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Dec 31, 2009
Three of Scientology's elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Recent high-profile defectors , Climbing The Bridge: A journey to "Operating Thetan'' , Scientology's response
Dec 2, 2009
Infinite Complacency: Kevin Mackey's Letter
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Scientology’s relentless hard sell has driven some members to the edge of bankruptcy, wrote one former member who had experienced such tactics. [...]
Nov 21, 2009
Scientology's dark secrets — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barney Zwartz Source:
The Age (Australia) Senator Nick Xenophon's stunning attack on the Church of Scientology this week has shone a light on a worldwide group many former members accuse of ruining their lives through fear and abuse. SCIENTOLOGISTS lured Dean Detheridge off the street using their tried and tested technique of offering a personality test. He wasn't much interested, but they were extremely skilled and persistent persuaders, and he found he couldn't say no. Seven days later he was on staff in what turned out to ...
Nov 6, 2009
In Scientology’s door, but not much farther — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ariel Kaminer Source:
New York Times For all the rumors that swirl around the Church of Scientology — the accusations that it is a cult, the hints about its supernatural teachings, the means by which it attracts so many celebrities — its center on West 46th Street, tucked between the soignée Paramount Hotel and the workaday Edison, is a rather straightforward presence.
The building looks more like a modern corporate headquarters than a religious outpost, with shiny black granite and a display of the founder’s books. A ...
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 17 Monument — BFG Books
Type: Book
Author(s):
Marc Headley Source:
BFG Books Tag(s):
Auditing •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
BFG Books •
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) •
Cause Resurgence Rundown aka "Running Program" •
Church of Scientology Advanced Organisation, Saint Hill, Europe and Africa •
Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library) •
Cost •
David Mayo •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
E-Meter •
Gelda Mithoff •
Golden Age of Tech •
Hidden camera •
International Landlord Office •
Joseph "Joe" Feshbach •
Kathy Feshbach •
Kurt Feshbach •
L rundowns •
Lisa Schroer (also, Lisa Allen) •
Marc Headley •
Matthew Feshbach •
Melissa Feshbach •
Michael J. "Mike" Rinder •
MV Freewinds (formerly, La Bohème) •
Raymond "Ray" Mithoff •
Real estate •
Richard G. "Rick" Cruzen •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Russell Bellin •
Salary •
Super Power rundowns •
Super Power/Flag building (formerly, Gray Moss Inn) @ 215 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
The BASICS •
Thomas K. "Tom" Vorm •
Tom Willis
Nov 2, 2009
Unanswered Questions: Scientology and Edward McBride — Ozsoapbox
Oct 28, 2009
Questions over Scientology's 19 calls in 48 hours before 110,000-volt suicide — Brisbane Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Christine Kellett Source:
Brisbane Times The 110,000-volt electric charge that killed Edward McBride was so strong it caused an explosion capable of causing flash burns up to 10 metres away.
Witnesses who saw it at the Energex substation in Everton, in Brisbane's north, two years ago likened it to fireworks that glowed red long after the Brisbane soldier's life had ended.
There could be no doubt the 30-year-old Special Forces commando and trained electrician wanted to die, of that fact State Coroner John Lock could be ...
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 19 Selling Scientology, Field Staff Member — CNM Publishing
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 2 Entering Scientology world — CNM Publishing
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 20 The Internet — CNM Publishing
Oct 15, 2009
Rehab home tally: $1.5M — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) City has spent the money battling lawsuits, researching the issue, drafting and passing ordinance. Group says money is well spent. Newport Beach has spent more than $1.5 million in legal fees in relation to drug and alcohol rehabilitation homes since 2007, and costs are expected to continue to grow, according to City Atty. David Hunt. “Conflict is expensive,” he said. The city is involved in several lawsuits and at least two federal investigations, all stemming from an ordinance it passed in ...
Aug 29, 2009
Scientology: crisis in France — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Angelique Chrisafis Source:
The Guardian (UK) It claims to be one of the world's fastest-growing new religions but a battery of legal cases threaten its very existence in this secular country In a small Normandy village, surrounded by wheat fields, Gwen Le Berre keeps a Scientology "electrometer" machine in his bedroom. He opens the large green briefcase and peers at the machine inside. It looks like a lie-detector from an old TV cop show and Le Berre doesn't really understand how it works — he just knows ...
Aug 5, 2009
Will and Jada fire head of their school — Radar Online
Type: Press
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Radar Online Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith have fired the head of their controversial private school The New Village Leadership Academy, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. Jacqueline Olivier - the woman the famous husband and wife enlisted to set up their Calabasas campus - was axed from her $200,000 a year position via a telephone call from the Matrix actress. "Jada phoned Jaqueline and told her that they had 'decided to go in another direction' with the school,” an insider told ...
Jul 7, 2009
Couple seek refunds from rehab homes — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joseph Serna Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Recovery centers mistreated former client and provided him Scientology literature instead of the care that they promised, lawsuit claims. By Joseph Serna 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 ...
Jun 9, 2009
Latest news from the French Scientology trial — DigitalJournal.com
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Michael Cosgrove Source:
DigitalJournal.com The Church of Scientology is on trial in Paris for organised fraud. Six individuals and two organisations have been charged and if they are found guilty the Church may well have to wind up some or all of its activities in France. This trial had been talked about for months here as being a make-or-break affair for Scientology and it began last Monday. The two organisations being tried are the Spiritual Association of the Church of Scientology and the Scientology library, ...
