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My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 5 International Management — CNM Publishing
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 6 The quiet witch hunt — CNM Publishing
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 7 Dating and marriage in the Sea Organization — CNM Publishing
Oct 26, 2009
Scientology's no good, very bad week — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mary Elizabeth Williams Source:
Salon Oscar-winner Paul Haggis breaks with the church. Leader Tommy Davis storms off "Nightline." Whither Tom Cruise? When Paul Haggis, the writer of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash," kicked his faith to the curb after 35 years, he did so as only an Oscar-winning scribe could: with a badass screed. His resignation letter, dated Aug. 19, emerged on ex-Scientologist Mark Rathburn's blog yesterday and promptly went viral. In his letter, Haggis explains, "for ten months now I have been writing to ask ...
Oct 25, 2009
'Crash' director Paul Haggis ditches Scientology — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice "I am only ashamed that I waited this many months to act. I hereby resign my membership in the Church of Scientology." Over the past few days, a remarkable letter was published in four parts at the blog of Marty Rathbun, a former high-level Scientology official who has left the church and now criticizes Scientology's leader, David Miscavige. In the letter, written to Scientology's current national spokesman, Tommy Davis, 'Crash' director Paul Haggis explains why he is leaving Scientology after 35 ...
Oct 23, 2009
Church of Scientology defied coroner on suicide — The Australian
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sarah Elks Source:
The Australian THE Church of Scientology refused to provide records demanded by a coroner investigating the death of a soldier who committed suicide two days after finishing one of the church's intensive courses. It emerged yesterday that the American headquarters of the church instructed its Australian branch to send the soldier's "audit file" to the US — which is outside the coroner's jurisdiction — before warrants were issued. Edward Alexander McBride was found electrocuted and hanged at an Energex substation at Everton Park, ...
Oct 23, 2009
Nighline: How Scientology attracts celebrities — ABC News
Oct 22, 2009
Nighline: Former Scientologists level accusations — ABC News
Type: TV
Author(s):
Martin Bashir ,
Ethan Nelson Source:
ABC News Ex-members say leader David Miscavige hit subordinates; church denies accusations. Some call it a manipulative cult. Others say it's a well-established religion that helps people reach their potential. Since its inception in the 1950s, the Church of Scientology has rarely been far from controversy. And now the Church is under attack again. Former senior insiders claim the Church's current leader, David Miscavige, has created and encouraged a climate of violence within senior staff and was frequently violent himself. Marty Rathbun was ...
Oct 20, 2009
Sandy Springs sidesteps Scientology decision — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Type: Press
Author(s):
April Hunt Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution The waiting continues on whether the Church of Scientology will move to Sandy Springs. The City Council on Tuesday deferred voting on a rezoning request by the church until December, despite a packed house of several dozen opponents wearing “STOP” stickers on their lapels and several dozen supporters on hand with a court reporter, taking down all comments. Council members said the latest delay on the issue, which has been bubbling up since last spring, was required so the Planning Commission ...
Oct 20, 2009
Tom and Katie celebrate with Travoltas at secret Scientology event — US Magazine
Type: Press
Source:
US Magazine Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and daughter Suri reunited with John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston – plus over 4000 other Scientologists – at a massive party in England on Oct. 16, Usmagazine.com has confirmed.
The stars were surprise guests at the 25th anniversary of the International Association of Scientologists held at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinsted, West Sussex. During nearly two hours of speeches, Cruise, 47, briefly addressed the rapturous, fist-pumping crowd: "Because we never took our eyes off the ...
Oct 19, 2009
Sandy Springs to give Scientology a yes or no — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Type: Press
Author(s):
April Hunt Source:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Expect a showdown over Scientology Tuesday night in Sandy Springs. The City Council is scheduled to decide at its meeting whether to rezone an office building at Roswell Road and Glenridge Drive so the church can move from Dunwoody. More than 500 residents and 16 neighborhood associations have urged the city to deny the request, saying there isn’t enough parking and that the church will add to existing traffic woes. But there is a new twist that the church hopes will ...
