Big News Birmingham, England's second largest city, has the second largest population of Muslim, Sikh and Buddhists, but is short on Hindus and positively pathetic when it comes to Jews (why even mention them?) Forgot to mention it also has the second largest population of Church of England and Catholics. Probably Methodists and Lutherans too. It also has the second largest population of women. AND men. I am sure all these people really want an ideal org in Birmingham. They need hundreds of helpers That promise of "we are making an ideal org" 40 YEARS ago seems … [Read more...]
Hair Raising Fundraising
This is becoming positively absurd. Check out the latest begging letter. The person sending this, Roy Sarkovitch, has been around forever. He was the Flag Flag Rep for many years, and an org "programs chief" in the Flag Bureau. He was a senior international scientology executive. Now reduced to sending out cornball, illiterate emails asking random people to just "give money" for "ideal orgs" -- nothing specific. Just send in some cash The signs of desperation inside the bubble are unmistakable. Date: June 27, 2015 at 7:12:40 AM PDT To: nomorekoolaid@hotmail.com Subject: Fwd: … [Read more...]
Begging From Afar
The begging never stops, and apparently has no limit. This little gang are children of Australian SO Members (at least two of them are, I presume the others are too) located in Los Angeles. They are sending this begging letter out to people all over the world to solicit money for New Zealand's one and only small and failing org. You would think that New Zealand, which had one of the first orgs on earth way back in the 1950's would have another one by this time. Or even a single mission. More than 60 years and there has been NOTHING new in all that time. I suppose the massive … [Read more...]
Maiden Voyage — News From Onboard
The hype has started. Though some of this is "damning with faint praise," especially this first one... "This event had a lot of information" hardly falls into the "monumental milestone, best ever in the history of evers" we have come to expect. "Had a lot of information" would describe an out loud reading of the owner's manual of a new car... And then we have this -- a report about the funny haha joking and degrading "I'm laughing at you, not with you" that David Miscavige traditionally engages in on the first evening of MV. He loves to poke fun at the "OT Ambassadors" … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
European suckers... I guess they don't have enough suckers in the UK to go build a building for free. So they are asking Europeans to do it... Surely a couple of billion dollars is enough to hire some contractors to pour the foundations for an "ideal St Hill"? Embarrassed much? Do you wonder if any of these people have even the slightest guilty conscience to know that they are being lauded as "humanitarians" or "civilization builders" and they only paid half as much as everyone else? Wonder how they answer the OCA question about seeing something with the … [Read more...]
Malmo Ideal Org
This is one of the great white elephants in the lumbering herd of ideal orgs. An historically tiny org in a secondary city (while the major city is ignored), relocated into an industrial zone to languish unlamented in obscurity. But is is also the closest ideal org to CLO EU, and with so few ideal orgs in Europe (the lowest percentage in any continent with virtually all of them funded by IAS "grants") this one is clearly getting the "SH Size" push. Here is a report from a local Special Correspondent which sums up the story in a few choice words: Out of the visible faces in the first … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Flying fish? There has got to be a connection between this quote, joining staff and a flying fish... I know I am just not seeing it, but it is probably obvious. IAS United for Nepal The ONLY thing they are "united" about is getting as much money out of you as they can. Money, money, money.... It's always and only about the money. Inglewood Same old pics of the same old white people at this "cultural center in the heart of the African American community." Food, glorious food... But still, … [Read more...]
64X Expansion
42X was not good enough. Let's make it 64X in 17 months. 64 is a good number. 8x8. 4 cubed. 2 to the 6th power. It just has a nice ring to it that connotes exponential expansion.... 17 months I am not so sure about. 18 would have been better, but someone probably decided 17 sounded less contrived. Like instead of saying there were 12,000 people at the SP building ribbon cutting there were 12,311, because nobody would make up an exact number like that unless it was true. But really it is 19 months since GAG II. I suppose if you are going to just make up numbers it doesn't matter wh … [Read more...]
More Ideal Org Insanity: The “LA Org Pattern”
The answer to the question "How will the LA Org pattern boom Cambridge Org?" is VERY simple. It won't. 1. Miscavige is not sending 200 Sea Org members to Cambridge to work from 9am to midnite 7 days a week for free. 2. Cambridge is not located next to a subway entrance so they cannot bodyroute unsuspecting suckers in.... And the 6 MONTH 'apprenticeship" all the Ideal Org EDs have been put through to "train" them on how to bodyroute is utterly meaningless (this is supposedly the key element that made LA Org stats go into "straight-up Affluence"). Like many other "ideal orgs" Cambridge … [Read more...]
Another Sad Fundraising Story
This is sad. And all too common. Committing financial suicide to hand over money to be spent on some extravagant building that will sit empty for years, and even if it does eventually get renovated into a marble floored palace with custom furniture and carpets it will remain as empty as it was when it was a shell. The last thing Columbus "org" needs is a $10 million dollar building. It is like buying the Taj Mahal for a lemonade stand. And he is so deluded he encourages others to jump off the same cliff he did. Scientology is not teaching anyone to "think for themselves" but only … [Read more...]