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Go back and look to the Petersdom! For Ordering Pizzas and Prostitutes.
May be the same persons for priests!?
Filed under: $cientology, Art, Culture, H&M, Music, clothes, concern think thank, corruption, cult, design, hollywood, money, stars, thelema | Tags: $cientology, clothes, concern think thank, corruption, cult, H&M, money, stars, thelema
Madonna has it done, Karl Lagerfeld, too. Now follow Jade Jagger and Katharine Hamnett. Along with artists like Rihanna, Timbaland and the Scissor Sisters designed the interior designer for H & M is a new collection in cult stations.
“Fashion Against AIDS” will of Swedish clothing giant, in cooperation with the organization “Designers Against AIDS” especially among young people awareness of the disease.
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Filed under: Anonymous, Berlin government, CDU, Germany, Linke, Politics, SPD, ads, animal, berlin, caberta, cats, commuity, conspiracy innercircle, corruption, fact, gays, illegal, info, merkel, occult, senator, shocked, terror, with video of the Scientology sect, wowereit | Tags: Anonymous, berlin, Berlin government, corruption, film, Germany, Politics, shocked, Video, with video of the Scientology sect
Corruption in the German government?
Does Miss Scientology cult “Senator of Berlin” Wowereit for advertising?
In an Internet video that the sect have to be made, the Governing with Scientologist Tom Cruise to see !
Cruise at Wowereit. This meeting of 2004 the sect for advertising have misused
3.5 million viewers followed Wednesday evening Star TV ( Channel RTL, 22.15 pm). Scientology issue. In a film scene was Tom Cruise in the Red Town Hall together with Klaus Wowereit. Allegedly a video of Scientology. If the Governing Mayor of the sect for advertising abused?
For weeks already circulate several videos of the sect on the Internet. Sun also sent. The recordings are authentic, were on 1 September 2004. Cruise was in the German premiere of “Collateral” in Berlin, was also at the town hall in the visitor of the city. The tone was apparently later about the pictures mixed. So says a spokesman proudly in the video: “Tom Cruise is in the country of intolerance, and has driven it to the palace of the mayor done.” Scientology expert Ingo Heinemann of the Federal Association sect believes in consulting cult targeted advertising: “I think it is very likely that Scientology normal TV reports cuts in itself. “
Consequences threatened
The sect distancing themselves. “These scenes are not from us,” said Berlin Scientology spokeswoman Sabine Weber. In the emerging Internet versions were “cut together piracy”.
In the Senate office is the problem. “Tom Cruise was received at City Hall as any other film star well,” said spokesman Richard Meng. He continued: “As we have heard, that Scientology with the movie advertising, we have forbidden them naturally. And in the case of repeat threatened legal consequences. “
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Filed under: British, England, History, community-and-society, geography, human-interest, map, medieval, mysteries, retains, science-and-technology, scotland, united-kingdom, wales | Tags: Art, blogging, British, community-and-society, Culture, England, geography, History, human-interest, map, medieval, mysteries, retains, science-and-technology, scotland, united-kingdom, wales
It’s not Melbourne’s Melways, Brisbane’s Referdex nor Sydney’s UBD and it’s certainly not like London’s A-Z, but it is the oldest known road map of the UK, and you can now buy a copy for the first time.
The Gough Map of Great Britain is half a metre high and just over a metre wide, and dates from around 1360. (www.bodley.ox.ac.uk)
Hanging in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, the Gough Map – named after its 19th century owner Richard Gough – is about half a metre high and just over a metre wide.
It was drawn around the year 1360 and there are no other known medieval maps as big or as accurate.
It’s made of vellum – now-fragile, very thin animal hide – and the top of the page points east, not north, with the country lying down on its side.
The red and green map marks out more than 600 villages and towns, like London and Oxford, 200 rivers including the Thames and the Humber, and forests, like Sherwood Forest, as well as a very basic if incomplete road network of over 4,700 kilometres.
Nick Millea is the Map Librarian at the Bodleian Library and the publisher of the new book of the map. He says it is completely unique.
“It really is the first map of its kind to show the geography of Britain – there’s nothing before it,” he said.
“And you can recognise the outline of the British coastline, which from previous maps you can’t really – it’s very difficult to work out what’s going on.”
