A true love for the brothers and for Jehovah God. Sadly, brothers like this have been replaced by arrogant, self-important men who are interested in moving up in order to feel important and to serve the WTBTS.