Today in Scientology -- September 25th **********************************************************

[Scientology Today]

Today September 25th in Scientology history
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Scientologists' Criminal Trial Is Postponed
September 25, 1979, Timothy S. Robinson, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/09/25/scientologists-criminal-trial-is-postponed/0392bae7-969a-447a-8bc5-ad126ad22e81/

The criminal trial of nine members of the Church of Scientology,
scheduled to start yesterday, has been postponed pending the outcome of
negotiations between federal prosecutors and church attorneys seeking
to avoid a lengthy court case.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey reportedly has told attorneys for
both sides in closed hearings that he still intends the trial to begin
by next Tuesday at the latest if no agreement is reached.

The negotiations are said to center on a procedure by which the
government attorneys will lay out their complete case against the
Scientologists in court documents. The judge will then determine
whether the church members are guilty or innocent of charges of
conspiring to obstruct justice and burglarize government offices.

Tags: 1977, California, Criminal, FBI, Judge Charles Richey, Quicky, Trial

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Letter from the World Science Fiction Convention
September 25, 1983, Michael Dird, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1983/09/25/letter-from-the-world-science-fiction-convention/81ffbb1b-f13d-4de5-babc-6dcffe4c38fc/

At more zany talks, J.J. Pierce asserted that in their latest books
Frank Herbert and Robert Heinlein had taken to "acting like Khalil
Gibran." John Shirley, doing his Don Rickles routine, lashed out that
fans were "all badly in need of analysis" and that sf novels were
"sleazy, disgusting books that probably incited sex crimes." Meanwhile,
Scientologists provided free issues of To the Stars, a fanzine largely
devoted to founder L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth, which they felt
had been wrongly denied a nomination for the Hugo (the Science Fiction
Achievement Award). Rightly so, claimed the contentious Charles Platt,
of The Patchin Review, who led a post-Hugo panel devoted to the burning
question: "What's Wrong with the Hugo?" If, however, you didn't care
for scientology and L. Ron, but were still looking for salvation, you
could learn to "slack off' by joining J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and his Church
of the Sub-Genius; as the buttons proclaimed "No Prob with Bob."

Tags: 2001, 2010, Arlington, Arthur C. Clarke, Battlefield Earth, Copyright,
English, Guns, Indiana, Isaac Asimov, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Jerry Pournelle, L.
Sprague de Camp, Las Vegas, London, Robert Heinlein, Russia, Silver, Space
Opera, St. Paul, Starbucks, Terrorist, Washington

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Four shot at Ore. Church of Scientology
September 25, 1996, UPI
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/09/25/Four-shot-at-Ore-Church-of-Scientology/4965843624000/

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 25 -- A gunman opened fire on four people at the
Church of Scientology Wednesday, leaving one pregnant woman in critical
condition, two others seriously injured, and another with a minor
injury. Jairus Godeka, 38, originally from Kenya, allegedly walked into
the downtown Portland, Ore. church at 11:30 a.m., and shot the pregnant
receptionist in the shoulder. She was able to escape to a basement,
where she hid. The gunman then shot three men inside the church, and
spread gasoline in the building and lit it, said Lt. Cliff Madison,
spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau. He then grabbed a fifth
victim and held that person hostage and tried to flee out the side
door, where he was confronted by police officers about 5 feet away.
Police successfully negotiated with Godeka to release the hostage and
the gun, and he was arrested. Godeka was charged in February with
blackmail and extortion against the same church. Police did not provide
details about his prior arrests at the church this year and in 1994.
The man with minor injuries had a graze wound to his buttocks. The
injury would have been more serious had his wallet not been in the way,
Madison said. 'He didn't realize he was shot because it went through
his pants and his wallet. But he felt pain in his rear end,' Madison
said. The church received only moderate smoke and water damage because
firefighters managed to put out the flames within a few minutes,
officials said.

Tags: 1994, Carlos Cloon, Clearwater, Helen Burke, Hospital, Jairus Godeka,
Jim Stone, Kenya, Oregon, Police, Portland, Quicky, Steven Crandell

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Four shot at Oregon Scientology center
September 25, 1996, AP, CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9609/25/briefs.pm/index.html

The suspect, identified as Kenya native Jairus Godeka, 38, surrendered
after walking out of the church's Portland Celebrity Center with a
female hostage whom he released unharmed. Godeka was promptly arrested,
and firefighters quickly doused the flames.

Tags: Jairus Godeka, Portland

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Four Shot at Oregon Scientology Center
September 25, 1996, Associated Press
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Four-Shot-at-Oregon-Scientology-Center/id-0db0672440a6a3c50d2aa56df73bbf0a

PORTLAND, ORE. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ A man carried a gun and a can of
gasoline into a downtown Church of Scientology on Wednesday, starting a
fire and shooting four people, including a pregnant woman.

The suspect surrendered after walking out of the church's Portland
Celebrity Centre with a female hostage who was heard shouting: "Don't
do anything. He's got a gun to my head." Police talked the man into
releasing the woman unharmed and dropping his handgun.

Firefighters quickly put out the blaze and it did not cause serious
damage.

Tags: Celebrity Centre, Fire, Oregon, Police, Portland, Quicky

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Three Shot at Church of Scientology
September 25, 1996, Associated Press
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Three-Shot-at-Church-of-Scientology/id-9804412cae0b6dc75a5bfd716bbb81bd

PORTLAND, ORE. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ A man carried a can of gasoline
into the Church of Scientology's Portland headquarters today, started a
fire and shot at least three people.

Two men and a woman were taken from the downtown church to a nearby
hospital. There was no immediate word as to the extent of their injuries.

One man was in custody and witnesses across the street at The Heathman
Hotel said another suspect fled the scene. However, police spokesman Lt.
Cliff Madison said that it was unclear if there was a second suspect.

Tags: Police, Portland, Quicky

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Larry Brennan in Hamburg, repaired (3/4)
September 25, 2008, JohnnyAnonic, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIpJvIPpe3I

Larry Brennan, former Scientology executive, speaks about the
organization's legal cloaking methods. Originally uploaded by
AboutScientology, and further edi...

Tags: AboutScientology, Denise Brennan, Hamburg, Scientology executive

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Larry Brennan in Hamburg, repaired (4/4)
September 25, 2008, JohnnyAnonic, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmlQc09v3M

Larry Brennan, former Scientology executive, speaks about the
organization's legal cloaking methods. Originally uploaded by
AboutScientology, and further edi...

Tags: AboutScientology, Denise Brennan, Hamburg, Scientology executive

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YouTube Anti-Scientology Takedowns and Putbacks
September 25, 2008, David Ardia, Citizen Media Law Project
http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2008/youtube-anti-scientology-takedowns-and-putbacks

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on some good news, and bit
of bad news, regarding the blizzard of DMCA takedown notices sent to
YouTube on behalf of the Church of Scientology. Back in early
September, the American Rights Counsel, Schaper Company, and Media
House Enterprises, among others, sent hundreds of takedown notices to
YouTube demanding the removal of videos critical of the Church of
Scientology. According to EFF, "[i]t soon became clear that these
entities did not hold the copyrights to the materials they claimed to
be infringed, including footage from a Clearwater City Commission
meeting and a man-on-the-street interview. In addition, many of these
videos were obvious fair uses, such as independent news reports."

Tags: Clearwater Commission, DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Oliver
Schaper, YouTube

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YouTube Anti-Scientology Takedowns: Good News, Bad News
September 25, 2008, Eva Galperin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/youtube-anti-scientology-takedowns-good-news-bad-n-0

Here's the good news: YouTube quickly realized something was fishy, and
began investigating. Within days, YouTube suspended the accounts that
had sent out the allegedly fraudulent DMCA takedown notices, reinstated
the accounts that had been suspended for multiple allegations of
copyright infringement, and put most of the videos back up on YouTube,
all without waiting to receive DMCA counter-notices from YouTube users
who had had their videos taken down.

