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German Visitor Takes on Scientology
http://www.sptimes.com/News/072600/NorthPinellas/German_visitor_takes_.shtml
German official Ursula Caberta reports that in her country, Scientology is viewed as "a new kind of political extremism." [St. Petersburg Times]
German Win2K Bug: Scientology?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33154,00.html
Officials are investigating whether the country's restrictions on Scientology might affect Windows 2000. How? Part of the software technology is provided by a company with links to the church. [Wired]
Google Relists Operation Clambake
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/0141250
After a furor over Google's removal of xenu.net from its database, the search engine relisted it--but only the main page. The other pages named in Scientology's DMCA complaint are still banned from Google. [Slashdot]
Google U-turn in Scientology row
http://www.silicon.com/public/door?6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=52212&REQSTR1=silicon.com
Google reinstated a link to an anti-Scientology site after coming under fire from free speech advocates. [Silicon.com]
Google versus Church, round 3
http://microcontentnews.com/articles/googleround3.htm
Google now refuses to accept paid advertising for sites critical of Scientology. They are willing to accept payment from the Church of Scientology, however. [Microcontent News]
High Profile Couple Never Pairs Church and State
http://www.sptimes.com/Floridian/121398/High_profile_couple_n.html
Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, rub shoulders with notables in the nation's capital, they involve themselves in controversial legal cases, they like Florida living. But you rarely hear them speak of their religion, Scientology. [St. Petersburg Times]
Hubbard's Scientology is the practice of crazies
http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol68/8/opinion/oped3.html
Warns college students about the deceptive cult of Scientology, a greedy corporation which is almost the exact opposite of a religion. [Daily Cougar]
Hush-Hush Money
http://www.westword.com/issues/1997-08-14/news.html
An anti-Scientology activist claims that the church made him an offer he had to refuse: $12 million. [Westword]
Leaving the Fold
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/12/MN171898.DTL
Third-generation Scientologist, disillusioned, broke away from the Church of Scientology. In turn, they declared her father a "suppressive person" and tried to paint her as an extortionist. [San Francisco Chronicle]
Lev L'Achim Launches Campaign to Fight Scientology
http://www.shemayisrael.com/chareidi/archives5761/shemini/SMIlevlchm.htm
The cult of Scientology is dangerous to the human mind, harmful to one's pocketbook, and uses deception to violate laws against forced religious conversion. [Dei'ah veDibur]



