Angelina Jolie e a mãe, Marcheline Bertrand

De acordo com o Globo Online, uma biografia não-autorizada de Angelina Jolie revela que a atriz teria tido relações sexuais com o parceiro de sua mãe, Marcheline Berttrand, quando tinha apenas 16 anos:

O livro, de autoria de Andrew Morton – que também fez a biografia da Princesa Diana -, está previsto para ser lançado no inverno no Hemisfério Norte.

- Marcheline morava com um namorado que ela amava muito e Ange dormiu com ele quando ela tinha 16 anos – contou uma fonte ao site do tablóide “The sun”. – Sua mãe descobriu e terminou o relacionamento com ele.

Mãe e filha custaram a reconstruir sua relação depois que a atriz confessou sua noite de paixão com o padrasto. Marcheline morreu em 2007, de câncer, deixando Angelina devastada.

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Angelina Jolie à 16 ans

Ce n’est pas la première fois que ça sort, mais tout de même : l’info est cocasse : Angelina Jolie, à l’age de 16 ans aurait couché avec l’amoureux officiel de sa mère Marcheline Bertrand, morte d’un cancer en 2007. Angelina s’est confié à son frère James et avec sa mère aurait tenté de recoller les pots cassés après la révélation de ce lourd secret…D’après le magazine de ragots officiel Anglais, Now, un livre d’Andrew Morton devrait sortir sur le sujet…

L’info sur genesis…

These are a few of my favorite things. Sing along everyone…This is an unsolicited message I received on Facebook. At first I was a bit scared that this guy tracked me down. Then it dawned on me that he’s threatening me in an imaginary world. So I thought I would have some fun. An hour after my last message, his profile had disappeared from the site entirely, hence the silhouette icon instead of the douchey, British bad-boy-in-swim-trunks icon he originally had. I wish he would have stuck around, I thought of so many other great things to say…

Hitlist

Between You and Steven Mills

Steven Mills

August 7 at 9:25am

you had me hitlisted for robbing you bad move Andrew will kill you every day now for 30 days and rob you again if i can every time I can – robbing is an accepted gaming move but hitlisting is a cowards way out if you hadnt had me hitlisted would not have bothered you again but now I will and so will everyone else you had hitlisted you will learn the HARD way

Andrew Morton

August 7 at 10:58am

Gay.

Andrew Morton

August 7 at 11:00am

I just added you to the hitlist again, motherfucker.

Andrew Morton

August 7 at 11:00am

I will add you to the hitlist every time you visit the hospital. Some random fuck is going to fuck you up.

Andrew Morton

August 7 at 11:01am

Don’t worry. I’ll let you know everytime I do it, so you’ll be prepared. You sound like a whiner.

Steven Mills

August 7 at 12:49pm

I dont ever put people on hitlist ever!! thats a cowards way take your punishment like a man they would leave you alone if you didnt put them on hitlist ,your the whiner you tosspot

Andrew Morton

August 7 at 12:58pm

Heh. Tosspot.

I just did it again.

What you think as an “accepted gaming move” obviously isn’t what the game-makers think is acceptable. . . I don’t think they’d have the button if you weren’t supposed to push it.

Maybe you need to take a time-out. It is, after all, just a free game on a free website. Some people take things way too seriously. But, if you want to email every person who puts you on a hitlist for robbing them, I’m sure one day, you’ll save the world.

Anyway, I’ve given you way more attention than you deserve regarding this topic, but if you want to talk about something other than Mafia Wars, feel free to message me.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew

Star Magazine, the basemanet rat of all of the tabloids here in America, is so desperate to sell a magazine, that they’ve slammed Angelina Jolie on the cover and are saying these things about the reigning cover queen of magazine sales in America.

They say that Angelina tried to seduce a female rock star. Yawn! What, she’s Lady Gaga now? Puh-leaze! They also say she’s cheated on Brad Pitt. Um yeah, like on a date with their three sons, when Brad’s on a dad daughter date with their 3 girls?!!! Angie doesn’t have any time left in her day, to take on another lover with her parenting of 6 kids and her career commitments, you Star Magazine idiots!

Anyway, Star cites Angie’s ex body guard, Mickey Brett and biographer Andy Morton as their sources. Yawn, yawn, yawn! Leave Angie alone.

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• Its written by experienced developer Rob Kunkle and Phlickr developer Andrew Morton.
• Youll learn how to use the PHP API Phlickr to write and retrieve photos.
• Flicker is growing quickly in popularity in the online photo management world.

Using the popular PHP-driven Phlickr API in conjunction with MySQL, youll discover how to take advantage of open source tools like PHP, Apache, and MySQL, as well as the Flickr architecture, to manage, retrieve, and format photos in imaginative ways. Youll also learn how to build upon Flickrs photo collaboration features to create interfaces for working with others on photo album projects. And youll learn how to format Flickr tagstaking advantage of RSS to distribute photo updates.

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Before you try using Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6: there seems to be a problem with the e1000e driver that causes the hardware to be corrupted and could render the e1000e card useless – and even unrepairable. Even if you are using a Linux system that currently uses an e1000 driver, the new Linux kernel shifted some of the e1000 support to the e1000e driver. If you are using the Compaq nc4010 as this article describes, you should be fine: the nc4010 uses the tigon3 driver. There is a bug entry in the Ubuntu bug lists, and the linux-net mailing list has a thread on the bug. It also would appear that a fix went into the -mm kernel tree (a recognized Linus tree spinoff) as of 2.6.27-rc5-mm1. If you are hardy enough to run Ubuntu Intrepid, perhaps you could tangle with the experimental -mm kernel as well – and sleep better at night knowing your hardware won’t be wasted.

This turned out to be quite a challenge. Firstly, there was no way to install it directly – the previously mentioned Billix didn’t accomodate Intrepid and I didn’t have any large enough USB sticks to put a USB bootable image onto – assuming there is one for Intrepid.

