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"Witness to Murder" an upcoming program on US TV about a JW family will air August 20th...
by AndersonsInfo ini was informed yesterday that a us cable tv channel named investigation discovery will be broadcasting a 7-part series named "deadly devotion.
" one program in the series is "witness to murder" which will air wednesday evening, august 20th, probably at 9 p.m. est.
check the schedule on the internet which lists the date and time of broadcast two-weeks ahead.
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"Witness to Murder" an upcoming program on US TV about a JW family will air August 20th...
by AndersonsInfo ini was informed yesterday that a us cable tv channel named investigation discovery will be broadcasting a 7-part series named "deadly devotion.
" one program in the series is "witness to murder" which will air wednesday evening, august 20th, probably at 9 p.m. est.
check the schedule on the internet which lists the date and time of broadcast two-weeks ahead.
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I was informed yesterday that a US cable TV channel named Investigation Discovery will be broadcasting a 7-part series named "Deadly Devotion." One program in the series is "Witness to Murder" which will air Wednesday evening, August 20th, probably at 9 P.M. EST. Check the schedule on the Internet which lists the date and time of broadcast two-weeks ahead.
The program, "Witness to Murder," is based on the book, Wolves Among Sheep, by Canadian, James Kostelniuk, a former JW. His ex-wife, Kim, and their two children were murdered by her American JW second husband who she met while on vacation in Texas after her divorce from James. (For more information, read the Amazon Review posted below.)
I think the book was published some ten years ago.
Barbara
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigation_Discovery: Investigation Discovery (ID) is an American television network owned by Discovery Communications that features documentary-style programming dealing with true crime subjects, including criminal investigations (primarily homicides), forensics, and other crime-related documentaries.
As of August 2013, approximately 84,289,000 American households (73.81% of households with television) receive Investigation Discovery.)
Amazon Book Review for third edition - 2009:
http://www.amazon.com/Wolves-Among-Sheep-James-Kostelniuk/dp/1926676262
There are tragedies in life. The young child killed by a drunk driver. The family devastated by an early morning house fire. These events sadden us and make us reflect. "There but for the grace of God..." But if tragedy has a degree, there is surely none more unspeakable than the cold-blooded, brutal, shotgun murder of two beautiful children. Juri, aged 10, and Lindsay, aged 8. Juri died with his arms wrapped around his sister, in a futile effort to protect her.
Wolves Among Sheep is unlike any book you have read-or are likely to read again. It is written by the person most affected by the deaths of these two innocent children and their mother - their father and Kim's first husband, James Kostelniuk. Compelled to write the book as an expression of sorrow and love for the family so cruelly taken from him, Kostelniuk also had a deep need to arrive at some understanding of why these senseless murders took place. This question led him to expose the influence of the Jehovah's Witness organization that wielded total control over Kim's life, as it had over himself until he found the resolve to break with the organization. In making that break, Kostelniuk knew he would be forever shunned by the Witness community and, according to its laws, forbidden contact with his own wife and children.
The convicted killer, Jeff Anderson, was also a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. In a bizarre turn of events, Anderson began to correspond with Kostelniuk from prison, and his correspondence provides a chilling look into the mind of a murderer who held back a terrible secret from the world.
After serving fifteen years, the Canadian criminal justice system offered Jeff Anderson the opportunity of a faint-hope hearing for early parole from his 25-year sentence. In February 2009, Anderson's file was opened up for public scrutiny at his first National Parole Board hearing at William Head Institution near Victoria, British Columbia. That parole hearing confirmed Kostelniuk's suspicions and revealed even more about this offender than anyone outside the system had known up until that time.
Wolves Among Sheep is a riveting read that explores the darkest parts of the human heart and mind, and surprises us with the depth of its love and compassion.
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How the Supreme Courts decision could spill into the JW world.
by problemaddict inso in the 5-4 decision today, the courts said an employer could not be forced to cover things mandated by the aca (specifically birth control was the point of contention), if doing so would violate their religious beliefs.. nuts.
just nuts.. here is what ruth ginsberg wrote in her dissent.
its 35 pages, but this stood out to me for obvious reasons.. "would the exemption...extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (jehovah's witnesses); antidepressants (scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain muslims, jews, and hindus); and vaccinations[?
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What’s Next? A Ruling that Workers’ Insurance Doesn’t Have to Cover Blood Transfusions?
