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Due Process — Artforum International Magazine (New York)
Oct 1, 2009
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture (book) - Chapter 8 — New World Digital PublishingMore: paulkrassner.com , amazon.com
Type: Book
Author(s):
Paul Krassner Source:
New World Digital Publishing [Reproduced here with express permission of author Paul Krassner . Thank you!] What I really wanted to do was publish something that would top “The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book.” I had observed a disturbing element being imposed upon the counterculture — various groups all trying to rip off the search for consciousness — and I felt challenged to write a satirical piece about this phenomenon. Scientology was one of the scariest of these organizations, if only because its ...
Oct 1, 2009
If this is their idea of love, then these pathetic people deserve each other — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrea Peyser Source:
New York Post Free the lovebirds!
And then, let them kill each other.
Karla Giraldo is a bona fide spitfire – 115 pounds of piss, vinegar and endless devotion to her tempestuous honey, state Sen. Hiram Monserrate.
Frowning, pouting and drinking water from a – thankfully – plastic cup, the shapely lady who took 30 stitches in the head from Hiram's drinking glass in the wee hours of Dec. 19 testified in his assault trial yesterday.
She opened her mouth publicly for the first ...
Oct 1, 2009
John Travolta's lawyer: Paramedic in extortion plot thought actor 'intentionally killed' his son — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lisa Lucas ,
Carrie Melago Source:
NY Daily News (New York) It was a twisted scheme playing on a broken dad's unbearable grief.
A blackmailing medic and his brazen lawyer threatened to tell the world John Travolta "intentionally killed" his son unless they got $25 million in hush money, the star's lawyer testified Thursday.
Paramedic Tarino Lightbourne planned to make public a routine waiver Travolta signed initially refusing local medical treatment after his autistic son, Jett, 16, suffered a massive seizure in the family's Bahamas resort villa.
The actor had considered flying ...
Sep 21, 2009
The Assclown Offensive: How to enrage the Church of Scientology — Wired
Aug 19, 2009
Rapper Doug E. Fresh finds faith in Scientology — Essence (magazine)More: groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Terrance Dean Source:
Essence (magazine) Visit any neighborhood in the Black community and you're bound to find a church on nearly every city block. When it comes to faith-based communities, African Americans are believed to be one of the most religious and spiritual especially those who practice Christianity, Islam, Catholicism, or Judaism. There are even some Buddhists, thanks in part to iconic celebrity, Tina Turner, who introduced Black folk to the religion in her autobiography, "What's Love Got to Do With It." But, when it comes ...
Aug 17, 2009
Scientology escapee tells Skeptics' group how it's done — Village Voice
Aug 9, 2009
Will Smith's Scientology ties — New York Post
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New York Post WILL Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, deny they are Scientologists and deny the school they founded is a Scientology school — yet they've replaced the head of the New Village Leadership Academy, Jacqueline Olivier, with a woman who's studied Scientology, Piano Foster. The superstar couple had home-schooled their kids, Jaden, 9, and Willow, 7, before opening the school last September in Calabasas, Calif. They reportedly quarreled with Olivier over the school's Study Tech curriculum, which was devised by Scientology ...
Jun 13, 2009
Fox's axed man blames Scientologists — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joanna Molloy ,
George Rush Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Fox News bowed to pressure from Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise and other members of the Church of Scientology when it fired columnist Roger Friedman, the entertainment journo is expected to charge in a wrongful termination lawsuit this week.
In April, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. announced it had “terminated” Friedman after he wrote on FoxNews.com about watching a pirated Internet copy of 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
Friedman is convinced that was a cover story. Last August, Friedman went to Memphis ...
Jan 15, 2009
How not to protest Scientology — Village Voice
Jan 4, 2009
John Travolta, EMT struggled to save 16-year-old Jett — NY Daily News (New York)
Jan 3, 2009
Don't blame death on rare childhood illness, say docs — NY Daily News (New York)
Dec 17, 2008
Will Smith Gives $1.3 Million to Charities — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Just-released tax returns for movie star Will Smith’s charitable foundation show he and wife, Jada, gave $1.3 million in donations last year to a variety of religious, civic and arts groups.
Smith’s biggest single contribution was, as usual, Yesha Ministries of Philadelphia. He gave the born-again Christian based organization run by Reverend James Robinson a whopping $250,000. That’s a hefty raise from the $140,000 he gave them the previous year. Another $200,000 went to a Christian ministry outside Los Angeles called ...
