CultNEWS101 Articles: 2/22/2022 (Twin Flames, Podcast, Discrimination, Video, Anti-Vax, Paraguay, Bosnia, Montenegro, Lev Tahor, Legal)

Twin Flames, Podcast, Discrimination, Video, Anti-Vax, Paraguay, Bosnia, Montenegro, Lev Tahor, Legal

A Little Bit Culty: Keely Griffin on Twin Flames & Other Dumpster Fires (SEASON 3 EPISODE 5)

Speaking of soul-crushing scams that exploit the basic human need for love and belonging, we've got a doozy of a Valentine's Day episode for you. We're not labeling the organization at the heart of this episode a cult, but we are asking our guest Keely Griffin if loving and leaving Twin Flames Universe was the bad trip that reports published by Vanity Fair,  Vice, and Daily Mail make it sound like. Once a devotee of TFU, Keely shares what made the YouTubey, Facebooky spiritual community sound promising at first, just how quickly it went to the Upside Down, and how she's coming back from the whole shitshow now that she's out of its grips.

Oh and just FYI, the list of what TFU officially disputes about its bad press practically writes our show notes for us: They dispute that they promote harassment and stalking. They dispute that they engage in exploitative and cult-like practices. They dispute that they coerce members into changing their gender. A Little Bit Culty, on the other hand, does not dispute that the whole TFU vibe makes us want to throw up in our mouths a little bit. Happy Freakin' Valentine's Day. 

PBS Frontline: A Class Divided

"The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power 30 years later."

Insider: Anti-vaxxers head to a new life in a remote colony in Paraguay founded by 'conservative free thinkers' who want to escape the 'matrix,' say reports

"People take part in a demonstration against COVID-19 vaccines in front of the Health Ministry in Asuncion, on January 11, 2022. 

• A colony in Paraguay has seen an influx of arrivals due to COVID-19 skepticism
• The community claims it is free from "5G, chemtrails, fluoridated water, mandatory vaccinations, and healthcare mandates."
• They have said that the pandemic which has killed 5.6 million people is "non-existent."
  

Immigrants have settled in Paraguay's poorest region of Caazapá, creating a colony designed as a refuge from "socialist trends of current economic and political situations worldwide" – as well as "5G, chemtrails, fluoridated water, mandatory vaccinations, and healthcare mandates," according to its website.

The colony, named El Paraíso Verde, or Green Paradise, was founded in 2016 by  Sylvia and Erwin Annau, a composer and tax advisor born in Vienna, Austria, in 1954.

El Paraiso Verde was started in 2016 with the dream of a better life and future outside of the "matrix"  and is a refuge for "'conservative free thinkers,'" states its website.

It is mainly populated by German, Austrian and Swiss natives, many of whom are escaping COVID-19 restrictions, The Guardian reported. On the El Paraíso Verde website, Annau says he is eager to attract more settlers from the US."

VINnews: After Deportation From Bosnia And Montenegro, Lev Tahor Find Refuge In North Macedonia

"After wandering through a number of East European countries and being deported from many of them, members of the Lev Tahor cult have now moved to North Macedonia, where they are currently being treated as a curiosity by locals.

A group of members of the cult continues to migrate between European countries. After being deported from Bosnia about two weeks ago in light of complaints from residents expressing concern, members of the sect turned to Montenegro, but even there they did not hold out and continued to nearby Albania, from where they continued to North Macedonia and are currently camped in the city of Kumanovo."

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Montenegro's deportation of Japanese cult leaves questions hanging

Deutsche Welle
March 29, 2016
jbh/rc (AFP, AP)

Montenegro has deported 58 foreign members of a Japanese doomsday cult. But it is far from clear why they were there in the first place and where they have gone now.

The group - made up of 43 Russians, seven Belarusians, four Japanese, three from Ukraine and one from Uzbekistan - are reportedly members of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult, a police source told AFP anonymously.

A police statement did not specify the name of the religious group.

"Police received information from partner security services showing that a group of foreign nationals, who were members of a closed religious group, were staying in Montenegro," a police statement read Tuesday.

The official reason given for the deportation was group members lacked temporary residence permits allowing them to stay in the small Balkan country, police said.

Aum Shinrikyo carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. It was also found to have been responsible for another smaller sarin attack the previous year. The group has never confessed to either and no members have been charged.

A thickened plot

After being discovered last Friday in two hotels, one in the central town of Danilovgrad - where they reportedly rented an entire hotel for ten days, without the hotel's staff - the group members gave statements to police and their laptops and mobile phones were taken for examination.

During the hearings members reportedly said they had come to Montenegro as tourists. No arrests were made.

Police did not elaborate on the group's reason for being in Montenegro.

An earlier statement from the Russian foreign ministry said 60 foreign nationals, including Russians, had been detained by Montenegro police on suspicion of involvement in "international organised crime" and that they had been released without questioning.

A terrorist organization?

Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. It reportedly has about 1,000 members, down from a peak of about 1,500 a decade ago.

The group has formally been designated a terrorist organization by several countries, including Canada, Kazakhstan and the US. Japan's Public Security Examination Commission considers it to be a "dangerous religion" and announced in January 2015 that it would remain under surveillance for three more years.

http://www.dw.com/en/montenegros-deportation-of-japanese-cult-leaves-questions-hanging/a-19148467

Montenegro to Expel Alleged Members of Japanese Cult

Montenegro will deport more than 50 Russian and four Japanese citizens suspected of being members of a Japanese religious sect Aum Shinrikyo, which attacked the Tokyo metro with sarin in 1995.

Dusica Tomovic
Balkan Insight
March 28, 2016

A group of Russian and Japanese nationals detained in Montenegro will be expelled by midnight on Monday after it was found that they had no temporary residence permits allowing them to stay in the country for more than 30 days.

In a joint raid by police and the National Security Agency, the 55 Russian and four Japanese nationals were arrested on Friday in the capital Podgorica and the nearby town Danilovgrad. 

“Detention was based on the information available by Montenegro’s police about their possible involvement in the international organised crime,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday. 

They were all released after questioning on Saturday and no charges were filed, but they will now be deported.

“Taking into account the fact that the foreign citizens’ stay in Montenegro had not been registered in accordance with standard procedures, they must soon be expelled from the country,” the Russian ministry said. 

According to media claims, the detained foreigners are members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, a Japanese doomsday cult founded in 1984 and banned in a number of countries around the world.

Aum Shinrikyo gained international notoriety when it carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for another smaller sarin attack the previous year.

The 1995 attack left 13 people dead, and more than 6,000 others suffering the effects of the nerve gas. More than 20 years later, many of the survivors say they still suffer from vision problems and fatigue.#Media in Montenegro quoted senior police officials as saying that none of detained foreigners participated in the Tokyo attack in 1995.

During their court hearing, they said that they came to Montenegro as tourists. 

Members of the sect allegedly rented an entire hotel in Danilovgrad for ten days, without staff.

After the arrest, forensic experts took away for inspection various devices, mostly mobile phones and computers, which had been used by the suspects.

Police in Montenegro have not yet issued an official statement about the arrests.

A protest against Aum Shinrikyo in Japan in 2009 | Photo: Wikimedia/Abasaa

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-to-expel-alleged-members-of-japanese-cult-03-28-2016-1