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The skateboard hero & the anti-Semite: Insider report from Scientology’s bizarre celeb event

[The future of Scientology? Aaron Kyro and Tony Muhammad]

Monday afternoon, we received a copy of a flier advertising what sounded like a fairly bizarre event happening that night at Scientology’s Hollywood Celebrity Centre.

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Another drone’s eye view of the compound where Scientology is keeping Shelly Miscavige

 
In 2016 an anonymous drone pilot who called himself ‘Angry Thetan’ contacted us with amazing footage over some of Scientology’s most secretive US sites, including the small mountain compound, ‘Twin Peaks,’ where we believe Scientology leader David Miscavige banished his wife Shelly back in 2005.

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Another dog poisoned: Bobette Riales says harassment worse since suing Scientology

[Bobette Riales and her dog Jet]

Ten days after Chrissie Carnell Bixler and Cedric Bixler-Zavala had to put down a dog that ate meat laced with rat poison tossed into their Los Angeles yard, another plaintiff in their lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, Bobette Riales, says her dog began a 42-hour ordeal of vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding on January 31 that had her sedating the animal and praying that it would survive at her house in rural Indiana.

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One sure sign a new Scientology ‘Ideal Org’ is on the way: the Central Files mayhem

 
ODD, an upcoming “Ideal Org” slated for Mexico City, has started its Central Files project and it threatens to bury Scientologists under towers of paper folders.

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War on wogs is hell: A peek inside Scientology right now, and it’s not pretty

 
More than once we’ve looked through the various fundraising fliers that Scientology puts out and we’ve wondered what it’s like for rank-and-file Scientologists to be under so much pressure, day after day, to show up for events and submit to David Miscavige’s hard-sell tactics in his ongoing war against the wogs. (That’s us non-Scientologists.)

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Scientology will try to force Jane Doe in Miami child abuse case into ‘religious arbitration’

 
On April 20, Scientology will attempt to convince a Miami judge that a woman who says she was sexually molested while working as a child in its churches has no right to sue in court, but should be required to take her complaints to an internal “religious arbitration” panel made up exclusively of Church of Scientology members.

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Scientology OT8 dentist closes office while patients confront him about their cash

 
It was an ugly scene in Severna Park, near Baltimore, on Tuesday as some angry patients shouted at dentist Neil Woods while he was leaving his office with news cameras rolling.

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Scientology provides all the proof you need that Narconon is more than ‘tied’ to it

 
We’ve seen enough reactions to know that it irks you as much as it does us when a press outfit reports on another Narconon debacle and says that the drug rehab network is “tied” to Scientology, or “supported by” Scientology, like there’s some arm’s-length distance between the two.

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Here’s Scientology actor Danny Masterson’s legal response to his rape accusers

[Danny Masterson in 2003]

Four women have sued Danny Masterson, the Church of Scientology, and its leader David Miscavige, alleging that since those women came forward to the LAPD with rape allegations against Masterson in 2016, they have been subjected to a harassment campaign in an attempt to silence them.

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Scientology builds tiny new drug rehab, marking Narconon’s dwindling US fortunes

[Narconon Arrowhead, where Dave’s dream died]

In the year 2000, the Church of Scientology paid $1.9 million for a 256-acre resort in Oklahoma from the Choctaw Nation, which had purchased it in a government fire sale fifteen years earlier for about the same price. The resort had been built by the state in 1965, and it still had the mod look from that era.

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