Month: February 2019

Into Darkness: Inside an American white supremacist cult.

From the “God Hates Fags” vitriol of the Westboro Baptist Church to the white supremacist and homophobic totalitarianism of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the violent neo-Nazi advocates of “racial holy war” in the Creativity Movement, examples of hate metastasizing via religious dogma abound.

The Twelve Tribes, a Christian fundamentalist cult born in the American South in the 1970s, is little-known to much of the country, and on first impression its communes and hippie-vibed restaurants and cafes can seem quaint and bucolic. But beneath the surface lies a tangle of doctrine that teaches its followers that slavery was “a marvelous opportunity” for black people, who are deemed by the Bible to be servants of whites, and that homosexuals deserve no less than death.

LINK: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/darkness

Where is the missing wife of Scientology’s ruthless leader? | 60 Minutes Australia (2019)

Shelly Miscavige is the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, the high priestess of Scientology who vanished 13 years ago. 60 Minutes investigate into the missing Queen’s whereabouts and speak to the former Scientologist’s who want answers.

Chicago Serial Killer H.H. Holmes And His Murder Castle To Star in Hulu Series Produced By DiCaprio, Scorsese

Chicago’s notoriety as the home of America’s first serial killer was highlighted in the 2003 book “The Devil In the White City,” the story of H.H. Holmes and his now-famous “Murder Castle.”

LINK: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/12/devil-in-the-white-city-hulu-show/

Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96

Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. speaking at a news conference in Trenton in 1984 in advance of the New Jersey primary as he sought the Democratic presidential nomination. It was one of his eight campaigns for the White House as a fringe candidate.CreditCreditWilliam Sauro/The New York Times

Lyndon LaRouche, the quixotic, apocalyptic leader of a cultlike political organization who ran for president eight times, once from a prison cell, died on Tuesday. He was 96.

LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/obituaries/lyndon-larouche-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

Arte Útil / Loompanics

Initiator(s)

Bik van der Pol

Description

The project includes a selection of 140 books from Loompanics Unlimited publishers, Washington. Out of business since 2006, this publishing house had for decades published manuals that ‘your mother and the state would rather you didn’t read’. Subjects varied from practical handbooks on ‘How to Develop a Low- Cost Family Food- Storage System’ to less generally acceptable publications as ‘Gourmet Cannabis Cookery’ and controversial self-help books as ‘How to Start Your Own Country’, ‘Homemade Guns and Homemade Arms’, or ‘How to Clear Your Adult and Juvenile Criminal Records’. Users are invited to read the publications and make copies of the manuals, meaning they can follow instructions and realise projects on their own.

Location

The Netherlands

Goals

To allow users free access to material, bypassing reproduction rights and encouraging them to use the manuals themselves.

Beneficial outcomes

Users gain free access to Loompanics publications

Users

Bik van der Pol, readers of Loompanics publications and users of the museum

Links

http://www.bikvanderpol.net/?book=1&page=65