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		By: The IAS &#8212; The Black Heart of the Scientology Vulture Culture first published May 13, 2013		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The IAS &#8212; The Black Heart of the Scientology Vulture Culture first published May 13, 2013]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] never in fact funded.  And in many cases, there was NO accomplishment at all (see recent posts IAS Applied Scholastics Programs &#8212; Fact Check and IAS Human Rights Claims &#8212; Fact Check).  But, it became a VERY important cash cow and [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] never in fact funded.  And in many cases, there was NO accomplishment at all (see recent posts IAS Applied Scholastics Programs &#8212; Fact Check and IAS Human Rights Claims &#8212; Fact Check).  But, it became a VERY important cash cow and [&#8230;]</p>
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		By: Lady Squash		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2428</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lady Squash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 06:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I like your work Mike and John P.   Fact checking is cool.  Years ago I tried to fact check the amazingly glorious Scientology expansion news I heard at an IAS event.  I brought a notebook to write down as many &quot;facts&quot; as I could, the countries, programs and the government officials mentioned.  I then went home and goggled everything and came up empty just as you did.  I suspected it was all made up and still I carried on.  Boggles my mind really.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like your work Mike and John P.   Fact checking is cool.  Years ago I tried to fact check the amazingly glorious Scientology expansion news I heard at an IAS event.  I brought a notebook to write down as many &#8220;facts&#8221; as I could, the countries, programs and the government officials mentioned.  I then went home and goggled everything and came up empty just as you did.  I suspected it was all made up and still I carried on.  Boggles my mind really.</p>
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		By: Mike Rinder		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2427</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2426&quot;&gt;freespirit&lt;/a&gt;.

So nice to see you commenting here FS! :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2426">freespirit</a>.</p>
<p>So nice to see you commenting here FS! 🙂</p>
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		By: freespirit		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2426</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[freespirit]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2421&quot;&gt;John P.&lt;/a&gt;.

B.I.N.G.O!!!!!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2421">John P.</a>.</p>
<p>B.I.N.G.O!!!!!!</p>
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		By: Richard Kaminski		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2425</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Kaminski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2408&quot;&gt;Chris Mann&lt;/a&gt;.

LOL!]]></description>
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<p>LOL!</p>
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		By: Gayle aka TroubleShooter		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2423</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gayle aka TroubleShooter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NIce work.  It&#039;s like having the Freedom Mag back in it&#039;s former glory!!!  Thank you Mike and Natasha!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NIce work.  It&#8217;s like having the Freedom Mag back in it&#8217;s former glory!!!  Thank you Mike and Natasha!</p>
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		By: Lars asplund		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2422</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lars asplund]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2410&quot;&gt;The Oracle&lt;/a&gt;.

Oracle, Rena has been in the Hole for years along with Laurie Zurn. Do not
know much what happened to Simon. Are there any WDC members on
post at all?
Initially ABLE was the umbrella for all the secular activities grown from
LRH writing and Tech. IMHO however, if a true data analysis and Eval
had been done on that whole subject we should have incorporated the
whole shebang into the church and called a spade a spade ( barring of
course all the bad PR we got over the years from  bad manners).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2410">The Oracle</a>.</p>
<p>Oracle, Rena has been in the Hole for years along with Laurie Zurn. Do not<br />
know much what happened to Simon. Are there any WDC members on<br />
post at all?<br />
Initially ABLE was the umbrella for all the secular activities grown from<br />
LRH writing and Tech. IMHO however, if a true data analysis and Eval<br />
had been done on that whole subject we should have incorporated the<br />
whole shebang into the church and called a spade a spade ( barring of<br />
course all the bad PR we got over the years from  bad manners).</p>
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		By: John P.		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2421</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John P.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2417&quot;&gt;Aeolus&lt;/a&gt;.

I&#039;m going to guess that the letter came from Rod Danielson, the chief of staff of the secretary of education, who is a Scientologist.  I&#039;m going to guess further that the letter was furnished to Miscavige for exactly that reason: Miscavige had no intention to act on such a letter -- he knows full well that the reputation of Scientology even at that time among the general public was so poor that even the first whisper of an idea to roll out anything based on Scientology nationally would result in a devastating firestorm of bad PR for RCS, worse by far than the avalanche of news covering the TomKat divorce last summer.  Think: a bunch of articles like the 1991 Time Magazine cover story, but even nastier.  And of course, the Scientology guy would have gotten fired if that blew up and thus the highest ranking Scientologist ever to win a government job would be gone.

