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May 8, 2008
Scientology Spokesman Gives Non-Answers on CNN — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s): Tony Ortega
Source: Village Voice
CNN’s John Roberts this morning, trying to get a typically squirrelly Scientology spokesman, Tommy Davis, to answer some basic questions about L. Ron Hubbard’s outfit... Roberts: “There are some people, and one of them is a correspondent for the Village Voice, who says the basic tenet of the Church of Scientology is to rid the body of space-alien parasites, to clear oneself.” Davis: “Well, John, does that sound silly to you? I mean it’s unrecognizable to me.” The shout-out from CNN ...
May 6, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 3: Thistle Street Lane
May 6, 2008
Local ex-Scientologist speaks out / ‘Originally, Scientology worked’ — Tiger Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s): Kelley Cox
Source: Tiger Weekly
There is a national media storm surrounding the Church of Scientology. Celebrity members have said Scientology saved their lives. Celebrity ex-member Jason Beghe spoke out against Scientology in a series of YouTube videos. There has been widespread criticism and debate among Scientology proponents and adversaries. Tiger Weekly’s own Web site was submerged in one such debate in response to an article published April 23, “I visited the Scientology Center of Baton Rouge … and lived to write about it.” Local ex-Scientologist ...
May 1, 2008
Cancer on the Lido Deck? Scientology Responds — Radar Online
Type: Commentary
Author(s): Tyler Gray
Source: Radar Online
Scientology officials insist its S.S. Asbestos will sail again. Reports of cancer-causing particles aboard the 40-year-old Scientology cruise ship and floating fortress for the church's secret OT VIII training floated around yesterday after a report by a St. Martins newspaper that the ship was sealed by authorities on the island of Curacao. Perhaps most interesting was the old interview with the ship's architect Lawrence Woodcraft, originally aired by Xenu TV and reposted by the anti-Scientology Lisa McPherson Trust and others. Woodcraft ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 29, 2008
Cancer on the Lido Deck: Scientology Cruise Ship Rife with Asbestos? — Radar Online
More: radaronline.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Tyler Gray
Source: Radar Online
Better cancel that thetan-eradicating vacation on the S.S. Scientology. Message boards are abuzz with the news that the Freewinds, the church's massive cruise ship and floating top secret training compound, has been sealed by Caribbean authorities. Its captain allegedly hid the presence of cancer-causing blue asbestos in the ventilation system, even as workers at a dry dock company refurbished the 40-year-old vessel. The St. Martin newspaper the Daily Herald has allegedly printed the story, and a photo of the article, showing ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 29, 2008
Glosslip Exclusive: Scientology Cruise Ship Freewinds Hides Asbestos Danger — Glosslip
Type: Commentary
Author(s): Dawn Olsen
Source: Glosslip
The Scientology cruise ship, the Freewinds is at the center of a scandal in the Caribbean today because of dangerous levels of blue asbestos being found on the luxury liner.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 22, 2008
Jason Beghe: Scientology a 'Con' — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s): Roger Friedman
Source: FOX News
When actor Jason Beghe finally explained Scientology to pal David Duchovny, they fell down laughing. This is one of the many revelations that come out of Beghe’s seven-part video with Mark Bunker on vimeo.com. Last week, we brought you actor Jason Beghe’s stunning statements about leaving Scientology. They were part of a three-minute teaser video. After 13 years and a million bucks, Beghe finally decided the cult was “dangerous” and left. By that time, he was estranged from family and friends. ...
Apr 20, 2008
Jeff Hawkins and Mark Bunker interview — Glosslip
Apr 16, 2008
Actor Jason Beghe: Scientology is 'brainwashing' — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s): Roger Friedman
Source: FOX News
Jason Beghe is the bravest actor in Hollywood. He’s come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the religion that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to create a "brainwashed, robotic version of you." He also says that he spent about $1 million to work his way up the Scientology ladder to become what’s known as an "OT5 auditor," or someone who listens to new members and teaches them the ropes. He was so successful as a ...
