This morning I received 3 separate reports on “Graduation” from last night. The stats are going up!
I have combined them into one summarized report here. Thanks to those who continue to keep the world updated on the latest news from inside the bubble. As usual my comments are in italics enclosed in square brackets.
Also as usual, He talks about MEST logistics almost exclusively. It’s almost bizarre to contemplate the leader of the “most important and fastest growing religious movement on earth” gives a weekly running commentary on the adventures of a tent making its way from England to the US.
He also seems to be reading the lunatic unemployed bloggers on the fringe of the internet and is a bit hurt by the criticism about how He is basking in the limelight all alone. So, He wheeled in a couple of others to give some throwaway info on alleged statistics. Really beneath His dignity to talk about that sort of thing when He has tents, square footage, furniture, restaurant expansion and hours of renovations to announce.
So, grab your coffee and donuts and settle in for some fun – its almost like being there, except there are no regges and you don’t have to give Him standing ovations every couple of minutes.
Another very exciting graduation… It keeps getting better and better… 🙂
Some of the highlights COB mentioned:
— The container ship with the IAS Marquee tent materials will arrive in Miami tomorrow, August 17th, and it will take 5 weeks to put it up, in time for the IAS event.
— After hours, at night, the renovations at the Sandcastle are happening and over 2,000 man hours have been put in so far. [That’s some important, top level executive news…]
— Many offices at the Oak Cove have been emptied out so far, which will be converted into hotel rooms.
— Furniture logistics is being worked out in detail, so the Oak Cove can be transformed FULLY back into a hotel within 10 days, as of Sept 1 st.
— The Oak Cove restaurant will be expanded in grand scale and will stretch all the way to where the bookstore now is.
— On the GAT Phase 2 pgm, this week all Upper Indoc trainees are now 100 % done! – 84 Metering comps this week, 1186 in total. 842 trainees are now on the last part of their training, the specialist section.
— The exact nature of specialist training:
There are 4 types of training: Pro Word Clearer, Pro Sup, Auditor and Super Specialist (doing all the three lineups). Full perfection is the passing standard for all courses.
Pro Word Clearer – 2 times through the courses, and all types of Word Clearing have to be delivered to full EP (including Method One). 4 completions this week.
Pro Sup – the student read all materials concerning course supervision in chronological order. They have go over the theory section two times, then they do an internship. 47 completions this week.
Auditor training completions (weekly/total): Level 0 – 31/84, Level I – 31/41, Level II – 11. [Clearly, this month long program to get everyone through the training for GAG II is WAY behind target]
— Weekly Stats: 241 Golden Age of Knowledge courses, 35 Expanded Grades, 25 Purif, 26 Objectives, 5 Happiness Rd, 22 L’s, 4 Clears, 28 OT levels, 6 OT VII. [Clearly, the priority of the FSO these days is the bottom of the Bridge]
— On the Super Power pgm, of the 121 Super Power auditors, 94 are co-auditing: 1327 WDAHs, 56 floating TAs, 203 individual rundown completions, 5974 perceptics drills completed. The rundown will be available in 16 languages. COB mentioned what an incredible space one walks into , entering the area where the Super Power Perceptic drills are being delivered. [I bet he spends most of His time in there just soaking in the magnificence of the NASA-style MEST He has created for everyone to admire]
— Over 1,300 Cornerstone members are now being programmed for their set-ups for Super Power and over 400 are totally DONE with their set-ups and ready to receive Super Power auditing! [How hard can it be to “program” anyone for Purif and Objectives? What this REALLY means is that they are trying to contact and reg these people to come in and go back down the Bridge]
— He is preparing for the biggest Intl Executive Director and C/S conferences to be held at Flag soon. [Bets are being taken on whether He brings “ED Int” and “Snr CS Int” out of the Hole to attend the conference as props to respond to criticism that they have been “disappeared” – latest odds are there is a 20% chance they will be flown in under security escort and sat in a corner with instructions not to speak to anyone, and an 80% chance He will not risk them attending at all in case they defy His orders and say something]
— He also said he is now preparing for the actual upcoming events of the release of GAT Phase 2 (“which will effect the entirety of the Bridge”) and the Grand Opening and he finds himself “getting overwhelmed, not being sure how he can “fit it all into an event”…. [This is the old problem – it gets harder and harder to keep track of the lies and figure out how to cover up the cover ups. How is He going to explain that the “GAG II” Grades have been delivered for 10 years at the FSO and that He implemented all the arbitraries, or that “GAT I” destroyed training, or the “Mark VIII” has been sitting in a warehouse for 8 years, or, or, or…. You really have to be careful about how things are said]
— He showed us a video clip of a portion of the HUGE warehouse space , where he said he had personally spent a lot of his time , working on the GAT Phase 2 pgm. It showed aisles and aisles of folders and bulletin boards, laying out ALL of LRH ‘s writings by date and month HCO B’s, HCO PL’s etc.. VERY Impressive! HOW much attention to detail he and his RTC team must have given to all of this, to ensure 100 % KSW ! Everybody just went wild and one could feel their appreciation for COB and this massive project he has been working on… [Yes, a lot of people know all about this insanity of His. For a time this consumed the entire perimeter of the Main Studio at Gold. It began in 2004 (yes, like everything else Miscavige does it takes forever with endless arbitraries) and was originally to “sort out the OEC” as “nobody can study it.” Numerous people have bitten the dust on this project. All the “best and brightest” tried to do it starting with Jon Horwich (A Class VIII FEBC) and dozens subsequently from Mark Ingber and Marc Yager to Ray Mithoff, Jenny Linson and Sue Wilhere. Nobody could ever resolve all the contradictory orders from Miscavige, so in the end, like everything else “He had to do it Himself as everyone else is an SP.” Will be fascinating to see what this now results in – there is STILL no OEC and nobody is allowed to study it any more – to this day. It’s “Special Executive Training at LA Ideal Org” now. How astonishing He is for being SOOOO KSW by messing everything up and then coming along and spending thousands of hours to unmess what he messed in the first place]
— Then He introduced the “Int Ideal Org Program Director” [This used to be called WDC Ideal Orgs which in itself was a squirrel title, but also focuses attention on “where is WDC these days?”]:
– All ideal orgs are doing local surveys to find the buttons of the locals and campaigns are devised to get them in. [Buffalo has done this about 5 times already and still cannot get anyone to come in]
– Padova: huge billboard and posters invite people to come to the org. [Did anyone come in as a result? Apparently not or that would have been mentioned]
– Cambridge, Ontario: an internet campaign was completed to get new people in. The number of first service starts in the ideal org since the grand opening exceeded the grand total of first service start during the entire existence of the org. [No number? The entire existence of the org could have been 10 people]
– Portland: the local campaign got 2000 new people in. [And none onto any service]
– Los Angeles: the OCA test is the most efficient line now. Testing is done on the Hollywood Blvd and new public can scan the OCA test QR Code (it’s on the T-shirt of the testing personnel) with their smartphones and do the test on the phone, which is instantly forwarded to the next org for evaluation. 675 new people came into the org since May. Here is the link for the new OCA site: www.scientology.org/you
– New York: OCA tests are conducted on the Times Square, getting 80-100 new people in each day. 442 first service completions in the last three months alone. [Oh dear, this is the best stat they have – 17 first service completions a week per org. And this is the one they are willing to announce as a big win. And its probably free services like watching a film. No wonder He talks about number of hours of renos and square feet of dining space].
