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Scientologists seek a port for "Boheme"
January 12, 1987, Diane Steinle, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49913874.html?dids=49913874:49913874&FMT=FT
The cruise ship Boheme has received an engine overhaul since being
purchased by a group of Scientologists, and the vessel soon will get a
stem-to-stern refurbishing at a cost of more than $1-million.
But it still has no home port.
The 500-passenger ship sailed out of the Port of St. Petersburg for 19
months while it was owned by Commodore Cruise Lines. But the vessel was
purchased this past September by the International Association of
Scientologists for use as a sailing religious retreat.
Tags: Apollo, Freewinds, Heber Jentzsch, International Association of
Scientologists
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'Deprogrammer' Trial Gets Under Way -- Man Allegedly Kept Victim In Motel
Room For Several Days Against His Will
January 12, 1994, Nancy Montgomery, Seattle Times
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940112&slug=1889361
An Arizona "deprogrammer" who consulted with federal authorities last
year on Waco's Branch Davidians, went on trial today in Grays Harbor
Superior Court on charges of the unlawful imprisonment of an
18-year-old man whose mother wanted him out of a Bellevue
fundamentalist church.
Tags: Charles Simpson, Jason Scott, Jeff Ranes, Joe Wheeler, Judge Foscue,
Kathy Tonkin, Mark Workman, Rick Ross
=========================================
Photo in Scientology paper angers Clearwater mayor
January 12, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16436195.html?FMT=FT
Imagine President Clinton posing with Newt Gingrich for a Republican
Party newsletter.
That's roughly what it was like for Mayor Rita Garvey to be pictured in
a Church of Scientology publication last week, smiling and appearing to
support the organization's anti-drug efforts.
Garvey, in fact, is one of the few outspoken critics of Scientology
remaining in Clearwater. She wants nothing to do with the organization
and does not believe Scientology is a "credible organization."
Tags: Brian Anderson, Clearwater, Drug Free Marshals, John Morroni, Rita
Garvey, Susan Latvala
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Scientology vs. Science
January 12, 2006, Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles CityBeat, Southland Publishing
https://web.archive.org/web/20060327002433/http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3137&IssueNum=136
A few days ago, I visited their new anti-psychiatry museum in
Hollywood, thinking, correctly, that it would offer an intriguing
window into the thinking of a notoriously secretive organization. With
a name like "Psychiatry: Industry of Death," the exhibit was not
exactly going to be coy about its point of view.
About halfway through the lengthy parade of videos and visual displays
- after I had been informed of psychiatry's long-standing "master plan"
for world domination, after the lecture about Adolf Hitler's central
role in making this plan a reality, but just before the display holding
psychiatry to blame for the deaths of Ernest Hemingway, Del Shannon,
Billie Holiday, Kurt Cobain, Spalding Gray, and just about every other
entertainment celebrity who did not happen to die of strictly natural
causes - a man in a gray shirt and matching tie approached me in the
semi-darkness and asked me to step aside.
Tags: CCHR, Marla Filidei, Museum of Death, Tom Cruise
=========================================
How the Church of Scientology found its way into British politics
January 12, 2007, Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23381539-details/How%20the%20Church%20of%20Scientology%20found%20its%20way%20into%20British%20politics/article.do
The controversial Scientology sect was accused of trying to inflitrate
British politics last night after it emerged that they paid thousands
of pounds to both the Labour and Tory parties.
Tags: ABLE, Criminon, Graeme Wilson, Justice Latey, Narconon, UK, UK Charity
Commission
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Labour given thousands by Scientology charity
January 12, 2007, Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23381485-details/Labour%20given%20thousands%20by%20Scientology%20charity/article.do
They allowed the charity, the Association for Better Living and
Education (ABLE), to take a stall at the party's annual conference in
Manchester.
Exhibitors at the conference have to pay up to #13,500. The stand was
part of an extensive lobbying operation by Scientology members to
promote its drug treatment programme, Narconon, and the criminal
rehabilitation scheme Criminon.
Tags: ABLE, Criminon, Graeme Wilson, Narconon, UK
=========================================
Daughters of St. Paul unfazed by threats from Church of Scientology
January 12, 2010, Catholic News Agency
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/daughters_of_st._paul_unfazed_by_threats_from_church_of_scientology/
In Italy, the pre-Christmas release of the book "The Courage to Speak
Out - Stories of ex-Scientologists" was met with a promise from the
National Church of Scientology of Italy to bring legal action against
the author and "whomever has assisted her." A spokeswoman for the
book's publisher told CNA that, as of yet, no such action has been
taken against them.
