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ox's axed man blames Scientologists
Fox News bowed to pressure from Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise and other members of the Church of Scientology when it fired columnist Roger Friedman, the entertainment journo is expected to charge in a wrongful termination lawsuit this week.
In April, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. announced it had "terminated" Friedman after he wrote on FoxNews.com about watching a pirated Internet copy of 20th Century Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Friedman is convinced that was a cover story. Last August, Friedman went to Memphis for the funeral of his friend and R&B legend Isaac Hayes, who was a Scientologist. Preston was also in town for the funeral. Friedman, who now writes for The Hollywood Reporter, tells us that when Preston saw him at the Peabody Hotel, Mrs. John Travolta loudly blasted him for his columns criticizing Scientology.
"She called me a 'religious bigot,'??" Friedman recalls.
The following month, says an ally of Friedman, Preston voiced her complaints about Friedman to Fox News chief Roger Ailes and his then-EVP, John Moody.
In April, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. announced it had "terminated" Friedman after he wrote on FoxNews.com about watching a pirated Internet copy of 20th Century Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Friedman is convinced that was a cover story. Last August, Friedman went to Memphis for the funeral of his friend and R&B legend Isaac Hayes, who was a Scientologist. Preston was also in town for the funeral. Friedman, who now writes for The Hollywood Reporter, tells us that when Preston saw him at the Peabody Hotel, Mrs. John Travolta loudly blasted him for his columns criticizing Scientology.
"She called me a 'religious bigot,'??" Friedman recalls.
The following month, says an ally of Friedman, Preston voiced her complaints about Friedman to Fox News chief Roger Ailes and his then-EVP, John Moody.
http://frogstylebiscuit.com/node/679
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Fox News Run by Scientologist Leader
What would you say if you found out that a major source of American news is run by a cult leader? Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox Television Stations, is an OT VIII Scientologist (the highest member level attainable).
In addition to maintaining "fair and balanced" reporting at Fox News, Ailes also has a considerable political history: Ailes served as a media consultant to Bush Senior and Ronald Reagan during their presidencies. He also did work for President Richard M. Nixon, staging events and selecting audiences.
In additon to these achievements, Ailes will also be remembered for persuading Rush Limbaugh to make the jump from radio to television (Ailes, in 1991, served as executive producer of Limbaugh's late-night show).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OT_VIII
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Wikileaks version
On March 24, 2008, Wikileaks placed what it claimed was a complete set of OT levels on their site, including a version of OT VIII not previously publicly available. The Church of Scientology objected that posting this information on its website is clear violation of copyright. However, Wikileaks did not remove the documents and claimed the documents were authentic. Subsequently, Swiss-based bank Julius Baer asked a US court to shut Wikileaks down. But the bank eventually dropped its case, after Judge Jeffrey S. White said that a shutdown was barred by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes
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Ailes is a longtime friend of journalist and media personality Barbara Walters.[32]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chanology
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http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/governmentsting.html
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In this raid the FBI discovered many secret policy documents authored by Scientology's founder laying out Scientology's real political goals. For example: "The vital targets on which we must invest most of our time are:
(T1) Depopularizing the enemy to the point of obliteration.
(T2) Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media.
(T3) Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.
(T4) Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance..."
Nine top leaders of Scientology pleaded guilty to burglaries, forgeries, infiltration, obstruction of justice, and other crimes against more than 100 US federal agencies including the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense. In a memorandum to the judge in the case, a US federal prosecutor urged stiff jail sentences for the defendants, stating, "The crime committed by these defendants is of a breadth and scope previously unheard of. No building, office, desk, or file was safe from their snooping and prying. No individual or organization was free from their despicable conspiratorial minds. The tools of their trade were miniature transmitters, lock picks, secret codes, forged credentials and any other device they found necessary to carry out their conspiratorial schemes." [U.S. v. Heldt et al. 688 F.2d. 1238. (D.C. Cir 1980) Cert. Den. 456 U.S. 926 (1982)].
