- The New Mexico governor will announce Friday whether he will pardon the Wild West's legendary outlaw Billy the Kid in the death of a law enforcement officer more than a century ago.Gov. Bill Richardson will make the announcement during a live broadcast of ABC's "Good Morning America," his office said. The announcement will be about 7 a.m. ET on the same day the governor leaves office.
Update...no pardon
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
When the door bell rang...
Jehovah's Witnesses Came Calling With The Watchtower and Awake Magazine
Where it all started (above)
The Watchtower Society misprophesied that the world would end in 1914. In this photo Charles Taze Russell, Joseph Rutherford and others of Watchtower's main heads along with family members are on the Mount Of Olives in Jerusalem. Why? Because they believed Christ was about to return and start resurrecting people there. They wanted to be present for the resurrection and hoped to go on up to heaven. If they had read the Bible better and been more honest to themselves and other people, they would have known that Christ says nobody knows when the end will come except for the Father.
And today more slaves
(below)
What do you say when they come knocking?
Listen To Frederick Franz President Talk About 1975
Franz can be heard in the you-tube clips below as he confirms 1975 as the date that would see the end of the world and the start of the resurrection into a paradise reign of Christ for 1000 years, this is in one of his convention keynote addresses at an international convention. Watch and don't allow JW's to tell you that they never said it, and that the over zealous emotional flock distorted what was said about 1975.
Listen to the words of Frederick Franz in 1966-1967
( became the President years after in 1977 )
( became the President years after in 1977 )
On Saturday December 11 2010... Jehovah's Witnesses were on my doorstep
So this time I decided to have a talk with them, the 2 men both looked like they could handle themselves.
So I asked them how they could claim being guided by the holy spirit when the holy spirit picked false prophets?
The first 5 Presidents of their organization, all five predicted wrong dates or significantly changed the interpretations because they ran out of time for the predication to come true.
1874 The Flock Goes To Heaven - Charles Taze Russell
1914 The Followers Go To Heaven WW1 Is End Of The World-Charles Taze Russell
1925 The End Of The World Resurrection -Princes To Paradise - Joseph Franklin Rutherford
1975 The end of 6000 Years- Nathan Knorr and Frederick Franz
The first false prophet was the founder CT Russell predicted the end of the world in 1874 and 1914. ( part of the Scottish Russells all masons by the way)
He was a pyramidologist . He was the person who talked Pyramidology the best in writings and appearances. His charts would project time thru the shafts Jewish slaves built in the pyramids of Egypt. The time channel from the exodus of the Jews from Egypt Thru to 1914.
Now that's an elaborate story and the believers held firm to the beliefs from 1870's to 1916. And CT Russell wrote plenty of books and articles about his pyramidology chronology.
Russell Blood Line and Illuminati Connection
Russell Blood Line and Illuminati Connection
When all his brothers and sisters did not fly up into heaven as he predicted he died a broken man and the organization drifted aimlessly until Rutherford seized it!
CT Russell vanished, he died Halloween night Oct 31, 1916!
Jan 17 1917, less then 3 mths Rutherford took over the control
Wikipedia states:
After Russell's death, a leadership crisis arose surrounding the new president of the Society, Joseph Rutherford, resulting in a movement-wide schism. As many as three-quarters of the approximately 50,000[11] Bible Students who had been associating in 1917 had left by 1931,[12] resulting in the formation of several groups that retained variations on the name Bible Students. Those who maintained fellowship with the Watch Tower Society adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931, while those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Layman's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929.
CT Russell beliefs and writings were scrapped by JF Rutherford the 2nd President of the WTB+TS.
The Watchtower Bible And Track Society WTB+TS, was controlled by Judge JF Rutherford who completely reversed the CT Russell belief that GOD had the pyramid of Giza built as a Stone Witness, a monument used by Jehovah God as a permanent Prophetic Calendar built by
Jewish slaves.
Rutherford stated that the chronology that CT Russell taught about the Pyramid of Giza were the works of Satan not God. God would not use slaves to build the Pyramid, it was of the Devils work. Now that's a complete reversal of ALL the major beliefs of CT Russell.
