Another in the ongoing series exploring the "explosive international growth" of scientology and its "straight up and vertical expansion," according to the gospel of David Miscavige. A Special Correspondent happened to be in Calgary recently and sent in this report. Although not listed on the official church website, Scientology maintains a Mission in Calgary Canada. According to http://scientologycalgary.org/ the "Church of Scientology Mission of Calgary" offers: "a broad range of services from life improvement courses, such as how to be more effective at work, how to know who you c … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2014
Scientology Responds
Last week I put up a post entitled Scientology Takes Clearwater For Suckers. A bit earlier tonight, scientology finally got their response approved through command channels, and it appeared in the form of the comment reprinted below. Of course, a comment such as this to an old post would be buried and most people would not see it. I wanted it to receive the fullest airing possible in the interest of fairness. Here is the response, posted under the name "Walter Lippmann" Oh, dear, Mike, you know very little — about many things but most to the point here a … [Read more...]
10 Million Scientologists – Where Are They?
Another in the Sunday Redux series. This one was originally published on March 25, 2013. Scientology's "massive international expansion" has become almost a mantra of David Miscavige and his clone spokespeople (mostly lawyers these days) that send letters to the media. At least in the US it seems the spokespeople are no longer allowed to speak . This is the first in a series of articles that will examine the FACTS about this supposed “massive international expansion”. How Many Scientologists? Corporate Scientology shouts from the rooftops that there are 10 million members wor … [Read more...]
10,000 Onto Solo NOTs. NOT
Crazy Lady Lundeen has just announced there are now 6615 "on or through" Solo NOTs. An earlier post containing an email from Clive Rabies dated 1 February 2014 listed the figure at 6433. That is an increase of 182. This means they have added 182 people "on or through Solo NOTs" to the grand total in 9 months, or 20 per month. Which means they only have 385 more to reach their "next target" of 7000. And at this rate, that monumental milestone will be rolling around in another 19 months. On 1 July 2016. And they will reach their goal of 10,000 at the end of 2029. (Of course, with … [Read more...]
Ideal Production
Here are the pages of completions from the latest magazine of the Pasadena Org. Of course, this is one the orgs that is "Clearing LA" and making "Planetary Clearing A Reality." But somehow, like EVERY OTHER ORG ON EARTH, the straight up and vertical 47X expansion ushered in with GAG II, thanks to the brilliance of Chairman of Board, David Miscavige, seems to be bypassing them. Get ready to be overwhelmed with the massive production (who knows how long this covers, probably a few months based on other completions lists that are published): FROM THE HGC: A SINGLE GRADE ONE … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Straight Up and Vertical? This is a recent posting on Instagram showing just how packed the HGC's in the new SP building are.... There is NOTHING happening there, and apparently not even any staff around. They have NO shame... This child has no clue what he is being used for. Once Valley is ideal we can turn on the media blitz... Among all the other bs in here, I wonder why they are waiting for the media blitz? Apparently SO Members are now bodyrouting at the subway entrance at Sunset and Vermont... The "Test Center" on Hollywood Blvd remains … [Read more...]
Scientology Takes Clearwater For Suckers
There has been considerable media attention to the church opposition to the Clearwater Aquarium development on the site right behind the Fort Harrison. Fox News weighed in. Then the Tampa Bay Times and then the TBT wrote an editorial. The church cites a Florida State University (FSU) study showing the economic impact they have in the local community and somehow "reason" that the Aquarium would be a bad idea. They also cite to an Urban Land Institute (ULI) study commissioned by the city to puff up their importance (as they said the city and the church should "work together") though it is a l … [Read more...]
The Ideal CLO EU
Here is the hype from scientology.org about the wondrous launch of the "future of scientology" in the "European Commonwealth." Somehow there is no mention of the size of the crowd (I wonder why?) But there is plenty of Shermanspeak hype to keep the clubbed seals clapping. Just a sample: If you happened to be in Copenhagen, Denmark the afternoon of October 25, you could have seen the future of Scientology in Europe unfold literally before your eyes. “Today we dedicate a cornerstone for Scientology in Europe and thereby lay a firm foundation from which to extend our Golden Age ev … [Read more...]
Flag “Good News” Is Getting Ugly
Been a bit busy and backlogged some of these reports. If you read the first Mintzmeat report, you will observe the Super Power/Running Program completions have settled down to between 10 and 20 per week, in a long term Emergency trend. And OT VII completions are almost always under 10 per week. The first two stats don't come close to justifying the massive SP building. This is lame as hell. Compared to the earlier posts, this is how the stats look (these figures are earliest weeks first, these latest reports added to the end). Super Power: 21 24 23 21 20 10 1 … [Read more...]
Sunday Redux — The Big Ideal Org Lie
I am now making a regular Sunday feature of reposting previous articles that I felt were important. This one is from March 26, 2013. I have added some editorial comments to this in italicized red text that seem appropriate. New Churches of Scientology — Where Are They? The Big Lie: David Miscavige repeats it over and over at events and in Corporate Scientology publications “We are expanding like never before – we have opened X new churches in the last X alone.” Here is a representative sample (in italics) from the Tampa Bay Times – just one of the MANY letters … [Read more...]