We have recently been informed that two Marty Rathbun agents were uncovered for spying on behalf of Rathbun Inc. The agents, Dani and Tami Lemberger, have been pretending to fly under the radar for some time while stabbing their fellow Scientologists in the back. They were brought under ecclesiastical justice for their dishonesty and as soon as they received notification of their expulsion from the Church their puppeteer, Marty Rathbun, hooked them up with Tony Ortega, an individual who so obsessed with Scientology that he has become incapable of reporting honest journalism like, for instance, his own employer (Village Voice Media) profiting off sex-trafficking minor girls through online ads placed in their publications.
According to an article entitled, Ortega’s ethics called into question over “sex with source” scandal, Ortega has been having an affair with one of the Village Voice sources, Arielle Silverstein. We are publishing the article in full:
Ortega’s ethics called into question over “sex with source” scandal
by Jason Mark
June 8, 2012
Arielle Silverstein & Tony Ortega
A former Village Voice employee recently provided shocking revelations about Tony Ortega, the editor of the Village Voice, stating that not only was Ortega instrumental in amending the Backpage.com ad form to provide easier access to place prostitution ads online, but the same Tony Ortega has been caught sleeping with one of his news story sources, a major break in journalistic ethics.
When Tony Ortega arrived as editor at the Village Voice, the paper was the home to such journalistic stars as Nat Hentoff (who joined the paper in 1958) and Lynn Yaeger, a fashion writer since the 1960s. Ortega’s first mission from the Phoenix owners of the paper was to cut costs in the newsroom, which included laying off almost half of the editorial and advertising staff. He next had a hand in what was then a back-water brand of the company, Backpage.com. While at one level, Backpage competes with Craigslist with classified ads for housing and jobs, about one-quarter of the ads on the site are run in the “Adult Services” section, including escorts, strippers, and “dom and fetish workers.” On a typical New York City Backpage, there are over 500 women listed under escorts, advertising their services with headlines such as “Blow and Go” and “$50 specials.” These ads, which run $17 each, now bring in an estimated $30 million a year to the parent company, according the AIM Group, a media research and consulting firm. The New York Times recently calculated that Backpage now hosts 70% of all online prostitution ads according to the New York Times. Other sources state that Village Voice Media’s Backpage.com has cornered as much as 80% of the online sex-for-sale ads.
If profiting from sex-trafficking ads was not bad enough, the main component of the Backpage ads that has elected officials, human rights activists, religious leaders and the nation’s prosecutors and law enforcement up in arms is that they are being used by criminal elements for sex-trafficking of minors. Despite the double-speak pronouncement by Liz McDougall, attorney apologist for Backpage.com, that they are “allies in the fight against human trafficking” Village Voice Media has refused to mandate in person age verification for those placing sex ads on Backpage.com and have attacked a Washington state anti-trafficking law that sought to reduce the number of minors posted for sale online by filing a lawsuit to prevent its use. Village Voice Media owners pretend there is some legitimate use of the online sex ads but how many interpretations can there be for ads that state “blow and go”? The site has – drawn the attention of all 51 state attorney generals who are looking for any abuse of minors. Last year, Tony Ortega defended Backpage against charges of trafficking by writing in an editorial that “The actual data behind this ‘epidemic’ is wanting in the extreme. It involves guesses by activist professors, junk science by nonprofit groups trying to extract money from Congress, and manipulation by religious groups hiding their real agendas about sex work.”
Last Summer, while the Village Voice was experiencing another round of editorial staff layoffs and Backpage.com was just starting to arouse the interest of the State Attorney Generals, Tony Ortega violated the long held journalistic principle of separation between editorial and the business side of running a newspaper by using his newspaper and online site to staunchly defend Backpage.com by attacking activists who were exposing the sordid business of sex-trafficking in the United States, which his company was now playing a major role. Around this time Ortega violated another long held journalistic ethics edict when he became “romantically” involved with one of his sources, Arielle Silverstein. Silverstein is an Israeli-born lawyer who works at the United Nations in its Management Evaluation Unit.
