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copyright, trademark, patent • cost • cult awareness network (can) (earlier form, citizen's freedom foundation) • david miscavige • death • france • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • germany • gold base (also, "int base") @ gilman hot springs • golden era productions • lawsuit • legal • lisa mcpherson • medical claims • membership • michael j. "mike" rinder • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • press-enterprise (riverside, california) • protest, picket • religious technology center (rtc) • sea organization (sea org, so) • silencing criticism, censorship • thomas c. tobin • united kingdom (uk) • xenu (operating thetan level 3, ot 3, wall of fire)
112 items found between Jan 1999 and Dec 1999.
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Oct 9, 1999
Dr. John Clark, 73, psychiatrist was authority on danger of cults — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Tom Long
Source: Boston Globe
Dr. John G. Clark of Weston, a psychiatrist who was among the first to note the damaging effects of cults, died Thursday in Belmont Manor nursing home. He was 73. Dr. Clark was a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the staff at McLean Hospital in Belmont. He maintained a private practice in Weston. After several families consulted him in the early '70s about their children's membership in fringe religious groups, he became convinced that the young people ...
Oct 9, 1999
World briefing // Russia: Scientology loses license — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Wines
Source: New York Times
RUSSIA: SCIENTOLOGY LOSES LICENSE – A Moscow city court has revoked the license of the Church of Scientology, saying the organization violated registration laws, and perhaps tax laws, by listing bogus founders of the sect's local branch. Tax police raided the sect's center this year. Scientology officials said the revocation, which was applauded by the Russian Orthodox Church, was politically driven. Michael Wines (NYT)
Oct 5, 1999
Travolta shocker / The gay charges and the truth about his marriage — National Enquirer
Sep 21, 1999
Underground hero calls it a day — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Duncan Campbell
Source: The Guardian (UK)
The man credited with being the father of the American underground press is to close the paper that smashed taboos and helped start the hippie movement more than 40 years ago. Paul Krassner, once described by the FBI as a "raving, unconfined nut", says that social change and the arrival of the internet means the Realist is no longer needed. He has decided that his newspaper, which covered and exposed scandals from the Kennedy assassination to the Monica Lewinsky case with ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 21, 1999
World briefing / France: Scientologists on trial — New York Times
Sep 20, 1999
No religious agenda — The Big Issue (Australia)
Sep 20, 1999
Scientology trial opens in France — BBC News
Sep 16, 1999
Gibbering clones the future of Usenet? — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s): Daniel Rutter
Source: The Australian
Imagine, if you will, a public forum where anybody can stand on a soapbox and speak, and everyone can listen to any of the speakers they choose. What you're imagining is, more or less, Usenet. Usenet is an enormous collection of publicly accessible fora where you can post and read messages about more or less everything anyone talks about. Some postings are brilliant, some are less brilliant, some are inane, some are utterly unfathomable. But everyone with Internet access can have ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Sep 9, 1999
Files destroyed in Scientology case — The Guardian (UK)
Sep 9, 1999
Loss of Scientology files studied — New York Times
Sep 9, 1999
Scientology faces French ban — BBC News
Sep 9, 1999
Scientology's revenge — New Times Los Angeles
Sep 6, 1999
Did cult march on wrong hospital? — The Big Issue (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: The Big Issue (Australia)
The CCHR is widely regarded by anti-cult activists as a front group for the Church of Scientology, a religion established by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Hospitals are not usually the targets of demonstrations. Health care is a controversial subject, but community anger is usually centred on funding issues. So the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights' (CCHR) hundred-strong march on the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Saturday 31 July was already unusual. They were protesting the establishment of a ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Sep 1, 1999
Virtual Book Burning — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s): Mike Romano
Source: Wired
When A Piece of Blue Sky, a book critical of the Church of Scientology, suddenly disappeared from Amazon.com's online catalog early this year, newsgroups such as alt.religion.scientology buzzed with conspiracy theories. Then, in June, Amazon.co.uk, the online bookseller's British division, expunged a controversial book, The Committee, which implicates David Trimble, head of the Ulster Unionist Party, in atrocities against Catholics. Amazon's decision to remove two books from its online list demonstrates the perils of balancing a billion-dollar book business with a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 20, 1999
Scientology expansion raises parking question — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
One Clearwater official says the church need not provide parking until its building is nearly complete, but others disagree. CLEARWATER — The foundation has been poured and two towering white cranes reach into the downtown sky. Construction is well under way on a 370,000-square-foot Church of Scientology building that will take two years to build. When it opens, Scientology expects to have doubled its uniformed staff to 2,000. It also projects that the number of Scientology parishioners visiting Clearwater will increase ...
Aug 19, 1999
Cruise-ing the Scientology connection — Eye Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s): Bruce LaBruce
Source: Eye Weekly
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 19, 1999
Scientology pitch plays prime-time cable — NOW Magazine
Aug 13, 1999
Valley women misidentified selves at Scientology event — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Two San Jacinto Valley women posed as two other women Saturday during a grand opening program at the Church of Scientology's Golden Era film studio in Gilman Hot Springs. Kathleen Racela, an emergency room nurse at Hemet Valley Medical Center, and Patty Duffy, a nurse in a Hemet physician's office, gave a reporter other names when interviewed at the grand opening. They have not publicly explained why they identified themselves as two other nurses at the hospital: Teri Pino and Debb ...
