Dianetics Scam site created for the TL/TR crowd

WWP FEB.21.13 ~ Dianetics remains the #1 hook used to get people into Scientology, but how easy is it for people to easily find out the truth about it on the net? A web search typically turns up stuff like Wikipedia (which is OK), pro-Dianetics sites from the cult (barf), and sites that are informative but too scholarly-sounding for casual reading. There aren't enough critical sites on the subject that are short and easy to read. These are important for the tl/tr crowd or those who are simply pressed for time.

thedianeticsscam.com

That's where The Dianetics Scam comes in. At least that's the idea. Use either of the following URL's:

thedianeticsscam.com
thedianeticsscam.org

The Dianetics Scam gets straight to the point about the cult's recruiting tactics and is aimed for the reader who has little to no knowledge about the subject. It may also serve as a resource when launching harpoons or doing other projects. Getting the truth about Dianetics out on the web is key, and the more critical resources we have in various flavors, the better.

Scientology Materials Seized At Ukraine Border

(translated @ WWP) / imk.ua [jan.28.11] ~ Customs officers seized printed materials, audio books, and audio lectures worth in total more than 302,000 UAH during an attempt to illegally move them across the border into Ukraine. The cargo consisted of 78 boxes of printed materials containing religious and philosophical teachings of Scientology and Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard. The IMK news agency learned of this from the press service of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.

A Mercedes-Benz cargo van driven by a citizen of the Republic of Belarus arrived at the Novi Yarylovychi customs control checkpoint. According to the documents that were provided for customs clearance, the transport vehicle was for the movement of "furniture and plastic articles". The furniture reached Ukraine from the Republic of Lithuania.

However, during a customs inspection of the cargo, customs officials verified if the rear and side doors of the cargo compartment had been secured by the customs authorities of the Republic of Lithuania. The driver said that, because the hydraulic system for opening the back door was out of order, access to the cargo compartment was only possible through the side doors. On the side doors were cardboard boxes with chairs.

To inspect the other parts of the cargo compartment, customs officials used the "Sova" ["Owl"] video surveillance system. This allowed them to see that, behind the furniture boxes, were white-colored boxes labeled "extended books". In these boxes, CDs and printed books by L. Ron Hubbard were found.

The driver explained that he was transporting the cargo for a fee per an agreement with persons he did not know. He had no shipping documentation for the cargo and there was no clearance of the goods by the customs authorities of the Republic of Lithuania. To make it difficult to access the cargo compartment of the vehicle and to avoid customs control, the persons who arranged the shipment had damaged the hydraulic system for opening the rear door.

Officials concluded that a citizen of the Republic of Belarus was trying to move goods across the customs border of Ukraine and concealing them from customs control using techniques to complicate their detection. The protocol concerning the violation of Article 352 of the Customs Code of Ukraine was invoked and the cargo was seized.

Tip of the bordergate to mnql1.

Glen Frey / Smuggler's Blues

Lisa McPherson Tragedy, 15 Year Anniversary [archive media]

Today marks the 15th anniversary of Lisa McPherson's death (February 10, 1959 – December 5, 1995). xenutv.com ~ Lisa was a devoted Scientologist for many years. In late 1995, she indicated to family and friends that she would be coming home to Texas. She never made it home. Instead, Lisa spent her last days confined in Scientology’s Fort Harrison Hotel.

During those 17 days, Lisa was undergoing a psychotic breakdown while under constant guard by Scientology staffers who tried to handle her with Hubbard policies. By the time they rushed her to a hospital it was too late. She had lost 40 pounds and was severely dehydrated. Lisa was pronounced dead on arrival.

Lisa's case is a good representation of the many people harmed or even killed by Scientology. Her case is well documented from court proceedings, Scientology documents, and good reporting. It's also a case that DM [David Miscavige] himself had a direct hand in, according to Marty Rathbun.

lisamcpherson.org averages about 250 visitors per day. There are many other sites that tell her story as well, so her life is remembered. Lisa's family wanted her story to be told so her fate would not happen to anyone else. Thanks to the Internet, this will be accomplished. ~ J.Jacobsen

Public Eye, CBS TV, 1/7/98
Since first attracting attention more than 30 years ago the tenets of Scientology have been reviled by critics and revered by supporters. Those same supporters have earned a fierce reputation for relentlessly using the courts to defend Scientology, ultimately gaining it tax exempt status as a recognized religion. In recent years, the church's profile has been enhanced by association with a variety of Hollywood stars, famous folks who have put a shining face on a self-styled church that's often clouded by secrecy and mistrust. All of which brings us to a lawsuit in Florida, a wrongful death suit that has pitted proponents of Scientology against the family of a young woman who died in the prime of her life. Kristin Jeannette-Meyers, herself a lawyer, details the sad end of Lisa McPherson... [complete archived transcript @ lisamcpherson.org]

A Peek Inside Jon Stewart's 'Earth (The Book)'

Earth to LRon, come in LRon

WWP ~ Reported a few days ago over at WhyWeProtest, there seem to be some lulzy excerpts contained in Jon Stewart's 'Earth; (The Book) A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race regarding L.Ron Hubbard's way-out-there religion, Scientology.

To bad they didn't have a Daily Show back when Scientology was conceived. I guess the closest thing to it at the time was The Today Show (1952), but in name only, lol.