By Dave Lindorff
The vote by the US Supreme Court’s five conservative Catholic male members in the Hobby Lobby case, declaring that companies substantially owned by people who on religious grounds believe that contraception is a sin can not be compelled to offer coverage for it in any health plan provided to their employees raises a few important questions.
The biggest one of course, is: Why if this is a decision based upon the Constitution’s separation of church and state, would it stop at contraception?
How about a company owned by Jehovah’s Witness believers? They believe that the bible, by banning the ingestion of blood, makes any blood transfusions, or even for many believers, the storing of blood for later use, a sin. Should such employers be allowed to offer insurance plans to their worker that don’t cover blood transfusions, or perhaps that even deny coverage for operations that require blood transfusions -- for example dialysis, heart surgery, treatment for leukemia and bone cancer, or just emergency surgery following some injury that involves major blood loss?
Or what about a company owned by a Christian Scientist, who opposes any and all medical intervention. Should such a company be able to offer a plan that only covers palliative care by a hospice nurse, or visits by a religious “healer”?
We have, of course, entered that Alice-in-Wonderland world here of “faith-based conservatism.” Any kind of nonsense could be justified in such a world, and with the five conservative Catholics now ensconced on the court supporting such a mad world view, we should be ready for it. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the sixth Catholic on the nine-member court (the other three are Jews in an astonishing turn of events that has filled the court entirely with representatives of two faiths that historically were barred from the court or that were allowed just token representation), will have her hands full trying to make the theological argument against the troglodyte and anti-woman sentiments of her five catholic colleagues.
Meanwhile, there is another problem with the Hobby Lobby ruling. Hobby Lobby, like most of those companies that still offer insurance plans to their workers, does not actually pay for the full cost of the policies. In fact, in many workplaces, workers pay the bulk of the premiums for their insurance. All the company does is arrange for the group coverage. Furthermore, if the company does pay a share of the cost for its workers, it is allowed to deduct those costs from its income, and is thus being subsidized by the nation’s taxpayers. To say that those employers are “paying” for the insurance is simply a fraud and a lie.
One could go further, actually, and note that health insurance is not offered by employers to workers because employers are being benevolent and are concerned about their workers’ health. They offer health benefits as one part of the compensation package, just like any contribution they offer to a worker’s 401(k) plan or, if they are in that tiny minority that still offer them, pension. The worker took the job because in addition to the wage offered, there was a health plan. In other words, the health plan is part of the worker’s pay package.
Many employers, in fact, make a point of annually showing their workers, in dollars, what their “total compensation package” is worth, adding in things like health benefits and employer 401(k) contributions, to make sure they know how much loyalty they should feel towards the boss. These parts of the compensation workers earn for providing their labor are just as much the employees’ money as is the employer’s share of the FICA tax credited each paycheck to each worker’s Social Security account.
We have two major problems here, both illustrated by the Hobby Lobby decision. One is that quite the opposite of their stated explanation of separating church and state, a cabal of five male Catholics -- all ideologically-driven members of the Federalist Society -- are pushing their radically conservative religious agenda on the country. The other is that, as a legacy of the wage controls during World War II, which led employers to offer health benefits as a way of attracting and retaining scarce workers, the US, alone in the modern industrialized world, relies on employers to be the main providers of heatlhcare to its citizens -- a feudalistic arrangement that keeps workers chained to their job, afraid to organize, and if organized, afraid to strike.
Maybe the answer would be to replace these Catholic justices with Christian Scientists. At least if they turned out, against the tradition of that rather live-and-let-live religion, to be as aggressive in pushing their own theology as is the radical cabal of Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Kennedy, they would simply rule that no employers should be have to provide health insurance to workers, and we could move on to a national health care system like Canada’s or Britain’s.
This article was published at NationofChange at: http://www.nationofchange.org/what-s-next-ruling-workers-insurance-doesn-t-have-cover-blood-transfusions-1404568752. All rights are reserved.
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THE CURRENT FADING OF BRAND NAME "THE WATCHTOWER"
by steve2 inthe current fading of brand name "the watchtower" & the rise, rise, rise of jw.org.
the watchtower as brand name is in the process of being imperceptibly faded from visibility in the organization.
who'd have thought you could make a watchtower fade and disappear?
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Steve2 and Gingerbread: I can't agree more with your observations. However, in my opinion, within the next ten years the Watchtower organization as we know it will be gone and in its place will stand JW.ORG where "... all nations will [not] stream to."
