A new cult classic you have to see to believe
2009-10-29 18:11:00 What do you call a very low-budget indie film about the Vietnam War, featuring fake-looking violence, a lot of casual conversation and starring everyone from Danica McKellar ("The Wonder Years") to J.C. Chasez (N'Sync) to Faye Dunaway ("Bonnie and Clyde")?There's no punchline to that joke. It's not a joke at all--we'll, it's not meant to be. Technically a real movie, "21 and a Wakeup," opening Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center, is the most unintentionally hilarious film I've seen in a long, long time. Someday I predict/hope that this will be shown in cheap movie houses at midnight, for people to gather and celebrate its awfulness.This is of course with all due respect to those who were actually involved...
The Sathya Sai Baba Cult? infiltration of SWARA
2009-09-15 21:21:00 Below here is a transcript of the TV coverage of a public demonstration led by the manager, other staff and numerous clients of the Brisbane institution SWARA (the Pink Twins’ Sathya Sai Baba service project. The reason for the protest is clear from the content. It resulted in the departure of several of the staff ...
Subtle recruitment to Sai Baba?s cult
2009-09-04 09:12:00 The following posting made by one of the innumerable followers who were able to see through their self-indoctrination is most informative and is a genuine reflection as to how Sathya Sai Baba gains adherents in many parts of the world. Hi all, I guess the way people are joining the SB movement can be ...
How Dave Lyons realised the Sai movement is really a cult
2009-08-31 07:54:00 By David J. Lyons (Sai Baba follower from 1981 to 2000. Ex-President of the Center of Greater New Orleans). Date: 03-13-05 No one wants to believe that an organization he/she was an integral part of is a cult. I could not have been basking more in the glory of the avatar ...
How to recognise a cult
2009-07-28 00:47:00 Tell-tale signs of a cult are:- 1) Rigorous control of information about agendas and decisions made within a cadre of leaders acting under the top cult figure. Concealment from the public of facts and documents [especially anything potentially negative] concerning what is decided and by whom. Suppression of all contact with the media by anyone who ...
Petition For Official Investigation Into Sathya Sai Baba Cult
2009-07-10 00:00:00 A key difficulty facing an authoritarian, suppressive, unaccountable sect such as the Sathya Sai Organization is this: When there are serious scandals being hushed up, there is -: organized, networked dissent and public exposure, and in other ways quiet disruption and internal decay that happens quite apart from formal, focused, widespread efforts. the exponential spread of crisis for the organization. The well-informed leaders of "the Secret Swami's" (c.f. the BBC) know and suffer the effects of these three factors. It suits them to allow ignorant and unconscionable voices to attack those who have responsibly and clearly raised the issues in various parts of the world.
A Cult?s Powerful Grip. (Sathya Sai Baba Sect Example)
2009-06-29 03:16:00 Since leaving Sathya Sai Baba in October 1999, I have counted around 10 major 'flags' that I myself ignored. The realization of most of these resistances only occurred over time. Coming out of the spell's grip is a painful, arduous process. Approached with rigorous self-questioning and the company of loving, caring and insightful individuals, the process can be full of learning, personal renewal, and a sense of release from hard-held self-concepts. One confronts oneself, far more than anyone or anything else.
How to Create a Cult Brand
2009-05-28 15:18:00 Brands like Apple, Oprah, Harley-Davidson, Ikea and Southwest Airlines have made their competition irrelevant through brand communities they have helped nurture over the years. But why do brand communities form? And what can we learn about them? No related posts.
By: brandxpress blog
Hillsong pastor defends ministry against cult claim
2009-05-28 14:11:00 Celebrity evangelist Brian Houston has defended his Hillsong ministry against allegations it is a "cult-like" organisation as the Sydney megachurch opened a "campus" church on Brisbane's southside recently. Houston is interested in expanding further into Europe, where Hillsong already operates in London, Paris, Kiev, Stockholm and Moscow.
Father tells of rescuing kids from New Zealand?s Gloriavale cult
2009-04-28 22:49:00 For hundreds of people living in a cut-off community called Gloriavale on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, Neville Cooper speaks the word of God. For his son Phil, Neville Cooper was a controlling, manipulative, sexual deviant who set out to dominate every aspect of his life - from who he could marry to what he named his children. Phil Cooper has told his story in a book, Sins of the Father, which has been released recently.
