It seems Scientology is in the middle of a flap, a Paradigm shift, a change of attitude, a movement of spheres and a growing shitstorm! One that’s seeping across the Internet like some demented and smelly snowball, collecting the collective imagination and the amusement of millions.

it’s been a long time coming. The leadership of Scientology has finally pissed off the wrong people.

Who have they pissed off now?

No not governments, Scientology gotten kicked out of it’s share of countries. Not Critics, they’ve bullied and harassed lots of those, authors and reporters? – ditto, remember the writer they tried to get convicted of sending bomb threats? Using stationary from her own office with her own finger prints all over them?

It was none of these people, how about the thousands of parishioners who realized that they have been doing useless courses and taking silly bullshit from a “church” that culls confidential information from *mandatory* confessional sessions, (at many thousands of dollars for the privilege.) How about all the families that have been broken up, the children that have lived in squaller in Scientology compounds, educated using bogus Scientology methods.

No, it wasn’t any of those either.

This time, they pissed off a bunch of third generation computer nerds, ones with too much time on their hands. In a sense, Scientology has finally pissed off the Internet itself.

“Everyone loves the Internet! Except when it attacks!”

I’m not sure where this started, a few days ago….

It REALLY all began back in 2004 when Scientology wanker Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (Tom Cruise) (after jumping on Oprah’s couch and generally making an idiot of himself,) did an interview for his Freedom Medal Of Valor award.

Freedom Medal of Valor….. WTF!!??

This was only recently leaked to YouTube ,Cruise makes a number of batshit statements about how Scientology is here to save the world, how he hopes to read about SPs (suppressive persons I.E those who don’t like Scientology) in the history books. How he want no mercy for Psychology and how only Scientology can help out at a car accident.Well the video was yanked off of YouTube by Scientology’s lawyers. It’s here on Gawker for the time being, how long is anyone’s guess.It’s back on YouTube right now... for a short time I expect.

Tom looks high as a kite. I’m not saying he IS high, he looks and acts high. Other than that it’s mostly a bunch of dumb Scientology crap, hardly worth looking at twice. BUT, the Scientology powers that be made the brilliant move of getting their lawyers to yank it off the air. Thus they made it TEN times more important than it needed to be, smooth move ex-lax!

Then, the shit really hit the fan. Some hackers, who may or may not resemble “angry German kid” pictured above decided to go to all out war with Scientology. It’s an Internet group called “Anonymous.” They’ve produced a video outlining their campaign to remove Scientology from the Internet and destroy it (utterly.)

WELL! It’s good to have goals, its may even be good to dislike Scientology but I’m not sure making threats is a good thing and I’m certain that making Distributed Denial-of-service Attacks (DDoS) is really REALLY a bad idea.

The attacks only briefly took Scientology off the air. They were back quickly, (big surprise, they have about a billion dollars to spend on security crap.)The hacking stuff won’t work. But there is some other things brewing which might. The best way to pwn Scientology is to make them more paranoid (if that’s possible.) Picketing their storefronts and compounds is one way. Making them spend time fending off criticism, and answering nonsensical questions is another. Make them waste time! Scientology really REALLY hates to waste time! Scientology leadership is ONLY interested in making money. Anything that interferes with their bottom line will be a source of irritation.

Every moment they blow fending off a critic is one moment that they could be suckering in some unwary sucker. One way to do this is, find their Volunteer Minister booths, they are usually in public places (the DC Mall has a permanent one. ) Take their so called “stress tests,” ask lots of questions and hand out counter Scientology literature. . Have someone close by with a camera and get the vids on YouTube.

Don’t do anything illegal! They will come down on you like the proverbial ton of bricks and they SHOULD! Remember, they have about TWO billion dollars available for legal help. Besides, it’s hypocritical! Don’t let those clowns be more ethical than critics!

Do the research! If you get into a conversation with them, be unflaggingly polite, they will try to provoke you– don’t let them. Calmly refute everything they say but don’t try to argue with them. Use facts and cite your sources. Read their books! Always ask a Scientologist what their education level is (I’ve found that most of them have *some* college.) Ask they why they dropped out. Ask them if they have read any other Science Fiction than stuff that Hubbard wrote. Always urge them to look at both sides of the issue.

Don’t be judgmental with them or cruel. Don’t talk to them about Xenu any of that high level stuff. You want to convince them that us “wogs” are real people, worthy of their respect and attention. Remind them that THEY were wogs before they joined Scientology, were they bad people then? Are they any better now?

