Today in Scientology -- July 3rd ******************************************

[Scientology Today]

Today July 3rd in Scientology history
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Editor risks jail in court flap
July 3, 1992, Todd Foltz, Tulsa World
https://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/editor-risks-jail-in-court-flap/article_24cc12e5-e696-5470-92cd-e7333bdffb55.html

The editor of the Newkirk newspaper says he would rather go to jail
than pay court costs to an unlicensed substance abuse treatment center.
The costs were incurred when the center tried to force the editor to
divulge his sources of information about the center.

Tags: Ben Blackstock, Bob Lobsinger, Garry Bilger, Judge Daniel Owens, Judge
Leamon Freeman, Narconon, Newkirk Herald Journal, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Press Association

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Deprogrammer charged in Eastside case
July 3, 1993, Gordy Holt, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1993/9307040042.asp

As outlined in an affidavit filed by Grays Harbor Deputy Prosecutor
Joseph F. Wheeler, Scott told police his mother, then known as Kathy
Tonkin, that Ross and three other men held him for four days in an
Ocean Shores condominium while attacking his religious beliefs.

Tags: Charles Simpson, Harold Kern, Jason Scott, Joe Wheeler, Life
Tabernacle, Mark Workman, Rick Ross

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Lynwood defies order to hold recall vote
July 3, 2007, Strumwasser & Woocher
http://www.strumwooch.com/S-W-Press/2007/July/Lynwood-defies-order-to-hold-recall-vote.aspx

Deborah Wright, executive liaison for the registrar-recorder, said her
office has never handled a case like this.

Lynwood officials, she said, seem intent not only on blocking the
election but also on learning the identities of residents who signed
the petition - which would be a violation of state law because the
documents are supposed to remain confidential.

"It seems clear to me that what the council really wants is someone
under their control to get a look at those signatures," Wright said.

Tags: Alfreddie Johnson, Fernando Pedroza, Leticia Vasquez, Louis Byrd,
Lynwood

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Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism ... and
the World
July 3, 2008, Ryan Singel, Wired
https://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/07/wikileaks?currentPage=all

More controversially, the site has begun posting confidential documents
from the secretive and litigious Church of Scientology, and from the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Those leaks demonstrate
that the site has veered from its mission to expose the secrets of
repressive governments, says Aftergood, treading instead on the
dangerous ground of religious persecution.

Tags: ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Julian Assange, Steven Aftergood,
WikiLeaks

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Synanon Short Film
July 3, 2009, Jen A, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THu690d7qJE

The story of Synanon, the renegade cult led by Charles Dederich, and
the battle waged by a young lawyer named Paul Morantz on behalf of the
people trapped inside this renegade organization. Synanon attempted to
murder Paul Morantz, but he persevered, and ultimately won, freeing
children and reuniting families, and creating the legal battle that
would unravel Dederich's house of cards. For more information on
Synanon and attorney Paul Morantz, go to www.paulmorantz.com (produced
and edited by Jacob Davis)

Tags: Charles Dederich, Paul Morantz, Quicky, Synanon

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Where sci-fi, beat and New Age meld
July 3, 2009, Mara Math, San Francisco Examiner
http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/Where-sci-fi-beat-and-New-Age-meld--49776617.html

"Mock Up on Mu," an experimental collage of sci-fi, spy, Western and
horror genres, intersperses found footage with new live-action scenes.
"Mu" wittily speculates on how history and cultural messages were
shaped by three significant Californians and their interrelationships:
jet-propulsion pioneer and Aerojet Corp. co-founder Jack Parsons; New
Age movement instigator Marjorie Cameron, Parsons' third wife; and
sci-fi writer and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The Examiner
spoke with director/writer Craig Baldwin.

Tags: Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron

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Janet Reitman's 'Inside Scientology'
July 3, 2011, Jonny Jacobsen, Infinite Complacency
http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2011/07/janet-reitmans-inside-scientology_03.html

Janet Reitman spent five years researching and writing Inside
Scientology: it was worth the wait.

For years, journalists had been warned that the subject of Scientology
was off-limits in interviews with Tom Cruise: then, suddenly, you
couldn't shut him up about it.

He scolded actress Brooke Shields for taking medication to tackle her
post-natal depression. He enjoined NBC newsman Matt Lauer not to be
glib about psychiatric drugs. And generally, he acted like he had the
answer to the world's problems.[1]

Tags: 1953, 1955, 1960, 1970, 1987, 1990, 1995, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, A
Piece of Blue Sky, Alan Walter, Aleister Crowley, Andrew Morton, Apollo, Bare-
Faced Messiah, Brooke Shields, California, Caroline Letkeman, Celebrity
Centre, Clearwater Police Department, Commodore's Messenger Organization,
Counterfeit Dreams, David Miscavige, England, Florida, Guardian's Office,
Hollywood, Int Base, Janet Reitman, Jefferson Hawkins, Joan Wood, Jon Atack,
Karen Pressley, Larry Brennan, Lisa McPherson, Lyle Stuart, Marty Rathbun,
Matt Lauer, NBC, Pat Broeker, Project Celebrity, Quicky, Rolling Stone,
Russell Miller, Sea Org, St. Petersburg Times, Stefan Castle, The Truth
Rundown, Tom Cruise, Truth Rundown

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Scientology's Cover Story for Harassment: "We're Making a Documentary!"
July 3, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/07/scientologys_co.php

Collette's piece is very well done, but what we found most amusing was
Scientology's constant refrain that they were renting property near
Rathbun's house, filming him from a paddle boat in a canal, and getting
in his face on his porch with cameras strapped to their foreheads
because -- get this -- they're making a "documentary."

