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1 year ago
2020-01-04, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Frequent commenter here George White sent me this photo of some of the original OT VIII's on the Freewinds in 1988. I don('t recognize many, and George doesn't recall anything other than the first names of some of them.
Milt Wolfe is in the center — he was the CO Flag Ship Service Org, though it was not an assignment that lasted long. I think that is Jane Allen in the back row. She is an IAS Freedom Medal winner who vanished from the scene after contracting cancer. Debbie Mace is standing to the left of Milt, co-founder of the infamous Mace-Kingsley enterprise, also an IAS Freedom Medal winner, but she too became invisible after she ran off to live with one of Adnan Kashoggi's wives (Loredana) in Italy. Obviously many more women than men — not sure why...
George sent me this write up along with the photo.
Tags: 1972, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, A History of Man, Adnan Kashoggi, Christian, DC, Debbie Mace, Doctor, E-meter, Facebook, Freedom Medal, Freewinds, George White, International Association of Scientologists, Italy, Jane Allen, Milt Wolfe, New York City, OT, OT VII, OT VIII, Quicky, Ron Miscavige, Truth Revealed, Twitter
2020-01-04, Skip Young, Underground Bunker
One of our favorite stories of 2016 was the lengthy piece we wrote about Skip Young. At one point, he had worked as an operator for the Church of Scientology while he was a police officer, and he became a footnote in the Snow White Program of the 1970s. Years later, he had been "declared suppressive" by the church, and his adult daughters disconnected from him. Skip now has a startling update for us, as he attempted to reunite with his daughters this past Christmas and… Well, we'll let him tell the tale.
This year I had the worst Christmas ever and it's all thanks to that wonderful organization dedicated to Peace on Earth, the Church of Scientology.
I got involved in Scientology over 40 years ago and was fairly active until 2008. If you want more details of my history in Scientology, you can go to my website and see my gorgeous daughters, the subject of which is this article.
Tags: 1957, 1970, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, AOLA, California, Christian, Christmas, Clear, Clearwater, Committee of Evidence, Data Series, Debbie Cook, Disconnection, England, Ethics, Facebook, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, High Crime, International Association of Scientologists, Jewish, Knowledge Reports, L. Ron Hubbard, Master at Arms, Mike Rinder, Muslim, Nancy Cartwright, OT, Patron Maximus, Pinellas County, Potential Trouble Source, Quicky, San Diego, Scientology executive, Sea Org, Snow White Program, St. Louis, Suppressive Person, Tampa, Timea Vojtilla, Tone 40, Victoria, Victoria Cummins, Warren Young, YouTube
2019
2 years ago
2019-01-04, Australian Associated Press, The Guardian
A teenage boy has been charged with the stabbing murder of a Church of Scientology member at the organisation's Australasian headquarters in Sydney.
The 16-year-old was charged in the early hours of Saturday, two days after he allegedly fatally stabbed a 24-year-old Taiwanese national with a 25cm kitchen knife.
The victim was attempting to escort the teen down the driveway of the Chatswood Scientology headquarters on Thursday afternoon when he was attacked, police say.
2019-01-04, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
RB is traveling to visit family so we have an oldie but goodie this week...
Tags: Regraded Being
2019-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
The news of Tiponi Grey's death came as a real shock to Scientology and the Aftermath watchers, who were informed of it with the words "In Memoriam" at the end of the episode she appeared in that aired on December 11.
We quickly put together a story that night, getting confirmation from Ishmael Bey, another guest on the show, that he had learned from Tiponi's daughter that she had died of natural causes. We also found evidence in Tiponi's social media feeds that she had been dealing with some health issues.
But readers have naturally been curious to know more about Tiponi's fate, and have asked us how a 50-year-old woman dies of "natural causes." So we kept trying, and we did manage to reach Tiponi's daughter and had a conversation with her about her mom.
2018
3 years ago2018-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
It's true that church leader David Miscavige has made a lot of changes to Scientology over the 30-plus years that he's been in charge. But some things never change. We were struck by that thought when one of our helpers sent over the latest copy of Source magazine, which is intended to get Scientologists excited about spending a boatload of money to come to Clearwater, Florida for expensive courses there.
