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http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article152198869/In-29-Jahren-sind-die-Probleme-der-Menschheit-geloest.html (only available in German) The article goes on to list possibilities for medical scanners that can diagnose patients much faster and efficient than human doctors, that there will be no need for menial workes (and that therefore, there should be a minimum income guaranteed for everyone), there will be parking spaces for everyone due to super-efficient management of traffic (??) and that DNA tests will cost as little as a cent.

I prefer to be informed of the reality of the situation. There will always be some bad apples in our congregations... we just need to be aware.

A Jehovah’s Witness elder who sexually assaulted two vulnerable teenagers he met through the church was sentenced to three years jail yesterday over the “destructive” abuse. David Frank Pople, 68, met the boys through the Safety Bay congregation of the church and assaulted them between 1989 and 1996. One of the teens reported the sexual assaults to elders in 1997 but police were not made aware of the abuse until he filed a police report in 2014. Pople was forcibly ejected from the church for being “insufficiently repentant” in 1997 and readmitted the following year at his request. District Court judge Troy Sweeney accepted Pople was genuinely remorseful but said he had interfered with his victims’ natural maturing process in a “very destructive way”. “A message must be sent that child abuse is abhorrent and will not be tolerated by any civilised society,” she said. “They were vulnerable because they were young and because you were a church elder and their boss.” When Pople admitted assaulting one of the boys during a conversation with an elder in the 1990s, he was told a judicial committee would be formed to deal with the issue. The elders spoke to Pople in an apparent attempt to determine his level of remorse and later sent a letter to certain members of the congregation explaining in great detail why he had been ejected. Pople was in his 40s when he assaulted the boys at work, on his yacht and in his Shoalwater home. He was close friends with the parents of his first victim and had helped the second victim with his Bible studies. Defence lawyer Nick Scerri told the court Pople was candid with the leadership of the church and made “very frank admissions” about some aspects of the offending in 1997. He said his client has been living three lives and was “deeply unhappy” when he assaulted the boys. “He had the life of the family man, the father, the husband,” Mr Scerri said. “ At the same time, he was balancing the religious obligations that he had as a leader in that church. “And thirdly, he had this secret homosexual sort of latency, I suppose.” Pople pleaded guilty to six sex-related charges as well as breaching his protective bail conditions in 2014. He will be eligible for parole after spending 18 months behind bars. https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/30810834/church-elder-is-jailed-over-sex-abuse/

TWO men are beginning lengthy jail sentences for their part in an estimated £8million investment fraud likened to a religion and its brainwashed victims “believers”. Lawrence Wheeler, who was jailed for nine years, was pictured with gems and precious metals he had bought from the fraud proceeds and was said to have gallivanted around the world living the high life in hotels. His son and right-hand man James Wheeler - who received an eight year prison term - was accused by Judge Sean Morris of a “nauseating and slippery performance” when he took the witness stand during his three week trial, having denied fraud and money laundering. He told investors that his status as a Jehovah’s Witness meant he was unable to break the law, in an effort to win their trust. Teesside Crown Court heard how many of the 350 victims were elderly and had been deliberately targeted. Some had since died with the stress of the County Durham-based fraud having contributed to their ill health, and others had lost homes and life savings. A third man the Crown said was involved, Anthony Kemp, is currently serving a prison sentence in New Zealand for a separate but similar fraud, but is expected to be extradited back to the UK to stand trial when he is released. The con began in 2001 when Wheeler Snr and Kemp were introduced to a network of people interested in so-called “get rich quick” schemes. Victims were then recruited to what was effectively a pyramid or ‘Ponzi’ scheme and told they could get access to high yielding investments abroad. When that ended pressure tactics and deception were used to get victims to make payments in anticipation of what prosecutor Mark Giuliani said were “ludicrous returns”. In 2006 it was claimed an interest fund from the investments amounted to £3.3bn. Mr Giuliani said various excuses were also made to explain why no money was being paid with Lawrence Wheeler at one stage claiming couriers were bringing sixty million dollars from abroad in a suitcase which had been lost. When people complained Wheeler Snr, who used fake banking documents and guarantees, sent threatening e-mails, saying he would “send in the heavies”. They were also blackmailed into silence and repeatedly told that if they went to the authorities they would not get a penny. Mr Giuliani said even after his arrest in 2013 Lawrence Wheeler carried on his fraudulent dealings, claiming to be looking at oil deals abroad and asking people to send money via PayPal. Asked by Judge Morris where the cash had gone, Mr Giuliani said it was believed it had been siphoned off to West Africa. Unlike his 71-year-old father, who admitted conspiracy to defraud on the eve of his trial, James Wheeler denied fraud and money laundering, but was found guilty by a jury on both counts. He allowed his bank accounts to be used to launder the cash received. A picture framing shop, in Spennymoor managed by James Wheeler and his wife Gillian – who was cleared of the same charges – was used to co-ordinate the con. Mr Giuliani read out several victim impact statements describing the “devastating” effects the fraud had. He said: “Some of the victims had responsible jobs, company managing directors, solicitors, accountants, people who should have known better.” Stephen Constantine, for Wheeler Snr, of Ramsay Street, Tursdale, County Durham, said he was a man of advancing years and hitherto good character. Tom Mitchell, for 46-year-old James Wheeler, of Church Lane, Ferryhill, said: “It was as much a religion as a fraud. The believers – those were elderly and sophisticated investors.” Mr Mitchell said his client’s culpability only went to back to 2007, adding: “This was not James Wheeler’s fraud. But for his father’s actions son would not be where he is now.” Sentencing the defendants, Judge Morris said Wheeler Snr was the “villain of the piece” and a devious fraudster. He said his procrastination in the face of overwhelming evidence led to other members of his family being arrested and also facing trial, before the cases against them were discontinued. The judge said James Wheeler had been a willing and able partner in the fraud, funnelling funds abroad, and had also “chanced his arm with the jury and lost”. He said: “You duped people you knew personally into schemes you must have known were nonsense.” Judge Morris added: “Every single aggravating feature about fraud is apparent here. If there is a lesson to the public about get rich quick schemes, it is there is no way of getting rich quick other than winning the lottery.” http://m.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14276665.Victims__brainwashed__in___8m_investment_scam/

