It's enough to shake your faith in the billions of aliens killed on Earth with thermonuclear weapons 70 million years ago by Xenu, as the 'Enquirer' claims this is "Scientology's Doomsday! Celebrity believers scorned by Hollywood."
Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Elisabeth Moss and Michael Pena are among those supposedly being shunned because of their pseudo-scientific religious beliefs. — Read the rest
David Miscavige, leader of the secretive and notoriously hostile Scientology cult, has been officially served legal papers in a sex trafficking case this week. Service agents tried to find him for a year, reports Ben Schneiders for The Age, without success, but a Florida judge has ruled that Miscavige was intentionally evading service and that having sent the papers via certified mail will do. — Read the rest
David Miscavige, head honcho at the Church of Scientology, is nowhere to be found, according to TMZ. The publication reports that lawyers have been searching for Miscavige for months. From Jezebel:
Could it be to discuss the lawsuit against the church by three women who've accused Danny Masterson of rape, and say the "Church" stalked and harassed them after they went public with their claims against the actor, who's a high-ranking member?
In Clearwater, Florida, Cult City Tours offers walking tours around Church of Scientology's large presence in the city's downtown area. The City Council is unhappy about the tours, claiming operator Ted Reinhard falsely claimed that several businesses only serve Scientologists and is damaging efforts to revitalize the downtown area. — Read the rest
National newspapers in Britain traditionally call August 'The Silly Season,' the month when news is so slow that even the most ludicrous of stories will sometimes be used to fill a hole on a page.
"Reckless Ben" (no relation to Wreckless Eric, as far as I know) and his pal made a 10-part documentary about how they infiltrated the Church of Scientology, started a religion called "Scientology Sucks," and launched a GoFundMe account to project the word "Sucks" on the Scientology building. — Read the rest
You go away to Burning Ban for a couple of weeks of desert heat, wind, dust and EDM-fueled contemplation, and return to find the tabloids in dire need of a personal transformative experience of their own, still spouting the same fever dream imaginings as before.
We're through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole in this week’s tabloids that give Alice in Wonderland a run for her money in their wild imaginings.
They put the hype in hyperbole. They put the tat in overstatement. They put the mountain in molehill.
This week's tabloids put the retch in stretching the truth, with sickening disregard for the facts.
What is "Destroying Hollywood?" According to the Globe, it's the Michael Jackson child molestation scandal, in which superstars Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross both expressed support for the late pop idol, only to buckle under savage criticism and emphasized their sympathy for any victims of pedophilia. — Read the rest
David Miscavige leads the Church of Scientology, the cultlike sci-fi religion notorious for its hostility to members, apostates and critics alike. His wife, Shelly, hasn't been seen in public in many years, and few trust the LAPD's proforma assurances that she is safe, let alone those of the church. — Read the rest
The E-meter is a quack device used by Scientologists in a religious ritual called "auditing" in which changes in skin potential are said to indicate past traumas (including traumas from past lives) being re-experienced and cleared from your psyche.
Avatar is a self-actualization "technique" created by an ex-Scientologist named Harry Palmer, who defected from the "church" in 1986 to found a lookalike multi-level-marketing version where he serves as a commission-earning "upline" from practitioners who teach his high-priced "courses" — his Scientology-alike borrows heavily from the original cult and even used some of its symbols until he lost a trademark suit to Scientology.
What is the world coming to when the most implausible tabloid stories are actually almost true? An Arizona ranch for sale with alien visitors included, an angry parrot whose cries for help brought police running, and a charity Santa Claus arrested high on crack are among this week's tabloid offerings ripped from the headlines (though you still have to take the ranch owner's word for it that his home has been repeatedly plagued by aliens). — Read the rest
Jon Adler is Trump's nominee for the Department of Justice's director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the former criminal investigator is also president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, and is proud to serve on the advisory board of Heroes Health Fund, which is the latest incarnation of Narcanon, the Church of Scientology's baseless "detox" program that involves taking huge doses of niacin and sitting for hours in a sauna, a practice with no health benefits that has killed some of its practitioners.