"The Courage to Speak Out" includes stories from 14 ex-members of the
Church of Scientology. It is the second volume from Maria Pia Gardini
that relates first-hand perspectives from inside this church. The first
edition, titled "My Years in Scientology," was based on her own time as
a member.
Tags: Alberto Laggia, Beatrice Salvioni, Daughters of St. Paul, Italy, Luigi
Brambani, Maria Pia Gardini, Pauline Publications
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Church of Scientology should not get rate break says Birmingham councillor
January 12, 2011, Jasbir Authi, Birmingham Mail
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/church-of-scientology-should-not-get-rate-146340
Councillor Martin Mullaney (Lib Dem Moseley, Kings Heath) requested
that this allowance is reviewed at a full cabinet meeting.
He said: "We are reviewing which organisations we give the 80 per cent
discretionary rate relief to.
"Normally it's charities or religious groups and as it's been pointed
out by various local residents in Moseley, that Birmingham is one of
the few local authorities that give 80 per cent reductions to the
Church of Scientology. They are not recognised by the Inland Revenue as
a church or religious group."
Tags: Birmingham, Eric Pickles, European Court of Human Rights, Martin
Mullaney, UK, UK Charity Commission
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Scientology, Winning! We Hear from the Church's #1 Student
January 12, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/01/michael_doven_scientology.php?page=all
On Thursdays, Scientology's staff members race to get their statistics
turned in by 2 pm, the end of their week. Here at the Voice, we do the
same thing, rounding up the world's media on Scientology each Thursday
and deciding whether the church has had an "upstat" or "downstat" week.
[Go here for our primer, "What is Scientology?"]
We're going to do something different this time, however. The first two
weeks of 2012 have been disastrous for Scientology, what with former
high-ranking official Debbie Cook e-mailing thousands of her fellow
church members in what amounts to a call of rebellion that will further
rip apart an organization splitting at the seams, and this week, a leak
of major proportions: images of the outlandish and weird things planned
for the "Super Power Building" that is slated to become Scientology's
"Mecca" this year.
There's been so much "entheta" that is sure to "enturbulate"
Scientologists (translation: negative press that is going to mess with
their minds), we figured it was time to reverse the tide. And so,
today, we're going to give Scientology a pure win, an upstat it is
dearly in need of. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Michael Doven, perhaps
the church's greatest living student of L. Ron Hubbard's technology!
Tags: 1948, 1966, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, Anonymous, APA,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Basics, California, Celebrity Centre, Chairman of the
Board, Chris Smith, Corpus Christi, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Field Staff
Member, Florida, GO, Golden Age of Knowledge, Golden Era, Hollywood,
Independent Scientology, Ingleside, John Brousseau, L. Ron Hubbard, Marty
Rathbun, Michael Doven, Michael Roberts, Mike Rinder, MIT, Office of Special
Affairs, OT IV, OT V, OT VII, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Saint Hill
Special Briefing Course, Sea Org, Sunday Funnies, Super Power Building,
Texas, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis
=========================================
FBI's Scientology investigation: Balancing the First Amendment with charges
of abuse and forced labor
January 12, 2013, Joe Childs, Tampa Bay Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/fbis-scientology-investigation-balancing-the-first-amendment-with-charges/1270036
The Church of Scientology imposes a raft of restrictions and mental
controls on its religious workers, who grind on, abiding 100-hour
workweeks.
In mid 2009, two FBI agents based in Los Angeles quietly started
investigating the church's treatment of its workers. Investigators
continued through 2010 and into 2011. It was the FBI's first known
criminal investigation of Scientology in 30 years.
Tags: Amy Scobee, Astra Woodcraft, Blow Drill, Claire Headley, David
Miscavige, Ethics Officer, Eugene Volokh, FBI, Frank K. Flinn, Freewinds,
Gary Morehead, Gerald Feffer, Graham Berry, Guardian's Office, Human
trafficking, Human Trafficking Protection Act, Int Base, Jeff Hawkins,
Jennifer Linson, John Brousseau, Karin Pouw, Kate Olson, Marc Headley, Marty
Rathbun, Mat Pesch, Michael German, Michael Seigel, Mike Rinder, Monique
Yingling, Office of Special Affairs, Religious Technology Center, Sea Org,
Sec Check, Susan Elliott, Susan Lentsch, Texas, The Hole, Tom De Vocht,
Tricia Whitehill, Valerie Venegas
=========================================
Gary Weber: Another former Scientology official talks about women forced to
have abortions
January 12, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/01/12/gary-weber-another-former-scientology-official-talks-about-women-forced-to-have-abortions/
Gary Weber was one of several GO members who paraded in Nazi uniforms
outside the Clearwater Sun offices in 1979 to protest how the newspaper
was treating Scientology Gary Weber first went public about his past as
a member of Scientology's Guardian's Office seven or eight years ago at
Arnie Lerma's site. It's an excellent read, and we recommend that you
go over there for the full account from Gary about his tenure as a
Scientologist, a member of the Sea Org, and an operative in
Scientology's original spy corps, the GO.
