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2018-04-07, Chris Shelton, YouTube
The show where I answer your questions. Please leave any comments or feedback in the comments section here below. I see everything and want to hear from you.
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2018-04-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Here is the reality of an "ideal org".
They bring in virtually all the staff from outside the area — even from outside the COUNTRY.
In fact, they circulate a bunch of these people around from one ideal org to the next to create the appearance that there is a bustling staff ready, willing and able to serve the floods of people who will begin arriving the minute the doors open.
2018-04-07, ToryMagoo44, YouTube
I've told this before for many years...but I think it's important to
remind people, especially as we have so many new people interested.
THIS IS IMPORTANT. I'm not saying people cannot disagree...no, that is *totally* different than the 3 Goals of OSA. Check it out, and have a wonderful week-end!! :) Tory/Magoo
Tags: Office of Special Affairs, Quicky
2018-04-07, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
We open our article with a graphic from Scientology TV:
This graphic is taken from Scientology's official website and informs us that Scientology TV launched with only 25 hours of original content (1500 minutes). This is hardly a number to brag about — particularly after Scientology leader David Miscavige spent about $100 million to purchase, equip, and launch Scientology Media Productions and Scientology TV.
David Miscavige purchased the old KCET studio in 2011, so we also must factor in the seven years of time he took to actually get his 25 hours of original Scientology TV content on air. Looked at from a business perspective, this is a terrible and inefficient use of time and money. Like the Ideal Orgs or the Super Power Building, Scientology TV is yet another money-grabbing and financially wasteful Miscavige vanity project which absolutely fails to address the real issues that are destroying the Church of Scientology from within and without.
Tags: 1947, 1948, 1951, 2009, 2011, 2017, ABC, Basics, Birthday Event, Bridge Publications, Child labor, Colombia, Cult, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Dianetics Foundation, Disconnection, eBay, Elisabeth Moss, Fair Game, Forbes, HBO, Hollywood, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, International Scientology News, John Travolta, Kansas, KCET, Kelly Preston, Knowledge Reports, L. Ron Hubbard, Laura Prepon, Nation of Islam, NBC, New Jersey, Office of Special Affairs, OT, Richard Acunto, Rome, Scientology Media Productions, Scientology TV, Sea Org, Super Power Building, The Way to Happiness, Tom Cruise, Variety, Volunteer Ministers, Wichita, Xenu
2017
1 year ago2017-04-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Tags: Quicky, Regraded Being
2017-04-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
You really have to hand it to Scientology. It just never gives up.
Sure, the church may be shrinking and on a collision course with oblivion, but the people who remain after all the theetie weetie dilettantes have been chased off are hardcore fanatics, and church leader David Miscavige has them pushing Scientology's sneaky front groups in all kinds of directions and with all kinds of clever efforts at subterfuge.
One of our eagle-eyed tipsters noticed a very subtle and successful new move by someone we've told you about before. He's Kenneth Kramer, a private investigator who helps Scientology agitate against the psychiatric profession, which L. Ron Hubbard hated with a passion. Even today, as it dwindles, the church believes that it's on a mission to destroy the psychiatric profession utterly.
Tags: 1959, 1967, 2016, Canada, CCHR, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Denver, East Grinstead, Farsec, Flag Land Base, Fort Harrison, Freedom Medal, Holocaust, Ken Kramer, Los Angeles, Mike Rinder, Oak Cove, Private investigator, Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum, Quicky, Saint Hill Manor, Sexual assault, Sunset Boulevard, Tampa Bay Times, Tracey McManus, UK, USA Today, Xenu
2016
2 years ago2016-04-07, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
In this 4-part series, I interview my Mom about Scientology, our mutual history with it and how she helped me to escape. In this second part, we talk about some of the big differences between Scientology back in the 1970s compared to now and how it has become much harsher and more authoritarian.
2016-04-07, Daily KOS
FL-Sen: Rule no. 1 for political candidates: Never try to edit your own Wikipedia page. Rule no. 2: Definitely don't try to scrub out references to your links with Scientology. And rule no. 3: For godsakes, don't associate with those lunatic Scientology slave-lords in the first place! Republican Rep. David Jolly has, however, broken all three of these rules. Jolly's ties to the "Church" of Scientology are long-established and well-known. The group has a prominent headquarters in the town of Clearwater, which is located in Jolly's district, and Jolly has often participated in Scientology events: Just last year, he was feted as a "guest of honor" at a Scientology festival.
