Ah, more cash for us.
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48Florida' s Gold Coast-- Latest WatchTower REAL ESTATE
by rip van winkle inhttp://gotoby.com/news/article/2245/watchtower-buys-former-faa-training-facility-in-palm-coast-for-$7025000.
watchtower buys former faa training facility in palm coast for $7,025,000the facility was owned by embry riddle and had been leased to the faa.
watchtower plans to use the facility in much the same manner as did the faa.by toby tobinadd a comment palm coast, fl june 30, 2014 watchtower, an entity ofjehovahs witnesses, purchased the former faa training facility in palm coast from embry riddle aeronautical university for $7,025,000.
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Looking for transcript of the "Miracle Wheat" trial
by Doug Mason inas the title of this thread says, i am looking for the transcript of the "miracle wheat" trial.. any clues?.
thanks,.
doug.
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I have much material on this and on all the Watchtower's losses in lawsuits (which, in essence, means all of them, lol).
Here, for example, is a cleaned up transcript of the APPEAL decision.
It was delivered "Per Curiam" (so, all the judges concurred in its wording). Russell's appeal was rejected and furthermore the decision that he should pay all costs was reaffirmed. The costs of this appeal were also payable by the rogue.
Citation: 168 A.D. 121, 153 N.Y.S. 450 Russell v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle 168 A.D. 121, 153 N.Y.S. 450 N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept. 1915 May 07, 1915
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
RUSSELL
v.
BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE.
May 7, 1915.
Appeal from Trial Term, Kings County.
Action by Charles T. Russell against the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
From a judgment for defendant, and from an order denying his motion for a new trial, plaintiff appeals. Judgment and order affirmed.
In action for publication charging plaintiff with selling Miracle Wheat at $1 a pound, reports of United States Department of Agriculture as to such wheat, kept as required by Rev. St. U.S. §§ 520, 526 (5 USCA §§ 511, 514), receivable in evidence under Code Civ. Proc. § 944, and Act Feb. 9, 1889, c. 122, 25 Stat. 659 (5 USCA § 512), for any proper purpose, held admissible.
Newspaper publication of cartoon referring to plaintiff, an unordained preacher as dishonestly and fraudulently selling Miracle Wheat at $1 a pound to his disciples held libelous.
In action for libel, where defendant pleaded truth in justification, held that it was for jury to ascertain the scope of the cartoon, and to say whether defendant's proofs established the defense.
Jesse Fuller, Jr., of Brooklyn (J. F. Rutherford, on the brief), for appellant.
I. R. Oeland, of New York City, for respondent.
Argued before JENKS, P. J., and THOMAS, CARR, STAPLETON, and PUTNAM, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
[1] The action is for damages for libel. The defendant is the publisher of a daily newspaper. The plaintiff professes to be an interpreter of the Bible, and is an unordained preacher. The libel alleged was published in a cartoon. The headline of the cartoon is 'Easy Money Puzzle.' In the cartoon is shown a building on which is printed 'Onion Bank.' The figure of a man appears at the door of the building. He is represented as saying: 'You're wasting time. Come on in here.' In the foreground is an effigy of the plaintiff, portrayed as carrying a small package. There is this subscription: 'If Pastor Russell can get a dollar a pound for Miracle Wheat , what could he have got for Miracle Stocks and Bonds as a director in the old Union Bank?' Contemporaneously with the publication, the Union Bank had defaulted in payment of deposits. Its failure was by the press attributed to the infidelity, inefficiency, and unlawful acts of several of its officers. They were charged with purchasing with the depositors' money bogus securities at fictitious prices from co-conspirators. A violent denunciatory newspaper campaign, in which the defendant prominently participated, was being waged against the officers. The plaintiff's plea was that the defendant's purpose was falsely to charge him with dishonest and fraudulent practices in disposing to his disciples, to their loss, of a grade of wheat, known as Miracle Wheat, at $1 per pound. The defendant pleaded the truth in justification. The learned trial court charged the jury that the publication was libelous, and left it to them to say whether the defense was established. The jury rendered a verdict for the defendant.
[2] The charge contained a correct exposition of the law governing the defense. The court properly left it to the jury to ascertain the pith and scope of the cartoon, and then to determine whether defendant's proofs were adequate to meet the charges as thus ascertained.