– London: the Dianetics course works the best here, 23 nationalites are services in the org. [Utterly meaningless]
– Melbourne: the number of students on course have doubled since the announcement of GAT II. [Wow, that is really stupid – GAG II has not yet been announced? Could it really double from the announcement that it is going to be announced? What does that tell you? There was a single student and now there are two?]
– Tampa Org: 20 trainees are on the GAT II training, the number of students on the Basics have doubled, and they had to post a new Supervisor to keep up with the demand.
[Of course, out of ALL the “Ideal Orgs” this is the selection of the biggest and best news. Nothing from Seattle or Dallas or LV or Buffalo or Joburg or Tel Aviv or Malmo or Moscow or Rome or Madrid or SFO or Orange County or Pasadena or, or, or…. And NOT A SINGLE MENTION of Auditors or Clears made, let alone WDAH or Student Comps. The Omitteds tell you everything you need to know about how desperate the situation is – this person was pushed out onto stage to talk about NOTHING, but the perception is “Look how these Ideal Orgs are expanding”]
— Then the President FSO [not Captain? He must be in the shithouse] presented more Flag statistics, for example, how in one year, they had highest EVER EVER with 470 Clears made, from last Sea Org day, last August 2012 to this recent Sea Org Day, August 12 th,2013. [If it weren’t true that this was the total for the entire planet – as virtually ALL Clears are now made at FSO as no other orgs are delivering Grades and most cannot do a CCRD – this would be something of note. Because if the FSO was doing that many, then the 150 orgs would be doing at least 100 times that many as that is supposed to be their main line of business. Believe me, if there had been 47,000 Clears made this past year everyone would have heard about it every single week…. But of course, that’s not true. And even the 470 is probably a large percentage of “re-do’s” for those who have been told they are NOT Clear and have to go back and re-do their Purif and Objectives and start all over again].
There were 6 OT 7 completions this week .
— In meantime, the big posters all over Flag, say in bold letters : GET READY! If you have not finished your Basics books and lectures, go for it! They are the pre-requisites for the GAT 2 courses.
… and He is still in town [to the immense relief of everyone elsewhere…]
A final note: while the Tampa Bay Times and Tony Ortega gave details yesterday about the “Grand Opening” being on 6 October and the IAS Event on 8 November, this email was sent out from Flag yesterday to “get ready” for the Grand Opening in September and the IAS Event in October.
Of course, those inside the bubble are the last to know the truth about anything:
From: “Flag Service Org” <news@flbmail.info>
Date: Aug 15, 2013 1:14 PM
Subject: Let us know you are coming to these historic events at Flag
To:
Cc:Dear ,
Hello! As you might have heard, the day we have been waiting for where the ribbon will fall on our new Flag Building is planned for September 2013!
Though the date is not finalized, I wanted to make sure you were thinking with this.
Not only that, you will also see the monumental releases of Super Power and the Golden Age of Tech Phase II during the same time period. Then, for the first time in history, the IAS Anniversary event is being held LIVE here at Flag in October.
Needless to say, you don’t want to be anywhere but Flag during this time period of September and October.
As soon as we have official dates, I will let you know.
We are getting all the accommodations ready now and planning for the biggest gathering of Scientologists in history, so we want to know that you will be attending.
Please write me back to confirm you received this email and that you will be making it go right to have these times available to come to Flag.
Please RSVP at meagan.t@fso.org or (727)-445-4366
Sincerely,
Meagan Tucker
Dir Public Relations FSO
Meant to say, “…none can leave until ALL have comp’d”.
Somewhat off topic, but would anyone have a predict on whether or not the Dwarf will allow the OOTs to fire back to their orgs before the IAS Event? And I understand that he has said that none can leave until each has comp’d.
Mike, Thanks for the report. That “OEC” program to sort out Policy must have started in late 2002 or early 2003. I left in early 2004 and it had already been going on for about a year with tables all the way around the entire perimeter of the Cine Studio. For those who don’t know, Gold has an enormous sound stage with a 50 foot ceiling — bigger than film studio in Hollywood — where Gold shoots their preposterous Out-Tech Films. For example, upstairs there is an air conditioning duct that completely encircles the monstrous stage. This duct is at least 6′ tall. People sleep in there. There is also a hallway outside the stage area that encircles the building, with offices on the outside perimeter. That hallway is l-o-o-o-o–n-g. So DM in his utter brilliance had tables run end-to-end in this hallway with every policy letter LRH wrote laid out side by side so he could get them into order and fix everything that was wrong with them… and DM found PLENTY wrong. In fact, DM found so much wrong with Policy that he stopped anyone from studying the OEC course at that time (about 12 years ago), and no one has done it since because LRH’s policy was not up to DM’s standards.
