Today in Scientology -- August 22nd ******************

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Today August 22nd in Scientology history
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'Boheme' sold; plan unclear
August 22, 1986, Mark Albright, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/51699236.html?dids=51699236:51699236&FMT=FT

Officials from Commodore Cruise Lines, the owners of the 11,800-ton
ship that has cruised the Caribbean for two decades, said they do not
know if the ship would continue sailing out of St. Petersburg.

"We don't even know who the new owners are," said Bob Gerity,
Commodore's marketing director, who was to make the announcement this
afternoon. "We were just notified by the owners in Finland that the
ship has been sold and that, for now, they wish their name not be known.
"

Tags: Freewinds, St. Petersburg

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Cults are now taking aim at elderly victims
August 22, 1987, Diane Salvatore, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/50100694.html?dids=50100694:50100694&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT

"The best way is to make cults obey the existing law, or to catch them
breaking it," says Peter Georgiades, chairman of the American Bar
Association's Subcommittee on Cult-Related Litigation. Many cults give
law-enforcement agencies plenty of material to work with. Groups have
been prosecuted in the past for myriad offenses: tax evasion; breaking
zoning laws; mail fraud; keeping children out of school; stockpiling
weapons (purportedly in preparation for Armageddon); drug trafficking;
kidnapping; rape; child abuse; medical neglect; prostitution;
extortion, and immigration abuses. In one case the crime was murder.

Some cult members have chosen to seek retribution through civil suits.
Earlier this year, more than 500 people filed a $1-billion class-action
suit against the Church of Scientology, the group founde by
science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, charging that confessions they
made in private were being used to coerce them and extort money from
them.

Tags: American Bar Association, Christian Research Institute, Church
Universal and Triumphant, Craig Hawkins, Cult Awareness Network, Divine Light
Mission, Marcia Rudin, Moonies, Peter Georgiades, Philip Abramowitz, Reginald
Alev, The Way International, Tony Alamo

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Scientologists back anti-drugs festival
August 22, 2002, John Rutter, The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Scientologists-back-antidrugs-festival.2354736.jp

A MAJOR anti-drugs festival taking place in Edinburgh this week is
being backed by a controversial quasi-religious organisation.

The Say No to Drugs Festival has attracted high-profile sponsorship
from the Church of Scientology which counts celebrities such as John
Travolta and Lisa Marie Presley among its members.

But the festival has been criticised by leading councillors and
churches, who say scientologists are not the best people to be
associated with the two-day event.

Tags: France, Front group, Graeme Wilson, Jive Aces, Lawrence Wollsersheim,
Nadia Munno, Say No to Drugs, Scotland, UK

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Look back at Anger
August 22, 2004, Sanjiv Bhattacharya, The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1287683,00.html

He's been a child star, cult film director and bestselling peddler of
Hollywood scandal. Now in his seventies, Kenneth Anger is back with
three new films, an exhibition presented by that "bitch" Anita
Pallenberg and plans to publish the last in his Hollywood Babylon
trilogy, a book that threatens to unleash an avalanche of litigation.
Sanjiv Bhattacharya coaxes him out from behind his chicken-wire fence

Tags: Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, Kenneth Anger

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?140,000 council chief goes on ?5,000 course to protect herself against
'abrasions of the world'
August 22, 2008, Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1048330/140-000-council-chief-goes-5-000-course-protect-abrasions-world.html

Dr Allison Fraser, who has been in charge of Sandwell Council in the
West Midlands over the last two years, will attend courses in the
Avatar Professional Course to learn how to become 'more likeable'.

Tags: Avatar, UK

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Scientology Extremism - Crusade Against Psychiatry
August 22, 2008, Protest Against Scientology's Abuses , YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI1QHnQdi1c

Scientology's leader, David Miscavige, discusses the cult's war against
psychiatry. (Scientology 2006/2007 New Years Celebration)

Their stated goal is "The Global Obliteration of Psychiatry".

Scientologists are heavily indoctrinated with anti-psychiatry
propaganda, based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. They believe that
all atrocities are caused by psychiatry, from the Holocaust to modern
day terrorism.

In fact, L. Ron Hubbard's opposition to psychiatry arose because
psychiatrists condemned his book, "Dianetics". Hubbard wanted the
psychological techniques described in Dianetics to replace those of
psychiatry.