Mr Millea says there are still a lot of mysteries about the Gough Map.
“We know absolutely nothing about who drew it up and why,” he said.
“When this map first became available was around about 1360. Perhaps a tiny minority of the population would have known what it was – they could have looked at it – but to think about the concept of a map would have been totally alien.”
He says scholars are not even entirely sure what it was used for.
“It could have had an administrative purpose, it could have been used for people to work out their way around the country – it’s going to have to be very high-ranking officials working on this,” he said.
“It could simply be a statement of empire – a map made for royalty, if you like – saying, ‘look, here’s what we’ve got, here’s England, here’s Wales, and Scotland’s next on our hit list’.”
It’s thought the map was made when Edward III was king. It shows the coast close to France at a time when the King had great success invading French towns.
In fact the depiction of much of the English coast is remarkably accurate, as are areas near Oxford where there had been some technical advances in geography, all done with access to nothing higher than the hills.
But the mystery is why some major roads – clearly well known at the time – were left out of the map.
“I suspect that most of the information about placement of the settlements was done simply by word of mouth,” Mr Millea said.
“Someone would have said, ‘well the next town from Oxford if you go to the west is Whitney’, so I can’t imagine that one person or one team of people would have gone out into the landscape.”
He says it is likely the map is a compilation of geographic knowledge from many different people.
“I think one of the key things is the great enigma of the Gough Map; these thin red lines,” he said.
“In the past it’s been assumed that this was a road map, [but] I think in the last four or five years of looking at this, we can say that it’s not a road map – I don’t think these red lines are roads, because the main roads that were well-known in the 1360s, they’re not included.
“The red lines seem to be a cartographic construct, a way of saying that the distance between two places is so many miles, and that you’ll see a figure in Roman numerals next to each of these little red lines, so I think it’s more an example of sophisticated map-making.”
Mr Millea says it is possible the map was drawn up as a means or asserting control over the area.
“One phrase we like to use in cartography is ‘the power of maps’,” he said.
“[We look at] why was this made made, and what it shows and doesn’t show – so many of the real principle roads just aren’t there.”
You can see an interactive version of the Gough Map at Mapping the Realm.
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Filed under: Germany, Nato, afghanistan, politic, rejects, request, southern, troop, un | Tags: afghanistan, Germany, Nato, politic, rejects, request, southern, troop, un
German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung says Berlin has no plans to deploy combat troops in battle-ravaged southern Afghanistan, after an urgent US request for NATO partners to do more to stabilise the country.
Mr Jung told reporters that German troops serving with a NATO peacekeeping operation would continue to focus on reconstruction efforts in the relatively calm north of Afghanistan.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates reportedly sent an “unusually stern” letter to Jung last month demanding combat troops, helicopters and paratroopers.
Mr Jung responded with a similarly “direct and stern” letter, the paper said, without quoting the letters directly.
German Government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm and a Defence Ministry spokesman confirmed that Berlin had received a letter about Afghanistan from Dr Gates but declined to comment on its content.
There are about 40,000 NATO and 20,000 US-led coalition soldiers in Afghanistan.
NATO commanders say they need some 7,500 more troops to carry out their mission.
Southern Afghanistan has seen the worst violence since the Taliban were ousted in the US-led invasion in 2001, after the September 11 terror attacks masterminded by Al Qaeda.
Filed under: After England Axe, Becks, Charity, Snubs, football, game, sport, sports | Tags: After England Axe, Becks, Charity, comments, football, lions, Snubs, sports
David Beckham pulled out of hosting a charity event for sick children after being dropped from the England squad, it has emerged.
2)The midfielder had been pinning his hopes on a 100th England cap, but was devastated after being axed by new Three Lions boss Fabio Capello.
He was to due to greet PM Gordon Brown and Elton John at last night’s star-studded cystic fibrosis fund-raiser at London’s Dorchester Hotel.
But instead he jumped on a plane back to Los Angeles, claiming he was ordered back for training with LA Galaxy.
The news came as a surprise to organisers, especially as he had been training hard with Arsenal in Galaxy’s close season in the hope of winning an England place.
A video message apology from Beckham, recorded after he was dropped by Capello, was played at the event.
