Religion and Politics – the bare truth and facts – the source and the means for not a few, and the bane and the cross for the herds of cattle and the packs of monkeys

This is by I, myself, and me. Posting in black / Highlights in red / Blue for my late beloved Mama / Green for my late beloved Mama’s words / Horse-shits in orange / Horse-farts in pink

Religion is, in fact, the superstitious fear of the unknown, felt yet unseen, and/or seen yet unattainable; and…

Politics is the science and art of government, and the management of public affairs – the public's interests, safety, security, stability, welfare, and well-being.

These are the dictionary's definitions of Religion and Politics, and these are exactly what they mean, BUT! In real life, Religion is a farce, composed of elaborate lies, myths, and hoaxes; and Politics is a game – a very dirty and nasty game of jostling and maneuvering – pushing shoving kicking kneeing elbowing punching biting back-biting back-stabbing braying barking and farting for position, prestige, posture, money, and power; and to both Horse-shits, Heaven and Hell, with the (M)Asses

Jostling and maneuvering – all of the above for position, prestige, posture, and money – exist in Religion as well, to an equal if not greater extent – albeit in a more subtle, well-hidden or camouflaged form – and all, not for the worship, love, praise, and glory of God and his families, relatives, friends, and colleagues; or for the welfare and well-being – physical, mental, and spiritual – of the (M)Asses, BUT, for more wealth and greater position or post, prestige, posture, and power.

Both Religion and Politics are Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart; and they are two sides of the same coin, or system, or means, of divide and rule, and if that fails, Divide and Destroy They both evolved at the same time, AND! They have joined forces, and complement each other – one cannot exist without the other. ALSO! They both survive and thrive by suppressing, oppressing, conning, coercing, duping, cheating, lying to, stealing from, intimidating, threatening, frightening, cajoling, manipulating, subduing, and exploiting the people – in a nutshell: screwing the Asses – that's Masses without the M, or Masses – M = Asses!

Religion and Politics are the source and the means for those who practise them, and the bane and the cross for those whom they are practised on.

My late beloved Mama on Politics: “Son! Politics pollutes people, and all Politicians are Pests and Parasites who face one direction while walking in the opposite direction. In other words, life, for them, is a straight line, A–B; they walk toward A while facing B; and they talk A but mean B, or talk B but mean A, or talk AB and the herds of cattle and the packs of monkeys hear and understand what they want to hear and understand – and which turns out to be the wrong choice, in the end – and they pay through their noses for it, too, to boot! For the rest, life is A to B

Life is A to B means Humans-Apes are born to die, from the cradle to the grave; and in-between, they pay their taxes, bills, invoices, dues, and fees, and make totally obnoxious nuisances of themselves; but for all Religious Clerics of all Religions all over the world and all Politicians all over the world, it's A–B with nothing in-between; for the rest of us, it's A to B. Sorry, no further explanations. If you do not understand and/or cannot work it out…use your brain, (IF) you’ve got one

My late beloved Mama on Religion: “Son! Religion is the same as Politics, if not much worse, since it professes, actually pretends, to worship and glorify God while serving and comforting Mankind, or Ape-kind, or Human-Apes, or the (M)Asses; whereas in reality, it’s all for us and none for all, or everything for us and nothing for them. Life, for them, too, is a straight line, A–B; they walk toward A while facing B; and they preach A but mean B, or preach B but mean A, or preach AB and the herds of cattle and the packs of monkeys hear and understand what they want to hear and understand – and which turns out to be the wrong choice, in the end – and they pay through their noses for it, too, to boot! For the rest, life is A to B – born to die, from the cradle to the grave; and in-between, they pay their taxes, bills, invoices, dues, and fees, and make totally obnoxious nuisances of themselves.”

More about Religion by my late beloved Mama: “However, the People, or the Asses – that's Masses without the M – subconsciously (deep down in a remote but very sharp corner of their brains) know this and that is why Moslems need large loud-speakers and Christians need large loud bells to remind them and call them to prayers; BY GOD AND SATAN!”

My Mama knew a thing or two and she was nobody’s fool, and she did not raise me to be a fool, either. I am nobody’s fool who fools nobody; and fools are already fools and therefore need no fooling. No one can fool a fool, because he’s a fool. Also – and this is very important – my late beloved Mama is I, myself, and me……BY GOD AND SATAN AGAIN!

The Church of Scientology Today II – Introduction to Scientology – after all I have reported so far, it is only fair……

The word Scientology literally means the study of truth. It comes from the Latin word scio – knowing in the fullest sense of the word – and the Greek word logos – the study of – Daniel: Horse-shit! Scientology can only be translated: the science of science

Scientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths. Prime among these:

Man is an immortal, spiritual being. His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime. His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realised, and those capabilities can be realised. He can, not only solve his own problems, accomplish his goals and gain lasting happiness, but also achieve new, higher states of awareness and ability.

In Scientology, no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and observing or experiencing results.

Through Scientology, people all over the world have achieved the long-sought goal of true spiritual release and freedom.

Dianetics comes from the Greek words dia (through) and nous (soul). Dianetics could be said to be what the soul is doing to the body. It provides answers to the fundamental riddles of the mind with a thoroughly validated method that increases sanity, intelligence, confidence and well-being. It gets rid of the unwanted sensations, unpleasant emotions, and psychosomatic ills that block one’s life and happiness. Dianetics relies on basic principles that can be easily learnt and applied by any reasonably intelligent person, as millions have. It is the route to a well, happy, high IQ human being – Daniel: SHEESH! Anyone who believes this Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart deserves Scientology with a goodly dressing of Dianetics, and Dianetics does not exist in the language, so they would have a dish of Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart  with a dressing of nothing.