2016-04-07, Alexandra Genova , Daily Mail
An LA couple have spent over $8,000 on a billboard advert in central Los Angeles in a desperate bid to reach their children who they say have been 'lost' to Scientology.
Former Scientologists Phil and Willie Jones have had very limited contact with their son and daughter for years and the advert is a last ditch attempt to reach out to them.
The billboard was erected on Glendale Blvd in Echo Park Monday after two Billboard companies pulled out of the contract last minute.
It reads: 'To my loved one in Scientology...call me' against a backdrop of hundreds of family photos of those who have been affected by the church's 'disconnection' program.
Tags: Billboard, Call Me, David Miscavige, Disconnection, Emily Jones, Facebook, Former Scientologists, Glendale, GoFundMe, Hollywood, John Travolta, LAist, Lamar Media, Los Angeles, Marty Rathbun, Mike Jones, Outfront Media, Page Six, Phil Jones, Regency Outdoor, Sea Org, Suppressive Person, Tom Cruise, Underground Bunker, Willie Jones
2016-04-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Phil and Willie Jones and their billboard have really hit the big time. Expect to see them on both the Today Show on NBC and Good Morning America on ABC this morning.
Yesterday, we sat back and let our commenters report on the action happening in Los Angeles as the billboard, which we reported had gone up on Monday morning, attracted a gaggle of television teams to film the dedication ceremony. We asked Phil at the end of the day if he would send us some thoughts about how it had gone. He sent us the following, and we're also grateful to several Bunker readers who supplied us with photos.
Wednesday was 'Billboard Dedication Day.' It turned out to be a lot more than we possibly could have imagined. Since the billboard went up on Monday we figured it would be a bit low key on Wednesday, with maybe 5 or 10 people, and if we were lucky a news crew or two.
Tags: 1970, 20/20, Billboard, Chris Shelton, Chris White, Daily Mail, East Grinstead, England, Florida, Gore v. Narconon, Heidi Gore, Inside Edition, Jamie DeWolf, Judge Carol Edmead, Los Angeles, Mike Rinder, Mission, Narconon, Nathaniel Gore, NBC, New York, Nora Crest, Phil Jones, Quicky, Saint Hill, Saint Hill Manor, Sec Check, Today Show, Tom Cruise, UK, Willie Jones
2016-04-07, Porkins Policy Radio, YouTube
Today we are joined by former second-generation Scientologist Aaron Smith-Levin. Aaron became a member of the Church of Scientology at around the age of 4, after his mother joined up in Philadelphia. Aaron details his life within Scientology, from joining staff at age 12, to signing his billion year Sea Org contract in his 20's, to eventually leaving the cult along with his wife and children. We discuss what it was like as a child growing up knowing nothing other than Scientology. We discuss how Scientology is often contradictory and at odds with its own belief system, along with the posthumous influence of L Ron Hubbard, regarded by Scientologists as both god and man.
Later Aaron relates the fascinating story of how Patt and Annie Broeker were ousted by David Miscavige in the course of his quest to gain control of the group. We also discuss Scientology's dangerous and barbaric views about disabled people; Aaron describes the "superman" mentality of Scientologists and how they blame disabled people for their handicaps. Aaron explains that Scientology doesn't regard them as worthy of help, and explains the Scientological concept of "making the able more able." We round off the podcast with a discussion of the current state of Scientology -- Aaron and I talk about the involvement of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam with Scientology, and what this means for the future. We briefly consider the rumors of OJ Simpson being a Scientologist, and Aaron notes some other interesting celebrities who dabbled in Scientology.
For show notes and Mp3 download please visit: https://porkinspolicyreview.com/2016/04/07/porkins-policy-radio-ep-48-aaron-smith-levin-on-growing-up-in-scientology/
2016-04-07, TheLipTV, YouTube
Scientology's problem with sexuality, gays, and gender fluidity is discussed with ex-Scientologist Nora Crest. Crest details growing up within the walls of the church, entering Sea Org and the dangers and consequences of sexual exploration under the watchful eye of the church. L. Ron Hubbard's decidedly anti-gay positions, and how pressure within Scientology drove her to a harrowing suicide attempt is all exposed in this episode of Media Mayhem hosted by Allison Hope Weiner.
GUEST BIO:
Nora Crest is a survivor of the Cult of Scientology. Born in. Worked for, as clergy for them for 5 years at the Celebrity Centre International, got sent to their Concentration/ReConditioning Camp called the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force) for almost 3 years and escaped. I am a realist. I know that a lot of that crazy rubbed off on me and I am still working on scrubbing it off.