Apparel For Cult Movie Fans: Create Your Own Hat Based On A Fictional Brand
2009-03-29 12:00:00 Replica fashions based on clothing seen in movies have been sold in stores all over the world. Now, a new DIY fashion business, Lucky Seven, allows cult movie and TV show fans to create their own caps based on the fictional brands made famous by film.
Tony McNulty Brit MP. Expenses Scandal Erupts. His Sai Baba Cult Nexus Yet
2009-03-22 23:33:00 A big scandal has erupted in the UK surrounding British Labour Member of Parliament, Tony McNulty. Some of my readers will recall that McNulty is connected with the head of the Sathya Sai Organization in the UK, Ashok Bhagani. Evidence suggests the two men are friends. It is also known that Bhagani’s daughter has long been working, with varying hours of ...
A Cult of Personality: Who have the Red Sox become?
2009-03-14 22:10:00 The grave on the Manny Ramirez era is set. (Zac Trainor illustration) cul?ture [kuhl-cher] -- noun a particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period: Greek culture, Red Sox Nation. As ownership and management...
By: SawxBlog.com
How to tell if you?re being recruited into a cult
2009-03-01 08:30:00 I hear through the grapevine that a cult is doing recruitment in WNY. It's being done under the guise of "inner development" or similar, vague-sounding feel-goodisms. Here, from the Rick Ross Institute, are some ways to tell if you're being recruited into a cult or something more legitimate. ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Fred Phelps? Cult Gets PWN3D in Clarence Center
2009-02-24 02:17:00 On Sunday, these imbeciles came to my town: They chose to leave Kansas, drive halfway around the country and spread their profane hate and filth: A sorrier little trio of morons I've seldom seen. But this is Western New York, and this is what greeted them: About 100 average western ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Ashok Bhagani, Sathya Sai Baba cult promoter in UK
2009-02-19 15:03:00 Askok Bhagani , a trustee of the UK Sathya Sai Organization and of the cult-instigated charitable trust to help disabled persons, Ashiana Trust Limited, is an out-and-out propagandist for its figurehead, the self-proclaimed God Incarnate, Father Who Sent Jesus etc. The case where he was brought to book by the Westminster Cathedral, (Catholic Church London), ...
Tony McNulty Sathya Sai Baba Cult Supporter Tipped As UK Home Minister
2009-02-18 01:14:00 Rosemary Bennett's article in The London Times (Public Sector) last Friday may indicate that things are stirring for Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East, and David Leppard's piece of last Sunday 15th in The Sunday Times, suggests that the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith may be replaced at the Home Office by Tony McNulty. The Home Office job for McNulty may strengthen his advocacy, already known to have occurred, of a major satellite radio transmitter in the UK which already broadcasts the Sathya Sai Baba cult's propaganda to many countries. Operated by Sathya Sai Central trust , the attempt is to spread Sai Baba's evangel to every corner of the earth.
Australian Current Affair Exposes Sathya Sai Baba Cult
2009-02-04 23:47:00 From time to time, international coordinators, such as Robert Priddy, the late Glen Meloy, and, at an earlier stage, Hari Sampath, have received compelling testimony from former students, staff and others who have been close to Sathya Sai Baba. The witneses are checked out to ensure that they are not among the attempted 'plants', such as Sai Baba's ex-teacher Murali Krishna Yachendra.
Australian Current Affair: ?Infiltrating A Cult? (Sathya Sai Baba)
2009-02-02 22:36:00 The picture over the title 'Infiltrating A Cult' is of Moyia O'Brien, of Brisbane, Australia, who is a Sathya Sai Organization matriatrach, almost worshipped by some of Sai Baba's followers. In last night's telecast, she is seen stating to Channel Nine interviewer Chris Allen
Sathya Sai Cult Under Media Scutiny In Australia
2009-02-02 07:41:00 The Australian Current Affair segment is expected to link the cult of Sathya Sai Baba (a picture of whom Channel Nine has already shown several times in promotion of the segment, along with the unfortunate scenes when a group of centre works and disabled clients attempted to air their views publically) with troubles besetting SWARA (Sunshine Welfare and Remedial Association).
Sathya Sai Baba Cult Exposure By Major TV Channel In Australia
2009-01-29 04:14:00 What is the effect on the wider society of a wealthy, worldwide cult such as the International Sathya Sai Organization? A surprise packet for the Sathya Sai Organization is about to unwrap. For those interested in seeing attempts by this powerful cult at damage-control and cover up, this will be an event worth watching. But of course, it is a secret organization - therefore, one may miss out on some of the crucial action. Nonetheless, it is important to prevent governments from being soft on cults. Governments who protect cults need, too, to be stood up to. Hiding from the issue of cults does not further the cause of religious freedom but actually threatens it over the long term.
