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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

problemaddict: very.......very bizarre.

I guess I was so rattled when I made my last post that I got my words mixed up - I said "white men and jackets"...I meant 'the men with white jackets'...the kind of jackets that Nicholson wore in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

I you want bizarre, I have more. I wasn't looking for bizarre, but that is what is turning up. I decided, after taking a look at who authored the book No Man's Blood, the biography of Dr. Ron Lapin, that maybe some of the other characters deserved a quick peek. The book ends with Gene Church giving a very detailed account of an encounter between Ronny and his lawyer, Gerald Garner. And it wraps up with a lengthy letter that Garner writes in defense of Lapin, who was facing a suspension of his medical license at the time the book was written in 82/83. I don't know what has been updated in the following 1986 version of the book:

http://roman142.blogspot.ca/2014/09/no-mans-blood-gene-church-1986-version-1.html

31 As they ate breakfast, Lapin recalled how he’d first met Gerry Garner two years before at Dr. Kaller’s Fourth of July party. There was something about this burly guy with his Jewish modification of an Afro hair style and a mischievous smile that instantly captured Lapin’s attention. As they sat around a small table near the crowded swimming pool — trying to converse over discordant sounds created by twenty children and a handful of adults frolicking in the water — Lapin had the pleasure of gaining insight into one of the sharpest legal minds around. He had always admired creative thinkers; but in Gerry, he saw the epitome, the zenith.
32 “You have a dissecting, diabolical mind,” Lapin said, devouring a piece of barbequed roast beef. Garner seemed unimpressed by the compliment. He simply continued to drink his protein meal, determined to stick to his diet even in the thick of a hedonistic, gastronomic orgy.
33 He told Lapin that between his two offices — one in New York and the other in Fullerton, a distant suburb of Los Angeles — he’d amassed a flight schedule that could match or even surpass that of most commercial pilots.
34 In a most prophetic statement, Lapin told Garner before he left, “If I ever get into trouble, I mean real trouble, I’d like you to defend me.”
35 “Be more than glad to. As a matter of fact, I’d be honored,” Garner replied as the two shook hands.
36 Right then it didn’t occur to Lapin just how soon he’d need Garner’s services, or that they’d end up being the very closest of friends.
37 Their friendship sprang from deep mutual respect for one another’s professional abilities, and was strengthened by their common Jewish heritage. It was brought more sharply into focus by other shared experiences: the seemingly tireless ability to be in perpetual motion and the shared background of having had a difficult childhood.
38 Meeting every Sunday morning in jogging suits for business and strategy sessions at a local truck stop could not be easily explained on the basis of eccentricity alone. It could, however, be viewed as part of their anti-establishment response to daily stress situations, coupled with an attempt to downplay external appearance as their fertile minds came together to plan and execute future moves.
39 As Lapin toyed with his coffee cup, Garner picked up one of his ever-present yellow legal pads and a black felt-tip pen.
40 “While you’ve been in Holland getting Fluosol approved over there, I’ve been doing some serious thinking about this whole stupid case with the State. Now I realize I’m not involved in saving lives like you are, but just the same…”

*note the Fluosol comment - the book gives a lot of detail on how the JWs were targeted as test subjects

Who is Gerry Garner? After the book No Man's Blood was published in 1983, Garner opened a bank in California in Feb. 1984, was suspended from practice in New York in Nov. 1984, was the chairman of the hospital where Lapin practiced (that had many JW connections), he was disbarred in New York in 1992, his bank was forcibly closed in April 1993, and faced fraud charges, etc, along with other bank directors. Lapin was a shareholder in the bank.

Dr. Ron Lapin died in May, 1995, of an apparent heart attack - it may have been an overdose (from a comment on a forum) - at the age of 53.

