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Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 02 Lie to me — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 03 Work hard — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 04 The landscape is changing — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 05 The policy of truth — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 30 Christmas island — BFG Books
Sep 18, 2009
Will Smith gives $70,000 to Scientology groups: Exclusive — The Hollywood Reporter
Jun 21, 2009
The Truth Rundown: Amy Scobee — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Amy Scobee Born: Washington state Age: 45 Joined Scientology: at age 14, 1978 Left Scientology: 2005 Family status: Married to former Sea Org member Matt Pesch. They left the church together in 2005. They have no children. Career highlights: Oversaw several operations sectors during 20 years as manager at the church's international base in California. Built the network of Scientology Celebrity Centres, assembling and training staff to match four-star service levels. Oversaw church's film and taping facilities. As teenager, managed kitchen, ...
Mar 4, 2009
Scientology and Religious Workers Visas
Mar 1, 2009
[Complaint vs Narconon Nevada & Narconon Southern California]
Feb 3, 2009
[ABLE and other Scientology-linked secular fronts]
Type: Account
Author(s):
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan I worked on the corporate restructuring in the early 80s that lead to the various “ABLE” groups (Narconon, Applied Scholastics, etc.) falling under the “ABLE” umbrella which in turn was 100% controlled by organized scientology’s Sea Organization under different corporate umbrellas (mostly Church of Scientology International “CSI"). I also handled or oversaw the handling of all their main legal matters around the world as part of the Guardian’s Office for some seven years prior to that.
Prior to the “corporate sortout” ...
Feb 1, 2009
21 Søndag: Skattekroner havner i Scientology [Unofficial translation: "Narconon: Tax money ends up in Scientology"] — Danish State Television (Denmark)More: dr.dk
Jan 25, 2009
Scientology base denied by officials — Albuquerque JournalMore: abqjournal.com , forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal
Journal Staff Writer
The Second Chance drug rehab program was pitched to lawmakers and the judiciary as the missing link in a broken system that recycled non-violent drug offenders between jails, prisons and the streets.
The past year, it has struggled through money problems and accusations that it is housing ineligible inmates. On Saturday, faced with a city-delivered Jan. 31 deadline to vacate, Second Chance officials moved the last of its inmates out. But throughout the ...
Dec 17, 2008
Will Smith Gives $1.3 Million to Charities — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Just-released tax returns for movie star Will Smith’s charitable foundation show he and wife, Jada, gave $1.3 million in donations last year to a variety of religious, civic and arts groups.
Smith’s biggest single contribution was, as usual, Yesha Ministries of Philadelphia. He gave the born-again Christian based organization run by Reverend James Robinson a whopping $250,000. That’s a hefty raise from the $140,000 he gave them the previous year. Another $200,000 went to a Christian ministry outside Los Angeles called ...
Dec 7, 2008
Mayor abandons anti-drug program affiliated with Church of Scientology — Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ashley Meeks Source:
Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico) LAS CRUCES — The city is immediately ending an anti-drug program aimed at third-graders after it was revealed it was created and bankrolled by the Church of Scientology.
The "Drug-Free Marshal" program, started in late November, had only been presented to five schools but was intended to be promoted eventually among all third-graders in the Las Cruces Public Schools.
Mayor Ken Miyagishima apologized Saturday and said it was not his intention to promote the religion. The mayor said he was approached ...
Nov 8, 2008
Church of Scientology waiting to pounce in Mumbai, India — Counterknowledge.com
Oct 1, 2008
Mission: Investigate! — Sveriges Television (Sweden)More: Youtube
Type: TV
Source:
Sveriges Television (Sweden) Tag(s):
Anonymous (group) •
Anti-psychiatry •
Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) (formerly, "Social Coordination" or SOCO) •
Bo Persson •
Brainwashing •
Cecilia Lind •
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) •
Clark Carr •
Communications Course •
Cost •
David Miscavige •
E-Meter •
Fair game •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Front groups •
Harassment •
Human Rights Committee (Sweden) •
Håkan Järvå •
Income •
Infiltration •
Janice "Jan" Eastgate Meyer •
Medical claims •
Membership •
Michael Pattinson •
Narconon (aka Scientology drug rehab) •
Narconon International •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operation Snow White •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death •
Public funding •
Purification Rundown ("Purif") •
Recruitment •
Rickard Sulek •
Robert B. "Bob" Adams •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Schools •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) •
Sveriges Television (Sweden) •
Sweden •
Tarja Vulto •
Tom Cruise's leaked video of 2004 •
Ulf Brettstam •
Vanna Beckman •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) •
Åsa Graaf Sep 21, 2008
Cult fiction: Scientologist church plans blitz of Irish schools under the guise of charity group — Sunday World (Ireland)
Aug 17, 2008
Isaac Hayes…The US mega star with Ghanaian royal blood — Modern Ghana
Type: Press
Source:
Modern Ghana The news of the sudden death of Isaac Hayes was shocking to many Ghanaians all over the world. The legendary Grammy and Oscar winning US mega musician and entertainer is also known in Ghana as Nene Katey Ocansey I, Nkosuoehne (Chief for Development) of the Ada Traditional Area and a beloved member of the Ocansey Royal Family. He co-founded the Nene Katey Ocansey I Learning and Technology (NekoTech) Center of Excellence in Ada, Ghana, with Princess Asie Ocansey of Ada. They ...
Sep 12, 2007
Greatest place on earth // Church of Scientology expands into South Loop — Chicago Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Hunter Clauss Source:
Chicago Journal South Loop residents will soon have a new neighbor-the Church of Scientology. The church's new flagship center of Chicago will move next summer into the former Artcraft Building, 650 S. Clark, and become the hub of Scientology-related activities and social services. "It's going to be a beacon of life," said Allyne Rosenthal, president of the Church of Scientology of Illinois. The new center, which was bought by the church in February 2007 for an undisclosed amount, will include office space for ...
