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Jan 31, 2009
Trial date set for fraud case against Church of Scientology in France — Wikinews
Jan 29, 2009
I'm sure B.C. kids need Scientology's help / Victoria directs teachers to religious group's human-rights website — The Province (B.C.)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ethan Baron Source:
The Province (B.C.) Victoria directs teachers to religious group's human-rights website
Ethan Baron, The Province
Published: Thursday, January 29, 2009
Attention students: it's now OK to jump up and down on your desks and rave about your latest crush.
The Ministry of Education is referring teachers to an organization set up by the Church of Scientology, the group made infamous by Tom Cruise, the raving couch-bounder and Scientology adherent. Two ministry teacher-support documents direct teachers to the website of Los Angeles-based Youth for Human ...
Jan 29, 2009
PLPs Back Bridgewater — Bahama Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sasha L. Lightbourne Source:
Bahama Journal http://www.jonesbahamas.com/
January 29th, 2009
PLPs Back Bridgewater
By Sasha L. Lightbourne
A number of parliamentarians and supporters of the Progressive Liberal Party gathered outside the Magistrates’ Court in Bank Lane Wednesday to throw their support behind Pleasant Bridgewater as she faced charges of conspiracy to extort and abetment to extort. She elected to stand trial in the Supreme Court and was given bail in the amount of $50,000 with two sureties.
Ms. Bridgewater, flanked by members of her family, two of ...
Jan 28, 2009
Church of Scientology goes for zoning change // Printers Row residents worry about parking, solicitation — Chicago Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Micah Maidenberg Source:
Chicago Journal Church of Scientology members, Printers Row residents and 2nd Ward Alderman Robert Fioretti tussled Tuesday evening over a church Scientologists want to establish at 650 S. Clark. The group is seeking to change the building's zoning from DX-12, a downtown mixed-use district, to DR-10, a downtown residential classification. The change would allow the church to develop their religious center in the empty building without obtaining a special permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals, as the current zoning requires. The group ...
Jan 28, 2009
Extortion plot revealed — Bahama Journal
Jan 28, 2009
L'Eglise de scientologie jugée pour escroquerie du 25 mai au 10 juin — Agence France Presse (AFP)
Jan 28, 2009
Scientology: Death by Devotion — Breitbart.com
Jan 28, 2009
Turnquest: Case would have minimal impact on tourism — Bahama Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tamara McKenzie Source:
Bahama Journal http://www.jonesbahamas.com/
January 28th, 2009
Turnquest: Case Would Have Minimal Impact On Tourism
By TAMARA McKENZIE
Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest (File photo)
Even though much negative attention has been placed on the Bahamas since former PLP Senator Pleasant Bridgewater was charged in connection with an alleged extortion attempt against US Actor John Travolta and his family, National Security Minister Tommy Turnquest believes that its impact on the tourism industry would be minimal.
"I don’t think there will be lower tourist ...
Jan 27, 2009
Extortion plot unveiled — Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brent Dean Source:
Nassau Guardian (Bahamas) By BRENT DEAN,Guardian Staff Reporter
Police have confirmed the alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston included a request for $25 million so that a supposedly 'damaging' document would not be made public.
"All I can say here is that, you know, there was a complaint made by Mr. Travolta – and those acting on his behalf – that there was an attempt on behalf of a number of individuals to extort initially some ...
Jan 27, 2009
Maynard-Gibson, a witness in extortion case — Nassau Guardian (Bahamas)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Artesia Davis Source:
Nassau Guardian (Bahamas) By ARTESIA DAVIS,Guardian Senior Reporter,artesia@nasguard.com
Former attorney general and PLP Senator Allyson Maynard-Gibson is listed as a witness against the ambulance driver who is accused of trying to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta whose son died of a seizure in Grand Bahama earlier this month, The Guardian has confirmed.
Maynard-Gibson, who is Travolta's Bahamian lawyer, is one of the 14 witnesses listed on the court docket against Tarino Lightbourne.
Lightbourne, 47, of Freeport, Grand Bahama, entered not guilty pleas ...
Jan 26, 2009
FBI Joins in "Sensitive" Travolta Extortion Case — E! Online
Jan 26, 2009
On second thought, Hoskins backs out of Scientologist exhibit — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jake Wagman Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) State Rep. Ted Hoskins backed out of an appearance this weekend at an anti-psychiatry exhibit linked to the Church of Scientology.
Hoskins, a Democrat from Berkeley, was scheduled to speak at “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” at the Jamestown Mall in Florissant on Saturday afternoon.
The exhibit was organized by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group founded by Scientologists that shares the same fervent opposition to psychiatry.
Hoskins agreed to speak at the exhibit last week, when he saw ...
