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The Ideal CLO EU

November 4, 2014 By Mike Rinder 83 Comments

 bulshit

Here is the hype from scientology.org about the wondrous launch of the “future of scientology” in the “European Commonwealth.”

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Somehow there is no mention of the size of the crowd (I wonder why?)

But there is plenty of Shermanspeak hype to keep the clubbed seals clapping. Just a sample:

If you happened to be in Copenhagen, Denmark the afternoon of October 25, you could have seen the future of Scientology in Europe unfold literally before your eyes.

“Today we dedicate a cornerstone for Scientology in Europe and thereby lay a firm foundation from which to extend our Golden Age ever outward. Indeed, in the wake of that ceremonial ribbon falling, let our message of truth and immortality be heard from Scandinavia to Siberia and so deliver an empire of wisdom and knowledge to every corner of this storied land.”—Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center

An historic moment in the Church of Scientology’s ambitious global progression arrived this Saturday with the dedication of its Ideal Continental Liaison Office for Europe (CLO EU). The sprawling facility’s importance as a central European headquarters fueling the religion’s epic expansion throughout the continent and indeed the world cannot be overstated.

Epic?

Cannot be overstated? You have succeeded admirably.

At the CLO EU event itself, Mr. Miscavige told the gathered celebrants that the new center will “lay a firm foundation from which to extend our Golden Age ever outward.” He expressed confidence that Scientology’s “message of truth and immortality will be heard from Scandinavia to Siberia – and so deliver an empire of wisdom and knowledge to every corner of this storied land.”

Such magnificent grandiloquence….

“You will be able to record translated versions of L. Ron Hubbard lectures in such remote tongues as Farsi, Swahili, Urdu, Hindi and Zulu as well as all of the aforementioned languages,” Mr. Miscavige emphasized. “In that way, we make Dianetics and Scientology available to upwards of five billion human beings the world over.”

Problem is that nobody wants them.

The opening serves to carry forward the momentum generated by Scientology’s explosive international growth. It began with the proliferation of Ideal Churches of Scientology throughout every continent, each providing the full scope of religious services to their parishioners and humanitarian programs to communities.

The momentum of scientology’s explosive international growth generated by the proliferation of “ideal” orgs doesn’t seem to have reached Europe just yet. The last “ideal org” in Europe was opened in Padova Italy in October 2012. That is more than 2 YEARS AGO. Explosive growth? Where?

One thing you have to acknowledge David Miscavige for.

The ability to stand before thousands of people and lie to their faceswithout appearing even slightly embarrassed. Over. And over. And over.

 

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Comments

  1. Meja Deja says

    November 6, 2014 at 7:48 am

    Aquamarine, excellent analogy about the family and their house, and thanks for sharing your experience with it albeit it is shocking!

    Reply
  2. indie8million says

    November 5, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    Yes. A key to planetary expansion … of the suppressive purposes of David Miscavige. An outpost in remote Europe so as to have little SPs who are fully indoctrinated into “Command Intention” so as to keep the European public (and dissenters) under control.

    Also, this may be a haven for Little Hitler when the US is subpoenaing him for countless law suits.

    Oops. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t give the little man ideas.

    Reply
  3. Jens TINGLEFF says

    November 5, 2014 at 6:43 am

    “this storied land”

    Yup, the only problem being that we’re already well supplied with quality fairy tales, such as “The Emperor’s New Clothes” which strikes me as particularly appropriate

    Reply
  4. Pepper says

    November 4, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    So Hindi, Urdu and Farsi are remote languages. Remote to whom? Oh yes, Miscavige. Probably because they are spoken on the Asian continent, so that’s very far away. It also doesn’t matter that they are ancient languages either. Over a billion people speak these languages combined. Doesn’t seem so “remote” to me.

    Reply
  5. visitor_0 says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    IDEAL orgs are EMPTY orgs. It follows that ideal = empty, and empty purses, wallets, and savings accounts are also ideal if the money flowed to criminal cult leader David Miscavaige

    Reply
  6. Joe Pendleton says

    November 4, 2014 at 6:52 pm

    P.S. The Iranian mullahs are already quivering in anticipation of LRH in Farsi. Their supreme leader is quoted as saying “We’re ALREADY on policy!”

