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Jun 30, 2008
Scientology's crushing defeat [What Scientology paid $8 Million to hide] — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Six years ago, when I was a reporter at New Times LA, ''I’d written several stories about Scientology (Los Angeles is one of its headquarters), and I was about to uncork the longest one yet—a 7,000 word piece about an embarrassing, $8 million defeat Scientology had just suffered, when the weekly paper suddenly folded. That unpublished story has been sitting in storage ever since. Fast forward to 2008, and the world of reporting on Scientology has changed radically, thanks in part ...
Jun 29, 2008
Scientology is focus of flap over Will Smith's new school — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carla Rivera Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In Los Angeles' rarefied world of private schools, where tuitions are high, academics are tough and educational philosophy is taken seriously, the newest member of the tribe is getting the kind of breathless attention reserved for a music or film star. That may be because the founders of New Village Academy are themselves such stars: Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. Entertainers have long flocked to private schools on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley, where campuses ...
Jun 27, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 10: Rolling at Last
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jeff Hawkins It was a warm August day in 1986. I was in my office on the third floor of the main building in the PAC Scientology complex in LA — "Big Blue." We had the windows open and the fans running, to try to suck in any vestige of a breeze that we could. Out the open window, I could see Fountain Avenue below me, and across the street, New York George’s, where I sometimes had a bowl of chili. A simmering ...
Jun 13, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 9: Going My Way
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jeff Hawkins Foster and I were in a state of semi-panic as we waited for Julia to get off the phone. We were in an isolated corridor in the American Saint Hill Organization, part of the Scientology Complex – the big blue building in LA. Julia, my de facto senior at Author Services, was huddled in one of the public phone booths, talking quietly, her back to us. Foster and I kept a respectful distance across the corridor, where we looked down at ...
Jun 13, 2008
Scientologists planning move to larger quarters — San Diego Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ned Randolph Source:
San Diego Business Journal The local chapter of the Church of Scientology is selling its downtown headquarters at 1330 Fourth Ave. and moving operations to La Mesa, where the organization recently purchased a site for $9.3 million, according to the chapter president. The new location off Interstate 8, the former site of La Mesa Bowl and a private college campus, features two buildings totaling more than 64,400 square feet of space and 410 parking spaces for the chapter's 18,000 members, says President David Meyer. It ...
Jun 8, 2008
Beleaguered building - Church-owned Old Pas site vacant and in need of repairs — Pasadena Star-NewsMore: pasadenastarnews.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Janette Williams Source:
Pasadena Star-News PASADENA - Exactly two years after the Church of Scientology bought the historic Braley Building in Old Pasadena - and went into high gear to get all 22 small-business tenants out - not a single plan for the promised fast-track conversion has been submitted to the city. The deterioration in the historic 1906 building's appearance - and the inability of city staff to contact the owners about it - has been a source of "frustration," said Eric Duyshart, Pasadena's director of ...
Jun 4, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 8: Revolution
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jeff Hawkins It was well after midnight and the Tampa airport terminal was almost empty. Just a few late-night travelers sitting on the benches, reading, trying to sleep or, like me, watching the movie on the screen hanging above the waiting area. They were showing Pancho Villa , the 1972 Eugenio Martin film with Telly Savalas as Villa. I was identifying with Villa – his betrayal and imprisonment, his escape, his revolt against his enemy, Huerta. I could feel Villa’s hot outrage. ''¡Viva la ...
May 30, 2008
Spinning through online entertainment and connected culture — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Blog
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Forbes has a story about YouTube with a few hard, if unsourced, financial numbers — the kind Google and YouTube keep very close to the vest. The article, by Quentin Hardy and Evan Hessel, says YouTube is going to bring in $200 million this year, and possibly $350 million next year. From one perspective that's small taters (the fourth "Indiana Jones" made $126 million in four days), but it's a heck of a lot more than YouTube was making last year, ...
May 27, 2008
Church of Scientology Buys 64,000 Square Feet in La Mesa for $9.3M — San Diego Business JournalMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ned Randolph Source:
San Diego Business Journal The San Diego chapter of the controversial Church of Scientology is moving its focus to La Mesa with the May 21 purchase of a Coleman College campus at 7380 Parkway Drive. The Church of Scientology’s San Diego offices are located at 1330 Fourth Ave. between A and Ash streets. The church purchased the new site for $9.3 million. The two buildings, which are 53,400 square feet and 11,000 square feet, will be used as an educational campus, said the broker on ...
May 23, 2008
Rehab homes file for permits — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) Most of the local recovery facilities apply for use permits to remain open. Those that did not may stay open for one year. At least two drug and alcohol recovery home operators, including Newport’s second largest, have chosen not to apply for use permits with the city by the Thursday deadline. City officials had received 30 applications from rehabilitation homes as the deadline closed in late Thursday afternoon. “The majority of homes have submitted applications at this point, albeit most with ...
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 ...
