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2019-05-09, Kathleen Saylors, London Free Press
The leader of the People's Party of Canada is calling out the media after allegations a man seeking the nomination in Oxford County was removed from the race for being gay.
Maxime Bernier took to Twitter Thursday morning to denounce accusations made by former PPC nomination candidate Jordan Kent that he was turfed for his sexual preferences, a story that first appeared in The Free Press earlier this week.
Bernier took aim at The Free Press in his series of four tweets.
2019-05-09, Steve Kannon, The Observer
The election of a Jason Kenney-led government means Alberta will be pushing to get tar sands oil flowing again at all costs, the environment included. Throw in an upcoming federal election and the government's purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline, and it's a good bet there will be additional pressure to do something for the West.
Kenney's stance is clear. His right-wing government makes no pretence of weighing all sides of the debate. The Trudeau Liberals, however, are attempting to appear to be something to everyone on this issue.
We can expect plenty of vitriol, particularly from the energy companies eager to extract more resources, both in Alberta and everywhere else they have holdings. Climate-change researchers have estimated some 80 per cent of all carbon-based energy in the ground – coal, oil, natural gas – will have to remain there if we're to have any chance of avoiding catastrophic warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. Those with profits in mind are having no part of it.
2019-05-09, Chris Owen, Underground Bunker
Chris Owen's book 'Ron the War Hero' is now for sale, and he's giving us a look today at one of the best things in it — absolutely stunning material, previously unpublished, about the most ignominious of L. Ron Hubbard's blunders during a disastrous World War II experience. Read this and keep in mind that Hubbard spent decades promoting himself as a major hero in Australia.
Twenty years ago this year, I wrote a set of web pages called "Ron the War Hero," a look at L. Ron Hubbard's decidedly inglorious career with the United States Navy during World War II. Over the last two years I've rewritten and greatly expanded it with the aid of new material that's become available since 1999. The all-new Ron the War Hero is now available in book form from Silvertail Books.
Among the stories that it reveals is perhaps the darkest and longest-concealed secret of Hubbard's life: How his incompetence contributed to the loss of 16 lives, two ships, thousands of tons of desperately-needed supplies, and some highly sensitive Allied military secrets. Here, for the first time, is the story of how Hubbard helped to sink two ships — not the enemy's, but his own side's.
Tags: 1940, 1942, 1944, 1950, 1973, 1980, 1999, Australia, Boston, Brisbane, California, Company, Dianetics, Dutch, FBI, Florence, Freedom of Information Act, Indonesia, Japan, Java, John W. Campbell, Melbourne, Michael Flynn, New Guinea, New York, New York City, Oregon, Philippines, Quicky, Ron the War Hero, Russia, Silvertail Books, Snow White Program, Submarine, US Army, US Navy
2019-05-09, Canadian Press, CITY News
OTTAWA — A former Conservative MP who spent time behind bars for electoral offences is accusing Canada's elections authority of having a personal vendetta against him — and he's calling for a parliamentary investigation.
Dean Del Mastro was handed a one-month jail term in 2014 after being convicted of failing to report a $21,000 contribution he made to his own 2008 re-election campaign, overspending and knowingly filing a false report.
The ex-parliamentary secretary to former prime minister Stephen Harper is calling on MPs to launch a thorough investigation into the handling of his case that would include testimony from Canada's elections commissioner.
Tags: 2008, 2014, 2016, Canada, Canadian Press, Dean Del Mastro, DougWiki, Elections Canada, OT, Ottawa, Quebec, Robocall, Stephen Harper
2019-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
VillageDianne is out from the courthouse overflow room again with another report from the Nxivm trial. Today, the prosecution is getting testimony from filmmaker Mark Vicente.
But first, we have Dianne's impressions of yesterday's cross-examination of the prosecution's first witness, a former DOS 'slave' named Sylvie…
During the cross-examination it was hard to hear Keith Raniere's attorney Marc Agnifilo at times because he would step to the side of the podium where the mike was located. But he started out by observing to Sylvie that in 2005, her opinion about J'ness was very different than it is today. Yes, she said, she had some positive opinions in the past. And that was the main thrust of Agnifilo's questions, to see if he could get her to express the positive feelings she had about the training and about Keith Raniere and Clare Bronfman.
2019-05-09, David Rider, Toronto Star
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's budget cuts will cost Toronto at least $177.65 million this year alone, warns city manager Chris Murray in a new memo to Mayor John Tory and city councillors. The email sent Thursday morning provides an overview of funding changes identified to date, estimated impacts on the city and "anticipated and indirect funding changes that may have future implications for the city and are being monitored by staff."