Dianetics addresses the part of the mind that operates below the conscious level, exerting a hidden influence that causes you to react irrationally, say and do things that aren't you, and have inexplicable emotions and ills that hold back intelligence and ability. It all resolves with Dianetics

The Parts of Man

Man consists of three parts. The first of these is the spirit, called thetan in Scientology from the Greek letter theta (thought or spirit), which is the individual himself

The second of these parts is the mind. Thetan uses his mind as a communication and control system between himself and his environment

The third of these parts is the body. The body is not the person

The most important of the three parts of man is the thetan, which is the spirit, or Man. Daniel: The word 'Thetan' does not exist, except in or on Scientololgy

The Dynamics of Existence

The basic command followed by all life, Survive! is subdivided into eight dynamics – dynamic meaning urge, drive, or impulse. All activities in one’s varied life can be inspected, understood and harmonized with all others to increase survival

8^th Dynamic: Infinity, also commonly called God, the Supreme Being or Creator

7^th Dynamic: Spiritual — anything spiritual with or without identity, life source

6^th Dynamic: the Physical Universe with its four components of matter, energy, space and time

5^thDynamic: Life-forms, including all plant and animal life

4^th Dynamic: Mankind as a species

3^rd Dynamic: Group Survival whether friends, a club, company, nation, or race

2^nd Dynamic: Family and children and all other creativity

1^st Dynamic: Self – the individual, including his body, mind and immediate possessions

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; none of all of the above Dynamic Horse-shits and Horse-farts are new and, like I said: To me, all Religions are Half-Horse-shit and Half-horse-fart and so is Politics……read: 680 – coming out sooner than you think. However, like I said again: if you wish to know more about this one more Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart Religion – www.scientologytoday.org

Don't forget to read 680

The Church of Scientology Today I – What it was, what it became, what it is……

Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Jenna Elfman, Mimi Rogers, Anne Archer, Nancy Cartwright, Palm Springs Mayor and performer Sonny Bono, jazzman Chick Corea, and the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson. Let's face it, we're not surprised when obviously unstable, closeted, or just plain untalented actors and actresses start blathering on about Xenu and cleansing their Engrams. Hollywood types can be pretty flaky. But while some of the famous faces of Scientology make sense, there are a surprising number of celebrities that, honestly, we expected better from

There is strong doubt that anyone or any group can provide an accurate figure for Scientology's membership worldwide – churches and orgs in at least 30 countries…such is the constant ebb and flow in and especially out of the group, it is unlikely that the organisation itself has any idea of what its membership is on any given day…membership has waned since about 1970. Scientology has had stiff competition from other cults, modern religions, and New-Age Groups. Many of its staunchest members have left, and more of the raw public are reluctant to become involved. Among the reasons for this reluctance are:

* An enormous increase in prices starting in the '80s, as always payment in advance

* Written and televised exposes of enormities and harassments perpetrated by Scientology and Scientologists

* The conviction of nine top-ranking Scientologists, including Hubbard's wife, of theft of government documents, and other crimes

* The Church's policy of nuisance lawsuits against its critics, including authors and their publishers

* Published, verbal, and Internet accounts of black-magic-like processes

* Hubbard's reported wealth and power, physical and mental ill-health and mysterious death

* The sometimes obnoxious on-the-street confrontations by Scientology proselytizers – Church members who accost people and harass them in an attempt to convert them to Scientology

* Leading Scientologists' poor showing in TV and radio debates with wogs – a highly offensive term for members of any people with dark skins

* The struggle on the Internet between Scientology and its detractors, the latter often using satire, a strong tactic against authoritarianism

* The speech mannerisms and zombie-like wide-eyed stare of some Scientologists – Cruise and Travolta do it even in films – which may create the impression that something sinister is going on behind org walls – and especially behind blank eyes in thick skulls

But Scientology keeps rolling. If their membership is down, still they have managed to find more affluent people, on the principle that you may enlist either one thousand people who pay $1,000 each or, just as good, one hundred people who pay $10,000 each or ten people who pay $100,000 each

Scientology has scored points with the media with their Celebrity Center, which hosts famous entertainers and sports stars in the group

And most importantly, Scientology was awarded a court-decision as a non-profit organisation in the US Tax Court, and can now legally call itself a religion in the USA. However, there have been strictures against Scientology in several other countries

The Church of Scientology is an expanding new religion, founded by American author and humanitarian, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. The word Scientology means the science or study of knowledge or truth and addresses the rehabilitation and salvation of the human spirit

According to a Scientology website:

Today, Scientology’s more than 6,000 churches, missions, related organisations, groups and activities span the globe and minister the religion to more than eight million people in 159 countries in over 66 languages

Additionally, Churches of Scientology support more than a thousand social betterment groups, which utilize Hubbard's methods in the fields of education, drug and criminal rehabilitation, and moral rejuvenation

The total number of Scientologists in the world is extremely difficult to estimate, for a variety of reasons. Estimates range from 100 thousand to 10 million

Scientology has expanded more in the last five years than in the preceding fifty. In one year alone, new Scientology groups, missions and churches were opened at the rate of three per day

For more than forty years, those who perceived Scientology as a threat to their vested interests – other Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart Religions, of course – have attempted to stop or curb its expansion. Today, Scientology has expanded to the point where it cannot be stopped, and a summation of battles fought and won demonstrates the persistence of Scientologists and their active involvement to preserve religious freedom and the rights of man, not just for Scientology, but for everyone – SHEESH! But I know what ‘everyone’ they mean: Everyone who is gullible and naïve enough to believe in any Religious Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart – Fools who are soon parted with or relieved of their money!