However, remaining undaunted, I was able to install Intrepid without too much trouble – though any nontechnical user would have been stopped right up front. How’d I do it?

First, I installed VirtualBox onto another available system – using VirtualBox 2.0 – and then downloaded the Kubuntu install CD to that system. Installing Kubuntu Intrepid Ibis to VirtualBox was not a problem; everything went well. It was, however, quite slow! It turned out I had much less memory in the system than I thought – so between the 512 Mb in the system and the 300+ Mb that was allocated to the VirtualBox instance, I did a lot of waiting (sigh).

I made sure that the hard disk that was created in the virtual environment was smaller than the actual disk used by the system I was going to put Intrepid onto.

Once the virtual environment was complete and the install was finished, I stopped the environment and reconfigured for less memory. I then restarted the environment with a DSL disk (so as to not use the created virtual disk in any form).

I extracted the hard disk from the Compaq nc4010 that was to have Intrepid installed onto it, and removed it from the hard disk cage that notebooks like to use. I then connected the hard disk to a USB port using a cable adapter.

Now – with the virtual environment running DSL and a unused disk configured with Kubuntu Intrepid, and the host system running OpenSUSE 10.3 with the target disk attached via USB, the only thing left was a disk copy over the network. Using nc (or netcat) permitted the copy going direct from the virtual guest to the virtual host.

The networking had to be set up, and required the bridged mode. It appeared that the host had to already be configured for networking and active in order for the guest to be able to talk to the host (using NAT), but perhaps that was just me.

Once networking was set, the only thing that was needed was to copy from the guest:

# nc -p 4117 < /dev/hda

And copy to the host:

# netcat -l -p 4117 > /dev/sda

Note that this copy will copy the entire disk, including partition tables. This was by design and worked fine (apparently).

The biggest problem (aside from speed and memory overcommitment) was the fact that nc did not stop after copying all of the data from the hard drive – and there was no visible progress report anywhere. The destination disk had no activity light; nc had no progress report available; and so forth.

Another “problem” was the fact that the command nc did not exist on OpenSUSE but did in DSL: OpenSUSE used the full name for the command, netcat.

Once everything was copied, I could shutdown the virtual guest environment, and put the hard drive back into the original host (using the cage as mentioned before).

This did work and worked beautifully. The biggest problems came not from the installation, but from the fact that the installation is Alpha 6. Some of the programs on the task bar don’t have a proper background, several things crashed, icons are missing for some programs in the menu (including some programs that have icons shown elsewhere, like Amarok). I don’t know whether to be aghast or just patient – it is alpha software, after all. I’d just expected the most obvious bugs to be gone, but whatever.

Lastly, every time I hear that name…. am I the only one who thinks of the man called Intrepid?

By Martin Couper

A HORSE sparked a massive rescue operation after falling into six-foot deep septic tank.

An incredible 19 firemen were sent to retrieve Guinness after the animal took the night-MARE tumble on Wednesday evening.

The 17-year-old horse had been walking around its field at Sunnyside Farm in the Borders when a concrete slab gave way plunging him into the cavern below.

Vets who arrived on the scene confirmed that the Guinness- a former international vaulting horse- had not suffered any serious injuries.

However, Andrew Morton, farmer at the Sunnyside Farm still has some concerns over the horse’s health following what he called a “freak accident.”

He said: “His legs are pretty badly swollen but we are hoping he’ll be alright.

“We are worried about the cuts on his legs because he had been in raw sewage and they could get infected.

“I thought when I saw him in there that he had broken his back, but it’s not broken and none of his legs are broken.

“He’s very stiff and sore. It’s impossible to make a final assessment and is difficult to say if he will make a full recovery.

“He was supposed to work on Monday, but he won’t be doing that.”

Guinness is used at the Riding for Disabled centre which is situated on Sunnyside Farm, after being loaned to the company from a third party.

And Riding for Disabled must now foot the cost of the horse’s vet bill because the horse was not insured.

Andrew said: “Riding for the Disabled don’t have insurance on the horse so they will have to pay for his treatment.

“They won’t be charged for the firemen coming out, but there were two vets who were there for two hours and he was given drugs. Another vet is coming back to look at him today.”

The trouble-stricken horse was found by French student Fanny Terrier, 19, while she was working on the farm.

And Andrew was quick to praise Fanny’s alertness which ensured Guinness was not in the hole for long.

He said: “Fanny was working on the farm, driving oats up the field and heard a crack when she drove by. On the way back she saw the horse in the hole and contacted me immediately.

“He’d only been in the hole for five minutes before I got there.”

Firemen worked quickly to get the horse out of the pit, but had to work cautiously given the size of the animal.

He had to be harnessed and pulled from the tank with ropes.

Andrew said: “We had to cut away bits of concrete and metal to get in at him.

“The firemen did well rescuing him and hosing him down, because he was stinking.”

Guinness is now recovering at a stable on the farm while they continue to assess his health.

A spokesperson from Lothian Fire Service said: “We received a call at 17.44 last night about a horse that had fallen into a septic tank.

“The horse received cuts and grazes and will be monitored.”

My photo shoot I with the amazing Andrew Morton. Andrew’s the Truth! 

More Photos After The Break.

Andrew’s Contact: andrewmorton@bellsouth.net

Tell’em J.O.N sent you!

Madonna’s pervert brother Christopher Ciccone, who is a non-rehabilitated drug addict that did a book containing nothing but photos of naked butts, and got in on dirty business deals with his even more perverted sister, is doing a tell all about her.

That family behaves like barbarians. What a messed up gene pool. Knowing them, I highly doubt the book will be original. What’s he really going to tell us that we don’t already know, anyway:

Mad-onna

That his sister’s marriage is in trouble. Though she denies it – yet in the same breath states they are getting marriage counseling over their problems.

That her fraudulent music has faded and audiences are totally over her, hence her flopped CD “Hard Candy.”