Below are some of the honorable mentions:

You from Jersey? I'm from Jersey. What exit?
"...Like many religions, The Church of Scientology was incorporated in New Jersey in 1953.

Its highest-level practitioners learned that Earth's problems began when Xenu, evil ruler of the Galactic Confederacy, brought billions of humans to earth 75 millions years ago and killed them with hydrogen bombs.

This information was kept hidden from non-Scientologists, as learning it before years of costly preparation could induce involuntary physical responses, including but not limited to laughter, eye-rolling, and exclamations of "Are you serious!?" ..."

Lovely Rita, Meter Maid

Also reported, the following photographs with labeling attached:

• e-meter: 'Through judicious use of the E-Meter, Scientology auditors were able to remove countless Thetans ("dollars") from followers.'

And a picture of a mock personality test involving such questions as:
• 'How much money do you make?' • 'Where do you keep it?' • 'Do you know any celebrities?' • 'Do you know any gay celebrities?' • 'Quick -- what's your pin number?'

You've Got Mail DNA

And at the beginning of the book, where it discusses places to send DNA samples for future reconstitution by alien lifeforms, those with names starting from A-L are told to send theirs [plus the form] to the Svalbard Seed Vault.

But those with M-Z names (how lucky for Miscavige, but too bad for Cruise) are told to ship them to Scientolgy's desert stronghold, Trementina Base.

Trementina Base 37 Ultra-Secret But Totally Real Scientology Mountain Base Avenue Trementina, NM 88349 Attention: David Miscavige, Project Administrator

The Daily Show: This Week In God - Scientology
And just for the lulz, from Jul.28.05 (back before Colbert spun-off to his own show) Stephen runs down the world of religion, from a Hindu McDonald's and Pope Benedict XVI to Scientology: Religion of the Stars. [jump to 1:31]



Tip of the 'ol space-helmet visor to JustMissedMe, and DeathHamster.

Hubbard Mixes Drugs With Dianetics Lecture [mp3]

A press release came out this week about another big presentation extravaganza in Clearwater put on by by Scientology.
The big deal? A 1 hour 42 minute documentary “The Truth About Drugs”.

What timing, because over at WWP, they had another one of their audio leak releases, entitled: "GUK & Freewheeling" along with "GUK & Medication".

From the OP: "...Ron [Hubbard] is in Oakland from 23rd September 1950 until 23rd December 1950. He delivers over twenty five lectures - yet only four are released and used by Scientologists today to study technique, theory and concepts. Whatever happened to those missing tapes? Why are they even missing to begin with?..."

Well,in this lecture, it turns out L.Ron was experimenting with something that the current church would rather you didn't know about. Turns out he was mixing large doses of various minerals and vitamins (see purification rundown) along with a pick-me-up used in those days, Benzedrine.

In the 1940s and 1950s, reports began to emerge about the recreational use of Benzedrine inhalers, and in 1949, doctors began to move away from prescribing Benzedrine as a bronchodilator and appetite suppressant. In 1959, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made it a prescription drug in the United States. Benzedrine and derived amphetamines were used as a stimulant for armed forces in World War II and Vietnam.

This lecture may have been swept under the rug by Scientology, but dirt like this seems to constantly rise to the surface since the conception of the internet.


GUK & Freewheeling.mp3
48.09 MB, 50 minutes (link updated 6/14/12)

Long and boring, but at least most of the juicy stuff is contained in the first half of the recording.

Addition: And may as well throw in L.Ron Hubbard's toxicology report at the time of his death:
[full report available here]

The Church of Scientology is loudly voicing their strong resistance to what they call "psych drugs".

It's therefore ironic that the founder of Dianetics and Scientology, L Ron Hubbard, was taking a "psych drug" when he died on January 24th, 1986, eight days after the fatal stroke, and one day after signing his last will and testament.

He was given Vistaril by Dr. Gene Denk in his final days, by intramuscular injection in the right buttocks. Vistaril is a psychiatric drug, used to calm frantic or overly anxious patients.

OZ Govt Anti-drug Campaign's 'Worrying' Link to Scientology

brisbanetimes ~ Concerns have been raised about a partnership between the Federal Government and a drug awareness group run by members of the controversial Church of Scientology.

Corporate lawyer and researcher Grainne O’Donovan said the partnership could potentially be used by the church, through Drug Free Ambassadors Australia (DFAA), to try to recruit members from schools and youth groups.

The DFAA - sponsored by Scientology - is a partner in the government’s National Compact set up by former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd in March within the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).

The DEEWR website says the National Compact is an agreement between government and "not-for-profit" community organizations to provide "real input into government policy and program delivery".

Ms O’Donovan said it was “worrying” that the DFAA was in a position to influence government policy, considering serious widespread concerns about its practices. "They are citing the entry on the government’s Harm Prevention Register in written materials, giving the impression they are a government-approved charity," she said. “The ambassadors aren’t just against illegal drugs they are also against approved medical drugs and psychiatry."

Professor Ian Hickie [photo], a psychiatrist and executive director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, said some of the DFAA’s information was "entirely inappropriate and ill-informed". He added the group confused illicit drugs and medically-approved ones and its website implied national endorsement of "this disreputable position".

