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		<title>Freewinds Failure</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Miscavige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OT VIII]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently did a post How Desperate is the Freewinds? after a promo piece came in offering a $750 &#8220;wedding package&#8221; on board. I noted that the reason for the Freewinds existing at all was for the delivery of OT VIII &#8212; which supposedly needed to be done &#8220;off the crossroads of the world.&#8221; This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Desperate is The Freewinds?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The history of the Freewinds has been relegated to the  “we don’t talk about that” category like Mary Sue Hubbard, where’s Shelly? what Briefing Course? And so many other inconveniences we don&#8217;t talk about any more. The Freewinds was purchased for ONE reason. To make the delivery of OT VIII possible. That is what David [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>OT VIIIs are Changing The World</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dana Danhoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OT IX and X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OT VIII]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[An old thing I recently came across that is a window into the crazy world of scientology &#8220;Operating Thetan&#8221; (OT) &#8212; the promise that is the carrot to keep people moving up the Bridge. Becoming &#8220;OT&#8221; is what all scientologists aspire to achieve: by definition it is full cause over matter, energy, space and time. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ghost Ship: SMV Freewinds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aruba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Napier]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of our readers was on a cruise that stopped in Aruba. They took some shots of the ghost ship. There isn&#8217;t any sign of life, the lights are on but there&#8217;s nobody home. At some point Captain Napier made an appearance: Not sure what he is doing &#8212; he looks a little frustrated (no [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Run Aground at the Freewinds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarantine]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For some time now it has been a running joke that the Freewinds &#8220;off the crossroads of the world&#8221; has been tied up to a dock because they had no money available to purchase the fuel to leave harbor. But for the past year, the Freewinds has been really run aground. Anyone who arrives to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>ONLY on the Freewinds&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Objectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survival Rundown]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is pretty remarkable that the &#8220;OT Ship&#8221; is now specializing as the place to go to do the Purif. The ONLY place in the world? What about the Narconons? They are advertising that they are open? But they don&#8217;t count? Actually, I bet there are plenty of places you can in fact do the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>This is the Freewinds &#8212; It&#8217;s Always About the Money</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emmet Osborn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Winteregg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Boyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ollie Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Valtin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafferty Pendery]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What the Freewinds has been reduced to&#8230; Hawking virtual seminars with AMAZING (all caps) &#8220;new speakers&#8221;. Though there is not a single new speaker among them? And of course, they are all offering &#8220;business&#8221; expansion seminars &#8212; they disguise their &#8220;learn how to make money&#8221; pitches as &#8220;expansion.&#8221; Some talk about &#8220;prosperity&#8221; and one even [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Go Virtual OT!</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/lets-go-virtual-ot/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrea D'Agostini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Bonner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emmett Osborn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hana-li Pendery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manuela Suarez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ollie Rodriguez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafferty Pendery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtual OT]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The question you have to ask after reading this breathless promo &#8212; why would anyone pay to go to the Freewinds when you can apparently &#8220;Go OT&#8221; virtually? The second question &#8212; is there any difference between an OT and a virtual OT? Aren&#8217;t all OT&#8217;s &#8220;virtual&#8221; anyway as the state is entirely subjective &#8212; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Freewinds Trying to Influence Aruban Government</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/freewinds-trying-to-influence-aruban-government/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aruba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine McNocher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSSO]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Freewinds is having a rough time of it, rougher than usual in this pandemic. Typically they struggle to get enough people on board to cover their basic expenses, in these times they are having trouble getting ANYONE to show up. Being &#8220;off the crossroads of the world&#8221; has been one of their sales pitches [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Freewinds Runs Aground</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/freewinds-runs-aground/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 10:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Freewinds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[They were having a rough time of it even before the pandemic. Lacking paying customers, they had a hard time finding money to buy fuel to move from one port to another. Now they are slipping beneath the waves with hardly a murmur&#8230; Their latest promotional piece &#8220;Making the IMpossible possible&#8221; is offering a &#8220;convention&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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