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Another records request from Scientology shows how Mark Bunker drives them nuts

[Mark Bunker is amused, Glen]

We know you find these Glen Stilo records requests with the city of Clearwater as entertaining as we do, so we thought we’d share the latest one.

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Danny Masterson holds on to his passport as judge decides he’s no flight risk

[Masterson and Mesereau at a Sept 18 appearance]

[UPDATE: Judge Charlaine Olmedo denied the DA’s request to have Danny Masterson turn in his passport, saying that his $3.3 million bond is enough to ensure the he’ll show up in court. Next hearing set for April 20.]

Danny Masterson’s social media posts suggest that he’s back from Oregon and in Southern California now, which had us wondering if he would attend today’s hearing in his rape case at Los Angeles Superior Court.

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Man arrested for damaging Scientology cameras with laser while on ‘Cult City’ tour

[Scientology’s Flag Building and Bob Harris]

The Clearwater Police department arrested a local man yesterday for damaging several of Scientology’s surveillance cams with a laser while he was on a “Cult City Tours” walking tour on February 26.

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Danny Masterson accusers take Scientology ‘arbitration’ to California Supreme Court

 
We know that petitioning for a writ of mandate with an appeals court is a longshot. But we thought Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and the others suing Danny Masterson and the Church of Scientology had a pretty decent shot.

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Scientology on the ground: Despite church PR, things look very grim as the pandemic lingers

 
Someone mentioned that they’d seen a sign at the Scientology Cambridge Ideal Org that said they were closed. We thought we’d take a look. And since we were in the neighborhood there were a few other Orgs we wanted to see.

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ABCMouse honcho gives Scientology another $10 million — for construction of ‘LRH Hall’

Scientology’s long planned L. Ron Hubbard Hall, an auditorium to join its ‘Flag Land Base’ in Clearwater, Florida, is still soaking up million-dollar donations from the church’s wealthy donors, and we get to see who they are in a new church publication.

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What Scientology doesn’t tell you about its ‘Bridge’ of courses until it’s far too late

 
For some time now former Scientologist Doug Kramer has been making some very interesting videos about his experience in the church and posting them at his YouTube channel, “Dazed but not Confuzed.”

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It’s wedding bells for Scientology celeb and ‘The Walking Dead’ alum Alanna Masterson

 
Just a few days ago we broke the news that Alanna Masterson had put her Los Angeles house up for sale, and now we have news of another milestone for the Scientology lifer and former The Walking Dead cast member.

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Clearwater City Council denounces ‘Cult City Tours,’ expresses shock at operator behavior

 
Mark Bunker was clearly on the hot seat tonight at the Clearwater City Council meeting, and Scientology had to be loving it.

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Scientology’s Brent Jones & ‘Real Water’ horror: kids needed liver transplants, attorney says

 
This story out of Nevada is much, much worse than you may have already heard.

We spoke with Will Kemp, the Las Vegas attorney who filed a lawsuit for a family whose child’s liver nearly failed, and they are accusing the makers of “Real Water,” an alkaline water we’ve told you about many times in the past, of being the cause.

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