June 16 in Scientology history

On Friday, direct testimony continued with FBI Agent Michael Weniger. From Keith Raniere's online bio, which has since been taken down: Keith Raniere entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) at age sixteen. From his first semester onward, he began taking Ph.D. level mathematics courses, ultimately taking most of the graduate-level physics and mathematics courses available at the time. Upon graduating, he became RPI's first triple major, earning degrees in mathematics, biology and physics, with minors in philosophy and psychology, and an expertise in computer science. From Keith's transcript we see his grades. Advanced Ordinary Differential Equations: F, Quantum Mechanics: F, Theoretical Physics: F, Experimental Physics: D. At one point he was on academic probation and his final GPA is 2.26.

Tags: 2000, Abuse, Barbara Bouchey, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Judge Nicholas Garaufis, Kathy Russell, Keith Raniere, Kristin Keeffe, Marc Agnifilo, Mexico, Nancy Salzman, Niagara Falls, NXIVM, Quebec, Rick Ross, Rome, Toni Natalie

Scientology likes to portray itself as family friendly. This is never really true in scientology — the organization ALWAYS takes precedence over the individual or family. Always. Scientology tries to tell the world that it is the great protector and builder of family relationships. Just look at these excerpts from scientology.org: But let's just focus on how this works out for scientology staff, SO Members or declared SP's. Scientology is decidedly NOT family friendly and Father's Day is simply another "reason" to try to get suckers to visit the org so the regges can try to get their money. You can be sure, NO staff member is being given a day off because it's "Father's Day" — they're not even allowed to sleep in. There is a planet to clear. The org has to be built to St Hill Size. No time for messing around with "wog" excuses to go "off-purpose."

Tags: Disconnection, Facebook, High Crime, OT, Quicky, Sea Org, Twitter

("How Big Was Old Saint Hill?" asked this 1960s Scientology booklet.) How big was Old Saint Hill? Scientology published at least two versions of this booklet with photos and statistics of the East Grinstead, England org while L. Ron Hubbard was living there from 1965-1967, with a brief trip to Rhodesia in the middle. Hubbard fled England for life on the sea in 1967, but Scientologists hold up Old Saint Hill as the standard for a booming org. Creating an Ideal Org today is great as a first step, but making it Saint Hill Size is a higher standard. It's a requirement for the Universe Corps to arrive and process staff members on the OT levels. Scientology doesn't publish a list of Saint Hill Size orgs. In 1988 they announced that Orange County and Advanced Org Los Angeles made the cut. In 2004 Johannesburg org was announced as Saint Hill Size, but it promptly collapsed as the Sea Org leadership declared dozens of staff and publics to be SPs. Today we think there are only two — Los Angeles org and Tampa. One org recently announced they will be Saint Hill Size by the end of the year — Melbourne.

Tags: 1960, 1965, 1967, 1988, 2004, 2013, 2015, Advanced Org, Bogotá, Clear, East Grinstead, England, Ideal Org, Johannesburg, Kaohsiung, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Mike Rinder, Orange County, OT, Perth, Quicky, Rhodesia, Rod Keller, Saint Hill, Sea Org, Sydney, Tampa, Universe Corps

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Tags: Audio, Critic, Quicky, Scientology: A to Xenu

Hollywood actress Allison Mack is set to stand trial for her role in a sinister cult that brands its members and turns them into 'sex slaves'. Although its attempts to recruit Emma Watson and Kelly Clarkson failed, many smart, successful women have fallen under the spell of NXIVM and its founder Keith Raniere. And bizarrely, this is not a new phenomenon. Cults have been operating in this way for decades – and they don't necessarily prey on the vulnerable. As Jane Mulkerrins discovers, any one of us could be drawn into their malevolent web. Helen Zuman was 22 years old and an idealistic Harvard University graduate when she joined Zendik Farm, a community in North Carolina that focused on the arts and the environment. Most of the 55 members at the time were in their 20s and 30s, too, and seemed, she says, 'so healthy and vibrant, and knew what they wanted in life'. An aspiring writer, Helen was keen to develop her craft at the farm. 'But when I got there, I was expected to do physical work all the time. Art was reserved for people who were higher up the food chain, and it was incredibly hierarchical,' she says.

Tags: 1954, 1955, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1993, 1997, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, Academic, Allison Mack, Apple, Brainwashing, Branch Davidians, California, Canada, Charles Manson, Children of God, Christian, Combatting Cult Mind Control, Cult, David Berg, David Koresh, Donald Trump, Goldie Hawn, Guyana, Heaven's Gate, Hollywood, Indiana, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Keith Raniere, L. Ron Hubbard, London, Los Angeles, Mexico, Minneapolis, Moonies, New York Times, North Carolina, North Korea, NXIVM, Peoples Temple, Psychologist, Quicky, Sara Bronfman, South America, South Korea, Steven Hassan, Sun Myung Moon, Texas, UK, Unification Church, Waco

Companion to the post of a couple of days ago Make More Money (So We Can Take It)... This is another twist on the "prosperity doctrine" that informs everything in scientology. Creflo Dollar and his prosperity theology have nothing on scientology. This one is a new approach. Offer to teach "wogs" how to make money, and use that as bait to get them to do a Comm Course!

Tags: Comm Course, Creflo Dollar, Patrick Clouden, Quicky

This week in our series of book excerpts, Chris Shelton has been good enough to share with us a key section from his book Scientology: A to Xenu — An Insider's Guide to What Scientology is All About. And if you like this, we hope you can join Chris at HowdyCon in Chicago later this week! Going Down the Rabbit Hole The last stage of my Scientology story happened, again, in Twin Cities.

Tags: 1955, 1970, 1977, 1980, 1990, Alec Nevala-Lee, California, Chicago, Chicago Fire, Chris Shelton, Christian Stolte, Clearwater, Creston, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Degraded Being, Dianetics, ESMB, Facebook, FBI, Florida, France, Gavin Kelly, Google, Guardian's Office, HowdyCon, IRS, Isaac Asimov, Jerry Wolfe, Joe Boutros, John W. Campbell, Kellen McIntyre, L Rundowns, Los Angeles, Mary Sue Hubbard, Minnesota, Office of Special Affairs, Oregon, OT, OT III, Quicky, Ruin, Scientology: A to Xenu, Sea Org, Snow White Program, South Dakota, South Park, Twin Cities, Xenu

In 2007, a 'change of use' application was submitted to the council to transform the Church Road landmark into an Ideal Org: a super-church described by the organisation as providing "the full services of Scientology religion to its parishioners, while also serving the community with social betterment and outreach programs." However, these were later withdrawn, and no further plans were put forward until this year. Minor renovation work began in February, when workers were spotted repairing the boundary fence. The new plans include extensive exterior work such as re-roofing and the replacement of brickwork and windows.

Tags: 2006, 2007, Birmingham, Duckworth's Essence Distillery, East Grinstead, Ideal Org, John Sweeney, Pitmaston House, Plymouth, Rod Keller, Royal Fleet Club, Saint Hill Manor, Trafford Council, UK, Underground Bunker

Well, the project is becoming clear. Someone is apparently worried about losing his precious tax exemption. In Marty Rathbun's most recent video segments in his remarkable turnaround from one of the Church of Scientology's biggest defectors and critics of all time into an apologist who is aping church talking points, Rathbun tries to rewrite history regarding the church and its long battles with the IRS. But Rathbun is going to have a difficult time refuting an earlier, detailed explanation of how that battle went down: His own.

Tags: 1991, 1993, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, Alex Gibney, Chairman of the Board, Claire Headley, David Miscavige, Donald Alexander, Ethics, Fred Goldberg, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Inspector General, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, IRS Commissioner, Lawrence Wright, Los Angeles Times, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, New York Times, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Scientology executive, Scientology staff, Sea Org, Shelly Miscavige, St. Petersburg Times, Tax exempt, Tom Cruise

Regraded Being is on a one week hiatus. I asked if there was an earlier edition the great cartoonist thought worthy of repeating. This one, from January 2015 was a particular favorite (and was way back when Regraded Being was part of the Thursday Funnies). It is particularly timely as Miscavige is off now for his well-earned annual scuba-diving trip on the Freewinds.

Tags: 2015, David Miscavige, Freewinds, Quicky, Regraded Being, Thursday Funnies

An act of senseless violence was committed in the US this week. An individual named Omar Mateen did it. I'm not here to add fuel to the bonfire of suppositions, opinions and unfounded speculation about why Mateen carried out this attack or its consequences. What I want to talk about from the perspective of this channel is what I watched happen in the news and social media within the first hours and days of the attack happening. It's become an all-too-familar parade of all the usual suspects: minute-by-minute updates on CNN and Fox of regurgitated facts and guesses. So-called experts and talkings heads filling up time babbling about what the shooter's motives may have been, why gun control and the 2nd amendment are so controversial, what the response is from the White House, blah blah blah. What isn't going to happen as a result of all this noise is a solution being put forward that is going to stop this from happening again. And I'm going to tell you why.

Tags: 1996, 9/11, Anderson Cooper, Australia, CNN, Congress, Donald Trump, Facebook, Lobbyist, Muslim, Orlando, Quicky, Republican, Shooting, The Nation, White House

This week, documents became available that had been submitted by Narconon Holland, the Scientology drug rehab center in the Netherlands. At a quick glance, they indicated that the place was in serious trouble. And now, Underground Bunker regular "John P." — who enjoys telling us about his luxurious life in high finance — has broken down those documents in more detail, as only he can. For our newer readers, you will sense that John P. is having fun with his reports about himself, but when he dives into a financial report like this, he's all business. We hope you enjoy his analysis... School's out, and at Global Capitalism HQ, that means one thing: lots of cheap, talented and well-meaning but inept interns to burden with menial tasks. I'm not one of those cruel, sadistic traders who sends an intern out to stand in the hot sun for hours to be first in line at Shake Shack to put in their lunch orders. Instead, I assign Harvard and Yale B-students intellectually tedious research that most people wouldn't assign to high school kids. At least, people wouldn't assign this stuff to any high school students they actually liked. I turned two of the interns loose with Google Translate and a spreadsheet to translate everything as best they could and to do some simplistic analysis on the Dutch Narconon financial statements. I took their best effort, fixed their charmingly naïve mistakes, and then did some real analysis.

Tags: 2013, 2014, ABLE, Amsterdam, Battlefield Earth, David Miscavige, Donation, Dutch, Eric Adams, Europe, Google, Hollywood Boulevard, Jeffrey Augustine, Las Vegas, Narconon, Narconon Holland, Narconon International, Netherlands, New York, Quicky, Scientology organization, Survival Rundown, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis

Filing for Idealishness Simply the best filing anywhere.... Another Taufer

Tags: AOLA, Asbestos, ASHO, Basics, Clear, David Petit, Freewinds, Ken Kramer, Miami, Michael Duff, Narconon, OT, OT VII, Quicky, Sea Org, Tampa, Thursday Funnies, Venezuela, Ybor City

Hey, this really sneaked up on us. After a stop in Chicago on Saturday, we're going to the great white north next week! Oh, Canada! We just wanted to remind you that we'll be crossing the border next week, and helping Jon Atack by participating in his swan song, a weeklong conference that should be a blockbuster. One of the best things that's come out of this little experiment in single-subject daily journalism has been the Underground Bunker's relationship with Atack, the premier Scientology historian active today. He had gone quiet for a number of years after the publication of his book, A Piece of Blue Sky, but then we noticed that he'd made an appearance on a television show about cults.

Tags: 1952, 1955, 1990, 2013, A Piece of Blue Sky, Alaska, Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley, Alexander Dvorkin, Andreas Heldal-Lund, Arnaud Palison, Art Ceppos, Australia, Big League Sales Closing Techniques, Canada, Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition, Celebrity Centre, Chicago, China, Chris Shelton, Christian Szurko, Chuck Beatty, Claire Headley, Clear, Clearing Course, Colorado, Commodore's Messenger Organization, Cuba, Cult, David Pike, Dianetics, Dissemination, Epilepsy, Ethics, Europe, FACTNet, Front group, Gerry Armstrong, Gloria Swanson, Guardian's Office, Hamburg, Hana Whitfield, Hollywood, Ireland, Italy, James Beverley, Jamie DeWolf, Jesse Prince, Jon Atack, Jonny Jacobsen, Joseph Winter, Judge Ronald Sohigian, Karin Spaink, Laura DeCrescenzo, Lawrence Wollersheim, Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles, Marta Gorna, Martin Poulter, Mediterranean, Mental Health, Miss Lovely, Mission, Mongolia, Nan McLean, Nancy Many, Narconon, Nicole Kidman, Nora Crest, Office of Special Affairs, OT, OT III, OT IV, OT V, OT VIII, Paris, Paulette Cooper, Pete Griffiths, Poland, Puerto Rico, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Russell Miller, Saint Hill, Sea Org, Shrine Auditorium, Simonetta Po, Steve Cannane, Steven Hassan, Susan Meister, The Guardian, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, Tibet, Toronto, Tory Christman, UK, Ursula Caberta, US Supreme Court, Wichita

