He looks like a young Charlton Heston.
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Elder abuser in Sunshine Coast down under (?)
by carla innot sure if this has been posted or not, apologies if it has.
i did a quick search and did not see it.
https://archive.md/5zcdi -a sunshine coast jehovah’s witness figure accused of horrific sex crimes has been remanded in jail for fresh offences which allegedly occurred the same day he attended court.. and https://archive.md/r2o6x -a sunshine coast jehovah’s witness figure who allegedly used his position in the church to sexually assault young men has been arrested by police.
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jonahstourguide
just saw this today
The guy has been described as a former elder and named as Peter Michelson.
Former Jehovah's Witness elder committed to stand trial accused of Sunshine Coast rapes, sexual abuse
ABC Sunshine Coast / By Kirra GrimesPosted 10h ago10 hours agoPeter Mitchelson today faced a committal hearing at Maroochydore Magistrates Court.(ABC Sunshine Coast: Owen Jacques)Link copied- In short: Peter Mitchelson has been accused of using his position in the church community to coerce young men into non-consensual sexual acts on the Sunshine Coast and in Brisbane.
- The charges relate to five adult male complainants known to Mr Mitchelson through the Jehovah's Witness faith.
- What's next? The 62-year-old has been remanded in custody to return to court in September.
A former Jehovah's Witness elder has been committed to stand trial for raping and sexually abusing young men on the Sunshine Coast over a 10-year period.
Police arrested 62-year-old Mooloolaba man Peter Mitchelson in August 2022 and charged him with more than 50 sexual offences, including 21 counts of rape that allegedly occurred at various locations on the Sunshine Coast and in Brisbane from 2008 to 2018.
The charges relate to five adult male complainants known to Mr Mitchelson through the Jehovah's Witness faith.
A committal hearing at Maroochydore today heard Mr Mitchelson allegedly used his seniority as a former congregation elder to coerce the younger men to perform sexual acts for his gratification.
Police said the acts were non-consensual and made the alleged victims feel "used, controlled, and lied to".
Mr Mitchelson was committed to stand trial in the District Court on 53 charges, while charges of incest and torture were dismissed due to a lack of evidence.
'Positive affirmations' allegedly escalated
The court heard the majority of alleged offending started with Mr Mitchelson advising alleged victims on how to use '"positive affirmations" to improve their confidence.
Police said initial meetings with Mr Mitchelson involved alleged victims standing in front of a mirror repeating the phrase: "I'm strong. I'm powerful. I'm confident".
They said this progressed to alleged victims repeating the phrase while naked and masturbating in front of Mr Mitchelson.
One man was allegedly told by Mr Mitchelson he would be "cleansed" of human papillomavirus (HPV) if he allowed Mr Mitchelson to penetrate him.
One man allegedly had non-consensual intercourse with Mr Mitchelson on a number of occasions while being filmed.
Mr Mitchelson's defence barrister Saul Holt KC argued videos tendered to the court show acts that were consensual and "enjoyed" by those participating.
Police describe 'insular' culture
Police prosecutor Sergeant Rebecca Lambert told the court the "insular" culture of the Jehovah's Witness community played a significant role in the alleged offending, and videos appearing to show consensual acts could not be viewed without this context.
Sergeant Lambert said men who had grown up in the faith had been taught to live in "constant fear of being disfellowshipped", which would forbid them from contacting any family or friends remaining in the church.
"It is a very insular environment, where the slightest discretion is treated by the church, not within the family unit," she said.
"Disfellowshipped from the church not only means losing religion, but it also means losing family and having no contacts or the people that knew [the alleged victims] and supported [them]."
The court heard Mr Mitchelson himself had been disfellowshipped since being charged, and no longer had contact with his daughters who had moved out of the family home along with their mother, who remained married to the accused.
Mr Mitchelson to face further charges
Magistrate Chris Callaghan committed Mr Mitchelson to stand trial separately on a further five charges for alleged offences committed early last year, including attempting to pervert the course of justice by interfering with witnesses.
Mr Mitchelson was on Supreme Court bail for the initial rape and sexual abuse charges at the time of these alleged offences, and was taken back into custody in September.
Magistrate Callaghan refused an application for bail on the newer charges, today finding Mr Holt had not established that his client did not present an unacceptable risk of interfering with witnesses — even with strict bail conditions.
Mr Mitchelson was remanded in custody to return to court on a charge of possessing a schedule four medicine — the erectile dysfunction drug Sildenafil — in September.
In handing down the decision, Magistrate Callaghan commented that Mr Mitchelson was "a very manipulative person".
District Court trial dates will be determined by the Department of Public Prosecutions.
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Where is Tony?
by Athanasius inon february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.
in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.