In November 2011 Ortega and Silverstein traveled to Israel and she was the principal source for a story that Ortega published later that year.
By January of this year, Ortega had moved in with Silverstein into an apartment on East 89th Street. On the surface, Silverstein looks like every other single, well-educated, polished professional woman living in New York. But on the Internet, Silverstein becomes a whole new person with a much racier identity. Using false names on her Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest accounts as well as postings on blogs including the Huffington Post, she rants in ways that would be unbecoming of an employee at the U.N. She calls herself Bozuri on a site called Why We Protest, an Anonymous owned forum where she is Ortega’s source—Bozuri also makes sure that the Village Voice copyrighted articles are removed from the Anonymous forum at Ortega’s behest. Several of her postings on Why we Protest have been made from computers located at the U.N. This is outrageous since most of Silverstein’s postings are anti-religious rants (she describes herself as a “Jewish Atheist”) and no group seems to be spared—she’s anti-Muslim, anti-Christian, anti-Jesus, anti-God, anti-Jewish, anti-Scientology and anti just about anything religious. In fact, Silverstein goes to great pains to re-tweet and forward all of Ortega’s anti-Scientology columns to her various “followers.”
One problem with Silverstein’s online anti-religious ravings is that she frequently makes them during normal working hours, from her desk at the U.N. Silverstein is violating several U.N. staff rules and regulations which state “while staff members’ personal views and convictions, including their religious convictions, remain inviolable, staff members shall ensure that those views and convictions do not adversely affect their official duties of the interests of the United Nations.” It is unlikely that the Christian and Islamic members of the United Nations would take too well to one of the U.N. staff “committing blasphemy” by posting images of Mohammed or images of demeaning pictures of Jesus.
Ortega and Silverstein also recently traveled to Italy together, and it’s not known how long their affair will last, but it seems highly unlikely that Ortega will return to his wife, Fatimah, who came to the U.S. from Indonesia in 1999 and was an advertising account executive at the New Times in Los Angeles, also owned by the Village Voice. Now that Ortega is taking $17 a pop from women like “Thick Booti Amber” and “First Time Collage [sic] Student” is it any wonder he has been caught shacking up with one of his sources?
How the United Nations reacts to this abuse by one of its officials will be closely monitored.
(Should the author of the above article have any copyright problem please contact me).
Well done, but I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg of Ortega’s unethical (if not criminal) behavior.
Glad to see that some of Marty’s “under the radar” friends have been tossed. It’s truly amazing that people who have been exposed to the honesty that is the foundation of Scientology and Scientology tech could dramatize such treachery, especially when they present themselves as someone trying to “do good.”
Well, these are Marty people for sure. Anti-social personalities at their finest. If this is being “independent” I sure want nothing to do with it.
This is not surprising to me when you look at what Ortega does in his porno rag. You know he has a very lot to hide, and this may be only a mild sample of that.
Anyone with eyeballs has been able to see for a long time that Ortega is a misogynist to the bone. His poor wife.
Please excuse me while I blow dry my hair and go to the store.
Did Ortega say that the investigation into underage sex slaves was over-blown?
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Ignoring the bad joke, perhaps Ortega could enlighten us as to how many under-age sex slaves are appropriate? 5% would be under-blown and 7% would be just right and 10% would be just a bunch of college professors getting funding?
On the same week that glaxo gets hit with 2 fines totaling 5 billion dollars for their drug pushing and lying, and manipulation of data, you get slime like Ortega who try to pose as the savior of the nation against professors, real investigators and concerned citizens.
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His attempts to smear anyone who doesn’t pay him silver for ads shows that he is just another prostitute and pimp. That he takes money for the abuse of children should paint him and his lawyer as criminals.
Ortega, like his symbiote Rathbun, is only interested in the money and has no integrity when it comes to doing or saying things that will draw some of that to him. They both make money “parasiting” (Rathbun’s words) off of Scientology. I expect there will be much more found in the way of journalistic ethics violations with Ortega and friends.
