Today in Scientology -- April 29th ***********

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Today April 29th in Scientology history
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Scientologists sue 'Time' for libel
April 29, 1992, St. Petersburg Times
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/54230985.html?dids=54230985:54230985&FMT=FT

The Church of Scientology filed a $416-million libel lawsuit Monday
against Time magazine over a 1991 article Scientologists call a
"hatchet job." The lawsuit charged Time's May 6 cover story, "The Cult
of Greed," was "maliciously constructed from its inception to attempt
to destroy the Scientology religion."

Tags: Legal, TIME Magazine

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Church targets lawsuit attorney
April 29, 2002, Deborah O'Neil, St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/29/TampaBay/Church_targets_lawsui.shtml

The Church of Scientology is rolling out an aggressive set of legal
maneuvers aimed at wiping out one of its biggest headaches: the lawsuit
blaming the church for the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson.

The church is zeroing in on Tampa attorney Ken Dandar, who in
representing McPherson's family has mustered an unrelenting challenge
costing the church millions and fueling unending bad publicity.

Tags: Bruce Howie, Dell Liebreich, Judge Douglas Baird, Judge Susan
Schaeffer, Ken Dandar, Lisa McPherson, Luke Lirot, Robert Minton, Wally Pope

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Riot-torn Paris suburbs 'targeted by sects'
April 29, 2006, Kim Willsher, Special reports, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1764148,00.html

Sect-like groups are profiting from the misery in riot-stricken French
suburbs to attract new recruits under the guise of offering
humanitarian aid, warns an official report. Organisations including the
Church of Scientology, labelled a cult in France, are targeting
vulnerable residents in the country's poor, high immigration suburbs,
it claims.

France's official sects watchdog, the Interministerial Mission in the
Fight Against Cults (Miviludes), said the situation called for "extreme
vigilance".

Tags: France, Miviludes

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Beghe Begging for His Scientology Records
April 29, 2008, Roger Friedman, Celebrity Gossip, FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353041,00.html

On Monday night, Beghe -- whom this column told you all about in his
exit from Scientology after nearly 14 years -- posted a message on a
public forum at OperationClambake.com. He wants returned to him the
mountains of folders, files and tapes that were compiled about him by
the sect. So far, they've refused.

Tags: David Miscavige, Jason Beghe, Operation Clambake

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Ex-Scientologist interview on Extreme Beliefs
April 29, 2009, EnturbulationStation, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKI1VmK-MA8

Excellent TV show called Extreme Beliefs.
This episode, an ex-Scientologist explains being born into the cult and
living in the cult and blowing the cult.
Wonderful interview.

Tags: Disconnection, Ex-member, Sea Org, Suppressive Person

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Dubious mail-out blitz by Church of Scientology
April 29, 2011, Emily Portelli, Herald Sun
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/dubious-mail-out-blitz-by-church-of-scientology/story-fn7x8me2-1226046546311

Prof Nicholas Haslam, of the School of Psychological Sciences at the
University of Melbourne, said the Oxford Capacity Analysis test was not
an accepted personality test.

"It is a tool associated with the Church of Scientology that has no
standing in the professional community of psychology practitioners and
researchers, that lacks basic evidence of validity, and that often has
been criticized for how it is mis-used," he said.

Tags: Australia, Mary Anderson, Melbourne, Nicholas Haslam, Nick Xenophon,
Oxford Capacity Analysis

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Narconon - Manifestation contre un centre de d?sintoxication
April 29, 2012, Nicolas Ducharme, Canoe
http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/regional/archives/2012/04/20120429-185356.html

Des opposants ? Narconon Trois-Rivi?res ont manifest? dimanche
apr?s-midi devant le centre de d?sintoxication li? aux enseignements de
l'?glise de la Scientologie.

Une vingtaine de personnes, masqu?es pour la plupart, se sont
pr?sent?es sur le coup de midi devant l'?tablissement situ? sur le
boulevard Parent. Plusieurs d'entre eux se r?clamaient du collectif
Anonymous, un groupe connu pour sa lutte contre la Scientologie.

Tags: Anonymous, David Love, French, Narconon, Narconon Trois-Rivi?res, Quebec

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Sunday Funnies: Librarians Under Assault!
April 29, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/04/scientology_sunday_funnies_librarianss.php

Scientologists don't really have a Sunday service. They like to say
that they do, because they crave mainstream acceptance. But unless Xenu
rested after six days and L. Ron Hubbard just forgot to mention it,
there's no reason for Scientologists to treat Sunday any differently
than every other day of coursework, detoxes, fundraising, and generally
clearing the planet.

So here at the Voice, we've come up with a Scientology Sunday tradition
of our own, and we call it Sunday Funnies! Our sources regularly send
us Scientology's wacky and tacky fundraising mailers, and each week we
choose a few of them to gaze upon, hoping that it inspires you to wax
eloquent in our comments section. So here we go...

