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For Memorial Day: Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s farcical first command

 It’s Memorial Day here in the US, and once again we’re happy to post an excerpt from Chris Owen’s excellent book Ron the War Hero to commemorate L. Ron Hubbard’s war service. Make sure to pick up a copy of the book if you haven’t []

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Scientology’s latest fundraising brainstorm: Braveheart and big swords!

[Give us your money!]

Here we go again, campers! You know them, Scientology’s ludicrously long fundraising fliers, which come out after a big money-soaked event. And once again, it’s the marks in Toronto who are being []

OH JOY: Scientology has a fundraising survey for you, space pilgrims!

 At Scientology the fundraising never stops. However, you can imagine that the marks get a little wary after a while when they keep getting invited down for the same speakers and topics before they have to open up their []

Janis Gilham Grady and Mark Fisher: Taking you into Scientology’s abuses and its past

 We’ll be at the courthouse today hoping the Danny Masterson retrial jury can deliver some verdicts before the holiday weekend. In the meantime, Janis Gillham Grady and Mark Fisher wanted to tell you about their new video []

Deborah Rennard fends off ugly accusations by Haleigh Breest in new affidavit

 In March we told you that Deborah Rennard not only had to guard against an unhinged Tommy Davis, who accosted her in the street during the Paul Haggis-Haleigh Breest trial, but also that Breest had made accusations that Rennard was helping her ex-husband Haggis hide []

Bruce Hines: Scientology has always protected abusers and always will

[Dark secrets in the South Tyrol]

[While we have a day off from deliberations at the Danny Masterson retrial, we have this treat to tide us over, the latest vivid narrative from Bruce []

Straight Up and Vertical: When is this jury going to deliver a result?

 After a morning off, deliberations in the Danny Masterson retrial will resume today at 1:30 pm here in Los Angeles. The jury will then have only a little more than two hours to reach a verdict today before the court takes tomorrow off []

Scientology salutes ‘humanitarian’ couple for donating $33.8 million to building fund

 Just last week we showed you evidence from Scientology’s own publications that big donors are still turning over huge amounts to church leader David Miscavige’s legal slush fund, the International Association of []

Scientology spying on Amy Scobee and Mat Pesch: Cameras pointed in their home

[The Ebb Tide Resort in Clearwater Beach]

 Alanna Warren is back with even more details about what it was like to work as a private investigator for Scientology in Florida around the year 2010. Previously, she told us some details about her task of following Mike Rinder and Christie Collbran and the people who came to []

Here’s our story about Nancy Cartwright that Scientology doesn’t want you to see

[Illustration by Chad Essley]

On Monday, we had a bit of a bombshell here at the Underground Bunker that had nothing to do with the Danny Masterson retrial, which we’ve been covering in Los Angeles since April []