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Dec 4, 2008
How Scientologists pressurise publishers // Over and over again, critical publications have been blocked — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
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David V. Barrett Source:
The Guardian (UK) Last week we learned that Amazon.co.uk has bowed to pressure to stop selling a book by a former senior Irish Scientologist. The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (Merlin Publishing, Dublin) describes John Duignan's 21 years in the religion, not all of it a happy tale. According to Amazon, "Unfortunately, we have had to withdraw The Complex by John Duignan in the UK because we received a specific allegation that a passage in the book ...
Dec 1, 2008
'The Complex' author John Duignan cites Tom Cruise control — NY Daily News (New York)
Nov 8, 2008
Church of Scientology waiting to pounce in Mumbai, India — Counterknowledge.com
Nov 3, 2008
I'd have killed for Cruise cult — The Sun (UK)
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Author(s):
David Lowe Source:
The Sun (UK) A TOP Scientologist who escaped the cult has given the most explosive insight yet into the shady "celebrity religion". A-list followers including Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley and John Travolta believe their faith is the secret of their success. But for John Duignan it cost him everything and everyone he held dear after he become a leading figure in the church's British branch. John says he was so brainwashed that he would have killed for Scientology. And he claims another member was ...
Oct 6, 2008
Former office block to be handed to Scientologists — Birmingham Mail
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edward Chadwick Source:
Birmingham Mail THE controversial Church of Scientology is set to complete a multi-million pound deal for a huge new HQ in a leafy Birmingham street within weeks, it emerged today. Leaders of the organisation have written to members to confirm that the handover of Moseley’s Grade II listed Pitmaston building will take place on October 24. The Birmingham Mail exclusively revealed the sect — famed for its celebrity disciples like Tom Cruise and a belief in aliens — was ready to stump up ...
Aug 29, 2008
Ashdown Park Hotel and Country Club: Hotel watch — The Telegraph (UK)
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Adriaane Pielou Source:
The Telegraph (UK) In search of luxury in the countryside, Adriaane Pielou visits the baronial Ashdown Park Hotel deep in rural East Sussex. The location Unnerving if, like me, you arrive in the dark. Deep in rural East Sussex, 20 minutes by car from Glyndebourne opera house, the 106-room hotel is hidden behind trees on a unlit B-road running through Ashdown Forest. The next morning, though, all is sunny and serene. Sweeping acres of grounds (lake, croquet lawn, 18-hole golf course) surround the baronial ...
Aug 23, 2008
£5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self — The Telegraph (UK)
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The Telegraph (UK) £5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self
A council chief executive is attending a £5,000 self-awareness training course in Germany and Florida to learn to become “more likeable and able to like herself”.
Last Updated: 12:12PM BST 23 Aug 2008
Dr Allison Fraser, who is in charge of Sandwell Council, signed up to attend the Avatar Professional Course.
The Avatar website claims the course teaches people how to become “more real, authentic”, to “protect themselves against the abrasions of the world” ...
Aug 22, 2008
£140,000 council chief goes on £5,000 course to protect herself against 'abrasions of the world' — Daily Mail (UK)
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Daily Mail (UK) A town hall boss is spending £5,000 of taxpayers money to go on a self-awareness training course in Germany and Florida to teach her to 'like herself'.
Dr Allison Fraser, who has been in charge of Sandwell Council in the West Midlands over the last two years, will attend courses in the Avatar Professional Course to learn how to become 'more likeable'.
Chief Executive Dr Fraser - who has an annual salary package of £140,000 - has already spent a week ...
Jul 16, 2008
Church of Scientology banned from shopping centre — Birmingham Mail
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edward Chadwick Source:
Birmingham Mail THE Church of Scientology has been banned from a Midland shopping centre after a string of complaints that they had been preaching to children. Church leaders understood to be from Birmingham set up a stall at Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Centre after making a booking under the name Dianetics, the church’s main theory. Bosses ordered preachers to pack up and leave after angry parents said their children had been invited to take part in “stress tests” and then lectured about the religion. “We ...
Jul 9, 2008
Scientology targets city — The Argus (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Gurner Source:
The Argus (UK) The Church of Scientology is planning to increase its foothold in Sussex, The Argus can reveal. Graeme Wilson, the director of public affairs, said the organisation was looking at the local property market and it is thought any new premises could provide a headquarters for members in Brighton and Hove. Mr Wilson said: "The Church of Scientology internationally is very much expanding and to accommodate that expansion, new premises are being acquired for our existing churches worldwide. advertisement "There is nothing ...
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