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Feb 24, 2011
Is Tom Cruise using slave labor? Doc Thompson gets behind the walls of the Church of Scientology. — Radio 700WLW CincinnatiMore: youtube.com
Type: Radio
Author(s):
Doc Thompson Show Source:
Radio 700WLW Cincinnati Doc Thompson 2/24/11 Hour 3
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:27:13 -0500
Is Tom Cruise using slave labor? Doc gets behind the walls of the Church of Scientology.
[Features a Telephone Interview with webmaster and founder of Operation Clambake at www.xenu.net , Andreas Heldal-Lund]
Contributor Notes:
Podcast link mp3 audio 15Mb, running time 31m55ss. Scientology segment in first part.
Youtube link is an commercial-free edited version of just the scientology related segment. Running time 19mins.
Mar 27, 2009
Infinite Complacency - 12 Scientology v the Internet
Oct 23, 2008
Battling Scientology — Boston Phoenix
Aug 26, 2008
Pay no mind — Scientology vs. Beck vs. Barb's Bars — The Stranger (Seattle, Washington)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brandon Ivers Source:
The Stranger (Seattle, Washington) SCOTT BEALE Beck Don't believe everything that you breathe. "Hi! Could we tempt you with some delicious bars?" It's 10:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, and my sister and I are at the Minneapolis Church of Scientology. We've been standing at the entryway for two minutes now, completely paralyzed. Our secret plan is definitely not working—these people cannot be bought by conventional means. "Okay. If you don't want any bars, can I ask you a few questions?" The middle-aged guy standing in ...
Apr 29, 2008
Former Scientologist Actor Wants His Confessional Files Back — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Two weeks ago, in a YouTube video and an interview in the Voice, Jason Beghe denounced Scientology as a "rip-off" that "brainwashed" its members. A veteran actor of films and TV, Beghe recently left Scientology after 12 years in the controversial church, during which he estimates he spent a million dollars on classes and training in Scientology’s arcane practices.
Beghe went public with his newest offensive against the church last night by posting online a letter addressed to Scientology leader David ...
Apr 24, 2008
Andreas Heldal-Lund interview on Glosslip — Glosslip
Apr 16, 2008
Police probe suicide linked to Scientologists — Aftenpolten
Type: Press
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Aftenpolten The daughter of a member of Norway's parliament committed suicide hours after she received what her family claims were "devastating" results from a personality test administered by the Church of Scientology. Police in France, where the young woman was studying, are investigating. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported Tuesday evening that French police are checking alleged links between the suicide of Kaja Bordevich Ballo, age 20, and the Scientologists. Ballo's father, Olav Gunnar Ballo, is a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the ...
Apr 8, 2008
Scientology's first celebrity defector reveals church secrets // 'I was Miscavige's favorite boy,' says veteran TV actor Jason Beghe — Village VoiceMore: web.archive.org , rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Veteran television actor Jason Beghe tells the Village Voice that the Church of Scientology will be feeling blindsided by the YouTube video of him that hit the Internet on March 14. Long-held frustrations with the church motivated Beghe to leave Scientology seven months ago, after he had spent about 12 years in the organization as one of its most celebrated success stories. Over the course of about a year, he negotiated his "disassociation" with the church, trying to give every indication ...
Mar 5, 2008
Scientology vs Everyone — newmatilda.com
Feb 4, 2008
Hackers declare war on Scientologists amid claims of heavy-handed Cruise control — The Guardian (UK)
Jan 25, 2008
Critics split over DDoS attacks on Scientology — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Leyden Source:
The Register (UK) Websites associated with the Church of Scientology are intermittently unavailable today after an internet group calling itself Anonymous declared war on the controversial organisation. In a statement posted via video on YouTube and through various internet sites Anonymous claimed its actions were designed to safeguard the right to freedom of speech against assaults by the Church of Scientology. It also wants to curtail what it claims is the financial exploitation of church members and aims to "systematically dismantle the Church of ...
Jan 25, 2008
Xenu strikes again
Aug 27, 2007
Re: Kyle Brennan Investigation More: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Account
Re: Kyle Brennan Investigation Content of conversations: Victoria Britton and Detective Steve Bohling of the Clearwater Police Department. August 27, 2007 After Kyle passed away, family members were upset and puzzled as to why we had never received a phone call from the Clearwater Police Department. We thought for certain they would have some questions to ask us regarding Kyle. It was also questioned why Kyle’s physician “Dr. Steven McNamara” was not contacted by the Clearwater Police Department or the medical ...
Aug 11, 2007
Scientologists find unlikely allies in other faiths — Florida Times-UnionMore: jacksonville.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Sedensky Source:
Florida Times-Union TAMPA, Fla. - The Rev. Charles Kennedy travels the country preaching the brilliance of L. Ron Hubbard’s words. Children in his after-school program learn with the Scientology founder’s methods; church members study one of his books. The minister calls Scientologists the kindest people he’s met and their programs the best he’s found.
One thing sets Kennedy apart: He and his congregants are not Scientologists. They are Christians.