And instantly a new religion was born in the years JF Rutherford
There are some incredible stories about him whining about Prohibition , he loved the spirits you can count on that. But is alcohol the spirit that was guiding Rutherford or some other devil that transforms himself into an angel of light,
"He was good at quoting scriptures. He also drank and was said to often be drunk. During Prohibition he had alcohol smuggled by truck across from Canada into a room in Brooklyn. Edmund Gruss and others have noted that Nathan Knorr, the next Watchtower President, may have assisted or directed in getting the liquor to Rutherford." Source
Interesting that both Russell and Rutherford had roots back to Scotland,
Rutherford and six other Watch Tower executives were imprisoned in 1918 after charges were laid over the publication of The Finished Mystery, a book deemed "seditious" for its anti-war comments.[3]
Now Rutherford had a problem...2 failed prophesies of the 1st President CT Russell ,
Funny thing but these two men never agreed on the WTB+TS fundemental beliefs
Rutherford knew he had to make some fast maneuvers make a big prophetic move, to keep this business of publishing going strong, after all the founder is dead after false prophesies. And that he did. He scraped all the books CT Russell used authored...
JFR saw this huge publishing business 1916 with a committed list of 200,000 followers not just readers but religious zealots who he could marshal to protest the Catholic Church and others with placards. Stand on street corners, and go from house to house preaching salvation the the Watchtower.
Rutherford introduced many organizational and doctrinal changes that helped shape the beliefs and practices of Jehovah's Witnesses.[4][5] He imposed a centralized administrative structure on the worldwide Bible Student movement, which he later called a theocracy, requiring all members of the religion to distribute literature and preach door to door and provide regular reports of their activity.[6][7]
He also instituted public speaking training programs as part of their weekly worship meetings. He established 1914 as the date of Christ's invisible return, asserted that Christ died on a tree rather than a cross,[8][9] formulated the current Witness concept of Armageddon as God's war on the wicked, and reinforced the belief that the start of Christ's millennial reign was imminent.
He directed that adherents not observe traditional celebrations such as Christmas and birthdays, salute national flags or sing national anthems. He introduced the name "Jehovah's witnesses" in 1931 and the term "Kingdom Hall" for houses of worship in 1935.[10]
JFR saw this huge publishing business 1916 with a committed list of 200,000 followers not just readers but religious zealots who he could marshal to protest the Catholic Church and others with placards. Stand on street corners, and go from house to house preaching salvation the the Watchtower.
Rutherford introduced many organizational and doctrinal changes that helped shape the beliefs and practices of Jehovah's Witnesses.[4][5] He imposed a centralized administrative structure on the worldwide Bible Student movement, which he later called a theocracy, requiring all members of the religion to distribute literature and preach door to door and provide regular reports of their activity.[6][7]
He also instituted public speaking training programs as part of their weekly worship meetings. He established 1914 as the date of Christ's invisible return, asserted that Christ died on a tree rather than a cross,[8][9] formulated the current Witness concept of Armageddon as God's war on the wicked, and reinforced the belief that the start of Christ's millennial reign was imminent.
He directed that adherents not observe traditional celebrations such as Christmas and birthdays, salute national flags or sing national anthems. He introduced the name "Jehovah's witnesses" in 1931 and the term "Kingdom Hall" for houses of worship in 1935.[10]
He wrote twenty-one books and was credited by the Society in 1942 with the distribution of almost 400 million books and booklets.[11] The number of adherents increased more than sixfold during Rutherford's 25 years as president.[12][13]
From Rutherfords point of view as the Legal counsel to the President who just died, leaving the Highest Ranking employee of WTB&TS to continue the work to the end of the world, which Rutherford would decide was 1925. He seized the corporation by disposing of the board of directors in a legal move and had them ousted. Leaving him in total control to pick his own board. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governing_Body_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses
Yes...Rutherford 2nd President stole the religion and made it his own , it should have been called Joes Witnessess. He was use to a court of law, and he constructed this storyline that there was a universal court case in which each human would be judged according to God's exacting policies. and each of Joe's Witnessess would go from street corner to street corner and house to house as Watchtower slaves, and sell his books and magazines. a Publishing Genius using slaves!
Being a prince upon earth, Rutherford had the most regal of cars for his time - a 16 cylinder Cadillac. Actually he kept on hand not one but two of them. Supposedly they were for King David and other "Ancient Worthies" but in fact Rutherford used them while waiting for thos Princes to be resurrected. (Sharp Legal Mind)
"Rutherford often flew from the East Coast to California where he resided in his mansion named Beth Sarim that few of the mostly poor rank-and-file Jehovah's Witnesses knew anything about. A second mansion in California was Beth Shan. Supposedly the mansions (as with the Cadillacs) were for Ancient Worthies like Abraham and David who would return someday, but Rutherford and his intimates actually used them." Source
Beth Sarim (Hebrew for 'House of the Princes') was a ten-bedroom mansion in San Diego,California, constructed in 1929 in anticipation of various resurrected Old Testament biblical patriarchs or prophets such as Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah and Samuel. It was maintained by the Watch Tower Society, the parent organization used by Jehovah's Witnesses, and was also used as a winter home and executive office for Watch Tower president Joseph Franklin Rutherford.