We want to highlight a few things in the magazine — Meghan Fialkoff gets her star turn! — but in particular, we were fascinated by something we usually gloss over that is in every magazine Scientology puts out of whatever type: The obligatory L. Ron Hubbard excerpt.
In the back of every church publication, you're going to find a slice of Hubbard wisdom taken from some lecture he gave 50 or 60 years ago, and this issue of Source is no different. But this one really struck us, for some reason. Scientology has been under siege like never before, what with Leah Remini having so much success at the A&E network, for example. But you have to credit Scientology with sticking to its guns on this one — even as Scientology is hurting, they're still promoting Hubbard's ludicrous notions about space and planets and the universe, and that you, as a thetan, are entirely responsible for the physical universe around you and that Scientology's "technology" will ultimately allow you to create whole universes on your own.
2018-01-04, Chris Shelton, YouTube
Due to questions I received from my last video in the Basics of Scientology series, former highly trained Sea Org member Sunny Pereira and I discuss more about Scientology concepts of reality, agreement and the inherent contradictions littered throughout Scientology on these subjects.
ARC Triangle video: https://youtu.be/I1yxk81eDLM
The Basics of Scientology Playlist: https://goo.gl/G83KPL
2018-01-04, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
Due to questions I received from my last video in the Basics of Scientology series about the ARC triangle, former highly trained Sea Org member Sunny Pereira and I discuss more about Scientology concepts of reality, agreement and the inherent contradictions littered throughout Scientology on these subjects.
ARC Triangle video: https://youtu.be/I1yxk81eDLM
The Basics of Scientology Playlist: https://goo.gl/G83KPL
2018-01-04, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Learn to escape the maze of life...
This sounds ominous. R2-45 maybe?
He's baaacck...
2017
4 years ago
2017-01-04, Amelia McDonell-Parry, Rolling Stone
This week's episode of A&E's Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath focused on the story of Aaron Smith-Levin, a Scientologist for 29 years who left the Church in 2014. Here are five things we learned from last night's show, courtesy of Mr. Smith-Levin's story.
1. Winning tax exemption from the IRA legitimized Scientology to some of its own followersLike many longtime Church members, Smith-Levin joined as a child when his mother started taking courses and working for the organization. He told Remini that he distinctly remembers becoming actually invested in the religion himself in 1993, when Church leader David Miscavige announced that Scientology had won tax exemption status from the IRS and was now recognized as a religion. Smith-Levin distinctly remembered the promotional video that Scientology released, which touted "The War Is Over."
According to former Scientology exec Mike Rinder, the Church had accrued over one billion dollars in back taxes at the time; he's alleged that without the exemption, Scientology would probably still exist, but it wouldn't be nearly as powerful as it is now. In addition to making all of their contributions to the Church tax deductible, many Scientologists felt that finally, the government was actually legitimizing the work that they were doing to Clear the planet and save humanity.
Tags: 1986, 1993, 2006, 2014, A&E, Aaron Smith-Levin, Child abuse, Clear, Clearwater, Collin Smith-Levin, David Miscavige, Disconnection, E-meter, First Amendment, Flag Land Base, Florida, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Golden Age of Tech, IRS, John Travolta, Knowledge Report, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Philadelphia, Quicky, Scientology and the Aftermath, Sea Org, Suppressive Person, Tax exempt, Tom Cruise
2017-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
We were thoroughly blown away last night watching Aaron Smith-Levin talk about his family's complex history in Scientology. We couldn't believe how much territory Aaron and Leah Remini and Mike Rinder covered on the latest episode of Leah's A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath, from the IRS granting Scientology tax exempt status in 1993, to Aaron breaking down as he described losing his twin brother in a car accident while they were separated by Scientology's "disconnection" policy.
We wondered what the Church of Scientology was going to put up as a reaction to the show. We didn't have to wait long. A couple of hours after the episode aired, the church posted a number of videos to the website it maintains to rebut Remini's show.
Among the people Scientology convinced to talk on camera about Aaron were his wife's mother and sister. (Aaron's wife Heather didn't speak for Leah's show, but she has sided with her husband against the rest of her family.)