Well, we're certainly the first to agree that Rathbun is worthy of
attention. But how much b-roll footage of the man puttering around his
bayside home or munching in local eateries do you really need?

Tags: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, California, Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Caller-Times, David Miscavige, Documentary, Harassment, Howard Gillespie,
Ingleside, Ingleside Index, Kendrick Moxon, Mark Collette, Marty Rathbun, New
Times Los Angeles, New Yorker, Squirrel Busters, Texas, Tom Cruise

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Scientology's history, secrets explored in book
July 3, 2011, Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/article_95a366d6-a34d-50e8-a310-8809d3154dbd.html

In "Inside Scientology," her richly narrative history of the
organization, Reitman writes that Scientology "over the past fifty
years has been the subject of more than a dozen wide-scale government
investigations around the world, and thousands of lawsuits."

Tags: Janet Reitman

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The Billion Dollar Cult vs. The Little Texas Town
July 3, 2011, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/the-billion-dollar-cult-vs-the-little-texas-town/

My bet is on the latter.

The Corpus Christi Caller TImes:

http://www.caller.
com/news/2011/jul/02/scrutiny-of-former-church-of-scientology-has-on/

Tags: Corpus Christi, Cult, New York, Quicky, Texas, Village Voice

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'Beatings', sniper nests and a punishment block called 'The Hole': Inside
Scientology's strict Sea Org which Suri Cruise faced joining ? and which
drove her parents apart
July 3, 2012, Daniel Bates, Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168225/Tom-Cruise-Katie-Holmes-divorce-Inside-Scientologys-Sea-Org-Suri-faced-joining.html

These pictures reveal the headquarters of Scientology's higher order
where members pledge their allegiance for one billion years - and which
may have cost Tom Cruise his marriage.

The prospect of sending six-year-old Suri to the Sea Organisation, or
Sea Org as it is known, is what is said to have been the final straw
for Katie Holmes before she filed for divorce.

The clergy like group is run like a military clique from the
Scientology Gold Base in California which has a sniper-style nest
bunker on the site.

Tags: BBC, California, Catholic, Colorado, Delphian School, Donation, Gilman
Hot Springs, Independent, Int Base, Isabella Cruise, Jada Pinkett-Smith,
Marty Rathbun, New Village Leadership Academy, New York, New Yorker, Nicole
Kidman, Oregon, Sea Org, The Hole, UK, Will Smith

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Former Scientologist says Katie Holmes' answers during church QA sessions
will be used against her
July 3, 2012, Hollie McKay, Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/03/former-scientologist-says-katie-holmes-answers-during-church-qa-sessions-will/

Katie Holmes isn't just parting ways with A-list husband Tom Cruise,
she is also divorcing the Church of Scientology.

Holmes is seeking sole custody of their daughter reportedly in part to
extricate Suri, 6, from her father's faith before Suri's heavy-duty
Scientology education starts.

Tags: Andreas Heldal-Lund, David Miscavige, Gary Soter, Katie Holmes, Marty
Rathbun, Tom Cruise

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Media That Seeks to Clarify and Edify
July 3, 2012, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/media-that-seeks-to-clarify-and-edify/

I spent a good part of the day yesterday attempting to educate dozens
of inquiring media on the issues likely impacting the Cruise/Holmes
dispute. For the most part, it was a failure. With their limited
attentions spans, and overriding obsessions to be first with the most
bizarre allegations, the media jammed the airwaves and cables with
ill-informed assertions (sometimes even retracted) and speculation.
Reviewing the fall out I noted a couple of pieces that stood out as
fair and informed journalism that served to edify.

First there was editor in chief of the Village Voice, Tony Ortega's
interview on Current TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTD1bMYOBg&feature=em-share_video_user

Tags: Cult, David Miscavige, Guy Adams, Independent, Katie Holmes, New York
Daily News, Quicky, Review, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, UK, Village Voice

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Tom Cruise is 50: It's Time To Grow Up
July 3, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/07/tom_cruise_is_50_time_to_grow_up.php

You're going to hear a lot about the troubles that Tom Cruise finds
himself in as he turns 50 years old today.

We thought we'd take a different tack. We've often thought that Rona
Barrett's 1984 interview of a pre-Scientology Tom Cruise is one of the
most revealing. We see a young man with half a dozen movies under his
belt who is becoming a big star at the same time that he's vulnerable,
even damaged, after growing up through the divorce of his parents. He
was a religious seeker who briefly dealt with his psychic scars by
running to a seminary. Bright, curious, but suffering, Cruise was
almost the perfect example of a young person open to a new religious
movement. Is it any wonder that he went willingly to a group that
offered certainty, belonging, and structure?

If that helps explain why he was susceptible to the undue influence you
find in a group like Scientology -- which he ran into a few years after
that interview -- that doesn't explain what he's still doing in it so
many years later.

