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Piercing the corporate veil: the true structure of Scientology
Feb 14, 2011
The Apostate // Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology — New YorkerMore: Primary Sources: L. Ron Hubbard Leaves the Navy , guardian.co.uk
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lawrence Wright Source:
New Yorker On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film director and screenwriter Paul Haggis. “For ten months now I have been writing to ask you to make a public statement denouncing the actions of the Church of Scientology of San Diego,” Haggis wrote. Before the 2008 elections, a staff member at Scientology’s San Diego church had signed its name to an online petition supporting Proposition 8, which asserted that ...
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Yael Lustgarten Jul 4, 2010
Adventures in reading // Hollywood actors, Boy Scouts team up to promote literacy — Zanesville Times Recorder
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jennifer L. Manfrin Source:
Zanesville Times Recorder In today's busy world of hectic schedules, it's often difficult to get children interested in reading. Area Boy Scouts found a way to bring reading to life, partnering with Galaxy Press Saturday afternoon to encourage kids to discover the adventures that books can offer. The Muskingum Valley Council of Boy Scouts of America conducted Adventures in Reading Saturday at the Boy Scout Service Center at 734 Moorehead Ave. to show area scouts reading can be entertaining and exciting. The event, sponsored ...
Apr 8, 2010
The falsehoods of the Scientology press release about the lawsuit for damages against Maria Pia Gardini — MondoRaro Magazine (UK)More: Original link
Mar 27, 2010
Ex-Scientology lawsuits reveal elite Sea Org group — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gillian Flaccus Source:
Associated Press SAN JACINTO, Calif. – At the edge of arid foothills far outside Los Angeles, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing the works of founder L. Ron Hubbard and creating the church's teaching and promotional materials. The church says its 5,000 so-called Sea Organization members are religious devotees akin to monks who are exempt from wage requirements and overtime. But two lawsuits filed by two former Sea Org members, ...
Mar 17, 2010
Ex-Scientologist coerced abortion claims — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gabrielle Dunlevy Source:
Daily Telegraph (Australia) A CANBERRA woman has given a tearful account of how the Church of Scientology coerced her to have two abortions, as a fresh attempt was being made for a Senate inquiry into the organisation. Senator Nick Xenophon's effort to get an upper house inquiry into the tax-free status of religious groups, including Scientology, failed last week, when both Labor and the Coalition voted against it. The Senate on Thursday will vote on an inquiry with revised terms - looking at alleged ...
Mar 11, 2010
Scientology inquiry blocked in Senate — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source:
The Age (Australia) Labor and the coalition have been accused of walking away from claims of abuse in the Church of Scientology, by blocking a Senate investigation into the tax-free status of religious groups. Independent senator Nick Xenophon on Thursday failed to win sufficient support for an inquiry into whether church groups should be subjected to a public benefit test, like that in the UK. His move was prompted by complaints from former members of the Church of Scientology, and "hundreds" more allegations since ...
Mar 10, 2010
Scientology puts lives at risk, says Australian of Year — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source:
The Age (Australia) Australian of the Year Pat McGorry has backed calls for a Senate inquiry into Scientology, saying its views on mental health are putting lives at risk. "They are the deniers of the realities of mental illness, which I find incredibly irresponsible and dangerous," he told ABC Radio this morning. The renowned mental health expert has joined psychiatry boss Louise Newman and the Brain and Mind Institute's Ian Hickie in urging senators to vote for an inquiry. The Senate is expected to ...
Feb 12, 2010
Los Angeles Press Conference: Ex-Scientologists speak out More: ustream.tv
Type: Account
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Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) Jan 8, 2010
Restoration of lost Scientology materials complete — New York Times
Jan 7, 2010
Scientology 'free personality test' is newspaper insert — Baptist Press
Dec 14, 2009
Scientology has been Gaming the New York Times Best Seller list
Dec 11, 2009
Don't close the high road — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Pratte Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) Hopefully Monday’s deluge will wash away the Church of Scientology’s wish to vacate a section of Gilman Springs Road. Scientology officials want to close the road where it runs through Gilman Hot Springs, home to their Golden Era film and sound studios near San Jacinto.
Scientology leaders maintain that the busy, curvy road is too dangerous to carry traffic, but on Monday, the high road was one of the safest routes between the San Jacinto Valley and the world.
Like many ...
Nov 22, 2009
The Miscavige Legal Statements: A Study in Perjury, Lies and Misdirection
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 17 Monument — BFG Books
Type: Book
Author(s):
Marc Headley Source:
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Russell Bellin •
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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 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 23 Dangerous — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 25 Never let me down again — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 30 Christmas island — BFG Books
Nov 4, 2009
Inside Scientology's big defection — The Daily Beast
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kim Masters Source:
The Daily Beast What led Crash director Paul Haggis to leave the church after 35 years? Kim Masters reports on how Scientology aided his career—and then tried to milk his success. Maybe Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige had a premonition. Or maybe he’s not much of a talent spotter. But a few years back, Miscavige apparently wasn’t keen on using writer-director Paul Haggis for a series of films based on treatments by the late Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. This was before Haggis, ...
