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Nov 20, 2009
Science or fiction? — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s):
Natasha Bita Source:
The Australian EVEN for a religion started by a science fiction writer, the allegations levelled against the Church of Scientology in federal parliament this week sound stranger than fiction. Blackmail, cover-ups of child abuse, labour camps, embezzlement and coerced abortions are spelled out among the 53 pages of allegations by seven former Scientologists - some of whom had climbed high in the church hierarchy - tabled in the Senate. In what the church has decried as "an outrageous abuse of parliamentary privilege", independent ...
Sep 11, 2009
What goes on inside Will Smith, Jada Pinkett-Smith's school? — ABC News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Heather Downie Source:
ABC News The New Village Leadership Academy Allegedly Mimics Some Scientology Teaching Methods Like many modern celebrity power couples, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are not satisfied with just being actors. The couple, who met on the set of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" in 1995, have had a lot of different roles over the years, most recently founding the New Village Leadership Academy (NVLA), a private elementary school in Calabasas, Calif., which opened its doors this week for the start of the ...
Feb 3, 2009
Will the L. Ron Hubbard house turn a Camelback neighborhood into a Scientology recruitment Mecca? — Phoenix New Times
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Robrt L. Pela Source:
Phoenix New Times On a recent December Sunday, on a still street nestled against Camelback Mountain, a party is in full swing at the L. Ron Hubbard House. It's meant to be a holiday open house, to show off the stunning renovation of the simple brick dwelling where Hubbard founded Scientology a half-century ago, and to smooth relations with neighbors, some of whom have lately been up in arms about plans to turn the house into a Scientology museum. These concerned neighbors, none of ...
Jan 26, 2009
On second thought, Hoskins backs out of Scientologist exhibit — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jake Wagman Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) State Rep. Ted Hoskins backed out of an appearance this weekend at an anti-psychiatry exhibit linked to the Church of Scientology.
Hoskins, a Democrat from Berkeley, was scheduled to speak at “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” at the Jamestown Mall in Florissant on Saturday afternoon.
The exhibit was organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group founded by Scientologists that shares the same fervent opposition to psychiatry.
Hoskins agreed to speak at the exhibit last week, when he saw ...
Jan 22, 2009
Rep. Hoskins to speak at Scientology anti-psychiatry exhibit — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jake Wagman Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Rep. Ted Hoskins, a Democrat from Berkeley, will speak at an anti-psychiatry exhibit sponsored by a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology.
Hoskins will introduce “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” at the Jamestown Mall in Florissant on Saturday afternoon.
The touring exhibit, which made an appearance earlier this week in the Capitol rotunda in Jefferson City, has been put together by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which was founded by Scientologists to further the group’s views on psychiatry.
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Aug 15, 2007
Scientology founder's Phoenix home restored — Associated Press
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Associated Press L. Ron Hubbard had a restlessness that led to a lifetime of traversing the globe. So it was scarcely three years that the eclectic writer and adventurer lived at his "House on Camelback." That modest home in Phoenix, recently restored to how it looked in 1952, is regarded as a religious historic site _ the birthplace of Scientology. "For it was here that he developed the first exteriorization process and advanced fully into the realm of the human spirit, and here ...
May 23, 2007
Scientology: A Classroom Full 'O Crazy — CNN
Type: TV
Author(s):
Glenn Beck Source:
CNN [Professor David Touretzky appears on the Glenn Beck show to discuss Scientology's increased encroachment into public classrooms. They are attempting to "Safepoint" Scientology which means to get the cult better accepted into society. Let's try to stop that until they reform.]
May 20, 2007
Scientology makes it in classroom door — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Farley Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) BATON ROUGE, La. — Inside the industrial looking brick walls of one of Louisiana's poorest performing middle schools, Scientologists finally have achieved a longtime goal. A study skills curriculum written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is being taught as mainstream public education. All the eighth-graders at Prescott Middle School are being taught learning techniques Hubbard devised four decades ago when he set out to remedy what he viewed as barriers to learning. The curriculum and textbooks used by Prescott's 156 ...
May 18, 2007
Commercial notes — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)More: nl.newsbank.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jo Krummrich Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Hilliker Corp. and Hagen Properties represented Vernon Holliday, Richard Maheu and Neal Josehart in the sale of a 60,000-square-foot institutional building at 2345 Lafayette Avenue, St. Louis, to Church of Scientology of Missouri, represented by St. Louis Premier Realtors Inc. Solon Gershman Inc. represented parties in these leases: 18,311 square feet of office space at 1350 Timberlake Manor Parkway, Timberlake Corporate Center III, Chesterfield, from Franklin Street Properties Corp. to AB Mauri Food Inc. d/b/a Fleischmann's Yeast, represented by Grubb & ...
Dec 23, 2006
Still on church's drawing board — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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 ...
Feb 18, 2006
Scientology awards reach out to black community — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 8, 2006
Scientology - Narconon buys Denham Springs site for $750,000 — The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
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The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) 2TheAdvocate.com, USA - February 8, 2006 - www.2theadvocate.com - Narconon Louisiana-New Life Retreat plans to open a drug rehabilitation center on a 12-acre site in Denham Springs.
Narconon paid $750,000 to Claude and Janice Penn Jr. at 35059 Bend Road, according to Livingston Parish Clerk of Court records.
The rehabilitation center is expected to open at the beginning of March, said Cathy Davis, a spokeswoman for the center.
Narconon is a nonprofit that tries to eliminate drug abuse and addiction through ...
Dec 7, 2005
Applied Pressure - Should St. Louis County grant tax breaks to Scientology-linked tutoring programs? — Riverfront Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kristen Hinman Source:
Riverfront Times Every year in St. Louis County, on the fourth Monday in August, more than one thousand properties are placed on the auction block. County revenue officials and eager bidders converge on council chambers to divvy up land on which owners have not paid property taxes for three years.
The tax-delinquent citizenry are warned in advance that their real estate will go to the highest bidder if they haven't paid at least one year's worth of back taxes. The deadline is auction ...
Nov 1, 2005
The Strange Case of Garry Scarff — Jonestown Report
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rebecca Moore Source:
Jonestown Report In 1989, Fielding McGehee and I published The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown, a collection of essays written by those who had been involved with Peoples Temple. In this retrospective volume, people reflected on their experiences of the previous decade, as well as on their understanding of the Temple. Contributors included former members, relatives, and others who had had connections with the Temple, such as news reporters and social activists. Shortly after the book appeared, Chris Hatcher, the psychologist ...
Oct 26, 2005
L is for L. Ron — Riverfront Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kristen Hinman Source:
Riverfront Times In July 2003, a nonprofit called Applied Scholastics International opened a spanking-new headquarters on 55 acres in Spanish Lake. Among those who attended the festivities were U.S. Congressman William "Lacy" Clay and actors Tom Cruise and Anne Archer. Newspapers from coast to coast published stories heralding the group's move from LA to the great Midwest. After the initial fanfare, Applied Scholastics quietly went about its business: pitching tutoring services to local groups with after-school programs and looking to ally with prominent ...
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