Tags: 1961, 1967, 1975, 1984, 2004, 2008, Apollo, Australia, Beck Hansen,
Bryan Seymour, Caribbean, Cenk Uygur, Clearwater, David Miscavige, E-meter,
Estates Project Force, Facebook, Florida, Int Base, Katie Holmes, Los
Angeles, Mediterranean, Melissa Paris, Nation of Islam, Quicky, Ramana Dienes-
Browning, Roanne Horwich, Ron Miscavige Sr, Sea Org, Sec Check, Shane Kelsey,
Sydney, The Young Turks, TMZ, Tom Cruise, Valeska Paris, Xenu

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Dangerous Thoughts?
July 3, 2013, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/dangerous-thoughts/

I recently caught wind of a whispering campaign wafting amongst
independent Scientologists. The message warns true believers to stay
away from Memoirs Of A Scientology Warrior. Apparently, some folks
consider it a threat to orthodox, unchallengeable thought (belief).

For the benefit (or detriment, depending on one's point of view) of
those who might have had some of the campaign's sentiment rub off on
them, I am posting here some other points of view from people who have
actually read the book. I pulled several of them from the comments
section of the blog - recognizing that a lot of people either don't
read comments or only some of them. A few of the entries are reviews
posted at the Amazon Books page for the book. I have included the names
or handles of the authors they were posted under.

Thanks to all of you who took the time to share your impressions and
thoughts.

Tags: 1980, 1982, AMA, Amazon, APA, Clear, Comm Course, Dan Koon, David
Miscavige, Disconnection, FBI, L. Ron Hubbard, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin
Padfield, Mary Sue Hubbard, Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, Mike Rinder,
Mission, OT, Panama, Quicky, Scott Campbell, Steve Pfauth, The Master, Tony
Ortega, Wogs, Xenu, Yvonne Schick

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Scientology Grudge Match: Tommy Davis Gets Called Out By Mike Rinder
July 3, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2013/07/03/tommy-davis-gets-called-out-by-mike-rinder/

Back in 2007, when John Sweeney of the BBC (right) came to Los Angeles
to film an episode of Panorama entitled "Scientology and Me," he was
treated rather roughly by the church's two top media handlers, Tommy
Davis (left) and a gaunt-looking Mike Rinder, who had just been plucked
out of "The Hole" for assignment after more than a year on thin slop
and sleeping under desks at the church's bizarre ecclesiastical
office-prison.

Now, for the first time, Rinder, who left Scientology not too long
after this photo was taken, has fired a broadside directly at his
former colleague, telling Davis that it's time he started spilling his
guts about abuse he witnessed in the church.

At his blog, Rinder takes aim at Davis and his wife, Jessica Feshbach,
who also worked as a top media handler for the church - it was Feshbach
who was often seen herding Katie Holmes around through interviews and
otherwise shadowing the actress to within an inch of her life.

Tags: 2007, 2009, Anne Archer, Austin, BBC, Chairman of the Board, CNN, David
Miscavige, Disconnection, E-meter, Feshbach, Freewinds, Jessica Feshbach,
John Roberts, John Sweeney, Karen de la Carriere, Karry Campbell, Katie
Holmes, Los Angeles, Marc Headley, Martin Bashir, Mike Rinder, Panorama,
Quicky, Scientology and Me, Scott Campbell, Sea Org, Sec Check, Shane Clark,
The Hole, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis

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Scott Campbell drugged and imprisoned on "Church" of Scientology Ship
FREEWINDS 1/6
July 3, 2013, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyW7jbfa7as

Scott Campbell has lived to TELL a tale of imprisonment on the
Scientology cruise ship "The Freewinds".

It is an ongoing story of atrocities and reveals what the "Church" will
do to cover up

Bad Public relations. Ashamed that one it's *ELITE* Sea Org members had
a mental breakdown, a cocktail of Valium and Chloral Hydrate was
covertly mashed up and given to Scott in his food. See what happens next.

Tags: Facebook, Freewinds, Mental breakdown, Quicky, Scott Campbell, Sea Org,
Twitter, Valium

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Tommy Davis and Jessica Feshbach -- WTF?
July 3, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/tommy-davis-and-jessica-feshbach-wtf/

How is it that Tommy Davis and Jessica Feschbach have never stepped out
into the sunlight?

They left a trail of destruction in their wake and witnessed a lot of
things they KNOW hurt people or were just plain wrong.

The Tommy/Jessica (Tomica) story is darker than most realize. I
wouldn't doubt that if anything keeps David Miscavige up at night it's
the thought of Tomica growing a conscience. That's probably right up
there with Shelly escaping. Or Heber exposing the abuses he has been
subjected to over the last 20 years.

Tags: 1985, 2007, 2012, BBC, Chairman of the Board, CNN, Colony Capital,
David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Debbie Hughes, Dianetics, Disconnection, Ethics
Officer, Greg Wilhere, Jessica Feshbach, John Roberts, Las Vegas, Martin
Bashir, Michael Doven, Nazanin Boniadi, New York, Panorama, Paul Haggis,
Quicky, Rattlesnake, Reverend, Sea Org, Sec Check, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis,
Tony Ortega

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Will Smith-Backed School That Used Scientology Materials Closes Its Doors
July 3, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2013/07/03/will-smith-backed-school-that-used-scientology-materials-closes-its-doors/

Acting on a tip from a parent that was posted over at WhyWeProtest.net,
we contacted a former teacher at New Village Leadership Academy to ask
if the school in Calabasas, California has shut its doors permanently.

