#14: Tory Christman (and other noisy ex-Scientologists) “Then we were followed,” Clickner says. I lost I would say, $20,000 or $30,000 on that,” she says. “They called my family. As a resident of NY, I now plan on writing NYS officials about this BS. “I was followed absolutely everywhere I went. He sold out his interest in it years ago, and recently that company was sold for $850 million. I mean just because the photographs are actually of Robert Almblad and Susan Clickner is no reason to suppose that they’re trying to hide their identities or to pull a fast one is there? As longtime church critic Dennis Erlich put it in our comments section the other day, a Scientology harassment campaign can have many collateral victims besides the critic or defector it is aimed at. ], MARTY RATHBUN AND THE SIEGE OF SOUTH TEXAS, [Scientology has Rathbun arrested] | [Rathbun and Mark Bunker reveal surprising ties] “Every time he’s contacted me, I’ve asked him to put in writing that he’s not working on behalf of David Miscavige or the church, and he’s refused to do it.”. “We closed down the company because we didn’t have any more machines to build. The “Ideal” dance mix], [Sad: David Miscavige makes fun of his own fundraisers], [Scientology surf report: Anonymous parties outside the New York “org”], [Tad Reeves: Scientology might listen to this guy], [Scientology never forgets: A heartwarming telemarketing holiday miracle], [Scientology High School, Dating and Super Powers!]. [Scientology doesn’t like Inside Scientology] | [Q&A at Washington Post] He’s watched as Almblad has been targeted by the same private investigator, Dave Lubow, who Rinder once used to work with. What’s that spell? After working as a White House chef in the 1820s, Augustus Jackson invented new recipes and a better technique for making ice cream. [Scientology’s West U.S. spies list revealed] | [Scientology’s enemies list: Are you on it?] Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphones are smarter and cheaper but don't come with a charger CNN. ], [A review of Urban’s scholarly history of the church], [Marc Headley: “Tom Cruise told me to talk to a bottle”], [86 Million Thin Dimes: The Lawrence Wollersheim Saga], [Scientology dodges a bullet in Australia], [Scientology sees fundraising gold in the UK riots], [Aussie former rugby pro Chris Guider calls David Miscavige “toxic” and “violent”], [Stephen Cox, UK church newbie, pledges 20K pounds], [Biggi Reichert: A German Lisa McPherson? Charles Menches – According to another story, Charles Robert Menches and his brother Frank of St. Louis, Missouri, ran ice cream concessions at fairs and events across the Midwest. #1: L. Ron Hubbard Q&As for Susan Clickner ('Clean Ice' Inventor Robert Almblad's Girlfriend) Discussion in 'Fair Game Reports and Personal Experiences' started by bluemom, Oct 15, 2011. Just like a Marvel movie might, the season ended with a post-credits scene. Now I’m paying the price. [Scientology advertises for writers in Freedom magazine] After that, the company refused to do more business with them. Their only recourse, she says, is to use more secrecy as they try to do business with other companies. What is the difference between innovation and invention? [Scientology High School, Dating and Super Powers! Spy operation against Washington Post writer Richard Leiby: [Part 1] | [Part 2] How do you know she’s not involved in drug traffic to South America?’ The woman panicked and told me she needed to get my money out of her office. Three: Machine Gun Kelly is attempting to sell himself as a punk rocker — despite the whole complicated reality that part of being a punk rocker, at least in theory, is not selling yourself as one. There are no investors in this project, he says, just his own company trying to sell the idea of clean ice to huge companies, the ones big enough to put the machines all around the world. My wife will leave me if I have protesters show up at my house.’ We now have it in writing from the company that they can’t work with us. And despite being…, What’s that spell? Here’s how the anti-Almblad website characterized it: Of course, if we’ve learned anything from our experience of doing business with Robert Almblad, it’s that NOTHING is ever as it appears. [Lori Hodgson and Disconnection: “No one’s going to take my eternity away”], [“Tom Cruise told me to talk to a bottle”] | [Tom Cruise likes coconut cake] | [Tom Cruise has a sense of humor] | [“Tom Cruise not a kook!”] | [Paulette Cooper on Tom Cruise] "When worlds collide, someone has to take the slide. Clickner is a woman who has helped an inventor with a potentially life-saving machine, and has her own name on various patents for her contributions in engineering and design. We’re kooks, just by osmosis from Scientology.”