He's now agreed to a video interview with Karen de la Carriere, and
we're happy to premiere the first episode today.
We also talked to him last night by telephone, and he told us about
what he did as a Guardian's Office member, circa 1979: "I would go into
the Org and get these folders of the parishioners, and brought them to
the GO, where they were putting together dead-agent packs for anyone
who might turn on them."
Tags: 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 2009, Arnie Lerma, California, Claire Headley,
Clearwater, Clearwater Sun, England, FBI, Florida, GO, Grant Cardone,
Guardian Office, Guardian's Office, Ideal Org, Int Base, Karen de la
Carriere, Laura DeCrescenzo, Mary Sue Hubbard, Office of Special Affairs,
Oiliness table, Quicky, Saint Hill Manor, Sea Org, Sunday Funnies, Super
Power, Super Power Building, Tampa Bay Times, The Truth Rundown
=========================================
Church of Scientology's Miscavige fear of Oral deposition
January 12, 2015, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcekrxVhfQ
In this satirical video Scientology attorney E. Stuart Mills meets with
a senior Church of Scientology official to discuss a very expensive
problem. Scientology Dictator David Miscavige, it seems, is caught in a
hellish dilemma.
David Miscavige absolutely wants to be in charge the entire Church of
Scientology and its vast piles of money, lawyers, PI's building, and
everything else.
Any yet, Miscavige told the IRS he is only in charge of the Religious
Technology Center (RTC). Now that he is being named in lawsuits,
Miscavige has to stick with the script he gave to the IRS. If it is
proved that Miscavige runs the entire Church of Scientology then
several corporate veils are pierced. This could cause big trouble.
Therefore, Miscavige has to spend a fortune lawyers to keep all of his
lies in place:
* Captain Misavige's rank means nothing -- and don't you dare call him
"Captain" or else!
* Captain Misavige has nothing to do with managing the daily affairs of
the Church of Scientology International.
* Captain Miscavige does not have a phone. But maybe he does.
As OTVIIIisGrrr8! wrote on December 10, 2014 on the Underground Bunker:
We in RTC feel the need to point out the obvious to the Chattering Wog
Classes who understand neither the subtleties nor the niceties of the
Scientology religion.
1. Mr. Miscavige has no connections to Oklahoma, Texas, or anywhere
else in the physical universe.
2. As a Sea Org member, Mr. Miscavige is simply a part of an
unincorporated membership association that has no address, no bank
account, no stationery, and does not exist.
3. Above all, as a thetan, Mr. Miscavige is a static. What is a static?
As defined by Axiom 34, the ultimate truth is a static:
"Axiom 35: The ultimate truth is a static. A static has no mass,
meaning, mobility, no wavelength, no time no location in space, no
space. This has the technical name of 'basic truth.'"
Essentially, then, Mr. Miscavige simultaneously does not exist, and, Mr.
Miscavige is the ultimate truth. This explains why the mere mention of
his name as-ises lawsuits and they vanish.
All lawsuits against Mr. Miscavige contain lies that cannot persist in
the presence of ultimate truth.
Therefore, any attempt by wogs to sue the ultimate truth who is being
the nonexistent Mr. Miscavige only as an administrative convenience to
facilitate the straight up and vertical expansion of Scientology
organizations is doomed to failure. The ultimate truth cannot be sued
anymore than any other nonexistent entity can be sued. Sue David
Miscavige? One might as well sue Mickey Mouse for all the good it does.
It is futility itself to sue a static who does not actually exist in
time and space. Mr. Miscavige's supernal physical body is actually a
manifestation, or incarnation, of ultimate truth. The only thing that
can be said about this supernal manifestation is that it likes to drink
fine scotch and will never make itself available for either the service
of summons or for deposition; this is the Tao of David Miscavige you see.