He said that it has, and forwarded us to a Facebook message that was
posted on June 28 by Eva Sanchez, who worked at the school: "Today, I
closed a beautiful beautiful book full of great people, wonderful
memories & endless stories that I will never forget. Tough day!"

We have confirmed directly with a member of the academy's board of
directors that the school has closed down.

Tags: 2008, 2009, 2011, California, Facebook, Franca Campopiano, Jacqueline
Olivier, Jada Pinkett Smith, New Village Leadership Academy, Piano Foster,
Quicky, Roger Friedman, Sisu Raiken, Tax, WhyWeProtest, Will Smith, WJS Trust

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Federal appeal court overturns decision on Hernando rehab center
July 3, 2014, Danny Valentine, Tampa Bay Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/federal-appeal-court-overturns-decision-on-hernando-rehab-center/2187103

Hernando County got off relatively easy last year when a jury levied
just $74,000 in penalties after finding the county discriminated
against a Scientology-affiliated drug rehab center in Spring Hill that
wanted to expand.

Even with the $425,000 in legal fees and other costs, the award was far
less than the $6.2 million sought by Narconon Spring Hill, which
operates the program, and Toucan Partners LLC, the owners of the
Suncoast Rehabilitation Center on Cessna Drive.

Tags: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, Appeal, Cristi Charlow, Fair Housing Act,
Hernando County, Narconon, Spring Hill, Suncoast Rehabilitation Center,
Toucan Partners, Zoning

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German media: Scientology is essentially dead in Berlin
July 3, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2014/07/03/german-media-scientology-is-essentially-dead-in-berlin/

Two recent newspaper reports indicate that despite the opening of its
"Ideal Org" in Berlin seven years ago, Scientology is essentially
defunct in the city, with only about 130 members in a metropolis of
more than 3 million.

Drawing from the most recent report from the country's Federal Office
for the Protection of the Constitution, the Berliner Zeitung BZ,
Berlin's largest newspaper, reported that 130 members is also the same
number Scientology had the year before.

"Scientology tried everything. An open house every day, free copies of
an encyclopedic biography of L. Ron Hubbard sent to libraries (which
were shipped back at Scientology's expense), and an anti-drug campaign.
But Berliners are smart, and they ignore Scientology's headquarters at
Otto-Surh-Allee," the newspaper reported.

Tags: Angelo Amato, Anonymous, Ashtrays, Ben Levy, Berlin, Branden Chavez,
Caliente, California, Charis Yates, Christy Estrada, Colorado, Dean Pugh,
Germany, Ideal Org, Jack Welch, James Ramirez, Jason McClure, Jered Mowery,
Jilliene Winchell, Josh Penn, Las Vegas, Lauren Geanacopulos, Linda Phillips,
Michael Tarr, Narconon, Narconon Fresh Start, Nevada, New Life Detoxification
Program, Nikki Mott, Office for the Protection of the Constitution,
Purification Rundown, Quicky, Rainbow Canyon Retreat, Robin Jones, Ryan
Hamilton, San Diego, Scientology staff, Sean O'Connell, Success rate, Tyler
Matthys, Watsonville

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I Thought The IAS Had This In Hand?
July 3, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/i-thought-the-ias-had-this-in-hand/

Remember Shake and Bake Flash's recent post about how the IAS is
pulling off massive international dissemination, driving millions onto
the Bridge.

I guess it is happening everywhere but Houston.

This candid email tells the truth about what life is like out there on
the fringes of the bubble where they actually contact the public. While
she dutifully offers the required worship of GAGII and the MV event
with a tired sockpuppet "sock blowing" it gets real from there.

Tags: Field Staff Member, Houston, Ideal Org, International Association of
Scientologists, Maiden Voyage, Quicky

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Scientologist is displeased with Dan
July 3, 2014, Luis Gonzalez, Letters, Roanoke Times
https://www.roanoke.com/news/dan_casey/scientologist-is-displeased-with-dan/article_6d75eb12-025f-11e4-acba-001a4bcf6878.html

Your article ("Why the Hobby Lobby decision stinks," June 30) contains
an offensive reference to Scientology. Substituting any other religion
in place of Scientology in your comment illustrates how bigoted and
inappropriate it was.

You would never write: "whether you believe their science-fiction space
opera BS or not. Roman Catholics believe that the use of any form of
birth control-including pills, which are among the most prescribed
medicines in the United States-is tantamount to a sin."

The only product of a comment such as yours is to spread bigotry
against Scientology. And if the press popularizes prejudice against one
faith, whose faith is next?

Tags: Quicky, STAND

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Shirtless jogger draws online attention
July 3, 2014, CityNews Toronto, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpuWr6d1Zo

He drew attention on social media and Jimmy Kimmel after yelling at Rob
Ford during a Canada Day parade. CityNews reporter Pam Seatle learns
more about just who this shirtless jogger is.

Tags: Canada, Quicky, Rob Ford

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Scientology Documentary 'Going Clear's' International Release Threatened by
Church
July 3, 2015, Austin Siegemund-Broka, Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/scientology-documentary-going-clears-international-806731

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief?is going
international, but not without challenges from the Church of
Scientology, which has succeeded in postponing its broadcast in the
United Kingdom.