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@ NotFormer,
The audience were specially invited bethelites and all the uber jw ass lickers in N.S.W.
Also included a heap of co's etc. You know,, the chosen ones.
Correct, real Aussies would despise those comments. Wouldn't pass the 'pub test'.
My PIMI associates that watched the stream were disgusted.
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Halloween
by NotFormer injust a bit of idle speculation.. on another thread, a publisher was reported to the elders for smoking 🚬, when all they were actually doing was holding a drinking straw in mcdonald's.. is it plausible to be questioned by elders about wearing something that looks a bit too much like a costume on the 31st of october?
🧛🧜.
for that matter, wearing red and green on the 25th of december?
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jonahstourguide
I, from experience agree with LeeMerk.
In my case I was questioned by a duo of elders over some idle
gossip spouted by an individual in a mental health facility.
They had been trying to 'get' me for some time. You know,
"any port in a storm"
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Stop the Electric car solar power brainwashing Lies!!
by Witness 007 inford e.v cars lost the company 1.3 billion in three months!
i put 18 solar panels on my house but only get a small rebate $50 a quarter.
bill is $400.
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jonahstourguide
Well, I am shocked at how expensive solar is in Canada. And i didn't mean to imply you down-voted my earlier post, just thought it was hilarious.
And yes the quality standards here are as stringent as in Canada, especially OH&S requirements re working at heights etc etc.
Here in Oz the domestic industry is not being subsidized by the Government. Only home owners receive various rebates.
Large scale wind farm and solar projects are subsidized.
The OP however did raise a important issue, namely that coal and gas fired power generation was being phased out at an alarming rate. This concerns most Aussies as blackouts are becoming more common.
Another concern is that from January this year all new residential buildings requiring a permit will not be permitted to be connected to gas.
Quite stupid for a country that contributes app 1% to global warming.
However, there is nothing wrong with choosing solar panels if your budget and circumstances permit.
Bit like religion I suppose, you know, choose the bits that suit you and leave the rest be. (humour)
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Stop the Electric car solar power brainwashing Lies!!
by Witness 007 inford e.v cars lost the company 1.3 billion in three months!
i put 18 solar panels on my house but only get a small rebate $50 a quarter.
bill is $400.
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jonahstourguide
Ha Ha i got a dislike for a factual post,,, facepalm..
Hey peacefulpete, where are you getting this info??
The Jinko panels are worth $300 retail at most here in Oz.
= $300 x 13 = $3,900.00.
Installed with three workers in less than four hours.
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Edit to add 'Goodwe' inverter cost of installed system.
Well – it depends on a couple of things. But for ballpark figures for a fully installed system with Goodwe inverters:
- 1.5kW (around 4 panels): $2,500 – $4,000
- 2kW (around 5 panels): $3,000 – $4,500
- 3kW (around 7 panels): $3,500 – $5,000
- 4kW (around 10 panels): $4,000 – $6,000
- 5kW (around 12 panels): $4,500 – $8,000
- 5.4kW (around 14 panels): $4,700 – $8,500
- 6kW (around 15 panels): $5,000 – $9,000
- 6.6kW (around 16 panels): $5,500 – $9,000
- 7kW (around 17 panels): $6,500 – $10,000
- 8kW (around 19 panels): $7,500 – $11,000
- 10kW (around 24 panels): $8,000 – $13,000
- 15kW (around 36 panels): $13,000 – $18,000
- 20kW (around 48 panels): $17,000 – $22,000
This is the going rate in Oz across a multiple of certified installers.
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Stop the Electric car solar power brainwashing Lies!!
by Witness 007 inford e.v cars lost the company 1.3 billion in three months!
i put 18 solar panels on my house but only get a small rebate $50 a quarter.
bill is $400.
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jonahstourguide
LOL, I started to wonder also when I realized that a Victoria is in Canada.
Wow that is expensive. With the currency conversion even higher with our dollar.
These are our summer months. During Winter some days are as low as 3kw to the grid.
I don't think they are subsidizing the industry but i suppose they may be, might have to google it ha ha.
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Stop the Electric car solar power brainwashing Lies!!
by Witness 007 inford e.v cars lost the company 1.3 billion in three months!
i put 18 solar panels on my house but only get a small rebate $50 a quarter.
bill is $400.
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jonahstourguide
Nope, supplied and installed by a well credentialed company "Solar Dynamics" based in Melbourne Vic.
A friend just had his installed in Nov 2023.
14 x 440 watt panels rated at app 6.1 kw. All facing north. (Jinko brand)
Total cost before any rebates or Federal Govt STC's etc,,,,$ 7,552.00.
STC reduction= $2052.00.
Net cost= $5,500.00 prior to Victorian Govt rebate.