Tags: David Miscavige, IRS, Religious Technology Center, Sea Org
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Judge warns of huge legal costs in Church of Scientology dispute
January 12, 2015, Ray Managh, Independent.ie
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/judge-warns-of-huge-legal-costs-in-church-of-scientology-dispute-30900978.html
Scientologists Zabrina Collins and Michael O'Donnell have won High
Court orders restraining former Scientologists Peter Griffiths and John
McGhee from harassing, assaulting or intimidating them in anti-drugs
and other work they do for their Church.
Griffiths, of Teeling Street, Ballina, Co Mayo, in turn has sued
Collins, the daughter of wrongly convicted Co Donegal publican Frank
Shortt for alleged defamation of character. Ms Collins' address was
given as Parnell Square West, Dublin.
Judge Jacqueline Linnane today addressed all of the parties in the
Circuit Civil Court, which is now handling the case, and told them the
clock had already started ticking on a mounting legal bill both on High
Court and Circuit Court costs.
Tags: Ireland, John McGhee, Judge Jacqueline Linnane, Michael O'Donnell,
Peter Griffiths, Zabrina Collins
=========================================
Judge warns Scientologists to avoid big legal bill
January 12, 2015, RTI News
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0112/672048-judge-warns-scientologists-to-avoid-big-legal-bill/
A judge has warned current and former members of the Church of
Scientology to "sit down and be reasonable" with each other if they
want to avoid a massive legal costs bill.
Scientologists Zabrina Collins and Michael O'Donnell have won High
Court orders restraining former members Peter Griffiths and John McGhee
from harassing, assaulting or intimidating them over work they do for
their church.
Mr Griffiths, of Teeling Street, Ballina, Co Mayo, in turn has sued Ms
Collins, the daughter of wrongly convicted Co Donegal publican Frank
Shortt, for alleged defamation of character.
Tags: Dublin, Frank Shortt, Ireland, John McGhee, Judge Jacqueline Linnane,
Michael O'Donnell, Peter Griffiths, Zabrina Collins
=========================================
Monday Funnies: More evidence that Scientology is gearing up for a really
tough 2015
January 12, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/01/12/monday-funnies-more-evidence-that-scientology-is-gearing-up-for-a-really-tough-2015/
Surprise! If you're looking for our Monday reveal, we sprang it early,
on Saturday afternoon. Our big secret was the title and subject of our
forthcoming book, 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely,' about the life of
Paulette Cooper, which London-based Silvertail Books is publishing in
May.
We decided to keep that announcement up the rest of the weekend, so
today we're going to post our delayed Sunday Funnies - they're our
Monday Funnies!
And we're going to start off with more evidence which convinces us that
Scientology is taking very seriously the threats it is facing in 2015.
We know that the organization has been dealing with dwindling
membership for years, key defections by important officials, a
tenacious "indie" movement that tries to entice other members to leave,
and the growing legal problems of Narconon.
Tags: 1991, Alessandro Calcioli, Alex Gibney, BBC, Chicago, Chicago Fire,
Christian, Christian Stolte, Clive Rabey, David Miscavige, England, Facebook,
Fearless Leader, Fort Harrison, Freedom Magazine, Going Clear: Scientology,
Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, HBO, Ideal Org, Inglewood, Jane Millan,
Jeffrey Augustine, Karen de la Carriere, KCET, London, Los Angeles, Louis
Theroux, Louisa Hodkin, Melbourne, Mike Rinder, Narconon, Nick Lekas, Orange
County, Paulette Cooper, Purification Rundown, San Francisco, Sharon Weitz,
Silvertail Books, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Sunday Funnies, Super
Bowl, Super Power Building, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, The
Unbreakable Miss Lovely, TIME, USA Today, Utah, Veronica Milagros
=========================================
Neues Buch |ber Scientologys schdndliche Terrorkampagne
January 12, 2015, ShortNews
http://www.shortnews.de/id/1138063/neues-buch-ueber-scientologys-schaendliche-terrorkampagne
Das in London ansdssige Verlagshaus 4Silvertail Books4 bringt ab Mai
unter dem Titel 4The Unbreakable Miss Lovely4 die Geschichte |ber
Pauletta Cooper heraus. Cooper war das bekannteste Opfer des
ber|chtigten und ruchlosen Vergeltungssystem der Scientology-Sekte.
