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The “Glory” of Scientology’s Dead “Enemies”

July 30, 2022 By Mike Rinder 3 Comments

This is the fifth "vacation" post, revisiting some of the more  important articles to have appeared on my blog over the years. The original post and comments can be found here.   A couple of days ago, Tony Ortega posted a lengthy "success story" from a woman who had recently completed "Super Power." Of course, it was over-the-top bizarre, but one paragraph stood out: While on the rundown two major SPs (2.5 percent) connected to my dynamics received their bitter end. One died in an unexpected way, and the other got put in a psychiatric hospital by his best friend. This filled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard, Scientology Tagged With: enemies, fair game, L. Ron Hubbard

Dealing with Critics of Scientology – The L. Ron Hubbard Playbook

July 26, 2022 By Mike Rinder 10 Comments

This is the first "vacation" post, revisiting some of the more  important articles to have appeared on my blog over the years. The original post, along with the comments, can be found here.   If you read this blog, you are likely aware of Leah Remini's upcoming A&E show. I have had the pleasure of working with Leah on this show as a consultant and participant, a cause of great distress for the church. So I thought I might weigh in with some information I feel is pertinent to events now and into the future. As a reader here you are likely also aware of the "church" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Dealing with Critics of Scientology, fair game, L. Ron Hubbard, Playbook, Vacation

“Journalism and Free Speech” According to STAND

May 30, 2022 By Mike Rinder 17 Comments

Typical of STAND League, they have a headline intended to create the impression they are fighting for human rights. But read what they say and it is clear that "free speech" only applies when the speech is something they approve of. And their "responsibility" level for truth and honesty in their "journalism" is dictated entirely by what is good for scientology. Jim Kalergis is very long-term koolaid drinker. One of the most well-known scientology FSMs and "Field Auditors" in Los Angeles. He proclaims, with the assume moral superiority so common to fundamentalist scientologists: I don’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: STAND League Tagged With: fair game, Jim Kalergis, STAND League

Episode 71: Listener Questions #10

January 3, 2022 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments

We start 2022 with one of our favorites -- a Listener Question episode. As always, we cover a wide scope of topics, from Fair Game campaign tactics to preserving Hubbard's "legacy" on stainless steel plates in titanium capsules in nuclear-bomb-proof vaults and the embarrassing "We Stand Tall" song... It's a lot of fun and hopefully includes new information for our listeners. Here are some of the things we mentioned: The activities of Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) to preserve the tech. Scientology is so proud of this, and treat it with such earnestness they have a fully … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: Church fo Spiritual Technology, cst, fair game, Fair Game Podcast, Gabe Cazares, Judges on scientology, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Neurotology SNL parody, NOTs, physical healing, preservation of the tech, We Stand Tall

Episode 63: Former SO Member Nora Ames

October 25, 2021 By Mike Rinder 22 Comments

This week we welcome Nora Ames, former SO member and outspoken whistleblower concerning the hypocrisy of scientology's rampant homophobia. She has one of the most incredible and harrowing escape from the Sea Org stories. We cover it in some detail, as well as what she did to get her mother out of scientology. Both her father and mother were scientology Guardian Office workers.   Nora's video from 2016 on Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker. Direct link to video on YouTube:   In the episode, Leah says to Google the Guardian's Office. These days, the Wikipedia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: fair game, Fair Game Podcast, Guardian's Office, homophobia, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Murder Routine, Nora Ames, Nora Crest, scientology litigation, Sea Org, Sentencing Memorandum

Scientology: Journalists are Fair Game

August 1, 2021 By Mike Rinder 47 Comments

I came across this on Twitter. Jeffrey Palmaccio (his twitter handle is @longisland1892), a Masters of Journalism student at Hofstra University, wrote this mini capstone in December 2020 about scientology (I had to look that up: Also called a capstone experience, culminating project, or senior exhibition, among many other terms, a capstone project is a multifaceted assignment that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience for students, typically during their final year of high school or middle school, or at the end of an academic program. Similar in some ways to a college … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Tagged With: fair game, Hofstra, Jeffrey Palmaccio, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Scientology

Episode 39: Former A&E Executive Devon Graham Hammonds

May 3, 2021 By Mike Rinder 31 Comments

This week we talk with our guardian angel at A&E, Devon Graham Hammonds. Devon was VP Programming (she has since moved on and is now an executive at the production company that produced the show) and oversaw The Aftermath show in every respect. We talk about how the show came to be with a lot of behind-the-scenes glimpses into what it was like to make The Aftermath -- including the Fair Gaming of everyone concerned and the challenges the network and production company and everyone who worked on the show faced. We also cover why the show ended (it was not, as scientology crowed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: A&E, Devon Graham Hammonds, fair game, Fair Game Podcast, IPC, Leah Remini, Scientology And The Aftermath, Taryn Teutsch

Hubbard Doing Hubbard

May 2, 2021 By Mike Rinder 45 Comments

I happened to notice this statement from L. Ron Hubbard on Tony Ortega's blog (he includes a Hubbard quote each day that Hubbard made on that day of the year in his section "Source Code"). Source Code “We’ve had a little slowdown here recently on research the last six, seven days — I managed to get the show back on the road again — mostly due to the nonsense going on in Australia. The general situation with regard to that is they’re not in any danger or anything like that, they’re just being cross-advised and being generally upset. The government of Australia….Well, these little boys have an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: David Miscavige, Doug Wearne, fair game, L. Ron Hubbard, Steve Cannane, Victoria Inquiry

Episode 37: Mormon Stories Host Dr. John Dehlin

April 19, 2021 By Mike Rinder 28 Comments

This week Leah and I venture into the world of Mormonism with Dr. John Dehlin. I recently appeared on his long-running and very popular podcast, Mormon Stories, and we are now welcoming him to ours. He is not just a podcaster, he is a non-profit CEO, activist, public speaker, and religious transitions coach. He advocates for the rights of skeptics in Mormonism, LGBT rights, equality for women, and other individual views outside mainstream Mormonism. He has Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical and Counseling Psychology. We learned a great deal from John … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Beauty in the Now, Betsy Davis, Ensign Peak, fair game, John Dehlin, Joseph Smith, Leah Remini, Margi Dehlin, Mike Rinder, Mormon Faith Crisis, Mormon Stories, podcast, Sam Young, Symmetry Solutions

Episode 33: Media and Political Journalist Yashar Ali

March 22, 2021 By Mike Rinder 62 Comments

  We are joined this week by media and politics reporter Yashar Ali.  Yashar has done over a dozen stories related to scientology and more are coming. He has been a long-term voice against scientology abuses who has never been scared off by their Fair Game tactics. Yashar was recently named one of Time magazine's 25 most influential people on the internet: You can follow Yashar on Twitter: @Yashar,  Instagram: yasharali and Facebook: Yashar Ali With his background in politics and the media we had a lot to talk about: Scientology celebrities and how the media fails to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: @yashar, 7 year old girl, Dianetics, elected officials, fair game, Fair Game Podcast, homophobia, Introduction to Scientology Ethics, Law Enforcement, Leah Remini, media, Mike Rinder, New Hope for Justice, Playbook, Science of Survival, scientology homophobia, Tone Scale, Yashar Ali

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