Other secret documents found by the FBI further indicate that Scientology uses religion as a mere facade, a politically useful defense to cloak its true political ambitions and goals. It seems at least Germany has taken seriously our government reports. In his recent UN report, Mr. Amor also said that Germany's measures against Scientology are "simply designed to protect citizens and the liberal democratic order," by assuring the Scientologists do not, among other actions, use "immoral and illegal techniques of psychological manipulation and repression."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Breuer
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A close friend, mentor, and collaborator with Sigmund Freud, Breuer is perhaps best known for his work with Anna O. (the pseudonym of Bertha Pappenheim), a woman suffering from "paralysis of her limbs, and anaesthesias, as well as disturbances of vision and speech."[1]
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/01/09/2008-01-09_will_smith_boosting_scientology.html
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Will Smith boosting Scientology
Tuesday, January 8th 2008, 10:06 PM
Pizzello/Reuters
Will Smith and Tom Cruise Big stars traditionally distribute "wrap presents" to crew members after completing a film. His recent gift after wrapping next summer's comedy "Hancock" was a card good for a personality test at your local Scientology center.
Fun!
Never mind that such tests are given free by the church anyway. The quiz is designed to convert people to the religion by identifying personality flaws that - surprise! - Scientology can fix right up for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith
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Smith has said he has studied multiple religions, including Scientology, and he has said many complimentary things about Scientology and other faiths. Despite his praise of Scientology, Smith said "I just think a lot of the ideas in Scientology are brilliant and revolutionary and non-religious"[28][29] and "Ninety-eight percent of the principles in Scientology are identical to the principles of the Bible.... I don't think that because the word someone uses for spirit is 'thetan' that the definition becomes any different."[30] He has denied having joined the Church of Scientology, saying "I am a Christian. I am a student of all religions, and I respect all people and all paths."[31] Smith gave $1.3 million to charities in 2007, of which $450,000 went to two Christian ministries, and $122,500 went to three Scientology organizations; the remaining beneficiaries included "a Los Angeles mosque, other Christian-based schools and churches, and [...] the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Center in Israel".[32] Smith and his wife have also founded a private elementary school in Calabasas, California, the New Village Leadership Academy, which has attracted controversy and speculation over its use of Study Technology, a teaching methodology developed by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.[33]
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/j/origins6.html
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The key concept in any argument relating to Hubbard's plagiarism is that of "source". In the early days, Hubbard expressed a debt to other thinkers. For example, there are a number of references to Freud and Breuer in his 1950 lectures.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/05/02/2010-05-02_scientology_leader_david_miscavige_accused_of_snooping_in_secret_celeb_confessio.html
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Scientology leader David Miscavige accused of snooping in secret celeb confessional files
Sunday, May 2nd 2010, 10:57 AM
Marcou/Getty, Matthews/AP
Scientology leader David Miscavige (l.) is being accused of gossiping about Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson after snooping in her confidential confessional file. Former high-ranking member Amy Scobee claims in her just-out book, "Scientology: Abuse at the Top," that Miscavige and other officials "snooped" in confidential confessional files - a charge vehemently denied by the church, whose believers include Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, John Travolta, Kelly Preston and Kirstie Alley.
Scobee writes that she was in the office of top exec Marc Yager when Miscavige called to brief him on "the latest" about "a female celebrity connected with Michael Jackson."
"Yager kept saying, 'No way, really? That's completely out of control!' ... [They were] giggling like little elementary school kids."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marie_Presley
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Beliefs
Lisa Marie Presley is a Scientologist who has expressed her gratitude to L. Ron Hubbard and the Scientology method, asserting her belief that without Scientology, she "would either be completely insane or dead by now".[53]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Remini
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On July 19, 2003, Remini married actor Angelo Pagán who also appeared on The King of Queens as Rico and other various characters.[10] They have a daughter, Sofia Bella, born in 2004.
