Posts by jwleaks

The credibility and reputation of the entire religion of Jehovah's Witnesses now rests in the hands of Terrence O'Brien and Rodney Spinks. Interestingly there will be the required "two witnesses" to testify to a matter, and both appearing at the same time sitting next to each other. If one lies and the other remains silent then the JWs are no longer credible.

Neither O'Brien nor Spinks have the authority to go it on their own on behalf of Watchtower or the JWs, nor against the instructions of the GB. They must "listen, obey and be blessed." This is their final chance to apologize. What have the GB instructed them to say and do?

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ARC Case Study 54 - Witness List published for 10 March 2017

by jwleaks in

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

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http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney

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QCS Telecom signs up with Allied Fiber

by StarTrekAngel in

i don't recall seeing this come up after the document regarding qcs telecom.. leasing 288 miles of dark fiber is not cheap.

in fact, it borders in the crazy.. http://www.alliedfiber.com/news/press-releases/qcstelecom-signs-20-year-lease-agreement-with-allied-fiber/.

jwleaks

The typical cost for inground optic fiber cables can be between $6.00 - $7.50 per linear foot. This is the rate in Florida for government enterprises and factors in there is no leasing arrangements, i.e. the cables are buried alongside existing motorways owned by the state.

The cost of a dark fiber superstructure system can blow out to $30.00 per linear foot. Add to this the cost of leasing the ground space.

288 miles of Watchtower dark fiber equals 1,520,000 linear feet of dark fiber.

It's not impossible for Watchtower's private dark fiber network installation and construction to blow out from a pre-construction estimate of $3million, using a standard non-secure optic fiber system, to a whopping $50million plus with dark fiber and leasing.

Keep in mind that Watchtower purchased QCSTelecom so they could control everything. The lease arrangement with Allied Fiber could simply mean that Watchtower blew out their budget and had to look to forming a business alliance with a seperate corporation to complete or deliver the project.

http://www.itscosts.its.dot.gov/

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Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission - Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower to appear on 10 March 2017

by jwleaks in

latest date just published for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower.

the public hearings will commence friday 10 march 2017 at the child abuse royal commission's hearing rooms in sydney.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

the scope and purpose of the public hearing is to inquire into:.

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BTTT for those wondering what happened.

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AUSTRALIA - Petition to Cancel the Charity Status of Watchtower and Jehovah's Witnesses

by jwleaks in

a petition has been launched in australia to coincide with the child abuse royal commission's adverse findings against watchtower and jehovah's witnesses.

the petition is to the australian charities and not-for-profit commission to cancel their charity status.. https://www.change.org/p/australian-charities-and-not-for-profit-commission-acnc-cancel-the-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-s-charity-status.

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jwleaks

konceptual99
So are you saying that if a child does some cleaning at the KH under the supervision of their parents this is legally child slave labour under AU law?

Cleaning at the KH, such as after a meeting, is not the same as working on a construction site. A construction site is governed by a series of laws which include a hierachy of liability.

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AUSTRALIA - Petition to Cancel the Charity Status of Watchtower and Jehovah's Witnesses

by jwleaks in

a petition has been launched in australia to coincide with the child abuse royal commission's adverse findings against watchtower and jehovah's witnesses.

the petition is to the australian charities and not-for-profit commission to cancel their charity status.. https://www.change.org/p/australian-charities-and-not-for-profit-commission-acnc-cancel-the-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-s-charity-status.

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jwleaks

RE: Child Slave Labour

The Australian Human Rights Commission has no power to investigate Watchtower and the JWs over child labour. The Charity Commission and the Senate do.

Australia has strict laws prohibiting corporations from using underage children for financial gain. During the ARC, in an attempt to deny any responsibility or relationship with children, Watchtower denied ever engaging children as volunteers. This denial is all encompassing and includes in construction. Therefore the children were not in a charity-volunteer relationship with Watchtower or the JWs, of which relationship is lawful. As such the child labour provided to Watchtower and the JWs was unlawful.

Children working on a construction site cannot by law be under parental supervision. They are either under the supervision of the builder or a subcontractor.

Ironically it appears that the strategy that Watchtower legal department came up with to protect Watchtower from liability towards children, i.e. by denying any relationship, has in fact opened the way for action against Watchtower by these very children. A charity-volunteer relationship between Watchtower / JWs and children creates a legally binding contract as the religious organisation is providing necessities to the child in the form of Christian charity work.

No contract means Watchtower and the JWs have no protection under law. A claim can be made for compensation. In addition a complaint can be made to the charity commission that the Watchtower / JW system practices child slave labour.

If I was the GB or Watchtower legal in the USA I would be getting rid of Australian Watchtower lawyer Vincent Toole asap for his failure in managing this situation and the ARC. I would kick Toole out to pasture. Toole turns 70 this year ... maybe the GB can make up some new rule that, like COs and COBEs, he cannot serve over the age of 70. Problem solved. Of course Toole would then qualify for the in-house Bethel nursing home. This keeps him around. To save face and embarrasment all round Toole himself could come up with an excuse, at the enforcement of the GB, that he doesn't want to spend his retirement in Bethel but wants to retire in some god-foresaken location in Australia.