DM knew Policy was f**ked up, you see, because staff wouldn’t follow DM’s own orders and, after all, DM actually believes he is the New (and even better) LRH so as you can now surmise, the product of GAG II will be the Golden Age of Automatons. in other words, the problem is never DM or his orders. It’s always because either “you didn’t ‘get’ Scientology” or the Scientology you did get was messed up. As a result, nothing is sacred.
When orgs wouldn’t follow DM, he issued the “New Age of Management” which utterly destroyed the Flag-Folo-Org line that LRH had set up. He also got rid of everyone on the Int Management Executive Committee and got rid of the Evaluators. See… he keeps running always into this pesky problem: people won’t follow DM because they are following something else: this damn LRH policy. So the answer is to eradicate everything LRH and replace it with everything DM. And every time he does this, people leave in droves and things get remarkably worse.
DM is a snake eating it’s own tail. He’s already eaten everything up to it’s own neck and if he eats much further, he will be eating his own head.
One other comment: Most of Der Leader’s speech sounded like a weekly report from Sipro. Sipro was a renovations org that existed in the ’80s and ’90s. It employed many non-Sea Org construction professionals — good people — who worked a Sea Org schedule and got paid just as much, too, I think. So it seems DM has thrown most everything else out as unworthy, except what he considers real production: daily progress of a tent being sent over on a container ship.
Think about it. We have the PDC lectures, discoveries on exteriorization, Help, universes, creative processing, OT, the mysterious black masses of the reactive mind, data on valences, how to unlock so many secrets… and the “leader” of Scientology is discussing container ships?
DM is a chemical reaction impersonating a moron impersonating Adolf Hitler.
High complements indeed Steve! Tantamount to confirming; there’s nobody ‘home” in DM’s “case”!!!
Thoughtful — Steve
You somehow manage to always get the concise essence of DM’s spirit boiled down into just a few words. Like:
“DM is a snake eating it’s own tail. He’s already eaten everything up to it’s own neck and if he eats much further, he will be eating his own head.” Ha.. that’s great.
By the way, the UK tent is probably rented from a UK company like Danco
http://www.danco.co.uk/product-technical/
(UK does not have hurricane weather in the summer, so they make/rent big tents. So the UK is probably one of the few sources for such a stupid idea in the FL summer) and I would also venture a guess that this event is held in Clearwater because too few people would ever show up in the UK… and so DM needs the whole US and Super Power and DM personal appearance and IAS’s Barnum and Bailey etc, etc.. to attract a crowd “in the open” to demonstrate the “straight up and vertical growth” to the remaining pigeons in Clearwater and the US that still need to be plucked! It’s a money event to get the last few bucks before the implosion!
Robert, you do realize Steve was only exaggerating? In reality, DM’s head is just soooo big, that it would be impossible for him to eat? Where would he put it?
Steve, you have a knack for making ugly truths really funny.
Steve, DM, with force and intelligence combined (force first so that he can bring everybody down to his own level of intelligence) seems to be making it fine in the Scientology world.
He has managed to outrun all others in all sorts of situations. He outran LRH policy by use of Force, PR and lies in several cases as you mentioned. I was battling the “Translations Frontier” back in 1999 when he outran and outdid me too as a TU DIR who insisted on the application of the Translations Series HCOBs. His blatant lies and his provocative attitude (paraphrasing his words “Translations up to now have been like from the Stone Age”) did not get anybody to worry about anything. It was just another incident of DMs ability to hypnotise the crowd.
He is extremely dangerous in this as more and more of the fabric of Scientology gets destroyed.
I want to work on an Org Board of Volunteers working from home and outside where one Section somewhere around Department 20 Existence will be called DAVID MISCAVIDGE DEPOSITION SECTION. Sees that actions are taken to expose and finally depose David Miscavidge.
I am sure I will have a lot of Volunteers for this Section, lol.
FSM News from DK Org:
“For all wonderful course students!!!
We hereby launch an august “Let´s get on course game!”
Monday-friday at 15:15 in the course break there will be smoothies!
Price is 20 DKK BUT if you complete a course you get a special deluxe version with umbrellas, sparklers etc. for free!”
A number of people do not understand the true significance of Davey’s tag line that He “is still in town.” You see, in church Scientologists ONLY “know” what they are told. They look to a “source” for everything folks, and I do mean EVERYTHING. So even though Davey is RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF THEM and presumably they are actually seeing him with their OWN eyes, they do not REALLY know that he is there unless he TELLS them he is. If he said as they were sitting there with him in front of them “and I am still in Topeka”, they would leave graduation saying to their friends “I wonder what he is doing in Topeka and when he is coming back to Flag?” Uhm …. I just realized something … maybe these folks DO need expanded Objectives after OT7.
Joe – Honestly, to me, this, “I’m still in town” mantra sounds like a threat to me. “I’m still in town so, like Santa Claus, I can see everything – so you’d better not F up like you usually do.”
I get the feeling Miscavige is turning Scientology into a factory. I don’t know what is further away from spirituality and/or religious philosophy than a factory.
sara, you’re right of course, on both counts. Miscavige has intentionally set up a ROBOT manufacturing factory, which has no connection whatsoever with the ethos of Scientology. Same goes for Miscavige.
I drive down Hollywood Blvd about every two weeks. The Test Center is always locked up. I’ve seen a “For Lease” sign on it.
You may be confusing their “old” Hollywood test center, which was on the north side of Hollywood Blvd in a rented storefront, with their newly opened test center in the HI building (which they own), further west and on the south side of Hollywood Blvd. But I would like to know how things look in the newly opened test center.
The staff and public of Flag undoubtedly need the “DM Rundown” by now. Good news is that this rundown has just completed pilot stage and is now complete. The commands are: 1. “Think about how tall DM is. 2, Laugh. 3. Laugh some more. 4. Have a real good chuckle. (repeat to EP). Great results are being reported on this new rundown from Flag staff who are co-auditing it in their apartments after work at night. Floating TAs and exteriorizations are common.