Queensland Secondary Principals’ Association president, Norm Fuller said the DFAA material about illegal drugs "gives some relevant information". "The material associated with prescription drugs sends a different message that would need to be questioned," he said."The fact that this material is associated with a specific group, such as the Church of Scientology, brings into question their reasons and purpose." [more >>>]

Australian Heroin Diaries: Foundation For A Drug Free World
The FDFW is run by the Church of Scientology and is closely linked to the youth orientated Drug-Free Marshals program or Drug-Free Ambassadors as it’s called in Australia. You may have heard of Carly Crutchfield, Scientologist, Drug Free Ambassador and real estate investment adviser.

The blurring of who is who and who runs what is how the Church of Scientology can sneak into schools and community groups when needed or promote their church when they want publicity. Maybe that’s why the campaign commercials and booklets are readily available at the Scientology website but the link to Scientology hardly gets a mention at FDFW. The official blurb for FDFW from their website is:

The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a secular, nonprofit organization that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions to be drug-free.

Secular? factual information? Like all front groups for Scientology, it’s really about expanding the flock. [more >>>]

TodayTonight: Australia's Narconon/Scientology Connection



Narconon: Hubbard's Junk Science
L. Ron Hubbard takes an extreme line on the benefit of drugs of all kinds. A wide range of otherwise innocuous drugs, including aspirin and caffeine, are lumped together with recognisably dangerous substances such as heroin and LSD. Narconon's explanation of drug effects relies on Scientology dogma rather than science.

Hubbard also claims, in defiance of known medical science, that non-fat-soluble drugs and toxins can also be stored in and released from fatty tissue. The most glaring example is of alcohol, a water-soluble drug which is flushed out of the body in a matter of hours (as anyone who has done a bar crawl will have discovered when their bladder begins to complain).

It is physically impossible for alcohol to be stored in body fat. Despite this, Hubbard still refers to "people have [who] reported re-experiencing various effects of past drugs, medicine, alcohol or other stimulants or sedatives." This is a perfect example of Hubbard's sloppy and unscientific research - because people reported re-experiencing the effects of alcohol, it must actually be alcohol that they were re-experiencing, despite the awkward fact that alcohol is not stored in the body.

Hubbard also made fundamental mistakes about the nature of niacin. The vitamin is supposed to stimulate the release of fat into the bloodstream in order to flush out "stored" drugs. In fact, large doses of niacin actually block the release of fat from fat cells; as an antilipidemic, it is probably the last substance one would use for Hubbard's declared purpose.

Most abused drugs are eliminated from the body by detoxification through the liver, the kidney, or occasionally the lungs. Even if Hubbard's therapy did manage to flush toxins out of fat tissue and into the bloodstream, they would pass through the kidneys and so be excreted in urine. They would have no chance to enter the sweat glands en masse. This point is usually glossed over by Narconon's handful of medical supporters. [more >>>]

Scientology's 'Gay-Bash' Found in Older Editions [pic]

WWP ~ Just when I thought I had seen everything possible with Scientology, I notice a GIANT fucking flaw in my copies of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Please turn your 2007 (softcover/hardcover) Dianetics Modern Science of Mental Health to page 505. [hardcover may be pg. 501] There's a half dozen newspaper articles praising Dianetics?

Now that I look at the top-right article (Los Angeles Daily News, September 8th 1950 edition #56) I noticed something so damn funny I spit my Gatorade all over my keyboard.
[Correction: Was informed the 2007 edition of Dianetics is the most recent printing and older versions do not contain these newspaper clippings.]

Dianetics: It Can Stamp Out Homosexuality
"... it can stamp out homosexuality, which is attributed to attempted abortion '... with an effective science to handle the problem, a society which would continue to endure perversion... doesn't deserve to exist.'..."

[click image for full page >>>]

The above is a sample of the problems a religion like Scientology has. Telling followers that the tech is infallible, and at the same time try to stay up to date with the world's politically correct views on society.

Scientology: Pro or Anti Gay? Seems they don't think even know...

The conflict has already raised it's ugly head earlier in 2009 when director Paul Haggis left Scientology. It was his conscience that made him quit the religion he's been part of for 35 years, Haggis said in a letter to Tommy Davis. Davis, the son of actress Anne Archer, is the face of Scientology, appearing on numerous TV interviews every year.

Haggis first became disenchanted with Scientology last year when it backed Prop 8, the ban on gay marriage in California. The director personally spoke to Davis about it. He claimed he was horrified at the news, Haggis wrote, and he'd get to the bottom of it. Nothing changed.

As another example, in 2008, when Rev. John Carmichael, president of the Church of Scientology of New York, came face-to-face with a small contingent of Anonymous protesters, he didn't engage them in a spiritual debate.

Instead, he leaned into one member on a Times Square street and said, “Let me tell you this: I smell pussy.” Then, looking squarely at the Anon added, “You in particular.” [youtube video of event: 7 min]

Sounds like Scientology should put all those building restorations on hold, spend a little time getting their shit in one sock and figure exactly what they stand for and what they don't. Well, what they stand for this week anyway...

Scientology VS DC Protester: Escalating Timeline Continued

← back • The Escalation Timeline • fwd →

• [AUG/13] A T.R.O. wasn't necessary because I already need to stay away based on the conditions of my release from jail in the criminal complaint

• [pending] There will now be a status hearing before Judge Macaluso on Friday August 27. She is also the judge who will hear the case in its entirety starting Friday September 10.