    Reply
  7. Joe Pendleton says

    November 4, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Why does Miscavige speak in over the top Shermanspeak hype and lies all the time? That one’s easy. HE KNOWS HIS PUBLIC.

    Reply
  8. SILVIA says

    November 4, 2014 at 6:31 pm

    Yes, ” religious services” such as disconnection, sec checking, ethics, comm. evs.,declared apostate, and lets not forget the most important one, the sacred ideal religious service: ‘give me your money”.

    Reply
  9. Freedomfan says

    November 4, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    Maybe the city properties used by SO management were worth a lot of money that could be cashed in:

    Moving CLO out of the city could also have the benefit of isolating SO members from the real world and make it harder to blow.

    Reply
  10. PJ says

    November 4, 2014 at 5:03 pm

    October 25 it rained all day in Glostrup, Denmark.

    Reply
    • Mike Rinder says

      November 4, 2014 at 6:19 pm

      I am sure they were instructed to lower their umbrellas during the presentation of Dear Leader so the shots wouldn’t be spoiled, and everyone dutifully stood there and were honored to be rained on.

      Reply
      • PJ says

        November 5, 2014 at 4:40 am

        Right, but take a look at the picture: Blue sky, no rain.
        The Photoshopper should read the Data Series.

        Reply
        • Mike Rinder says

          November 5, 2014 at 7:48 am

          Me too I guess 🙂

          Reply
    • Jens TINGLEFF says

      November 5, 2014 at 6:40 am

      Poor old Glostrup, whatever has it done to deserve this? Not the most prestigious address to start with…

      Reply
  11. Overrun in California says

    November 4, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    You all have it all wrong. These are not lies, they’re postulates.

    Reply
    • Hallie Jane says

      November 6, 2014 at 2:53 am

      LOL!

      Reply
  12. hgc10 says

    November 4, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    Now, in another entry of our ongoing series of Stupid, Arrogant, Ignorant Shit COB Says:

    “… in such remote tongues as Farsi, Swahili, Urdu, Hindi and Zulu… ”

    Reality — Number of speakers of languages mentioned

    Farsi: 110 mil
    Swahili: 25 mil
    Urdu: 64 mil
    Hindi: 260 mil
    Zulu: 10 mil
    Scilon: 20 thou

    Epic!!!

    Reply
  13. I Yawnalot says

    November 4, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    What does this mean exactly – “You will be able to record translated versions of L. Ron Hubbard lectures in such remote tongues as Farsi, Swahili…”
    Make your own copies? Where’s the moola in that?
    Also, I’d have to reckon Photoshop will have to give some sort of award or recognition to the Cof$ – their best customer ever.

    Reply
  14. Smokey says

    November 4, 2014 at 1:24 pm

    Surely, somebody could do a simple fact check before allowing the midget to spew gems like “such remote tongues as …hindi”.

    Hindi is the number 2 language spoken in the world, right behind Mandarin. In Sherman’s mind that must make English, number 4 in the world, an esoteric language.

    Reply
    • Smokey says

      November 4, 2014 at 1:28 pm

      I should have qualified that those ranks are based on the number of native speakers of each language.

      Reply
  15. Hiatus57 says

    November 4, 2014 at 1:21 pm

    What a lot of utter twaddle Mike

    Does anyone really believe this utter rubbish.

    Do these Scientologists know what the TTIP deal is going unchallenged through the EU at the moment of writing?

    Well It may be a good thing for Scientology as it is today as its not about delivering the Tech, its about a corporation making money.

    All this to keep the evil Dwarf with the escalating Napoleon complex in personal chefs and helecoptors.

    Still when TTIP is finally approved as it will be with the corrupt EU kleptocrats this will allow the Dwarf to sue anyone who stops him making the profit he expects to make.

    No need to reg the whales anymore you simply sue them for not donating enough as this is obstructin profit.

    Oh maybe not as the C of $ does sell itself as a non-profit organization.

    Another pack of lies

    Aren’t American corporations wonderful eh?

    Reply
  16. Michael Doyle says

    November 4, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    Amen.

    Reply
  17. cris says

    November 4, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    “The ability to stand before thousands of people and lie to their faceswithout appearing even slightly embarrassed. Over. And over. And over.”