Good one, Roy 🙂 “The End of Endless DM” Rundown”
Mike, the mind boggles at how you and Tony Ortega manage to sustain attention on this lunacy. I hope you’ve set aside some time to do the inevitable Lunacy Overload Rundown. Oh wait! Tony doesn’t do auditing. Pity, nice guy.
As any really good reporter does, Tony pretty much holds himself apart from the emotional side of things. At least as far as the actual reporting goes. You rarely see anything in the way of *his* emotional responses or even judgement(s). I think that’s why he has kept this his blog going for so long and is now getting a lot of respect and credit from the rest of the major media. He’s certainly earned it. He doesn’t sensationalize anything. (But surely, the czerch manages that all by itself! LOL)
Peter, agreed! Only problem though, ( in case you weren’t aware,) insanity’s pretty contagious!
Mike, I think you get more honest reports than any RCS staff member or SO member sends up to their seniors. (Emphasis on Honest.) As we all know from our own experiences that’s just because if you report something that is not what He wants to hear, but is actually the truth, you are dead meat. So you lie. Simple! You live another day.
I just wanted to mention this….there was nothing wrong with the tech line-up that was already there. It just needed to be taught and learned correctly.
Then he did GAT I and screwed it up, and now GAT II is coming that is supposed to fix everything, But let’s be clear here…(tee-hee….) GAT II is only going to mess things up more. More money demanded of members to get themselves messed up further. I’d kind of like to see what the Sup Comm Cycle consists of these days….or what TR4 consists of. They both probably contain some sort of fist-pounding-on-table by now.
“…….gives a weekly running commentary on the adventures of a tent making its way from England to the US.”
LAUGHTER! Too funny!
“– After hours, at night, the renovations at the Sandcastle are happening and over 2,000 man hours have been put in so far.” Shameless confession of slave labor being used all through night probably by people on a prison force, out of grace, mentally incapacitated from years of abuse and deprivation of all sorts, and staff doing all nighters. Ahhhh the benefits of propitiation!
O.K., so David is NOT a product of the Vital Information Rundown.
Well, I think everybody can take solace in knowing that the little man must be pooping in his big boy panties right about now as he realizes that the gig is almost up. Lawsuits galore. Members leaving in droves. The media turning the COS. into a punch line. He must know that NOW he is no different then a rat caught in a trap. Sooper duper powers is nothing but the same old same old, the pleas for money has reached epidemic proportions…except for the few hardcore still sipping the koolaid the majority of members must be discusted. Let’s hope that this fiasco opens many eyes to the lunacy that their religion has become. It’s about time for DM to suffer, sweat and have that nervous breakdown he so rightly deserves. Karma…back at you Dave. Tick tock.
Less to do with these new courses than the ransack PTS regging environment. One kills off the other.
2 months of gradually depleting your wallet. These are the type of news more so than any others to stay away as far as possible.
It’ll be the PCs fault out-exchange with the IAS. So the MAA becomes the reg.
Great news.
I wish I could be at the airport when Ray Mitoff and ED Int (ex, but acting) walk through, and give them a quick interview on the state of WDC and Exec Strata and Snr C/S Int Office, and recent Int Base history in general.
I’m sure if there are interested watchers who want to catch glimpses of the high and mighty top Scientologists, that there will be opportunities to do so before and around Oct 6th at least!
Maybe we should have cars waiting, Chuck.
Swoosh, in. They are out.
Mike, speaking of Omitteds, which are the hardest thing to spot, I spotted a big omitted about COB the other day: he is the biggest fuck up of an administrator probably in the history of planet Earth. He literally screws up everything he touches and he can’t help himself touching everything. The Lisa McPherson “you’re Clear” R-factor is all the evidence anyone needs on that count. LRH once threatened Merrill Mayo, a long serving Class XII Auditor but not C/Sed trained with losing all her certs for C/Sing some assist actions on one of her pcs when no C/S was around at the base. But here is old Bull in a China Shop Miscavige C/Sing the D of P (or someone) to tell Lisa McPherson that she is clear resulting in the biggest and most expensive PR flap in Scientology history. I mean, if the results of his continual meddling were not so tragic he might be just a somewhat comical Danny Dunnigan/Barney Fife-type character. But I realized yesterday that DM literally screws up everything he meddles with. Look at Building 50. How many times was that redone and at what cost? (Several and millions are the answers to that.) I admit that I did not always view DM this way but that huge false datum came flying off me the other day and I thought I should share my win!
Very Good win
BTW It’s called the “Reverse Midas Touch”
All of the Gold David Miscavige touches turns to Cardboard !
Cool Dan! I think it’s “omitted thetan” basically. haha!
+1
“… tent materials will arrive…” – and soon the circus act can begin!
HE is getting ready for the show. The extras are briefed. The audience will bring in some dough – and hopefully cheer for the act.
“How astonishing He is for being SOOOO KSW by messing everything up and then coming along and spending thousands of hours to unmess what he messed in the first place.”
This is like the shiftless “anti-virus” company that asks to scan your computer for virus’, inserts 3 or 4 and then INSISTS that there’s is the only program that will get these particular virus’ and charges you to take them out.
The only difference may be that the anti-virus program might actually take out the virus.
Is there an anti-virus/parasite removal program for a sociopath?
“- New York: OCA tests are conducted on the Times Square, getting 80-100 new people in each day. 442 first service completions in the last three months alone. [Oh dear, this is the best stat they have – 17 first service completions a week per org. And this is the one they are willing to announce as a big win. And its probably free services like watching a film. No wonder He talks about number of hours of renos and square feet of dining space].”
It used to be that “intro services were fast, FREE, one hour or one evening services”. They’ve changed the stat so that any service has to be invoiced, such as a film or an OCA evaluation, and then when the person finishes the film or OCA evaluation, it’s a “service completion” as well as a tick on the stats New Names to Central Files, First Service Start, New People In. Don’t forget that walking into and out of the video information center is a “service”.
Heeeeey, you are tuning your fine thin slicing there! Thin slicing is an ability gained from LIVING and LEARNING.
Another brilliant graduation report. Thanks, Mike. These hyperventilating reports of Voldemort’s appearances make for fun Saturday morning reading. 🙂
OK – so what are the odds that a hurricane lifts the Super Tent will be into the sky, taking out two blocks of Scientology buildings with it?
