This week we heard from multiple current and former Nation of Islam members who told us that on Wednesday they were called in for an all-hands ‘Believers’ Meeting’ at their local mosques in order to view a video address from leader Louis Farrakhan.
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This week we heard from multiple current and former Nation of Islam members who told us that on Wednesday they were called in for an all-hands ‘Believers’ Meeting’ at their local mosques in order to view a video address from leader Louis Farrakhan. Tampa federal Judge Thomas Barber has agreed that Scientology leader David Miscavige has been evading service in a major new labor trafficking lawsuit that was filed in April, and he has given the plaintiffs a court summons they were asking for. Continue reading Scientology delivers superpowers, and here are the miracles to prove it! This week at the podcast, we’re coming back around to why we created the Underground Bunker to begin with. In 2012, we began working on a book that eventually gained the title The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, and we created our website in order to make sure the book had an audience when it came out in 2015. On August 12 Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo shot down Danny Masterson’s most creative attempt to delay his rape trial. On Tuesday, Haleigh Breest, the former publicist who is suing Paul Haggis alleging that the Crash director raped her in 2013 after attending a movie premiere, filed a lengthy motion asking Judge Sabrina Kraus to limit what Haggis can bring up at their trial, which is scheduled to begin in New York on October 11. Continue reading Don’t allow Paul Haggis to mention Scientology in trial, woman suing him asks court In 2016, the A&E Network had filmed and edited an eight-episode series about Scientology that has never aired. Continue reading The best TV show on Scientology you never got to see, Episode 5: Jamie DeWolf We have a special treat for you today. A former Sea Org member who worked in Scientology’s management wanted to add some more detail to something Sunny Pereira wrote for us recently. Sunny had pointed out that after Lisa McPherson’s death in 1995, Scientology sent out a new contract that included language that enabled the church to declare someone unwell so that it could take over their care. This has been dubbed the “kidnap contract” by critics, and Sunny said that she and others at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre were relieved at the time that the contract would give them the power to take over control of Sea Org members who were causing problems. Sunny also suggested that this may have been the first set of contracts that contained an arbitration clause, or at least the first ones she remembers seeing. Continue reading How Scientology churchified itself to capitalize on its IRS tax exemption In June 2020, Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson was charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office with forcibly raping three women who were Scientologists at the time (they aren’t today). The DA’s office also revealed that it had considered the allegations of five different women before choosing to charge Masterson based on the allegations of three of them. Is it nailbiting time in the Baxter v Scientology lawsuit? |
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