FOLLOW ME ON
Daily Notifications
Sign up for free emails to receive the feature story every morning in your inbox at tonyortega.substack.com

Categories

Another Scientology OT dies of Covid, this time near the Florida ‘spiritual mecca’

[In January, Sergio Rojo was the happy buyer of a Mirit Castro painting.]

We’ve learned about the death of another OT Scientologist to Covid, and we found out about it from a Scientologist who had also been battling the disease, a woman named Julia in Clearwater, Florida, which is home to Scientology’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag []

ADVERTISEMENT

Scientology OT 8 and ‘STAND’ blogger who expressed anti-vax views dies of Covid

 Brian Duimovich was well known in the Camarillo area in Ventura County, California, where he owned a Mexican eatery a few years ago. But he lived most recently in Happy Valley, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, where he worked as a real estate agent and financial []

Scientology and anti-vaxx, a marriage made in heaven?

 A month ago my disconnected Scientology OT 3 brother went to California with his wife to attend his son’s wedding. My brother and his wife are both strongly anti-vaxx. My other brother, a non-Scientologist and a medical doctor tried to convince our anti-vaxx brother before he left to get vaccinated but he wouldn’t have it. []

Eureka! Clearwater Scientology member sells quantum protection from 5G and Covid 19

 An actual email conversation, edited lightly only for []

Why isn’t Scientology promoting the Covid-19 vaccines like it did hand-washing and masks?

 Scientology leader David Miscavige was angry. The emerging pandemic had arrived in the US in 2020 just in time to shut down one of Scientology’s holiest rituals of the year, its March 13 celebration to mark founder L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday. []

Scientology ‘Hogwarts’ in Oregon has Covid outbreak: 43 students, 8 staff

[Illustration by Observer]

The Oregon Health Authority in May reported that Delphian School in Sheridan had one of the biggest school-based Covid outbreaks in the state: 43 students and 8 staff were []

Not only did Scientology get PPP loans: Check out these Scientologists who got bailouts too!

 Last July when the Trump administration first released detailed information about which businesses had received emergency payroll (PPP) loans to businesses in response to the pandemic, we pointed out that not only had three Scientology “orgs” received such loans, but so had its drug rehab centers and some associated []

Scientology hype video celebrating its pandemic response is the bomb

 Thanks to one of our tipsters, we’re learning that all Scientologists are being asked to come down to their local orgs for an “international Scientology news update” in coming []

Scientology donor Jim Mathers has your L. Ron Hubbard mantra for sending kids back to school

 As kids begin to head back to school in various parts of the country, parents are naturally apprehensive about how their local district is going to negotiate our ongoing national health nightmare. []

Weeks after the protests, Scientology in LA remains boarded up and abandoned. What gives?

 One of our sources in Los Angeles told us recently that there was something odd going on with Scientology’s buildings there. Although street unrest has dissipated for weeks now, Scientology’s storefronts remain boarded up and some of them appear completely abandoned. At a time when orgs in London and Florida and Paris are boasting about []