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DRONE FLYOVER: First look at Scientology’s drug rehab at Larry Hagman’s estate

 
After three patient deaths in nine months at its flagship drug rehab clinic in Oklahoma that took place in 2011 and 2012, Scientology shifted gears with its “Narconon” system.

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Masterson accusers in court today seek changes to deal with Scientology ‘arbitration’ motions

 
UPDATE: MOTION DENIED. However, there’s some encouraging news. See the update below.

In Los Angeles Superior Court this morning, attorneys for four women accusing actor Danny Masterson of rape have asked for an emergency hearing to convince Judge Steven Kleifield that they should have the right to research the religious contracts that the Church of Scientology is using to try and force their harassment lawsuit into “religious arbitration.”

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Agency that wouldn’t check on Shelly Miscavige makes visit to Underground Bunker commenter

The skateboard hero & the anti-Semite: Insider report from Scientology’s bizarre celeb event

[The future of Scientology? Aaron Kyro and Tony Muhammad]

Monday afternoon, we received a copy of a flier advertising what sounded like a fairly bizarre event happening that night at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre.

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Another drone’s eye view of the compound where Scientology is keeping Shelly Miscavige

 
In 2016 an anonymous drone pilot who called himself ‘Angry Thetan’ contacted us with amazing footage over some of Scientology’s most secretive US sites, including the small mountain compound, ‘Twin Peaks,’ where we believe Scientology leader David Miscavige banished his wife Shelly back in 2005.

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Another dog poisoned: Bobette Riales says harassment worse since suing Scientology

[Bobette Riales and her dog Jet]

Ten days after Chrissie Carnell Bixler and Cedric Bixler-Zavala had to put down a dog that ate meat laced with rat poison tossed into their Los Angeles yard, another plaintiff in their lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, Bobette Riales, says her dog began a 42-hour ordeal of vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding on January 31 that had her sedating the animal and praying that it would survive at her house in rural Indiana.

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One sure sign a new Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ is on the way: the Central Files mayhem

 
ODD, an upcoming “Ideal Org” slated for Mexico City, has started its Central Files project and it threatens to bury Scientologists under towers of paper folders.

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War on wogs is hell: A peek inside Scientology right now, and it’s not pretty

 
More than once we’ve looked through the various fundraising fliers that Scientology puts out and we’ve wondered what it’s like for rank-and-file Scientologists to be under so much pressure, day after day, to show up for events and submit to David Miscavige’s hard-sell tactics in his ongoing war against the wogs. (That’s us non-Scientologists.)

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Scientology will try to force Jane Doe in Miami child abuse case into ‘religious arbitration’

 
On April 20, Scientology will attempt to convince a Miami judge that a woman who says she was sexually molested while working as a child in its churches has no right to sue in court, but should be required to take her complaints to an internal “religious arbitration” panel made up exclusively of Church of Scientology members.

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Scientology OT8 dentist closes office while patients confront him about their cash

 
It was an ugly scene in Severna Park, near Baltimore, on Tuesday as some angry patients shouted at dentist Neil Woods while he was leaving his office with news cameras rolling.

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