ODIT had been putting off the timeline update till there was something earth shattering to report. Well, that never happened. We're stuck in a holding pattern like one of Xenu's DC-8's waiting for a landing spot at the volcano.

But, in the meantime, some more background video popped up over at WWP on Sylvia Stanard, currently the Director of Washington DC Public Affairs, from 1997 when she was, supposedly, a reporter for Scientology's Freedom Magazine at a anti-scientology press conference at the Holiday Inn (Clearwater, FL) before a protest at the Ft. Harrison Hotel. How she can be a objective reporter while at the same time answering questions as a spokesperson is beyond me.
Thanks to Smurf(above) and Jeff Jacobsen(below) for the history lesson (but the dates are are a little fuzzy).

This was our first press conference in Clearwater in conjunction with the first protest. We had 18 protesters. I believe this was March of 1996, just months after Lisa McPherson died there (though we didn't know it at the time).

[Kendrick]Ken Moxon [the Scientology lawyer currently involved in AnonSParrow's litigation], Mike Rinder, Brian Anderson, and 2 other Scientologists tried to crash the press conference, but we had hired an off-duty cop to help us at the door. they went away mumbling about holding their own press conference (which they did in subsequent years).

We had a debate about whether to let in the Freedom Magazine "reporters" but in the end decided it would be ok. They did not disrupt the press conference but did try to control the Q&A after.

I [Jeff] was MC, Dennis Erlich, Paul Grosswald, and others spoke. We had a good media presence and got good local coverage.

Sylvia Stanard Defends Scientology's 'Fair Game' Policy
Excepts of the documents they were speaking of can be viewed at xenu-directory.net's archive along with more multimedia on the the subject.


Kendrick Moxon: Intentionally Interrupts TV Interview
And just because his name keeps coming up, posted below is a video of Moxon interrupting a 1996 interview with ex-Scientologist Dennis Erlich. The attorney intentionally approached Dennis Erlich (the original scientology wikileaker before there was Wikileaks) forcing a violation of a restraining order that he [Moxon] had filed for in the first place!

'BOB' Needles Scientoloigists in Seattle [archive video]

Score ~ SubGenius: 2, Scientology: 'the big donut'

WWP : Rev. Modemac tips us off to a post by Rev. Zapanaz, who has a run-in with a couple of body routers in Washington state.

There was a big parade in Seattle last night, the Seafair parade. I hadn't really meant to go to it, I asked a lady out, but I did it b email and just before the time i planned to meet her, so I knew it was 50/50 if I would hear back from her.

Anyway so I went downtown so I would be there in time in case it did work out, and didn't hear from her until later. But then I looked up and all the streets were blocked off and there's this parade going down the street. So what the hell, I decided to walk along the parade route and bar hop. I like crazy crowds.

So I am walking through this crowd and enjoying myself, when this guy approaches me with an arm load of pamphlets. Immediately I wonder what he's selling.

He is a clean-cut, good-looking bright young guy. But with a bizarre element, he has this absolutely hideous glittery gold necktie on. It isn't just bad, it's bizarre. More clownish than like something a country-western singer would wear.

So he starts giving me his spiel, I see his pamphlets, SCIENTOLOGY in big friendly letters on the cover. Oh dear, one of them.

So first I give him a Church of the SubGenius spiel. I don't remember exactly where I took it, but I was on a roll, telling him about how J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has come to bring us back the slack which THEY have taken away, and all that kind of thing. I remember at some point I pulled out a picture of "Bob" from my wallet and showed him and said "DON'T YOU FEEL IT? THAT'S "BOB"!"

Anyway so he laughs and says "but that's all a joke, right?"

So I say "SO IS YOURS, MAN"

"Wake up, cult-boy. Don't you know L. Ron Hubbard just made all that stuff up to rook the gullible? There's nothing there."

He is non-plussed. "I can only speak from my own experience, but my own experience is it works. You can't knock it until you now what it's about."

"Sure", I say, "but the parts that work aren't original. Like take auditing for example ..."

He seems a little surprised that I know what auditing is. "You know about auditing?"

"It's really just a rewarmed form of meditation."

"I've done meditation," he says.

"And auditing is basically the same thing, isn't it? You know, you learn progressively to reduce your automatic reaction to stimuli and external circumstances."

He rephrases this in some minor way which doesn't really matter, I say "sure".

Then he says something about The Tech, the Scientology "technology".

I say "they just made some science-fiction-looking toys to make you feel like you have some super-advanced technology but what you're actually DOING is the same as what people have been doing for thousands of years."

He is really on no firm footing now. He says "but, the Organization..."

And see, at that point, I know I got him. Because he isn't disagreeing with any of what I'm saying. He's just trying to come up with something else, some other tack to salvage his religion.

"The organization is a cult, dude", I say, then walk away. He is standing there looking after me.

I think from the internet, I have gotten good at this kind of debate.

Then, just a half a block later on, I run into another one. Same bizarre hideous gold tie, same armload of pamphlets. This guy is older, and kind of bitter-looking, compared to the young bright clean-cut lad from earlier.
[continued at >>> groups.google/alt.slack]

SubGenius Commercial [1991]
Film maker Douglass Smith directed this 1 minute SubGenius ad, which was originally shown on music video networks. It was written by, and stars, Rev. Ivan Stang. Stang is co-sub-founder of The Church of the SubGenius, the infamous UFO-sex-death cult from Texas, based on the Slack teachings of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.