Judge Rutherford pointed out that the ancient witnesses or princes were promised an earthly resurrection by the Lord. In that year 1920 he delivered a public address at Los Angeles, California, entitled 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die,' in which he called attention to the expectations of the return of the men above mentioned. All the publications since emphasize the same fact. It therefore appears that the return of the princes is a fundamental teaching of the Scriptures.
Rutherford ever the legal genius, deeded the mansion to the Princes of the earth ,
This sharp legal arrangement from the mind of a judge... demonstrates how to live in a mansion, purchased by the church and never pay taxes, and never be accused of using religion for personal wealth.
He simply deeded the house to the Princes of the Earth who were to be resurrected in 1925. And he would live in the house till the Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah and Samuel were resurrected 1925.
1925 came and went and he was wrong ... so are you counting thats 3 errors!
Three (3) serious error between 1874-1925 between the 2 Presidents/False Prophets
and there are still more false predictions to go. 1975 and 1994 change in the reference to the "Generation"
and there are still more false predictions to go. 1975 and 1994 change in the reference to the "Generation"
And whats more...They believe that they will live on earth in Paradise and NOT go to Heaven unless you were born before 1935.
The Great Crowd , or other sheep would not be part of the "small flock" going to Heaven,
the special remnant the faithful and wise steward that remained on the earth to give meat in due season.
Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
My those people are now 96-97 years of age? Most who were alive in 1915 must be dead?
Yet the JW's keep reporting Memorial Numbers each year and funny thing there has been no change in the number of people that believe they are in this little flock.
30 years of no drop in memorial partakers. It seems that more and more people are replacing the little flock as they all die off. Hmmm? Seems strange that there is virtually no change in 30 years of memorials.
http://watchtowercomments.com - Jehovah's Witnesses meet on April 9, 2009 to observe the memorial of Jesus' death. Why do increasing numbers of Witnesses claim the heavenly calling on this date, in spite of Watchtower teaching?
Franz claimed to be able to translate from Hebrew To English, but in truth he failed to do so in a court of law in a trial in Scotland,
Life everlasting in freedom of the sons of God by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania., 1966,Watchtower Bible and Tract Book contains the chronology started with CT Russell thru Rutherford then thru Mr. Organization President Nathan Knorr.
Knorr was into running the business whereas Franz was the Oracle who wrote the book in 1966 Life Everlasting in Freedom Of The Sons of God.
Frederick Franz 5th President preached the end of the 6000 years of mankind's history would come to an end in October 1975 . And the 1st You Tube Video Is The Voice and pictures of Franz preaching about 1975.
It is well documented in this book, now off the minds of JW's, since it proves 1975 was not the over enthusiastic reaction by the worldwise flock, but rather a very specific message driven into Jw's in 1966 by Franz and endorsed by Knorr.
How could Gods Holy Spirit be so wrong so many times in the last 135 years?
It because the spirit that guides JW's is NOT the Spirit of God, its another spirit that deny's the blood of Christ's sacrifice to anyone born after 1935. Keep reading...
No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
"The Society's publications has revealed that there is a spiritistic foundation to the teachings of Charles Taze Russell, and his writings continue to this day to influence the direction in which the Governing Body is taking the organization. I believe the Society's basic message about a kingdom government born in heaven in 1914 is completely out of harmony with the simple teaching of the Bible that when Jesus returns "every eye will see him." (Revelation 1:7) I do not want to be classed by God as accursed for accepting or teaching a so-called "good news" that is different from what the apostles taught. -- Galatians 1:8.
Russell's belief in pyramidology is the basis for his date setting. He said the last days began in 1799, Christ's presence began in 1874, the heavenly resurrection began in 1878, the heavenly calling ended in 1881, and the end of the world and the resurrection of "the anointed on earth" would take place in 1914. All his prophecies failed, yet the Society still holds to the 1914 date, but with a different application. The Society claims this date is established by Bible chronology that starts with the destruction of Jerusalem in 607 BC. However, not even one reputable scholar agrees with the Society that Jerusalem was destroyed that year. So, in the face of all this scholarly opposition, the Society unashamedly claims its own scholarship is superior. Due to Russell's and Rutherford's practices of spiritism, millions of Jehovah's Witnesses are banking on Armageddon to come within the next few years. Just as Russell and Rutherford deceived the "International Bible Students" in their day, the teachings of the Governing Body are deceiving Jehovah's Witnesses today.