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-05-16/local/me-2458_1_ron-lapin

In addition to his problems with the California Medical Board, Lapin had spent years in a nasty, messy custody and divorce battle - kidnapping, arson, rape, drug addiction, guns, child abuse....and more, were all accusations that Lapin and his wife, a former Miss Israel, flung at each other.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-28/local/me-1790_1_child-abuse-authorities

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-18/local/me-592_1_ron-lapin

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-30/local/me-1156_1_baby-sitter

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-02/local/me-1045_1_ron-lapin

This link has good details of the banking scandal that Lapin's lawyer was involved in, and some of Garner's shady history and practices:

http://www.shspoon.stirsite.com/dalrae.html

This 1994 court document gives details of his past legal practices (note that his New York practice involved shady adoption practices):

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar_case?case=11760209690709182259&q=gerald+garner&hl=en&as_sdt=2006

To bring all that old history about Gerald Garner, Dr, Ron Lapin's lawyer and close friend, up to date, I found this facebook page just this morning:

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsOfAttorneyGeraldGarner

This is a page for the victims of Attorney Gerald Garner, arrested, disbarred for attempted kidnapping/stealing of babies, selling/filing false documents.

Everything you wanted to know about Lapin's lawyer is on that facebook page.

Something to think about: Gerald Garner had close ties to hospitals in California (and maybe elsewhere) that were owned, insured and staffed by Jehovah's Witnesses.

The hospital and medical group that Garner and Lapin were involved in:

http://www.manitobaphotos.com/theolib/downloads/Practice_Associates_Medical_Group_1988.pdf

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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

Okay, it is time to bring out the white men and jackets. I have said that I have a morbid curiosity with insanity, and I think that my latest find takes the top prize for "The Weirdest and Most Insane" award. Yup...I am giving the award to this next rabbit hole I just fell into.

I have been taking a look at Ron Lapin, the "pioneer of bloodless surgery". I first encountered Lapin when I read the book Bad Blood by George Dalgleish, the JW handyman and minor tv celebrity. I have researched Dr. Lapin fairly extensively, and had a lot of material about him before I finally read No Man's Blood, Gene Church's biography of Ron Lapin, the bloodless surgeon.

I then decided to find out what I could about Gene Church. He had published No Man's Blood in 1983, after spending 7 months with Ron Lapin in California. So here is what I found out about Gene Church - the "nonJW" who wrote No Man's Blood.

The movie Circle of Power was also released in 1983. (...bear with me, this get good...):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_Power

Circle of Power, also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend, is a 1983 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White, and based on the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled. It stars Yvette Mimieux in her final film performance to date.

Plot synopsis:

Yvette Mimieux plays the chief executive of a giant corporation called "Mystique",[1] but the organization is also known as "Executive Development Training", or EDT.[2] Christopher Allport plays Jack Nilsson, a decent all-American young executive.[3]
Top management executives are required to spend a weekend with Bianca Ray at a hotel, where they are put under psychological pressure.[1] As a prerequisite to the training course, participants must sign a waiver giving the company the release to physically and psychologically abuse the individuals in the course.[3] The participants struggle with their shortcomings, such as obesity and alcoholism.[3] Another individual is a closet homosexual, and a fourth is a transvestite.[2] At one point in the film, the obese trainee is forced to eat trash and discarded food in front of the other seminar participants.[2] Eventually, the seminar executives and their wives lose their inhibitions later on in the "consciousness-raising" coursework.[4]

How the film was received:

The film won a Dramatic Films Award at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival.[5] Circle of Power played under the title Mystique at the 1981 Chicago International Film Festival.[1]

A review in The New York Times described Circle of Power as an "attack on monolithic belief systems," and referred to it as "a worthwhile movie."[3] Allmovie compared the psychological nature of the techniques utilized by Executive Development Training to Erhard Seminars Training, calling them "EST-like excesses."[2] Roger Ebert gave the film three stars, writing that "...it's an entertaining film with serious intentions."[1] Ebert compared it to events reported in Boston newspapers about a man who died during a Werner Erhard and Associates seminar, commenting: "Art anticipates life."[1] Ebert questioned the conceit of the film, asking the question: "Could a major corporation get away with this brainwashing?"[1] The authors of the book upon which the film was based concluded their preface by stating: "And please remember as you read -- it's true."[6]

The authors of the book the film was based on? Gene Church and Conrad D, Carnes. The book? The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled.

