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Jason Beghe 'unravels' Scientology • ©2008 The Village Voice

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“I’m probably not going to be doing any movies for United Artists any time soon” – Beghe (referring to the Cruise-owned studio)  In April 2008, actor Jason Beghe (Everwood, Jag, Numb3rs, CSI, Cane) unravelled Scientology, a religion he had been a member of for 14 years. In an interview with The Village Voice, he claimed to have given the church about a million (US) dollars to ‘reach the Bridge to Xenu’. He offered a surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes 411 on the Hollywood set, with Tom Cruise and John Travolta currently embedded within the group.  Paraphrasing Beghe, religion is the ultimate mousetrap. However, it does not work without cheese, whereas a cult is a religion because you are the cheese.  Words - Tommy Peters Source, The Village Voice. Bodie Elfman gave him a copy of What Is Scientology, a lavishly illustrated hardback that introduced him to the idea that L. Ron Hubbard had invented a “technology” of the mind that suppose...

The 7/7 Conspiracy Link-chart

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Click to enlarge The likely spies are coloured red, the alleged bombers indark blue, other significant figures in light blue, possible informants in pinkand key locations in yellow.  The link-chart is an abbreviation of Tom Secker's narrative on Global Research , but viewed alongside the videos he posted, it provides the basic structure of what was going on in the years leading up to7/7. (Advanced appreciation is rendered for materials used without express permission of copyright owners - Tommy Peters)

Books • Papers • Materials

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∆    The 'Gazzette' report (14.6.2012)   Link to the book is removed  ∆ ∆   Bad astronomy  (Philip C. Plait 2002)  ∆ ∆   Books Challenged or Banned in 2010-2011  (Robert P. Doyle 2012)  ∆ ∆   Conversation with Elihu Lauterpacht in 2008  (on the Nineties and new Millennium)  ∆ ∆   Cult of the Presidency  (Gene Healy 2009)  ∆ ∆   Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century  (Avery Goldstein 2000)  ∆ ∆   Hitler's Jewish Army  (A preview of Bryan Mark Rigg's LHJS 2007)  ∆ (Afterword: The link to Allah, Liberty and Love (Malay Version) has been removed by the administrator on account of the gazette initiated by the Home Ministry that came into effect on June 14th 2012)

"so true"

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A friend on my Facebook list asked if Malaysians are oblivious to geopolitical violence. She lives in Aleppo, Syria, where on the one hand, snipers and terror commandos are having a field day ratcheting their work beyond the nine thousand dead marks. Still, on the other hand, her dodgy internet provides enough buzz to flesh out some mind-numbing entertainment from my Malaysian page, where the vanity index of hip hop and everything else cool appears to be peaking amongst the females as well the males. She said in her zone of fear and strife the conceited self-ennobling index is becoming non-existent and less and less people are updating their pages and albums with egoistical poses coupled with the ubiquitous V sign between the eyes and that the most profound of eye-rollers encountered on my page was the difficult decision one woman had to make as to whether to wear her Islamic shawl with a hood or have it streamlined onto her scalp to go with her Malay dress of a specific color worn on ...

Malaysia's failed exams - an observation

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Two decades ago Malaysia failed the Salman Rushdie test. Five years ago it failed Karen Armstrong. Four months ago it abandoned Hamza Kashgari and last week it capitulated to Irshad Manji. As the baritone that supposedly glues the narrative becomes brittle by the year, this Saturday June 9   young and 'emancipated' Muslim friends will fail an invitation to a Glad Tidings solemnization of a beautiful couple underscoring the humble power of the cross but that is another story.  In Satanic Verses the Ayatollah's edict dribbled down to die-hards who could not endure let alone understand the author’s complicated prose. Kashgari was apprehended upon request of his pervasive host who contends that since a citizen had failed one of its exams, he would by extension fail the test of any Muslim nation he sought refuge in. Manji was deemed detrimental in Malaysia only after an Islamic non-governmental organization in Indonesia hijacked her book launch and evicted her ou...

The 'blackhole' of indebtedness

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Say your bank forgives your mortgage, but neither does the benevolent lender alert you nor explain its position. It simply stops reminding you that you are a debtor. Understandably the scenario encourages you to disremember being a borrower but as liberating as it is, the situation creates a blackhole in your psyche that enables you to disregard the presence of the 'ominous' creditor, not unlike the hip and hop Petronas scholar who had good reason, in that he was not reminded of the regular stipends that fueled his studies that enabled his profession to forget the career-enabling moola disbursed to his benefit but instead with passage of time finds he himself well entrenched in a mental blackhole trashing the propensity of his benefactor towards its extravagant sponsorship ventures for instance and the general lackadaisical economics it practices such as not pursuing scholarship 'doles' and not unlike the recreational cyclist who saves the life of his friend who is no...

R3: iLoud • iRough • iStick

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Preamble: This post is dedicated to the boost junkies who gave birth to the R3 while directed to those who have 'compromised' it. Three days with Djan’s red dog puppied from Mellor’s big yellow wolf left it dreaming of its   loud mother licking it dry given placenta is divorced almost but still married to cord and true to job description lone yellow bitch of the male bastion foisted wriggling puppy red onto civilian asphalt slurping fetal sac enabling Sankaran's rascal to tighten up and restate the rough cacophony of its forerunner via some re-profiled internal combustion construct emanating through a stainless hot-water flask nestled at its steel anus while mutating into but mercifully remaining in the realm of the hard  stick . Trans-written with a tall Bud • Tommy Peters Short-shift (Suriya-centric) ball  ∆ Wilson Picket • Mustang Sally  ∆ © Gary Lee (used without permission)  ∆ Afterword: May 3rd 2012, I moved out of Proton Mu...