Nathan H. Knorr was also addicted to spiritualism. As shown in the May 27, 1942 issue ofConsolation, Knorr and the Society went to court over a silly matter having to do with their fanciful belief in "the King of the East, and the Chief King of the Sunrising," calling for Rutherford to be buried at "Beth-Sarim" at sunrise! Knorr lost the case, but his action postponed Rutherford's burial for three and a half months after he died! And since Fred Franz was a prominent member of the Society during the presidencies of Rutherford and Knorr, I have to conclude that he too was a spiritualist. No wonder his prophecies on the world's end for the 1940's and for 1975 did not come true. Nor will his prediction regarding the "generation" of Matthew 24:34. Incidentally, though we have often thought of Fred Franz as some sort of amazing Bible and language scholar, in the door-to-door work I have met rural church pastors and Sunday school teachers who I believe know just as much Bible Hebrew and Greek as he did. -- Matthew 24:23-26, 44.The Society claims to be an advancing into more and greater light, but over the decades it has bounced back and forth on doctrine. The true God speaks and teaches eternal truths, but not the Watchtower Society..With Him there is never a variation or a shadow of a turning. -- James 1:17." Excerpts from resignation letter to WTB+TS Jw's , written by Frank J. Toth after50 years a Watchtower slave. SourceAfter all this spirit picked 5 false prophets who were interested in profit from selling subscriptions,and books, CT Russell, Rutherford, Knorr and Frederick Franz, And Milton Henschell all false prophets.
He's why they were wrong...
“If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. (Deut. 18:22). “But the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the Lord only if his prediction comes true” (Jer. 28:9). |
The bottom line is that all made predictions that never came true, (its a matter of written record forever on the Internet.
1874,1914,1925,1975, and most currently 1994 that the "Generation" the was alive 1914 would se the end of the conclusion of the sysytem of things.
Anyone who was at an age of understanding you stated 15 years of age in 1914 would now be 97 years of age.
So I asked? How many times can the holy spirit be wrong? It picked four false prophets, who had people like you as Watchtower Slaves going door to door in a zombie like trance to be a one of Joseph's Witnesses The 2nd President is the one who changed the name to Jehovah's Witnesses.
And by the time I was done they looked like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming MAC TRUCK.
And I introduced myself and I shook each of their hands and then I question the big heavyset guy in his 55-59's But I invited them back anytime they would like to chat about these topics I have researched for 46 years.
I recall the conversation in closing..."And you say your name is Daryl, Daryl whats your last name I know a Daryl who was a JW in this city and I said take of your glasses so I can see your eyes."
And he took off his dark glasses where he was hiding on an overcast day in cold December 2010.
And he proceeded to give me his last name his initials are DD. Yes I remember him from 1990.
And although he couldn't remember my face my name rang a bell for him, and I am sure he took note to go and find out who I am.
But I invited him to come back and he we can talk , now he said " as long as we stick on one subject I don't want to jump all around"
DUH DARYL am I talking too fast for you, the facts are written in print over the last 135 years and thats what we shall discuss, not the bible...we will discuss whether JW's have the truth when its whole history is based on lies.
Come on down, I will always be here to talk with you about the 4 Presidents Failed Prophesies and more. I wonder if he comes back? I'll keep you posted.
I'm pretty sure he went back to the Kingdom Hall to do some research, and if he views me as an apostate he will mark the house and never return.
But if he has any back bone at all and believes he has the Truth, then he will be back and I will share the internet knowldge that is opening the eyes of the Watchtower Slaves.
Slaves bang on your door and mine out of fear of God's wrath at Armageddon while praying for everlasting life here on the earth not heaven. That's why they knock on your door, they are working out their salvation and following Joes Organization and NOT Jesus Christ.
Now if you enjoyed that little story and you want to read the mountain of research that I have done on this topic , simply scroll down and watch the You Tube videos for some mind opening information. And also look thru the list of topics on the left side of this blog.
I cover topics about this Watchtower Organization and their religious zealots and volunteers and being Watchtower Slaves generate hundreds of millions of dollars for this man made publishing organization.
On a happier note...I learned today that I won an iPad in a contest that I entered.
I'm delighted to say the least. I count that as a blessing. I wanted an iPad but couldn't justify the $700.00 cost (taxes in) So when I learned about the win I decided to reflect and count my blessings that came to me after I broke rank with JW's.This has been a great recovery year for my business affairs after going thru the worst recession since the great depression of 1929. Business is doing very well.
The health of the writer is very good, financial investments have all increased on the stock market and so have my real estate holdings and new acquisitions in investment properties.
My circle of friends have grown and we are planning trips to Sarasota Florida leaving boxing day and returning Jan 16th 2011.
We have family and friends who enrich our lives and we look forward to spending time with them over Xmas Holidays.
