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Lopez talks about finances and Scientology — Downtown Express
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lincoln Anderson Source:
Downtown Express Margarita Lopez is under fire for taking contributions from Scientology while giving funds to the group’s Downtown detox center, and is also at risk of losing public matching funds because of unresolved problems with her 2001 funds. Yet, the East Side councilmember, in a lengthy telephone interview on Monday, claimed she has done no wrong and expressed confidence in her campaign for borough president.
Lopez blasted back at the New York Post — which broke the story of her Scientology contributions ...
Jul 3, 2005
An expanding universe // Scientology believes in aliens - and in buying lots of Manhattan real estate — NY Daily News (New York)More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Adam Nichols Source:
NY Daily News (New York) TOM CRUISE's leap of faith into Scientology is a visible example of the religion's hold on its followers — but the Church of Scientology already has a multimillion-dollar grip on Manhattan. The controversial group, now blitzing the media after Cruise became its most outspoken advocate, has a massive city empire used by tens of thousands of devotees. And New York's church president the Rev. John Carmichael said, "Interest is increasing markedly." Its huge seven-story city headquarters was opened last year at ...
Jul 1, 2005
War of Words — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brooke Shields Source:
New York Times I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. ...
Jun 2, 2005
How personal is too personal for a star like Tom Cruise? — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sharon Waxman Source:
New York Times Just months into his tenure as chairman of Paramount, Brad Grey is facing the sort of decision that makes Hollywood executives quiver: whether to proceed with production of the hugely expensive "Mission: Impossible III," even as its star, Tom Cruise, is puzzling associates and members of the public with his behavior while promoting another Paramount venture, "War of the Worlds." An executive for Viacom, Paramount's parent company, said the studio had not yet decided whether to push ahead with production of ...
Apr 8, 2005
Former civilian FDNY official raised money for a questionable 9/11 charity — FirehouseMore: cms.firehouse.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Murray Weiss ,
Leonard Greene Source:
Firehouse April 8, 2005 – A former civilian FDNY official raised money for a questionable 9/11 charity with a smokescreen of lies and phony props, including a fake link to former mayor Rudy Giuliani, a bogus uniform and fraudulent valor medals, fire officials are charging. Stephan Hittmann was never entitled to wear a uniform in his civilian job as a director of fire training, but that didn't stop him from buttoning up the dress blues and pinning on bogus medals of valor ...
Apr 4, 2005
Homophobia Claims Dog Scientology — NY Daily News (New York)
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NY Daily News (New York) John Travolta and Tom Cruise have forcefully denied allegations that they turned to Scientology to "cure" them of their supposedly gay urges. But critics continue to claim the religion is rife with homophobia. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in his 1950 best seller, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health," that gays were "sexual perverts" and "very ill physically." That apparently went for Hubbard's son, Quentin, who was said to have been confused about his own sexual orientation. "[Ron] thought ...
Mar 29, 2005
Finding stress, and some friction — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andy Newman Source:
New York Times [Picture / Caption: Richard Perry/The New York Times Subway riders have become used to Scientologists' offer to gauge their stress level. But the city has ejected the group for selling books.] A corridor of the Times Square subway station may not seem to be the ideal spot to conduct a carefully controlled psychological experiment. For one thing, the soundproofing is entirely inadequate. The confluence of a dozen subway lines creates constantly shifting sonic interference, ranging from mild to deafening, that an ...
Jan 30, 2005
Englightenment's Dark Side — Buffalo News
Oct 29, 2004
Subway-tology! // MTA poster full of plugs for religion — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Owen Moritz Source:
NY Daily News (New York) A poster being sold to mark the 100th anniversary of the subway has an underground message - and it has nothing to do with trains. The poster, which depicts a crowded Times Square subway station, contains what seems like an endless number of plugs for the controversial Church of Scientology. On the left side is a plug to visit Scientology's Purification Center on W. 46th St. and a promotion for a book by the late L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of ...
Oct 21, 2004
Poisons, Begone! // The dubious science behind the Scientologists' detoxification program for 9/11 rescue workers — Slate MagazineMore: Sidebar
Type: Press
Author(s):
Amanda Schaffer Source:
Slate Magazine In September 2002, the New York Rescue Workers Detox Project began to offer free "detoxification treatment" to firefighters, police officers, and others exposed to high levels of toxic debris in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse. The detox program—based on the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and detailed in his book Clear Body, Clear Mind —purports to "flush" poisons from the body's fat stores using an intensive regimen of jogging, oil ingestion, sauna, and high doses of vitamins, ...