Sir Elton told reporters he had only just found out Beckham could not attend, adding: “I’m sure he’s disappointed.”
Speaking about Beckham’s no-show, Liverpool’s Peter Crouch said: “I’ve no idea why he’s not here. It’s the first I’ve heard of it.
“It’s a bit disappointing. Of course I’d have liked to see him.”
Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor added: “We have a chance to do something good to help these people. I’m sad that Beckham is not here.”
Gordon and Sarah Brown’s younger son Fraser suffers from cystic fibrosis – a chronic disease which affects the lungs and digestive system.
Filed under: Israel, Scientology workshops, Sderot, jerusalem, jews, offered, post, residents | Tags: film, Israel, jerusalem, jews, offered, post, residents, Scientology workshops, Sderot, Video
n a move seen by some as an attempt to take advantage of Sderot’s shell-shocked residents, a nonprofit group is offering them free workshops based on the teachings of the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology.
A group calling itself the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East, which denies any connection with the Church of Scientology, has sent e-mails to social workers in Sderot offering to help the residents cope with the Kassam rocket attacks.
It is entitled, “Sick of being bombed?” and asks: “Are you afraid to leave the house in the morning? Don’t know if the children will return home safely? Business in danger? Life become a struggle in the shadow of fear? Come make sure right now that the psychological damage will be as limited as possible!” The free workshops are offered to schools and places of work.
Dalia Yosef, head of the Hosen Center – an umbrella organization for all the psychological counseling and professional support provided to Sderot’s residents – said several social workers had voiced concern after receiving e-mails soliciting interest in a workshop provided by the organization.
“We intend to investigate this association, as we do every group that offers social and psychological services in Sderot,” said Yosef, whose organization receives funding and professional support from the Education, Health, Pensioners’ Affairs and Welfare and Social Services ministries. The Hosen Center also receives backing from the Friendship Foundation, an organization headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and supported by evangelical Christians.
In an e-mail responding to questions by The Jerusalem Post, the Association for Prosperity said the workshops were based on the teachings of “The Way to Happiness,” a pamphlet written by Hubbard – one of 645 works he authored on various subjects, according to the group.
“In these difficult times, we are providing workshops for Sderot residents, like workshops that we provided to the residents of the North during the Second Lebanon War,” the association said, adding that 200,000 Israelis had taken part in 5,000 of its workshops over the years.
“The workshops are made up of several stages, including lectures, role-playing and group discussions during which residents receive tips on how to cope with mental tension, pressure and anxiety. The workshops also help in specific cases of distress experienced by the residents.
“We are unaware of any Scientology activity whatsoever being offered to Sderot residents. In general, regarding your question on Scientology activity in Sderot or elsewhere, you should contact the official representatives of the religion and receive their response,” the association said.
Mordi Bucai, who answered the Center for Scientology’s toll-free line, told the Post that there was no Scientology activity in Sderot. He said that the teachings found in “The Way to Happiness” were “totally different” from Scientology.
Bucai acknowledged that most of the people in the Association for Prosperity, including its director-general, were Scientologists. But he added that some were not, and one did not have to be a Scientologist to work for the association.
The Association for Prosperity said, “Claiming our organization is connected with Scientology just because our director-general studied Scientology is like saying that other nonprofits are hi-tech because volunteers work in hi-tech.”
Bucai, who heads a Scientology Center on Sderot Rothschild in Tel Aviv, said “The Way to Happiness” was a moral code based on 21 principles relevant for all religions, “based on logic.”
Those principles include the importance of good hygiene, fidelity to one’s spouse, honesty, industriousness, keeping promises and respecting religious faith.
“Scientology is much more than a moral code,” said Bucai. “It is a religion that teaches people to overcome personal obstacles, tells them what their purpose in life is and what they are supposed to do here.”
Ayelet Kedem, director-general of the Israeli Center for Cult Victims, said the Association for Prosperity was a front for Scientology activities.
“Hiding behind a front organization is a common tactic,” said Kedem, a former investigative reporter. “The idea is to create a positive image by obscuring the connection with Scientology.
“Later, people who undergo free workshops are convinced that they must correct flaws in their personality by taking Scientology courses. Those who are hooked end up giving all their possessions to the Church of Scientology,” Kedem said.