[3] The appellant's only assignment of error which we deem it necessary to discuss is the asserted inadmissibility of reports of the United States Department of Agriculture. Such reports were duly authenticated, and when so authenticated they are receivable as evidence for any proper purpose. Section 944, Code Civil Procedure; 25 Stat. 659, Fed. Stat. Ann. vol. 1, p. 8. The plaintiff was the editor of a publication purporting to be devoted to a religious propaganda. In it he informed his sympathetic readers that one of his associates had accumulated Miracle Wheat, which the associate was disposed to sell to the readers of that publication for $1 a pound. The associate promised to give the entire proceeds to a corporation organized and controlled by the plaintiff. In the article it was represented that the yield of Miracle Wheat was 10 or 15 times as great as the yield of common wheat. The record offered in evidence tended to show, as the result of governmental experiment, that Miracle Wheat was no more prolific than brands of wheat in general use and of ordinary quality. There was independent evidence that other wheats could be purchased at prices so low, in comparison, as to make the advertised price of Miracle Wheat exorbitant. Among the duties imposed and the powers conferred upon the Department of Agriculture are the following: To acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word (section 520, Rev. Stat. U. S.); to procure and preserve all information concerning agriculture which the Commissioner of Agriculture (now the Secretary), can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office, by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power. He shall collect new and valuable seeds and plants, shall test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such test, shall propagate such as may be worthy of propagation, and shall distribute them among agriculturists. Section 526, Rev. Stat. U. S. See, also, Act March 2, 1901, c. 805, 31 Stat. 928. The question is, are those records relevant evidence of the facts therein recorded, upon the issue of justification? In Evanston v. Gunn, 99 U. S. 660, 666, 25 L. Ed. 306, speaking of records of the Weather Bureau, the court said: 'They are, as we have seen, of a public character, kept for public purposes, and so immediately before the eyes of the community that inaccuracies, if they should exist, could hardly escape exposure. They come, therefore, within the rule which admits in evidence 'official registers or records kept by persons in public office in which they are required' (sic) 'either by statute or by the nature of their office, to write down particular transactions occurring in the course of their public duties or under their personal observation.' Taylor, Evid. § 1429; 1 Greenl. Evid. § 483. To entitle them to admission it is not necessary that a statute requires them to be kept. It is sufficient that they are kept in the discharge of a public duty. 1 Greenl. Evid. § 496. Nor need they be kept by a public officer himself, if the entries are made under his direction by a person authorized by him. Galt v. Galloway, 4 Pet. 332 [7 L. Ed. 876]. It is hardly necessary to refer to judicial decisions illustrating the rule. They are numerous. A few may be mentioned. De Armond v. Neasmith, 32 Mich. 231; Gurney v. Howe, 9 Gray (Mass.) 404 [69 Am. Dec. 299]; The Catharine Maria, Law Rep. 1 Ad. & Ec. 53; Cliquot's Champagne, 3 Wall. 114 [18 L. Ed. 116].
While we appreciate that there is some difference between the official record of observations of natural conditions and the official record of observations of the operation of natural conditions, influenced by human action, the distinction is not sufficient to make the rule just quoted inapplicable. We think the court did not err in receiving the evidence.
The judgment and order should be affirmed, with costs.
N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept. 1915
RUSSELL v. BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE
168 A.D. 121, 153 N.Y.S. 450
All but one of Russell's grounds for appeal were ignored as irrelevant - an appeal is not a re-trial. The exception was his objection to the evidence from the Dept. of Agriculture that his Miracle Wheat was, well, Non-Miracle Wheat - evidence Russell tried to suppress and have excluded. Ummm, no.
That this filthy, lying, swindling, child-molesting, perjurious fraudster was the most decent person who has ever headed the Watchtower should give some food for thought.
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How Accurate Is JWN In Your Opinion?
by minimus inwould you say this board gives accurate information, overall?
if someone started reading the comments here, do you think they would find this discussion board as accurate?.
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Thanks, jgnat! I've speed read all your submissions in that thread.
I trust he's no longer feeling like a "whipped dog".
In my direct experience, deceived jWs include many of the very kindest, most trusting, most giving open-hearted people that there are.
(Some never recover; sounds like he's one of the lucky ones. That he has a loving spouse who stuck with him through the Great Tribulation counts for a lot).
This fact about the nature of its victims, and the harm done to kids, further fuels and focusses my godly hate (term tm WTS) for the disgusting organization.
