Bangladesh Bank has cautioned the public against multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes, highlighting their hallmarks—unrealistically high profits and referral-based commissions—as traits of pyramid or Ponzi schemes that often lead to significant financial losses for investors. The central bank issued the warning…[Continue Reading...]
Aum Supreme Truth’s main successor transferred financial assets in an apparent attempt to conceal them, according to a Public Security Intelligence Agency investigation report seen by The Yomiuri Shimbun. The cult’s successor, which is called Aleph, used such means as…[Continue Reading...]
Tasked with convincing the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that the 14 charges her client had been convicted of should be overturned, public defender Allegra Glashausser needed to pull one heck of a legal rabbit out of her hat during…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in the US has been rocked by a slew of sexual abuse allegations launched against it in California in the latest scandal to hit the organization that is better known as…[Continue Reading...]
Taipei, March. 8 (CNA) Two Taiwanese Unification Church followers have been arrested in China and are unable to return to Taiwan as of Friday, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said. Following the arrest, the SEF received a request for assistance…[Continue Reading...]
Charles Manson, the leader of the notorious 'Manson Family' cult which committed a series of violent murders in 1969, is the topic of a new Netflix documentary, Chaos: The Manson Murders. But what was it really like to be part…[Continue Reading...]
Freeform's new documentary series How I Escaped My Cult has brought to us Kristel Leonard's story. The docu-series highlights the stories of ex-cult members who managed to break free from their cults and have come forward to share the story…[Continue Reading...]
I’m not – I’ll bet a pound to a penny that Xi Jinping has never heard of me, has never tasked anyone to contact me, or people like me, and, to be honest, probably doesn’t even care about Falun Gong…[Continue Reading...]
I’m one of those people — there are a lot of us — who is always up for a Charles Manson movie. There have been so many! All the documentaries and dramatizations. Not to mention the TV specials, both prestige…[Continue Reading...]
As the 30th anniversary of the worst indiscriminate terrorist attack in Japan's history approaches, efforts to ensure the incident and the lessons learned from it will not fade from memory have picked up. On March 20, 1995, members of the…[Continue Reading...]
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