Not a huge surprise about Ortego (we’ve come to expect the worst) but this should cause some serious problems for his U.N. hench-person. Of course, this same week it was revealed that the UN Intellectual Property unit is passing computer technology to both Korea and Iran, in violations of U.S. and international sanctions, so out-ethics amongst U.N. staff is apparently not uncommon.
It is seriously funny that Ortega would even try to defend against such ads with titles like that. It’s like an absurd comedy skit.
Either he is so mentally packed-in by his anti-social actions that he just can’t see anymore, or he considers people incredibly stupid, or both.
Good old covert Rathbun and his “missions under the radar”.
He thinks there’s absolutely nothing wrong with such treachery. But he sure does make up and complain about similar things in others.
This is just a small taste of how the entheta “press” about Scientology is manufactured, and how corrupt it is.
Doesn’t the UN check the computers of its employees? Or do they not care if they have raving bigots like this Ariele Silverstein posting trash to the internet right under their noses? I hope at least the Israeli’s cotton onto her. I don’t know why they allow her into their country. You would think they have enough security problems over there.
>>Last Summer, while the Village Voice was experiencing another round of editorial staff layoffs and Backpage.com was just starting to arouse the interest of the State Attorney Generals,…>>
Well, this, at least, is good news. Anybody know what happened to this investigation? Would love to see ol’ Tony in the orange jumpsuit he deserves.
===Backpage now hosts 70% of all online prostitution ads according to the New York Times. Other sources state that Village Voice Media’s Backpage.com has cornered as much as 80% of the online sex-for-sale ads.===
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There always seems to be some King of Porn around our Marty. I read about some of these people and they are pretty messed up. Or at least they do some pretty messed up things. Doing it in the auditing room, putting cameras up in girl’s bathrooms. Who the heck does these things?
Violations? my god, there has to be seething cesspool of crimes going on right in the back rooms of the Village Voice, if not in the front lobby!
True, but this has to get someone’s attention. The UN’s PR is already so bad and they are pretty sensitive about anything anit-Muslim, so that alone should catch somebody’s eye. There are some factions within the UN who will go beserk over that. Little Ariele and her trash-mouth may find herself run out of Manhattan.
Yeah, not a big surprise when Marty Rathbun is AGAIN proven to be best buds with anyone who hates religion and LRH. And he does seem to like to cozy up to the Porn King of Greenwich Village in particular. Hmm, wonder why…
Treachery is just the right word Sharpe. And it fits all of them. Ortega and his sex for hire/sex slave mentality is treacherous for kids around the world. Using his tabloid as a promo tool to get sex from his ‘girlfriend’ is treachery to his readers and Silverstein uses sex to get a platform and cover hate-crimes that will eventually get her fired, which will give them something else to whine about.
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The muttons Lemberger, who knows and who cares. But make no mistake that what they thought was cute and clever was actually treachery as well. Different dynamics and maybe worse than Ortega because really, anyone who would read and believe Ortega isn’t smart enough or wise enough for me to worry about. But Lemberger’s were probably spreading lies and distortions to people who I care about. So, maybe they are worse than the clown Ortega.
Good point Posh. These two are just another set of pawns in the demo kit of Anti-Social Twerps.
Classic though, isn’t it? You really do want to turn a government person into your toy if you are a con, right?
The amazing thing is that Scientology is the kind of science that can help them. And instead of being a porn rag, honest stories about Big Pharma (the glaxco thing has got to be the tip of an iceberg) and BigAg could give them a legit life. But, then the stories would read like Mission Earth.
I hope she has to buy her own ticket when she is pushed out as a terrorist.
I’m going for both; he is stupid enough to think that everyone is stupid and he is packed up.
Exactly.
Ortega Orange we can call it. After he has to pay everything he has to victims of his incompetence and inhumanity.
Anyone want to bet that the pompous porn king Ortega is a lashing out angry guy like the Marty-bot?