Tags: Humfrey Hunter, Paulette Cooper, Silvertail Books, The Unbreakable Miss
Lovely, Tony Ortega
=========================================
Mediawiki archive:
http://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
UmbraXenu - The Home Game:
http://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/mediawiki/index.php/UmbraXenu_-_The_Home_Game
=========================================
Scientologists seek a port for "Boheme"
January 12, 1987, Diane Steinle, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/49913874.html?dids=49913874:49913874&FMT=FT
The cruise ship Boheme has received an engine overhaul since being
purchased by a group of Scientologists, and the vessel soon will get a
stem-to-stern refurbishing at a cost of more than $1-million.
But it still has no home port.
The 500-passenger ship sailed out of the Port of St. Petersburg for 19
months while it was owned by Commodore Cruise Lines. But the vessel was
purchased this past September by the International Association of
Scientologists for use as a sailing religious retreat.
Tags: Apollo, Freewinds, Heber Jentzsch, International Association of
Scientologists
=========================================
'Deprogrammer' Trial Gets Under Way -- Man Allegedly Kept Victim In Motel
Room For Several Days Against His Will
January 12, 1994, Nancy Montgomery, Seattle Times
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940112&slug=1889361
An Arizona "deprogrammer" who consulted with federal authorities last
year on Waco's Branch Davidians, went on trial today in Grays Harbor
Superior Court on charges of the unlawful imprisonment of an
18-year-old man whose mother wanted him out of a Bellevue
fundamentalist church.
Tags: Charles Simpson, Jason Scott, Jeff Ranes, Joe Wheeler, Judge Foscue,
Kathy Tonkin, Mark Workman, Rick Ross
=========================================
Photo in Scientology paper angers Clearwater mayor
January 12, 1997, Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/16436195.html?FMT=FT
Imagine President Clinton posing with Newt Gingrich for a Republican
Party newsletter.
That's roughly what it was like for Mayor Rita Garvey to be pictured in
a Church of Scientology publication last week, smiling and appearing to
support the organization's anti-drug efforts.
Garvey, in fact, is one of the few outspoken critics of Scientology
remaining in Clearwater. She wants nothing to do with the organization
and does not believe Scientology is a "credible organization."
Tags: Brian Anderson, Clearwater, Drug Free Marshals, John Morroni, Rita
Garvey, Susan Latvala
=========================================
Scientology vs. Science
January 12, 2006, Andrew Gumbel, Los Angeles CityBeat, Southland Publishing
https://web.archive.org/web/20060327002433/http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3137&IssueNum=136
A few days ago, I visited their new anti-psychiatry museum in
Hollywood, thinking, correctly, that it would offer an intriguing
window into the thinking of a notoriously secretive organization. With
a name like "Psychiatry: Industry of Death," the exhibit was not
exactly going to be coy about its point of view.
About halfway through the lengthy parade of videos and visual displays
- after I had been informed of psychiatry's long-standing "master plan"
for world domination, after the lecture about Adolf Hitler's central
role in making this plan a reality, but just before the display holding
psychiatry to blame for the deaths of Ernest Hemingway, Del Shannon,
Billie Holiday, Kurt Cobain, Spalding Gray, and just about every other
entertainment celebrity who did not happen to die of strictly natural
causes - a man in a gray shirt and matching tie approached me in the
semi-darkness and asked me to step aside.
Tags: CCHR, Marla Filidei, Museum of Death, Tom Cruise
=========================================
How the Church of Scientology found its way into British politics
January 12, 2007, Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23381539-details/How%20the%20Church%20of%20Scientology%20found%20its%20way%20into%20British%20politics/article.do
The controversial Scientology sect was accused of trying to inflitrate
British politics last night after it emerged that they paid thousands
of pounds to both the Labour and Tory parties.
Tags: ABLE, Criminon, Graeme Wilson, Justice Latey, Narconon, UK, UK Charity
Commission
=========================================
Labour given thousands by Scientology charity
January 12, 2007, Evening Standard
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23381485-details/Labour%20given%20thousands%20by%20Scientology%20charity/article.do
They allowed the charity, the Association for Better Living and
Education (ABLE), to take a stall at the party's annual conference in
Manchester.
Exhibitors at the conference have to pay up to #13,500. The stand was
part of an extensive lobbying operation by Scientology members to
promote its drug treatment programme, Narconon, and the criminal
rehabilitation scheme Criminon.
Tags: ABLE, Criminon, Graeme Wilson, Narconon, UK
=========================================
Daughters of St. Paul unfazed by threats from Church of Scientology
January 12, 2010, Catholic News Agency
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/daughters_of_st._paul_unfazed_by_threats_from_church_of_scientology/
In Italy, the pre-Christmas release of the book "The Courage to Speak
Out - Stories of ex-Scientologists" was met with a promise from the
National Church of Scientology of Italy to bring legal action against
the author and "whomever has assisted her." A spokeswoman for the
book's publisher told CNA that, as of yet, no such action has been
taken against them.
