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...]