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Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton keeps plowing away, and has filed yet another federal fraud lawsuit against Scientology’s drug rehab network, Narconon. Continue reading Ryan Hamilton files lawsuit 14 against Scientology’s drug rehab, and other updates
—Paul Haggis Continue reading Paul Haggis tells us his favorite Scientology stories of 2014
He provided a particularly interesting answer during an interview at HuffPost Live yesterday, which we’ve posted below. Haggis had predicted, in a Rock Center segment more than a year ago, that he might be smeared by Scientology. That hasn’t happened, but Haggis mentioned that it’s been happening to other people he knows — and he uses Jason Beghe as an example. Continue reading Paul Haggis, Chill EB, and more Scientology fun in an all-video post!
The Luis and Rocio Garcia federal fraud lawsuit regarding fundraising for Scientology’s “Super Power Building.” When we last checked in, the Garcias had won an important victory, surviving a challenge to the lawsuit over its “diversity jurisdiction” and the fact that this California couple had filed its lawsuit in a Tampa federal court. In order to get past a problem of jurisdiction, the Garcias dropped three defendants and were allowed to file an amended complaint. Continue reading Scientology fires legal salvoes at the Garcias, and Vance Woodward fires back
Despite the secrets it unlocks about the formation of Scientology’s beginnings, you won’t see a mention of this recording in any of the most important books on Scientology — not in Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear, not in Russell Miller’s Bare-Faced Messiah, or even in Jon Atack’s A Piece of Blue Sky. Even Arnie Lerma’s vast online archive contains only a very short portion of the full transcript of what you are about to hear.
Over the years, we’ve become very familiar with Scientology’s marketing methods, so when something different comes along, it can really get our attention. One of the best examples is the energy and fun of Scotland Scientology’s newsletter — “Scots Wha Hae…!” — which has been put out by a man who lives near Edinburgh named John Gourlay. Continue reading LEAKED: The slick campaign Scientology had planned for UK expansion!
If you’ve been with us for a while, you know that our Sunday Funnies end up telling us quite a lot of interesting little tales inside Scientology. We get a sense for which groups are in more desperate straits than others. We see familiar names come and go. We can map which strategies seem to be percolating through the worldwide organization in order to maximize the fleecing — er, the participation — of enthusiastic church members. Continue reading Scientology Sunday Funnies: The Valley rocks as the fundraising rolls ever onward
In this case, Bridge Publications is asking $175.00 for the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress, given in Washington DC in 1955. Here’s how Bridge describes this monumental product… Continue reading L. Ron Hubbard’s mesmerizing lore, and tales of Scientology’s secretive Int Base
When Marc was growing up in the church, he was friends with Giovanni Ribisi, another child of Scientologists who lived in Los Angeles. We learned about this last night after we called up Marc to tell him we had heard Ribisi interviewed by comedian Marc Maron, during which the Avatar actor had said some surprising things about Scientology. We asked Marc Headley to give us his thoughts on the interview, and to tell us about his memories of Ribisi… Continue reading Why Giovanni Ribisi told Marc Maron there are no aliens in Scientology: A theory  Monique Rathbun That’s just one of the surprises in the 111-page brief filed by the Church of Scientology International yesterday to the Texas Third Court of Appeals. In March, Comal County Judge Dib Waldrip denied Scientology’s “anti-SLAPP” motion, which had tried to portray Monique as a bully for filing a lawsuit against the church, arguing that Scientology had merely exercised its free speech rights when it spent four years following Monique and her husband, former top Scientology official Marty Rathbun. Continue reading APPEAL BRIEF: Scientology argues that our coverage of them legitimates their spying |
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