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Aug 30, 2010
Deeper look at how Wall Street's self-dealing led to housing bubble cites role of Clearwater financier — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Trigaux Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Wake up and good morning. If some of you wonder why the business media is not taking a deeper "what the heck happened" look at the financial meltdown of recent years, take heart. ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. has begun publishing a series about how, in the middle of America's housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. And in the
latest part of ...
Nov 16, 2009
Looking in on: Justice [re. Colby Schoolcraft] — Las Vegas Sun
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barney Zwartz Source:
Las Vegas Sun Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman on Thursday ordered Metro Police to return everything they seized in a midnight raid last month at the Las Vegas home of anti-Scientologist Colby Schoolcraft. Among the items SWAT officers and counterterrorism detectives took were several rifles, including a semi-automatic Yugoslavian AK-47, and numerous boxes and cases of ammunition. Police arrested Schoolcraft, 23, during the raid for allegedly making threats against the Church of Scientology over the Internet, but the district attorney’s office ...
Aug 7, 2007
Narcon looking at second location — Walton Sun
Type: Press
Author(s):
Heather Civil Source:
Walton Sun Almost all of those who attended a meeting Monday night to learn about a proposed drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility agreed on one thing.
They do not want it in their neighborhood.
Narconon Gulf Coast, Inc. wants to purchase a three-story beach house at 263 Snowdrift Road and turn it into a 28-bed residential rehabilitation facility.
The nonprofit organization hosted the meeting to answer questions from those who live near the proposed location.
Henry Pitts owns property one street over from ...
Nov 3, 2005
The Today Show: An inside look at Scientology, Katie Couric interview with Michael Rinder — NBC
Jul 24, 2005
From the outside, looking in // Carnegie man, 53, isn't bitter for the 27 years he devoted to Church of Scientology — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alana Semuels Source:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Some of the things Chuck Beatty says he's done over the past 30 years sound like scenes from a science fiction movie. Signing over a billion years of his current and future lives to service. Hiding from German news helicopters flying over the California camp where he lived. Spending more than six years doing hard labor under constant monitoring by his peers. But Beatty, 53, now of Carnegie, says he was just one of the many faithful members of the Sea ...
Aug 22, 2004
Look back at Anger — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sanjiv Bhattacharya Source:
The Observer (London, UK) He's been a child star, cult film director and bestselling peddler of Hollywood scandal. Now in his seventies, Kenneth Anger is back with three new films, an exhibition presented by that 'bitch' Anita Pallenberg and plans to publish the last in his Hollywood Babylon trilogy, a book that threatens to unleash an avalanche of litigation. Sanjiv Bhattacharya coaxes him out from behind his chicken-wire fence Auteur, occultist and Hollywood scandal-spreader Kenneth Anger is a famously irascible old man. Within minutes of ...
Jul 2, 2004
CALIFORNIA State to evaluate Narconon // Research group tapped to look at anti-drug teachings — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) State schools chief Jack O'Connell has asked a research group known for its rigorous reviews of health curriculum to spend three months evaluating the Narconon anti-drug program, whose classroom instruction has been linked to the Church of Scientology. At a press conference today in East Los Angeles, O'Connell will announce that the California Healthy Kids Resource Center, a public agency in Hayward, will look at what Narconon is teaching thousands of students in its hourlong presentations at dozens of schools each ...
Jun 23, 2004
L.A. schools look hard at Narconon // Scrutiny follows S.F., state review of anti-drug program — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nanette Asimov Source:
San Francisco Chronicle (California) School district officials in Los Angeles have ordered a review of an anti-drug program whose teachings are linked with the Church of Scientology and are warning teachers that its instruction "is not based on science." Los Angeles is the second district in the state to scrutinize Narconon Drug Prevention and Education, which reaches thousands of students in at least 20 California districts and has provided lectures in schools across the country for two decades. Earlier this month, San Francisco schools Superintendent ...
Nov 21, 2002
U.S. officials to visit Mexico prison to get look at drug program — San Diego Union-Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enrique García Sánchez Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune TIJUANA – About 100 female legislators from the United States will visit the state prison in Ensenada today to see firsthand the results of a program for drug-addicted inmates.
