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Cops probe Tom Cruise guru — National Enquirer
Jan 1, 2006
Chief Klein's balance isn't an act — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 1, 2006
[Order form] — American Saint Hill Organization Foundation
Dec 29, 2005
Restaurateur seeks new spot / Church of Scientology, owner of historic Ramona building, negotiates to move tenants — Sacramento Bee (California)
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Sacramento Bee (California) A year ago, Luis Leyva Jr. opened Luis Jr.'s Mexican Food Restaurant in downtown Sacramento.
Housed in what used to be a Japanese eatery, Luis Jr.'s is in the Ramona building, a former hotel at Sixth and J streets.
"This is my dream," Leyva said last week during an interview at the place bearing his name. "This is what I've always wanted - my own restaurant downtown."
But Leyva may soon
Dec 23, 2005
Yellow house rings up lots of green — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 21, 2005
New Life, old tricks — Bay Guardian (San Francisco)
Dec 18, 2005
From Mysterious Property Buyer to Community Presence — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Claire Hoffman Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) When a mysterious buyer expressed interest in the old, bankrupt Gilman Hot Springs resort in 1978, Richard J. Hoag thought it might be a group of expatriates from Rhodesia. Others whispered that maybe the Mafia or the Moonies were moving onto the 500-acre property near Hemet.
Only much later did anyone learn that the buyer — which paid $2.78 million and went by the names Scottish Highland Quietude Society and Western States Scientific Assn. — was really the Church of Scientology. ...
Dec 18, 2005
Tom Cruise and Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Claire Hoffman Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Tom Cruise studied intensively at the remote compound near Hemet while becoming a passionate messenger for the church.
GILMAN HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — Nearly 30 years ago, the Church of Scientology bought a dilapidated and bankrupt resort here and turned the erstwhile haven for Hollywood moguls and starlets into a retreat for L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who founded the religion.
Today, the out-of-the-way 500-acre compound near Hemet has quietly grown into one of Scientology's major bases of operation, ...
Dec 17, 2005
Scientology's inland empire — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 16, 2005
Final Victory! XS4ALL and Spaink win Scientology battle — XS4ALL
Type: Press release
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XS4ALL The legal battle that the Church of Scientology has conducted against XS4ALL and Karin Spaink reached its grand finale today. The Dutch Supreme court dismissed Scientology's claims, which means that a decade of legal skirmishes has finally come to an end. The Supreme Court decided that the previous ruling, which was in favour of XS4ALL and Spaink, still holds. Scientology lost again. Freedom of speech prevailed over the alleged copyright of the Scientology Church, and Spaink can quote from Scientology's higher ...
Dec 14, 2005
Tom Cruise Blasted by 9/11 Firefighters — Hollywood.com
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Hollywood.com HOLLYWOOD - Outspoken actor Tom Cruise has been criticized by firefighters suffering the effects of smoke inhalation from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks for his controversial views on their treatment.
The Scientology devotee has urged emergency services victims to give up their medication and inhalers as part of a 'purification rundown,’ which favors sauna sessions, ingestion of cooking oil and large doses of niacin as cures instead.
As co-founder of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, Cruise has also ...
Dec 11, 2005
San Miguel County officials tour Scientology compound — KVIA TV 7
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KVIA TV 7 Trementina, N.M. – San Miguel County Sheriff Chris Najar says a Church of Scientology compound near Trementina is designed to hold archives for a thousand years.
Najar, San Miguel County Manager Les Montoya, Commissioners LeRoy H. Garcia and Kenny Medina and others recently toured the facilities.
The 43-acre compound was built in the 1980s in this high desert community about 40 miles east of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Najar says an expensive archival center stores writings of Scientology founder and late ...
Dec 7, 2005
Applied Pressure - Should St. Louis County grant tax breaks to Scientology-linked tutoring programs? — Riverfront Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kristen Hinman Source:
Riverfront Times Every year in St. Louis County, on the fourth Monday in August, more than one thousand properties are placed on the auction block. County revenue officials and eager bidders converge on council chambers to divvy up land on which owners have not paid property taxes for three years.
The tax-delinquent citizenry are warned in advance that their real estate will go to the highest bidder if they haven't paid at least one year's worth of back taxes. The deadline is auction ...
Dec 2, 2005
Inside the Church of Scientology — CNN
Type: TV
Author(s):
Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN COOPER: Well, the other night, we told you about a vault in the New Mexico desert and some mysterious land markings nearby, markings that can only be seen from the sky. Both are part of a compound built by the Church of Scientology. And inside the vault are said to be writings by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the church. Many who live in New Mexico are simply unaware the vault even exists and don't – they have never seen ...
Dec 1, 2005
The Neopets Addiction — Wired
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Author(s):
David Kushner Source:
Wired 20 million kids can't get enough - and neither can advertisers. How a virtual animal kingdom became a product placement paradise. Every day after school, 11-year-old Tyler Gagen hurries home down the country roads of Hastings, Minnesota, to play with Buddy. "He likes hot dogs and cake," Tyler says of his pet. "I haven't brought him to the grooming parlor yet, but I will. He gets the royal treatment!" Tyler also cares for a half-Siamese tomcat, Arctic, and two cocker spaniels, ...
