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May 29, 2008
Will Sklar II crack open Scientology's Secret Agreement with the IRS? — realitybasedcommunity.net
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Scott Pilutik Source:
realitybasedcommunity.net In the early 1990s, Michael and Marla Sklar deducted part of their children's school tuition from their income tax in an amount equal to the proportion they viewed their tuition going toward religious instruction, as opposed to secular teaching (e.g., math, english). He listed his deductions under section 170 of the Tax Code, which permits deductions for charitable and religious contributions. The IRS denied the Sklars their deduction, noting that the Sklars had not provided receipts from the Church of Scientology. ...
May 22, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 6: Back to Flag
May 14, 2008
Jason Beghe to Scientology mouthpiece Tommy Davis: 'You're losing your soul' — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Scientology defector Jason Beghe on Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis: "You see the eyes, the lying that he's doing. Anybody can see that this guy is not clean. It's clear as day." Last week, John Roberts of CNN grilled Tommy Davis, a Scientology spokesman, who was predictably evasive about what L. Ron Hubbard's wacky minions are up to. 'Disconnection,' the church policy of splitting up families in order to shun critics of the church? Never happens, Davis claimed. And as for that ...
Apr 28, 2008
Scientology case headed to BMC — Lawyers Weekly (Boston)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David E. Frank Source:
Lawyers Weekly (Boston) A previously covert member of a controversial web-based group called Anonymous is headed for Boston Municipal Court this week to face misdemeanor harassment charges for his alleged role in anti-Church of Scientology demonstrations. In an unusual case pitting First Amendment free-speech protections against an individual's right to practice religion without harassment, Anonymous member Gregg Housh is slated to be arraigned on April 30. Housh, already on probation in federal court, is charged with unlawfully participating in a series of protests between ...
Apr 25, 2008
Targeted Boston Anonymous Member Gregg Interviewed By WGBH Boston — Glosslip
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Dawn Olsen Source:
Glosslip [Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/fQtvHqe-JIY] I have been reluctant to talk further about Gregg of Boston simply because there was so much controversy about his charges, his person and his past. I felt it was best to remain neutral. Part of the issue was related to my being aware that he had some extenuating circumstances in his past and I didn't want to be the one to draw any attention to this, simply because I didn't know the nature of what happened. Now that ...
Apr 20, 2008
Jeff Hawkins and Mark Bunker interview — Glosslip
Apr 17, 2008
Masked activists target NZ Scientology headquarters — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kristina Koveshnikova Source:
New Zealand Herald Masked protesters have begun a campaign against the Auckland headquarters of Scientology New Zealand, as part of a worldwide movement against the church. The protest, called Operation Reconnect, was organised by a global group calling itself Anonymous, which began its internet-based "War on Scientology" in January. It aimed to bring together families it says have been torn apart by the church. The latest protest on Saturday was the third of its kind, held across the road from the church's Panmure headquarters. ...
Apr 14, 2008
Local Sailors Receive Safety Training Certificates — SKNVibes
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SKNVibes BASSETERRE, St. Kitts- Twenty-one local seafarers recently received international certification in basic safety training in fire fighting and fire prevention, survival at sea, elementary first aid and personal safety and social responsibility. The local Department of Maritime Affairs collaborated with the MV Freewinds late last year to deliver the necessary training and all 21 of the sailors from the Federation passed the course. The local sailors completed their training in December but did not receive the actual certificates until last week. ...
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
Clearwater is prepared for its enemies. It's a warm, if ...
Mar 16, 2008
Protesters bid to unmask Scientology — Sunday Star-Times
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Sunday Star-Times THE CHURCH of Scientology in New Zealand has laid a complaint with police after allegedly receiving death and bomb threats from an internet-based protest group that has waged an online war against the religion. The group, calling itself Anonymous, held a worldwide action day yesterday, with about 20 people gathering at Britomart in downtown Auckland and in other centres, handing out fliers attacking Scientology as a dangerous cult "that scams members with pseudo science". The project was started in response to ...
Mar 6, 2008
The Edge: Jefferson Hawkins Interview 1 — WXYB 1520 AM
Feb 19, 2008
Info sought on secret IRS deal with Scientology — WorldNetDaily
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WorldNetDaily THE POWER TO DESTROY
Info sought on secret IRS deal with Scientology
'Position represents unconstitutional favoritism of one religious group over another'
Posted: February 19, 2008
3:53 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A federal appeals court is being asked to tell the Internal Revenue Service to open up a secret deal with the Church of Scientology that reportedly allows members to deduct certain educational, or "auditing," expenses, a benefit denied members of other faiths in the United States.
The report comes ...
Feb 18, 2008
A leap beyond faith — Los Angeles Times (California)
Feb 15, 2008
The faith business: Scientology in NZ — Sunday Star-Times
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Sunday Star-Times Accountant Andrew Yong was near his office in the Panmure shops in east Auckland when he met a man who would change his life. Andrew Wenborn was from the Church of Scientology, headquartered a few hundred metres away. An Australian on secondment from Sydney, Wenborn persuaded Yong to take a Scientology "stress test", using an electrical device called an "e-meter". Sure enough, Yong was stressed and his health poor, Wenborn told him, and Scientology could help. What's more, said Wenborn, he ...
