The response to Leah”s lawsuit is scientology’s standard “a bigot is being mean to us poor victims” drivel. This one is especially unhinged, indicative of how worried David Miscavige is about this latest lawsuit naming him. The greater the purple prose and insanity of the inevitable ridiculous comparisons they make directly correlates to the level of volcanic eruption that occurred in the COB suite when he found out about the lawsuit. As Scientology responses go, this one is in the Hall of Fame. I am including their whole statement here in indented italics with my comments followi … [Read more...]
Important: Where’s Shelly? NEW Reporting
I am posting this to help get the widest possible distribution of this very important piece by my friend Yashar Ali. He has done an astonishing job of telling the story of Shelly Miscavige, especially the cover-up by scientology assisted by the LAPD. He has uncovered new and shocking information about the circumstances of how the LAPD "verified" Shelly was OK. And a tragic photo of Shelly, taken from her last issued driver's license that tells so much. It is a masterpiece of giving the big picture, while including and explaining details of the scientology world that make the big picture … [Read more...]
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Aaron Smith-Levin just pointed out to me that scientology has a blogsite that is mikerinderblog.org, apparently hoping to capture people who make a typo in inputting my url. They have my name in big bold letters, right at the top. I am not sure if it because I so often go to my blog site, but the search engine put up a notification asking me if I actually meant to go to my real blog which I found amusing. The content is pretty ironic. Aaron Smith-Levin did a YouTube video with Alex Stein and because Stein is a "holocaust denier" it "raises serious concerns." Of course it … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Scheme to Use Rape Victims for “Positive Press”
More scientology sickness hiding in plain sight. This is one of Hubbard's most important edicts on dealing with the media. It lays out scientology's policy on how to "control the press." It is the first policy in the "hat pack" of every scientology PR person. This is not "historical" or "we cancelled that" (like they claim about the Fair Game policy). They proudly stand behind this and even more proudly follow exactly what it says in their day to day actions. If you want to read the whole thing, you can do so here: Scientology Five Press Policies I … [Read more...]
Scientology Haters Gonna Hate
Haven't gotten around to this one until now. A journalist tweets about the Jerrod Carmichael joke at the Golden Globes and the 3 usual "STAAD League" bots rise up as one (they probably are literally one person in OSA Int) to scream their disgust and accuse him of bigotry. "A lady living a great private life away from the unstable" -- wonder who came up with that piece of idiocy? The people writing these tweets have never even laid eyes on Shelly Miscavige. They know absolutely NOTHING about her life. But they believe everything they are told. This statement … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday Shelly Miscavige
Today is Shelly Miscavige's 62nd birthday. She has been disappeared for the last 15 years -- one confirmed sighting at her father's funeral (with a handler) in 2007 and nothing certain since. Once a fixture of the scientology world, at her husband's side virtually everywhere he went, she suddenly vanished in 2005. I write about her and her vanishing from the Int Base in my book A Billion Years. Shelly is not the only person at the senior echelons of scientology who has been erased from public view (so too the President of scientology Heber Jentzsch, Executive Director International … [Read more...]
#WheresShelly
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1613000395605020673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1613000395605020673%7Ctwgr%5Eed5d4f99b49f9e0ad25e6c811877cd4922266193%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftom-cruise-joke-golden-globes_n_63be312be4b0b2e1506c1ae3 Jerrod Carmichael's stunning bit at the Golden Globes last night set social media on fire. And subsequently is all over the media, bringing global attention to this issue. As readers of this blog know, Leah Remini famously filed a missing persons report concerning Shelly in 2013, detailed in … [Read more...]
Karen Bass — L.A. Mayoral Candidate
Scientology has become a key issue in the LA Mayoral race between Karen Bass and Rick Caruso. Of course, scientology is freaking out as their "good name" (haha) is being used to smear opponents. It stems from Karen Bass' ill-advised participation in a 2010 ribbon cutting ceremony for the "new" LA Org building (the building was not new of course, just refurbished). This came up two years ago when Rep. Bass was touted as a possible VP candidate to join the Biden ticket. I have some relevant information on this matter, both from my time in scientology and subsequent to this becoming an … [Read more...]
Day 4 of A Billion Years (There’s a LONG way to go…)
Frankly, I have been so busy with media interviews and other things I had to do in New York I haven't had a minute to think about a blog post. I won't be announcing media beforehand so I don't help scientology in their efforts to harass and intimidate. They can find out when it comes out. They're going to be hit from all directions and have no idea what is coming. Once again, thank you to everyone who has read or listened to A Billion Years and posted on social media, commented here and left reviews on Amazon. The responses are humbling and I try to read them all and I appreciate every … [Read more...]
A Billion Years UK & Australia Editions Update
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...]