The damning documentary on the Church, which premiered in the United
States on HBO in March, did open theatrically in several international
markets during the last week. It has done respectable box office
numbers in each but is facing threats of lawsuits from the Church,
director Alex Gibney tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Tags: 2013, Alex Gibney, Canada, England, France, Going Clear: Scientology
and the Prison of Belief, HBO, Ireland, Nicole Kidman, Northern Ireland,
Scientology Documentary, Scotland, Sky Atlantic, Sydney Film Festival, The
Guardian, Tom Cruise, UK

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(VIDEO) Critical Q&A #64
July 3, 2016, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
https://mncriticalthinking.com/2016/07/03/video-critical-qa-64/

The show where I answer questions left in the comments section of my
Q&A videos or emailed to AskChri...@gmail.com. This week, the
questions I take up are:

(1) Have you ever thought the irony that several years after you
escaped from what Tory Magoo calls "The Scientology Truman Show" you
cast yourself in your own " Truman Show"?

What I mean is, I've been watching all your videos since you started
and at times I almost think I know you, even though we've never met.
You've told your whole life story in pieces. Sometimes you're
consciously doing it in big chunks, sometimes in little snippets you've
included in other conversations. You've let the whole world, or at
least the whole internet, eavesdrop on conversations with your mom,
your therapist friend, your pal Ruth, that Jehovahs Witness guy with
the awesome voice?..

Tags: Comm Course, Critic, David Miscavige, Ideal Org, L. Ron Hubbard, Office
of Special Affairs, Quicky, Tom Cruise, YouTube

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London Ideal Org is BOOMING. Not.
July 3, 2016, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/london-ideal-org-is-booming-not/

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G fail.

This email was recently sent out from the executive in charge of
getting new people onto the Bridge in London's "ideal" org. And of
course this is the ONLY org for a city with 10 million resident -
imagine if there was ONE laundromat in all of London and the owners
were announcing "we are cleaning London's clothes" and actually stated
their goal for the last 25 years was to do the laundry of every person
in London, but they still only had one small laundromat that nobody
even used because their prices were too high.

He is so very proud of the fact that one person a WEEK is getting onto
the Bridge! (this DOES qualify for an exclamation point) Lookat us, we
are doing one load of laundry per week!

Tags: 2004, Basics, Central Files, Charlie Wakley, David Miscavige, Division
6, Field Staff Member, Ideal Org, London, Purification Rundown, Quicky,
Student Hat, UK

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Scientology has a plan to rescue the U.S. military, and it involves
'Battlefield Earth'
July 3, 2016, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2016/07/03/scientology-has-a-plan-to-rescue-the-us-military-and-it-involves-battlefield-earth/

It's time again for Rod Keller's Scientology Social Media Review. He's
made a specialty of hunting down the odd and wonderful things
Scientologists post to the 'net. He's a chronicler who piece by piece
builds a highly detailed assessment of what Scientology is doing around
the world, and this is what he found for us this week...

Scientology staff members have received briefings on the re-release of
the 1982 L. Ron Hubbard science fiction novel Battlefield Earth. Each
org has a quota to sell books, and the potential customers are mostly
active Scientologists. Although a work of fiction, the book is seen by
Scientologists as an introduction to the works of L. Ron Hubbard in a
process Scientology calls "dissemination." Copies of the book cost $25.
00 and the books sold will be donated to the U.S. Military as part of
Scientology's battle against psychiatry. The novel is allegorical,
documenting the battle between a group of primitive Scottish farmers
representing Scientologists, against the alien Psychlos representing
Psychiatry. Hubbard taught that psychiatrists in real life are not like
other humans, but come from the planet Farsec, and came to Earth to
control the population, much like the fictional Psychlos.

HELLO everyone!! So for the ones that don't know I'm a staff member at
Tampa day org and I got an AMAZING briefing today at the org about the
NEW BATTLE FIELD EARTH book so check this out, basically the book has
100 new pages of original LRH content and the book includes the last
interview LRH did with the media in the mid 80 which is totally amazing
because it's a perfect dissemination line and we are doing it with the
purpose of taking this book to the NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST.

Tags: 1982, Abuse, Advanced Org, AMA, Assists, Battlefield Earth, Bernard
Fialkoff, CCHR, Cornerstone, Dianetics, East Grinstead, England, Farsec,
Foundation for a Drug-Free World, Houston, Ideal Org, Italy, Johannesburg, L.
Ron Hubbard, London, Maiden Voyage, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, Narconon,
Nation of Islam, New York, OT, Quicky, Rod Keller, Russia, Saint Hill,
Scientology Information Center, Scientology staff, Social Media Review, South
Africa, Switzerland, Tampa, The Way to Happiness, TIME, United Nations

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Alexander Jentzsch: A Scientology Tragedy in 3 Acts
July 3, 2017, Chris Shelton, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhGKGcepkI

Alex Jentzsch, the son of Heber Jentzsch, died on July 3, 2012 at 27
years old. He was one of the good guys in Scientology and his whole
story is a tragedy. This video is my memorial to him.

