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Oct 7, 2007
Clinic's results make 9/11 responders believe — Philadelphia Inquirer
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Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer Critics aside, they say Scientology's detox center cures ills.
By Art Carey
Inquirer Staff Writer
Within days of beginning treatment, Mike Wire noticed changes. His pain eased. His mood brightened. His sense of smell returned, sharper than ever.
A retired millwright from Bucks County, Wire, 60, is among thousands of rescue workers, firefighters and police officers who developed an array of serious ailments after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Wire spent 21/2 ...
Oct 5, 2007
'I wished I had never gone there' — Philadelphia InquirerMore: philly.com
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Art Carey Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer On 9/11, Bobby Morrill got a call from his cousin Bobby Stewart, project manager for a construction company, inviting him to come to Manhattan to help clean up the mess. Morrill, who lives in Newark, was there the next day. He worked for 36 hours nonstop, directing fellow ironworkers as they began untangling the mound of twisted steel beams and girders. That first night, Morrill slept under a table in Battery Park. He wound up spending 10 weeks at Ground Zero, ...
Aug 9, 2007
Torture, or just plain torque? 'Industry Of Death' Exhibition On Psychiatry Walks A Fine Line — National Post
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Kevin Libin Source:
National Post EDMONTON -With a name like "Psychiatry: Industry of Death," visitors to the travelling exhibition in Edmonton likely understand they are not about to get a particularly measured perspective of the mental health profession. What they might not be prepared for is a fright show of the alleged "criminal practices" and "brutalities" of psychiatry, the cause, apparently, of history's vilest atrocities.
By National PostAugust 9, 2007
EDMONTON -With a name like "Psychiatry: Industry of Death," visitors to the travelling exhibition in Edmonton ...
Aug 3, 2007
Scientologists Descend on Minneapolis Collapse Site — ABC News
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Marcus Baram Source:
ABC News They're ubiquitous at almost every disaster zone, assisting the wounded and consoling grieving families, from Ground Zero to Indonesia to New Orleans and now Minneapolis.
The Church of Scientology and its globetrotting team of volunteer ministers have been active over the last several years, arousing the ire of critics who read unholy motives into the group's charitable works.
Soon after Wednesday's bridge collapse, at least 20 Scientology volunteers in Minneapolis and surrounding areas headed to the disaster zone, according to a ...
Jun 12, 2007
Cruises's clinic OK — New York Post
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Steve Dunleavy Source:
New York Post SHOCK and grief turned to horror when Joe Higgins helped pull the body of his brother and fellow firefighter, Tim, from the rubble of the World Trade Center. "We found him about three weeks after Sept. 11, and later, there was a bunch of us on the pile one night and I looked up," Joe was saying. "I saw this haze of dust was like a rainbow - red, blue, yellow tiny particles - and I said to the guys, 'You ...
May 2, 2007
Mettle & pedal for 9/11 hero — New York Post
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Heidi Singer Source:
New York Post When 9/11 firefighter Joe Montaperto won a free bicycle at the start of last year's Five Boro Bike Tour, he vowed he'd improve his breathing problems in time to ride it in this year's event — and on Sunday, he'll make good on his promise. "I want to finish it in one piece and not need EMS to pick me up," quipped the rugged former Marine and semiprofessional football player. "The other day, I rode 14 miles just to see where ...
Apr 21, 2007
Local pols cruised in free to Tom gala — New York Post
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David Seifman Source:
New York Post Two City Council members who attended Tom Cruise's fund-raiser for a controversial 9/11 "detoxification project" didn't pay the $6,250-a-ticket entry fee, but officials said they acted within the ethics rules.
City Council members Joe Addabbo (D-Queens) and Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens) both turned up at the glitzy Manhattan affair Thursday night for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, co-founded by Cruise and linked to Scientology.
Addabbo is chairman of the council's Civil Service and Labor Committee. Emergency responders who underwent the ...
Apr 20, 2007
Crui$e is 'detox' of de town — New York Post
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David Seifman Source:
New York Post Tom Cruise rolled into Manhattan under extraordinary security last night for a Hollywood-style fund-raiser to benefit his controversial project to help 9/11 responders.
The diminutive Scientologist, accompanied by his wife, Katie Holmes, pressed the flesh with supporters inside a $6,250-a-ticket benefit in Chelsea.
