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United States Jehovah's Witnesses Political Action Committee
by Researchedandenlightened inhttp://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/c00594192/1034956/.
any info on this in usa , what does it involve ?.
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$1.2 billion coming, still 12 properties to go
by the girl next door inbut still, they ask for more at every opportunity.
send in that ice cream money kids!.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could.
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Ok. So lets assume Watchtower has more money than God. They are still bleeding. Unlike ever before. How long can they pinch the artery? Again your cynicism is showing naughty boy. -
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$1.2 billion coming, still 12 properties to go
by the girl next door inbut still, they ask for more at every opportunity.
send in that ice cream money kids!.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could.
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2 billion was a low estimate, so what? But dont forget some of the remaining properties are parking lots. These for sale are the most valuable sought after properties. You do recognize that there are 12 more properties to be sold besides these on the market now? -
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$1.2 billion coming, still 12 properties to go
by the girl next door inbut still, they ask for more at every opportunity.
send in that ice cream money kids!.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could.
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All Brooklyn/DUMBO properties will be sold by 2017. It will be at least a couple billion. Thats a big chunk of change. Why the pleading for donations now at every chance? It has to be projections. They are panic buttoning because they know they already have that money spent in the next decade. Guess we will see. They think armageddon is going to bail them out. We know better. -
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$1.2 billion coming, still 12 properties to go
by the girl next door inbut still, they ask for more at every opportunity.
send in that ice cream money kids!.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could.
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It is not impossible to know where they stand financially. There was a thread here recently that spelled it out clearly with legitimate documentation. They are on the fast downhill train. -
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$1.2 billion coming, still 12 properties to go
by the girl next door inbut still, they ask for more at every opportunity.
send in that ice cream money kids!.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could.
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I have reviewed financial documents as many here must have by now that WT is operating in the red to the tune of a quarter million a year. Yes it will take a decade before they are at rock bottom, but it is happening. Their begging for money is unprecedented. There is a reason why. Wealth is not determined by how much you make, but instead how much you save. Watchtower is not hoarding like they used to. They have admitted, we are spending more than we receive. -
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$1.2 billion coming, still 12 properties to go
by the girl next door inbut still, they ask for more at every opportunity.
send in that ice cream money kids!.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could.
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But still, they ask for more at every opportunity. Send in that ice cream money kids!
Sales of Watchtower headquarters and two other Jehovah’s Witnesses' properties could total $1.2 billion, real estate pros predict
Here's the Watchtower's iconic world headquarters, seen from the Brooklyn Bridge. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan
By Lore Croghan
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Hallelujah brother!
Investors are expected to pay heavenly sums totaling around $1.2 billion for the famed world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Brooklyn Heights and two other hot Watchtower properties.
The Watchtower Real Estate Office has just put the Witnesses' iconic headquarters at 25-30 Columbia Heights, a 10-story residential building at 124 Columbia Heights and an enormous development site at 85 Jay St. in DUMBO up for sale.
Real estate investors are eager to get their hands on these prime locations in brownstone mecca Brooklyn Heights and oh-so-trendy DUMBO.
“Those in the real estate community realize these are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities,” Richard Devine, a Jehovah's Witnesses spokesman, told theBrooklyn Eagle Friday.
The sale offerings, announced Thursday night, are the latest step in the Witnesses' long-running campaign to sell their once-vast Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO real estate holdings because of a planned move to a new headquarters they're building in upstate Warwick.
The Witnesses typically do not set an asking price when marketing a property.
“We let the qualified buyers participate in a competitive bidding process and see where the market goes with it,” Devine told the Eagle.
The Witnesses have had a presence in Brooklyn Heights since the beginning of the 20th Century. They still own another dozen neighborhood properties they have not yet brought to market.
The construction of the upstate headquarters is proceeding more rapidly than originally expected, with a September 2016 completion date now anticipated. The Witnesses' process of moving out of Brooklyn will start in fall 2016 and continue into 2017, Devine said.