The cult ?was the campaign? to bring Obama ?into power?
2009-01-22 18:40:00 It’s always refreshing when a blogger, or, in this case, a blogress diva, you respect echoes a point I’ve made in a previous post. Even if she didn’t read the post (& I highly doubt she did), it’s nice to know a smart pundit has a view similar to your own. Just a few moments ago, ...
By: GayPatriot
Why the Sathya Sai Organization IS a cult
2009-01-07 09:55:00 “A cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g., isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, the use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of ...
Islam: War Cult
2009-01-07 09:43:00 Another target rich comment too good to pass up. http://snooper.wordpress.com/20-07/10/01/myth-vs-fact-118/#comm-ent-2308 Comment by navedz | January 6, 2009 Islam is a religion of PEACE. It doesn�??t teach us to kill unlike other religions. Muslims start their greetings with �??As-salaam-wa Alaikum Wa Rahmatu Allah Wa Barakatuh�??, which means in English �??May GOD�??s peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.�?? Allah states: �??Whoever kills a human being�?� then it is as though he has killed all mankind; and whoever saves a human life it is as though he had saved all mankind.�?? No one probably ever heard of such a stunning message of peace, which considers killing just one person (be it innocent or not) tantamount to killing the entire humanity? Now the doubters should not have any more skepticism about Muslim�??s claim that �??Islam is a religion of peace�??. The unjustified criticisms of and spitting venoms at Islam by the hateful Islam-bashers got to ...
By: A NEWT ONE
How Cult Exposure Spreads Far And Wide (Sai Baba Case)
2008-12-19 00:27:00 In its many months of intensive investigation, the BBC in the making of 'The Secret Swami' (like other media that has seriously investigated) uncovered evidence that was beyond the range of internationally networked former devotees.
Sai Baba?s Personality Cult Explored
2008-12-01 13:11:00 WHAT IS A CULT On the general issue of cultism and a critical discussion of the indicators of charismatic cults - political, social, and religious -and the Sathya Sai Baba sect as a cult THE FUNDAMENTALIST ‘GURU TRAP’ EXPLOITATION PART 1 a many-sided system of control over persons exercised by gurus, swamis, godmen, masters, saints, avatars ...
Hate Cult Fringe Groups
2008-11-20 13:27:00 Hate Cult Fringe Groups It is probably relevant that we have had so much attention paid to the mass murder at Jamestown thirty years ago. Our new era is permeated with the actions of the various hate cults spawned by our major world religions — Hindus, Islam, Christianity. When I was studying ...
Cult Favorites: NARS The Multiple ORGASM has Condoms Now...
2008-11-03 14:53:00 OH MY GOODNESS! Okay so I saw this in Sephora the other day and I just about fell over. NARS the cosmetic company with product names like Orgasm, Hustler & Sexual Healing has finally added condoms to the mix. The...
By: TheMakeupGirl
DVD Review: South Park: The Cult of Cartman - Revelations
2008-10-20 20:13:00 Packaged to look distinctly like a holy book, this new collection of South Park episodes - a “best-of” compilation of Eric Cartman’s antics - includes 12 classic episodes of the (arguably) most outspoken and memorable character from the (arguably) most outspoken and memorable show on television. The Cult of Cartman - Revelations package also includes a Cult of ...
Movie Review: South Park ? The Cult Of Cartman
2008-10-03 02:25:00 Best-of collections are so hit and miss. In my experience, I find you rarely see the best, it?s more of the of that they stick you with. They?ll throw in a couple of good songs or stories or episodes or whatever, some of the ones that everyone knows and then they just fill the rest ...
Dato J. Jegathesan, a ?Secret Swami? cult top leader-roving ambassador
2008-09-23 05:04:00 The Sathya Sai Baba cult assidously cultivates mainstream civic, religious, government and political figures. See ?Secret Swami? Cult Recruits At Prime Public Venues Dato J. Jegathesan of Malaysia. International Finance Figure, and Secret Swami Cult Leader It is doubtful whether the Sathya Sai Organization or one of its highest profile international leaders told the administration of St.John?s Baptist ...
