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Dec 31, 2000
Avatar draws on wide sources to provide path to self-fulfillment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 21, 2000
Brained — New Times Los Angeles
Dec 21, 2000
Reaction mixed to plan for church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 20, 2000
Scientologist to buy downtown Largo site — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A church building would be converted into a Scientology mission with classes and a bookstore. LARGO – A prominent Scientologist is leading an effort to buy an 86-year-old church in downtown Largo, where she plans to open a Scientology mission, a development that has raised concerns among some city officials. The investment is a substantial one. The newly incorporated Church of Scientology Mission of Largo Inc. is paying $389,000 for the church at 160 Sixth St. SW and the house behind ...
Dec 12, 2000
Taking a big gamble going online — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Sinclair
Source: New Zealand Herald
When Allan McConnell decided to go online, the 68-year-old Ngaruawahia pensioner had no idea he was, quite literally, taking a gamble. Retiring after a lifetime on the land, and encouraged by his net-savvy sons Nicholas, 23, and David, 21, he and his wife Julia took a computer course at Ngaruawahia High School. Suddenly, he was at the "bleeding-edge." And just a few weeks later, the blood began to flow ... NeoPets is an enchanting website - a community of virtual pet ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 2, 2000
Scientology critics plan protest this weekend — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The annual event is restricted by a court order prescribing where the pickets can be. Police expect little or no friction. CLEARWATER – Critics of the Church of Scientology will take to downtown streets this weekend and march in a protest that has become an annual ritual. They will picket against a backdrop of special community events celebrating the holidays and the 10th anniversary of the Pinellas Trail. As it was last year, the protest will be tempered by a court ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 6, 2000
Scientologist software CEO lashes out against Germany — CNN
Type: Press
Source: CNN
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 3, 2000
MS helps you hack Scientology out of Win2k registry — The Register (UK)
Oct 19, 2000
Earth under threat again as Travolta hints at sci-fi sequel — Guardian Unlimited
Type: Press
Source: Guardian Unlimited
John Travolta has threatened to make a sequel to his universally slammed sci-fi epic Battlefield Earth. Defending the scientology-inspired film to journalists this week, he said: "The bottom line is that I feel really good about it. Here I was taking big chances, breaking a new genre I am so thrilled, believe it or not, at the outcome because I didn't believe I could get it done." Asked whether there would be a 'Battlefield 2' he said: "Sure.Yeah." Described by critics ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 18, 2000
'Battlefield Earth' sequel considered // John Travolta considers Battlefield 2 — ABC News
More: Page 2
Type: Press
Source: ABC News
Battlefield Earth may have been one of the most critically mauled movies of the year, but that's not stopping John Travolta from talking about a sequel. “The bottom line is that I feel really good about it. Here I was taking big chances, breaking a new genre,” said Travolta. “I am so thrilled, believe it or not, at the outcome, because I didn’t believe I could get it done,” an upbeat Travolta told journalists this week, adding that critics have a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 16, 2000
[The Way to Happiness New Group Application Form] — Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE)
Oct 14, 2000
Battlefield Earth — Canberra Times (Australia)
Oct 14, 2000
Little choice but to give flicks the flick — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Oct 10, 2000
Bad guys good to the king of cool — Canberra Times (Australia)
Oct 6, 2000
This star's in the wars — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
Oct 5, 2000
Bizarre Battlefield has B-grade appeal — The Age (Australia)
Oct 3, 2000
[Applied Scholastics License Agreement] — Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE)
Oct 3, 2000
[Criminon New Group Application Form] — Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE)
Oct 1, 2000
Battlefield Earth (M) — Sunday Times (Australia)
Sep 30, 2000
Medical examiner leaves office — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): William R. Levesque
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Pinellas-Pasco Chief Medical Examiner Joan Wood was forced to resign after 18 years on the job. LARGO — It wasn't a happy day for employees of the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner's office on Friday. Their longtime chief was finally gone. Chief Medical Examiner Joan Wood, the embattled doctor who swore never to resign after 18 years at the helm, finally closed out her last autopsy, cleared out her office this week and headed for a new start. "We've all gone through a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 13, 2000
Brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF)