The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is a non-fiction book on Mind Dynamics, Leadership Dynamics, and Holiday Magic, written by Gene Church and Conrad D. Carnes. The book was published Outerbridge & Lazard, Inc., in 1972, and was republished in a paperback edition in 1973, by Pocket Books. The book was later the basis for the 1983 film, Circle of Power.[1] The title refers to the encounter group movement that was prevalent at the time, which evolved into what psychologists began to term Large Group Awareness Training.[2]
The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is listed in the 1987 edition of Best Sellers, at the University of Scranton archives.[3] The book was featured in The New York Review of Books, in 1973.[4]

Authors:

Gene Church had previously studied psychology at Ohio State University and Ohio University. He had enrolled in the Leadership Dynamics coursework as a requirement of his association with Holiday Magic.[5] At the time of the book's publication, Conrad D. Carnes was an attorney practicing law with the firm of Carnes & Hornbeck in Columbus, Ohio.[5]
The authors later wrote a follow-up book, Brainwash, in 1983.[6] Gene Church also gave a related lecture series at universities, entitled: "An encounter group horror story."[7]

Summary:

Events depicted in the book took place over four-days at the Hyatt House motel in Palo Alto, California, and included management executives from Holiday Magic.[5] The book revealed details of the events that went on during the coursework at Mind Dynamics and Leadership Dynamics. The book stated that Holiday Magic participants in the Leadership Dynamics sessions were required to register in the coursework, at a cost of USD$1,000, "..in order to get ahead in the company."[5] Golembiewski stated that the book described "illustrative chapter and verse" of the coursework, including such training aids as a cross, a coffin, oxygen bottles, and piano wire.[8] Participants that instructors deemed as "dead" to their lives, were told to stay in the coffin until they realized "..how much it means to be alive."[5] Leadership Dynamics instructors felt that by putting individuals in a cage, they would "..appreciate the value of the freedom that they already possess."[5] The cross was used to demonstrate what it felt like to be persecuted at work. There was also a "silver chalice", which was supposed to "..make each man face the truth honestly and so to understand himself and others better.."[5][9]

Cited by other works:

The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled has been cited in academic journal articles which analyze encounter groups and large group awareness training, including the Journal of Humanistic Psychology,[10] and more recently in Human Resource Development Review, in 2005.[11] The book has also been cited as a reference in other works which discuss these subjects, including Organization Development,[8] Approaches to Planned Change,[12] The Regulation of Psychotherapists,[13] Handbook of Organizational Consultation,[14] Managing Diversity in Organizations,[15] and Self Realization.[16]

Remember Lorenz Reibling's Masters degree? "Organizational Management with focus on maximizing intellectual capital".

Reibling and Church also share another interest: Holocaust history. In 1986, Church published the book 80629 a Mengele Experiment.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619919.80629_a_Mengele_Experiment

This is the true story of Jack Oran, who survived the inhuman experimental surgeries of Dr. Josef Mengele, Auschwitz' infamous Doctor of Death. It was a cold December morning in 1942 when Jack, then known a Yakoff Skurnik, and his family were loaded onto a "resettlement train," in Mlawa, Poland. When the train stopped, Jack found himself at Auschwitz. For an interminable time, he survived the horrors of the camp. Using his wits, cunning, and inordinate will to live, he escaped from the Nazis during the Auschwitz death march in which the Nazis marched 58,000 prisoners from the camp before its liberation by the Russians on January 27, 1945. Overcoming incredible odds, Jack built himself a new life filled with success and accomplishment. This is the story of a man who is living proof that with persistence, determination, and belief in oneself, all things are possible.

