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Scientology leader says he has 2.5 million square feet of new churches coming soon

 
Yesterday we looked at an eyewitness account of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s presentation at the L. Ron Hubbard birthday event which took place on March 13 in Clearwater, Florida. But there’s still another account of Miscavige’s speechmaking that we thought you’d want to see.

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An insider’s report on David Miscavige at Scientology founder’s birthday event 2022

[Dave on New Year’s: Hubbard’s birthday event was held in the same place.]

 
We told you earlier that Scientology used its magazines to celebrate leader David Miscavige for presiding over the New Year’s event held at that Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida to bring in the year 2022.

Now, we have an account of Dave presiding over the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event in the same venue.

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War in Ukraine: What does it mean for Scientology there and in Russia?

 
Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine has had drastic consequences for millions of people, most obviously the ten million Ukrainians who are now refugees. The Russian people also face imminent hardship as Western sanctions take effect. Scientology’s Volunteer Ministers have already ‘mobilised’ in Ukraine’s westerly neighbour to aid (or exploit) the wave of refugees fleeing the country (see the earlier story on the Bunker). But what effect will the war have on Scientology and Scientologists in Russia and Ukraine?

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Quentin Hubbard’s suicide: A Scientology-based explanation so insane it might be true

[Quentin Hubbard audits a preclear. Photo courtesy of Karen de la Carriere.]

Clearwater, October 1976. Every evening at the Fort Harrison Hotel’s Lemon Tree restaurant, which had been converted to the officers’ dining room, we get together for dinner. There are four of us sharing a booth along the wall, the seats and backs covered with shiny lemon green plastic.

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Ginger Sugerman: Her way out of Scientology was marred by trauma

 
We were surprised and saddened to learn yesterday that Ginger Sugerman died in Georgia of a heart attack in early February. She was 62.

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Scientology just sent its celebs the longest email in history. It’s an orgy of propaganda!

Scientology enlisting police to indoctrinate kids? Sure, why not!

 
Last month we told you that, thanks to a “reply all” accident, we’d learned that some in the Dutch government consider Scientology a “controversial” organization and are keeping a wary eye on its floating cathedral, the vessel Freewinds, as it spends time in Dutch islands of the Caribbean.

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This is what it’s like to become a super being at Scientology’s Florida ‘mecca’

[Adrian Caligiuri, super being]

Thanks to one of our great readers, we have the new issue of Source magazine, the propaganda organ for Scientology’s “Flag Land Base,” its spiritual mecca in Clearwater, Florida.

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Judge denies Valerie Haney do-over after Scientology’s appellate loss in Masterson suit

 
After an appeals court’s stunning January put-down of Scientology’s “religious arbitration” strategy in the lawsuit brought by Danny Masterson’s rape accusers, Valerie Haney was hoping Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Burdge Jr would reconsider his ruling in her lawsuit, which was also derailed by Scientology’s arbitration gambit.

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Is Scientology so desperate for new suckers, it would hand out snacks on Sunset Blvd?


One of our regular contributors snapped a couple of interesting photos this week.

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