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Kansas City: Don’t panic. Your skyline is screwed, but Scientology isn’t taking over.

 
Ah, Kansas City. One of the best places we have ever lived, and one of the most underrated cities we’ve ever known. What a helluva town.

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Uh-oh. Someone trusted a whole bunch of money to a wealthy Scientologist.

[David Gentile, Founder and CEO of GPB Capital Holdings]

Jeffrey Augustine has an intriguing report about a Scientologist who appears to be heading for a big fall…

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Government comes down hard on Scientology — in Canada, where worker abuse matters

 
Breaking news out of Quebec, where journalist Gaétan Pouliot has been covering an investigation by the government into workers at Scientology facilities being paid less than minimum wage.

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Scientology slimes ‘Aftermath’ guest with its favorite tactic: The P.O.W. video

[Heather Ruggeri]

Just before last night’s Scientology and the Aftermath episode aired on A&E, the Church of Scientology posted a letter by spokeswoman Karin Pouw to the website it uses for attacking the show.

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Tonight, Leah Remini makes it clear how much Scientology worships money above all else

[Carol Nyburg]

Is it already time for Leah Remini’s second episode of 2019? For some reason we’re still a little discombobulated after the holidays, and this episode came up on us awfully quick. Well, the tree is put away, the decorations are back in the boxes, and Leah is here to get us all enraged again!

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A Scientologist on trial for double murder: A story the church is very nervous about

[Kenny Thompson]

 
Kenny Thompson’s mother had questionable taste in men. Dad One — Kenny’s biological father — skipped out when he was two years old.

Maybe that contributed to keeping him from starting to speak until he was four.

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Scientologists told to seize on Australian stabbing death as a recruiting opportunity

 
Rod Keller has a report on the strange way Scientology is reacting to the news out of Sydney…

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A Scientologist murdered: Our experts try to make sense of Australia’s ‘Advanced Org’

[The Purif area at Australia’s Advanced Org, the place the teen with a knife was trying to get to]

We still have a lot of questions about the murder of Chih-Jen “Aaron” Yeh, 24, a Scientologist at the ‘Advanced Org’ in the north suburbs of Sydney that happened on Thursday afternoon there. The Australian press is doing its best to gather details about the event, but it’s clear that they don’t really seem to understand what an Advanced Org is or what happens at one.

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Tiponi Grey’s daughter: She knew her life might end at any time

 
The news of Tiponi Grey’s death came as a real shock to Scientology and the Aftermath watchers, who were informed of it with the words “In Memoriam” at the end of the episode she appeared in that aired on December 11.

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We asked Marc Headley about NXIVM’s Allison Mack using his Scientology lawsuit as a defense

[Marc Headley and Allison Mack]

[NOTE: For coverage of the stabbing at a Scientology facility in Australia, please see the story we posted last night.]

Last week, the New York Post discovered in a court filing that Allison Mack’s attorneys had cited a dismissed lawsuit against Scientology in their defense of the Smallville actress.

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