The estimated pressure on the City of Toronto council-approved 2019 budget, Murray writes, based on the best available information to date, is $177.65 million. He breaks it down as: $24 million from cancellation of planned provincial gas tax funding.
$65 million for Toronto Public Health. $84.8 million for children's services $3.85 million for Toronto Paramedic Services. The impact of the cuts, if Tory's pressure campaign on Ford fails to convince the premier to abandon them and talk to the city about other ways to help reduce Ontario's deficit, will be greater in future years because most of the cutbacks in the provincial budget take effect April 1. That means the city is getting reduced funding for nine months of 2019, but will feel the full-year impact of the cuts starting in 2020.
Tags: 2018, 2020, Beer Store, Chris Murray, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Edward Keenan, Ford cuts, Ford government, Jennifer Pagliaro, John Tory, Libraries, Lisa MacLeod, Martin Regg Cohn, Ontario, Paramedic Services, Peter Bethlenfalvy, Progressive Conservative, Queen's Park, Robert Benzie, Toronto, Toronto Public Health, Twitter
2019-05-09, Emma Paling, Huffington Post
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford refused to say whether he supports legal abortion during question period Thursday, referring the questions to the minister of energy, mines, northern development and Indigenous affairs.
NDP MPP France Gélinas asked Ford if he supports his three MPPs who attended an anti-abortion rally outside Queen's Park Thursday.
"Women across Ontario have fought really hard for their reproductive rights," Gélinas said.
"Conservative MPPs joined an anti-choice rally outside Queen's Park just now and they told the protesters, 'We pledged to fight to make abortion unthinkable in our lifetime.' Does the premier support his MPPs?"
2019-05-09, Linda McQuaig, rabble.ca
He insists he has no choice, that the Ontario's mounting deficits force him to cut the province's budgets for health care, education, child care, libraries, legal aid, student loans, flood control, tree planting and anything else that moves, grows or matters in our lives. (A similar claim of necessity was made by the debt-plagued New Zealand government in the 1990s when it ordered the shooting of a newborn hippo at the zoo, explaining it couldn't afford to expand the pen.)
Nevertheless, preventing debt from spiralling out of control sounds like a plausible explanation for Ford's spending cuts -- until one notices his tax cuts. That's when it becomes clear the premier is, well, lying.
Let's not forget that a deficit is simply the shortfall in the province's budget -- and it can be the result of too much spending or too little revenue.
2019-05-09, Allison Jones, Global News
TORONTO – Ontario is cutting more than $70 million from eHealth's budget ahead of a major health system merger, and millions in health research funding is drying up.
The numbers are contained in a detailed spending plan that the government tabled Thursday following last month's budget.
Though the Progressive Conservative government's overall spending package is up nearly $5 billion from the last Liberal budget, it contains cuts to a host of programs and services, as the Tories attempt to eliminate an $11.7 billion deficit.
2019-05-09, Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star
Premier Doug Ford scrambled to quell controversy over his government's position on abortion after one of his MPPs told hundreds of protesters on the front lawn of the legislature Thursday that it's time to make the termination of pregnancies "unthinkable." The premier, who had ducked opposition questions on whether the views of Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff reflect the position of the Progressive Conservative government, released a statement later in the day clarifying his administration's stance.
"The Ontario PC Party is a big tent. We welcome members from a wide variety of backgrounds and beliefs," wrote the premier, who courted social conservatives to win the party leadership last year when he questioned why teens need parental consent notes to go on school trips but not to get abortions. "The government will not re-open the abortion debate," he added. New Democrat MPP France Gelinas raised the issue during the legislature's daily question period as the demonstrators could be heard chanting loudly outside.
"Women across Ontario have fought really hard for their reproductive rights. Conservative MPPs joined an anti-choice rally outside Queen's Park just now and they told the protesters, 'We pledged to fight to make abortion unthinkable in our lifetime.' Does the premier support his MPPs?" asked Gelinas (Nickel Belt). Ford declined to answer the question, surprising legislators by referring it to Energy Minister Greg Rickford, whose portfolio has nothing to do with medical matters.
2019-05-09, Murray Brewster, CBC News
Three former federal cabinet ministers have confirmed they spoke to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's defence team about information that may have been key to the Crown's decision to halt the criminal prosecution of the military's former second-command.
Peter MacKay, who held the justice and defence portfolios, Erin O'Toole, the former veterans affairs minister, and Jason Kenney, the last defence minister in former prime minister Stephen Harper's government, all say they spoke to lawyers representing the career naval officer.