I wish you all the best health wealth and happiness for this Holiday Season.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sweden appeals UK granting bail for Julian Assange
LONDON – A British judge ordered Julian Assange released on 200,000 pounds ($316,000) bail Tuesday, but the WikiLeaks founder will remain in custody for at least two more days after Swedish prosecutors challenged that decision.
Assange has spent a week in a U.K. jail following his surrender to British police over a Swedish sex-crimes warrant. He denies any wrongdoing but has refused to voluntarily surrender to Sweden's request to extradite him for questioning — arguing that he could be questioned from Britain.
In a day of courtroom drama, the 39-year-old Australian was first told by a judge that he would be freed, then less than two hours later was informed he had at least another 48 hours in custody.
Britain's High Court will hear the Swedish appeal, but it wasn't clear exactly when.
"They clearly will not spare any expense to keep Mr. Assange in jail," his lawyer Mark Stephens told journalists outside the entrance to the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. "This is really turning into a show trial."
Lawyer Gemma Lindfield, acting for Sweden, had asked the court to deny Assange bail, arguing Tuesday that the allegations against him were serious, that he had only weak ties to Britain and that he had "the means and ability to abscond."
Reminding the court that it had already labeled Assange a flight risk, she argued that "nothing has changed since last week to allay the court's fears in this regard."
She also rejected attempts to link Assange's case with the work of WikiLeaks — which last month deeply angered U.S. officials by beginning to publish its trove of 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables.
"This is not a case about WikiLeaks, rather a case about alleged serious offenses against two women," Lindfield told the court Tuesday.
Celebrity supporters in the court — including socialite Jemima Khan and actress Bianca Jagger — and hundreds of pro-WikiLeaks protesters outside the building cheered at District Judge Howard Riddle's decision to grant Assange bail.
Under the ruling, Assange must wear an electronic tag, stay at a specific address in southern England, report to police every evening and observe two four-hour curfews each day in addition to putting up the bond.
Lindfield has said Assange is accused of rape, molestation and unlawful coercion by two women for separate incidents last August in Sweden. She said one had accused him of pinning her down and refusing to use a condom. A second woman says Assange had sex with her without a condom while he was a guest at her Stockholm home and she was asleep.
In Sweden, a person who has sex with an unconscious, drunk or sleeping person can be convicted of rape and sentenced to up to six years in prison.
Assange has not been charged in Sweden. His lawyers say the allegations stem from a dispute over "consensual but unprotected sex" and argue that he has offered to make himself available for questioning via video link or in person in the U.K., where Scotland Yard has facilities for foreign prosecutors to quiz people.
Several wealthy supporters — including filmmaker Michael Moore — have put up a total of 240,000 pounds ($380,000) as a guarantee for Assange, his lawyers said.
Vaughan Smith, founder of the Frontline Club — a restaurant and forum for journalists in London — told the court Tuesday that Assange was misunderstood. Under the terms of his bail, Assange would be ordered to live at Ellingham Hall, Smith's 10-bedroom country mansion in Suffolk, southeastern England.
Riddle said he had granted Assange bail because — unlike a week ago — he now had a verified address to live at and had cleared up confusion over when he arrived in Britain.
Assange's next court appearance was set for Jan. 11, ahead of a full hearing on Feb. 7 and 8.
Outside the court, Smith said Assange feared that the Swedish extradition case was an attempt to punish him for WikiLeaks' publication of the U.S. diplomatic cables and that legal challenges from U.S. authorities were coming in the future.
Although Assange's supporters have raised fears that Washington will try to extradite him from Sweden, legal experts and Swedish officials say such a move would be impossible without British approval.
"Sweden cannot, without such consent, extradite a person, for example to the USA," a statement posted to the Swedish prosecution website said last week.
Assange's mother Christine, who was flown to Britain by Australian media outlets, watched the hearing nervously from a public gallery about six feet (two meters) from her son's seat. She gave a huge smile as Riddle granted bail.
"I just want to thank everyone who's turned up to show their support and who's taken an interest," Christine Assange told The Associated Press as she waved to her son.
She was not in court later to hear that her reunion with her son had been thrown into doubt by the Swedish appeal.
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Raphael G. Satter, Cassandra Vinograd and Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
British Court Orders Leader of WikiLeaks Freed on Bail
British Court Orders Leader of WikiLeaks Freed on Bail
By RAVI SOMAIYA and Alan Cowell from Berlin
LONDON — After a week in detention facing possible extradition, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks antisecrecy group, was ordered released on $310,000 bail by a court on Tuesday as he challenges a Swedish prosecutor’s demand that he return to Stockholm for questioning about alleged sex offenses.
