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'Vigilantes' Termed Worrisome
August 24, 1991, Carol M. Ostrom, Seattle Times
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1301648&date=19910824
In the early "80s, many deprogramming efforts were focused on members
of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, said Robertson, a
Baptist minister who teaches comparative religion at Maryland Bible
College and Seminary. "I certainly don't believe in their theology," he
says. "But (deprogramming) still is wrong - I don't care what the
church group is."
Tags: George Robertson, Jason Scott, Life Tabernacle
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Real problems with a fictional movie
August 24, 2001, Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/News/082401/Floridian/Real_problems_with_a_.shtml
Peter D. Alexander believes he's doing a public service with his film
The Profit. For the Church of Scientology, The Profit is just a nuisance.
Tags: Ben Shaw, Foundation for Religious Tolerance, Mary DeMoss, Peter
Alexander
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Studio and Cruise's film company split
August 24, 2006, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/282283_cruise24.html
Sumner Redstone, whose company owns Paramount Pictures, said the studio
would sever its 14-year relationship with Cruise's film production
company because "his recent conduct has not been acceptable to
Paramount."
Tags: Paramount, Paula Wagner, Sumner Redstone, Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise's Behavior and Scientology: A Link?
August 24, 2006, Bill Blakemore, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2352384&page=1
The New York Times this morning said simply that Cruise has gone "into
full Scientology mode." Indeed, his recent responses to Matt Lauer,
inveighing against modern psychiatric care, reflect Scientology's claim
that its own methods of "auditing" people to get them "clear" are the
only true way to win genuine happiness.
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Hubbard loses his shit
August 24, 2008, DatsumJB, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9reLONOJ7U
A fair-use excerpt from the Class VIII Auditor lecture series (Tape 11)
to demonstrate the thesis that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the
Scientology cult and domestic terrorist group, was an angry and
disturbed man.
Tags: L. Ron Hubbard, Video
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Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People
August 24, 2009, Noam Cohen, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?_r=2&hp
Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco
that governs Wikipedia, say that within weeks, the English-language
Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles
about living people.
Tags: Jimmy Wales, Michael Snow, Wikipedia
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Survey: What Impinges -- Results
August 24, 2010, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/survey-what-impinges-results/
by Mike Rinder
I recently posted a survey designed to discover what caused people to
stop supporting the Church of Miscavology and what current
Scientologists are disaffected about.
Many responded on Steve Hall's website, many more sent private emails.
Thanks to everyone who participated. There were enough sordid stories
to keep a horror movie fan occupied for nights on end.
Tags: 1970, ABLE, Basics, Buffalo, CCHR, Clear, DEA, Dianetics, Ideal Org,
International Association of Scientologists, Jason Beghe, L. Ron Hubbard,
Mission, OT, OT 7, Paris, Paul Haggis, Quicky, Saint Hill, San Francisco, Sea
Org, Sec Check, Steve Hall, Tokyo, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, Vulture Culture,
WISE
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Survey: What Impinges - Results
August 24, 2010, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/survey-what-impinges-results/
by Mike Rinder
I recently posted a survey designed to discover what caused people to
stop supporting the Church of Miscavology and what current
Scientologists are disaffected about.
Many responded on Steve Hall's website, many more sent private emails.
Thanks to everyone who participated. There were enough sordid stories
to keep a horror movie fan occupied for nights on end.
Tags: 1970, ABLE, Basics, Buffalo, CCHR, Clear, DEA, Dianetics, Ideal Org,
International Association of Scientologists, Jason Beghe, L. Ron Hubbard,
Mike Rinder, Mission, OT, OT 7, Paris, Paul Haggis, Quicky, Saint Hill, San
Francisco, Sea Org, Sec Check, Steve Hall, Tokyo, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis,
Vulture Culture, WISE
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Heroic City Board Fines Church of Scientology $413,500, Just to Be Dicks
August 24, 2011, Seth Abramovitch, Gawker
http://gawker.com/5834212/heroic-city-board-fines-church-of-scientology-413500-just-to-be-dicks
Each member of an "obscure board of volunteers" representing the city
of Clearwater, Florida, has earned a gold star and pat on the back, as
they have ruled that the Church of Scientology must cough up $413,500
in fines which they could have easily written off.
Tags: Clearwater, Sheila Cole, Super Power
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L'Indipendologo Chronicles
August 24, 2011, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/lindipendologo-chronicles/
The good folks at L'Indipendologo have created two educational
summations on some testimonies that remind us why Independence is
necessary. I think they are worth watching as the rudiments sometimes
bear repetition.
Rinder summation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5xDSCVV2EQ&feature=related
Tags: Quicky
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The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 17: Jefferson Hawkins
August 24, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/jefferson_hawkins_top_25_crippling_scientology.php
Another reason why Hawkins is a key defector is that he had such a
personal knowledge of the actual vital signs of the church's health.
There may be no one with a more authoritative knowledge of
Scientology's actual membership numbers.
"I have an advantage here because I used to work for Scientology's
Central Marketing Unit, and had access to all of the actual lists and
statistics," he wrote at his blog last year. And he explained how he
came up with an overall number of worldwide members: "I know that event
attendance internationally was somewhere in the region of 25,000 to
35,000. The International 'Bodies in the Shop' (people actually in the
orgs that week for service) was 16,000 to 18,000. IAS was struggling to
get 40,000 members. Based on this and a lot of other information I was
privy to, I estimate the actual number of Scientologists at a maximum
of 40,000. That's on the high side."
