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Isaac Hayes (Chef) is dead

(CNN) -- Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film "Shaft," has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday. Singer Issac Hayes seen performing in the U.K. last year. Hayes was found dead Sunday at age 65. Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., the sheriff's department said. [...] From the late 1990s through 2006, Hayes provided the voice of "Chef" for Comedy Central's raunchy animated series "South Park," as well as numerous songs. The role introduced him to a new generation of fans, but he left after the show lampooned his own religion, the Church of Scientology. Full story...

Scientology Commercial

Can you spot the parody in this edited clip of a real scientology commercial?

On a less funny note, here is The Un-Funny Truth About Scientology.

The Cruise Scientology Indoctrination Video

cybr: Scientology keeps removing this from YouTube, i fixed the link, but it will probably be gone again soon. Here is some background analysis on the clip which explains a few of the acronyms used. Finally found a version that probably won't get deleted.

Scientology and Me

This short film gives us an insiders' view on Scientology's propaganda machine and its frontman, Tommy Davis. Of course that's not entirely what this documentation is about, but one thing is certain: Tommy Davis is my new best friend!

Scientology isn't actually a recognised religion in the United Kingdom, after Hubbard accused the prime minister Harold Wilson and all European Psychiatry of a grand conspiracy against Scientologists. This report by the BBC's excellent Panorama investigative programme tries to understand why Scientologists want that Judges decision made decades ago reversed. Ironicly, the 'church' prooved the presenters point that they use intimidation and espionage to slander outsiders - by harassing the reporter during and after. A few links to explain the aftermath of this documentary:

• The Scientologist looses his temperThe reporter (really!) looses his temper (after attempted brainwashing)
• A UK news report & interview (with the full clips of both)
• BBC News on the row over the above
• The Guardian reports on the 'video ambushing' of the BBC
• The Scientologist's own documentary on the BBC!

How Scientology fucks with real Science

This is an example of how Scientology gets in the way of an innocents dream(at least two of my dreams), the space elevator and life extension. Keith Hanson is an American electrical and space engineer who is working on the space elevator(a true elevator to space; very cheap access to space) concept. He was convicted for "interfering with a religion", he demonstrated against Scientology, in California in 2001. He fled to Canada and became the first Scientology fugitive. He was trown in jail a few weeks ago because he came back to the USA for 3 court cases related to Scientology. Here you can find an interview with Hanson. He talks about scientology, the space elevator and solving the global energy problem with a giant space-based solar collector. I didn't have time to check the correctness of this article and how serious/reliable he is a scientist/engineer.

Bullshit & SouthPark: some more scientology bullshit from Annom

Why Bullshit didn't make an episode about Scientology... Fucked up Showtime. Why do they care so much about Scientology? Do "they" really have so much influence?

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What took you so long to take on Scientology? Was the network worried about it? [Trey Parker]: To be honest, what kept us from doing it before was Isaac Hayes [who does the voice of Chef]. We knew he was a Scientologist. And he's an awesome guy. We're like, Let's just avoid that for now. But we're friends with Penn Jillette, and Showtime wouldn't let him do an episode of Bullshit! on Scientology. We're going, That's fucked up. And hearing other people say, "You can't do that,"-you can only say "You can't do that" so many times to Matt and me before we're gonna do it. Finally, we just had to tell Isaac, "Dude, we totally love working with you, and this is nothing personal, it's just we're South Park, and if we don't do this, we're belittling everything else we've ripped on." So we realized we had to do it, and now that we've done it, now it's like we've sort of opened the floodgates. People will be less scared.