Witness Australia in 1965. In the state of Victoria, after a kangaroo-court inquiry in which Scientologists were not even allowed to appear, the Church was banned. Naturally, such legislation was un-enforceable, but it took eighteen years of sustained actions in the courts before Scientology not only won, but received full recognition in a landmark decision from the High Court of Australia that established the legal definition of religion in Australia – so what else is new? Religion always wins, for the very simple reason that it uses the money of the very same people that Religion is supposed to succor or guide against them and the laws that are supposed to protect them. It also uses the loop-holes in the laws against the laws. Politics is the same, only in a different way on a different tack – read: 680

Kangaroo-court: a mock-court; an unofficial court set up spontaneously for the purpose of delivering a judgment arrived at in advance, usually one in which an adversary or a disloyal associate's fate has already been decided

So it has been in every country where Scientologists and their church have met with resistance from vested interests opposed to human betterment. For example, members of the British Parliament, urged on by psychiatric interests and the notorious yellow journalism of the British press, enacted a ban on foreign students entering the country to study Scientology. Exposure of the vested interests behind the ban, and a legal suit eventually forced a reversal of the decision twelve years later – no doubt a lot of money changed hands, or pockets, or bank accounts. Today, foreigners have free access to the many churches and missions that now dot the British Isles.

Many battles have been fought over the last three decades…and scores of court decisions now affirm the religious bona fides of Scientology throughout the world. In every instance, those who would seek to destroy or stop or curb Scientology eventually disappear, while the Church continues to grow across the world.

Indeed, in every instance where Scientology has met resistance, the Church has emerged stronger larger and with ever greater impact on society, testament to its validity and legitimacy. Any other movement, subject to the magnitude of attacks sustained, met, and overcome by Scientology would have long since ceased to exist…

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; to me, Scientology is just another Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart Religion and all of you out there and in here know my views and opinion on Religion……and Politics, too…read: 680

However, if you wish to know more about this one-more Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart Religion: www.scientologytoday.org

The Church of Scientology VI – the Thriving Cult of Greed and Power – a Cult-Mafia more expert and vicious at silencing or eliminating the competition or adversaries than the Mafia

Scientology devoted vast resources to squelching its critics. Since 1986, Hubbard and his church had been the subject of four unfriendly books, all released by small yet courageous publishers. In each case, the writers were badgered and heavily sued. One of Hubbard's policies was that all perceived enemies are fair game and subject to being tricked, sued, lied to or about, or destroyed. Those who criticized the church: journalists, doctors, lawyers, and even judges found themselves engulfed in litigation, stalked by private eyes, framed for fictional crimes, beaten up or threatened with death. An outspoken Scientology critic, psychologist, and professor at the University of California in Berkeley, travelled regularly under an assumed name to avoid harassment.

After the Los Angeles Times had published a negative series on the church in the summer of 1990, Scientologists spent an estimated $1 million to plaster the reporters' names on hundreds of billboards and bus-placards across the city. Above their names were quotations distorted out of context to portray the church in a positive light.

The church's most fearsome advocates were its lawyers. Hubbard had warned his followers in writing to beware of attorneys who tell them not to sue……the purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. Result: Scientology brought hundreds of law-suits against its perceived enemies and paid an estimated $20 million annually to more than 100 lawyers.

One legal goal of Scientology was to bankrupt the opposition or bury it under paper. The church had 71 active lawsuits against the IRS alone. One of them, Miscavige vs. IRS, required the government to produce an index of 52,000 pages of documents. A Boston attorney, who had helped Scientology victims from 1979 to 1987, personally endured 14 frivolous lawsuits, all of them dismissed. Another lawyer believed that the church had so subverted justice and the judicial system that it should be barred from seeking equity in any court. He should know: He had represented the cult until 1987 when, he said, he was asked to help church officials steal medical records to blackmail an opposing attorney (who was allegedly beaten up instead). Since he quit representing the Cult-Mafia-church, he had been the target of death threats, burglaries, lawsuits, and other harassments.

Scientology's critics contended that the US government needed to crack down on the church in a major, organised way. A Los Angeles attorney who handled victims’ cases said he wanted to know where the government was. Scientology shouldn't be left to private litigators, because most of them were afraid to get involved. Law-enforcement agents were also wary. A Florida police detective who had tracked the Cult-Mafia since 1988 said that every investigator was very cautious; walking on eggshells when it came to the church and that it would take a federal effort with lots of money and manpower.

The agency that gave Scientology the most grief was the IRS, whose officials implied that Hubbard's successors might be looting the church's coffers. Since 1988, when the US Supreme Court upheld the revocation of the cult's tax-exempt status, a massive IRS probe of church centers across the country had been under way. The IRS estimated that thousands of IRS employees were involved. In an internal IRS memorandum, an agent spoke hopefully of the ultimate disintegration of the church. A small beacon shone in June 1990 when a federal appeals court ruled that two cassette tapes featuring conversations between church officials and their lawyers were evidence of a plan to commit future frauds against the IRS

The IRS and the FBI had debriefed Scientology defectors for three years to gain evidence for a major racketeering case that appeared to have stalled the previous summer. Federal agents complained that the Justice Department was unwilling to spend the money required to endure a drawn-out war against Scientology or to fend off the cult's notorious vicious jihads against individual agents. A former head of the FBI's Los Angeles office said that in his opinion, the church had one of the most effective intelligence operations in the US, rivaling that of even the FBI.

Foreign governments had moved even more vigorously against the organisation. In Canada, the church and nine of its members would be tried in June on charges of stealing government documents (many of them were retrieved in an enormous police-raid of the church's Toronto headquarters). Scientology proposed to give $1 million to the needy if the case was dropped, but Canada spurned the offer. Since 1986, authorities in France, Spain, and Italy had raided more than 50 Scientology centers. Pending charges against more than 100 of its overseas church members included fraud, extortion, capital-flights, coercion, illegally practising medicine, and taking advantage of mentally incapacitated people. In Germany, the month before, leading politicians accused the Cult-Mafia of trying to infiltrate a major party as well as launching an immense recruitment drive in the east.