Barbara
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News from Spain: WT in court soon for unlawful use of a photograph
by AndersonsInfo inthis morning, i received the following email through my website, watchtowerdocuments.com.
i have no information other than what is stated in the email.
(the information provided in the links has been translated into english.).
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WT lost this case. See my post titled Confidential News From Spain from an Insider.
Barbara
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Confidential News from Spain from an "Insider"
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://watchtowerdocuments.org/confidential-news-from-spain/.
the following email was sent to watchtower documents recently from a witness insider in spain.
congratulations for all the information you have given on the legal framework of the watchtower.. in spain, the watchtower is following the instructions coming from patterson that works exclusively with the law firm baker & mckenzie.
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http://watchtowerdocuments.org/confidential-news-from-spain/
The following email was sent to Watchtower Documents recently from a Witness “insider” in Spain.
Congratulations for all the information you have given on the legal framework of the Watchtower.
In Spain, the Watchtower is following the instructions coming from Patterson that works exclusively with the law firm Baker & McKenzie. The Spain branch attempted to negotiate a NO SOCIAL SECURITY REGISTRATION, but lost the case as well as the lawsuit where the Plaintiff claimed plagiarism by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
[Here's a link to a discussion on JWN about one of the issues with the Spanish government that WT apparently appealed and recently lost. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/175340/1/Letter-from-Spanish-Branch-regarding-Governing-Bodys-decision#.U7SNIekg_L8]
[Here's a link to a discussion on JWN about the plagiarism case: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/209252/1/News-from-Spain-WT-in-court-soon-for-unlawful-use-of-a-photograph#.U7SOf-kg_L8]
Go to www.watchtowerdocuments.org for the rest of the "News from Spain." Or click on http://watchtowerdocuments.org/confidential-news-from-spain/
Barbara
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THE CURRENT FADING OF BRAND NAME "THE WATCHTOWER"
by steve2 inthe current fading of brand name "the watchtower" & the rise, rise, rise of jw.org.
the watchtower as brand name is in the process of being imperceptibly faded from visibility in the organization.
who'd have thought you could make a watchtower fade and disappear?
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Good topic Steve2 and your posts are excellent. As far as I'm concerned, keeping this subject out in front is of the utmost importance. We can't let this sneaky religious corporation get away with trying to cover their bloodguilt by changing their identity.
Recently I wrote an article about the "rebranding" that Watchtower leaders are determined to do. The title is:
What's in a Name
http://watchtowerdocuments.org/whats-in-a-name/#more-2264
In one part of the article I wrote this as food for thought:
"Although the Watchtower organization proclaims its existence with a huge sign installed on the roof of their office building located at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge on the Brooklyn side that literally can be seen across the East River from Wall Street, the words, “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” which would identify the place as their world headquarters, can not be found.
Why is “WATCHTOWER” the only name found on top of the building anyway? Isn’t that odd in light of the fact that Jehovah’s Witnesses claim near and far that only they are “proclaiming Jehovah’s name.” Wouldn’t the sign on the roof of Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters, known as The Watchtower, be the perfect place to advertise the name “Jehovah”?"
Near the end of the article, I discussed Watchtower's venture into the world of e-relgions which they named JW.Org:
"Identity Change
As far as I’m concerned, today’s Watchtower leaders are going through a CIC, or "Cult Identity Crisis." My use of the word “cult” in this instance is according to the following definition:
“…an ideological organization held together by charismatic relationships and demanding total commitment.” (Zablocki, 1997). This definition is compatible with some definitions of new religious movements, but cult can also refer to nonreligious organizations. As defined here, cults are at risk of abusing members, but do not necessarily do so.”5
"With the Internet more and more accessible everywhere and the strange history of the Watchtower and of Jehovah’s Witnesses doctrinal flip-flops are readily available, many members are bailing. Recruitment of new members is down. Consequently, the Watchtower is having a CIC panic attack which is not going away but getting more intense with the result that this cult is changing its identity by rebranding itself as an “e-religion” named “JW.Org”.
"This conversion of Jehovah’s Witnesses carefully cultivated door-to-door image to an important educational e-religion in the minds of the members reminds me of the old story of the emperor wearing new clothes. The emperor was convinced by his weavers that he had on new, extraordinary clothes which they made for him, but in reality he was naked. One aspect of the moral of this story is, “don’t believe everything you’re told by those who seek gain.