    Don’t forget the ability to hide his utter disgust for the thousands of degraded little beings in front of him whilst he heroically engages his TelePrompTer vocalisation device without so much as spitting or letting the words cock, sucker and boulevard come out. All of which takes monumental effort to achieve in the cold, crisp Danish air without his scotch or grounding rods.

    Reply
    • Zephyr says

      November 4, 2014 at 4:36 pm

      🙂
      David Miscavage should try some ‘AKVAVIT’ while he’s over there…..
      It helps with the crisp cold Danish air to feel some fire inside the body!
      Having barely survived a winter in Kopenhagen, there is NOTHING WORSE than this HUMID ocean air
      that penetrates fur coat, fur west and settles in your bones. I would go to Siberia any day instead of Kopenhagen in winter!
      Greta

      Reply
  18. Visitor2 says

    November 4, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    What is Shermanspeak?

    Reply
    • George says

      November 4, 2014 at 1:01 pm

      Google “Shermanspeak” and you will get the answer …. Something without definition (and meaning 🙂

      It’s the language created by “LRH Biographer” Mr. Sherman that sounds or is supposed to sound … (good, in the mind of David Miscavige).

      You know, Mike slandered this form of art (or did he give it a status 🙂 by calling it Shermanspeak (it could be like Germanspeak: you don’t understand it but if German is spoken softly it may even sound good 🙂 It’s sound, that’s all.

      Reply
    • Elegant Mess says

      November 4, 2014 at 1:16 pm

      Hi Visitor,

      I am fairly new around here, but I believe this term is in reference to Dan Sherman, the current or most recent speech writer for David Miscavige. Sherman’s style is infused with “indeed” s, “moreover” s and run-on sentences. His speech writing style is referred to around here as “Shermanspeak”.

      Reply
      • Mike Rinder says

        November 4, 2014 at 2:00 pm

        Thanks EM. You got it right, but its not just about the “style” but also the lack of substance. Shermanspeak includes obfuscations, exaggerations and plain made up “facts” as inherent elements of true Shermanspeak.

        Reply
    • Smokey says

      November 4, 2014 at 4:01 pm

      “What is Shermanspeak?”

      Always a good place to throw down a famous, and thoroughly applicable, bit of Shakespeare.

      (Miscavige’s) but a walking shadow,
      a poor player,
      That struts and frets his hour
      upon the stage,
      And then is heard no more. It is a
      tale
      Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
      Signifying nothing.

      Reply
      • Hallie Jane says

        November 6, 2014 at 2:50 am

        Perfect!

        Reply
  19. Gary Johnson says

    November 4, 2014 at 11:27 am

    A pathological liar with millions of dollars, but no end game. It is amazing to me that no one challenges him. To A duel? Maybe a fist fight? Quarters? 40 yard dash? Circle jerk? Is he that tough? Would not the folks just stand and watch if someone just decided to beat the crap out of him? Why doesnt someone just come up behind him and give him a good ole knee corn dog?

    Reply
    • LRHBT says

      November 4, 2014 at 5:12 pm

      Gary…

      DON’T DO THAT !
      IT’S NOT OKAY !
      IT’S SQUIRRREL !

      THAT’S WHAT LRH WANTED:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdLXcE9R4Gs

      Reply
    • Hallie Jane says

      November 6, 2014 at 2:48 am

      I know Gary, it boggles the mind.

      Reply
  20. Science Doc says

    November 4, 2014 at 11:14 am

    The Koran only exists in Arabic. The English translation is called The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. But it is not the Koran. Since the clarity of Hubbard’s original writings in English is, shall we say, open to criticism, one can only guess what a reader of a questionably translated text in a very differnt era and cultural context will conclude.

    Reply
  21. NOLAGirl says

    November 4, 2014 at 10:29 am

    The span of these opening photos is getting ever smaller. They used to be wide shots full of people, mostly photo-shopped, of course. Now it’s just a thin slice of crowd. What’s wrong Dave? Got tired of all the wogs being able to see your floating heads and multiple pictures of the same person?

    Damn SP’s, can’t a cult leader go anywhere and openly tell lies anymore? 🙂

    Reply
  22. Visitor says

    November 4, 2014 at 10:24 am

    Somehow, I doubt he stood in fron of thousands of people. Denmark isn’t exactly a Scientology hotspot.