Jan 26, 2009
PLP Reeling — Bahama Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Vanessa C. Rolle Source:
Bahama Journal The Progressive Liberal Party is reeling over allegations that its Senate leader Allyson Gibson played a major role in uncovering the information of the alleged conspiracy to extort funds from John Travolta.
The Progressive Liberal Party is reeling over allegations that its Senate leader Allyson Gibson played a major role in uncovering the information of the alleged conspiracy to extort funds from John Travolta.
The Bahama Journal has been reliably informed that Mrs. Gibson was an attorney working with the lawyers ...
Jan 25, 2009
Claire Headley v. CSI, RTC — realitybasedcommunity.net
Jan 25, 2009
Plot thickens in Travolta extortion case — The Independent (UK)
Jan 25, 2009
Rehab's sudden closure shrouded in mystery — KOB (New Mexico)
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KOB (New Mexico) The controversial drug rehabilitation center Second Chance abruptly closed up Saturday leaving questions about where it sent 19 inmates housed at the West Side facility.
The City of Albuquerque said when they got word Saturday afternoon something was happening at the Second Chance, they sent police officers to check it out. The officers confirmed all the inmates and personnel at the facility were gone.
The city says Second Chance vacated its property on the West Mesa without warning. The rehab program ...
Jan 25, 2009
Scientology base denied by officials — Albuquerque JournalMore: abqjournal.com , forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal
Journal Staff Writer
The Second Chance drug rehab program was pitched to lawmakers and the judiciary as the missing link in a broken system that recycled non-violent drug offenders between jails, prisons and the streets.
The past year, it has struggled through money problems and accusations that it is housing ineligible inmates. On Saturday, faced with a city-delivered Jan. 31 deadline to vacate, Second Chance officials moved the last of its inmates out. But throughout the ...
Jan 25, 2009
Second Chance removes last inmates from old jail building — Albuquerque JournalMore: abqjournal.com , forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal
Journal Staff Writer
Second Chance officials pulled the last of their inmates out of the old West Side jail building Saturday, marking an abrupt end to the drug rehab program's controversial two-plus years there.
Fewer than 20 inmates had remained as of the end of the week. The remaining inmates were taken back to the jurisdictions from which they had been sentenced, including Grant and Sierra counties.
Even after a Journal photographer had taken pictures of ...
Jan 25, 2009
Senator ‘tried to extort cash’ from Travolta over son’s death — The Times (UK)
Jan 24, 2009
Arrests over Travolta extortion plot — The Independent (UK)
Jan 24, 2009
Second Chance leaves city building — KRQE
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Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The building that housed the controversial Second Chance drug rehabilitation center is now empty.
On Saturday, Second Chance officials packed up and moved out of the building, a week ahead of a city imposed deadline.
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez ordered the group to leave, saying Second Chance violated conditions of their lease by housing offenders who had been convicted of violent crimes and making unauthorized changes to the building.
Chief Public Safety Director Pete Dinelli ordered officers to ...
Jan 23, 2009
Berlin District Posts Warning About Scientology — Spiegel Online
Jan 23, 2009
Devoir d'enquête: "La Scientologie: La secte démasquée" [Part 1] [Unofficial English translation] — RTBF 1 (Belgium)More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4
Jan 22, 2009
$20 Million Extortion Attempt Against Travolta — TMZ
Jan 22, 2009
Rep. Hoskins to speak at Scientology anti-psychiatry exhibit — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jake Wagman Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Rep. Ted Hoskins, a Democrat from Berkeley, will speak at an anti-psychiatry exhibit sponsored by a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology.
Hoskins will introduce “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” at the Jamestown Mall in Florissant on Saturday afternoon.
The touring exhibit, which made an appearance earlier this week in the Capitol rotunda in Jefferson City, has been put together by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which was founded by Scientologists to further the group’s views on psychiatry.
Like ...
Jan 21, 2009
Claire Headley v. Church of Scientology International, Religious Technology Center (January 2009)
Jan 21, 2009
Hirnwäscher - Wie gefährlich ist Scientology? ["The Brainwashers - How Dangerous Is Scientology?" Unofficial translation] — ARD (Germany)
Jan 21, 2009
Scientologists hit out at criticism — Canberra Times (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jano Gibson Source:
Canberra Times (Australia) THE Church of Scientology has appealed for religious tolerance after its $12 million bid to redevelop its Sydney headquarters sparked fears from neighbours of an increase in "menacing" and "aggressive" recruitment tactics.
The church has sought approval from the City of Sydney to add two floors to its five-storey building, Scientology House, on Castlereagh Street. The increased floor space would help turn the building into an "Ideal Org", the name Scientologists give to their most significant churches.
But almost 150 people ...
Jan 21, 2009
Veiled legal threats from Diskeeper — realitybasedcommunity.net
Jan 20, 2009
Travoltas claim extortion — Gawker
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