Scientology IV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijou_Phillips
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In 1999, she started dating her Black and White co-star actor Elijah Wood; the couple later broke up. In 2004, Phillips began dating That '70s Show actor Danny Masterson;^[9] the couple met at a poker tournament in Las Vegas. They are both Scientologists.^[10] The couple announced their engagement in March 2009.^[11][12]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Van_Susteren
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Van Susteren married tort lawyer John P. Coale in 1988.^[8] Coale, a self-described "ambulance chaser", became known as "Bhopal Coale" for his solicitation of clients among victims of the Bhopal disaster.^[9] He has served as an adviser for Sarah Palin.^[10]
Van Susteren and her husband are members of the Church of Scientology.^[8][11]
Since 2006, she has been part owner of a restaurant, the Old Mill Inn, in Mattituck, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island.^[12]
In recognition of her Dutch heritage she was asked to assume the role of Honorary Chairperson of the Little Chute Windmill Committee. The windmill, an authentic reproduction of a Dutch one, will be built in Little Chute, Wisconsin, where Van Susteren's family lived for some time.^[13]
She is a shareholder of the Green Bay Packers.^[14]

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/prolinks/greta.html
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Greta and her husband John P. Coale were investors in the Ponzi scheme of Scientologist Reed Slatkin; they invested $2.1 million and received $2.7 million in payments according to this report by the court-appointed trustee. When being told that even innocent parties (i.e. participants who didn't know it was a Ponzi scheme) are required to return the extra money, John Coale said: "I'll fight this thing for 100 years" because "Most of that money went to the IRS." (Source: The Los Angeles Times from 21.12.2001)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Slatkin
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Reed Eliot Slatkin (born January 22, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan) was an initial investor and co-founder of EarthLink^[2][3] and the perpetrator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the United States since that conducted by Charles Ponzi himself.^[4]
Slatkin was an ordained Scientology minister since 1975.^[4][5][6] Around 1984 he changed from being a full-time minister to becoming a self-employed investor, and many of his investment clients and victims were also Scientologists.^[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthLink
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In 2002, when co-founder Reed Slatkin's Ponzi scheme made headlines,^[13] EarthLink released a statement:^[14]

"The legal proceedings concerning ex-Board member Reed Slatkin do not involve or impact EarthLink or EarthLink funds. The proceedings involve Mr. Slatkin and his personal clients."

http://www.skeptictank.org/slatkin/rslat019.htm
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The Los Angeles Times reported this week that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites) (SEC) is investigating Slatkin. While SEC officials would not confirm the investigation, at least three investor lawsuits alleging fraud or theft have been filed and Slatkin reportedly owes the IRS $6 million.
Blown-Up Returns
An estimated 100 investors, including EarthLink co-founders Sky Dayton and Charles Betty as well as members of the Church of Scientology, of which Slatkin was a member, met with lawyers this week.
The claims against Slatkin, which include allegations that he collected more than $300 million and pocketed over $35 million, could total as much as $600 million or more, according to attorneys.
Published reports indicate that the SEC investigation involves investment fraud and an alleged computerized day-trading operation that would produce annual returns of 60 percent for investors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Dayton
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In 1998 Dayton began taking surfing lessons and quickly fell for the sport. His love for surfing is often featured in articles about him and his businesses.
Dayton is the great grandson of politician, industrialist and poet, Sam DeWitt.
Dayton is married to novelist Arwen Elys Dayton. They are Scientologists and they have three children.^[22][23]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/196800747
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Before joining EarthLink, Betty served as CEO of Digital Communications Associates. He was the youngest CEO of a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, according to Atlanta-based EarthLink.

http://www.sfsite.com/07b/res108.htm  Arwen Elys Dayton.
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"Balance" is as apt a word to describe this novel as "resurrection." Imbalance threatens the survival of the Kinleys, the Lucien, and the people of Earth. The missing technology is the weight that is going to tip the scales irretrievably in one camp's favour. Balance is the directive behind the Kinleys' interaction with the Earth people, then and now. A balance of information appears to be beyond hope. Without a balance of power, no one is coming out of this battle alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_DeWitt
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Samuel Aaron "Sam" DeWitt (1891 – January 22, 1963) was a businessman, poet, playwright, and politician. He is best remembered as a New York State Legislator who represented Bronx's 7th district from 1919 until his expulsion from the Assembly in 1920.