A review of Church's book about the Holocaust:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-937875-00-1

""80629'' refers to the number tattooed on 18-year-old Yakoff Skurnik's arm upon his arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1942. Church (The Pit, etc.) traces Skurnik's horrific ordeal, including disfiguring experimental surgery supervised by the infamous Josef Mengele, escape from the Auschwitz death march on the eve of the Allied invasion and adjustment to postwar life (Skurnik, who changed his name to Jack Oran, is now a Dallas businessman). Readers won't expect pretty reading from a concentration camp account, but this work's relentlessly graphic and detailed descriptions of castration, defecation and torture are notably gut-wrenching. The idyllic portrayal of Skurnik's prewar family life is unrealistic, and Church's unfortunate penchant for melodramatic, overwritten prose is a disservice to the heartfelt story.

And that is who wrote the book about the surgeon that all the JWs hail as their hero.

Dr, Ron Lapin, a pioneer of the bloodless medicine movement, had a guy who wrote about brainwashing write his biography. Strange people have strange bedfellows.

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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

Edenone, Dr. Axel Hofmann has always creeped me out a little. Every time I see his photo, I think of James Penton!

I found a recent blog entry addressing those two nefarious JW dudes, Farmer and Hofmann, that critiques their blood restriction activities down under and Farmer's questionable credentials. The blog is written by a Canadian who is actively involved in transfusion medicine. I am glad to see that the story about Farmer and Hofmann has gained attention outside of Australia.

From Musings on Transfusion Medicine:

This is turning a blind eye (or protecting one's butt?)

Australia: NBA downplays Jehovah's Witness not declaring potential conflicts of interest to sit on transfusion guidelines panel (2 June 2014)

Australia's National Blood Authority (NBA), a well respected government organization that does much valuable work, appointed Shannon Farmer, a Jehovah's Witness, as the key consumer representative on a government panel developing new transfusion guidelines for Australia's hospitals. Nil inappropriate about that except Mr. Farmer didn't declare
Formally, or otherwise it seems, that he was a Jehovah's Witness.

His consultancy work since 2007 to an Austrian business involved in commercial tendering for patient blood management projects around the world.

Receiving fees for consulting and lecturing from multinational pharmaceutical companies,e.g., J and J.

When informed, the NBA said it would review the details. Whether or not possible conflicting interests are of "sufficient conflict" is a moot point.

Fact is they were not declared and at the time of his appointment Farmer was described as "consumer" and "independent consumer advocate". An NBA spokesperson is quoted as saying, "The NBA believes any potential conflict of interest, real or perceived, should be declared."

So far as I can tell Shannon Farmer is not a physician nor a PhD researcher, yet:

He's an Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Surgery, at the University of Western Australia, where he's listed as an author on multi-authored papers about blood.
LinkedIn shows he's an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Centre for Population Health Research, Curtin University.
He's lectured extensively on bloodless surgery and blood conservation.
He's apparently an expert on transfusion medicine.

Yet it's hard to discover which degrees he has, where he went to school, or any of the normal qualifications of someone who's an author, lecturer, and expert on TM, with university appointments.

And none of the above profiles even hint that he's consulted for years to Austria's 'Medicine and Economics' business involved in commercial patient blood management projects globally.

How can you not know that someone you appoint to panels developing national blood transfusion guidelines is a member of a religion that forbids transfusion and earns big bucks implementing blood management programs internationally? How can you say, when information comes to light, 'These aren't sufficient conflicts'?

Isn't this equivalent to someone being appointed to a government panel on the future of private laboratories in Alberta (Canada, UK, you name it)

Who is a member of a political party whose policies are pro-private medicine (pro-private everything)?
Who consults for (perhaps partially owns) a private laboratory consortium bidding for government contracts?

Sorry, the non-physician Jehovah's Witness as TM expert and global blood management consultant who advises on transfusion guidelines, didn't declare potential conflicts, makes millions off blood management, and was initially listed as a consumer and consumer advocate doesn't meet thesniff test.

