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A Billion Years UK & Australia Editions Update

September 14, 2022 By Mike Rinder 15 Comments

  As many of you know, there have been some difficulties with Amazon concerning the non-US edition being published by Humfrey Hunter and Silvertail Books. Sadly, the problems with A Billion Years caused all of Silvertail's titles to be removed from Amazon, which hurt other authors they publish. Through a lot of hard work and persistence, Humfrey has now resolved the issue and all his books are back up. But titles that were previously noted as "bestsellers" have been reset to "zero." Any pre-orders of A Billion Years will likely have been lost (check your Amazon account) and you will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Billion Years Tagged With: Amazon, Going Clear, Humfrey Hunter, john sweeney, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Silvertail books, Steve Cannane, Tony Ortega

A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

July 12, 2022 By Mike Rinder 87 Comments

I have finally written a book. It was announced in a press release today -- it will be available on 27 September. You can find it at the Simon and Schuster website where there are links to all major retailers to pre-order if you are so inclined. There is also a description of the book and some initial reviews from Leah, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright and John Sweeney. It's taken a long time to put together. I hope it doesn't disappoint any of you who have been asking me to write a book. I am about to begin recording the audiobook.     The press … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Billion Years Tagged With: A Billion Years, Alex Gibney, john sweeney, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Simon & Schuster

Episode 66: Dr. Willy Rice Pastor of Calvary Baptist Clearwater

November 15, 2021 By Mike Rinder 20 Comments

We welcome Dr. Willy Rice, Senior Pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater to the podcast. Willy has been one of the few community leaders who has taken a strong, public stance against the abuses of scientology. We talk about the influence of scientology in the community and the lie that you can a Christian and a scientologist.     Below are the documents we talk about in the episode. The infamous OT VIII document scientology claims is a forgery that contains the following passage: [T]he historic Jesus was not nearly the sainted figure has been made out to be. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Calvary Baptist, Christianity, Confront and Shatter blog, Fair Game Podcast, Going Clear, L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Price list, Public Image PL, Ray Cassano, Stefani Hutchinson, Willy Rice

Episode 3: Scientology’s War on the Media with Richard Behar

August 11, 2020 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments

  We were very fortunate to speak with Richard Behar on this week's episode of the Fair Game podcast. Rich, along with Pauletter Cooper (who will feature in an upcoming episode) is a poster child for scientology Fair Game against journalists. He is an award-winning investigative journalist who first wrote about scientology in 1986 for Forbes magazine in an article entitled The Prophet and Profits of Scientology. His most famous scientology piece was the 1991 Time magazine cover story, The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power. The subhead on his article pretty much sums up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Interviews, Podcast Tagged With: Alex Gibney, fair game, Fair Game Podcast, Forbes magazine, Going Clear, HBO, Karen Bass, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Paulette Cooper, Richard Behar, Time magazine

Let the Scientology Fair Game Begin

July 29, 2020 By Mike Rinder 61 Comments

I mentioned in my post on Sunday that I would let Leah respond to the latest bs about her from Ed Parkin. He should know by now not to poke the bear. Here is what Leah has to say. As only Leah can say it.   Scientology uses a practice called Fair Game, these are directives and activities that seek to discredit and destroy anyone and anything Scientology considers a threat to their vile, illegal, and criminal practices. The practice of Fair Game by Scientology, its employees and parishioners is nothing new. It has gone on for decades. Here are some of the “Operations” carried … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, STAND League Tagged With: Alex Gibney, Anderson Cooper, Danny Masterson, David Miscavige, Dead Agent, Dead Agenting, Ed Parkin, fair game, Freedom Magazine, Guardian's Office, Heber Jentzsch, Jesse Prince, Karin Pouw, L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Mike Feuer, Mike Rinder, OSA, Psychology Today, STAND League, Twitter, Vicki Aznaran

Conversations With Scientologists

December 8, 2014 By Mike Rinder 93 Comments

A couple of people have recently sent me copies of email correspondence they have had with people in the church. They were not working together, but both hit upon the same concept:  responding to church efforts to get new people in or collect money from existing public and using this as an opportunity to present some facts to people they might not otherwise be able to reach. It is also interesting to see the reactions, responses and "pitches" that are employed. This first is with a Mission who had advertised a Big League Sales Seminar. The responses from the mission person are in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Flag Service Org, Fundraising Tagged With: Debbie Cook, Flag Service Organization, fundraising, Ideal Orgs, Lawrence Wright, Missions

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Counterfeit Dreams - Jeff Hawkins
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Unbreakable Miss Lovely - Tony Ortega
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Fair Game - Steve Cannane
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
A Piece of Blue Sky - Jon Atack
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