An appropriate question for Mr. Mintz. Flag is just limping along, with every stat he reports either downtrending or level long-term. No doubt he doesn't notice. He just thinks 8 Clears and 8 OT VII's a week is "good news" so keeps sending it out. And as long as it has a heading saying it's good news, everyone apparently buys it. Explains why so many people were sent from Flag to try to boost the ideal Pacifica Bridge. Compared to the earlier posts, this is how the stats look (these figures are earliest weeks first, these latest reports added to the … [Read more...]
Valley OTC Minutes
For posterity's sake. MINUTES VALLEY ORG OT COMMITTEE MEETING Sept 23, 2014 Note: The minutes are for the sole use of Valley OTC members. All members receive a copy. Please do not forward the minutes to anyone else for any reason. ATTENDEES: Kathy Welch, Kathie Heard, Mary Lee Krackow, Diane Temps, Karen Brown, David Wilson, Bonita Wilson, Avi Lonstein, Dean Glosup, Mark Anderson, Ralph Temps, Bob Brooks, Vered Ziv, Heelah Cohen, Linda Massey, Vera Seidler, Lauren Perreau, Chuck Jacobs, Kathy DiGalbo, Bobbi Kassowitz, Marty Kassowitz, Bob Welch, Ben Ghiora, Sue Kattoo, Jill Kirsch, … [Read more...]
No Wonder CO AOLA Was Busted
This is a page from the latest Advance mag (soon to be renamed Consolidate mag and thereafter Fall Back mag). This comes out maybe a couple of times a year, though I believe it is supposed to be monthly. Just for sake of giving them the benefit of the doubt, let's assume this is the production for a single month. (Though of course the same people appear on here for several services that SHOULD take more than a month). Even just a single month -- being kind -- it is astonishingly bereft of volume. If they are making 7 new Solo Auditors a month (Solo 2 Comps) and 5 OT III's this is so … [Read more...]
The New PAC “Crack Command Team”
For those interested in who has been sent to take charge of the "most out ethics city on earth." This is the full PR posed shot of the new kids in town. Love those scarves and pocket hankies. Given the variety of readers here, probably most will be identified.... Someone sent this to me and I just saw it, so am adding it here: The new Execs were referred to as a "Crack Command Team". Also Execs at ASHO: Carlos Colon and Justin Blackburn. Also at ASHO was Jessica ... who is a 24 year Sea Org veteran. At LA Org is D/ED Brooke Bruni (spelling?) OES Alex Gibson, wife of new Tech … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies On Friday
The vultures are circling... "South Bay" sounds so much more gentrified... Not normally used to describe Inglewood -- more like Redondo Beach and Pacific Palisades. But no big surprise that Inglewood needs staff. Last I heard they had less than 30. About 2,000sq ft per person. Cross Order Alert I thought everyone was supposed to be at the PAC graduation tonight? CC doesn't seem to have the memo. But you gotta love the fact that the biggest celebrity the scientology Celebrity Centre has to promote on its "come to graduation" poster is Tony Muhammad the Nation of … [Read more...]
Video For Tonight’s PAC Graduation
This is being sent around to encourage people to attend the graduation tonight. It gives you some idea of the spin that is going to be spun.... Screen shot of the people on stage, Chris Shelton asked that this be included to identify the "command team" members: … [Read more...]
PAC/LA Org Update: Contraction Is Expansion
Thursday Funnies have been postponed to Friday in order to update the happenings in PAC. I was out of town all day yesterday so didn't have a chance to compile the information sent in from various sources. This is clearly a topic of considerable interest and The Funnies won't lose their funny in a day.... Tonight (Friday) is the Big Spin presentation of "greatest expansion ever" news with the combining of two Day and Foundation Orgs and the wholesale "letting go" of the contracted staff of the Model Ideal Org. What is astonishing is that as long as ANY news is presented as … [Read more...]