Tags: 1980, 1986, 1990, Counterfeit Dreams, David Miscavige, Dianetics,
International Association of Scientologists, Jefferson Hawkins, Knowledge
Report, Mark Bunker, Marty Rathbun, New York Times
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Body found in garden as police hunt for 'vulnerable' Plymouth man
August 24, 2012, Plymouth Herald
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Body-police-hunt-vulnerable-man/story-16759303-detail/story.html
Although this was the last official sighting of the 36-year-old man,
police say they have one other potential sighting on July 25 when it is
believed Mr Somers attended a meeting at the Church of Scientology
office in Ebrington Street.
Tags: Cheng Somers, Death, UK
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Marty Rathbun: Scientology's Attorney "Supervised" Destruction of Records in
Lisa McPherson Death
August 24, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_marty_rathbun_eliot_abelson.php
For the last year or more, Mark Bunker has been releasing short
excerpts from his upcoming Scientology documentary Knowledge Report,
and yesterday, he released a doozy.
Bunker had told me that he'd interviewed former church executive Marty
Rathbun, and in this excerpt, we see Rathbun addressing the kinds of
things many have wanted him to talk about: what happened with Lisa
McPherson, a parishioner who died in a Scientology hotel in 1995? I
have a feeling his responses here will cause as much skepticism as
anything else, but what he has to say about Scientology attorney Elliot
Abelson should cause an uproar.
McPherson died after she was held for 17 days at the Fort Harrison
Hotel in Clearwater, Florida following a mental breakdown. As Janet
Reitman describes in rich detail in her 2011 book Inside Scientology,
McPherson had been a dedicated Scientologist whose life had
increasingly spun out of control. Her death became the church's biggest
crisis to that point, leading to a criminal investigation and years of
civil litigation.
Tags: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1977, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2011, Apollo,
BBC, CIA, Clearwater, Colin Henderson, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Elliot
Abelson, England, Facebook, Florida, Fort Harrison, Gary Smith, Hillary
Holten, Hollywood, Jack Horner, Janet Reitman, Jarrel Wade, Knowledge Report,
L. Ron Hubbard, Lawsuit, Lisa McPherson, Mark Bunker, Marty Rathbun, Mental
breakdown, Mike Rinder, Mission, Mountain View, Musical Chairs, Narconon,
Narconon Arrowhead, Neil Gaiman, Oklahoma, Orders of the Day, OT, OT
Phenomena, OT VII, Quicky, Squirrels, Sunday service, The Master, Tom Cruise,
Tulsa World
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Pittsburg County: Narconon Arrowhead investigation nearly over
August 24, 2012, KJRH
http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/pittsburg-county-narconon-arrowhead-investigation-nearly-over
The findings of an investigation into an Oklahoma alcohol and drug
rehabilitation center could be announced soon.
Pittsburg County officials say their investigation into the
controversial deaths of three recent Narconon Arrowhead patients was
expected to be ready for the district attorney Friday, but an unforseen
delay pushed back the release.
OSBI is also investigating, and has placed a rush on the medical
examiner's report.
Tags: Gary Smith, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Oklahoma, Pittsburg County,
Sara Goldenberg
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Police ID Dead Man Found in Technology Park
August 24, 2012, Judy Putnam, Duluth Patch
http://duluth.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/police-id-dead-man-found-in-technology-park
Corona had been found early Monday behind an office at 25 Technology
Parkway. The Homicide Unit had initially been called to investigate
when police discovered several injuries to the victim's head. However,
after a medical examination, it was determined the man did not die from
his injuries.
Tags: Death, Narconon, Narconon Georgia, Ronald Corona
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Scientology And Saving The World
August 24, 2012, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/scientology-and-saving-the-world/
In 1950 L. Ron Hubbard burst onto the scene tackling the attainment of
the ends of Eastern spiritualism with the practicality mindset of
Western materialism. He developed two related subjects toward that end,
Dianetics, and its outgrowth, Scientology. Within two to three years he
had described in pratical English terms having seen the universal
truths as outlined in the Vedas and in the Tao Te Ching. He also
described modern exercises that he discovered and developed to bring
others to that experience. He spent the rest of his life attempting to
undercut the route so that virtually anyone from any station in life or
of whatever educational background could traverse it. In that effort to
reach and effect all, matters eventually became complicated. An
insidious parallel to helping and saving all peoples of earth evolved
throughout Scientology writings. That is, the stress became not so much
to make Scientology accessible to everybody as much as to make
Scientology mandatory for everyone. This approach led to a type of dual
personality for the subject. On the one hand it intended to release an
individual from the restraints of life and to restore freedom of choice.
On the other hand, it usurped freedom of choice and imposed restraints
in the attempt to get every person there.
Control and restraint themes developed throughout Scientology writings.
It was justified by the repeated idea that Dianetics and Scientology
contain the answers to every problem and every question that every
person ever faced; with the repeated emphatic idea that no one else has
anything of use to contribute to those answers. The theme was evident
in a substantial body of proselytization and ethics policy that
justified any means necessary to leading the clueless to the only show
in town. These policies dedicatedly applied wound up appealing to a
broad spectrum of people as intended. That included people who wanted
to communicate better, to find their sanity, to improve memory, to sell
more, to be more successful, to have more meaningful relationships, to
make more money, to dominate and control others, to reach higher states
of spiritual awareness, to be more powerful, to get off drugs, to learn
how to study, and even to reach immortality. In promoting to all those
looking for these answers and more, and representing to those publics
that those wants were all that Scientology was interested in helping
them with, all the while intending and organizing to direct such people
toward ultimately making Scientology the answer to everything weaved a
strain of fraud into the woof and warp of its organizations.
