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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city's bar association was swept with a search wand. Photo IDs were checked. Mobile phones were taken from...
PC World (Free subscription) | yesterday
A New Jersey man was sentenced to a year in prison plus $37,500 fine for his role in a DDoS attack last year.
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
According to a press release yesterday from the Church of Scientology, a New Jersey federal district court has sentenced Dmitriy Guzner for his part in a cyber attack on Scientology websites last January. Nineteen year old Guzner who, in May, plead guilty to one count of computer hacking, was given a sentence of 366 days in prison, 2 years probation and ordered to pay restitution of $37,500. Guzner...
io9 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not only was Scientology founded by a scifi writer, but its greatest enemy - the Anonymous group - models itself after a comic book character. Now members of the alien-loving religion are on trial in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Times Publishing Company announced a deal selling "Governing" magazine to e.Republic, a Sacramento, Calif.-based media company that publishes "Government Technology" magazine and has ties to the Church of Scientology.
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
St. Petersburg Times | The Hollywood Reporter e.Republic was chosen from among six bidders for the magazine. Several of the principals of the California media company are members of the Church of Scientology, and the St. Petersburg Times has been running stories critical of the church. "It's a business deal," says Times Publishing veep Andrew Corty . "We didn't want to exclude anybody...
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
'Scientology is evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially; and its adherents sadly deluded and often mentally ill.'' The above statement was not made by Nick Xenophon under the privilege of the Senate this week, but by a Victorian barrister, Kevin Anderson, QC, who had led a two-year government inquiry into the Church of Scientology...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
When Lafayette Ronald Hubbard founded Scientology in 1952, he had no idea there would one day be something called Techno music (best done in Germany, of course) let alone a quiz devoted to comparing and contrasting them. Turns out, the two have a lot in common. See if you can tell which word belongs to [...]
Library Grape (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Right on for Senator Xenophon (yes, that's his real name) : An Australian senator has called for a criminal investigation into Scientology, alleging that the cult is "an abusive, manipulative, violent and criminal organization." The senator's name is Nick Xenophon. This is going to be good. From the Sydney Morning Herald : Senator Xenophon yesterday used parliamentary privilege to attack...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A businessman is suing the Church of Scientology for hundreds of thousands of pounds, claiming that he lost his girlfriend and business after she became indoctrinated by the controversial self-styled church.
Dogwood Tales (Free subscription) | yesterday
Religion is inherently ridiculous. Believing in something with no evidence and making a virtue of credulousness. Dressing up in silly costumes and swanning about in gilded palaces or hi-tech glass cathedrals whilst espousing the moral benefits of poverty. Insisting that the world is only 6000 years old in the face of all the evidence. Spotting holy images in a piece of toast or bird shit on a wing...
Celebrity Gossip (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Mommy zombie no more? Katie Holmes somehow convinced Tom Cruise to enroll their daughter Suri Cruise in a Boston Catholic pre-school which of course is not a Scientologist school. Rumors were Tom and Katie Holmes were in a heated battle over what school their daughter, Suri Cruise, should attend. It seems Cruise wants his daughter to follow his religion of “Scientology” and Katie wants...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A new book claims the Top Gun star had a tendency to chat to ashtrays, bottles and other inanimate objects Just a teeny tiny amount of space left to say, hey, guess what? Tom Cruise? He's a bit fricking weird! Yuhdoansay. In Blown For Good, the latest book by an escapee from the Galactic Confederacy, AKA Scientology, Marc Headley claims that Cruise would talk to inanimate objects "for hours"....
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Church of Scientology says independent senator Nick Xenophon ignored an invitation to meet with church officials before he used parliamentary privilege to attack the organisation.
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