A proposal submitted to Mike Godwin for his consideration: Make a "Church of Scientology" exception to Godwin's Law. Why? I argue that it is not incorrect to compare the nature, structure, and operations of the Church of Scientology to the Nazis. As I will show in this essay, the Church of Scientology is a multi-billion dollar transnational Master Race group which has a call for genocide embedded in the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. Secretly operated and managed by a legally non-existent paramilitary organization called the Sea Org, the Church of Scientology finances and operates a psycho-terrorism, propaganda, and intelligence gathering agency called the Office of Special Affairs. While the Church presently lacks the means to conduct a genocide, its decades-long malicious conduct of "Fair Game" argues that it would do so if it had the means.

Tags: 1950, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1991, Abortion, Alex Gibney, Auditing, China, Clear, David Miscavige, Destin, Dianetics, Disconnection, England, Fair Game, FBI, Free Speech, Germany, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, HBO, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, Human trafficking, IRS, Knowledge Reports, Mike Godwin, North Korea, Office of Special Affairs, Planetary Clearing, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force, Religious Technology Center, Richard Behar, Russia, Science of Survival, Sea Org, Sec Check, Secret Service, Sleep deprivation, South Africa, South Park, Suppressive Person, Tax exempt, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, Time magazine, UK, Venezuela

I have been collecting these for some time as they are sent to me. Not worth much really, other than as a record of events, but when you accumulate a selection of them and just scan through you see some interesting patterns. As they came in I highlighted certain recurring statements. This top one is an email sent out a couple of months ago that just seemed to perfectly set the stage.

Tags: Abi Reitze, Albuquerque, Alicia Kreisberg, Annie Sokoloff, Austin Nichols, Avi Lonstein, Avner Golan, Basel, Bavaria, Ben Ghiora, Birthday Event, Birthday Game, Bob Brooks, Bob Welch, Bobbi Kassowitz, Bonita Wilson, Brandy Harrison, Burbank, Cause Resurgence Rundown, Chairman of the Board, Charlene Thorburn, Chuck Jacobs, Code of Honor, Colleen Bigler, Dali Bahat, David Nunez, David Wilson, DEA, Dean Glosup, Debbie Suplee, Diane Temps, Dissemination, Division 1, Division 2, Division 4, Division 6, Don Davis, Don Saito, Drug Free Marshals, Eric Krackow, Ethics, Flag World Tour, Fundraising, George Dinkel, Golden Era Productions, Hagit Ron, Heelah Cohen, Humanitarian, Ideal Org, Inglewood, Irad Ron, Jennifer Jacobson, Jill Kirsch, John Massey, Karen Brown, Kathy Di Galbo, Kathy DiGalbo, Kathy Morrill, Kathy Welch, L. Ron Hubbard, Larry Marshall, Lauren Perreau, Linda Massey, Los Angeles, Los Feliz, Maiden Voyage, Mark Anderson, Marty Kassowitz, Mary Ann O'Donnell, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Elizabeth Glosup, Mary Lee Krackow, Megan Mitchell, Mission, Nancy Parodi, Nola Aronson, Ofrah Bahat, OT, OT Ambassador, OT Committee, OTC, Pasadena, Phoenix Lectures, Quicky, Quinn Taufer, Ralph Temps, Ray Loomis, Renaissance Academy, Rochelle Goodrich, Saint Hill, San Fernando Valley, Scott Kreisberg, Sue Kattoo, Telex, Terry Morrill, Twitter, Valley Ideal Org, Vered Ziv

The real secret behind the Church of Scientology is... waivers, fines, and threats. In this post we cover waivers. Church of Scientology Policy demands that every Sea Org member, staff member, and public member surrender all of their civil rights, legal rights, and every other right. This is inherently bad faith, unclean hands, and self dealing on the part of the Church.

Tags: Legal, Quicky, Sea Org

We have a real treat for our regular readers today, particularly those of you who enjoy our "Sunday Funnies." Over the years, we've become very familiar with Scientology's marketing methods, so when something different comes along, it can really get our attention. One of the best examples is the energy and fun of Scotland Scientology's newsletter — "Scots Wha Hae...!" — which has been put out by a man who lives near Edinburgh named John Gourlay. He's become something of a mascot in our Sunday Funnies pages of late, and so we were interested to hear that he was part of a slick marketing campaign that Scientology came up with last year, and then apparently abandoned.

