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What will you do with your Scientology E-meter tchotchkes?

As we noted last night, we’re trying to land a breaking story this morning that’s taking some time to confirm. In the meantime, we were fortunate that Carnegie Mellon University professor Dave Touretzky sent us this fun item.

It appears someone has scrapped a bunch of E-meters. How do we know? The meter movements are available []

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‘BARE-FACED MESSIAH’ back in print: Our interview with author Russell Miller

 Today is Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s 103rd birthday, and do we have a gift for []

Scientology gets the ‘America’s Book of Secrets’ treatment soon!

Hey, we’re a little under the weather today, so we need to keep this short. But we wanted to let you know about something that we’ve been keeping secret for several months.

Now that some promos have begun running on History Channel 2, we can reveal that the new season of America’s Book of Secrets is []

John Travolta’s fun night at the Oscars

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Is Ukraine’s proposed new prime minister a Scientologist? Says his niece: ‘That’s crap’

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Yesterday evening, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was nominated to be Ukraine’s new prime minister in the wake of President Viktor Yanukovych’s ouster.

Yatsenyuk is a former speaker of parliament and foreign minister, and led one of the factions of the opposition movement.

However, last week, when it looked like Yatsenyuk was likely to end up in []

NEW DATE: Celebration details of Los Angeles Scientology facilities leaked

Just yesterday, we told you about information that was leaked about Scientology’s plans for its Los Angeles headquarters. Now, we’ve received another leaked e-mail which suggests that the dates of the grand re-openings have been moved back a week. And we have some additional details.

Renovations in LA have been going on for some time, and []

Scientology’s $100,000 girl records a video promoting a fundraising event in California

On Wednesday, we told you about Quinn Bennett, a 10-year-old girl the Church of Scientology is touting as its “youngest self-made humanitarian,” which is Scientology-speak indicating that young Quinn has personally donated at least $100,000 for the church’s expansion efforts.

(For those of you who keep bringing up an anonymous commenter over at Mike Rinder’s blog []

This is Scientology today: Oregon 10-year-old celebrated for donating $100,000

Yesterday, former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder posted a stunning new flier at his blog.

The flier was part of a series describing the fundraising for a project to replace the Mountain View, California church with a new facility that will be known as the “Silicon Valley Ideal Org.”

More than 10 years after it started, Scientology leader []

MEDIA ADVISORY: Stop saying that Scientology is infested with big movie stars already

Hey, we’ve been traveling for several days and just got back to the Bunker. While we try to catch up, we thought we’d point out something we saw in an excellent article about Scientology which Premiere magazine published way back in 1993.

The point of the piece was how Scientology maintained a grip on Hollywood, and []

REPORT: Man was hired to keep Shelly Miscavige from escaping Scientology base near L.A.

Robert MacLean

UPDATE: We’ve had a text message conversation Robert MacLean — see below.

A bombshell this morning from former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder: He claims that a man known nationally as a TSA whistleblower has told others that he was hired to be a security guard to keep Scientology leader David Miscavige’s wife Shelly []