Fraud requires as its central element the making of a misrepresentation
that the communicator knows is false. In the case of Scientology, the
recurrent, systemic knowing lie has nothing to do with the lack of
efficacy of Scientology itself. When a Scientologist tells somebody
that Scientology contains the answer to his problem, as well as every
answer to every problem that person will ever face, that Scientologist
believes that representation implicitly. The knowing misrepresentation
that virtually every Scientologist is guilty of making over and over
again is that whatever particular problem a seeker wants solved is the
only problem the Scientology organization is interested in solving. In
fact, Scientology scripture very methodically details how to use the
solving of a particular problem as the bait to be switched toward
creating a new bigger problem for the bait biter to pursue.
Scientologists will vehemently protest my use of words such as
"misrepresentation" and "fraud." But, the fact of the matter is that
many of the significant problems that have nagged or lessened the reach
of Scientology organizations stemmed from this inculcated lie.
Tags: 1950, 1978, Buddha, Dianetics, Fraud, Quicky, Scientology organization
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Scientology's Narconon: A Legacy of Failure and Death
August 24, 2012, Skip Press, Morton Report
http://www.themortonreport.com/celebrity/hollywood/scientologys-narconon-a-legacy-of-failure-and-death/
Recently, the organization Narconon, whose stated mission is "to
eradicate the problems of drug and alcohol abuse through effective drug
prevention, drug education and drug rehabilitation services," has been
in the news for a series of deaths at its flagship facility, Narconon
Arrowhead.
A number of articles appeared in the Village Voice, perhaps the most
telling being an interview with veteran Oklahoma newsman Bob Lobsinger,
whose headline quote about Narconon was, "They Lied Every Step of the
Way."
Tags: ABLE, AOLA, Arthur Maren, Bob Lobsinger, Celebrity Centre, Clark Carr,
Gabriel Graves, Guardian's Office, Heber Jentzsch, Henning Heldt, Hillary
Holten, Laura Hippe, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Oklahoma, Operating
Thetan, Rena Weinberg, Robert Wiseman, Stacy Murphy, The Hole, Tony Ortega
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Young woman's parents file suit in Scientology-related rehab facility death
August 24, 2012, Jarrel Wade, Tulsa World
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20120824_11_A17_McALES753313
Hillary Holten of Carrolton, Texas, died April 11 after entering
Narconon Arrowhead, a nonmedical drug-detoxification facility on Lake
Eufaula near McAlester.
Holten is one of three Narconon Arrowhead patrons to die since October.
As a result of those deaths, the facility is being investigated by the
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Pittsburg County Sheriff's
Office and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services.
Tags: ABLE, Death, Gabriel Graves, Hillary Holten, Narconon, Narconon
Arrowhead, Narconon International, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation,
Pittsburg County, Stacy Murphy
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The OC is On Fire! Updated with Shots Of Bustling Org
August 24, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-oc-is-on-fire/
Note: there was no Graduation last nite due to a special Sea Org only
event "for SO Day" but I bet Voldemort was just not feeling in the mood
after his weekus horribilus. So. instead we have some news from across
the country.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars and a year after the OC "Ideal Org"
finally opened, their Non E campaign is off the ground.
And boy, the news is amazing!
Tags: Facebook, Florida, Ideal Org, Orange County, OT, Pinellas County,
Quicky, Sea Org
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TONIGHT: LA Sheriff Lee Baca to Grace Scientology Gala, Days after "Celebrity
Center" Employee Arrested for Planning
August 24, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/08/24/tonight-scientologys-hollywood-celebrity-center-gala-will-shelly-be-there/
Lee Baca shilling for Scientology at an event in November On Tuesday,
Scientology's Director of Public Relations for its Las Vegas "Celebrity
Center," Devon Newman, was arrested for her part in a bizarre plot to
kidnap, try, and execute a local police officer to make a political
point for the "sovereign citizens" movement.
Tonight, Scientology's Celebrity Center in Hollywood holds its 44th
annual gala, and besides the usual church celebrities who are expected
to show, we've been told that Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca plans to
make an appearance early in the evening.
For years, Baca has been an enthusiastic supporter of Scientology,
showing up at many church events. But this time, we're wondering if any
press covering the event will dare to ask him about the Celebrity
Center employee who was planning to kill a cop, or about Shelly
Miscavige, the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavge, who hasn't
been seen in public in six years.
Tags: 2005, 2006, Andre Dawson, Arrest, Celebrity Centre, David Miscavige,
Devon Newman, Hollywood, LAPD, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Leah Remini, Lee
Baca, Los Angeles, Membership, Police, Quicky, Sea Org, Shelly Miscavige
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Chris and Marie's Plant Farms owner Chris Lucas allegedly donated $100,000 to
Church of Scientology
August 24, 2014, Ashley Argoon, Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/chris-and-maries-plant-farms-owner-chris-lucas-allegedly-donated-100000-to-church-of-scientology/story-fni0fit3-1227034786836?nk=6b2d1ac988586842a6f18bd643c35044
A TUTU-wearing gardener ?allegedly poured at least $100,000 into the
Church of Scientology before his business was placed in administration
with almost $3 million in debts.
Chris Lucas, famous for his pink tutu and "hello, hello" catchphrase,
was hailed as a "Patron with Honours" for donating $100,000 to the
church, according to a document claiming to be a leaked Scientologists
status list.
The Sunday Herald Sun can reveal a not-for-profit disability service
faced a financial crisis over unpaid debts owed by the nursery, ordered
into liquidation on Wednesday.
Tags: Ascot Vale, Australia, Australian Taxation Office, Chris Lucas, Emlyn
Lucas, Mary Anderson, Melbourne, Patron with Honours
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Orlando Magic
August 24, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/orlando-magic/
No wonder the "ideal org" in Orlando never gets mentioned even though
it is BY FAR the closest org to Flag and Tampa - both of whom are
busily trying to raise funds for Miami and Atlanta.