And if the tent survives the 2013 Hurricane Season, how will Miscavige finesse the cosmetics of that Super Tent being nearly empty at his Next Big Event? After all, who the fuck shows up for super-regging events anymore? Miscavige managed to get only 600 poor souls to show up in Portland at the Ideal Org Opening of the Century.
Some more of those poor schmucks down at Flag for another round of fixit training, who think “it’s only my org back home that’s not surviving,” are going to see with their own eyes that He Himself also cannot make shit happen and that the whole enterprise is bankrupt.
JM
I just went and tried the new OCA website. Any moron could see it hasn’t been piloted, much less used so that the bugs could be worked out.
First, the test takes FOREVER to take online, mostly because the questions have to move into sight where you can see them. Animating something isn’t always smart.
Second, it’s the same old OCA questions. It has to be so that the test results can be compared to earlier test results for the same person over time.
Third, the illustrated OCAs on the site have the IQ score graphed on them, which is NOT tested for by the site.
Fourth, you’re asked to give your “postal code” but then when the test is finished, the “postal code” isn’t used to find your nearest org. I put in a “postal code” in Montana and was asked if places like San Diego and Tucson Arizona was my nearest org! Idiotic!
Fifth, the site would be more plausible if the site contained the background information regarding the claimed scientific nature of the test.
Sixth, you’re only asked for an e-mail address anyway, so why ask for the ‘postal code’?
Seventh, no address or phone number is asked for so the only way you have to find out if you got test results is via e-mail.
Eighth, the org that was closest to me, a Mission, is presented as being open seven days a week 9am-10pm. I happen to KNOW that ‘org’ is only open three days for three hours and one day for 9 hours. So you’re bound to confuse the public.
Ninth, you’re allowed to make the ‘appointment’ for your OCA evaluation online, but I know that org can’t handle more than one OCA evaluation at a time, so, again, you’re bound to confuse and infuriate the public who sit through the 45-minute online process.
Tenth, the images on the website show a smiling person RECEIVING THEIR OCA RESULTS ONLINE under the heading TAKE THE TEST. That misleads people into thinking they might get their results without dragging their body into a church of scientology.
Yeah, they’ve streamlined the OCA line, all right. Streamlined it into non-existence.
Oh, yeah. Eleventh, if you go into the org to get an OCA evaluation, you get a free t-shirt that says “I AM ME” on it. Like that needed advertising.
I hate to have to inform everyone, but after reading all the basic books i have found several typo’s that dont comport perfectly to Original certified LRH typo’s.
This means that 2 years from now, the Re-Issuer In Chief, in order to maintian the sanctity of the Tech, will have to republish the Basics and EVERYONE will be required to buy a minimum of 10 sets each and re-do all their coursework and auditing at their own expense.
Yes, the Basic Basics are coming. Rejoice and Re-Donate.
Yes, yes, yes … let’s redo THE BASICS version 2.
I want my re-issues FREE OF CHARGE! In all available e-reader formats.
Paleez, that is so 21`st century……..
“And the people bowed and prayed
To a neon god they’d made”
(Simon & Garfunkel)
Exactly.
For those who don’t know the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pwIrXg-ao
David Miscavige is without a doubt, the king of spin. He has earned a medal.
What happened to the Amsterdam Ideal Org? Haven’t found any confirmation on that.
Small failing Org is small and failing, fanatic little group tough, but Anons stopped years ago protesting it because it was simply small and failing and everybody knew it was not koosjer. Oh and the dutch authorities closed Narconon not so long ago.
Last post on the Ideal Org Amsterdam website is from Januari 12th 2012
http://www.idealeorgamsterdam.nl/
Questions raised in parlement(house of representitives, read last sentence its hilarious
http://idleorgs.com/2012/04/23/amsterdam-idle-org/
Amsterdam Idle Org
Posted on April 23, 2012
From ReligionNewsBlog:
Questions in Netherlands House of Representatives over Scientology tax loopholes
ReligionNewsBlog.com • Saturday March 17, 2012
Religion News Blog — Members of the Netherlands’ House of Representatives have asked questions of State Secretary for Finance, Frans Weekers, regarding tax deductions on financial donations given to the Church of Scientology via front groups.
Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool earlier this month reported that the controversial church is using a non-profit front group as a tax loophole in soliciting tax-deductible donations to the purchase of a building to be used as a so-called ‘Ideal Org.’
The Amsterdam Scientology base is using an exclusive website, accessible to members only, to try and drum up financial support among its followers for the purchase of a suitable building.
But the paper notes that ddonations to the sect are not tax deductible since the Dutch Tax Service does not view Scientology as a charitable organization.
It reports that the ‘Ideal Org Club’ advises supporters to send their money to the Nabesa foundation in Lelystad.
‘Nabesa’ stands for ‘Naar een Betere Samenleving’ — To a Better Society. Among its founders and boardmembers are several Scientologists. The foundation’s statutes say the purpose of Nabesa is to bring about improvements in society according to the ideas promoted by L. Ron Hubbard.
For tax purposes Nabesa is considered a charitable organization in the Netherlands, creating a sneaky route the paper suggests escaped the Tax Offices’ attention.
Last Saturday, citing church documents it has seen, Het Parool said the Scientology Church Amsterdam sees the Netherlands as a tax paradise and is wildly enthusiastic about it.
Tax authorities have told the newspaper that the NaBeSa foundation complies with non-profit rules, and that it will not go into deeper discussion regarding the issue.
The newspaper says that means about half of the financing necessary for Scientology’s ‘Ideal Org’ will be provided by Dutch tax payers.
SCIENTOLOGY FRONT GROUPS
Today Het Parool reports the tax authorities consider three additional Scientology front groups to be ‘charitable organizations’: The foundation De Weg naar het Geluk (Way to Happiness) in Haarlem, the foundation Narconon in Zutphen, and the foundation Nederlands Comité voor de Rechten van de Mens (the Dutch office of the ironically-named Citizens Commission on Human Rights) in Amsterdam.
