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2019-07-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
A new trend in scientology "promotion" is for orgs trying to "go ideal" to promote the virtues of their cities.
They seek to recruit people to man these "ideal orgs" from other areas of the country and presumably other nations. There has recently been a competition of sorts between Columbus, Austin and Kansas City over the virtues of their respective cities, ranging from the number of fountains ("more than Rome") to proximity to vast numbers of people ("within 600 miles of 50% of the population of the US) and of course "best BBQ" or "live music capital" or "lots of universities"... It's a very odd idea — one would think a place that is investing in ten million dollars worth of facilities would have enough people to man it, but that's not the way of scientology. Their motto is not "if we build it, they will come" but more like "if we build it we will send the people to make it look like they came."
But here is the latest one and they are for some reason proud of this "fact"?
Tags: 2017, 2018, Austin, Clear, Columbus, Cult, Facebook, Ideal Org, Kansas City, Kansas City Org, Kirstie Alley, L. Ron Hubbard, Missouri, Nebraska, OT, Quicky, Rome, Saint Hill, Tone 40, Twitter, United Nations, USA, Wichita
2019-07-07, Rod Keller, Underground Bunker
Today we have the story of a Scientologist in a tough situation. We'll call her Grace. She's going through a divorce, she has untreated medical problems, and has come to Clearwater to turn things around for her. Instead they have kicked her out. She's desperate and asking her friends in Scientology for help, but none is coming.
Grace's husband is seeking a divorce and doesn't want her to leave the marriage with any assets or income. In a normal divorce this dispute would end up in court. Not so in Scientology because it's unethical to sue a fellow member. In order to stay in good graces with the church Grace has to agree to leave a marriage of 15 years with nothing except her husband's money on account at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, which he has agreed to give her.
But Flag the one place in Scientology she can't be. Since the Lisa McPherson incident in 1995, the sick and elderly have been removed from Flag. After arriving there Grace was told that she's not allowed on base because of her illness. Grace says she has low blood sugar. There are a number of possible medical causes for this but in Scientology there is one cause of most illnesses — being PTS.
2019-07-07, Ron Miscavige, YouTube
"Ron Miscavige Life After Scientology" will explore Ron's time with the Church of Scientology and expose information that the Church does not want you to know.
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2018
2 years ago2018-07-07, Rod Keller, YouTube
2018-07-07, Rod Keller, YouTube
2018-07-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Terra is back with another thought-provoking essay.
Hiding
I am wary of leaders who don't show their faces in public. Since they didn't assume their lofty positions by being shy, I assume they're hiding something. The higher their standing, the more dirty little secrets they need to keep buried—and the more suspicious I become of their motives.
2018-07-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
This week in our series from books about Scientology, we have an excerpt from Nancy Many's fascinating 2009 testament, My Billion-Year Contract: Memoir of a Former Scientologist. Nancy is the only former church member who has written about the "messianic project" of the late 1970s, and we're glad she gave us this section to show you...
In the late '70s, I worked on a series of public questionnaires that had been ordered by L. Ron Hubbard entitled the messianic surveys. There were a series of them, and some involved research and finding specialized information. I did the parts that I was handed by going to the library to research information on how individuals and some small groups made it to the international stage. How did these obscure individuals actually make it to the forefront seemingly overnight? I had discovered that while the public seemed to see them as appearing overnight, there had actually been a lot of work behind the scenes to create just that impression.
Cathy was a member of Abigail's group who worked in Clearwater. She had a private office, no windows but very nicely decorated. It was just large enough for her desk and a file cabinet, not the clunky metal ones like the rest of us had but a credenza that matched her desk and gave her space for decorations and another lamp. Image was important when working directly for L. Ron Hubbard, so extra money was allocated. She had a lamp that gave a soft light to her desk instead of the overhead fluorescent glare the rest of us had. The privacy was impressive. Space at the Clearwater base was at a premium, and few people had private spaces. Even though I was working at a senior level of management, I had to wear headphones and listen to music just to block out the ambient noise that surrounded me all the time. But Cathy, she could just close her door and concentrate within the silence of her small oasis.