http://www.historyofcomputercommunications.info/Book/11/11.10_DigitalCommunicationAssociates.html
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Digital Communication Associates

In 1980, investors in Digital Communications Associates (DCA), frustrated with the leadership of the founder John Alderman, began the search for a new president to lead the company that laid claim to be the first to introduce a statistical multiplexer. On February 1, 1981, they hired Bertil Nordin who would, with an infusion of $3.5 million of venture capital, quickly transform the sleepy little company in Norcross GA into a market presence.[9] Nordin remembers:

“If you take any industry that starts out as a cottage industry, you always have a lot of competitors. As the industry grew, it took more and more marketing, more and more R&D in order to remain competitive, and the upshot was that it's like a pyramid.  It starts out with a lot of competitors -- actually, more like an hourglass.  It starts out with somebody with the original product, and then a lot of companies -- small companies -- are in it, and then it narrows down again to be very few of them, and only the strongest survive. So, our feeling was at the time that if you're going to be one of the longer term players, you better put together a pretty broad spectrum of data communications products and become pretty large or you're not going to be one of the survivors. So that's essentially what we did.”

In February 1983, buoyed by the prospects of their new statistical multiplexer, DCA went public and raised $24 million.[10]   A few months later they acquired Technical Analysis Corporation that had a hot product named IRMA that enabled IBM personal computers to connect to IBM mainframe computers. DCA management then set their eyes on the modem manufacturer Rixon, a subsidiary of the French conglomerate, Schlumberger Ltd. They soon reached a deal that for $27 million would transform DCA into a leading Data Communication firm with realistic prospects of reaching $100 million of revenue in 1985.

http://www.alternet.org/world/14877/?page=1
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Disinformation Trumps Facts

Although it sounded credible enough in 1991, the U.S. claim was weak -- although you wouldn't know it from the TV coverage. After the bombing, Michel Wery, the plant's contractor, told the French daily Liberation that the factory was making baby milk when it first started up in 1979, and that its equipment was not built to breed or package viruses. In early February, he reconfirmed his story for the Washington Post, which also quoted two dairy technicians from New Zealand, Malcolm Seamark and Kevin Lowe, who had been inside the plant at least four times, to help another French crew make repairs. Both men corroborated Arnett's story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Ribisi
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Personal life
Ribisi married Beck Hansen in April 2004,^[7] shortly before giving birth to their son, Cosimo Henri.^[8] The couple's second child, daughter Tuesday, was born in 2007.^[9]
Like her husband and brother, she is a Scientologist.^[4]

http://www.skeptictank.org/gen3/gen01968.htm
Scientology and Self Harm

http://www.lermanet.com/beck/
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A Guide to Beck and Scientology for Journalists and Fans
June 12, 2008 UPDATE
The article that appears below this update was webbed soon after Beck's 2005 album, Guero, was released. Since then, Beck has managed to avoid the limelight as a celebrity Scientologist-with one notable exception.
In July 2007, in New York City, a filmmaker, video game creator, and blogger named Theresa Duncan died of an apparent drug and alcohol overdose. Her death was ruled a suicide. A week after Duncan's death, her companion of twelve years, the artist Jeremy Blake, was reported to have been seen walking into the ocean at Rockaway Beach, New York. His body was found off the coast of New Jersey five days later.
Beck's family and childhood
Beck's father, David Campbell, and mother, Bibbe Hansen, have been Scientologists for over thirty years. Beck has told interviewers he was born at home on July 8, 1970, and has offered numerous stories of growing up in extreme poverty in a rough neighborhood. However, David Campbell was doing quite well as a session musician in the early 70's. Campbell was featured regularly in the Church of Scientology's Celebrity magazine as a successful session musician and arranger. When Beck was a boy, David was arranging and performing at concerts with Linda Ronstadt, and the family was living in comfortable homes in Hollywood and Laurel Canyon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Campbell_(composer)
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Scientology
Beck has been involved in Scientology for most of his life; his wife, Marissa, is also a second-generation Scientologist. Marissa and her twin brother, Giovanni, were delivered by Beck's mother, Bibbe.^[76] Beck publicly acknowledged his affiliation with Scientology for the first time in an interview published in The New York Times Magazine on March 6, 2005. Further confirmation came in an interview with the Irish Sunday Tribune's i Magazine on June 11, 2005, where he was quoted as saying, "Yeah, I'm a Scientologist. My father has been a Scientologist for about 35 years, so I grew up in and around it." When questioned by the interviewer about Scientology's core beliefs, he replied:

