Scientology

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Londonist’s Back Passage: #51 Wardrobe Terrace

Where? Tri-directional alley system behind St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, off Queen Victoria Street in the City. What? Like a fugitive from a forgotten Monty Python script, Wardrobe Terrace presents its bizarre name to the (slightly diminished) hordes of City workers who flock down Queen Victoria Street each …

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Anonymous V Scientology: “Cult” To Be Swarmed By Pirates On Saturday

Yarrrr! Those Anonymous guys we reported on a while ago are still going strong in their campaign to expose the dodgy practices and nasty tactics of the “Church” of Scientology, and they’re planning to make June as enturbulated as possible for the Xenu-believers, with this …

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Police To Prosecute Teenager Who Called Scientology A “Cult”

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it’s a … This was our thought upon reading the news that a teenage member of Scientology-protesting group Anonymous, who goes by the name EpicNoseGuy on the Enturbulation …

Londonvidium: #8 Rickmob

A flashmob, nay Rickmob, singing a cheesy 80′s pop song, bouncing off a recent internet fad, all filming one another, many wearing V for Vendetta masks, as recently sported at anti-Scientology gatherings, which were instigated by a You Tube video. We reckon London has just …

Week Around the -Ists

Photo by Phillyist’s Matt Johnson, SkyscraperSunset.com, December 19, 2007. Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale. Gothamist marveled at the city’s new NYC-branded condom campaign – especially the use of a Toronto landmark in the advertising. (Also, fun fact: Gothamist turned …

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Anonymous Protests Outside Scientology Sites

lol Scientology courtesy of Joe Lee They came, they saw, they protested. And trolled Scientology IRL. Meme-heavy but fun, good-natured and above all peaceful, the hordes of Anonymous donned their V masks and descended on the sites of the Church of Scientology, at Blackfriars and …

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Nerds To Protest Outside London’s Scientology Centres

A group of masked protesters will gather outside the Church of Scientology’s centres in London on Sunday morning at 11am, starting at the centre on Queen Victoria St before moving on to the Goodge St location. But what has prompted this IRL display of anger? …

Week Around the -Ists

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend’s annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what’s becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist’s decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one …

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The Colour of Money is Blue

The police are having a rotten week. They still haven’t haven’t caught the Ripper, but got caught themselves while being wankers on the phone, have to wear head mounted sex cams, had their own personal data nicked and found that you can’t go pulling guns …

Extra, Extra

Queen Liz wants to leave the palace lights on all night because tourists might not be able ‘to see the royal landmark at night’. Greenpeace et al are none too happy. Scientology has come to London in a big way. £23m of Scientoligism just landed …