Scientology uses front groups both to recruit, either directly or indirectly, and to apparently try and gain a measure of respectability by latching on to popular causes.
The Way to Happiness Foundation is a PR front that publishes a small booklet entiled, “The Way to Happiness” — a compilation of widely agreed upon values apparently culled from various religions. The booklet was produced by Scientology-founder, L. Ron Hubbard, who broke many of his own rules. Scientology publication have referred to the publication of the booklet as “the largest dissemination project in Scientology history” and “the bridge between broad society and Scientology.”
Narconon employs Scientology’s quackery in trying to treat drug addicts. Scientology uses Narconon to infiltrate schools and target children.
In 2005 then State Superintendent Jack O’Connell urged all California schools to drop the Narconon antidrug education program after a new state evaluation concluded that its curriculum offers inaccurate and unscientific information.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights engages in an extended hate campaign against psychiatry and psychiatrist.
QUESTIONS REGARDING TAX LOOPHOLE
In reponse to Het Parool’s report regarding an internal letter in which Scientologists are encouraged to donate money not to the church directly but rather to Nabesa, representatives of Dutch political parties D6 and SP in the Tweede Kamer — the Netherlands’ House of Representatives — have sent questions to Frans Weekers, State Secretary of Finance.
House Representative Magda Berndsen (D66) wants to know how it is possible that Scientology, which is not considered a charitable institution, ‘now still benefits, via a loophole, from the tax deduction benefits afforded to foundations that have a charitable status.’
Berndsen also wants to know whether are any instances of fraud have occurred with organizations that have charitable status, ‘such as money laundering.’
Ronald van Raak (SP) also wants an explanation: “It seems right to take a closer look at those ancillary organizations. If they are connected to, or provide services for, an organization that does not have charitable status those organizations can also not have charitable status.”
SCIENTOLOGY AMSTERDAM
Scientology’s Amsterdam base is currently housed in a rented building in the center of town. In 2010 the owners of the downtown building, real estate corporation Libra International, filed interim injunction procedures against the Church of Scientology for rent arrears in the amount of €78.000 ($103.000).
It was the second time that Libra had to resort to legal proceedings in order to get Scientology to pay.
In 2003 the Scientology’s Amsterdam base faced a mutiny in which ‘at least 50 of the 150 active core members’ left.
Even today passers-by usually do not notice much activity in the glass-fronted building.
In 2005 Scientology lost a long-running legal battle against freedom of speech in the Netherlands.
It is believed the organization has a few hundred ‘members’ in the Netherlands.
DRUGS DEALERS
Het Parool says its revelations regarding Scientology’s use of the Nabesa foundation are treated according to the sect’s usual protocol. The paper says that online Nabesa board member and Scientologist Karel Jeelof talks about ‘black propaganda‘:
“Scientology, argues Jeelof, is against drugs, and therefore it is highly likely that Het Parool is financed by drugs dealers.”
I wonder how much NaBeSa (Amsterdam Org) had to pay the Dutch Tax Office as a penalty for misleading the Tax Office?
Rough Google translation of dutch article
http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/5097/Spiritualiteit/article/detail/3310889/2012/09/04/Fiscus-maakt-einde-aan-belastingparadijs-voor-Scientology.dhtml
The Church of Scientology can not use more tax-deductible donations for the construction of a new building. The Administration has the organization are cut off. Bad news for the church: who gets an additional.
This reports the Parool. The Church of Scientology, itself no public benefit organization (anbi), left, for the purchase of the property since a few years entering through a special sister organization. That vehicle, the Foundation For A Better Society (Nabesa), enjoyed quite a anbi status. Gifts were therefore tax deductible.
This practice is prohibited: an organization that has no anbi status may not use gifts a side organization who has it. The Administration Nabesa now deprived her anbi status.
‘The Netherlands is a tax haven’
In internal memos Netherlands called the church “a paradise compared to other European countries, where the churches have to pay for each donation, and also where donations can not be deducted from the income tax lot. “Let splashing!”, Advised the church pipe.
That the tax paradise now makes an end. Not only new gifts not be deducted, may be earlier donations retroactively non-deductible. Nabesa will soon get an additional (the donors are exempted).
There seem large sums of money are at stake: in March left the organization know that three-quarters of the construction budget for the new headquarters was inside. The budget of the office runs into millions. Probably the church must now come up with a different solution for the financing.
Disgraceful, is a spokesman. “We are a religious society, and have been honest about our purpose: raising money for a new building. Why should all the other churches though and we do not? ”
Exploiting followers
The spiritual movement is not only in the Netherlands under discussion. Although Scientology include therapy and offers and fights against drug use, she alleged malpractices in a number of countries. So put a Paris court the church three years ago a fine for the financial exploitation of vulnerable followers.
The Belgian justice conducted from 1999 to 2007 a major review of the church for fraud and extortion. Germany considered in recent years to prohibit the church and Russia refused to register as a religious organization, but the church was tapped in 2007 by the European Court of Human Rights on the fingers.
Thanks!
Good translation !
In an event one month ago Amsterdam Org told its publics that a building had been purchased. The publics were urged to keep this secret. Why is not known. Maybe this is because they are still negotiating or it is because they are afraid of an attack.
I managed to get the area the building is in, which is the “Pijp” area. I am working on getting the exact location.
“If you have not finished your Basics books and lectures, go for it! They are the pre-requisites for the GAT 2 courses.”
Maybe this is only news to me, but really? The Basics books and Lectures (18 books and 15 lecture series) are now PREREQUISITES to auditor training? So even if Davey’s new quicky courses can make the major courses shorter, at the same time there is now an arbitrary new and long runway to even get started… So in effect, Academy training from start to finish will take LONGER than ever, won’t it? Maybe I’m missing something or the “Basics” were redefined, but for example, my understanding is that the PDC is also part of the Basics Lectures (at least it says so on the official website). So the Philadelphia Doctorate Course is now a PREREQUISITE to the Student Hat… or Level 0…? Or just another lie to keep people on “some” paid courses because now we can’t get them to buy auditor training on the “old, no longer used” GAT 1 courses?
