Scientology 101

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology
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Protesters in Guy Fawkes masks outside a Scientology center at the February 10, 2008 Project Chanology protest.

http://www.themachoresponse.com/crackMC/wordpress/?tag=david-geffen

The Clintons, Tom Cruise, Cultism (And Tony Blair's Wife)

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Above, more of the world-wide influence of the NewAge movement is being revealed through a talk Marty Rathburn, a former Scientology muckety-muck, gave in Germany:

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were targeted by Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and former President Bill Clinton to give tax breaks to the controversial Church of Scientology, it is revealed today.
Clinton and Cruise plotted for months to overturn a legal ruling which refused to grant Scientology charity status in Britain. At one point the former President suggested he directly approached Cherie Blair for help as ‘she was a practising lawyer and would understand the details’.

http://www.effective-education.org/pg014.html
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African continent is home to more than 800 million people — a seventh of the world's population, with the highest population growth rate. Half the population is illiterate. Wars, foreign debt and the HIV/AIDS epidemic are among the daunting challenges to its education systems, and many of its countries urgently require assistance from industrialised nations. In response to this crisis, the churches of Scientology and Applied Scholastics have made assistance to African nations a priority, with teams of tutors establishing themselves in Africa since the mid-1970s.

Education programmes employing Study Technology have had a tremendous impact across Africa — opening the doors to learning for more than 2 million students — such as these children from Zimbabwe. http://m.cltampa.com/dailyloaf/archives/2011/08/11/inside-scientology-author-scores-with-haiti-expose Excerpt: Graham maintains that the Clinton Foundation has "extensive experience in post-crisis management and development." The foundation's role, she adds, "is to assist the Haitians, not to prescribe or implement solutions unilaterally." But on the ground in Haiti, Clinton's surrogates managed to alienate almost everyone with whom they came into contact. "When you listen to President Clinton, his rhetoric is right on point," says a prominent Haitian. "But his people were incredibly arrogant; they knew nothing about Haiti or Haitians. They acted like, because they worked for a former president, they ruled the world." In one incident, he says, Haitian ministers were shut out of an IHRC board meeting after a Clinton staffer told them their names were not on the list. "These are the ministers of Haiti — it's their country! What do you mean 'not on the list'?" If you care about this country and about the ability of our country to adequately help poor counties make their world better, read Janet Reitman's "How the World Failed Haiti." http://gawker.com/5462117/scientologists-in-haiti-a-firsthand-account Excerpt: Scientologists in Haiti: A Firsthand Account We've spoken to someone who traveled to Haiti on a Scientology plane — and witnessed firsthand the ineptitude, quackery and irresponsibility of the church's minions in a disaster zone. Here's his account. I arrived at JFK last week, ready to go. I knew we were traveling with doctors and EMTs, but I didn't expect to see 50 scientologists, in their yellow shirts with Volunteer Minister on them. They were completely unprepared for going to a third world country, let alone a disaster zone. One girl was in designer cowboy boots. I asked her if she'd brought any sturdier footwear. "Oh no, these'll be fine." I asked another guy what he'd packed and he said he hadn't bothered to bring soap or toilet paper or food, but that he'd just "buy whatever I need at Port-au-Prince airport." I couldn't break it to him. They had no place to stay, and no supplies — their idea was to use the ton of money they had to buy food to distribute when they got there. But there was no food and no water. That was the point. By the time we arrived in Haiti, after a stopover in Miami, we had missed three landing slots at the airport. Aid agencies — genuine aid agencies — from other countries were being turned away, refused permission to land. But we still got a slot straight away. The guy who ran our charter seemed to think that the Scientologists had some real influence with the US Government, who were assigning the slots. http://www.scientology.org/?source=google&gclid=CPXZlcnlwKsCFQhrgwodUnbExA Excerpt: SCIENTOLOGY TODAY Church of Scientology of Tampa Expands Into New Historic Landmark Ybor Square Home The celebration marking Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard’s hundredth birthday (March 13, 1911) began Saturday evening, March 12, with a momentous Centennial Event including a two-hour biographical presentation of the Founder’s life. It was attended by more than 6,000 in Clearwater, Florida. http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/ Excerpt:  appreciate the work Tony has done in investigating and working to understand me and what the independent movement is about.  I think he provides a fairly accurate picture.   One thing that Tony and I apparently don’t see eye to eye on is what our impact is on the future of Scientology.  While he takes pains to distinguish between Corporate Scientology and Independent Scientology in the article at issue, he continues to consider – by the relegation of his story to the top twenty five people “crippling Scientology” – that we are somehow hurting the public image of Scientology.  I couldn’t disagree more emphatically.  I post about signs of our objectives being attained – differentiating in the public mind between the practice of Scientology philosophy and the daily criminal activity of the “church” of Scientology – fairly often (ironically including Tony’s own coverage of Janet Reitman’s book, our recent trip to Germany, and religious scholar Hugh Urban’s book on Scientology). http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/marty_rathbun_top_25_crippling_scientology.php Excerpt: I don't really doubt Mike Rinder -- who until he defected in 2007 was the Church of Scientology's top spokesman and ran the office that would oversee such an operation -- when he says that the "Squirrel Busters" siege is proof that church leader David Miscavige fears nothing like he fears Rathbun and his blog. And that's the one and only reason Rathbun is so high in this countdown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rathbun Excerpt: Mark "Marty" C. Rathbun was Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center (RTC), the organization that controls the copyrights and trademarks of the materials relating to Dianetics and Scientology.[3] His role was to head the Inspector General Network, described by the Church of Scientology as "an independent investigatory and policing body whose function is to keep Scientology working by ensuring the pure and ethical use of Dianetics and Scientology technology." The post is one of the most senior management functions in the Church and its related organizations.[4] Rathbun left the Church of Scientology in 2004 and is now an independent Scientologist.

David Miscavige 1 of 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWUasKX3FZE

http://newhumanist.org.uk/2208/whistleblower-working-for-scientology
ExcerptIf David Miscavige, the head of the Church of Scientology, had delivered a Christmas Day speech he might have described 2009 as an annus horribilis for his organisation. In October, a French court convicted the Church of fraud, following a trial over allegations by two women that they were conned into paying tens of thousands of Euros for Scientology training materials; and a bookshop belonging to the organisation was fined 600,000 Euros. A month later in Sydney, an independent senator, Nick Xenophon, stood up in the Australian parliament and denounced Scientology as a criminal organisation that “coerces its followers into having abortions” and one “that defrauds, that blackmails, that falsely imprisons”. He then called for a parliamentary investigation into the tax-exempt status enjoyed by Scientology in Australia.:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-exactly-is-scientology.html
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Hubbard himself claimed many religious and philosophical forbears to Scientology, including Sigmund Freud, the Hindu Vedas, the Tao Te Ching, and Buddhism, among others.  (remember Rupert Murdoch's daughter is married to Freud's g'son or g'gson???)  ...cal
According to the Church of Scientology, its goal is "a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights."