(not that I'm complaining about the sheer volume by the way).

mussel, use this real-time tool from Ray Hill's xenu-directory.net: http://www.xenu-directory.net/webnews.php
Very handy. Not always perfect in relevancy but pretty damn good, especially with the include/exclude filters.
Also this tool: http://www.xenu-directory.net/nowandthen.php which has more manual intervention from the webmaster in terms of what is held in the archive.

So how long until they put out a special edition Freedumb Magazine? A week? Two? LOL, we should make a contest out of it, person who guesses closest to the date they release their own exposé wins.

It was news to me (though I know not to others here) that Tommy had blown and gone to Vegas a few years ago and I felt happy that he did so.
I fear there might have been some sort of deal he had to work out in order to be welcomed back into the fold that might prevent him from leaving.

Because, obnoxious and even mean as he comes across, I don't want him to have to go to RPF (I don't want anyone to have to go).
I was also sad that he got into Columbia but didn't stay! I mean, I know Ivy League and other prestigious schools like to have celebrities as alumni. But I think that although his connections might be worth some currency in Hollywood, I doubt they would have mattered much on his college app. So he must have had good grades and SAT scores.

*Btw, wasn't it a weird section of the article, with Anne Archer and her husband? She was trying to defend Scientology by comparing it with Christian Science and the Mormons!

I've found that a lot of people mix up Christian Science with Scientology (not that Anne Archer is). Specificially, they think Scientology is Christian Science: "the one where you can't go to the doctor but you just pray to get well."

^Christian Science has gone to the effort of putting out specific PR and gotten puff pieces on smalltime news sites especially to point out that they are nothing to do with scientology. You'll probably come across one at some point when browsing the net for scientology related news. I don't know if the frequency of those is related to the amount of bad scientology news flying around but I expect that the Christian Scientists would get a fair bit of mistaken identity from the general public from time to time simply because of the similar "Scien...." bit in the name.

There's probably a thread somewhere on that topic.

Isn't that pretty much Scientology as well? I mean, if you're doing everything right you'll never get sick, and if you need a doctor doesn't that mean you're associating with a PTS?

I do know the difference: Christian Science teaches that there is no material world, that it's all illusion we need to free ourselves from. As I understand it their prayers are to more to break the illusion of sickness than to cure the sickness. Still, the concepts are similar--fighting free of either the illusory physical world or engrams and body thetans to achieve a higher spiritual state. Hmmm ... kind of interesting when you think about it. To me anyway. But I'm odd that way.

I was wondering about Freedumb Mag. Would they dare? Again?
After the Panorama v1 I thought they'd never do that again but they did withe SP times, then again with CNN, then again with Panorama v2.
Each time I thought, "they never would....surely", and yet out comes the same blithering lunacy each time, more batshittingly nutty than the one before.

I believe they will definitely come out with another Freedumb. A logical thinker might notice it makes them look crazy, but since when does Scientology stockpile logical thinkers? In their twisted universe, they believe Freedumb was enormously successful, a "HA! We showed them!" moment. Plus, it's in their scriptures to attack, they don't know anything else.

They'll probably not do it now, just to spite me, lol. I almost wish, because what enormous power I would hold over Miscavige if that were the case.

^Increasingly, their freedumb magazines/videos seem more geared towards placating existing indoctrinated members and not for the sane general public. They can't do a number on Lawrence Wright without doing one on Paul Haggis too and that would be a gigantic mistake, publically dead agenting a celebrity ex-scientologist. Might start the other scieno-celebs thinking "what if that was me?" and what new celeb would ever want to join their cult after seeing that?

Go on Miscavige, I dare you. Yer yeller midget chickenshit. Do it.

From the New Yorker Newsdesk, by Lawrence Wright.....

Source documents:

This PDF file, hosted on Marty Rathbun's site is a detailed photographic account of the guy who customised up Tom Cruise's motorbike, his aicraft hangar and his mini-bus van thing, (John Brousseau) presumably as supplied to the New Yorker magazine for Lawrence Wright's article.
All this work on scientology's tax-exempt dime....well, slave labor...... helped by you the taxpayer.

http://markrathbun.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/bikeshangarexcursion.pdf (10Mb)
(you may find it easier to right click, save the file and view the PDF locally rather than in your browser).


Fascinating stuff!


Related....

Radar Online today publishes the Tom Cruise hangar photos (must of us regulars have seen these ones before)....
EXCLUSIVE & PHOTOS: Tom Cruise Received Luxury Airport Hanger & Office From Church Of Scientology, Says Ex-Staffer
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2 ... ice-church
Gallery: http://www.radaronline.com/photos/image ... image-load
(btw, I wish Radar online wouldn't splatter irrelavent pink links throughout the paragraphs of their articles. If you're reading this, Mr.Radar, stop it!).

and this, on the big bus...

EXCLUSIVE: Katie Holmes Studied Scientology In 'Slave Labor' Bus Church Built For Hubby Tom Cruise, Secret Emails Reveal
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2 ... -hubby-tom

Oh really? So there is an exchange? Then it's not caled "volunteer" work is it? The only "volunteers" are the slaves who were ordered to do the work.

The Village Voice covers this in more detail with a selction of photos (citing some of the account in the PDF file at the top of this post)....
Inside Scientology's Labor Camp That Benefits Tom Cruise: The Photos
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... +Scared%29

from the BBC.....
The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
(BBC Blog: William Crawley, Norther Ireland presenter discussing controversial political, religious and ethical issues of the day).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2011/02/t ... vs_th.html
Nice little summary.

Scientology airs ad on NBC after damaging New Yorker profile
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookou ... er-profile


Video on official cult youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBz5Xic_Y2s

Video lacks kittens.
Best go and add to the increasing thumbs downs it has already been getting.

EDIT:
Here's the parody version. You MUST watch this. I lol'd hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKIEDs8HYZg

^update to above.
Scientology's advert, as shown on NBC during the New Yorker flap, is not well liked on Youtube. The scale was tipped with more thumbs downs....



Image courtesy of DarkSpecterAnon on WWP.

EDIT:
Here's the parody version. You MUST watch this. I lol'd hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKIEDs8HYZg

Why are the inmates black? Racist bastards.

The Vancouver Sun: Famous Canadian Takes on Scientology