When building a personality cult, it’s usually best to actually HAVE
2008-09-12 12:55:00 So, Obama has been losing ground as he gets more shrill. What’s his solution to the problem? Get even more shrill. Senator Barack Obama will intensify his assault against Senator John McCain, with new television advertisements and more forceful attacks by the candidate and surrogates beginning Friday morning, as he confronts an invigorated Republican presidential ticket and increasing nervousness in the Democratic ranks. … After back-to-back attack ads by McCain, including one that misleadingly accused Obama of endorsing sex education for kindergarten students, the Obama campaign is planning to sharpen attacks on McCain and Palin in an effort to counter McCain’s attempt to present himself as the candidate of change with his choice of Palin. The new tone is to be presented in a speech by Obama in New Hampshire and backed up by new television advertisements and appearances across the country by supporters. In addition, advertising themes will be pay equity for wom...
By: BitsBlog
Arnold Explains Palin?s Cult-HERo Status
2008-09-10 11:15:00 Not in words, or not in English ones anyway, but by being the Austrian-born Governor of California himself. Attempting to explain American politics to a German audience that doesn?t really get it, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has himself, unintentionally, offered the best example of what the current excitement about Sarah Palin?s entry into the 2008 presidential ...
Exposing Worldwide Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Sept 08,i)
2008-09-04 01:17:00 The following, mostly short, articles have appeared at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om and http://barrypittard.wordpress.c-om and, in one case, at Robert Priddy’s main website - Sathya Sai Baba In Word And Action in the last few days. The following information is compiled at: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/HOM-E/Sai_Baba_news.htm where there is an extensive list of blogs and articles, with the latest updates clearly noted. Barry Pittard. 4 September, ...
The Best Freaky Hippy Cult That For Some Reason Is Used To Sell You Stuff.
2008-09-03 16:58:00 Showdown September Continues!America has a love-hate relationship with two things: advertising, and cults.We say we hate advertising -- well, you all say you hate advertising. I say I love it but then I also point out that I love technology that lets me skip advertising, and then I balance that all out by coming up with a way to get advertisers to make ads that I can't skip. So I guess I have a love-hate relationship with my relationship with advertising.Really, there should be some sort of prize for living with me.The point is that everyone says they hate advertising, but they actually like it because they pay attention to ads and buy things that ads tell them to buy and, if you are the kids in my house, you even click on those pop-up ads that promise you a free iPod just for figuring out which Teddy Bear is hiding the pinwheel, which then makes me pay attention to ads for spyware removal programs and for new laptop computers, and also ads for places that will let me sell my bl...
Phelps? Cult Veers Into Further Irrationality
2008-08-27 16:07:00 -By Frederick Meekins To those of us whose vocations consist largely of commenting on the momentous trends and events going on all around us, it can be easy to fall for the delusion that ultimately the world itself orbits those of us observing it. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church has gained for himself and his ...
By: Publius Forum
Cult '23 Drifts to Guestling' tape compilation reissued on CD
2008-08-01 06:01:00 Out now is the "23 Drifts to Guestling" compilation CD. Originally released in 1983, this tape was compiled by David Tibet and is a scrapbook of rehearsals, formative ideas, radio snippets, interviews and general nonsense. The CD contains 51 contributions / tracks...
By: Side-Line Music
Fall 2008: MAC Cult of Cherry...
2008-08-01 05:21:00 Oh my goodness ...oh my GOODNESS! These colors are FIYAH...MAC brings rich aubergine and chocolate for fall and I am so so so excited about these shades! Fall is one of my favorite seasons and MAC does not disappoint this...
By: TheMakeupGirl
When Huge Cult Is A Small Shop. Sai Cult Legal Tricks
2008-07-06 23:34:00 In the Orange County court, USA, Alaya Rahm’s pro bono lawyer, William Brelsford, asked the judge if Sathya Sai Baba could be sued from the United Sates of America, to which the answer was no. (Case: Alaya Rahm vs. Sathya Sai Baba Society, Superior Court of California, filed January 6, 200, County of Orange) It transpired ...
After Leaving A Cult. Or ?Moving On?
2008-07-02 01:47:00 It is a very great untruth put out by Sathya Sai Baba’s key leaders and by his proxy supporters on the Internet that former devotees are now something other than what they, for many decades, were - decent, compassionate, hardworking members of their professions and trades in their wider communities. See Sathya Sai Baba ...
Sathya Sai Baba World Cult At Odds With Itself
2008-06-28 10:01:00 One of the distinctive phenomena that independently confirm voices critical of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult is that his movement is eroding from within. Sathya Sai Cult At Odds With Itself Some of his followers have made progress in thinking their way out of this particular variety of ‘the guru trap’. They do not have to ...
