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TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Ron Kasman has been a valuable contributor at the Underground Bunker going back a number of years. He’s a comic artist with a new book is on the way. And when you see description Ron sent us, we think you’ll understand why we thought the Bunker audience will find interest in it. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Inventing the wickedest cult of all to keep people out of them
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Sex? Space aliens? Actually, and we know this might be hard for you to believe, but Scientology’s chief obsession is with… business administration. Say what? Yes, it’s weird. And Val Ross is back to dig into the organizational scheme that’s underneath it all. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Scientology’s secret sauce that supposedly booms businesses: What’s actually in it?
TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Some media hand-wringing over the GOP’s VP choice has some thinking back to 1972 and the spectacular flameout of VP candidate Thomas Eagleton. But the Missouri senator is also of interest for us for a very different reason, involving a bizarre scheme by his Scientologist niece. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading Why a troubled VP bid has us recalling a bizarre 1980 Scientology extortion attempt
[Karen Bass promoting Scientology before she was critical 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: You’ve no doubt seen the news that Scientology’s chief ornament, actor Tom Cruise, is going to perform a death-defying stunt involving the Olympic flag at the Closing Ceremonies on August 11. But hang on, isn’t LA’s mayor, Karen Bass, supposed to be getting that flag? Uh-oh. [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading LA Mayor Karen Bass to have another awkward Scientology moment, thanks to Tom Cruise?
[David Gentile and the New York Scientology “Ideal Org”]TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Jeffrey Augustine has been on the story of wealthy Scientology donor David Gentile from the beginning. So we asked him to summarize yesterday’s big result in court in Brooklyn, where a jury found Gentile guilty of running a $1.7 billion ‘Ponzi-like scheme.’ [What is this Substack thing, anyway?] Continue reading New York Scientology donor David Gentile convicted in federal fraud case
[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.
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