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Kahtleen J. Wickstrom v. Per A. Wickstrom, TIA Corporation, Narconon Stone Hawk Rehabilitation Center, Narconon International
Jul 1, 2008
Stress Test Patter — Bridge Publications, Inc. (BPI)
Type: Document
Source:
Bridge Publications, Inc. (BPI) STRESS TEST PATTER ”Hello! [handshake] My name is_____ , What’s your name? [tells] ”Nice to meet you!" [put cans in hands] "Here is how this Works. I am going to ask you a question, you don’t have to say anything and we’re going to find out what is causing you the most stress in your life. When the needle moves to the right, that shows stress.” [point to the needle so they know to watch the dial] [Tum the meter on ...
Jul 1, 2008
Will Smith: Getting His $100 Goat — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Much is being made of the private school funded by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith in Calabasas, Calif. Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times published an article about New Village Academy, citing its inclusion of Scientology teaching in its curriculum. Some of the teachers, the Times said, are Scientologists. The Smiths deny being members of the group. I told you in this column last year that Smith had donated money to Scientology’s LEAP curriculum. The Smiths' burgeoning friendship with Tom ...
Jun 30, 2008
Church of Scientology buys a bigger home in Nashville — Nashville City Paper
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Lawson Source:
Nashville City Paper The Church of Scientology is stepping up its visibility in Nashville.
Late last Thursday, the church purchased the Fall School Business Center along Eighth Avenue South for $6 million.
The property reportedly will become the new home of the church’s Celebrity Centre Nashville, which currently sits in a small house along Music Row.
The Fall School site has roughly 36,000-square-feet of space.
Church officials said more space was needed to meet growing demand. On average, officials said 2,000 Scientologists are served ...
Jun 30, 2008
Historic nature of Fall School justifies $6 million price tag, Scientologists say — Nashville Business Journal
Type: Press
Source:
Nashville Business Journal Representatives of the Church of Scientology say they paid a premium for the Fall School Business Center because of the historic nature of the 19th century building. The Church of Scientology Religious Trust purchased the executive suit building at 1130 Eighth Ave. S. along with adjacent properties at 1112 and 1114 Eighth Ave. S. for $6 million from Fall School Associates June 26, according to records and the Davidson County Register of Deeds. "The building's integrity has been maintained by the ...
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
Gerry Armstrong — Glosslip
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
Church of Scientology buys Falls School Business Center — Nashville Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Turner Hutchens Source:
Nashville Business Journal The Church of Scientology Religious Trust has bought the Fall School Business Center on 8th Avenue. The Scientology trust purchased the executive suit building at 1130 8th Ave. S. along with adjacent properties at 1112 and 1114 8th Ave. S. for $6 million from Fall School Associates June 26, according to records and the Davidson County Register of Deeds. "It was just a persistence of the part of the buyer to continue to purse and be interested in a historic building," ...
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 27, 2008
Rehab center selling lake site for $3.69M — Battle Creek EnquirerMore: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Elizabeth Huff Source:
Battle Creek Enquirer PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP — A Scientology-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation center has listed its St. Mary's Lake property for sale for $3.69 million. Realtor Roger Molenaar of Prudential Preferred Realtors said Narconon Stone Hawk, at 216 and 218 St. Mary's Lake Road, has been listed online for a couple weeks. On Thursday, he said no prospective buyers have inquired yet about the buildings. "We're just getting the marketing out to different corporations because it would be ideal for corporation or church retreats," ...
Jun 26, 2008
Church of Scientology deal funds blow — Birmingham Mail
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edward Chadwick Source:
Birmingham Mail THE Church of Scientology today admitted it has not yet done a deal to buy the Grade II listed Birmingham building which it plans to turn in to its Midlands headquarters. The organisation hopes to part with £4.25 million to snap up Moseley’s plush Pitmaston building on leafy Moor Green Lane, but says it must raise more funds before moving in. The news may come as a surprise to neighbours who say they have seen followers turn up for a string ...
Jun 26, 2008
Scientology hides from Anonymous? — Radar Online
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Adam K. Raymond Source:
Radar Online There's something fishy going on at the Church of Scientology Los Angeles, and not just the normal fishy Scientology stuff. By the looks of these
pictures posted to Flickr by former Scientologist Chuck Beatty, it seems the church is preparing for some kind of nuclear attack. Or maybe just another Anonymous protest. The pictures show stacks of shipping containers in front of the Los Angeles church. Beatty
writes that it's a part of "the hiding policy of L. Ron ...
Jun 23, 2008
Scientology's Holy War — Maisonneuve
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bruce Livesey Source:
Maisonneuve Bruce Livesey investigates how former inner-sanctum member Gerry Armstrong became the Salman Rushdie of Scientology. The first time I met Gerry Armstrong, I thought he was paranoid. I’d driven down from Vancouver, summer 2007, into the verdant Fraser Valley to Chilliwack, BC, a somnolent, wind-blown town surrounded by jagged mountain ranges. A place as far removed from Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Scientology’s loopiness as one can possibly get. Armstrong and his third wife Caroline live in a walk-up, one-bedroom apartment ...
Tag(s):
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Bankruptcy •
Bruce Livesey •
David Miscavige •
Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) •
Fair game •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong •
L. Ron Hubbard's credentials •
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan •
Maisonneuve •
Omar V. Garrison •
Project Celebrity •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Settlement •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
Stephen A. Kent •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Threat •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) Jun 20, 2008
Former judge sentence reduced — KRQE
Jun 20, 2008
Scientology: the Anonymous protestors — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Whipple Source:
The Times (UK) The Church of Scientology, notoriously ruthless at crushing its critics, may have met its match.The Times joins a demo by ‘Anonymous' - the vanguard of a new internet-fuelled radicalism There were signs, if you knew where to look, that the launch of Operation Sea Arrrgh was imminent. In a hundred corners of the internet plots were being plotted; in fancydress shops sales of Guy Fawkes masks were rising and in thousands of dank teenage bedrooms young men and women were making ...