2018-07-07, Will Sommer, Daily Beast
Plotters in the deep state tried to shoot down Air Force One and foil President Trump's North Korea summit. A cabal of global elites, including top figures in Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and the intelligence agencies, are responsible for nearly all the evil in the world. And now Trump is going to fix it all with thousands of sealed indictments, sending the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama straight to Guantanamo Bay.
Or at least that's how the world is going for the believers of QAnon, the complex pro-Trump conspiracy theory that's starting to having unpredictable effects in real life. The real news can be bad for Trump, but in QAnon-world, the president and his supporters really are getting sick of winning.
Who Is "Q"?
2017
3 years ago2017-07-07, Mexico News Daily
Two months after authorities halted the construction of headquarters of the Church of Scientology, there is no sign that it will resume any time soon.
In this case it wasn't claims of brainwashing, physical abuse or meddling in the lives of celebrities often heard in connection with the controversial church that stopped construction. It was environmental concerns raised by neighbors in the Paseo de las Palmas neighborhood of the Estado de México municipality.
Huixquilucan Mayor Enrique Vargas del Villar announced April 28 that the project had been suspended because the contractor did not have the mandatory environmental impact study issued by the federal Environment Secretariat (Semarnat).
2017-07-07, Gabriella Paiella, The Cut
The Milo Yiannopoulos book saga continues on, with the alt-right provocateur filing a lawsuit against Simon & Schuster after they pulled out of publishing his memoir Dangerous in February of this year.
After news of Yiannopoulos's book deal broke in December, the publishing house faced massive criticism for giving him a platform, which included author Roxane Gay pulling her upcoming book in protest. Though they initially defended their decision, Yiannopoulos lost his book deal shortly after a video of him essentially condoning pedophilia surfaced online.
He went on to self-publish the book and, on Thursday night, threw a raucous book party that reportedly featured "a Hillary Clinton look-alike wearing an orange prison jumpsuit … in a dunk tank waiting to drop into the water."
2017-07-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Tags: Quicky, Regraded Being
2017-07-07, Tony Ortega, YouTube
Please see this story for an explanation of his Hubbard lecture: http://tonyortega.org/2017/07/07/the-...
2017-07-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
It's our habit, from time to time, to remind readers of the source material for this thing Scientology that we like to keep an eye on.
After all, you can hear from current and former Scientologists about their "wins" and "gains" and how helpful Scientology is, but there's nothing like going directly to Source himself — L. Ron Hubbard — to judge for yourself whether he was really onto the secrets of the universe.
For your listening pleasure, we've selected a Fair Use segment from a 1963 lecture that Hubbard gave as part of the "Saint Hill Special Briefing Course," a key lecture series that any serious Scientologist to this day would study carefully at some point during their progress up the "Bridge to Total Freedom." (When we've quoted Hubbard spouting similarly outlandish material about the nature of the solar system from an earlier, 1952 lecture titled "The Role of Earth," some Hubbardites have claimed that it's a lecture not considered important to the Bridge today. But it's not so easy to dismiss the SHSBC. Still, it will be interesting to see if some LRH fans try.)
2016
4 years ago2016-07-07, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
Perception is a tricky thing. It's our conduit to the world and yet at the same, it can be one of our worst enemies. We see or hear things wrong all the time because our senses trick us. As a result, we can be absolutely sure, just totally certain that we are seeing or hearing something that doesn't exist or missing what is right in front of our face.
Here's one. Do you see the cigar?
What about this one? Get your head out of the gutter you pervs, this is a folded piece of paper.
2016-07-07, Editorial, Tampa Bay Times
Clearwater voters took a leap of faith nearly three years ago by approving an ambitious plan for the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to build a new home on the city's downtown bluff. That grand vision failed to pan out. Now the aquarium has an opportunity to demonstrate its appreciation for the public's confidence in its mission by selling to the city a key piece of downtown property for a fair price.
The aquarium bought the 1.4-acre lot in 2012 as part of its plan to move to an adjacent site now occupied by City Hall. Voters in 2013 approved a referendum to allow the aquarium to pursue a long-term lease with the city, and the aquarium hoped to build a three-level facility with a price tag of up to $160 million. Early projections suggested the new attraction could draw more than 2 million visitors a year and be the long-sought cornerstone to rejuvenating downtown.