Well done, YouTube. The company identified a problem and worked to
resolve it and protect users, rather than waiting passively for the
takedown targets to send counter-notices. As we noted last month,
online service providers play a crucial role in preserving and
promoting online political speech, and YouTube seems to have taken that
role seriously here.

Now, the bad news: if YouTube had not been proactive in dealing with
what appeared to be fraud, the Anti-Scientology videos might still be
down today. Very few YouTube users filed DMCA counter-notices in
response to the takedowns, apparently out of concern for their privacy.
The DMCA-compliant counter-notices must normally include the full name,
address, and telephone number of the alleged copyright infringer.
YouTube passes this information along to the party making the copyright
infringement claim. Scientology critics, reportedly concerned about
Scientology's alleged Fair Game policy, were reluctant to surrender
their anonymity.

Tags: American Rights Counsel, ContentFactory America, DMCA, Fair Game, Media
House Enterprises, Oliver Schaper, Schaper Company, YouTube

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The Boogeymen
September 25, 2010, Jefferson Hawkins, Leaving Scientology
https://leavingscientology.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/the-boogeymen/

I had an epiphany the other night, which goes something like this:

"If someone is telling you who to hate or fear, they are trying to
manipulate you."

It's like the boogeyman, invented by parents in earlier times to get
their children to behave. "If you don't do as you're told, the
boogeyman will get you." If you couldn't be bothered to appeal to a
child's reason or good sense, you could scare them into doing what
they're told.

Tags: 1984, Anonymous, Bomb threat, Eli Lilly, George Orwell, Int Base,
International Association of Scientologists, Quicky, Squirrel

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Petition the President of the United States
September 25, 2011, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/petition-the-president-of-the-united-states/

The highest levels of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington
D.C. put an arbitrary, authoritative stop on a massive, widespread
probe that its Los Angeles office had been carrying out from 2009 well
into 2010. The church of Scientology was given assurances by high level
US Department of Justice officials that the investigation was dead via
the church's expensive, connected white shoe lawfirms. With at least
the imprimatur of the FBI Director himself FBI agents were instructed
to falsely inform many witnesses and informants that the investigation
was continuing long after the church had been assured by senior
Department of Justice officials that the investigation was over. These
false assurances were provided in order to prevent the media from
making the Department of Justice look weak or bought-off in the light
of the many revelations of consistent criminal behavior being directed
by the undisputed head of the church of Scientology David Miscavige. As
a result, the Department of Justice knowingly, and callously, put a
number of informants at risk. In effect, the Department of Justice made
cooperating witnesses fair game for predictable church of Scientology
retaliation tactics.

On a personal level, the 164 day siege of my own home began date
coincident with one Scientology Inc lawyer (former high level Justice
official) going on record with a media outlet that not only was there
not an ongoing investigation into Miscavige and his cult, but the
lawyer had been assured by Justice Department officials that no
investigation had ever even occurred. And with that, Miscavige
apparently felt immune to conduct the activity against me and my wife
that is so over the top that only a madman or one knowing he had
immunity would assay. I have a well documented file, well placed, with
similar stories from a number of other FBI witnesses and informants who
were similarly left to hang and dangle in the wind.

Many local law enforcement officials have heard my complaints against
Miscavige and the church of Scientology (tangible, current assaults
upon me and my wife), in four different states, who have shrugged their
shoulders and asked me, "where's the FBI? This stuff is clearly a
pattern and crosses state lines daily." And each time, I have covered
the FBI's back by putting it back on the locals to stick to the narrow
picture - granting the FBI's stupid request that I keep the fact of
their investigation quiet. (I call the request stupid, because they
continued to assert the church couldn't know of their investigation
more than a year after I demonstrated for them it was impossible that
the church did not know by then - based upon people whom the FBI had
visited and briefed and based upon whom I know those visited had
subsequently spoken to).

Tags: 2009, 2010, David Miscavige, FBI, Los Angeles, Quicky, SEC, US
Department of Justice, Washington, White House

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Learn to Evade Tax at the Scientology Chapel
September 25, 2012, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/learn-to-evade-tax-at-the-scientology-chapel/

Bruce Wiseman and Kevin Burke are corporate Scientology stalwarts. They
are the name partners of Wiseman & Burke the firm that makes money by
handling the money of corporate Scientologists with big bucks. Wiseman
is the wise guy who puts out the creepy, world-conspiracy paranoia
tracts that justify so much corporate Scientologist unlawfulness (some
under the handle John Truman Wolfe). Incidentally, he rails about the
bankers who produce nothing but make their money off of the labor and
money of others; and guess what Wiseman and Burke does for a living? He
also appears on television and lobbies elected officials on behalf of
Scientology Inc front group CCHR (Citizens Commission on Human Rights).
Burke has covered Wiseman financially for years so that he could play
out the Scientology Inc. demagogue gig full time.

Wiseman and Burke are opinion leaders in the corporate Scientology
field, and are fully backed and sponsored by the David Miscavige
administration. Here are only two of many recent examples of church
premises being used by the duo to ply their trades and pimp Miscavige
causes:

Now, here's the rub. Scientologists who come to hear these guys are
shielded by artful use of compartmentalization of information only
possible under Miscavige's repressive Disconnect policies (keeping
people it the dark by severing all their ties to friends, family and
business contacts should they discuss or forward any unauthorized
information about those in good stead with Miscavige).

Tags: Author Services Inc, Bruce Wiseman, California, CCHR, David Miscavige,
Environmental Protection Agency, IRS, Kevin Burke, Quicky, Tax, WISE, Wiseman
& Burke

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Scientology leader's niece to reveal 'strange and disturbing' details about
life inside church in tell-all memoir
September 25, 2012, Matt Blake, Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208353/Scientology-leader-s-niece-tell-memoir-entitled-Beyond-Belief-My-Secret-Life-inside-Scientology-My-Harrowing-Escape.html

A niece of controversial Scientology leader David Miscavige is planning
a tell-all memoir about her life in the church and how she escaped its
clutches.

Jenna Miscavige Hill, 28, daughter of David's older brother Ron, has
been a frequent critic of the Church of Scientology since publicly
breaking with it in 2005.

In 'Beyond Belief: My Secret Life inside Scientology and My Harrowing
Escape', she will reveal 'strange and disturbing' details about growing
up in the church and will provide a firsthand account of Scientology's
'upper ranks', its publishers William Morrow say.

Tags: 1952, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, Astra Woodcraft, California, Catholic,
Charity, David Miscavige, DC, Dianetics, Disconnection, Escape, Ex-
Scientology Kids, Hollywood, Int Base, International Association of
Scientologists, Jenna Miscavige Hill, John Travolta, Katie Holmes, Kelly
Preston, Kendra Wiseman, L. Ron Hubbard, London, Madrid, Publisher, Quicky,
Saint Hill Manor, Sea Org, Suppressive Person, The Master, Tom Cruise, West
Sussex

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Scientology: The Return of Jason Beghe
September 25, 2012, Mark Bunker, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwMGFteBQcc

In 2008, Jason Beghe rocked the Scientology world with his frank and
open discussion of his experiences in Scientology. Now he's back with
even more details of life in Scientology and how things have changed
since he publicly departed.

First Jason Beghe Interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHb0BZ...

Tags: 2008, Jason Beghe, Quicky

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Crossing Over
September 25, 2013, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/crossing-over/

There comes a time when it well behooves one to review the bidding in
the game called life.