ARISE! Chapter 01 - Instructions
Ane chapter clipped from a new 25-chapter revised version of ARISE!, The SubGenius Movie. ARISE! Directed by Cordt Holland and Rev. Ivan Stang, written by Stang, narrated by Dr. Hal Robins; it was first released in 1988.


[more chapters available at google video]

Russian Company Caught 'pushing' Hubbard Extremism [translations]

The Prosecutor’s Office has issued a complaint concerning coercion of an organization's employees to take L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology) training courses under threat of dismissal.

Samara, Russia [translate] ~ On June 30, 2010, Deputy Prosecutor Vilen Zatsepin issued a complaint to the director of RosKabelSvyaz, Lev Syrolev, concerning the elimination of violations of the Law on Countering Extremist Activities, of labor legislation, and of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

A verification was conducted and it was found that the management of RosKabelSvyaz, in violation of Chapter 2, Article 19 and Chapter 2, Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, of Article 3 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, and of Article 1 of the federal law "On Countering Extremist Activities", coerced employees of the organization, under threat of dismissal, to undergo training to improve production efficiency by taking L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology) training courses which involve studying works of L. Ron Hubbard.

An April 21, 2010 decision of the Surgut city court in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra ruled that works by L. Ron Hubbard are extremist on the grounds that they contain ideas justifying violence in general and, in particular, any means of opposing critics of Scientology. Hubbard’s works contain both explicit and implicit appeals for social and religious discord, for promoting exclusiveness by fostering the view of a person’s superiority or inferiority based on his or her social and religious affiliation and attitude toward religion, for impeding the lawful activity of state bodies, in particular judicial and law enforcement entities, and for committing crimes motivated by ideological and religious hatred.

Thus, by its actions to coerce employees of RosKabelSvyaz to study the ideology of Scientology and Hubbard's works, which have been recognized as extremist, the company’s management has violated the above-mentioned norms of law as well as the rights and lawful interests of the employees of the organization.

Other Articles:
• samara.kp.ru/online news [translate]
• lifenews.ru/news [translate]
• regionsamara.ru/readnews [translate]

Tipp'n the 'ol Wodka bottle in your direction, WWP & ExSci

L.Ron Hubbard and The New World Order [audio]

New World Order, alien domination, currency conspiracies, nazi psychiatrists. Yep, that's the inner world of Scientology's SeaOrg mindset. Spoon-fed Hubbard's post atomic paranoid delusions. It's no wonder it produces a bunch of couch jumpers set on clearing the planet.

It's also no wonder the current management is hard at work whitewashing a lot of Hubbard's original writings and recordings to get them up to speed with today's politically correct society. Below, we have a video of an ex-scientologist from Australia, who lets us in on how an upper-level scientologist/seaorg member looks at the outside world while looking through Hubbardized glasses. Makes you want to get out your old civil defense training manuals and hide under your desk.

Shocking Truth behind the Scientology Xenu Story



Ron's Journal: No 67
An audio snippet from Ron's Journal No.67. More audio and transcripts at urlcut.com/lron67.

Top CCHR Scientologist Accused of Child Rape Cover-Up [video]

news.com.au ~ A SENIOR Scientologist has been accused of covering up a case of sexual abuse by telling the young victim to lie to the police. Carmen Rainer says she was coached by Jan Eastgate after revealing she'd been abused by her stepfather when aged between seven and 11-years-old.

At the time, Ms Eastgate was head of the Australian wing of a Scientology commission which campaigns against psychiatry. She's now international head of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International.

Ms Rainer's mother, Phoebe, says when she learned of her daughter's abuse she decided to speak to somebody that could help. "My first thought was the chaplain in Scientology," she told ABC TV. But Ms Rainer says the Sydney church told her she was to blame "because I'd been bad in a past life".

"I believed them. I was eleven and that's what I knew, I grew up believing what they believed." Ms Rainer said Ms Eastgate told her to lie to police and community services about the abuse, which occurred some 30 years ago. She was told to tell the police she didn't want her stepfather to go to jail.

"The church got involved and sent Jan Eastgate over to drill me and tell me what to say to the police and DoCS," MS Rainer said,"She kept repeating 'Just say no'. You can't tell them ... because otherwise you will be taken away from your parents and you'll never see your family again'."

Ms Eastgate has denied the allegations, according to ABC TV. She's labeled them "egregiously false".

Lateline: Carmen Rainer's Story of Rape Cover-Up By Scientology


Lateline: Former Scientologist Amy Scobee On Who Is Jan Eastgate?
Amy Scobee, author of Scientology, Abuse at the Top, fills us in on who Jan Eastgate is and how it relates to what she endured while growing up in the Church of Scientology.
More here: lateline abc.net

Who Is Jan Eastgate?
1. A magazine produced by the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights International on psychiatric rape is available on the CCHR Australia website. Jan Eastgate appears at p5.
2. There's footage of Jan on CBS's "48 Hours" in 2006. (See the hour-long video with multiple appearances by Eastgate. You can see where she pops up a number of times in the transcript.The background is the Elli Perkins murder - a tragedy very similar to that of Linda Walicki and family in Sydney in 2007.)
3. Jan also appears in this 2008 program from svt (Sverige Television): YouTube - Mission investigate Scientology part 4 (at 3:44 ff).