    Reply
  23. Jose Chung says

    November 4, 2014 at 10:16 am

    The Siberians are jumping for joy and are ready to upgrade to their next IAS status.
    One request to the almighty great COB, can you make the IAS status throphy out of meat ?
    Salami would be OK, anything non refrigerated and can be eaten all winter.

    Reply
    • LRHBT says

      November 4, 2014 at 5:00 pm

      +1
      ROFL 🙂

      Reply
  24. Roland Rashleigh-Berry says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:57 am

    The trouble, regarding the outside public, is that they do not want to buy what the Church of Scientology has to sell. Very few people would want Dianetics auditing or Scientology auditing even if the “Church” gave it away for free. They can provide new buildings and new staff all they want, but it isn’t going to result in any expansion or any new money flowing in. It will only result in greater financial losses for them, or should I say “the whales”?

    Reply
    • unclepepin says

      November 4, 2014 at 3:08 pm

      True, due to the internet.
      And probably not so much its aspect of publicising the Scientology scandals but the fact that people get informed and communicate more readily about their place in the community/group they live in, before Scn could offer to them their way of belonging.
      The majority of people are grounded enough in reality of their country/city/suburb/workplace, not to be sold on conspiracy theories and sci-fi stories lived out in their heads in the waking hours.

      Reply
  25. frog says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:53 am

    i wonder, but it seems to me that it is a vital strategy, using english words and definitions turned on their heads. how do translations from english to say hindi deliver “source”? seems like translating would be out of tech due to lost in translation aspects, not unlike other infamous spiritual or mystical text losing power or the original intent when translated.

    Reply
    • Zephyr says

      November 4, 2014 at 4:25 pm

      frog,
      The translation into another language DO lose meaning and affinity. and more.
      Personally I refused to study Scientology in German. When listening to LRH tapes in the Academy I was the only one that was laughing and heads would turn towards me as this was perceived to be ‘unusual’. The tapes translated into German were NOT funny. Also in another language one does not hear the students laughing at LRH’s jokes and descriptions. It’s kind of sad.
      Greta

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      • w. martin says

        November 4, 2014 at 9:01 pm

        The sad thing is that all of hubbards jokes were on the people he was stealing money from. Lame pathetic “I can’t believe these people are swallowing this bullshit” jokes.

        Reply
    • 1984 says

      November 4, 2014 at 4:52 pm

      “Bad translations” would give them the possibility of correcting typo’s in their books and forcing people to destroy the old books and buy new ones, many times over. (And for those who can’t speak the language, they can buy for all the 3rd world libraries.)

      Reply
  26. scnethics says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:48 am

    It is noteworthy that David Miscavige can lie to so many. I’ve noted before that the lies told by management increase in size as the number of people the lies are spoken to decreases. They exaggerate in PR releases, tell some lies at events, tell small rooms of people serious bullshit, and when you are alone with IAS regges, THAT’S when you hear the real whoppers. With the size of these audiences going down, will the lies get bigger? I’m betting on it.

    Reply
    • I Yawnalot says

      November 4, 2014 at 2:05 pm

      That’s very good!
      The dwindling spiral of magnitude!

      Reply
  27. Chuck Beatty says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:31 am

    Scientology doubtfully proves to a person they ARE a soul. People who already have ideas about the soul and having a soul, etc, likely are more sympathetic to the soul being something that one actually is, underneath all ideas of who they are as their conscious selves.

    But I noticed in this advertisement’s claim:

    “….Scientology’s ‘message of truth and immortality will be heard from Scandinavia to Siberia – and so deliver an empire of wisdom and knowledge to every corner of this storied land.’……”

    The point I hear from this message is Scientology is a message about a human being’s immortality, presumably as a soul.

    I recall Hubbard saying in one of his books, that there’s slightly a joke here in this idea of the immortal soul, in that one is an immortal soul if one accepts this info or not. In otherwords one will be coming back again and again in future lives no matter what.

    At that moment I read that Hubbard statement that the soul would be returning each new lifetime no matter what the person misbelieves, I wondered why not make that piece of info the centerpiece of Scientology?

    Why not just say, that believe it or not, when you come back in future lives, you at some point will at least have Scientology churches around the world to come into and do your past lives trauma Scientology spiritual therapy to raise your spiritual awareness about your self.

    Practically speaking, if as Scientology presumes, the soul is immortal, then just carry on with that assumption and don’t try to sell it!

