Tony Ortega published an important piece on his Substack about the big lie that scientology has been telling the world since a mentally disturbed young man from Taiwan murdered a scientology security guard at the Advanced Org in Sydney. Scientology has been saying for years that this murder was a result of the young man watching The Aftermath show, which "incited" him to commit this heinous crime. They have spread this lie repeatedly on social media and in their hate-publications and wrote to the head of A&E at the time accusing him of being complicit because he had not canceled our … [Read more...]
Chicago Ideal Org: It’s Still Not Happening
Once again, it's supposedly happening! And what is it that is happening? You would be mistaken if you believed that this is announcement of the opening of the building that has been sitting ready and empty for nearly a year now. One of the 3 that were going to be opened "in the first quarter" of 2023. The poster leaves you with that impression. One from October did the same thing. The fact that they are offering dinner tells you everything you need to know. These are fundraiser, recruitment events. Probably more geared towards recruitment at this point as it's hard to raise … [Read more...]
The Massive International Co-audit
If you listen to David Miscavige, the expansion of scientology is "unprecedented," "monumental" and apparently knows no bounds. If you visit a scientology organization anywhere on earth you will see with your own eyes the empty buildings that show scientology is smaller and less popular than it has EVER been. If you watch the scientology utterances on social media and sent to their mailing lists, you get to see not just individual orgs, but a glimpse of the bigger picture. And that is what this latest document represents. This is a worldwide aggregation of people on co-audits now, … [Read more...]
Sea Org “Family Banquet” Today
Another new wrinkle in the scientology world generated by outside pressure. It is a PR exercise of course, and will be of no comfort to the broken families around the world who have members who have been declared. But it is an indication that scientology is feeling the heat about breaking up families and Sea Org members who are unable to take any time to visit with their relatives over this holiday season. Of course, they will also use it as a way of making money and recruiting (hence the "special presentation") but I have never seen anything like this before (though the … [Read more...]
Some Scientology Stats from Inside the Bubble
Some information recently leaked from inside the bubble about what the clubbed seals are telling themselves to feel good. They are now adding up the CUMULATIVE statistics of all "ideal orgs" in the US "since they became ideal." I am not going to go through the exercise of trying to add up how many weeks of cumulative statistics this is -- just Buffalo, NY and SFO between them are 20 years x 52 weeks x 3 orgs = 312o weeks. There are, according to the scientology.org website 33 "ideal orgs" in the US, the last of which (Ventura) opened in Feb 2020. So, all of them have been opened between … [Read more...]
Scientology Violating Canadian Minimum Wage Laws
The wonderful Phil Jones of "Call Me" billboard fame, joined me to dissect and discuss scientology's violation of Canada's minimum wage laws -- and how they have settled cases brought against them in exchange for silence. There can be no doubt they continue to be in violation of these laws -- we explain why. The documents we used in the episode can all be found here: CANADA FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE CANADA PUBLIC BENEFIT TEST QUEBEC ARTICLE REPORTING ON SETTLEMENTS ONTARIO MINIMUM WAGE LAW … [Read more...]
Leah & Mike Talk Scientology Safepointing with Alex Barnes-Ross
These are the documents we referenced: Alex's recent article: THE SAFE POINT PL PUBLIC IMAGE PL DEPT OF OFFICIAL AFFAIRS PL DEPT OF GOVT AFFAIRS PL … [Read more...]
Brothers Broken New York Premiere
This is a reprint of the article Tony Ortega published yesterday in order to get the word out as broadly as possible. If you are in the NY area, would love to see you at the premiere. [Today’s guest post is by Geoff Levin] What would you do if every day you woke up to a nightmare? Mine was being trapped in a cult for 46 years. In 2019 my brother Robbie Levin and I started producing the full length documentary Brothers Broken about our years in music and Scientology. The film debuts with its east coast premiere in the prestigious Dances With Films festival that celebrates ind … [Read more...]
Scientology: The Big Lie
Mitch Brisker, former film, video and ad director for David Miscavige has written a book which is available today. I highly recommend it. I summed up my thoughts about it in a blurb I wrote for the book cover: The improbable, yet astonishingly real story of a young artist drawn into a cult at a moment of vulnerability who, as an “outsider” is brought into its highly secretive, innermost sanctum. Mitch Brisker’s perspective is unique, powerful and insightful. His eye for detail and meaning, and his ability to explain and communicate concepts to an audience as a talented filmm … [Read more...]
New Live Video: Update on the World
Oh, No! Now What?
Video with Claire now available. The entire basis of this campaign is a quote they plucked from Hubbard: It is an absurd idea, but even then, twisted to suit their purpose. Hubbard claims there are only 10,000 people on earth capable of "steering or leading." But this was conflated into "10,000 people on Solo NOTs can steer/lead the world." Somehow, these people who are "on or through" Solo NOTs are the people who can magically do this. I guess whoever came up with this has not met many of the miserable people "on the level" who are not by any … [Read more...]
Leah & Mike: Scientology Emotional Terrorism
A new YouTube episode from Leah and me covering how and why scientology is emotional terrorism. This is the Psychology Today article I mention : My earlier blog post: Scientology Psychological Terrorism Stefani Hutchison's blog: Scientology's Psychological Warfare Doctrine And finally, a link to Martha Stout's excellent book: The Sociopath Next Door … [Read more...]
Scientology Finally Admits Disconnection is Real
A great discussion about disconnection and Scientology's policies and public statements. These are the documents (and video) we used. Tommy Davis' infamous CNN interview: https://youtu.be/eC5hoyIgpKc?si=8XmlXy8rjAsKglD8 Christie and her disconnection story o0n the front page the Sunday edition of the NY Times. From the scientology website: And the completely contradictory statement from the same Scientology.org website that a viewer pointed out during the episode: … [Read more...]
Tampa Bay Magazine: Scientology Edition
This month's edition of Tampa Bay is evidence of how hard scientology is still working to "safepoint" the Clearwater community. There is a concurrently published YouTube video on this subject: Tampa Bay magazine is typical of this sort of publication you find in many major cities -- it's glossy pages feature full page ads for the restaurants they review, ads from realtors for the homes they highlight, ads from lawyers who write columns in the magazine and a bunch of "social" shots of the local luminaries attending events in the area. There is no real reporting, it's all puff … [Read more...]
Our Philly Trip: PI’s, Ideal Org and More
We had a good time covering the events of our trip to Philly. It was fun, but apparently also of great interest to scientology.... Here are the pix we used in the video: … [Read more...]