ThanX for all the links n' vids, WWP.

UPDATED Video: Jan Eastgate Arrested May 31, 2011

Scientologist charged for 'intimidating' alleged sex abuse victim
theaustralian.com ~ A SENIOR member of the Church of Scientology has been charged by police for intimidating a young girl who wanted to report sexual abuse allegations within the church.
Jan Eastgate, the head of the church's "International Commission on Human Rights" which attacks psychology, has been charged by NSW Police with perverting the course of justice. [more]

Tom Cruise Witnessed Discombobulating Slash, oh my.

Segment of NY Times: Smoke Gets in His Eye (with my commentary) ~ “A visitor was outside the dressing room door”, Slash's manager announced,“was it OK for Tom Cruise to come in and say hello?”

Slash was taken aback. “As in, Tom Cruise Tom Cruise?” he asked. Yep, the wide-eyed manager said. “Um, yeah sure — tell him to come in.”

And suddenly there was a beaming Mr. Cruise (I believe the beaming is an side effect of transporting down from the mothership).

“I’m a big fan, and I just really wanted to meet you,” Mr. Cruise said. Some awkward banter followed — neither man seemed to know whether to play the fan role or the celebrity one — and ended with a confession.
“I’m a little nervous to go onstage,” Slash said in a soft voice. Mr. Cruise tried to comfort him, saying the same thing happens on a movie set. “That’s good,” Mr. Cruise asserted. “That means it will be a good performance.”

(Wait! What's this, Tom? No confront, shatter suppression? No KSW? Keep siphoning wallets? You might be in for a sec-check or two, with a complementary trip to the RPF, if your buddy, birthday-boy gets wind of it.)

With that, Mr. Cruise bid adieu, leaving Slash a bit discombobulated. “That has to be one of the weirdest things that has happened to me in at least two weeks,” he said, adding that he couldn’t believe how nice Mr. Cruise was. “And he’s not as short as everybody seems to think.” (...he's really much shorter).

Slash's Latest Album [Trailer]

Scientology's Tax Exempt Status Questioned (again) [video]

HuffPo: ~ For more than 25 years, the IRS denied tax-exemption to the Church of Scientology. The long-running policy flowed from an IRS determination in 1967 that Scientology was in fact a commercial entity operated solely for the benefit of founder L. Ron Hubbard.[timeline]

In 1993, seven years after Hubbard's death, the IRS made a puzzling and highly suspicious reversal. It settled its tax bill with Scientology for just $12.5 million and conferred on it the title of tax-exempt "religion."

Both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times later broke important ground with respective reports on the secret meetings that led to the agreement, and details of Scientology's harassment of IRS officials. [...continued]

And for a little more detail of how the financial workings go round-and-round in Scientology, an ex-insider's report from WWP (with links to an Ebook and court transcripts).

Message to American Taxpayers: Scientology's IRS Deal

1000's Come Out Against Scientology (not including the Russians).

zimbabwestar.com ~ Some of Hubbard's Scientology books have been found by a Russian court to be extremist. Prosecutors in Russia had urged the court to ban the Hubbard material, saying it contained calls to commit crimes motivated by religious hatred; in particular against critics of Scientology.

So, who are some of these critics, you ask. Why, people who used to belong to this group , some for many years and from many levels within the organization.

From a pre-press release additional comment posted on WWP: "This list includes Oscar winning director and screen writer Paul Haggis, actors Christopher Reeve and Jason Beghe, author William S. Burroughs, Ron (Hubbard) DeWolfe (L. Ron Hubbard's son who changed his last name), Jenna Miscavige Hill (niece of current leader of Scientology, David Miscavige), and a whole host of L. Ron Hubbard confidants including his second wife, one of his girlfriends, his personal auditor, his biographer, and his personal physician."

To get a sneek-peek at the workings of Chanology (an off-shoot of the group Anonymous) massaging the wording of their List of 1000+ Former Church of Scientology Members Speak Out Against The Church announcement, click here. Or maybe even go here, and join the conversation.

As a side note, seems Chanology is on the fence about the above Russian ban. In a separate discussion you can follow their debate on the pros and cons.

I Wrote 'Battlefield Earth' To Get Laid

Travolta called it,"The 'Schindler's List' of sci-fi."

Forest Whitaker and John Travolta in “Battlefield Earth.” The big-screen disaster based on the L. Ron Hubbard novel won a coveted Razzie for Worst Movie of the Decade. And now we have the guy who penned it speaking out:

NY Post ~ This month, "Battlefield Earth," the blockbuster bomb based on the novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, won the Razzie for "Worst Movie of the Decade."

J.D. Shapiro, the film's first screenwriter, accepted the award in person. Shapiro, who also wrote the screenplay for "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "We Married Margo", and is developing a King Arthur spoof called "524 AD" (524AD.com), explains what it's like to be attached to one of Hollywood's most notorious flops.

Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see Battlefield Earth. It wasn't as I intended -- promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.

It started, as so many of my choices do, with my Willy Wonker.

It was 1994, and I had read an article in Premiere magazine saying that the Celebrity Center, the Scientology epicenter in Los Angeles, was a great place to meet women. [continued at NYpost.com]

RiffTrax w/ Mike Nelson:Battlefield Earth

NY Times Hints Scientology Is Dying

Today, the The God of American Newspapers , broke a Scientology story, Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse, on their front-page (above the fold), and the internet's been abuzz ever since.