Aug 9, 1999
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Aug 8, 1999
Scientologists throw a party for film studio opening — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Laurie Koch Thrower
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
The promise of a free dinner in an estate-like atmosphere, plus live entertainment, were enough to entice Barbara Moke to spend her Saturday evening behind the gates of Church of Scientology's newest film studio. Moke, a volunteer at the Hemet Police Department, said her office received an invitation to the opening of The Castle, the sprawling film studio operated by Golden Era Productions in Gilman Hot Springs. "This is the perfect place for a party," she said, while partaking of the ...
Aug 7, 1999
Scientology project gets foundation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Workers today will pour the base for the Ministerial Training and Counseling Center, which is expected to be the largest building in downtown Clearwater. CLEARWATER — A massive foundation will be constructed beginning early this morning for what is expected to be the largest building downtown. The Church of Scientology and its contractor, Beers Construction Co. of Tampa, have coordinated an 18-hour task that will involve more than 500 construction workers, 130 mixing trucks, 1,200 truckloads of high-strength concrete from six ...
Aug 5, 1999
Battlefield Travolta — NOW Magazine
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Type: Press
Author(s): Enzo Di Matteo
Source: NOW Magazine
Scientology's biggest star comes to Canada to make a movie that will bring church's values and villains to a theatre near you Members of the Church of Scientology were in Yorkville this past holiday weekend, questionnaires in hand, to collect opinions about the church from passersby. It's been a difficult couple of years for Scientology, which is trying to polish its fringe image as it awaits word from Revenue Canada about its application for charitable status. But positive PR may be ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 1, 1999
Ready to roll — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Sybel Alger
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
The Scientologists prepare to open a studio in Gilman Hot Springs. Films will be educational and won't star Tom Cruise. Talk of movies and Scientology usually leads to mention of John Travolta and Tom Cruise. But don't expect to see the church's best-known members on the set when its new $7 million film studio in Gilman Hot Springs opens Saturday. Golden Era Productions makes religious training and education films, not blockbusters needing big-name talent to sell tickets, general manager Ken Hoden ...
Aug 1, 1999
Sex, obsession and jealousy: Nicole Kidman — Australian Women's Weekly
Type: Press
Source: Australian Women's Weekly
[...] Are you still a practicing Scientologist? "I really don't discuss religion or my beliefs. But when Stanley died, I had an extraordinary night. I went out alone to St Patrick's Cathedral in London and spent an hour-and-a-half in the church. It was candlelit, the wind was whipping around that night, and I left at nine, when they close the doors. I thought when I came out: well, I suppose once a Catholic, always a Catholic. It was very humbling. I ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Jul 22, 1999
Copyright -- or wrong? — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s): Janelle Brown
Source: Salon
The Church of Scientology takes up a new weapon — the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — in its ongoing battle with critics. Susan Mullaney is not a fan of the Church of Scientology. A longtime poster to the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, she spends much of her energy online exposing what she feels are the Church of Scientology's repressive activities. Her two-year-old Web site contains a library of short audio excerpts from L. Ron Hubbard speeches and a "secret" Scientology questionnaire, as ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 22, 1999
Scientology goes visiting — NOW Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Enzo Di Matteo
Source: NOW Magazine
Truth be told, Greg Hagglund has been a right pain in the ass for the Church of Scientology From the regular demos in front of the church's Yonge Street offices to the photographing of church members and posting of their mugs on the Internet, Hagglund has been relentless in his attempts to expose the "truth" about the curious practice of Scientology. Behind the scenes, he's been trying to put the kibosh on the church's controversial efforts to win charitable status. The ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 14, 1999
'Eyes' in focus — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Patrick Goldstein
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Q&A: Tom Cruise, co-star of Stanley Kubrick's final opus, talks about the challenges and rewards of working with the director he says was wrongly labeled as an eccentric. When Stanley Kubrick was first wooing Tom Cruise about starring in "Eyes Wide Shut," the director learned that Cruise was a pilot, as Kubrick himself had been before he crash-landed one day and never flew again. So the most all-controlling cinema master of our time decided that if Cruise was going to zoom ...
Jul 14, 1999
Tom Cruise's PR firm seeks extensive TV restrictions — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Brian Lowry
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Television: As interviews for 'Eyes Wide Shut' begin, the actor's representatives go to new lengths. The publicity machinery surrounding "Eyes Wide Shut" raised the hackles of some television news organizations this week by attempting to place restrictions on TV accounts regarding the film's star that would ratchet up control over information to a new level. PMK, the publicity firm that represents Tom Cruise, distributed a waiver at the movie's press junket asking to see rough cuts in advance of any TV ...
Jul 13, 1999
Cult or religion: What's the difference? — BBC News
Jul 4, 1999
Young disciples — Sun Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sun Herald (Australia)
The Church of Scientology is using six-year-olds to hand out leaflets on Sydney streets. The church says the children are members of its Chinese congregation, who are distributing anti-drug fliers outside the George Street cinemas. Sydney Scientologist PR Linda Fitzpatrick says the church is interested in recruiting children as "drug-free ambassadors".
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
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