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Scientology Safe Pointing in DC

August 11, 2021 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments

Our friend ISNOINews provided another interesting article that I felt was more important than being left as a comment on a disrelated topic. This is a lengthy article by Alex Rubinstein on a recent event held in Washington DC that scientology participated in. Alex has some fairly extensive mentions of scientology in the article, which I have excerpted below. The entire article can be found at the link above.             Using a friend’s company on my application and adopting a fake persona, I attended a three-day summit on religious freedom where                      leading … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations Tagged With: Alex Rubinstein, Anthony Blinken, Bare Faced Messiah, Cecil Rhodes, China, E Meter, Evangelicals, L. Ron Hubbard, Nancy Pelosi, National Affairs Office, Russell Miller, Scientology, United for Human Rights, Xenu, youth for human rights

Episode 47: The Life and Lies of L. Ron Hubbard Part 2

June 28, 2021 By Mike Rinder 31 Comments

We continue with our deep dive into the life and lies of Hubbard with Jon Atack. Once again, we have quite a lot of documents to include -- but always at the top of the list are Jon's Let's Sell These People A Piece of Blue Sky and Barefaced Messiah by Russell Miller.  I should also note that though we didnt mention it, for those of you interested in what Hubbard did or didnt do in the war, Chris Owen's excellent and thoroughly researched Ron The War Hero: The True Story of L Ron Hubbard's Calamitous Military Career is essential reading. Hubbard told so many lies about his naval … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Alexis Hollister, Alexis Hubbard, Chris Owen, Dianetics, Doctor's Report on Dianetics, Jon Atack, Leah Remini, Leon Festiger, Mike Rinder, Russell Miller, Scientology Fair Game podcast, Sonya Bianca, Wilhelm Reich

Episode 46: The Life and Lies of L. Ron Hubbard Part 1

June 21, 2021 By Mike Rinder 45 Comments

  Tonight we begin a new series of episodes we are calling "Deep Dives,"  where we take a detailed look at specific areas of scientology. It seemed only appropriate to begin with L. Ron Hubbard -- the "Source" of scientology and "Founder" from which everything flows. There is no way to cover his entire life in a single episode. Or even 5 episodes. We broke this into 2 parts, the first focused on his life and claims up to Dianetics. Even in two episodes we can only touch upon some of the highlights (lowlights?) as there is a great deal to know. If you have not already done so, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard, Podcast Tagged With: Cyril Vosper, Dianetics, George Washington University, Jon Atack, L. Ron Hubbard, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Robert Hare, Russell Miller, Sonya Bianca

Episode 27: Jon Atack — OG Scientology Whistleblower

February 8, 2021 By Mike Rinder 31 Comments

This week Leah and I welcome the insightful and wonderfully well-informed Jon Atack. (If anyone doesn't know the term OG, it comes from "Original Gangster" and means "someone who's incredibly exceptional, authentic, or “old-school”" and Jon certainly fills the bill). Way back in the 1980's, Jon was a pioneer whistleblower about scientology abuses. He wrote a seminal book "Let's Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky" which was first published in 1990. He has since written two other books on the subject of scientology. Jon was a "public" Scientologist for nine years, until 1983, when … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Fair Game Podcast, Ira Chaleff, Jon Atack, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Russell Miller

Ron: The Epic Saga of BS

October 21, 2020 By Mike Rinder 87 Comments

The smoke and mirrors game that scientology plays concerning L. Ron Hubbard is pretty remarkable. This "monumental hardback collection" is hardly a recounting of a "life like no other." It is a carefully selected collection of anecdotal stories about things L. Ron Hubbard said or claimed about his life. Many of them are unverified, unable to be documented because they didn't happen. Charitably, Hubbard told "tall tales" about his life and exploits. Realistically, he simply lied about himself. The author of these "books" (they were originally "magazines") is Dan Sherman. The "LRH … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Barefaced Messiah, Going Clear, L. Ron Hubbard, Russell Miller, Sarah Northrup, Scientology

