Today in Scientology -- April 25th ****************

[Scientology Today]

Today April 25th in Scientology history
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The Story From Germany Is About Big Changes Under Way
April 25, 1997, Robert von Rimscha, International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/1997/04/25/edrim.t.php

Sounds too grim? German angst? How can the German-American relationship
be seen as anything but sound -- so sound that recent controversies
like the one over the treatment of Scientology in Germany qualify at
most as minor rumbles?

Tags: Germany

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EarthLink's global odyssey
April 25, 2002, John Borland, CNET
http://www.news.com/2009-1033-888081.html

In 1993, Sky Dayton was "pulling his hair out" trying to get online --
so he bought 10 modems and set up his own Internet service provider,
named EarthLink a year later.

Tags: Earthlink, Sky Dayton

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Events occur more quickly on the Net
April 25, 2002, David Radin, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/interact/20020425radin3.asp

According to the church, Operation Clambake is infringing on the
church's copyrighted material, and that by linking to Operation
Clambake, Google is aiding the copyright infringement as defined by the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

So, in a flurry of activity, Google has removed the link to stay within
the bounds of the law, devised a plan to deal with similar issues in
the future then replaced the links in the search engine.

Tags: DMCA, Operation Clambake

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Scientology Church fights Google
April 25, 2002, Kevin Anderson, BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1949879.stm

The Church of Scientology has taken its long-running battle against the
distribution of its material on internet sites - especially sites
critical of the church - to Google, one of the most popular search
sites on the internet.

Tags: Chilling Effects, DMCA, Google, Operation Clambake

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Scientology expands at home
April 25, 2006, Robert Farley, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/25/Northpinellas/Scientology_expands_a.shtml

A global expansion by the Church of Scientology delayed construction of
a flagship building in this city it considers its spiritual
headquarters, church officials say.

But after spending hundreds of millions of dollars from Madrid to
Mountain View, Calif., the church is once again turning its attention
to downtown Clearwater in a big way.

The church plans to finish its long-delayed Flag Building by next year,
officials say. And newly revealed construction plans call for:

Tags: Ben Shaw, Clearwater, Fort Harrison, Frank Hibbard, Real estate, Super
Power

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Scientology Exploits The Virginia Tech Tragedy
April 25, 2007, Mark Ebner, Orato
http://www.orato.com/current-events/2007/04/25/scientology-exploits-virginia-tech-tragedy

After wholesale blaming the massacre on psychiatric drugs before the
killer was even identified, they descended like vultures upon the
grief-stricken Virginia Tech campus. Based on internal memos I've
received, I can prove that Scientology's goals at VT are not in the
least bit altruistic. Hubbard's own doctrine specifies that they are
not about charity "without fair exchange." They seek only to benefit
from whatever good PR they imagine they can conjure, and how much "raw
meat" (Hubbard's reference to new recruits) they can bring into their
organization. The official internal Scientology memos I've been
receiving call for the bulk purchasing of cult literature to be
distributed by largely untrained adherents at V-Tech and, this time,
give the false impression that they are actually working with the
Salvation Army.

Tags: Virginia Tech, Volunteer Ministers

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50 best cult books
April 25, 2008, Sam Leith and friends, The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3672915/50-best-cult-books.html

Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health by L Ron Hubbard (1950)
Do you often feel unhappy? Depressed? Ill at ease with others? You will
if you read this. Creepy bit of mind-mechanics by the indifferent
sci-fi novelist who founded Scientology. TM

Tags: Quicky

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Council revokes rehab consent
April 25, 2008, Wanganui Chronicle
http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3770703&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection

A PLANNED church-based rehabilitation centre in Papaiti Rd for male
alcoholics and drug addicts no longer has resource consent.

Its consent was revoked this week after an investigation by a Wanganui
District Council planning officers.

Councillor Ray Stevens said that, after a number of complaints from
residents and members of the community, council planning officers had
found that the original resource consent should not have been granted.

"It became clear to us that what had been written in the proposal and
what the owners had been saying were two different things," Mr Stevens
said.

