see: https://7news.com.au/news/crime/senior-jehovahs-witnesses-member-charged-with-rape-torture-and-assault-of-teenage-boys-c-8044666.
"senior jehovah’s witnesses member charged with rape, torture and assault of teenage boys...".
the 61 year-old man "faces 21 counts of rape, 17 counts of sexual assault, 13 counts of procuring sexual acts by false pretence and one count each of incest, torture and common assault.".
Just received this info from an associate in Qld
Word on the street.
The accused has a Greek and Canadian passport. Went from Greece to Canada before settling in Australia.
Known as a wealthy, influential jw
The units he owns are rented by jws.
Elders are rallying around him and supporters are claiming 'apostate lies'.
The police are currently, after scrutinizing his devices, preparing more charges for his next hearing due in October I'm told.
jtg
hi folks.. i put this in abuse as i thought it relevant.. a physically in mentally out friend that considers our friendship greater than religion told me that on the latest broadcast steven lett alluded to satans voice being behind people that claim the organisation protects pedophiles.. my friend then went on to say they must be in damage control.. he added, but that is correct, they are hiding their internal records.
is not that construed as protecting the accused?.
if i get the inclination i may post a snippet of what was actually said.. sadly my friend is trying to protect his family relationships and so goes along with the charade.. his situation weighs on me but, as many of you here know, it can be a difficult road to travel.. jtg.
Hi folks.
I put this in abuse as i thought it relevant.
A physically in mentally out friend that considers our friendship greater than religion told me that on the latest broadcast steven lett alluded to satans voice being behind people that claim the organisation protects pedophiles.
My friend then went on to say they must be in damage control.
He added, but that is correct, they are hiding their internal records. Is not that construed as protecting the accused?
If i get the inclination I may post a snippet of what was actually said.
Sadly my friend is trying to protect his family relationships and so goes along with the charade.
His situation weighs on me but, as many of you here know, it can be a difficult road to travel.
jtg
hi folks.. just another case to prove that the tower organisation has creeps that other organisations do.. they are not special or chosen by god.
i wonder if it will make mainstream new here in oz.
i will paste some of the article in a few minutes.. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahukewi1qogytuv5ahutsmwghv69ab0qfnoecaoqaq&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.portstephensexaminer.com.au%2fstory%2f7880595%2fqld-parishioner-charged-with-rape-torture%2f%3fcs%3d7&usg=aovvaw3yd9rimx8sarai1vnbehev.
Hi Folks.
Just another case to prove that the Tower Organisation has creeps that other Organisations do.
They are not special or chosen by god. (If you believe in one)
I wonder if it will make mainstream new here in Oz.
I will paste some of the article in a few minutes.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi1qoGytuv5AhUTSmwGHV69Ab0QFnoECAoQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.portstephensexaminer.com.au%2Fstory%2F7880595%2Fqld-parishioner-charged-with-rape-torture%2F%3Fcs%3D7&usg=AOvVaw3yd9RIMX8SARAI1VnBEHEv
A senior church member has been charged with the rape, torture and assault of teenage boys on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Police will allege the 61-year-old abused his position of religious standing within the Jehovah's Witnesses community to sexually assault young men between 2008 and 2018.
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AdDetectives arrested the man on Sunday at Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast.
The man faces 21 counts of rape, 17 counts of sexual assault, 13 counts of procuring sexual acts by false pretence and one count each of incest, torture and common assault.
The alleged offences relate to four male victims aged in their late teens to early twenties.
Detectives fear there could be more victims and are appealing for anyone with information to contact the police.
The man, who cannot be identified under Queensland law, was due to face Maroochydore Magistrates Court court on Monday.
Australian Associated Press
jtg
several years ago i was having a conversation with a neighbor inside a store and he told me that he was in the park one day with a friend who was then struck by lightning and after a few moments after being struck they walked away from there and while they were walking away my neighbor told me that his friend got hit by lightning a second time ki&&ing him.
after telling me this story lightning struck and we heard thunder.
coincidence or act of god?
Hi Fisherman.
This Australian news article regarding research into your aforementioned subject sheds some light on what goes on behind the scenes.
I'll paste an excerpt shortly.
Have you ever clicked open a link while scrolling through an app on a mobile?
New research has revealed some of the data popular apps can track and collect while using in-app browsers.
Software engineer and security researcher Felix Krause has assessed what code is injected onto a website to gather user activity when it is opened through an app.