Apr 8, 2008
Scientology's first celebrity defector reveals church secrets // 'I was Miscavige's favorite boy,' says veteran TV actor Jason Beghe — Village Voice
More: web.archive.org, rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Tony Ortega
Source: Village Voice
Veteran television actor Jason Beghe tells the Village Voice that the Church of Scientology will be feeling blindsided by the YouTube video of him that hit the Internet on March 14. Long-held frustrations with the church motivated Beghe to leave Scientology seven months ago, after he had spent about 12 years in the organization as one of its most celebrated success stories. Over the course of about a year, he negotiated his "disassociation" with the church, trying to give every indication ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 2, 2008
Des théories remises en question [French] — Société Radio-Canada (Canada)
More: Video: Unofficial English translation, Transcript: Unofficial English translation
Type: TV
Author(s): Émilie Dubreuil
Source: Société Radio-Canada (Canada)
La scientologie est une entreprise ultramoderne qui a aussi des activités séculières. Par exemple, en 1966, Ron Hubbard fondait avec un collègue Narconon une cure de désintoxication qui compte aujourd'hui plus d'une centaine de centres dans le monde, dont un à Trois-Rivières. En plus d'être une cure de désintoxication, Narconon s'est donné pour mission d'instruire les jeunes sur les méfaits de la drogue en donnant des conférences dans de nombreuses écoles de la province. L'atelier offert dans les écoles, appelé La ...
Jan 31, 2008
Election brings out stars' stripes / Stars' political opinions often stir controversy — Variety
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Bart
Source: Variety
As the fight for the presidency heats up, Hollywood's celebrities will be speaking their minds about the candidates and the issues – and studio chieftains already are cringing. Politics breeds controversy, and there are many who feel that stars should be seen and not heard. The campaign will be shrill enough, they reason, without celebrity input. There's more than a little hypocrisy to this position. The corporate Brahmins wield their wealth and power to support favored candidates, one could argue, so ...
Jan 31, 2008
Sderot locals offered workshops based on Hubbard — Jerusalem Post
Type: Press
Author(s): Matthew Wagner
Source: Jerusalem Post
In a move seen by some as an attempt to take advantage of Sderot’s shell-shocked residents, a nonprofit group is offering them free workshops based on the teachings of the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. [Embedded video: Scientology Way to Happiness in Israel 2/4 ] A group calling itself the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East, which denies any connection with the Church of Scientology, has sent e-mails to social workers in ...
Jan 29, 2008
Scientology's Fanatical Military — Orato
Type: Press
Author(s): John Duignan
Source: Orato
I spent a few days with Prof. Stephen Kent, of the Sociology Department of the University of Alberta, a couple of months ago. He is one of the few really brave academics willing to face up to mind control cults of the Scientology ilk, study, and expose what they really are and the damage they do the people they control. I spent many hours with Steve, describing my 20-year experiences within the cult’s fanatical, militant and secretive inner circle, an organization ...
Jan 23, 2008
Is Scientology dangerous? — The Times (UK)
Jan 14, 2008
Château Scientology — New Yorker
Dec 14, 2007
Cult Watch — TES Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Lynne Wallis
Source: TES Magazine
Their targets used to be university students, but today fringe religious groups are believed to be recruiting school-aged children. Lynne Wallis reports. If one of your pupils became distant, distracted and antisocial, your first thought might be that they were experimenting with drink or drugs. But religious cults pose another danger to young people, and one from which it can be equally difficult to extricate them. Although the notion of children being lured into fringe religious organisations might seem far-fetched, it ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 23, 2007
Madman or messiah? — Independent.ie
Type: Press
Author(s): Carol Tobin
Source: Independent.ie
She was open-minded enough about Scientology, if a bit dubious about some aspects of the life of its founder L. Ron Hubbard. Imagine Carol Tobin's surprise, then, when her hopes of a private jet and a Hollywood career with Tom Cruise were dashed as its adherents appeared to reject her Is it just cynical old me or is Scientology a load of old cobblers or, as we would say here in Ringsend, a load of bullshit? Oh, I can hear the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 11, 2007
I Escaped Scientology — Orato
More: orato.com
Type: Account
Author(s): John Duignan
Source: Orato
There are moments in life, coincidences, which have the potential to utterly change the direction and meaning of your existence. Of these I have had several; they have all marked me in various ways, but none more so than that fateful late afternoon in Stuttgart, Germany, when an attractive and rather aggressive young woman blocked my path and accosted me with the interrogative; "Do you have a good memory"? This story aims to serve a dual function: Enlighten those who may ...