Tags: 1993, 1995, 2006, A&E, Aaron Smith-Levin, Anne Tozser, Apollo, ASHO, Ben Francis, Bill Ackman, California, Class XII, Clearwater, Delphi, Delphian School, Disconnection, Edy Lundeen, Erica Tozser, Florida, Gayle Smith, Herbalife, IRS, Jon Lundeen, Juliana Palmer, Julie McCloskey, Knowledge Report, Leah Remini, Los Angeles, Mike Rinder, MSNBC, Oregon, Portland, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force, Scientology and the Aftermath, Sea Org, Sleep deprivation, Tax exempt
2017-01-04, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
Scientology considers children to be ancient spirits in new child bodies. They are not given any consideration as children. Scientology's atrocities against children, including the cover up of sexual molestation, are now coming to light.
2017-01-04, Marlow Stern, Daily Beast
As Chicago P.D.'s Hank Voight, he is a broken man haunted by his felonious past. The tragic loss of his wife to ovarian cancer and the brutal murder of his wayward son have further reduced him to a font of rage; a man armed with a badge, a gun, and a grudge against the world. He wears the pain in his voice, which sounds like a rusty gravel truck barreling down a dirt road.
"When puberty hit, I went down low and there was some gravel," says Jason Beghe, who plays Officer Voight. "But I was in a very serious car accident in '99—broke my neck, my back in a couple of places, all of my ribs, both of my lungs. I was in a coma for three and a half weeks. When I would come out of the coma, since I was intubated from being on life support, I would pull the tube out and it made it even more fucked up."
He looks off in the distance and laughs. "It's good for Voight—not so good when I have to play the sweet dad. But it's good with my kids. They're good kids, but when I say, Hey, it's time to clean up, they do it."
Tags: 1985, 1994, 2000, 2007, Alex Gibney, Chicago, Cleveland, Cult, David Duchovny, David Miscavige, Europe, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Jamie DeWolf, Jason Beghe, John F. Kennedy, Leah Remini, Milton Katselas, NBC, New York City, New Yorker, Operating Thetan, OT, Quicky, Scientology celebrity, Secret Service, Suppressive Person
2017-01-04, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
As I have been doing after each program, I am putting this here as a place for people to make comments about the show that has just aired.
I must say, this was the toughest episode to film. So heartbreaking and Aaron is such a good man, father and friend. Tough to watch too. But unfortunately, it is the horrible truth. And if you have not already done so, I recommend you check out Tony Ortega's blog this morning. Aaron, in his usual meticulous detail, rips apart the scientology smear site and POW videos that were put up a couple of hours after the show aired.
On a more positive note, the outpouring of support has not only continued, it continues to grow. It is quite amazing how far and wide this show is reaching and to how many people who have not had personal experiences with scientology but now feel they must do something about the abuses that are being exposed. Thank you all. I try to respond to messages and emails and PMs and tweets, but it is physically impossible to do so. If I have not gotten back to you, I apologize. But let this post serve as my response.
2016
5 years ago
2016-01-04, Mark Seagraves, NBC News
A plan to open a drug rehabilitation location in northern Frederick County is in the hands of a circuit court judge after the county council rejected a historical designation the proposed place for the rehab.
After the Frederick County Council voted 6-1 in June against granting historic designation to the Trout Run property, Social Betterment Properties International, a real estate branch of the Church of Scientology, filed an appeal in circuit court, asking a judge to overturn the council's vote.
2016-01-04, Betsy Woodruff, Daily Beast
CISCO, Texas — Right outside this little town, there's a tiny church that wants to change the world. And, thanks to the billionaire pastor's backing, it just might be able to get that done.
The church is the Assembly of Yahweh, and its pastor, Farris Wilks, happens to be one of the most powerful new players in presidential politics. Farris, along with his brother Dan, made his fortune off the fracking boom and is using part of it to back Sen. Ted Cruz in his bid for the White House.
But new wealth didn't dint his commitment to old-time religion—and to the culture war (read: anti-gay) politics that defined George W. Bush's presidential campaigns. Now, Cruz is taking a page out of Karl Rove's playbook, looking to galvanize evangelical voters as a way to make the Republican Party competitive again. And Farris Wilks is just the guy to fund that effort.
Tags: 1947, 2004, Alt-Right, Center for Responsive Politics, Christian, Christmas, Cisco, Climate change, Contempt of Court, Donald Trump, Easter, George W. Bush, Halloween, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jewish, Karl Rove, Kentucky, LGBTQ, Manhattan, Paris, Republican, Reuters, Ted Cruz, Texas, Valentine's Day, Washington, Washington Post, White House, Wilks Brothers
2016-01-04, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
On New Year's Day I posted a comment to my Facebook page welcoming in the new year with some humor from David Miscavige's address to the faithful sheeple at the event in Los Angeles.