That she’s had 11 abortions according to Barbara Victor, Andrew Morton and many others:

Barbara Victor’s book “Goddess” (HarperCollins), published in the same week as Morton’s, includes the shock claim that Madonna has had 11 abortions in 25 years, and tricked British film director Guy Ritchie into marrying her by deliberately getting pregnant with her second child, Rocco.

http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn

She has had abortions. She has been known to be insecure, pestering her menfolk with telephone calls.

http://www.tribuneindia.com

Superstar Madonna has had 11 abortions in her life – according to an unauthorized biography by Barbara Victor. In new book Goddess, Victor says the Material Girl would be the mother of 13 children if she had retained her catholic beliefs of termination being wrong. Victor says, “She had a pregnancy in between Lourdes and Rocco. It was with a British man.” The last abortion is alleged to have taken place just before Madonna met her husband Guy Ritchie.

http://www.imdb.com

“Madonna had several abortions when she was with Jellybean, at least three that I know of,” says Erica.

http://findarticles.com

That she has a currently medically incurable STD she contracted from one of the many people she slept with.

Madonna devilishly laying on a pentagram in her video “Human Nature”

That at age 25, she made out with and fondled her manager’s 15-year-old nephew.

That at age 25, she went around downtown Manhattan having sex with underage Latino youths (she just keeps spreading that herpes).

That all her major hits and many of her minor ones as well were stolen from other artists she ripped off.

That she, um, exchanged funds (that’s a euphemism) for the mafia (her ex-boyfriend Mafioso, Chris Paciello, and others)

That she’s still a lesbian and is having sex with a woman in her employ. Isn’t that not allowed in Kabbalah.

Claudia Schiffer

That her husband made a pass at model Claudia Schiffer (pictured above) even though she is the wife of one of his friends.

Kelly Brook

That he has a crush on model/actress Kelly Brook, who he was seen standing too close to and sniffing her perfume and hair with a grin on his face.

That she engages in bribery to win court cases.

That she’s frequently used hard drugs like ecstasy (“The night I met Michael Rosenblatt, who signed me to Sire Records, I jammed my demo tape into his hand, we both did a tab of ecstasy and then we danced the night away”).

Psycho

That she puts testosterone into her system via a skin cream:

Madonna is rubbing male hormones on her face. The Material Girl has started a strict regime of massaging her skin with testosterone cream due to it’s toted ability to increase muscle mass, boost energy, improve memory, and ward off mood swings. But Madge has got a hairy surprise that’s a bit more than she bargained for.

http://www.popcrunch.com

http://showhype.com

http://ifitandhealthy.com

http://www.prettysocial.net

That she’s been pictured out in public drunk.

That she’s been stalking Prince William and Prince Harry in London with that sick Kabbalah cult.

That she is abusive to kids:

1. A group of young girls waited patiently for hours in the Westbury Hotel lobby for Madonna’s autograph. Her personal assistant, Melinda Cooper told the crazy pop star:

“They’ve been waiting here all day, Madonna. Why don’t you sign an autograph for them” to which the she-devil Madonna walked up to the kids and said ” ‘If I do it for you, then I’ll have to do it for everybody. You’re nothing. You don’t mean anything to me’ then turns and leaves.” – from the “I Hate Madonna Handbook”

2. That she choked a 10-year-old boy for “pestering” her for an autograph on her day off:

MADONNA THE BOUNCER POUNCES ON A KID FAN

“Madonna beat me up,” reported Keith Sorrentino, a 10-year-old fan from Staten Island, whose parents sued the superstar after she allegedly choked their son. Little Keith and his older sister Darlene were devoted fans.

They knew when Madonna got up, where she took morning coffee, where she jogged. They knew the name of her private secretary, when she left the theater (after performing in Speed-The-Plow) and from which door.

What they didn’t know was how Madonna felt about their adulation. “We’re her fans,” Keith said innocently. “We were following Madonna out of the San Remo [co-op]. I ran in front and took her picture, that’s when she started cursing me out – she’s got some mouth on her – and threw me against the wall. Look. I got bruises,” he told New York Post columnist Amy Pagnozzi, exposing a skinny arm.

Keith suffers from “regular nightmares,” according to his attorney, who filed a $600,000 damage suit over the encounter. Madonna settled out of court.- New York Post

3. That she choked Dick Clark’s son

Music industry veteran Dick Clark

The book titled “THE BIG SHOW: HIGH TIMES AND DIRTY DEALINGS BACKSTAGE AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS” by Steve Pond, detailed how a camerawoman fell into the orchestra pit and was seriously injured, and as she laid there on the floor waiting for paramedics, a furious Madonna was upset that she wouldn’t be able to rehearse for the show. Madonna, obviously not concerned for the woman’s welfare exclaimed, “But she’s just lying there. Can’t we just do this.”

Still upset at not being able to rehearse (like it was gonna help), Madonna later choked Dick Clarke’s son Rac who accidentally fell asleep during her show (can you blame him) and ruined a planned microphone stunt for her performance. According to the book she then, “Launched into an astonishingly profane tirade, despite the fact that the area below was occupied by a group of children.” And now she’s writing children’s books. Alrighty, then.

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/madonnas_brother_to_write_tell_all.htm

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Welcome to the first CarnivUL of The fraudless!!!

This first CarnivUL(…T) will be dedicated to tracking major developments that have taken place since January in the international protest against the Cult of Scientology, discussing the why of the protest, the who of Anonymous, and compiling some of the best relevant YouTube video produced over the past 3 months.

For those who have visited Blog Carnivals before, be warned that this will be an unconventional carnival. CarnivUL of The fraudless, or CarnivUL(…T), will not in this edition or subsequent editions take all of its content from blogs. It is anticipated that much of CarnivUL(…T)’s content will come from sources such as YouTube, Enturbulation.Org, websites, and of course blogs.

On with the CarnivUL(…T)!

