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Welcome BIA and thanks for the inside skinny, looking forward to hearing moarrrrrrr
Hello BIA,
You might want to check out my Sydney Ideal Org thread - Update on the Sydney Ideal Org situation - in which I have been following the progress of the project since they moved out of 201 Castlereagh st. (I joined ESMB then to post about it!)
I look forward to any new information and inside knowledge you can put forward. Particularly any solid dox regarding the fire hazards or RPF work would be most welcome.
I am not entirely sure how much they have raised, but its probably in the region of $10 million, and they still have at least $2 million left to go, despite endless 'deadlines' that the fundraising has to be 'done by next week'. How the public put up with these endless lies that the Ideal Org is 'just around around the corner' and that it's going to 'really start the expansion of Scientology' I don't know.
In my opinion its highly unlikely they will finish the Ideal Org before they are kicked of Hercules st in July 2011.
Phase 1 : Lots of stuff (~ $6.8 million)
Phase 2 : Actual Construction (~ $3.5 million)
Phase 3 : Fixtures, Furniture and Equipment (~ $1.5 million)
Total: Still about $11.8 million, though possibly a bit less.
Isn't that theft? Or whatever the appropriate term is for using those funds for a purpose different to that stated when they were originally extorted?
Does anyone have dox about the condemnation by the firies?But here is the beautiful bit, when the CofS vacated the building to start preliminary work on it, the NSW Fire Brigade was able to move in and condemn the building, without any possibility to an expensive legal challenge. This "foot bullet", took the "foot" right off
Regards, David.
Stealing under direction.Excellent. And welcome.
Isn't that theft? Or whatever the appropriate term is for using those funds for a purpose different to that stated when they were originally extorted?
Paul
Does anyone have dox about the condemnation by the firies?
The building currently has a Fire Safety Order issued on it from the City of Sydney that requires the upgrade of the buildings Fire Safety elements to comply with the Building Code of Australia.
I'll see what I can find out from someone who would have access to it, but too late to call tonight.........Will get onto it tomorrow.<snip>
Now if only we could get a copy of that FSO...
The move was supposedly for a year while the original building was renovated into an ideal morgue. It's now going onto 17 months and it doesn't look like they're going to make it by the end of this lease period. But they’ll have another shore story in place by then. Maybe.
The Sea Org has been wanting to combine the AO, CLO and the berthing and move out of Sydney. That's right, they're running! There have been three locations that they are considering moving to. The Blue Mountains, the South Coast and finally the outskirts of Adelaide.
When they announce it it will be with all the fanfare possible. They'll talk about how they've expanded and this new ideal set up puts them in the box seat to clear Anzo. Right!
The truth is they have become so weird and extreme that the only way they can imagine surviving is away from those prying eyes. This move has been prompted by the recent neighbouring property development that you can see in the pics.
They'll need a place where they can put in a lake for their overboardings too.
If they do move those still there will never have reason to leave the base, it won't be long before they figure that out and install the razor wire, for *security purposes*. Wow, it'll be so on source, just like Int and Flag!
They've also long past the point of desperation regarding Anonymous protesting them every month, Ron's told them that the public love them and hate psychs, the cognitive dissonance must be keeping them awake at night by now.
Run clams, run.
Maybe they should put an advertisement in the window;
"Dodgy cult desperately has need for new headquarters, away from the influences of abberated wogs. Will pay big money for premises where we can practice our Human Rights abuses without interference. Call NOW! 02 96927300"
What if....
From the other thread;
Should things pan out this way the ClV org could buy the AO at a massively inflated amount from the SO with the money taken from their dupes.
This money plus the money gained from selling Dundas would buy the Sea Ogres anything they could possibly want in Adelaide plus leave them with millions in change as well as the 201 Castlereagh st. site.
Scientology the only game where every one wins!
Cap ya later!
While I don't have any docs related to the condemnation issue at Castlereagh, this really doesn't surprise me at all. When I was on the RPF in ANZO I did some work in wiring up a new Purif Centre on the ground floor of Syd Org. As I was crawling around in the ceiling trying to wire up some lights the power to the entire building went out. I nearly sh*t myself thinking that I had somehow caused that to happen.
As it turns out some old wiring had started a small fire by the breaker box near Reception. The Fire Brigade from the down the street responded and put out the fire. Afterwards a couple of them stayed behind and told me that the wiring in the building was so old and that whoever had rigged up must not have been a sparky as it was nowhere near compliant with the building codes. They directed me to leave the power shut off so another fire wouldn't start and then they just left.
I went up to the CLO to explain what the Fire brigade had relayed to me. I was asked to just replace the wiring that had fried and then get the power up so people could get back on post. I pointed out that I wasn't really a sparky and that I thought maybe we should get one in to inspect things. in the end, being a dutiful RPFer I did what I was told.
I highly doubt that the wiring has been inspected/fixed since then, so it makes sense that they wouldn't allow the building permits till some of that stuff gets handled.