Oct 18, 2009
Hawaii drug use continues to rise — KHON 2 (Hawaii)
Type: TV
Author(s):
Olena Heu Source:
KHON 2 (Hawaii) Recent studies show drug use in Hawaii is up and the use of narcotics continues to climb. A program recently brought to Hawaii is helping to tackle the problem. Drug abuse and addiction continue to grow by epidemic proportions in Hawaii. “Actually there’s a lot of people coming in for meth,” Bobby Newman Narconon Hawaii executive director said. The epidemic does not only include crystal methamphetamine, heroine and cocaine...abuse of prescription drugs is also on the rise. “Its increasing I would ...
Oct 15, 2009
Declaration of Elliot Abelson More: tampabay.com
Type: Declaration
DECLARATION OF ELLIOT ABELSON I, Elliot Abelson, hereby declare and state: 1. I make the following statements out of my personal knowledge and if called to testify thereto could and would do so competently. 2. I am an attorney licensed to practice in the State of California since 1969. I am currently General Counsel for the Church of Scientology International ("CSI") and have held this position since the 1990s. I am primarily responsible for coordinating legal matters for CSI. 3, CSI ...
Oct 15, 2009
Declaration of Kendrick Moxon More: tampabay.com
Type: Declaration
DECLARATION OF KENDRICK MOXON 1. Kendrick L. Moxon, hereby declare and state: 1. I make the following statements of my own personal knowledge, and if called to testify thereto, I could and would do so competently. 2. I was admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia in September 1984. In January of 1986, I moved to California and was admitted to the California Bar in June of 1987. Since that time I have represented various Churches of Scientology, including ...
Oct 15, 2009
Declaration of Kurt Weiland More: tampabay.com
Type: Declaration
DECLARATION OF KURT WEILAND 1. I, Kurt Weiland, declare under penalty of perjury that the following is true and correct. 2. I have worked for the Church of Scientology International (CSI) since 1987. Since that time, I have primarily worked in executive positions concerned with the direction, management and supervision of the Office of Special Affairs International, the CSI department responsible for the legal, government and other external affairs of the Church. I am therefore personally knowledgeable and competent to put ...
Oct 15, 2009
Rehab home tally: $1.5M — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brianna Bailey Source:
Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa) City has spent the money battling lawsuits, researching the issue, drafting and passing ordinance. Group says money is well spent. Newport Beach has spent more than $1.5 million in legal fees in relation to drug and alcohol rehabilitation homes since 2007, and costs are expected to continue to grow, according to City Atty. David Hunt. “Conflict is expensive,” he said. The city is involved in several lawsuits and at least two federal investigations, all stemming from an ordinance it passed in ...
Oct 13, 2009
Scientology permit for up to 600 — Moonee Valley Community News (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eugene Benson Source:
Moonee Valley Community News (Australia) DESPITE objections from resident and doubts from one councillor, Moonee Valley Council has amended a planning permit to allow up to 600 people to meet at the Church of Scientology's Mt Alexander Road headquarters up to six times a year. The religion's headquarters are under construction at the former site of a Sisters of Mercy convent, opposite the Essendon tram depot. The council had previously granted a permit to allow up to 300 people at the building but the Church of ...
Oct 12, 2009
Nancy Many's My Billion Year Contract: behind Scientology's veil — Examiner
Type: Press
Author(s):
Zack Kopp Source:
Examiner Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices created by science fiction writer and fleeting Aleister Crowley subordinate L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) founded in 1952 as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. Hubbard characterized Scientology as a religion, and in 1953 incorporated the Church of Scientology in New Jersey. Scientologists believe that anyone who disagrees with their teachings is infected, whether knowingly or not, by evil aliens known as Marcabians. This belief system or “tech” inspires a high ...