At times, even the church's biggest zealots could use a little protection. Screen star, John Travolta, had long served as an unofficial Scientology spokesman, even though he had told a magazine in 1983 that he was opposed to the church's management. High-level defectors claimed that Travolta had long feared that if he defected, details of his sexual life would be made public. Fra***, the church's former chairman of the board, said Travolta had told him that he felt pretty intimidated about getting out. There had been no outright threats made, but they were implicit. If you left, they immediately started digging up everything. Fra*** was driven out in 1981 after attempting to reform the church.

The church's former head of security, Azna***, recalled Scientology ringleader, Miscavige, repeatedly joking to staffers about Travolta's allegedly promiscuous homosexual behavior. At that point, any threat to expose Travolta seemed superfluous: in May 1990, a male porn star received $100,000 from a tabloid for an account of his alleged 2-year liaison with the celebrity. Travolta refused to comment, and in December, his lawyer dismissed questions about the subject as bizarre. Two weeks later, Travolta announced that he was getting married to actress Kelly Preston, a fellow Scientologist.

Shortly after Hubbard's death, the church retained Trout & Ries, a respected, Connecticut-based firm of marketing consultants, to help boost its public image. Jack Trout said they were brutally honest. They advised them to clean up their act, stop with the controversy, and even to stop being a church. They didn't want to hear that. Scientology hired one of the largest PR-Outfits in the country, Hill and Knowlton, whose executives refused to discuss the lucrative relationship. Trout said later that Hill and Knowlton must feel that those guys were not totally off the wall, unless it's just for the money.

One of Scientology's main strategies was to keep advancing the exhausted argument that the church was being persecuted by anti-religionists. It was supported in that position by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Council of Churches – Paid to Part (Fart) again. But in the end, money was what Scientology was all about – so are all Religions. So long as the organisation's opponents and victims were successfully squelched, Scientology's managers and lawyers would keep pocketing millions of dollars by helping it achieve its ends.

The Church of Scientology V – The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power – There are no Mafias quite like the Mafias of Religion and Politics…

TIME in partnership with CNN May 1991 – cover story

The famous article, critical of Scientology, had been the target of an organised book-burning campaign by Scientologists……

To gain influence and lure richer, more sophisticated followers, Scientology resorted to a wide array of front groups and financial scams: Consulting: Sterling Management Systems, formed in 1983, had been ranked in previous years by Inc. magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies (estimated 1988 revenues: $20 million). Sterling mailed free newsletters to more than 300,000 health-care professionals – professional fools – regularly, mostly dentists, promising to increase their incomes dramatically. The firm offered seminars and courses that typically cost $10,000. But Sterling's true aim was to hook customers for Scientology.

A Pittsburgh attorney who represented Sterling victims said the church had a rotten product, so they packaged it as something else. It was a kind of bait and switch. Sterling's founder, a dentist, was at the time under investigation by California's Board of Dental Examiners for incompetence. 9 lawsuits were pending against him for malpractices – seven others had been settled, mostly for orthodontic work on children.

Many dentists who had unwittingly been drawn into the cult-Mafia filed or threatened lawsuits as well. A dentist from Medina, Ohio, who entered a Sterling seminar in 1988, endured the most extreme high-pressure sales-tactics he had ever faced. Sterling officials told him that their firm was not linked to Scientology. But he claimed they eventually convinced him that he and his wife Dorothy had personal problems that required auditing. Over five months, they spent $130,000 for services, plus $50,000 for gold-embossed, investment-grade books signed by Hubbard. He contended that Scientologists not only called his bank to increase his credit-card limit but also forged his signature on a $20,000 loan application. He said it was insane, and he couldn't even get an accounting from them of what he was paying for. At one point, Scientologists held his wife hostage for two weeks in a mountain cabin, after which she was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown.

In October 1990, Sterling broke some bad news to another dentist from Gadsden, Ala., and his wife. Tests had shown that unless they signed up for auditing, his practice would fail, and she would someday abuse their child. The following month, they flew to Glendale, Calif., where they shuttled daily from a local hotel to a Dianetics center. The wife later recalled: We thought they were brilliant people because they seemed to know so much about us. Then we realised our hotel room must have been bugged. They said that after bolting from the Dianetics center, $23,000 poorer, they said they were chased repeatedly by Scientologists on foot and in cars. Dentists weren't the only victims. Scientology also made pitches to chiropractors, podiatrists and veterinarians.

Public Influence: One front, the Way to Happiness Foundation, distributed more than 3.5 million copies of a booklet Hubbard had written on ‘morality’ to children in thousands of public schools. The church called the scheme the largest dissemination project in Scientology history. Applied Scholastics was the name of still another front, which attempted to install a Hubbard tutorial program in public schools, primarily those populated by minorities. The group had also planned a 1,000-acre campus, where it would train educators to teach various Hubbard methods. The disingenuously named Citizens Commission on Human Rights was a Scientology group at war with psychiatry, its primary competitor. They typically issued reports aimed at discrediting particular psychiatrists and the field in general. They were also behind the all-out war against Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, the nation's top-selling anti-depression drug. Despite scant evidence, the group's members – who called themselves psycho-busters – claimed that Prozac drove people to murder or suicide. Through mass mailings, appearances on talk shows, and heavy lobbying, they hurt drug sales and helped spark dozens of lawsuits against Lilly.

The Concerned Businessmen Association of America, another Scientology-linked group, held anti-drug contests and awarded $5,000 grants to schools as a way to recruit students and curry favour with education officials. A West Virginia Senator unwittingly commended the CBAA in 1987 on the Senate floor. In August 1990, author Alex Haley was the keynote speaker at its annual awards banquet in Los Angeles. Haley later said he didn't know much about the group going in, and that he was a Methodist. Ignorance about Scientology was embarrassing: on 13^th March – L. Ron Hubbard Day – the Governor of Illinois noted that Scientology's founder had solved the aberrations of the human mind. He rescinded the proclamation in late March, when he learnt who Hubbard really had been.