2016-04-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
The Old Guard
Generally reflecting the state of scientology, the old guard is pretty much all there is left...
Fatten them up before the slaughter...
2015
3 years ago2015-04-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
One of the Bunker's great contributors, Jeffrey Augustine, has put together for us a list of the biggest whoppers told by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and a couple of canards thrown around by the church itself. We think you're going to enjoy the collection Jeffrey put together for us...
1. The lie: "I happen to be a nuclear physicist; I am not a psychologist nor a psychiatrist nor a medical doctor." — L. Ron Hubbard, in the 1952 lecture "Dianetics: The Modern Miracle." Also found transcribed in the Research and Discovery series, Vol. 3 page 470, and New Tech Volumes, Vol. 5 page 143.
The truth: Hubbard flunked both high school and college, leaving after his sophomore year at George Washington University during which he failed a course of "Molecular and Atomic Physics."
Tags: 1927, 1930, 1940, 1941, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1986, 1993, Alaska, Aleister Crowley, Australia, Blackfoot, Blood brother, Bluebird, Boston, Brisbane, Clear, Dianetics, Disconnection, Earle Cooley, E-meter, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Gene Denk, George Washington University, Granada Television, Hollywood, Indonesia, IRS, Jack Parsons, Japan, Jeffrey Augustine, Jewish, Jon Atack, Mary Sue Hubbard, Mongolia, Nevada, Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, Oakland, Oregon, Pasadena, Purple Heart, Reza Aslan, Sara Northrup, Sequoia University, Submarine, Tax exempt, Tibet, US Army, US Navy, Vistaril, War record, Washington
2015-04-07, Steven A Hassan, Vimeo
This video is about Scientology following the HBO Going Clear Documentary and Saturday Night Live's parody. Our answer is, NO, Scientology should not be IRS tax…
2015-04-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
See the new article in People magazine which reports on John Travolta's response to Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
I give him kudos for at least being willing to speak (more than Cruise. Alley or even Miscavige) and trying to defend his religion instead of merely sending out statements from his lawyer saying everyone is a liar.
But, and there are a few very large "buts":
2015-04-07, Josh Gardner, Daily Mail
John Travolta has broken his silence on the controversial Scientology exposé Going Clear and says he never intends to watch the documentary.
Speaking to the Tampa Bay Times while promoting his upcoming film The Forger, Travolta said his decades of personal experience in the organization have been nothing but positive -- nothing like the blackmailing, physically abusive cult portrayed in the film.
'I haven't experienced anything that the hearsay has (claimed), so why would I communicate something that wasn't true for me?' he said.
Tags: 2012, Alex Gibney, Bohemian Rhapsody, Celebrity, David Miscavige, Facebook, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, HBO, Hollywood, John Travolta, Katie Holmes, New Yorker, Nicole Kidman, Paul Haggis, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force, Sea Org, Sundance, Tampa, Tampa Bay Times, The Hole, Tom Cruise
2014
4 years ago2014-04-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
The storks are busy. Hushmail must be experiencing heavy traffic.
This is a debrief of a "mandatory" briefing for Class VIII's in Ideal PAC (in fact in "ASHO's" Lebanon Hall). The image is an artists' rendition, he mistakenly thought it was the audience at an "international event" not a mandatory briefing in Ideal PAC in which case he would have only included 5 attendees. But as he went to all the trouble, I used it anyway as it conveys the message he wanted.
It is amazing how they can try to shift the blame to.... anyone else they can think of than themselves, and certainly it has NOTHING to do with the man who is single-handedly salvaging this sector of the universe with his brilliant handlings of all facets of everything.
2014-04-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Last May, we told you about a slim volume of home-spun tales by a retired musician remembering his 1940s childhood in rural Pennsylvania.
What made that book, True Confessions of a Kid, remarkable, however, was that it was written by Ron Miscavige, father to Scientology leader David Miscavige, and a man who literally had to escape from Scientology's secretive International Base in California in 2012. We broke the news of Ron's escape from Scientology, and we're still waiting to hear the man tell his story of souring on his son's organization.
Instead, Ron put out a book of childhood yarns. And now, he's done it again. In Hideouts for Midgets on the Lam and other totally disrelated stories, we are told again about what it was like to grow up in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, where coal was king, and where young Ron began playing trumpet professionally in bars at only 13.