"Watchtower is still Watchtower, whatever name is used to push their interests forward. Watchtower members are being misled by the so-called “New Light” that Watchtower leaders claim is “progressively” shining only on their Governing Body. To continue to delude the Witnesses, Watchtower leaders are giving their old failed apocalyptic doctrines a modern look and feel. But nothing has changed – it’s still the same old-time apocalyptic religion using a new way to dispense old fables."
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Article: To save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients die
by AndersonsInfo into save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients diedoctors at the university of pittsburgh medical center plan to treat trauma patients with an experimental procedure that induces hypothermia by replacing their blood with freezing saltwater.. .
by kate murphy.
the new york times.
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To save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients die
Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plan to treat trauma patients with an experimental procedure that induces hypothermia by replacing their blood with freezing saltwater.
By KATE MURPHY
The New York Times
PITTSBURGH — Trauma patients arriving at an emergency room here after a gunshot or knife wound may find themselves enrolled in a startling medical experiment.
Surgeons will drain their blood and replace it with freezing saltwater. Without heartbeat and brain activity, the patients will be clinically dead.
And then the surgeons will try to save their lives.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have begun a clinical trial that pushes the boundaries of conventional surgery — and, some say, medical ethics.
By inducing hypothermia and slowing metabolism in dying patients, doctors hope to buy valuable time in which to mend the victims’ wounds.
But scientists have never tried anything like this in humans, and the unconscious patients will not be able to consent to the procedure. Indeed, the medical center has been providing free bracelets to be worn by skittish citizens here who do not want to participate should they somehow wind up in the ER.
“This is ‘Star Wars’ stuff,” said Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, a trauma specialist at the University of Maryland. “If you told people we would be doing this a few years ago, they’d tell you to stop smoking whatever you’re smoking, because you’ve clearly lost your mind.”
Submerged in a frozen lake or stowed away in the wheel well of a jumbo jet at 38,000 feet, people can survive for hours with little or no oxygen if their bodies are kept cold. In the 1960s, surgeons in Siberia began putting babies in snow banks before heart surgery to improve their chances of survival.
Patients are routinely cooled before surgical procedures that involve stopping the heart. But so-called therapeutic hypothermia has never been tried in patients when the injury has already occurred, and until now doctors have never tried to replace a patient’s blood entirely with cold saltwater.
In their trial, funded by the Department of Defense, doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will be performing the procedure only on patients who arrive at the ER with “catastrophic penetrating trauma” and who have lost so much blood that they have gone into cardiac arrest.
At normal body temperatures, surgeons typically have less than five minutes to restore blood flow before brain damage occurs.
“In these situations, less than one in 10 survive,” said Dr. Samuel A. Tisherman, the lead researcher of the study. “We want to give people better odds.”
Tisherman and his team will insert a tube called a cannula into the patient’s aorta, flushing the circulatory system with a cold saline solution until body temperature falls to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. As the patient enters a sort of suspended animation, without vital signs, the surgeons will have perhaps one hour to repair the injuries before brain damage occurs.
After the operation, the team will use a heart-lung bypass machine with a heat exchanger to return blood to the patient. The blood will warm the body gradually, which should circumvent injuries that can happen when tissue is suddenly subjected to oxygen after a period of deprivation.
If the procedure works, the patient’s heart should resume beating when body temperature reaches 85 to 90 degrees. But regaining consciousness may take several hours or even days.
Tisherman and his colleagues plan to try the technique on 10 subjects, then review the data, consider changes in their approach, and enroll another 10. For every patient who has the operation, there will be a control subject for comparison.
The experiment officially began in April and the surgeons predict they will see about one qualifying patient a month.
It may take a couple of years to complete the study. Citing the preliminary nature of the research, Tisherman declined to say whether he and his colleagues had already operated on a patient.
Each time they do, they will be stepping into a scientific void. Ethicists say it’s reasonable to presume most people would want to undergo the experimental procedure when the alternative is almost certain death. But no one can be sure of the outcome.
“If this works, what they’ve done is suspended people when they are dead and then brought them back to life,” said Dr. Arthur L. Caplan, a medical ethicist at New York University. “There’s a grave risk that they won’t bring the person back to cognitive life but in a vegetative state.”
But researchers at a number of institutions say they have perfected the technique, known as Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, or EPR, in experimental surgeries on hundreds of dogs and pigs over the last decade.
As many as 90 percent of the animals have survived in recent studies, most without discernible cognitive impairment — after the procedure, the dogs and pigs remembered old tricks and were able to learn new ones.
“From a scientific standpoint, we now know the nuts and bolts and that it works,” said Hasan B. Alam, chief of general surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center, who has helped perfect the technique in pigs.
