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Scientology laid bare in ‘America’s Book of Secrets’ tonight with Raw Story editor’s help

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Tonight on the H2 network, the third season of America’s Book of Secrets opens with what should be a controversial episode: The show has talked to dozens of former members and experts to reveal the secrets of Scientology. One of those experts was Raw Story executive editor and Scientology watchdog Tony Ortega, who told H2 that Scientology is in the grips of several different crises that has it on the brink.




Scientology grew out of the writings of scienc fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, and reached its greatest extent, about 100,000 members, in the 1980s. But major defections by top officials and other problems have it in the news more than ever.




America’s Book of Secrets takes a look at the hidden origins, strict doctrine, secret language and celebrity allure of the organization and how it dominates the lives of its followers.




Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Scientology’s current leader, David Miscavige, describes her difficult experiences and escape from the organization.




Former Scientology executive, Mark Rathbun, demonstrates and explains Scientology’s most revered spiritual technology: the ‘E-Meter.’




Raw Story’s Tony Ortega explains the draw and appeal of Scientology that allows them to recruit new members and keep their coffers full.




America’s Book of Secrets airs tonight 10:00-11:00PM ET






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Head Of Bridge Scandal Investigation: Hoboken Mayor"s Story "Attracted Our Attention"

New Jersey Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D) issued a statement Saturday responding to Hoboken, N.J. mayor Dawn Zimmer’s claims the administration of Gov. Chris Christie (R) withheld Hurricane Sandy relief money from her city because she did not fast-track a real estate project linked to one of his allies. Wisniewski, who is the chairman of the New Jersey General Assembly committee investigating last September’s lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, said Zimmer’s claims are “serious” and had the committee’s attention.

“The allegations discussed today by Mayor Zimmer are serious and yet again raise concern about abuse of government power, This certainly has attracted our attention. We need to obtain all relevant facts, confer with our special counsel and determine the committee’s best course of action,” said Wisniewski.

On Friday, the Assembly Democrats announced Wisniewski’s committee had served 20 individuals and organizations with subpoenas including Christie’s office, his re-election campaign, and many of his top aides. Some Democrats have alleged Christie’s allies ordered the closure of the lanes, which led to days of traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., to retaliate against a mayor who did not endorse him.

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Santa Claus Is Real: Read His Story

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Daddy! Daddy! Read the story. Please. “Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…”

Before long he got to the part where the round and rather elfish fellow in the red suit slides down the chimney and leaves the presents. The best part for me was not the presents. It was decorating the tree and laying the fire – which never hurt Santa – and pretending to be sitting next to him while we shared the milk and cookies that were always left for him. It was the essence of family in my imagination. It was a warm and wonderful fantasy, and when my parents told me there was no Santa I just kept imagining the Christmas scene anyway. It was too wonderful to let go.

Trouble is – if you want to call it trouble – there really is a Santa. His real name is Nicholas and he lived in the city of Myra in what is now called Turkey. He was a bishop in the Catholic Church in a time when there was only one Church. He served during a time of savage persecution of Christians; he was arrested and tortured for his faith, although he did not die of it. He was one of the leaders participating in the Council of Nicea, called by Emperor Constantine after legalization of the faith, and he had a hand in composing the (still) only universal summary statement of the Faith. He was designated a saint following earthly death and hence the Santa joins the Claus in his name.

The most amazing news about Nicholas is that – amid all he suffered and labored and tended to in his life and ministry – he found great joy traveling the streets of his city and leaving coins in the shoes children placed on their window sills at the end of day. He had a special heart for sailors as well as for children, and he may even be the left-handed source of the proverb that God takes care of sailors and children. His concern for the poor was both real and poignant, yet he is remembered not just as a man of compassion, but of compassion laced with whimsy. Reminiscent of the God He served so well.

In our time we are much more attuned to a fat man in a red suit who will give us anything we ask for – and especially a new boy or girlfriend for Christmas if the seasonal movies tell us anything – than to the child of a carpenter born to die for us in a shabby manger located in a small cave in a forgotten town in Judea where all they produce are the lambs to be ceremonially killed in the capitol city. The fat man requires nothing of us but a willingness to be dazzled by fantasies like my five-year-old Christmas scene; the child wants our whole life to be given over to Him as He gives His for us. On top of that, the child insists on meeting our needs rather than our wants. The trouble is, what powers the fat man’s generosity is the child’s sacrificial reality. Nobody is more aware of that than a fat man who gave his heart and his body in gratitude for the Child.

When I was a parish priest we observed a Christmas custom in each church I led. I had long since replaced cookies and milk with the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper on Christmas Eve, although God knows to this day I still love the Christmas scene I cherished when I get home from church. At the church we would have one of our members dress as Santa and enter the nave or sanctuary just as I prepared to pray over the Supper. I would catch sight of him and greet him from my station behind the altar. I would acknowledge the pleasure of seeing him, with all the work he had ahead of him this night. He would tell me he wanted to do first things first – on this night of all nights – and that meant worshipping the living Reason for the Season. He would then come forward to receive Communion with the church’s children in tow, and all of us would receive a joy-filled and much needed adjustment to our perspective.

Santa Claus is real, a servant of God and no substitute for Him. Nobody is clearer than St. Nicholas on the nature of the relationship. He is first to say, “Jim, your idea of Christmas as a child comes true only because another child was born, lived and died for you. First things first.”

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Theater Review: Histrionic Back Story of a Wedding Party

The cause of Annabell Armstrong’s latest panic attack seems petty: Annabell (a frenetic Polly Lee) is at Neiman Marcus in Dallas, and she cannot find the perfect dress for a cousin’s wedding. But as Helen Sneed’s 95-minute play explains again and again, her histrionics are but a manifestation of a lifetime of accumulated anxieties and emotional traumas, as evidenced by the memories that wander, unwanted, into the store’s dressing room.

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Flashbacks bring Annabell’s bigoted, Communism-obsessed grandmother (Lisa McMillan), who longs for an antebellum social order and corrects her family on dictional propriety. (A “kid” is a goat; 10-year-old Annabell is a “child.”) Then there’s Annabell’s narcissistic mother (Lori Gardner), who forced diet pills on her daughter in elementary school and discouraged her precocious reading habits. We learn of, but never meet, Annabell’s doting but philandering father, who trained her in the family business — Democratic politics, adrift in deep-red Dallas — but then discourages her from pursuing the ambitions he himself has sown.

And there is the creepy, paternal psychiatrist (Mitch Tebo) to whom Annabell increasingly transfers her unhealthy filial dependence; he is a foil of the one decent person (and other parental substitute) in her life, the Neiman saleslady (Lee Roy Rogers) who has waited upon Annabell for decades.

Ms. Sneed’s script has its rough edges, including pop-psychology tropes and frequent verbal footnotes to explain the many historical and literary allusions. (We may be 21st-century New Yorkers, but I hope we don’t need a refresher course on who Davy Crockett was, or why Texas Republicans loved Ronald Reagan so much in the 1980s.)

But the direction by Sam Pinkleton — best known as a choreographer on such sparkling projects as “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” and “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812” — keeps the staging lively. He uses the tiny performance space resourcefully to keep us visually interested, even when the dialogue drags at times.

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