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December 31, 2005 |
Cruise a Prat? |
No surprise that Tom Cruise has been named and shamed as the most irritating actor of all time in a new poll. Worse than his nauseating love fest has been Tom's increasingly bizarre outbursts on Scientology. He has blasted women for taking medication to help them overcome post-natal depression, having a right go at Brooke Shields who has been very brave and open about her battle with this serious illness. |
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December 20, 2005 |
Cruise Studied Scientology At Secret Desert Compound |
Long before Cruise jumped onto talk-show host Oprah Winfrey's couch or blasted Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, the Hollywood star undertook intensive study and counseling at the compound in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, citing present and former Scientologists. |
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December 20, 2005 |
Cops Eye Tom's Medical Guru |
Tom Cruise's onetime alternative medicine consultant - a Church of Scientology member and advocate - is the subject of a six-month investigation by Los Angeles police, who are asking the district attorney to indict her and a colleague for fraud, grand theft and malpractice. |
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December 1, 2005 |
Budapest Sun: Scientology E-meters? |
The Hungarian Church of Scientology, having been accused of wanting to import lie detectors to Hungary in September, has now been accused of having a similar machine which it uses on its members. Several citizens have complained about the church's methods of collecting data about its members. |
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November 30, 2005 |
Scientology Busts Bunker Story |
Scientology, the celeb-packed, sci-fi themed church, has a huge compound carved out in New Mexico deserts. %he $2.5 million bomb-proof bunker - which holds founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings on steel tablets in underground vaults. When an Albuquerque TV station did a report on the compound, Scientologists allegedly tried to squelch the story, the Washington Post said. |
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November 27, 2005 |
Washington Post: A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles |
Scientology tried to persuade station KRQE not to air a report about aerial signposts marking a Scientology compound that includes a huge vault "built into a mountainside." The tunnel was constructed to protect the works of L. Ron Hubbard, the late science-fiction writer who founded the church in the 1950s. |
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November 26, 2005 |
Scientology Office at UB Commons |
A controversy has erupted at the University at Buffalo over the Church of Scientology's obtaining an office in The Commons, a privately operated space on the North Campus in Amherst near the Student Union. Critics contend the administration is abrogating its responsibility to protect students by permitting a group some consider a cult to have a staging ground to recruit students. Rich Dunning, a former Buffalo church staff member who left the Church of Scientology in May 2003, said students are one of the organization's prime targets. |
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November 20, 2005 |
New York Post: Scientology's New Psych-out Museum |
Scientology will open a "Psychiatry: Industry of Death" museum in L.A., created by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights [CCHR] - which was founded by the church in 1969. Top church officials were in New York last week promoting the exhibit at the International Association of Scientologists' annual meeting. |
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November 20, 2005 |
Sunday Mirror Investigates: Inside Tom Cruise Cult |
A Sunday Mirror reporter spends four weeks in Scientology to discover just what Katie Holmes, his 26-year-old pregnant fiancee, is facing as one of the Church of Scientology's latest recruits. A High Court judge once dismissed the organisation as "corrupt, sinister and dangerous" but she arrives at their London HQ in Tottenham Court Road prepared to be open-minded. During the next few weeks she sees and hears things that leave her feeling very uncomfortable. |
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November 20, 2005 |
Scientologists' New Psych-Out Museum |
Scientology is taking its fight against psychiatry to the streets - namely Sunset Boulevard. The church will open a "Psychiatry: Industry of Death" museum next month in L.A., complete with vintage instruments of torture, images of electroshock therapy and "rare archival footage of psychiatry's brutal treatments." |
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