Tags: Narconon, New Zealand

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Nightline Swings at Scientology, Misses
April 25, 2008, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/04/nightline_swing.php

What do you expect when a program as mainstream as Nightline tries to
take on a moving story like the new, growing opposition to Scientology?
Certainly not something this weak.

Stumbling in the footsteps of a recent terrific story by John Cook at
Radar, Nightline tried to tell the story of Jenna Miscavige Hill last
night. Why is her story important? She's niece to the tiny leader of
Scientology, David Miscavige, so her defection, and subsequent
allegations about how her family was split up in the church's notorious
policy of "disconnection," should pack a punch to L. Ron Hubbard's sect.

Unfortunately, Nightline, like most mainstream outlets, gets really
squeamish when talk turns to religious belief, so the ABC program
managed to leave out the part that Scientology is a money-making scam
that doesn't tell its own believers until they've paid hundreds of
thousands of dollars that the point of all their classes and
lie-detector machines is to remove space-alien souls from the human body.

Tags: David Miscavige, Jenna Miscavige Hill, John Cook, Nightline, Quicky

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The Good Ole Boys-And The Beat Goes On
April 25, 2008, June Maxam, North Country Gazette (blog)
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2008/04/25/beat_goes_on/

As the saying goes, the more things change, the more they remain the
same and the Good Ole Boys Club is still at work in Florida-in
particular, Pinellas County. F. Wallace Pope Jr. of the law firm
Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns of Clearwater is serving as the
special counsel for the JQC against Allen, and argues that the JQC is
autonomous, that the Supreme Court cannot control its operations.

With Pope representing the JQC as its special counsel, it's not
surprising that Florida's most infamous judge, Sixth Circuit probate
court judge George W. Greer, has consistently skated his way past
accountability and been given carte blanche to violate judicial canons
and Florida's Code of Judicial Conduct.

Tags: Ed Armstrong, Florida, Judge Greer, Lisa McPherson, Wally Pope

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Church of Scientology drops Bexar suit against ex-member
April 25, 2012, Craig Kapitan, San Antonio Express-News
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Church-of-Scientology-drops-Bexar-suit-against-3510603.php

Debbie Cook, who received $50,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement
when she left the Florida-based organization in 2007, violated that
agreement with a mass email on New Year's Eve that disparaged church
practices, the lawsuit contended.

But the suit became almost a textbook example of how litigation can
sometimes backfire after Cook was called to the witness stand for a
pre-trial injunction hearing in February and, with a courtroom full of
reporters, outlined under oath a history of alleged oddities and abuses
by the church.

The allegations included seven weeks of captivity in "The Hole," where
Cook said she slept on the floor, was fed "slop," was coerced into
giving false confessions and was beaten, according to previous
Express-News reports. She was also forced to stand in a garbage can for
12 hours as water was poured over her head and watched as another man
was ordered to lick a bathroom floor clean, she said during four hours
of testimony.

Tags: Bexar County, Debbie Cook, George Spencer, Ray Jeffrey, The Hole, Wayne
Baumgarten

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Church of Scientology drops Bexar suit against ex-member
April 25, 2012, Craig Kapitan, Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/news/local_news/article/Church-of-Scientology-drops-Bexar-suit-against-3510603.php

The allegations included seven weeks of captivity in "The Hole," where
Cook said she slept on the floor, was fed "slop," was coerced into
giving false confessions and was beaten, according to previous
Express-News reports. She was also forced to stand in a garbage can for
12 hours as water was poured over her head and watched as another man
was ordered to lick a bathroom floor clean, she said during four hours
of testimony.

Tags: Bexar County, Debbie Cook, George Spencer, Ray Jeffrey, Texas, The
Hole, Wayne Baumgarten

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FED COURT DENIES SCIENTOLOGY REQUEST: Decision on Religious Arbitration
Coming Soon?
April 25, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/04/25/fed-court-denies-scientology-request-decision-on-religious-arbitration-coming-soon/

Federal Judge James Whittemore today denied the Church of Scientology's
request to bolster its response to Luis and Rocio Garcia's fraud lawsuit.

On Monday night, the Garcias filed numerous damning declarations by
former church members and officials who say that the church has created
a situation that makes it impossible for excommunicated members to
obtain refunds. (Scientology courses are extremely expensive and it's
not unusual for members to put tens of thousands or even hundreds of
thousands of dollars on account for future services which may never be
undertaken.)