BBC Radio 4. 14th February 2016. ''Sunday'' program The Sunday programme investigates allegations that the Jehovah's Witness ordered the destruction of documents that could be used during the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Was this in contravention of Section 21 of the Inquiries Act 2005 which is punishable by imprisonment? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0709v34 Justice Goddard added "No institution – whether they have received a letter or not – can be in any doubt of the extent of their duty to preserve records for the Inquiry, or of the consequences of failing to do so." We [solicitors writing this] would advise institutions to take immediate steps to prevent the destruction of any files or data relating to children in their care or the staff who looked after them, and for the time being to suspend any routine destruction of such files under data protection legislation http://www.farrer.co.uk/Global/Briefings/Independent%20Inquiry%20into%20Child%20Sexual%20Abuse.pdf Letters are here. But no names given for who received. https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/chair-of-the-inquiry-issues-guidance-on-destruction-of-documents

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Trustees have asked the Court of Appeal to permit their legal challenge to the statutory inquiry that was opened by the commission in 2014. Following decisions against them at the Charity Tribunal and High Court, the trustees of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain (the leading Jehovah’s Witness charity in the UK) have asked the Court of Appeal to permit their legal challenge to the statutory inquiry into their activities that was opened by the commission in 2014. No decision was reached today. The commission is investigating how Watch Tower safeguards children and adults at risk. It has been seeking access to the registered charity’s records since 2014. Watch Tower disputes the legal basis of the commission’s inquiry and its order seeking documents from the charity. Today’s hearing forms part of its longstanding litigation against the commission. The commission has argued that the Charity Tribunal is the appropriate venue for such cases. It has warned that if the Court rules otherwise, it may risk excluding less well-funded charities from accessing justice via the less costly Tribunal. The commission is committed to robustly investigating allegations that charities do not have adequate safeguarding policies and practices. It continues to defend its statutory inquiry into Watch Tower. It encourages people who have been affected by safeguarding in congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses in England and Wales to make contact with the inquiry lead investigator Jonathan Sanders at jonathan.sanders@charitycommission.gsi.gov.uk Members of the public can contact the commission with any safeguarding or other concerns about charities via Complain about a charity. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-commission-defends-its-investigation-into-jehovahs-witness-charity-in-the-court-of-appeal