Good point Globetrotter!
Yes! The BASICS are the biggest cash cow!
Heaps of cash to be made from the sales of books and lectures.
If you need to complete your Basics line – up before your Academy training, then it is also the biggest arbitrary introduced!
I fear no more auditors will be made?
Clearing the planet! REALLY?
If this is true, then this sounds like the last nail in the coffin of tech delivery in the church…
As others have pointed out before, it’s amazing that he would be gutsy enough to admit actual stats about clears made at FSO. One simply has to do the math and realize the planet will be cleared in millions of years at that rate.
What desperation… to open “the most important building in Scientology history” and start the vaunted “Super Power” and be unable to establish a clear opening date until a month ahead of time. Must be chaos at Flag.
Given the short (or nonexistent) notice and given that there are even hundreds of Cornerstone members who are disaffected and won’t be attending, any guesses as to how many people are actually at this event? Will DM open the IAS coffers to fly in staff and RPF from around the world?
– In meantime, the big posters all over Flag, say in bold letters : GET READY! If you have not finished your Basics books and lectures, go for it! They are the pre-requisites for the GAT 2 courses.
Too long a runway? I saw it when after the Basics event I had an addendum on my Level III checksheet. So Instead of doing the addendum which consisted of four complete books I like a good brainwashed lemming did the whole line up. I would do the book course then go back and do the book and lecture course. Of course number of times over equals certainty or so I thought. Not to invalidate any ones wins on those courses but as I finished each one I was getting more and more pissed(thank God I didn’t have to attest on the meter). I got absolutely nothing more out of Dave’s dumbed down versions then I did with his prior dumbed down version. So Dave you got your product, another auditor blown off course and out the Fucking door. Good job tough guy!
I get the Heebie jeebies just thinking of the people flooding the roads into Clearwater.
FSO public in Armani suits driving a new Lexus with a mattress tied to the roof like latter day Okies escaping the Dust Bowl. Then comes the Shell game and the money goes into D.M.s coffers like its was vacuumed by an EF 5 tornado. The same public that arrived in a $85,000 car leave C.W. in a $350,000 bus ! That’s real Super Power !
– Melbourne: the number of students on course have doubled since the announcement of GAT II. [Wow, that is really stupid – GAG II has not yet been announced? Could it really double from the announcement that it is going to be announced? What does that tell you? There was a single student and now there are two?]
Yes, plus, doing WHAT courses? They can’t be major courses, because they are all being changed, so no one will start any auditor training now (probably the only measurable statistical result of “announcing” GAT 2). So what’s left? OTs redoing the Personal Values and Integrity course as part of their “Super Power set-ups”?
– New York: OCA tests are conducted on the Times Square, getting 80-100 new people in each day.
Times square body traffic is between 300.000 – 460.000 per day. 80-100 new people a day is supposed to be impressive? I think it’s more like “ugh, they keep avoiding us and we can only get these Chinese tourists who never heard about Scientology to come in…” Wonder how many of those 80-100 new people a day end up on major services in the org? With 17 first service completions a week, that may be 1 major service start a week if they are lucky. Not enough to pay the toilet paper bill of the New York “Ideal Org”.
I’d be interested if anyone can shine a bit more light on exactly what is meant by this ‘First Service Completions’ stat being quoted here. I’ve never heard of this stat before from all the years I spent on staff (many of which were in Div 6 – assuming this is a new Div 6 stat). One of the key Div 6 inflow stats is/was First Service Starts and this measured the number of public starting on a paid service for the first time – ‘paid’ being the operative word. This FSC stat (excuse me for abbrieviating this already – old habits….) is quite similarly worded to FSS and implies a similar quantity in terms of inflow, in addition to some kind of meaningful Div 6 delivery, which I’m assuming is the intention. Except it doesn’t. Because by implication an FSC must be preceded by a FSS. And of course, there is always a drop off between people starting a service and actually completing it – sometimes quite a significant one in places where the tech is not fully in and the care factor is missing. But even if it’s minimal, the FSS will be the higher stat. So why is this stat not promoted here? I have to deduce that it’s likely that one possible reason could be that these completed services are not all paid ones. I do recall that there were a number of free introductory services available including lectures and testing etc. Are these what are being counted here now? It certainly smacks of desperation if this is the case, if not outright deception once again. Quelle surprise. Even covering the toilet paper is starting to sound rather optimistic now, eh?
Hi Blue Seagull,
There is a Div 6 stat called PUBSVCCOMPS, meaning Persons Completing Paid 17C Services. Another one is PRPS (Public Reg Paid Starts), fot Dept. 17A. The FIRSTSTARTS (17A) stat is defined as “the first paid service the person starts”
The only completion stat Div 6 has is INTROTOPAID (“number of people who complete one or more intro services and who go onto a paid major or basic service”), which belongs to Dept. 16D, but that one is not mentioned by Davey, for a good reason I can guess.
There is no First Service Completions stat on the Class V stat cable.
My guess: since the actual published definition for the stat measuring the First Service Starts is published in an SPD and it refers to PAID services only, Davey couldn’t use that one, he had to invent another stat. Since there was no existing “First Service Completion” stat, he could invent his own definition, which is probably similar to the VM “number of people helped” stat which probably includes flyers handed out.
They are not getting 80-100 new people in from “THE ” Times Square. That’s just the number of people out of 400,000 who will even accept the flyer (accepting the flyer is now considered a “start ” – hey it ‘s the start of a cycle of action, right?). Anyway the tourists on “THE ” Times Square who accept a Scientology flyer usually can ‘t read English.
You are probably right.
I was there last summer (Times Square) and while sipping my coffee I observed a teenager staff member passing out flyers for about 45 minutes. The poor kid was visibly tired of doing this as people’s reaction was always the same, i.e.: reject taking it or tossing it on the ground. He would at times space out and just look around, not even trying to make contact with the constant crowds. But that’s when his SO-dressed handler would approach him and prod him into action. The handler was there all the time watching him. There was also another person taking photos and or video. The ground was covered with flyers. I thought “Even Post Office office workers have a smaller ratio of inspectors per worker.”