Remember that each person who leaves Scientology HARMS Scientology by denying it one more revenue stream. You really want to do a DDoS attack? Get people to leave the cult! Better yet? Get the US IRS to rescind Scientology’s tax exempt status. The organization is already bleeding money like someone in the final stages of Eboli. They have bought TONS of expensive property all over the country. They have millions invested in their sooper-duper headquarters in Clearwater Florida which has stood unfinished and empty for over TEN years.

Now remember, I don’t have a problem with Scientology saying crazy stuff, I’m amused by it! Sure it’s a strange organization, sure they take advantage or people, sure they attempt to censure free speech and certainly they harass and hound their critics. But I get the impression this Anonymous group does the same things! I suppose I’m two minds about this, on the one hand, watching Scientology get pwnd by a bunch of kids would be sweet.

On the other hand the kids would be insufferable should they actually get to Scientology. At least the kids will grow up…I hope!

“The Internet has awakened.”

— http://www.partyvan.info/index.php/Project_Chanology

Written by James Randi
Here is “ essentially“ a diatribe against the perceived fuddy-duddy convictions of shortsighted modern scientists. It was written by author Colin Bennett, who says that

“The problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.”

That rather sets the stage for what follows, since Bennett has freely interchanged imagination and fact, as you’ll see. He has also been beguiled by such wonders as the JFK Assassination Conspiracy, the Candy Jones/Long John Nebel/CIA* plot, Charles Fort, the Mothman Prophecies, “chemtrails,” and George Adamski. What follows is an exercise in naivety:

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By BUD KENNEDY

Star-Telegram staff writer

Stephenville’s newfound fame has not come without a price.

First, one of the most-quoted UFO “experts” in town last week turned out to be a Cleburne man who staged a 1998 armed standoff in Waco.

Now, one of the Stephenville city leaders who wanted UFO hobbyists to come investigate weird lights is having second thoughts about his city’s intergalactic notoriety.

“I don’t want us to get a reputation like Roswell,” said Mark Murphy. Murphy, a City Council member, invited hobbyists to come interview witnesses who saw what is now described as a military training exercise.

Sixty years ago, spokesmen at the air base in Fort Worth said the silvery wreckage found near Roswell, N.M., was a weather balloon.

This week, their successors said the weird lights in the sky were jets from the 457th Fighter Squadron.

“I didn’t expect this to become such a media circus,” said Murphy, a college science lab manager interviewed on ABC’s Good Morning America.

“I wanted to get some serious answers and find out what people saw. I didn’t dream it would become anything like this,” he said.

If Stephenville is embarrassed in any way over its new reputation as the Flying Saucer Capital of the World, neighboring Dublin isn’t. The rival town wants to beam down more TV attention.

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You know that UFO that was spotted in Texas last week? The one that was supposedly a mile long and traveling at 3,000 miles per hour while being chased by military F-16’s? Well, the military has a fairly simple explanation. It turns out it wasn’t a UFO that was being chased by F-16’s, it actually was F-16’s — ten in fact — flying in formation with lights on that may have created the illusion of a large craft.

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Wednesday, January 23. 2008

Well it is all fun and games for the Scientologists at the moment with the video controversy (apparently leading to hacking attacks on their site), the lurid claims of the Andrew Morton’s book and increasing hostility with the Germans. So I want to take a step back and look again at the odd links between them the occult, UFOs and the Navy, as The UFO Iconoclast(s) which makes a number of interesting statements:

• Both Hubbard and Jack Parsons were interested in UFOs and that they “associated with Naval Intelligence in the late 1940s and early 1950s and both became advocates for flying saucer technology which was being studied diligently by the Navy.” This is certainly news to me and I’ll have to follow it up.
• The Scientology HQ in Florida has a floor purely for the studies of flying saucers (they apparently receive secret Navy documents on this) and that there is a secret part of Scientology that deals with them (which is only available to a select few) – not that surprising considering the nature of their beliefs I suppose.
• Dianetics has been used by the Navy as a training manual.
• Parsons met a Venusian. Also Hubbard and Adamski swapped UFO stories in the fifties. This would be an interesting link. Adam Gorightly has pointed out some parallels between Parsons and Adamski (the latter’s encounter with a Venusian happened in the Me Desert where Hubbard and Parsons went at the end the Babalon Working, in 1952, the year of Parson’s death) but if confirmed these two both claimed to have met Venusians and they shared a close link through Hubbard.