“It’s a little unsettling if you think of all the what ifs, but it’s the same every time you push into new frontiers,” he added. “You have to look at risk and balance it against benefits.”
Trauma accounts for more years of life lost than cancer and heart disease combined, and it is the leading cause of death in people up to age 44, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Surgeons are eager for new techniques that would help better the odds in emergency situations. Black males are disproportionately victims of homicide, especially gun violence, and most of the patients likely to fit the study criteria in Pittsburgh are African-American males, according to officials at the medical center.
In order to obtain an exemption to federal informed consent rules, the hospital held two town hall meetings on the university campus, placed advertisements on buses, and made sure the news got in newspapers catering to minority readers.
Officials posted information about the study on a website, acutecareresearch.org, and conducted a phone survey in the neighborhoods most at risk for “involuntary enrollment” in the trial. Still, a taxi driver, grocery clerk and security guard — all African-American men approached at random — said they had never heard of the trial, though they work within a couple of miles of the hospital.
They also did not object. “I don’t have a problem with it, if it saves lives,” said Charles Miller, a 52-year-old security guard.
Just 14 people have so far requested “No EPR” bracelets, according to the medical center.
Nearly a half-dozen trauma hospitals may join the trial and begin testing the hypothermia procedure on dying patients, including the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
Scalea, who will head the effort there, said he hopes to receive final regulatory approval by the end of the year.
He recalled a recent stabbing victim who died on his operating table.
“He might have lived if we could have cooled him down,” Scalea said.
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2023808403_coldtraumaxml.html
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FYI Article: Dear Abby - Childhood Sexual Abuse Still Haunts Adult Survivor
by AndersonsInfo inchildhood sexual abuse still haunts adult survivormay 21, 2014 the class naming convention is clientorwebsite-adposition .
by abigail van buren.
share on facebook share on twitter <i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>email article contact dear abby print article dear abbythese are partial articles split into small sections.dear abby: after years of carrying this guilt, i want to tell my story.
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Childhood Sexual Abuse Still Haunts Adult Survivor
May 21, 2014
by Abigail Van Buren
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DEAR ABBY: After years of carrying this guilt, I want to tell my story. It may help others.
When my grandfather tried to rape me, it was at night when everyone was asleep. I stopped him as much as a 10-year-old could. The next day he wrote me a letter saying he was sorry for what he did. It read, "If your dad finds out, it will KILL HIM." Strong words for a 10-year-old, so I buried the letter in the back yard. He never touched me again.
Five years after that, Grandpa was arrested for molesting my younger brothers. As a young girl, I didn't know men molested boys. I found out after my grandfather went to prison that he had also molested my dad and his sister when they were children.
Please warn parents to educate their children. Tell them that even someone they love does not have the right to touch them in a way that makes them uncomfortable.
My dad felt guilty for the rest of his life for what happened to us because he had let this monster back into his life. If this saves one person from the shame and guilt I have carried, it will have been worth it. -- WISH I HAD TOLD IN FLORIDA
DEAR WISH YOU HAD TOLD: I agree with you about the importance of parents teaching children the difference between an appropriate touch and one that isn't, and how to set boundaries. If those boundaries are violated, children should be instructed to immediately tell an adult. If it's not a parent, then tell a teacher, counselor or school nurse, all of whom are mandated reporters. Children should also tell if a friend confides it has happened to him or her, because secrets like this are harmful not only to the victim, but also to any children in the vicinity who might also be at risk.
It may assuage your guilt to know that molesters often blackmail their victim into silence. I heard recently from a woman who said her father told her when she was a child that if she revealed what he was doing, he would kill himself. (It wasn't until many years later that she finally realized if he had, he would have been doing everyone, including her sister, a favor.)
http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/2014/5/21/childhood-sexual-abuse-still-haunts-adult
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by Separation of Powers infunny how well that goes together.. interesting that several months ago people were fearful to bring their pc tablets to the hall for fear that others would judge them for their "showy display" now to see most everyone, even the tikes, with a tablet.
i can hear those little tykes now with the veruca salt voice of the old willy wonka movie, "daddy, i want a new ipad.
get me an ipad daddy!
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Thank you SOP for the kind words. The website Home Page is going to get a complete facelift too. Then it'll be my turn to get one too. ;-)
We all do the best we can to help folks get their heads on straight after leaving the WT cult so to hear that we are of use is gratifying.
Barbara
