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Dec 25, 2008
Second Chance responds to allegations — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dave Bohman Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Director of the Second Chance rehabilitation center is firing back after a News 13 report on Wednesday.
Director Joy Westrum is angry after Albuquerque police claimed the facility snuck out 40 inmates ahead of a deadline to report them.
The city made a mistake. Those 40 people bussed downtown on Wednesday were from the Albuquerque Rescue Mission which shares a building with Second Chance.
However Albuquerque Public Safety Director Pete Dinelli said he's confirmed eight other people ...
Dec 20, 2008
Official backs off Second Chance inmates / Mayor still wants investigation — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Michael Herzenberg Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A Sierra County official engaged in major backtracking Friday after her statements the day before threatened to cause big trouble for an Albuquerque drug-treatment program called Second Chance.
County Manager Janet Porter-Carrejo told News 13 that she was sending overflow inmates from her jail to the Second Chance rehab center without getting permission from a judge.
However on Friday she said she now believes that judges did OK those inmates. She also said a clerical mistake at her ...
Dec 9, 2008
Las Cruces nixes anti-drug program — Santa Fe New Mexican
Type: Press
Source:
Santa Fe New Mexican LAS CRUCES — The city of Las Cruces is ending an anti-drug program aimed at third-graders after learning it was backed by the Church of Scientology.
The Drug-Free Marshal program started in late November. It had been presented to five schools, but was intended to be promoted eventually among all third-graders in the Las Cruces Public Schools.
Mayor Ken Miyagishima says it wasn't his intention to promote the religion in the schools.
The mayor says he was approached this summer by ...
Dec 4, 2008
Sheriff criticizes drug rehab program — KOB (New Mexico)More: 74.125.93.132
Type: TV
Author(s):
Chris Ornelas ,
Joshua Panas Source:
KOB (New Mexico) A controversial drug rehab program on Albuquerque's West Side may be on the verge of losing its state funding. Second Chance has been ridiculed for its expensive carrot juice and sauna approach to cleaning up addicts and now, some people are questioning whether it's a good use of taxpayer dollars. "Lets put that money, especially right now, when were on real hard economic times, lets put that money where we know it has a proven successful track record," said Bernalillo County ...
Nov 18, 2008
Study questions drug-treatment results // Panel hears disputed figures — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Michael Herzenberg Source:
KRQE SANTA FE (KRQE) — A report presented to a legislative committee Monday suggests an Albuquerque drug-treatment program seeking more state money may not be as good as it claimed. Dr. Paul Guerin, who has been studying the program based on the teachings of the founder of Scientology, reported it does not have the success rate it has pointed to in the past. He delivered the results of his study in testimony to the Legislatures Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee meeting in ...
Oct 7, 2008
Commissioners decline to pursue rehabilitation program — CNJ
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sharna Johnson Source:
CNJ Curry County Commissioners agreed Tuesday not to pursue a contract with an Albuquerque rehabilitation program aimed at treating habitual drug offenders.
[Picture: "Following Tuesday's meeting, officials toured the Special Events Center. Construction on the Special Events Center is about 98 percent complete with more than $31,000 left in contingency, Construction Project Supervisor Randy Kamradt said."]
County Manager Lance Pyle told commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting the Second Chance Center has neglected to return a signed contract to the county since the commission ...
Oct 1, 2008
Mission: Investigate! — Sveriges Television (Sweden)More: Youtube
Type: TV
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Sveriges Television (Sweden) Tag(s):
Anonymous (group) •
Anti-psychiatry •
Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) (formerly, "Social Coordination" or SOCO) •
Bo Persson •
Brainwashing •
Cecilia Lind •
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) •
Clark Carr •
Communications Course •
Cost •
David Miscavige •
E-Meter •
Fair game •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Front groups •
Harassment •
Human Rights Committee (Sweden) •
Håkan Järvå •
Income •
Infiltration •
Janice "Jan" Eastgate Meyer •
Medical claims •
Membership •
Michael Pattinson •
Narconon (aka Scientology drug rehab) •
Narconon International •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operation Snow White •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death •
Public funding •
Purification Rundown ("Purif") •
Recruitment •
Rickard Sulek •
Robert B. "Bob" Adams •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Schools •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) •
Sveriges Television (Sweden) •
Sweden •
Tarja Vulto •
Tom Cruise's leaked video of 2004 •
Ulf Brettstam •
Vanna Beckman •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) •
Åsa Graaf
Oct 1, 2008
Swedish tax money benefits Scientology — The Local (Sweden)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Landes Source:
The Local (Sweden) Swedish taxpayers have been indirectly supporting the Church of Scientology though local government contracts given to front organizations with ties to the group. According to a Sveriges Television (SVT) documentary set to air on Wednesday, 156 of Sweden’s 290 local councils have contributed more than 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) to the Scientology movement. Much of the money has been channeled through contracts with Narconon, a company which offers a controversial treatment method for drug addicts. According to SVT, Narconon also ...
