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Only 2,418 Scientologists in England and Wales, Vastly Outnumbered by Jedi Knights

After all the new “Ideal Org” churches David Miscavige has been opening around the world in the last decade, there must be a giant surge of new members joining the Church of Scientology, right?

Um, well, no. In fact, the figures from the 2011 England and Wales census are out, and they are grim. In the []

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Tiziano Lugli Releases Non-Nazanin Boniadi Version of “Blown for Good” Rap

Tiziano Lugli just released at his website a new version of the “Blown for Good” rap that he and Marc Headley (author of the book Blown For Good) conceived and recorded.

When we were in Los Angeles, Tiziano played for us a version of the song that featured several ex-Scientologists, including Nazanin Boniadi, who was once []

Speaking of Scientology Rap, Did Someone Mention CHILL E.B.?

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Nazanin Boniadi Speaks! Or Rather, Raps, About Scientology’s “Blind Alley”

Well, we’ve been looking forward to bringing you this for some time now, and thanks to the folks over at Gawker, it’s now live, for all the world to see.

The too-cool-for-school commenters over there will crap all over the video of course, which is as predictable as the sun rising in the morning.

But we trust []

Miscavige Gets His Wish: Marty Rathbun Pulling Up Stakes?

UPDATE: See what we’ve learned about the Rathbuns’ new home so far, below.

We have to admit, this really took us by surprise.

Earlier tonight, Marty Rathbun posted what appears to be an announcement that he and his wife Monique are pulling up stakes and leaving Ingleside on the Bay, Texas.

For those of you who have followed []

Radio Daze: Talking Scientology with John Hines of WCCO

 We’re tracking down some interesting stories on this holiday weekend, and should be able to post some fascinating dox very soon. In the meantime, we thought we’d plague you with our latest radio []

Thanksgiving? Pshaw! The Scientology Begin-A-Boom Bookathon Starts TODAY!

Breaking news! One of our tipsters forwarded to us an internal Scientology video urging church members to take part in a big push to sell copies of Dianetics around the world!

We’ve taken some stills from the video to give you some idea of just how persuasive it is. It’s so infectious, we suspect it may []

Scientology’s Big Gamble: “Golden Age of Tech 2” Is Here!

One Golden Age was apparently not enough

This Saturday, Scientologists in the Los Angeles area are being asked to come to a “confidential briefing” that is so secret, they will be asked to sign special bonds at the door.

At that briefing, they will be told for the first time about major changes coming to []

Scientology Desperately Wants Your Children: The Cruise Ship Come-On

One of our tipsters forwarded to us an e-mail the Church of Scientology has sent out asking its members to consider sending their kids to a convention on the church’s private cruise ship, the Freewinds.

We immediately thought of the Freewinds experience of Ramana Dienes-Browning. Last year, we told her story of the hard sell she []

Scientology Excommunication: Documents the Church Usually Keeps Under Wraps

We want to thank Robert Berrington, a South African reader, who sent us some rare documents — records of his own Scientology excommunication.

Berrington learned that at the end of last year he was “declared a suppressive person” by the church — in other words, he’d been kicked out, and all church members who want to []