Kedem added that Scientologists often tried to take advantage of the weakened psychological state of victims of natural disaster, or in this case, Sderot’s victims of terrorism.
Kedem’s organization monitors the activities of 48 cults active in Israel. Her claims were backed up by Yad Le-Achim, a haredi organization that battles missionaries.
Bucai said in response that none of the people who get involved in Scientology do so against their will. “The opposite is true,” said Bucai, who has been studying Scientology since 1980. “Scientology increases your awareness, makes you more conscious of what you are doing. Besides, Israelis are no fools. It is impossible to coerce someone. The sums of money people pay should be measured against the tremendous returns they receive.”
“I’ve heard of Ayelet Kedem,” added Bucai. “She makes a lot of noise. But she should be asked when was the last time she helped someone? When was the last time she improved someone’s IQ, awareness, and reaction time like we do? To be against Scientology is like saying that you are in favor of car accidents, because if we fail to help people improve their reaction time there will be more people killed on the road.”
A leading rabbi from the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva said he and his students would go from door to door if necessary to prevent Scientologists or those disseminating Hubbard’s teachings from making inroads among Sderot residents.
“We have no need for any ‘-ologies’ here in Sderot,” said the rabbi. “Attempts to take advantage of peoples’ weaknesses in times of distress are worthy of condemnation.”
The Association for Prosperity said in response: “It is sad that as the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish state approaches, there are still vile individuals trying to vilify other Jews for their convictions, faith, education, skin color [and] gender, in ways that remind us all of what happened during the Holocaust and that almost resulted in the loss of the entire Jewish people.
“We denounce such behavior, as we do those brainless individuals who choose to find fault with volunteers giving of their time, money and energy for the residents of Sderot, instead of reaching out to innocent Jews under a constant barrage of rockets.”
Scientology has been controversial since it was founded 50 years ago by Hubbard, an author of pulp science fiction.
Perhaps the most damning report on Scientology was published in 1991 by Time magazine. In the wake of that report, entitled “The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power,” by Richard Behar, the Church of Scientology lost a $416 million libel suit against Time. Behar received three journalism awards for his investigative report.
Hubbard wrote one of Scientology’s sacred texts, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, in 1950. In it, he introduced a psychotherapeutic technique he called “auditing.” He also created a simplified lie detector (called an E-meter) that was designed to measure electrical changes in the skin while subjects discussed intimate ådetails of their past.
Hubbard said unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations (or “engrams”) caused by early traumas. Counseling sessions with the E-meter, he claimed, could knock out the engrams, cure blindness and even improve a person’s intelligence and appearance.
In the 1960s, Hubbard claimed that humans were made of clusters of spirits (“thetans”) who were banished to earth some 75 million years ago by a cruel galactic ruler named Xenu. Those thetans had to be audited.
In the US, Scientology has assembled a star-studded roster of followers. Past and present adherents have included screen idols Tom Cruise and John Travolta, actress Kirstie Alley, jazzman Chick Corea, gymnast Charles Lakes and Nancy Cartwright, the voice of cartoon star Bart Simpson.
Sderot offered help Scientology style
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Published: 01/31/2008
The besieged residents of Sderot are being offered free workshops based on the teachings of Scientology’s founder.
A nonprofit group, the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East, has sent e-mails to social workers in the southern Israeli town offering to help the residents cope with Kassam rocket attacks, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Some say the group, which claims to have no connection to the Church of Scientology or its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, is trying to take advantage of the residents.
The Association for Prosperity told The Jerusalem Post in an e-mail that the workshops were based on the teachings of “The Way to Happiness,” a pamphlet written by Hubbard. The workshops are offered to schools and places of work.
The e-mail is titled “Sick of being bombed?” and asks, among other questions, “Are you afraid to leave the house in the morning?” and “Don’t know if the children will return home safely?”
Dalia Yosef, the head of an umbrella group for the psychological counseling and professional support provided to Sderot’s residents, said several social workers had voiced concern after receiving the e-mails.
“We intend to investigate this association, as we do every group that offers social and psychological services in Sderot,” said Yosef, whose Hosen Center receives funding from the Israeli government as well as the Friendship Foundation, an organization headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and supported by evangelical Christians.