Sep 29, 2008
Scientologists living rent-free in one of Victoria's grand lodges — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Royce Millar Source:
The Age (Australia) MENTAL health experts and the State Opposition have called for a rethink of Victoria's public land management with the revelation that a Scientologist-linked drug treatment group has exclusive, rent-free control of one of the state's grand historic properties. Narconon, a drug treatment program based on teachings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, operates a secretive and secluded rehabilitation centre at O'Shannassy Lodge, east of Warburton in the Yarra Ranges. The lodge is one of hundreds of properties managed by ...
Aug 23, 2008
£5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
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The Telegraph (UK) £5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self
A council chief executive is attending a £5,000 self-awareness training course in Germany and Florida to learn to become “more likeable and able to like herself”.
Last Updated: 12:12PM BST 23 Aug 2008
Dr Allison Fraser, who is in charge of Sandwell Council, signed up to attend the Avatar Professional Course.
The Avatar website claims the course teaches people how to become “more real, authentic”, to “protect themselves against the abrasions of the world” ...
Aug 22, 2008
£140,000 council chief goes on £5,000 course to protect herself against 'abrasions of the world' — Daily Mail (UK)
Type: Press
Source:
Daily Mail (UK) A town hall boss is spending £5,000 of taxpayers money to go on a self-awareness training course in Germany and Florida to teach her to 'like herself'.
Dr Allison Fraser, who has been in charge of Sandwell Council in the West Midlands over the last two years, will attend courses in the Avatar Professional Course to learn how to become 'more likeable'.
Chief Executive Dr Fraser - who has an annual salary package of £140,000 - has already spent a week ...
Jul 21, 2008
Rehab center carries low success rate — KRQEMore: transcript
Type: TV
Author(s):
Michael Herzenberg Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque rehabilitation program doesn't have nearly as good a success rate as organizers claim, a News 13 investigation finds.
The Second Chance program, developed by the founder of Scientology, uses saunas to sweat out toxins and other techniques to try to get people off drugs and alcohol.
Judges have sent more than 90 convicts to the facility near the Double Eagle II airport on Albuquerque's West Mesa since it opened in September 2006.
The federal government and ...
May 17, 2008
THE POLICE: Many blame health problems on years of busting meth labs — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jose Arballo Jr. Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) OREM, UTAH - Officer Terry Sparks says he feels like he was beaten with a sledgehammer. The pounding headache was bad enough, but the surging nausea made it almost unbearable. He gathered his energy and once again entered the nondescript clinic in this rural community south of Salt Lake City. The side effects of his treatment there are a price he is willing to pay to purge his body of toxins he believes have built up in his system after years ...
Apr 15, 2008
Planned academy tied to Scientology // 'Cult'-linked pilot school gains $20K grant — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Wedge Source:
Boston Herald A proposed taxpayer-funded pilot school linked to an arm of the controversial Church of Scientology has scored a $20,000 grant from a blue-chip Hub charitable foundation, the Herald has learned. The Boston Foundation recently awarded the planning grant to the proposed "Cornerstone for Success Academy," a high school for at-risk students that would base its curriculum on a model created by Applied Scholastics International - the educational arm of the Church of Scientology. The celebrity-backed religious organization is often criticized as ...
Feb 6, 2008
Second Chance seeks state funding (video) — KRQE
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