Norman was charged with a single count of breach of trust, kicking off a high-stakes political drama that reached a climax Wednesday when prosecutors stayed the charge.
2019-05-09, Fatima Syed, National Observer
The NDP wants Ontario to declare a climate change emergency but Premier Doug Ford's response was another attack on the federal carbon tax as "one of the biggest climate crises right now."
Ford made the remarks in the legislature Thursday after the New Democratic Party tabled a motion to declare a climate emergency in the province. If the Official Opposition motion was adopted, Ontario would be the first Canadian province or territory to declare a climate emergency, following a trend of such declarations by municipal councils in Ottawa, Vancouver, Halifax, Hamilton and Kingston.
"Declaring a climate emergency is an opportunity for Queen's Park to change direction, and take on the biggest challenge humankind has ever faced," NDP leader Andrea Horwath said in a statement.
Tags: Abortion, Andrea Horwath, Andrew Scheer, Carbon tax, Climate change, Doug Ford, DougWiki, Environmental, Ford government, France, Greg Rickford, Halifax, Hamilton, Jack Hauen, John Fraser, Muskoka, New Democratic Party, Ontario, Ontario Liberal, Ontario New Democratic Party, Ottawa, Peter Tabuns, Progressive Conservative, Queen's Park, Sam Oosterhoff, Simon Jefferies, Vancouver
2019-05-09, Monte Sonnenberg, Brantford Expositor
PORT DOVER – More than 100 protesters turned out to greet Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a Progressive Conservative fundraising event in Port Dover Thursday.
The group represented a number of public-sector unions, as well as anti-poverty advocates.
They gathered at the entrance to the Lions Community Centre on St. George Street around 3:30 p.m. — just in time to greet ticket-holders and other party faithful as they arrived for the event.
2019-05-09, Michelle Zilio, Globe and Mail
The Senate voted Thursday to suspend Senator Lynn Beyak from the Red Chamber over her refusal to remove racist letters about Indigenous people from her website.
Senators voted on division – meaning, without unanimous consent – to adopt the recommendations of a Senate ethics committee report calling for Ms. Beyak to be suspended without pay for the remainder of the current parliamentary session. Ms. Beyak has rebuffed repeated demands to remove five letters posted to her Senate website that have been widely described as racist toward Indigenous people.
The ethics committee report, released last month, also recommended that Ms. Beyak apologize to the Senate and attend − at her own expense − "educational programs related to racism toward Indigenous peoples in Canada." In the case that Ms. Beyak refuses to remove the letters, the committee called on the Senate administration to do so.
2019-05-09, Canadian Press, City News
Senators have voted to suspend Lynn Beyak without pay from the Senate for refusing to delete racist letters about Indigenous people from her website.
The suspension applies only to the remainder of the current session of Parliament; she'll be able to resume sitting as a senator when a new session begins following the Oct. 21 federal election.
However, if Beyak continues to refuse to comply with remedial measures recommended last month by the Senate's ethics committee, the Senate could consider further action against her in future.
2019-05-09, Editorial, Toronto Star
Throw the book at 'em has taken on a bizarre twist down in the Niagara West region of Ontario. That's where Progressive Conservative MPP Sam Oosterhoff's constituency staff called the cops on a group of library-loving seniors who showed up to read books as a way of protesting the Ford government's library cuts.
Now, it's awfully hard to imagine how Oosterhoff's staff felt so under siege after just a few minutes with some 15 retired librarians and book club members that such drastic action was necessary. Was it the craft paper book covers, with neatly typed quotes about the importance of libraries and reading, that left staff feeling they had no choice but to call 911?
"I don't think we looked threatening," said one retired librarian and member of a local book club.
2019-05-09, Laura Clementson, CBC News
Oosterhoff was one of three MPPs to take the stage at the rally. Christina Mitas, MPP for Scarborough Centre, and Will Bouma, MPP for Brantford-Brant, were alongside him.
The comments came in time for the topic to be addressed during question period.
NDP MPP for the riding of Nickel Belt, France Gélinas, asked Premier Doug Ford if he supports his MPPs who were at the rally.
Ford deferred the question to Energy Minister Greg Rickford.
Rickford addressed the legislature, touching on various topics including the carbon tax, but avoided the topic of the rally altogether.
2019-05-09, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
L. Ron Hubbard invented the state of "Clear" where a person is no longer encumbered by past incidents of pain and trauma, having "erased" their reactive mind. What is it like to achieve this revered state, are there superpowers, how long does it really last and what is this all about? This clip is excerpted from Critical Q&A #2, originally published March 3, 2015. Enjoy!