I suspect that Miscavige kept this letter fraudulently asserting that the government was considering a national rollout of Scientology-related &quot;tech&quot; to enable him to scam more money in one-on-one reg meetings with a couple of the biggest IAS whales (Duggan, Jensen, I&#039;m thinking of YOU), knowing full well that he would never actually follow through on such a thing -- he could always blame the government and claim they got shut down when nothing ever happened.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2417">Aeolus</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to guess that the letter came from Rod Danielson, the chief of staff of the secretary of education, who is a Scientologist.  I&#8217;m going to guess further that the letter was furnished to Miscavige for exactly that reason: Miscavige had no intention to act on such a letter &#8212; he knows full well that the reputation of Scientology even at that time among the general public was so poor that even the first whisper of an idea to roll out anything based on Scientology nationally would result in a devastating firestorm of bad PR for RCS, worse by far than the avalanche of news covering the TomKat divorce last summer.  Think: a bunch of articles like the 1991 Time Magazine cover story, but even nastier.  And of course, the Scientology guy would have gotten fired if that blew up and thus the highest ranking Scientologist ever to win a government job would be gone.</p>
<p>I suspect that Miscavige kept this letter fraudulently asserting that the government was considering a national rollout of Scientology-related &#8220;tech&#8221; to enable him to scam more money in one-on-one reg meetings with a couple of the biggest IAS whales (Duggan, Jensen, I&#8217;m thinking of YOU), knowing full well that he would never actually follow through on such a thing &#8212; he could always blame the government and claim they got shut down when nothing ever happened.</p>
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		By: John P.		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2420</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John P.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2418&quot;&gt;Jane Doe&lt;/a&gt;.

Thanks for your kind words.  What really sends a chill down my spine is not that this is a total fraud, it is that this is a REALLY LAME total fraud.  In my long career on Wall Street, I have been a witness in several cases and have helped send white collar criminals to jail.  Those guys all had very sophisticated frauds, ones that in some cases took investigators over a decade to pin enough on the crooks to make charges stick.  Miscavige and company are rank amateurs by comparison.

The fact that they haven&#039;t been caught is an embarrassment to the authorities, but it is even more an embarrassment to those still supporting RCS that they have disabled their critical thinking skills and continue to fall for this sort of nonsense.  The numbers and analysis I put together to bolster my argument took me about ten minutes to uncover with Wikipedia and Google and to write &#039;em up and post it.  It should take a moderately skeptical person with reasonable analytical skills a couple minutes to do enough back-of-the-envelope figuring to become highly suspicious of the story.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2418">Jane Doe</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks for your kind words.  What really sends a chill down my spine is not that this is a total fraud, it is that this is a REALLY LAME total fraud.  In my long career on Wall Street, I have been a witness in several cases and have helped send white collar criminals to jail.  Those guys all had very sophisticated frauds, ones that in some cases took investigators over a decade to pin enough on the crooks to make charges stick.  Miscavige and company are rank amateurs by comparison.</p>
<p>The fact that they haven&#8217;t been caught is an embarrassment to the authorities, but it is even more an embarrassment to those still supporting RCS that they have disabled their critical thinking skills and continue to fall for this sort of nonsense.  The numbers and analysis I put together to bolster my argument took me about ten minutes to uncover with Wikipedia and Google and to write &#8217;em up and post it.  It should take a moderately skeptical person with reasonable analytical skills a couple minutes to do enough back-of-the-envelope figuring to become highly suspicious of the story.</p>
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		By: John P.		</title>
		<link>https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2419</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John P.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2412&quot;&gt;Mike Rinder&lt;/a&gt;.

Your is a much simpler argument, with a single well-chosen detail that logically and inevitably leads to the same conclusion: they&#039;re lying.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/ias-applied-scholastics-programs-fact-check/#comment-2412">Mike Rinder</a>.</p>
<p>Your is a much simpler argument, with a single well-chosen detail that logically and inevitably leads to the same conclusion: they&#8217;re lying.</p>
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