Without support from the medical or research community, he discovered a
way to continue profiting from his untested and potentially harmful
techniques - he incorporated Dianetics into Scientology, a "religion"
of his own making.

The cult of Scientology has attracted criticism because of its
extremely abusive practices and policies. Scientology policies
encourage Scientologists to commit offenses including fraud, practicing
medicine without a license, unlawful detention, harassment and
extortion. Extreme methods are authorized according to Scientology
ethics, particularly when dealing with "suppressive persons" - anyone
considered to be an enemy of Scientology.

Tags: David Miscavige, Video

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Louis Farrakhan gets L. Ron Hubbard
August 22, 2010, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/louis-farrakhan-gets-l-ron-hubbard/

I highly recommend that you dial into and watch and listen to the Louis
Farrakhan's Sunday 22 August, 2010 sermon, titled Put On The New Man.
It is approximately 1 ? hours long. http://www.noi.
org/webcast/aug-22-2010/

I watched the live webcast of the sermon this morning.

Farrakhan does not mention the words Hubbard, Scientology, or Dianetics
? but his sermon is so throroughly strewn with LRH's nomenclature,
there is no doubt to what he is referring to. He announces that at a
smaller gathering of more trusted people scheduled for this Tuesday he
is going to connect the dots and speak in more particulars to that
which he not so vaguely refers.

Tags: 2000, Alfreddie Johnson, Celebrity Centre, Christian, Dianetics,
Freedom Medal, Isaac Hayes, L. Ron Hubbard, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam,
Quicky, Science of Survival

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University Prof Patrick McGorry is targeted by Scientology church
August 22, 2010, Brigid O'Connell, Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/university-prof-patrick-mcgorry-is-targeted-by-scientology-church/story-e6frf7l6-1225908306194

The church says it is concerned about the pharmaceutical links between
medical researchers and psychiatrists and denies the request is
harassment.

The University of Sydney has refused to release the requested documents
and Monash is still processing the request.

Church of Scientology Australia president Vicki Dunstan said the
documents were requested so the church could correct information being
disseminated about itself.

Shelly Wilkins, executive director of the Scientology-funded Citizens
Committee on Human Rights, said the FOI requests into mental health
experts including Prof McGorry sought to expose links between
psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry.

Tags: Australia, CCHR, Ian Hickie, Louise Newman, Nick Xenophon, Patrick
McGorry, Shelly Wilkins, University of Melbourne, Vicki Dunstan

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Anat Krier
August 22, 2011, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/anat-krier/

Anat on the tundra

I've been following Marty's site for over a year now. Thank you dear
Marty for having a blog where we can get the latest and be allowed to
communicate and share our views freely! I admire and respect so many of
you I met on this site!!! Thanks to you, I have so much more
understanding and realizations. Thanks to you I feel I am not alone!

This is my story:

Tags: 1990, Chairman of the Board, Commodore's Messenger Organization,
Disconnection, Ethics, Israel, OT 7, Quicky, Sea Org

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The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 18: Amy Scobee
August 22, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/amy_scobee_top_25_crippling_scientology.php

Scobee, like several other recent defectors, had worked closely with
Scientology leader David Miscavige. And as a group, these former
executives came forward to tell the world how bizarre and awful it was
to work for a leader so irrational, impulsive, and violent. Since
Scobee and others came forward in the landmark 2009 St. Pete Times
series, "The Truth Rundown," a new picture of Miscavige and Scientology
has emerged, one that is focused on the abuses of an organization
rotting from its apex.

In her book about her experiences, "Abuse at the Top," Scobee describes
her entire 27-year journey in Scientology, which began in 1978 when she
was only 14 and went to work for the church. That first year, she
writes, she was raped by her 35-year-old boss, but the incident was
swept under the rug. Still at only 16, she joined the Sea Org and
signed its billion-year contract.

