Fascinating vid. Billed as training in how to communicate with another person, it is clearly a training in how to avoid communication of any kind in the interests of controlling, blocking and heading off any genuine attempt at communication.

I really appreciate everyone who posts info in this thread, and Oerlikon for starting it and keeping it up. There's a lot going on these days.

Scientology is the granddaddy of all American cults, and if you study how it works, you can understand how all of these cults and LGATs work.

The LMT has a fascinating history. Scientology knocked themselves out to close it down, which they did in 2002. They may have spent as much as $30 million to put this tiny non-profit out of business.

The LMT is the former home of the most august and venerable Wise Beard Man.

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I really appreciate everyone who posts info in this thread, and Oerlikon for starting it and keeping it up. There's a lot going on these days.

Scientology is the granddaddy of all American cults, and if you study how it works, you can understand how all of these cults and LGATs work.

The LMT has a fascinating history. Scientology knocked themselves out to close it down, which they did in 2002. They may have spent as much as $30 million to put this tiny non-profit out of business.

The LMT is the former home of the most august and venerable Wise Beard Man.

Christa: please remind us as to what the LMT is?

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Christa: please remind us as to what the LMT is?

The LMT was the Lisa McPherson Trust. It was so named because Bennetta Slaughter, Lisa McPherson's Scientologist boss and the person many believe was most responsible for Lisa's death (albeit indirectly), discovered an anti-Sci foundation was about to be opened and named after Lisa, and rushed out to register every Lisa McPherson-related name she could think of. That meant the Foundation had to find a different name, and they picked "Trust".

The LMTers worked in Clearwater, Sci's mecca, for about 2 years before David Miscavige had them sued and harassed out of existence. Of course.

Bob Minton, the courageous founder of the LMT, has died.

Link to article in SP times:

[www.tampabay.com]

[www.variety.com]

German pubcaster ARD is sure to ruffle some feathers -- and generate plenty
of international interest -- with an upcoming TV movie about Scientology,
titled "Until Nothing Is Left."

Germany has long been at odds with the organization, labeling it a sinister
group with totalitarian designs.

"We are not dealing here with a religion but rather an organization that has
far different motives," said ARD program director Volker Herres at a special
screening of the film earlier this month. "Scientology is all about power,
business and the expansion of its network."

ARD has said it's seeking to show how Scientology manipulates, re-educates
and exploits its members. The movie, produced by Berlin-based Teamworx for
ARD, is based on real events and on testimony from former Scientology
members and had been kept tightly under wraps. It airs on ARD on March 31.

[mybillionyearcontract.com]

My Billion Year Contract: Memoir of a Former Scientologist

by Nancy Many

Press conference and protests to mark the two year anniversary of Anonymous:

LA press conference

[gawker.com]

[www.nytimes.com]