What follows are some thoughts that some might find useful in such a
review.

I have used the term 'construct' many times on this blog and in my
books. This is the definition I have mainly been using:

Tags: Buddha, Clear, Dianetics, Disconnection, Ethics Officer, Master at
Arms, Mental Health, OT, Quicky, Sea Org, Squirrel

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Judge rules Narconon Arrowhead must produce documents
September 25, 2013, Jeanne LeFlore, McAlester News-Capital
http://mcalesternews.com/breakingnews/x703122953/Judge-rules-Narconon-Arrowhead-must-produce-documents

During Wednesday hearing Judge Bland ruled that Narconon attorneys will
have to produce records of alleged incidents of employees, trainees and
students using illegal drugs and alcohol from 2004 until 2010.

During the hearing Narconon Attorney Bill Pettigrew said he would
produce the documents within 15 days.

The ruling was part of pre-trial proceedings in a lawsuit filed in
March 2010 on behalf of Heather Landmeier a Narconon graduate now in a
vegetative state after overdosing on heroin and oxycontin.

Tags: Bill Pettigrew, Donald Smolen, Gabriel Graves, Gary Smith, Heather
Landmeier, Judge James Bland, Legal, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, National
Association of Forensic Counselors, Oklahoma, Robert Murphy, Shirley Gilliam,
Stacy Murphy

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More Fake Videos for Voldemort Graduation Extravaganza
September 25, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/more-fake-videos-for-voldemort-graduation-extravaganza/

Solution for future videos

It seems the flap is spreading. Time for some fast "damage control" to
try to shore up eroding sandcastle of Ideal Orgs.

He has to do SOMETHING urgent to "prove" the Idle Orgs are not a
massive waste of time and other people's money.

Tags: Author Services Inc, Chairman of the Board, CIA, Fake, Ideal Org, Mad
Hatter Studios, OT, OT Committee, OTC, Pasadena, Quicky, RIES

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Narconon of Georgia surrenders license, avoids prosecution
September 25, 2013, Christian Boone, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
https://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/narconon-of-georgia-surrenders-license-avoids-pros/nZ7Sw/

A controversial Norcross drug treatment facility with ties to the
Church of Scientology will avoid any potential criminal charges after
surrendering its license to the state.

But the investigation into allegations of insurance fraud by those
running the facility isn't over, Gwinnett County District Attorney
Danny Porter said.

"Narconon as a corporate entity has been relieved of criminal liability
but no individual is," Porter said Wednesday. "Certainly we've
discovered discrepancies between what was billed and what was provided.
The key now is to identify those individuals who were submitting the
claims."

Tags: Danny Porter, Fraud, Georgia, Georgia Department of Community Health,
Narconon, Narconon Georgia

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Scientologists buy chunk of Clearwater's 'super block' dream
September 25, 2013, Charlie Frago, Tampa Bay Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/growth/scientologists-buy-chunk-of-clearwaters-super-block-dream/2143942#

CLEARWATER- The Church of Scientology has bought a big chunk of
downtown Clearwater's so-called "super block," a highly visible stretch
near the waterfront that was long touted by city leaders and various
developers as key to revitalizing downtown.

For years, plans conjuring visions of swanky offices, boutique hotels,
destination restaurants and luxury condos came and went.

More recently, leaders of the nonprofit Clearwater Marine Aquarium
considered the "super block" as a site for their proposed $160.5
million aquarium, but they decided the real estate was too important to
take off the tax rolls. Even so, last month aquarium and city officials
briefly eyed a portion of the "super block" for an aquarium parking
garage.

Tags: 2000, 2001, Clearwater, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Coachman Park, Fort
Harrison, George Cretekos, Lee Arnold, Pinellas County, Quicky, Twitter

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Scientology Catechism: Claire Headley Puts Our State of Clear to the Test!
September 25, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2013/09/25/scientology-catechism-claire-headley-puts-our-state-of-clear-to-the-test/

Claire Headley is taking us on our journey to train as Scientologists.
She and her husband Marc were Sea Org workers who escaped from
Scientology's International Base in 2005. She spent years working with
Scientology's "tech," and was trusted to oversee the auditing of Tom
Cruise. Go here to see the first part in this series.

Claire, last week on our trip up the Bridge to Total Freedom we
completed New Era Dianetics and went Clear. That was a big moment. But
you were telling us that in recent decades, there's been an additional
step at this point to make certain that we've actually gone Clear. Do
we have that right?

CLAIRE: Yes, the Clear Certainty Rundown, or CCRD, is a set of steps to
confirm the state of Clear, once the person has voiced the Clear
cognition.

Tags: 1950, 1963, 1976, 1992, 2000, 2005, 2012, A Queer and Pleasant Danger,
Advanced Org, Angry Gay Pope, Apollo, Auditing, Australia, Bridge to Total
Freedom, Claire Headley, Clear, Clear Certainty Rundown, Cult, Dan Harris,
David Miscavige, Dianetics, E-meter, Gender Outlaw, GoFundMe, Int Base, J.
Swift, Jon Atack, Karen de la Carriere, Kate Bornstein, Knowledge Report,
Leah Remini, Mark Bunker, Mary Sue Hubbard, Mental Health, New York City,
Nightline, OT, Quentin Hubbard, Quicky, Sea Org, Spies, Steve Cannane, Super
Power, Tom Cruise, Village Voice

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Scientology Drug Rehab Shut Down in Georgia, Ordered to Turn Over Records in
Oklahoma
September 25, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2013/09/25/narconon-smacked-scientology-drug-rehab-shut-down-in-georgia-has-court-loss-in-oklahoma/

Scientology's drug rehab center in the Atlanta area, Narconon Georgia,
has cut a deal with county and state officials, and in return for
surrendering its license and shutting down an operation that was
already on life support, the facility escapes prosecution on credit
card fraud and insurance fraud that was said to be in the millions of
dollars.

But Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter tells us that
doesn't mean he's given up on prosecuting individuals.

"Our investigation is ongoing. If we find individuals were engaged in
criminal conduct, we will prosecute them," he told us today by telephone.

Tags: 1966, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, Arizona, Atlanta, Bill Pettigrew, Brian
McEvoy, Danny Porter, Gary Richardson, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Heather
Landmeier, Jeanne LeFlore, Judge Bland, Judge James Bland, Lucas Catton,
McAlester News-Capital, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Narconon Georgia,
Narconon International, Oklahoma, Pete Combs, Pittsburg County, Quicky,
Robert Murphy, WSB Radio

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The Fall of the Heritage Foundation and the Death of Republican Ideas
September 25, 2013, Molly Ball, The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation-and-the-death-of-republican-ideas/279955/

These days, Heritage has a different crusade. The foundation's
president, the confrontational former Senator Jim DeMint, spent the
last month touring the country, drawing cheering crowds as he demanded
that Republican politicians insist that Obamacare be defunded-and
denouncing those who wouldn't go along. "Republicans are afraid,"
DeMint told NPR. "And if they are, they need to be replaced." The
foundation's three-year-old activism arm, Heritage Action, spent half a
million dollars on online ads targeting 100 Republican House members
who didn't sign on to the defund crusade ("Tell Representative Tom Cole
to Stop Funding Obamacare").

The push from Heritage helped the defund scheme gather momentum,
forcing Republican leaders to pull their proposed funding bill and
replace it with one the Senate has committed to block. The resulting
confrontation may force a government shutdown. Republicans who once
worked out legislative language with the help of Heritage's
distinguished Ph.D.s felt whiplash seeing the group cheerlead for
collapse. Heritage was supposed to be above politics, they grumbled.
Heritage was supposed to be about serious ideas, not tactical fights.
White papers, not political campaigns-and certainly not campaigns
against Republicans.