Feb 8, 2008
9th Circuit Could OK Big Religious Education Tax Break — ABA Journal
Feb 8, 2008
Judges Press IRS on Church Tax Break — New York Sun
Feb 6, 2008
Second Chance seeks state funding (video) — KRQE
Jan 24, 2008
Author goes inside Scientology — Montreal Gazette
Jan 17, 2008
Scientology No Road To Oz, Says "Gay Actor" — Queerty
Jan 14, 2008
Threat of lawsuit if Tom Cruise book sold — Stuff.co.nz
Dec 20, 2007
Accord is green light for church — Sacramento Bee (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edgar Sanchez Source:
Sacramento Bee (California) The Ramona building, a 78-year-old former hotel at Sixth and J streets, will be converted into Sacramento headquarters for the Church of Scientology. Courtesy of the Church of Scientology
Two years after it paid $4.75 million for the downtown Ramona building, the Church of Scientology is about to gain full control of the property.
A lease-buyout agreement was recently reached with Luis Jr.'s Mexican Food Restaurant, the last remaining tenant with a long-term lease in the five-story building at Sixth and ...
Dec 12, 2007
Seminars increase awareness of need to protect sea from pollution — Sun St. Kitts
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Sun St. Kitts Caribbean countries may be one step closer to having stricter pollution prevention measures in place to protect the Caribbean Sea from pollution by garbage from ships. This was the feeling following the successful completion of five seminars aimed at the ratification and implementation of Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78). MARPOL Annex V provides guidelines and regulations for the discharge of garbage for ships at sea and in national ports. The five-pollution ...
Jul 12, 2007
Attractive help and a hasty exit — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael McKenna Source:
The Australian IT was Hollywood, so it was bound to follow the script. Two minutes after walking through the ornate gates of the world famous Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre, an exquisitely renovated 1920s chateau-style, former hotel overlooking Los Angeles, I came face-to-face with my first Scientologist. He was impressive, tall, broad-shouldered and impeccably groomed with a set of blindingly white teeth. He looked like an actor who'd play a secret service agent.
Jul 10, 2007
Accused killer was 'denied therapy' — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s):
James Madden Source:
The Australian A SYDNEY woman accused of the stabbing murders of her father and sister was allegedly denied psychiatric treatment last year because of her parents' Scientology beliefs. The 25-year-old woman, who cannot be named, appeared briefly in Sydney's Bankstown Local Court yesterday, charged over the murders at her family home in Revesby in the city's southwest last Thursday. The woman has also been charged with committing grievous bodily harm on her 52-year-old mother, who ran to a neighbour's house and raised the ...
Jul 10, 2007
Church of Scientology denies stabbed man 'a recruiter' — News.com.au
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fiona Connolly Source:
News.com.au THE Church of Scientology last night denied the Sydney man who was allegedly stabbed to death by his psychotic daughter after refusing her psychiatric drugs was a top recruiter for the church. A man with the same name as the dead father is listed on the Church of Scientology's "Honour Roll" in the 2002 Impact magazine which glorifies members worldwide for their efforts in "signing more than 20 members to the church" or for donating $US20,000 ($23,200) or more. The man's ...
Jul 8, 2007
Dead girl hoped to have a big family — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Angela Cuming Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) STABBING victim Kathryn Walicki, 15, loved her sister Linda "with all her heart", a family friend said yesterday. A touching tribute to Kathryn, who was killed along with the girl's father Michael, 52, at their Revesby home on Wednesday, described her as a "beautiful and gorgeous girl" who loved her family above all else. "She loved Linda with all her heart and it upset her like nothing else to see her in her condition," Bethany Derley said. Linda, 25, and Kathryn's ...
Jul 7, 2007
'It's not her fault, she's sick': mother's cry after family tragedy — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jordan Baker Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) IT WAS a picture of suburban harmony on a sunny afternoon: two neighbours, a man and a woman, both mowing their front lawns in a leafy part of Revesby. But in a horrific few minutes, order turned to chaos, leaving two members of a family dead, one seriously injured and another under arrest. As he mowed on Thursday, a man heard trouble next door. Soon his neighbour staggered into his yard with stab wounds to her stomach and back, crying for ...
Jul 1, 2007
Church of Scientology buys site in Center City — Philadelphia InquirerMore: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Klein Source:
Philadelphia Inquirer It has purchased more spacious quarters on Chestnut Street and plans to expand. Retailers, restaurants and other businesses are flocking to Center City. Now comes another flock. The Church of Scientology last month paid just under $8 million for a vacant 15-story office building and an adjoining one-story former toy store in the heart of downtown: the 1300 block of Chestnut Street — across the street from Macy's and next door to the furniture store Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. The ...
Jun 23, 2007
'Church' that yearns for respectability — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dominic Kennedy Source:
The Times (UK) Scientology is trying to transform its image from that of a shadowy cult When Scientology officially opened its spectacular new British church in the Square Mile, the movement was given an unusually warm embrace by the Establishment. Ian Luder, an Alderman of the Corporation of London and a magistrate, lauded the organisation’s anti-drugs efforts. “The work which you do in this area is greatly to be welcomed,” he said, “and I wish you growing success.” It was a satisfying moment for ...
Jun 6, 2007
Scientologists snap up heritage home — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anne Gibson Source:
New Zealand Herald The Church of Scientology is stepping up its image and presence here, spending $10 million to buy a prominent Auckland building. The church, which is popular with Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, will move around 100 staff into the building perched above the Southern Motorway at Grafton and run courses from there. It will soon leave Panmure's industrial strip for the building now occupied by the Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, which has two other campus ...
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