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The Digital Battlefield: How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged online recruitment, radicalization, terrorism

The following is an excerpt from prepared remarks submitted to the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. To read the full testimony, download the PDF on this page. This is an important topic in light of…[Continue Reading...]

‘Orgasmic meditation’ compound just listed for $12M

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged California, compound, for sale, One Tast, retreat, sex cult

The owners of OneTaste, a San Francisco company whose “orgasmic meditation” retreats were made infamous by a Netflix documentary and a federal indictment, are selling their 162-acre Mendocino compound for $12 million. A recently posted listing for “The Land,” a…[Continue Reading...]

Victims of 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack still suffering aftereffects: survey

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, doomsday cult, gas attack, Tokyo, victims

TOKYO -- About 60% of victims in the March 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system had the persisting condition of their "eyes getting tired easily" as of 2023, according to a nonprofit group's survey. It is…[Continue Reading...]

Daystar TV President Joni Lamb Owns 7 Homes Worth $11.7 Million

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Televangelists Tagged Daystar TV, Joni Lamb, mega rich evangelist, real estate holdings

For years, the public has known that Daystar TV President Joni Lamb lives a life of great wealth and luxury. But last month, the Trinity Foundation reported that Lamb owns six residential properties in three states, worth about $11 million…[Continue Reading...]

Montana community divided by Mormon doctrine, land rights and tithing

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Apostolic United Brethren, Monatana, Pinesdale, polygamist sect

When a splinter group of Mormon fundamentalists founded the town of Pinesdale more than 60 years ago, the hundreds of acres in the Bitterroot Valley were seen as a secluded haven, a place where its followers could live communally and…[Continue Reading...]

Top court paves way to dissolve Unification Church

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged court ruling, cults, Japan, Unification Church

The Supreme Court upheld a ruling against the Unification Church and pushed the scandal-ridden religious organization closer toward dissolution. In a decision dated March 3, the Supreme Court ruled that the church, now officially called the Family Federation for World…[Continue Reading...]

‘Doomsday’ mom Lori Vallow insists she, husband Chad Daybell will be ‘exonerated’ in murder of her 2 kids: ‘Jesus showed me’

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, convicted murderer, cult mom, Idaho, Lori Vallow, murder trials

Idaho “doomsday” mom Lori Vallow believes she and her murderous husband will be cleared and freed from prison — because “Jesus showed” her so, she said in her first interview since being convicted of killing her two youngest children. “We…[Continue Reading...]

Book details life inside Gloriavale

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse, cult, Gloriavale, New Zealand, survivor story

A former member of the high-profile New Zealand sect Gloriavale has written a book about her life and she’s launching it at an event in rural east Auckland. Theophila Pratt, who was named Honey Faithful at birth, was born and…[Continue Reading...]

Europol warns of growing online cults dedicated to child abuse

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, online recruitment, targeting children online

The internet has revolutionized the way we connect, but it’s also opened the door to darker corners of society—especially when it comes to online groups targeting vulnerable children. Recently, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) issued a…[Continue Reading...]

Where is Habiybah Washington now? Details about the victim from How I Escaped My Cult explored

Published March 5, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, Nuwaubians, sexual abuse, survivor story

The former member of the Nuwaubian Nation, Habiybah Washington, managed to escape the cult, and her story is the focus of the fifth episode of How I Escaped My Cult. The leader of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, Dwight…[Continue Reading...]