    Just advertise Scientology to those people who believe they already ARE immortal souls.

    Not spend any time trying to convince people who are not believers!

    Scientology’s advertising instead should be about just saying:

    We believe in the immortal soul.

    We have a spiritual past lives therapy that stips off the trauma all souls have accumulated.

    We have a spiritual exorcism therapy to strip off the surplus souls that people’s bodies have infesting them.

    If you believe in the soul, and if you believe with us, that the Xenu 4th Dynamic engram resulted in our bodies today being infested with surplus souls, then come do the L. Ron Hubbard spiritual therapy to eliminate your past lives engrams, and do our Hubbard exorcism to rid your body of the surplus souls that infest you.

    We believe doing so makes you as a soul much more capable and regains you your soul powers.

    Give us a try!

    That’s what Scientology ought to be saying, simply.

    Sell themselves to those people who believe in the soul, and that the soul already is immortal, and by doing Scientology, you clean up your soul’s mind problems, making for future soul immortality an easier immortal journey.

    Scientology is way too complicated. Way too deflecting off simply the basic issues of what they are doing.

    Reply
    • WG says

      November 4, 2014 at 12:03 pm

      *whispers*

      Quit giving them good ideas!
      —
      In all seriousness that’s probably the smartest way for them to try to start rebranding themselves. How about they also emphasize the Eco angle? Emphasizing saving the planet since your Thetan is going to be living here in the future, with an environmental angle to it.

      They could say that the Sea Org has the lowest carbon footprint per capita in the world! The reason they use manual labour isn’t as punishment, it’s to save the burning of fossil fuel!

      Scientology – Springtime for your Thetan

      LOL

      Reply
  28. Gimpy says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:29 am

    At least it is a different crowd from the Photoshopped lot which appeared in your 20 October post, these people actually look dressed for cold weather. Wonder who got into big trouble over that screw up?

    Reply
    • Aquamarine says

      November 4, 2014 at 1:36 pm

      Right! This was the infamous photo-shopped before it was held event! Whoo hoo! No wonder mums the word on the actual attendance. Funny, Mike!

      Reply
      • Zephyr says

        November 4, 2014 at 4:07 pm

        Aqua -response to your comment above.

        That is pretty amazing what you found. Looks like a CRASHING MU OF MAGNITUDE that you
        found, which is being enforced from the top. What an wonderful A=A=A!
        Greta

        Reply
    • Zephyr says

      November 4, 2014 at 4:03 pm

      Right Gimpy,
      No bald-faced man in the foreground for once…
      Greta

      Reply
    • Pete2 says

      November 5, 2014 at 9:05 am

      also note that numerous staff from Flag were sent to this event.

      Reply
  29. DollarMorgue says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:22 am

    Why the bunting fetish? Every single yank has to be accompanied by a bunting fetish… and rubber, uh, balloons.

    Does anyone inside the bubble understand that 1 Ideal Org equals no new org? Does anyone inside understand that no real, actual “expansion” is effectively taking place?

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    • Aquamarine says

      November 4, 2014 at 1:27 pm

      Dollar, the Still-Ins have a serious misunderstood on the term “org”. They think its a building. An org is not a building; an org is an organization. To say an org is a building is like saying a family is the house in which it lives. When I was still in, I was continually amazed at this identity-think even among very trained staff. It still amazes me.

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      • Aquamarine says

        November 4, 2014 at 1:58 pm

        Back in the day I asked a few of them: “If a family of 4 moves out of their house into another, larger house, has that family expanded? Isn’t is still the same family, same 4 people, just living in a bigger house?”

        Now, to this question, you would not BELIEVE the gobblydigook answers I received!

        In the beginning, I would TR4 it, “Yes, I understand. But then, does a new, larger home mean that the family has expanded? Would a bigger house equate to expansion of the family itself?”

        Out of perhaps 6 people to whom I asked this question, only one, very reluctantly, admitted that it would not, but the unexpressed resentment flowing out of him was palpable. The others all went into overdrive to show me how a new building for the same org equated to expansion of the org, and that it was LRH! Blew my mind.

        Eventually, I went into apathy on it, stopped asking this question, and explained it to myself by shrugging and thinking, “Well, maybe they’re just stupid”.