When they move, they will be trading their jaw-dropping views of the Brooklyn Bridge for the forest scenery of the Ramapo Mountains.
“For the headquarters staff — some members of the headquarters family have been in Brooklyn Heights for over 70 years — it'll be a big change,” Devine told theEagle.
“In general, everyone is very excited and positive,” he said.
Devine himself has made the transition. He lived in Brooklyn Heights for more than 30 years before relocating to Warwick in 2013.
“I miss the city a lot,” Devine said. “I loved living in Brooklyn Heights.”
Here's the scoop on the offerings, property by property:
25-30 Columbia Heights: The more than 733,000-square-foot property, whose famed red “Watchtower” sign lights up the night, was constructed in the 1920s. It was originally a Squibb Pharmaceuticals drug-manufacturing plant. The Witnesses purchased it in the 1960s.
“It's a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park location,” a neighborhood real estate professional told the Eagle. He predicts the property, which has a sky bridge over Columbia Heights, will sell for $800 to $900 per square foot — in other words, for as much as $660 million.
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85 Jay St.: This DUMBO site has nearly 1 million square feet of development rights.
Real estate sources told the Eagle two years ago that developers who had approached the Witnesses at that time were willing to pay $400 per buildable square foot — nearly $400 million.
As the Eagle previously reported, more than a decade ago the Witnesses won a city zoning variance that allows residential construction at the site. They made plans to build four apartment towers on the property.
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124 Columbia Heights: The 152,000-square-foot residential property overlooking the Promenade is located in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.
“It's an easy conversion to condos or rental apartments,” the neighborhood real estate professional told the Eagle. “It's so easy — if I had the money, I'd jump into it myself.”
He predicts the building will sell for $1,000 per square foot — in other words, $152 million.
Brownstones that formerly stood on the site of the well-situated residential building included 110 Columbia Heights, which was the home of Brooklyn Bridge engineer John Roebling.
He was crippled by caisson disease — the bends — and famously supervised bridge construction from home by watching the goings-on with a telescope.
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Obama to speak from the Oval Office tonight (8:00 eastern)
by Coded Logic inthis will be only the 3rd time he's spoken from the oval office in his seven years so it's probably going to be something pretty big.
combat troops being sent into syria?
unilateral movement on gun control?.
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http://venturesafrica.com/isis-vs-isil-vs-daesh-vs-islamic-state-explained/
"The major difference between the two acronyms lies in the last letter which stands for ‘Syria’ or ‘Levant’. Levant is the historical term for the region east of the Mediterranean including Egypt, Iran and Turkey."
Personally, I would like to see all references made to them be Daesh.
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Bible Versus Quran Experiment - Genius!
by cofty inabsolutely brilliant social experiment.
enjoy.. ....
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Shared this video and received commentary that "it speaks more to a lack of intelligence and 'true christians' would not be shaken because its 'out of context'" I came across the following article on richarddawkins.net which I offered right back:
by Ali A. Rizvi
I recently posted the following statement to my Facebook timeline:
“The worst of beasts, in our view, are the followers of Allah—those who believe in Islam. They’re the ones you make treaties with, but they break those treaties every time because they have no fear of the law.”
The statement, of course, is blatantly bigoted hate speech against Muslims. But it is not something I have written. It is a passage from the Quran, verses 8:55-56, with references to disbelievers replaced by “followers of Allah” and “those who believe in Islam.” You can read the original verse here.
Several commenters jumped on it, accusing me of taking these verses “out of context.”
“It’s a warfare verse,” said one. “It’s like taking a sentences out of a military book. If you are at war, then I think its fair that you can say it. But it is only applied in self-defense. You have to have a just reason for it.”
Okay, I told him. Let’s change the context then. Suppose the U.S. is at war with ISIS or Al Qaeda, and the president says:
“The worst of beasts, in our view, are the followers of Allah—those who believe in Islam. They’re the ones you make treaties with, but they break those treaties every time because they have no fear of the law.”