Or...he's a fine fellow, does good work, and the NBA thinks it's okay that he didn't declare potential conflicts, despite their policies, because the conflicts are not serious ones?

--- Pat Letendre

Pat also wrote this is in the blog entry that prefaced his comments on the Australian blood Management:

...Patient blood management is the flavour of the year as evidenced by the number of papers in TM journals and May's issue of AABB News:
'Patient blood management hits prime time' (Content under 'Departments' in left menu is free)
According to the CEO message, AABB recently published Standards for a Patient Blood Management Program plus launched a new PBM consulting program. Indeed, no doubt smelling the ka-ching potential, AABB created a new PBM section on its website.
Perhaps all the blood management consultants aiming to make big bucks should wake up and smell the sheep dung?

*my comment: "Blood management consultants" AKA JW Hospital Liaison trained people

Pat was referring to the apparent potential of sheep dung to save blood:

India: Goat blood enema used to help treat thalassemia patients (8 June 2014)

The principal investigator said the enemas ensure hemoglobin levels do not go down drastically and research has proved it. Cases existed in which patient blood transfusion needs were reduced to half or even less.

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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

I had made this statement earlier in this thread:

By the way, I doubt the blood transfusion ban will be going away anytime soon - after a history of increases in stock value, the company is in a bit of a slump and is experiencing a little hiccup in stock value right now. If the JW blood ban was lifted completely, Haemonetics' stock would surely dip even more. Brian Concannon just sold off a chunk of his stock - maybe he needed the cash to keep his hands green.

Haemonetic technology has been around a long time - its first success was built on stem cell harvesting which was late 60s, early 70s. The cell saver development has had many hiccups and controversy around its use. It has emerged as benefical in many different surgical procedures and is commonly used in surgical settings.

However, its best use is in conjunction with allogenic blood, not as a sole blood recycling machine. So, the medical benefits have been established, along with the ways it isn't useful.

Blood management programs are dependent, to a large degree, upon technology that is produced by Haemonetics, and other companies like it. One of the strategies adopted by Farmer et al - Axel Hoffman, the JW financial guru - in Australia to push the SABM standard into the country's health care system, was to heavily emphasize the cost savings. Blood management became a profit-based model, and improved patient outcomes were murkily termed "evidence-based".

Cell saver technology has been an integral part of surgical environments now - many "gifted" to hospitals by donors or the company itself, for research purposes. The Netherlands is one country that has been using blood saving technology for some time now, long enough to determine that cell savers and the use of erythropoietin are not cost effective in hip and knee surgery.

Despite evidence that erythropoietin and intra- and postoperative blood salvage are expensive
techniques considered to be non-cost-effective in primary elective total hip and knee arthroplasties in the
Netherlands, Dutch medical professionals use them frequently to prevent the need for allogeneic transfusion.
To actually change physicians’ practice, a tailored strategy aimed at barriers that hinder physicians in abandoning
the use of erythropoietin and perioperative blood salvage was systematically developed. The study aims to examine
the effectiveness, feasibility and costs of this tailored de-implementation strategy compared to a control strategy.

Not everybody buys into the bloodless industry's promises. Yes, there are benefits and much good to had with the management and development of blood technology, but I like what this doctor had to say about blood management programs:http://www.hhnmag.com/Magazine/2012/Sep/0912HHN_FEA_Trending

Richard Benjamin, M.D., chief medical officer of the American Red Cross, says he agrees there's reluctance to change long-standing medical tradition when it comes to restricting transfusions. He's also not convinced blood management programs save money.
To do them properly, he says, hospitals may need to purchase an IT system that can crunch the data and tell administrators who is using the blood and whether the use is appropriate.
Hospitals also need to add anemia clinics, he says, and even if they are willing to spend the money, the decision to start blood management can take years.
However, Benjamin says, the reason to start a blood management program should not be based on the bottom line or fear that blood isn't safe. Blood used incorrectly can harm, and blood used correctly can be life-saving, he stresses, and starting a blood management program just to save money is a dangerous approach.
"There are consultants out there who go to hospitals and say you should be doing patient blood management because it will save you money. Or you should be doing patient blood management because blood is bad, dangerous and kills patients. I don't subscribe to either of those," Benjamin says. "If you do this properly, you can conserve resources, you can treat patients better, the outcomes are likely to be better.