Tags: Alt-Right, American Enterprise Institute, Aspen Institute, Barack
Obama, Cato Institute, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Heritage
Foundation, Hudson Institute, Jim DeMint, John McCain, Kauffman Foundation,
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Republican, Ronald Reagan

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What Do They Fear?
September 25, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/what-do-they-fear/

Just what is it that the church is SO worried about? Why are they so
paranoid about information "leaking" onto the internet?

Funny, David Miscavige seems to enjoy crowing about how they got "19
million hits" (I know its a lie as this blog gets MORE visitors than
Scn.org and I average around 8,000 per day and even at 2.5 pages per
visitor that only totals 7.3 million a year) and have numerous
"state-of-the-art" websites and are on the "cutting edge." But they are
terrified it seems about things showing up on the internet that they
are not controling.

And for an organization that constantly proclaims how "open" they are
("we are NOT secretive") it's amusing to see them trying to keep
everything secret.

Tags: 1959, Clear, David Miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard, OT, OT Committee, OTC,
Quicky, Super Power, Tampa Bay Times

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Thursday Funnies
September 25, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/thursday-funnies-8/

Oooooh - a new status! Ambassador of Dissemination

I don't think that this will be very desirable to the scientology elite
without some precious metal or gemstone modifier or some sort of
tortured pig latin. Silver, gold, platinum, emerald, diamond, maximus,
laureate etc etc. Good luck Katie, you are the red-headed stepchild of
scientology fundraisiung. Part of your problem is that the money has to
be thrown away buying TV spots and nobody likes doing that....

But, on the other hand, perhaps he can get a post at a US Embassy
(Palau? Andorra?) to "disseminate the tech in new lands."

Tags: 1989, Berlin, Cause Resurgence Rundown, Class V, Dissemination, Europe,
Flag Building, Gensler, Halloween, Ideal Org, International Association of
Scientologists, James Byrne, Jeff Mintz, Johannesburg, Keith Code, L. Ron
Hubbard, Los Angeles, Merchants of Chaos, Mission, Moscow, OT VIII, OTC,
Pretoria, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Running Program, Sea Org, Silver,
Super Power, Survival Rundown, Tampa, Tashania Faust, Telex, Thursday
Funnies, UK

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What the Boston Globe left out of its story on Scientology yesterday
September 25, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2014/09/25/what-the-boston-globe-left-out-of-its-story-on-scientology-yesterday/

Will this vision of the Alexandra ever come true? There have been
numerous press reports about the sad state of affairs for the Church of
Scientology in the fair city of Boston.

Like other cities in what Scientology considers the "East US Continent"
(Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia), Boston's pursuit of an "Ideal Org"
has been mired in a struggle for funds.

Despite Scientology leader David Miscavige sitting on a mountain of
liquid assets - more than a billion dollars in ready cash, according to
former church executive Debbie Cook - Miscavige insists that locals
hold events so they can raise the millions needed to purchase, plan,
and renovate the fancy new facilities he calls "Ideal."

Tags: 1975, 1977, 2009, 2015, 2016, Abortion, Alexandra Hotel, Boston, Boston
Globe, Chicago, Church of Scientology International, David Miscavige, DC,
Debbie Cook, Detroit, FBI, Guardian's Office, Ideal Org, John Wood, Judge
Rolf Treu, Judge Ronald Sohigian, Landmark, Laura DeCrescenzo, Los Angeles,
Massachusetts, Monique Rathbun, Paulette Cooper, Philadelphia, Quincy, Robert
Dardano, Stanley Cath, Texas, US Supreme Court, Washington

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Inside the compound where the missing wife of Scientology's leader might be
living
September 25, 2015, Jim Edwards, Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-missing-wife-of-scientologys-leader-could-be-hidden-in-this-spike-fenced-compound-2012-7

David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology, is one of the
best-known Scientologists in the world. But Miscavige's wife, Shelly
Miscavige, hasn't been seen in public since 2007.

The Church of Scientology says Shelly Miscavige isn't missing, and she
hasn't been kidnapped. Instead, Scientology says she has been working
inside the church.

The disappearance of Shelly Miscavige continues to be a high-profile
mystery for Scientology critics and former members. A 2014 Vanity Fair
article referred to Shelly Miscavige as "Scientology's Vanished Queen."

Tags: 2007, Alex Gibney, Angry Gay Pope, Church of Spiritual Technology,
David Miscavige, John Travolta, Shelly Miscavige, Steve Hall, Tom Cruise,
Twin Peaks, Vanity Fair

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Leah Remini announces Scientology memoir 'Troublemaker'
September 25, 2015, Wade Sheridan, UPI
https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2015/09/25/Leah-Remini-announces-Scientology-memoir-Troublemaker/9051443208752/

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- King of Queens star Leah Remini announced
she is publishing a Scientology memoir titled Troublemaker: Surviving
Hollywood and Scientology .

Remini, who had been raised as a Scientologist since she was child,
famously quit the church in 2013.

The actresses' new book will chronicle her indoctrination into the
religion at age 10 with her mother and sister and how her rise to
Hollywood mixed with having to promote Scientology.

Tags: 2013, David Miscavige, Hollywood, Jennifer Lopez, King of Queens, Leah
Remini, OT, Quicky, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Twitter

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Leah Remini to publish Scientology memoir 'Troublemaker' in November
September 25, 2015, Kirthana Ramisetti, New York Daily News
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/leah-remini-publish-scientology-memoir-article-1.2374147

Leah Remini is finally ready to spill about her life in Scientology.

Two years after quitting the church, the actress is publishing
"Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology" on Nov. 3,
Ballantine Books announced Thursday.

Remini had been raised as a Scientologist since she was a child, but
famously broke with the faith in 2013.

Her public disavowal of Scientology added to the increased scrutiny of
the religious organization's alleged abuses and corrupt practices, as
depicted in the recent HBO documentary "Going Clear."

Tags: David Miscavige, Leah Remini, Paul Haggis, Shelly Miscavige

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Regraded Being
September 25, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/friday-regraded-being-16/

Tags: Quicky, Regraded Being

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Scientology's showdown in Belgium: Here's our plan to cover an epic battle
September 25, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2015/09/25/scientologys-showdown-in-belgium-heres-our-plan-to-cover-an-epic-battle/

(Jonny Jacobsen and your proprietor in Paris at the end of July)

Our man in Paris, Jonny Jacobsen, is one of the most thorough,
accurate, and dogged reporters we know. And it excites us to no end
that he's going to be covering an upcoming Scientology trial in
Brussels that should be explosive. Like us, however, Jonny doesn't
actually make a living with his expertise on Scientology. He's going to
need some help if he's going to get to the trial and cover it with the
kind of effort he puts into everything.

We told him we'd like to support him, and asked what we could do. He
asked us to post the following description of his needs. We hope you
can get behind what should be an epic adventure of reporting. Take it
away, Jonny.

Tags: 1997, Alex Gibney, BBC, Belgium, Brussels, Center for Inquiry, Clear,
Cleveland, Disconnection, Genetic Entity, Going Clear: Scientology and the
Prison of Belief, Jonny Jacobsen, Minneapolis, Minnesota Atheists, Ohio,
Paris, Quicky, Twin Cities

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1987: BBC Panorama on Scientology
September 25, 2016, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2016/09/25/1987-bbc-panorama-on-scientology/

In 1987 BBC Panorama broadcast an important show on Scientology that is
now of great historical value. For example, this excerpt below features
Don Larson, a member of Scientology's infamous finance police.