However, Mr. Assange remained in custody pending a hearing on an appeal by the prosecutor, which would take place within the next 48 hours.
In granting bail, Judge Howard Riddle ordered that Mr. Assange appear again in court on Jan. 11. He also said that between then and now he must reside at Ellingham Hall, a Georgian mansion in Bungay, in eastern England, owned by Vaughan Smith, the founder of a club for journalists. Mr. Assange must spend every night at the mansion and will be electronically tagged so the police can track his movements, the judge said.
Additionally, Mr. Assange will be under curfew every day from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will be required to report daily to the police from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. His passport is already with the police and, under the terms of his bail, he is not permitted to travel abroad.
Judge Riddle said he granted bail on Tuesday, after denying it a week ago, because Mr. Assange was now able to provide an address where he would be staying. The judge described his earlier decision as “marginal” and said that Mr. Assange had now met that condition of his bail “handsomely.”
Mr. Assange was wearing a dark blue suit and a white shirt open at the collar. Reporters said he seemed paler and more fatigued than at the first hearing on Dec. 7 when bail was denied. When the judge announced that bail would be granted on Tuesday, Mr. Assange gave a thumbs-up sign to the packed courthouse.
The case has generated enormous international interest, with figures in the Obama administration weighing whether to prosecute him, critics vilifying him and supporters depicting him as a hero and martyr. Crowds of media crews and reporters built up around the court near Parliament early on Tuesday, mingling with Mr. Assange’s followers.
An Australian newspaper, the Sunshine Coast News, reported on Tuesday that his mother, Christine Assange, had flown to London to be with him.
In a 10-minute telephone conversation with his mother, the newspaper said, Mr. Assange declared: “My convictions are unfaltering. I remain true to the ideals I have always expressed. These circumstances shall not shake them. If anything, this process has increased my determination that they are true and correct.”
Mrs. Assange was among around 100 people — mainly lawyers and journalists — crammed into Court No. 1 at City of Westminster Magistrates Court for her son’s arrival. Mr. Assange arrived in the court building several hours before the afternoon hearing, according to reporters at the court house.
The legal wrangle over Mr. Assange’s future erupted after WikiLeaks posted troves of classified American documents on the Internet, the most recent of them drawn from some 250,000 diplomatic cables between the State Department in Washington and American missions abroad.
While Mr. Assange has ascribed the sex offense charges — which he denies — to “dirty tricks” related to his antisecrecy operations, Swedish prosecutors insist there is no link. A week ago, Mr. Assange surrendered to British authorities and was jailed after a judge reviewing the extradition request found him to be a flight risk and denied bail.
Despite his release Tuesday, a final decision on whether he is to be extradited could take weeks or longer.
Speaking about the case in recent weeks, Mr. Assange has said that he had consensual relations with two young Swedish women. He said he met them during a trip to Sweden in August that he made in a bid to establish a haven for himself and WikiLeaks under Sweden’s broad laws protecting press freedoms.
The charges relate to the question of whether these encounters ceased to be consensual when a condom was no longer being used. Sweden’s request for extradition is designed to enable prosecutors to question Mr. Assange about charges of “rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.”
The latest twist in the drama began a week ago when officers from Scotland Yard arrested Mr. Assange after he went to a central London police station by agreement with the authorities.
In a packed courtroom hearing lasting nearly an hour a week ago, Gemma Lindfield, a lawyer acting for the Swedish government, outlined some of the detailed allegations against Mr. Assange made by the Swedish women, both WikiLeaks volunteers. They involved three incidents, including one in which Mr. Assange was alleged to have had unprotected sex with one of his accusers while she was asleep.
In court last week, Mr. Assange refused to give a current address, giving first a post office box, then an address in Parkville in the Australian state of Victoria, where he lived before adopting a peripatetic lifestyle since founding WikiLeaks in 2006.
The exchange appeared to have weighed against his request for bail, which was supported by financial guarantees of more than $150,000 from a cast of well-known supporters present in court, including the filmmaker Ken Loach and Jemima Khan, a socialite and political activist.
The judge, Howard Riddle, agreed with Ms. Lindfield that there were “significant grounds” for thinking Mr. Assange posed a flight risk, because of his “nomadic lifestyle,” his lack of ties in Britain, his network of international contacts and his access to substantial sums donated by WikiLeaks supporters.
His week of imprisonment has had little evident impact on the flow of leaked documents from an archive that was made available to five news organizations, including The New York Times. In the telephone conversation with his mother, Mr. Assange said: “I am calling on the world to protect my work and my people from these illegal and immoral acts.”
Many of the communications between the State Department and 274 overseas embassies and missions remain to be released.