"The Courage to Speak Out" includes stories from 14 ex-members of the
Church of Scientology. It is the second volume from Maria Pia Gardini
that relates first-hand perspectives from inside this church. The first
edition, titled "My Years in Scientology," was based on her own time as
a member.
Tags: Alberto Laggia, Beatrice Salvioni, Daughters of St. Paul, Italy, Luigi
Brambani, Maria Pia Gardini, Pauline Publications
=========================================
Church of Scientology should not get rate break says Birmingham councillor
January 12, 2011, Jasbir Authi, Birmingham Mail
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/church-of-scientology-should-not-get-rate-146340
Councillor Martin Mullaney (Lib Dem Moseley, Kings Heath) requested
that this allowance is reviewed at a full cabinet meeting.
He said: "We are reviewing which organisations we give the 80 per cent
discretionary rate relief to.
"Normally it's charities or religious groups and as it's been pointed
out by various local residents in Moseley, that Birmingham is one of
the few local authorities that give 80 per cent reductions to the
Church of Scientology. They are not recognised by the Inland Revenue as
a church or religious group."
Tags: Birmingham, Eric Pickles, European Court of Human Rights, Martin
Mullaney, UK, UK Charity Commission
=========================================
Scientology, Winning! We Hear from the Church's #1 Student
January 12, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/01/michael_doven_scientology.php?page=all
On Thursdays, Scientology's staff members race to get their statistics
turned in by 2 pm, the end of their week. Here at the Voice, we do the
same thing, rounding up the world's media on Scientology each Thursday
and deciding whether the church has had an "upstat" or "downstat" week.
[Go here for our primer, "What is Scientology?"]
We're going to do something different this time, however. The first two
weeks of 2012 have been disastrous for Scientology, what with former
high-ranking official Debbie Cook e-mailing thousands of her fellow
church members in what amounts to a call of rebellion that will further
rip apart an organization splitting at the seams, and this week, a leak
of major proportions: images of the outlandish and weird things planned
for the "Super Power Building" that is slated to become Scientology's
"Mecca" this year.
There's been so much "entheta" that is sure to "enturbulate"
Scientologists (translation: negative press that is going to mess with
their minds), we figured it was time to reverse the tide. And so,
today, we're going to give Scientology a pure win, an upstat it is
dearly in need of. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Michael Doven, perhaps
the church's greatest living student of L. Ron Hubbard's technology!
Tags: 1948, 1966, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, Anonymous, APA,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Basics, California, Celebrity Centre, Chairman of the
Board, Chris Smith, Corpus Christi, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Field Staff
Member, Florida, GO, Golden Age of Knowledge, Golden Era, Hollywood,
Independent Scientology, Ingleside, John Brousseau, L. Ron Hubbard, Marty
Rathbun, Michael Doven, Michael Roberts, Mike Rinder, MIT, Office of Special
Affairs, OT IV, OT V, OT VII, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Saint Hill
Special Briefing Course, Sea Org, Sunday Funnies, Super Power Building,
Texas, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis
=========================================
FBI's Scientology investigation: Balancing the First Amendment with charges
of abuse and forced labor
January 12, 2013, Joe Childs, Tampa Bay Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/fbis-scientology-investigation-balancing-the-first-amendment-with-charges/1270036
The Church of Scientology imposes a raft of restrictions and mental
controls on its religious workers, who grind on, abiding 100-hour
workweeks.
In mid 2009, two FBI agents based in Los Angeles quietly started
investigating the church's treatment of its workers. Investigators
continued through 2010 and into 2011. It was the FBI's first known
criminal investigation of Scientology in 30 years.