Remini is a member of The Church of Scientology.[3] In December 2005, she helped promote the gala opening of Church of Scientology's "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Museum.[11] Responding to criticism of Scientology during an interview on CNN, Remini ironically stated:[3]
| “ | If somebody is going to get turned off about something because of what they read or heard, then that person's not smart enough to even enter a church. If you're really against something, then know what you're against. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jada_Pinkett_Smith Excerpt: After meeting famed Scientologist Tom Cruise during the filming of Collateral in 2004, Pinkett Smith and Smith donated $20,000 to the Hollywood Education and Literacy Program (HELP), Scientology's basis for homeschooling.[50] The couple came under fire in 2008 when they decided to fund New Village Leadership Academy, a private elementary school located in Calabasas, California. The school employs teachers dedicated to the Scientology religion and features methodologies like study technology, created by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The couple, who are close friends with Cruise and wife Katie Holmes,[51] have denied claims that they are themselves Scientologists. Jaqueline Olivier, an administrator of New Village Leadership Academy, insists that the school has no religious affiliation.[52][53] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scientologists [edit] List of membersName Lifetime Notes Alley, KirstieKirstie Alley 1951– Actress.[2][3][4][5] Archer, AnneAnne Archer 1947– Actress (mother of Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis).[3][6] Aspen, JenniferJennifer Aspen 1973– Actress.[7][8] Bartilson, LynseyLynsey Bartilson 1983– Actress.[9] Bell, CatherineCatherine Bell 1968– Actress.[9][10][11][12] Black, KarenKaren Black 1939– Actress.[13][14][15] Cardone, GrantGrant Cardone 1958– Salesman, author, motivational speaker, media personality[16] Cartwright, NancyNancy Cartwright 1957– Voice-over actress.[9][17][18][15][19] |
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Now let's look at "It Takes A Village,"
"Any discussion of how the brain's processes affect cognitive intelligence
tells only half the story about the first blossoming of intelligence. The
other half is how we behave in our relations with other people--what is now
being called our 'emotional intelligence...' Now that I have read Daniel
Goleman's book, "Emotional Intelligence," I am better able to understand what
back then I could only wonder about. Goleman brings to our attention new
breakthroughs in psychology and neuroscience that shed light on how our 'two
minds'--the RATIONAL and the EMOTIONAL--operate together to determine human
behavior." (Pages 61-63 of "It takes A Village," by Hillary Clinton)
TWO MINDS! This is Hubbard's "DIanetics" with a new wardrobe, new dressing.:
Hubbard's ANALYTICAL mind = Goleman's RATIONAL mind
Hubbard's REACTIVE mind = Goleman's EMOTIONAL mind
--to be continued in part two of Chapter One, "LAUNDERING DIANETICS."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Takes_a_Village
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Ghostwriter controversy
Clinton has been criticized for not giving credit to a ghostwriter in connection with It Takes a Village. The majority of the book was reportedly written by ghostwriter Barbara Feinman.[8] When the book was first announced in April 1995, The New York Times reported publisher Simon & Schuster as saying "The book will actually be written by Barbara Feinman, a journalism professor at Georgetown University in Washington. Ms. Feinman will conduct a series of interviews with Mrs. Clinton, who will help edit the resulting text."[9]
Feinman spent seven months on the project and was paid $120,000 for her work.[10] Feinman, however, was not mentioned anywhere in the book. Clinton's acknowledgment section began: "It takes a village to bring a book into the world, as everyone who has written one knows. Many people have helped me to complete this one, sometimes without even knowing it. They are so numerous that I will not even attempt to acknowledge them individually, for fear that I might leave one out."[11] During her promotional tour for the book, Clinton said, "I actually wrote the book ... I had to write my own book because I want to stand by every word."[2] Clinton stated that Feinman assisted in interviews and did some editorial drafting of "connecting paragraphs", while Clinton herself wrote the final manuscript in longhand.[2]
This led Feinman to complain at the time to Capitol Style magazine over the lack of acknowledgement.[12] In 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported that "New York literary circles are buzzing with vitriol over Sen. Clinton's refusal, so far, to share credit with any writer who helps on her book."[13] Later, in a 2002 article for The Writer's Chronicle,[14] Barbara Feinman Todd (now using her married name) related that the project with Clinton had gone smoothly, producing drafts in a round-robin style. Feinman agrees that Clinton was involved with the project, but also states that, "Like any first lady, Mrs. Clinton had an extremely hectic schedule and writing a book without assistance would have been logistically impossible." Feinman reiterates that her only objection to the whole process was the lack of any acknowledgement. A 2005 Georgetown University web page bio for Barbara Feinman Todd states that It Takes a Village was one of "several high-profile books" that she has "assisted, as editor, writer and researcher."[15]
http://www.jewishjournal.com/community/article/wrong_people_convicted_in_daniel_pearl_murder_new_report_asserts_20110125/
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The 74-page report, titled “The Pearl Project: The Truth Left Behind,” reads like an international crime thriller, following false leads, uncovering bungled investigations, and full of incompetent villains and cover-ups at the highest levels.
