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Jun 4, 2007
Easy Money — Forbes
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nathan Vardi Source:
Forbes As the U.S. housing market sinks, billions and billions are still going into risky mortgages. Who's minding the bank? Bryan Zwan, entrepreneur and prominent donor to the Church of Scientology, is now dealing in collateralized debt obligations. CDOs have helped fuel the boom in U.S. housing and are backed by junk bonds, leveraged loans, asset-backed securities (like mortgages), credit default swaps–and who knows what else. Zwan's particular group, Forge ABS of Tampa, Florida, intends to invest half the $1.5 billion it ...
May 24, 2007
Scientology is not a church or charity. It is, in fact, a cult — The Argus (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) BBC reporter John Sweeney was last week seen losing his temper at the end of a sixmonth investigation into scientology. In 1994, The Argus published a
damning exposé of the East Grinsteadbased "religion". Former chief reporter Paul Bracchi, who secretly infiltrated the cult, remembers how its followers relentlessly threatened and pursued him in revenge for criticising their deceptive and manipulative methods. Here Mr Bracchi, who now lives in London, tells the chilling story of how he was stalked and intimidated ...
May 23, 2007
Scientology: A Classroom Full 'O Crazy — CNN
Type: TV
Author(s):
Glenn Beck Source:
CNN [Professor David Touretzky appears on the Glenn Beck show to discuss Scientology's increased encroachment into public classrooms. They are attempting to "Safepoint" Scientology which means to get the cult better accepted into society. Let's try to stop that until they reform.]
Apr 24, 2007
Slinging Scientology, Mud on VT Campus — Radar OnlineMore: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Cook Source:
Radar Online You've already heard about the invasion of Virginia Tech by a couple dozen "volunteer ministers" from the Church of Scientology. Now comes the mudslinging. Xenuphobes sick of seeing yellow-shirted Scientologists show up to disasters alongside cable news cameras have accused Virginia Tech of inviting L. Ron's minions. An alleged "ministers consultant" named Irmin wrote an all-points bulletin e-mail sent to Scientology volunteers last week stating: "Our [volunteer ministers are] ... working in the student trauma center at the request of the ...
Apr 7, 2007
Tie to rights march wasn't revealed // Some sponsors back out upon learning the Church of Scientology is the organizer — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Meg Laughlin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) ST. PETERSBURG - Just weeks after opening their first facility in St. Petersburg, Scientologists have irked two of the city's most respected institutions - the Holocaust and Dali museums. Representatives of both museums say they were misled when asked to support a human rights march but not told that the organizers are a rights advocacy group affiliated with the Church of Scientology. The Florida Holocaust Museum has withdrawn its sponsorship of the Human Rights Walkathon scheduled for today in Straub Park ...
Mar 28, 2007
Unwitting high-schoolers lured to forum run by Scientologists — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anna Patty Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A HUMAN rights youth forum at Parliament House in Sydney promoted the views of the Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and was organised by a group linked to the Church of Scientology. In a kit given to students, Hubbard's photograph was more prominent than those of the human rights activists Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Thomas Jefferson. Hubbard's quotes were littered through the material. The Church of Scientology is the major sponsor of Youth for Human Rights Australia, ...
Jan 24, 2007
Texas: Penalty in case of false gas-mileage booster — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Staci Semrad Source:
New York Times Attorney General Greg Abbott filed an agreed judgment against a Dallas company that was marketing a mothball-like product as a gas-mileage booster. The company, BioPerformance, sold its product with a claim that putting a couple of the pills into an automobile fuel tank could increase gas mileage 30 percent. The state’s investigation revealed that the product had no such power and that its main ingredient was naphthalene, used in making mothballs. The state also found that the company developed a pyramid ...
Jan 7, 2007
Revealed: how Scientologists infiltrated Britain's schools / Insight: Drugs charity is front for ‘dangerous’ organisation — The Sunday Times (UK)
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