. I mean, are they serious?”. Your email address will not be published. One of the things the website points out is that a former employee of Almblad, John Broadbent, is being sued by a previous employer for taking with him his company laptop computer and transferring its files to his home computer before he left. They even bent down with a camera to film me picking up dog poop. I met Robert actually doing some work for him. [Tad Reeves: Scientology might listen to this guy] | [More Tad Reeves and family] We have this beautiful laboratory that we built to bring large corporations to, and it’s completely ruined. “None of my investors, none of my other employees had anything to do with Scientology, except for him. [Accidental leak shows Scientology spy wing plans to “handle” the Voice] Country Joe and The Fish – Fixin’ to Die Rag!! One of the most celebrated poets in America, Robert Frost was an author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes and a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." I don’t have a single disgruntled investor or employee,” — except for the former employee who had joined the church. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists of professing to believe what he does not believe." And of course the interference with our business has been unbelievable.”. NHL.com's Q&A feature called "Five Questions With …" runs every Tuesday. Wordpress, and most of them are designed for the generation of spam. I’m so sorry about Robert being ruined and the world not benefiting from his clean ice machine. It is the story of a serial conman. William Faulkner, "The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis." They followed my nephew at his bank and filmed him at his ATM machine. The web material worsened, meanwhile, when Almblad happened to do a search on the terms “Almblad” and “Manitowoc.” He found an odd page: a press release that appeared to be put out by another company he had done business with, which talked about Almblad and his ice technology. What’s that spell? So right, Mary. (Almblad had previously had big success with similar technology here in the U.S. with another company. Grant Cardone, NatGeo’s “Turnaround King”: [Doing Scientology’s dirty work?] “Nobody knew that he was a Scientologist. [Scientologists: How many of them are there, anyway? Robert Almblad Financier of Hate Crimes - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The co-creator of Unsolved Mysteries offered new information about the mysterious death of Rey Rivera and its possible connection to the film The Game. They called my ex-husband. A student of little else, Trump is an intuitive expert in popular fantasy, and he plays his American audience like a well-worn instrument. L Ron Hubbard Lecture 31 Dec 1960, "Personal integrity is knowing what you know. The Romans Tried to Save the Republic From Men Like Trump. But it was only a few months after Rinder joined the firm to handle public relations that “the heat got turned up very high,” Clickner says. I can’t meet anyone there. Hilarity ensues.] Bob Kelso was the Chief of Medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital from before 2001 to 2008. #20: Trey Parker and Matt Stone (and other media figures) ], [A Scientology spy comes clean: Paulien Lombard’s remarkable public confession], [Accidental leak shows Scientology spy wing plans to “handle” the, [Lori Hodgson and Disconnection: “No one’s going to take my eternity away”], [“Tom Cruise told me to talk to a bottle”], [Character actor Jason Beghe defects noisily], [Actor Michael Fairman reveals his “suppressive person” declaration], [Giovanni Ribisi as David Koresh: Scientology-Branch Davidian link makes sense], [Russell Brand weds ex-Scientologists in wild ceremony], [Placido Domingo Jr.: Scientology’s retaliation is “scary and pathetic”], [Milton Katselas complained about Cardone’s smear job], [A report from Reitman’s first book tour appearance], [A roundup of Reitman’s print reviews, and why isn’t she on television more? To know History is to know life. #7: Mark Bunker #23: Ken Dandar (and other attorneys who litigate against the church) It turned out that the house she wanted to buy was owned by a high-level Scientologist. Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. Is it just me, or is the messaging on the COVID vaccines more than a little off? #2: David Miscavige [All recent stories] | [Top 25 People Crippling Scientology] | [Commenters of the Week] [Thursday 2pm Stats! I asked Almblad who he thought could be behind the website. It’s become my whole life,” she told me by phone yesterday. But uniformed cops stood by, smiling — for the maraud­ers were fellow cops, thousands of them”. these sites are the same.”. I did a search and found it in Jan-1999 RMC. If you had a program on every day, we’d all be glued to our teevee sets! [Aussie former rugby pro Chris Guider calls David Miscavige “toxic” and “violent”] We do the show and we wear the costumes our audience expect us to.”. https://tonyortega.org/2015/07/04/jon-atack-looking-back-on-a-week-of-scientolog-enturbulation-in-toronto/, Dealing With Scientology Critics - L Ron Hubbard Playbook, The “Game” — Hand Over Your Stimulus Check to Pay Our Staff. Get free access to the complete judgment in Almblad v. Scotsman Indus., Inc. on CaseMine. After Almblad hired Rinder to help market the ice machine, Lubow appeared at Almblad’s door, and then began going to his neighbors, asking if they had seen Almblad committing any “crimes.”. I picked up a book at one point, but it was just a snooze to me,” she says, adding that his Scientology was never an issue between them. Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born in Dallas on October 31, 1967. Almblad was then granted leave to file a First Amended Complaint, which he did on April 15, 2013; the First Amended Complaint contained the same two counts. Robert E. Swindells (born 20 March 1939) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction.. For the young-adult novel Stone Cold (Heinemann, 1993), which dealt with homelessness, he won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing … He worked as a medical doctor at the hospital for several years before receiving the promotion. I know my business is affected by this every day. We do the wrong thing, the 21st century is going to be gone, there’ll be no coming back”, “These people act like we drink a gallon of blood and hang upside down from cruci­fixes before we go onstage,” Rob Halford says. #24: David Touretzky (and other academics) Around the hospital, he is known for being a stickler for the budget and insensitive about patient or staff issues. #22: Jamie DeWolf (and other L. Ron Hubbard family members) I had a survey. The Wall is defended and held by the Sworn Brothers of the Night's Watch. We do the right thing, we’ll be able to pull into the 21st century with some kind of program. Almblad feels pretty certain about that after he and Susan saw that one of his former employees turned up in the Scientology squad that burst into the meeting with Manitowoc, the multi-billion-dollar company that he has long done business with. The issue ushers in a drastically different and new era for the X-Men. We were asked to do this. He has never known his biological father and was given his family name from his mother.Vanilla Ice was affected by hip-hop at an early age saying; “It’s a very big passion of mine because I love poetry. It offers little proof except for the letter that Almblad sent out last year to close a key-making business in Europe that had stalled. I’m sure that PR guy just made a little mistake………. #3: Marty Rathbun Today, we’re bringing you another side of the story: a woman who has been slandered online, followed, harassed, and says she can hardly believe what she’s been through. What you know is what you know and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed".- LRH from Personal Integrity, "It is necessary to happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. [Russell Brand weds ex-Scientologists in wild ceremony] | [Skip Press on Haggis] There’s no one with the motivation to put up that website except the church. There were no lawsuits after I closed the business,” he says. On the technology’s merits, it will succeed.”. But that’s not important. [Benjamin Ring, LA deputy sheriff, wants you to spend your 401K on Scientology] If these guys jumped out of the bushes at her, I know she’d have a heart attack. “My niece — my 98-pound niece — had four men — two cameramen, a bodyguard, and Jim Lynch running after her. Then I heard that he had joined staff at Scientology while he was in Los Angeles.”, There was little doubt about that when the employee burst in with Jim Lynch and the other cameramen and bodyguards during the meeting at Manitowoc. But she also pointed out, despite the difficulties, she is still completely dedicated to her work, and still finds that work itself enjoyable. [Giovanni Ribisi as David Koresh: Scientology-Branch Davidian link makes sense] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) mission is