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  More bad press for the Borg, in Australia

  by shepherdless in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  more bad press for the borg in australia.

  this is on the webpage of the national broadcaster:.

  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-13/austraila-talks-trust-religious-figures-dropping-covid-pandemic/100202940.

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  shepherdless

  More bad press for the Borg in Australia. This is on the webpage of the national broadcaster:

  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-13/austraila-talks-trust-religious-figures-dropping-covid-pandemic/100202940
  
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  Are You Concerned About Inflation?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

  that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

  they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

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  shepherdless

  Interesting question, and an interesting discussion. I generally agree with Simon. Others have already said a lot of what I would say.

  I see someone referenced Modern Monetary Theory. Under MMT, quantative easing doesn’t necessarily lead to inflation. However, according to more traditional economic principles, quantative easing is very inflationary. Most economists do not have any faith in MMT. It has been labeled “Magic Pudding” economics by some.

  The way that all the major governments in the world have increased their debt, printed large amounts of money (via quantative easing) and held interest rates incredibly low, is extremely worrying. It can only end in one of 3 ways, all of them bad, with rampant inflation being the least worst outcome.

  So why isn’t inflation already rampant? I think that that is because (a) workers everywhere aren’t in any mood to demand higher wages at the moment, and (b) colossal amounts of capital are being destroyed by zombie companies at the moment.

  Finally just a note about this all being “a plan by a Lefty cabal”. It is true that Irresponsible economic management more often than not comes from left of centre governments, particularly far-left governments such as Venezuela. However some supposedly conservative governments are just as irresponsible. There is no plan; there is no mastermind; there is no secret meetings. It is mostly about politicians acting short term to match election cycles, doing things that give short term sugar hits and long term damage.
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  Wanting articles on statistics for the incidence of csa between the Catholic Church and JW

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  had an ultra jw relative say to me the there are only a few examples of csa in the jws.

  the catholics are significantly worse.

  i’m after statistical information that proves him wrong.

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  shepherdless

  The ARC gives some figures. Here is a link:

  https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/religious-institutions
  

  I was going to extract the relevant sections, but copying and pasting is not working for me on this little device. You will see that from 1980 to 2015, for the Catholic Church, there were 4444 victims, the majority of whom had had their claim acknowledged and had received some compensation. For JWs, there were 1800 victims.

  Doing a back of envelope calc, comparing the different sizes of the religions, a JW child would have been around 16 times more likely than a Catholic child to have been abused.
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  Did The Witnesses Mess Up Your Sex Life?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most of the witnesses i knew never really talked about sex.

  whatever couples did was pretty much kept quiet.

  every once in a while a wife might complain to the elders or a friend that the husband is too demanding or even immoral because of the sex practices the husband wanted.

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  Question: Why do Jehovahs Witnesses oppose sexual foreplay?

  Answer: It might lead to women handling microphones.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

  1. social
  2. current

  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  shepherdless

  To give an idea about how much Aust Govt is now at odds with Facebook and how there will be no backdown:

  - The current Aust fed Govt is Centre-Right.

  - What do their arch enemies in the Centre-Left and far left think? The following gives a hint. This is an image I have just received (ironically via Facebook) from Adam Bandt of the Greens:

  
  
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

  1. social
  2. current

  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  I disagree, SBF. I think that online platforms need to be appropriately regulated, and not allowed to buy up potential rivals and create monopolies. (Eg Facebook should never have been allowed to buy Instagram or WhatsApp.)

  Oh, and pay for the content they steal from others.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

  1. social
  2. current

  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  shepherdless

  Put lives at risk. That seems to be utter nonsense. There are dozens of other search engines. Use one of those.

  Yes, that is a bit of political hyperbole. (Btw, we are talking about Facebook, not Google or any other search engine.)

  Perhaps I had better explain for the international audience. In Aust, most state and federal govt departments have webpages to provide info, but also make the same info available on dedicated Facebook pages. We often have bushfires, floods, cyclones etc, and (particularly in relation to bushfires), information needs to be communicated broadly, and very quickly, including where needs to be evacuated, to where, etc. Last summer, while loss of life was pretty low, given the massive nature of bushfires, some deaths were attributed to people getting inconsistent and out of date info. (Info even an hour out of date can be dangerous.) Facebook today blocked the reference to some of the key sites, including the Bureau of Meteorology. Facebook today also blocked all the major Aust news sites. This was all without warning. There is some logic to Facebook blocking Aust news sites, because there will soon be legislation requiring Facebook to pay for Aust news it distributes. There was no logic to blocking various state and federal govt information sites; there was no obligation to pay anything for these.

  Of course, Facebook is not essential for the communication of any of this info. It is available directly from the relevant websites.

  It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. I can’t see Facebook backing down, and there is absolutely zero chance of Aust Govt backing down, now.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

  1. social
  2. current

  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  shepherdless

  For those who haven’t been following the news, Google backed down, and reached an agreement.

  However Facebook without warning, today commenced blocking the forwarding of news stories from Australian media sites. But Facebook has made a complete and utter hash of it all, blocking the Facebook pages of a whole heap of government information pages, including health information, emergency weather warnings etc, as well other sites. Aust politicians and other commentators are ripping into Facebook, saying Facebook has put lives at risk, etc.
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  What is your most favorite politically incorrect film

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since all the leftist idiots are trying to cancel films they don't like i am buying some dvds of my fav.

  pi films.

  my favorite top pick is animal house.

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  shepherdless

  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

  Edit: Here is a typical scene, in case anyone hasn’t seen it:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVRCyELQnSw
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  GameStop - Great Seeing Short-Selling Hedge Funds Get Beaten Up

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  in case you haven't seen what's happened with gamestop and redditors.. these are the people who drive companies like blockbuster out of business and put people out of work.. but maybe the people have more power after all .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toogruq7me.

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  What the Redditors did to the hedge funds, is what the billionaires have been doing for years to the average citizens who invest and are hoping to save enough money for retirement

  Absolutely.

  Also, this is one of these unusual occasions where I fully agree with Tucker Carlson.

  B.t.w., I noticed that Fox News has not enabled comments on any of its GameStop stories. I wonder whether it is because this issue is one where the views of its audience are diametrically opposed to the powerful business interests it normally aligns with, and Fox is trying to avoid upsetting either side.