It was a calculated risk worth taking, and voters long wary of development on the bluff approved pursuing the project. But faced with raising $28 million in private donations in a relatively short period, the aquarium announced last year it was abandoning the plan and would expand its current home on Island Estates. So the aquarium no longer needs the downtown vacant lot, and its decision on whom to sell it to will have long-term consequences.
2016-07-07, Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee
The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office is seeking new information in the 1982 deaths of two South Lake Tahoe casino employees whose bodies were found in the south fork of the American River several months after they disappeared from their home.
Julie Schossow and Marilyn Putt were close friends and both worked as blackjack dealers at the Harrah's Casino in South Lake Tahoe, where they were closely associated with other casino employees, according to a District Attorney's Office news release. They were together when they disappeared from their home around midnight Jan. 12 or the early hours of Jan. 13, 1982. Investigators believe both were kidnapped and held captive for approximately three months somewhere between the South Lake Tahoe and Placerville areas.
2016-07-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
What we have for you today appears to be a pretty slight item. It's a letter, and it's literally only one line long.
But when we saw it, we thought it spoke volumes, and we wanted to share it with you.
Doing so, however, would be tricky. Let us explain.
Tags: 2008, Academic, Child labor, Chill EB, Dennison Academy, Fair Game, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Golden Age of Knowledge, Jennifer Watari, L. Ron Hubbard Way, Los Angeles, Mexico, Office of Special Affairs, Paulette Cooper, Private investigator, Quicky, Sea Org
2016-07-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Of course, the focus this time of year is on the magnificent Maiden Voyage events, things no scientologist would want to miss (though a large number of them do just that, the attendance keeps getting smaller and smaller and the hype and gimmicks they resort to become more and more bizarre).
Our Friend Rupert Murdoch
Always good to hear from Twit of the Year. Wonder if he realizes that Rupert Murdoch is a YUGE SP Merchant of Chaos? Clearly the brown nosing instinct and desire to appear to be an important person trumps even his "I am the most important scientologists in the UK" status.
Tags: 1983, ASHO, Barb Russell, Battlefield Earth, Chairman of the Board, Clear, David Miscavige, Field Staff Member, Florence, Freewinds, John Mappin, Kentucky, Kevin Wilson, L. Ron Hubbard, London Org, Maiden Voyage, Mitch Talevi, Ohio, OT, Peggy Crawford, Porn, Quicky, Rupert Murdoch, Sea Org, Stacy Francis, Tampa, The Pitch, Thursday Funnies, Tom Cruise, UK, WISE
2015
5 years ago2015-07-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
Things are not looking any better....
It's surprising Harvey Jacques is still around. In earlier times he would have been long since gone. Probably he has the Golden Age of Brown-nosing Tech down to a finely honed skill. As he certainly isn't there based on his stats. And these are the ones they announce as "Good News", not a single one of them is on an uptrend. They simply think that because 5 Clears a week blows every other org away, it is "good."
There is no relativity to the outside world inside the bubble.
2015-07-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
It's been a long time since we've heard anything about the Monique Rathbun lawsuit against Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige.
The Texas lawsuit was put on hold when Scientology appealed a March 2014 ruling by Comal County Judge Dib Waldrip denying its "anti-SLAPP" motion. Arguments were made at a hearing before the Texas Third Court of Appeals in September, and since then we've been waiting for the appeals court to rule.
That's a long time to wait, and the same court has already ruled once against Monique, when it granted Scientology's appeal, last July, of Waldrip's order that Monique could depose Miscavige.
