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Archives for January 2022

Episode 75: Marc Headley on Scientology and the Internet

January 31, 2022 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

We welcome back our old friend Marc Headley to talk about Scientology and the internet, including covering the bonkers domain names scientology has registered, and how they have unsuccessfully attempted to control access to information on the World Wide Web.   Marc's wonderful book: Blown For Good The Audiobook version   The Scientology Money Project blog article listing many of the scientology owned domains:   A YouTube video listing some of the troll domains registered by scientology:   The Jokers & Degraders PL/HCOB: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: AC 360, Alex Gibney, Alexa ranks, Andreas Heldal-Lund, Blown For Good, Fair Game Podcast, Going Clear, Inch Wives, Jokers and Degraders, Leah Remini, Marc Headley, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Mike Rinder's Blog, Netflix, rottenrat.com, Scieno Sitter, Scientology And The Aftermath, Scientology Money Project, South Park, Trapped in the Closet

We ARE Clearing the Planet — Proof

January 30, 2022 By Mike Rinder 29 Comments

Some news from the model ideal org in Los Angeles. Over 880 Clear (or "near Clear") in just the last few years alone. Best case scenario, the "few" years is the minimum it can be which is three. That is a bit less than 300 per year. 6 per week. More likely, the "last few years" is since they went "ideal" in 2010. That is 12 years. About 75 per year or 1.5 per week. Most likely they are counting this from when they became a full Sea Org "model ideal" in October 2014, with 200 imported SO members. That is 7 years. Confirming that is the likely time period, here is their hype … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs Tagged With: Clearing, idealorgs, LA org, Planetary Clearing

Scientology is Smaller in the US than in Tanzania?

January 29, 2022 By Mike Rinder 21 Comments

    I sometimes take a look at the Amazon Alexa website rankings for scientology sites vs this blog and Tony Ortega's. You can see one example here from earlier: This topic came up in a recent interview, (in fact, the podcast episode for next week) so I checked in again. I was somewhat surprised to see scientology.org ranking steadily climbing. It makes no sense. Nothing in the world of scientology would indicate any increased interest in the subject....       Obviously things had been left adrift, as 90 days ago the site was ranked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Scientology Tagged With: Alexa rankings, mikerindersblog.org, Moshi mission, scientology TV, scientology.org, Tanzania

Regraded Being

January 28, 2022 By Mike Rinder 18 Comments

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Thursday Funnies

January 27, 2022 By Mike Rinder 30 Comments

  What A Deal! The best investment you can make is give us your money so we can invest in real estate and we will give you a phony certificate. Financial Planning par excellence.   Dinner and Graduation Enjoy a romantic evening in the grip of the regges.   It's Inspiring Too!   Did She Graduate Anything This Week? These orgs don't seem to have much in the way of graduates. Instead, "graduation" becomes "hear from..." while the regges hover.   Yeah, Right.... "Now"??? Been working on it for decades and it's not done. What are you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: AOSHANZO, Barbie Rivera, Brian Daniels, CCHR, CCNY, Chicago org, Costa Rica Mission, Craig Mathieson, Foothills Mission, Jive Aces, Lance Miller, Latin America, Lisa Mansell, Nation of Islam, New Haven Org, noi, Postcard Mania, Pretoria

Neil Sarfati Hits the Big Time

January 26, 2022 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

My old friend from the Apollo, Neil Sarfati alerted me yesterday that he had finally "made the big time." He didn't mean he had a new number one album of his sax playing, he was referring to becoming a target of the STAND League haters. It's familiar stuff from STAND buffoon Martin Landon. First, if you have not do so, you should listen to the interview Neil did with the BBC Outlook program. I link to it below. It is very even-handed, mild-mannered and rather gentle on L. Ron Hubbard and life in the Sea Org back in the days of the Apollo. But because Neil is a no longer a cult … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard, Sea Org Tagged With: Apollo, Apollo Stars, BBC, BBC oultoook, Chris Shelton, L. Ron Hubbard, Martin Landon, Neil Sarfati, STAND League, The Guardian, Tony Ortega

Episode 74: Julian Wain on WISE

January 24, 2022 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

  We speak to our old friend and Leah family member Julian Wain about his experiences with WISE (World Institute of Scientology Enterprises) companies and how they implement high pressure sales techniques into dental and chiropractic offices, and are recruitment agencies for scientology. I did an earlier post about these WISE Guys   This is the entry on WISE in Wikipedia   Here is the definition of "Hard Sell" contained in the official scientology dictionary -- this is the sanitized version. The meaning in scientology fundraising circles is "do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast, WISE Tagged With: Debbie Hughes, Fair Game Podcast, Greg Hughes, Hard Sell, Hy Levy, Julian Wain, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Sterling Management, Time magazine, WISE, World Institute of Scientology Enterprises

Cincinnati Ideal Org ED Jeanie Sonenfild Bankrupt

January 23, 2022 By Mike Rinder 52 Comments

  One of the "big names" in scientology -- Jeanie Sonenfild/Bogvad/Franks/Danilovich -- has a pending bankruptcy proceeding. What makes this of interest? Jeanie was promoted as one of the most successful Class V org ED's. Here she is below, winning the birthday game as the ED of Cincinnati Org (she was ED of LA Org before this).     She has a long history in the Sea Org -- was formerly married to Bill Franks who was at one point the Executive Director International of scientology. Then to Jens Bogvad, the former ED of Munich Org when it was the biggest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs Tagged With: bankruptcy, Birthday Game, Cincinnati org, Dave Sonenfild, Jeanie Sonenfild, Matt Feshbach

Scientology’s Not-so-secret Clearwater Political Campaign

January 22, 2022 By Mike Rinder 30 Comments

Someone forwarded this recent scientology email blast to me. They're trying to keep it hidden. Note the "DO NOT POST ON FB" bold ALL CAPS at the end. It  contains a bunch of coded language.  Despite what it says, the recipients of this message know they are not supposed to actually do their own research -- they might see something they are not supposed to see. By labeling Aaron an "Anti-scientologist" nothing more need be said. Because he is an "anti-scientologist" he is automatically an "anti-social personality" (or SP). Every scientologist knows you must NOT support an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Aaron Smith-Levin, Clearwater, Clearwater City Council, Kurt Belshaw, Scientology

Regraded Being

January 21, 2022 By Mike Rinder 20 Comments

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Crazy L. Ron Hubbard's 1980 letter to Pres. Reagan explaining his plan for a national sales tax and abolishing the IRS. It was a key theme of #scientology's war on the IRS... until they got exemption. Do today's proponents know? Full letter in blog post.
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-flat-tax-republicans-reviving-the-scientology-campaign-to-abolish-the-irs/

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@MikeRinder just finished reading your book. I've been anti-scientology for about 30 years. Your book was so informative as to the mindset and the bullying, gaslighting etc. Every through I watched the documentaries and listened to the podcast, I found this book so much (/2)

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