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UK Daily Mirror: Vampire Farms
by darkspilver infront page of today's daily mirror newspaper in the uk (26 january 2017).
vampire farms exposed: british meat in cruel horse hormone scandal as pregnant mares' blood is injected into pigs.
thousands of pregnant horses are kept on blood farms for fertility product which is then sold to uk vets and factory farmers to help increase production.
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Australia TV's Bride & Prejudice’s Forbidden Wedding Dilemma
by darkspilver init's a world away from the dating shows and cooking competitions commercial tv networks are stacking their schedules with right now.
but on channel 7's bride & prejudice, we meet couples whose families are dead set against their relationships.
and it's a heartbreaker..... it was at love at first sight for sydney couple chris, 39, and grant, 32. grant's parents have always accepted his homosexuality; however chris's parents have struggled and remain uncomfortable with his way of life.
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UK The Times: "We need to do more to tackle sexual abuse among JWs"
by darkspilver inarticle written by kathleen hallisey appearing on the website of the uk's times newspaper - the article does not appear (yet?
) to be in the print version.. kathleen hallisey is a senior solicitor at bolt burdon kemp, specialising in child abuse.
she acted on behalf of the claimant in the landmark case of a v watchtower [2015] ewhc 1722 (qb), the first judgment against the jehovah’s witnesses in the uk for historical sexual abuse.. in the article she refers to the wt uk child safeguarding policy - click here for a side-by-side 2012/2017 comparision of the document.
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Baumgartner - Dr. Mark Morehart: State of Washington Appeal Court - aborted use of cell saver machine
by darkspilver infor information:.
court of appeals of the state of washingtondivision iidocket number: 48070-1file date: 01/24/2017.
keisha baumgartner appeals the summary judgment dismissal of her medical malpractice wrongful death claim against anesthesiologist dr. mark morehart and columbia anesthesia group, p.s.
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Modern-day application of 2 King 20:17 ?
by darkspilver inhow can the recent newspaper and television adverts running in the new jersey/new york area of the us be used in conversation/s with any still-in family and/or friends you may know?.
the initial reaction by jws maybe to pick up on what some have said here - that the adverts has been placed by an 'ambulance-chasing' company - the impliction being that 'you see they're only after the money!'.
well, yeah, of course - they're a business - they want to make money!.
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SPAIN - number of Kingdom Halls
by darkspilver inplease note that this post links to websites that are in spanish, if that's a problem, please do not click on the links!.
it is now just over two years since the wt send the now infamous 17 september 2014 letter regarding the programme of building kingdom halls to all congregations in spain.
(letter page one / letter page two).
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REVEALED: The number of Bethelites over the years
by darkspilver inin response to this thread.
i've put forward the argument that i believe that the 'organization' is financially effectively bleeding itself dry - it is actually financially imploding.. i believe that over the last 45 or so years, in particular, it has evolved from a relatively 'lean machine' into what is now a huge unwieldy organization.
as an organization grows i would expect increased efficiency through by both economies of scale, and advances in technology.. how has the watchtower organization fared?....
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AUSTRALIA: Video slide show of Bethel in 1985
by darkspilver ina video of slides about bethel in sydney around 1985 - with voice-over narration.. you can download the current tour brochure at the link below, to help compare some of the pictures.. https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/offices/australia/.
https://goo.gl/maps/97xx3cnoqze2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqn6bn4u7yu.
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SCOTLAND: Livingston Kingdom Hall
by darkspilver ini think this deserves it's own thread, so as not to get mixed-up tl;dr - go to the bar charts at the end...picking up on jambon1's comments:.
the one in the op - livingston, was a merge to the newly built assembly hall in the same area.
i think three congs share that building now.. nice wee scoop up of the cash from the sale of livingston and whitburn.
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UK Kingdom Halls for sale
by darkspilver in" and a mighty cry went out over all the land: "sell !
sell !
sell !