And so begins the downward spiral for the religion known as the Church of Scientology.

Over at WWP, a vocal opponent of Scientology (to say the least), a poster is talking on tipping points:

This is about tipping points. When we first started, digging every article (or at least key ones) made sense - we wanted it to hit a tipping point. Like rolling a boulder uphill, until you cross the apex and it rolls down on its own. If NYT is running your story on the front fucking page, pushing it does no more good than pushing a boulder rolling downhill. Relax and enjoy the win.

So I think I'm going to take said anon's advice, and dig out some old favorites to enjoy, that are full of win, of course.

Space Opera : Unimportant Dream [March'08]


Air Farce Live: Scientology


Stephen Colbert: Disses Xenu

Scientology Moves Into Weight-loss Snake Oil Scams

Over at WWP, they're fixing to release the bombshell about Kirstie Ally's latest weight-loss snake oil scam, Organic Liaison. And, yep, there's Scientology involved.

Seems they didn't bother to bury their corporate listings to far under their double chin. They lead back to Clearwater, Florida, Scientology's Mecca City.

Also, connections through her Advisory Board lead to other Scientology front groups, such as, Artists for Human Rights and Youth For Human Rights International.

Some Anons also noted that the backdrop to their marketing Testimonials seems to be none other than the Ft. Harrison Hotel, Scientology's flagship building of the Flag Land Base, also in Clearwater.

The parallels between Alley's "Release Me" and Hubbard's "Cal-Mag" concoction, a formula used in the Purification Rundown and Narconon (front group for Scientology), are creepily similar.

From About.com on weight loss scams:

"...Doctors, dieticians, and other experts agree that the best way to lose weight is to eat fewer calories and increase your physical activity so you burn more energy.

A reasonable goal is to lose about 1 lb. a week. For most people, that means cutting about 500 calories a day from your diet, eating a variety of nutritious foods, and exercising regularly.

When it comes to evaluating claims for weight loss products, the FTC recommends a healthy portion of skepticism. Before you spend money on products that promise fast and easy results, weigh the claims carefully..."

A few bloggers and press release boards have already picked up on this scoop from WWP, namely: fadedyouthblog.com, clodvantam.blogspot.com, ecorazzi.com, perezhilton.com, Rant/Rave, celebitchy.com, The Macho Response, semajblogeater.blogspot.com, Softpedia, examiner.com and Zimbio.com. Word around the water-cooler is, some bigger gossip blogs are picking up the story later this week. Should be fun.

Update: Kirstie Alley's Fat Farm Freak Out
womansday.ninemsn.com.au ~ The star's bizarre antics at a health spa have some worried that she's lost her grip on reality. Jackie Brygel reports.

With her eating out of control again, Kirstie Alley checked into a ritzy California fat farm. But according to fellow guests, the 90kg-plus actress made a mockery of the facility's strict rules on dieting and exercise.

The former Cheers star, who famously shed 34kg on the Jenny Craig plan, only to put it all back on — and more — didn't get off to the best start at the $9000-a-week spa. When she discovered she couldn't squeeze into the spa's workout gear, she was in no mood to exercise.

"Kirstie was the heaviest of the 21 women there," a spa insider told the US magazine National Enquirer.

"The facility provides their guests with grey sweatpants, grey shorts, grey T-shirts and other workout gear, but poor Kirstie was too big for the complimentary clothes and stuck out like a sore thumb as she lumbered around in black sweats and oversized shirts."

While guests are expected to adhere to a daily diet of 5000kJ, it seems Kirstie had other ideas. She did everything from trying to order desserts from the privacy of her room, to flirting with the kitchen staff in an attempt to obtain larger meal portions.

"When fish tacos were served for lunch one day, Kirstie complained she didn't like the way the food was cooked. But she ate it and then went back to ask for more," says the source.

"Another time, she flirted with the chef because she wanted two servings of lasagna. He just laughed and said no.

"Kirstie was caught whispering to the chef about the desserts she had ordered to her room, while other guests looked on in horror." [ Read the full story in Woman's Day (on sale February 28, 2010) ]

Livin' Large, Kirstie Alley Style



Big tip of the dinner fork to the Anons at WWP.

Scientology Workplace Lawsuit Involves NJ Councilman

ScienceBlogs.com ~ A couple years ago a dentist in Chicago was sued -- successfully -- for forcing Scientology on his employees. Now a similar suit has been filed in New Jersey against a businessman who is also a local politician.

John Buckley, owner & CEO of Open House Direct, which describes itself as, a corporate health and wellness company that provides health-related services, such as health fairs, screenings, vaccination clinics and "stress down'' events. Buckley co-owns the firm with Maria Leamy. Both Buckley[04] and Leamy[01] have been/are members of the Scientology business front group, WISE. More about them later.

Here are some of the accusations:

Three former employees -- Maurice Grays, John Knapp and Larry Kolakowski -- last month filed suit in Superior Court seeking legal relief, claiming they were victims of a hostile work environment and retaliation at the company on Hamilton Street...

Grays began work with the company as an exhibitor sales specialist in January 2006, according to the suit filed by attorney Ronald Wronko of Florham Park. During the hiring process, Grays was required to take several "entrance examinations based on the teachings of the Church of Scientology'' because the company used Scientology-based literature to train employees on sales and business administration, according to the lawsuit.

