Church of Scientology of Harlem and Community Center opening July 31, 2016.
From Mike Rinder's Thursday Funnies: http://ift.tt/2agG6MA
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From Mike Rinder's Thursday Funnies: http://ift.tt/2agG6MA
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jeudi 21 juillet 2016
Church of Scientology of Harlem opening July 31, 2016
lundi 2 mai 2016
BRAIN SUMMIT - A Free Online Conference, May 2'nd - 6th, 2016
I just found out about this today so posting an announcement pretty late. The amount of time remaining to watch Day 1 (for free) is running down fast. But for those who can take advantage of it, here it is...
BRAIN SUMMIT - A Free Online Conference, May 2'nd - 6th, 2016
The Latest Research, Tools And Techniques To Upgrade Your Brain
Register for Free Here:
http://brainsummit.com/
There's 17+ sessions with different speakers (whom you can see at that link I posted).
The summit is hosted by Erin Matlock. This is a TEDx video she did which touches on some of the subject matter in the summit, but is mostly very personal to her, dealing with her experiences. (the video isn't an intro to the summit. I just posted it because it is worth watching, IMO)
Published on Mar 30, 2016
Mental health advocate Erin Matlock shares her deeply personal story of using neuroscience to end a 15 year long battle with depression.In this courageous talk she provides a raw and honest look into a life that completely unraveled and the unorthodox journey to put it back together. Pairing shocking details with the shame that all sufferers share, she presents a path where connection and transparency create light in the darkest corners of the mind.
Erin Matlock is founder of Brain Summit, a mental health advocate and popular blogger. After overcoming a crippling battle with severe depression, she went on to create an online community where she openly shares her search for a better brain.
Intimately familiar with the emotional and physical challenges of the community she serves, Erin actively engages a following of 200,000 people each month. For 10 years, she has worked in the brain health and mental health markets helping individuals and organizations reach a wider audience by connecting at an honest and human level. In the Fall of 2015, Erin produced The Sound/Mind Experiment. She became a public case study for The Listening Program, an evidence based sound frequency training that is used to enhance focus, productivity, creativity and emotional resilience. What started as a quest for better brain performance turned into a journey of self awareness, connectedness and a deep sense of inner peace and belonging.
BRAIN SUMMIT - A Free Online Conference, May 2'nd - 6th, 2016
BRAIN SUMMIT - A Free Online Conference, May 2'nd - 6th, 2016
The Latest Research, Tools And Techniques To Upgrade Your Brain
Register for Free Here:
http://brainsummit.com/
There's 17+ sessions with different speakers (whom you can see at that link I posted).
The summit is hosted by Erin Matlock. This is a TEDx video she did which touches on some of the subject matter in the summit, but is mostly very personal to her, dealing with her experiences. (the video isn't an intro to the summit. I just posted it because it is worth watching, IMO)
Published on Mar 30, 2016
Mental health advocate Erin Matlock shares her deeply personal story of using neuroscience to end a 15 year long battle with depression.In this courageous talk she provides a raw and honest look into a life that completely unraveled and the unorthodox journey to put it back together. Pairing shocking details with the shame that all sufferers share, she presents a path where connection and transparency create light in the darkest corners of the mind.
Erin Matlock is founder of Brain Summit, a mental health advocate and popular blogger. After overcoming a crippling battle with severe depression, she went on to create an online community where she openly shares her search for a better brain.
Intimately familiar with the emotional and physical challenges of the community she serves, Erin actively engages a following of 200,000 people each month. For 10 years, she has worked in the brain health and mental health markets helping individuals and organizations reach a wider audience by connecting at an honest and human level. In the Fall of 2015, Erin produced The Sound/Mind Experiment. She became a public case study for The Listening Program, an evidence based sound frequency training that is used to enhance focus, productivity, creativity and emotional resilience. What started as a quest for better brain performance turned into a journey of self awareness, connectedness and a deep sense of inner peace and belonging.
mercredi 6 avril 2016
Russia: Police raid Church of Scientology in Tatarstan, March 29, 2016
At 7 a.m. on March 29, 2016, police raided the Church of Scientology in Naberezhnye Chelny in the central Russian Republic of Tatarstan. As the photo below shows, security forces broke into the org with the aid of a sledge hammer and a crowbar. On Facebook, local blogger Dmitriy Pokrov, who works nearby, remarked (in Russian): "While the men were breaking down the door, the Scientologists silently stood by and watched."