This includes any ads or links clicked through a creator's profile.
For example, any link clicked through TikTok will open within the app using the platform's in-app browser rather than a default browser like Chrome or Safari.
The Java Script code embedded by TikTok allows the company to monitor all keystrokes — the equivalent of a keylogger — as well as every tap on the screen, and text inputs including passwords and credit card information.
"Installing a keylogger is obviously a huge thing… according to TikTok it's disabled at the moment," Mr Krause said.
"The problem is they do have the infrastructure and the systems in place to be able to track all these keystrokes… that on its own is a huge problem.
"The fact that they have this system already is a huge risk for every user."
The Vienna-based researcher is the founder of Fastlane, a testing platform for Android and iOS apps, acquired by Google five years ago.
He has been looking at the risks of in-app browsers for several years, but the increased use by big tech companies spurred him to look at the code behind each platform.
On Thursday he released a report on his findings after creating a security tool, InAppBrowser.com, for anyone to see what apps can track when using their in-app browsers.
It can recognise what the apps like TikTok, Instagram and Meta can track but it is unable to tell us what data each app chooses to collect, transfer or use.
jtg
hi all.. a news article regarding ali millar popped up on abc here in australia.. some of you folks in the uk may have heard of her.. she has released a book entitled 'the last days'.
i guess from the article that her story rings true to anyone aware of the wt religions' modus operandi.. here is the link and i will paste some of the news article.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-09/ali-millar-jehovahs-witnesses-leaving-her-religion-being-shunned/101266998.
ali millar's upbringing in the jehovah's witnesses was traumatic.
Hi All.
A news article regarding Ali Millar popped up on abc here in Australia.
Some of you folks in the UK may have heard of her.
She has released a book entitled 'The Last Days'. I guess from the article that her story rings true to anyone aware of the WT religions' modus operandi.
Here is the link and I will paste some of the news article.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-09/ali-millar-jehovahs-witnesses-leaving-her-religion-being-shunned/101266998
For Ali Millar, the experience of writing her difficult life story wasn't cathartic, it was traumatic.
"I would be sick. I had panic attacks. I've never showered as much in my life. Every time I finished writing, I would really need to wash," she tells ABC RN's Late Night Live.
From razor-sharp analysis of current events to the hottest debates in politics, science and culture, Late Night Live puts you in the big picture.
Now London-based, Millar was born and raised in a small village in the Scottish Borders among the Jehovah's Witnesses, a religion with around eight million followers around the world.
It's a religion she now firmly rejects.
She says growing up she was told what to read and wear, experienced oppressive guilt and shame, and was constantly terrified of an impending Armageddon.
After documenting her story, Millar began to change how she felt about the past.
"I started to realise that a lot of things that I blamed myself for weren't my fault. I started to understand the [Jehovah's Witnesses] organisation and its mechanisms far better," she says.
Millar, whose memoir is The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom, argues there's a common misconception of the Jehovah's Witnesses group as "benign".
But she describes it as a "deeply coercive and manipulative organisation".
"And that's really why it's important for me to speak out."
When Millar was born, her mother learnt that she'd been deceived by her new child's father, and that he was already married with children. He didn't stick around.
"When he left, she was really vulnerable," Millar says.
"And the Witnesses came knocking."
The young family entered the organisation voluntarily but they needed to adopt new beliefs.
"[The Witnesses] believe that God's kingdom was established on Earth in 1914," Millar says.
"They believe that Armageddon is imminent, and that war, famine, pestilence [and] earthquakes are all signs of the end."
She says in Witnesses' teachings "the end is always imminent" and only Witnesses will be saved, "to live forever in a paradise on Earth".
"We were told as Witnesses that when the end came, worldly people would eat their babies because there'd be so little food … that mobs would roam the streets."
Avoiding this fate is not as simple as being a Witness, however. "Membership doesn't guarantee your salvation," Millar says.
"It's God who gets to decide at the end, so you're constantly worrying about your behaviour."
As are other members of the organisation.
"There's quite tight peer control over what you listen to, what you read, what you watch ... It's all very carefully monitored," she says.
Millar says the organisation is also "completely patriarchal" and that women are "encouraged not to pursue further education".
Sherrie and Naomi were raised in devout Jehovah's Witness families and lived most of their lives under strict religious conditions — then they "woke up".
She says that in the community she grew up in, "Women aren't allowed to lead in any kind of worship. If women pray in public, they have to have head coverings on … Women aren't allowed to wear trousers to the meetings or on field service.
