Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow 162 Replies latest watchtower scandals

OrphanCrow

Millie: Oh my OrphanCrow, this reads like a compelling sci fi novel.
Everything I have posted is available on the internet for anyone to find.
The sources are credible...it isn't fiction. I wish it was. None of what I have posted is secret or made up - the saying that "truth is stranger than fiction" certainly applies.

I dont have time to watch the videos right now but I will!
I have made some notes and observations about the 2013 REFIRE talk by Lorenz Reibling. I had made some notes earlier, but the video interested me so much that I watched it a few more times. I will copy and paste those comments here:
The 2013 video, where he presents to the REFIRE convention. is really interesting. The timelines and strategies line up well with the restructuring that the WTS is doing inside its organization.
I had made some notes and entry points on the video in a previous post, but I would like to expand on some of those points.

I think that Reibling's presentation explains a lot about the WTS' operations in land acquisition and development.

3:05 - L.R. talks about how a real estate market can be affected by a "high perception of uncertainty". Hmmm...I guess that would be like the JWs in the late 60s and early 70s who had a high perception of uncertainty and sold their homes before "Armageddon". (add - think of how property prices dropped in areas that were specifically targeted by JWs campaigns. Some ended up in court - the issue of preaching in gated communities. Land and home prices stalled while that was going on.)

8:38 - L.R. talks about stupidity - "Stupidity is normal".

8:50 - the US market - buying up of inventory - (think of how handy it is that there are all those KHs for sale...)

14:45 - L.R. speaks about biases - home bias, action bias...and prejudice.

15:37 - this is the mark that is very interesting...LR addresses the German perception of investing in the US - how Germans view the Americans as intellectually and culturally inferior. L.R. says that they told "those German investors to invest somewhere else." Hmph....does this coincide with the hold-ups on construction projects that the NY WTS was experiencing in 2011/12? Where they "were waiting on Jehovah"? Or were they having problems with their German investors ?

L.R. follows that up with an explanation as to why his investment firm is so successful, what it is that makes his company controllable. His company (he is always repeating this mantra) is located worldwide - on 3 continents and in 11 locations. The locations are important but L.R. says that what makes his company click is the loyalty. How does Taurus achieve this? Because Taurus uses "local specialists" who are loyal. "...they are not other people. They are our people."
Well, we know who "our people" are - they are JWs, loyal to the WTS. L.R. even says that they will occasionally use another player (think about the WTS' Jonadab class of helpers) but that they stick with their team. Of course they do - JWs always do business with other JWs - it is how the WTS works.

And how does L.R. build his team?
21:21 - "...building a local team, not around a deal, but around an idea..." ummm....that would be the idea that Jehovah is in charge...

L.R. then talks about promising potential in Turkey and about the Brooklyn developments Taurus was involved in. (see link re: Standish Hotel in previous post)

26:16 - L.R. says they are optimistic about the real estate market and investments in the US, but not so much about the European market.

28:27 - this is the big one...I think. L.R. says that he was successful in one of his missions. The mission was to find a new investor. He did - he found "a partner for life".

Whoa...would I ever like to know who this new "partner for life" is.
The video was taped in 2013...and less than a year later, the JW religion underwent a huge makeover. JW..org was launched in August 2014, and the changes since then have been rapid and radical. My guess is that this new "partner for life" is now the one giving directions to the whores of Babylon. The WTS' new pimp is calling the shots - and I wouldn't be surprised if this new pimp has their fingers in the technology world.

No wonder Tight Pants Tony sneers when he is on camera - he doesn't like being told what to do.
Vidiot

There's no way an average rank-and-filer would ever even consider looking into this...
...not because it would threaten their convictions, but because it's so far outside their frame of reference, it wouldn't even occur to them.
Hell, I'm a five-year-plus fader who knows the TATT backwards and forwards, and the possibility that the WTS could be surreptitiously profiting from the "bloodless" med-tech industry - and what's more, crafting it's blood-related policies to maximize said profits - never occurred to me.
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This has gotta be what Dogpatch was talking about all those years ago, even if he wasn't in possession of all the pieces to the puzzle.
OrphanCrow