Tags: 2004, 2013, 2014, Amelia McDonell-Parry, Bogotá, Carlos Peña, Chairman of the Board, Colombia, Comal County, David Miscavige, Edgar Rojas, Esquire, Freedom Medal of Valor, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, John Galindo, Judge Dib Waldrip, Leslie Hyman, London, Mission, Monique Rathbun, Monique Rathbun v Scientology, Police, Private investigator, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Ruddy Rodriguez, Sandra Rincón, Scientology organization, Shermanspeak, SLAPP, South America, Texas, Texas Third Court of Appeals, Tom Cruise, Venezuela
2015-07-07, Growing Up In Scientology, YouTube
This is an excerpt from an interview done with ex-Scientologist Nick Lister. Nick's mother, Sara Goldberg, was featured in the documentary GOING CLEAR. Nick was also a staff member the Church of Scientology in Tampa, Florida. He talks here about how child labor, medical negligence and John Travolta all combined into one crazy night of insanity in the world of Scientology. Other excerpts from the full interview will be posted as stand-alone videos. The whole interview will be posted later on.
DEFINITION OF TERMS: At 1:38 the term "CMO" is mentioned. CMO = Commodore's Messenger Organization. Commodore = L. Ron Hubbard. CMO is the senior-most management organization within the Church of Scientology International. CMO staff tend to be teenagers.
2015-07-07, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
Scott Campbell Finale. He lived to tell. Scott was an engineer on the Prison Ship "the Freewinds". A ship chose to be the head office and corporation address of "International Association of Scientologists" as a tax haven. The Freewinds is not beholden to any government and on the high seas is away from the prying eyes of the FBI. Unspeakable punishments are carried out here. Senior Executives (my ex-husband Heber Jentzsch included) have to clean the BILGES 12 to 14 hours a day. Scott endured sleep deprivation for months before he had a mental breakdown. The 4 earlier videos in these stories tell you more of his story. This is the finale and happy ending.
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2014
6 years ago2014-07-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
A "seminar" from the mighty Freewinds at a MISSION? In a city with ten ORGS? No Ideal Org is willing to sponsor a "Freewinds seminar" with the Incredible Gavin Wonderstone? Let alone an SO Org? Instead it is the virtually defunct Beverly Hills Mission in Santa Monica....
2014-07-07, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
2014-07-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Even as more people leave and Scientology continues inexorably to dwindle, the church never gives up trying to spread its message, sometimes in subtle ways.
The latest example is a campaign we learned about before Scientology has even been able to launch it. It's the newest ad from the Florida chapter of its anti-psychiatry front group, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR.
Scientologists are being encouraged to donate money so CCHR can put this on Florida's airwaves. Give it a look and let us know: How effective will this ad be in recruiting the unsuspecting to Scientology's anti-psych fun-party?
2013
7 years ago2013-07-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Joe Reaiche, in his playing days The Underground Bunker has teamed with Australia's biggest-selling magazine, Woman's Day, to bring you a report that should send some reverberations through Scientology celebrity culture.
In its newest edition, which hit store shelves in Australia a few hours ago, Woman's Day has published a photograph taken last month showing actress Alanna Masterson, 24, and the son of Tom Cruise, Connor, 18, on a recent lunch date.
The magazine and the Bunker teamed up to ask Alanna's father, Joe Reaiche, for his thoughts on his daughter spending time with Connor.
Tags: 1978, 2005, 2010, Alanna Masterson, Australia, Carol Masterson, Chris Guider, Christopher Masterson, Connor Cruise, Danny Masterson, Florida, Four Corners, Freewinds, Geir Isene, J. Swift, Joe Reaiche, Karen de la Carriere, Long Island, Nicole Kidman, Norway, OT VIII, Quicky, Scientology celebrity, Suppressive Person, Tom Cruise
2013-07-07, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
This is a collection of rumors, "news" and "pitches" emanating from Flag....
They are trying to sell GAG II HARD. Also throwing in some "Super Power" and even a mention of OT IX to persuade the high rollers to get busy redoing their Basics, Purif and Objectives.
First off, a pitch to attend Graduation. We are starting a competition for how many euphemisms can be thought up to announce His presence at Graduation. This has a few new ones: "you know who" and "the top" and my personal favorite "our main speaker."