This is Orlando's "ideal org" website, last updated sometime in 2011,
though they seem to have an automatic counter that adds a day from
"Ideal Orgs Seminar 2011."
They got a "building approved" - hooray for us! An instant "ideal org"
- plucked right out of a hat. Amazing. It truly represents Miscavige's
ideal org tag-line "just add water and mix."
Tags: 2011, Atlanta, Google, Ideal Org, International Association of
Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard, Malmo, Miami, Mountain View, Orlando, OT,
Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Tampa
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Scientology claims credit for solving the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri
August 24, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/08/24/scientology-claims-credit-for-solving-the-crisis-in-ferguson-missouri/
It's time for Sunday Funnies, our weekly feature for reviewing the
Scientology mailers forwarded to us by our great tipsters. And once
again, we have a bushel of fun circulars put out by the fundraisingest
church on earth.
But first, we have to hand it to Scientology junior spokesman Bob Adams
for taking the church's public relations to OT 9.
Yesterday, a press release disguised as a news story carrying Bob's
byline showed up on something totally not sketchy called "World
Religion News."
Tags: 1950, 1969, 1976, 1981, 2009, Alfreddie Johnson, Australia, Barry
Coziahr, Bob Adams, Ferguson, Ideal Org, Jimmy Wales, Larry Trahant, Los
Feliz, Melbourne, Michael Brown, Mission, Missouri, New Zealand, OT 9,
Patrick Renna, Quicky, Sacramento, South Africa, St. Louis, Sunday Funnies,
Sydney, The Atlantic, The Way to Happiness, Tom Cruise, Wikipedia, Xenu
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Paul Haggis: 'shame on' press for not asking Tom Cruise about Scientology
August 24, 2015, Benjamin Lee, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/24/paul-haggis-shame-on-press-for-not-asking-tom-cruise-about-scientology
The writer and director, who won two Oscars for the 2004 drama Crash,
was a member of the group himself before publicly removing himself from
any association in 2009.
He believes that the press owes it to the public to put the Mission:
Impossible star on the spot.
"His PR people are very smart," Haggis said to The Daily Beast. "But I
don't know how journalists can continue to call themselves journalists
if they aren't brave enough to ask a question. I mean, how big does the
elephant in the room have to be before you ask about it?"
Tags: Alex Gibney, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, John
Travolta, Paul Haggis, Tom Cruise
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Scientology Internet Fail
August 24, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-internet-fail/
Try as they might, scientology is incapable of accomplishing any
positive results on the internet.
Miscavige shows "stats" at his events like "people look up scientology
every 1.63 seconds" or "we have 627Xed the reach for our programs on
the internet" or other completely meaningless statements. All the while
they continue to raise money for the "KCET studios" because this
facility will allow scientology to "take over the internet."
Miscavige has spent a LOT of money to create a video driven website at
scientology.org. And probably more money paying than that to click
farms in India and the Philippines to try to raise traffic rankings for
the site. It's been a desperate quest to gain credibility on the
internet.
Tags: Google, KCET, Lisa McPherson, Moonies, OT, Paul Haggis, Philippines,
Quicky, Review, Robert Vaughn Young, Vietnam, Wikipedia
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Tonight, it's Boston! And that has us thinking about Beantown's connections
to 'Miss Lovely'
August 24, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/08/24/tonight-its-boston-and-that-has-us-thinking-about-beantowns-connections-to-miss-lovely/
Hey, we're in Boston tonight for the resumption of our tour. While
Paulette Cooper is cruising to London, we'll be near Harvard Square
talking about the book we wrote about her. (We're hoping to reunite
with Paulette for another joint appearance this fall.)
Our appearance tonight has us thinking about a couple of mentions of
Boston in our book.
In the summer of 1973 Paulette had been indicted after Scientology
operatives managed to get her fingerprint on a piece of stationery and
then typed up a bomb threat they mailed to the New York org, then
called the FBI and told them Paulette was threatening to blow up a
church. Paulette was facing fifteen years in federal prison and a
$15,000 fine, and she was looking for ways to build a defense before
her trial, which was scheduled for October. Desperate for legal help,
she decided to pay a visit to famous defense attorney F. Lee Bailey,
who was actually disbarred at the time. So she took the train to
Boston, and here's what The Unbreakable Miss Lovely says happened next...
Tags: 1973, 1975, American Cancer Society, Belgium, Better Business Bureau,
Boston, Cambridge, Clearwater, England, F. Lee Bailey, FBI, Florida, Gerry
Armstrong, Guardian's Office, Idaho, Jerry Levin, Joy Villa, Len Zinberg,
London, Massachusetts, Michael Flynn, Nancy Many, New York, Paulette Cooper,
Quicky, Red Cross, Sea Org, Stanley Cath, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, YMCA
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Tonight: Inside Scientology and Escaping the Witnesses on Channel 5
August 24, 2015, East Grinstead Online
http://bluebelldigital.co.uk/eastgrinsteadonline/2015/08/24/tonight-inside-scientology-and-escaping-the-witnesses-on-channel-5/
CHANNEL 5 will be looking at two controversial organisations at 9pm
this evening when it investigates three women whose lives were turned
upside down after they became involved in what they eventually decided
were cults.
One joined Scientology ? which has its UK HQ in East Grinstead ? and
the other two became Jehovah's Witnesses.
With first-hand testimony from the three women and input from experts,
the programme looks at what it is like to devote yourself to powerful
religious movements.