2018
1 year ago2018-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Today we have the second and third letters sent in the mid-1980s by Don Rogers, an early witness to Dianetics, to author Jon Atack, who has generously allowed us to make them public for the first time. Please see historian Chris Owen's introduction to these letters in yesterday's first installment.
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THE ROGERS LETTERS
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2018-05-09, John P. Capitalist, Reasoned.Life
Today, we'll take a look at how paranoid, far-right fringe political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche attempted to intimidate the musical world into redefining one of the fundamental aspects of musical physics. In some sense, LaRouche's efforts are similar to what Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard did when attempting to reinvent the sound recording process as part of his own aesthetic theory.
The two stories are good for a few laughs. But ultimately, the moral of the story is quite serious. First, cults behave like totalitarian states in their attempts to control artistic and creative expression. Second, these examples remind us that cults are able to get their followers to believe strange things and to engage in quixotic quests that accomplish little save stroking the egos and lining the wallets of power-mad cult leaders. Scientology is far from alone in this regard, and combining our experience in Scientology's ability to get members to do bizarre things with what we learn about similarities between cults can help the cult awareness community to help people more generally in the future.
It would be extraordinarily surprising if a large number of other cultic groups did not attempt to redefine the very foundation of what it means for something to be art. While not all cults do so, we would suggest that the severity by which any group attempts to restrict its members from experiencing certain types of art or where it attempts to reinvent aesthetics is directly correlated with the level of cultic involvement it tries to get from readers.
Tags: 1960, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1980, 2015, Apollo, Apollo Stars, Celebrity, CIA, Clear, Clear Sound, Cult, David Touretzky, Dianetics, Europe, Germany, Hubbard Communications Office, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, IRS, Italy, Lyndon LaRouche, Mediterranean, Music, North Korea, Orders of the Day, OT, OT III, Quicky, Rhodesia, Robert Lifton, Scientology organization, Sea Org, Tony Ortega, Vanity Fair, Wikipedia, YouTube
2018-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
From the latest edition of Source magazine, the official magazine of the "international spiritual headquarters" of scientology.
You can see they are making a big deal about their new "7.5 foot diameter world map" with "12-sided polygon locator pinpoints." As always, scientology seem to impress themselves by talking about the size of their maps or details of their toys. It's as gauche as someone telling you "I have 7,000 square feet of hand-made silk rugs in the entrance hall of my 40,000 square foot home — and you paid for it."
This magnificent new map is apparently adjacent to "Embassy Row" which would appear to be a reference to the Potemkin Village of empty storefronts representing scientology's front groups. "Embassy Row"? Seriously
Tags: 2013, Anna Nicola, David Miscavige, Ideal Org, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mark Rush, Orlando, OT, OT Committee, OTC, Quicky, Source magazine, Susan Moore, Tampa
2017
2 years ago2017-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
In March, we broke the news that the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating That 70's Show actor and Scientologist Danny Masterson over the rape allegations of three different women who were all Scientologists at the time of the incidents, which occurred between 2001 and 2003.
That investigation is ongoing, but now we've learned just how seriously Masterson is taking it as he has hired renowned criminal defense attorney Tom Mesereau to represent him.
Mesereau has already made contact with the LAPD to tell them that Masterson denies the rape allegations and that Mesereau, with the help of a private investigator named Scott Ross, has been gathering witnesses of their own to back up Masterson's denials.
2017-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
I really don't profess to understand the very strange bedfellows that are scientology and the Nation of Islam.
I wonder if Farrakhan has noticed that apart from Crooked Alfreddie Johnson, scientology is pretty much exclusively composed of middle class white people? Which as far as I know is about as palatable to the NOI as people on food stamps are to scientologists?
A Special Correspondent sent this poster to me and I am not sure who it was distributed to or what the source of it is.
2017-05-09, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
Spectacular HD video taken from a drone overflight of the Church of Scientology's no-longer-secret secret "Gold Base" in San Jacinto, California. Thanks to the unnamed expert drone pilot for this outstanding video. Featured at the end is David Miscavige's $70,000,000 RTC Headquarters building.
Early in the video the "Eagle's Nest" lookout post is seen. Some have said Eagle's Nest is actually a sniper's nest. Is it?
I had the pleasure of interviewing Jackson Morehead, former Director of Security at Gold Base for many years. Jackson answers the question, "Is Eagle's Nest a sniper's nest?" and many of my other questions, including questions about the weapons inventory at Gold Base, in our interview:
2017-05-09, Angry Thetan, YouTube
Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker blog post about the video:
http://tonyortega.org/2017/05/15/dron...
