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Clearwater should turn South Garden Ave. into an open-air museum | Column

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Clearwater, Florida, Scientologists, Scientology

Clearwater is at a crossroads. In the coming weeks, the City Council will vote on whether to sell South Garden Avenue to the Church of Scientology. On the surface, it’s just a transaction — $1.375 million in exchange for a…[Continue Reading...]

Psychlo killer: Battlefield Earth 25 years on

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Battlefield Earth, John Travolta, L. Ron Hubbard, Scientologists, Scientology

TTSB, or Things That Shouldn’t Be, is Scientology’s term for when you tell a higher-up ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this’. It’s not quite an “ethics chit” (a written reprimand) but it refers to something incorrect. This might be…[Continue Reading...]

Michael Peña Is a Scientologist

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Michael Pena, Scientologists, Scientology

This news is not unknown — it’s been mentioned publicly a few times — but it’s also not widely known, and it was news to me. Tony Ortega’s Underground Bunker newsletter published images from the annual L. Ron Hubbard Birthday…[Continue Reading...]

Clearwater residents say they want ‘less of Scientology’ amid proposal to sell public street

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Clearwater, Florida, Scientologists, Scientology

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Dozens of people in Clearwater are fighting a plan to give more land to the Church of Scientology. The church wants to build a theater and ask the city to sell a public street for its…[Continue Reading...]

Plymouth Brethren church members told to deny beliefs on voting, in campaign backing Liberals and Nationals

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, cults, Exclusive Brethren, Plymouth Brethren, politics, sects

Members of a secretive Christian sect are being given instructions on how to lie about their beliefs against voting in elections, through messages the ABC understands have been circulated among the sect's followers. There have been reports of unusually large…[Continue Reading...]

Former ‘cult’ member exposes top secret operation happening right under our noses ahead of the federal election

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Australia, cults, Exclusive Brethren, Plymouth Brethren, politics

An ex-member of a conservative Christian sect has exposed an alleged nationwide campaign by the church's 'army' to campaign for the Liberal Party. Ben Woodbury, 33, was at his local polling booth in Sydney last week when he saw members of Plymouth…[Continue Reading...]

“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult, cult leader, Jamaica, Kevin Smith, Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries

On the evening of October 17, 2021, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Taneka Gardner pulled a suitcase through the gates of a church in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She had been introduced to Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries years earlier by her…[Continue Reading...]

Tyler Deaton Cult: A Survivor’s Story, Part 1

Published April 30, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, cults, survivor story, Tyler Deaton

How did a once vibrant 27-year-old woman end up dead in a van with a plastic bag over her head and a suicide note by her side? Did Bethany Deaton really take her life, or was she murdered? And how…[Continue Reading...]

Neo-Nazi Tweens? Inside Germany’s Growing Far-Right Youth Movement

Published April 29, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Germany, neo nazis, teens

BERLIN — It’s a Friday evening in September 2024, and Julian M and his six friends don’t waste any time. When they spot Raphael K coming out of a supermarket in the Berlin district of Marzahn, and see him wearing…[Continue Reading...]

I was a neo-Nazi for 7 years going through life in constant hate and fear. My daughter was the major push I needed to finally quit.

Published April 29, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged former neo-Nazi, neo nazis, personal story

Arno Michaelis regrets the harm he caused and now tries to prevent more pain and suffering through his work. Courtesy of Arno Michaelis This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Arno…[Continue Reading...]