Investigators spent the day searching for and seizing objects and records relevant to allegations of violations of privacy in connection with the secret recording of auditing sessions and the keeping of records containing intimate personal information about Scientology parishioners and persons close to them. The alleged privacy violations fall under article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Chelny-biz.ru reports that all of the collected personal information had been translated into English for the convenience of Western Scientology officials.
The Naberezhnye Chelny Church of Scientology is located on Naberezhnochelninsky Prospect.
Searches were simultaneously conducted at ten apartments of Scientologists in Naberezhnye Chelny. In all, eighteen Scientology locations were searched in several cities in Tatarstan.
Sources (in Russian):
http://ift.tt/1qulpDo
http://ift.tt/1qulpDw
http://ift.tt/1PVy3PY
http://ift.tt/1RKzhPf
http://ift.tt/1PVy4DJ
http://ift.tt/1qulpTN
http://ift.tt/1PVy4U5
http://ift.tt/1qulpTT
http://ift.tt/1PVy4U7
Here, with English subtitles, is an NTV news video that aired on March 30, 2016, one day after the March 29 raid:
Police raid Church of Scientology in Tatarstan, March 29, 2016
Reporter: Dinar Usmanov, NTV
Broadcast date: March 30, 2016
Location: Naberezhnye Chelny (Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)
Reporter: A few strokes of a sledge hammer and, under the onslaught of the Spetsnaz soldiers, the door to the citadel of the Church of Scientology's devotees gives way. The operatives enter the premises of a religious organization that look more like the office of a business than a temple. The investigators are determined to carry out a thorough search.
Investigator: (reading) "We are conducting this search in order to —"
(woman on the left interrupts investigator)
Investigator: Listen to me. "... in order to find and seize objects and documents related to illegal activities of the religious group 'Church of Scientology,' including electronic media and paper records on which are stored citizens' private personal information."
Reporter: Here, in this building, is where Scientology's enlightenment process is conducted, so-called "auditing," somewhat like Christian secret confession. However, all the intimate revelations made during auditing are secretly recorded on video and special audio recording devices. The investigators call this a blatant violation of privacy. Regarding how the information collected about parishioners is used, the Scientologists, of course, prefer not to comment.
The true nature of the activity of this organization's numerous cells has been carefully concealed. Outside, a modest sign states that this is a branch of the Church of Scientology. But inside, on computer media and paper files now being seized by police, hundreds of compromising details about the followers are recorded, the darkest stains on their lives: career mistakes, questionable acquaintances, and, of course, information about conjugal infidelities. Security officials are not ruling out that this information may have been used to extort large sums of money.
Last year, a similar search was conducted by investigators at the Moscow Scientology office. Detectives seized equipment that would be the envy of even the intelligence services. This [video shows a hard disk], in fact, is a hard drive on which all of the parishioners' secrets were stored. Nearby were electromagnetic guns that fire in the event of an alarm, and all information is instantly destroyed. No one has explained why the church has such equipment. The followers of American L. Ron Hubbard's doctrine who were seen at the Naberezhnye Chelny office also said that they know nothing regarding the secret collection of confidential information about members, and they began assuring investigators that, in their minds, there is nothing criminal going on.
Guzel Salikhova, Scientologist: We are a very peaceful religion. We help people. We provide education about the dangers of drugs. We are striving to uphold morality in society.
Reporter: Tenants of the Scientologists' neighboring offices say that no one knows what goes on behind this door, beside which a plain sign is displayed. But the church is frequented by affluent people who are clearly trying to remain incognito.
Nail Sirazov, Entrepreneur: They come here in impressive cars, but it's not clear who they are. Nail Sirazov Entrepreneur Nevertheless, these people are apparently training their colleagues for something there.
Reporter: Candidate of Sociological Sciences Larisa Astakhova has firsthand knowledge of this overseas cult. Scientologists have even tried to recruit her. She now serves as an expert for investigations and court cases concerning Scientologists. She says that the cult's most striking feature is the American commercial nature of the doctrine. Even a sincerely empathetic person doesn't have the right to call himself a Scientologist unless he hands over a certain amount of money for the needs of the church. Regarding the secretly recorded confessions, the expert says this is practically a business for sensitive personal information and it always costs money. The church's followers apparently know how to derive profit from this.
Larisa Astakhova, Assistant professor of philosophy, Kazan Federal University: The stage is set for blackmail when, for example, persons close to high-ranking individuals, join Scientology or get involved with Dianetics, and details about them, about their countries — not always favorable — or even state secrets fall into the hands of these people. Sometimes what can develop is a form of espionage, including industrial espionage. There will always be people motivated by this.