An aerial tour of the Scientology operated Rainbow Canyon Retreat near Caliente Nevada. The flight includes the natural scenery of the surrounding canyon. This video was created for use in documentaries and may be used by anyone without credit or restrictions.
2017-05-09, My Clarity After Scientology, YouTube
2016
3 years ago2016-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Sixty-six years ago today, L. Ron Hubbard published his surprise bestseller, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
In 2013, we read Dianetics from cover to cover with the help of former church member Vance Woodward, and we produced a blog series that we hope you will use as a companion as you slog through the book yourself. Or spare yourself the trouble and just read our summaries.
Dianetics is truly a vile book. We're not even going to pretend that L. Ron Hubbard had something useful or true to say in it. He was clearly a crank — announcing that his nonexistent "research" had led him to discoveries that rivaled man's taming of fire, for example — and then he proceeded to describe a "science" of the mind which has no science in it of any kind. But it's not just that he was catastrophically wrong when he applied a Reader's Digest understanding of early computers to an occult fantasy about how the human mind works. Even worse, this book is one of the most misogynistic we've read, even taking into account the era during which it was published.
Tags: 1950, 1987, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2013, Abortion, Clear, Cult, Dianetics, Hypnosis, L. Ron Hubbard, Los Angeles, Mental Health, Mercury, Mimi Rogers, Missouri, Phil Plait, Quicky, Reactive Mind, Reader's Digest, Ruin, Slate, Tom Cruise, Vance Woodward, Venus
2016-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Wonder how Lori Hodgson, Cindy Plahuta, Mary Kahn, Sara Goldberg, Lois Reisdorf and so many others feel about how scientology "honors" mothers.
Scientology presents itself as champions of the family. Masters of communication and relationships. They proclaim communication is the "universal solvent." Yet there are repeated examples of scientology tearing families apart. Forbidding communication. And destroying relationships and lives.
The control mechanism of disconnection can no longer be brushed under the carpet as the church has tried to do for decades. Pretending it is an "individual choice" — "would you like us to shoot you in the side of the head or the back of the head, it's your choice" — is a sick joke.
2016-05-09, Martin Gould, Daily Mail
Katie Holmes broke up with Tom Cruise because she feared she would end up like Nicole Kidman - with a daughter who Scientology turned against her, Daily Mail Online can reveal.
Their six-year marriage was doomed once church members moved into their Los Angeles home so they could cater to Cruise's every whim.
That caused Holmes to freak out, fearing that daughter Suri could end up cutting off all contact with her under Scientology's 'disconnection' policy, the father of church leader David Miscavige revealed in an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online.
Tags: 1960, 1962, 1975, 1986, 1990, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, California, Catholic, David Miscavige, Days of Thunder, Disconnection, East Grinstead, Elisabeth Moss, England, Facebook, Florida, Fox News, Freewinds, Giovanni Ribisi, Greta Van Susteren, Hemet, Int Base, Jenna Elfman, John Travolta, Katie Holmes, King of Queens, Kirstie Alley, L. Ron Hubbard, Las Vegas, Leah Remini, Lisa Marie Presley, London, Lori Miscavige, Los Angeles, Mimi Rogers, Mission Impossible, New Jersey, Nicole Kidman, Phil Spickler, Philadelphia, Police, Private investigator, Quicky, Ron Miscavige, Ron Miscavige Sr, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me, Saint Hill Manor, Sea Org, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise, UK, West Allis, Willingboro, Wisconsin
2016-05-09, pedrofcuk, YouTube
Thoughts on how the words Scientologists use actually influence their behaviour.
Tags: Quicky
2015
4 years ago2015-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
The latest promotional item from the First Bankrupted Continent has dispensed with any pretense about the purpose of the May 9th event.
It used to be a celebration of the anniversary of Dianetics.
At one point it was even an "International Event" though as time went on "COB" found it too much of a strain to attend the March 13th event and then prepare for Maiden Voyage in June AND have to do a May 9th event in between. So, he sent the "B Team."
2015-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
On April 11, we told you that Luis and Rocio Garcia had filed a pretty remarkable "motion to reconsider" after their federal fraud lawsuit against the Church of Scientology had been derailed by Judge James D. Whittemore.
Whittemore had granted Scientology's motion forcing the Garcias to pursue the matter through the church's internal arbitration scheme. In so doing, the judge had said that he made his decision based, in part, on the notion that both sides in the lawsuit had agreed that Scientology was a religion.