Does that read any better?
“It does if the fight is on the land of the one being attacked,” he replied. “The aggressor can be identified easily by where the war takes place. What if the attacked people are fighting in self-defense?”
Fine. Let’s suppose ISIS or Al Qaeda has attacked New York City, and the president says, in response:
“The worst of beasts, in our view, are the followers of Allah—those who believe in Islam. They’re the ones you make treaties with, but they break those treaties every time because they have no fear of the law.”
Better?
The commenter persisted. “But the verse wasn’t for the general public. It was for the soldiers fighting in the war. It is only talking about people who break treaties.” And so on.
I won’t repeat the passage again. The point was obvious: however you paint the modified quote, it still reads as hate speech against all Muslims. There is no “context” that justifies labeling an entire people “the worst of beasts.”
And herein lies the problem: if there were a book that talked about Muslims the way the Quran talks about disbelievers, heads would roll. Literally.
The primary argument we hear against critics and satirists of religion like the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists—who satirized all religions, not just Islam—is that their speech “offends billions of people.”
But what about the religions they’re targeting? The Abrahamic holy books—respected and revered by billions worldwide—prescribe the killing of disbelievers (Quran 8:12-13, 47:4; Leviticus 24:16); order their adherents to fight and enslave those with differing beliefs, a la ISIS (Quran 9:29-30, Deuteronomy 20:10-18); endorse wife-beating (Quran 4:34) and the stoning to death of non-virginal brides (Deuteronomy 22:20-21); order women to quietly submit to the authority of men (1 Timothy 2:11-12); and mandate the public lashing of fornicators (Quran24:2) and the killing of homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13).
Who should really be offended here? If hate speech were really the issue, these books would be the first to go.
When confronted with these facts, apologists will often respond by saying these texts should not be read “literally”—a concern that is certainly well-founded considering their contents. They know how terrible these books would sound if they weren’t liberally “interpreted” (read: distorted, sanitized), or read the way one would read any other book. When the literal word of a deity requires repeated, long-winded explanations from his human followers simply to prevent it being interpreted to mean what it actually says, it doesn’t make a great case for divine authorship. If anything can mean anything, the whole thing becomes meaningless.
The reality is, religious moderates take their scripture “out of context” more than they’d like to think. Islamic apologists, for instance, like to quote the verse 2:256, which says there is “no compulsion in religion.” They won’t tell you (and many don’t know themselves) that the very next verse, 2:257, says that those who do choose to disbelieve will be “companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein.” You’ll also hear them quote verse5:32, which says, “Whoever kills a soul…it is as if he had slain all mankind. And whoever saves one—it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.” But again, if you read on to the very next verse, 5:33, you’ll see that Allah wants anyone opposing him or his messenger to “be killed or crucified…their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides,” for “causing corruption.”
What is more offensive? Those words? Or those who choose to reject and criticize them?
It is true that a religion should not be defined by the actions of its adherents. However, it can be defined by the contents of its canonical texts—like the Quran, which is the one thing common to all Islamic sects and denominations, fundamentalist or moderate. The fact that most Muslims are non-violent doesn’t automatically erase all of the violent verses from the Quran, in the same way that that Jews eating pork or having premarital sex doesn’t mean either act is suddenly allowed by the Jewish faith. In the words of Alishba Zarmeen: most humans are more moral than the scriptures they hold sacred.
Fear of causing offense is not a sound reason to stop calling out hate speech, whether it comes from Tea Party Republicans, the KKK manifesto, or the Quran and Bible. And the misinterpretation/metaphor/out-of-context excuse is just that—an excuse. It doesn’t make these texts read any better.
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Bible Versus Quran Experiment - Genius!
by cofty inabsolutely brilliant social experiment.
enjoy.. ....
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JW literature cart at 0:16.