I wonder if the Netherland's study, and the decision to reduce the use of cell savers and erythropoietin, concluding that they are not cost effective procedures in hip and knee surgery, will have an impact on the bloodless industry.
Remember that doctor on the Awake magazine, the guy in green scrubs who endorsed bloodless surgery? Peter Earnshaw. He was a UK orthopedic surgeon who explored the use of cell savers in his early research and was intrigued with the possibilities it could offer orthopedic surgery because of the high blood loss often associated with it. He did not, however, see it as something to be used solely and without allogenic blood being used as well. In Earnshaw's opinion, cell savers were useful, but not primarily so.

Haemonetics got its start by "gifting" their technology to hospitals and research centers. Now, they may have a difficult time justifying the cost factor for general use. Sure...they can recycle blood, but the supporting infastructure of that recycling has yet to hold up to the claims that it saves money. Time will tell. The "Golden Standard of Care" may cost more gold than it is worth.

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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

Edenone, another person you might want to look at who is very, very active in the blood management world is Sherry Ozawa, an active Jehovah's Witness who is also an RN.

http://www.hhnmag.com/Magazine/2012/Sep/0912HHN_FEA_Trending

Sherri Ozawa, R.N., clinical director of the Institute for Patient Blood Management at Englewood (N.J.) Hospital and Medical Center, put the current number at about 100, although she adds that without established national criteria on what qualifies as a blood management program, the exact number is hard to pinpoint.
"I'm aware of about 100 active programs and I'm aware of at least a couple hundred more in development," says Ozawa, also a board member for the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management. In 1994, when Englewood's program began, there were fewer than 10 programs, she says.
The programs have evolved from a way to treat a small subset of the population for whom transfusions aren't an option to a way for hospitals to evaluate what they're spending on blood, examine outcomes after transfusions and explore whether some transfusions are unnecessary.

She has been involved in blood management prior to the establishment of the SABM.

From a 1996 article:

At Englewood Hospital, which treats patients referred from 15 states, a team of surgeons, plus nurses, anesthesiologists and other staff coordinates each patient's medical or surgical treatment according to his or her wishes, through nurse manager Sherri Ozawa, who is herself a Jehovah's Witness.

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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

Yes, EdenOne, the SABM is pretty much made up of all JWs - at least, most of them are. I had said earlier that if you shake the tree, that JWs will tumble out. You don't really have to shake it, just lean on it a little. I have a list somewhere, (I am looking for it) of the original founding members of SABM.

A list of all the JWs connected to and working in the blood management world would prove to be interesting.

For some more on the Biopure litigation in 2006, this is the court document - lots of names on that could be looked at

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar_case?case=10446548670834197813&q=biopure+corp+derivative+litigation+424+F&hl=en&as_sdt=2006

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Eternal life through brain transplant into an android body only a matter of time. Religion no longer needed.

by fukitol in

jw
friends

humanity doesn't need to continue believing in hocus pocus pie in the sky religious hogwash and pipe dreams to have hope of everlasting life.

nor is it necessary to find the fountain of youth or turn off the aging process.. it's only a matter of time until science achieves it.

maybe not decades away, maybe not even centuries, but eventually..... ....mankind will achieve eternal life through a transplant of the human brain into a future highly advanced robotic body.. already the scientific fundmentals for it exist.

OrphanCrow

oppostate: Can you imagine the current GB lasting for centuries through bionics!?!

But aren't they getting beamed up to the Mothership?

