On the possibility of a Security Council resolution on Georgia, he said there was a new draft whose purpose was "quite simply to support with the authority of the Security Council the six-point Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, and it is a completely different territory now."

He stressed that in any discussions regarding the territorial integrity of Georgia, "there is the question of the will of the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and we believe all these needs must be reflected in the thinking of the international community."

Responding to a question on Georgia's desire to join NATO, Churkin said Russia is opposed to any expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and there are "better ways to deal with matters of European-North Atlantic security, more cooperative ways that would include rather than exclude Russia".

Watch the full press briefing

Not only did Sweeney get to listen in on Lonsdale's experiences and see video footage of some of it, he and his BBC colleagues were entreated to a custom-made package of espionage and harassment themselves, being followed every step they took during the filming of the documentary, being harassed, and shortly after being subject to a number of incriminating false accusations (e.g., the BBC staged a protest against Scientology so that they could film it; the BBC was behind terrorist death threats supposedly received by the cult).

Shawn Lonsdale was found dead earlier this year. Police have called it a suicide. Some are suspicious that Scientology may have played an active role in his death. To my knowledge, there is no evidence of this at this time. But what is probable is that assuming that this was a suicide, the years of intense harassment, death threats, social maligning, espionage, and so forth was surely a key instigating factor behind the suicide.

John Sweeney remembers Shawn Lonsdale:

Here is footage from Scientology & Me of Scientology's persistent haranging of John Sweeney and colleagues:

And here is footage from BBC News reviewing John Sweeney's explosion on Scientology representative Tommy Davis. In this segment, BBC rep Sandy Smith, who was behind the filming of the documentary, discusses how the cult had gone onto to create black PR on BBC, including the claims that it had staged a protest against Scientology for the sake of the documentary and had supposedly made terrorist death threats to Scientologists.

"You keep on preaching "Fair Game" because you have nothing else to complain about."

What?! Fair Game is OFFICIAL "CHURCH" OF SCIENTOLOGY POLICY written by Hubbard and STILL IN PRACTICE TODAY which states that anyone deemed to be an enemy of the "Church" can be LIED TO, TRICKED, SUED OR *DESTROYED*!

Since when is official "Church" policy that all active dissenters can be destroyed a trivial matter that one only brings up repeatedly because they supposedly have "nothing else to complain about". It seems to me that a neutral info source on Scientology would at least concede this.

I wonder if this is the sort of thing that Louanne joined Scientology for - to demonize and support the destruction of anyone who stands against the practices of her cult. Or maybe she was brainwashed since childhood by Scientologist parents.

For more on Scientology, click here and/or go to Xenu.Net (i.e., both of which, Louanne would probably call hate-links).

And of course, if you feel like complaining but have run out of ideas, do not forget about Operation: FairGameStop on Saturday!

The ultimate goal of the program: to "handle terminately" (i.e., to destroy) the publication of Zetetic, which is now known as The Skeptical Inquirer, and CSICOP "so that they never attack Scientology or Dianetics again". The methods: Scientology's Guardian's Office (now called the Office of Special Affairs, which functions as the cult's internal CIA/police service) would, through press relations and espionage, spread rumors that CSICOP was a front organization of the CIA put in place to discredit any and all psychic phenomena in order to keep this subject under CIA control, and to stop paranormal research outside of the CIA. Precise operations would include:

• Forging a memo on CIA stationary and leaking it to selected people, including news media figures. The court documents include a report that this order was in fact carried out - a copy of a memo under CIA letterhead with the statement that it had been sent to the New York Times, broadcaster-columnist Jack Anderson and others.
• A dozen or more Scientologists write letters (samples were included) as private individuals to known anti-Scientologists of CSICOP worded so as to elicit anti-religious statements. These statements would then be sent to leaders of recognized churches to indicate that CSICOP was working against them and that it advocated the "deprogramming" of their followers. The CSICOP, however, does not investigate theological or philosophical beliefs, accept in the cases where practitioners claim that their methods are scientifically valid.