MY PODCAST:

website: http://sensiblyspeaking.com

Tags: 2012, Alexander Jentzsch, Audio, Heber Jentzsch, Quicky

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Alexander Jentzsch: A Scientology Tragedy in 3 Acts
July 3, 2017, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
https://mncriticalthinking.com/2017/07/03/alexander-jentzsch-scientology-tragedy-3-acts/

Five years ago today, on July 3, 2012, a Scientologist was found dead.
Whatever ideas come to your mind when I say the word Scientologist, I
want you to clear them out of the way because those aren't significant
in deciding how to think about the death of this young man. He was not
some nameless, faceless religious zealot. He was not some low IQ idiot
who deserved what he got because he was stupid enough to join a
destructive cult. In fact, objectively speaking, none of these
extremist labels apply to him. Just the opposite actually. He never was
asked whether or not he wanted to be a Scientologist. At the time of
his death, he was a former Sea Org member, he was a son, he was a
husband and he was my friend. His name was Alexander Jentzsch and this
is his tragic story.

People come into this world and leave it every single day. Some of them
are remembered but most are forgotten in the mists of time. This life
and death was special. It was special to those who were lucky enough to
know him and as we are going to talk about in this video, it was
special to so many more people who never got a chance to meet him. I am
making this video because I don't want Alex to ever be forgotten. This
is my memorial to him. It is a tragedy in three acts.

Act One - Growing Up in Scientology

Tags: 1970, 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, 2010, 2012, Abortion, Alexander
Jentzsch, Andrea Kavon, Big Blue, Bob Duggan, California, Chick Corea, Church
of Scientology International, Clearwater, Continental Liason Office, Dallas,
David Miscavige, Flag Service Organization, Florida, Growing Up In
Scientology, Happy Valley, Heber Jentzsch, Jeffrey Augustine, John Travolta,
Katie Holmes, Los Angeles, Marriage, Office of Special Affairs, OT, Quicky,
San Jacinto, Sea Org, Sec Check, Spain, Suppressive Person, Texas, The Hole,
Tom Cruise, Touch Assist, YouTube

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Alexander Jentzsch: A Scientology Tragedy in 3 Acts
July 3, 2017, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2017/07/03/alexander-jentzsch-a-scientology-tragedy-in-3-acts/

Alexander Jentzsch died five years ago today on July 3, 2012. Alexander
was only 27 years old. The son of Heber Jentzsch and Karen de la
Carriere, Alexander died due to Scientology's brutal policy of
Disconnection.

The Church of Scientology would not allow Karen to see her dead son's
body and kiss him goodbye one last time. This cruelty is unspeakable
and unforgivable.

The Scientology Money Project was one of the outcomes of Alexander's
death. Nothing can bring Alexander back, but I vowed to do whatever I
could do to help expose the Church of Scientology.

Tags: 2012, Alexander Jentzsch, Disconnection, Heber Jentzsch, Karen de la
Carriere, Quicky

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Five years ago: Scientology's 'disconnection' and the death of Alexander
Jentzsch
July 3, 2017, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2017/07/03/five-years-ago-scientologys-disconnection-and-the-death-of-alexander-jentzsch/

We have pointed out numerous times that the first week of July in 2012
was perhaps the most eventful in our 22 years of reporting on
Scientology. So much was happening that week as the media scrambled to
cover the fallout over Katie Holmes splitting from Tom Cruise at the
end of June.

We also reported that week on a development that had a much more direct
impact on Scientology itself: Word reached us that church leader David
Miscavige's own father, Ron Miscavige Sr., had literally escaped from
Scientology's secretive "Int Base" in a bid for freedom. (He had
actually made his move in March. His book about that escape, Ruthless:
Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me, came out last year.)

We also received the stunning news that week that an entire mission had
broken away from the church as Dani and Tami Lemberger in Haifa, Israel
provided one of the most visible examples of the "independent" movement
that was challenging the church.

Tags: 2004, 2010, 2012, Aaron Smith-Levin, Alexander Jentzsch, Big Blue,
Chris Shelton, Church of Scientology International, Class XII, David
Miscavige, Disconnection, Ed Winter, Facebook, Haifa, Heber Jentzsch, Int
Base, Israel, Jeffrey Augustine, Karen de la Carriere, Katie Holmes, Los
Angeles, Mike Rinder, Ron Miscavige Sr, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David
Miscavige, and Me, Sea Org, Tami Lemberger, The Hole, Tom Cruise, Village
Voice

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Jon Atack & Jeffrey Augustine Discuss L. Ron Hubbard Jr., Captain Bill, and
Scientology
July 3, 2017, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2pnFVhGig

Jon Atack & Jeffrey Augustine Discuss L. Ron Hubbard Jr., Captain Bill,
and Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard Jr., or "Nibs" as he was called, was
the #2 figure in Scientology from 1952-1959. Among his other duties,
Nibs served as an Enforcer for his father. Nibs left the Church. He
later spoke out against his father and even sued to gain control of his
father's estate. Nibs famously granted Penthouse Magazine an interview
in which he said that Scientology was Black Magick spread out over time
and that his father thought of himself as the Antichrist. Nibs was
eventually "recovered" by the Church of Scientology for an undisclosed
sum of money. In exchange, Nibs recanted everything he had said about
his father and thereby destroyed his own credibility forever. Jeffrey
asks Jon, "Is Marty Rathbun the new L. Ron Hubbard Jr.?"