Tags: Alex Gibney, East Grinstead, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of
Belief, Inside Scientology and Escaping the Witnesses, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Sky Atlantic
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Today in Scientlology web page:
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August 24 in Scientlology web page:
http://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/days/08-24.html
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'Vigilantes' Termed Worrisome
August 24, 1991, Carol M. Ostrom, Seattle Times
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1301648&date=19910824
In the early "80s, many deprogramming efforts were focused on members
of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, said Robertson, a
Baptist minister who teaches comparative religion at Maryland Bible
College and Seminary. "I certainly don't believe in their theology," he
says. "But (deprogramming) still is wrong - I don't care what the
church group is."
Tags: George Robertson, Jason Scott, Life Tabernacle
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Real problems with a fictional movie
August 24, 2001, Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/News/082401/Floridian/Real_problems_with_a_.shtml
Peter D. Alexander believes he's doing a public service with his film
The Profit. For the Church of Scientology, The Profit is just a nuisance.
Tags: Ben Shaw, Foundation for Religious Tolerance, Mary DeMoss, Peter
Alexander
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Studio and Cruise's film company split
August 24, 2006, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/282283_cruise24.html
Sumner Redstone, whose company owns Paramount Pictures, said the studio
would sever its 14-year relationship with Cruise's film production
company because "his recent conduct has not been acceptable to
Paramount."
Tags: Paramount, Paula Wagner, Sumner Redstone, Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise's Behavior and Scientology: A Link?
August 24, 2006, Bill Blakemore, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2352384&page=1
The New York Times this morning said simply that Cruise has gone "into
full Scientology mode." Indeed, his recent responses to Matt Lauer,
inveighing against modern psychiatric care, reflect Scientology's claim
that its own methods of "auditing" people to get them "clear" are the
only true way to win genuine happiness.
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Hubbard loses his shit
August 24, 2008, DatsumJB, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9reLONOJ7U
A fair-use excerpt from the Class VIII Auditor lecture series (Tape 11)
to demonstrate the thesis that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the
Scientology cult and domestic terrorist group, was an angry and
disturbed man.
Tags: L. Ron Hubbard, Video
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Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People
August 24, 2009, Noam Cohen, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?_r=2&hp
Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco
that governs Wikipedia, say that within weeks, the English-language
Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles
about living people.
Tags: Jimmy Wales, Michael Snow, Wikipedia
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Survey: What Impinges -- Results
August 24, 2010, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/survey-what-impinges-results/
by Mike Rinder
I recently posted a survey designed to discover what caused people to
stop supporting the Church of Miscavology and what current
Scientologists are disaffected about.
Many responded on Steve Hall's website, many more sent private emails.
Thanks to everyone who participated. There were enough sordid stories
to keep a horror movie fan occupied for nights on end.
Tags: 1970, ABLE, Basics, Buffalo, CCHR, Clear, DEA, Dianetics, Ideal Org,
International Association of Scientologists, Jason Beghe, L. Ron Hubbard,
Mission, OT, OT 7, Paris, Paul Haggis, Quicky, Saint Hill, San Francisco, Sea
Org, Sec Check, Steve Hall, Tokyo, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, Vulture Culture,
WISE
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Survey: What Impinges - Results
August 24, 2010, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/survey-what-impinges-results/
by Mike Rinder
I recently posted a survey designed to discover what caused people to
stop supporting the Church of Miscavology and what current
Scientologists are disaffected about.
Many responded on Steve Hall's website, many more sent private emails.
Thanks to everyone who participated. There were enough sordid stories
to keep a horror movie fan occupied for nights on end.
Tags: 1970, ABLE, Basics, Buffalo, CCHR, Clear, DEA, Dianetics, Ideal Org,
International Association of Scientologists, Jason Beghe, L. Ron Hubbard,
Mike Rinder, Mission, OT, OT 7, Paris, Paul Haggis, Quicky, Saint Hill, San
Francisco, Sea Org, Sec Check, Steve Hall, Tokyo, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis,
Vulture Culture, WISE
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Heroic City Board Fines Church of Scientology $413,500, Just to Be Dicks
August 24, 2011, Seth Abramovitch, Gawker
http://gawker.com/5834212/heroic-city-board-fines-church-of-scientology-413500-just-to-be-dicks
Each member of an "obscure board of volunteers" representing the city
of Clearwater, Florida, has earned a gold star and pat on the back, as
they have ruled that the Church of Scientology must cough up $413,500
in fines which they could have easily written off.
Tags: Clearwater, Sheila Cole, Super Power
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L'Indipendologo Chronicles
August 24, 2011, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/lindipendologo-chronicles/
The good folks at L'Indipendologo have created two educational
summations on some testimonies that remind us why Independence is
necessary. I think they are worth watching as the rudiments sometimes
bear repetition.
Rinder summation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5xDSCVV2EQ&feature=related
Tags: Quicky
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The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 17: Jefferson Hawkins
August 24, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/jefferson_hawkins_top_25_crippling_scientology.php
Another reason why Hawkins is a key defector is that he had such a
personal knowledge of the actual vital signs of the church's health.
There may be no one with a more authoritative knowledge of
Scientology's actual membership numbers.
"I have an advantage here because I used to work for Scientology's
Central Marketing Unit, and had access to all of the actual lists and
statistics," he wrote at his blog last year. And he explained how he
came up with an overall number of worldwide members: "I know that event
attendance internationally was somewhere in the region of 25,000 to
35,000. The International 'Bodies in the Shop' (people actually in the
orgs that week for service) was 16,000 to 18,000. IAS was struggling to
get 40,000 members. Based on this and a lot of other information I was
privy to, I estimate the actual number of Scientologists at a maximum
of 40,000. That's on the high side."
