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Mar 17, 2010
Athena under attack for not disclosing Scientology links — Central (Sidney, Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Burton-Bradley Source:
Central (Sidney, Australia) NSW Greens MLC Dr John Kaye has launched another attack on the Athena School in Newtown after he made a formal complaint about a leaflet from the school, which failed to fully reveal its links to Scientology. “The leaflet has been distributed to homes in Sydney’s Inner West. It fails to warn parents that this is a private school that uses teaching methods developed by the Scientology organisation,” Dr Kaye said. The Greens are asking the consumer watchdog to direct the ...
Mar 9, 2010
School rapped over failure to declare Scientology links — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anna Patty Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A LEAFLET advertising the Athena School in Newtown has been referred to the state's consumer watchdog for allegedly obscuring the school's link to Scientology. The NSW Greens yesterday lodged a complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, claiming the leaflet represented false advertising and a potential breach of the Trade Practices Act. The Applied Scholastics logo, the education arm of Scientology, appears in the bottom corner of the leaflet, which includes the words ''education services and materials based on the ...
Dec 9, 2009
Sydney MP blasts school grant over Scientology link — Central (Sidney, Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Burton-Bradley Source:
Central (Sidney, Australia) A Newtown School which teaches Scientology beliefs has received $1.4 million in government funding for less than 50 students.
Greens MP John Kaye blasted State and Federal governments for providing the Athena School with $751,519 in ongoing funding until 2012, $135,287 for a new library, $114,713 for classroom refits and $50,000 for other works.
According to the school’s website it teaches from The Way to Happiness, written by Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Mr Kaye said responses to questions on notice ...
Dec 9, 2009
Today Tonight: Scientology secrets — Channel 7 (Australia)More: Youtube
Dec 2, 2009
Intimidating and violent: defector — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nick O'Malley Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) A former Scientology leader says bullying is widespread in the church, writes investigations reporter Nick O'Malley. Coerced abortion, violence, intimidation and demands for ever greater "donations" have become unofficial Church of Scientology policy, beginning at its Florida head office and leaching around the world, the church's most senior defector has said. Marty Rathbun, who until 2004 was the church's second-most powerful man, answering only to the present leader, David Miscavige, said the church leadership was obsessed with destroying dissent and increasing ...
Dec 2, 2009
Police investigate Scientology — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nick O'Malley Source:
The Age (Australia) NSW police are investigating allegations of abuse and bullying in the Church of Scientology made in a series of letters from former members tabled in Federal Parliament by independent senator Nick Xenophon. The most senior executive to defect from the church, US-based Marty Rathbun, has said the allegations, including coercion to have abortions and donate money, were unwritten church policy, dictated from its head office, according to a speech by Greens MP John Kaye in the NSW upper house. "My office ...
Jan 30, 2008
Malignant narcissism, L. Ron Hubbard, and Scientology's policies of narcissistic rage
Type: Research
Author(s):
Stephen A. Kent ,
Jodi M. Lane In this article, we argue that Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, likely presented a personality disorder known as malignant narcissism, and then we establish that this disorder probably contributed to his creation of organizational policies against perceived enemies that reflected his narcissistic rage. We illustrate our argument by discussing Hubbard’s creation of an internal Scientology organization called the Guardian’s Office, which carried out a sustained and covert attack against a Scientology critic, Paulette Cooper. This attack, and the Scientology policies that ...
Jan 1, 2002
Clear Expansion Committee Directory 2002 — Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (CSFSO)
Dec 18, 1997
Walkin' in a Hubbard Wonderland — New Times Los Angeles
Nov 19, 1997
Secret lives: Lafayette Ron Hubbard [video] — Channel 4 (UK)More: transcript , local copy of transcript
Type: TV
Source:
Channel 4 (UK) VOICES: "We were saving the world, we were convinced that Hubbard was the returned saviour and that his techniques and his knowledge and his majesty would eventually bring all mankind to an enlightened state and that was what we were doing..." "There were some things about him that I do feel were rather dangerous. I felt so much under his spell that I told my room-mate that if ever I told her that I was going to marry this man, she ...
Nov 28, 1996
The Big Story: The S-Files — ITVMore: transcript , partial transcript
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dermot Murnaghan Source:
ITV Title "The S Files" [S as in Scientology Logo] [Presenter Dermot Murnaghan (DM henceforth) no relation to any other DM] Tonight we're going to expose serious financial crime in one of the Scientology cult's most successful operations in Britain. We show how they cooked the books, made false statements to obtain bank loans, and changed invoices to fiddle their VAT. [Extract from "Trust" ad] This advert for the Church of Scientology was recently shown on cable TV. It was a major ...
Apr 21, 1994
Cash needed to pay HQ rent — Chichester Observer (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brian Warren Source:
Chichester Observer (UK) Curiousity about a leaflet handed out at The Cross cost a Chichester man more than £6,000. Now Roger Phillips, aged 25, is warning people to stay away from the 'church' of Scientology. And he is furious that credit card companies allow payments of thousands of pounds to the cult. Mr Phillips, a computer programmer, nearly quit his well-paid job to earn £3,000 a year as a full-time Scientologist. He revealed the cult had needed his final payment of £3,200 to pay ...
May 14, 1993
Letters to the editor // Same old line of attack — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Type: Press
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) After dabbling... I still say stay away AT OUR monthly meeting held on Monday I asked how many of those who signed the letter from the clergy of East Grinstead (report and Letters, May 7) had visited Saint Hill. Four of us had. Our knowledge of Scientology is not confined to anti-Scientology literature, as Barbara Bradley seems to imply. Speaking for myself, I visited Saint Hill in September 1985. I have dipped into dianetics, which I admit did not interest me ...
Nov 1, 1987
Science fictions [extract from "Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard"] — The Sunday Times (UK)
May 6, 1982
Scientology is not religion, says court — Advertiser (Australia)
Type: Press
Source:
Advertiser (Australia) MELBOURNE — The Victorian Full Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Church of the New Faith, practising Scientology, was not a religion or a religious institution. The Full Court unanimously dismissed an appeal by the organisation against a ruling by Mr. Justice Crockett in December, 1980, that it was not a religious organisation. Mr Justice Crockett had dismissed an appeal against a decision by the Commissioner of Payroll Tax not to grant the church an exemption from tax as a religious ...
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