Another capital to get a ‘national’ Scientology center. Can you feel the excitement?

Fresh off the purchase of an Ideal Org building for Adelaide in August, Scientology is buying a building in Canberra which will be known as the National Church of Scientology. Canberra is the capital of Australia and although it’s surrounded by New South Wales, the city is a small independent enclave known as the Australian Capital Territory or ACT. Almost 400,000 residents make it the country’s eighth largest city.

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Scientology ecstasy: ‘I have no idea where I would be right now without NED’

[“NED WAS WOW.”]

Scientology publications can be such goldmines. Once again, we’ve received a copy of the “Connect” newsletter from the Hollywood Celebrity Centre, and the latest edition features a graduation speech that is out of this world.

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Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has some ideas about your ‘eternity’

The new Source magazine is here, and as usual it’s just one big advertisement that’s meant to convince Scientologists to drop everything, write a big series of checks, and go to the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida for Scientology’s upper level mumbo-jumbo.

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Another legal fight brewing over Scientology’s refusal to return future payments

[Benoit Levesque]

For several months now, we’ve been bringing you stunning examples of Scientology’s predatory financial behavior, with church staffers pressuring members, some of them elderly, to agree to outrageous charges on their credit. In each of the cases we’ve told you about, Los Angeles attorney Graham Berry was able to make those victims whole, convincing the church to return huge amounts.

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London, Scientology is coming for you!

One thing we have told you repeatedly over the years is this: Scientology never, ever gives up.

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Vote for the most startling statement on the ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ finale

Wow, did Leah Remini and Mike Rinder finish off their run at A&E with a dynamite special episode last night.

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Tonight, Leah Remini ends ‘Scientology and the Aftermath’ with a hard look at Danny Masterson

Tonight, we hope you join us and comment live as Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath airs its 2-hour series finale on the A&E Network.

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If Scientology’s Ideal Org grand openings are on hold, fundraising steams ahead

[Hawaii Ideal Org fundraising]

Is Scientology’s Ideal Org program on hold? It’s a theory based on the lack of an opening this year while the average is about seven. Scientologists are being told that all remaining orgs are being worked on “simultaneously.” If grand openings starring church leader David Miscavige are on hold, the rest of the program is still in full swing.

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Paging Graham Berry: Another Scientology horror story of credit fraud targeting retirees

[Some random Scientology staffers, here to help you with your credit cards.]

After Thursday’s story about the financial crimes that we’ve been covering here at the Bunker, we received a stunning message from a reader in the Midwest. She told us that she’d been reading the Bunker and thinking of reaching out to us for some time, but that Thursday’s story put it over the top for her.

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Scientology’s obsession with kids and sex? Nick Lister has the receipts.

[Nick Lister]

Yesterday, we were surprised to see Nick Lister show up in the comments section. And then, when we saw what he posted, we really did a double take.

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