Let's play a game - Follow the WTS $$ trail
by watch the tower 126 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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Atlantis
Awake-1989-July-8th-p.-15
In 1875 R. J. Reynolds established a chewing-tobacco company in North Carolina. In 1913 they made their first cigarette—the Camel brand. From there the business has prospered to become second only to Philip Morris in the cigarette sales and earnings league in the United States.
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Atlantis
Awake-2000-April-22nd-p.-28 After decades of disputing the findings of various medical authorities, Philip Morris, the largest cigarette manufacturer in the United States, now acknowledges that smoking causes lung cancer and other deadly diseases. A company press release says: “There is an overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers.” The New York Times notes that “previously, the company had contended . . . that smoking was a ‘risk factor’ or a ‘causal factor’ in diseases like lung cancer, not that it caused the diseases.” Yet, despite this admission, the company says: “We are very proud of our cigarette brands and the advertising campaigns that have supported them over the years.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Awake-1989-July-8th-p.-8 What is the message being sent to women? The Philip Morris company, which manufactures a variety of cigarette brands, produces “Virginia Slims,” aimed at the modern woman. Their slogan is the one that attracted Amy: “You’ve come a long way, baby.” The ad portrays a sophisticated, modern woman with a cigarette between her fingers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awake-2002-Feb-8th-p.-29 “Philip Morris Cos. officials in the Czech Republic have been distributing an economic analysis concluding that . . . smokers’ early deaths help offset medical expenses,” says The Wall Street Journal. “The report, commissioned by the cigarette maker . . . , totes up smoking’s ‘positive effects’ on national finances, including revenue from excise and other taxes on cigarettes and ‘health-care cost savings due to early mortality.’”
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Atlantis
http://www.copyeditor.com/about/about_news_release.asp?contentid=1795 1/3/2005-Largest Custom Publications Identified for First Time
Phoenix—A team of researchers at Publications Management has identified the 50 highest-circulation custom publications in the United States, marking the first time in history that the growth of this burgeoning media form has been quantified in this manner.
“Six years ago we began collecting and monitoring industry data,” says Chris McMurry, president/CEO of McMurry, which operates Publications Management, a subscription-based monthly that has been produced since 1998. “Intuitively we have known all along that custom publications are a pervasive media form. The data, and the new Top 50 list, are helping quantify an industry that is omnipresent, but prior to our work was remarkably unmeasured.”
The top four spots on the list are dominated by two organizations: Jehovah’s Witnesses and AARP. The Watchtower and Awake!, both Jehovah’s Witnesses publications, rank with annual distributions of 614,832,000 and 540,720,000 copies respectively. AARP Bulletin and AARP The Magazine follow with 238,399,000 and 132,313,000 annual units each.Corporate America is well represented on the list with the likes of Kraft Foods, Home Depot, Costco, OnStar, Disney, Farmer’s Insurance, ESPN and Martha Stewart all appearing. The list is titled the Top 50 Branded Magazines because it represents publications that support brands that existed before the publication’s launch; the magazines listed are not the origin of the brand they represent.
“Some might think that publications like ESPN The Magazine don’t belong on the list. Our opinion is the cable channel ESPN is the core and origin of the business and the magazine is a promotional extension of the cable network. There is no question the cable network’s brand and promotional agenda is supported editorially in its magazine, hence its inclusion,” says McMurry.
McMurry (McMurry.com), Arizona’s second largest marketing communications firm, offers integrated marketing, advertising, online and public relations, custom publishing, and database management services to a variety of clientele including GlaxoSmithKline, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Amtrak, 24 Hour Fitness and STMicroelectronics. The company employs a highly desirable corporate culture as recognized by the Great Place to Work Institute, which named McMurry ‘Best Place to Work’ in Maricopa County for medium-sized companies, and BizAz magazine, which named McMurry one of its Coolest Places to Work in Arizona.
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Jeffro
Oroborus21:
re: Phillip Morris stock.
the Society's only option would be to reject the gift entirely which seems entirely unreasonable.
Why is this unreasonable, given the high moral ground that the Society claims to have? If members are not allowed to be employed in any capacity that presents a supposed conflict, what justifies the organization doing the same?
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Atlantis
Perhaps the "cosmetic lines" assist in the Watchtower's "money trail!" http://www.thebostonchannel.com/chronicle/1612655/detail.html The offer you can't refuse. The chance of a lifetime. The deal of the century. Every day, the people with something to sell are thinking of new lures to get us to buy. Tonight, Chronicle uncovers some of their secrets.
We'll meet the super salesmen who gave us the immortal phrase, "But wait, there's more," and sold millions of Ginsu knives along the way.
Mary Kay's Stephanie Kinnit explains how "warm chattering" can sell cosmetics in Downtown Crossing. We'll go door to door with a Jehovah's Witness minister and meet one of Boston's premier public relations professionals, the legendary Peggy Rose.
Show Information Stephanie Kinnitt
Mary Kay Cosmetics products
781-283-8448Dale Carnegie Courses
781-894-2700 x226Jehovah's Witness headquarters
www.watchtower.org
718-560-5000Petra Fashions (lingerie)
978-777-5853www.petrafashions.comPrimedia (infomercial production and distribution)
Warwick, RI
401-826-3600Herbie Goodman Auto
242 Western Ave., Allston
617-254-1300Peggy Rose (public relations)
Raskey-Baerlin Agency
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Gerard
I mean to draw a mafia-style power diagram one day of the WTS structure. When I was looking at the incorporation documents it occurred to me that the balance of power is ingeniously intertwixed. No one corporation can dominate the other without fatally wounding themselves. So you might follow the $$ trail and find out they are chasing their own tail. There MAY NOT be anybody in charge. The machine runs itself. >jgnat
All these corporations pool their earnings into one WT Treasury department (at 25 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn). I bet it takes very few signatures to move and shuffle those billions.
Gerry