Reporter: The case against the Scientologists from Naberezhnye Chelny has already grown into a large-scale investigation with stunning revelations and scandals. Searches involving church members were performed simultaneously at 18 locations in several cities in Tatarstan. Experts say that Scientologists collected donations, tax-exempt because under the guise of religious status, and then sent them directly to the business-church's head office in the United States. According to detectives, court proceedings are presently underway in Russia to address the issue of denying the Scientologists status as a religious organization.
Dinar Usmanov, Dmitriy Ermakov, Ilya Ushenin NTV, Tatarstan.
Russia: Police raid Church of Scientology in Tatarstan, March 29, 2016
Investigators spent the day searching for and seizing objects and records relevant to allegations of violations of privacy in connection with the secret recording of auditing sessions and the keeping of records containing intimate personal information about Scientology parishioners and persons close to them. The alleged privacy violations fall under article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Chelny-biz.ru reports that all of the collected personal information had been translated into English for the convenience of Western Scientology officials.
The Naberezhnye Chelny Church of Scientology is located on Naberezhnochelninsky Prospect.
Searches were simultaneously conducted at ten apartments of Scientologists in Naberezhnye Chelny. In all, eighteen Scientology locations were searched in several cities in Tatarstan.
Sources (in Russian):
http://ift.tt/1qulpDo
http://ift.tt/1qulpDw
http://ift.tt/1PVy3PY
http://ift.tt/1RKzhPf
http://ift.tt/1PVy4DJ
http://ift.tt/1qulpTN
http://ift.tt/1PVy4U5
http://ift.tt/1qulpTT
http://ift.tt/1PVy4U7
Here, with English subtitles, is an NTV news video that aired on March 30, 2016, one day after the March 29 raid:
Police raid Church of Scientology in Tatarstan, March 29, 2016
Reporter: Dinar Usmanov, NTV
Broadcast date: March 30, 2016
Location: Naberezhnye Chelny (Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)
Reporter: A few strokes of a sledge hammer and, under the onslaught of the Spetsnaz soldiers, the door to the citadel of the Church of Scientology's devotees gives way. The operatives enter the premises of a religious organization that look more like the office of a business than a temple. The investigators are determined to carry out a thorough search.
Investigator: (reading) "We are conducting this search in order to —"
(woman on the left interrupts investigator)
Investigator: Listen to me. "... in order to find and seize objects and documents related to illegal activities of the religious group 'Church of Scientology,' including electronic media and paper records on which are stored citizens' private personal information."
Reporter: Here, in this building, is where Scientology's enlightenment process is conducted, so-called "auditing," somewhat like Christian secret confession. However, all the intimate revelations made during auditing are secretly recorded on video and special audio recording devices. The investigators call this a blatant violation of privacy. Regarding how the information collected about parishioners is used, the Scientologists, of course, prefer not to comment.
The true nature of the activity of this organization's numerous cells has been carefully concealed. Outside, a modest sign states that this is a branch of the Church of Scientology. But inside, on computer media and paper files now being seized by police, hundreds of compromising details about the followers are recorded, the darkest stains on their lives: career mistakes, questionable acquaintances, and, of course, information about conjugal infidelities. Security officials are not ruling out that this information may have been used to extort large sums of money.
Last year, a similar search was conducted by investigators at the Moscow Scientology office. Detectives seized equipment that would be the envy of even the intelligence services. This [video shows a hard disk], in fact, is a hard drive on which all of the parishioners' secrets were stored. Nearby were electromagnetic guns that fire in the event of an alarm, and all information is instantly destroyed. No one has explained why the church has such equipment. The followers of American L. Ron Hubbard's doctrine who were seen at the Naberezhnye Chelny office also said that they know nothing regarding the secret collection of confidential information about members, and they began assuring investigators that, in their minds, there is nothing criminal going on.
Guzel Salikhova, Scientologist: We are a very peaceful religion. We help people. We provide education about the dangers of drugs. We are striving to uphold morality in society.
Reporter: Tenants of the Scientologists' neighboring offices say that no one knows what goes on behind this door, beside which a plain sign is displayed. But the church is frequented by affluent people who are clearly trying to remain incognito.
Nail Sirazov, Entrepreneur: They come here in impressive cars, but it's not clear who they are. Nail Sirazov Entrepreneur Nevertheless, these people are apparently training their colleagues for something there.