2014-04-07, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
reference: Scientology and Presentiment
Several commenters speculated as to my purposes for posting Scientology and Presentiment. My purpose was simple: I wanted to hear what other people thought about it. As far as implications are concerned - that is the question I asked folks to weigh in on - my view before I posted was largely reinforced by considering the hundreds of comments.
From my perspective, the most important implication is that it is more evidence that Scientologists are trained into constructs – to the point of confusing the map for the territory. Their attention is focused with a great deal of intention and discipline on mental trauma. Conscious, two-valued logic based, and three-dimensional time-space construct based perception is finely disciplined. This results in increased focus and force of intention. The unthinking, yes/no binary device called the e-meter facilitates this training. In exercising such scientologists are led toward attainment to pre-defined abilities and states of consciousness – known as end phenomena in Scientology auditing. They are promoted and preached as static, permanent states (again using two-valued logic, materialistic terms). I have seen evidence of people becoming better at communication, problem solving, personal responsibility, handling of upsets, and moving out of fixed conditions through application of these constructs. Sometimes they even achieve alleviation of psychosomatic disabilities along the road.
2014-04-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
The Underground Bunker has copies of some stunning documents that were just released by our old friend, Jeff "OTVIIIisgrrr8!" Augustine. They are 990-T returns for the 2011 tax year submitted by the Church of Scientology International and the Church of Spiritual Technology, and they show that CSI and CST — which are just two of Scientology's many entities — have a combined book value of $1.2 billion.
Since 1993, Scientology has had tax-exempt status, and your tax dollars — your IRS — has helped the church amass huge wealth. Scientology puts constant pressure on its members to donate huge amounts, it pays its workers pennies an hour because it is exempt from labor laws, and the result are these incredible amounts.
SEE UPDATES below for explanations of the revenue figures in these documents and for a statement by Mike Rinder, Scientology's former spokesman.
Tags: 1981, 1993, 2004, 2011, 2012, ABLE, Applied Scholastics, CCHR, Celebrity Centre, Church of Scientology International, Church of Scientology Religious Trust, Church of Spiritual Technology, Clearwater, Criminon, David Miscavige, DC, Flag Service Organization, Flag Ship Service Organization, Florida, Foundation International Membership Services Administrations, Freewinds, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, IRS, KCET, Mike Rinder, Narconon, Narconon International, OT, OT 8, Philippines, Quicky, Red Cross, Rena Weinberg, Super Power, Tax exempt, The Hole, The Way to Happiness, US IAS Members Trust
2013
5 years ago2013-04-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
The great Jim Brown, struggling to understand what he's doing here.
On Sundays here at the Bunker, we like to bring you the latest Scientology mailers and fliers that our tipsters have forwarded to us. We call it Sunday Funnies, and we have another set of items that we think you'll find interesting.
But first, we wanted to bring a little context to the explosion of stories we've been posting about Scientology's drug rehab network, Narconon.
Tags: A Forever Recovery, Andrew Cuomo, Anne Archer, Artists for Human Rights, Atlanta, California, Clearwater, David Petit, Eric Tenorio, Florida, Jim Brown, Kerry Kennedy, Kurt Feshbach, Michigan, Nancy Cartwright, Narconon, New York, Oklahoma, Per Wickstrom, Quicky, Richard Teague, Sunday Funnies, Taiwan, Terry Jastrow
2013-04-07, PirateFish1, YouTube
In this follow-up to their August 16, 2012 report (link below) NBC Rock Center takes another look at Narconon and its connection with the Church of Scientology.
Harry Smith speaks with two ex-Scientologists and former Narconon executives Lucas Catton (Narconon Arrowhead, Oklahoma) and Eric Tenorio (Narconon Freedom Center, Michigan), who are both ashamed of their involvement with Narconon and Scientology. Both men give more damning testimony that exposes the organizations for the "fraud" that they are, and in their words they describe Narconon's methods of treatment as "pseudo-science", and Scientology as a "cult" that trains its people to "listen for the money".
If you have someone close to you who is in need of addiction therapy and you are concerned about finding qualified professional assistance please contact your local hospital or mental health facility for assistance in seeking out properly qualified, addiction therapy counselors and/or facilities near you.
2012
6 years ago2012-04-07, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
This weekend's UK Independent magazine cover story hits kinda close to home. Warning: contains juvenile descriptions of OT III data.
UPDATE 4/7: GAWKER coverage.
I am informed that Scientology Inc is already spamming the Independent's site with hate messages, including a full Freedom magazine article, in response.