But if you are ‘independent’ you can have a say when your ethics era is over and can have a tech era too. Just read some comics about zen and have a few psychotic breaks where you almost kill your Stockholm Syndrome friend and you are a freakin’ expert. Get drunk, write a lot and impress the
messes.I’d love to know who Ortega is a robot for. Who gets these millions for the child slave trade? Ortega tries to act like he is the hip New York star, but he is just another pimp with someone else’s flashy tabloid instead of a neon lit ride. The way he goes after Scientology, you know he is afraid of it and the tools that LRH gave to the common man so that we can become better without high priests and savages like him.
Allow me to disagree. You think that Ortega is a misogynist. I think he is a nothing.
Wonder why the Rat spends so much time ‘alone with the fishes’ on his boat and needs the friendship of Ortega? Interesting question.
And much of it will be more parasiting, no doubt.
I don’t know how Marty Rathbun’s true intentions could get more obvious – creating spies and then sending them to “debrief” to Porn Meister Tony Ortega whose agency for attacking Scientology could be more clear or more specious. Gosh, I am tired of the press being nothing more than a megaphone for crooks and liars!!
Yes – I mean, you would think Ortega’s agenda woud be so clear to people. And the fact that Rathbun FEEDS and PROMOTES it, should make Marty’s agenda obvious too. That paper has become nothing but a rag now. I mean, when porn ads become 70% of your profit, it’s obvious that no one is buying the paper for the rest of the content.
Ah yes, Glaxo-Smith-Kline – no coincidence that the attacks against Scn have ratcheted up to a fever pitch over the last weeks and months, is it?
And look how easily Marty got caught! Marty has about as much success “flying under the radar” as Wiley Coyote.
Judging from Ortega’s photo he looks like “Luca Brazzi does Tel Aviv!”
It would be nice if the UN takes notice. I’m not holidng my breath. With any luck someone will send a link to her anti-Muslim postings to the Turkish and Indonesian legations, maybe the Saudi’s too. That may get a response.
Sad, isn’t it? No big booming squirrel “org” for Marty the Chief Nut. What happened to all the big boasts and plans, Marty? Scientology flourishes and prospers in spite of attacks from crazies like you and Ortega and every pharma company with a poisonous psych drug to peddle. Yet despite all the pay-offs and publicity you get from corrupt media, you can barely keep a roof over your head. You might want to ponder that while hunched in your little boat talking to the fish.
Lucky for Marty that his ethics and his tech don’t include confessionals that pull the “what did you do?” button. Treachery becomes just a person who you tried to strangle you or someone who ate a sandwich without throwing salt over his shoulder. Same same. A = A
“Ah yes, Glaxo-Smith-Kline – no coincidence that the attacks against Scn have ratcheted up to a fever pitch over the last weeks and months, is it?”
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Just part of the same long thread since that drug advertising magazine Reader's Digest kept pounding the drug company message to distract the truth that Scientology keeps pointing out. Nice to hear about a 5 billion dollar settlement and fine from just one company doing horrid things.
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Marty would go meet with Glaxo and agree with their premise and make a story of how he went there to tell his story...as if anyone would care.
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“A former Village Voice employee recently provided shocking revelations about Tony Ortega, the editor of the Village Voice,..”
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It was only a matter of time.
“Ortega’s ethics called into question…”
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Really, I thought that question had been answered years ago.
Scientology flourishes and prospers in spite of attacks from crazies like you and Ortega and every pharma company with a poisonous psych drug to peddle.
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I wonder if our Marty is aware of reality enough to be irritated by this, then I remember that video of Mr. Marty walking in circles with a cigarette constantly lit, putting them out on the marble floor as he spits and talks to himself like a rabid animal chasing its tail.
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Marty knows he is a failure, a traitor…and a fool.
Much of the press seem to treat their audience as morons. My theory is that if they can keep them concentrated on distractions from important things, which is exactly what Marty does as well, they can sell more soap.
