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		<title>Scientology’s Cowardly Whales</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Miscavige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trish Duggan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[See most recent post: Scientology’s Cowardly Celebrities. Along with those celebrities is the other category of major enablers who remain conspicuously silent in the face of the abuses; the financial supporters, especially the &#8220;Whales.&#8221; Here is a list of the biggest supporters of the IAS Not by any means complete and it excludes anyone who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Freedom Medal Winners Become Fundraisers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This guy, like so many other IAS Freedom Medal winners, got awarded for accomplishments in “disseminating scientology” &#8211; and promptly stopped those activities and started being a fundraiser for the IAS. There are literally dozens of Freedom Medal winners who promptly vanished from the scene, most of whom only appear to raise money for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>LRH Books Are Saving Iran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Era]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is sometimes interesting to look back at promises made in earlier years. This is some empty hype from 2014 that reads the same as their bs pitches today. They start with offering that “12 important opinion leaders” were “introduced” through the “L. Ron Hubbard Series” (NOT “LRH books”) and then one unnamed leader talked [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Solve it with Scientology&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[:L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Miscavige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Cook]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Debby reminded me of the original Hurricane Debbie &#8212; Debbie Cook&#8217;s email that rocked the scientology world on 1 January 2012. In addition to other points she laid out, Debbie highlighted Hubbard&#8217;s insistence that scientology NOT engage in &#8220;fundraising&#8221; but sell and deliver Dianetics and Scientology as the only way to success. Here are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Window Into The Scientology Bubble</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Flag Service Org]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kailey Lareau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark VIII]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is quite a lot to be gleaned from this FB post and the comments. First, and most obvious, these scientologists are apparently NOT at cause over their lives and are struggling financially. Second, their solution is NOT to &#8220;solve it with scientology.&#8221; Haven&#8217;t they read all the success stories from the people who listened [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Money on Account &#8212; Can You Ever Get It Back?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 13:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[probate]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scientology, despite policy and promises to the contrary, does NOT return funds, even for unused services. This is “money on account” paid in advance for services to be taken in the future. Scientology offers discounts (and the threat of “price rises”) as incentives to encourage people to turn over their money now with the promise [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Going to Have to Sell a LOT of Cupcakes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideal Orgs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aarhus]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not going to make the grade. It&#8217;s almost sad to think these poor deluded people in one of the absolute forgotten, backwater scientology organizations are holding a bake sale to try to get an ideal org (and it&#8217;s not even IN Aarhus, but at AOSHEU because there are only a handful of scientologists [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Carrot on a Stick &#8212; Literally</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne ideal org]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; This is what the mighty ideal org in Melbourne is reduced to. Holding a farmer&#8217;s market to try to get anyone to show up at their building so the regges have some prey to circle. One of our commenters quoted Hubbard concerning yesterday&#8217;s post and it’s entirely applicable here: SOLVE IT WITH SCIENTOLOGY [Excerpt [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Pitch: Give Us Your Money Because That&#8217;s What LRH Did&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-pitch-give-us-your-money-because-thats-what-lrh-did/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon DeVries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south africa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This happy looking, uptone pitchman is Jon DeVries &#8212; formerly an executive in CMO International is now an ideal org fundraiser in South Africa. He has come up with a novel raft of lies to try to gather $6 million for “the last two ideal orgs in S. Africa” (I guess they have abandoned the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>More Hype = More Fail</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; A recent leak from inside the bubble inadvertently disclosed the state of scientology “expansion.” Now we have more. These statements are from a recent “briefing” (ideal org fundraiser) where they have to walk a fine line: on one hand they need to maintain the party line that everything in the world of scientology is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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