Reporters were barred from the West 18th Street fund-raiser, which resembled a Hollywood premiere, with scores of security men and paparazzi.
"He said how grateful he was to everyone for supporting the project," said Pat Bahnken, a party ...
Apr 20, 2007
Cruise thinks Scientology can save 9/11 responders — CBS News
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Author(s):
Hazel Sanchez Source:
CBS News NEW YORK (CBS) — Some call it a cult concoction while silver screen celebrity Tom Cruise swears by it – a Scientology program called the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project. City Councilman Hiram Monserrate said the program worked for him. "The fact is that this is a program that has helped over 700 rescue workers," Monserrate said. "A program that I have personally visited, participated in and spoken to dozens of rescue workers that today feel better. "Shame on anyone ...
Apr 20, 2007
Don't be tricked by $ci-Fi Tom-Foolery — New York Post
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Kyle Smith Source:
New York Post LAST night another religious wack job came to attack Ground Zero: Tom bin Cruise.
The warden of the Katie Holmes Correctional Facility zoomed in to do a "benefit" for his Scientology group, the "New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project." Only Cruise would hold a benefit for himself.
Ground Zero crews are in for the Brooke Shields treatment: Cruise believes all ills are curable via the same Cartoon Network regimen of feeding people cooking oil and making them sweat. Cruise thinks he's ...
Apr 20, 2007
Monserrate Defends Detox Program — New York Observer
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New York Observer Yesterday, I caught up with Councilman Hiram Monserrate, who has come under fire for supporting a Sept. 11 first-responder detoxification program associated with the Church of Scientology. Scientology's most famous booster, Tom Cruise, held a fund-raiser last night for the program. Monserrate, a former cop, told me he spoke with Sept. 11 rescue workers who have benefited from the program, and said that critics are motivated by their own agendas. "The bottom line is the program provided a better quality of ...
Apr 20, 2007
The Angry Scientologist Retort — New York Press
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John DeSio Source:
New York Press As could be expected, Scientologists are none too happy with Mayor Mike Bloomberg and City Councilman Peter Vallone for questioning the scientific validity of their "sweat and vitamins" detox project for 9/11 rescue workers. And at least one California-based follower of the ways of L. Ron hubbard is speaking out, sending an open letter to a variety of elected officials, newspapers and others praising the scientific validity of the New York Rescue Workers Detox Project. The full letter is after the ...
Apr 20, 2007
Tom Cruise holds fundraiser for Scientology 9/11 detox project — ABC News
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ABC News (New York - WABC, April 20, 2007) (WABC) – Tom Cruise appeared at a private dinner fundraiser on Thursday night for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002.
The Scientology-based program offers free treatment to emergency workers who suffer breathing difficulties and other health problems stemming from exposure to toxins at ground zero after 9/11 terror attacks.
"Nearly six years later, many are still paying a price for their heroic service at the World Trade ...
Apr 19, 2007
Crui$ing for cash — New York PostMore: groups.google.com
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New York Post April 19, 2007 — Scientology nut Tom Cruise is in New York to solicit more cash for his controversial venture to 'detox' the heroes of September 11. As reported by the Post on April 6, Cruise, 44, will appear at a private gala on Manhattan's West 18th Street tonight to raise funds for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002. His wife, Katie Holmes, is also expected to be at the dinner, starting at 6 ...
Apr 19, 2007
Cruise to detox NY — PerthNow
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PerthNow SCIENTOLOGY fanatic Tom Cruise is in New York to solicit more cash for his controversial venture to 'detox' the heroes of September 11. Cruise, 44, will appear at a private gala on Manhattan's West 18th Street tonight to raise funds for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002. His wife, Katie Holmes, is also expected to be at the dinner. Guests are paying as much as US$100,000 for a table for eight. "Nearly six years ...
Apr 19, 2007
FDNY hierarchy furious with Tom Cruise over Scientology detox for 9/11 workers — FOX News
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Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Tom Cruise comes to New York on Thursday night, hoping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Scientology. He’s doing it under the guise of a detox program for members of the New York Fire Department who participated in the 9/11 clean-up. There’s only problem: No one from the hierarchy of the FDNY endorses this program. The people I’ve talked to are furious with Cruise, and want the rank and file of firemen in New York to stay away from ...