The co-directors of the Pearl Project are two “old-school gumshoe reporters,” Asra Q. Nomani, a friend and colleague of Pearl at the Wall Street Journal for nine years, and Barbara Feinman Todd, director of the journalism program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
The project is nothing if not ecumenical. Nomani comes from a conservative Muslim family of Indian descent, Feinman Todd from a liberal Chicago/Brooklyn clan, and they jokingly refer to themselves as “salaam and salami.”
Their research, aided by 32 multinational graduate and undergraduate journalism students and backed by professional investigative journalists, was conducted at a Jesuit university.
After the video of the killing surfaced, the Pakistani government, under considerable pressure from Washington, quickly put four suspects on trial and convicted them as Pearl’s murderers. One was sentenced to death, although he is still alive and appealing the verdict. The other three were sentenced to life in prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asra_Nomani
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Asra Q Nomani (born 1965) is an Indian-American journalist, author, and feminist, known as an activist involved in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements. She teaches journalism at Georgetown University and is co-director of the Pearl Project,[1][2] a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The project is based at the Center for Public Integrity.
She is the author of two books, Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam and Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love. She is also the author of numerous articles including "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Bedroom", the "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Mosque", and "99 Precepts for Opening Hearts, Minds and Doors in the Muslim World".
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525
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The key to decoding Fox News isn’t Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity. It isn’t even News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch. To understand what drives Fox News, and what its true purpose is, you must first understand Chairman Ailes. “He is Fox News,” says Jane Hall, a decade-long Fox commentator who defected over Ailes’ embrace of the fear-mongering Glenn Beck. “It’s his vision. It’s a reflection of him.”
Ailes runs the most profitable – and therefore least accountable – head of the News Corp. hydra. Fox News reaped an estimated profit of $816 million last year – nearly a fifth of Murdoch’s global haul. The cable channel’s earnings rivaled those of News Corp.’s entire film division, which includes 20th Century Fox, and helped offset a slump at Murdoch’s beloved newspapers unit, which took a $3 billion write-down after acquiring The Wall Street Journal. With its bare-bones newsgathering operation – Fox News has one-third the staff and 30 fewer bureaus than CNN – Ailes generates profit margins above 50 percent. Nearly half comes from advertising, and the rest is dues from cable companies. Fox News now reaches 100 million households, attracting more viewers than all other cable-news outlets combined, and Ailes aims for his network to “throw off a billion in profits.”
http://www.casewatch.org/board/med/minkoff/alj.shtml
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FINDINGS OF FACT
1. The Respondent is a licensed physician in Florida, holding license number ME0056777.2. According to the Respondent's curriculum vitae, he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1974 from the University of Wisconsin Medical School and has apparently practiced since, primarily in pediatrics, infectious diseases, and emergency medicine.
3. At all times material to this case, the Respondent worked as an emergency room physician at the Columbia HCA Hospital in New Port Richey, Florida. A private company providing emergency room physicians to the hospital employed the Respondent.
4. Patient L.M. was a 36-year-old female living in Clearwater, Florida.
5. Patient L.M. was apparently involved with a religious organization and resided at a facility operated by the organization.
6. On or about November 20, 1995, the Respondent received a telephone call from a person or persons at the facility who reported that a resident was sleepless and in need of rest. The caller(s) requested that the Respondent prescribe medication for the patient.
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