Jun 2, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial III
May 31, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial II
May 29, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial I
May 25, 2009
Týden: Scientologists to open primary school in Czech Republic — Prague Daily Monitor
Type: Press
Source:
Prague Daily Monitor Brno, South Moravia, May 24 (CTK) — The Czech Education Ministry has approved the establishment of a primary school in Brno that will teach children according to the method of scientology founder Ron Hubbard, the weekly Tyden writes in its issue out on Monday. The school opens in September. The education is allegedly to be completely non-religious, Tyden adds. Yet a couple of years ago the Education Ministry called scientologists a dangerous sect. In some countries they are even monitored by ...
May 23, 2009
Teaching to learn // Local pastor wants to introduce tutoring program — WEEK (Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois)
Type: TV
Source:
WEEK (Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois) A Peoria pastor wants to see District 150 schools adopt a program that tutors young people on how to better motivate themselves. Reverend Ernest Rodgers held a meeting Saturday at the Greater Apostolic Bibleway Church to introduce parents, students and District 150 assistant superintendent Herschel Hannah to the Applied Scholastics Achievement program. Rodgers was sold on the program during a recent trip to a school in St. Louis. "I was so impressed," said Rodgers. "Kids were testifying how the program worked. ...
May 13, 2009
Un ex-adepte témoigne [French] — L'Express (France)More: Google translation
Type: Press
Source:
L'Express (France) Pendant quinze ans, le pianiste belge Alain Stoffen a vécu sous l'emprise de la secte. Il raconte son "Voyage au coeur de la Scientologie" (Privé), qui l'a manipulé, ruiné et a détruit sa famille. Extraits exclusifs. "L'argent commence à manquer" [Avril 1986. Alain Stoffen vient d'arriver au centre de Copenhague de la Scientologie qui doit lui délivrer son "état de Clair", pour lequel il a déjà déboursé 45 511,29 francs.] -Serre les boîtes! Olivier, mon auditeur, vient de me poser dans ...
Apr 12, 2009
Suri Cruise to start five-days-a-week Scientology training — Daily Mail (UK)More: dailymail.co.uk
Type: Press
Author(s):
Katie Nicholl Source:
Daily Mail (UK) Tom and Katie Cruise’s doll-like daughter Suri is to be trained in Scientology after her third birthday this week. The Cruises are sending their daughter five days a week to the Church of Scientology’s £6,000-a-year New Village Academy in Los Angeles, launched last year by Tom’s friend, fellow actor Will Smith. It is staffed by trained Scientologists and lists ‘study technology’ as a key curricular focus. ‘The children have a lot of responsibilities from a very young age,’ says a source. ...
Mar 13, 2009
Man alleges assault, unwanted pills at Narconon in Newport / Lawsuit from Florida resident seeks $29,000 refund from company — Orange County Register
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Overley Source:
Orange County Register Lawsuit from Florida resident seeks $29,000 refund from company.
By JEFF OVERLEY
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
NEWPORT BEACH A Florida man is suing Narconon Southern California, saying a brief stint in its Newport Beach drug rehab house subjected him to sexual assault, unwanted medication and demeaning work..
Pablo Mendoza checked into the company’s Balboa Peninsula triplex in September seeking help for cocaine addiction and found the oceanfront house to be “filthy” and filled with an “unbearable odor,” according to the lawsuit ...
Mar 13, 2009
Narconon settles lawsuit with full refund / Florida man claimed his brother was molested, discriminated against at the rehab home — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Florida man claimed his brother was molested, discriminated against at the rehab home.
By Brianna Bailey
Updated: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:19 PM PDT
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The Newport Beach-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation home Narconon agreed to refund a Florida man’s money on Friday after he sued, claiming his brother was sexually molested, forced to scrub pots and pans and take unspecified pills that made him ill at the treatment center.
“The parties are settling for ...
Mar 1, 2009
[Complaint vs Narconon Nevada & Narconon Southern California]
Feb 3, 2009
Rehab home cited for alleged code violations — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Newport Beach city officials have cited the rehab home Narconon for allegedly transporting outside clients to receive treatments at the program’s West Oceanfront triplex.
Code enforcement officers say Narconon let non-residents use its steam baths at the 1810 W. Oceanfront site, said Assistant City Manager Dave Kiff.
The Narconon program, which is supported in part by the Church of Scientology, uses the baths to treat addiction, Kiff said.
The city also logged a complaint against the home with the California Department ...
Jan 31, 2009
Record: Rehab gripes drop — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Police records show fewer complaints made on rehab homes, which range from illegal parking to a suicide attempt.
By Brianna Bailey
Updated: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:07 PM PST
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Longtime Newport Beach resident Barbara Roy has an ocean view from her living room, which sits only a few feet from Narconon.
For years, Roy worried about Narconon clients who she said would loiter and chain smoke in the area.
A steady barrage of delivery ...
Jan 29, 2009
I'm sure B.C. kids need Scientology's help / Victoria directs teachers to religious group's human-rights website — The Province (B.C.)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ethan Baron Source:
The Province (B.C.) Victoria directs teachers to religious group's human-rights website
Ethan Baron, The Province
Published: Thursday, January 29, 2009
Attention students: it's now OK to jump up and down on your desks and rave about your latest crush.
The Ministry of Education is referring teachers to an organization set up by the Church of Scientology, the group made infamous by Tom Cruise, the raving couch-bounder and Scientology adherent. Two ministry teacher-support documents direct teachers to the website of Los Angeles-based Youth for Human ...
Jan 23, 2009
Devoir d'enquête: "La Scientologie: La secte démasquée" [Part 1] [Unofficial English translation] — RTBF 1 (Belgium)More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
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