to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety. “Suddenly here he comes, ragging on me about shares and investors, and I wondered where it came from. #21: Kendrick Moxon, attorney for the church #15: Andreas Heldal-Lund (and other old time church critics) “I have two friends who I used to go out to dinner with at least twice a week, who no longer call, who won’t answer an e-mail. In Germany with Ursula Caberta: [Announcing plans] | [Press conference] | [Making news about Tom Cruise, Bill Clinton, and Tony Blair] | [Post-trip interview] We talk to key figures in the game and ask them questions to gain insight into their lives, careers and the latest news. [Scientology wins a major award!] Two years ago, after he hired Mike Rinder, Scientology’s former chief spokesman, Almblad came under intense surveillance and interference to his business by a longtime Scientology private investigator and his squad of cameramen and bodyguards. When buildings get important to us, for God sakes, some of you born revolutionists will you please blow up central headquarters". Trump now takes office on the strength of his demagoguery. “We had the top guy in an $8 billion business reprimand us for 45 minutes because of Scientology,” Clickner says. The man had worked for Almblad for years as an engineer at a firm trying to spread automated key-grinding machines in Europe. She made me come that minute and pick up a check. Throughout his 2016 campaign for President, all the way up to today, President Donald Trump has made dozens of promises to his supporters — some of which he has kept, others he has not. I mean if we believed everything their public relations guy, Michael Rinder, put up on the website, we’d think that the CEO of “Safe Ice” is “Robert August” and that the Creative Director is his wife “Susan August”. [When Scientology was hip] | [Sad: David Miscavige makes fun of his own fundraisers] This is a billion dollar company. (In fact, I got the distinct impression that the two of them aren’t really what one would call friends.). By William Bastone, Jennifer Gonnerman, Michael Musto and Frank Owen, a Scientology “Fair Game” operation that seems beyond the pale, #11: Nick Xenophon (and other public servants), #12: Tommy Davis (and other hapless church executives), #13: Janet Reitman (and other journalists), #14: Tory Christman (and other noisy ex-Scientologists), #15: Andreas Heldal-Lund (and other old time church critics), #16: Marc and Claire Headley, escapees of the church’s HQ, #17: Jefferson Hawkins, the man behind the TV volcano, #18: Amy Scobee, former Sea Org executive, #19: The Squirrel Busters (and the church’s other thugs and goons), #20: Trey Parker and Matt Stone (and other media figures), #21: Kendrick Moxon, attorney for the church, #22: Jamie DeWolf (and other L. Ron Hubbard family members), #23: Ken Dandar (and other attorneys who litigate against the church), #24: David Touretzky (and other academics), [Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis secretly recorded discussing “disconnection”], [Benjamin Ring, LA deputy sheriff, wants you to spend your 401K on Scientology], [Scientologists: How many of them are there, anyway? Susan Clickner is Robert Almblad’s girlfriend and also an employee in the company bringing the ice machine to market. He just knew some people who were in, and that was the extent of his interaction with it,” she says. “I’ve lost friendships. And the chorus that I used to sing…, Once, decades ago, when I was on staff, an IAS tour breezed into town and held an event where they…. Meanwhile, the expert hired by Almblad, looking at the “sex chat” page, the links from it to various spam-heavy sites, and the page that was created to cast doubt on his business past (robertalmbladscam.com) came to this conclusion: “All of these websites offer content management system blogging (CMS) powered by #17: Jefferson Hawkins, the man behind the TV volcano “But then it started to get serious. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. At the beginning it just seemed ridiculous. [A Scientology spy comes clean: Paulien Lombard’s remarkable public confession] I can’t see my mother. Log in, If the org slumps during this transition period, don't engage in "fund raising" I put $600,000 in a bank account, and they caused trouble at my escrow account, and they prevented the owner from selling to me,” she says. Still, despite the constant interference, Clickner thinks their machine will succeed. I was actually prohibited from buying a home. [Stephen Cox, UK church newbie, pledges 20K pounds] | [Biggi Reichert: A German Lisa McPherson?] I remembered an old article in RMC by Robert Smaus where he had included on his layout a typical Southern California town set in the 1950s. Invention definition is - something invented: such as. ], This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on October 14, 2011, As New Yorkers, we reflect so much that is best about this great democracy, “Last Wednesday, an enormous mob surged out of control, menaced citizens, pushed through police lines onto city hall steps, and blocked traffic on Broadway and the Brooklyn Bridge. The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology I'm no filmmaker, but I imagine that's a difficult effect to maintain. They Failed. [Philip Boyd, Saving Grace actor, rips “the business that is Scientology”], [Our review of Inside Scientology] | [An interview with Janet Reitman] | [A report from Reitman’s first book tour appearance] | [At the Half-King: Reitman not afraid] #16: Marc and Claire Headley, escapees of the church’s HQ Ice cream (derived from earlier iced cream or cream ice) is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert.It may be made from dairy milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and any spice, such as cocoa or vanilla.It can also be made by whisking a flavored cream base and liquid Nitrogen together. Why? (I am attempting to reach the former employee, and until I do, I am keeping his name out of this piece.). And this is a very fast answer to a very serious problem. That expert told him it was worse than he thought. Though they were once a respected order, the Watch has fallen on hard times by the time of the War of the Five Kings. He didn’t go to meetings or structured activities at all. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Jonathan Hickman took over Marvel's X-Men franchise with today's releas of House of X #1. The bodies of the aliens themselves appeared to be one with the Machine, standing erect or hunched over the pathways leading to the conduit, their arms and legs seemingly fused with the stone like structures that they are pressed against. [Birmingham in the House! Almblad himself and his Safe Ice company are not named in the lawsuit. [Paul Haggis, director of Crash, issues an ultimatum, leaves the church] #13: Janet Reitman (and other journalists) They were just around at all times. Online, however, a website proclaims that Almblad and his business is shady, and that Almblad has a history of defrauding victims. We got along great, and he asked me why not try designing things with him. This is a story right out of a movie. She had nothing to do with Rinder getting his job. Because the company employs a former high-ranking church member that Scientology now considers a threat to its existence. And yet she has never had anything to do with the church. Oskar Sundqvist scored two goals for the St. Louis Blues in a 4-1 win against the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena on Wednesday in the season opener for each team. Companies like McDonalds want this very badly. #6: Anonymous Special platforms that amplified the use of kinesis and stasis are scattered throughout the Machine and are particularly situate… They don’t want the risk of these people coming down on them,” she says. ], [Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis secretly recorded discussing “disconnection”] After Susan Clickner herself showed up in our comments on Wednesday, I wanted to speak with her directly to make sure her experiences were noted. Before he could start to unpack the last 30-plus years of his career, Al Nuetzel had to listen to an engine. Someone has come up with a website raising a lot of leading questions about Robert Almblad right at the same time he, his girlfriend, their extended family, friends, and employees, and their company, are being besieged by longtime operatives for the Church of Scientology, apparently for the sole reason that Almblad dared to give a job to a person who criticizes the church. #25: Xenu, galactic overlord. He and Clickner called themselves Robert and Susan August, and the company’s website was changed to reflect that. She says Scientology has targeted her for utter ruin. [Jeff Hawkins’ Counterfeit Dreams] | [86 Million Thin Dimes: The Lawrence Wollersheim Saga] | [Mike Rinder on spying], [Scientology dodges a bullet in Australia] | [Scientology exec Jan Eastgate arrested] “I know the church is behind it. I was just heavily influenced by that whole movement and it’s molded me into who I am today.” And her only “crime” was designing parts for a life-saving piece of machinery. 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