The Glorious Church of God in Christ here is among a number of houses ...
Jan 7, 2007
Revealed: how Scientologists infiltrated Britain's schools / Insight: Drugs charity is front for ‘dangerous’ organisation — The Sunday Times (UK)
May 1, 2003
Anti-Scientology site spurs award — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa M. Bowman Source:
CNET A critic of the Church of Scientology, Andreas Heldal-Lund, has received a human rights award for maintaining his Web page despite repeated legal attacks from church officials. Heldal-Lund, a Norwegian citizen who operates the Operation Clambake Web site, is the fourth recipient of the Leipzig Human Rights Award. Church of Scientology officials have tried to silence Heldal-Lund by, among other things, asking Google and the Internet archive site Archive.org to pull links to his site, claiming that material on its pages ...
Sep 24, 2002
Net archive silences Scientology critic — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa M. Bowman Source:
CNET Buckling under pressure from the Church of Scientology, the Internet Archive has removed a church critic's Web site from its system.
The Internet Archive, a site that preserves snapshots of old Web pages and bills itself as "a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form," no longer contains links to archival pages of Xenu.net. Instead, surfers are pointed to a page telling them the site was taken down "per the request of the site owner."
However, Xenu.net ...
Apr 22, 2002
New Economy; A copyright dispute with the Church of Scientology is forcing Google to do some creative linking — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
David F. Gallagher Source:
New York Times GOOGLE, the company behind the popular Web search engine, has been playing a complicated game recently that involves the Church of Scientology and a controversial copyright law. Legal experts say the episode highlights problems with the law that can make companies or individuals liable for linking to sites they do not control. And it has turned Google, whose business is built around a database of two billion Web pages, into a quiet campaigner for the freedom to link. The church sent ...
Mar 22, 2002
Google removes anti-Scientology Web links — CBC News
Type: Press
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CBC News The Google search engine has delisted some Web pages that are critical of the Church of Scientology. Google said it had no choice because the church had threatened legal action if the Web sites stayed listed on Google. Free speech advocates said the law the church used to get the pages removed, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, is too powerful and may infringe on freedom of speech. The delisted Web pages are on Operation Clambake, a Web site that opposes the ...
Mar 22, 2002
Scientologists force closure of ISP's Internet connection — ZDNet
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Loney Source:
ZDNet The apparent campaign by the Church of Scientology to stamp out criticism on the Internet resulted in the ISP that hosts a Web site targeted by the Church for its critical standpoint having its upstream connection cut off. Netherlands-based ISP Xtended Internet said its connection to the Internet was terminated by its provider after threats of legal action from the Church. Paul Wouters, managing director of Xtended Internet, said he believed this was the first time an ISP had suffered such ...
Mar 21, 2002
Cult forces Google to remove critical links — ZDNet
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Loney Source:
ZDNet Google was accused on Wednesday of effectively removing a Web site that is critical of the Scientology cult from the Web, after it told the site that it was deleting links from its search engine. Andreas Heldal-Lund, Webmaster of the Xenu.net Web site, said in a Usenet posting that Google was removing links to the site, which bills itself as Operation Clambake: The fight against the Church of Scientology on the Net. The term Operation Clambake comes in part, according to ...
Mar 21, 2002
Google pulls anti-Scientology links — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Loney Source:
CNET Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine. The popular search company said it removed the links after it received a copyright-infringement complaint from the Church of Scientology. Andreas Heldal-Lund, Webmaster of the site Xenu.net, said in a Usenet posting that the complaint demanded that Google take down a large number of references to ...
Sep 27, 2001
Sympathy for the Devil — New Times Los Angeles
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
New Times Los Angeles Tory Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics. Until she met the darkest detractor of all. Last year, Church of Scientology operatives received an alarming tip: During the upcoming 2000 MTV Movie Awards scheduled for June 8, a short South Park film parodying Battlefield Earth would feature the character Cartman wiping his ass with a copy of L. Ron Hubbard's sacred text, Dianetics. The tip was erroneous. Cartman would actually be wiping his ass with a Scientology ...
Mar 23, 2000
The gospel of the web / Nick Ryan on the holy wars fought in cyberspace between religious movements and their critics — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nick Ryan Source:
The Guardian (UK) Nick Ryan on the holy wars fought in cyberspace between religious movements and their critics Religion in the UK: special report August 12 1995 was a Saturday much like any other in the urban sprawl of Arlington, Virginia. Except that an alert went out over email and on Usenet groups to say that 10 people - including two federal marshals, two computer technicians, one a former FBI agent, and several attorneys - were raiding the home of former Scientologist Arnaldo Lerma. ...
Mar 29, 1999
Internet is battleground in foes' war of information — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lucy Morgan Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Around the clock, from Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and every corner of the United States, the critics of Scientology discuss the controversial organization and its practices. A court decision in Sweden is quickly posted to the news group, followed quickly by a full translation. Daily transcripts of a trial in Northern California are up before daybreak the next day, and news accounts from all over the world are quickly translated and reproduced. Many of those who post messages to the central ...
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