Tags: 1978, 1980, 1986, 1990, 2005, 2009, Abuse at the Top, Amy Scobee,
California, Celebrity Centre, Challenger, Clear, David Miscavige, Dick
Scobee, Hollywood, Int Base, Janet Reitman, Jefferson Hawkins, Knowledge
Report, L. Ron Hubbard, Mark Bunker, Mat Pesch, Rape, Rehabilitation Project
Force, Sea Org, The Truth Rundown, Tom Cruise

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Pinocchio/Miscavige "Respond" to Lawsuit
August 22, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/pinocchiomiscavige-respond-to-lawsuit/

Miscavige marionette Karin Pinocchio Pouw has issued another patented
ad hominem attack to the media as a "response' to the lawsuit filed
last Friday.

Quote from the Tampa Bay Times article:

Church spokeswoman Karin Pouw said Wednesday that the church had not
been served with the lawsuit. But she added: "Based on your questions,
the complaint filed in Texas is nothing more than a pathetic get-rich
scheme cooked up by unemployed blogger Marty Rathbun, a self-admitted
suborner of perjury who is now resorting to using his wife in an
attempt to extort money from the church."

Tags: 2004, Karin Pouw, Lawsuit, Marty Rathbun, OT, Quicky, Tampa Bay Times,
Texas, Tony Ortega

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Report From the Fringe: Underground Bunker Night at The TomKat Project
August 22, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/08/22/report-from-the-fringe-underground-bunker-night-at-the-tomkat-project/

The Fringes of the Internet met the Fringe Festival NYC last night, and
we have a few photos to make you wish you'd been there with us as we
had the pleasure of meeting Brandon Ogborn (above) and the rest of his
talented cast.

Even after reading Sindy Fagen's reports about The TomKat Project when
it initially burst upon the scene in Chicago last fall, we weren't
quite ready for how this brilliant production unfolds. We didn't
realize, for example, that Ogborn not only wrote this cutting
examination of tabloid news culture and celebrity worship, but he also
narrates it on stage - although "narrates" doesn't really quite capture
what he's doing up there. Perhaps a better description is that he
guides, cajoles, castigates, and ultimately upends the story as it's
happening.

And yet, Ogborn isn't the star of his own production. The six other
actors play a dizzying array of characters as they describe the weird
triangular relationship of Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, and Scientology
leader David Miscavige.

Tags: Angry Gay Pope, Australia, Bert Fields, Brandon Ogborn, Chicago, David
Miscavige, E-meter, J. Swift, Karen de la Carriere, Katie Holmes, Maureen
Orth, Michelle Stafford, Nazanin Boniadi, New York, New York City, Nicole
Kidman, Ohio, Penelope Cruz, Quicky, Roger Friedman, Showbiz411, Sindy Fagen,
Steven Spielberg, Sumner Redstone, Tom Cruise, TomKat Project, Vanity Fair

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Multicounty grand jurors say Narconon investigation should continue
August 22, 2014, Ziva Branstetter, Tulsa World
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/capitol_report/multicounty-grand-jurors-say-narconon-investigation-should-continue/article_ed154fbc-55d6-5979-bea7-162456a68dd4.html

The grand jury heard testimony from multiple witnesses and reviewed
numerous exhibits "concerning allegations of insurance fraud at
Narconon Arrowhead," the report states.

The grand jury began meeting 18 months ago in Oklahoma City to hear
evidence gathered by more than 100 law enforcement agencies or agency
divisions. The grand jury did not issue any indictments of Narconon
officials among its 17 indictments.

"There is still work to be done in this investigation," states the
grand jurors' final report, issued Thursday. "This Grand Jury supports
and recommends the continued investigation of these allegations."

Tags: David Riggs, Eric Tenorio, Gabriel Graves, Georgia, Hillary Holten,
Narconon Arrowhead, Narconon Georgia, National Association of Forensic
Counselors, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Insurance Department, Oklahoma
Multi-County Grand Jury, Pittsburg County District Court, Stacy Murphy

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Scientology graduation videos from the UK? Even better!
August 22, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/08/22/scientology-graduation-videos-from-the-uk-even-better-2/

We will admit to a lifetime of Anglophilia. Though we've never been to
Albion's shores, we tend to put its residents on a pedestal. And so it
always amuses us that Scientology has found so much success there (at
least historically). L. Ron Hubbard? In the UK?

And yet, here is video proof that the few Scientologists left in
Blighty are still moving up the Bridge. A few days ago we had
graduation videos from Copenhagen. Now let's take a look at what's been
happening at Saint Hill Manor, Scientology's headquarters in England!

