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Mar 6, 2011
Scientology adverts under investigation by ads watchdog — The Sunday Times (UK)More: newswhip.ie
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gabrielle Monaghan Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) Scientology adverts under investigation by ads watchdog
Row over posters that claim sessions can tackle job insecurity as former member of church describes campaign as ‘misleading and offensive’
Gabrielle Monaghan. Sunday Times
Published: 6 March 2011 [In print. Online subscrption only]
Complaints have been filed with the country’s advertising watchdog over a Church of Scientology campaign, which claims its courses can help with job insecurity.
The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI) is investigating claims that the ads, appearing in Dublin’s ...
Oct 24, 2010
Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot // 075 Russell Miller -- L. Ron Hubbard was a fraud — Common Sense Atheism
Feb 1, 2010
Whistleblower: working for Scientology — New Humanist (UK)
Jan 6, 2010
Church of Scientology Sues Daughters of St. Paul for Publishing Book by Catholic — Catholic Online
Nov 22, 2009
Celebrities lead charge against Scientology — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Beaumont ,
Toni O'Loughlin Source:
The Observer (London, UK) Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city's bar association was swept with a search wand. Photo IDs were checked. Mobile phones were taken from guests, who included the Hollywood star Tom Cruise. The occasion was a memorial service for Scientology's top legal adviser for ...
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Nov 8, 2009
Church of Scientology told to drop Churchill images — The Sunday Times (UK)
Nov 8, 2009
I know the dark side of Scientology...I almost lost my friend to it — The HeraldMore: heraldscotland.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Source:
The Herald I knew Scientology was in trouble when the media moved on from the usual silly gossip about its celebrity members to much darker, disturbing issues at the heart of the movement. After a Paris court last month convicted several Scientologists and two organisations associated with the movement in France of organised fraud, and amid other investigations in France looking at a suicide and an alleged abduction, Oscar-winning film-maker Paul Haggis, a long-time member, quit Scientology. Haggis, who wrote and directed Crash, ...
Oct 22, 2009
Retrial ordered in John Travolta extortion case — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Source:
The Times (UK) A Bahamanian politician blamed a misunderstanding yesterday for the sudden collapse of the trial of two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta. A Bahamanian Supreme Court judge declared a mistrial on Wednesday just two hours after the politician, Picewell Forbes, announced at his party’s annual convention on live television that one of the accused had been cleared - even though jurors were still deliberating. Tarino Lightbourne, an ambulance driver, and Pleasant Bridgewater, a lawyer and ...
Sep 24, 2009
John Travolta tells court of autistic son's death — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jacqui Goddard Source:
The Times (UK) John Travolta told yesterday of his desperate attempts to save his dying son after he suffered a seizure at their holiday home in the Bahamas — and acknowledged publicly for the first time that the boy had suffered from autism. Accompanied by his actress wife, Kelly Preston, the Grease star appeared in a court in Nassau to recall the horrifying moment that a male nanny, Eli Wheaton, came pounding on their bedroom door to rouse them from their sleep on January ...
Aug 6, 2009
Secret mission to expose L. Ron Hubbard as a fake — The Times (UK)
Jan 25, 2009
Senator ‘tried to extort cash’ from Travolta over son’s death — The Times (UK)
Jan 11, 2009
Scientology ‘in denial’ of illness, says Travolta’s mentor — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Harlow Source:
The Times (UK) THOUSANDS of members of the Church of Scientology may be suffering from untreated mental and neurological conditions, according to a former follower who taught John Travolta, the Hollywood star. Sufferers are told to cure themselves with vitamins and saunas while it is denied that they have problems such as epilepsy or autism, said Tory Christman, now a fierce critic of the church. Christman left after suffering epileptic fits, culminating in a seizure which caused her to fall in the bath, knocking ...
Jun 20, 2008
Scientology: the Anonymous protestors — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Whipple Source:
The Times (UK) The Church of Scientology, notoriously ruthless at crushing its critics, may have met its match.The Times joins a demo by ‘Anonymous' - the vanguard of a new internet-fuelled radicalism There were signs, if you knew where to look, that the launch of Operation Sea Arrrgh was imminent. In a hundred corners of the internet plots were being plotted; in fancydress shops sales of Guy Fawkes masks were rising and in thousands of dank teenage bedrooms young men and women were making ...
May 11, 2008
Tom Cruise's Adolf Hitler film put back into Hollywood bunker — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Brooks Source:
The Times (UK) The fortunes of Hollywood actor Tom Cruise have suffered a blow with the news that his next big film has been postponed until 2009. The release of Valkyrie, which tells the story of the 1944 assassination plot against Hitler, was first postponed from this summer to the autumn and is now not expected to appear until next year. “We were originally expecting the film to be released in June,” said a senior executive at one of Britain’s leading cinema chains. “I ...