Tags: 1987, BBC, Don Larson, Panorama, Quicky, Xenu, YouTube

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Condition of Doubtfulness
September 25, 2016, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/condition-of-doubtfulness/

Next in the ongoing series of essays by Terra Cognita. See earlier
posts here: The Mind, The Way To Happiness: Really? A Story, Auditing:
a PC's Quest for the Holy Grail, The Knowledge Report, Integrity, The
Almighty Stat, The Reg, The Horrors of Wordclearing, Why Scientologists
Don't FSM, Respect, The Survival Rundown - The Latest Scam,
Communication in Scientology... Or Not, Am I Still A Thetan?, To Be Or
Not To Be, An Evaluation of Scientology, Fear: That Which Drives
Scientology and Justification and Rationalization.

Condition of Doubtfulness

For those of you not familiar with L. Ron Hubbard's "Conditions," he
wrote, "An organization or its parts or an individual passes through
various states of existence. These, if not handled properly, bring
about shrinkage and misery and worry and death. If handled properly
they bring about stability, expansion, influence and well-being."

Tags: Auditing, Chris Shelton, Condition of Doubt, Conditions, Ethics, Field
Staff Member, Google, Knowledge Report, L. Ron Hubbard, Quicky, Scam, Sec
Check, Suicide, Survival Rundown, Terra Cognita, Tony Ortega

===========================================

Critical Q&A #76
September 25, 2016, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
https://mncriticalthinking.com/2016/09/25/critical-qa-76/

The weekly show where I answer viewer questions left in the comment
sections of my Q&A videos or sent to me by email at
AskChri...@gmail.com. This week, the questions I answer are:

(1) Chris, when you say you had to go to different orgs to solve
problems with a personal touch, can you give an example? Also, I tried
to read Dianetics; after 230 pages I gave up (it is repetitive garbage).
Regardless, looking at The Bridge, the level of sophistication is
amazing as well as the infrastructure of Scientology. Do you believe
LRH came up with everything himself?

(2) Do you believe studying the Bible as part of our cultural heritage
and as a set of moral stories can be beneficial?

Tags: Celebrity Centre, Critic, Dianetics, Jason Lee, L. Ron Hubbard, Marty
Rathbun, OT, Quicky, Steven Mango

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Lessons for Canada from how the Koch brothers hijacked democracy
September 25, 2016, Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun
https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/daphne-bramham-lessons-for-canada-from-how-the-koch-brothers-hijacked-democracy

This was supposed to be the year that the American billionaire
brothers, Charles and David Koch, bought the presidency in their
zealous bid to reshape the United States into a libertarian utopia.

Another Republican billionaire ended that dream. Donald Trump refused
to seek either their backing or their blessing.

On the Democratic Party side, outsider Bernie Sanders nearly derailed
the well-funded hopes of Hillary Clinton with his appeal to get big
money out of politics.

Tags: 1980, 2015, Alberta, Bernie Sanders, British Columbia, Canada, CIA,
Congress, Dark money, David Frum, David Koch, Democratic Party, Donald Trump,
DougWiki, Environmental Protection Agency, FBI, Forbes, Fraser Institute,
Hillary Clinton, Jane Mayer, Koch Bro, Medicaid, New Democratic Party, New
Yorker, Rachel Notley, Republican, Vancouver

===========================================

Scientology in Ireland is nearly dead: Here's how Tom Cruise & the gang plan
to bring it back
September 25, 2016, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2016/09/25/scientology-in-ireland-is-nearly-dead-heres-how-tom-cruise-and-the-gang-plan-to-bring-it-back/

(Tom Cruise with Irish opera singer Amanda Neri)

Rod Keller keeps an eye on Scientology social media for us, and on
Sundays he dives into the latest happenings with the organization's
many front groups. This time, he's taking us to Ireland, where a new
strategy is unfolding. Take it away, Rod...

The Church of Scientology is preparing to open a National Affairs
Office at 4 Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland. The opening is currently
scheduled for October 15.

Tags: 1956, 1958, 1994, 2004, 2012, 2013, Advanced Org, Amanda Neri, Antony
Phillips, Bare-Faced Messiah, Battlefield Earth, Beth Akiyama, California,
Canberra, Cathy Schenkelberg, CCHR, Clearwater, Congress, Continental Liaison
Office, Corrine Brown, Criminon, David Miscavige, DC, Dublin, Foundation for
a Drug-Free World, Founding Church, Galway, Georgia, Gerard Collins, Ideal
Org, Ireland, Jack Parkhouse, Jenna Elfman, Jesse Morrow, Jive Aces,
Johannesburg, John Hearne, Ken O'Flynn, Kieran O'Hanlon, Limerick, London,
Los Angeles, Mary McCrink, Mexico City, Mike Perkins, Moscow, Narconon,
National Affairs Office, New Mexico, Noel Larkin, Office of Special Affairs,
Org Board, Ottawa, Paris, Personal Efficiency, Quicky, Ray Kemp, Rod Keller,
Russell Miller, Squeeze My Cans, The Way to Happiness, Tokyo, Tom Cruise,
Truth About Drugs, Volunteer Ministers, Washington, Waterford, Youth for
Human Rights International

===========================================

LAPD What Are You Thinking?
September 25, 2017, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/lapd-what-are-you-thinking/

Are they going to explain to everyone that the solution is to hand out
Way To Happiness booklets?

It's worked so well in Venezuela and other places...

How about human trafficking, fraud and destroying families? Not part of
the agenda?

Tags: Donald Graham, Human trafficking, Jorge Rodriguez, LAPD, Quicky,
Venezuela

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Paul Haggis: Rathbun does what I feared, and outs ex-Scientologist we vowed
to keep secret
September 25, 2017, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2017/09/25/paul-haggis-rathbun-does-what-i-feared-and-outs-ex-scientologist-we-vowed-to-keep-secret/

We heard from a lot of readers who were impressed by the candor and
class exhibited by Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis in a piece he
wrote for us that we published on Saturday.

In that piece, Haggis, who appeared last week in an explosive episode
of A&E's Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, wanted us to have
enough background to understand why the Church of Scientology's
reaction to that show had stunned him in one particular way.

Haggis explained that when he was leaving the church in 2009, he and
former top-ranking church member Mark "Marty" Rathbun had worked out
with another defector, actor Jason Beghe, some code names for their
encrypted conversations in Hushmail to keep the church and its spies
from learning who else they were talking to, which included several
Scientologists who didn't want their disaffection known.

Tags: 2009, A&E, Church of Scientology International, Dani Lemberger, David
Miscavige, FBI, Ford Greene, Freedom magazine, HowdyCon, IRS, Israel, Jason
Beghe, John Brousseau, John Wood, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Louis
Theroux, Marty Rathbun, Mattan Ben Shaul, Mike Rinder, My Scientology Movie,
Paul Haggis, Ray Jeffrey, Scientology and the Aftermath, Steve Cannane, Tel
Aviv, Twitter, Victoria Britton, Wimoma, YouTube

===========================================

Trump DOJ Nominee Pushed Scientology-Based Detox Program
September 25, 2017, Ashley Feinberg, Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/doj-nominee-jon-adler-heroes-health-fund/

On September 15, the Trump administration nominated former criminal
investigator and Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association president
Jon Adler as the Department of Justice's director of the Bureau of
Justice Assistance. In that role, Adler will not only help set national
criminal justice policy, he'll also oversee all relevant state and
local grant programs. Judging by one of Adler's initiatives, this
should make the Church of Scientology very, very happy.

That's because in addition to his official role at FLEOA, Adler spent a
number of years on the advisory board of the Heroes Health Fund, a
group that purports to offer support for "firefighters, police, EMTs,
veterans, and others harmed by toxic exposures in the line of duty"
using a detoxification program developed by Scientology founder L. Ron
Hubbard.