Long long ago – January 14 2008, to be exact – hilarious (and concerning) members-only Scientology propaganda footage featuring the highly indoctrinated Tom Cruise was leaked online. This video gained instant online popularity, being viewed by millions and covered widely on evening current affairs tabloid programming across the world. What was funny was Tom Cruise’s glaring fanaticism, over-the-top laughter, statement that only Scientologists are equipt to deal with serious situations like an automobile accident, and apparent unwavering conviction that Scientology was the answer to pretty-well everything. What was concerning was Tom Cruise’s glaring fanaticism, over-the-top laughter, statement that only Scientologists are equipt to deal with serious situations like an automobile accident, and apparent unwavering conviction that Scientology was the answer to pretty-well everything. Perhaps most concerning was his statement that maybe, and ideally, one day there will be no more SPs – i.e., people critical of the Cult.

This video wasn’t up long before CoS issued a violation of copyright complaint and had YouTube pull the video. THIS DID NOT FLY WITH SOME PEOPLE. To some people, the Internet is Serious Business. Immediately after CoS’s move to have their members-only video pulled from YouTube members an online leaderless anonymous cluster of Internet users that collectively referred to their loose minimally structured organization as Anonymous launched Project Chanology.

Who is Anonymous? Anonymous existed long before January 14, 2008. They are an unassembled assembly of anonymous Internet users that tend to meet anonymously at certain websites in order to exchange ideas, jokes, Internet content (which, from what I hear, is often very offensive content), and ideas for online pranks – which are often enacted. As I understand it, the two primary rules within Anonymous – which, again as I understand it, are administered collectively by Anons – are 1) all posting is done anonymously (not even with trackable nicknames, but with complete Anonymity from post to post); and 2) no child pornography. The main purposes of anonymity is so that people can express their thoughts, jokes, content and so forth more freely and submissions can be evaluated purely on their own merits, rather than based on the contributor. Here is one well-produced description of Anonymous:

Many great Internet memes were created and promulgated by Anons – e.g., the Rickroll, Lol Cats, and so on. The RickRoll has become one of the Nets most celebrated Internet memes in recent months, and has become the unofficial official song of the international protests against Scientology.

The RickRoll:

Why the name RickRoll? Before the RickRoll was the DuckRoll, another meme created by Anons which involved created a threat in which visitors would see an image of a duck on wheels, often to some sort of musical background. People would then trick people into going to that threat (i.e., by telling them that the thread was about something completely different that was of interest), and the visitor would be said to have been DuckRoll’d! This same idea was later applied to the 1980’s music video Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. This time, though, some Rollers were increasingly creative and ambitious in their RickRolling – often taking their Rolls into real life (or In Real Life, IRL). Here is the most impressive RickRoll that I’ve come across (the level of planning and coordination that must have gone into this is great):

Epic Win!

One of the most interesting things about the RickRoll is how it has quite understandably been misunderstood within the Scientology protest world. One of the automatic things humans do when interpreting things is to try to understand the relations and meaning of things – i.e., to interpret them. Because this song, and few others, continued to occur at protests around the world, many protesters inferred that there was some good reason for it. There were rumors that Rick Astley perhaps had been a Scientologist, was mistreated by the Cult, and so on. Nope! There is absolutely no known relationship between Scientology and Rick Astley – until now: his song, by simple coincidence, has serendipitiously become a rallying song for protesters of the cult.

So back to Anonymous’ connection to Scientology…

Immediately following Scientology’s insistence that YouTube pull all of these Tom Cruise Scientology videos, some individual Anons were outraged – few things piss many Anons more than perceived attempts at Internet censorship and Internet strong-arming. Hence the launch of Project Chanology. “Members of Project Chanology organized a series of denial-of-service attacks against Scientology websites, prank calls, and black faxes to Scientology centers” (Source: Wikipedia). On January 21, members of Anonymous posted the following video on YouTube, which described their plans to destroy the Church of Scientology in order to stop its suppression of dissent, frivolous and bullying litigiousness, deceit, exploitation of trusting members, and so on.

This and subsequent videos and the realization of Project Chanology attracted huge attention, being covered by many major news organizations and creating an online frenzy of YouTube viewers, excited bloggers, and so on.

Then a major transition in the nature of the opposition was spurred. In response to Project Chanology, seasoned picketer of Scientology Mark Bunker released a YouTube video entitled “Message to Anonymous” (I would love to present this video, but cannot because YouTube has pulled Bunker’s account and I cannot find a mirror-copy of this video). In this video, Bunker expressed that he and other long-time protesters of Scientology (whom are often dubbed the “Old Guard Critics”) are very happy that so many new people are standing against the organization, however, the current means of Anonymous are not the best course of action. By going about the protest by way of Internet attacks and prank phone calls and faxes, protesters are endangering themselves to a vicious potential response from Scientology; further, this is just not the most civil way of going about it. Bunker encouraged Anonymous to transform their movement into a grassroots campaign against the Cult.

Anonymous heard Bunker loud and clear. The transition from cyber-attacks and prank calls and faxes to grassroots activism and awareness-spreading took place over just a couple of days. Anons even enshrined Bunker with the nickname “Wise Beard Man”, and the co-occurring statement “Wise Beard Man; His words are wise; His face is beard”. This was the beginning of the coming together of the Old Guard with Anonymous. This union led to the widening of many Anonymous eyes, as protesters came increasingly to know that Scientology is far FAR worse than they had ever figured. They learned that the CoS is not just a dissent squashing, frivolously litigious, psychotherapy quack peddling, celebrity trophy-keeping, deceitful and highly insecure organization.