Mind you, we will be stuck with all those "Society Men" running around in robot bodies bigger than everybody else, and have to get daily updates via jw..org from the GB floating somewhere above us.

They will to ask for donations to feed their quacking ducks - seeing as "religion" won't be needed.

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Eternal life through brain transplant into an android body only a matter of time. Religion no longer needed.

by fukitol in

jw
friends

humanity doesn't need to continue believing in hocus pocus pie in the sky religious hogwash and pipe dreams to have hope of everlasting life.

nor is it necessary to find the fountain of youth or turn off the aging process.. it's only a matter of time until science achieves it.

maybe not decades away, maybe not even centuries, but eventually..... ....mankind will achieve eternal life through a transplant of the human brain into a future highly advanced robotic body.. already the scientific fundmentals for it exist.

OrphanCrow

Ah, yes. The promise of eternal life.

And so we can see the marriage of two supposedly separate positions - the Watchtower and biotechnology - both promise to "live forever here on earth".

Maybe those old Golden Age and Consolation writers had it right after all. They believed that the "New World" and everlasting life would be brought about by scientific discoveries. The WTS just have had a hard separating quack science from real science. Someone should tell them that when it comes to science, the sound of quacking ducks doesn't mean that they are lined up in a row.

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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

Edenone: A little more about the early days of Hemopure:
In this article published in the New York Times in 1990, was noticed that Biopure announced with some fanfare that the first safety human trials had been conducted in Guatemala.

Did you notice who one of the researchers was?

''I think it's very promising, and I would take it myself,'' said Dr. Michael N. D'Ambra, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General.

Dr. Micheal N. D'Ambra, was one of the editors of The Soul of Medicine, a book that Dr, Jon Shiller, a JW doctor, contributed to.

http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/watchtower-doctor-being-honest.html

If D'Ambra isn't a JW, he rubs shoulders with a doctor who is one.

It looks like the Hemopure fiasco has Watchtower written all over it from its very beginnings. It wouldn't surprise me if Dr. Rausch's "colleagues" were Watchtower men.

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Lorenz Reibling gives interview about real estate

by OrphanCrow in

this interview was posted april 16, 2015 on youtube.

lorenz reibling's replies to the reporter in argentina are in english.. lorenz reibling is intimately connected to the watchtower society and, according to some sources, is a jw himself.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ssa-9yvii.

so who is lorenz reibling?

OrphanCrow

Eden: Biopure went bankrupt because Hemopure stalled at clinical trials on humans, and they ran out of money. Their assets were then purchased by OPK Biotech. Seemingly small detail, but very relevant.

Yes. And it was then that OPK, I believe pulled up stakes and moved to Russia. And then, came back to American soil. Something like that...it is a difficult company to track. Consider how the WTS used the lure of having over 3000 doctors all lined up and ready to make medical advances using the JWs in Russia, as an argument to present to the Russian Supreme Court. The JWs were presented, not just as a religion, but also as a medical research group.

But, to throw some more interesting history of Hemopure into this mess, there is a whole scandalous legal drama that went on with Biopure over those stalled human trials. What happened was that the FDA had asked for the results of the clinical trials that were being conducted but Biopure refused to hand over the results. . And, subsequently, the investors sued Biopure.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/03/14/708377/-Big-Pharma-CO-Fakes-Cancer-Doctor-Fakes-Clinical-Trials-for-Vioxx-Celebrex#

Howard Richman, former VP of Biopure, impersonated a doctor and lied about having colon cancer in order to trick a judge into thinking he was suffering and dying.
This bizarre deceit was an effort by Richman to squirm out of an SEC lawsuit that accused Richman of misleading investors. According to the Associated Press, Richman misled investors about the potential for FDA approval of a blood replacement product called Hemopure, which is made from cow's blood. By faking his own cancer and forging a doctor's note, Richman was able to get a postponement of judgment in the SEC lawsuit, which effectively ended the legal action he would have otherwise faced.