Sep 11, 2007
Xenu Goes Uptown // Scientology Makes a Major Move into Harlem. But why? — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chloe Hilliard Source:
Village Voice Recently, the Church of Scientology announced that it was purchasing three buildings on East 125th Street for an estimated $10 million. Since 2003, the controversial religion had been running a mostly overlooked storefront on Third Avenue between 122nd and 123rd streets, but the new expansion marks a major move into Harlem. The buildings will be fully renovated and turned into not only a church, but a community center with the usual Scientology programs: job training, literacy and drug rehab. Media reports ...
Aug 11, 2007
Scientologists find unlikely allies in other faiths — Florida Times-UnionMore: jacksonville.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Sedensky Source:
Florida Times-Union TAMPA, Fla. - The Rev. Charles Kennedy travels the country preaching the brilliance of L. Ron Hubbard’s words. Children in his after-school program learn with the Scientology founder’s methods; church members study one of his books. The minister calls Scientologists the kindest people he’s met and their programs the best he’s found.
One thing sets Kennedy apart: He and his congregants are not Scientologists. They are Christians.
The Glorious Church of God in Christ here is among a number of houses ...
May 30, 2007
The Rundown on Scientology's Purification Rundown — New York Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
John DeSio Source:
New York Press “I'm not here converting these men and women to Scientology. And I've got to tell you something—I've been a Scientologist 20 years. In Sacramento I, more than any other Scientologist, got new people into Scientology, me personally. I'm very good at converting people, if I want to.” Jim Woodworth is the director of the New York Rescue Workers' Detoxification Project, and he is bristling at the suggestion that his program is an arm of the Church of Scientology. He insists that ...
May 20, 2007
Cult or cure? — The Scotsman (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Holly Marney Source:
The Scotsman (UK) Would you be able to kill small animals? Do you twitch during the night? Would you have more than two children, even if you couldn't afford them? Just three of the bizarre questions you are asked if you try to enrol in the Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence, the Scottish base of Scientology, the controversial sect with famous adherents such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Labelled a cult by its critics, defended as a bona fide religion by devotees, it ...
May 15, 2007
This rich creepy cult has friends in high places — Evening Standard (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Francis Wheen Source:
Evening Standard (UK) JOHN Travolta is a halfwit. A statement of the obvious, perhaps, given his adherence to a cult which believes we're all infected with the souls of aliens who were banished to earth 75 million years ago by an evil galactic warlord called Xenu. But if anyone doubted it, the former disco-strutter confirmed his asininity by publicly urging the BBC not to screen John Sweeney's Panorama film about Scientology last night. Not to be outdone, Travolta's fellow- cultists gleefully posted on YouTube ...
Jan 12, 2007
How the Church of Scientology found its way into British politics — Evening Standard (UK)
Type: Press
Source:
Evening Standard (UK) The controversial Scientology sect was accused of trying to inflitrate British politics last night after it emerged that they paid thousands of pounds to both the Labour and Tory parties.
Members of Labour's ruling executive committee, on which Tony Blair sits, approved the payment from a charity which is closely linked to the Church of Scientology, which boasts Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its members.
Labour allowed the charity, the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), to ...
Jan 12, 2007
Labour given thousands by Scientology charity — Evening Standard (UK)
Type: Press
Source:
Evening Standard (UK) The Labour Party received thousands of pounds from an offshoot of Scientology, it has been revealed.
The decision to accept money from a charity linked to the controversial cult was taken at the highest level by members of the National Executive Committee.
• 'Senior Blair aides to be interviewed as potential suspects in cash-for-honours probe'
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They allowed the charity, the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), to take a stall at ...
Dec 15, 2006
Odenwald Critical Of Campisi's 3 Absences — Webster-Kirkwood Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kevin Murphy Source:
Webster-Kirkwood Times Odenwald Critical Of Campisi's 3 Absences
Claims Campisi's missed votes on Lambert smoking ban has essentially killed the bill
by Kevin Murphy
December 15, 2006
St. Louis County Councilman Kurt Odenwald claims that Councilman John Campisi's recent absences from three consecutive council meetings are more than just coincidences.
As a result of Campisi's no-show, Odenwald said his bill to ban smoking at Lambert Field, legislation co-sponsored by Campisi, is essentially dead. The Shrewsbury councilman said he had the four votes necessary ...
May 23, 2006
Experts challenge claims of Scientology's sweat-it-out treatment for addicts — Edmonton Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Rusnell Source:
Edmonton Journal EDMONTON - A drug and alcohol treatment program backed by the controversial Church of Scientology is promising addicted Albertans an extraordinary 70-per-cent success rate.
The Narconon program is marketed as "100-per-cent natural," and prescribes intensive saunas, exercise and high doses of vitamins to cleanse the body of "radiation, drugs and toxins."
Advertisements for the Narconon program have appeared in recent months on Edmonton's CKUA radio and in weekly newspapers throughout the province.
Addiction experts and academics in Canada, the United States ...
Dec 21, 2005
New Life, old tricks — Bay Guardian (San Francisco)
Sep 8, 2005
Rev. Mary Lou Reile, Scientology leader — Buffalo News
Type: Press
Source:
Buffalo News The Rev. Mary Lou Reile of Elma, director of special affairs for the Church of Scientology in Buffalo for 20 years, died Monday in Mercy Hospital after a short illness. She was 72.
Born in Buffalo, the former Mary Lou Urso graduated from Kensington High School, what was then Rosary Hill College and Hubbard College, where she achieved Executive Status One. The mother of seven, she was crowned Mrs. Buffalo in 1957.
As a minister in the Church of Scientology, she ...
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