A few other observations beyond noting the utter gibberish he spouted about compressed time and warp speed, a year equivalent to "a thousand years of triumph" and "arriving on the porch of eternity."
I am ignoring the horrendous (from his perspective) events of the year that he also ignored. They need not be recounted, it suffices merely to say the words "Going Clear" passed the lips of orders of magnitude more people who had never set foot inside a scientology entity than even the most enthusiastic rah-rahs in the reg offices around the scientology world.
Tags: 1993, 2015, ABLE, Basel, Bogotá, CCHR, Clearwater, CLO EU, CLO UK, Czech Republic, David Miscavige, Denmark, Denver, England, Facebook, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Guatemala, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Japan, Los Angeles, Mexico, Milano, Mission, Mission Network, Narconon, Narconon Suncoast, New Year's Eve, Ojai, OT, OT IX, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Scientology Media Productions, Shrine Auditorium, Siberia, Silicon Valley, Spain, Study Technology, The Way to Happiness, Tokyo, Valencia, WISE
2016-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
We're hoping to get a report today from some correspondents on the scene when Scientology's administrative appeal in Frederick County, Maryland is argued in a court of law.
If you've been following along with our coverage, you know that Scientology's property front, Social Betterment Properties International (SBPI), has been trying a creative sidestep past local zoning rules to put a new Narconon drug rehab clinic in that county after it purchased an aging fishing camp named Trout Run for $4.85 million. Scientology had learned that if SBPI could get the fish camp put on the county's list of historic places, then it could get a zoning exception that would allow it to renovate the camp and open it as a rehab.
But Scientology's stealthy plan was uncovered, and the county council heard from opponents who didn't want Scientology's plan to succeed. On June 2, the county council, in a 6-1 vote, turned down the request to put Trout Run on the historic list, saying that it really didn't qualify as a historic place, even if President Herbert Hoover had reportedly once angled there, and the location had stood in for Camp David for some scenes in the television series The West Wing.
2015
6 years ago2015-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Barry Coziahr It's our first Sunday of 2015, and that means it's time to start another year of Sunday Funnies! Each week, we bring you the best Scientology fundraising fliers that have been forwarded to us by our great tipsters.
This week, one of our readers noticed that a Phoenix event was being promoted in a flier posted to Twitter. (More and more, Scientologists are using social media - if you happen to spot something on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, please send it our way!)
The flier indicates that Barry Coziahr has quickly become a rising star in the church for the publicity he managed to get in Ferguson, Missouri.
Tags: 1975, 1981, ASHO, Atlanta, Barry Coziahr, Cause Resurgence Rundown, Church of Scientology Religious Trust, Clearwater, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Cosimo Sherman, Disconnection, Donna Isham, Elena Cardone, Facebook, Fearless Leader, Ferguson, Florida, Grant Cardone, Hagit Ron, Irad Ron, Jeremy Powers, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, Mark Isham, Meshell Little, Miami, Missouri, Phoenix, Scotland, St. Louis, Sunday Funnies, Super Power, Tampa Bay Times, The Times, The Way to Happiness, Twitter
2015-01-04, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Things are grim out there off the crossroads of the world — sitting alongside the dock in Curacao.
Not only are they bringing in "WISE guys," they are offering massive discounts to try and get anyone to bother making a trip.
The last Freewinds price list that I could easily find was from 2011. The cheapest week of shared B deck cabin was $1500 and the "Convention Fee" was $1500. They didn't have a single Basics or Congress Course on their price list, but there is NO service, no matter how small that was ever priced below $1000.
2014
7 years ago2014-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Scientology leader and Sea Org captain David Miscavige
We have yet another surprising turn in Monique Rathbun's harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige.
Yesterday, Monique filed for sanctions against Scientology for a "pattern of intentional abuse" during the discovery process of the lawsuit. Scientology has stonewalled the process, Monique charges, because it's trying to perpetuate a falsehood — that Miscavige is a refined character who doesn't concern himself with such things as retaliating against critics and has had no connection to the harassment going on in Texas, where the Rathbuns live.