Richman was sentenced to three years in jail in 2009:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/biopure-exec-sentenced-to-three-years-for-faking-cancer-to-avoid-sec-probe/

Howard Richman better hope there's no such thing as karma. The formerBioPure vice president was sentenced last month to three years in prison for faking cancer to avoid an SEC investigation.
The investigation centered on BioPure's communications with investors regarding Hemopure, a bovine-derived blood substitute. The product gained approval in South Africa but was turned down by the FDA in 2003. At the time, BioPure characterized the agency's rejection as relatively positive given that new clinical trials were not required, and the stock jumped 20 percent.
Apparently, BioPure failed to mention that the FDA had raised safety concerns about Hemopure and placed a clinical hold on other trials. According to the Boston Globe, that information was omitted from SEC filings as BioPure raised some $35 million that year, triggering the wrath of an SEC already fed-up with biotech hype.
And that's when Richman had an inexplicable lapse in judgment. According to the Globe:
Thomas Moore, the former chief executive, agreed to pay a $120,000 settlement. The company settled without paying a fine the year before. Jane Kober, Biopure's general counsel, and Carl Rausch, its former vice chairman and senior technology officer, each paid $40,000 fines. Richman was the only person who contested a settlement at that time.

As the SEC tried to proceed with its case, Richman said he had colon cancer and couldn't participate in depositions and such. He submitted a fake doctor's note and impersonated his doctor in a phone call with his lawyer. As time went on, he claimed the cancer had spread and was terminal, and a judge ended the litigation against him.
But later that year, Richman's lawyers abruptly resigned (hmmm--wonder why) and his new lawyers came clean to the judge. He pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice in March, and in October he was sentenced to three years in prison.
BioPure wouldn't talk about the issue with the Globe, distancing itself by saying Richman hadn't worked there for years. But the company is not exactly free and clear of questionable judgment calls: Last year it filed a lawsuit against an NIH researcher who had published an unfavorable article about Hemopure in theJournal of the American Medical Association and pushed for the product's withdrawal in South Africa. Trying to sue a scientist for publishing data that shows your product is unsafe may not be as bad as faking cancer, but it ain't good.
BioPure filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July.

The Securties and Exchange Commission laid charges of concealing info from investors against Carl Rauschin in 2003, who was apparently the "inventor" of Hemopure and the founder of Biopure (I think).

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2006/comp19651.pdf

Carl Rausch resigned from Biopure in 2005.

For more links and info on Carl Rausch and Biopure lawsuits:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/biopure-announces-resignation-of-carl-rausch-from-board-of-directors-and-chief-technology-officer-position-54714262.html

*to add - This is why the human trials were stalled:

From a 2002 article:

The Food and Drug Administration is currently reviewing Hemopure as a possible substitute for red blood cell transfusions in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery. A decision on the product's approval is expected in the middle of next year.
Biopure concluded a 688-patient pivotal clinical study of Hemopure in August 2000. The company has insisted that results of this trial showed the product to be safe and effective, but has never fully released data from the study to back up its claims.
Wednesday, safety data finally released from that study showed 118 serious adverse events in 350 patients receiving Hemopure. By comparison, there were 83 serious adverse events in 338 patients given red blood cells.
Eighty-eight patients, or 25%, given Hemopure during the study experienced at least one serious adverse event. That compares to the reporting of at least one serious adverse event in 59 patients, or 17.5%, receiving red blood cells. The difference between the two patient groups was statistically significant, according to the study.
Breaking down these adverse events, 22 patients in the Hemopure arm of the study fell victim to cardiac problems, compared to eight patients in the red blood cell arm.
There were six incidents of kidney problems, including four cases of acute renal failure, in the Hemopure arm. In the red blood cell arm, there were four incidents of kidney problems, including two cases of acute renal failure. TheStreet.com has reported previously on cases of acute renal failure in Hemopure patients.