Tags: Anna Paddock, Barbara Dews, Basics, Chairman of the Board, Cornerstone, Crystal Ballroom, Dan Sherman, David Miscavige, Debbie Sharp, Dianetics, Dissemination, Duncan Pringle, Dusti Woodbury, E-meter, Emmett Osborn, Flag Service Organization, Fort Harrison, Freedom Medal, Fundraising, Germany, Golden Age of Knowledge, Golden Age of Tech, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Jim Bridgeforth, John Spagnola, Kaohsiung, Kaye Champagne, L. Ron Hubbard, Lyle Roland, Michael Chan, Mission, Naomi Davis, OT, OT 9, OT Committee, OT IX, OT VII, OT VIII, OTC, Planetary Clearing, Purification, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Sandcastle, Scott Superville, Sea Org, Shermanspeak, Silver Meritorious, Stephen Koenig, Student Hat, Study Tech, Super Power, Susan Moore, Tom Cummins, Weibke Koenig, Woodbury
2013-07-07, AngryGayPope, YouTube
It's hilarious! It's bizzzaaaroo! It's three minutes too long! See hyperactive Scientologists gush excessively over the wonderfulness of the latest set of books and courses that they must buy. The editing is so rapid, the music so loud that you might not have time to think ... about how much money this costs! And that is the point.
2013-07-07, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
If you're like us, there's truly nothing more inspiring than watching Scientologists talk about how much they love Scientology.
And we've never been quite so inspired than we were after watching a new video of rapid-fire testimonials by dozens of Scientologists who have been fully stoked by the Golden Age of Knowledge.
If you're not really up on Scientology lingo, don't despair. Because after watching this seven-minute video, things really won't be any clearer.
2013-07-07, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
I am in the process of writing two books related to Scientology. It seems to me at this juncture of that process that they will probably be the last I write about Scientology. In keeping with the philosophy I follow in helping people on a one-to-one basis, I am writing with the purpose of assisting people in a fashion that does me out of a job. I think that modus operandi evolved out of recognition that somewhere along the road Scientology sowed its own seeds of destruction by inculcating a sort of unhealthy dependency. I consider what I do to be of the nature of outfitting and guiding folk to begin charting their own paths. Hopefully the books will relate all that I know to be workable in assisting people to move on up a little higher. The first book is about moving up from the ultimate trap that is Scientology for those stuck in it to one degree or another. The second book is about applying Hubbard's workable discoveries in an integrated fashion that proofs one up against getting entrapped in the first place while seeking higher levels of awareness and consciousness.
The former is a recommended guide for moving on up beyond what Scientology has to offer. The latter is a recommended guide for integrating safe and sane application of that in Scientology that can be effective for those who wish to apply it. That is, an integral practice which by my own estimation is the only fashion by which Hubbard's workable ideas will survive or serve salutary purposes for future generations.
All of my books to date, including the first future one introduced here, are directed at a very limited audience: Scientologists and potential users of Hubbard methods. As much as Scientologists and even former Scientologists would like to convince themselves otherwise, I know this to be a tiny minority in today's society. The audience is so limited that writing books on the subject is not a means to make a living; in fact it is an impediment to doing so. The books are written out of a sense of obligation for imparting what I have learned through my own experiences of moving into, through, and beyond Scientology. It is my hope that somewhere down the line that the audience for the second book, the integral guide, might gain a wider audience; or, at least, serve to get some of Hubbard's ideas into the conversation and mix in future integral mental and spiritual practices.
2012
8 years ago
2012-07-07, Aisling Swift, Naples News
After a 14-year legal battle, senior citizens at Naples Estates mobile home park were surprised Friday to hear that a tactic they suspect was used to fight their attempt to purchase the park may have backfired.
Their attorney, A.J. Stanton, argued to Collier Circuit Judge Hugh Hayes that park owner Norton S. Karno's strategy of stopping mortgage payments on a $6 million loan might mean residents would get the 484-lot East Naples mobile home park without paying.
Stanton contended the park owner knew that if the loan debt, now roughly $20 million, exceeded the $11.7 million purchase price Karno paid in 1997, "he'd get a way out" because it would cancel the purchase agreement.
2012-07-07, Antonella Lazzeri, The Sun
But after Shelley's mum died her dad Peter Howell was given full custody of her and took her to live at Walsh Manor, a Scientology centre in Crowborough, East Sussex.
Nearby is Saint Hill Manor, which is the home of Scientology in the UK, and the former home of the religion's founder, science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard.