According to WikiLeaks, only 1,344 of a total 251,287 documents have so far been published on its Web site since it began releasing the latest batch of documents on Nov. 28. Previously the organization had publicized confidential material about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Jehovah's Witnesses Came Knocking Today -
"When Paster Charles Taze Russel the founder of the Witnesses died in 1916 he was buried with a marker a few feet away by his tomb sculptured as a large pyramid five to six feet high, with the Mason logo embossed on it and remains to this day for all to see. Although putting up a smoke screen by writing articles in the Watchtower magazine that he was the editor of, against the Masons, evidence shows without a doubt he was greatly influenced by them , as well as into Egyptology as can be seen by the design and presentation of his books and the information used. If you do not believe me then check it out. Or how about this one: "Why was Charles Taze Russel buried in the Masonic Cemetery, under a pyramid with Templar inscriptions?" Source
- Pyramidology. Following views first taught by Christian writers such as John Taylor, Charles Piazzi Smyth and Joseph Seiss, he believed the Great Pyramid of Giza was built by the Hebrews (associated to the Hyksos) under God’s direction, but to be understood only in our day. He adopted and used Seiss's phrase referring to it as "the Bible in stone". He believed that certain biblical texts, including Isaiah 19:19–20 and others, prophesied a future understanding of the Great Pyramid and adopted the view that the various ascending and descending passages represented the fall of man, the provision of the Mosaic Law, the death of Christ, the exultation of the saints in heaven, etc. Calculations were made using the pattern of an inch per year. Dates such as 1874, 1914, and 1948 were purported to have been found through the study of this monument.[43]
The newspaper and magazine industry has always been a cutthroat business – even in the world of Jehovah’s Witness publications. Charles Taze Russell began what is now known as The Watchtower publication in 1879 for use in the door-to-door ministry by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They were unchallenged until 1889 when a new, radical door-to-door publication entered the marketplace.
A young journalist named David McStevens founded “The Loincloth: Exposing Christianity” in 1889 and immediately threatened the Watchtower’s door-to-door dominance. Within the first year, Watchtower’s circulation dipped down by 35 percent. Readership for the Loincloth increased even more when they began to give away tickets for the 144,000 available seats in heaven with crossword puzzle contests.
McStevens and Russell became embroiled in a heated battle; McStevens claimed Russell was buying some of the tickets to heaven and not coming by them the honest way – earning them or winning them. Russell did not deny the charges and then scalped 100 heaven seating tickets for a total of $2.3 million dollars.
With a little extra cash on hand, Russell increased the production and dissemination of his Watchtower literature. By 1910 McStevens had all but disappeared from the big picture. According to Witness Micah Onas’s annual list in 1911, the Fortunate 144,000, David McStevens had slipped in the rankings all the way from #58 to #143, 820 - putting his eternal existence in jeopardy. Charles Russell held steady at #3 behind Jesus and Booker T. Washington. Source
But don't let them in your house!
2 John 1:10-11, If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.
Its always interesting when JW's come knocking with their current edition of the Watchtower and Awake magazine. They like to throw a softball article at unsuspecting home dweller.
The insidious wolf in sheeps clothing slowly maneuvers to control the flow of the conversation to their presentation and the goal of selling literature (they refer to placing literature) and logging hours of field service for their monthly time report.
The ultimate goal is to find a warm house to secure a bible study every week, that gets them off the street corner and off the frozen front porches during the winter. To proselytize in a 1 to 1 study of their version of bible truth.
The overall objective? To witness to the world about their organization which they claim is the only way to gain the salvation of God. They do not lead to Christ Jesus.
And to recruit more Watchtower slaves to the cause. Without work they have no salvation. You see one cannot be a JW without the door to door ministry.
The truth is they are not connected to God thru Christ, they have an Organization to follow rather then following Jesus Christ. Salvation is NOT available with out works for JW's.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
http://bible.cc/1_timothy/2-5.htm
They pay lip service to this bible verse, but do not believe it...
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
http://bible.cc/ephesians/2-8.htm
Over the last 46 years I have studied every part of the beliefs of JW's,
I was brainwashed and baptised in 1964 at the age of 10.
I was trapped in this cult for 30 years and I finally cut the ties it took me until 1995, powerful guilt/fear mind contolling sect/cult.
I started having doubts back in the early 1980's. The threat that was held over my head was that I would be disfellowshipped if I read any information that was contrary the the written books and magazines and beliefs of WTB+TS
Reading contrary material on the internet is considered apostate and punishable by disfellowshiping and shunning.
Fortunately my eyes begun to be open when I read the book published by Raymond Franz .
