In the wake of Jett Travolta’s death from a seizure, it is timely to present this audio recording of L. Ron Hubbard speaking about epilepsy: And then people who have epilepsy, which is a type of disease which gives them seizures, are almost always …
Jett Travolta (Picture: AP) This week, we learned that 16-year-old Jett Travolta died after hitting his head during a seizure. His parents have always denied his autism, claiming instead that he suffered from an obscure condition known as Kawasaki syndrome, contracted from “carpet-cleaning chemicals”. According …
Two ex-employees of Diskeeper Corporation have filed a lawsuit against their former employer after they were wrongfully dismissed for refusing to undergo compulsory “religious” indoctrination. Alexander Godelman, the former CIO, and Marc Le Shay allege that the owner of Diskeeper, Craig Jensen, forced them to …
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” — Charles Baudelaire The video above is a Public Service Announcement from “Youth For Human Rights International”. Youth For Human Rights certainly seems like a laudable initiative at first glance, …
An American court ruled this week that an Orthodox Jewish couple could not use tax deductions that Scientologists can use (deductions they obtained by way of a secret 1993 agreement with the Internal Revenue Service). In the case Sklar v. Commissioner of the IRS, Michael …
[Note: if you're using Internet Explorer, er, don't. But seriously – you might need to click here to see the video] In the post 9/11 era, new terms and new ideas to describe how war is being fought today have emerged in the media. One …
Recently, the “Church” of Scientology pushed an ordinance in Riverside County, California, to keep “members” of the group Anonymous away from their fortress-like Gold Base, and it was passed almost unanimously by Riverside County supervisors. But today, Riverside County decided to back away from that …
Reading our recent review of The Complex by John Duignan, you may have come across the term Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which Duignan describes as “a dark prison complex”. You may have been skeptical about the nature of the RPF. I was, too, when I first …
The Church of Scientology’s “Celebrity Centre” On Sunday, November 23 in Los Angeles, California, a former Scientologist wielding two samurai swords was shot dead by a security guard as he approached the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre. Police initially detained the security guard for questioning, but later released …
Further to our earlier coverage here and here, this morning I received an e-mail from Aoife Barrett, editorial director of Merlin Publishing, the brave Irish publisher who is resisting the Church of Scientology’s attempts to silence John Duignan. She supplied me with the following statement …