Tags: Amy Scobee, Astra Woodcraft, Blow Drill, Claire Headley, David
Miscavige, Ethics Officer, Eugene Volokh, FBI, Frank K. Flinn, Freewinds,
Gary Morehead, Gerald Feffer, Graham Berry, Guardian's Office, Human
trafficking, Human Trafficking Protection Act, Int Base, Jeff Hawkins,
Jennifer Linson, John Brousseau, Karin Pouw, Kate Olson, Marc Headley, Marty
Rathbun, Mat Pesch, Michael German, Michael Seigel, Mike Rinder, Monique
Yingling, Office of Special Affairs, Religious Technology Center, Sea Org,
Sec Check, Susan Elliott, Susan Lentsch, Texas, The Hole, Tom De Vocht,
Tricia Whitehill, Valerie Venegas
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Gary Weber: Another former Scientology official talks about women forced to
have abortions
January 12, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/01/12/gary-weber-another-former-scientology-official-talks-about-women-forced-to-have-abortions/
Gary Weber was one of several GO members who paraded in Nazi uniforms
outside the Clearwater Sun offices in 1979 to protest how the newspaper
was treating Scientology Gary Weber first went public about his past as
a member of Scientology's Guardian's Office seven or eight years ago at
Arnie Lerma's site. It's an excellent read, and we recommend that you
go over there for the full account from Gary about his tenure as a
Scientologist, a member of the Sea Org, and an operative in
Scientology's original spy corps, the GO.
He's now agreed to a video interview with Karen de la Carriere, and
we're happy to premiere the first episode today.
We also talked to him last night by telephone, and he told us about
what he did as a Guardian's Office member, circa 1979: "I would go into
the Org and get these folders of the parishioners, and brought them to
the GO, where they were putting together dead-agent packs for anyone
who might turn on them."
Tags: 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 2009, Arnie Lerma, California, Claire Headley,
Clearwater, Clearwater Sun, England, FBI, Florida, GO, Grant Cardone,
Guardian Office, Guardian's Office, Ideal Org, Int Base, Karen de la
Carriere, Laura DeCrescenzo, Mary Sue Hubbard, Office of Special Affairs,
Oiliness table, Quicky, Saint Hill Manor, Sea Org, Sunday Funnies, Super
Power, Super Power Building, Tampa Bay Times, The Truth Rundown
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Church of Scientology's Miscavige fear of Oral deposition
January 12, 2015, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcekrxVhfQ
In this satirical video Scientology attorney E. Stuart Mills meets with
a senior Church of Scientology official to discuss a very expensive
problem. Scientology Dictator David Miscavige, it seems, is caught in a
hellish dilemma.
David Miscavige absolutely wants to be in charge the entire Church of
Scientology and its vast piles of money, lawyers, PI's building, and
everything else.
Any yet, Miscavige told the IRS he is only in charge of the Religious
Technology Center (RTC). Now that he is being named in lawsuits,
Miscavige has to stick with the script he gave to the IRS. If it is
proved that Miscavige runs the entire Church of Scientology then
several corporate veils are pierced. This could cause big trouble.
Therefore, Miscavige has to spend a fortune lawyers to keep all of his
lies in place:
* Captain Misavige's rank means nothing -- and don't you dare call him
"Captain" or else!
* Captain Misavige has nothing to do with managing the daily affairs of
the Church of Scientology International.
* Captain Miscavige does not have a phone. But maybe he does.
As OTVIIIisGrrr8! wrote on December 10, 2014 on the Underground Bunker:
We in RTC feel the need to point out the obvious to the Chattering Wog
Classes who understand neither the subtleties nor the niceties of the
Scientology religion.
1. Mr. Miscavige has no connections to Oklahoma, Texas, or anywhere
else in the physical universe.
2. As a Sea Org member, Mr. Miscavige is simply a part of an
unincorporated membership association that has no address, no bank
account, no stationery, and does not exist.
3. Above all, as a thetan, Mr. Miscavige is a static. What is a static?
As defined by Axiom 34, the ultimate truth is a static:
"Axiom 35: The ultimate truth is a static. A static has no mass,
meaning, mobility, no wavelength, no time no location in space, no
space. This has the technical name of 'basic truth.'"
Essentially, then, Mr. Miscavige simultaneously does not exist, and, Mr.
Miscavige is the ultimate truth. This explains why the mere mention of
his name as-ises lawsuits and they vanish.
All lawsuits against Mr. Miscavige contain lies that cannot persist in
the presence of ultimate truth.
Therefore, any attempt by wogs to sue the ultimate truth who is being
the nonexistent Mr. Miscavige only as an administrative convenience to
facilitate the straight up and vertical expansion of Scientology
organizations is doomed to failure. The ultimate truth cannot be sued
anymore than any other nonexistent entity can be sued. Sue David
Miscavige? One might as well sue Mickey Mouse for all the good it does.
It is futility itself to sue a static who does not actually exist in
time and space. Mr. Miscavige's supernal physical body is actually a
manifestation, or incarnation, of ultimate truth. The only thing that
can be said about this supernal manifestation is that it likes to drink
fine scotch and will never make itself available for either the service
of summons or for deposition; this is the Tao of David Miscavige you see.
