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		<title>Thursday Funnies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Always a head-scratcher The Hubbard &#8220;message to black people&#8221; is like My Philosophy. Total bunkum written to make himself sound altruistic. You don&#8217;t need to look far to find the REAL truth. His REAL message to anyone of color can be found here: Ron The Racist. Decidedly NOT funny. &#160; Scrooge McDuck? Did you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thursday Funnies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; A momentous milestone on our whole track! OMG, the hype. They announce the events, and claim the dates and times are &#8220;below&#8221; &#8212; but they aren&#8217;t. Not going to get much turnout if nobody knows when and where they are supposed to be. &#160; They&#8217;re excited at Flag! They even have a backpack&#8230; &#160; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>It’s Official: Chicago Org Ribbon Yanking 3 March</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideal Orgs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finally, it’s going apparently going to happen. Another monument to MEST orientation (that was a terrible thing in scientology back in the “good” old days) is going to be anointed by Dear Leader Miscavige as proof of the massive, unprecedented, straight up and vertical international expansion of scientology. Such a sham. They will fly, bus, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ideal Org Ribbon Yanking Spectacles Resume</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Now that David Miscavige is no longer playing hide and seek with Leah Remini&#8217;s legal team, he has resumed his duties as chief ribbon yanker. Tony Ortega has an article today on his blog about Austin ribbon yanking shaping up for the 24th. We now have confirmation with an official promotional piece. He wondered [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;LAST Big Recruitment Event&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Pollack]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything is &#8220;GO&#8221; in Chicago. Not. They send out the weirdest messages&#8230; Last week they were telling everyone they had to go to LA for the New Year&#8217;s event &#8212; so they can cheer and wave banners when Miscavige, for the second year running, announces Chicago ideal org is &#8220;going to open.&#8221; Now they are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Panic Before the Scientology New Year&#8217;s Event</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Miscavige is back for the big &#8220;New Year&#8221; bash at the Shrine Auditorium in LA next Saturday (Dec 16th &#8212; they do everything differently in scientology). It seems, that in the &#8220;Scientology capital of the world&#8221; they are worried they cannot scrape together enough scientologists to fill the auditorium. It only holds 6300 &#8212; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chicago Ideal Org: It&#8217;s Still Not Happening</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once again, it&#8217;s supposedly happening! And what is it that is happening? You would be mistaken if you believed that this is announcement of the opening of the building that has been sitting ready and empty for nearly a year now. One of the 3 that were going to be opened &#8220;in the first quarter&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ideal Org Update</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Valley Ideal Org &#8212; The Biggest and The BestJust a little update on an &#8220;ideal&#8221; org we haven&#8217;t heard about for some time, and something from one we hear a LOT about. This is a report from a native Russian-speaker (or perhaps she’s from a Russian satellite) who visited the &#8220;ideal org&#8221; in Port Elizabeth. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Salt Lake City Ideal Org is Dead &#8212; Just Like The Rest of Them</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of contributors took a trip to Salt Lake City and decided to swing by the ideal morgue there.  Here is their report: It&#8217;s a nice large building with reasonable landscaping. Compared to San Francisco, Portland, Sacramento, and Seattle, which all look empty, this one hides its emptiness nicely with solid brick walls. As far [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Do Your Ideal Org Donations Buy?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Rinder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 11:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fundraising]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The obvious answer of course is &#8220;empty buildings,&#8221; but I found the background of this shot interesting. These days, buying statuses in the IAS and &#8220;Ideal Org Program&#8221; has become the new &#8220;thing&#8221; &#8211; status in scientology used to be measured by OT level gained and before that by auditor training level. There has always [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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