Nov 2, 2009
Ex-officer says Scientology policy didn't match directive — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Childs ,
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Marty Rathbun said he participated in a criminal act to protect the church against a possible security breach. Longtime executive Terri Gamboa and her husband, Fernando, abandoned their posts in January 1990, setting off what Rathbun called a "seven-alert fire.'' Terri Gamboa was executive director of Author Services Inc., the independent corporation set up by founder L. Ron Hubbard to control rights to his intellectual properties. David Miscavige, the leader of the church, wanted to know if she had access to ...
Nov 2, 2009
What happened in Vegas — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Childs ,
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) They squeezed into a two bedroom apartment, all they could afford. Two couples and a single guy had left the Church of Scientology and joined up in Las Vegas, starting a mortgage business near the Palace Station Casino. They were faces in the crowd. Except that the two wives were important in Scientology history, sisters Terri and Janis Gillham. They were two of the original four "messengers" for L. Ron Hubbard. The founder ran his church from his ship, the Apollo , ...
Nov 1, 2009
Defections, court fights test Scientology — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eric Gorski Source:
Seattle Times The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season. Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis' resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly. On one hand, it was just another bad press week for the embattled institution founded in 1953 by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. But for former Scientologists and scholars of the movement, the setbacks pose ...
Oct 27, 2009
Scientology centres convicted of fraud in France // Church fined over £500,000 after case brought by former members who were pressured into handing over money — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jason Burke Source:
The Guardian (UK) Two flagship branches of the Church of Scientology in France have been sentenced to pay fines of over €600,000 (£550,000) after being convicted of "fraud in an organised gang" today by a court in Paris. The judgment against the Scientology Celebrity Centre and a related bookshop in Paris is one of the most important to involve the controversial organisation in recent years. The judges stopped short of the total ban the prosecution had called for, so the church will be allowed ...
Jul 30, 2009
Educational matters: Church should be more upfront — Glendale News-Press (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Kimber Source:
Glendale News-Press (California) About 20 years ago a delegation from the church of Scientology came to my school and asked that I be fired from my position as a teacher (some might take note here of a recurring theme in my professional life). They had objected to a conversation I had with my students about a constitutional issue, and secondarily, about truth in advertising. Time magazine had just done a feature article about the organization, and it managed to make its way into a ...
Jul 13, 2009
Un jour un destin: Tom Cruise [Unofficial English translation by Anonymous] — France 2More: Original French version
Jun 9, 2009
At San Jacinto golf venue, raising funds is par for the course — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Melissa Eiselein Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) Ron Hardin plunked down $20 to play in a Hemet Elks Lodge golf tournament at Golden Era Golf Course in San Jacinto on Friday.
"Five dollars goes for prize money. The rest goes to charity," said Hardin, 71, of Hemet.
None of the money goes to the golf course.
The course, owned by the Church of Scientology, is available free of charge for nonprofit groups to use for fundraising events.
"We don't charge them. That's our way of contributing to the ...
Apr 19, 2009
Anger at tent set up by 'cult' — The Star
Type: Press release
Source:
The Star AN EXHIBITION in Sheffield by followers of the controversial Scientology religion prompted complaints from some members of the public. Scientologists – whose celebrity members include Tom Cruise and John Travolta – set up a bright yellow tent in Barker's Pool to educate people about the religion. But critics have dubbed the religion a "cult" and Star reader Mark Nuttall said he thought it was "appalling" Sheffield Council had given the Scientologists permission to set up the tent. He said: "I would ...
Apr 17, 2009
Literary review / Cult cock-OUP — Private Eye (UK)More: private-eye.co.uk , link
Type: Press
Source:
Private Eye (UK) Scientology Edited by James R. Lewis (Oxford University Press, £18.99) THE clock starts striking 13 very early in this book, which claims to consider Scientology from a standpoint of scholarly objectivity. In the opening essay, "Birth of a Religion", J. Gordon Melton sets out "an overview of the life of L. Ron Hubbard anchored by the generally agreed facts". The general tone can be deduced from his conclusion: "After a suitable pause to acknowledge the founder's life and accomplishments, the church ...
Mar 24, 2009
In The Zone: Graham Berry interview [Part 1] — Radio94x.comMore: part 2 , part 3 , part 4
Mar 7, 2009
More Americans say they have no religion — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rachel Zoll Source:
Associated Press A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious ...
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