The state began the program, called Segunda Oportunidad, or Second Opportunity, seven years ago, based on the Church of Scientology's prisoner rehabilitation program, called Narconon. It is based on the philosophies of the late L. Ron Hubbard.
According to a recent study conducted by Baja California's state university, recidivism among the prisoners ...
Oct 27, 2001
View from the Pew // A look inside Hawaii's houses of worship // Keeping current with electro-faith — Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mary Adamski Source:
Honolulu Star-Bulletin The Saturday afternoon church gathering was restful at best. A scriptural reading carried a timely message, warning that when religion declines in society, the state assumes the role as arbiter of public morality, and do we really want that? A little ritual of rapid-fire questions had us focusing on our self-centered tensions as leader Amy Suzuki directed us consciously relax "parts of body that you don't have to police." The setting featured a bust of L. Ron Hubbard, scientist and science ...
Aug 2, 2001
Man's film a veiled look at Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Farley Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) A 20-year former Scientologist who now calls it a cult has created a work of fiction that closely resembles the Clearwater group. It's a movie about cults based on fictional characters, says the director. But it's hard to miss the inspiration behind The Profit. The main character is a science-fiction writer who founds a religion. Get it? The leader starts the Church of Scientific Spiritualism. His name: L. Conrad Powers. The full-length feature film was written and directed by Peter Alexander, ...
Mar 27, 1998
Scientology looks into reporter's personal life — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Continuing a long-standing practice, the Church of Scientology again is investigating the personal life of a news reporter. Church officials say their lawyers have hired a firm to investigate Joseph Mallia, a Boston Herald reporter who recently wrote a five-part series that raised questions about church practices. In a follow-up article last week, the Herald reported that an investigator contacted Mallia's ex-wife seeking what the investigator referred to as the "scorned wife story." The woman, who was divorced from Mallia 15 ...
Mar 1, 1998
A broader look at the organization — Boston Herald
Sep 1, 1997
Special look at the Church of Scientology [exact date unknown] — Lotus magazine
Jan 27, 1997
Did anyone notice Lisa looked bad? — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
Jan 28, 1995
Police looking for church's private eye — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
Jan 6, 1992
Warren Buffett looks like a winner in a white hat — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 28, 1987
Ritalin controversy / A 'miracle drug' gets closer look — Los Angeles Times (California)
May 5, 1982
Hubbard's son will testify today — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bill Prescott Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The son of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, is scheduled to testify today in the opening round of public hearings on the sect, the city's hired consultant said Tuesday. Boston attorney Michael Flynn, who proposed the hearings this past fall, said Ron DeWolfe—once known as L. Ron Hubbard Jr.—will be the second witness to be heard in City Hall. Ed Walters, a former high-ranking church officer, will testify first, Flynn said. The planned eight days of hearings ...
Aug 1, 1968
Ethics officers in cult 'look after staff' — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Logan Robertson ,
Nigel Hawkins Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) We called at the Thistle Street Lane premises of Scientology last night and interviewed Mrs Judy Ziff, deputy director of Scientology's publications organisation in Edinburgh. The accommodation now occupied there by Scientology comprises former warehouse premises which a have been converted in about five weeks into extensive office accommodation, in which Scientology publications are redistributed to countries in many parts of the world. At 11.30 p.m., when we left, many members of the staff were still at work. We put a ...
Jun 21, 1966
ADS7 looks at scientology — Advertiser (Australia)
Type: Promotion
Source:
Advertiser (Australia) The controversial cult of scientology, which has been banned in Victoria, will be discussed in ADS7's public affairs programme This Week at 10.5 tonight. Brian Taylor will interview Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Mainsbridge, of Tusmore, who gave evidence before the Royal Commission into scientology in Victoria. Mr. Mansbridge is a senior lecturer at the SA Institute of Technology and his wife is a primary school teacher. At the enquiry the couple gave evidence in support of the cult, but in ...
Dec 8, 1963
Australians look into Scientology / Ask if preclear and entheta constitute medical fraud — New York Times
Dec 5, 1950
Dianetics: Science or Hoax? — Look
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