Oct 7, 2009
Did she have to die? — Jackson Free Press (Jackson, Mississippi)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ronni Mott Source:
Jackson Free Press (Jackson, Mississippi) By 10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2007, the temperatures were well on their way to 93 degrees when Jackson Police Sgt. Eric Wall pulled his cruiser into the turn lane on Northside Drive east of Interstate 55, ready to make a left onto Ridgewood Road and head north. That's when he noticed the black Jeep with a man driving and a woman in the passenger seat. "[T]he black Jeep was pulling into my lane of traffic, and the white male driver ...
Oct 6, 2009
Scientology's hidden tragedies — Woman (IPC Media, UK)
Oct 5, 2009
Google and Twitter slow to take down slanderous impersonation of a Scientology critic — Village Voice
Oct 3, 2009
Justin Trottier: Violence at anti-Scientology protest — National Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Justin Trottier Source:
National Post I've often been puzzled by the international and well-attended protests against the Church of Scientology, led by the leaderless internet group known as Anonymous since early 2008. Why target this specific religion? Why engage in protests without public spokespeople? And why wear those silly Guy Fawkes masks?
Now I have an answer, at least to that last question.
On Saturday, September 19, around 12:30pm AST, a small group met for a routine Scientology protest in Halifax in a vacant lot across ...
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 ...
Sep 28, 2009
Masked protest group rallies against Church of Scientology — Indiana Statesman (Indiana State University)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Phillip Pluta Source:
Indiana Statesman (Indiana State University) Several students held an anonymous protest at noon Saturday in Dede Plaza. Equipped with bandannas and Guy Fawkes masks to conceal their identities, the students pushed to get their message heard.
"We are protesting against the organizational policies of the Church of Scientology," said one protester, who wished to be called Mr. Pink.
Statements such as "Disconnection destroys families" and "Salvation shouldn't cost $34,000" were written across their protest signs.
He and another student, referred to as Anon, were the main ...
Sep 27, 2009
Travolta's Scientology turning point? — The Daily Beast
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kim Masters Source:
The Daily Beast The actor’s public acknowledgement that his son, who died in January, was autistic has former Scientologists convinced that he will leave the church—which they say has little tolerance for chronic conditions.
When John Travolta took the witness stand last week and testified that his late son, Jett, was autistic, it came as a grim relief to some former Scientologists.
“Wasn’t that amazing?” said a fallen-away church member after Travolta appeared in an extortion case that followed the death of his 16-year-old ...
Sep 27, 2009
United for a Hate Free San Diego Summit — XenuTV
Sep 26, 2009
Some in Valley protest Scientology — WTHI-TV (Indiana)
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dan Klein Source:
WTHI-TV (Indiana) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - It's a religion with some high- profile believers and ridiculed by others for it's unique ideas. But some in the Wabash Valley say "Scientology" is much more dangerous.
Seven gathered on the Indiana State campus hoping to inform all who come by Saturday afternoon about Scientology.
"It's not really a personal thing," said protest co-organzier "Anon Indy." "It's something that I'm passionate about. I think the public needs to be aware of it because it's extremely ...
Sep 25, 2009
Did Scientologists infiltrate NoLibs [Northern Liberties] town hall meeting? [Javascript required] — Philadelphia City Paper
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Isaiah Thompson Source:
Philadelphia City Paper This week, CP got a call from a Northern Liberties resident with an unusual story. He, and about 50 other NoLibs residents, had attended a police town hall meeting on September 8. On his way out, he happened to pick up some literature that had been placed on a table by the door – in particular, three pamphlets entitled, "The Truth about Marijuana," "The Truth About Pain Killers," and "The Truth About Drugs."
The pamphlets, he says, seemed ordinary enough at ...
Sep 24, 2009
Testimony by John Travolta that son was autistic raises Scientology questions — Wikinews
Sep 21, 2009
Scientology: The web's first copyright-wielding nemesis — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s):
Julian Dibbell Source:
Wired The Church of Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by pulp science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, and it's been run by his successor, David Miscavige, since 1987. But for the past year or so the public face of Scientology has been a man named Tommy Davis. Son of Hollywood actress (and longtime Scientologist) Anne Archer, Davis has a stylish mop coif and boyish (not to say Tom Cruise-ish) good looks that have been put before the media's cameras every time ...
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