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THE ALTERNATIVE DAILY TEXT by The Witchtower editor
by processor ini have published more than 200 'daily text' comments in german, and will now start translating those into english.
they will be published here:.
http://dailytext2.wordpress.com/.
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processor, you are a demon after my own heart.
Do look to the verses of Numbers 31; that should a few alternative days. I am confident you will not need help in interpreting the real reasoning underpinning each step that is prescribed therein.
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This will be a GREAT organization!
by Kensho inwhen...... 1) we follow christ example not the gb.
2) stop df'ing those for challenging current or past doctrine and allow us to use our god given gift of reason and free wil.
sure kick out the scumbags even the lions club have rules for membership, but not those who just use their brains and consience.. 3) get rid of the nonsensical blood teaching that has cost the lives of thousands and beg god for forgiveness.
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defender of truth:
ADCMS: "Take a Pioneer off the list and see if they continue to put in Pioneer hours. Without the title to go along with the "self-sacrifice", no JW will expend the effort...ever. "
Amen to that. I always wondered what was the point in giving people a title such as 'pioneer'. Obviously it is a motivator, love of God just ain't enough.This is very standard MLM-101 stuff. Perhaps you are unaware of how all successful MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) corporations operate. Some view it as deceitful. Some as simply an intelligent manipulation of human frailty.
A Whore supplies what is wanted. A Great Whore does it, well, on a great scale.
The Watchtower is a MLM oppo, just a massively-diversified cheap, poorly-written (1916 onwards) fiction publishing house that couldn't give a hot damn about the misery and deaths she causes to the deceived. What a shame we don't live in theocratic times, and so have to restrain ourselves, eh?
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A precious gift to all from Jehovah (channelled via Focus)
by Focus insome souls here may feel i was a little harsh.
if so, i am deeply sorry.
i was abused by a handful right from the start, presumably on the basis of the avatar picture (and 2001 vintage).. when visiting dubland, i often find that others start fights with me - for whatever reason, and i provide quite a supply of them - and when it doesn't quite go the way they expected, they cry persecution.
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Excellent work, defender of truth.
Many or most will not be aware of how much the law has progressed on this front. Even a decade ago, the idea would have been considered preposterous.
Furthermore, this isn't principally a US- or even a US-led phenomenon.
in states subject to the European Court ("EC", i.e., EU/EFTA ones) and to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR - a much wider grouping, including Russia), IMO the law is in advance of the status quo in North America. And look at France!
Where law itself is developing in favour of Mr/Ms Little, Courts are often reluctant to use the statute of limitations (aka Limitations Act), and to find ways of getting around it. There is much case law available in different countries to illustrate the interpretations a Court may place on the exceptions.
I do not underestimate the "gradient" (as tim hooper eloquently put it) - it is worse than perpendicular to our flat earth of the Bible.
But... nothing ventured, nothing gained.
A very sharpened stick shall, if I can, be inserted deep into the nethermost aperture of the Great Whore, and we will feed her exactly the disgusting filth she has , in the commission of her endless harlotries, perpetrated upon her tens of millions of past and present victims.
At the least, she will be scared into some changes. New light will arrive to extinguish the old light.
Anyone have an archived copy of the Quotes site, please, that is better than what's available via the Wayback machine (i.e., archive.org)?
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This will be a GREAT organization!
by Kensho inwhen...... 1) we follow christ example not the gb.
2) stop df'ing those for challenging current or past doctrine and allow us to use our god given gift of reason and free wil.
sure kick out the scumbags even the lions club have rules for membership, but not those who just use their brains and consience.. 3) get rid of the nonsensical blood teaching that has cost the lives of thousands and beg god for forgiveness.
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Liquidate the entire business and distribute the money back to those of us that contributed time, money, and energy to that mess (except for the GB and those that have already profited from this scam).
Now there, Billy the Ex-Bethelite, almost complete...
... include also those who, while never having been members, have been damaged directly due to the borg's malevolent influence on a loved one.
We're now up to 50 million potential claimants. Say 1 million join in, demonstrating tangible damage to an acceptable degree.
$10 billion up for grabs, minimum on a real estate alone basis and from just a few countries, ignoring WTS TWS to hide the true (beneficial) ownership which courts can look through in cases as egregious as these. Say $20 billion when we really scratch around to find where the thieves hid it. Remember almost everywhere it's been accumulating tax-free for decades.
