The Empire of the Odd

If you’re ‘bad’, Anon, an anarchic force for good, will find you Aug 26, 2010 11:16 PM | By Staff Reporter Staff Reporter: So the web is dead. It’s the talk of the town, if by “town” we mean Navelgazeville. And we do. Michael Wolff’s article in Wired magazine (published in an edited form in [...]

NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery. To the geeks, freaks and hackers of the net the Church of Scientology subverts the idea of [...]

Village Voice; By Tony Ortega, Friday, May. 21 2010 @ 9:33AM ?Mark Bunker (Wise Beard Man) has been tipping us to several embarrassing developments for Scientology overseas lately. The newest was yesterday’s raid of a Scientology center in Turin, Italy, where investigators uncovered a basement stash of records containing “sensitive personal data” about local officials and journalists that [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. 1-216-320-9528 Fax: (216) 320-9528 stang@subgenius.com CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 5, 2010: The Church of the SubGenius has announced that the end of the world will take place on Monday, July 5, 2010. In preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church is requesting that all of [...]

In summer and fall of 2009 , the Saint Petersburg Times newspaper took an extraordinary step and began aggressively reporting on the Church of Scientology. Long thought to be taboo by reporters and journalists, the Scientology Organization suddenly became “fair game” after world wide protests and after hundreds of ex members began speaking out about [...]

Tue Oct 27, 7:41 pm ET On Monday, a French court convicted the Church of Scientology on fraud charges stemming from complaints by two women. The judge in the case levied massive fines as punishment, fueling a long-running battle between Scientology and France, which considers the group a “sect” rather than a religion. The legal [...]

Cork protesters warn of Scientology ‘scam’ Cork students have been urged to be cautious if approached by members of religious organisations while traveling abroad. Members of the anti-Scientology group Anonireland.org gathered outside City Hall earlier this week to protest the inclusion of a  ‘Dianetics and Scientology’ stand at the Mind Body Spirit Festival held at [...]

I’m a little confused about this myself (not that this is the first time.) Stephan Colbert announced that because of a recent NASA poll to nominate names for the new ISS node. Serenity seems to be the number one pick (thanks no doubt to a harpoon party of a bunch of Brown Coats, Xenu the [...]

Wants You to Wear a Funny Mask this Valentine’s Day http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2009/02/anti-scientology_group_anonymo.php By Caleb Hannan in Hannan Friday, Feb. 13 2009 @ 1:05PM This year, forget the flowers and box of chocolates. Since nothing’s tackier than a cliched Valentine’s Day gift–and because your beloved is a unique little snowflake and wants to be treated as such–why [...]