vidiot: Hell, I'm a five-year-plus fader who knows the TATT backwards and forwards, and the possibility that the WTS could be surreptitiously profiting from the "bloodless" med-tech industry - and what's more, crafting it's blood-related policies to maximize said profits - never occurred to me.
Vidiot, I was in the same boat as you five years ago. It never crossed my mind. I was doing some digging around about charity laws and nonprofits - I have some knowledge about the nonprofit system through experience in the art world - galleries and artists' collectives operate in that system. Somehow or another, in my research, which had taken me down to Australia, I stumbled upon a link that ended me up with access to a court ruling from Russia. A court case between the Watchtower Society and the Russian Supreme Court. I translated it and when I read it through, trying to make sense of the judgement, one part jumped out at me - the WTS lawyers were making a case to the Russian courts that the reason that the JWs were valuable to Russia was that there were 3000 doctors all lined up and waiting to give bloodless treatment to JWs.
And that is when my first spidey sense went up - I had a rigorous professor in university for my research and methodology class, and ethical dilemmas were a large part of that class. Something didn't sit right with that. And then, when I started to look into this "bloodless medicine" that was being talked about in the Russian courts, the JWs all started to tumble out of the blood management tree.
That is when I started to do extensive "outside research" - I poured over medical books and studies, trying to understand blood and the technology that is associated with it. I schooled myself on blood history and how the bloodless market developed and where it fits in the blood transfusion timeline. And it was when I was doing that, that I stumbled upon an old, outdated book in a medical library that I visited to research blood transfusions. It was a book that had been produced by the WTS and placed in the medical library in 1974.
It was from reading that book that another revelation happened - I found my baby's place in the history of blood transfusion development. I wasn't looking for that, either, when I started this. I was only trying to figure out what kind of funding model the WTS was using for tax purposes.
I guess I shook the blood tree a little hard. My own blood fell out of it.
marmot

Holy shit. Publish this. YESTERDAY.
truthseeker100

I agree Orphan should publish this when Orphan is ready. Orphan is the very epitome of what investigative journalism should be. I always look forward to and read Orphan's posts carefully.
OrphanCrow

Marmot and truthseeker - posting here is publishing of a sorts. I am not interested in financial profit from this information, I am interested in other exJWs, like myself, knowing the truth about the WTS. Maybe it will make a book someday - in the meantime, I guess this is my draft work. (mind you...I am not above accepting financial rewards...Lol! If JWs can profit from spreading noblood propaganda and making real estate deals with the WTS, I would think that profiting from exposing them is acceptable).
I have made a post about the JWs involved in the production of noblood propaganda on this thread here:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/221089/new-documentary-boost-jws-stand-on-blood
But to keep this thread on track, I want to post some more information about Reibling, the JW real estate guru. What interests me about this particular JW is this: It is ironic that the members of our exJW forums all speak about the rank and file JWs being mainly poor and uneducated, yet there are many JWs who obviously belong to a different class than the peons who eek out a bare minimum living, trying to make their monthly donations, and being told not to go to university or get educated beyond the minimum.
Lorenz Reibling has an education - a Masters degree in Organizational Management. yet he teaches history - I find that to be odd. That a person can teach history without an educational background that reflects the discipline. However, I think it is quite possible that Professor Reibling has earned his 'professor' title teaching the discipline that he acquired his Masters degree in - "Organizational Management with focus on maximizing intellectual capital". I still question his quallifications for teaching history, but if anyone is interested in taking a class from him, he will be teaching at the Woods College of Advancing Studies in Boston College this fall semester. That is, if you are interested in learning history with a Watchtower bias built into the course.
https://www.bc.edu/schools/advstudies/courses/undergrad/history.html
ADHS 126301 Hitler, The Churches, and the Holocaust
To better understand the climate and complexities that contributed to the Christian church's weakened responses to Hitler's policies, the course examines the development of Christian anti-Judaism, anti-Semitism and nationalism. It analyzes the resistance that emerged in response to totalitarianism and to the Holocaust, and considers the main Christian post-Holocaust efforts as they contribute to theological development and current thinking.
Wed 6:15–9:15, Sept 2–Dec 16, Lorenz Reibling