$20 billion / 1 million that's $20,000 each. To "quote" the Rice'd Caiaphas (whose morality was probably an inspiration to Russell) with syncopation by Annas:
Think of the things you could do with that money,
Choose any charity - give to the poor.
We've noted your motives.
We've noted your feelings.
This isn't blood money -it's comp nothing, comp nothing, comp... nothing more.
In fact, one is being generous. If it was up to me, the financial part of the settlement - enough to bankrupt the Filthy Whore and put her out of commission on a permanent basis - would be the least of it:
How should such persons be treated by members of the public they have injured so infamously? We are not living today among theocratic nations where such diseased members of the human race could be exterminated for apostasy from decency and morality, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai and in the land of Palestine. 'Thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to do evil, and done evil.. And all of the world shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.'... Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws imposed by our own generosity and kindness, we can take action against such filthy scum only to a certain extent.
The dripping reluctance that we can't just stone these fiends (or give my "kind" the chance to tear them into pieces while still alive, just like the theocratic she-bears did to the 42 cheeky kids) is rather obvious, isn't it?
The text sounds familiar? Check out the Watchtower of November 15, 1952 - the QFR on pp. 703-4, and all will become clear!
However depraved the goatlike, ignorant, still-stuck-in-the-mire "Eyes Shut" Class may find Focus, believe you me, the Great Whore of Bethel is far more depraved still. She created me in her image.
So, like the sound of $20,000? Not that it's about money.
Apply here:
Only one person can stop you staying (just like with "becoming") a victim - and that is you.
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Inactive relative defends new donation setup based on word of active relative. Doubts veracity of letters!
by Wasanelder Once inmy sister came to the society's defense on the issue of "pledged amounts" not being accurate because a realative stated that it didn't happen in her congregation.
so i said they were mistaken, and that i had access to the letters proving it.
she doubted that they were authentic.
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Focus wrote:
My own favorite bits are ... eyeballs.
HeyThere wrote:
What is it with this sick obsession.
You dare to question the Holey Will? What makes you think God's Sole Non-Prophet, Yes-Profit Whoreganization is obsessed with DESTRUCTION?
AndDontCallMeShirley wrote:
[Depraved, apostatical material excised]
Now, as I'm a theocratically-inclined puss with a Babble-trained-"conscious", I will make it clear that at some eyeballs, I will draw the line.
Who can trust the judgement of someone with eyes like that?
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by minimus inwould you say this board gives accurate information, overall?
if someone started reading the comments here, do you think they would find this discussion board as accurate?.
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jgnat:
I have used credible breaking news here with my husband. He depends on JWN to get the inside scoop on new publications and enough information on the conventions that he can "fake it".
As I keep my private life strictly that, it would be hypocritical for me to poke my muzzle into other people's homes - unless they are clearly very comfortable with talking about it.
I get the impression you could get your husband entirely out (would be mainly his doing) - I ass-u-me he isn't else why is he attending conventions - but something stops you. Is it repercussions for his other loved ones, or that you don't mind, or that you are quite content having a mole within so your kingdom-preaching (wink) here is better accomplished, or ?
All "or"s are widely overlapping. And, thanks on the other matter.
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God's Purpose Soon to Be Realized: WT idiocy
by Focus inhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/soon_realized.htm.
" - http://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/soon_realized.htm ?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/pr/soon_realized.htm.
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And so the god of Progressive Revelation shows us how matters have progressed since this resurrected thread was started, and the Generation of 1914, who within but a few months (October - always October, Brothers!) will be a minimum of one century old each.
2014 - 1914 = 100
Though what a newborn babe could understand, I wonder, since the WTS have said - about the elastic Generation - that they would have had to be mature enough to understand what they were observing.
The Disgusting Thing of scripture, the Beast of Revelation, has published much based on those momentous events of 1914.
These, prior to 1915, were broadcast by The Watchtower as marking the very end of the time of trouble - a bit weird, when the world's worst-ever-conflict to date, World War I, broke out in 1914; more soldiers died in WW I than even in WW II. Later, with typical deceit, Russell and Rutherford & Co. changed what was claimed the "Society" had been predicting for 1914.
Let us strive together to put The Evil Old Whore out of her misery, before she adds more millions to the many millions whose lives she has malevolently blighted.
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