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So instead of focusing on how the executives of GlaxoSmithKline got away without prison time, or how a Chinese company would have been fined and prohibited from selling in the US again (and the executives would have been shot for treachery), they focus on Kardashian and Cruise "news".
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This week I counted 5 articles that mentioned Scientology in the headlines of Cruise news (as if I am interested in someone's divorce misfortune) when there was no reference to Scientology in the article. And there was another that had some random Scientologist's blog posting under the heading of Scientology Wanting Censorship as if anything a Scientologist says is Church doctrine.
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So, in summary: The mass media is acting as desperate as Marty is, while the Church continues to be ever more beneficial to ever more people.
Treachery is the right word – for both the squirrels and the SP pimp Tony Ortega. It derives from Old French trechier ‘to cheat’ and Tony is certainly that – a cheat.
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LRH said that anytime we look into the background of people attacking Scientology we find real crimes – and so it is with Ortega. Criminals attack those they think can expose them, and Tony knows that we can expose him and that we will. Down deep somewhere he knows that he is basically scum and that he needs to be stopped and incarcerated. Clearly the authorities haven’t yet managed to do it, and so he has appointed a new executioner.
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As criminals always do, Tony Ortega accuses others of what he himself is doing. Tony Ortega exploits vulnerable people for personal gain (minimally). Further investigation will uncover abuse of power, violence, drugs, financial irregularities, fraud and tax evasion – things he also accuses others of.
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Pimp Ortega has long lost his self respect and his quality of life. Next he will lose his position, his income, his family, and his freedom. Mark my words.
Prostitution does not just exist in isolation of other social ills. Invariably and infallibly, the sex trade is interwoven with the drugs trade and with gambling/money laundering. You do not find one without the others also present, no matter how respectable a face someone may try paint on an individual component. The three of them go together like the points of an Organized Crime triangle.
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With Tony Ortega drawing so much attention to himself it wouldn’t surprise me at all if his real masters decided decided to implement a little “justice” of their own before he brings the whole show down with his antics. It is time to wonder whether it is wise to have the Pimp also be the Circus Master.
Another pair of jerks who have elected to become total effect.
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Are you saying Cora that you don’t think that people buy Ortega’s rag to see hate-filled articles about people of other faiths by a person violating her responsibilities at what should be a group of inclusive people?
At first I thought you were hyperbolating with the terrorist remark, then I realized how right you are Christine. She brews hatred for people for the purpose of turning others against them. Enough of that and people will start committing horrible acts that they think are justified because back-stabbing people like Arielle Silverstein kept making it part of the common wisdom. Hatred as the common wisdom should be part of her ‘never again’ heritage that she fights against instead of pushes.
…with an ACME Anvil in the box that he’s holding.
I looked up some of the troubles that the tabloid has had since sinking into the cess-pool. So many good good writers and editors quit or were fired then Ortega came with just the right amount of pimp and brown-nose for the owners in Arizona.
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He’s just like Rathbun. Pretending to be someone he isn’t, constantly getting caught for unusual solutions, but just able to get along with the right criminals around him.
It won’t be amusing to watch him go down, but like with Marty there are supporters of twisted activities. The whole backpage group should go down, of which Ortega is just a pawn.
From your mouth to the gods ears Marcus. The puppeteers holding Ortega’s strings are making millions a month online from their sex and slave trade. They probably don’t need the profile of the baggage that Ortega brings, with the potential to get busted on ‘who knows what’ charges.
The poor disaccated soul’d out Marty has the idea of Cause as being Destroy Scientology, which is the entirety of your point.
A funny thing was on the radio today. Some guy made an odd remark about Scientology for some reason, and a few minutes later started talking about the Glaxo case and all fraud and lies and criminal activities – as if any of that would have happened if the Church hadn’t been on their butts for every count of the indictment from the beginning. It is too bad that these people buy into the propaganda without knowing what we truly do.