The cult is a thorough-going morally-indifferent malevolent organization that will stop at little-to-nothing to advance its ambitions of social propagation and profiteering, and to stop those who oppose these objectives in anyway. It categorizes enemies of the cult (or “Suppressive Persons”, SPs) as second-class citizens that are not accorded the same rights as Scientologists and may be destroyed with impunity to Scientologist culprits. It also has an established practice of encouraging or requiring that Scientologists disconnect from family and friends who are critical of the organization. CoS’s Sea Org – the large unit within Scientology that essentially runs the “Church” – is staffed by Scientologists who signed a billion year contract with the Sea Org, and are alleged to often be worked over 100 hours per week for less than $50 USD/week, live in cramped rooms with 3-12 other Org members, are required to have abortions or leave the Sea Org if they become pregnant, may not be married to non-Sea Orgers, are generally not allowed to have telephones and are not allowed Internet connections, TV, or to read their mail before it has been checked by Scientology officials first for entheta (negativity toward Scientology), receive persistent psychological abuse and pressure from superiors, are personally blamed if they get ill, and on and on. For more on the Sea Org, check out the write-up at ExScientologyKids. Astra Woodcraft also speaks of her personal experience in the Sea Org in her interview videos at XenuTV. In addition to the Sea Org is the Rehabilitation Project Force, which has been described by ex-members as a prison labour camp where members are sent and detained against their will, forced to do hours of grueling repetitive labour, etc. Detainees can be held in the RPF for months or years, it has been claimed.

The second major announcement released by members of Anonymous was “Call to Action”, which clarified misunderstandings of who Anonymous is and what their goals are, began the new mega-scale awareness campaign against CoS, and announced the first international day of protest against the cult, February 10, 2008:

The 10/02/2008 protest was preceded by a few smaller “raids” (e.g., Caturday – a Saturday protest a week before Feb 10 – the name inspired by the online Anonymous community’s interest in cat-related Internet memes just as the LolCats and long cat (which is long)). The largest Anonymous flash picket prior 10/02 was held in Orlando, Florida on February 2nd. You’ll notice that some signs in this video read “Honk if you hate Scientology”. Such signage has been strongly discouraged by Anonymous, because it conveys the wrong message: This is not about hatred for a belief system, it is about wanting to expose and stop the crimes conducted in the name of it.

So February 10th happened, and it was HUGE! Roughly 7-9,000 protesters converged on roughly 100 Scientology centres around the world. February 10th was huge, and it would surely not be the last time that CoS would come face-to-face with the faceless. In the following video, footage is presented from February 10, and the next international day of protest, Operation: Party Hard, which took place on the Ides of March, 15/03/2008, is promoted:

Now, during all of this, Scientology has been frantic. After all, they’d be dealing with a lot. In the matter of a few months, the cult had to endure to the leaking of the embarrassing Tom Cruise video, the early cyber, phone and fax attacks of Anonymous, the formation and mobilization of Anonymous street protests, the bonding of Anonymous with the Old Guard Critics, the release of Andrew Morton’s Unauthorized Biography of Tom Cruise – which contained many damning allegations against the cult, the continual flood of more and more bad press and critical websites, and Jenna Miscavige Hill – ex-Scientologist and niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige – speaking out against the cult and verifying allegations that it separates families.

Regarding the Anonymous protests, Scientologists have been under order from administration to not speak to media. Media relations have been conducted by select administrators who would repeatedly stereotype all of Anonymous as a bunch of lifeless angry bigotted cyber-terrorists who were on par with the KKK. They have refused to dignify the claims of the protesters against the cult, sticking instead with tarring all of Anonymous as a newfangled Klu Klux Klan out to persecute religious minorities, Scientology in particular. They released this incredibly slanted video:

Notice how in this video, they present Anonymous as homogenous and structured organization that is capable of exerting control over the conduct of individuals who choose to protest Scientology anonymously? Anonymous is nothing more than individuals who conceal their identity. That’s it. It’s not a structured organization in any sense. It gets worse than this, though. There is every reason to believe that much of what they reported is patently false. Scientology has a history of lying, creating fake and anonymous identities, and forging threats to themselves in order to quash dissent. Former Scientologist Tory “Magoo” Christman has spoken on numerous occasions regarding how the organization had her and others create fake anonymous identities in order to spam online chat forums visited by critics and disgruntled ex-members. The Cult has also had members flood opinion polls to manufacturer desirable public opinion results. Most notably, in the 70s the cult stole letterhead from Scientology critic Paulette Cooper and used it to forge bomb threats to themselves. They also tried to have Cooper committed into a mental institution. In an FBI raid of CoS a few years later, documentation of a plan entitled “Operation Freakout” revealed that the cult’s Guardian’s Office (now called the Office of Special Affairs; i.e., CoS’s personal CIA and police force) had conspired to have Cooper incarcerated or committed to or hit her so hard that she stops speaking against Scientology – she had been in the process of publishing the first book critical of the cult.

One member of Anonymous has accused Scientology of manufacturing the video bomb threat, pointing to differences in video quality of previous Anonymously-produced video footage with that used in the alleged bomb threat video:

This is also not the first time that the cult has tried to destroy the public image of critics. In fact, it is official policy to do so. L. Ron Hubbard-penned Fair Game policy reads as follows:

“SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed”

(Source: ExScientologyKids.Com)

In this video, former Scientologist and Guardian’s Office staff Frank Oliver describes how he personally was involved in the application of Fair Game to critics and disgruntled ex-members. The level of invasion and abuse is stunning.

In the previous video, you see direct citation of Hubbard saying that the purpose of lawsuits is to harass and discourage rather than to win. It is official CoS policy to file frivolous lawsuits and other criminal/legal actions to discourage critics. Such practices have been a part of the cult’s reaction to the current protest efforts. In March they tried and failed twice to file injunctions preventing protesters from assembling outside of the Clearwater org on March 15. The cult has also pursued frivolous legal action action the protester in Boston, Gregg Housh, who filed the permit for the March 15 protest, pressing charges for trespassing and criminal harassment:

(Hat Tip: GlossLip)

The cult also took it upon itself to single out a few protesters that it had managed to identify and publicize personal information about them – their name, address, phone number and so on. Sympathizers would interpret this as the CoS standing up for itself. Critics interpret it as the cult trying to insite terror in the named individuals and everyone else who is rightly afraid of being Fair Game’d.