Tags: 1970, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Edinburgh, England, Golden Era Productions, Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence, Ideal Org, OT, Quicky, Saint Hill, Scotland, Sunday Funnies, UK, Wales, YouTube

Following are 4 of the 10 pages devoted to the Running Program in the new Source Mag. It is an interesting study in hype and mystery. People are paying a lot of money for this "rundown" which literally consists of "running" around in circles. There is NOTHING ELSE done on the Running Program, or "Cause Resurgence Rundown" as it is called in the promotion.

Tags: Cause Resurgence Rundown, OT, OT VIII, Quicky, Running Program

When I write of the idea of cultivating the skill of 'letting go', some Scientologists react as if I am from the planet Farsec (the alleged origin point of the universe for all psychs, reference: Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior). On the one hand this is surprising because it is precisely what one does when one experiences a spiritual 'release' in a Scientology session. On the other hand, the idea of employing and refining that capability in life is looked upon as blasphemous. It is in a way since so much in Scientology implants precisely the opposite idea in believers. To help get the concept across I have many times recommended folk read and attempt to think with Tao Te Ching (my recommended translation, The Tao Te Ching, an English Translation by Stephen Mitchell). A number of people have written to or told me that they have done so, and find the idea of 'letting go' liberating and useful in their quests for self- actualization (equinimity attendant to becoming who one really is and attaining toward one's full potentialities). Still many want the 'tech' to it or an instruction manual of sorts. I came across a good description of breaking 'letting go' down into a process on buddhanet. net. It is below for your perusal. I don't know who the author is and I don't even know what all is on buddhanet or who operates it. All that I know is that the following description of the process rings accurate in many ways and may communicate to, and be found to be useful by, some.

Tags: Farsec, Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, Quicky

We have another Underground Bunker exclusive this morning, and it's fun! We've learned that in 2005, Scientology leader David Miscavige asked his personal tailor, Claudio Lugli, to dress up everyone at the Religious Technology Center like they were from the 1999 film The Matrix. RTC is the controlling entity of Scientology, the inner sanctum of power among an alphabet soup of organizations with names like CSI, ASI, and CST. It's RTC that really wields the power in the church, and its chairman of the board is David Miscavige (hence his title, COB).

Tags: 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, ABLE, Author Services Inc, Celebrity Centre, Chairman of the Board, Church of Spiritual Technology, Claudio Lugli, Clear, Dallas, David Miscavige, Italy, Karen de la Carriere, Los Angeles, Mission Impossible, OT VIII, Quicky, Quinn Taufer, Religious Technology Center, Renata Lugli, Richard Tyler, San Fernando Valley, Scientology staff, Sea Org, Sunday Funnies, The Hole, Tom Cruise, Urd Priester, Valley Ideal Org

Voldemort was AMAZING at Graduation last night. Can you believe he actually duplicates the problems students are having with instant reads! But then again, how hard can it be to know what's wrong when you created it in the first place? And Taiwan is going to become the next Ideal Org!! Funny, if you were at the Maiden Voyage 7 (or was it 8?) years ago this would seem a bit like deja vu. But then again, with the urgency of clearing the planet, a 7 year delay is not really important. At least its not as long as Harlem... Or Battle Creek. Or New Haven. Or Capetown,. Or, or, or...

Tags: AMA, Battle Creek, Capetown, Chairman of the Board, Chinese, Facebook, Harlem, Ideal Org, Maiden Voyage, New Haven, Quicky, Student Hat, Taiwan

What we are seeing in real time on this blog is David Miscavige's Public Relations program played out from coast to coast. Yesterday his six mayonaise sandwich eating OSA volunteers made utter asses of themselves to a number of people never before exposed to the subject of Scientology (including seven local law enforcement officials). Miscavige's proclivity for playing such hijinks is the very reason I began doing something about the problem of Radical Corporate Scientology. After three years of observing the monster from an exterior viewpoint I came to the conclusion that David Miscavige left unchecked would deny the subject of Scientology to future generations by so thoroughly sullying it in the public eye that no one of sane mind would go anywhere near it. So, Miscavige's solution to my solution is to speed up the process and bar no holds in rushing headlong into it. This video captures the scenes they are creating every day now in cities across the country. (Technical Difficulties) In the meantime, we identified Neo Norman Bates. He also goes by the name of Jim Moore. Consult your OSA Volunteers list under "Austin" and you will find his name. A Jerry Boswell trained CCHR guy. In the past year, on three occasions when I was half way across the country Moore lurked in the weeds waiting for my wife Mosey to return from a long day's work and commute. He came to her door - with another OSA Volunteer, since Corporate Scientologists do not even go to the bathroom alone - asking accusative questions about me, refusing to identify himself, and leering at her like some repeat sex offender. Three times the punk stalked and attempted to intimidate my wife while I was 1,800 miles away. Now, he is on the streets of Ingleside continuing to leer at my wife and my home, and assaulting my visiting friends.

