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TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [John Travolta and Tom Cruise applauded David Miscavige’s new initiative on March 14] At the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event on March 14, Tom Cruise and John Travolta applauded Scientology leader David Miscavige, who that night unveiled the church’s new initiative aimed...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Thank you to Alex Barnes-Ross for spotting this alarming call to action by a Scientologist. It’s an appeal for Scientologists to contribute money to an effort that will attempt to convince a major South African bookshop chain to begin carrying Scientology’s books...

Scientologist Bob Duggan’s Summit Therapeutics Faces a Three-Front Legal War: Trade Secret Theft, Shareholder Fraud, and a $520 Million Self-Dealing Loan By Jeffrey Augustine on March 31, 2026 • ( Leave a comment ) At age 80, Scientologist billionaire...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Judge Brazile, Valerie Haney] The last time we were updating you on Valerie Haney’s legal odyssey, last November she had completed fifteen days of Scientology’s “religious arbitration,” most of which had nothing to do with the claims from her 2019 lawsuit. Valerie...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: The Church of Scientology has posted its slide show from this year’s L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event, and it contains some real surprises. Hubbard, Scientology’s founder, was born on March 13, 1911, and his birthday is Scientology’s most holy day on its calendar...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Once again, Alex Barnes-Ross has been leaked the audio track from a major Scientology event, this time the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event that took place on March 14 in Clearwater, Florida. And we have a full transcript for you. It was machine produced and we did our best...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Lt. L. Ron Hubbard and the ill-fated Don Isidro] Chris Owen’s book ‘Ron the War Hero’ is a major achievement, and when it came out in book form in 2019, we published this excerpt from it on May 9 of that year. It was a stunning account of the most ignominious of L...

Arbitration starts in Scientology labor-trafficking case, plaintiffs seek court relief The court docket in the labor trafficking lawsuit filed by Australian residents Gawain and Laura Baxter and Valeska Paris has been quiet for nearly a year after the case was forced into Scientology’s...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Alex Barnes-Ross updates us on his latest globe-spanning efforts… The Parliament of Victoria in Australia recently opened an inquiry into cults — their recruitment tactics and their effects — which opens the door for scrutiny into groups like Scientology. The...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Tuesday's meeting of the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners was not what we might have assumed would be the source of real drama in regards to Scientology's control of Clearwater, Florida. But that’s what it was, and we’re only now piecing together what happened. We...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Our man in London Alex Barnes-Ross has spotted even more evidence of Scientology’s big new rollout. Rumored for years, the church’s new focus on children is here, and it appears to be going worldwide. In Los Angeles, one of Scientology’s major headquarters, quite a...

Past ESMB post It’s been more than three years now that Lafayette Ronald Hubbard — his actual legal name, although we also know him by his original moniker, “Justin Craig” — ended up in a Tennessee jail awaiting trial on numerous serious charges, including several that he’s picked up...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [LRH 2.0 and his new digs in Pikeville] Back in November, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard — a/k/a former California ex-con Justin Craig — pleaded guilty to various felony drug charges after spending four years in a Tennessee county jail. We’ve been following his saga for...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We’re still waiting for Scientology to put up its slide show from the L. Ron Hubbard Birthday Event on March 14, but in the meantime, the church keeps pumping out propaganda that Alex Barnes-Ross has been good enough to send our way! This past weekend, local orgs...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Scientology propaganda is a gas, and once again Alex Barnes-Ross has forwarded us a particularly interesting success story coming out of the organization’s UK headquarters, Saint Hill Manor. In this case, Scientology is crowing about a young woman making the...

TON Y ORTEGA Excerpt: [Someone tried hard to get the secrets of Scientology spies Daniel (left) and Dwayne Powell] Eleven years ago, we were the first to publish the audio recordings of police interviews with Dwayne Powell and his son Daniel, private investigators who had been hired by...

Thank you, Patty Moher, for digging up this item for us. After all, what’s a Sunday morning without a nice crossword puzzle? Who can be the first to send us the correctly filled out 1968 puzzle, either here or at out original dot org site? We’ve enhanced the numbers from the original page to...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Our researcher who helps us with early Scientology history really hit on a gem for us this time. It’s a letter that L. Ron Hubbard sent 75 years ago this week, and it contains some of the most frank talk we’ve seen from Hubbard about how he planned to make millions...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: On Wednesday, we told you that we’d had our first glimpse of the revamped set of materials that Scientology is aiming at kids. This has been a development in the works for a long time, and now that it’s here, Scientology leader David Miscavige is making a big deal...

Yeah ....live in a neighborhood where your neighbor will Knowledge Report you to RTC and cc everyone else if feeling like retaliation is needed.