2012-04-07, Guy Adams, The Independent
Here, in this seaside hamlet, full of retirees and fishermen, Marty Rathbun was fighting an extraordinary religious war. The 'squirrel busters' were among its (possibly self-appointed) foot soldiers. At stake in the dispute, which has now been running for almost three years, is the future of one of the world's most controversial and headline-prone spiritual institutions: the Church of Scientology.
Tags: Bert Fields, Carter-Ruck, David Miscavige, David Touretzky, Debbie Cook, Fair Game, Greta Van Susteren, Janet Reitman, John Brosseau, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Lisa McPherson, Luis Garcia, Mark Collette, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Monique Rathbun, Norman Moore, Paul Haggis, Samantha Domingo, Sea Org, Squirrel Busters, Tom Cruise, Tony Ortega, Xenu, Yvonne Jentzsch
2011
7 years ago
2011-04-07, Sarah Firshein, Curbed
The Church of Scientology wants to get down with its bad self and expand the golf course next to its San Jacinto, Calif., headquarters. Sounds fun -- we assume scientologists are pretty good with a 7-iron -- except two residents of Sleepy Hollow trailer park are the last ones standing in the way of the construction.
2011-04-07, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
Let's say:
You find out your husband has inoperable cancer and must go through months of chemotherapy and radiation.
Let's say:
2010
8 years ago2010-04-07, Bill Clements, Politics in Minnesota
The Church of Scientology has ambitious plans for growing in the Twin Cities area, hoping to double or even triple the number of Twin Cities adherents in the next five years.
As part of those plans, Scientology members dug deep and came up with $3 million to convert the old Science Museum of Minnesota, 505 N. Wabasha St., into a new regional headquarters.
2010-04-07, TeamXemu, YouTube
On Feb. 27, 2009, long-time Scientology parishioner Larry Anderson met with two church officials, Tommy Davis and Jessica Feshbach, in Burbank, Calif. Anderson, the star of the Scientology film, Orientation, openly recorded their 90-minute conversation.
2010-04-07, TeamXemu, YouTube
On Feb. 27, 2009, long-time Scientology parishioner Larry Anderson met with two church officials, Tommy Davis and Jessica Feshbach, in Burbank, Calif. Anderson, the star of the Scientology film, Orientation, openly recorded their 90-minute conversation.
2010-04-07, TeamXemu, YouTube
On Feb. 27, 2009, long-time Scientology parishioner Larry Anderson met with two church officials, Tommy Davis and Jessica Feshbach, in Burbank, Calif. Anderson, the star of the Scientology film, Orientation, openly recorded their 90-minute conversation.
2008
10 years ago2008-04-07, Andreas Heldal-Lund, YouTube
Tory Christman and Andreas Heldal-Lund visiting the Queen of Scientology critics in Hemet, California, April 3rd 2008.
2008-04-07, xenutv1, YouTube
8/19/00 - Maureen O'Keefe insists that I walk to the corner to be insulted by an OT hairstylist named Sheryle Festa.
2007
11 years ago
2007-04-07, David Seifman, New York Post
The Post reported yesterday that Monserrate is one of the hosts of an April 19 fund-raiser for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, where Cruise is appearing, and where tickets are going for as much as $100,000 for a table of eight.
2007-04-07, Meg Laughlin, St. Petersburg Times
Just weeks after opening their first facility in St. Petersburg, Scientologists have irked two of the city's most respected institutions - the Holocaust and Dali museums.
Representatives of both museums say they were misled when asked to support a human rights march but not told that the organizers are a rights advocacy group affiliated with the Church of Scientology.
2000
18 years ago2000-04-07, Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times
After listening to legal arguments over two days, Pinellas-Pasco Chief Circuit Judge Susan F. Schaeffer said Thursday she will take a month to decide whether to dismiss the criminal case against the Church of Scientology.
She also expressed support for key arguments raised by the church, which is defending itself against two charges in the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson.
Schaeffer said she's convinced McPherson consented to go with fellow Scientologists to the church's Fort Harrison Hotel, where church staffers tried over 17 days to help her through a severe mental breakdown.
FrontCite 04/12/2018 06:37p
See also:
FrontCite Mediawiki
UmbraXenu - The Home Game
xenu-directory.net: Scientology in the news
Scientology in the UK Media
See also:
FrontCite Mediawiki
UmbraXenu - The Home Game
xenu-directory.net: Scientology in the news
Scientology in the UK Media