Tags: David Miscavige, IRS, Religious Technology Center, Sea Org
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Judge warns of huge legal costs in Church of Scientology dispute
January 12, 2015, Ray Managh, Independent.ie
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/judge-warns-of-huge-legal-costs-in-church-of-scientology-dispute-30900978.html
Scientologists Zabrina Collins and Michael O'Donnell have won High
Court orders restraining former Scientologists Peter Griffiths and John
McGhee from harassing, assaulting or intimidating them in anti-drugs
and other work they do for their Church.
Griffiths, of Teeling Street, Ballina, Co Mayo, in turn has sued
Collins, the daughter of wrongly convicted Co Donegal publican Frank
Shortt for alleged defamation of character. Ms Collins' address was
given as Parnell Square West, Dublin.
Judge Jacqueline Linnane today addressed all of the parties in the
Circuit Civil Court, which is now handling the case, and told them the
clock had already started ticking on a mounting legal bill both on High
Court and Circuit Court costs.
Tags: Ireland, John McGhee, Judge Jacqueline Linnane, Michael O'Donnell,
Peter Griffiths, Zabrina Collins
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Judge warns Scientologists to avoid big legal bill
January 12, 2015, RTI News
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0112/672048-judge-warns-scientologists-to-avoid-big-legal-bill/
A judge has warned current and former members of the Church of
Scientology to "sit down and be reasonable" with each other if they
want to avoid a massive legal costs bill.
Scientologists Zabrina Collins and Michael O'Donnell have won High
Court orders restraining former members Peter Griffiths and John McGhee
from harassing, assaulting or intimidating them over work they do for
their church.
Mr Griffiths, of Teeling Street, Ballina, Co Mayo, in turn has sued Ms
Collins, the daughter of wrongly convicted Co Donegal publican Frank
Shortt, for alleged defamation of character.
Tags: Dublin, Frank Shortt, Ireland, John McGhee, Judge Jacqueline Linnane,
Michael O'Donnell, Peter Griffiths, Zabrina Collins
=========================================
Monday Funnies: More evidence that Scientology is gearing up for a really
tough 2015
January 12, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/01/12/monday-funnies-more-evidence-that-scientology-is-gearing-up-for-a-really-tough-2015/
Surprise! If you're looking for our Monday reveal, we sprang it early,
on Saturday afternoon. Our big secret was the title and subject of our
forthcoming book, 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely,' about the life of
Paulette Cooper, which London-based Silvertail Books is publishing in
May.
We decided to keep that announcement up the rest of the weekend, so
today we're going to post our delayed Sunday Funnies - they're our
Monday Funnies!
And we're going to start off with more evidence which convinces us that
Scientology is taking very seriously the threats it is facing in 2015.
We know that the organization has been dealing with dwindling
membership for years, key defections by important officials, a
tenacious "indie" movement that tries to entice other members to leave,
and the growing legal problems of Narconon.
Tags: 1991, Alessandro Calcioli, Alex Gibney, BBC, Chicago, Chicago Fire,
Christian, Christian Stolte, Clive Rabey, David Miscavige, England, Facebook,
Fearless Leader, Fort Harrison, Freedom Magazine, Going Clear: Scientology,
Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, HBO, Ideal Org, Inglewood, Jane Millan,
Jeffrey Augustine, Karen de la Carriere, KCET, London, Los Angeles, Louis
Theroux, Louisa Hodkin, Melbourne, Mike Rinder, Narconon, Nick Lekas, Orange
County, Paulette Cooper, Purification Rundown, San Francisco, Sharon Weitz,
Silvertail Books, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Sunday Funnies, Super
Bowl, Super Power Building, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, The
Unbreakable Miss Lovely, TIME, USA Today, Utah, Veronica Milagros
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Neues Buch |ber Scientologys schdndliche Terrorkampagne
January 12, 2015, ShortNews
http://www.shortnews.de/id/1138063/neues-buch-ueber-scientologys-schaendliche-terrorkampagne
Das in London ansdssige Verlagshaus 4Silvertail Books4 bringt ab Mai
unter dem Titel 4The Unbreakable Miss Lovely4 die Geschichte |ber
Pauletta Cooper heraus. Cooper war das bekannteste Opfer des
ber|chtigten und ruchlosen Vergeltungssystem der Scientology-Sekte.
Tags: Humfrey Hunter, Paulette Cooper, Silvertail Books, The Unbreakable Miss
Lovely, Tony Ortega
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