Health-care; Health-Med: a chain of clinics run by Scientologists, promoted a grueling and excessive system of saunas, exercises and vitamins designed by Hubbard to purify the body. Experts denounced the regime as quackery and potentially harmful, yet Health-Med solicited unions and public agencies for contracts. The chain plugged heavily in a new book, Diet for a Poisoned Planet, by journalist David Steinman, who concluded that scores of common foods (among them: peanuts, bluefish, peaches and cottage cheese) were dangerous.

A Former Surgeon labeled the book ‘trash’ and the Food and Drug Administration issued a paper in October that claimed Steinman had distorted the facts. The head of the National Council Against Health Fraud said that Health-Med was a gateway to Scientology, and that the book was a sorting mechanism. Steinman, who had described Hubbard as a researcher, denied any ties to the church and that Health-Med had no affiliation with Scientology.

Drug Treatment: Hubbard's purification treatments were the mainstay a Scientology-run chain of 33 Alchohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers, Narconon in 12 countries – some in prisons under the name Criminon. Narconon, a classic vehicle for drawing addicts into the cult, planned to open what it called the world's largest treatment center, a 1,400-bed facility on an Indian reservation near Newkirk, Okla. (pop. 2,400). At a 1989 ceremony in Newkirk, the Association for Better Living and Education presented Narconon with a check for $200,000 and a study praising its work. The association turned out to be part of Scientology itself.  The town battled to keep out the cult-Mafia, which fought back through such tactics as sending private detectives to snoop on the mayor and the local newspaper publisher.

Financial Scams: Three Florida Scientologists pled guilty in March to using their rare-coin dealership as a money laundry. Other notorious activities by Scientologists include making the shady Vancouver stock-exchange even shadier and plotting to plant operatives in the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Export-Import Bank of the US. The alleged purpose of this scheme: to gain inside information on which countries were going to be denied credit so that Scientology-linked traders could make illicit profits by taking short positions in those countries' currencies.

In the stock market, the practice of shorting involved borrowing shares of publicly traded companies in the hope that the price would go down before the stocks must be bought on the market and returned to the lender. The Feshbach brothers of Palo Alto-California became the leading short sellers in the US, with more than $500 million under management. They commanded a staff of about 60 employees and claimed to have earned better returns than the Dow Jones industrial average in the 1980s. And they said they owed it all to the teachings of Scientology, whose war chest had received more than $1 million from the family.

The Feshbachs also adopted the church's tactics; they were the terrors of the stock exchanges. In congressional hearings in 1989, the heads of several companies claimed that Feshbach operatives had spread false information to government agencies and posed in various guises – such as a Securities and Exchange Commission official – in an effort to discredit their companies and drive the stocks down. A man, who ran a chain of business journals, testified that a Feshbach employee called his bankers and interfered with his loans. The Feshbachs sometimes sent private detectives to dig up dirt on firms, which was then shared with business reporters, brokers, and fund managers.

The Feshbachs, who wore jackets bearing the slogan stock busters, insisted they ran a clean shop, but as part of a probe into possible insider stock trading, federal officials were reportedly investigating whether the Feshbachs received confidential information from FDA employees.

They seemed aligned with Scientology's war on psychiatry and medicine: many of their targets were health and bio-technology firms. The editor of Equities magazine, and a harsh critic of the brothers, said that legitimate short-selling performs a public service by deflating hyped stocks, but the Feshbachs had damaged scores of good start-ups.

Occasionally, a Scientologist's business antics landed him in jail. In August 1990, a former devotee, Fish***, began serving a five-year prison term in Florida for stealing blank stock-confirmation slips from his employer, a major brokerage firm, to use as proof that he owned stock entitling him to join dozens of successful class-action lawsuits. He made roughly $1 million from 1983 to 1988 and spent as much as 30% of the loot on Scientology books and tapes. Scientology denied any tie to the Fishman-scam, a claim strongly disputed by both Fish*** and his longtime psychiatrist, Gee***, a prominent Florida hypnotist. Both men claimed that when arrested, Fish*** was ordered by the church to kill Gee*** and then do an EOC, or end of cycle, which is the Scientology-jargon for suicide.

Book-Publishing: Scientology mischief-making even moved to the book industry. Since 1985, at least a dozen Hubbard books, printed by a Scientology company, made best-seller lists. They ranged from a 5,000-page sci-fi decology Black Genesis / The Enemy Within / An Alien Affair to the 40-year-old Dianetics. In 1988, the trade publication, Publishers Weekly, awarded the dead author a plaque commemorating the appearance of Dianetics on its best-seller list for 100 consecutive weeks. Probably Paid to Part (Fart)

Critics panned most of Hubbard's books as unreadable, while defectors claimed that church insiders were the real authors. Even so, Scientology sent out armies of its followers to buy the group's books at such major chains as B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks to sustain the illusion of best-selling authors. A former Dalton's manager said that some books even arrived in his store with the chain's price-stickers already on them, suggesting that copies were being recycled. Scientology claimed that sales of Hubbard books topped 90 million worldwide. The scheme, set up to gain converts and credibility, was coupled with a radio and TV advertising campaign virtually unparalleled in the book industry.

NOTES: Google-Wiktionary / http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decology 

Decology: a series of ten volumes of books or films that follow each other or are related

duology 2 trilogy 3 tetralogy 4 pentalogy 5 hexology 6 heptalogy 7 octology 8 ennealogy 9

Monology: the habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversations.