"What they wear is tightly controlled," she says.
"People think, 'Oh, these are nice people' … but their beliefs aren't. And the structure and the system which they live inside is deeply, deeply coercive."
In a statement to the ABC, Jehovah's Witnesses Australasian spokesperson Tom Pecipajkovski denied that the religious group controls what women wear, stating: "Each individual Jehovah's Witness has the freedom to choose what type of clothing to wear. Our organisation does not list which styles of clothing are acceptable and which are objectionable."
He also denied that women are discouraged from further education, stating: "Enrolling in a post secondary education course is a personal decision completely unrelated to a person's gender, age or race".
"We commonly encounter the false allegation that Jehovah's Witnesses 'control' various aspects of a congregant's life. There is no basis for this," the spokesperson said.
He also referred to international international human rights cases, such as a 2010 Russian case, recognising the right of Jehovah’s Witnesses to practise their religion, and questioned the reliability of former members' perceptions of religions they have left.
Not much has changed since the cruel treatment of abuse victims in the Jehovah's Witnesses was exposed. Now, former members are fighting back.
By her teens, Millar says she was doing "normal" things like having relationships and experimenting with alcohol. But she was hiding all of it from her mother and the church.
"I was really ashamed … and I just wanted to be pure," she says.
She developed an eating disorder as a "way of me trying to become clean".
jtg
breaking news | house-to-house preaching will resume on september 1, 2022. the governing body is pleased to announce that the house-to-house preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses will resume on september 1, 2022. we pray for jehovah’s rich blessing to be with all of you as we resume our house-to-house ministry!.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/#newsalerts.
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IDIOTS!
Pioneers i happen to know are shaking in their boots regarding the hour requirements being re-introduced.
jtg
14 document pack.
talk outlines in english and spanish, announcements, personal data information which includes:.
see document number 13instructions for use of personal datarefusal to sign notice and consent for use of personal data"the publisher should be informed that the congregation or branch office may not be able to evaluate his suitability to fulfill certain roles within the congregation or participate in many congregation activities, such as serving as a regular pioneer, a ministerial servant, or an elder.https://www.filemail.com/d/sobkuyhiasjogql orhttps://we.tl/t-cudhivn75uatlantis!
As always Atlantis, Thanks for the intel.
I wonder if that may only be the case in Spain or will it become a global control/cash grab move by the Tower. Interesting.
Beers are on me either way
jtg
so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.
who is running this show?.
There is possibly more pain on the way for Victoria.
Half of the Yallourn power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley is offline, placing extra pressure on the national electricity grid.
Energy Australia, which owns Yallourn, said two of its four generating units were offline because of "unplanned maintenance".
It comes as the Australian Energy Market Operator warns of potential blackouts on the east coast because of a shortage of electricity.
Yallourn produces about a fifth of Victoria's electricity when operating at full capacity.
The outage at Yallourn comes amid concerns about generators withdrawing capacity from the grid to take advantage of higher wholesale prices.
AGL also earlier revealed that an outage at its nearby Loy Yang A power station would continue until "the second half of September".
jtg
so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.
who is running this show?.
Hi all.
The issue seems to be related to rising prices and the 'Generators' not being able to cover running costs.
This local news article sheds some light. (unintended pun).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-15/qld-avoid-blackouts-aemo-energy-security/101151282
jtg
An energy economist is calling for an independent inquiry into Queensland's energy production following millions of households being told to conserve power for a second consecutive night due to generators reducing their output in response to a cap on prices.
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) ordered power generators to cover projected electricity supply shortfalls again last night, after a perfect storm of energy chaos in Queensland and New South Wales, including cold weather, offline generators and soaring power prices.
This morning AEMO said despite forecast supply shortfalls, "there was sufficient electricity supplied to meet consumer demand".
"AEMO continues to encourage generators … in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia to bid their availability into the market, rather than being directed to do so," it said.
Meanwhile, Victoria Energy Policy Centre director Bruce Mountain said Australia was in an "absolute market crisis".
Professor Mountain said generators are largely shielded from volatile spot prices (the market value for energy) and effectively holding production to drive up prices.
"Nothing like this has been experienced in Australia," Professor Mountain said.
"What's really going on, I suspect, is bullying by the coal and gas producers – they're pointing to the spot prices."
He said most generators secure their fuel through contracts with the price locked in months in advance.