That program has existed under a variety of names over the years,
including Purif, the Purification Rundown, Narconon, and the Hubbard
Method. It posits that bodies and spirits can be "purified" through a
combination of extensive sauna-induced sweat sessions, a niacin-heavy
multivitamin, light exercise, and the consumption of pure vegetable oil.
Hubbard, of course, had no medical training of any kind, and his
detoxification method has been denounced by countless institutions and
medical professionals, such as the Los Angeles and San Francisco school
districts, the California Medical Association, the National Council
Against Health Fraud, and a former Surgeon General of the United States.

Tags: 2007, Anti-vaxx, Ben Carson, Bill Perry, Brenda Fitzgerald, Bruce Roe,
Bureau of Justice Assistance, California Medical Association, Center for
Inquiry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Danny Masterson, Detox,
Donald Trump, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, Gabriel Graves,
Gerald Ross, Guardian's Office, Heroes Health Fund, Hillary Holten,
International Academy of Detoxification Specialists, John Travolta, Jon
Adler, Kelly Preston, Los Angeles, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, National
Council Against Health Fraud, New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project,
Nick Little, Purification Rundown, San Francisco, Shirley Gilliam, Tim Chard,
Tom Price, University of Oklahoma, US Department of Defense, US Department of
Justice, Utah Meth Cops Project, Vincent D'Onofrio, White House, William
London, William Svoboda

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An Interview with Adam Holland, Ex-Scientologist, Ex-Sea Org (1988-2019, in
memory)
September 25, 2018, RootedLinuxBrian, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fXLBRg_yM

UPDATE: With great sadness, I must make an announcement: Adam took his
own life on Februrary 17, 2019. Nobody knows why, and his family is
looking for answers. My suspicion, is the cult's deep mindfuck, it's
terribly hard to get rid of, and that is likely why, OR it was an order
put out by Yvette Shank, to have him "disposed of without sorrow". :(

He will be missed.

TRIBUTE by Tony Ortega: https://tonyortega.
org/2019/03/01/adam-holland-scientology-whistle-blower-who-exposed-sea-org-conditions-1988-2019/

Tags: 1988, 2019, Adam Holland, Quicky, Sea Org, Tony Ortega, Yvette Shank

===========================================

Church of Scientology Continues to Attacks Autism; Calls It a Myth
September 25, 2018, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2018/09/25/church-of-scientology-continues-to-attacks-autism-calls-it-a-myth/

Autism is a myth? Then why did John Travolta and Kelly Preston publicly
admit that their late son Jett had autism. #Scientology's @CCHRInt
can't get its story straight. #ScientologyTheAftermath https://t.
co/cNAsAUpXPz

- Jeffrey Augustine (@JeffreAugustine) September 24, 2018

The Church of Scientology's lunatic anti-psychiatry group "Citizens
Commission on Human Rights" has long attacked autism as a myth, as a
condition that does not exist.

Tags: 1992, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015, Anti-vaxx, Autism, Bahamas, CCHR,
Congress, Dan Burton, Forbes, Indiana, Jett Travolta, John Travolta, Kelly
Preston, Lobbyist, Nation of Islam, Psychiatric treatment, Quicky, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.

===========================================

Critical Q&A #178 - Livestream
September 25, 2018, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
https://mncriticalthinking.com/2018/09/24/critical-qa-178-livestream/

The weekly show where I answer viewer questions based on what has been
left for me in the comment sections of my Q&A videos or sent to me by
email at AskChri...@gmail.com. This week, I did a live stream show
from Las Vegas with my wife, so we both answered questions from live
viewers. We read the questions out loud while doing the live stream.

Tags: Copyright, Critic, Cult, Las Vegas, Review, Scientology: A to Xenu

===========================================

Environmental commissioner blasts Ford's PCs for gutting climate change
policies
September 25, 2018, Andrew Russell, Global News
https://globalnews.ca/news/4484975/ford-government-environmental-commissioner-climate-change/

Ontario's environmental commissioner, Diane Saxe, has issued a new
report slamming Doug Ford's government for gutting most of the
province's climate change programs saying it's "bad for our
environment, bad for our health, and bad for business."

The report sharply criticizes the Progressive Conservatives' decision
to repeal the former Liberal government's cap-and-trade program to
limit greenhouse gas emissions. Under the program, a cap was set on
greenhouse gas emissions that allowed companies to sell credits if
their emissions fell below certain limits.

Ford had campaigned to end carbon pricing, calling it a "government
cash grab" that does "nothing for the environment."

Tags: 1990, 2014, 2016, 2019, Canada, Canadians for Clean Prosperity, Carbon
tax, Climate change, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Environmental, Environmental
Commissioner of Ontario, Ford government, Mark Cameron, Ontario, Progressive
Conservative, Rod Phillips, Stephen Harper

===========================================

Premier Doug Ford Still Won't Disavow White Nationalist Faith Goldy
September 25, 2018, Mack Lamoureux, Vice News
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvajvq/premier-doug-ford-still-wont-disavow-white-nationalist-faith-goldy

The photo of Doug Ford, the premier of Canada's largest province, and
Faith Goldy, Canada's most well-known white nationalist who is now
running for mayor of Toronto, was taken at Ford Fest this weekend. The
photo, unsurprisingly, immediately brought about criticism of Ford. And
Ford made sure the flames of this particular controversy stayed lit
when, yesterday, he refused to denounce the candidate when called upon
by the opposition.

"She is a very, very dangerous person in our society," former Liberal
premier Kathleen Wynne told the Toronto Star following Ford's initial
reaction. "Her ideas, her actions are dangerous. I was surprised he
didn't just stand up and say: 'I want nothing to do with this person.'"

At the onset of the photo controversy, Ford initially tried to explain
it away by saying he took a lot of photos with a lot of people. But the
idea that Ford wouldn't know who Goldy is doesn't seem to hold water as
she's been one of the most disruptive stories in a mayoral race in the
biggest city in Ontario. Furthermore, in the past Ford has been
advertised as a speaker alongside Goldy at a Rebel Live event.

Tags: Alt-Right, Bernie Farber, Canada, Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Doug
Ford, DougWiki, Faith Goldy, Ford Fest, Kathleen Wynne, Neo-Nazi, Ontario,
Question Period, Toronto, Toronto Star, Twitter, White supremacist

===========================================

Scientology rewards the celeb who bolted when her co-star went rogue
September 25, 2018, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2018/09/25/scientology-rewards-the-celeb-who-bolted-when-her-costar-went-rogue/

Our thanks to Nottrue for sending us the latest Celebrity magazine,
which features Scientologist soap opera actress Michelle Stafford on
the cover.

Now, before you scoff we just want to say that we have a lot of respect
for soap actors. They might have to slog through some dubious scripts,
but these are folks who labor day in and day out, and we really admire
their work ethic. In fact, one of our favorite Scientology defectors is
a former staple of the soaps, actor Michael Fairman, who was a star
here at the Bunker in its early days.

Fairman was a regular at The Young and the Restless for many years, but
after he ditched Scientology and went public with it in 2011, it caused
one of his Y&R co-stars, who was still a Scientologist, to quit the
show and move to General Hospital.

Tags: 2011, ABCmouse, Advance!, Birmingham, Bob Duggan, Cathy Schenkelberg,
Celebrity, Celebrity magazine, Christian, David Miscavige, Gary Soter,
Hospital, Ideal Org, Italy, Jesus, Laura Prepon, Leah Remini, Michael
Fairman, Michelle Stafford, OT, Quicky, Roger Ellory, Survival Rundown,
YouTube

===========================================

The Disappeared
September 25, 2018, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-disappeared/

Why is there no President of Church of Scientology International?

