AUGUST 14, 2022: Man dies by suicide near Capitol, police say. Delaware man was firing his gun "indiscriminately" before shooting himself. →

-POLITICO
🔷”Just after 4:00 a.m., York collided with the barricade, and his car burst into flames after he exited the vehicle, Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger told reporters Sunday morning. York might have set the fire himself, Manger said. York walked down East Capitol Street, took out a handgun and started firing it “indiscriminately,” Manger said, but no one else was harmed by the shots. As officers started approaching York, he shot himself dead, according to the police. No officers appeared to have fired their weapons, the department said.”

Trial Over 2016 Terror Attack in Nice Opens in Paris →

-NEW YORK TIMES
🔷”A self-radicalized Tunisian man plowed a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing 86. The proceedings, against eight defendants, are scheduled to last until December.”
🔷”The third high-profile terrorism trial in France in two years opened on Monday in Paris, with eight defendants facing charges in a 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice that left more than 80 people dead and hundreds more injured or traumatized. It comes on the heels of monthslong trials in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Paris attacks. The three mass killings shook France to its core in the mid-2010s and left unhealed wounds, turning the proceedings into moments of catharsis as much as fact-finding. Over more than three months, in a highly secure courthouse on an island in the Seine River, judges will seek to determine what led a man to barrel a cargo truck for more than a mile through spectators celebrating Bastille Day on July 14 in Nice. That may prove a difficult task since the driver was killed by the police and appeared to have acted alone, leaving only people accused of being indirect accomplices in the dock.”

A Former Member of the JFK QAnon Cult Tried to Kidnap Her Own Children →

-VICE
🔷”Despite everything, many of the former cult member’s online supporters believe her children were taken from her as part of a trafficking conspiracy.”
🔷”The family member, who spoke to VICE News on condition of anonymity to protect their privacy and safety, said Georgia’s Child Protective Services contacted the children’s father to discuss allegations of neglect, which is how the family first learned about the situation. But before anyone could intervene, Ricks packed up her car and fled to Texas, living in a tent before she arrived in Dallas. Her family said they called child protective services to tell them Ricks had left the state and was traveling with a gun.”
🔷”Then, in late October 2021, Ricks joined the JFK-QAnon cult where the group’s leader, Protzman, known to his followers as Negative 48, predicted JFK and JFK Jr. would rise from the dead. For over a month, Ricks and her two children stayed with the group. The group was holed up in hotels in downtown Dallas, and there were reports of drug use, all-night numerology sessions, and members drinking bleach from a communal bowl. Eventually, however, things soured. Ricks was ejected from the group, and members accused her of abusing drugs and alcohol, according to Telegram chats and text messages reviewed by VICE News.”
🔷”One woman, known in the group as NavyMom, volunteered to take Ricks and her two children into her home in El Reno, Oklahoma. “They were very malnourished. They looked like they ain’t seen the sun in months. They were white with dark circles around their eyes,” she told VICE News. “They would start screaming about some guy coming to get them.” It soon seemed that Ricks was once again abusing drugs; her host said that she had drugs and pills mailed to the house.” 
🔷”When the child protective service officers asked Ricks to produce evidence of homeschooling, Ricks wasn’t able to do so. “She doesn’t even know the difference between a letter and a number,” NavyMom said of the six-year-old girl.”
🔷”Another person Ricks sought out for help was Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, an extremist who founded the Veterans on Patrol in Arizona, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “an anti-government militia.” Meyer has claimed he has a network of safe houses around the country where he can house parents who have kidnapped their children, and came to prominence in March when he said that he had “granted sanctuary” to an Idaho mother who kidnapped her 3-year-old son from his father who had been granted full custody of the boy.”
🔷”Meyer told VICE News that he has been in communication with Ricks for months and that he was added to several chat groups on encrypted messaging platforms that were set up in July to organize the attempted kidnapping.”

Popular Food Truck Accused of Luring Women Into a ‘Cult’: →

-THE DAILY BEAST
🔷’The owner of Bad Rooster food truck, who in the ’90s began to “serve” a mystical spirit, is fighting off accusations that she’s lured women away from their families to join her.’
🔷’One former member, Fai West, told Fox9 that Soulaire taught followers that they had identities in a parallel dimension called “The 99.” According to West, who lived with the group as a teenager, Soulaire told her that she was her daughter in that alternate reality. Meanwhile, a woman named Raila told the outlet that Soulaire claimed Raila’s children belonged to someone else in “The 99.” Raila told Fox9: “I realized I had to get out when I felt like I would rather die than stay.”’
🔷’Goepel said that his sister once told him that during one of Young’s channeling sessions, she became Jesus 🤔🤨🙄🤣 and spoke to the sibling about how Christianity was misunderstood.
Like other members of Soulful Journey, the sister legally changed her name and hasn’t seen her family in years. The only contact Goepel has had with his sibling is through sporadic and concise text messages. “I have had very low-level contact, once or twice a year sending a message or pictures of my kids, trying to engage her,” he said.’

Cambodian cult members leave ‘doomsday farm’ →

UNION OF CATHOLIC ASIAN NEWS
🔷The number of people holding out at a ‘doomsday farm’ awaiting an apocalypse has fallen to about 1,000, from more than 20,000, as followers of a self-declared brahma (heavenly king) began leaving en masse as the deadline to disperse passed. Authorities had warned harsh action would be taken if followers of Khem Veasna — president of the League for Democracy Party (LDP) — failed to disperse by midnight Sunday from his farmhouse in the remote west, which was locked down and ring-fenced with military vehicles.

Coercive Control Of Cultic Groups In The United Kingdom July 2022 →

-THE FAMILY SURVIVAL TRUST
🔷”This study shows that the respondents’ isolation was further compounded by an ‘us against them’ mentality created by contrasting the worlds of members and non-members. This dichotomous view of good/bad or pure/evil enables members to feel as though they are part of an elite and special group while simultaneously creating distrust of and paranoia about non-members. Coercive Control in Cultic Groups in the United Kingdom. However, it is ultimately a mechanism of abuse to further isolate members from sources of support and alternative world-views. It creates a distinct dividing line that members are constantly warned to never cross.”