Here is further proof of the total fail that is the ideal org program. This is one of the very first ideal orgs. 2004 if I recall correctly. The premises were procured at enormous expense and the old London Org, which had been at Tottenham Court Rd forever, was converted into a "Test Center" and Div 6 feeder for the main org that was moved to a deserted street right near St Paul's cathedral. The "CC London" was closed down and combined with this magnificent new org that was the answer to clearing not just London, but entirety of England, in fact the whole of the United Kingdom. And … [Read more...]
More Ideal Fail: Phoenix…
This is the state of the Phoenix "ideal" org. The have put out a "Big announcement." Might even be epic. Milestone. Unprecedented. TWO people "graduated" something this week. Likely they finished reading a book. Yes, TWO. And it is such big news they sent out a promotional piece for it. Now THAT'S massive international, straight up and vertical, 63X expansion. ...and Twin Cities Just in case anyone still had doubts that perhaps Phoenix was just out of step with the rest of the straight up and vertical ideal org expansion, there is this from Twin … [Read more...]
The Denver Idealish Org Fail
Here is an interesting item sent in by a special correspondent. One of our favorite "ideal" orgs is the Colorado Rockies overflow parking lot in Denver. They continue to hold regular IAS "briefings" there, though it is a wonder they can cover the airfare it costs to get there. It is touted by Miscavige and his PR minions as one of the "50 ideal orgs that PROVE the massive international expansion of scientology under the brilliant leadership of Mr. David Miscavige." Everyone inside the bubble is pretending this (and all the rest of idealish orgs) is a functioning, ongoing, … [Read more...]
Valley OTC Minutes
For the record. These have been accumulating for a while. The Special Correspondent who so diligently forwards these to me noted that it is interesting to look at these over time as you can see the false promises and pitches roll out and the things that are said in March that will happen in April go by without comment and then you start seeing new targets on the same thing in June. It is truly the donkey with the carrot on a stick -- the only difference being the donkey is being ridden by vampires that inexorably suck the blood out of it, til it falls to the wayside and they jump on a new … [Read more...]
Santa Barbara Non-Org
A Special Correspondent familiar with Santa Barbara sent this to me along with some notes about the people involved. That's some real bare bones contributing. The list has shrunk since the last one. Yay! All Steve Manseau does is email stuff like invitations to poorly attended OT Committee meetings. Sokoloff's are down south FSM's getting their 10%. Tom Burton is the ED's husband. Loren is the ED now. Martinez's are hopeless koolaid drinkers. As is Jan King. OT 8. For the record she's all about telling her many Scilon friends about the latest multi-level craze. She'd get the Manseau's … [Read more...]
Some Thoughts About The Harlem Ribbon Yanking
Tony Ortega provided a pretty good summary of what happened at Sunday's Harlem org ribbon yanking at his blog. My thoughts focus on what was NOT there. Nobody Important Showed Up The B team speakers were notable for being nobodies. Back in the day, Charlie Rangel and other prominent people spoke at the NY Org ideal ribbon yanking. Why wasn't Charlie Rangel at the Harlem church? It would have been more appropriate for him as a champion of the African American community of NY. The people they DID manage to persuade to speak were unknows with the exception of a NY State Assemblyman who so … [Read more...]
Some Truth About The Size of Scientology
You have all heard scientology spout repeatedly that Valley is the biggest and most important Class 5 org in the world. Of course, this is idiocy, they cannot gather together 50 people for an event and have less than a handful on services at any given time (though this DOES put them ahead of most orgs in the world). What is probably true is that this org has the largest number of scientologists in its field - and the largest empty white elephant building in terms of square feet (and of course in scientology, square feet of empty space is the ultimate measure of accomplishment). There are … [Read more...]
Maiden Voyage Event 1
This is the second posting in the coverage of this year's Maiden Voyage. Yesterday's post is here. Things got off to a bang at "Opening Night" - traditionally consisting of the "Rolling Thunder" presentation, some hype about the number of inches of sea traversed by the Moneywinds and joking and degrading at the expense of the "OT Ambassadors." Dear Leader set the stage with a huge, bald-faced lie -- "in full"(?) "just since last year, the number of scientologists advancing up the bridge has multiplied ten times over." This is just pulled out of his ass. Much like the 46X before … [Read more...]
London Ideal Org is BOOMING. Not.
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G fail. This email was recently sent out from the executive in charge of getting new people onto the Bridge in London's "ideal" org. And of course this is the ONLY org for a city with 10 million resident - imagine if there was ONE laundromat in all of London and the owners were announcing "we are cleaning London's clothes" and actually stated their goal for the last 25 years was to do the laundry of every person in London, but they still only had one small laundromat that nobody even used because their prices were too high. He is so very proud of the fact that one person a … [Read more...]
Old St Hill On Life Support
Things are not too rosy at old St Hill. Their new Auditor mag clearly demonstrates how pathetic St Hill is -- and this is what ALL ORGS are striving to be like! Of course, they no longer have a Briefing Course to deliver - the original PURPOSE of the organization. But without having to devote resources to delivering the BC, one would imagine they would be doing a bang-up job of making up for that with everything else... Not so much. No wonder a new "Command Team" of Flag trained nobodies was sent to replace John Danilovich. This place is disappearing faster than a snowball in the … [Read more...]