Dec 1, 2008
'The Complex' author John Duignan cites Tom Cruise control — NY Daily News (New York)
Nov 15, 2008
Scientology protesters gain fans, give tours in Times Square — Village Voice
Oct 16, 2008
Katie Holmes makes Broadway debut — MSNBC
Oct 10, 2008
Chorus of boos awaits Katie Holmes — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
George Rush ,
Joanna Molloy Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Katie Holmes and hubby Tom Cruise can count on seeing some familiar mustachioed faces when "All My Sons," in which Holmes stars, opens on Broadway Thursday. The anti-Scientology critics of the group Anonymous are gearing up for another protest against the couple's controversial faith outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Last month the group, whose members often don "V for Vendetta" masks with mustaches, heralded the play's first preview by carrying signs that read "Scientology Kills" and "Free Katie, keep Tom." Count ...
Sep 18, 2008
Holmes faces anti-Scientology protest on B'way — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
Erin Carlson Source:
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Holmes knows how to draw a crowd — including anti-Scientology demonstrators. Nearly 100 people lined up outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Thursday night an hour before Holmes acted on Broadway for the first time in a preview performance for "All My Sons." Not in the line: roughly 30 Scientology protesters who stood behind a barricade and loudly chanted "Scientology kills!" Some wore masks like in the movie "V for Vendetta," and one poster read: "FREE KATIE." ...
Aug 22, 2008
Scientology fight with 'Anonymous' hits home in New York — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Source:
NY Daily News (New York) The war between the Church of Scientology and the group that calls itself Anonymous is heating up. New York City has become one of the chief battlefronts. Critics of the church - which counts John Travolta and Tom Cruise among its members - have staged at least nine protests here in the last year. Last Saturday, Anonymous members picketed the Scientology Center on W. 46th. Many came dressed as nurses and doctors to lampoon what one protester tells us is "the ...
Aug 8, 2008
RE: In the matter of Absylom Kwabena Nyamekye, M.D. — State of New York
Jul 19, 2008
Scientology Cult Fraudulently Claims "Medal of Valor" from the Fire Department of New York
Type: Blog
The Scientology cult loudly boasts that after 9/11, its "Volunteer Ministers" were awarded the Fire Department of New York's highest honor, the "Medal of Valor." This is not only a lie, but an insult to the memory all the brave firefighters who died in the line of duty and were awarded this Medal posthumously. Dozens of Scientology web site and blogs brazenly make this claim, in a continuing effort to legitimize their cult. Scientology's "Volunteer Ministers," or more accurately, "Vulture Ministers," ...
Jul 1, 2008
Anti-Scientology group on attack — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Critics of Scientology say they plan another theatrical protest against the church — this time targeting its intelligence division. The anti-Scientology group known as Anonymous says its July 12 "Spy vs. Sci" demonstration will be held in "cities all around the world," according to a press release. Anonymous members — who include former Scientologists — are focusing on alleged "abuses" of the church’s intelligence agency, known as the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), says the release. It asks, "Why does something ...
May 28, 2008
NY Scientology Chief: 'I Smell Pussy' — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Candice M. Giove Source:
Village Voice [Embedded Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbZh5sejqHw ] When Rev. John Carmichael, president of the Church of Scientology of New York, came face-to-face with a small contingent of Anonymous protestors this past Monday, he didn't engage them in a spiritual debate. Instead, he leaned into one member on a Times Square street and said, “Let me tell you this: I smell pussy.” Then, looking squarely at the Anon added, “You in particular.” All caught on tape, Carmichael hits a breaking point with the handful ...
Apr 16, 2008
Actor Jason Beghe: Scientology is 'brainwashing' — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Jason Beghe is the bravest actor in Hollywood. He’s come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the religion that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to create a "brainwashed, robotic version of you." He also says that he spent about $1 million to work his way up the Scientology ladder to become what’s known as an "OT5 auditor," or someone who listens to new members and teaches them the ropes. He was so successful as a ...
Mar 15, 2008
Tom's church counterattacks — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Johnson Source:
New York Post THE Church of Scientology is striking back at a group that's been harassing it. The wacky religion - which claims Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Juliette Lewis and Leah Remini as members - has been the target of a group calling itself "Anonymous," whose members take credit for bombarding Scientology churches across the country with prank calls, bomb threats and cyber attacks since January. But now the church has counterattacked by posting YouTube videos under the title, "Anonymous Facts," detailing ...
Mar 1, 2008
Scientology comes to Harlem — Brownstone
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kristen V. Brown Source:
Brownstone New York’s Church of Scientology is hoping its newest acquisitions — three buildings on 125th Street in Harlem — will become more than just another quiet storefront on the block. The new buildings will mark a major move into Harlem for the church, and will replace its small 5,000-square-foot location around the corner on Third Avenue with a fully functional church and community center.
“People at the Harlem church are hoping to create a second Harlem Renaissance, and to do so ...
Feb 8, 2008
Judges Press IRS on Church Tax Break — New York Sun
Jan 30, 2008
Bart Simpson Actress Gives $10 Million to Scientology — New York Post
Jan 20, 2008
Scientologist elects to be bigoted — NY Daily News (New York)
Jan 18, 2008
EPA a bunch of liars says Tom Cruise — eCanadaNow.com
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