Posts by Corney

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Child trafficking issues in India

by MaxPayne in

this is the message that was posted on the jw inbox announcements tab.

i have copy pasted it as it was.

if anyone from india has any information related to this, please do share.. regards.. urgent: child trafficking accusations.

Corney

purrpurr, there is no child trafficking, only another moral panic (or even the Indian equivalent of blood libel). As blankspace wrote,

With this being said, there's been a spurt fake videos that have gone viral - these videos claim that there are child traffickers in the area. Because of these videos, there've been a number of lynchings and deaths of innocent people. This has especially happened in villages - they didn't even spare an older woman. Now since JWs go out in twos, they look pretty suspicious. And since they're urged to speak to even little children, they look even more suspicious. I believe they've come under the scanner primarily because of this. I don't think there's trafficking in India but there definitely is a lot of child abuse in the organization.

Some recent headlines:

Indian mob kills transgender woman over fake rumors spread on WhatsApp

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/28/asia/india-transgender-whatsapp-mob-intl/index.html

Two men are the latest to be lynched in India because of false rumours spread on WhatsApp accusing victims of kidnapping children

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5829683/Two-men-lynched-chilling-footage-false-accusations-child-kidnapping-WhatsApp.html

Rumors of child-kidnapping gangs and other WhatsApp hoaxes are getting people killed in India

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-india-whatsapp-2018-story.html

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JW Door-to-Door Notekeeping Attracts Scrutiny of EU Authorities

by Room 215 in

a newly- enacted eu gdpr privacy protection law, to become effective from may 25, has apparently prompted jws to file suit in protest: .

(translated from the italian) .

source: ex-jwblog: http://testimonidigeovachiedono.blogspot.com/2018/05/le-note-di-casa-in-casa-sono-illegali-per-il-gdpr.html):.

Corney

The CJEU judgment will be delivered on 10 July.

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Newsweek: JW wives in Russia send letter to Putin advisor

by OrphanCrow in

jw
friends

this article is dated june 7, 2018 and is likely a lead up to the bear ripping the jw bible article.

http://www.newsweek.com/wives-jehovahs-witnesses-jailed-russia-send-letter-putin-adviser-begging-end-965516.

the wives of jehovah’s witnesses rounded up and imprisoned in russia have written an open letter to a top adviser of president vladimir putin, asking him to stop the campaign of terror against the religious group.“this open letter to you is a cry of desperation.

Corney

I think someone on Newsweek staff has some intimate connections to WT/org

I think it's a duty of the press to inform about such gross human rights violations. Especially when the "Leader of the Free World" likes Putin more than US allies.

I notice that Newsweek hasn't reported on this story:
https://meduza.io/en/news/2018/05/29/alexey-navalny-s-campaign-coordinator-in-chelyabinsk-is-reportedly-caught-with-illegal-religious-literature

Another ridiculous attempt to whitewash the Russian authorities' actions. They are not fastidious about any means they use against Navalny's movement. First a criminal case under far-fetched charges of "hooliganism motivated by social and political hatred to Putin and local governor", then search in the house of Zolotarevsky's mother, and illegal leaks of personal information to the government-controlled press and bloggers. In fact, the Zolotarevsky is not a Witness (he is probably a former one), and there was no religious literature found at his home. The police officers are the only criinals in this story.

This tactic is so misleading - women are being used to gain public approval for the org's actions at the same time that women are treated horribly within the org

What's misleading? Are they wives of prisoners of conscience unlawfully persecuted for their religion? Yes.

And there is no aim "to gain public approval for the org's actions" - only to defend themselves against the grave human rights violations. So, your comments are misleading, as like your continuous attempts to justify and glorify the Russian state's crimes.

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Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

by berrygerry in

posted here:.

https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

biggest changes:.

Corney

Hi slimboyfat, 2017 WTB account is available on the website of Companies House here: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03858051/filing-history

Is there a year-over-year posted somewhere?

Frankly, I don't know. The only thing I know is that WTB, IBSA and Kingdom Halls Trust reports are available on the Companies House site))

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Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

by berrygerry in

posted here:.

https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

biggest changes:.

Corney

A good counter-example: Watch Tower Britain recently reported that the total amount of its cash was at an all-time high of £100 million as of 31 August 2017. Shall we conclude that the financial situation of JW organization in UK is extremely good?

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Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

by berrygerry in

posted here:.

https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

biggest changes:.

Corney

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/t3010returnlist-eng.action?b=119288918RR0001&n=Watch+Tower+Bible+and+Tract+Society+of+Canada+%2F+La+Tour+de+Garde+Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9+de+Bibles+et+de+Tracts+du+Canada

I think this is the source

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GDPR Day

by Phoebe in

jw
friends

so, it's may 25th - gdpr day.

has anyone had a last minute visit from the elders?.

i've been out shopping and i have come home to find a note pushed through the door saying two elders and one elder's wife had called by.. why would two elders + wife come to see me?

Corney

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JW Door-to-Door Notekeeping Attracts Scrutiny of EU Authorities

by Room 215 in

a newly- enacted eu gdpr privacy protection law, to become effective from may 25, has apparently prompted jws to file suit in protest: .

(translated from the italian) .

source: ex-jwblog: http://testimonidigeovachiedono.blogspot.com/2018/05/le-note-di-casa-in-casa-sono-illegali-per-il-gdpr.html):.

Corney

This is not an update but old news from February. The case is still before the CJEU.

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Impact of GDPR on WT HQ and EU branches?

by respectful_observer in

curious if any of our eu-based members (especially those still in) have heard anything from official wt channels on how the organisation plans to be in compliance with gdpr ("general data protection regulations") by may 2018?

it's my understanding that religious organisations must comply, and that religious data is treated a "protected" and therefore subject to some enhance requirements.. specifically, how will they comply with the following requirements:.

you must disclose to the individual: what data you collect on them, why, and what you do with the data (including what other parties receive the data and what they do with it).

Corney

Do German religions really have the power to create a 'religious law' that adds to or even substitutes secular law as your translation of 'Gesetz' with 'law' implies? Or is this just a 'policy'?

'Gesetz' is generally translated as 'law'; for example, 'Grundgesetz' is the German Basic Law, and 'Strafgesetzbuch' is 'Criminal Code'.

The religious communities with public law status enjoy a number of special rights and privileges (Religion and Law in Germany, paras. 230 et seq.) including the right to self-determination - i.e., to regulate and administer their own affairs within the limits of the law of "particular importance to the common weal" (Ibid, paras. 299-306).

German law usually refers to "regulations" (Regelungen) of religious communities; but it is not uncommon among churches to adopt 'gesetzes' (an example) that are translated in English as 'laws', 'acts' or 'regulations'. See, for example, this CJEU judgment, para. 18.

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Impact of GDPR on WT HQ and EU branches?

by respectful_observer in

curious if any of our eu-based members (especially those still in) have heard anything from official wt channels on how the organisation plans to be in compliance with gdpr ("general data protection regulations") by may 2018?

it's my understanding that religious organisations must comply, and that religious data is treated a "protected" and therefore subject to some enhance requirements.. specifically, how will they comply with the following requirements:.

you must disclose to the individual: what data you collect on them, why, and what you do with the data (including what other parties receive the data and what they do with it).

Corney

This Monday, the German branch committee adopted a new data protection law (DSGJZ). It enters into force tomorrow.

https://www.jehovaszeugen.de/uploads/media/Amtsblatt_2018_Nr._2.pdf

I has created a bilingual file (the English text is a partially corrected machine translation); it is available here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PqhnipxPm3dPQTVXVjiiBftOEvdboRJB/view?usp=sharing