Tags: 1980, 1986, 1990, Counterfeit Dreams, David Miscavige, Dianetics,
International Association of Scientologists, Jefferson Hawkins, Knowledge
Report, Mark Bunker, Marty Rathbun, New York Times
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Body found in garden as police hunt for 'vulnerable' Plymouth man
August 24, 2012, Plymouth Herald
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Body-police-hunt-vulnerable-man/story-16759303-detail/story.html
Although this was the last official sighting of the 36-year-old man,
police say they have one other potential sighting on July 25 when it is
believed Mr Somers attended a meeting at the Church of Scientology
office in Ebrington Street.
Tags: Cheng Somers, Death, UK
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Marty Rathbun: Scientology's Attorney "Supervised" Destruction of Records in
Lisa McPherson Death
August 24, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_marty_rathbun_eliot_abelson.php
For the last year or more, Mark Bunker has been releasing short
excerpts from his upcoming Scientology documentary Knowledge Report,
and yesterday, he released a doozy.
Bunker had told me that he'd interviewed former church executive Marty
Rathbun, and in this excerpt, we see Rathbun addressing the kinds of
things many have wanted him to talk about: what happened with Lisa
McPherson, a parishioner who died in a Scientology hotel in 1995? I
have a feeling his responses here will cause as much skepticism as
anything else, but what he has to say about Scientology attorney Elliot
Abelson should cause an uproar.
McPherson died after she was held for 17 days at the Fort Harrison
Hotel in Clearwater, Florida following a mental breakdown. As Janet
Reitman describes in rich detail in her 2011 book Inside Scientology,
McPherson had been a dedicated Scientologist whose life had
increasingly spun out of control. Her death became the church's biggest
crisis to that point, leading to a criminal investigation and years of
civil litigation.
Tags: 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1977, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2011, Apollo,
BBC, CIA, Clearwater, Colin Henderson, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Elliot
Abelson, England, Facebook, Florida, Fort Harrison, Gary Smith, Hillary
Holten, Hollywood, Jack Horner, Janet Reitman, Jarrel Wade, Knowledge Report,
L. Ron Hubbard, Lawsuit, Lisa McPherson, Mark Bunker, Marty Rathbun, Mental
breakdown, Mike Rinder, Mission, Mountain View, Musical Chairs, Narconon,
Narconon Arrowhead, Neil Gaiman, Oklahoma, Orders of the Day, OT, OT
Phenomena, OT VII, Quicky, Squirrels, Sunday service, The Master, Tom Cruise,
Tulsa World
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Pittsburg County: Narconon Arrowhead investigation nearly over
August 24, 2012, KJRH
http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/pittsburg-county-narconon-arrowhead-investigation-nearly-over
The findings of an investigation into an Oklahoma alcohol and drug
rehabilitation center could be announced soon.
Pittsburg County officials say their investigation into the
controversial deaths of three recent Narconon Arrowhead patients was
expected to be ready for the district attorney Friday, but an unforseen
delay pushed back the release.
OSBI is also investigating, and has placed a rush on the medical
examiner's report.
Tags: Gary Smith, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Oklahoma, Pittsburg County,
Sara Goldenberg
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Police ID Dead Man Found in Technology Park
August 24, 2012, Judy Putnam, Duluth Patch
http://duluth.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/police-id-dead-man-found-in-technology-park
Corona had been found early Monday behind an office at 25 Technology
Parkway. The Homicide Unit had initially been called to investigate
when police discovered several injuries to the victim's head. However,
after a medical examination, it was determined the man did not die from
his injuries.
Tags: Death, Narconon, Narconon Georgia, Ronald Corona
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Scientology And Saving The World
August 24, 2012, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/scientology-and-saving-the-world/
In 1950 L. Ron Hubbard burst onto the scene tackling the attainment of
the ends of Eastern spiritualism with the practicality mindset of
Western materialism. He developed two related subjects toward that end,
Dianetics, and its outgrowth, Scientology. Within two to three years he
had described in pratical English terms having seen the universal
truths as outlined in the Vedas and in the Tao Te Ching. He also
described modern exercises that he discovered and developed to bring
others to that experience. He spent the rest of his life attempting to
undercut the route so that virtually anyone from any station in life or
of whatever educational background could traverse it. In that effort to
reach and effect all, matters eventually became complicated. An
insidious parallel to helping and saving all peoples of earth evolved
throughout Scientology writings. That is, the stress became not so much
to make Scientology accessible to everybody as much as to make
Scientology mandatory for everyone. This approach led to a type of dual
personality for the subject. On the one hand it intended to release an
individual from the restraints of life and to restore freedom of choice.
On the other hand, it usurped freedom of choice and imposed restraints
in the attempt to get every person there.
Control and restraint themes developed throughout Scientology writings.
It was justified by the repeated idea that Dianetics and Scientology
contain the answers to every problem and every question that every
person ever faced; with the repeated emphatic idea that no one else has
anything of use to contribute to those answers. The theme was evident
in a substantial body of proselytization and ethics policy that
justified any means necessary to leading the clueless to the only show
in town. These policies dedicatedly applied wound up appealing to a
broad spectrum of people as intended. That included people who wanted
to communicate better, to find their sanity, to improve memory, to sell
more, to be more successful, to have more meaningful relationships, to
make more money, to dominate and control others, to reach higher states
of spiritual awareness, to be more powerful, to get off drugs, to learn
how to study, and even to reach immortality. In promoting to all those
looking for these answers and more, and representing to those publics
that those wants were all that Scientology was interested in helping
them with, all the while intending and organizing to direct such people
toward ultimately making Scientology the answer to everything weaved a
strain of fraud into the woof and warp of its organizations.