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      • DollarMorgue says

        November 4, 2014 at 3:13 pm

        Ah. Propaganda by redefinition of words in action. Yes, I actually remember this happening, thank you for pointing that out. I remember one of the first IO events I went to where pretty building mock-ups were shown and the so-called Ideal Org PL was read. That may have been the point that a building = and Ideal Org = new org? Either way, the mere habit of saying “I’m heading down to the org” evidences that org is also synonymous for the building the terminals and lines are operating in. However, that a building would set people free is new, I think.

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      • DollarMorgue says

        November 4, 2014 at 3:17 pm

        Oh, and I can imagine some of the explanations you would get as to why a new house would equal family expansion. Yes, that apathy you mention is something I experience out here, wondering (with the history in mind – attempt to inform people inside have apparently been going on for at least 30 years) whether they are perhaps better off living the way they seem to insist doing? It is only the knowledge of mind control that keeps me from giving up – and, to be honest, mostly just Mike’s and others’ humour and sharp observations.

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      • Hallie Jane says

        November 6, 2014 at 2:44 am

        Good point!

        Reply
  30. Chee chalker says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:14 am

    Mike, the size of the crowd was 47x. Until further notice (that is, until we are told what the next number is) the crowd will always be 47x

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    • Valerie says

      November 4, 2014 at 11:26 am

      So to figure out the crowd size all we have to do is solve for x. I did. x=1 (or less).

      Reply
      • Elegant Mess says

        November 4, 2014 at 1:04 pm

        Aw, you beat me to it! I was being generous in my calculation of x = 2. I like your results better.

        Reply
  31. George says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:13 am

    They have an ideal AOSH, an ideal CLO …. only thing missing is ideal beds (see the very bottom of the website). Hotel Nordland is going to be renovated (yet again) …. and it will have an astounding 80 (in words: eighty) guest rooms. They probably will install bunk beds to accommodate the massive flow of public … – no that wouldn’t be “ideal”, let’s have single-bed rooms, guess that’s enough and holds plenty of extra capacity for when the expansion does ex- or im-plode.

    And a grand look into the future, to make this base ideally ideal (see again bottom of that web page), the Copenhagen org will be made ideal …. wait, they had the building purchased years ago (don’t know what anniversary it will be), David Miscavige presented it fully renovated (on video), presented it again (on video) but this time even bigger (they have purchased the building next to it as well) and NOW the web page says it is “nearing completion”. Don’t have current data but I don’t believe a word – it has been used as storage facility, MEST-worker hide away, mini-wood mill but nothing resembling an org. BTW, it’s location is ideal, of course, as well – about 100 yards from a very-highly frequented walking street … just far enough away so that nobody takes notice of it (it’s like digging a spade-width away from a gold mine).

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    • Jens TINGLEFF says

      November 5, 2014 at 6:36 am

      The really ideal thing about the idle mOrgue building in Copenhagen is that it’s across the square from the courthouse.

      More curious about the european idle narCONon for which the criminal organsiation known as the “church” of $cientology was hiring some time ago…

      And if they didn’t renovate hotel nordland, where would they have the slave labourers on the RPF do their spiritual rehabilition?!?

      Reply
  32. Mat Pesch says

    November 4, 2014 at 9:09 am

    Scams, on top of scams, on top of scams. The Sea Org has grown into OT Scamologists. The new motto of the Sea Org should be “It’s not the size of your congregation that counts, it’s the amount of money you can extract from them.”

    Reply
    • Pepper says

      November 4, 2014 at 10:23 pm

      Right on the money Mat!

      Reply
  33. Chris Hess says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:57 am

    I am new to Scientology and need support outside of the church. Ironically I live in Clearwater Florida.

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    • Mike Rinder says

      November 4, 2014 at 11:07 am

      Support? What do you mean?

      Reply
  34. Mreppen says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:55 am

    The former CLO EU/ New Era Publications location was in a prime location. Very near the Queen’s palace. What a joke.

    Reply
  35. statpush says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:54 am

    The article states “more than two thousand from 43 nations” attended, which is rather poor turn out. How anyone can claim there are 10s of millions of Scnists – and expect anyone to believe them, is anyone’s guess.
    That’s like admitting only .01% of our members give a shit.