The Garcias objected, filing a motion to reconsider, and said they had never agreed to such a thing. In fact, they said, Scientology was not a genuine religion and they wanted the opportunity to prove it.
Tags: 1991, 2005, 2013, Albany, Dianetics, Eric Lieberman, First Amendment, Florida, Fort Harrison, Judge James Whittemore, Los Feliz, Luis and Rocio Garcia, Luis Garcia, Mental Health, Nation of Islam, New York City, Office of Special Affairs, Passport, Plant City, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Robert Potter, Slovakia, Sweden, Taichung, Taipei, Tampa, Ted Babbitt, TX Lawyer, US State Department, Visa, Wally Pope, Youth for Human Rights International
2015-05-09, Ben Westcott, Canberra Times
Senator Nick Xenophon has slammed a Scientology-funded youth group who attended two Canberra Cavalry games in the past two years for "sneaky" recruitment tactics.
Members of Youth for Human Rights, a worldwide group founded by members of the Church of Scientology in 2001, handed out literature at games where it failed to declare it was funded by the religious organisation, although the sponsorship was acknowledged online.
2014
5 years ago2014-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
A plea for recruits for Narconon.
And every position on the org board is vacant it seems....
This UK Narconon Model Center is becoming very reminiscent of the UK ideal orgs. Empty rooms.
Tags: ABLE, Clear, Dissemination, Division 1, Ethics Officer, Narconon, Org Board, Quicky, Sauna, Sussex, UK
2014-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Add Colorado to the states where Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton has filed federal fraud lawsuits against Scientology's drug rehab network, Narconon.
Two lawsuits were filed by Hamilton this week against Narconon Colorado, which operates a 'Narconon Fresh Start' facility in Fort Collins it calls A Life Worth Saving (pictured).
Tags: 2012, A Life Worth Living, Angelo Amato, Branden Chavez, Bryan Mott, California, Charles Matthys, Christy Estrada, Colorado, Flag Down, Fort Collins, Jack Welch, Las Vegas, Lauren Geanacopulos, Linda Phillips, Michael Tarr, Mott v. Narconon, Narconon, Narconon Fresh Start, Narconon Georgia, Narconon lawsuits, Narconon staff, Nevada, New York, Ryan Hamilton, San Diego, Success rate, Texas
2014-05-09, Noah Lottick, YouTube
Discovery Channel's Investigation series "Dangerous Persuasions" show on the harrowing story of Nancy Many's experiences and eventual escape from the criminal organisation Scientology.
2014-05-09, Noah Lottick, YouTube
Discovery Channel's Investigation series "Dangerous Persuasions" show on the harrowing story of Nancy Many's experiences and eventual escape from the criminal organisation Scientology.
2013
6 years ago2013-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Laura DeCrescenzo
[ALSO, BELOW: The EEOC files a civil rights lawsuit against a Miami chiropractor for forcing his employees to take Scientology courses.]
Wow - Dianetics Day 2013 just gets more and more interesting. We just heard from Laura DeCrescenzo, who updated us on the latest going on in her forced-abortion lawsuit.
Tags: Ashtrays, California, California Supreme Court, Catholic, Chiropractor, Dennis Nobbe, Dianetics, Dynamic Medical Services, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Laura DeCrescenzo, Los Angeles, Maykel Ruz, Miami, Priest-penitent privilege, Raphael Metzger, Rommy Sanchez, Sea Org, Yanileydis Capote
2013-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
We were the first to break the news last year that Ron Miscavige Sr., father to Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, had managed to escape from Scientology's secretive International Base in an embarrassing blow to his son and another sign of crisis in the organization.
Ron Sr. traveled to Virginia, where he joined another Miscavige church defector, his oldest son, Ron Jr.
Since then, we've been told that Ron Sr. has been adjusting to life outside a church he belonged to for 35 years. His granddaughter, Jenna Miscavige Hill, told us that he was doing well when we met her as she was touring for her recent book, Beyond Belief.
Tags: 1962, 1970, Amazon, David Miscavige, Int Base, Jenna Miscavige Hill, Quicky, Ron Miscavige Sr, Virginia, YouTube
2013-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Here is a new newsletter from the latest Ideal Org promoting their success with a "packed out" Dianetics Seminar...
And here is page two of the newsletter showing the details (I omitted the other stuff in between the headline and the evidence which was two success stories).
You can see from the 2 photos that the "packed" Dianetics Seminar in an IDEAL ORG had EIGHT attendees. Now this is almost certainly more than they have ever had at a Dianetics seminar which is good for them. But the millions spent on an Ideal Org isnt proving to be very cost effective when they promote loudly that this was something to be proud of (and believe me, if there were more than those shown in the photo they would have made clear that the photos show "some" of those present).