Heber Jentzsch, after being "disappeared" years ago is now represented
as being "retired" - but there is no new President. In fact, there
isn't even a spokesman, let alone a President (who is supposed to be
the lead spokesperson). Heber, once a very public figure, is no longer
seen outside of the razor wire topped fence of Golden Era Productions.
I last saw him in late 2006 in the Hole. Sleeping on the floor and
eating slop, guarded 24 hours a day.

Who is the Executive Director International?

Tags: 2006, Apollo, Author Services Inc, Brooke Shields, Catholic, Church of
Scientology International, Class IV, Class XII, David Mayo, David Miscavige,
DC, Debbie Hughes, Dede Voegeding, Doctor, Executive Director International,
Golden Era Productions, Greg Wilhere, Guillaume Lesevre, Heber Jentzsch,
Inspector General, Jill Carlstrom, Kerry Gleeson, L. Ron Hubbard, Marc Yager,
Norman Starkey, Phyll Stevens, Ray Mithoff, Religious Technology Center, Sea
Org, Sec Check, Shelly Miscavige, Terri Gamboa, The Hole, Tony Dunleavy

===========================================

What private act is the Church of Scientology obsessed with?
September 25, 2018, Tony Ortega, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWMAxXYE1Y

For more information please see these stories at The Underground Bunker...

https://tonyortega.
org/2017/01/06/scientologys-disgusting-secret-young-teens-used-to-interrogate-adults-about-their-sex-lives/

https://tonyortega.
org/2013/03/04/document-leak-scientology-sexual-histories/

Tags: 2013, 2017, Music, Quicky, Underground Bunker

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Andrew Scheer's Twitter Transformed Into A Simpsons Fan Account Last Night
September 25, 2019, Helena Hanson, Narcity
https://www.narcity.com/news/ca/andrew-scheers-simpsons-references-were-confusing-canadians-last-night

With the 2019 federal election now less than one short month away,
Canada's party leaders are doing whatever they can to round-up some
last minute support from potential voters. For Conservative leader
Andrew Scheer, this meant taking to Twitter to make several references
from The Simpsons while on the campaign trial, although his joke about
the 'Wonderbat' was perhaps a 'swing and a miss!'

Late on Tuesday evening, the Conservative leader made his first
reference to The Simpsons, by sharing a picture of himself smiling, and
holding a shiny new baseball bat in his hands. He added the caption, "I
will call it "Wonderbat," alongside the lightning-bolt emoji.

The post is believed to be a reference to an episode of The Simpsons,
during which Homer tells Bart the story of his own "Wonderbat," that
was created from wood that had been struck by lightning.

Tags: Andrew Scheer, Cambridge, Canada, DougWiki, Federal election, Justin
Trudeau, Twitter

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Exclusive poll reveals 'Doug Ford factor' a big problem for Scheer's
Conservatives in Ontario
September 25, 2019, Stuart Thomson, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/exclusive-poll-reveals-doug-ford-factor-a-big-problem-for-scheers-conservatives-in-ontario

The "Doug Ford factor" that some federal Conservatives worried would
hurt their chances in Ontario this election appears to be very real,
and especially significant, suggests a new survey conducted in
partnership between the Angus Reid Institute and Postmedia.

The poll shows that half of Ontario's population sees their federal
vote being swayed by the performance of Doug Ford's Progressive
Conservative government in that province - and most are not being
influenced in a way that will benefit the federal Tories.

Among those Ontarians who say their federal vote will be affected by
their impressions of Ford's government, a whopping 85 per cent say the
"policies and actions" of the provincial PC government will make them
less likely to support Andrew Scheer's federal Conservative party.

Tags: 2018, Alberta, Andrew Scheer, Angus Reid, Canada, Conservative Party of
Canada, Dalton McGuinty, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Federal election, Ford
government, Fran?ois Legault, Green Party, Hamilton, Jagmeet Singh, Jason
Kenney, John Horgan, Justin Trudeau, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario, Ontario
Liberal, Ontario New Democratic Party, Postmedia, Progressive Conservative,
Quebec, Stephen Harper, Twitter, United Conservative Party

===========================================

Exclusive poll reveals 'Doug Ford factor' a big problem for Sheer's
Conservatives in Ontario
September 25, 2019, Stuart Thomson, National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/exclusive-poll-reveals-doug-ford-factor-a-big-problem-for-sheers-conservatives-in-ontario

The "Doug Ford factor" that some federal Conservatives worried would
hurt their chances in Ontario this election appears to be very real,
and especially significant, suggests a new survey conducted in
partnership between the Angus Reid Institute and Postmedia.

The poll shows that half of Ontario's population sees their federal
vote being swayed by the performance of Doug Ford's Progressive
Conservative government in that province - and most are not being
influenced in a way that will benefit the federal Tories.

Among those Ontarians who say their federal vote will be affected by
their impressions of Ford's government, a whopping 85 per cent say the
"policies and actions" of the provincial PC government will make them
less likely to support Andrew Scheer's federal Conservative party.

Tags: 2018, Alberta, Andrew Scheer, Angus Reid, Canada, Conservative Party of
Canada, Dalton McGuinty, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Federal election, Ford
government, Fran?ois Legault, Green Party, Hamilton, Jagmeet Singh, Jason
Kenney, John Horgan, Justin Trudeau, Kathleen Wynne, New Democratic Party,
Ontario, Ontario Liberal, Postmedia, Progressive Conservative, Quebec,
Stephen Harper, Twitter, United Conservative Party

===========================================

Hiding in plain sight: how Scientology nearly got away with its 1970s
espionage campaign
September 25, 2019, Chris Owen, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2019/09/25/hiding-in-plain-sight-how-scientology-nearly-got-away-with-its-1970s-espionage-campaign/

At 6 am on 8 July 1977, 134 FBI agents descended on three Scientology
buildings in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, in one of the largest
raids in the Bureau's history. Armed with power saws, crowbars and bolt
cutters, they smashed their way into the secure offices used by
Scientology's Guardian's Office (GO) and seized over 48,000 files.

The trove proved that the GO had carried out a years-long campaign of
espionage against the US government. Eleven Scientologists, including L.
Ron Hubbard's wife Mary Sue, were subsequently jailed for their role
in the campaign. The scandal plunged Scientology into years of turmoil
and legal jeopardy, and forced Hubbard into hiding for the rest of his
life.

The GO's campaign has been described as the largest episode of domestic
espionage in the history of the US government. Yet, remarkably,
declassified government documents and seized GO files show that the
government knew of the campaign as far back as 1973 but did nothing
about it. Equally remarkably, they also show that the GO might have got
away with it even after its operatives had been caught by the FBI in
1976, had it not been for an entirely coincidental intervention by US
Customs at a critical moment.

Tags: 1963, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, AMA, American Medical
Association, Bruce Raymond, Chicago, Christine Hansen, CIA, Cindy Raymond,
Clear, Clearwater, DC, Duke Snider, Emma Best, England, FBI, Field Staff
Member, Florida, Gerald Bennett Wolfe, Grand Jury, Greg Wilhere, Guardian's
Office, Henning Heldt, High Crime, Ideal Org, Internal Revenue Service,
Interpol, Ira Hirsch, IRS, Jane Kember, Joe Biden, John Foster, Kathy Hirsch,
Law enforcement, LAX, Legal, London, Los Angeles, Mary Sue Hubbard, Michael
Meisner, Mo Budlong, Nathan Dodell, New Yorker, Patreon, Project Taylor,
Richard Weigand, Saint Hill Manor, Secret Service, Snow White Program, Telex,
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, Washington

===========================================

Ontario PPC candidate published racist, transphobic tweets
September 25, 2019, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/essex-ppc-bill-capes-racist-tweets-1.5296678

The People's Party of Canada candidate for the Essex riding responded
to racist and transphobic posts published on his Twitter account
earlier this spring, saying "I apologize for any remarks I made that
were taken out of context and may have offended anyone."