May 6, 2008
Declaration of Lawrence H. Brennan
Type: Declaration
Author(s):
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan Tag(s):
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Bridge Publications, Inc. (BPI) •
Church of Scientology International (CSI) •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library) •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
Disconnection •
Elwood Rickless •
Fair game •
Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Front groups •
Gordon Cook •
Hana Eltringham Whitfield •
Hard sell •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
International Association of Scientologists (IAS) •
Inurement •
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne •
L. Ron Hubbard •
Lawrence "Larry" Wollersheim •
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan •
Legal •
Lyman D. Spurlock •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Mission Corporate Category Sort out (MCCS) •
New Era Publications International, ApS (NEPI) •
Norman F. Starkey •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Omar V. Garrison •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Perjury •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious cloaking •
Religious Research Foundation (RRF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Ronald L. Pook •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Scientology Missions International (SMI) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Southern Land Development and Leasing Corporation (SLDLC) •
Tax matter •
United Churches of Florida •
United Kingdom (UK) •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
William W. "Bill" Franks •
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE)
Apr 21, 2008
Jason Beghe, Scientology's newest critic; Norway joins the fray — Los Angeles Times (California)
Apr 2, 2008
Des théories remises en question [French] — Société Radio-Canada (Canada)More: Video: Unofficial English translation , Transcript: Unofficial English translation
Type: TV
Author(s):
Émilie Dubreuil Source:
Société Radio-Canada (Canada) La scientologie est une entreprise ultramoderne qui a aussi des activités séculières. Par exemple, en 1966, Ron Hubbard fondait avec un collègue Narconon une cure de désintoxication qui compte aujourd'hui plus d'une centaine de centres dans le monde, dont un à Trois-Rivières. En plus d'être une cure de désintoxication, Narconon s'est donné pour mission d'instruire les jeunes sur les méfaits de la drogue en donnant des conférences dans de nombreuses écoles de la province. L'atelier offert dans les écoles, appelé La ...
Mar 21, 2008
Renters in search of affordable housing get scammed — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jesus Sanchez Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Many people are desperate for affordable housing in Los Angeles, so much so that there is often a long waiting list for government-issued Section 8 vouchers that help lower the rent for low-income tenants. Since they are so difficult to obtain, more than 250 people jumped at the chance to buy a voucher through a Compton nonprofit despite being charged as much as $1,500 apiece.
Turns out those vouchers were fraudulent and those renters are out of luck, the Wave Newspapers ...
Mar 11, 2008
What to get L. Ron Hubbard for his birthday — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp fiction writer who gave the world Battlefield Earth, as well as a nuisance known as Scientology, would have turned 97 years old this Thursday, March 13. Ron’s been worm food for more than a score of years now, so it probably won’t matter to him that the best birthday party being held in his name will take place a couple of days late. On Saturday, March 15, the surprisingly upstart, leaderless movement known as “Anonymous” will ...
Mar 3, 2008
Scientology taking hits online — Los Angeles Times (California)More: articles.latimes.com , rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Sarno Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) "We were born. We grew up. We escaped."
So reads the motto of ExScientologyKids.com, a website launched Thursday by three young women raised in the Church of Scientology who are speaking out against the religion. Their website accuses the church of physical abuse, denying some children a proper education and alienating members from family.
One of the women behind the site, Jenna Miscavige Hill, is the niece of David Miscavige, the head of the church, and Kendra Wiseman is the daughter ...
Feb 26, 2008
Scientology: faith and doubts — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
When I was 17, I left the Church of Scientology. When I was 22, my parents and all members of my immediate family were pressured by the church to "disconnect" from me. When I heard of the protests by Anonymous on behalf of all those who have lost their families, homes and savings accounts to Scientology, I thanked God that someone was finally willing to listen. Reading Michael Shermer's op-ed article, I was surprised to find myself ...
Feb 18, 2008
A leap beyond faith — Los Angeles Times (California)
Feb 11, 2008
L.A. takes part in Scientology protests — Los Angeles Times (California)
Feb 5, 2008
Scientology feud with its critics takes to Internet — Los Angeles Times (California)
Feb 4, 2008
Masked demonstrators protest against Church of Scientology — Daily Nexus (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Standifer Source:
Daily Nexus (University of California, Santa Barbara) Published Monday, February 4, 2008
Issue 69 / Volume 88
[Picture of masked protestors / Source: Sabrina Ricci; Daily Nexus]
A group of protesters yielding signs and handouts rally outside the Church of Scientology on State Street Saturday afternoon during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in protest of the Church's alleged restrictions of free speech.
A group of protesters yielding signs and handouts rally outside the Church of Scientology on State Street Saturday afternoon during the Santa Barbara International Film ...
Jan 31, 2008
Mailings to Scientology sites probed — Los Angeles Times (California)More: rickross.com
Jan 15, 2008
Scientologists' presence in Inland area dates back to 1960s — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Jan 8, 2008
Cruise camp rips upcoming biography as 'tired old lies' — Los Angeles Times (California)
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