2013-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Tony Ortega is on fire.
He has posted 5 stories in one day. Three of which contain significant legal documents.
1&2. Laura Dieckman's response to the Church's petition to the California Supreme Court seeking to prevent her from accessing her pc folders and an EEOC lawsuit filed against a Miami chiro for forcing employees to undergo Scientology courses
2013-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Lori Hodgson and her mother, Dee McMurdie, parked their rental car, walked into Woods Fun Center, and went straight for the counter at the back, where they knew they'd find the parts department of the Austin, Texas motorcycle shop.
At the counter were two employees. Lori walked up to them and said, "Is Jeremy here?"
As soon as she did, she spotted Jeremy Leake — her son — in a side room, eating his lunch.
2013-05-09, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Jodie Fleischer at WSB-TV in Atlanta revealed today just how extensive authorities in Georgia believe the insurance fraud was at Scientology's Atlanta drug rehab center.
State and county law enforcement officials raided Narconon Georgia on April 26 and hauled away a truckload of documents and computer equipment. As the coordinated local news team of WSB Radio, WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been reporting, state regulators yanked the facility's license (pending appeal) and now are investigating Narconon for both insurance and credit card fraud.
In the affidavit for the search warrants that law enforcement officers were armed with, we can see just how extensive the false billing of doctors is suspected to be.
2012
7 years ago
2012-05-09, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
The following might resonate with some who have experienced the corporate Scientology culture of David Miscavige.
Anatoly Sharansky's Final Statement in the Soviet Court
presented before being sentenced on trumped-up charges for treason and espionage, July 14, 1978
2012-05-09, Marlow Stern, Daily Beast
News of an incredibly graphic $2 million lawsuit by a "John Doe" masseur against John Travolta, which broke Monday, may have come as a surprise to some fans of the actor, who projects an image of a smiling heartthrob on-screen and an adoring family man off.
In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, an unnamed male masseur accuses the 58-year-old Pulp Fiction star of sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, saying Travolta came on to him several times during a massage session at the Beverly Hills Hotel in January. And on Tuesday, a second "John Doe" masseur, represented by the same attorney, filed another $2 million sexual-assault suit against Travolta, claiming "substantial documentation and numerous witnesses regarding the substance of Travolta's actions." Travolta's lawyer has denied both men's accusations, saying of the new suit, "This second 'anonymous' claim is just as absurd and ridiculous as the first one."
For anyone who's been following Travolta's life off-screen, however, rumors of a sexual preference for men have persisted for years.
Tags: 1950, 1951, 1975, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2009, 2010, Beverly Hills, California, Dianetics, Hollywood, Jeff Kathrein, John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Lawsuit, Los Angeles, Mental Health, Michael Pattinson, National Enquirer, New York Daily News, New Yorker, Paul Barresi, Paul Haggis, Proposition 8, Queens, Quicky, Sexual assault, Tom Cruise, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News
2012-05-09, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
For starters, from L Ron Hubbard 6 July 1958:
We have found that staff requires this prerequisite: a good Scientologist.
A long time ago they used to tell us what we needed was a good businessman. We've had good businessmen, and we fired them. What they used to tell us was, what we needed was a good publicity man that was really trained in publicity. And we've had them and they laid an egg, and we fired them.
2011
8 years ago2011-05-09, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
By Steve Hall, Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun
Being the Indies most often targeted for infiltration and destruction by David Miscavige, and as our blocks have been particularly hot of late, and recognizing that between us we've identified and neutralized close to a dozen OSA operatives before they could do much damage: we thought we'd collaborate to share some tips. Tips for living a relatively happy, Independent life while continuing to advance the ball.
David Miscavige's intelligence operation network, the Office of Special Affairs (OSA) has been very sloppy of late. There is a rule of thumb that can be applied here: The number of Miscavige's gasket blowing tantrums are directly proportional to the number of bone-headed, over-the-top OSA desperation blunders. The latter are committed in vain attempts to cut down the frequency of the former. As in most matters Miscavige, his psychosis is the cause of those motivators that he runs on everybody else as his cause for going psychotic. We know, a messy scene.