Probably the most common way of dealing with protester on protest days – aside from shutting the curtains, closing up shop, and keeping the Scientologists away from the windows (this, surely, is what LRH had in mind when he instructed Scientologists to confront and shatter suppression) – was to send out Scientologists who would literally masquerade as protesters in order to attempt to get information from Anons (e.g., names), to incite Anons to do illegal or morally-questionable things (e.g., throw things at the “Church” or at police, start a riot, begin yelling hate speech), and the like. Fortunately, most protesters are pretty good at identifying these Scilons, as they’ve been dubbed.

The Scilons were a pretty understandable tactic. But some of their other tactics were less comprehensible. For instance, why did this guy have a gun at a peaceful protest that was staffed by police?

The police have also partaken in many highly questionable responses to protesters. There was some pretty dubious police activities at the Buffalo 15/03 protest. In Atlanta two protesters were arrested for using a megaphone, while cars that beeped in supported of the protesters were ticketed:

Despite all of these very unfortunate events, overall the March 15 protest went very well. The success of the protests should be dedicated to those who had to go through these unjustified disturbances. Attendance estimates, to my knowledge, were in the 8-10,000 range. Here’s another good video:

So now the protest efforts have been in full-swing for a while. More and more major media networks are covering the protests, including SkyNews, FoxNews, CBC (Canada), CTV (Canada), CityTV (Canada), major newspapers and online news sources, and more and more critical blogs, websites and YouTube posts were showing up. Critics like Mark Bunker, Tory Christman, and Andreas Heldal Lund were becoming household names. And Tom Cruise’s Q-rating presumably continued to drop [Note to Scientology and Tom Cruise: I said presumably!]. Further, heaps of private Scientology documents (e.g., materials relating to the Scientology doctrine, the indoctrination process, security, handling of insubordinates, Scientology administration, etc.) have found their way onto the Internet. A CarnivUL(…T) contributor sent a link to his page which linked to these documents. I am refraining from posting the link, however, out of fear of legal action. Sorry, KB… But they are out there.

The sailing hasn’t always been smooth for Anonymous as a whole, though. In addition to the misfortune visited upon some individual protesters by the CoS and some curiously motivated police, there has also been some in-fighting. Recall that Anonymous is not something that developed specifically for this protest. It existed for years before January 2008 for completely unrelated reasons. As the protest progressed and more and more people from outside of the traditional Anonymous online haunts (e.g., the Chan image boards) began joining in, some of the traditional Anons (sometimes called oldfags – “fag” in oldfag-speak is a term used in order to resist free speech suppression, and does not necessarily mean anything intentionally derogatory toward homosexuals) began to feel that Anonymous was being hi-jacked by Scientology protesters (who are sometimes called newfags or moralfags). Surely, the Scientology protesters hope that the two groups can avoid stepping on each others’ toes.

Soon enough, April came around and it was time for the next protest: Operation Reconnect. Operation Reconnect took place on April 12. This was the first protest dedicated to a particular branch of Scientology’s moral-indifference: Disconnection policy. As alluded to above, it is policy within Scientology that members be encouraged or required to break ties (to “disconnect”) from anyone who is critical of Scientology – be they family, friends, acquaintances, or whomever. On April 12 approximately 7-8,000 protesters gathered once more at CoS’s around the world, this time delivering the message “OT phone home” (OT=Operating Thetan, a high-level status within Scientology).

I couldn’t find a good video compilation of the protests around the world, but here’s the extremely well done press release and protest promo video (Note: if anyone knows of any good video compilations for 12/04, please leave a link in the comment section):

In the days immediately following Operation Reconnect, things really started to get interesting. Within a week, Tory Christman’s YouTube account, ToryMagoo44, was pulled from Youtube (no doubt due to Scientologists flooding YouTube with complaint flags, resulting in YouTube’s automated system automatically disabling Christman’s account) and then reinstated it about a day later, Mark Bunker released the 3-minute teaser of Jason Beghe’s recollections of his experience and his knowledge of Scientology, and Mark Bunker’s account, XenuTV1, was pulled from Youtube a matter of hours before he was scheduled to release the full Beghe interview. Apparently, Bunker’s account was removed because he had used some content from the Colbert Report. The account remains down. However, he now has a new account over at Vimeo, where you can find the full Jason Beghe interview (which is also all over YouTube) and on Mark’s personal blog. The Beghe interview has attracted substantial media coverage from outfits such as FoxNews, TodayTonight (Australia), A Current Affair (Australia), the Village Voice (US), and more.

And then it was only a little over a week until Jenna Miscavige Hill along with Astra Woodcraft gave another television interview regarding Scientology. Click here to see this very damning review of the cult on ABC’s Nightline. Nightline reported that they tried earnestly for weeks to get a statement from the CoS.  Finally, the CoS gave a statement saying that they would not comment on JMH’s claims as they believe that she has made an ecclesiastical issue a family issue, which they didn’t want to be apart of, and that they didn’t want to lower the dignity of the CoS by having to make negative statements regarding JMH’s character. Anyone who has been paying attention to Scientology knows that this was a transparent diversion. Scientology has spent years defaming critics and ex-members (e.g., Bob Minton, Stacy Brooks, Mark Bunker, Shawn Lonsdale, Gregg Hagglund, and so on). And their disconnection policy casts serious doubts on any significant value they place on family.

TodayTonight then ran a very damaging investigative report on Scientology’s Narconon drug-rehabilitation program:

And recently, a YouTuber posted a video of himself reading through the German government’s lengthy and detailed warning package on Scientology:

Germany is surely not the only nation to have been highly suspicious of Scientology. A 10-year study recently led a Belgian prosecutor to contend that the CoS should be labeled a criminal organization:

Israel TV recently declared Scientology to be a “medical, moral and social threat”.