Youth group’s logo
A few weeks ago, Shaul sent an e-mail stating that under the auspices of the Israel Scientology center, he was setting up a stand on International Human Rights Day to distribute information, and attached a picture of himself in a suit and tie. This time he sent out invitations to a “special party where community workers, journalists and human rights workers would attend” that would take place at the Har Hacarmel hotel in Haifa at the end of January.
Scientology event
As heartwarming as the initiative appears, the intriguing e-mail does not reveal who is behind this new youth group that appeared out of nowhere, who is financing the event, and how Shaul received the e-mail addresses of the journalists whom he invited.
A short conversation with Shaul revealed that the Scientology movement and the UN are behind this initiative. The hotel that is hosting the event, claims Shaul, is donating its services for the event, and among those financing the event is “The Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights” (an organization which investigates and exposes psychiatric human rights abuses, founded by the International Scientology movement).“NO!” Shaul exclaimed when asked the innocent question of whether the Israeli branch of “Youth for Human Rights” which he leads is part of the Scientology movement. “We are a completely independent body. The organization was established outside of Israel, and we are the local branch. We are only one of several organizations which receive donations from them, but we have absolutely nothing to do with them”.
Yet, on the youth group’s international website it says that it was established by the International Fund for Human Rights, which – surprise, surprise – is funded by the Scientologists. A deeper search of the website revealed no mention of UN backing for its activities.“We give services to thousands of children, but we only have around 20 children active in the organization”, replies Shaul when he is asked how many members there are in the group, and he adds that since they do not have a clubhouse, they meet in members’ homes.
“When we have the party we will already be registered as a non-profit organization”, he promises, and when we asked him how a 13 year old boy can do that and pay for the registration fee, he explains that “the parents help with the money, and an adult will register the organization”. The UN, he insists, gives the young movement information pamphlets and financing, as does the international youth movement and the Scientology center in Israel. “But we are a separate organization. I know what Scientology is and that is enough for me, there is one girl whose family are Scientologists but all the others are not. The subject of Scientology does not make a difference- I know that we are doing only good. What could be bad about being active for human rights?”Is there an adult who advises you?
“Eli Chaim. He is a man who advises businessmen and also us”.
‘They have spread lies about us’
After numerous unsuccessful attempts to reach Eli Chaim at the number which Shaul gave us, we approached the Har Hacarmel hotel to see if they support the youth group and why.
The hotel director Misha Blumenfeld checked the contract with the youth group, confirmed that the party will take place and that he is only taking “a little bit of money. If I hear about distressed youth who want to help the community, I am willing to be nice and reduce the price”, he explains. “They came here and explained that they were an organization that works for human rights, and we were happy to help”. During the conversation we learned that the event was coordinated with the event planner of the hotel, who gave us the telephone numbers of the organizers.We then called the number, and the phone was answered by the Scientology center in Tel-Aviv. “Is Eli Chaim there?” we asked, and the polite voice on the line replied, “Eli Chaim is not here right now”. He did not return any of our phone calls, but our numerous attempts yielded a conversation with Amir Levi, special events director for the Israel Scientology center, who was nervous about the image of the movement about which “they have spread innumerable lies”.
What is the connection between the youth group and Scientology?
“The ‘International Youth for Human Rights’ group, whose Israeli branch is run by Don Shaul, was established by the experienced educator and school principal Mary Shuttleworth, in order to teach children about their human rights, which are based on the UN’s universal declaration of human rights.
The Scientology religion, which has worked to advance human rights and children’s rights for the past four decades, is one of the strong supporters of the organization and the information material which they use: the pamphlet “What are human rights?” and clips which present the 30 clauses of the declaration, etc.
“The Scientology religion has worked to advance human rights since its inception”, continues Levi. “In the seventies, for example, Scientologists uncovered the brutal incarceration and abuse of black psychiatric patients in South Africa. Today, in Israel and around the world, Scientologists are involved in uncovering abuse and exploitation by psychiatry, and exploitation of the law and human rights by governments. They support campaigns that deal with the challenges of the modern world, especially after the events of September 11th, the situation in the Middle East and so forth. Our message is that the solution is not to hide or pass Draconian laws, but rather to teach people and governments about the importance of human rights”.And who finances the activities of the youth group?
“You would have to ask Don Shaul, or his mother”.