Sep 12, 2004
No more Mr Nice Guy — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Neil Strauss Source:
The Observer (London, UK) After a lifetime playing wholesome, all-American heroes, Tom Cruise has finally discovered his dark side. He's also ditched his publicist, moved in with his sisters and is looking for the third Mrs Cruise. So is Hollywood's leading man having a middle-youth crisis? Interview by Neil Strauss
[Picture: "What sinister ambitions lie concealed behind that smile? ... Tom Cruise. Photograph: Domenico Stinellis / AP"]
Want to meet my mom?' Tom Cruise asks as we walk through the halls of the Celebrity Center, ...
Jun 18, 2004
Tom Cruise opens rescue workers detox clinic — Illustrated News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Margaret Whitely Source:
Illustrated News Tom Cruise, the well-known actor, has consistently pledged his support to the many rescue workers who are suffering the effects of the toxic assault on the nervous system, and lungs associated with the cleanup of Ground Zero as a result of the aftermath of the terrorist attack on September 11 on the World Trade Center. Cruise, working with many of the doctors involved in the project, and along with firefigher Joe Higgins, opened a facility in New York that utilizes one ...
Jun 10, 2004
Cruise opens 2nd Scientology detox center — People magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen M. Silverman Source:
People magazine Tom Cruise inaugurated a Scientology-based detoxification program on Long Island, N.Y., on Wednesday aimed at treating rescue workers exposed to caustic materials after 9/11, according to published reports. "It's been almost three years since the attacks, and thousands are still suffering," Cruise, who co-founded the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, is quoted as saying by Britain's BBC and France's Agence France-Presse. "That's unacceptable to me, to these heroes, and to their families." The center is the second to be sponsored ...
Apr 15, 2004
Cruise charity aids WTC workers — CBS News
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CBS News (CBS/AP) An organization co-founded by actor Tom Cruise has raised $1.2 million to expand a treatment program for rescue workers exposed to potentially hazardous materials after the collapse of the World Trade Center. The New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project said it has treated more than 200 workers who say they were suffering effects from breathing the air filled with smoke, dust and debris after the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of the trade center. The money raised by Cruise and others ...
Mar 24, 2004
Scientologists' Tax Break Cited in Suit Against I.R.S. — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Cay Johnston Source:
New York Times LOS ANGELES, March 21— A trial is to begin here on Wednesday morning to determine whether a Jewish couple can deduct the cost of religious education for their five children, a tax benefit they say the federal government has granted to members of just one religion, the Church of Scientology. The potential ramifications are huge, for a ruling in favor of the couple could affect the millions of Americans who send their children to religious schools of all types. At stake ...
Dec 13, 2003
Bravest taking the Cruise cure — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Greg Gittrich Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Not many medical clinics frame and display a filthy gym towel.
But then, not many medical clinics are bankrolled by Tom Cruise, target ailing firefighters who worked at Ground Zero and follow the teachings of the Church of Scientology.
"We're helping people," Jim Woodworth, director of Downtown Medical, said the other day as several firefighters sat in the clinic's 168-degree sauna.
As for that soiled towel in the frame above his desk, Woodworth said its purple stains prove toxins still lurk ...
Dec 7, 2003
Margaret Singer, a Leading Brainwashing Expert, Dies at 82 — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anahad O'Connor Source:
New York Times Dr. Margaret Singer, a leading expert on brainwashing who testified in several high-profile cases contending that various groups inappropriately manipulated their members to control their behavior, died on Nov. 23 in Berkeley, Calif. She was 82.
The cause was respiratory failure, said her son, Sam.
In her long career, Dr. Singer investigated and testified about techniques used by North Koreans against American soldiers in wartime and the Symbionese Liberation Army's influence over the kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst.
In the 1950's, Dr. ...
Oct 4, 2003
Scientologist's Treatments Lure Firefighters — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michelle O'Donnell Source:
New York Times For the past year, more than 140 New York City firefighters, some ailing from their work in the ruins of the World Trade Center, have walked into a seventh-floor medical clinic just two blocks from the former disaster site. Once inside, some have abandoned the medical care and emotional counseling provided to them by their own department's doctors, and all have taken up a treatment regimen devised by L. Ron Hubbard, the late science fiction writer and founder of the Church ...
