Are A-list Scientologist scandals hurting the church in Hollywood?

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Published July 05, 2012

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Tom Cruise gives a speech at the opening of a Scientology church in Spain in 2004. (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES – Just a couple of months ago, high-profile Hollywood Scientologist John Travolta was embroiled in a massive sex scandal when several masseurs accused the actor of sexual harassment and abuse.

'Day Out of Time" July 25, 2012 Mayan New Year's Eve brings Reflection as 'Golden Age' dawns

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July 25, 2012 is a day of tremendous importance in the Mayan calendar - it is New Year's Eve - also known as the Day Out of Time. This day is the last day of the galactic year, meaning that of the 13 moons per year in a 28 day cycle, and 364 days, this is the extra day, or literally, the day out of time. According to 'Samme Samareta FB page:"Day Out of Time 2012
White Rhythmic Mirror (July 25, 2012)

This is the last day of the galactic year
in the Mayan and Galactic calendar.
(13 moons of 28 days = 364 days ~ 
the extra day, the 365th day, is July 25,
the "Day Out Of Time") This is a special
day for ritual, meditation and prayer.
In 2012 along with the Banner of Peace,
we are asking that you bring a mirror or mirrors
to the gathering or festival as a symbol of the
Reflection of Divine Endless Order.

WHITE RHYTHMIC MIRROR

I organize in order to reflect
Balancing order
I seal the matrix of endlessness
With the rhythmic tone of equality
I am guided by my own power doubled
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151146129530579&set=a.424345590578.211453.730715578&type=1&theater

Will the Pope’s Former Butler, Paolo Gabriele, Pay in a Vatileaks Trial?

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Author: Barbie Latza Nadeau
Jul 24, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

Paolo Gabriele, accused of stealing papal documents in the Vatileaks scandal, is out on parole but faces six years in prison. Barbie Latza Nadeau on three newly named suspects—and whether Benedict will forgive his butler.

 

Paolo Gabriele, the Pope's 46-year-old butler Photo: AFP/GETTY

The pope’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele, who has been languishing in a secret cell inside the fortified walls of Vatican City since May 23, has been released to house arrest. But while he has moved back into his familial apartment with his wife and three children, he cannot leave the sacred grounds of the tiny city-state until the Vatican tribunal makes the most important decision of his life. Will they absolve him of stealing papal documents and leaking them to the press, and let him go? Or, more likely, will they send him to trial, where he faces a six-year prison sentence?

Traders Under Investigation For LIBOR Rigging Keep Turning Up At Swiss Hedge Funds

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Matthew Boesler

Jul. 19, 2012, 2:15 PM


If you've been following the LIBOR interest-rate rigging scandal that is causing Wall Street to implode right now, you may be aware that major global banks all over the world are being dragged into the mess.

Individual traders from these banks are getting pinned with the blame. Bloomberg reports that Michael Zrihen at Credit Agricole, Didier Sander at HSBC, and Christian Bittar at Deutsche Bank are all under investigation over their involvement in the manipulation of LIBOR.

17,000 Years of UFO Sightings (Video)

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by Tom Rose
July 21, 2012 01:55 AM EDT

A video on YouTube chronicles 17,000 years of UFO sightings and the ancient humans who documented them, all the way back to the cave painters of southern France. It certainly puts today's explosion of sightings in proper perspective.

The slide show collection in the video below was compiled by curators at the website ConspiracyCollege.com and is certainly worth the 10 minutes it takes for each of the more than a dozen pictures included.

With no narration, or music soundtrack, the pictures speak eloquently for themselves. It's astounding to see the earliest depictions, crudely drawn images which have not been put into the proper context until recently. Probably because observers had no real idea what they were looking at.

150 Mormons Leave Church, Cite Same-Sex Marriage, More As Why

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Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire
on July 1, 2012.

 

Mitt Romney in Paris, circa 1967

“This feels awesome. I don’t know if I would have had the courage exept in a group.” Those are the words of Alison Lucas from West Jordan, Utah. She was among a group of 150 Mormons who braved the heat in order to declare their independence from the religion. They gathered in a public park in Salt Lake City on Saturday in order to sign a “Declaration of Independence from Mormonism.” The reasons why they walked away was diverse, but included the Church’s stance on same-sex marriage.

Milk price row: Farmers and processors agree draft deal

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BBC.com
23 July 2012
Last updated at 11:29 ET

Dairy farmers and the processing firms they supply have agreed on the broad principles of a deal in their dispute over milk prices, the government says.

 

Farmers have blockaded the Robert Wiseman Dairies processing plant near Bridgwater, Somerset
Farmers blockaded the Robert Wiseman Dairies plant near
ridgwater in Somerset on Sunday
 

The draft agreement relates to a voluntary code of practice designed to give farmers more bargaining power.

But the National Farmers Union said it would not solve the current "crisis".

To read the rest of this story, visit BBC.com.

Evangelical church in $14-million financial scandal

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Posted by Douglas Todd
July 22, 2012. 8:46 pm

Evangelical church in $14-million financial scandal

There was pandemonium and shoving at this financially disabled church on Sunday, as an angry member and a reporter were surrounded and hustled towards the exit.

A financial disaster at a large evangelical church is raising questions about “affinity fraud,” a term that covers the way people proclaiming to be Christians, for instance, sometimes take financial advantage of gullible Christians with whom they have a group “affinity.”

Casino's Rigged. Don't Forget Because They Say It Ain't.

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By Charles P. Pierce

July 18, 2012

at 1:22PM

Let us, for the moment, accept as something at least semi-gospelish the notion that the problem with the current system of international finance, the eight-gozillion-horsepower engine that is pulling the caboose of political democracy toward the cliff at 200 miles an hour, is not that there is corruption in the system. It is that the corruption is the system. The system cannot function without systemic corruption. This puts everyone in a bind. Millions of homeowners find themselves without homes, and millions of free-market conservatives find themselves standing helplessly out in the rain, their ideological umbrellas in tatters. And it leaves the rest of us wondering if we just ought to bury a bunch of gold coins out in the yard and learn to skin squirrels for dinner.

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