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  36. Mark Fisher says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:50 am

    Factually, the Ideal CLO EU was probably in the early 80’s with Guillaume Leserve as the CO EU and Mick Wenlock as his Deputy, opening new organizations with real people delivering Scientology all over Europe. Italy was opened by them as was Spain and other countries that did not have Scientology. Those were the boom days of Scientology in Europe. As you mention Mike, this new Ideal CLO is a joke.

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    • George says

      November 4, 2014 at 12:50 pm

      Mark, those were the heydays of Scientology in Europe – but never forget it contained the same nonsense, stat push, force, crazy missions (led by Guillaume personally) etc. that Scientology somehow can’t do without. Under Guillaume “orgs” such as St. Etienne were formed as well that never made it off the ground, berthing and food was horrible as well – it is uncontested that Europe had a much livelier public and more training and auditing at that time.

      Just wanting to put the whole a bit into prospective.

      And, there was no internet at that time.

      Reply
  37. Silent Clam says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:34 am

    Strange, but none of this made the local news….unless I missed something.

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    • Draco says

      November 4, 2014 at 10:02 am

      Miscavige is now resorting to Stealth Grand Openings. That’s the only way to keep the protesters away.

      One thing that I have always wondered about. So much stress is put on duplicating LRH exactly, getting the work 100% standard blah blah…never putting a semi-colon in the wrong spot etc. What happens with the translations? Little Leader himself can’t check that all is ok in the Swahili version of DMSMH or even WTH. What about the quality of the translators? Do they know English well enough to translate this very complicated technology into their own language?

      Or do they just put it all on computer and hit “Google Translate?” I have heard rumours that the translations are really shit even into the major languages like French and German where you would still have quite a few people in Scn that speak those languages; but which Swahili speaking guy out of the 2 that popped into a mission for a free stress test do you choose for this all important task which must be done with 100% accuracy?

      Oh wait…that will probably be GAT 3,4 & 5 where all the translated materials have to be re-done and re-sold to every library in the known universe!

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      • George says

        November 4, 2014 at 12:45 pm

        Obviously nobody who doesn’t speak the language can check the quality of a translation.

        There’s a one-page Flag Order by LRH on the translation process which was made into the most convoluted translation routing forms and checklists you wish to imagine – with sometimes good and often stiff translations – as every word must be translated, nothing left out as otherwise it wouldn’t be 100% bla bla. Needless to say these checklists underwent many revisions, corrections, upgrades and downgrades … the hamster wheel of “100% standard” never seems to stand still.

        I don’t think those texts are “complicated” to translate – couldn’t you say everything LRH said in your own words? And wouldn’t that be a “translation” as well. That’s what the translators do.

        I just think of a Japanese translator telling me about his problems getting his Japanese translation approved by an (obviously all-knowing) American SO member from Gold. He was accused of not translating every word and he explained it to me this way: If you say (in English) “Put the apple on the table” you say (in Japanese) “Apple – Table”, the rest is understood. He apparently had a hard time to convince the “Qual Checker” or whatever that post title was of this difference.

        Needless to say, this whole translation was (and probably still is) full of nonsense and fixed ideas and a lot of know best.

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      • Friend says

        November 4, 2014 at 1:49 pm

        it is as you say .. who can translate it to the benefit of David Miscavige .. if it do not work it is bad or wrong translation ..

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      • DollarMorgue says

        November 4, 2014 at 3:05 pm

        In defense of the translators, Draco, have you ever been in the Sea Org? Even public who translate for the Translation Unit are subjected to the horrific planning and terribly shortsighted deadlines that come from the organisation with the only workable administrative technology on Earth (or in the universe). In return, they are “paid” with training points (which equate to a price per word that is so low even people in very affordable emerging markets could not live off the returns) which are contested if they actually attempt to get a service for them, and they are harangued to work overtime, tired and exhausted, for no apparent reason other than the fact that, despite being years in the planning, enlightened management apparently only just now realised they need all Basic books done in two weeks.

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      • LRHBT says

        November 4, 2014 at 4:40 pm

        There are written instructions from the Translation Unit (TU) that describe
        the exact procedure and prerequisites for the translation of LRH materials.

        1) The book/ref/tape gets translated into the foreign language.

        2) That newly translated book/ref/tape gets translated BACK to english and
        verified/compared with the english original.

        3) This verification has to be done by a Class VI who speaks BOTH languages.

