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Polygamous leader Samuel Bateman: What we know so far

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criiminal charges., cult leader, polygamist, Samuel Bateman

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, eight girls under the care of Arizona child welfare officials disappeared from group homes near Phoenix. By Thursday of that week, they were back in custody — and two young women had been arrested, accused…[Continue Reading...]

Leah Remini mourns Kirstie Alley’s death after long Scientology feud

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Leah Reminii, Scientology, Scientology. Kirstie Alley

Video report -- Leah Remini has said Kirstie Alley’s death is “very sad” after the pair spent years feuding over Scientology.[Continue Reading...]

Japan passes funds law amid ‘cult-like’ church controversy

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged fund raising restrictions, Japan, Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church

The new law, approved at this year's closing parliamentary session, bans religious and other groups from using coercion or threats to solicit funds from followers. Many Unification Church followers claim they were forced to join, left in poverty, or neglected because of their parents' devotion to the…[Continue Reading...]

How has QAnon influenced Europe?

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged conspiracy theories, Europe, QAnon

German police’s large raid on far-right extremists this week revealed the influence a conspiracy theory movement such as QAnon has already had across Europe. Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson talks to the Council on Foreign Relations’ Jacob Ware about the…[Continue Reading...]

Appeals court upholds sentences for NXIVM sex cult leaders Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged appeals denied, Clare Bronfman, criminal convictions, cult leader, Keith Raniere, NXIVM

A federal appeals court Friday upheld the convictions and sentences for NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere and his co-conspirator, Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman. Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years in prison after his conviction in Brooklyn federal…[Continue Reading...]

The end is nigh! Four-in-ten adults say we’re ‘living in the end times,’ including half of Christians, says survey amid alarm over pandemics, climate change, nuclear brinkmanship, and doomsday cults

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged doomsday, doomsday cults, end times

Nearly four-in-ten Americans say we're 'living in the end times,' says a poll taken against a stark backdrop of climate change, the pandemic, nuclear brinkmanship and doomsday cults. A Pew Research Center survey of more than 10,000 adults found that…[Continue Reading...]

How 8 girls in Arizona protective care ended up back with a polygamous cult over 1,000 miles away

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 2

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Polygamists, sexual exploitation, underage girls

Samuel Bateman, the self-anointed "prophet" of a polygamous FLDS cult, was arrested in August after three young girls were found hidden in a cargo trailer that law enforcement said he was towing on a highway in Flagstaff, Arizona — over…[Continue Reading...]

The Dramatic Rise of Self-Described “Psychics” in the 2020s

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cold reading, fraud, psychics, scam

My reason for beginning this article as such is directly due to the controversy in the field, and the most common accusations that these individuals are little more than cold readers. Though I personally by nature am also a skeptic…[Continue Reading...]

Psychic conned woman out of millions to lift curses. She didn’t predict what happened next

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal conviction, fraud, Miami, psychic, scam

A fortune teller swindled a Miami woman out of more than $3 million by convincing her that she needed a medium to remove the curses out of her life. The psychic, however, didn’t foresee her own future: years behind bars…[Continue Reading...]

Rapist who was freed from jail before using Covid loans to fund Isis is found guilty of providing money for terrorism

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal conviction, ISIS, radicalization, UK

A convicted rapist who was radicalised in prison funnelled more than £18,000 of taxpayers’ cash to Islamic State in his Syria homeland. Tarek Namouz, 43, claimed Covid loans from Hammersmith and Fulham Council for his west London barbershop but sent…[Continue Reading...]