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		<title>Indoctrination Podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Tune in to the newest episode of the Indoctrination Podcast with Rachel Bernstein.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Billion Years Trade Paperback Available Now</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Available today in bookstores, at Simon &#38; Schuster, Amazon or anywhere you get your books. The audiobook also now includes the new Afterword.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Autographed Copies of A Billion Years</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Due to many requests, I am again making autographed copies of my book available &#8212; you can click on the link at the left of the home page here or simply click this link. I had stopped doing this a few months ago as there was too much going on and I was not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Case You Missed It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 11:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We had some fun on this live]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Billion Years &#8212; One Year On</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Today marks the one year anniversary of the publication of A Billion Years. It has been quite a year. It began last September with a media blitz, some wonderful reviews, huge public support and scientology&#8217;s desperate efforts to stop and then discredit the book and me. Things have continued apace all the way to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The New Library Campaign</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Piece of Blue Sky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abuse at The Top]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scientology is infamous for its &#8220;library campaigns&#8221; where they pressure people into giving money to buy L. Ron Hubbard books to ship to libraries. This is a program I initiated when I was L. Ron Hubbard Personal Public Relations Officer International (LRH PPRO Int). It started out as a relatively benign activity, but has morphed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Billion Years Update: Audiobook Outside US and Personalized Signed Copies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Audiobook for Non-US can now be pre-ordered! Finally! The red tape has given way and the audiobook can now be pre-ordered in countries outside the US. Check your Amazon site and it should be available there. I would like to hear from people in the comments in Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A New Review of A Billion Years</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Justin Clark, a public historian and writer based in the Midwest, reached out to let me know he had read my book and written a review for the Truth Seeker, one of the oldest publications dedicated to humanism and freethought. He also published it on his blog  I am including it here as it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>L. Ron Hubbard: March 13, 1911 &#8211; January 24, 1986</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bare Faced Messiah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Miscavige]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today marks 37 years since the death of L. Ron Hubbard &#8212; founder of scientology, &#8220;Source&#8221; to his followers, compulsive storyteller and master conman. I want to take a moment today to recommend Russell Miller&#8217;s wonderful, detailed, enlightening unauthorized biography Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard. Miller&#8217;s book opened my eyes to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Little Bit Culty Podcast</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just dropped, a new episode of one of my favorite podcasts with my good friends Sarah Edmondson and Nippy (Anthony) Ames. You can listen here &#160;]]></description>
		
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