Tags: 1952, 1959, Bill Robertson, Jeffrey Augustine, Jon Atack, Marty
Rathbun, Penthouse, Quicky, Ron DeWolf

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What About the E-Meter?
July 3, 2017, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/what-about-the-e-meter/

This article is by regular commenter Bruce Ploetz. Bruce was in the SO
for 25 years, at the Int Base for 19 years - one of the few true
genuises I have ever met. He is an Associate of Science in Electronics
Technology. When it comes to the E-Meter, there is likely no more
qualified expert on earth. Bruce is named on five patent applications
for work concerning the MK VII E-Meter and Learning Accelerator and won
a patent with one other for the Drills Simulator. An Electronics
Technician, he worked up from that to Electronics Engineer in Silicon
Valley, then Director of Research and Design for Hubbard Electrometer,
various design and technician posts in the Sea Org, and is now a Design
Engineer in the real world.

Why use an E-Meter?

As Professor Stephen Kent of the University of Alberta recently averred
on the two-hour special episode of Leah Remini's Scientology, the
Aftermath, L Ron Hubbard was a malignant narcissist. So it is
understandable that he would make grandiose pronouncements, based on
nothing but his own pride and authority, and expect others to accept
them unquestioningly. That's what narcissists do.

Tags: 1952, A History of Man, Auditing, Bruce Ploetz, Don Breeding, E-meter,
Int Base, L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Piltdown Man, Quicky, Sea Org, Silicon
Valley, Stephen Kent, University of Alberta

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How Doug Ford can use taxpayers' dollars to fund Ontario News Now
July 3, 2018, Amara McLaughlin, CBC News, MSN News
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/how-doug-ford-can-use-taxpayers-dollars-to-fund-ontario-news-now/ar-BBLr5sB

? Carlo Allegri/Reuters Premier Doug Ford's government quietly unveiled
Ontario News Now earlier this week, with a minute-long video
highlighting Ford's appearances during his first month in office.

Ontario's auditor general can't stop the new Progressive Conservative
government from using taxpayers' dollars to fund the production of
partisan TV-news style videos, policy experts say, because of certain
legal loopholes and weak enforcement.

Premier Doug Ford's government quietly unveiled its Ontario News Now
(ONN) earlier this week, with a minute-long video posted to Facebook
and Twitter. It highlighted Ford's appearances during his first month
in office, including a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and
handshakes with police academy graduates.

Tags: 2004, 2015, Bonnie Lysyk, Canadian Taxpayers Foundation, CBC News,
Dalton McGuinty, Democracy Watch, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Duff Conacher,
Facebook, Ford government, Government Advertising Act, Justin Trudeau,
Liberal Party of Ontario, Lyndsey Vanstone, Mike Harris, Ontario, Ontario New
Democratic Party, Ontario News Now, PC Caucus Services, Progressive
Conservative, Queen's University, Reuters, Twitter, University of Ottawa

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It's Only the Money
July 3, 2018, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/its-only-the-money/

Well, this is as blatant as it gets.

The "OT Committee", according to Hubbard policy is to help orgs expand
and get people onto and up the bridge. That is apparently "old" "tech".
Nowadays their role is to exclusively collect money.

And that about sums up the state of scientology today.

Tags: OT Committee, Quicky

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Stephen Harper criticized for speaking at 'Free Iran' rally hosted by 'cult'
former terror group
July 3, 2018, Tristin Hopper, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/stephen-harper-criticized-for-speaking-at-anti-iran-event-hosted-by-cult-former-terrorist-group

Former prime minister Stephen Harper is taking criticism for appearing
at a Paris event sponsored by MEK, an Iranian dissident group that
Harper's own government considered a terrorist organization as recently
as 2012.

"Thank you for your long battle for a free and democratic Iran," Harper
told a crowd at the Free Iran rally in Paris on Saturday.

The event was organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran,
a group founded by Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a well-funded Paris-based
group devoted to the overthrow of the current Iranian regime.

Tags: 1960, 1970, 1979, 1980, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, Alt-Right,
Canada, Donald Trump, France, Harper & Associates, Iran, Iraq, John Baird,
John Bolton, London, Maryam Rajavi, MEK, New York, New York Times, Newt
Gingrich, Paris, Rudy Giuliani, Saddam Hussein, Stanford University, Stephen
Harper, Twitter, University of Ottawa, US State Department

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When Scientology's toxic policy of disconnection is forever: Saying goodbye
to Angela Paris
July 3, 2018, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2018/07/03/when-scientologys-toxic-policy-of-disconnection-is-forever-saying-goodbye-to-angela-paris/

Valeska Paris recently posted a crushing note on Facebook about her
stepmother, Angela. We asked her if she wanted to write a more lengthy
piece for the Bunker, and we're very glad that we did.

You know that wrenching feeling in your guts that doesn't seem to go
away, the grief in the pit of your stomach that just sits there, the
tears that just keep flowing when you hear an emotional song or when
you look back at the magic that a person that is now gone has given you
in your life? The feeling that a herd of elephants are rampaging
towards your heart to trample all over it? That is the feeling I have
had since Saturday morning when I woke up to the shocking message that
my mum, Angela Paris had died.

I don't know much about my mum's past before I met her. She didn't talk
much about it. All I know is that she found Scientology after having
had her heart broken by a guy. She joined the Sea Org in the 70s. She
told me once that she was assigned to the Religious Technology Center
(RTC, the entity that oversees Scientology) when Vicki Aznaran had been
running it, and that she was taken out with the rest of RTC by David
Miscavige. Those are the only details that she gave me. When I tried to
find out more she told me it was confidential and that she could not
talk about it.