Tags: 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 9/11, Academic, Anne Archer, BBC, BlackBerry, Bob Adams, Bobby Wiggins, California, CCHR, Cedars of Lebanon, Chairman of the Board, Chicago, Christian, Clear, Clearwater, Congress, Corpus Christi, David Miscavige, David Root, Dead Agent, Denver, England, FBI, Florida, Fred Shaw, Greg Wilhere, Hastings, Hemet, Hospital, Human trafficking, Int Base, IRS, Jefferson Hawkins, John Sweeney, John Travolta, L. Ron Hubbard, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sheriff, Los Gatos, Margaret Singer, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Monique Rathbun, Narconon, Oakland, Office of Special Affairs, OT, OT VII, Panorama, Potential Trouble Source, Private investigator, Quicky, Ray Jeffrey, Rehabilitation Project Force, San Antonio, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sea Org, Shawn Lonsdale, SLAPP, Squirrel Busters, Stevens Creek, Suppressive Person, Tax, Texas, The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology, The Hole, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, UK, Warren McShane
2014-01-04, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
When the only people starting course in Pasadena are names I know from the 80's or even back to the Apollo years, and the services they are on are Student Hat, "SRD" and Purif it tells you everything you need to know about the "straight up and vertical" expansion in one of the premier "Ideal Orgs" in the center of the largest population of Scientologists on earth. They are probably the six people huddled in the one courseroom they turn the lights on in.
These Ideal Orgs should be renamed Cannibal Orgs, because that appears to be ALL they do. (Perhaps a big pot could be set up in reception so they can dance around the prospects sitting in the boiling water until they give in to the "wallet-shrinkers" from the IAS tribe).
Wow.
2013
8 years ago
2013-01-04, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
What does this Vincent Van Gogh painting suggest to you, if anything?
Tags: Quicky
2013-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard published the book that changed his life, transforming him from a well known writer of pulp fiction into an even more well known leader of a worldwide organization that came to be known as the Church of Scientology.
That book was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, and for some time we've had plans to examine it in weekly installments, using a first edition copy of the book that was given to us by researcher Jeff Jacobsen.
Today, we launch that project, and announce the best part of our plans: we'll be making use of the invaluable help of ex-Scientologist, Bay Area lawyer, and writer Vance Woodward.
2013-01-04, John Sweeney, YouTube
To see the space alien signs at Trementina Base, look up 'Mesa Huerfanita' in New Mexico. Track east, see a landing strip, a zig-zaggy road and north of that: Bingo!
The Church Of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology by John Sweeney.
Published by Silvertail Books, January 7th, www.silvertailbooks.com
2013-01-04, Scientology, YouTube
The Church of Scientology Greater Cincinnati celebrated the opening of its expansive new home Saturday, February 25, 2012. The inauguration was attended by more than a thousand Scientologists and state, county and city officials.
2013-01-04, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
How's this for a bonus Friday afternoon post - John Sweeney and Marc Headley driving to Scientology's Trementina Base in New Mexico, footage that Sweeney has put together as a trailer for his book, The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology.
We will have more to tell you about Sweeney's book on Monday. But for now, enjoy this fun moment in the New Mexico desert.
2013-01-04, Axiom142, YouTube
Pollution of watercourse by improperly treated sewage from the private sewage plant operated by the Church of Scientology at the UK headquarters at St Hill Manor, East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK.
This videos shows the callous disregard that the CoS has for the health of the surrounding environment and was filmed over several days between Sep and Dec 2012.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?30033-Dirty-Cult&p=766910&viewfull=1#post766910
2013-01-04, Karin Pouw, Los Angeles Magazine
Rathbun misrepresents his history in the Church claiming a high position to inflate his status. Rathbun was never part of the Church's international ecclesiastical management. Contrary to his delusional belief, he was not well known to parishioners, he did not speak at Church convocations and Sappell did not disclose that his only connection to Rathbun was meeting him once nor did he name Rathbun in his 1990 five-year-in-the-making opus illustrating Rathbun's insignificance in the Church's hierarchy.
2012
9 years ago2012-01-04, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
I am seeing a lot of comments about Debbie's practice of taking on and removing friends from Facebook; and a lot tea leaf reading along with it.
