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  Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

  by OrphanCrow in

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  this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

  lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

  so who is lorenz reibling?

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  EdenOne

  OrphanCrow: And it was then that OPK, I believe pulled up stakes and moved to Russia.

  As I noted before, it seems to me that rather it was a russian capitalist, Sergey Pugachev, under the umbrella of his NZ-based investment corporation OPK Trust Company, formed OPK Biotech and bought the assets and intellectual property of the defunct Biopure. Actually, on the legal papers of a lawsuit involving OPK Biotech, it is plainly stated that:

  This case involves defendant OPK Biotech (“OPK”), a purchaser of a defunct bankrupt company, (Biopure), and its ongoing attempt to recoup its losses through abuse of the legal system. [...] Defendant OPK, at all times mentioned herein, is a registered Delaware Limited Liability Corporation, headquartered in Moscow, licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with manufacturing facilities located in Cambridge Massachusetts. OPK’s principal place of business is located at 11 Hurley Street, Cambridge MA, 02141. OPK’s registered Manager is Alex Pugachev, his Registration Address is CT Corporation System, 155 Federal Street, Suite 700, Boston, MA 02110.

  Alex Pugachev is probably a relative of russian investor Sergey Pugachev.

  Incidentally, the lawsuit is in itself very interesting, because it reveals the fraudulent practices of the inventors of Hemopure. The lawsuit was filed by a researcher, Dr. Abdel-Aleem, who was once hired by OPK Biotech to work on the development of Hemopure.

  "On July 28, 2006, Abdel-Aleem’s employment with Biopure was terminated. Dr. Abdel- Aleem left Biopure because he had fundamental differences with the then CEO of Biopure, Zafiris Zaferilis, regarding the safety and reliability of Biopure’s product. In Dr. Abdel-Aleem’s professional opinion, based on published scientific studies, Biopure’s blood substitute product was unsafe for human use. Dr. Abdel-Aleem was unwilling to compromise his moral and ethical obligations to the public and Biopure’s shareholders by deceiving them into believing that Biopure’s product, Hemopure, was viable at the time. Hemopure never gained U.K. or U.S. regulatory approval. Dr. Abdel-Aleem feared that Biopure was attempting to abuse his credentials and reputation in the field of clinical trials to deceive shareholders."

  Attempting to abuse someone's scientific credentials and reputation to deceive its members? Smells a lot like something the Watchtower Society is very accustomed to do.

  Eden

  
  
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  Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

  lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

  so who is lorenz reibling?

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  EdenOne

  A little more about the early days of Hemopure:

  In this article published in the New York Times in 1990, was noticed that Biopure announced with some fanfare that the first safety human trials had been conducted in Guatemala.

  "the researchers said the trials, conducted at a medical center in Guatemala City, showed only that the product is safe for use in humans".

  However the the NYT journalist noticed a couple of oddities with this announcement:

  "The results were presented in a highly unorthodox setting, at a conference sponsored by the Guatemalan mission to the United Nations in New York. The aim of the announcement seemed to be more an appeal by the Guatemalan researchers for assistance with the next phase of the trials than a formal presentation of scientific results."

  The NYT reporter also pointed out sharply that little hard data was provided to back up the announcement:

  "Indeed, the researchers offered almost no hard data to support their claims that the new product was completely safe. ''We are preparing that data for publication,'' said Dr. Rudolf Garcia-Gallont, the doctor in charge of the testing. ''We are still in the process of putting it all together.''

  The NYT reporter also hinted what seemed to be the point of this largely unsubstantiated press conference: Public Relations, namely to put pressure on the american FDA to give the go-ahead permission to conduct human trials in the US.

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  Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

  lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

  so who is lorenz reibling?

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  EdenOne

  I must make a correction. Before i said that Biopure had "morphed" into OPK Biotech. Not so. Biopure went bankrupt because Hemopure stalled at clinical trials on humans, and they ran out of money. Their assets were then purchased by OPK Biotech. Seemingly small detail, but very relevant.

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  Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

  lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

  so who is lorenz reibling?

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  EdenOne

  I have found interesting, to say the least, the career shift of Mr. Gerald "Jerry" Kowalski from the banking business to the biotech industry. The last position he had before he was appointed CEO of OPK Biotech - according to his LinkedIn profile - was as chairman of International Industrial Bank, a russian bank, from 2006 to October 2010. Interestingly, this bank was declared insolvent and bankrupt by a Moscow court in November 2010. It was Mr. Kowalski, then, who was at the helm of this bank when it went bankrupt. Surprisingly, his next move was a career change - to the biotech industry. In just two months he goes from Chairman of a failed bank, to CEO of a biotech company specialized in blood management

  Here comes a rather curious finding: According to Wikipaedia, the failed International Industrial Bank was controlled at 100% by a New Zealand-based trust company called OPK Trust Company, belonging to a russian businessman called Sergey Pugachev. Now, remember that Biopure morphed into a company also named OPK, (OPK Biotech, which, in turn, morphed into HbO2).

  Seems to me that Mr. Kowalski has been acting as frontman to Mr. Sergey Pugachev's investments under the umbrella of OPK Trust Company. However, according to Wikipaedia, Mr. Sergey Pugachev became at odds with the Russian authorities and as of March 2015, most of his assets had been taken from him by the Russian government and his legal bills had emptied his bank accounts. He lives in exile in London.