Tags: 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2005, 2007,
2009, 2016, Angela Paris, Ariane Paris, Cadet Org, Cherly Laws, David
Miscavige, Disconnection, East Grinstead, England, Estates Project Force,
Facebook, Florida, Fort Harrison, France, Freeloader Debt, Gemma Beale,
International Association of Scientologists, London, Mark Yager, Nelson Laws,
Rapheal Paris, Rehabilitation Project Force, Religious Technology Center,
Saint Hill, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, Sea Org, Stonelands,
Switzerland, Valeska Paris, Vicki Aznaran, Winston Churchill

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Corporate Mapping Project names top fossil fuel industry players, unlocks
online database
July 3, 2019, David Climenhaga, blogs, rabble.ca
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/07/corporate-mapping-project-names-top-fossil-fuel-industry

"The fossil fuel industry ? is the biggest obstacle to real action on
climate change today," says the co-director of the Corporate Mapping
Project, which this morning published an eye-opening list of the 50
most influential players in the industry and a publicly accessible
database with information on more than 200 extractive corporations with
assets over $50 million.

The reason is easy to understand, explained Bill Carroll, a sociology
professor at the University of Victoria: the industry's "economic
interests are served by continued expansion of oil and gas production."

The Corporate Mapping Project, partly funded by the federal
government's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, has spent
most of the past four years plumbing the interlocking directorships and
other relationships that link entities within the Canadian fossil fuel
industry with one another and the wider corporate sector in Canada and
abroad.

Tags: 2015, 2018, Alberta, British Columbia, C.D. Howe Institute, Calgary,
Calgary Herald, Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives, Climate change, Fraser Institute, George
Orwell, Globe and Mail, Jason Kenney, Lobbyist, Macdonald-Laurier Institute,
National Energy Board, Politics, Quicky, Rebel Media, Saskatchewan, Stephen
Harper, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Victoria

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Debunking L. Ron Hubbard's Military Service Using Scientology's Own Words
July 3, 2019, Growing Up In Scientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUphlwmwm4

Chris Owen uses L. Ron Hubbard's and Scientology's own words to debunk
the many claims Hubbard made about his own military service.

Chris lays out all of this and more in his book -- "Ron The War Hero:
The True Story of L Ron Hubbard's Calamitous Military Career" --
available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2JsyYOK

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Tags: Aaron Smith-Levin, Aftermath Foundation, Amazon, Chris Owen, Facebook,
L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Quicky, Twitter

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Scientology's answer to Garcias' appeal sets a new record in cynicism and
legal depravity
July 3, 2019, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2019/07/03/scientologys-answer-to-garcias-appeal-sets-a-new-record-in-cynicism-and-legal-depravity/

Every single person who ever worked in the inner circle of
Scientology's highest elevations - the former Sea Organization
executives who ran the worldwide movement from one of several secretive
locations - every single one of those people will tell you that despite
Scientology's alphabet soup of many entities, it is all ruled by a
micro-managing David Miscavige, who assumes his power as maximum leader
through his position as captain of the Sea Org.

But as soon as Scientology is in trouble, particularly in court, one of
its favorite strategies is to pretend that its many individual
companies and initiatives are all unconnected and independent, and
gosh, it's just a sort of weird coincidence that they all have
"Scientology" in the name, or that they're all run by Sea Org members
who have signed billion-year contracts, promising to dedicate their
lives to the arcane ideas of founder L. Ron Hubbard.

We are reminded of this cynical, dishonest strategy as we looked
through a new appeal brief filed by two companies that have the
audacity to tell a federal appeals court that they have "no parent
company or subsidiaries." Those two entities are?

Tags: 2013, Arrest, Athens, Bernard Fialkoff, Boston, California, Caribbean,
Clearwater, Cult, David Miscavige, Derek Bloch, Eric Lieberman, Erin Hodges
Plumb, First Amendment, Flag Building, Flag Land Base, Flag Service
Organization, Flag Ship Service Organization, Florida, Foundation for a Drug-
Free World, Freewinds, Graham Berry, HowdyCon, Ideal Org, Jefferson Hawkins,
Judge James Whittemore, Karen de la Carriere, Kirsten Gillibrand, Los
Angeles, Luis and Rocio Garcia, Luis Garcia, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, New
York, New York City, Orange County, Queens, Quicky, Saturday Night Live,
Scientology lawyer, Sea Org, Super Power, Tory Christman

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Sentencing delay for some Nxivm defendants: What does it mean?
July 3, 2019, Dianne Lipson, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2019/07/03/sentencing-delay-for-some-nxivm-defendants-what-does-it-mean/

On July 1, Judge Nicholas Garaufis adjourned the sentencing hearings
for Nxivm defendants Nancy Salzman (July 10), Clare Bronfman (July 25),
and Kathy Russell (July 31). He didn't give any explanation, and didn't
set any new dates for the sentencings.

Meanwhile, there is no change in the sentencing dates in September for
Keith Raniere, Lauren Salzman, and Allison Mack.

What's going on?

Tags: Albany Times Union, Allison Mack, Clare Bronfman, Judge Nicholas
Garaufis, Kathy Russell, Keith Raniere, Lauren Salzman, Manhattan, Nancy
Salzman, New York State Police, NXIVM

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