In response to the release of this video, Dawn of GlossLip wrote:

“Are there any countries left besides the United States who haven’t declared Scientology to be a powerful, sinister and dangerous cult? So far, most of the Western World has identified this organization as a threat to the very fabric of society.

When will we wake up?”

Many people are waking up. Thanks to the efforts of the Old Guard, Anonymous, the ExScientologyKids admins Kendra Wiseman, Astra Woodcraft and Kendra Wiseman, the many people hosting websites on Scientology, and the news agencies, more and more people are coming to see the dark side of Scientology. Dawn herself has played a heroic role in exposing Scientology. In my eyes, GlossLip has become one of if not the leading non-forum website for news updates and exclusive interviews regarding Scientology. In the past few weeks she has conducted interviews with people such as Mark Bunker and ex-Scientologist Marc Headley. Her most recent posts pertaining to Headley, David Miscavige, the Sea Org, the Rehabilitation Project Force, Tom Cruise, and recent developments have been eye-opening and should definitely be checked out.

Here we are now on April 29th. This wave of protests has been in progress now for over 3 months. According to seasoned critics like Tory Christman and supposed Scientology insider leaks the impact has been huge. Scientology stats (i.e., sales, recruits) are claimed to be down, the number of defections is said to have risen, and the number of ex-members speaking out has absolutely increased. In addition to the major monthly protests, flash mini-raids have been staged in Toronto, various places in California, and presumably elsewhere. But the biggies haven’t stopped.

The next international day of protest: May 10

The focus: Fair Game policy

Operation: FairGameStop

This, the first CarnivUL of The fraudless, has come to close. To wrap it up, I offer this final (and truly excellent) video as a personal gift to Tory Christman:

To everyone in the Old Guard, to Wise Beard Man (you’re spectacular), to the “moralFags” of Anonymous, and to everyone who stands up for human rights everywhere, this delicious cake is for you!

Everyone, regardless of where you stand on the protest, is encouraged to leave comments below!

Big hat tip to Dawn at GlossLip for notifying everyone that Jenna Miscavige Hill, ex-Scientologist and niece of current Scientology leader David Miscavige, will be on ABC’s Nightline tonight at 11:35 PM.

Miscavige Hill rose to prominence when she began speaking out against the “Church” of Scientology a few months ago. Her first major statement was an open reply to Scientology spokesperson Karen Pouw who claimed that Andrew Morton’s claims in his Unauthorized Biography of Tom Cruise that Scientology encourages or forces Scientologists to disconnect from those who do not support the “Church” was not only untrue but anti-thetical to what Scientology promotes. Miscavige Hill said that Pouw’s statement was flat out false, and attested to the fact that the cult does disconnect families, as she has witnessed and experienced first hand. Coming from the niece of the head of the cult, this statement carried great weight.

Shortly after this statement and subsequent media appearances, Miscavige Hill in collaboration with other fellow Ex-Scientology Kids, Kendra Wiseman and Astra Woodcraft, launched the website ExScientologyKids.Com, which is dedicated to spreading awareness of how Scientology breaks up families and abuses “child Scientologists” (i.e., children indoctrinated into Scientology by their Scientologists parents), helping former and current child Scientologists come into contact with others with similar experiences for support, and helping child Scientologists escape as the cult as she and her co-site admins did.

Be sure to catch tonight’s Nightline to hear more about the cult from someone who was about as inside as one can get.

UPDATE (25/5/2008):

Watch the interview here.

Read the ABC Nightline Report (and leave a comment) here.

For more on Scientology, click here.

Television actor Jason Beghe, the Cult of Scientology’s first celebrity defector, spilled another big heap of beans on Scientology and his experience in it in an interview with the Village Voice. Beghe spoke of how, as a spiritually curious person, he had been deeply intrigued by some of Scientology’s procedures and its claims at helping people get to know themselves very deeply and in time cultivate superhuman abilities (e.g., perfect memory, the ability to leave one’s body, be impervious to disease). Beghe was first introduced to Scientology by boyfriend of celebrity Scientologist Jenna Elfman.

Beghe’s intrigue with Scientology was heightened by some very positive early experiences with the cult’s auditing (i.e., 1-on-1 therapy/training) practices. In addition to positive early experiences, Beghe joined an increasingly large group of ex-members in accusing the cult of employing hypnotic brainwashing techniques.

For the first many years of his 12 year stay in Scientology, Beghe was an extremely dedicated Scientologist, setting records for rate of advancement. He quickly became Scientology leader David Miscavige’s “favourite boy”. This is in addition to being pampered and having his ass kissed (his words) constantly at the Celebrity Center; unsurprisingly, celebrity members receive a number of attractive perks, including pampering and persistent ingratiation. This is unsuprising given that celebrities are the prime marketing tool of Scientology. Oh, and they can afford to shell out big money, too. Beghe reports having spent about $1-million on Scientology services.

Given his celebrity, his keen commitment to Scientology, and his remarkably rapid progress through Scientology, the cult’s administration viewed Beghe as something of a trophy member. Beghe reports having to constantly show up at parties and social events with a successful smile on his face, to help the cult continually keep its best foot forward.

The good times didn’t keep on rolling forever for Beghe. His rate of progress up the ladder (or across “The Bridge”, in the Scientology system) slowed dramatically at the highly advanced levels, which involved extensive personal interrogation as if he were on trial for a high crime. His slow rate of progress came at his own expense: he was obligated to pay for more and more auditing sessions, at a cool price of $1,000/hr.

