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Netflix boosts original programing with DreamWorks deal
Yahoo! Canada Finance - Insight
DreamWorks said the deal, which involves 300 hours of new programing, is a cornerstone of a major initiative to expand its television production and distribution. The agreement is Netflix's largest for original programing, the ... The company brought ...

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Driver in Old Town crash that killed woman pleads no contest
KATU
Why is the 12-Step religious AA/NA cult's "HIGHER POWER" failing so many people; Isn't it a REAL "HIGHER POWER"? ProgressiveConservative 5pts. @August100 Maybe because you're standing at the entrance to the meetings?? randola 5pts like.author.

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The daily dish
Buffalo News
The four-time Tony Award host and former “Doogie Howser, M.D.” star will star on Broadway in the spring as the gender-bent rock chanteuse at the center of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the cult musical that was made into a cult movie. The rest of the ...
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Human Rights Hero Awarded at Event Hosted by Church of Scientology of Milan
PR Web (press release)
The Venerable Tenzin Bagdro, Tibetan monk and champion of Tibetan independence, was recognized with an Association for Human Rights and Tolerance Italy Human Rights Hero Award at a conference hosted by the Church of Scientology of Milan.

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Human Rights Hero Awarded at Event Hosted by Church of Scientology of Milan
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
The public affairs department of the Church of Scientology Milan organized and hosted the conference and awards presentation at the Grand Visconti Palace Hotel of Milan. Dignitaries, officials and representatives of human rights organizations and other ...

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Best Scientology apology ever
WND.com
The one-sentence mock apology, which is trending on Twitter as the “best newspaper apology ever”, is the Sun's response to a demand by lawyers advising Scientology's UK branch leaders. The church – which says humans are aliens who landed on earth ...

Crave Online
Interview: Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats
Crave Online
CO: Explain the concept for Mind Control. I heard it was about a religious cult leader. Is that true? Explain your thinking before recording it. UA: Its about a man who thinks he is God, starting a death cult out in the desert. He manipulates his ...

Humanity's Destiny? Howard Bloom: 'Garden The Solar System, Green the Galaxy'
PJ Media
I'm the rare one among this fan base who after graduating from college in 2006 as a secular progressive drifted toward political conservatism by 2009 and *gasp* the dreaded social conservatism and Bible-based religion by 2011. By this time Howard ...

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I Can't Stop Watching Scientologists Getting Sprinklers Turned On Them
Gawker
Last night, the U.K.'s Channel 4 aired a special called Scientologists at War, which profiled the Church of Scientology's former Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center, Marty Rathbun. Once a spiritual mentor to the likes of Tom Cruise ...
Tom 'tried to convert Penelope' to ScientologyBreakingNews.ie
TOM CRUISE-PENELOPE CRUZ SCIENTOLOGY CONFIDENTIALThe National Enquirer
Pregnant Penelope Cruz Almost Converted To Scientology By Ex-Boyfriend Tom ...KpopStarz
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'The Word' opens Manhattan film fest on June 21
Norwalk Citizen
“The Word” is a drama, with strong thriller and mystery undertones, about the aftermath of a kidnapping that might be connected with a radical religious cult. Kevin O'Donnell stars as the father of the kidnapped boy and veteran actor James Naughton, ...

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100 Days of Francis
America Magazine (subscription)
“The food we waste is stolen from those who are hungry.” “The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless.” “The church is a mother, not a babysitter”…

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Scientologists Get Sarcastic Apology After Pilots Spot UFOs Over United ...
Huffington Post
This story has it all: UFOs spotted by pilots of three commercial jets, radar confirmation of the UFOs from air traffic controllers, reports that the UFOs were close to the U.K. headquarters of the Church of Scientology, and a sarcastic apology to the ...

Tom 'tried to convert Penelope' to Scientology » Kildare Nationalist
Kildare Nationalist
Mark 'Marty' Rathbun, who used to be Inspector General of the Church, spoke out in a new documentary called 'Scientologists at War' on Britain's Channel 4, telling how top Scientologists were tasked with pandering to Tom's every need - including ...

SPIN
Kurt Vile: Lost in the Stars?
SPIN
That's been a guiding principle of his for more than a decade, through obscurity to cult stardom to this crisp November afternoon, just weeks away from completing Wakin on a Pretty Daze, a 70-minute rock odyssey that — because it first took shape so ...

Get Ready for The Bling Ring by Watching Pretty Wild on Netflix Instant
KQED (blog)
When Alexis's mom, Andrea, home schools her daughters (the other daughter is 16-year-old Gabby, Alexis's biological sister) based on principles from The Secret the movie, it is a show about a fanatical religious cult. The girls are models and when, at ...

TOM CRUISE-PENELOPE CRUZ SCIENTOLOGY CONFIDENTIAL
The National Enquirer
Inside the manipulative attempts to recruit TOM CRUISE's then GF, PENELOPE CRUZ, to sign up with XENU. The underling who helped the Church of Scientology create its' iron grip on Tom Cruise has detailed how Cruise's Vanilla Sky co-star, and ...
Tom 'tried to convert Penelope' to ScientologyIrish Examiner

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Noel's Straight Hedge VIII: Punk Straight From The Canon
The Quietus
This consists of the same twelve songs, but with the vocals re-recorded by different women on each track, mostly of an indie persuasion – the most on-paper comical examples being Beth Jeans Houghton's 'We're Gonna Do Them' and 'Two Bob Cunt', as sung ...

Josh Duggar, Oldest of the 19-Child Reality TV Family, Takes a Job with an ...
Towleroad
Duggar has said in the past that he "will be working with a Christian organization to help promote 'family values and right to life.” But FRC has spent decades attacking same-sex couples and their families, as well as the families of LGBT young people ...

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Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible: Ex-Scientology Executive Reveals How ...
Radar Online
The man who helped the Church of Scientology create its' iron grip on Tom Cruise has detailed how Cruise's Vanilla Sky co-star, and ex-girlfriend, Penelope Cruz was audited by Scientology during the pair's three-year relationship. Mark “Marty” Rathbun ...

A pastor's lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma over its 'Rain God' license plate can proceed, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has ruled.

The court said that Keith Cressman's suite contains a "plausible compelled speech claim.”

Full story: Pastor’s lawsuit against ‘Rain God’ license plate approved