Sep 1, 2003
Scientology and the European Human Rights debate: A reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force study — Marburg Journal of Religion
Jul 8, 2003
Church of Scientology plans expansion — GlobeSt.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Jarvie Source:
GlobeSt.com NEW YORK CITY — The Church of Scientology New York will renovate and expand its current home at 227 West 46th St. Brennan Beer Gorman/ Architects (BBG) has been selected as the architect to develop the church's concept, which includes a total renovation and expansion to the six-story building. Upon completion, the building will total approximately 46,650 sf. Currently in construction, the project is expected to be complete by spring 2004. The projected cost of the project was not revealed. The ...
Apr 14, 2003
Wine distributor converts to church; Scientologists buy into Harlem for third Manhattan spot; Blank Rome stays put — Crain's New York Business
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lore Croghan Source:
Crain's New York Business The church of scientology is heading for Harlem. It is building its third Manhattan church in a handsome brick loft building that it just bought at 220 E. 125th St. for $3.45 million. Its two other churches are located on West 46th Street and East 82nd Street. "Our choice of Harlem as a place to expand grows out of the desire of our African-American members to have a service base in the neighborhood," says the Rev. John Carmichael, president of the ...
Mar 14, 2003
Son arrested in woman's fatal stabbing — Buffalo News
Type: Press
Author(s):
T. J. Pignataro Source:
Buffalo News An argument that exploded Thursday morning ended in the death of an Amherst woman who was stabbed by her 28-year-old son, police said. The body of Elli Perkins, 54, was discovered on a bedroom floor of her home in the 1400 block of Hopkins Road about 10:30 a.m., Amherst Police Chief John J. Moslow said. She had been stabbed several times in the chest, police said. An autopsy is being conducted. Jeremy M. Perkins was arraigned late Thursday before Amherst Town ...
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 ...
Jan 1, 2002
The news about the news / American journalism in peril / A risky story — Random House, Inc.
Type: Press
Author(s):
Leonard Downie Jr. ,
Robert G. Kaiser Source:
Random House, Inc. READ THE ARTICLE (Thanks to nytimes.com for access to their archives.):
Scientology's Puzzling Journey From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt
New York Times
March 9, 1997
By Douglas Frantz
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by a writer named L. Ron Hubbard. For years Scientology sought to persuade the Internal Revenue Service that it was a religion and deserved the same tax deduction given to traditional religious groups. Scientology took in hundreds of millions of dollars, and for decades ...
Nov 15, 2001
Columbus Volunteer's Heart's In New York — Columbus Dispatch
Sep 20, 2001
Changed Lives; Religious Leader Takes His Calling to Ground Zero — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Amy Waldman Source:
New York Times AMID faces gray with grief and grime, theirs are fresh, even smiling. Among blackened uniforms and sooty equipment, their yellow T-shirts are bright buoys. They are clean.
At any time, well over 100 volunteer ministers from the Church of Scientology mill around the remains of the World Trade Center. On the day of the attack, they took in food to workers. Since then, they have taken the mind-altering techniques developed by the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
When rescue workers stagger ...
May 3, 2001
Earthlink co-founder is sued over investments — New York Times
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New York Times LOS ANGELES, May 2 — Lawsuits filed by investors accuse a co-founder of the Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. of bilking them of more than $35 million. The co-founder, Reed E. Slatkin, a venture capitalist from Santa Barbara, Calif., is also under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for his financial dealings, according to a report today in The Los Angeles Times. Investors have filed at least three lawsuits against Mr. Slatkin, with lawyers saying that he collected more than ...
Feb 20, 2001
Bush's Call to Church Groups To Get Untraditional Replies — New York Times
Jun 13, 2000
Florida drops charges against Scientology in 1995 death — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times Criminal charges against the Church of Scientology in the death of a church member who was under the organization's care were dropped yesterday because Florida prosecutors said they could no longer prove the accusations. Bernie McCabe, the state attorney for Pasco and Pinellas Counties, said in a document filed in state court in Clearwater that his office was dismissing the charges because the medical examiner had determined earlier this year that the death of the church member, Lisa McPherson, was accidental. ...
May 11, 2000
'Battlefield Earth': Film Dogged by Links to Scientology Founder — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rick Lyman Source:
New York Times HOLLYWOOD, May 10 — The anticult networks are kicking up a fuss. Discussion on Internet movie sites is picking over the potentially sinister implications. Anonymous e-mails are whizzing around the country charging that, among other things, subliminal messages are being used to recruit unsuspecting moviegoers. Big summer action movies, filled with stars and special effects, don't often come with such fascinating accessories. Battlefield Earth, starring John Travolta as a nine-foot alien with talons for fingers, will open in more than 2,000 ...
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