I also watched the Org and there was no one coming in at all.
I drive by the HGB, CC, and the Complex and fairly often on my way around town. What I have seen over and over at the HGB, and this has been going on for years, are busloads of Asian tourists debarking to tour the LRH Lifetime exhibit.
My thinking here is that it is a win-win: The tour is free, the Church wants the stat, and so tour companies fill time and save money by filing busloads of unsuspecting tourists through a free museum. Conversely, the bus tour companies skip the other free Church Museum tour: Psychiatry: An Industry of Death. That would not be so much fun on a vacation to America.
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One time I was driving down LRH Way on my way home when I noticed the cherry red IAS chariot being pulled by a horse. The charioteer was in full Roman regalia and looked like a member of the USC marching band. Next to him in the chariot was a female Sea Org member.
A horse-drawn chariot with a Roman gladiator and a Sea Org member aboard, and this in broad daylight on a public street, can only happen on LRH Way. It is so Scientology and so L.A..
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The chariot, unsuspecting tourists being diverted into a Church museum for stats, COB beatings, a giant circus tent, a new e-meter that is ten years old, Church PI’s spying on people, Karin Pouw lying, etc. This is so hard to explain to the uninitiated.
The old good lies… and PR, PR, PR. Every time Miscavige did something “BIG” he destroyed a big portion of Scientology. Every time. His lies go up to the roof now and he is running out of loyal people.
It’s obvious from the reports you are getting Mike that Ideal Orgs are Idle. That we have seen. It’s obvious that GAT I destroyed the Tech and sent away and to RPF dozens of good staff and Scientologists. New Era of Mgmt, the same. The translations evolution… the same. No LRH was taken into account. This is a serious 4th dynamic catastrophe and treason. LRH had a swift program for all nations of planet earth to be getting fast translations. But Miscavige didn’t want to pay professional translations so he could pay lawyers.
So, nada… the planet is not getting cleared… Athens has has just 1 yes, 1 small org for all the years I know of Scientology. Actually it had 2 missions in the past but then went down to…. 1. They wanted to be the ONLY ONE’s. Like Miscavige.
So more and more loyal to LRH people are leaving Miscavigedom. And he is left with less and less capable people. His days are over. Scientology does not belong to Miscavige. All the PR in the world will not balance and hide all his lies and High Crimes. He was abandoned by his once loyal officers. This says everything.
Oh c’mon Theo, Miscavige still has plenty of capable staff – what about all the teenagers who not only are uneducated in traditional educational subjects, but also totally lacking in world and life experience, and to make it even better (remember, “perfection” is the standard) virtually untrained and unversed in either LRH Tech or Policy. This is the Miscavige version of the child armies coerced together by some African warlords. Miscavige’s army is perfect – for him, since in their ignorance they are perfect for believing him and following him.
Theo, thanks for the info. BTW, did you know that GAT means ‘Asshole’, in Afrikaans? It’s a fact!
ROTFL, Calvin! How appropriate.
– Cambridge, Ontario: an internet campaign was completed to get new people in. The number of first service starts in the ideal org since the grand opening exceeded the grand total of first service start during the entire existence of the org. [No number? The entire existence of the org could have been 10 people]
That’s about right. May have been 20. Been there when it was still “Kitchener org” and it had 1 staff on post when I visited who supervised the 1 public on course, and left the courseroom twice while I was there – once to greet me and once to pick up the phone.
Well no surprise that they would promote the events to be earlier than they are actually planning on. That way they can cause the most inconvenience to the sheeple as possible so they are “ready” when the actual date comes around. Plus it makes it look like they are more on top of things than they actually are. For some reason, anyone connected with events in Cof$ has a psychosis of being unable to actually name and then achieve a target date for an event to come off sanely.
Did they say who the “Int Ideal Org Program Director” is? I am very curious about this.
“He showed us a video clip of a portion of the HUGE warehouse space , where he said he had personally spent a lot of his time , working on the GAT Phase 2 pgm. It showed aisles and aisles of folders and bulletin boards, laying out ALL of LRH ‘s writings by date and month HCO B’s, HCO PL’s etc.. VERY Impressive!”
Yes. So is the fact that since all of these materials exist as computer files, the same result can be gotten with a SMALL laptop in a fraction of a second instead of a HUGE warehouse and years of work. Or wait, maybe the problem is that Earth technology hasn’t gotten far enough to sort documents by date…?
Hahaha:)
“Full perfection is the passing standard for all courses.” – David Miscavige
“Absolutes are unobtainable.” – L. Ron Hubbard
… and somewhere he also said that suppressives have the habit to set impossible to reach targets that sets everyone up for a loss.
What would you do if your goal would be the total destruction of all tech in the church? Here’s the strategy:
1. Tell everyone who is not trained “the new way” that they are no longer qualified to audit. Basically, publicly invalidate the skills, ability and qualifications of anyone you haven’t corrupted.
2. With only the corrupted ones now left, tell everyone you train in “the new way” that they are expected to audit at the level of “full perfection” and tell the public that they do.
3. Since it is a lie, as all the new “perfect” auditors will be aware after their first few flubs, they will be between a rock and a hard place: they can’t tell anyone their training didn’t achieve “full perfection” as that would be contrary to what COB said. But they can’t audit “perfectly” (no such thing – we are talking about PEOPLE, not machines both sides of the meter) they keep accumulating withholds and will eventually consider themselves worthless or evil and blow.
My prediction: GAT 2 will be followed by a mass exodus of auditors “newly trained to perfection” blowing the orgs and the SO.
This Miscavige BS about “Perfection” as the passing standard has been babbled and spouted since GAT I and ever since, and it is just that – BS – at least in terms of the level of competence of Church tech terminals since this standard was promoted. I have been C/Sed/supervised/audited/word cleared/examined/ crammed/ethics interviewed/sec checked by so-called perfect Miscavige/GAT tech terminals and none of them were perfect. Most (not all but most) of them were further from perfect than pre-GAT terminals because they had been trained out of some “bad habits” like ARC, actually being there with and for the person they were dealing with, in short — they lost their souls.