Hi! (Books, bikes, movies and me) (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Caylee Anthony Library of DBKP Stories UPDATED: November 23, 2009. August 26 2008: Caylee Anthony Media Circus: Giovanni Gonzalez Gets No Media Attention - DBKP This Week in Crime Sept 12 2008: Caylee Anthony: Thirty Quotes From the Caylee Anthony Case October 20 2008: Caylee Anthony, No Body Crime Convictions: Tom Capano, Hans Resier - DBKP This Week in Crime November 6 2008: The Caylee Anthony Case:...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Even for a religion started by a science fiction writer, the allegations levelled against the Church of Scientology in federal parliament this week sound stranger than fiction. Blackmail, cover-ups of child abuse, labour camps, embezzlement and coerced abortions are spelled...
io9 (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Not only was Scientology founded by a scifi writer, but its greatest enemy - the Anonymous group - models itself after a comic book character. Now members of the alien-loving religion are on trial in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Law.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The memorial service at the federal courthouse in Boston this week for lawyer Earle C. Cooley was attended by a who's who of the city's legal community. It also included one Hollywood A-lister -- Tom Cruise. Cooley was a legendary trial lawyer in Massachusetts who founded the law firm Cooley Manion Jones and who represented major Boston-area clients including Boston University and the Boston Celtics....
Mizozo (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A battle of epic proportions is about to take place in Australia. Xenophon has called out Xenu and his Scientology minions on allegations of being an abusive, manipulative, violent and criminal organisation. The gloves are off, let the battle begin ... Xenophon comes out of his corner flailing: Senator Xenophon said their correspondence implicated the organisation in a range of crimes, including forced...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) ruled Tuesday that displaying a crucifix in a public school classroom violates the European Convention on Human Rights. The lawsuit was brought against Italy by Soile Lautsi, who claimed that displaying a crucifix "infringed the constitutional principles of secularism and of impartiality on the part of the public authorities." The EHCR stated...
Weird is Relative (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. 101 New Uses for Everyday Things Newsweek / The Upside of Feeling Down : Depression might be evolution's way of fixing what ails us Drunk Ewoks Make for Good TV Gets funnier at 3:30 or so. Democrats' Quiet Changes Pile Up Fists Fly After Washington Post Editor Tells Writer, “ It’s the Second Worst Story I Have Seen in...
UpTone News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
. 27 Oct 2009: The Paris Court concluded today that the Church of Scientology can continue its religious activities in France. They could not ignore the large community of Scientologists who are happy to practice their religion. Despite this, this whole heresy trial has been tantamount to a modern-day inquisition, religion on trial. We will of course contest it until correct justice has been carried...
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The Tennessean reports today on a lawsuit filed against the Church of Scientology's Nashville Celebrity Centre by Thomas A. Parker, a member of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous . Parker and others planned to protest the April 25 opening of the Centre. The lawsuit alleges that Parker was confronted by two off-duty police officers who had been hired as security guards for the Centre, was pushed to...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Back in May I blogged about the then forthcoming trial for fraud the Church of Scientology was facing in France. A quick update seems in order now that the case has taken place: Two flagship branches of the Church of Scientology in France have been sentenced to pay fines of over €600,000 (£550,000) after being convicted [...]
Hattix (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Now led by B-list actress and fringe lunatic Jenny McCarthy, “Antivax” has become a spiritual movement rivalling Scientology for lawsuit hilarity and anti-truth beliefs. It’d be easy to go light on them and point to a simple misunderstanding fifty years ago or something like that, but it’s not possible. The whole thing started, simply, as fraud. In [...]
The Tampa Bay Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A French judge has convicted the Church of Scientology in Paris and six of its members of organized fraud.
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The French consider Scientology a cult. From the BBC : Prosecutors had asked for the group's French operations to be dissolved and more heavily fined, but a legal loophole prevented any ban. Instead, a Paris judge ordered the Church's Celebrity Centre and a bookshop to pay a 600,000-euro fine.... Unlike the US, France has always refused to recognise Scientology as a religion, arguing that it is a purely...
Flesh and Stone (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The Church of Scientology and several of its members had been charged with various offences involving fraud and deception concerning several individuals who were judged to have been subjected to practices aimed at extorting them of their money, as reported earlier on Fl esh & Stone . Four church leaders received suspended prison sentences ranging from 10 months to 2 years, and two others were...
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