Fraud requires as its central element the making of a misrepresentation
that the communicator knows is false. In the case of Scientology, the
recurrent, systemic knowing lie has nothing to do with the lack of
efficacy of Scientology itself. When a Scientologist tells somebody
that Scientology contains the answer to his problem, as well as every
answer to every problem that person will ever face, that Scientologist
believes that representation implicitly. The knowing misrepresentation
that virtually every Scientologist is guilty of making over and over
again is that whatever particular problem a seeker wants solved is the
only problem the Scientology organization is interested in solving. In
fact, Scientology scripture very methodically details how to use the
solving of a particular problem as the bait to be switched toward
creating a new bigger problem for the bait biter to pursue.
Scientologists will vehemently protest my use of words such as
"misrepresentation" and "fraud." But, the fact of the matter is that
many of the significant problems that have nagged or lessened the reach
of Scientology organizations stemmed from this inculcated lie.
Tags: 1950, 1978, Buddha, Dianetics, Fraud, Quicky, Scientology organization
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Scientology's Narconon: A Legacy of Failure and Death
August 24, 2012, Skip Press, Morton Report
http://www.themortonreport.com/celebrity/hollywood/scientologys-narconon-a-legacy-of-failure-and-death/
Recently, the organization Narconon, whose stated mission is "to
eradicate the problems of drug and alcohol abuse through effective drug
prevention, drug education and drug rehabilitation services," has been
in the news for a series of deaths at its flagship facility, Narconon
Arrowhead.
A number of articles appeared in the Village Voice, perhaps the most
telling being an interview with veteran Oklahoma newsman Bob Lobsinger,
whose headline quote about Narconon was, "They Lied Every Step of the
Way."
Tags: ABLE, AOLA, Arthur Maren, Bob Lobsinger, Celebrity Centre, Clark Carr,
Gabriel Graves, Guardian's Office, Heber Jentzsch, Henning Heldt, Hillary
Holten, Laura Hippe, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Oklahoma, Operating
Thetan, Rena Weinberg, Robert Wiseman, Stacy Murphy, The Hole, Tony Ortega
========================================
Young woman's parents file suit in Scientology-related rehab facility death
August 24, 2012, Jarrel Wade, Tulsa World
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=14&articleid=20120824_11_A17_McALES753313
Hillary Holten of Carrolton, Texas, died April 11 after entering
Narconon Arrowhead, a nonmedical drug-detoxification facility on Lake
Eufaula near McAlester.
Holten is one of three Narconon Arrowhead patrons to die since October.
As a result of those deaths, the facility is being investigated by the
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Pittsburg County Sheriff's
Office and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services.
Tags: ABLE, Death, Gabriel Graves, Hillary Holten, Narconon, Narconon
Arrowhead, Narconon International, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation,
Pittsburg County, Stacy Murphy
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The OC is On Fire! Updated with Shots Of Bustling Org
August 24, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-oc-is-on-fire/
Note: there was no Graduation last nite due to a special Sea Org only
event "for SO Day" but I bet Voldemort was just not feeling in the mood
after his weekus horribilus. So. instead we have some news from across
the country.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars and a year after the OC "Ideal Org"
finally opened, their Non E campaign is off the ground.
And boy, the news is amazing!
Tags: Facebook, Florida, Ideal Org, Orange County, OT, Pinellas County,
Quicky, Sea Org
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TONIGHT: LA Sheriff Lee Baca to Grace Scientology Gala, Days after "Celebrity
Center" Employee Arrested for Planning
August 24, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/08/24/tonight-scientologys-hollywood-celebrity-center-gala-will-shelly-be-there/
Lee Baca shilling for Scientology at an event in November On Tuesday,
Scientology's Director of Public Relations for its Las Vegas "Celebrity
Center," Devon Newman, was arrested for her part in a bizarre plot to
kidnap, try, and execute a local police officer to make a political
point for the "sovereign citizens" movement.
Tonight, Scientology's Celebrity Center in Hollywood holds its 44th
annual gala, and besides the usual church celebrities who are expected
to show, we've been told that Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca plans to
make an appearance early in the evening.
For years, Baca has been an enthusiastic supporter of Scientology,
showing up at many church events. But this time, we're wondering if any
press covering the event will dare to ask him about the Celebrity
Center employee who was planning to kill a cop, or about Shelly
Miscavige, the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavge, who hasn't
been seen in public in six years.
Tags: 2005, 2006, Andre Dawson, Arrest, Celebrity Centre, David Miscavige,
Devon Newman, Hollywood, LAPD, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Leah Remini, Lee
Baca, Los Angeles, Membership, Police, Quicky, Sea Org, Shelly Miscavige
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Chris and Marie's Plant Farms owner Chris Lucas allegedly donated $100,000 to
Church of Scientology
August 24, 2014, Ashley Argoon, Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/chris-and-maries-plant-farms-owner-chris-lucas-allegedly-donated-100000-to-church-of-scientology/story-fni0fit3-1227034786836?nk=6b2d1ac988586842a6f18bd643c35044
A TUTU-wearing gardener ?allegedly poured at least $100,000 into the
Church of Scientology before his business was placed in administration
with almost $3 million in debts.
Chris Lucas, famous for his pink tutu and "hello, hello" catchphrase,
was hailed as a "Patron with Honours" for donating $100,000 to the
church, according to a document claiming to be a leaked Scientologists
status list.
The Sunday Herald Sun can reveal a not-for-profit disability service
faced a financial crisis over unpaid debts owed by the nursery, ordered
into liquidation on Wednesday.
Tags: Ascot Vale, Australia, Australian Taxation Office, Chris Lucas, Emlyn
Lucas, Mary Anderson, Melbourne, Patron with Honours
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Orlando Magic
August 24, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/orlando-magic/
No wonder the "ideal org" in Orlando never gets mentioned even though
it is BY FAR the closest org to Flag and Tampa - both of whom are
busily trying to raise funds for Miami and Atlanta.
