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The new Impact magazine is here, and we get to see Scientology’s biggest donors celebrated!

 If you’ve been with us for very long, you know that we get very excited when Scientology puts out a new issue of its magazine “Impact,” which is the official organ of the International Association of Scientologists, the church’s membership []

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Never before published: Jane Doe 1’s plea to Scientology to report rape by Danny Masterson

 We have another exclusive for you here at the Underground Bunker in the criminal prosecution of Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson, who is accused of violently raping three women and faces 45 years to life in prison if he’s convicted at a trial scheduled to begin on August 29.

It’s a document that’s never been published until []

Scientology is trying extra hard to get you to fork over more money, you pesky thetan!

 We always enjoy the Scientology propaganda that our readers forward to us, and over the years it has helped give us a sense of how things are going in David Miscavige’s bouncy castle he calls a church. []

Scientology: Valerie Haney can’t rely on a court ruling that hasn’t been published!

 Well, you could have seen this one coming from a mile []

Video proof that Scientology’s cruise ship is the happiest place on earth

 OK, this is pretty cool. Not only did we get a rare look at activity on the decks of Scientology’s private cruise ship the Freewinds at a dock in Aruba, but the footage sent in by one of our readers is pretty fresh.

As in, it was shot []

Rough seas? Tough cookie, sailor. In Scientology, you upchuck at your own peril

 In response to my essay on the Azores hurricane of October 1970, two of my shipmates at the time wrote in to say that what they remember most was being seasick. Their comments shed light on this additional burden that so many of my Apollo shipmates endured, in addition to the other hardships of their []

Scientology asks California Supreme Court to review its defeat on ‘religious arbitration’

[Plaintiff Chrissie Carnell-Bixler and defendant Danny Masterson]

Last year the California State Supreme Court took the unusual step of intervening in a court case involving former Scientologists suing the church and Danny Masterson. That eventually led to a landmark appeals court decision in January defeating Scientology’s “religious arbitration” strategy, which had derailed the []

And now a word from Scientology’s very own church ladies — Valley chapter

 One of the things that makes Scientology so unique is the way it’s caught between two very different concepts of []

Clark Carr, 75, who gave up comedy dreams to become Scientology’s drug rehab mouthpiece

 According to his longtime comedy partner Tom Solari, Scientology’s former Narconon International president Clark Carr has died after a yearlong bout with cancer. He was []

In Danny Masterson rape case, Scientology tried to put LA court through ‘Truth Rundown’

[Scientology attorney William Forman, and Danny Masterson]

On February 8 there was a hearing in Danny Masterson’s rape case, and it received substantial coverage from the news media. Masterson’s motion to have the charges against him thrown out was denied by Judge Ronald Coen. The parties then moved down the hall to the trial court of []