Jun 19, 2008
Famed short-seller Feshbach liquidating fund — Reuters UK
Type: Press
Author(s):
Diane Hamilton Source:
Reuters UK NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) - Matt Feshbach, one of the most famed short-sellers of the 1980s, is liquidating his latest fund after months of stock losses. Feshbach said on Thursday he was liquidating Largo, Florida-based MLF Investments, which peaked at more than $200 million in 2006, by distributing holdings in its two remaining stocks to his investors. "I believe it was in the best interests of my investors to distribute the underlying securities that the fund held," Feshbach told Reuters ...
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 ...
Jun 17, 2008
Anonymous Protests Scientology; Peace and Quiet Ensues — Radar Online
Type: Press
Author(s):
Neel Shah Source:
Radar Online This past weekend, members of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous gathered in a bunch of different cities to protest Sea Org, the elite rank of Scientology which makes it possible for members to cruise around on a gigantic carcinogenic cruise liner in exchange for signing a one billion year service contract. Accounts from the event in Boston and from Orange County are up; despite claims from the Church that members of Anonymous are essentially terrorists hell-bent on destroying the Church by any ...
Jun 17, 2008
Destin not giving up on blocking Narconon — The Destin LogMore: nwfdailynews.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fraser Sherman Source:
The Destin Log New court rulings in South Florida may give Destin the power to stop Narconon Gulf Coast from opening a halfway house in a single-family neighborhood, City Councilor Dewey Destin says. “Give the land-use attorney the chance to do his job,” Councilor Destin told the council Monday, after which the council voted unanimously to have Land-Use Attorney Scott Shirley study the Boca Raton cases in question. The drug treatment program Narconon has been controversial because of its ties to Scientology, and became ...
Jun 17, 2008
Obituaries / Chester Lee Barton — Lake Eufaula News
Type: Press
Source:
Lake Eufaula News Chester Lee Barton, 75, of Canadian, OK, passed away at his home on Tuesday, June 17, 2008.
Chester was born on April 27, 1933, at Arkansas City, Kansas. The son of Walter and Hazel Barton, he grew up in the Arkansas City area and graduated from the Arkansas City High School. He was married to Dolores Harloff on November 11, 1952. To this union four children were born. He was later married to Ada Frances (Fields) Shirley on February 15, 1991, ...
Jun 17, 2008
Scientology protester faces court over 'ambiguous' sign — Evening News (Edinburgh)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan McEwen Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) A PROTESTER has been charged with breach of the peace after carrying an "ambiguous" sign during a rally against the Church of Scientology. The 57-year-old was arrested after taking part in a protest at Hunter Square, near the controversial church's Scottish base on South Bridge. The protest was organised by campaign group Anonymous, which has been fighting for the right to describe the church as a cult. The protester who was arrested was wearing a Mexican wrestler's mask and carrying signs ...
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 13, 2008
Scientology hires Staubach Co. to shepherd $45M revival — Tampa Bay Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Janet Leiser Source:
Tampa Bay Business Journal CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology — the largest downtown property owner — expects to begin work on the interior of its world spiritual headquarters almost 10 years after it first began construction of the building. The organization has hired Staubach Co., an international construction management firm founded by former NFL star Roger Staubach, to oversee the $45 million interior design of the six-story Mediterranean Revival building. The church hasn't yet hired a general contractor, but work on the 380,000-square-foot building, ...
Jun 11, 2008
School unaware of link to Scientologists — Vancouver Sun
Type: Press
Author(s):
Janet Steffenhagen Source:
Vancouver Sun A Vancouver principal said his school was uninformed when it invited a group affiliated with the Church of Scientology to speak to a student assembly last month about human rights. John Bevacqua, of St. Patrick regional secondary school, said he hadn't been aware that Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is part of the Scientology movement until it was brought to his attention by a staff member shortly after the group finished its presentation. "It was very unfortunate that they were ...
Jun 11, 2008
Scientology Mission in new home - Church moves from Central Avenue dwelling to Collierville — Memphis Commercial Appeal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lindsay Melvin Source:
Memphis Commercial Appeal The Church of Scientology Mission of Memphis has moved from its Central Avenue mansion to Collierville. Most of the church's parishioners live in the suburbs and the church needed to be closer to them, said David Slaughter, who holds the local charter issued by the Los Angeles headquarters of the Church of Scientology. No longer located in the canary yellow house in Central Gardens, the church is now leasing former office space at 346 New Byhalia. Scientology, which means "the study ...
Jun 10, 2008
Church Appeals to Panel — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sean Olson Source:
Albuquerque Journal The Church of Scientology of New Mexico was back for another city zoning hearing Monday as part of its attempt to relocate its church to Downtown Albuquerque. The church wants to move to the Gizmo building at Fourth and Central but has faced some community opposition and zoning challenges, delaying the building's proposed remodeling. "We're not arguing with the city; we just want to sort all this out," church community affairs director Sandy Block said Monday. Monday's hearing took up the ...
Jun 9, 2008
Appeal heard for Downtown church — New Mexico Business Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom O'Connell Source:
New Mexico Business Weekly Albuquerque's land use hearing officer has 10 days to present his recommendation to the City Council for the special zoning of a church for the Church of Scientology in Downtown. In a public appeal of a code compliance official's declaratory ruling on churches in the City Council Committee room this morning, Church of Scientology of New Mexico attorney David Campbell told Land Use Hearing Officer Steven Chavez that the Downtown 2010 Sector Plan is not allowed, per state and federal law, ...
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 ...
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