Bad News Blog
You may have been having difficulty logging onto my blog today. According to the Web Hosting company I use, they are under DOS attack and are working to deal with it. They host many more sites than mine, though I doubt they have any site that would engender a DOS attack by random hackers. Seems the blog is creating headaches for the church... Hopefully the web host can sort this out quickly. This would not be the first time the church has attempted to shut down a source of information that displeases them and of course, their zeal to protect their vested interests will not be hampered by … [Read more...]
EUS Alliance — Ideal Orgs Are Yesterday’s News
Now, this is really going to "get 'er done." That the CO WISE EUS headlined a weekend of fun-filled activities at "Flag" on how to build "ideal orgs" says it all. What a strange choice -- when the legal cases against WISE groups are filed, the church protests LOUDLY that WISE has NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION and THE CHURCH IS NOT INVOLVED. Surely EUS and Flag are not THAT short on anyone to speak that the ONLY person they could come up with for the weekend seminar was the CO WISE EUS? Or maybe they are? And what an exciting agenda it was -- team competence drills, a simple sales … [Read more...]
Ideal Orgs — Some Inconvenient Truths
A Special Correspondent in Australia sent me this latest promo piece on Ideal Orgs. It contains some startling information that may not be evident at a quick glance. But once again, they have hoisted themselves on their own petard. Apart from the obvious conceit that they are EVER going to get "ideal orgs" in Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane (first step is to get an ORG in those places, they have had part time missions for decades now and no sign of that changing....) what this reveals about the overall strategy in a simple graphic is pretty stunning. The "ideal org" strategy began in … [Read more...]
Scientology Newspeak
In the topsy-turvy Newspeak world of scientology, add to the classic phrases from Orwell's 1984 a fourth: CONTRACTION IS EXPANSION. As long as the news is preceded with some modifiers "greatest expansion ever" or "exciting news of our accomplishments" or something similar, ANYTHING can be presented as "proof" that the 47X straight up and vertical expansion is continuing unchecked. Even the eradication ("combining") of a Sea Org org. Closing an SO Org has got to take the cake as far as pigs ear catastrophes presented as silk purse accomplishments. It has never happened … [Read more...]
Event Attendance Terrible
It seems the Nuremberg Rally style events have run their course in LA -- the largest population of scientologists on earth. On Sep 21, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Tashania Faust <[email protected]> wrote: Ideally, every Scientologist attends the 7-10 major events presented by Int Management yearly. The challenge of the Event Dept is ensuring they are conveniently located and scheduled. Please help us achieve this and CLICK HERE TO FILL IN SURVEY Please be open in answering the questions. And thanks for taking the time! :) ML, Tashania (Event Director PAC) To … [Read more...]
Sheer Idiocy
This missed the deadline for Thursday Funnies, but it is just too insane to be let go. It tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about scientology today. The ONLY thing that is important is status. The ONLY thing that is offered is status. The ONLY thing they want is money. And even their phony made-up statuses, they will "discount" to try and get people to give more money now. You can ALSO be a Humanitarian With Knobs On -- but now you don't need to pay as much as the other people because we are more desperate. "For three days only, you can buy an authentic certificate to ha … [Read more...]
The Sad Tale Of Ideal Orgs
Things are looking grim in the scientology bubble. You likely saw the story about the "ideal org" in Boston that was covered in the Boston Globe and they didn't cover the full story by any means. The level of incompetence on display there is amazing. They could not keep their "statement" building because it was too small though it's never been maxed out -- so were ordered to sell it. They had a buyer willing to pay $20 million but they couldn't get approval to sell. When they finally got the go ahead, the market had crashed and they got $12 million but had committed to a larger wreck which … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Oooooh - a new status! Ambassador of Dissemination I don't think that this will be very desirable to the scientology elite without some precious metal or gemstone modifier or some sort of tortured pig latin. Silver, gold, platinum, emerald, diamond, maximus, laureate etc etc. Good luck Katie, you are the red-headed stepchild of scientology fundraisiung. Part of your problem is that the money has to be thrown away buying TV spots and nobody likes doing that.... But, on the other hand, perhaps he can get a post at a US Embassy (Palau? Andorra?) to "disseminate the tech in new … [Read more...]