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[Valeska Paris and Judge Thomas Barber]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Judge Thomas Barber didn’t like that the law kept him from considering Valeska Paris’s claims of coercion when he forced her trafficking lawsuit against Scientology into its ‘arbitration.’ And now he’s disagreed with her that a new SCOTUS ruling changed that law in her favor. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Judge denies Valeska Paris redo: Trafficking case still stuck in arbitration
[Charlie Wakley, when he was emerging as the face of Scientology London]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Over the years, we’ve noted how different Scientology in London has seemed. The staff there was savvier about social media and even produced notable stars like Charlie Wakley. Now, Alex Barnes-Ross reveals there was definitely a plan for this, and that it was largely his idea! [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading The secret plan to produce a Scientology social media star
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We were puzzled by France’s Minister of Culture naming Tom Cruise a Knight of Arts and Letters in a secret ceremony. Thankfully, our good friend in Paris, British journalist Jonny Jacobsen, has sent in a report helping us understand the political background to this odd situation. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Tom Cruise: The politics behind the Scientology celeb’s French knighthood
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We were on France’s side with the naked blue guy and the spectacle of the opening ceremony, but it lost us with this mystifying decision to honor Scientology’s chief stooge in a secret ceremony. What gives? [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Tom Cruise gets France’s highest honor despite its Scientology scorn
[Scientology’s biggest Narconon (inset) was once located on an Indian reservation]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: At the Underground Bunker we’ve provided mountains of evidence that Narconon rehabs are a branch of Scientology, even if Narconon reps say otherwise to credulous reporters. Now, we have an account of that control and his role in it, once again from the excellent Bruce Hines. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s top-down control of its Narconon rehabs? I was part of it.
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: One of the best things about Scientology is that as much as it denies its controversies in ludicrous statements to the public, it just can’t help documenting its own crimes in detail in fliers and mailers for its own people. And this week, we received a copy of a real doozy. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology moving minors across state lines for intense labor: There’s a word for that
[Paulette and her husband, Paul Noble]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Every year, we celebrate the birthday of the woman who is the reason we started the Underground Bunker in the first place, to support our book about her, ‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.’ Happy birthday, Paulette Cooper! ALSO: Scientology’s Paris Org looks dead as Olympics open [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Miss Lovely is still dishing on Scientology: It’s Paulette Cooper’s birthday!
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Scientology defendants in the Whitney Mills wrongful-death lawsuit have asked for another 30 days to respond. And while that’s not too unusual on its own, there are some interesting statements and suggestions about the case in the 7-page document they filed. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology asks for more time to talk Whitney Mills’ mom out of wrongful-death lawsuit
[Scientology is in Dutch in the Netherlands]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Two years ago we told you that Scientology gained a big victory in the Netherlands as it ruled that David Miscavige’s organization was tax-exempt. However, new documents show that the Dutch IRS is denying 95 percent of what the church wants covered, and Dave is furious. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology does have a tax-exemption fight on its hands: But not in the US
[Aaron Kyro the Scientology staffer, and Aaron Kyro the skateboard mogul]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Aaron Kyro is a 20-year staff member of Scientology’s San Francisco ‘Ideal Org,’ but in his other life he’s proprietor of the YouTube empire Braille Skateboarding. We wondered how he kept both going at the same time, and this week, it looks like he’s hit some major trouble. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology debacle: Rent comes due on the double life of Aaron Kyro
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