The Church of Scientology IV – The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power – Money and Prestige are the Roots of all Evil and these are what Religion and Politics are about……

Daniel: Money and Prestige are the Roots of all Evil, and Religion and Politics are interested in or deal in only Money and Prestige, so it is safe to say that Religion and Politics are the Roots of all Evil

The famous article, critical of Scientology, had been the target of an organised book-burning campaign by Scientologists……

Hubbard wrote one of Scientology's sacred texts, Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health, in 1950. In it, he introduced a crude psychotherapeutic technique he called auditing. He also created a simplified lie detector, called an E-meter, that was designed to measure electrical changes in the skin while subjects – victims – discussed intimate details of their past. Hubbard argued that unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations, or engrams, caused by early traumas. Hubbard claimed that counseling sessions with the E-meter could knock out the engrams, cure blindness, and even improve a person's intelligence and appearance. He kept adding steps, each more costly, for his followers to climb – that, of course, only goes to show how stupid, gullible, and naïve most of the Americans are……

73-year-old Harriet Baker learnt about Scientology's business of selling religion the hard way. When she lost her husband to cancer, a Scientologist turned up at her Los Angeles home peddling a $1,300 auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Ma-Baker's children helped their mother to snap out of her daze. In June 1990, Ma-Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult-Mafia members to show up unannounced at her door with an E-meter to interrogate her. Ma-Baker never got the money and, financially strapped, was forced to sell her house in September.

Before Noah Lottick killed himself, he had paid more than $5,000 for church counseling. His behavior had also become strange. He once remarked to his parents that his Scientology mentors could actually read minds. When his father suffered a major heart attack, Noah insisted that it was purely psychosomatic – caused by mental and emotional factors. Five days before he jumped, Noah burst into his parents' home and demanded to know why they were spreading false rumours about him – a delusion that finally prompted his father to call a psychiatrist. It was too late.

“From Noah's friends at Dianetics” read the card that accompanied a bouquet of flowers at Noah's funeral. Yet no Scientology staff members bothered to show up. A week earlier, local church officials had given Noah's parents a red-carpet tour of their center. A cult-Mafia leader told Noah's parents that their son had been at the church just hours before he disappeared – but they denied the story as soon as the body had been identified. True to form, the cult-Mafia even haggled with the Lotticks over $3,000 their dead son had paid for services he never used, insisting that Noah had intended it as a donation.

The church invented hundreds of goods and services for which members were urged to buy or give donations to. Are you having trouble moving swiftly across the bridge – that is, advancing up the step-ladder of enlightenment? Then you can have your case reviewed for a mere $1,250 donation. Want to know why a thetan hangs on to the physical universe? Try 52 of Hubbard's tape-recorded speeches from 1952, titled Ron's Philadelphia Doctorate Course Lectures, for $2,525. Next: nine other series of the same sort. For the collector, gold-and-leather-bound editions of 22 of Hubbard's books (and bookends) on subjects ranging from Scientology ethics to radiation can be had for just $1,900. To gain influence and lure richer, more sophisticated followers, Scientology resorted to a wide array of front groups and financial scams:

Daniel: Go to next posting…

Harriet Baker and especially the Lotticks were typical examples of American Adamant Ass-hole Asininity. If their son had been in the US Army and had been sent to Iraq and died in action – for God and country – they would have raised hell, but……

The Church of Scientology III – The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power – Make sure there are Masses of Asses in our church…in however, whichever, or whatever way…or why-ever

TIME in partnership with CNN May 1991 – cover story

This famous article, critical of Scientology, has been the target of an organised book-burning campaign by Scientologists……

The founder of this enterprise was part story-teller, part flim-flam man. Born in Nebraska in 1911, Hubbard served in the US Navy during World War II and soon afterwards complained to the Veterans Administration about his suicidal inclinations and his seriously affected mind.

In 1949, he seemed to predict his own future in a Horse-fart speech to a convention of fellow authors: Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion……

Hubbard wrote one of Scientology's sacred texts, Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health, in 1950. In it, he introduced a crude psychotherapeutic technique he called auditing. He also created a simplified lie detector, called an E-meter, that was designed to measure electrical changes in the skin while subjects – victims – discussed intimate details of their past. Hubbard argued that unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations, or engrams, caused by early traumas. Hubbard claimed that counseling sessions with the E-meter could knock out the engrams, cure blindness, and even improve a person's intelligence and appearance. He kept adding steps, each more costly, for his followers to climb – that, of course, only goes to show how gullible and naïve most of the American-Ass-holes are!

In the 1960s, the guru decreed that humans are made of clusters of spirits or thetans who had been banished to earth some 75 million years ago by a cruel galactic ruler named Xenu. Naturally, those thetans had to be audited. He was there when Xenu banned the thetans. He was 74 trillion years old when he died in 1986. Remember?

An IRS ruling in 1967 stripped Scientology's mother church of its tax-exempt status. A federal court ruled in 1971 that Hubbard's medical claims were bogus and that E-meter auditing could no longer be called a scientific treatment – Why the hurry? Only 21 fucking years after the Fucking-Fake had fucked most of the American Fools to poverty, bankruptcy, and suicide! I ask you!

Hubbard responded by going fully religious, seeking protection from the First Amendment for Scientology's strange rites. His counselors started sporting clerical collars. Chapels were built, the several franchises became missions, fees became fixed donations, and Hubbard's comic-book cosmology became sacred scriptures.

During the early 1970s, the IRS conducted its own auditing sessions and proved that Hubbard had skimmed millions of dollars from the church, laundered the money through dummy corporations in Panama and stashed it in Swiss bank accounts. Moreover, church members stole IRS documents, filed false tax returns and harassed the agency's employees. By late 1985, with high-level defectors accusing Hubbard of having stolen as much as $200 million from the church, the IRS was seeking an indictment of Hubbard for tax fraud. According to a defector who had taken part in the scheme, Scientology members worked day and night shredding documents the IRS sought. Hubbard, who had been in hiding for five years, died before the evidence could be collated and the criminal case could be prosecuted.