In 2006, Grays attended several Scientology courses at the Church of Scientology in New York City with the understanding they would assist him in his job.

Two months after receiving a favorable work evaluation and a raise, Grays separated from his wife in November 2007 and Open House Direct loaned him $1,300 to find a new apartment and $1,000 to pay bills. But Buckley and Leamy "began harassing'' Grays to become a Scientologist, the lawsuit charges.

The two owners then tried to compel Grays to take a course called "Purification Rundown'' as a condition of his employment. According to the lawsuit, the purpose of the course, which Grays refused to take, was to remove toxins from the body.

After Buckley and Leamy continued to pressure him to take the course as a "quid pro quo'' of his employment, Grays took the course and the company charged the tuition to Grays as additional debt, the lawsuit alleges.

Grays also was "forced against his will'' to purchase a library of Scientology books and its cost also was added to his debt, according to the lawsuit.

In spring 2008, Buckley asked Grays for a $5,000 donation to the Church of Scientology, but Grays refused and no longer attended any courses outside the work environment that he believed were for "a purely religious purpose,'' the suit contends.

Grays was fired in December 2008 "because of his refusal to become a member of the Church of Scientology,'' the suit alleges.

Back to WISE, or World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. This is one of as many as 260 front groups that may or may not profess a direct link to Scientology.

As reported here last September, Mark Bunker, of xenuTV, video taped an interview (in 2001) with a chiropractor and his wife describe how Scientology lured them in through management courses and ultimately harmed their business and their lives by sending them into bankruptcy.
Watch the interview, and see if you can find anything similar to the lawsuit brought against John Buckley and his company. I think you'll be very surprised. Also, be sure to read the comments at the base of this article.

'WISE'ing Up To Scientology's Front Group Fraud Parts 1-5 [34:30]

Scientology Bites Off More Than It Can Chew [lawsuit]

catholic.org ~ The litigious Hubbard religion, "...Church of Scientology, in Italy, has announced it is initiating legal proceedings against the Daughters of St. Paul and Maria Pia Gardini, a Catholic author who was formerly a Scientologist and has returned to the Catholic Church.

As reported on the Clerical Whispers Blog, the books, co-authored by Italian Catholic journalist Alberto Laggia and Italian Catholic Maria Pia Gardini, have been widely reviewed in Italy.

“Gardini is a former adherent of Scientology and member of its Sea Org elite, who run everything in Scientology and its front groups under the leadership of David Miscavige. She returned to full practice of Catholicism after leaving.”

“Whispers” notes that the lawsuit, along with reports of forced abortions in Sea Org, puts Scientology and its leader David Miscavige at risk of building a greater enmity with Catholics around the world.

In September of 2009 a lawyer for the Church of Scientology in Italy sent a warning letter to Giardini and the publishing house, warning them that they were engaged in libelous attacks. The letter was also signed by the head of the Italian group... ".

Scientology has a track-record of abusing the federal court system by using it to destroy their opponents, rather than to resolve an actual dispute over trademark law or any other legal matter. This constitutes 'extraordinary, malicious, wanton, and oppressive conduct.'

Lately, Scientology backed lawyers have been battling the leaderless online group, Anonymous, with mixed, but disappointing results, compared to the amount of time and money involved.

I feel Scientology has grown complacent in the legal arena, getting used to dealing with these type individuals. It seems, they've forgotten, the Catholic church isn't some kid with a protest sign, jumping up and down in their flower-bed.

Waking The Sleeping Giant
Scientology claims that it is fully compatible with all existing major world religions and that it does not conflict with them or their religious practices, but, Scientology ought to be of great concern to Catholics.

[from Clerical Whispers] "...Foremost among its abuses are coerced abortions in the Sea Org. Every pregnant woman, married or not, is forced to have an abortion, often with physical and verbal abuse. Astra Woodcraft, one of the founders of Ex-Scientology Kids, in the video Scientology's Coerced Sea Org abortions recounts the abuse she experienced and has witnessed. Her story is among those included in The Courage To Speak Out...", and "...No other organization in the world coerces women into abortion as a matter of policy except the government of China. The government of China at least allows a woman one child. Scientology's Sea Org allows her none."

Scientology really stepped on some toes and awoke a sleeping giant with this litigious maneuver. You see, the book (as far as I know) isn't even available in english, but yet the english speaking world is already abuzz about it.

Scientology and The Streisand Effect
For, supposedly, being a group of super-humans, this group has a hard time learning from their past mistakes.

They have yet to learn the lesson of the Streisand Effect, an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of causing the information to be publicized widely and to a greater extent than would have occurred if no censorship had been attempted. Read the history lesson below:

Back in 2008, "The Church [of Scientology] attempted to suppress the clip by issuing copyright infringement notices, but they failed. The video, which might never otherwise have been seen outside a handful of fringe websites, became an internet sensation. The attempt at suppression also spawned Anonymous, the most committed and enthusiastic anti-Scientology group in history".

All's I can add to this is: David Miscavige, thy shouldst ready thine checkbook , for time hadst brought the end to thine (money)feast. As prophesied, the cart containing thine just desserts [deserts] approacheth. So it shall be written, so it shall be done. ~ LOL.

Tip of the 'ol good-book to WWP.