"I suspect this is quite possibly a very serious case of market cornering," Professor Mountain said.
"We need an independent inquiry into the extent to which their production is affected by spot prices.
"I don't think we can accept at face value the idea that the generators are blameless.
"Serious government action is needed now."
Because the AEMO has set a fixed price cap for consumers at $300 a megawatt hour, some generators have withdrawn supply from the market.
In the electricity industry, no two words instil a greater sense of fear or failure as load shedding. Here's why.
Green Energy Markets director of analysis, Tristan Edis, said the $300 a megawatt hour figure is below the cost of fuel for many gas power plants.
"They've said they don't want to supply electricity because this price is not enough to cover our costs and so they've withdrawn their supply," Mr Edis said.
"They're effectively switching off … or saying: 'I'm not available to generate'.
"It's like someone saying – I want to give you a job but I want you to go 2,000 kilometres away and I want you to drive or fly at your own expense and I'm not going to compensate you for the cost of all this travel.
"It is possible for AEMO to force them online but then they have to compensate them to recover their real costs," he said.
Gas prices also remain capped at $40 a gigajoule, so effectively, it is too expensive for some generators to come online.
Energy market analyst David Leitch said it takes around 10GJs of gas to produce 1MWh of electricity.
That meant it would cost gas generators $400 to produce 1MWh of electricity, plus running expenses.
"Your basic cost before you've even made a dollar is around $450," Mr Leitch said.
Mr Leitch said they waited for the market operator to direct them to generate at a loss, entitling them to compensation.
"They covered their costs and made a reasonable profit," Mr Leitch said.
The short answer is: the consumer, eventually.
Professor Mountain said generators ordered to come online would make an application to the Australian Energy Market Commission to claw back their costs.
"It is essentially a compensation for the production costs plus a margin," Professor Mountain said.
"It's then up to those market participants to provide evidence they buy on the spot prices."
The cost of intervention will end up on Queenslanders' energy bills down the track.
"It's paid by all consumers, much as they would pay if there was a price set by the market," he said.
Five government-owned Queensland power generators offline for maintenance.
Queensland Energy Minister Mick de Brenni said that included one gas, one hydro and three coal-powered plants.
"They are going to start coming back on as early as Thursday … [others] will come back on sequentially until April next year," he said.
Here is what we know about the price cap, the strain on the energy grid and how you can keep your bill and energy consumption as low as possible.
The Callide C4 coal-fired generator near Biloela has been offline since an explosion in May last year and the Swanbank E gas generator in Ipswich is also out.
Mr de Brenni said publicly owned generators, Stanwell, CS Energy and Clean Co have been "providing all the supply that they possibly can."
Mr Leitch said recent flooding has also affected coal generation in Queensland and New South Wales.
"[Rain] flooded all the open pit coal mines and restricted supply," he said.
An AEMO spokesperson could not provide a time frame on how long tight supply will last.
Spring could bring some relief, with less heating required and more solar generation.
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Mr Edis said the risk factors could stay for years, with high gas and coal prices sticking around.
"I suppose the expectation would be that a number of coal generators will come back online and then that will to a large degree alleviate the risk of shortages," he said.
"Unfortunately, it's not going to alleviate the high prices we're seeing at the moment.
"They're going to be here for quite some time because unfortunately the invasion of Ukraine has led to elevated prices for gas which will be maintained for … at least a year to two years and probably the same for the international price of coal.
"That will flow through to electricity prices."
Mr Leitch said Queensland has not built enough wind and solar, as coal-fired stations age.
"This has been coming for a decade — Queensland has been the state that's been the slowest about it," he said.
"Queensland should be doing two or three times as much wind or solar that it's doing every year for the next decade."
Associate professor of energy economics at the University of Adelaide Liam Wagner said "a broad range of technologies" must be implemented onto the national market.
"Wind and solar … and hydrogen and pumped hydro to be able to get ourselves away from coal and relying on these very old coal-fired generators which need lots and lots of maintenance and they break down all the time," he said.
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974 results found,this is the number of congregations of jehovah`s witnesses that have signed up to the redress scheme for child abuse victims in australia.. what does that tell us ?.
and that number may not be all ..
Hey folks.
What interests me is that if this secret letter was sent, how could the Maltese congregation in Melbourne's west have signed it as they were disbanded at around 2012?
Given that they only recently agreed to sign up under duress.
I need to get on to my 'deep throat' see what he can tell me.