5:30am Friday 12th February 2016 in PERVERT: Harry Holt, now living in Nelson, committed his crimes in Scotland A CHURCH elder who sexually abused vulnerable children was invited to speak at his first victim’s wedding, a court heard. A court was told Harry Holt, 71, now of Rutland Street, Nelson, went on to attack seven more girls as young as nine after the Jehovah’s Witnesses failed to report him to police. When the matter was raised, a local beat officer advised parents to ‘just keep your children away from him’, the court heard. Holt is facing a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted of attacks against eight girls in Scotland dating back over 40 years. His first victim, now 56, described Holt telling her he would deny touching her and that nobody would believe her. She told Kilmarnock Sheriff Court: “As a child I was made out to be a liar but Charlie knows I’m not lying. “My mother and father were treated very badly and it caused disruption in the congregation. They were of very good standing. “The local bobby was there and my mum and dad asked him what they should do and he said, ‘just keep your children away from him’.” The woman, then 14, said a judicial committee of elders was held where Holt admitted groping her but not sexual touching. She added: “He was sitting straight across from me. As a result he was removed as an elder from the congregation.” The court heard at 19 she got married and her mother insisted that Holt should officiate which caused a ‘big row’ as ‘it wasn’t until years later that she found out why’. Another victim, now 32, described Holt abusing her in the jacuzzi at the Magnum leisure centre in Irvine, Ayrshire, when she was between 14 and 15. The court heard the visit was laid on as a treat for ‘pioneering’ door to door with leaflets and church magazines. The victim told the court: “I kept telling him to stop.” Holt, a retired engineer, and his wife later moved from Ayrshire to the Edinburgh area, although the victim still saw him through the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Holt, was found guilty of 11 charges of indecent assault and lewd and libidinous behaviour in Seamill, Dalry, Saltcoats, Kilbirnie, Stevenston and Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and in Gorebridge, Midlothian, between May 1971 and August 2004. One of the attacks took place in a Kingdom Hall meeting place run by the church, the court heard. The crimes came to light when two victims shared their experiences years later and went to the police. Sentence was deferred until next month and Holt was remanded in custody. A church spokesman said: “Jehovah’s Witnesses abhor child abuse and view it as both a despicable crime and a sin. “Anyone who commits the sin of child abuse faces expulsion from the congregation and any suggestion that Jehovah’s Witnesses cover up child abuse is false.” Detective Chief Inspector John Hogg of Police Scotland said: “Harry Holt abused his position of trust by using his status to abuse and exploit vulnerable children, subjecting them to acts of sexual abuse. “His crimes span four decades and I have no doubt in my mind that his actions have deeply affected his victims. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank the victims for having the courage to come forward and assist officers in ensuring Harry Holt was held accountable for his actions. Without their support this outcome would not have been possible. “I also hope this case sends a clear message to other abusers that this type of behaviour will not be tolerated and our specially trained officers will work to unravel your crimes and bring you to justice.” http://www.thelancasterandmorecambecitizen.co.uk/news/14271622.Church_elder_who_sexually_abused_vulnerable_children_was_invited_to_speak_at_first_victim___s_wedding/

Evidently he was an elder who spoke at conventions. He hasn't been disfellowshipped yet. Probably soon.

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This video will be played at the CLAM meeting of March 21-27 Use Insight When Comforting Others: (15 min.) Discussion. Play the video that the elders viewed at a recent Kingdom Ministry School. Then invite comments on how the two brothers were a good example of how to give encouragement when someone expresses anguish over the death of a loved one.

This is to inform you that older, 45-minute public talk outlines are in the process of being shortened to 30 minutes, and their content and references are being updated. The revised outlines will be posted on jw.org. Some outlines are being given new titles, and others are being discontin- ued. When an outline that you deliver is revised, please update your talk as soon as possible so that it harmonizes with the revised outline. When an outline is discontinued, it should no longer be used. At times, a discontinued outline may be replaced with a new one that has a different theme but the same number. Please inform all ministerial servants who give public talks of this direction. 2016_01-31-E_BOE--Revised_Public_Talk_Outlines_[1].pdf

2016-1-12-BOE . "Apply Yourself to the Field Ministry," the "Initial Call" assignment directs the student to mention the donation arrangement. .

With the christmas almost upon us i would like to share a personal experience with you about drinking and driving.. as you may know the local police are having a serious go at drink drivers this year… well, a couple of days ago i was out for an evening with friends and had a small number of drinks before dinner, followed by some rather nice red wine. feeling jolly i still had the sense to know that i may be very slightly over the limit.. that’s when i did something that i’ve never done before - i took a taxi home.. sure enough on the way home there was a police road check, but since it was a taxi they waved it past. i arrived home safely without incident.. this was a real surprise as i had never driven a taxi before, i don’t know where i got it and now that it’s in my garage i don’t know what to do with it.. any ideas?. via Humor

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