What it actually is is just sort of, uh, you know, I think it's about philosophy and sort of, uh, all these kinds of, you know, ideals that are common to a lot of religions....There's nothing fantastical...just a real deep grassroots concerted effort for humanitarian causes. I don't know if you know the stuff they have. It's unbelievable the stuff they are doing. Education...they have free centres all over the place for poor kids. They have the number one drug rehabilitation programme in the entire world (called Narconon). It has a 90-something percent success rate...When you look at the actual facts and not what's conjured in people's minds that's all bullshit to me because I've actually seen stuff first hand.^[77]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=82640
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Warner Bros. Schedules The Gangster Squad

Source: Warner Bros. Pictures

September 28, 2011

Warner Bros. Pictures has set an October 19, 2012 release for Zombieland and 30 Minutes or Less director Ruben Fleischer's The Gangster Squad. Written by Will Beall, the crime thriller stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi and Anthony Mackie. It is described as follows:

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and—if he has his way—every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop... except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.

http://www.bibbe.com/bibbe3.htm

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Bibbe Hansen & Boy George Explain It All For You

Bibbe and "The Boy"

New York City

Bibbe is the daughter of artist Al Hansen, and actress Audrey Hansen. As a child she often performed in her father's avant-garde theater pieces called "Happenings". She was also involved in the presentations of his contemporaries at such historical venues as La Mama, Circle in the Square and Judson Church and she was featured in films by Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas. At the age of thirteen, Bibbe was the youngest of the Warhol Superstars starring in a film entitled, "Prison" opposite Edie Sedgewick.

Los Angeles

A random sojourn brought Bibbe to Los Angeles where she founded a theater company, acted in "B" movies and participated in the local punk scene as musician, and documenteur. She is the mother of three brilliant children, Beck, Channing and Rain; a pop musician, fine artist and poet respectively. From 1990 -1995, with her husband Sean Carrillo, she operated Troy Cafe in downtown Los Angeles. With the incomparable Vaginal Davis, Bibbe formed the band Black Fag and wrote, performed and directed theater and performances with friends like Charles Lane, Jade Gordon, John Aes-Nihil and Edwin Seth Brown.

Scientology and the Virginia Tech Shootings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4biT4KxLiM

http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/charles_manson_and_scientology.htm
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Manson was introduced to Scientology by Lanier Rayner, one of his cell mate at the United States Penitentiary of McNeil Island, Washington, where he was assigned on July 1961. The initiative was Rayner's own and wasn't part of any official Scientology program. Manson was dabbling in countless subjects and philosophies at the time and Scientology was a fairly new and fashionable mind development technique.

For a while, Manson would speak of nothing else and would reply "Scientology" if asked for his religion. After about 150 hours of "auditing" (Scientology processes), however, he was screaming to get away from his "auditor" (the person administrating Scientology processes) and even managed to be put in solitary confinement. This was probably due to the fact that Scientology brings one to confront and take responsibility for his unethical behavior, something that, obviously, Manson never could do.

http://www.whale.to/b/constantine6.html
CIA MIND CONTROL AT STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE

By Alex Constantine

December 1996
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Many of the SRI empaths were mustered from L. Ron Hubbard's
Church of Scientology. Harold Puthoff, the Institute's senior
researcher, was a leading Scientologist. Two remote viewers from
SRI have also held rank in the Church: Ingo Swann, a Class VII
Operating Thetan, a founder of the Scientology Center in Los
Angeles, and the late Pat Price. Puthoff and Targ's lab assistant
was a Scientologist married to a minister of the church. When
Swann joined SRI, he stated openly, "fourteen Clears participated
in the experiments, more than I would suspect." At the time he
denied CIA involvement, but now acknowledges, "it was rather
common knowledge all along who the sponsor was, although in
documents the identity of the Agency was concealed behind the
sobriquet of an east-coast scientist."