  Maybe this change of fate for Mr. Pugachev is the explanation as to why OPK Biotech went belly up and resurfaced as Hb2O - still with Mr. Kowalski at the helm, and keeping the intellectual property of Hemopure.

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  July Broadcast Scriptural Error- FDS/Helper Fail.

  by Hold Me-Thrill Me in

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  he has inadvertently moved the timing of the beginning of the last days to the future.

  this kind of scriptural error is the direct result of superficial bible reading.

  according to luke 21, first comes the persecution then the wars, earthquakes, food shortages, fearful sights etc.

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  EdenOne

  ha, well spotted.

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  Laughing Lion??? Lastest study article

  by dugout in

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  sh##@t not funny no more.

  comments please

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  EdenOne

  For crying out loud ... he's watching youtube videos of adorable baby kittens.
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  Just found out my older brother has passed away

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i have just found out that my brother (who was one of a bunch that shared this login) has died.. he and his wife were living in another country where they once pioneered.

  i didn't see him that often.. such an empty feeling.....

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  EdenOne

  Sorry for your loss, SIAR.

  Eden
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  Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

  lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

  so who is lorenz reibling?

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  EdenOne

  Another tidbit:

  On HbO2's South African website section aimed at Physicians, they give advise as to what the target patients should be recited to be test subjects to trial use of Hemopure. Surprise! It reads:

  Information for Physicians
  Hemopure South Africa provides this information as a support to you while you make healthcare decisions with/and for your patient, but not to make these decisions for you. The responsibility for applying this information is yours, the healthcare professional. Should you require additional information regarding Hemopure, please reference the Frequently Asked Questions section of the website, send a comment for technical support, or call our support number.
  Training guidelines suggest that the initial patients to receive Hemopure be uncomplicated cases that would allow easy interpretation of any events seen. This education program permits doctors inexperienced with this new concept of a haemoglobin solution to gain their initial exposure in an environment relatively free from complicated disease sequelae, and to best appreciate the unique and different physiology and behavior of a new and novel class of drug. For these reasons, it is recommended that patients selected for initial Hemopure administration during a doctors early experience should fall within the following guidelines:

  • The patient should be between 18 and 75 years of age.

  • The patient should have no serious life threatening co-morbidity that places them in ASA class IV & V and should be scheduled to undergo surgery

  • The planned intervention should be elective surgery or urgent surgery in which moderate and controlled blood loss is expected.

  • The patient should have actual or anticipated anaemia and suitable blood is not immediately available.

  • Hemopure can be administered to a patient when blood is not acceptable e.g. Jehovah's Witness. [...]

  It seems that the makers of Hemopure aren't the least shy in suggesting physicians that they use Jehovah's Witnesses as guinea pigs to their product.

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  Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

  lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

  so who is lorenz reibling?

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  EdenOne

  Question:

  "Hemopure" is being advertised as a product by a company called OPK Biotech LLC. (see Wikipaedia) This company has a suspiciously simple wordpress website for the promotion of Hemopure. There is an address: OPK Biotech LLC, 11 Hurley Street, Cambridge, MA 02141 USA.

  But the main website (www.opkbiotech.com) is apparently shut down.

  Reading the following information from Bloomberg business website about OPK Biotech returns the following:

  "OPK Biotech, LLC was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Delaware. On April 25, 2014, an involuntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 was filed against OPK Biotech, LLC in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts. On May 20, 2014, the involuntary petition was approved by the Court."

  Is this the same company? Who is now responsible for promoting Hemopure after all? Who is behind the apparently defunct OPK Biotech but keeps promoting their products?

  Edited to add:

  There is a name: Gerald "Jerry" Kowalski, was, by 2011, CEO of OPK Biotech. On LinkedIn he is now presented as CEO of Hemoglobin Oxygen Therapeutics. So, clearly, the same R&D field as OPK Biotech.

  New Edit: Found it! This new company is called HbO2 Therapeutics and has an official website, that lists Hemopure and Oxyglobin among their product lineup. This company is now based out of Souderton, PA. Clearly, this company inherited the legacy from OPK Biotech via its CEO, Gerald / Jerry Kowalski. On second thought, it appears that most of the current management of HbO2 was in the original Biopure corporation and then in the OPK Biotech. Why does this company keep morphing?

  BTW - Hemopure isn't FDA approved for use in the US, but apparently is being used in South Africa.

  Curious bit of information: On the footnote of the webpage that discusses clinical case studies, the following statement is found:

  OPK Biotech SA Pty Ltd notes that use of Hemopure® is not endorsed by any religious organization and that each patient makes their own highly personal decision as to what medical treatment is acceptable to them or not.

  I'm wondering if all clinical cases described involved South African JW's.

  Eden
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  Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

  lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

  so who is lorenz reibling?

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  EdenOne

  OrphanCrow let me pick your brains further on the bloodless trail:

  If indeed the blood ban doctrine of the Jehovah's Witnesses is serving the interests of the JW-driven blood management industry since 1945, then, I wonder if the latest significant shift in the blood doctrine, namely, the acceptance of blood fractions, has had a corresponding move from the blood management industry?

  In your timeline, do you see anything - such as a technological breakthrough in separating blood fractions - that mirrors the change in the theological doctrine (or vice-versa)? I imagine there might be one. If that connection could be established, it would be one hell of a 'smoking gun'.

  Eden