Sep 8, 2000
Why Christians Object to Scientology — Christianity Today
Type: Press
Author(s): Jody Veenker
Source: Christianity Today
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 4, 2000
Building Scientopolis // How Scientology remade Clearwater, Florida—and what local Christians learned in the process. — Christianity Today
Type: Press
Author(s): Jody Veenker
Source: Christianity Today
By all appearances, Clearwater lives up to its name. Located just outside of Tampa Bay, the city boasts palm trees, white beaches, sun, surf, and six cruise tour companies with "dolphin sightings guaranteed." Liberally supplied with spacious hotels within driving distance of the Busch Gardens amusement park and the Salvador Dali museum, Clearwater is a tidy burg with street names like Gulf to Bay Boulevard and Sunset Point Road. Clearwater is also home to the most prestigious international instructional center for ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 4, 2000
From Clear to Christ // A former Scientologist shines light on his past beliefs — Christianity Today
Type: Press
Author(s): Jody Veenker
Source: Christianity Today
Brian Haney labored to give his life fulfillment in many ways. The 37-year-old entrepreneur had been through two marriages, built a $100 million corporation, and attained the coveted state of "clear" as a Scientologist, meaning he had achieved the high level of freedom, personal control, and independence Scientology promises its followers. But none of these triumphs allayed his spiritual emptiness and dissatisfaction.Clears are individual Scientologists who say they have rid themselves of painful subconscious experiences known as engrams. They supposedly are ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 1, 2000
Scientology and the Clearwater Police — XenuTV
More: video.google.com
Type: Research
Author(s): Mark Bunker
Source: XenuTV
This documentary was produced to demonstrate what I believed to be a clear bias against the LMT by members of the Clearwater Police Force who were on Scientology's payroll. Scientology snuck into Clearwater, Florida in 1978 under the assumed name of United Churches. Since then they have come to dominate the small town. I lived in Clearwater for two years, working with a group which was helping people defrauded and abused by Scientology. During this time, police officers started to accept ...
Sep 1, 2000
The Fort Harrison Hotel // Past, present and future — Tampa Bay Magazine
Aug 17, 2000
Group threatens legal battle against Battlefield Earth — KOAT Albuquerque
Type: Press
Source: KOAT Albuquerque
FactNet, a group battling Scientology, warned Thursday that "lawsuits may soon be flying" over MGM's upcoming release of Battlefield Earth, based on a sci-fi novel by Scientology's late founder L. Ron Hubbard and starring the group's most outspoken celebrity, John Travolta. In a statement, FactNet charged that Scientology "has placed subliminal messages in the BattleField Earth film master to surreptitiously recruit new members from the movie audience," that it secretly financed the film, that it will use the film to recruit ...
Aug 14, 2000
Kiwi sect woman arrested in Northern Ireland — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Catherine Field
Source: New Zealand Herald
PARIS - France has filed for the extradition of a New Zealand woman at the centre of a former religious sect which triggered nationwide controversy for alleged brainwashing of its members and violent abuse of their children. Delwin Johns-Schmidt, aged 34, was arrested in Belfast at the request of French prosecutors who filed an arrest warrant with Interpol, accusing her of kidnapping and illegally detaining her 10-year-old daughter, Victoria. The child, who was one of the sect's victims, was placed with ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 13, 2000
Murder after 51 days on parole — Sunday Star-Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Fleur Revell, Kim Purdy
Source: Sunday Star-Times
TAFFY Hotene was ordered to live in an Auckland city drugs and alcohol rehabilitation house for two years as part of his parole conditions. He ran away within two weeks, apparently with the knowledge of the Corrections Department. Five weeks later he murdered Kylie Jones. The Sunday Star-Times has obtained documents on Hotene including his parole conditions. The Corrections Department refuses to comment on its role in the saga, citing Hotene's privacy and his pending sentencing. However, his parole papers show ...
Item contributed by: Anonymous
Aug 7, 2000
Websites say sucks to big business — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Duncan Campbell
Source: The Guardian (UK)
The right to set up a really rude website aimed at undermining the public image of big businesses and religions is being fought for by civil rights activists in the US. The battle comes in the wake of action by leading multinational companies like Wal-Mart and McDonald's to stem the growth of websites which add "sucks", "kills" or "stinks" to the brand name. "This has become a constant issue," Barry Steinhart of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in New ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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