Nov 30, 2005
Scientology and a mysterious vault deep under the desert in New Mexico — CNN
Type: TV
Author(s):
Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN COOPER: Welcome back. We've talked a lot about Scientology and the battled Tom Cruise and the church is waging on psychiatric drugs. Last night Cruise told Barbara Walters he doesn't regret anything he said this past year, and claims since speaking out nearly half a million children have come off depressants. Clearly, the church doesn't shy away from the subject. There is another topic the Scientologists are a bit touchy on, it involves a vault in the desert of New Mexico ...
Nov 30, 2005
Scientology's War Against Psychiatry — CNN
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN Tom Cruise has a new bone to pick with psychiatrists. He's boasting that he has helped think nearly half-a-million kids off of meds. Tonight, we reveal what Scientologists don't like about psychiatry. You're going to hear from a church member. Also tonight, are we on the brink of a mini ice age? Some experts say things could be getting much colder in some parts of the world. We will tell you what makes them so concerned. From America and around the ...
Nov 29, 2005
Scientology church's mark inscribed in N.M. desert scrub — Santa Fe New Mexican
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Santa Fe New Mexican Secret flying-saucer base found in New Mexico? Maybe. From the state that gave us Roswell, the epicenter of UFO lore since 1947, comes a report from an Albuquerque TV station about its discovery of strange landscape markings in the remote desert. They’re etched in New Mexico’s barren northern reaches, resemble crop circles and are recognizable only from a high altitude. Also, they are directly connected to the Church of Scientology. The church tried to persuade station KRQE not to air its ...
Nov 27, 2005
A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Washington Post Secret Flying Saucer Base Found in New Mexico? Maybe. From the state that gave us Roswell, the epicenter of UFO lore since 1947, comes a report from an Albuquerque TV station about its discovery of strange landscape markings in the remote desert. They're etched in New Mexico's barren northern reaches, resemble crop circles and are recognizable only from a high altitude. Also, they are directly connected to the Church of Scientology. (Cue theremin music.) The church tried to persuade station KRQE ...
Nov 17, 2005
Councillor starts Scientology row — BBC News
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BBC News A councillor in East Sussex has asked for Scientologists in his town to be stopped from working for the council. Councillor Michael Murphy has had his proposal seconded by councillor Paul Scott, but other members of Crowborough Town Council have raised objections. He suggests the council "refrains from using the voluntary services of the Scientologists until a full investigation has been carried out". A Scientology centre in nearby Saint Hill has invited Mr Murphy for a visit. His motion was supposed ...
Nov 15, 2005
Alarm in prisons at Scientology drug cures aimed at inmates — The Guardian (UK)
Nov 15, 2005
Hidden Scientology compound — KRQEMore: Follow-up 1 , Follow-up 2
Nov 15, 2005
Spiritual compound [circa November 2005] — KRQE
Nov 8, 2005
Cruise dumps sister for veteran publicist — CBC
Nov 4, 2005
Mirror Investigates: Inside Cult Castle — Daily Mirror (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Edwards Source:
Daily Mirror (UK) THE WEIRD RITUALS AT SCIENTOLOGY'S SUSSEX HQ THE trainee Scientologist clasps two tin cans which are connected by wires to an electric dial. A second, more senior member reads from a prompt card. "Have you ever destroyed a culture?" he asks. "Have you ever bred bodies for degrading purposes? Did you come to Earth for evil purposes?'' Down the corridor, another sect member listens to a series of lectures on how, 75 million years ago, an alien prince killed millions of ...
Nov 3, 2005
The Today Show: An inside look at Scientology, Katie Couric interview with Michael Rinder — NBC
Nov 2, 2005
In brief: Cruise donates £2m to Scientology — Guardian Unlimited
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Guardian Unlimited Tom Cruise has emerged as the biggest ever donor to the controversial Church of Scientology. The actor and his pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes were given a standing ovation at the cult's annual gala in East Grinstead, Sussex at the weekend, where Cruise received a Diamond Meritorious Award for donating £2m. Cruise became a vocal member of the Scientologists 15 years ago. [...]
Nov 1, 2005
The Strange Case of Garry Scarff — Jonestown Report
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rebecca Moore Source:
Jonestown Report In 1989, Fielding McGehee and I published The Need for a Second Look at Jonestown, a collection of essays written by those who had been involved with Peoples Temple. In this retrospective volume, people reflected on their experiences of the previous decade, as well as on their understanding of the Temple. Contributors included former members, relatives, and others who had had connections with the Temple, such as news reporters and social activists. Shortly after the book appeared, Chris Hatcher, the psychologist ...
Oct 29, 2005
Tom Cruise parody site defiant in face of Scientology threats, demands its day in court — Wikinews
Oct 28, 2005
25 years later, a high-profile Superior Court case is still on the active list — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger M. Grace Source:
Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) A jury trial is slated to start in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday in a case in which an attorney who failed to secure a written representation agreement is seeking to recover the reasonable value of her services. So far, that probably seems hum drum. What makes this case worthy of note is that the proceeding will take place in Case No. C332027 — which was filed on July 28, 1980. The name of this 25-year-old case will probably sound familiar. ...
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