His history reputation must have some clout in certain circles, because he presented at the following event:
U.S. Embassy Organizes a Presentation on Holocaust (April 23, 2012)
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy hosted Mr. Robert Buckley, consultant for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Professor Lorenz Reibling, Boston College, for the public lecture “Holocaust: History and its Lessons.” Cultural Attache, Lola Petrova introduced guest speakers to invited audience. The lecture took place at Tbilisi State University. It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews. In his lecture, Mr. Robert Buckley overviewed the history of Nazi Germany and provided facts about Holocaust.
He presented slides of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and shared the story of how it was created. Students and invited guests learnt that in addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered in concentration camps. Mr. Buckley mentioned extermination camps and talked about Auschwitz, which was the largest concentration camp. Professor Rebilling of Boston College also provided a brief presentation on Nazi persecution of religion and Christian Churches. At the end of the lecture, Mr. Buckley thanked Ms. Nana Mamagulishvili, Head of TSU Public Relations Office for hosting and gifted TSU library with a book on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
OrphanCrow

To back up a couple years, in 2010, Mr. Watchtower Man/AKA Professor Reibling was making good use of his expertise in Organizational Management:
Liechtenstein Congress on Sustainable Development and
Responsible Investing 2010
15-18 September 2010
Hochschule Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Awaken by financial, ecological and political threats the global economy is transforming fast, from short-term thinking and a systemic reliance on non-renewable resources, to an innovative, just, sustainable and prosperousfuture. The Liechtenstein Congress provides an international platform for practical research and informed practice in Sustainable Development and Responsible Investing, guided by effective policy and enlightened by a deep sense of responsibility.
Reibling spoke at this congress about:
New Value Paradigm - a requirement for responsible property development
Lorenz Reibling, Chairman Taurus Investment
And more about Lorenz:
Lorenz Reibling is Chairman of Taurus Investment Holdings, LLC. He focuses on the development and cultivation of international relationships with key clients and product sources. He is a frequent speaker at real estate conferences, and an advisor to the renowned MIT/CRE Center of Real Estate in Cambridge, MA, and acts as spokesperson for the firm. Lorenz is a co-founder of Taurus, and has been involved in hundreds of commercial real estate transactions over the past 35+ years.
Reibling has really jumped onto the "green wagon". I had posted a video earlier, taped in 2014, where Lorenz speaks about his development in Texas and his 'green' concerns. Less than three weeks ago, Reibling made another appearance to voice the green direction that his investments concerns are taking. And to receive accolades for his "eight years of successful collaboration in advancing both the Liechtenstein Congress for Sustainable Development and Responsible Investing and its short and sharp cousin, the Green Summit."
http://www.aesop-planning.eu/activities/en_GB/2015/05/03/readabout/green-summit-2015-9-and-10-june-2015
Green Summit 2015 – University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Green Summit 2015: 9 and 10 June 2015
SUFFICIENCIES & ESSENTIALS: FOOD, SHELTER, LIFE, LIFESTYLE
Concept and Chair: Prof. Peter Droege, Chair for Sustainable Spatial Development, University of Liechtenstein
The event is focused on new agriculture, social sufficiency initiatives, new architecture, energy and resource autonomous urban change and property finance and development opportunities in this rapidly rising industry.
"Food & Shelter": the industrialised world regards these as the luxury commodities "cuisine" and "property", hedonistic attributes of our so-called advanced yet rapacious civilisation. And yet, for the majority of people these are still very basic, essential features of an existential reality, while the very habitability of our planet is at risk due a continued drive to maximise exploitation of resources that are not renewable, for narrow profit allocations. Dimensions securing biological existence and broad prosperity: This is what we reflect on in this year's green supersummit. We rethink life in cities, relation to food, growth itself, energy and resource autonomous property: who are the thought and action leaders? Where are the investment potentials?
Opening speakers of the first day are Dr. Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein, Author of Food Crash and prominent advocate of a global organic food revolution, and Dr. Greta Taubert, whose personal "apocalypse" led her to understand the existential and psychological challenges of living "on the edge", in the mainstream reality of the homeless, and tracing the realities of crisis survival. Property visionary and Professor Lorenz Reibling will speak to breakthroughs in large scale practice, and help us celebrate eight years of successful collaboration in advancing both the Liechtenstein Congress for Sustainable Development and Responsible Investing and its short and sharp cousin, the Green Summit.
Ah...a JW who has earned the title of "visionary". How ironic - involved in green projects for a planet that is about to see total destruction at the hands of the god that Reibling worships. Huh...maybe Reibling is getting ready for the transformation of earth after that awful war of Armageddon. Green planning = paradise planning.
The ironies don't stop.
In 2007, the Harvard University Art Museum had an exhibition titled “Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity”.
CAMBRIDGE, MA (August 24, 2007)—The Harvard University Art Museums present Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum from September 22, 2007 through January 20, 2008. This traveling exhibition of over 20 full-size color reconstructions of important Greek and Roman works challenges the popular notion of classical white marble sculpture, illustrating that ancient sculpture was far more colorful, complex, and exuberant than is often thought. The reconstructions will be displayed in the Sackler’s galleries of ancient art alongside some 35 original statues and reliefs—primarily from the Art Museums’ own collections of Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian art. Gods in Color breaks new ground as it constitutes the first largescale effort to recreate the original appearance of ancient sculpture.
And who was listed as one of the sources of funding for this exhibition of "Gods in Color"? You guessed it...Lorenz and Laura Reibling.
Credits This exhibition was organized by the Stiftung Archäologie and the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich. It was conceived by Vinzenz Brinkmann, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt, and Raimund Wünsche, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich; and curated at the Harvard University Art Museums by Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, and Amy Brauer, Diane Heath Beever Associate Curator of Ancient Art. Funding for the exhibition and its publications was provided by Christopher and Jean Angell, Walter and Ursula Cliff, Mark B. Fuller, the German Consulate General Boston, the German Foreign Office, Evangelos D. Karvounis, James and Sonia Kay, Roy Lennox and Joan Weberman, Marian Marill, Markus Michalke, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, Samuel Plimpton, Laura and Lorenz Reibling, the Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation, and two anonymous donors.
Now, isn't that ironic? The JW peons are all throwing out their statues of Buddha and burning anything that could be remotely considered "pagan", yet the wealthy JWs support art exhibitions that deal with ancient depictions of pagan gods.
It is pretty obvious that there are different rules for the different levels of wealth that define the classes of Jehovah's Witnesses. Apparently, if you have enough money, the demons won't bother you. I guess it is wealth that keeps Satan away.
OrphanCrow

