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I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist
Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.Ellen CushingThe AtlanticMay 13, 2020SHADOWLANDMy induction into conspiracy thinking came in the fall of my first year...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/16-17/2020
Covid-19, Haredi, Cult Recovery, Shame, Fear, Siddha Yoga, Mindfulness, Scientology, Obituary, Polygamy, FLDSThe Jerusalem Post: Hundreds of haredi Jews in Brooklyn celebrate Lag Ba'omer, break...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/19/2020
Conspiracy Theories, Hate Speech, Terrorism, Censorship, Ravi Zacharias Politico: 'Conspiracy Bingo': Trans-Atlantic Extremists Seize On The Pandemic"The coronavirus is providing a global rallying...
View ArticleSome Catholics seek to counter Galileo
Manya A. BrachearChicago TribuneJuly 4, 2011Some people believe the world literally revolves around them. It's a belief born not of selfishness but faith.A small group of conservative Roman Catholics...
View ArticleHasidic School With 60 Children Is Closed for Violating Virus Ban
After receiving a complaint, the police descended on the building in Brooklyn and discovered the students. Few were wearing masks.Liam Stack and Nate SchweberNew York TimesMay 18, 2020 Updated May 19,...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/20/2020
Multi-Level and Network Marketing, Mind Control, Conspiracy Theories, Televangelist Jim Bakker, Eliezer Berland, ultra-Orthodox, Shuvu BonimKomo News: FTC warning to Multi-Level and Network Marketing...
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Russia: 39 Trials With 87 Defendants
Victoria ArnoldF18NewsEurasia ReviewMay 20, 2020For 87 Jehovah’s Witnesses on trial in 39 cases for “continuing the activities of a banned extremist organisation”, court proceedings can be lengthy. As...
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Clearwater council struggles to address Scientology's impact on downtown
Council member Mark Bunker said the city should ask the FBI to investigate the church. None of his colleagues agreed.Tracey McManusTampa Bay TimesMay 18, 2020CLEARWATER — The new City Council on Monday...
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Growing Up in a Cult, I Never Understood Family. Then I Became a Father
MIKEL JOLLETTTIMEMAY 19, 2020 Mikel Jollett is the author of Hollywood Park and frontman of the band The Airborne Toxic Event.We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us...
View ArticleThought Reform Criteria in Multilevel Marketing - Hey Hun You Woke Up
The Recovering HunbotMay 14, 2020"Today Spike and I discuss with John, Lifton's thought reform criteria and how it relates to multilevel marketing.MLM like any other high control group uses thought...
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Coronavirus: How do I recognize a conspiracy theory?
DWMay 19, 2020Conspiracy theories are coming in hard and fast during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of them even sound plausible. So it's important to know: what makes a conspiracy theory? And why are...
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CultNEWS101 Articles: 5/22/2020
Covid-19, Hasidic, Russia, Religious Freedom, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology, Synanon NY Times: Hasidic School With 60 Children Is Closed for Violating Virus Ban"The buses arrived early Monday to...
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For This Russian Messianic Cult, Coronavirus Isolation Is a 'Blessing'
As the pandemic sows fear and uncertainty, some are looking to a Siberian mystic for answers.Pjotr SauerThe Moscow TimesMay 21, 2020In the depths of the Siberian taiga a group of around a hundred...
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Cult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan discusses how cults operate and how to...
This Podcast Will Save The World: Episode 5: CultsMay 23, 2020Interview with 1BR writer/director David MarmorCult Mediation Specialist Patrick Ryan discusses how cults operate and how to intervene when...
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Self-styled ‘godman’ Daati Maharaj booked for holding religious event in...
The event was attended by over 30 people, most of whom were not even wearing masks. Daati Maharaj is also an accused in a case of rape and unnatural sex.ANANYA BHARDWAJThe PrintMay 23, 2020New Delhi:...
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Prosecutors Raid Facilities Belonging to Shincheonji Sect in COVID-19 Probe
KBS WORLD Radio NewsMay 22, 2020Prosecutors in South Korea raided facilities nationwide belonging to the Shincheonji religious sect, of which mass gatherings are suspected of having caused a COVID-19...
View ArticleClare Bronfman, citing pandemic, asks for delay in NXIVM sentencing
Seagram's heiress hopes her family can attend court proceedingRobert GavinAlbany Times UnionMay 21, 2020NEW YORK — Seagrams’ heiress and longtime NXIVM executive Clare Bronfman has asked a federal...
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'The Prophet And The Space Aliens': Thessaloniki Review
TIM GRIERSON, SENIOR US CRITICScreen InternationalMay 21, 2020Yoav Shamir delivers a thoughtful documentary about a guru who believes in UFOs’THE PROPHET AND THE SPACE ALIENS’Dir/scr: Yoav Shamir....
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Lev Tahor Cult School Principal Indicted In Jerusalem For Child Abuse
Yeshiva World NewsMay 26, 2020 On Tuesday, in the Jerusalem District Court, an indictment was filed against Elazar Rompler for child abuse. Rompler served as a school principal in Canada for the Lev...
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History of the '90s podcast: Doomsday cults
GlobalNews.caMay 27, 2020 On the next few episodes of History of the ’90s, host Kathy Kenzora looks at the doomsday cults and their rise to infamy in the years leading up to the new millennium.During...
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