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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 19, 2008
Watchdog web site draws legal threats from Scientologists, Mormons — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Park Source:
FOX News Wikileaks.org — a watchdog Web site that leaks corporate and government documents — hasn't officially launched, yet it has already uncovered human-rights violations in China, claimed to have swayed Kenya's Dec. 2007 elections and exposed the inner workings of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. So many were surprised when it recently turned its sights on two lawyer-heavy religious groups: the Mormons and the Scientologists. Founded in December 2006, Wikileaks boasts of an archive of 1.2 million released documents, sent ...
May 16, 2008
Asbestos controversy aboard Scientology ship Freewinds — Wikinews
May 16, 2008
Scientology Reacts to the Voice — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice If you watched Tommy Davis on CNN last week, you know that Scientology isn’t very adept at public relations. I was reminded of that now that I’ve been reminiscing about what it was like to write about Hubbardites back in the day, and writing numerous stories about Jason Beghe. Yesterday I heard from Los Angeles-based Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw, my old friend, who noticed that I’m back on the Scientology beat. Pouw and I go back a long way. When I ...
May 11, 2008
Tom put on cruise alert — Daily Star (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Parker Source:
Daily Star (UK) TOM Cruise and other Hollywood stars are being urged to have urgent medical checks after an asbestos scare on board a Church of Scientology cruise ship. The $2million Freewinds was said to be “under seal” on the Caribbean island of Curacao after cancer-causing particles were found on the 40-year-old vessel. According to local reports, deadly blue asbestos dust was released during refurbishment of the ship – used by the church as a floating “education centre” and for VIP parties. As well ...
May 1, 2008
Cancer on the Lido Deck? Scientology Responds — Radar Online
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Tyler Gray Source:
Radar Online Scientology officials insist its S.S. Asbestos will sail again. Reports of cancer-causing particles aboard the 40-year-old Scientology cruise ship and floating fortress for the church's secret OT VIII training floated around yesterday after a report by a St. Martins newspaper that the ship was sealed by authorities on the island of Curacao. Perhaps most interesting was the old interview with the ship's architect Lawrence Woodcraft, originally aired by Xenu TV and reposted by the anti-Scientology Lisa McPherson Trust and others. Woodcraft ...
Mar 17, 2008
Anonymous activists gaining strength online — Christian Science Monitor
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ben Arnoldy Source:
Christian Science Monitor Masked protesters led small, peaceful rallies in cities around the world Saturday as part of a protest by an online movement calling itself Anonymous. The organization declared "war" on the Church of Scientology in January because of the church's "suppression of dissent" on the Internet. Some tactics employed by Anonymous have proved controversial, including attacks against Scientology websites and unauthorized circulation of church materials. The church also accuses the movement of mailing fake anthrax letters and making bomb threats – charges ...
Mar 17, 2008
Cult Friction — Radar Online
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Cook Source:
Radar Online Cult Friction
After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match?
By John Cook
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Masked hackers have declared war on Scientology. Could the celebrity-friendly religion be in its final days? (Photo: Sam Comen)
This article is from the April issue of Radar Magazine. For a risk-free issue, click here
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Mar 11, 2008
Scientology group stops guidebook mailings / Officials received unsolicited copies — South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rachel Hatzipanagos Source:
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Highland Beach - A group that sent out thousands of unsolicited copies of a guidebook promoting Scientology precepts is ending the practice after receiving hundreds of complaints from elected officials. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote the 64-page, soft-cover book titled The Way to Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living. "The mailing is not going to be sent out like this again due to some complaints of recipients about 'using' their logo or photograph without consent," Joni Ginsberg, executive ...
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 13, 2008
Threatened by 'Operation Planetary Calm': Germany Will Continue to Watch Scientologists — Spiegel Online
Feb 5, 2008
Scientology feud with its critics takes to Internet — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jan 28, 2008
Niece of Scientology's leader backs Cruise biography — Google News
Jan 22, 2008
Scientologists hit back at German newspaper over Cruise-Goebbels comparison — Daily Mail (UK)
Jan 17, 2008
As his bizarre Scientology video is revealed - is Tom Cruise out of control? — Daily Mail (UK)
Jan 15, 2008
Scientologists' presence in Inland area dates back to 1960s — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Jan 1, 2008
The Golden Suicides — Vanity Fair
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nancy Jo Sales Source:
Vanity Fair On a rainy October night in Washington, D.C., the friends and family of Jeremy Blake gathered for a private memorial service at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Blake, an art-world star acclaimed for his lush and moody “moving paintings,” shape-shifting innovations mixing abstract painting and digital film, had ended his life on the night of July 17, walking into the Atlantic Ocean off Rockaway Beach, Queens, never to return. “I am going to join the lovely Theresa,” Blake, 35, had written ...
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