The orders would be carried out covertly so as not to be traceable back to Scientology.

At some point Paul Kurtz managed to obtain a phony letter typed on authentic CSICOP letter head with a forged Kurtz signature. The forgery was addressed from Kurtz to a contributor, and worded so as to turn serious parapsychology researchers against CSICOP. Furthermore, Kurtz claimed in an interview that at least one CSICOP critic had suggested in a published article that CSICOP is linked to the CIA.

Why the CoS attack on CSICOP?

Scientology's attack on the committee was rooted in CSICOP members giving little credence to the pseudoscientific claims being made by LRH and his followers. CSICOP's first publication was released just before the "Church" officially formulated its attack. This inaugural publication included an article by British Sociologist Roy Wallis, which was an excerpt from a book he had written based on extensive research into Dianetics, LRH's disingenuously sub-named "modern science of mental health". Wallis' article stated that Dianetics, which LRH claimed to be based on scientific research, had been rejected by the medical, psychiatric and psychological professions, "appart from numerous marginal, limited and quasi-medical converts."

In his article, Wallis noted help he had received from University of Toronto professor John Lee. Lee was sued by Scientologists. Later on, confidential documents of Lee's along with relevant documents stolen from the Health Ministry's files from a project Lee had conducted for the Ministry regarding faith healing turned up in the US court documents. Translation: As a part of Operation: Snow White, the Cult of Scientology stole private documents of Lee and hte Health Ministry.

For more on Scientology, click here.

Moar to come. In the meantime, get it yourself.

 W komentarzu dziennikarz bardzo ostro krytykuje postawę pani Agness Kaku która odważnie publikuje informacje na temat NZ, nawet te które nie pokazują życia w NZ w różowym świetle. Z tego komentarza wynika ze jak któremuś z imigrantow nie podoba się wiele rzeczy w NZ to ma się pakować i wyjechać. Z komentarza wynika ze NZ to piękny (prawda to) i tolerancyjny kraj. Rząd NZ wydaje miliony dolarów by zachęcić nowych imigrantow (najlepiej bogatych) do przyjazdu NZ Na miejscu to już agenci imigracyjni i od nieruchomości i inni specjaliści od naciągania zajmą się ich pieniędzmi.

Ciekawa jest podawana suma ze w zeszłym roku nowi imigranci przywieźli z sobą 3.3 mld dolarów. Wygada na to ze rząd NZ dokładnie monitoruje ilość dolarów przywożonych przez nowych imigrantow...

Poziom komentarza nie spełnia moim zdaniem poziomemu jakiego bym oczekiwał od dziennikarza telewizji krajowej, w dodatku takie podejście: "albo wam się wszystko podoba albo won" ma się nijak do "tolerancyjności" która jakoby panuje w NZ według oficjalnej propagandy.

Niestety sam parę razy widziałem takie podejście do tematu, ale nie dziwi mnie to specjalnie . Często zakompleksieni ludzie w tym większość Polaków reaguje podobnie jak ktoś z zewnątrz narzeka na Polskę – Polacy uważają ze maja wyłączność na narzekanie na swój kraj.

NZ to bez wątpienia piękny kraj gdzie można naprawdę znaleźć miłych i normalnych ludzi i zbudować sobie nowe życie. Niestety nie jest to ani w 10% tak łatwe jak pokazują to reklamówki. Nowi imigranci są w dużej mierze traktowani jak “surowiec naturalny” i niewielu osoba udaje się naprawdę przebić. Nie uważam tez za słuszna takiej agresji medialnej z jaka spotkała się pani Agness Kaku . Niestety naraziła się potężnemu lobby firm imigracyjnych które obracają w NZ milionami dolarów i maja duże wpływy w mediach i rządzie.

Sam fakt ze NZ jest największym źródłem imigrantow dla Australii, oraz fakt ze mimo agresywnej polityki imigracyjnej ilość ludzi w NZ jest ciągle taka sama dajw duzo do myslenia.