Beghe says that that proof that Scientology was no longer working for him came to him in the form of a near-fatal car accident. Given his level of training, according to the promises of Scientology, he should have been “practically immortal”. Like members of the recognized religions that Scientology is trying to gain social parity with, Scientologists framed this evidence against the word of L. Ron Hubbard in a faith-biased manner: they said that someone must be “suppressing” Beghe. Just as falsifiability is a core feature of science, it seems that unfalsifiability is a cornerstone of cult/religious theology. In the case of Scientology and Beghe, however, this biased interpretation based on an unfalsifiable and unwavering belief that “LRH technology” (i.e., L. Ron Hubbard’s procedures) is utterly flawless could result in only one thing: MORE MONEY! Yes, Beghe was persuaded to pay for more pricey audit sessions to attempt to figure out who was suppressing Beghe to the point of apparently making him a lowly mortal. Beghe asserts that the auditor suggested that a gay friend may be the suppressive person in Beghe’s life – y’know, what with the guy being gay and all… In Dianetics, LRH wrote that homosexuality is a sexual perversion; the homosexual is physically ill and is dangerous to society.

Beghe continued to be unhappy in Scientology and as he discussed leaving it with Scientology admins, they made significant efforts to keep him aboard. Most notably, they offered to make him president of a celebrity center. Beghe didn’t bite, though. Both he and his wife left the cult. Or in Scientology lingo, they blew. The Beghes’ big project now is to help others by sharing the knowledge that they have acquired of Scientology. As Beghe put it “These are bad motherfuckers”. In his filmed discussion on Scientology, which was produced by Mark “Wise Beard Man” Bunker, he described Scientology as “destructive and a rip-off”, as being dangerous to one’s psychological and spiritual health and evolution.

In his interview with the Village Voice, Beghe also discusses the cult’s penchant for enlisting celebrities. It is more than a simple PR campaign. According to Beghe, Scientologists can have all of their past recorded transgressions removed from the records if they recruit a celebrity. He also speaks of Scientology as being somewhat camera-happy. Every supposedly confidential auditing session is recorded, sometimes with hidden cameras. Beghe warns Will Smith, who has been dabbling in Scientology of late, that whatever Smith has said in any audit counseling he may have received has been recorded, whether he knew it or not. Beghe also claims that confidentiality with celebrity Scientologists is regularly flouted behind the celebrity’s back, saying that Scientology staff regularly discuss with one another the private matters of celebrities that were revealed in auditing sessions. Andrew Morton, author of the controversial unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, has claimed that former Scientologist and ex-wife of Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, was threatened with blackmail in the form of revealed personal information should she speak ill of the “Church”. Allegations have been thrown around from time to time that the cult has blackmailed celebrities using information that they had received from them during auditing.

The VV article concludes with the following Beghe statement:

“Scientology seduces you into thinking that it’s a process through which you can truly become yourself. But ultimately, what it turns you into is a Scientologist—a brainwashed version of yourself.”

For more on Scientology, click here.

“I think continually of those who were truly great–
The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire’s centre.”

-Stephen Spender

I don’t have heroes any more. Not really. When I was growing up there were certain sports stars I revered and as a six year old I looked on in wonder as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gamboled about on the pitted, ancient surface of the moon.

Now I’m a man in my mid-forties and my views on the subject of heroes have been jaundiced by decades of lies and evasions from leaders of all political persuasions. Athletes these days are remote, rich and juiced on any performance enhancing drug they can get their hands on. And it turns out that Neil Armstrong is a rather cold, undemonstrative man and Buzz Aldrin spent the entire Apollo mission sulking because he wasn’t going to be the first one out the hatch once they set down in the Sea of Tranquility.

Heroes nowadays are at a disadvantage—Caesar and Alexander and Boadicea never had to put up with celebrity biographers (just malicious gossip), the Andrew Mortons and Kitty Kelleys of the world peeping in keyholes and tracking down anyone with a bit of tittle to tattle. It’s hard to rally the citizenry and inspire high minded ideals while trying to cover up or defend some transgression or moral lapse. The optics are really awful.

When I’m looking for a bit of inspiration, a true tale to remind me of the strength and resilience of the human spirit, I look to the past, often the very distant past. Seeking those individuals who seized control of their own fates, who were determined, regardless of the cost “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” (Tennyson). These men and women didn’t employ spin doctors or commission polls before determining policies and tactics.

We don’t find leaders of the quality of Leonidas, Xenophon or Marcus Aurelius in the halls of power these days. No figures of unimpeachable authority and strength to admire and emulate.

Take a look at the head of state of your country. Would you follow that person to the ends of the earth, serve them without question, suffer extreme deprivation, enter the very depths of Hell itself at their behest?

I rest my case.

Do the soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq feel heroic, like latter-day versions of Achilles and Agamemnon, laying siege to the fortresses of terrorism? Or are they just guys and gals who have a job to do, a family to support, hoping and praying each and every night before they bed down that they’ll survive their tours of duty?

We’ve become a smaller people, soft and pliant; hedonistic narcissists, indifferent to the world around us. We don’t dare dream and rarely does our gaze stray to the horizon line (for the most part we keep our heads down and try not to meet anyone’s eyes).

Historical narratives presented by the likes of Stephen Pressfield, Conn Iggulden, Robert Graves and Michael Curtis Ford evoke past ages with thrilling vigor and elan. These authors devote incredible time and energy researching the great and near great, presenting us with gorgeous, vibrant, utterly convincing portrayals that are documentary-like in their realism, provoking a constant sense of you are there. In the process, we are reminded of what frail and timid things we are in comparison, how addicted to creature comforts, how far removed from suffering and strife. We were a much sturdier, hardier breed in days of yore.

In America, it was the pioneers who came closest to the kind of heroic courage that is the making of myths and legends. Unfortunately, they soon gave way to the lawyers and bankers, mercantilism replacing true grit. From Kit Carson and Jim Bridger, Lewis & Clark and Davey Crockett to being a “nation of shopkeepers”.

I grieve for what has been lost—the price of “progress”, which seems to instill a desire for stability, comfort…and mediocrity. I crave heroes, the visions and dreams they inspire. We’re poorer as a species without such men and women. They show us what might be possible if we exert ourselves for a higher purpose and deny or withhold from us the bright attractions of commonplace things.