The church invented costly new services with all the zeal of its founder. Scientology doctrine warned that even adherents who had been cleared of engrams faced grave spiritual dangers unless they were pushed to higher and more expensive levels. According to the church's latest price list at the time, recruits – raw meat, as Hubbard called them – took auditing sessions that cost as much as $1,000 an hour, or $12,500 for a 12 half-hour intensive course or programme

Psychiatrists said the sessions could produce drugged-like, mind-controlled euphoria that kept customers coming back for more. To pay their fees, newcomers could earn commissions by recruiting new members, become auditors themselves (Miscavige did at 12) or join the church staff and receive free counseling in exchange for what their written contracts described as a billion years of labour. In one of his bulletins to officials, Hubbard implored them to make sure that lots of bodies move through the shop. Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money. In however or whichever or whatever way, or why-ever you get them to join, or come in – just do it.

The Church of Scientology II – The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power – And they say there is a God up there out there somewhere……

SHEESH KEBAB; AND NO MEAT!

TIME in partnership with CNN May 1991 – cover story

The famous article, critical of Scientology, had been the target of an organised book-burning campaign by Scientologists as detailed in the Scarff deposition. The piece was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism, the Worth Bingham Prize and the Conscience in Media Awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. By re-publishing it into the digital domain of the Usenet we hope to confer a kind of immortality on it that Scientology never does on either perpetrators or victims of its crimes.

Please use under the fair use-provision of the US Copyright-Code.

Even as the cult of Scientology tries to destroy the truth, the truth shall be loosed over the planet forever. The truth is like a flaming torch; one had better be careful where one hides it. As for a lie; well, it’s like shit or a fart; no matter where or how you hide it, the smell will tell

By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day, last June, when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10^th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch-limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in cash, virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology; the self-help philosophy-group he had discovered just seven months earlier.

His death inspired his father, a physician, to start his own investigation of the church. We thought Scientology was something like Dale Carnegie, Lottick said. I now believe it's a school for psychopaths. Their so-called therapies are manipulations. They take the best and brightest people and destroy them. The Lotticks wanted to sue the church for causing or contributing to their son's death, but the prospect had them frightened. For nearly 40 years, the big business of Scientology had shielded itself exquisitely behind the First Amendment as well as a battery of high-priced criminal lawyers and shady private-detectives.

The Church of Scientology, started by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard to clear people of unhappiness, relieve fools of their money,  portrays itself as a religion. In reality, the church is a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like manner. At times during the previous decade, prosecutions against Scientology seemed to be curbing its menace. Eleven top Scientologists, including Hubbard's wife, were sent to prison in the early 1980s for infiltrating, burglarizing and wiretapping more than 100 private and government agencies in attempts to block their investigations. In later years, hundreds of longtime Scientology adherents – many charging that they were mentally or physically abused – quit the church and criticised it at their own risk; some sued the church and won; others settled for amounts in excess of $500,000. In various cases judges labeled the church as schizophrenic, paranoid, corrupt, sinister, and dangerous.

Yet the outrage and litigation failed to squelch Scientology. The group, which boasts 700 centers in 65 countries, threatened to become more insidious and pervasive than ever.

Scientology tried to go mainstream, a strategy that sparked renewed law-enforcement campaigns against the church. Many of the group's followers were accused of committing financial scams, while the church was busy attracting the unwary through a wide array of front groups in businesses: publishing, consulting, health care, and even remedial education.

In Hollywood, Scientology assembled a star-studded roster of followers by aggressively recruiting and regally pampering them at the church's Celebrity Centers, a chain of club-houses that offer expensive counseling and career guidance. Adherents include screen idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actresses Kirstie Alley, Mimi Rogers and Anne Archer, Palm Springs mayor and performer Sonny Bono, jazzman Chick Corea and even Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson. Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less glamorous Scientology.

According to the Cult Awareness Network, whose 23 chapters monitor more than 200 mind-control cults, no group prompted more telephone pleas for help than Scientology. Cynthia Kisser, the network's Chicago-based executive director said: Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen. No cult extracts more money from its members. Vicki Aznaran, who was one of Scientology's six key leaders until she bolted from the church in 1987, said: This is a criminal organisation, day in and day out; it makes Jim and Tammy Bakker look like kids in kindergarten.

Scientology was then run by David Miscavige, a high school dropout and second-generation church member. Defectors described him as cunning, ruthless and so paranoid about perceived enemies that he kept a plastic wrap over his glass of water. His obsession was to attain credibility for Scientology in the 1990s; among other tactics, the group retained public-relations-power-house, Hill and Knowlton, to help shed the church's fringe-group image; joined such house-hold names as Sony and Pepsi as the main sponsor of Ted Turner's Goodwill Games; bought massive quantities of its own books from retail stores to propel the titles onto best-seller lists; ran full-page ads in such publications as Newsweek and Business Week that called Scientology a philosophy, along with a plethora of TV ads touting the group's books; recruited wealthy and respectable professionals through a web of consulting groups that typically hid their ties to Scientology.

The Church of Scientology I – The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power – When Con-men rip people off in the name of religion, that’s the con-game of all con-games…

Gleaned from: TIME in partnership with CNN May 1991 – cover story

Ruined lives, lost fortunes, Federal crimes. Scientology poses as a religion but really is a ruthless global scam – and aiming for the mainstream

Article/report in green / Highlights in red / Horse-Shits in Orange / Horse-Farts in Pink / Good and True in Blue / and My Comments in black

TIME covered Scientology, and its high-profile adherents such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, since the 1950s. In an extensively-reported 1991 cover story the magazine described the Church of Scientology as a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like manner. Some highlights from our stories: A new cult is smoldering through the US underbrush. Its name: dianetics or the science of mind. The word doesn’t even exist.