?Secret Swami? Cult Recruits At Prime Public Venues
2008-06-22 21:10:00 Although there is a long history of Sathya Sai Baba’s utterances which forbid promoting of himself, his official worldwide Sathya Sai Organization promotes strongly, at his, of course, secret behest. This zeal to recruit (to use the proper word) tends to take place in exceptionally prestigious venues. What does the cult need for its survival - ...
SHOCKING! Texas Polygamist Mothers Secret Cult Leader Revealed
2008-06-08 02:16:00 Coming out of an important meeting..."We got this Shiaat!"So confident that their fearless leader would prevail...."Thats right Biaaatch"Hearing the news that their leader has failed them: "Say it ain't so Ethel, say it ain't so Gertrude, IT IS SO BLANCHE!!!!F***!!!Don't worry all my Ladies...I'll be home soon!!!"MWAAH HAHAHAAAAA!!!"
Glasgow Police Ban Use of the Term ?Cult? With Respect to Cult of Scientolo
2008-06-08 00:00:00 [Note: The terms "cult" and "Scientology" will be used profusely in this posting] In an affront to free speech and honesty, Glasgow police have banned the labeling of the Cult of Scientology as a cult. This is truly despicable. The Cult of Scientology is absolutely a cult. A quick search of definitions ...
Big Cult Trumps At Law. Is But A ‘Bookshop’
2008-06-07 03:06:00 The issue of the Alaya Rahm law case against the directors of the Sathya Sai Society of America is dealt with at this place: Alaya Rahm’s Lawsuit vs Sathya Sai Society of America - Joint Statement by the International JuST Group and the Rahm family Sathya Sai Baba’s Organization Lost Chance For Independent Adjudication The Rahm case was lost on a technicality. The Society is but a bookshop! Lawyers and others in various countries since consulted are nonplussed that the Alaya Rahm’s pro bono attorney, William Brelsford, appeared not to see this coming and preempted it. Thus, a neat piece of lawyering in the cult’s long-term setting up of its organs paid off for them. But not for the truth, which the members go about proclaiming with such beatific smiles on their faces! Here was an opportunity for the facts - wherever they may have led - to get out into the open. It is no frivolous thing for a family (or anyone) to embark on a course so potentially fraug...
Judge enters not guilty plea for accused Necedah cult leader
2008-06-04 15:03:00 Alan Bushey and another sect member, Tammy Lewis, hid a 90-year-old woman's dead body on Lewis' toilet for two months so they could go on collecting the woman's Social Security and annuities.
Mostra degli artisti dell'associazione TEART - Ass. Piemonte Artistico Cult
2008-06-02 18:42:00 Mostra degli artisti dell'associazione TEART l'appuntamento è per il 10 giugno 2008 presso l'Ass. Piemonte Artistico Culturale h. 18:00 Via Roma 264, Torino scarica l'invito in formato pdf Pubblicato da kinglear | Commenti (2) Tags: arte, presentazioni, appuntamenti, comunicati stampa, pubblicità, artisti, ultime notizie, notizieflash &-nbsp; &n-bsp; &nb-sp; &nbs-p; -; -
Roman Polanski to Join Texas Eldorado Zion FLDS cult?
2008-05-29 17:06:00 An article on a new documentary movie about Roman Polanski jumped out at me and took hold! The movie, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, mostly covers the legal case that caused him to leave the country and never return. After the success of Rosemary's Baby in 1968 and the murder of his wife Sharon Tate the following year, Polanski was pegged a naughty boy. In 1977 while filming Chinatown a Star Mother fed her 13 year old daughter to Polanski who at the time was dating 15 year old Nastassja Kinski. Polanski admitted to consensual sex with the girl, the mother pressed charges, Polanski went to trial, the prosecutor was a Mormon and the Judge let it be known he was going to make an example of Polanski. The famous director drove to the airport and left his Mercedes parked and fled to Europe and never came back. He won the Best Director Oscar for the Pianist in 2003. HollywoodÂ’s Most Beloved FugitiveWell well well... What was Mr Polanski thinking! He had a Mormon right there in th...
Big Brother?s David to write ?cult? book
2008-05-28 15:38:00 Big Brother evictee David Tchappat wants to release a book about his experiences growing up in the Exclusive Brethren sect.
Protesters celebrate city?s ?cult? stance
2008-05-27 13:49:00 Protesters who branded Scientology a "cult" were celebrating today after Edinburgh council bosses said they had "no objection" to the use of the word. |
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