Sep 11, 2007
Xenu Goes Uptown // Scientology Makes a Major Move into Harlem. But why? — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s): Chloe Hilliard
Source: Village Voice
Recently, the Church of Scientology announced that it was purchasing three buildings on East 125th Street for an estimated $10 million. Since 2003, the controversial religion had been running a mostly overlooked storefront on Third Avenue between 122nd and 123rd streets, but the new expansion marks a major move into Harlem. The buildings will be fully renovated and turned into not only a church, but a community center with the usual Scientology programs: job training, literacy and drug rehab. Media reports ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 9, 2007
Friends, thetans, countrymen — Daily Telegraph (UK)
Aug 29, 2007
The Invasion Begins: Scientology's Plan To Conquer Cleveland — Cleveland Free Times
Type: Press
Author(s): James Renner
Source: Cleveland Free Times
The optometrist wants to hear about my most painful memories. This is an auditing session, an important component of a religion called Scientology. The optometrist is the auditor. His name is Steve Sasala. He is skinny. And tall. His face is long and narrow. I can make out the shape of his skull. We sit across from each other, on opposite sides of a tiny desk inside a claustrophobic room at the back of some historic building in Parma Heights. The ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 23, 2007
Xenu is Loose! The Musical! — The Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Carmody Wilson
Source: The Herald
[...] Xenu is Loose! The Musical! follows the plight of Jen, a not-quite-convert to Scientology as she is charmed and seduced by a handsome member of the church during her initial tour. Meanwhile, Xenu has escaped from his native planet and has murder in mind. The characters at the church are good at the smooth, reassuring Scientology-speak, and Xenu is great fun as the preening, speechifying, killing machine, but there are plenty of missed opportunities here for some great satire. More ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 17, 2007
A bridge too far — Haaretz
Type: Press
Author(s): Aviva Lori
Source: Haaretz
Hollywood, Tel Aviv is right behind you: Artists, businesspeople and middle-class seekers are filling the classrooms of local Scientology centers, hoping to rid themselves of excess spiritual baggage. Opera singer Gaby Sade used to have a very short fuse. If someone cut him off, he was capable of getting out of the car and giving the offending driver more than a piece of his mind. If if did not come to blows, he would at least tell him, in choice language, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 14, 2007
Brainwash summer camp — Ynet
Type: Press
Author(s): Bat-Hen Epstein Elias
Source: Ynet
They run summer camps for children and teach them all about love, modesty, and safe sex. They even hand out awards. Yet, it turns out that behind the volunteers of the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East stands the disputed Scientology sect. Association members insist they are not missionaries. 'Our aim is to teach values,' they say. The surprised parents are not convinced. 'How come they run such activities without even asking us?' "Don’t be promiscuous. Sex is ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 1, 2007
Never Mind the Mollusks - Spiritual Philly should welcome the Scientologists. — Philadelphia Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s): Steven Wells
Source: Philadelphia Weekly
Oh God. Sinister cultists the Scientologists are buying a new headquarters in Philadelphia on which (it being "a place of worship") they'll pay no taxes. The bastards. Soon they'll be out in the street–nicely dressed, glassy-eyed and grinning–conning innocent Philadelphians into taking a "free" personality test in an attempt to lure them into a hell world of unimaginably banal fourth-rate sci-fi gobbledeygook. Here are just some of the crazy mental-in-the-head, batshit insane things Scientologists believe: All humans contain an ancient space ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 24, 2007
For Xenu's sake, hear your kooky co-worker out — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): David Eddie
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
The question I've just discovered that someone I work with is a Scientologist. It's not something I've ever heard him talk about, but I asked him about it and he said yes, he was. He's pretty high in the organization, too, an “operating thetan,” whatever that is. I actually like the guy, but I can't help it: Ever since I found out about his beliefs, it's coloured the way I look at him. It just seems like such a kooky group. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 14, 2007
Religious mind games — The Australian
Jul 11, 2007
Scientology the cult of disbelief — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Michelle Cazzulino
Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia)
ARTHUR and Lawana Beals knew their son Gary was in trouble. He had been tormented for years by voices in his head but he had always shunned their advice to seek psychiatric care. On March 15, 1989, the 32-year-old broke. Grabbing a butcher knife, he stabbed Lawana before turning the knife on Arthur. Bleeding from her injuries, Mrs Beals tried to defend her husband before fleeing the house and calling police. Arthur Beals was dead by the time authorities arrived. Three ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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 ...
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