Reporter: Candidate of Sociological Sciences Larisa Astakhova has firsthand knowledge of this overseas cult. Scientologists have even tried to recruit her. She now serves as an expert for investigations and court cases concerning Scientologists. She says that the cult's most striking feature is the American commercial nature of the doctrine. Even a sincerely empathetic person doesn't have the right to call himself a Scientologist unless he hands over a certain amount of money for the needs of the church. Regarding the secretly recorded confessions, the expert says this is practically a business for sensitive personal information and it always costs money. The church's followers apparently know how to derive profit from this.
Larisa Astakhova, Assistant professor of philosophy, Kazan Federal University: The stage is set for blackmail when, for example, persons close to high-ranking individuals, join Scientology or get involved with Dianetics, and details about them, about their countries — not always favorable — or even state secrets fall into the hands of these people. Sometimes what can develop is a form of espionage, including industrial espionage. There will always be people motivated by this.
Reporter: The case against the Scientologists from Naberezhnye Chelny has already grown into a large-scale investigation with stunning revelations and scandals. Searches involving church members were performed simultaneously at 18 locations in several cities in Tatarstan. Experts say that Scientologists collected donations, tax-exempt because under the guise of religious status, and then sent them directly to the business-church's head office in the United States. According to detectives, court proceedings are presently underway in Russia to address the issue of denying the Scientologists status as a religious organization.
Dinar Usmanov, Dmitriy Ermakov, Ilya Ushenin NTV, Tatarstan.
mardi 2 février 2016
Old Timer Joining on Groundhog Day, 2016
Canadian. Staff from 9/73 to 5/77. Super-literate Cl. V C/S and Fully Hatted Flag trained ED. Declared in 1989. Happy to accept comm from other members, especially those who know me from the Ottawa Org, 1973-89.
Old Timer Joining on Groundhog Day, 2016
mardi 19 janvier 2016
Anonymous Worldwide Anniversary Protest Feb 10, 2016
(Couldn't find the thread for this, so I'm posting another. If anyone can find the original, please combine.)
Worldwide Protest Against Scientology for Anonymous Anniversary
Greeting citizens of the world. We are Anonymous.
We would like to invite you to join us on February 10th, 2016, to observe the eight year anniversary of Project Chanology by joining in a world-wide protest against the cult of Scientology.
Scientology was created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1952, based on his self-help system, Dianetics. It teaches that humans are immortal beings in need of spiritual counselling which they call auditing, and which is sold to members on a per session basis. Scientology is legally recognized as a tax-exempt religion in the U.S., Italy, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. It is considered a commercial enterprise in Switzerland, and characterized most correctly as a cult in France and Chili, and as a non-profit in Norway.
The Church of Scientology is known to brainwash and defraud its members and attack its critics with psychological abuse, character assassination, and lawsuits. Ex-members have confirmed that the church routinely employees psychological abuse and asks members to donate large amounts of money. In addition, Scientology is known to suggest abortions to female members so they will have more money to give the church. They are known to have dumbed manure on peaceful protestors, as well as having had protestors arrested and beaten.
Join us on February 10th, 2016, as we continue to protest Scientology.
Anonymous Worldwide Anniversary Protest Feb 10, 2016
Worldwide Protest Against Scientology for Anonymous Anniversary
Quote:
Greeting citizens of the world. We are Anonymous.
We would like to invite you to join us on February 10th, 2016, to observe the eight year anniversary of Project Chanology by joining in a world-wide protest against the cult of Scientology.
Scientology was created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1952, based on his self-help system, Dianetics. It teaches that humans are immortal beings in need of spiritual counselling which they call auditing, and which is sold to members on a per session basis. Scientology is legally recognized as a tax-exempt religion in the U.S., Italy, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain. It is considered a commercial enterprise in Switzerland, and characterized most correctly as a cult in France and Chili, and as a non-profit in Norway.
The Church of Scientology is known to brainwash and defraud its members and attack its critics with psychological abuse, character assassination, and lawsuits. Ex-members have confirmed that the church routinely employees psychological abuse and asks members to donate large amounts of money. In addition, Scientology is known to suggest abortions to female members so they will have more money to give the church. They are known to have dumbed manure on peaceful protestors, as well as having had protestors arrested and beaten.
Join us on February 10th, 2016, as we continue to protest Scientology.
mercredi 18 novembre 2015
Jan 24, 2016
OK ESMBers - What can we do to celebrate L Ron's thirtieth year of bathing in molten brimstone?
Jan 24, 2016
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