2010
9 years ago2010-05-09, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
A former top insider reveals the nightmare world of violence and abuse at the highest levels of the Church of Scientology. One review states: "At home alone, a 14 year old girl takes a phone call from Scientology. This starts a quarter of a century journey of manipulation, betrayal and sexual, physical and mental abuse. This journey leads to the highest management echelon and one woman's courage to break free. A real page-turner." Mark P. Another writes: "Amy Scobee has written a book unlike any other expose of Scientology. She actually was at the top of International Management for 20 years, and oversaw the recruitment of Hollywood stars into the Church of Scientology. She witnessed the abuse of top managers by their senior, David Miscavige. She writes convincingly of the human rights violations she endured while on the Rehabilitation Project Force, a thinly disguised slave labor camp. Her book is enjoyable to insiders and laymen alike, with a glossary of terms provided, and plentiful footnotes. This is an important contribution to understanding the controversy surrounding the Church of Scientology. The glaring spotlight eventually points to Abuse at the Top." Michael H.
2009
10 years ago
2009-05-09, Donald Clarke, Irish Times
Now a sprightly 48, Gaiman was raised in Hampshire by his mother, a pharmacist, and a father who - read into this what you may - was one of the top men in the British wing of Scientology. In the early 1980s, he toyed with journalism and managed to get a few stories published in fantasy magazines. His dad, unconvinced that the boy was going to make a living, made a few half-hearted attempts to secure him a proper job.
Tags: Neil Gaiman
2009-05-09, Greg Kelton, The Advertiser
THE documents at the centre of the "Dodgygate" affairs should be handed to the police for investigation, Premier Mike Rann says.
He has called on Opposition Leader Martin Hamilton-Smith to deliver them to the police.
Mr Hamilton-Smith has now apologised on four occasions for using the forged documents in Parliament to accuse the Premier and senior Labor Party officeholders of illegal fund-raising activities.
2008
11 years ago
2008-05-09, Copenhagen Post
Prodata, an award-winning Danish IT company with customers such as the Royal Family and public broadcaster DR, is run by some of the most prominent forces within the Danish branch of Scientology.
Prodata has a pyramid-like structure with approximately 200 partners in 12 countries and around 2000 freelance IT professionals. The company has been voted best IT company in Denmark and been awarded financial daily Børsen's Gazelle prize.
1997
22 years ago
1997-05-09, Thomas C. Tobin, St. Petersburg Times
Was it an honest mistake, a slip of the tongue? Or was it the naked truth, carelessly uttered on camera?
A top official for the Church of Scientology told a German television crew recently that church member Lisa McPherson died in a room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater.
On its face, the statement marks a major change in Scientology's version of events surrounding McPherson's unexplained death at age 36. It came in the presence of one of the church's top lawyers, who agreed with it on camera.
Tags: 1950, 1995, Celebrity Centre, Clearwater, Clearwater Police Department, Egmont Koch, Elliot Abelson, Florida, Fort Harrison, Germany, Hillsborough County, Joan Wood, Ken Dandar, Lisa McPherson, Los Angeles, Medical, Mike Rinder, Mona Botros, New Port Richey, New Port Richey hospital, Office of Special Affairs, Scientology lawyer, Tampa, Wayne Shelor
1988
31 years ago1988-05-09, Daryle Glynn Brown, St. Petersburg Times
In January 1985, the Boheme ran aground, stranding the cruise ship and its passengers in Tampa Bay for nearly seven hours. The ship was later sold to a Scientology organization.
1982
37 years ago1982-05-09, Steven Girardi, Clearwater Sun
In a story of international intrigue, a former senior executive of the Church of Scientology testified Saturday about a worldwide sect network involving infiltrations, conspiracies and smuggling.
Scott Mayer, 38, told Clearwater city commissioners "I have personal experiences of all of these," in the fourth day of the city's Scientology hearings, where legal consultant Michael Flynn paraded seven of his most damaging witnesses.
Commissioners heard also from a former Guardian Office worker who said she used the sect's "confessional files" during several campaigns to discredit defected Scientologists; a man who said he participated in burglaries to obtain confidential legal records to help frame defectors; and two people who said they were targets of those activities.
Tags: 1974, Apollo, Apple School, Better Business Bureau, Boston, Burglary, Canada, Clearwater, Congress, Death threat, Edward Walters, FBI, Flag Land Base, Fort Harrison, Gerus Society, Guardian's Office, Hugh Wilhere, IRS, Janie Peterson, Las Vegas, Lavenda Van Schaick, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Attorney General Office, Michael Flynn, Narconon, Operation Freakout, Operation Shake and Bake, Paul Johnson, Paulette Cooper, Raid, Robert Dardano, Scott Mayer, Secondary copy, South America, Tax Court, The Scandal of Scientology
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See also:
FrontCite Mediawiki
UmbraXenu - The Home Game
xenu-directory.net: Scientology in the news
Scientology in the UK Media