Yes not that expensive here in Australia
This is my daily (handwritten) recording since 31st Dec 2023 to 25th Jan 2024.
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Stop the Electric car solar power brainwashing Lies!!
by Witness 007 inford e.v cars lost the company 1.3 billion in three months!
i put 18 solar panels on my house but only get a small rebate $50 a quarter.
bill is $400.
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jonahstourguide
Hey Witness 007,
Yes some of the older plans paid very good dollars.
I am in Victoria on a recent plan (app 14 months ago). Panels installed Nov 2022
Have 13 panels in two strings capable to 5.6 kw no battery. (four facing east, 9 facing north).
Total installation cost $5,700.00 as I did not qualify for any Govt rebates.
Recent bill to 3rd jan 2024 total credits $148.81.
AGL solar saver plan pays 10c for the first 14 kw to grid then 4.9c for the rest averaged out for the billing period.
i.e. 1,260 kw @ 10c ($126.00) and 465.565 kw @ 4.9c ($22.81) billing period 90 days, 4th Oct 2023 to 1st Jan 2024 .
Would I be correct in assuming you are a mid to high end kw usage bracket !?
I suggest shopping around which I did.
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How will J.W's spin this latest Space Discovery ?
by Phizzy ini wonder how j.w's, and other believers in a creator god, will spin this latest discovery to fit their model ?.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67950749.
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"Well Folks,how will this fit? "NASA astronomers detect high-energy 'signal' from outside our galaxy in 'serendipitous discovery'
Posted Fri 12 Jan 2024 at 9:47pmFriday 12 Jan 2024 at 9:47pm, updated 21h ago21 hours agoThis artist's concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays, with magenta circles illustrating the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays seem to be arriving.(Supplied: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)Link copiedAstronomers have discovered a surprising light "signal" from outside of our galaxy after analysing 13 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Key points:
- The source of a high-energy burst of light found outside our galaxy is unknown
- NASA astronomers detected it after analysing data from a powerful gamma ray telescope
- They were originally searching for a feature that could help us understand the "early universe"
The powerful telescope detects gamma rays, which are extremely high-energy bursts of light created by violent events like exploding stars and nuclear blasts.
Alexander Kashlinsky — a cosmologist at the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt — presented an unexpected finding from the observatory at this week's meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
"It is a completely serendipitous discovery," he said at the event in New Orleans.
"We found a much stronger signal, and in a different part of the sky, than the one we were looking for."
The gamma-ray signal was intriguingly found in a similar direction as another unexplained feature produced by some of the most energetic cosmic particles ever detected.
A research paper describing the discovery was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on Wednesday.
A quest to understand the 'early universe'
The research team was originally searching for a gamma-ray feature related to the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which is the oldest known light in the universe.
Scientists say the CMB is a relic from when the hot, expanding universe had cooled enough to form the first atoms after the Big Bang.
The subsequent burst of light was stretched by the expansion of the universe over 13 billion years and was first detected in the form of faint microwaves in 1965.
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, illustrated here, scans the entire sky every three hours as it orbits Earth.(Supplied: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)Astronomers in the 1970s discovered the CMB had a "dipole" structure, meaning it has two ends with temperature deviations in opposite directions.
The CMB was found to be sightly hotter with more microwaves than average toward the constellation Leo, and colder by the same amount with fewer microwaves than average in the opposite direction.
Scientists generally regard this dipole pattern as a result of the movement of our solar system relative to the CMB.
But the research team hoped to confirm or challenge that idea by studying other forms of light, such as gamma rays, for a similar pattern.
Co-author Fernando Atrio-Barandela, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Salamanca in Spain, said such a measurement is important.
"A disagreement with the size and direction of the CMB dipole could provide us with a glimpse into physical processes operating in the very early universe, potentially back to when it was less than a trillionth of a second old," he said.
The team combined 13 years of gamma ray data from NASA's Fermi Large Area Telescope to analyse the cosmic gamma ray background.
Co-author Chris Shrader — who is an astrophysicist at the Catholic University of America in Washington and Goddard — said the researchers found a gamma ray dipole, but its peak was located in the southern sky, far from the CMB's.
"Its magnitude is 10 times greater than what we would expect from our motion," he said.
"While it is not what we were looking for, we suspect it may be related to a similar feature reported for the highest-energy cosmic rays."
This similar feature was first observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina in 2017.
The observatory discovered a dipole peak of ultra high-energy cosmic rays in a similar location and magnitude to the gamma ray peak.
The researchers suspect the two phenomena are linked and that there is an unidentified source producing both the gamma rays and the ultra high-energy particles.
To solve this cosmic conundrum, astronomers must either locate these mysterious sources or propose alternative explanations for both features.
I found it interesting. Can only wonder what believers will make of it
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