She said: "Even though I was so young I knew as soon as I arrived this wasn't a normal place. The first thing I had to do was to sign a billion-year contract.
2012-07-07, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
UPDATE 7/9/12:
Pancho and Squirrel
Greetings to everyone who is independent and even those who have not made the decision who yet struggle to be independent while still in the church (good luck with that!).
2012-07-07, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
Last night, about 24 hours after our story appeared, we spoke again with Alexander's mother, Karen de la Carriere, by telephone.
She told us she was standing outside the Cedar Hill Mortuary in Los Angeles, but she was not allowed inside to see her son's body.
"My son is behind this wall. I'm touching the wall and he's just on the other side. But I can't see him because the church considers me a suppressive person," she said.
Tags: 1970, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, Alexander Jentzsch, Apollo, Church of Scientology International, Daily News, Dallas, David Miscavige, Disconnection, Ed Winter, Gary Soter, Heber Jentzsch, Hemet, Inside Edition, Int Base, John Brousseau, Karen de la Carriere, Katie Holmes, Los Angeles, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Sea Org, Suppressive Person, The Hole, Tom Cruise, Touch Assist
2012-07-07, Kerry Hiatt, Daily Mail
I'd been pinched – hard – in some kind of strange lie-detector test and seen rooms where people went to be 'purified'.
I'd spent an hour subjected to a gruelling and invasive 'personality' test and revealed my deepest inner thoughts as if hypnotised.
I'd also been invited to cross the Bridge To Total Freedom – but, in a panic, instead I found myself running away from Scientology as fast as I could – after just a day as a guest of the controversial religion.
2011
9 years ago2011-07-07, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
More evidence that Cult leader David Miscavige has gone stark, staring mad is surfacing by the day. While he employees round the clock teams of between one and two dozen Private Eyes and OTAs on me and Mike Rinder each, his empire is going down in flames. Janet Reitman is only beginning the promotion tour for her book Inside Scientology. And her central conclusion that the church is imploding and reform is only possible from without is being published far and wide in her initial interviews. Miscavige cannot do anything about Reitman because virtually all of his resources are tied up in Texas and Florida making lulz videos. Implosion, meltdown, or tipping point? Or all three in one? Rome burns while Nero plays with his fiddle.
Time Magazine interview:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2080870-1,00.html
2011-07-07, Seth Abramovitch, Gawker
Freedom Magazine is looking for experienced investigative reporters for short and long-range freelance assignments. Freedom, published by the Church of Scientology since 1968, covers human rights and social betterment issues and does investigative reporting in the public interest. Current assignments are based in Los Angeles, New York and Southeastern Texas.
Tags: Freedom magazine
2009
11 years ago
2009-07-07, Joseph Serna, Daily Pilot
A recovering drug addict was called homophobic slurs, held against his will and forced to repeat Scientology lessons at a pair of Southern California rehab homes, including one in Newport Beach, according to a lawsuit filed in Nevada County.
In a lawsuit filed June 29 claiming breach of contract, misrepresentation and attempts at religious conversion, Sarah Locatelli claims her husband, Daniel, received no drug treatment, education or otherwise for the $20,000 they paid to Narconon Southern California in Newport Beach and Narconon Joshua Hills in Palm Desert in February 2008.
2009-07-07, Seth H. Weintraub, Computerworld
It appears that Scientology is in the midst of a big advertising campaign. They appear to want to advertise to my readers very much.
But this is outrageous. Scientology is every ad block 24 hours/day for over a week now. My readers have rightfully started complaining and I'd really like Google to stop. If they are paying Google an exorbitant amount to advertise, I am not seeing any difference in my CPM rates. So, I've tried just about everything in my power to get them removed.
Google being Google, they haven't made removing specific ads very easy. I've done the requisite posting on AdSense forums with strangely no answer. I've also researched competitive ad filters and put every Scientology URL in the filter. To no avail. The Scientology ads keep coming.
Tags: Google AdSense
2008
12 years ago2008-07-07, Ryan Tate, Gawker
As a member of two vindictive cults -- Fox News and Scientology -- cable news anchor Greta Van Susteren is an absolute pro at channeling rage. Witness the blog post she typed up on the 4th of July holiday. The executive producer of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 last week called Susteren's On The Record "not a news program. It's missing-person of the day."