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AUSTRALIA - Petition to Cancel the Charity Status of Watchtower and Jehovah's Witnesses

by jwleaks in

a petition has been launched in australia to coincide with the child abuse royal commission's adverse findings against watchtower and jehovah's witnesses.

the petition is to the australian charities and not-for-profit commission to cancel their charity status.. https://www.change.org/p/australian-charities-and-not-for-profit-commission-acnc-cancel-the-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-s-charity-status.

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jwleaks

A petition has been launched in Australia to coincide with the Child Abuse Royal Commission's adverse findings against Watchtower and Jehovah's Witnesses. The petition is to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission to cancel their charity status.

https://www.change.org/p/australian-charities-and-not-for-profit-commission-acnc-cancel-the-watchtower-bible-and-tract-society-s-charity-status

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This petition is in direct support of the following concerns raised with The Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission (ACNC)

Case no. 291746

Case no. 290182

The nature of my concern relates to the uncharitable and harmful activities of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society or Jehovah's Witnesses. I learnt of these concerns as I was indoctrinated into the Jehovah's Witnesses as a child. In addition to my experience, a report entitled 'REPORT OF CASE STUDY NO. 29. The response of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to allegations of child sexual abuse' was released on October 2016 by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The report can be found HERE.The seven example doctrines below also speak to a summary of the detrimental effects of the organisation:

1. Forbidding Blood Transfusions.

2. Disfellowshipping / Ostracism (includes ‘brazen conduct’). Shunning of ex-Jehovah's Witnesses is a cruel practice of ostracism (see Human Rights Articles 18 and 20). The Human Rights Commission has no jurisdiction over Institutions, therefore although this has been reported to them, they have no powers to act on this information.

3. Baptism age and consequences. Child below the age of consent are permitted to be baptism which is a dedication to the religion. If the child subsequently leaves the religion, they are subjected to the ostracism described in point 2. above. The impact of this practice on a child means that they are held captive by the organisation as they are shunned by their entire social and familial network.

4. Watchtower actively discourages university education.

5. Discrimination against female members is ingrained as the Jehovah's Witnesses believe that a women should be 'in subjection' (see Human Rights Article 2). The Human Rights Commission has no jurisdiction over Institutions, therefore although this has been reported to them, they have no powers to act on this information.

6. Child slave labour occurs routinely, for example in construction and food preparation, etc. (see Human Rights Article 4).The Human Rights Commission has no jurisdiction over Institutions, therefore although this has been reported to them, they have no powers to act on this information.

7. Biblical Judicial Committee. In the ongoing Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Jehovah's Witnesses revealed that in 1,006 cases of Child Sexual Abuse, not one of these were reported to the authorities. Instead, they were heard by a biblical 'judicial committee', allowing perpetrators to reoffend and victims to be traumatised. As 1,006 cases have now been reported to the Royal Commission, it is critical that the ACNC now investigate the released report to review charity concerns.

As harm is caused (as described in the example doctrines) in the areas of discouraging education, emotional harm and family division and its attitude to domestic violence and rape, it is now clear that the detrimental effects outweigh the beneficial aspects and that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society cannot be considered charitable. Evidence of the charity actively harming vulnerable individuals is supported by 1,006 cases of Child Sexual Abuse reported to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Jehovah's Witnesses should be reclassified as a cult since their definition in practice described above matches that of a cult and not a religion. As the Charity Act 2013 states the purpose of advancing religion as a charitable purpose means that religious organisations that only hold church services can qualify as a charity, it should be noted that Jehovah's Witnesses are by definition a cult and not a religion. If you require further evidence we can provide it to you in the form of:

* copies of Royal Commission submissions, and/or
* copies of Police Reports, and/or
* statutory declarations.

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is ongoing and the Jehovah's Witnesses are due to reappear before the Commission on 10 March 2017 to hear Case Study 54. Case Study 54's scope includes:

* The current policies and procedures of Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd in relation to child protection and child-safe standards, including responding to allegations of child sexual abuse;

* Factors that may have contributed to the occurrence of child sexual abuse at Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd institutions;

* Factors that may have affected the institutional response of Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to child sexual abuse;

* The responses of Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to relevant case study report(s) and other Royal Commission reports;

* and any related matters.

A further report will be released after this, however this should not stop the ACNC from acting on what is already been established.

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Joachim Boldt - Two More Retractions for WT's bloodless "expert"

by OrphanCrow in

from retraction watch:.

when you have 94 retractions, what's two more?.

attention joachim boldt: the 1990s are calling, and they want their papers back.the annals of thoracic surgery has retracted two papers from the early 1990s on which boldt was the first author – bringing the retraction tally for the disgraced german anesthesiologist to 96, by our count.

jwleaks

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Notice of formal retraction of articles by Dr Joachim Boldt

The Editorial Board of the British Journal of Anaesthesia has been informed by the Landesärztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz (‘LÄK-RLP’), the State Medical Association of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany that serves as the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for clinical research at Klinikum Ludwigshafen, where Dr Joachim Boldt's recent research was conducted, that they have completed a systematic evaluation of the status of IRB approval for research conducted by Dr Boldt dating back to 1999. They were unable to verify IRB approval for 11 articles published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia between 1999 and 2009.

