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		<title>Scientology and Litigation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baxters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Cook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leah Remini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masterson victims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Val Haney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valeska Paris]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I came across this on the STAND website. As with everything they ever utter, it is laced with falsehoods. What is the Scientology position regarding litigation? During the history of the Church, some individuals sought to make money from unfounded allegations, but the Church successfully defended against those claims. Well, not exactly. Julie Christofferson won [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scientology Front Groups Get New Propaganda Site</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 14:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Front Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Leb]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Another scientology press release, this time repackaging their propaganda videos onto a new website announcing it as a major accomplishment. It&#8217;s the same shit they show in the lobbies of the &#8220;ideal&#8221; orgs and the same videos that are repeated endlessly on the failed scientology&#8221;TV.&#8221; But it’s now “new” and worthy of their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scientology and the &#8220;Chaos Merchants&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-and-the-chaos-merchants/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fair Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bette Orisini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marty Rathbun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mission Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poynter Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientology Handbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Petersburg Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tampa bay times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracey McManus]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Hubbard designated the media &#8220;Chaos Merchants&#8221; who are to be harassed and attacked because they publish &#8220;lies&#8221; about scientology. Ever since he failed to persuade a Saturday Evening Post reporter to write a glowing piece about him in the early 60&#8217;s, the media have been enemies. In Ron&#8217;s Journal 67 he specifically states:  &#8220;Our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scientology &#8220;Critical Thinking&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A while ago someone noted there was a blog post on the Stand League site claiming scientology is based on critical thinking. As they noted: Pure comedy gold!!! I looked it up and it’s still there. Here is just some of the bs they peddle: “Critical thinking is the process of analyzing information to determine the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Some Background on Scientology&#8217;s Efforts to Destroy Enemies</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/some-background-on-scientologys-efforts-to-destroy-enemies/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 15:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Special Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Morton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Owen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[john sweeney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurisse Stuckenbrock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leah Remini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Hamel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Headley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marty Rathbun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of Special Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patty Pieniadz Moher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Burkett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Miscavige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Roffler]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2620336</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Over the last few weeks, Chris Owen (author of many insightful writings about Hubbard and scientology, including his excellent book, Ron The War Hero) has done a series of posts with Tony Ortega on Substack describing the history of the harassment campaigns carried out by scientology. As is always the case with Chris, he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An OSA Bot Identified</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/an-osa-bot-identified/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Strom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henning Benndorf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathy True]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Belloni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QC Strom]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The first Twitter commenter shown in my recent post Scientology Haters Gonna Hate &#8220;quentin&#8221;, turns out to be someone I know. This &#8220;quentin&#8221; is QC Strom. He was posted for many years at Gold and then sent to SMP. When he was at Gold he was the clapper boy and then worked in SFX (Special [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>STAND League Outrage: Blocked on Social Media</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/stand-league-outrage-blocked-on-social-media/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ace Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Caruso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taryn Teutsch]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Scientology hypocrisy on display for the world once again. Now they are whining about someone blocking their hate tweets! In this piece they attack Rick Caruso&#8217;s campaign manager because an ad &#8220;outraged tens of thousands of scientologists across the city&#8221; (they couldn&#8217;t gather tens of thousands of scientologists across the entire country at this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Scientology: Massively Unpopular</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-massively-unpopular/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Smith-Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betsy Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Miscavige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Caruso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2617047</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[You may have seen the news or watched Aaron&#8217;s recent video about scientology becoming a hot topic in the mayoral race in Los Angeles (if you have not watched Aaron&#8217;s video, I suggest you do &#8212; it&#8217;s only 10 minutes &#8212; you can click on it irectly above). Subsequently, Danny Masterson&#8217;s lawyers filed some desperate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Journalism and Free Speech&#8221; According to STAND</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/journalism-and-free-speech-according-to-stand/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 12:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Kalergis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;free speech&#8221; only applies when the speech is something they approve of. And their &#8220;responsibility&#8221; level for truth and honesty in their &#8220;journalism&#8221; is dictated entirely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Family Interventions and Deprogrammings</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/family-interventions-and-deprogrammings/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 12:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Narconon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deprogrammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hana Whitfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narconon Ojai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Ross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STAND League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Hassan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Patrick]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Here&#8217;s an interesting article from Narconon, pushing the virtues of interventions. This is how they describe what an intervention is: Family intervention is a common approach used because it provides the right nudge toward treatment. Family interventions work, but it is difficult to predict how the intervention could unfold. Certified family intervention specialists have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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