Leah Remini podcast: Scientology’s atrocious ‘Fair Game’ campaign against Mike Rinder

What starts out as an episode about the general background of Scientology’s “Fair Game” retaliation operations soon settles down into the specific ways that Mike Rinder was targeted after he left the Sea Org in 2007, and it’s a harrowing adventure.

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Danny Masterson changes his tune about criminal case in new civil brief

We suspect that things are really going to heat up in the civil lawsuit filed by four women against Danny Masterson and Scientology in anticipation of next week’s big hearing.

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Half-million dollar man: Scientology donor gives pep talk in leaked video

[Paul Seymor, third from right, earned Patron Meritorious in 2016]

Paul Seymour is one of Scientology’s leading donors. We haven’t seen him receive a new trophy for donations to the IAS since 2016 when he earned reached the level of Patrons Meritorious for donations of over $250,000. He has since moved up to Silver Meritorious at the $500,000 level. It’s a lesson for whale watchers that just because a donor doesn’t have new hardware to show off every year they haven’t necessarily left Scientology.

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The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 20: Gensler

In 2011 we spent the month of August counting down a list of the “Top 25 People Crippling Scientology.” Nine years later, Scientology is still hurting, but church leader David Miscavige learned long ago that paid membership was only one resource that kept him in business. He also relies on a small army of enablers, some paid, some not, who help him stay in business even though they aren’t Scientologists themselves. So we thought we’d recognize them with this countdown.

Since at least 2006, Scientology has been working with one architectural firm to make sure that its ‘Ideal Orgs’ are cathedrals worthy of church leader David Miscavige, and that’s the San Francisco-based global outfit Gensler.

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The Top 25 People Enabling Scientology, No. 21: Parents who subscribe to ABCMouse

For a few years now, we have been trying to warn parents with toddlers that if they subscribe to the educational software service ABCMouse, they are helping make one of Scientology’s biggest donors wealthy enough to give the church huge amounts of money.

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Even Alaska — yes, Alaska — gave Scientology COVID-relief funds, for Xenu’s sake

There was a lot of outrage — particularly from Leah Remini and Mike Rinder — when news emerged that Scientology had cashed in on the general looting of Coronavirus-relief funds for small businesses that the Trump administration had set aside.

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Valerie Haney reacts to setback in lawsuit against Scientology: ‘I will continue to fight’

Last week, we reported that Valerie Haney’s attempt at a do-over in her lawsuit against the Church of Scientology had failed, the latest setback in what appeared to be a major legal attack against the church and its leader, David Miscavige, when Valerie first filed it in June 2019.

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Leah Remini’s podcast: Paulette Cooper, Scientology’s ‘OG of Fair Game victims’

[Paulette in 1971, when her book about Scientology came out]

We already told you how excited we were to find out that Paulette Cooper had talked to Leah Remini for her new podcast, and in that story we provided a lengthy excerpt from our 2015 book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.

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Brian Statler’s family wins right to police report and Scientology surveillance footage

[Brian Statler]

More than a year ago, a 30-year-old mixed race Black man named Brian Statler was gunned down by two Inglewood Police Department officers at the Scientology church in that Los Angeles suburb, reportedly after he had showed up with a “samurai sword.”

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VIDEO: Portland unrest inspires $250,000 donation from Scientology lifer

If you haven’t been paying attention to the news in the U.S. you might not be aware of the clashes between Black Lives Matter protesters and police in Portland, Oregon. It’s been a sometimes bloody street fight with protesters hurling rocks, eggs, and paint, while police attempt to take back control wearing riot gear and firing tear gas. The Scientology org is about eight blocks from the epicenter of the violence at the U.S. Courthouse. It’s close enough to smell the smoke from street fires and to feel the burning in the throat that tear gas can bring.

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