http://fumento.com/adhd/adhdblock.html
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Dr. Block worked with a group that was founded by the Church of Scientology.
In 2001 Dr. Block was a keynote speaker at a Hollywood seminar on children and attention issues hosted by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a group established by the Church of Scientology. In 1999, the vice president of CCHR reportedly coached Dr. Block for an interview about child violence and ADHD drugs on CNN.
Dr. Block has claimed to suffer from multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS).
Medical authorities, notably the American Medical Association, do not recognize MCS as a clinical disorder. 48 Hours didn't tell the viewers this either.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-12.html
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OSA (Office of Special Affairs) -- The Secret CIA of Scientology

Remember one thing, we are not running a business, we are running a government. We are in direct control of people's lives.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, Policy letter of 5 August 1959

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By the mid-1960s, Scientology was a religion under siege. In the U.S., the Church had been raided by the F.D.A. In England, Scientology was being investigated by Parliament and St. Hill students lived in danger of being deported. The Australian Inquiry was underway and there were tremors from South Africa. Hubbard had been deported from Rhodesia and was under constant F.B.I. surveillance at St. Hill.
Predisposed to paranoia, Hubbard was not one to remain on the defensive for long. "Don't ever defend, always attack," he wrote. "If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace...." (1)
Evidence of the war mentality promoted by Hubbard and highly contagious within Scientology is a policy written by Hubbard called The War, in which he announced:

You may not realize it ... but there is only one small group that has hammered Dianetics and Scientology for eighteen years. The press attacks, the public upsets you receive ... were generated by this one group. Last year we isolated a dozen men at the top. This year we found the organization these used and all its connections over the world.... (2)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us.html
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/wakefield/us-03.html
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1) Nowhere is there a group of predominantly young people more idealistic, more dedicated, more fervently devoted to their cause than in Scientology. Scientologists give their all -- their time, their energy, their money and assets, and even their children -- to the cause, frequently living in a manner that would seem comfortably familiar to, for example, a first-century Christian.

2) The fanatic dedication of the Scientologist does not come about by accident. It is carefully and systematically inculcated by the propaganda of Scientology, to which both the novice and seasoned Scientologist are exposed on a daily basis. Essential, therefore, to understanding both Scientology and the Scientologist is an examination of the propaganda, contained in the millions of words of Hubbard on tape recordings and in printed "bulletins" listened to or read daily by the Scientologist.
A distinction is made here between the propaganda of Scientology and that of Dianetics. In Dianetics, the new convert is led to believe in cures for an endless array of physical maladies, from asthma to allergies to cancer, and even to believe that through Dianetic and Scientology auditing there will be an exemption from death itself. It is fabled that through auditing, the Scientologist of advanced age will be able to simply "drop the body" at will, and without pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_Project_Force
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Rehabilitation Project Force, or RPF, is a controversial program set up by the Church of Scientology Sea Organization, intended to rehabilitate members of the Sea Organization (not everyday parishioners) who have not lived up to the Church expectations or have violated certain policies. As part of this program, and in addition to the application of Scientology procedures, members do manual labor tasks around Sea Org bases. There have been some reports of overwork and mistreatment at RPF facilities^[1], and the program can take years to complete.^[2][3][4]

The Rehabilitation Project Force developed out of a predecessor group, the Mud Box Brigade, aboard L. Ron Hubbard's private fleet in the late 1960s. The mud box is a small perforated screening box fitted to the suction pipe in the bilge of a ship, and is designed to catch larger solid waste before it can choke the pipeline and potentially damage the pump. The Mud Box Brigade was assigned to clean out the mud box as well as fuel lines, water hues, bilges and so on.^[5] As this involved cleaning foul-smelling waste by hand, it was understandably not a popular task.

http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/rpf_melton.htm
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1) If a brother is found to be obstinate, or disobedient, or proud, or murmuring, or habitually transgressing the Holy Rule in any point and contemptuous of the order of his seniors, the latter shall admonish him secretly a first and second time, as Our Lord commands. If he fails to amend, let him be given a public rebuke in front of the whole community. But if even then he does not reform, let him be placed under excommunication, provided that he understands the seriousness of that penalty; if he is perverse, however, let him undergo corporal punishment. [50]

2)  the individual was offered the option of pursuing the RPF program or leaving the Sea Org. In one case, the person I interviewed had misappropriated a considerable amount of church money for personal use.

Once a person is informed of the basics of the RPF option, understand what is involved, and chooses it, s/he signs a document noting his/her agreement to join the program.

Videos to watch
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/threads/hana-whitfield-on-the-cruel-and-depraved-hubbard-in-the-sixties.60290/