2008-07-07, DeliciousCake150308, YouTube
This is Part 1 of 2
Watch Part 2 at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEbLLj...
Broadcast Monday 7 July 2008.
2008-07-07, DeliciousCake150308, YouTube
This is part 2 of 2
(See part 1 at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSm2ho... )
Broadcast Monday 7 July 2008.
2007
13 years ago
2007-07-07, AP, San Jose Mercury News
SACRAMENTO -- A former Silicon Valley computer consultant whose decade-long fight with the Church of Scientology led to his ruin is asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to free him from a Riverside County jail.
Keith Henson's crusade against the church brought him a misdemeanor conviction for interfering with the rights of others to practice their religion. The 64-year-old Californian is now two months into a six-month jail sentence for the crime.
2007-07-07, Jordan Baker, Sydney Morning Herald
As he mowed on Thursday, a man heard trouble next door. Soon his neighbour staggered into his yard with stab wounds to her stomach and back, crying for help.
From her back garden there was screaming, as if someone was being chased. Then one of the woman's daughters appeared in the front yard, carrying a knife.
He told her he would call police, and the 25-year-old ran off. In an interview with Channel 10, he described the injured mother telling him: "It's not her fault, she's sick."
2005
15 years ago
2005-07-07, Richard Leiby, Live discussion, Washington Post
Richard Leiby: Yes, Scientologists do indeed now run the Cult Awareness Network (CAN). How the takeover occurred is a very long and complicated story, but it was essentially the result of a long and harsh legal campaign by Scientology to put CAN out of business. The church succeeded -- and then its members went on to buy the name after CAN went bankrupt.
Tags: Hypnosis
2002
18 years ago
2002-07-07, Deborah O'Neil, St. Petersburg Times
Minton and Scientology had engaged in an acrimonious public battle for years, spending millions on mutual destruction.
Now they were talking truce. It wasn't long before Minton had become Scientology's star witness.
Minton's turnaround became public during court testimony in April. His former allies, the church's critics, have been left to wonder: Why is he doing this?
Answers have emerged during recent weeks of testimony in the courtroom of Pinellas Circuit Judge Susan Schaeffer. Along with court records and interviews, the testimony revealed the extent of the Church of Scientology's effort to neutralize its most hated critic. Details of the church's thorough, relentless offensive also shed light on how Minton's surprising cooperation with Scientology came about.
Tags: 1995, 2001, Ben Shaw, Boston, Church of Scientology International, Clearwater, Cleveland, David Miscavige, IRS, Jesse Prince, Judge Susan Schaeffer, Ken Dandar, Ku Klux Klan, Lawrence Wollersheim, Lisa McPherson, Lisa McPherson Trust, Los Angeles, Mike Rinder, Monique Yingling, New Hampshire, New York City, Nigeria, Osama bin Laden, Paris, RICO, Robert Minton, Steven Hassan, Tampa, Wally Pope
1994
26 years ago1994-07-07, Wayne Garcia, St. Petersburg Times
On the verge of a trial, the Church of Scientology has settled a $40-million federal lawsuit against its former publicity agent, Hill & Knowlton, and foe Eli Lilly and Co. for an undisclosed sum of money.
No one involved in the litigation, however, is discussing the terms of the agreement, which was completed last week.
"All parties acknowledged that they are pleased that the case has been settled," said a statement from the Church of Scientology International in Los Angeles.
The agreement requires confidentiality, said Kurt Weiland, a director of the Church of Scientology International and head of its Office of Special Affairs.
1990
30 years ago
1990-07-07, Associated Press
PARIS (AP) _ The president of the French branch of the Church of Scientology and five colleagues have been arrested in a probe of alleged fraud and illegal practice of medicine, court and church officials said Saturday.
The president, Daniele Gounord, was arrested Friday in Paris along with the church's treasurer and the head of a church foundation. They were placed under court supervision, but not jailed
Three officials of the Scientologists' branch in Lyon were arrested there in the past 10 days - the local president, treasurer and secretary. They have been charged with complicity in fraud and illegal practice of medicine.
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