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by Theresa J. Thurmond Morris

Posted: 14:40 January 22, 2008

Alien abduction stories are common among humanoids on earth. We are universal and belong to other races of intelligent humanoid classes of beings. I have met many people who claim to be hybrids or both alien and human. I cannot deny that I belong in this category. But, I do not feel that this is the only classification that refers to me and my life on earth, my spirit, and my soul. When I think of other human beings on earth I feel included as one person who was born on earth.

When I think of aliens I think of myself also. I think that part of me came from another place. Actually another galaxy which is just one of the many places that was created for intelligent beings. I believe that people on earth refer to this other galaxy as Andromeda. I belong to the alien hybrids club. This club of intelligent beings believes that alien civilizations exist.

I am sure that this is a bona fide gathering of souls who are of like kind. I do believe that all of us who are alien abductees have spirits and souls besides having a mental and physical body. I believe that we, intelligent beings on earth, are just now finding our voice of inclusion in the race of intelligent beings that are called the high council and the allied council of intelligent beings of this universe. We are universal beings.

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With thanks to The Debris Field

The dark side of space disaster theories

by James Oberg
Monday, January 21, 2008

Space disasters attract so much public attention and often involve such complex and subtle sequences of events that there’s an entire Internet literature of “crackpot causes’son par with JFK assassination myths. To the degree that innovative analysis is often critical to reconstructing from partial and often garbled evidence’s”a shocking causal sequence leading from goodness to disaster, the initial investigation period demands that critical judgment be held somewhat in check so as not to discourage imagination.

However, once a logical reconstruction gels, is tested, and then is ultimately verified by being implemented and hence reducing future flight hazards, that official explanation achieves a substantial level of authenticity. But not to everyone’s satisfaction, apparently, as a search of still-thriving non-traditional explanations of the Apollo 1 fire, the Apollo 13 breakdown, the Challenger disintegration, and the Columbia catastrophe, whose fifth anniversary now approaches.

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In the American Chronicle, “where anyone can say any dumb thing they want!”

By Mahalo Michael Salla

January 16, 2008

There is growing debate concerning “exopolitics”, which is oriented towards public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life; and its relationship to UFOlogy, which primarily focuses on evidence concerning unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Supporters of exopolitics largely accept that the existence of extraterrestrial life has been abundantly demonstrated by a vast pool of evidence over the last sixty years provided by eyewitnesses, whistleblowers, scientists, ˜experiencers” and leaked government documents. Supporters of exopolitics claim it is now time to focus on public policy aspects of this evidence, rather than maintain a myopic focus on proving to perennial skeptics that UFOs are real and a legitimate focus on scientific study. Indeed, exopolitics supporters believe that much of this skepticism is unwarranted and can be traced to the debunking recommended by the CIA appointed Robertson Panel in 1953. The panel delivered a report, the Durant Report, that recommended ridiculing the ‘flying saucer’ phenomenon and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, for national security reasons.

Many individuals are still trying to grasp what exopolitics is all about, and many “˜UFOlogists” remain highly critical of exopolitics as an emerging disciplinary approach to public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life. UFOlogists still have difficulty grasping that exopolitics is the forerunner to a legitimate academic discipline that will soon be established in every major university. Critics of exopolitics often tend to focus on some of the pioneers of exopolitical thought in terms of their methods and ideas, rather than the identifying the merits of a scholarly approach to public policy issues concerning extraterrestrial life.
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All this brings us to the Subject of the Week here on SWIFT.

It was March 6th, 1998, when the JREF Million-Dollar Challenge first came into existence. That’s almost ten years ago. It’s always been a simple, direct, matter: do what you claim you can do of a paranormal nature, and walk away with the prize. Our expectations at first were that we’d attract major personalities by this means, but they’ve avoided having to take the test by simply not applying; those who have actually applied are generally honestly self-deluded persons who have difficulty stating what they can do, which can be understood if they really don’t know what they’re experiencing; we at JREF have gone through involved procedures to help them recognize their problems. Usually, they have indicated that they don’t know what real scientific rules are, when it comes down to their actually being properly tested.

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(by) Sparky hall. (via The Debris Field.)

There were two interesting letters in the Hendersonville Times-News during December that caused me to wonder if now would be a good time to write the column I promised some time ago about my encounter with a UFO.

The second letter said that the 25 percent of Americans who believe in the existence of UFOs have a poor understanding of science and probably a lower IQ than most of the other 75 percent in our country.

At the risk of putting myself in the dumb part of the population, at least in that person’s eyes, I would like to tell you a story.

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