Apr 19, 2007
Mike thumps Tom // Blasts city honor for Scientology's Sept. 11 'detox' — New York Post
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Author(s):
David Seifman Source:
New York Post Mayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted official proclamations drafted by a city councilman honoring Tom Cruise and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for their roles in promoting a detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers. "I don't think it's appropriate to do that," said the mayor, reacting to a report in yesterday's Post. "I think that reputable scientists do not think Scientology has any basis in science. It may be a cult, it may be a religion, it may be beliefs. It's other things, ...
Apr 18, 2007
City proclamation sparks L. Ron Hubbub — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Seifman Source:
New York Post In a move that has outraged some officials, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has been honored by the City Council ahead of tomorrow night's Manhattan fund-raiser for a controversial 9/11 detox program, The Post has learned. Host Tom Cruise, the Scientology follower who co-founded the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, also will be honored with a proclamation at the fund-raiser. The project runs a downtown Manhattan clinic that has served more than 780 rescue workers since 2002. Cruise is headlining ...
Apr 10, 2007
9/11 detox program finds home in Orem — Daily HeraldMore: web.archive.org
Type: Press
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Brooke Barker Source:
Daily Herald Help is on the way for Utah police officers exposed to methamphetamine labs. "When Mark Shurtleff announced he was going to test out the New York 9/11 Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, to help the meth cops, Dr. (Jerry) Ross and I met with him," said Mike Phillips, a founder of Biocleansing Centers of America in Orem. "He looked at our program and said he wanted us to stay in business long enough to help those cops." The center, at 555 S. ...
Apr 7, 2007
'Cruise control' Pol: It helped me // Hails weird detox — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Seifman Source:
New York Post A legislator hosting a gala fund-raising dinner for a controversial detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers co-founded by Tom Cruise revealed yesterday he's undergone the procedure himself. "I will tell you I felt 100 times better after the program than I've felt in the last 15 years," said City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens). The Post reported yesterday that Monserrate is one of the hosts of an April 19 fund-raiser for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, where Cruise is appearing, ...
Apr 7, 2007
Help on way to Utah // Meth-exposure 'cure' works, says Pleasant View's police chief — Ogden Examiner Standard (Utah)More: anti-scientologie.ch
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tim Gurrister Source:
Ogden Examiner Standard (Utah) Relief may be on the way for police officers ailing because of exposure to methamphetamine labs. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's initiative on behalf of scores of sick former narcotics officers will soon open an in-state treatment center offering the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Program. "Within 30 days, we hope to start sending cops through," Shurtleff said. A closed drug-detox facility in Orem will house the program, and a nonprofit corporation is being formed to run the center, he said. ...
Apr 6, 2007
Tom Cruise And His 9/11 Health Fundraiser — Gothamist
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jen Chung Source:
Gothamist Have you ever wanted to rub shoulders with Tom Cruise and learn about Scientology's detox treatment for 9/11 workers? Then you'll be excited to learn that the superstar will be in town for an April 19 fund-raiser. The Post reports that while the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project hasn't been approved by the NYPD or FDNY, some swear by it. However, even those involved with the fund-raiser are conflicted.
The Post spoke to Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins, who ...
Apr 6, 2007
Tom Cruise: Committing Career Suicide? — FOX News
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Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Great scoop in The New York Post today: Tom Cruise is hosting a Scientology benefit on April 19 in New York for the group’s controversial detox program for 9/11 survivors. But here’s a flash. I wrote this story on December 22, 2006: The New York Fire Department does not support the program, and there is much hostile feeling toward Cruise. The latest public endorsement of Scientology and its programs — decried by experts as pure "hooey" — may be the last ...
Apr 6, 2007
TOM'S QUACKPOT FE$T TO HIT CITY — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Seifman Source:
New York Post Scientology superstar Tom Cruise is coming here to promote his controversial "detox" project to 9/11 workers, and will host a mega-fund-raising gala for it. Tickets for the April 19 fund-raiser, which will star Cruise and benefit the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, run as high as $100,000 for a table for eight. The downtown Manhattan clinic offers free Scientology-inspired treatments to firefighters, cops and other rescue workers exposed to high levels of toxins at Ground Zero. The program - which ...
Jan 24, 2007
Today's CCHR demo in Sudbury, MA — Daily KosMore: link
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