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Watch out, suckers: Scientology is testing a new come-on!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’ve wondered if Scientology leader David Miscavige might experiment with a new approach as his organizations struggles to recruit new people. And this week, we think we may have stumbled across it. [What is []

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VIDEO: Scientology is now targeting your patriotic fervor, pilgrim!

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We’re connoisseurs of #Scientology promotional materials, and we especially enjoy video appeals. We saw several fliers for last night’s event, and we get the idea that this push for an ‘Ideal USA’ was a []

Scientology knows your kid is out of school and needs some auditing!

[Scientology kids back in the day]

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Scientology’s outlook is grim, but the church never gives up with its real obsession

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Scientology to clear planet with killer new marketing campaign: ‘Are you lonesome?’

[Disseminating in Moorpark]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: What few Scientology missions survive today are barely hanging on. And we’ve suspected that they serve an aging population holding on to the idea that Scientology is a living, growing thing. Well, []

Scientology’s Sea Org, in NEW YORK CITY? Take the survey to see if you qualify!

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was a disaster in the actual US Navy, but he got his revenge later when he created his very own armada! To this day the ‘Sea Org’ is a []

Scientology’s UK headquarters is up for sale! (Well, sort of.)

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of Scientology’s oddest scams is the way it avoids taxes in England with an address at a leased storefront in Australia, of all places. But now that dump is for sale, so Alex []

If Scientology’s a sinking ship, why are some still throwing so much money at it?

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: No matter how grim things seem to be for Scientology, it never gives up. And specifically, it never stops begging its remaining members for huge mountains of cash. Our tipsters passed along a couple []

Scientology announced protest of ‘thousands’ as APA comes to NYC, so we showed up

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Thousands of Scientologists, descending on the evil psychiatrists who were having their annual convention in New York City, and only a pleasant bike ride from where we happened to be? We were pumped! [What []

What Alex Barnes-Ross told East Grinstead councillors about Scientology abuses

2.45pm. East Court. East Grinstead. Suited and booted, documents in hand. It’s showtime.

Today, after five months of back-and-forth with East Grinstead Town Council over their close association with the Church of Scientology, I finally set foot in the local government offices for the first time for a face-to-face meeting with two elected []