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[Ivan Matsitsky’s case ended with a surprisingly light sentence]
Since the 1990s, Scientology has faced both boom and bust in post-Soviet Russia, swinging from lucrative success in the “wild capitalism” era of Boris Yeltsin to facing a ruthless crackdown under Vladimir Putin. The writing seemed to be on the wall for Scientology after the Russian police […]
I am certain I am not the only one who woke up with this feeling, that Scientology had co-opted my soul, that I was not a good person, and that everything bad that was happening in my life was something I deserved to have […]
[Actor Jason Dohring, John Travolta, Elisabeth Moss, and Trish Duggan (in red)]
Mike Rinder tells us he was surprised to see in our story yesterday that we had blown up photos Scientology posted in a press release and found that John Travolta and Elisabeth Moss were front and center at the March 16 L. Ron Hubbard […]
What a week Phil Jones has had, with his stealth operation in Los Angeles to put up a billboard on behalf of the Aftermath Foundation, and then the controversy that then […]
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard was born 113 years ago today in Tilden, Nebraska, and the reason he’s still remembered today, more than 38 years after his death in January 1986, is that he was a pulp fiction hack who churned out turgid magazine dreck by the yard during the Great […]
[Judge Kalra and defendant Danny Masterson]
In December, we reported that Danny Masterson’s victims were proposing to enhance their 2019 lawsuit against him and Scientology in a big way. They proposed to add a new plaintiff (the actress Tricia Vessey, who had testified in Masterson’s first criminal trial to being attacked by him twice in 1996), […]
With a little more than a week before election day (and with early voting already underway), it was great timing for Mark Bunker that Tracey McManus revealed in the Tampa Bay Times this week that Clearwater police determined it was a couple of Scientologists who were caught stealing Bunker’s yard […]
For the third time in nine days, Scientology leader David Miscavige presided over the grand opening of a new ‘Ideal Org’ that had been sitting, ready to open, for […]
We waited a long time for the four-year drought to end and for Scientology leader David Miscavige to start putting on his Ideal Org dog-and-pony shows […]
[Dave is opening Ideal Orgs again]
Now that the confetti has settled in Austin, we’re wondering if Scientology is going to hold to its announced schedule and open Ideal Orgs in Mexico City on Friday and Chicago on […]
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