Per my friends at Facebook Debbie's account has been hacked into by Office of Special Affairs (OSA, Corporate Scientology's dirty tricks department). The intent of the operation is clear. They are filling Debbie's Facebook friends list with dozens of Independents and others who proudly wear their excommunication declares. OSA is already briefing on-line, non-declared corporate Scientologists that Debbie is "friends" with all of these "notorious" characters. And that is ALL they need to tell Kool Aid drinkers to get them back in the pen seeing and hearing no evil. Please do not help OSA do its work.
Please do Debbie Cook a favor and let her get on with the mission she spelled out in her original e-mail. That is, let Debbie handle the massive e-mail and phone traffic she is receiving from corporate Scientologists. There is plenty of that to handle. There are corporate Scientology threats to handle. There are infiltration attempts to handle. And there are dozens of kool aid drinkers trying to cave her in. Don't supply ammunition to these deployed agents.
2012-01-04, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
Tony Ortega at the Village Voice has done a comprehensive, very accurate story on Debbie Cook, see Scientology In Crisis.
If anyone doubted my report last night as to Miscavige's "handling", Corporate Scientology Infiltrates Debbie Cook, Ortega's article, quoting USA Today, provided further confirmation:
Spokesperson Karin Pouw adds that the "positioning" of Cook as a "prominent Scientology insider" is "inaccurate." She describes her as "'a disgruntled defector' who has not had any position in the Church for several years, having left in 2007 for medical reasons."
2012-01-04, Ileana Llorens, Huffington Post
Debbie Cook, a former executive with the Church of Scientology has revealed she believes the church has become greedy and corrupt under the leadership of David Miscavige.
Cook, who worked at the church's Sea Org group in Clearwater, Fla., sent an email containing criticisms of the church's management to about 12,000 Scientologists on New Year's Day, according to the Village Voice, which first broke the story.
2012-01-04, Nadine DeNinno, International Business Times
Just minutes into the new year, 50-year-old Cook sent an email to condemn chairman David Miscavige to more than 12,000 current and former Scientologists, which has seen been published publically. The email, in short, delineates how the Church has lost focus within guidelines established by founder L. Ron Hubbard since Miscavige became chairman 26 years ago and turned it into a money-making machine-like organization.
2012-01-04, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
Most of the press reporting on Debbie Cook so far has focused on her past as a high-ranking executive in...
Tags: 1978, 1984, 1989, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, BBC, Blown for Good, California, Clearwater, CMO Int, Commodore's Messenger Organization, Congress, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Dianetics, Douglas Stanglin, Flag Land Base, Flag Service Organization, Florida, Harvey Jacques, Int Base, Internal Revenue Service, Janet Reitman, Jim Carrey, John Sweeney, Karin Pouw, Marc Headley, Maria Pia Gardini, Marty Rathbun, Mat Pesch, Mike Rinder, New Year's Eve, North Carolina, Paul Haggis, San Antonio, Scientology and Me, Sea Org, Squirrel, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Times, Taiwan, Tampa, Texas, The Hole, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, USA Today, Wayne Baumgarten, Whistleblower
2011
10 years ago2011-01-04, quentinkrisp, YouTube
The Clam FAQ:
http://www.xenu.net/clam_faq.html
Operation Clambake Message Board:
2011-01-04, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
Date coincident with news of Independent Training, Miscavige's mosquitoes are swarming around all involved. It is quite comical. His intelligence resources are getting scarcer, and more incompetent, more rapidly than even we anticipated. I'll try to save him some time. Here is what we're up to.
2010
11 years ago
2010-01-04, Hardy Graupner, Deutsche Welle
According to its makers, the aim of the film was to depict the difficulties facing those who leave Scientology when trying to come to terms with their lives again and the threats they receive from the organization.
"We also had to show how people grow fond of the organization in the first place," screenwriter and director Niki Stein said. "Before you can criticize Scientology, you ought to make clear what exactly people hope to gain by joining."
2009
12 years ago
2009-01-04, Obituaries, Tulsa World
Canadian - Jean Lafitte, 52, Narconon employee, died Thursday. Services pending. Hunn, Black & Merritt, Eufaula.