In many ways, dianetics is the poor man's psychoanalysis. It purports to cleanse the mind of previous harmful influences, thus vastly increasing its powers and efficiency by making the individual relive former painful experiences to discharge their evil power…

The founder of still another cult, Hubbard claimed to have discovered the ultimate secrets of life and the universe, and to have been able to cure anything and everything, including cancer. For the cult, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard whipped up the bastard word Scientology, which he defined as knowing about knowing or the science of knowledge. His latest was compounded of equal parts of science-fiction, dianetics – with auditing, pre-clears and engrams – and plain jabberwocky. Those seeking spiritual release must pass through five levels of liberation; in addition to lectures on the glories of Scientology, initiates must answer a long series of questions, often highly personal, while holding two tin cans wired to an Electron-meter, an electrical gadget reputed to be also capable of communicating with inanimate objects (in one such experiment Hubbard was in touch with tomatoes

Until the Government could refute the claim that Scientology was a religion, said the court, the E-meters and their accompanying leaflets were protected from seizure by the right of freedom of worship, which put them beyond the reach of the FDAA.

A brilliant and eccentric man, who, despite disclaimers, still controls the cult, Hubbard was once a moderately successful science-fiction writer. In 1949, he seemed to predict his own future in a jocular speech to a convention of fellow authors: Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. That was in 1949. A million dollars back then would be worth a hundred million today – at least

Scientologists have filed scores of lawsuits against skeptical journalists, dissident former members, and Government agencies, which have long suspected the church of being a profit-making counseling outfit and no true religion at all. It appeared that Scientologist methods had aroused a half-asleep giant: the US Government

As proclaimed by Hubbard, Scientology is a religion that sees life as a relentless struggle to erase painful mental images (called engrams in the cult's jargon) that block a person from achieving his full potential, and that may accumulate through his successive incarnations. Hubbard insisted that he had lived through a series of incarnations and that he was in fact 74 trillion years old. He must have been there even before the big bang – that is, if it wasn’t he who caused the big bang……SHEESH! In Saudi-Arabia, to mention only one, his 74-trillion-year-old head would have been separated from his 74-trillion-year-old body long before……

To explore Scientology's reach, TIME conducted more than 150 interviews and reviewed hundreds of court records and internal Scientology documents. Church officials refused to be interviewed. The investigation painted a picture of a depraved yet thriving enterprise.

During that month, journalism students at the 237-year-old Moscow State University studied in the newly renovated L. R. Hubbard Reading Room. Scientology propaganda in dozens of languages lined the walls, and video equipment was available

John Travolta and Tom Cruise may be just pop-culture icons to you and me, but in Germany their faith in the preaching of science-fiction writer, Hubbard, is politically taboo; Scientology is deemed not a religion but a suspect movement whose activities verge on the dangerous edges of extremism

L. R. Hubbard was a moderately successful writer of pulp science-fiction. Some years later, church brochures described him falsely as an extensively decorated World War II hero who was crippled and blinded in action, twice pronounced dead, and miraculously cured through Scientology. Hubbard's doctorate from Sequoia University was a fake mail-order degree. In a 1984 case in which the church sued a Hubbard biographical researcher, a California judge concluded that its founder was a pathological – uncontrolled or unreasonable – liar.

Most cults fail to outlast their founders, but Scientology has prospered since Hubbard's death in 1986. In a court filing, one of the cult's many entities – the Church of Spiritual Technology – listed $503 million in income just for 1987. High-level defectors said the parent organisation had squirreled away an estimated $400 million in bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus. Scientology probably has about 50,000 active members, far fewer than the 8 million the group claims. But in one sense, that inflated figure rings true: millions of people have been affected in one way or another by Hubbard's bizarre creation.

Temper, Temper, Temper Award – To the Church of Scientology, which spent $30 million on an ad campaign designed to discredit a Time Magazine story that labeled Scientology a Cult of Greed, and then harassed Readers Digest when it attempted to run the article in condensed form – Magazine Week – Dec.1991

ATROCITIES HORRORS AND TERRORISMS – V – This is Islam, as Applied by Many and Applauded by Not a Few – Kill at Will – Will to Kill – Kill to Die – Die to Kill – No Biases, No Discriminations, and No Prisoners

Gleaned from: Female bombers kill 60 near Baghdad shrine

The Daily Star Saturday 25^th April 2009

BAGHDAD: Police said that, in a second day of major bloodshed in Iraq, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Shiite shrine in Baghdad, yesterday – killing 60 people.

Daniel: All in the MAIM of Allah and for the GORY of Islam – and for the honour of becoming virgins in Paradise. I say they had been drugged into mindless senseless insensitivity and total unawareness, otherwise……

The two-day toll of at least 150 dead and at least 125 people wounded in the blasts which took place within minutes of each other at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim Shrine in the Kadhimiya neighbourhood raises serious concerns that a recent decline in violence may have been only a temporary lull. Many of the dead and wounded were Iranian Shiite pilgrims. Shiite-Moslem-pilgrims have flocked to Shiite Holy Sites in Iraq by the millions since the late Sunni-Arab-mad-despot-dictator-tyrant, Saddam Hussein, was ousted in the 2003 invasion.

Daniel: I guess we all know what that means – they couldn’t, because they wouldn’t dare to during Sad-Sam’s reign of terror and horror. So it is safe to say that what is taking place is one of the late Sunni-Arab-mad-despot-dictator-tyrant’s legacies.

The attack was the deadliest single incident in Iraq since a truck-bomb in Baghdad killed 63 people in June last year.