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Scientology claims its UK headquarters made 873 ‘OTs’ in 2021

 
Our man in Italy, Richard, forwarded us a new brochure put out by Scientology there which claims that at its UK Headquarters, Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, England, the ‘Advanced Org’ created 873 new “OTs” this year.

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Confirmed: Danny Masterson adds OJ Dream Team lawyer to his defense

[Defense attorneys Shawn Holley and Philip Cohen]

The last time Danny Masterson’s attorneys Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum were in court for a scheduled hearing, on November 10, we reported that one of our readers spotted them sitting down in the cafeteria of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Courts building, and there were two additional people with them.

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Clearwater’s new city manager: ‘We must develop a partnership with the Church of Scientology’

 
We told you earlier that Clearwater city councilman Mark Bunker was told that a recent secret meeting between the city’s mayor, city manager, and city attorney with Scientology leader David Miscavige was a 3.5-hour harangue by the diminutive church honcho.

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Why does Scientology lie about founder L. Ron Hubbard’s supposed war wounds?

 
Veterans Day 2021 showed once again that Scientology spokespeople continue to lie about L. Ron Hubbard’s questionable war record. As the Bunker reported on November 30, Clearwater Scientology spokesperson Pat Harney put out a press release to mark Scientology’s involvement in a Veterans Day event in Clearwater. She claimed that Hubbard – a US Navy lieutenant during World War II – suffered “life-threatening injuries” during his service.

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Lose weight, regrow hair, and best of all, help an OT 8 donate to Scientology!

 
One of our tipsters noticed that a Scientologist in Tampa was going on and on about a new business there, one that offered “body sculpting” along with some odd claims about regrowing hair.

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Scientology’s legendary ‘Liability Cruise,’ including color photos, like it was yesterday

 
Janis Gillham Grady has graciously sent us an excerpt from Commodore’s Messenger, the first of her three-part history in the Sea Org as a child. (Part three is coming.) And we were pretty happy that she sent along some great color photos — they’re black and white in the book. Still looking for a gift idea? Janis suggests you put her books under the tree!

 
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Who will cry for ‘fallen artists’ like Elvis and Hemingway if not Scientology?

 
We were shocked to learn that a monumental event held at Scientology’s Citizens Commission for Human Rights storefront in Clearwater, Florida — featuring an art show celebrating such major stars like Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson — had resulted in a video that only had 31 views after nearly two weeks.

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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in WW2: Notes from a prohibited war diary

[Shipmates: Hubbard and Nolan]

PickAnotherID is a member of the Underground Bunker community who is a veteran with expertise in military records. Previously, he documented more thoroughly than anyone ever has the extent of the Church of Scientology’s “stolen valor” concerning bogus claims about founder L. Ron Hubbard’s World War 2 record. Now he’s back with an interesting new look at one episode in Ron’s war: His transport to Australia in 1941.

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Irish courts issued 14,000 words on Narconon rehab: Not a single one was ‘Scientology’

 
An appellate court in Ireland recently upheld a zoning decision that will allow Scientology’s Narconon network to open a new clinic it has spent millions on, rehabbing an old nursing home in the Meath County village of Ballivor.

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L. Ron Hubbard prepares his Scientology fans as he changes his ‘science’ into a ‘religion’

Looking back through Scientology’s history, as we do, we ran across an interesting announcement by L. Ron Hubbard in January 1954 that we were unfamiliar with.

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