In one of the tweets, published in March of this year, Bill Capes said
"Yellow people been working since 5am, black people up at noon. Lol."

Capes initially denied the tweets, saying it was possible someone might
have hacked his account.

Tags: Bill Capes, CBC, Donald Trump, DougWiki, Essex, Green Party, LGBTQ,
Maxime Bernier, New Democratic Party, Ontario, People's Party of Canada,
Somalia, Tracey Ramsey, Transphobia, Twitter

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People's Party candidate Steven Fletcher fires back at Conservatives, says
he'll file defamation suit
September 25, 2019, Ahmar Khan, CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/fletcher-conservatives-lawsuit-defamation-1.5297674

The divorce between former federal cabinet minister Steven Fletcher and
his old party has taken another turn, with the People's Party candidate
saying he will sue the Conservative Electoral District Association of
Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley.

The former Conservative MP is alleging defamation after a letter from
the district association accusing him of appropriating property ended
up being posted to Twitter.

The electoral district association sent Fletcher the legal notice on
Sept. 14 through its attorney, George Orle, alleging that when Fletcher
left the Conservative Party, he took electronic voter data and campaign
material that was not his property.

Tags: 2004, 2015, CBC, Conservative Party of Canada, DougWiki, Federal
election, Michael Diamond, Ontario New Democratic Party, People's Party of
Canada, Steven Fletcher, Toronto, Twitter, Winnipeg

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Private Education Company Offers To Let High School Students Pay For Classes
Cancelled by Doug Ford
September 25, 2019, PressProgress
https://pressprogress.ca/private-education-company-offers-to-let-high-school-students-pay-for-classes-cancelled-by-doug-ford/

A private, for-profit education company is taking advantage of Doug
Ford's cuts to education to sell students classes online that they used
to get for free.

After only one budget, the Ford government's cuts have resulted in
hundreds of teacher layoffs, bigger class sizes and fewer elective
courses to help students meet university admission requirements.

But Blyth Education, a private, for-profit education company saw an
opportunity. Just recently, it launched an advertising campaign too woo
students worried about class cancellations risking their futures.

Tags: 2020, Blyth Education, Canada, Catholic, Company, Doug Ford, DougWiki,
Education cuts, Facebook, Ford government, Ontario, Ontario English Catholic
Teachers' Association, Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, PayBright

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Scheer's Claim Carbon Tax Has Been 'Proven To Fail' Doesn't Hold Up: Experts
September 25, 2019, Canadian Press, Huffington Post
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/andrew-scheer-carbon-tax-baloney-meter_ca_5d8b9e99e4b0c6d0cef54f94

The Canadian Press Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer makes a campaign
stop in London, Ont., on Sept. 24, 2019.

OTTAWA - "Under Justin Trudeau, we are falling further behind and I do
not understand why he is still going all-in on a carbon tax that has
been proven to fail." - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in Thorold,
Ont., on Sept. 24. After the Liberals promised to toughen their
greenhouse-gas reduction targets to reach net-zero emissions by 2050,
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was asked whether he would match the
proposal. The Conservatives, he said, would stick to the current target
of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels
by 2030, through a proposed plan for the environment that would scrap
the current federal carbon-pricing regime. The Liberal plan includes a
price on carbon-dioxide emissions of $20 per tonne, which the federal
government imposes on New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
because those provinces did not have carbon-pricing systems of their
own. It's to expand to cover Alberta in the new year and the price is
to rise to $50 per tonne in 2022. Watch: Trudeau unveils Liberal
climate plan

Individuals get rebates through the tax system, meant to equal the
average household's carbon-tax payments. People whose lifestyles
produce fewer emissions come out ahead. Economists have long argued
that carbon taxes are efficient ways of reducing greenhouse-gas
emissions over time, because they use a market mechanism to help shift
the behaviour of consumers and corporations away from burning fossil
fuels that produce carbon dioxide without favouring one way of reducing
emissions over any other. Given the federal carbon tax only came into
effect April 1, a reporter asked Scheer what proof he could provide of
its failure. "We can point to British Columbia, which has had a carbon
tax for a long period of time and whose emissions went up last year,"
said Scheer. The B.C. carbon tax came into effect in 2008 and yes, data
released earlier this month show that total greenhouse-gas emissions in
the province reached 64.5 million tonnes in 2017, an increase of 1.2
per cent over the year before.

Tags: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2018, Alberta, Andrew Scheer, British
Columbia, Canada, Canadian Press, Carbon tax, DougWiki, Economist, John
Horgan, Justin Trudeau, London, Manitoba, New Brunswick, New Democratic
Party, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Tax

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Stand Double Standards
September 25, 2019, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/stand-double-standards/

Not that this is big news... scientology is operating on a blatant
double standard.

I saw this on the STAAD twitter feed.

Now of course, we could do an even better headline - SCIENTOLOGY
SUPPORTS ALLEGED RAPIST DANNY MASTERSON.

Tags: Facebook, Fair Game, Harvey Weinstein, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis,
Los Angeles, Paul Haggis, Paula Wagner, Quicky, STAND, Tom Cruise, Twitter,
Whistleblower

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The political right and its insatiable appetite for liars
September 25, 2019, Joseph Ingram, iPolitics
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/09/25/the-political-right-and-its-insatiable-appetite-for-liars/

"What we really need is to avoid electing more Pinocchio presidents,
premiers and prime ministers, while consigning the cynical and
dishonest intellectualism of James McGill Buchanan to the dustbin of
history."

The ideas of American Nobel economist James Buchanan - whose work on
public policy choices has been the inspiration for many of today's
ultra-right and conservative political movements and for their
hostility to government provision of public services - are nowhere more
in evidence than in today's electoral campaigns both in Canada and the
US.

Indeed, Buchanan's scorn for public institutions acting in the public
interest permeates the policy portfolios of both America's Republican
party and of Canada's Conservative party. Like Donald Trump,
conservative leaders Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenny, and Doug Ford are
seeking to undermine the very notion that government can
cost-effectively provide social security, health care, and education.
Instead they are attempting to replace what they mendaciously label as
"socialism", with "market-based solutions".

Tags: 2008, 2010, 2017, Andrew Scheer, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada,
Denmark, Donald Trump, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Fox News, Koch Bro, Nobel,
Norway, Republican, Stephen Harper, Venezuela

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Why Boris Johnson and Doug Ford are singing from the same song book - and
rewriting our democratic rule book
September 25, 2019, Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/09/25/why-boris-johnson-and-doug-ford-are-singing-from-the-same-song-book-and-rewriting-our-democratic-rule-book.html

Doug Ford is a long distance admirer of Boris Johnson. It's easy to see
why.

Both are bombastic municipal politicians who climbed the greasy
flagpole to the top, rising to become first ministers for Her Majesty ?
one as premier of Ontario, the other prime minister of Great Britain.
Blond ambition incarnate.

Now, both have achieved a more dubious distinction: Almost
simultaneously, they are being second guessed by their judiciaries for
giving the Queen flawed advice about the fundamentals of democracy.

Tags: Boris Johnson, Brexit, Canada, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Europe, Federal
election, House of Commons, London, Notwithstanding clause, Ontario, Supreme
Court of Canada, Toronto, Westminster

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