Raymond Victor Franz (May 8, 1922 – June 2, 2010) was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from 20 October 1971 until 22 May 1980,[1][2] and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980. Franz claimed the request for his resignation and his subsequent disfellowshipping resulted from allegations of his apostasy from the faith.[3] Franz wrote two books that related his personal experiences with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and his views on Jehovah's Witnesses teachings.
Franz wrote two books—Crisis of Conscience (1983) and In Search of Christian Freedom (1991)—presenting detailed accounts of his experiences as a Jehovah's Witness, a Governing Body member, and his experiences throughout various levels of the organization
The Internet has opened the door to mounds of information on the checkered past of the Presidents of the International Bible Students, Watchtower Bible+Track Society and since 1931 called Jehovah's Witnesesses . The majority of JW's will not want to discuss the failed prophesyies of their founder and the President (leaders) that followed CT Russell.
Over the last 20 years I have come to the conclusion that they are a man made sect with no connection to the truth. "The Truth" as they refer to their cult religion, bears no resemblance to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Today 2 men came knocking witholding the Truth and hiding the 135 year history about the Truth!
The internet is filled with information that was not available to researchers prior to the 1996 world wide web being opened to the world.
For example:
In the 1 November 1995 Watchtower magazine, the Jehovah's Witnesses made a major doctrinal change concerning the "Generation of 1914." To better understand the significance of this change it is crucial to understand the importance they place on the year 1914 and how their beliefs concerning that year have radically changed throughout their history.
he denighed that 1975 was a a failed prophesy of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and he degned that a change in the Generation 1914 date. Source
For example:
In the Awake! magazine of November 8the 1995 the masthead of the magazine was significantly changed. This single change is perhaps the most significant and obvious. They have now totally rejected the original 1914 generation doctrine. Of course, most witnesses on the street, are not even aware of this yet because they are forbidden to read "apostate" material. What is apostate about this material? Did it not reveal truth to YOU??? Had you noticed the masthead change below in the Awake magazine? Source
This time I again ...I heard the same twisted lies from the elder slave that claimed 45-50 years in the Cult. They do NOT want the world where they preach to know the truth about Jehovah's Winessess.
So with the Watchtower slaves on my doorstep Saturday morning,
I decided to take control of the the direction of the conversation.
and I told them I didn't want their magazines, but I did have some questions...
Jehovah's witnesses never listen...but they love to talk, so by framing my inquiry as noted above, my questions would allow me to direct the conversation to the holes in their religious beliefs and the lies in their time table and bible chronology which is the crux of their message at the deeper levels of brainwashing. hence I can bring to the Knockers attention , the huge mounds of information, facts , inconsistencies false prophesy as well as outright bold face lies .
This preacher told me that NO WTBS ARTICLE HAD EVER CLAIMED that 1914 generation was going to see the end of the world. And the failed prophesy of 1975 was blamed on the over enthusiasm of the flock of Jw's and that the writers and Governing bidy of JW's NEVER made those claims.
The Big Lie
The Big Lie was Hitlers masterpiece... The Big Lie so too with the Witnesses, who have re-wriiten, buried their history because they have run out of time , ALL their significant time prophecy's have failed.
They are governed NOT by the Holy Spirit , I suspect they are controlled by a different spirit one that is determined to mislead the entire inhabitant earth.
Revelation 12:6-12
12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
So I told the 2 men that came to my door that I wondered how many times the Holy Spirit could be wrong?
The holy spirit was wrong when picking CT Russell and his 2 dates 1874 and 1914.
And the holy spirit was wrong when Rutherford took over the WTB+TS and he picked 1925 as the date when the end would come.
Then when Frederick Franz used the chronology based on CT Russells dates with his copycat chronology from The 7th Day Adventists, Millerites, Barbour , this date also failed.
Every President from CT Russell to the present day has changed the believes as their prophecy's fail. The web has captured 135 years of JW's written history on the Internet.
Today I challenged them on CT Russell claim about 1914 being the date when they would go to heaven, when the claim was made to ALL Jw's that the generation people that were of an age of understanding in 1914 would see the end conclusion of the system of things. These people are now those people would be 96 years of age. and Jw's were taught that the Remnant of Christs brothers on the earth would never die and be transformed in the twinkling of an eye and go to heaven before Armageddon.
"Likewise today, most of the generation of 1914 has passed away. However, there are still millions on earth who were born in that year or prior to it." (Watchtower April 8, 1988 p14) Another example of the "Generation" doctrine change
"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him" (Deuteronomy 18:22).
Each President picked wrong dates...this is JR Rutherfords Book where he stated the year 1925 would be the critical date...later calling himself an ass for picking a date that came and went.
Millions Now Living Will Never Die! By J. F. Rutherford
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