2008
13 years ago
2008-01-04, Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times
A Broadway actor admitted on Thursday that in 2001 he seduced a 15-year-old girl who visited him backstage, and agreed as part of a plea bargain to reveal that admission to anybody he works for in film, television or theater for up to the next three years.
The actor, James Barbour, was accused of having criminal sexual contact with a high school student who was an aspiring actress when she attended a performance of "Jane Eyre" in June 2001.
The student's drama teacher arranged for her to visit the Brooks Atkinson Theater with her parents. Mr. Barbour told Justice Micki A. Scherer of State Supreme Court in Manhattan that the girl visited him in his dressing room before the final curtain call and that he fondled her, knowing that she was only 15 years old.
2008-01-04, New Mexico Business Weekly
During a Thursday news conference, Chavez cited potential future problems faced by nearby businesses that serve alcohol. Although the church has waived its power to protest the obtaining of new liquor licenses in the area, the mayor wondered if it was possible for such an agreement to be made legally binding.
2008-01-04, John Zeiss, Prefix
You've also worked with Beck in the past. Do you work or keep in touch with him any more?
BH: No, Beck is in his own little world now. His own little Scientology world.
Tags: Beck Hansen
2003
18 years ago
2003-01-04, Tim Padgett, Time magazine
Raelians say they worship hard, empirical science. Yet their bond -- a belief that their prophet, Claude Vorilhon, or Rael, is the son of extraterrestrials who created humans via cloning -- is a bizarre leap of faith.
Tags: Raelians
2003-01-04, Win Van Cappellen, Time magazine
Saturday morning, Clonaid, a company founded by a religious group called Raelians, announced the birth of a second "cloned" baby, this time in Europe. The news comes just days after the sect's first claim of a successful clone, and has sparked worldwide skepticism -- and intense curiosity: who are the Raelians and what do they believe? TIME's Anne Berryman spoke to Raelian Damien Marsic, a Frenchman now living in the U.S.
2000
21 years ago
2000-01-04, Lloyd Grove, Washington Post
The Church of Scientology insists that more than 14,000 of its faithful packed the Los Angeles Sports Arena for a millennial celebration of Scientology's first 50 years and the "triumph of spirituality over materialism." To bolster that claim, the church's PR operation posted four panoramic color photographs of the Dec. 28 event -- for use by the news media -- on the Scientology Web site. But then Arlington resident Arnaldo Lerma entered the picture, reports The Post's Richard Leiby.
The 49-year-old Lerma -- an ex-Scientologist who has tangled repeatedly with church officials since he quit 23 years ago, and today owns an audio-video and computer business -- immediately thought he spotted something fishy: He says the crowd scenes were doctored extensively. In one shot he found repeated images of some attendees -- apparently added to fill empty seats. The touch-up work left one doppelganger parishioner with no head. In another shot, a bald man who had been replicated magically grew hair.
On Friday, Lerma shared his discovery with the media and posted his findings on an online Scientology discussion group, and on New Year's Day the church removed two photos altogether and considerably cropped the remaining two. Yesterday, when Leiby asked church spokeswoman Janet Weiland for an explanation, she said there was no intent to inflate the head count. "That was just a goof when they put it up on the Web," she said. "It was later corrected." She maintained that the celebration was "absolutely packed . . . there wasn't an empty seat."
2000-01-04, Lloyd Grove, The Reliable Source, Washington Post
The Church of Scientology insists that more than 14,000 of its faithful packed the Los Angeles Sports Arena for a millennial celebration of Scientology's first 50 years and the "triumph of spirituality over materialism." To bolster that claim, the church's PR operation posted four panoramic color photographs of the Dec. 28 event -- for use by the news media -- on the Scientology Web site. But then Arlington resident Arnaldo Lerma entered the picture, reports The Post's Richard Leiby.
1997
24 years ago
1997-01-04, Heber Jentzsch, Letters, St. Petersburg Times
The Times' Dec. 22 article, Scientology and Germany: Falling back into the past, left out nearly everything relevant to the campaign of discrimination against Scientologists in Germany, everything that would have conveyed the complete and true picture of the deplorable situation in Germany.
1992
29 years ago1992-01-04, AP, Tulsa World
A controversial substance-abuse treatment center that has been ordered by the state to close has been denied permission to accept a former patient who asked to return to the facility.
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xenu-directory.net: Scientology in the news
Scientology in the UK Media