The editors of the BJA have therefore, in accordance with the journal's regulations, retracted the following articles authored by Dr Boldt and previously published in the journal.

Mayer J, Boldt J, Beschmann R, Stephan A, Suttner S. Uncalibrated arterial pressure waveform analysis for less-invasive cardiac output determination in obese patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth 2009; 103: 185–90 (doi: 10.1093/bja/aep133)

Suttner S, Boldt J, Mengistu A, Lang K, Mayer J. Influence of continuous perioperative beta-blockade in combination with phosphodiesterase inhibition on haemodynamics and myocardial ischaemia in high-risk vascular surgery patients. Br J Anaesth 2009; 102: 597–607 (doi: 10.1093/bja/aep062)

Boldt J, Suttner S, Brosch C, Lehmann A, Mengistu A. Influence on coagulation of a potato-derived hydroxethylstarch (HES 130/0.42) and a maize-derived hydroxethylstarch (HES 130/0.4) in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth 2009; 102: 191–7 (doi: 10.1093/bja/aen353)

Boldt J, Brosch Ch, Röhm K, Papsdorf M, Mengistu A. Comparison of the effects of gelatin and a modern hydroxyethyl starch solution on renal function and inflammatory response in elderly cardiac surgery patients. Br J Anaesth 2008; 100: 457–64 (doi: 10.1093/bja/aen016)

Mayer J, Boldt J, Schöllhorn T, Röhm KD, Mengistu AM, Suttner S. Semi-invasive monitoring of cardiac output by a new device using arterial pressure waveform analysis: a comparison with intermittent pulmonary artery thermodilution in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth 2007; 98: 176–82 (doi: 10.1093/bja/ael341)

Piper SN, Röhm KD, Boldt J, Faust KL, Maleck WH, Kranke P, Suttner SW. Inspired oxygen fraction of 0.8 compared with 0.4 does not further reduce postoperative nausea and vomiting in dolasetron-treated patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Br J Anaesth 2006; 97: 647–53 (doi: 10.1093/bja/ael242)

Boldt J, Haisch G, Suttner S, Kumle B, Schellhaass A. Effects of a new modified, balanced hydroxyethyl starch preparation (Hextend) on measures of coagulation. Br J Anaesth 2002; 89: 722–8 (doi:10.1093/bja/aef242)

Boldt J, Hüttner I, Suttner S, Kumle B, Piper SN, Berchthold G. Changes of haemostasis in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery–is there a difference between elderly and younger patients? Br J Anaesth 2001; 87: 435–40 (doi: 10.1093/bja/87.3.435)

Suttner SW, Piper SN, Lang K, Hüttner I, Kumle B, Boldt J. Cerebral effects and blood sparing efficiency of sodium nitroprusside-induced hypotension alone and in combination with acute normovolaemic haemodilution. Br J Anaesth 2001; 87: 699–705 (doi: 10.1093/bja/87.5.699)

Hüttner I, Boldt J, Haisch G, Suttner S, Kumle B, Schulz H. Influence of different colloids on molecular markers of haemostasis and platelet function in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. Br J Anaesth 2000; 85: 417–23

Boldt J, Weber A, Mailer K, Papsdorf M, Schuster P. Acute normovolaemic haemodilution vs controlled hypotension for reducing the use of allogeneic blood in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. Br J Anaesth 1999; 82: 170–4

LÄK-RLP was unable to verify IRB approval for 88 articles by Dr Boldt published in 18 different journals, including the British Journal of Anaesthesia between 1999 and 2009. A full list of all 88 articles involved is available on our website.

Lack of IRB approval means that the research was unethical, and that IRB approval for the research was misrepresented in the published article. It does not mean that the research results per se are fraudulent. Klinikum Ludwigshafen has commissioned an investigating committee to systematically assess the veracity of the findings presented in Dr Boldt's articles against patient and laboratory records. We will communicate to our readers any finding of data fabrication, falsification, or misrepresentation identified by the investigating committee at Klinikum Ludwigshafen.

The Editorial Board and publishers of the British Journal of Anaesthesia extend our appreciation to LÄK-RLP for their review of the status of IRB approval for Dr Boldt's research and to the investigating committee at Klinikum Ludwigshafen for their ongoing review of his research findings.

Professor Charles Reilly

Editor-in-Chief, on behalf of the Directors and Editorial Board of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Another retraction from BJA

The article below is being retracted following an investigation by the Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen of the work done by Joachim Boldt during his time there, as there is significant doubt regarding the veracity of this publication.

Boldt J, Mueller M, Menges T, Papsdorf M, Hempelmann G. Influence of different volume therapy regimens on regulators of the circulation in the critically ill. Br J Anaesth 1996; 77: 480-7 (doi:10.1093/bja/77.4.480)