Millie: OrphanCrow you amaze me with what you are able to track down and piece together.
The ties to funding the "Knocking" video are interesting.
The info about organ transplantation and especially the continuing ties to medical technology are bone chilling.
This gives me the same feelings that the U.N. scandal did.
Thanks for your feedback, Millie.
The funding for the Knocking film coincides with Taurus' purchase of WT property. Taurus purchased the Standish Hotel the same year Knocking was released.
On another website, this comment was made:
During the production of Knocking, the directors contacted the
society and because it was a non JW wanting to make the film, there
was a conflict of interest. one of the higher ups in the org contacted
lorenz because he's got cash, and so he and his family set up a trust
(reibling family trust or something like it) to give the directors
cash.
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the brother that approached lorenz is gene smalley, who is an alcoholic and a higher up in bethel.
So Taurus Investments purchases property from the WTS, and the WTS receives the favor of funding for the movie they want released. And that is basically one of the ways that business is done at WT headquarters. Back scratching. And the only money that shows up on the WTS books is the money from the land transfer,
Yes...about the organ transplants - it is rather interesting that Lorenz Reibling's foundation career wasn't real estate at all - it was connected to the medical industry. As far as his research into heart transplants and personality - I think it was done in collaboration with the medical people that the WTS did business with in Germany. And no....you won't find that 'on the books' - the WTS connection to the medical industry resembles what happened with the funding for knocking - nothing will show on the WTS books but LOTs of deals made behind closed doors.
Here is a little tidbit from Reibling's past employment that might have significance "in the whole big picture". Lorenz Reibling, before he became a real estate guru, worked at American Hospital Supply Corporation.
Brian Concannon, president of Haemonetics, also worked at American Hospital Supply Corporation.
Haemonetics is the global leader in blood management solutions. The backbone and foundation upon which Haemonetics has built their success is their cell saver - the machine that is used on JWs who refuse blood.
Magnum: .Thanks for this post. I really wonder what goes on that we don't know about it. Seems like some shady stuff.
Magnum, I think a person could dig around inside the Tower and their books forever and never find anything too much amiss - the Tower itself tries to keep itself squeaky clean. Where the real business is done is outside of the records and books. Favours and green handshakes have everything to do with the the Society's purpose - the WT looks like a religion - yet it exists to propagate propaganda for financial interests behind the scenes.
prologos: AS THE CROW FLIES.- STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE.
The crow sees a lot, too, as it flies... ;)
Yesterday, this little crow went and explored Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the place that the only Canadian office is listed on the Taurus Global site. I figured I may as well fly over that town on my way home from NY. And I discovered Guenther and Sue Reibling nesting there and doing very well for themselves. Very well.
Sue Reibling, in addition to running several business related to hospitality, owns Stellar Investments, Inc. Their son has inherited his daddy and mommy's golden touch and the community benefits from the Reibling donations to the music academy. http://www.homestylemag.ca/pdf/Featured_Mar2015_Cilantro.pdf
Guenther's wife, Sue, was raised Presbyterian. I have not shook any JWs out of her family tree yet. This is from Sue's father's obit. Anyone recognize JW families in this list?
Tom is survived by his daughter Susan Jane Reibling (Guenther), Corkums Island; son, John David Covey (Madeline) of St. Bruno, Quebec; grandchildren, Christopher Reibling (Suzanne), Jacksonville, Florida; Timothy Reibling, West Palm Beach, Florida; Matthew Reibling, Atlanta, Georgia; Jonathan and Margaret Covey both of Montreal; 2 great-grandchildren, Hans Phillipe and Thomas Wyatt, and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his wife Ethelyn Jane in March 2002; sister, Marjorie Lang, brothers, Carlton Covey, Emmett Covey, Ira Covey, and Donald Covey.