MArty’s a traitor and a fool, but I find it funny how he likes to show it off, like when he gets so off tangent in his writing, you know he is just dying to make some point but he can’t fit it in so he just says it – it is always some blame thing or some bit that is just showing his own overts on the subject.
Doesn’t the UN check the computers of its employees? Or do they not care if they have raving bigots like this Ariele Silverstein posting trash to the internet right under their noses?===
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It would be nice if they could rely upon some common decency, but these hate-crimes are too tempting for small beings.
re: Luca Brazzi; with a tenth of the humanity.
This is why Marty makes such a good demo kit tool. He lost his purpose like much of the media lost its purpose. They get so twisted by the justifications they think they are forced to make because of errors they’ve made and then made again to prove their new adversary wrong. In Marty’s case and Ortega’s case they pimp themselves out. Oh, I guess that is the case for the media too! Pimps!
Not a surprise, really. It sounds like he matches Marty Rathbun for hanging around criminals and pretending to be much more than he is.
“…cesspool of crimes going on right in the back rooms of the Village Voice, if not in the front lobby!”
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The front lobby of their criminal activity is the internet, the wild west where Rathbun’s criminal buddies want to hold their course rooms. I can hear them coffee shopping about doing their auditing with an XBox toy. “Pick up the simulated cans please.”
Hate crime. Terrorism. It isn’t like Arielle Silverstein is just causing a traffic accident in her trail by driving too fast. She is trying to create an effect of humiliating people who think different than her so that she won’t get discovered for something that she did. Just like Ortega. Just like Rathbun. Just like every criminal who justifies everything.
4 days later and I see my comment and think that there is a lesson for the Rathbuns of the world, with all their anti-social acts clogging them up that it is all they can think about as they sit there can’tdoanythingelsecan’teliminate…he is so far from being at the end of his ethics cycle.
That’s the trouble with these Ortega and Rathbun and Arielle Silverstein types. They think that they are so clever, but while they are trying to impress people about how clever they are and how wrong other’s were to ignore their brilliance, they forget to let go of their box of personal anvils and go off in a different direction than down, down, down.
“Doesn’t the UN check the computers of its employees? ”
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It seems like it is so hard to keep up with stupid. There’s always one more thing to check. If it isn’t theft of money, it is theft of reputation, or theft of trust. The UN may not always have the best techniques or may just be growing into some situation that the world hasn’t encountered before, but there are a lot of good people who don’t need the hates of Arielle Silverstein-types to make less of every beneficial thing they are trying to accomplish.
These are the people who the press picks out as experts on Scientology…the ones who couldn’t keep their ethics in their pants, who couldn’t understand and apply. Al they seem to know is how to PR to the 1.1 crowd.
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Vince. You have an unforgivable typo in the title. Sex scandals should be plural.
“…the sex trade is interwoven with the drugs trade and with gambling/money laundering…”
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You have to be making a bunch of Martybots slaver and drool. Maybe even wander in circles like the mental baglady that Marty imitates when he freaks in public. Wanna ‘nuther cigarette to stamp on the marble floor Marty?
I guess that when you want sleeze from a street corner porn-rag that the editor should be a sleezy type like Ortega.
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“Cause is the big boss. How to make your enemies powerful and yourself weak”
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I was thinking about that when I was reading the great article in the LATimes a couple days ago. That had to place the Marty-bots into a real tizzy. Marty himself tries to no avail to make all his problems pinned on Scientology, and the Church just keeps getting stronger.
“I mean, when porn ads become 70% of your profit, it’s obvious that no one is buying the paper for the rest of the content.”
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70% porn profit. Wow. Drugs and Money Laundering the rest?
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And the magazine is a give-away. They couldn’t sell it if they had to.
Perhaps there is a pimp section in the porn ads. Advertise how many people you beat.
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Hey! Rathbun could advertise there and brag how he publicly tried to kill his mate.
“Marty would go meet with Glaxo and agree with their premise and make a story of how he went there to tell his story…as if anyone would care.”
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Imagine the stories Rathbun could make up, and Ortega could publish as truth.
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