Hamish Bulger has completed the Survival Rundown...

Tags: 1954, Albion, Beck, Commodore's Messenger Organization, Copenhagen,
David Flood, Dentist, England, Golden Era, Greg Hughes, Int Base, Kerry
Clark, Kevin Caetano, Los Angeles, Marc Headley, Marcy McShane, Master at
Arms, OT, Phoenix Lectures, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Saint Hill,
Saint Hill Manor, Sea Org, Survival Rundown, UK, Warren McShane

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Scientology skates (so far) as OK grand jury says "keep investigating"
Narconon Arrowhead
August 22, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/08/22/scientology-skates-so-far-as-ok-grand-jury-says-keep-investigating-narconon-arrowhead/

Stacy Dawn Murphy In June, we told you that we had learned the Oklahoma
Multicounty Grand Jury was investigating evidence of insurance fraud at
Scientology's flagship drug rehab center, Narconon Arrowhead.

The Multicounty Grand Jury was empaneled in January 2013 and just
finished its work, submitting a final report yesterday. It listed
numerous murders and other crimes that it looked into. And near the end
of its report, it had a single paragraph about Scientology's rehab
center:

"The Multicounty Grand Jury heard testimony and reviewed evidence from
multiple witnesses concerning allegations of insurance fraud at
Narconon Arrowhead, located in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. The Grand
Jury also received numerous exhibits concerning these practices, but
there is still work to be done in this investigation. This Grand Jury
supports and recommends the continued investigation of these
allegations."

Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, Abuse, Gabriel Graves, Gary Richardson, Georgia,
Hillary Holten, Kim Poff, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Oklahoma, Pittsburg
County, Quicky, Rachel Bussett, Robert Murphy, Stacy Murphy

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The Flag World Tour Is Cominng(sic)
August 22, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-flag-world-tour-is-cominngsic/

My own free bookmark for all readers.

This probably should have been saved for the Thursday Funnies as it is
so ridiculous.

But then again, most promotional items that emanate from corporate
scientology qualify for the "funny pages."

Tags: AOSH UK, Oregon, Quicky, Saint Hill, Super Power, Thursday Funnies,
Tone Scale, USA

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A revealing look inside the warped 'kingdom' of Scientology leader David
Miscavige
August 22, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/08/22/a-revealing-look-inside-the-warped-kingdom-of-scientology-leader-david-miscavige/

Frequent contributor Jeffrey Augustine is back with another fun dive
into Scientology's own publications and documents to show us what
Scientology promises, and what it actually delivers...

Issue 149 of Scientology's Impact magazine, the official magazine of
the International Association of Scientologists (IAS), repeats a
hackneyed old IAS clich?: The IAS is "Guaranteeing Mankind's Freedom."
As the leading IAS member, David Miscavige is given the cover of Impact
and is shown doing his best at a recent event to guarantee that freedom
for mankind.

Inside, we learn that the IAS is a "kingdom," which makes Miscavige its
mighty king...

Tags: 1957, 1965, 1966, 1987, 1989, Abortion, Bangladesh, Clear, David
Miscavige, Dianetics, Hubbard Communications Office, International
Association of Scientologists, Jeffrey Augustine, L. Ron Hubbard, Office of
Special Affairs, Operating Thetan, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force,
Science of Survival, Scientology organization, Sea Org, Sec Check, Tone
Scale, United for Human Rights

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Miscavige Media Handling
August 22, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/miscavige-media-handling/

I have been noting for some time now the strident, arrogant and often
bizarre responses to the media that emanate from David "Karin Pouw"
Miscavige.

And here is the latest response to a small piece in the Tampa Bay Times.

Interesting he is so unfuriated about the media mentioning that a
politician and his wife are at the Ft. Harrison. Why?

Tags: 2009, Alex Gibney, Anderson Cooper, Appeal, Basel, Bogot?, Clearwater,
Colombia, David Jolly, David Miscavige, First Amendment, Freedom magazine,
HBO, Japan, Joe Childs, Karin Pouw, Marijuana, Monique Yingling, National
Geographic, Neil Brown, Ninth Circuit, OT, Quicky, Sea Org, Switzerland,
Tampa Bay Times, The Times, Tokyo, Tom Tobin, Tommy Davis, Truth Rundown, US
Senate

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