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How Scientology plans to take over the world: By boring us to death, apparently

Rod Keller is on assignment this week, but we’re grateful that Underground Bunker contributor Jeffrey Augustine has a fun and illuminating Sunday feature for us. Thanks, Jeff, for this look at Scientology public relations…

The Church of Scientology is challenged daily by the continuing negative exposure of its egregious and ongoing human rights abuses, unchecked greed, []

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‘Finally, I am myself’: Scientologists talk about Scientology in a video not made for the public

 In July, we showed you some wacky screenshots from Scientology’s newest “testimonials” video, which gets shipped out each year with a new issue of International Scientology News. Well, now we have the video itself, and we think you’re going to love this new entry in this wonderful genre of Scientology []

Bomb diggety! It’s more Scientologists high on L. Ron Hubbard and the everloving ‘tech’

 One of our tipsters came through for us today with some hilarious screenshots from the latest testimonials video that was sent out to Scientology members. In the past, we’ve had the video itself, and we hope eventually to get this one. But for now, we’re just really happy to get these glimpses of Scientologists high []

Hey, thetan: Scientology has a few questions for you

 As our correspondent Commodore H. McCringleberry learned at an event in Houston recently, Scientology is crazy for surveys. Church members are always being asked to fill them out, even though they tend to ask the same questions over and over again in a poorly disguised attempt to sell church []

How Google is getting gamed in the fight both for and against the Church of Scientology

 Bryan Seely contacted us recently saying that he’d found some really interesting things about the way Google Maps was being manipulated to benefit Scientology’s drug rehab program, Narconon. Bryan is a fascinating character. He’s a “white hat” hacker, who uses his hacking abilities to help corporations understand where they’re vulnerable. And his work on Google []

Here are the instructions Scientologists are getting for the May 28 media center opening!

 Another day, another leak here at the Underground Bunker from an active member of the Church of Scientology. This one, in fact, is a current []

‘Freedom’ magazine is back after a six-month absence, and it arrived with a surprise!

 We started hearing from readers in late April that a new issue of Scientology’s propaganda magazine, Freedom, had appeared. One of our readers even sent us scans of the new issue (and thank you very much!).

But for some reason, the Freedom website was unchanged, and it stayed that way — until yesterday. []

Scientology pampered some of its big donors with a trip back in time to Phoenix in 1954

 As former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder has pointed out numerous times, church leader David Miscavige can’t let up for one moment on the new projects and fundraising appeals. []

There’s a backstory to the recent news of a Scientology TV ad being banned in the UK

[The claim that got this 2015 Scientology ad banned.]

When we saw the news last week that the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) had banned a Scientology television commercial, we immediately assumed that we knew who had made the complaint about the ad that eventually got it taken []

Yes, that was a Scientology ad you saw during the Super Bowl. Here’s what’s in it.

 For the fourth year in a row, Scientology has aired one of its ads in some local markets during the Super Bowl. And, as usual, the ad has produced a lot of hilarity on Twitter as viewers around the country react in pretty much the same way: “Was that really a Scientology ad I just []