The apparent “double suicide” of a New York couple leaves friends in the art world “shocked,” “confounded and disturbed” reports the Los Angeles Times. Jeremy Blake (35) and Theresa Duncan (40) were considered a “glamorous, intellectual couple, ” but in the wake of what appears to be two suicides, there are more questions than answers. […]
Newly elected United States Congressman Hank Johnson from Georgia’s 4th District is being touted as “one of the first Buddhists ever elected to Congress” by Religion News Service. However, Johnson is actually a member of a very controversial fringe group of that religion called Soka Gakkai International (SGI), which has often been called a “cult.” The 52-year-old […]
By Frank Schwerin, MD Challenge Day is a California-based corporation that according to its handbook, “provides youth and their communities with experiential workshops and programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth and full expression” The Challenge Day Corporation does not provide schools with anti-bullying or anti-suicide programs. […]
Landmark Education experienced another humiliating legal defeat concerning its efforts to censor critics on the Internet. As previously reported by CultNews the private for-profit seminar-selling company some have called a “cult,” has been on what appears like a crusade lately, to suppress a French documentary from being seen on the Internet. The would-be forbidden video […]
“TomKat” finally made it down the aisle with a 7-month-old baby in tow. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Scientology vows were sealed with a reported 3-minute-kiss, until someone yelled, “stop,” though perhaps they might have just said, “cut.” An Italian castle near Rome was rented out for the marital production that reportedly was budgeted at about $10 […]
Scientology may not fare too well as fodder for the popular cable show “Nip/Tuck.” The successful dramatic series about two plastic surgeons in Florida has included Scientology as a recurring story line lately. TV squad quipped, “I’m sure Ryan Murphy and Co. have put together a story that will be both shocking and informative. Murphy the show’s creator rather […]
If there is a movement concerning spending money foolishly on frivolous lawsuits Keith Raniere of Albany, New York may well be its “vanguard.” Raniere who runs a seminar-selling company called NXIVM (pronounced nexium, like the “purple pill” for acid reflux), insists that his students call him “Vanguard.” Mr. Raniere is the former head of “Consumer […]
A “Moonie” (moniker denoting a loyal follower of purported “cult leader” Rev. Moon) may soon be running the UN’s World Food Program. That is, if US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Ambassador to the UN John Bolton have anything to say about it. Inner City Press reported that Rice and Bolton apparently hope to slip the appointment […]
Does Scientology have a “cure” for homosexuality, or does the controversial church just beard (disguise) its gay celebrities through arranged marriages? Scientologist John Travolta married fellow Scientologist Kelly Preston in what seemed like convenient timing, just after the National Enquirer ran a story about an alleged two-year homosexual affair between the actor and a male porn star. The […]
Is Scientology responsible for making Tom Cruise into “someone who effectuates creative suicide” as Viacom President Sumner Redstone told the Wall Street Journal? The billionaire media mogul explained “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.” And then Redstone did the unthinkable, he effectively dumped the “world’s greatest movie star.” Now the former “Top Gun” […]