Apr 18, 2008
Jason Beghe Scientology video removed from YouTube — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Veronica Schmidt Source:
The Times (UK) A video interview showing American TV actor Jason Beghe criticising Scientology has been removed from YouTube, writes Veronica Schmidt . The 48-year-old was the first celebrity to speak out against the religion, telling how his 12 years with the church damaged him and accusing Scientology of being “destructive” and a “rip-off”. After Beghe’s criticism of the church made headlines yesterday, YouTube suspended the account of the prolific Scientology critic who posted the video, making the clip unavailable to viewers. But the suspension ...
Apr 17, 2008
TV actor Jason Beghe attacks Scientology in YouTube video — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Veronica Schmidt Source:
The Times (UK) [Embedded Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNUjMz9-W2I] American TV actor and former Scientologist Jason Beghe has labelled the controversial religion “destructive” and a “rip-off” in a video interview posted on YouTube, writes Veronica Schmidt . The 48-year-old is the first celebrity to speak out against the religion, telling how his 12 years with the church have damaged him. “My experience personally, and what I’ve observed for myself, is that Scientology is destructive and a rip-off,” said Beghe, who has acted on Cane, CSI and Veronica ...
Jan 25, 2008
Web vigilantes attack Scientology website — The Times (UK)
Jan 23, 2008
Is Scientology dangerous? — The Times (UK)
Jan 20, 2008
Scientologists enlist police to push antidrugs drive in school — The Times (UK)
Jan 16, 2008
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology video — The Times (UK)
Jan 8, 2008
Making history profitable — The Times (UK)
Dec 9, 2007
Court fight looms as Germany seeks to outlaw Scientologists — The Sunday Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Imre Karacs Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) The Church of Scientology vowed yesterday to invoke America’s help in its battle against the German government, which declared it unconstitutional last week in the first step towards an outright ban.
Sabine Weber, president of the church in Berlin, said the organisation would drag the German government through the courts and expected to win, with support from the US State Department.
“Criminal examinations [in the past] all ended in our favour,” said Weber.
Last Friday the German government gave the security ...
Oct 28, 2007
It's weird up north as Scientology moves in — The Sunday Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chris Gourlay Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE Church of Scientology is preparing to expand its creed to the north of England by opening a centre in Manchester next year. The church, which has been criticised as a cult, has paid £3.6m for a disused distillery in the city. It plans to turn the five-storey building, near Old Trafford, into “a place of worship and religious instruction”. The move is part of a world-wide expansion strategy by the American organisation, which was founded by L Ron Hubbard, a ...
Aug 5, 2007
The gullible age — The Sunday Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Millar Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) [...] A man who holds no truck with established religion is unsurpris-ingly unlikely to have much good to say about Scientology, which purports to use scientific tools such as its controversial “E-meter”. “It’s purely made-up. It just taps into some ‘gullibiligy’. They find some film star or somebody like Tom Cruise or whatever his name is who’s thick as two short planks and he becomes a sort of advertisement.” [...]
Jun 23, 2007
'Church' that yearns for respectability — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dominic Kennedy Source:
The Times (UK) Scientology is trying to transform its image from that of a shadowy cult When Scientology officially opened its spectacular new British church in the Square Mile, the movement was given an unusually warm embrace by the Establishment. Ian Luder, an Alderman of the Corporation of London and a magistrate, lauded the organisation’s anti-drugs efforts. “The work which you do in this area is greatly to be welcomed,” he said, “and I wish you growing success.” It was a satisfying moment for ...
Jun 23, 2007
Scientologists set to cash in on tax break — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dominic Kennedy Source:
The Times (UK) A change in the legal definition of religion has opened the way for Scientology to claim a multi-million-pound British tax break by registering as a charity. Advisers believe the new law, which recognises groups that worship multiple gods, or none at all, entitles the movement to the same privileges as traditional faiths like Christianity. Pagans, witches, Rastafarians, druids and satanists may also be entitled to start rattling collecting tins bearing the label “registered charity”. Scientology, founded by the science fiction writer ...
Jan 7, 2007
Revealed: how Scientologists infiltrated Britain's schools / Insight: Drugs charity is front for ‘dangerous’ organisation — The Sunday Times (UK)
Dec 1, 2006
How many members do they really have? — Church Times (UK)
Mar 26, 2006
Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Sullivan Source:
The Times (UK) We have a new cartoon-blasphemy scandal. No, it’s not Islamists burning down Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in Pakistan because a few Danish cartoonists had the gall to draw the prophet Muhammad. Now it’s Scientology versus the popular and hilarious cartoon television programme South Park. And the Scientologists, like the Islamists before them, are winning. South Park is a potty-mouthed series created by two young iconoclasts, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. It features a group of nine-year-old cardboard cut-out pals whose adventures ...
Mar 22, 2006
What Scientology needs most is to be ridiculed — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Gove Source:
The Times (UK) Isaac Hayes, the wonderfully gifted singer who sang the theme from Shaft, reached No1 with Chocolate Salty Balls in 1999. The song was one of a number that Hayes performed while playing the school Chef in the US cartoon series South Park. Among the other Chef tunes, the Christmas song stands out, with its seductive lyrics, which I believe ran: I’m gonna lay you down by the Yule log I’m gonna love you right Baby, I’m gonna deck your halls And ...
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