The church - which had already used up its 25-page limit to respond to
the lawsuit - asked for an exception to local rules to file an
additional 10-page memo and a set of its own declarations that it said
would prove its arbitration policies are fair.

Tags: Buddhist, Catholic Church, First Amendment, Judge James Whittemore,
Luis and Rocio Garcia, Quicky, Scott Pilutik, Ted Babbitt

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Police dismiss Kiska's complaint
April 25, 2014, Slovak Spectator
http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/53792/10/police_dismiss_kiskas_complaint.html

Kiska informed about submitting the criminal complaint during the press
conference he held on election night after the first round of the
presidential elections. He was responding to Fico claiming he was
affliated with the Church of Scientology and accusing him of usury.
Kiska denied both claims.

Tags: Andrej Kiska, Robert Fico, Slovakia

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Video Vault: The universe is yours to duplicate, Mr. Hubbard!
April 25, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/04/25/video-vault-the-universe-is-yours-to-duplicate-mr-hubbard/

Our video source came through again this week with another "quote
video," and this one goes way back, enticing you to buy an L. Ron
Hubbard lecture from 1953 - Universe Processes Congress!

On Wednesday, we brought you startling information that suggests
Scientology's flagship drug rehab facility, Narconon Arrowhead, is
struggling financially, with only about 42 patients in a treatment
center designed to house 230.

Tags: Abigail Miller, Bridge Publications, Chris Bauge, Chris Olander, Dan
Carmichael, Glendale, Glenn Farnsworth, Hans Hasselberger, Herb Williams, Ian
Confer, Int Base, Jay Farrell, Josh Penn, Kerry Clark, L. Ron Hubbard, Larry
Trahant, Linda Kloeffler, Marc Headley, Narconon Arrowhead, Narconon Fresh
Start, Nicole Ciferalli, Portzia Tristano, Ron Cook, Shane Clark, Shannon
Farnsworth, Universe Processes Congress

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Jon Atack announces a five-day Toronto conference on Scientology to take
place in June
April 25, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/04/25/jon-atack-announces-a-five-day-toronto-conference-on-scientology-to-take-place-in-june/

Jon Atack is the author of A Piece of Blue Sky, one of the very best
books on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. He has a new edition of the
book for sale, and for more than a year on Saturdays he helped us sift
through the legends, myths, and contested facts about Scientology that
tend to get hashed and rehashed in books, articles, and especially on
the Internet. He was kind enough to send us a new post.

Actually, Jon, it's not a new post you've sent us but an announcement
and an invitation?

JON: That's right. From June 22 through 26th, Tyndale University
College and Seminary in Toronto will host a course and conference on
Scientology, planned and directed by Professor James Beverley and me.
Jim and I have been friends for four years and have worked toward this
event for some time. Our course and conference promises to be the most
in-depth and wide-ranging course or conference ever held on Scientology.
I intend to withdraw from Scientology related work after this event.

Tags: A Piece of Blue Sky, Amazon, Andreas Heldal-Lund, Australia, Bare-Faced
Messiah, Basel, Canada, Celebrity Centre, Chicago, Chris Shelton, Chuck
Beatty, Combating Cult Mind Control, David Miscavige, DC, Facebook, FACTNet,
Flag Down, GO, Hamburg, Hana Whitfield, Hollywood, Ideal Org, Infinite
Complacency, Ireland, Jamie DeWolf, Jesse Prince, John Duignan, Jon Atack,
Jonny Jacobsen, Karin Spaink, Lawrence Wollersheim, Los Angeles, Martin
Poulter, Mission, My Billion Year Contract, Nancy Many, Narconon, New York
City, Nora Crest, Office of Special Affairs, Operation Clambake, Operation
Freakout, Orange County, OT, Paulette Cooper, Pete Griffiths, Quicky,
Rehabilitation Project Force, Russell Miller, Russia, San Diego, San
Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sea Org, Steve Cannane, Steven Hassan, Switzerland,
The Complex, The Scandal of Scientology, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely,
Toronto, Tory Christman, Ursula Caberta, Washington

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