Reiblings' involvement in the arts doesn't stop at just giving money to exhibitions.
Lorenz Reibling owns an art gallery in Boston. The Lorand Gallery.
The ownership of the gallery is mentioned in this article: https://bcartsinsider.wordpress.com/tag/faculty-and-staff-artists/
The exhibition will take place at Lorand Gallery at 156 Newbury Street. Lorenz Reibling, the gallery owner, believes “At Work” will be a “rewarding experience” for everyone involved.
And who does Lorenz Reibling rub shoulders with when he isn't teaching history or attending art exhibitions or globe trotting on real estate ventures or attending JW meetings? Well, he hangs out with an interesting crowd.
http://familyofficeassociation.com/dwnld/Spring_Summit_Speakers.pdf
About the Family Office Association
The Family Office Association (FOA) is a global membership organization exclusive to single family offices and families of wealth. We are based in Greenwich, Connecticut but have members from all over the United States and around the world. Our membership realizes the value of coming together in a confidential setting to share ideas and compare notes. The Family Office Association seeks to provide the combination of privacy and openness where relationships of trust can grow.
These are the primary concerns of the association:
1. Preservation of family wealth
2. The fostering of Stewardship in the next generation, and
3. The expansion of family philanthropic Legacy
Lorenz Reiblin (strange spelling) is listed as "Featured Speaker Real Assets Investing for Single Family Offices" and his bio says this:
Chairman and Co-Founder of Taurus Investment Holdings, LLC, a real estate investment advisor to high-net-worth individuals in Boston. Lorenz is focused on the development and nourishment of international relationships with investors and product sources predominantly in Taurus’ non-US related businesses. He is a frequent speaker at real estate conferences, and an advisor to the renowned MIT/CRE Center of Real Estate in Cambridge, MA. Lorenz is a co-founder of Taurus, and has been involved in hundreds of commercial real estate transactions since 1979.
millie210

Fascinating.
I dont want in any way to throw this thread off its track but we have been wondering for a long time who the real movers and shakers are behind the Governing Body.
I think OrphanCrow is showing us one of them.
Vidiot

I made an error, before, when I'd said Dogpatch didn't give any names...
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...he's suggested that the men pulling the strings from behind the curtain are the guys on the WTS corporate Board of Directors.
Makes me wonder if these JW-slash-WT-connected multimillionaire businessmen have influence there also (or if they're even members), and that's how they influence WT policies...

Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

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