Tags: Austin, CCHR, Chairman of the Board, David Miscavige, Florida, Ingleside, International Association of Scientologists, L. Ron Hubbard, Mike Rinder, Office of Special Affairs, OT, OT Ambassador, OT IX, OT VIII, Pinellas County, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Salila Travers, Texas, TIME, Truth Revealed

A senior member of the Church of Scientology accused of coaching a child to lie about sex abuse has had her bail relaxed so she can travel to California. Janice Meyer, 57, was surrounded by supporters on Thursday as she made her first court appearance in Sydney's Downing Centre Local court.

Tags: Australia, CCHR, Jan Eastgate, Janice Meyer, Stuart Bouveng

A senior member of the Church of Scientology accused of coaching a child to lie about sex abuse has had her bail relaxed so she can travel to California. Janice Meyer, 57, was surrounded by supporters on Thursday as she made her first court appearance in Sydney's Downing Centre Local court. She is charged with doing an act intending to pervert the course of justice in 1985 in Sydney.

Tags: Australia, CCHR, Jan Eastgate, Janice Meyer, Magistrate Graeme Henson, Sexual abuse, Stuart Bouveng

Church of Scientology supporters have lashed out violently outside a court house today. One of Scientology's most senior members faced court today on charges relating to perverting the course of justice. As the accused left the court house, a scuffle between her supporters and a Today Tonight reporter ensued.

Tags: Quicky, Today Tonight

L'ex-députée PS Catherine Picard, présidente de l'Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu (Unadfi), réagit au réquisitoire du parquet qui demande la dissolution de l'Eglise de Scientologie et quatre millions d'euros d'amende.

Tags: Catherine Picard, Europe, France, Mission, Miviludes, UNADFI

In mid-May, it seemed Ignatius Piazza, the president of the institute had finally gone too far. In response to his refusal to pay a multi-million dollar settlement, a federal judge ordered a receiver to take control of Front Sight, its facilities, its operations, and its assets.

Tags: Front Sight, Ignatius Piazza, Judge Ware, WISE

In December, Fresco suddenly retired from Wikiland. But it seems this was a retirement in name only. He reappeared as someone calling himself "Pergamino" and promptly returned to his role as Rawat's Wikiprotectorinchief. And now he's gone again. Site admins have instituted a kind of forced retirement, banning "Pergamino" for sockpuppeting.

Tags: Jimmy Wales, Jossi Fresco, Prem Rawat, Wikipedia

(Part 1 of 2) I had a chance to tap the brain of a former member of Scientology's secretive SEA ORG division during the June 14th protest against the Church of Scientology in Toronto. There is gross mistreatment and abuse taking place right now in many of the secretive areas of the CoS. Ex-members and potential members are not the only people in danger here -- Scientologists are people too and need our help just as much as the general public. Hopefully this man's message clicks with the many Scientologists that are sure to watch this video.

Tags: Ex-member, Freewinds, Quicky, Sea Org, Toronto

I was asked to be Narconon International Science Advisory Board medical director as a result of having personally treated thousands of people with the Hubbard body detoxification protocol. Literally thousands of enrolling Narconon clients have received medical physicals by me prior to doing Hubbard's sauna cleansing program. Therefore, I can attest to results from extensive direct experience and professional observation.

Tags: Detox, Megan Shields, Narconon

Some recent SEC enforcement actions show how lucrative Internet stock-pushing can be. One Internet newsletter publisher, Florida-based George Chelekis, was accused by the SEC in February of receiving some $1.1 million in cash, and 275,500 shares of stock, from companies promoted in his Web site without making proper disclosure to subscribers of his widely publicized newsletter, Hot Stocks Review. By contrast, an SEC official observes, Chelekis received only about $37,000 from subscribers over a 14-month period. Chelekis, who neither admitted nor denied the allegations in settling the SEC lawsuit, did not respond to an E-mail to his AOL screen name. He no longer maintains a phone listing for the newsletter, which apparently has ceased operating on the Internet.

Tags: George Chelekis