        4) Then there is the “unification/standardization” step, so all important
        (c),TM,(R) words are written uniformly in every book/ref/tape.

        5) Then comes typesetting and last but not least…

        6) Proofreading.

        They actually make sense. It’s a solution to a chicken-and-egg problem.

        Most readers of this blog are presumably well aware of what went on after
        the release of THE BASICS.
        But probably they would have a hard time believing what went on behind the
        scenes BEFORE the release of THE BASICS! Though… they would. 😉

        The best part being – sitting later at that historic epic event and listening
        to the Chairman of the Board of the CST (owner of the trademarks… wink, wink 😉 ),
        Mr. Miscavige, himself and having to hear:

        “…
        YOU ARE N-O-T STUPID!
        It was those suppressive transcriptionists and those semicolons blablabla
        …”

        THAT’S T-H-E “W-H-Y” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        F-&-§-K Y-O-U A-$-$-H-O-L-E !!!!!!

        The regular public really has no clue, what went on behind the scenes prior
        to the release of THE BASICS.
        Most people really ARE against SUPPRESSIVE PEOPLE – but telling the public
        that those staff in the ’50s&’60s where SUPPRESSIVE PEOPLE… noooooope.

        With all that fanfare, pomp and hype, DM has managed again to omitted or
        distract from at least those 3 facts:

        a) There is a tape/lecture/ref where LRH himself says, that he didn’t care
        about those semicolons etc. It was written the way it was writen and it
        is fine with him (LRH) – including the errors in DMSMH.

        Hughhh?!?!?!?! WTF?!?!?

        If DM REALLY wanted to get LRH’s version of the DMSMH – well, why hasn’t
        he added the chapter about ‘HAVINGNESS’? This IS an LRH instruction!

        http://www.truelrh.com/5005_DMSMH/alter_DMSMH.html

        When someone in OSA cares – look it up in S.I.R!

        b) DM doesn’t mention under what conditions “THE BASICS” got transcribed,
        translated, proofread and produced this time…
        Whole families have been translating whole nights straight through –
        and even used kids for proofreading. Mmmhhhh… nothing against kids…
        but is that really professionalism? Or simply a try to get some “new
        material” to be able to Copyright them under L.RON HUBBARD LIBRARY
        (Attention! L.RON HUBBARD = human L.RON HUBBARD LIBRARY = legal entity)
        (…and CST dba L.RON HUBBARD LIBRARY… ohhh DM is at the top of CST…)
        http://www.savescientology.com/

        c) By having set such tough TMs, it was easier for DM to get passages deleted,
        LRH’s son nibs DIGITALLY REMOVED in the Clearing Congress, or let LRH SAY
        something DIFFERENT in the suppossedly ONLY EVER filmed interview…
        And even books and lectures are suddenly M-I-S-S-I-N-G !!
        Check out for yourself:

        http://www.truelrh.com/
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_gLHV8uykA
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnYGSwbHBTQ

        Enough said…

        PS:
        DM, don’t wait for ‘LRH’ returning as a black leader… He will not.
        Those entities, that ‘LRH’ was ‘composed of’ are already back –
        per the Sea Org motto: “WE COME BACK!”. And they are fabian. 😉

        Being able to take over other Beings, they are the best way to spy on you.
        And your most inner circle and OTs have no clue, they ARE those leaks you
        are looking for so desperatly.

        It’s time now for you to get ahold of your personal copy of this HCOB
        and get it applied to yourself. Download it – use it – succeed!

        It’s the real deal 🙂

        tinyurl.com/Ethics-Repair-List

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      • Bystander says

        November 4, 2014 at 5:26 pm

        You run into the same translation issues when you go from hubbard to English. It all comes out “Blah blah blah, bullshit, blah blah blah. Gimme your money, blah blah blah.”

        Reply
  38. Bente says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:33 am

    Does not look like any property in Copenhagen?

    Reply
    • Mike Rinder says

      November 4, 2014 at 8:47 am

      It’s out in the sticks in a sort of an industrial park….

      Reply
  39. WhiteStar says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:33 am

    they’re doing such a good job expanding, they must have enough help.
    might as well pay some bills and move up in status next time.

    Reply
  40. thegman77 says

    November 4, 2014 at 8:26 am

    In scientology, no matter what time of year, it’s always the Silly Season. 🙂

    Reply

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