Tampa “Ideal” Org and Ron’s Fiction

May 7, 2020 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

These are the last two Tampa "ideal" "St Hill Size" "newsletters" that are sorely lacking in news. You can compare this one immediately below to the previous one that follows. They’ve only got some extension course "successes" to report, but they're promoting a different video about how viruses spread... It's pretty harmless, giving rudimentary information about bacteria and viruses, though it's oddly "scientologese" with constant reference to "the body.” What it doesn't do is explain what scientologist actually believe about illness -- that it all comes from connection to Suppressive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs, L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Barefaced Messiah, COVID-19, extension courses, L. Ron Hubbard, Russell Miller, tampa org

The Black Bag Department

March 13, 2020 By Mike Rinder 16 Comments

See my announcement on Friday -- I am revisiting earlier posts during my vacation. Each day there will be a different one. Marty has been doing a good job of exposing the unalterable policies of the church concerning dealing with perceived enemies. One aspect not much discussed is who are the "outside professionals" hired to do the dirty work. And while there is a lot that is done by Sea Org OSA staff, Class V (local DSAs like Mark Warburg and John Carmichael) and public Scientologists (John Allender, Ed Bryan and Co) there is work that requires specific skills, including licenses to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Harrassment Tagged With: Angie Blankenship, Bart Parr, bob keenan, Bob Quigley, Brian Raftery, bryan seymour, Clearwater Florida, d-line, Dave Lubow, David Miscavige, Ed Bryan, Elliot Abelson, Falcon Industries, Flag Service Organization, Fran Andrews, Gene Ingram, Greg Sloat, Jerry Feffer, Jesse Prince, John Allener, John Carmichael, Judge Waldrip, Ken Cramer, Ken Rice, Mark Warburg, Marty Rathbun, monique yingling, Monty Drake, Penny Atwell-Jones, PI's, Rick Moxon, Robert MacLean, Russ Andrews, Russell Miller, shelly miscavige, TalonExecutive Services, Ted Banas, Tommy Davis

In the Footsteps of Ron

November 16, 2019 By Mike Rinder 19 Comments

This is a pretty sad commentary on the brainwashed sheeple of scientology. CST bought this house in Bay Head NJ where Hubbard wrote Dianetics and his house in Phoenix where he "developed/discovered" scientology. They were "restored" to their sort of original state (can't be too authentic as wouldn't want Ron looking "tacky" or "cheap" even if he was) and are both available for "tours" that promise you can "walk in the footsteps of Ron." Of course, the only people that would be interested in such a thing are scientologists. Nobody else cares. And certainly nobody else aspires to "be like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Bare Faced Messiah, Bay Head, Don Purcell, Phoenix, Russell Miller, Wichita

The Final Aftermath Smears?

November 14, 2017 By Mike Rinder 257 Comments

With two specials in 3 days, scientology has been working overtime on concocting smears about the show contributors. Of course, they NEVER respond to anything the people say, never dispute the abuses or the lies exposed by any of the contributors or on the show in general. They just sling mud. They have nothing they CAN dispute, so their only avenue is to try to "discredit the source"... Let's take their smears in sequence.   Tony Ortega Of course Tony has long been a target of the scientology smear brigade.  But they have nothing new so they roll out their moldy old … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Aftermath Tagged With: Fred Oxaal, Hana Whitfield, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, public relations, Russell Miller, Scientology, The Aftermath, Tony Ortega

The L. Ron Hubbard “Biographer”

July 12, 2016 By Mike Rinder 190 Comments

Someone sent me a new promotion for the "L. Ron Hubbard Series" which prompted this post. Dan Sherman has been working on the "L. Ron Hubbard biography" for more than 25 years. Imagine anyone else getting away with no product for that long? And being paid handsomely to boot.... Sherman's problem is that he can NEVER produce an actual biography. He would have to omit so many things from the book to satisfy the condition that there be nothing negative included about Hubbard that it would be a running joke. Everyone who can use Google would tear it to pieces. A very cursory list of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige, L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Dan Sherman, David Miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard biography, public relations, Russell Miller, Scientology

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