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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 5: Leaving his body with full perception

 
We’re still counting down Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, and this time we’ve reached a biggie.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 6: Resuscitating the recently deceased

 
Continuing with our countdown of the superpowers that Tom Cruise has attained after his decades in Scientology, we reach something so special you’d think Mr. Top Gun would have crowed about it by now.

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Gerry Armstrong hits back at apologist journal for questioning Hubbard ‘pinks & greys’ letter

[Gerry Armstrong and Hana Whitfield, Toronto, 2015]

You might remember that a couple of years ago an apologist publication that goes by the acronym CESNUR tried to claim it was a myth that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard ever lied about having an engineering degree.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 7: Pulling in objects with tractor beams

 
We’re continuing to count down the superpowers that Tom Cruise should have attained after being a dedicated OT Scientologist for years and years.

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Leah Remini podcast: Ian Rafalko talks about his father, chiropractor Eric Berg

[Ian Rafalko]

You probably remember that we were pretty excited in May to see the TikTok video put out by Ian Rafalko about his father, OT 8 chiropractor and major Scientology donor Eric Berg.

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What is it going to take for the LA Times to take the threat of Rizza Islam seriously?

[Rizza Islam gets the Alex Jones endorsement, August 3]

Alex Jones admitted that he was envious. On August 3, the guest on his Infowars program was Rizza Islam, who, we told you earlier, had been named one of the 12 biggest sources of online disinformation about vaccines.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 8: Recovering unspeakable acts from the past

 
You are probably aware that evangelicals who are “young-Earth Creationists” figure that our planet is only about 6,000 years old, right? But were you aware that Scientology is notable because it also has a pretty warped idea about the age of our universe — except in the other direction.

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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.

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Judge Charlaine Olmedo on point: What was said in court about Danny Masterson’s subpoenas

[Danny Masterson and his legal team, Appelbaum and Mesereau, last September]

On August 9 we were on a family trip but we were able to appear at a court hearing in Los Angeles with a web link supplied by the court. We were there to watch our attorneys, Scott Pilutik and Graham Berry, ask Judge Charlaine Olmedo to quash a rather aggressive subpoena that Danny Masterson’s attorneys, Tom Mesereau and Sharon Appelbaum, had slapped us with some weeks earlier.

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 9: Mocking up an automobile out of thin air

 
We’ve been counting down the Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor.

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