This is Orlando's "ideal org" website, last updated sometime in 2011,
though they seem to have an automatic counter that adds a day from
"Ideal Orgs Seminar 2011."
They got a "building approved" - hooray for us! An instant "ideal org"
- plucked right out of a hat. Amazing. It truly represents Miscavige's
ideal org tag-line "just add water and mix."
Tags: 2011, Atlanta, Google, Ideal Org, International Association of
Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard, Malmo, Miami, Mountain View, Orlando, OT,
Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Tampa
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Scientology claims credit for solving the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri
August 24, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/08/24/scientology-claims-credit-for-solving-the-crisis-in-ferguson-missouri/
It's time for Sunday Funnies, our weekly feature for reviewing the
Scientology mailers forwarded to us by our great tipsters. And once
again, we have a bushel of fun circulars put out by the fundraisingest
church on earth.
But first, we have to hand it to Scientology junior spokesman Bob Adams
for taking the church's public relations to OT 9.
Yesterday, a press release disguised as a news story carrying Bob's
byline showed up on something totally not sketchy called "World
Religion News."
Tags: 1950, 1969, 1976, 1981, 2009, Alfreddie Johnson, Australia, Barry
Coziahr, Bob Adams, Ferguson, Ideal Org, Jimmy Wales, Larry Trahant, Los
Feliz, Melbourne, Michael Brown, Mission, Missouri, New Zealand, OT 9,
Patrick Renna, Quicky, Sacramento, South Africa, St. Louis, Sunday Funnies,
Sydney, The Atlantic, The Way to Happiness, Tom Cruise, Wikipedia, Xenu
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Paul Haggis: 'shame on' press for not asking Tom Cruise about Scientology
August 24, 2015, Benjamin Lee, The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/24/paul-haggis-shame-on-press-for-not-asking-tom-cruise-about-scientology
The writer and director, who won two Oscars for the 2004 drama Crash,
was a member of the group himself before publicly removing himself from
any association in 2009.
He believes that the press owes it to the public to put the Mission:
Impossible star on the spot.
"His PR people are very smart," Haggis said to The Daily Beast. "But I
don't know how journalists can continue to call themselves journalists
if they aren't brave enough to ask a question. I mean, how big does the
elephant in the room have to be before you ask about it?"
Tags: Alex Gibney, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, John
Travolta, Paul Haggis, Tom Cruise
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Scientology Internet Fail
August 24, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-internet-fail/
Try as they might, scientology is incapable of accomplishing any
positive results on the internet.
Miscavige shows "stats" at his events like "people look up scientology
every 1.63 seconds" or "we have 627Xed the reach for our programs on
the internet" or other completely meaningless statements. All the while
they continue to raise money for the "KCET studios" because this
facility will allow scientology to "take over the internet."
Miscavige has spent a LOT of money to create a video driven website at
scientology.org. And probably more money paying than that to click
farms in India and the Philippines to try to raise traffic rankings for
the site. It's been a desperate quest to gain credibility on the
internet.
Tags: Google, KCET, Lisa McPherson, Moonies, OT, Paul Haggis, Philippines,
Quicky, Review, Robert Vaughn Young, Vietnam, Wikipedia
========================================
Tonight, it's Boston! And that has us thinking about Beantown's connections
to 'Miss Lovely'
August 24, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/08/24/tonight-its-boston-and-that-has-us-thinking-about-beantowns-connections-to-miss-lovely/
Hey, we're in Boston tonight for the resumption of our tour. While
Paulette Cooper is cruising to London, we'll be near Harvard Square
talking about the book we wrote about her. (We're hoping to reunite
with Paulette for another joint appearance this fall.)
Our appearance tonight has us thinking about a couple of mentions of
Boston in our book.
In the summer of 1973 Paulette had been indicted after Scientology
operatives managed to get her fingerprint on a piece of stationery and
then typed up a bomb threat they mailed to the New York org, then
called the FBI and told them Paulette was threatening to blow up a
church. Paulette was facing fifteen years in federal prison and a
$15,000 fine, and she was looking for ways to build a defense before
her trial, which was scheduled for October. Desperate for legal help,
she decided to pay a visit to famous defense attorney F. Lee Bailey,
who was actually disbarred at the time. So she took the train to
Boston, and here's what The Unbreakable Miss Lovely says happened next...
Tags: 1973, 1975, American Cancer Society, Belgium, Better Business Bureau,
Boston, Cambridge, Clearwater, England, F. Lee Bailey, FBI, Florida, Gerry
Armstrong, Guardian's Office, Idaho, Jerry Levin, Joy Villa, Len Zinberg,
London, Massachusetts, Michael Flynn, Nancy Many, New York, Paulette Cooper,
Quicky, Red Cross, Sea Org, Stanley Cath, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, YMCA
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Tonight: Inside Scientology and Escaping the Witnesses on Channel 5
August 24, 2015, East Grinstead Online
http://bluebelldigital.co.uk/eastgrinsteadonline/2015/08/24/tonight-inside-scientology-and-escaping-the-witnesses-on-channel-5/
CHANNEL 5 will be looking at two controversial organisations at 9pm
this evening when it investigates three women whose lives were turned
upside down after they became involved in what they eventually decided
were cults.
One joined Scientology ? which has its UK HQ in East Grinstead ? and
the other two became Jehovah's Witnesses.
With first-hand testimony from the three women and input from experts,
the programme looks at what it is like to devote yourself to powerful
religious movements.
Tags: Alex Gibney, East Grinstead, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of
Belief, Inside Scientology and Escaping the Witnesses, Jehovah's Witnesses,
Sky Atlantic
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