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The L. Ron Hubbard Hall Money Making Machine

December 30, 2019 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

Scientology is still hard at it, raising money for the completely superfluous auditorium they say they are going to construct next to the Super Power building. And they are sending out new promotional pieces about it at an increasing rate. This is a very recent fundraising letter and there is also a whole magazine devoted to the subject:   This is the cover of the mag...   It is a strain for them to come up with reasons why anyone should be giving money to such a boondoggle. That this is going to be an event hall "large enough to hold every international … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, Fundraising Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, CSRT, Flag Service Organization, Freewinds, Friend of Ron, fundraising, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, lauri webster, Scientology, Super Power

Scientology in Clearwater

November 23, 2019 By Mike Rinder 68 Comments

Scientology has been desperately trying to generate some goodwill in Clearwater. They are advertising on local radio for people to watch ScientologyTV (you can bet that isn't working)... They are sponsoring Tweets every day like this one. The problem is, those first two comments are only the tip of the iceberg. Here are the rest of them (haven't looked for an update since I wrote this a couple of days ago -- but I am sure things have NOT improved).   Not a SINGLE supportive reply -- and I assume they have been deleting "entheta" responses fairly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, Flag Service Organization, public relations

The Clearwater PR Offensive

November 9, 2019 By Mike Rinder 46 Comments

  Immediately following the revelations in the recent Tampa Bay Times article by Tracey McManus, scientology launched their version of a campaign to convince the citizens of Clearwater they are in fact good for the city. They distributed Freedom magazines to people's doors in the dead of night to try to persuade them the reason downtown Clearwater looks like the set for the latest installment of the Night of The Living Dead movies is not because they bought it up and leave most of the properties empty or massively underutilized, it is because the big bad meanies at the Tampa Bay … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, Freedom Magazine, public relations, Scientology, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Sirius XM Radio Tuesday Morning

October 28, 2019 By Mike Rinder 29 Comments

Michael Smerconish wants to continue the conversation we began on Saturday on his CNN show on his SiriusXM radio program. Hoping we will have a little longer to get into these issues in more depth. Scheduled to begin Tuesday morning at 11:04am on SiriusXM channel 124.   For those who could not catch it live, here is a link. Unfortunately, the only place I know you can find it is on the SiruisXM site.   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, media, Michael Smerconish, Mike Rinder, Scientology, SiriusXM

CNN on Clearwater & More from the Tampa Bay Times

October 26, 2019 By Mike Rinder 34 Comments

Earlier today I chatted briefly with Michael Smerconish on CNN. Unfortunately, there is no embed code for the video so you have to click HERE to watch it. It was a VERY short piece, not really enough time to explain such complex issues, but it is good to see national media paying some attention to this issue. Hopefully more media outlets than just the Tampa Bay Times will want to dig in to this. Tracey McManus also published a new story concerning community reaction to middle-of-the-night distribution of Freedom magazines. As usual, the glossy hype of scientology's PR effort does nothing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, CNN, David Miscavige, Freedom Magazine, Michael Smerconish, Mike Rinder, public relations, Scientology, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Scientology Attempting to Revise Clearwater History

October 26, 2019 By Mike Rinder 38 Comments

After Tracey McManus' bombshell article dropped on 20 October, scientology immediately began their efforts to revise history. The next day, Freedom magazines started popping up all over the city. I wrote an article addressing some of the falsehoods Scientology BS Grows Deeper Then they began trying to make a dent in the social media world to cast the article as a bigoted assault on scientology and highlight the wonderful contributions they make to Clearwater. Freedom magazine has a twitter account @Freedommag and on October 21 they began sending out tweets. This is the tweet that is pinned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Church of Scientology, Clearwater Florida, CNN, David Miscavige, Flag Service Organization, public relations, Scientology, ScientologyTV, Smerconish, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Clearwater Politicians Weigh In

October 21, 2019 By Mike Rinder 25 Comments

An interesting follow up piece by Tracey McManus quoting reaction from members of the Clearwater City Government to her bombshell expose from yesterday. Unsurprisingly, the Clearwater politicos don't have much to offer in terms of how this happened to their city, what they think it means or more importantly, what they are going to do about it. They have been overwhelmed by a far more sophisticated and well-funded opponent that doesn’t care whether they hurt anyone’s feelings as long as they get their way.  Politicians in Clearwater in the last couple of decades have been more concerned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, David Miscavige Tagged With: Bob Cundiff, Church of Scientology, Clearwater City Council, Clearwater Florida, David Allbritton, David Miscavige, George Cretekos, Hoyt Hamilton, Jay Polglaze, Mark Bunker, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Scientology Has Bought Clearwater

October 20, 2019 By Mike Rinder 35 Comments

Tracey McManus' meticulously researched article dominating the front page of this morning's Tampa Bay Times is a bombshell. I doubt many people in Clearwater realized just how complete scientology's takeover of the downtown is.   This is why I have been supporting and promoting Mark Bunker for the city council. Scientology ALWAYS Comes First Why Elect Mark Bunker? And the urgency of this is further highlighted by a passage in the article. For the non-residents of Clearwater let me give you a little background that is explained in the article. It concerns the dispute … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, David Miscavige Tagged With: Clearwater Florida, David Miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard, Mark Bunker, Office of Special Affairs, public relations, tampa bay times, Tracey McManus

Clearwater Jazz Festival

October 16, 2019 By Mike Rinder 61 Comments

Generally, scientology does not proselytize for new members in downtown Clearwater. They don't try to recruit new members -- "Flag" is for existing scientologists who make the pilgrimage to hand over cash and participate in advanced scientology courses and auditing. In fact, scientology would prefer there were NO "wogs" (non-scientologists) in the downtown area at all. They want it to be 100% scientologists. But there is a local "mission" in Belleair that is for "new people" who may be introduced in some fashion by scientologists in the local area (it is also where those who don't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater Tagged With: Belleair Mission, Clearwater Florida, Clearwater Jazz Festival, Flag Service Organization, public relations, Scientology

Scientology ALWAYS Comes First

October 12, 2019 By Mike Rinder 23 Comments

Here is a perfect example of why scientologists cannot be trusted in positions where they are supposed to act in the public interest. Paris Morfopolous is the poster child of a fundamentalist scientologist. He has been a scientology business owner that has relied on scientologists' patronage in downtown Clearwater for decades. He is the head of Clearwater's Downtown Development Board. Tony Ortega's article describing Morfopolous' rant against Mark Bunker at the most recent DDB meeting tells the most recent story of his dedication to following the dictates of L. Ron Hubbard. With the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearwater, Scientology Tagged With: Clearwater City Council, Clearwater Florida, Downtown Development Board, Mark Bunker, Paris morfopolous, public relations, Ray Cassano, Scientology

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