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Archives for January 18, 2023

Happy Birthday Shelly Miscavige

January 18, 2023 By Mike Rinder 30 Comments

Today is Shelly Miscavige's 62nd birthday. She has been disappeared for the last 15 years -- one confirmed sighting at her father's funeral (with a handler) in 2007 and nothing certain since. Once a fixture of the scientology world, at her husband's side virtually everywhere he went, she suddenly vanished in 2005. I write about her and her vanishing from the Int Base in my book A Billion Years. Shelly is not the only person at the senior echelons of scientology who has been erased from public view (so too the President of scientology Heber Jentzsch, Executive Director International … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige Tagged With: Clarisse Barnett, David Miscavige, Guillaume Lesevre, L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Marc Yager, Mary Sue Hubbard, Norman Starkey, Ray Mithoff, Russ Bellin, shelly miscavige

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Troublemaker - Leah Remini
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Bare Faced Messiah - Russell Miller
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Unbreakable Miss Lovely - Tony Ortega
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Fair Game - Steve Cannane
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
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Escaping Scientology - Karen Schless
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Ex-Scientologist turned whistleblower @MikeRinder talks about his new book "A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology" and joins me in identifying the similarities and differences between our respective former #cults. https://youtu.be/YBVUxhwPzCE

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Scientology Q&A Live w/ Aaron Smith-Levin & Mike Rinder 5:45 PM (MST) #XenuIsMyHomeboy https://youtube.com/live/sgIdM250NhM?feature=share

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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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29 Jan

@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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