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RPF Insider Part 3

June 20, 2022 By Mike Rinder 34 Comments

The third in the series - see Part 1 and Part 2. This is the last in this short series and includes an exact schedule on the RPF and a letter to the US Secretary of State (I only included the letter not the attachments).         … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General

Through the Bubble – Lili’s Adventures in Scientologyland Part 19

June 19, 2022 By Mike Rinder 4 Comments

This is the nineteenth installment of the account of a journey into and out of scientology -- written by one of our long-term readers. I hope you enjoy her insights, humor and style.  Lili also provided a glossary of terms.   Through the Bubble - Lili’s Adventures in Scientologyland This is my quirky recollection of events. Others may remember things differently. Lingo is italicized on the first mention, capitalized after that. I’ve compressed complexities in the cult to simplify your reading pleasure. Part 19 You Pulled it In and There’s No Such Thing as a Victim in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Through the Bubble Tagged With: Lili Ryder, Through the Bubble

The RPF Insider Part 2

June 18, 2022 By Mike Rinder 31 Comments

This is the next installment of the RPF Insider documents contained in the FBI files release. See Part 1. Our old friend Chuck Beatty added some helpful information in a comment on the first post which I include below: I’m not sure if RPF Insider ever was outed. I was in phone contact with him as he posted his series back when it posted. Telling the details in his postings is excellent. The framework, him being not actually in the RPF, but was out, and was posting like he was in it, just to goad Miscavige, was his call. (Theoretically he could have been, example, before I was gone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FBI Tagged With: Chuck Beatty, FBI, RPF Insider

Regraded Being

June 17, 2022 By Mike Rinder 10 Comments

Another golden oldie... You gotta love the COB. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Regraded Being Tagged With: regraded being

Thursday Funnies

June 16, 2022 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

So many people coming!!! Yeah, right. And it's going to be monumental. And milestone.     It's the food stupid All about the food. The seminar is secondary.   This is the event that so many people are coming to... Really?   Another "virtual" briefing... Doesn't seem very OT -- cause over Matter, Energy, Space and Time?   The Freewinds is LIVE! And they are doing Div 6 seminars (really just excuses to try to get some bodies to reg). It's a little odd they keep promoting themselves as being "off the crossroads of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies Tagged With: Arte Maren, Bellaire Mission, Chase Wilson, Chicago org, Flag, Freewinds, Ft Harrison, Hourglass, Sandra Poveda, valley org, Vancouver org

The RPF Insider Part 1

June 15, 2022 By Mike Rinder 34 Comments

In the recent FBI Docs release, there are copies of these documents from the "RPF Insider." I had not seen them before, but they can be found on xenu.net. There are a dozen of them, and they make for interesting reading. This enormously detailed (and accurate) information about the RPF Prison Camp in Los Angeles documents the abuse dished out to members of the Sea Org as a routine. He (or she) asks that health and safety inspections be done, describes how all their ID and personal documents are confiscated, locks put on fire doors so they can't escape, lack of health care and on and on. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FBI Tagged With: FBI, PAC, RPF, RPF Insider

Chicago Ideal Org Fail

June 14, 2022 By Mike Rinder 49 Comments

  The "ideal org" strategy is so far off the rails it doesn't even resemble the original crazy plan when Miscavige announced it in the early 2000's. He proclaimed that orgs required large enough buildings to be able to deliver "all the services", including a Public Divisions space large enough to accommodate what I called his FART program (Fully Automated Robot TV) whereby staff would be replaced by videos to "explain scientology). I laid this out in some detail in a posting from 2015 entitled What Is The Ideal Org Program? Originally, OT Committees were supposed to raise the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs, Idle Orgs Tagged With: Bob Spaulding, Chicago Ideal Org, Ideal Org program, Jacob Jolly, ot committee

Free Quarantine

June 13, 2022 By Mike Rinder 30 Comments

Yes, come to Flag and you will still be forced to quarantine. But it’s sort of free -- and in the scientology world, that is a really big deal. They never give ANYTHING away for free. The catch here is that you have to buy their food. Because, of course, if you are quarantined you can’t go out of the building. And you can’t order food from outside to be delivered. So, you can get one of their $20 room service burgers… Can you believe they are still requiring everyone to quarantine? The US doesn't even require a negative test to fly into the country any more. Just another indication of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flag Service Org Tagged With: Clearwater, COVID-19, Flag, quarantine

Through the Bubble – Lili’s Adventures in Scientologyland Part 18

June 12, 2022 By Mike Rinder 10 Comments

This is the eighteenth installment of the account of a journey into and out of scientology -- written by one of our long-term readers. I hope you enjoy her insights, humor and style.  Lili also provided a glossary of terms.   Through the Bubble - Lili’s Adventures in Scientologyland This is my quirky recollection of events. Others may remember things differently. Lingo is italicized on the first mention, capitalized after that. I’ve compressed complexities in the cult to simplify your reading pleasure. Part 18 How Getting Bull-Baited Made My Sales-Stat Boom Back on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Through the Bubble Tagged With: Lili Ryder, Through the Bubble

Cult Apologists Conference

June 11, 2022 By Mike Rinder 17 Comments

The same, tired old band of cult apologist "academics" are holding their annual conference next week in Quebec, Canada. They are familiar names, led by Massimo Introvigne, one of the main beneficiaries of much scientology funding over the years.  We did a Fair Game podcast about these cult apologists with Chris Shelton The reason for putting "academics" in quotation marks is that they do no real research or study. They accept information provided to them by scientology, reject anything that comes from "former" members (apostates) on the basis that one of the founding apologists, Bryan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations Tagged With: Bryan Wilson, CESNUR, Chris Shelton, Donald Westbrook, Massimo Introvigne

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