With their president recently sprung from felony charges in Australia,
the folks at CCHR will presumably have much to celebrate as they march
against the psychs...

Tags: 1950, 1985, 1990, ANZO, Applied Scholastics, Australia, Bexar County,
Boston, Brian Culkin, CCHR, David Love, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook,
Facebook, Hollywood, Humanitarian, Jan Eastgate, Legal, Melbourne, Narconon,
New South Wales, OT, Quicky, Scientology executive, Scott Pilutik, Sea Org,
Sunday Funnies, Sunday service, Sydney, The Way to Happiness, Wayne
Baumgarten, WISE, Xenu

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Scientology Metaphysics: After Death, Will You Go to Mars or Venus?
April 29, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2013/04/29/scientology-metaphysics-after-death-will-you-go-to-mars-or-venus/

This promises to be an amazing week here at the Underground Bunker. On
Tuesday, we're told, the Oklahoma legislature may finally approve a new
law that will put Scientology's drug rehab flagship center in that
state, Narconon Arrowhead, under stricter state control (and may
actually put it out of business). Another big story we're following -
Luis Garcia's federal fraud lawsuit in Tampa - may produce a huge
finding from Judge James Whittemore about Scientology's insistence
about religious arbitration.

And in the meantime, of course, we're still excited about Friday's
police raid of Scientology's drug rehab facility in the Atlanta region,
the first raid by law enforcement of a Scientology facility in the U.S.
since the FBI swarmed church offices in D.C. and Los Angeles in 1977.

These are exciting times! But let's not forget the founder of our
feast, L. Ron Hubbard, and his wise words. Keeping up on Scientology's
beliefs is not an easy proposition. Take the publication Slate this
week, for example, which included this whopper in an otherwise quality
piece about Tom Cruise...

Tags: 1963, 1969, 1977, Anne Archer, Artists for Human Rights, Atlanta, BBC,
FBI, Judge James Whittemore, Los Angeles, Luis Garcia, Narconon Arrowhead,
New York, Oklahoma, Operating Thetan, OT, Quicky, Saint Hill Special Briefing
Course, Slate, Tampa, Tom Cruise, Venus

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Scientology's 'Hogwarts' doesn't want you to think it's connected to
Scientology
April 29, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2014/04/29/scientologys-hogwarts-doesnt-want-you-to-think-its-connected-to-scientology/

Back in 2011, when Rupert Murdoch was still paying for his iPad
adventure, The Daily, a journalist named Benjamin Carlson did a really
fine two-part series on the ultimate Scientology school, "Delphian" in
Oregon. We thought it was clever that he referred to the high school as
Scientology's version of "Hogwarts."

Although The Daily no longer exists, Carlson salvaged his piece on his
own website, which you can read here. One of the things he notes is
that although everyone in Scientology knows that the school is for the
kids of the church's wealthier members, on paper the school and the
church are separate:

Although the word "Scientology" appears nowhere on the Delphian
website, and the school is technically independent, its connections to
the group are intimate and pervasive. "A good majority, if not all the
staff, are Scientologists," said Elaine Ke, 18, who graduated from the
school this year. Other alums back that estimate. Both the headmistress
and the assistant headmaster are listed as having completed various
levels of Scientology programs in the group's publications.

Tags: 2011, Benjamin Carlson, Delphian, Delphian School, Facebook, Laura
DeCrescenzo, Oregon, Quicky, Rupert Murdoch, Sea Org

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Want to go Clear? Has Scientology got a deal for you!
April 29, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
http://tonyortega.org/2015/04/29/want-to-go-clear-has-scientology-got-a-deal-for-you/

We want to thank the tipster who sent us a flier out of the Tampa org.
It definitely interested us, because it featured a really stunning
price for going "Clear."

Now, first of all, if you've been hanging around this website for a
considerable time, and you've seen the hundreds of Scientology ads and
fliers we've posted over the years, you know that it's not really
common for fliers to post a price for courses (other than for seminar
packages on the Freewinds, for example).

And on top of that, this price was pretty stunning. Stunning, that is,
for how low it is, and for offering an entire ride from beginner to
Clear in one package.

Tags: 1968, Advanced Org, Amazon, American Saint Hill Organization, ASHO,
Australia, Canada, Chicago, Chris Shelton, Claire Headley, Clear, David
Miscavige, DC, Florida, Freewinds, Golden Age of Tech, Hollywood,
International Association of Scientologists, Jamie DeWolf, Los Angeles, New
York City, Orange County, OT, Paulette Cooper, Purif, Purification Rundown,
Quicky, Saint Hill, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sea Org, Tampa,
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, Toronto, Washington

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