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The House of Cards is Collapsing

November 11, 2020 By Mike Rinder 111 Comments

"Freedom" magazine recently put out this tweet:   Curious (?), I clicked on the link. This is what it takes you to -- an article reporting on their supposed accomplishments in 2017!   For the "largest private relief force on earth" it is just a little strange that they have nothing to report about for 3 years? No disasters in the intervening period is not the reason -- remember the wildfires in California? The Hurricanes in Louisiana? Just this year.... The real reason for no update is no action. This is a reflection of the fact there are no international … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Groups, Volunteer Ministers Tagged With: David Miscavige, Freedom Magazine, Twitter, volunteer ministers

Scientology Front Groups

July 12, 2020 By Mike Rinder 27 Comments

Scientology has many front groups that are designed to create the impression that the organization is a benevolent group that does good work in their community. I have noted many times that the "good work" does not happen if it cannot be documented by a video team who then use the video to fundraise and for propaganda pieces about the great things they are doing around the world. Here are some very recent pitches from some of their main front groups. They tell the sheeple literally anything to persuade them they need to participate — but if they don’t they are shamed into giving money. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Front Groups Tagged With: CCHR, Drug Free World, TWTH, VMs, volunteer ministers, WTH, youth for human rights

How You Can Help End The Pandemic

June 6, 2020 By Mike Rinder 45 Comments

Take a wild guess what the answer to this question is: "How you can help end the pandemic?" If you guessed "Give us your money" you just won yourself a one year free subscription to Impact magazine. If you guessed "Hand out our propaganda booklets" you won a one year free subscription to Freedom magazine. And if you answered both you win the Grand Prize -- a commendation for your file. They have 160,000 booklets they still need to distribute. Some in-house printing facility (Bridge or the Central Promo Center or something) has gotten their stats up selling these things at a profit to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Volunteer Ministers Tagged With: Betsy Davis, COVID-19, Pandemic, volunteer ministers

Disaster Capitalism Double Whammy

April 28, 2020 By Mike Rinder 15 Comments

While the IAS is soliciting money for "VM campaigns" and "COVID-19 relief", the VM's are sending out their own pitch to collect hygiene items.  Makes you wonder what the IAS money is for? This flier is pretty bizarre. They have taken an old flier from a hurricane relief drive and repurposed it for their "Pandemic" relief by including toilet paper in the list of donations requested. Note it is still copyrighted 2019. I wonder what "travel size" toilet paper is?       … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Volunteer Ministers Tagged With: COVID-19, Flag Service Organization, fundraising, IAS, volunteer ministers

This is Scientology Social Distancing?

April 8, 2020 By Mike Rinder 43 Comments

Here is an email forwarded to me from the VM's in LA. They are pitching to get "supplies" for the disaster, but attach a photo showing a cluster of VM's loading (or unloading) stuff... They are not 6 feet apart. They are not even 2 feet apart. Are they really meaning to advertise they are not maintaining the mandated social distancing? Is this an old photo because they actually dont have anything to take shots of? What is going on here? And I note, they are pushing scientologyTV "It's Time to Rediscover the Human Soul" which no doubt expounds on Hubbard's theories that ONLY the soul … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Volunteer Ministers Tagged With: COVID-19, Kenneth Copeland, Scientology, ScientologyTV, volunteer ministers

The Metrics: Global BS

March 4, 2020 By Mike Rinder 37 Comments

This is a recent tweet from Freedom magazine. The level of bald-faced lies is breathtaking. 1.5 million volunteers? Where? I can only assume they now count everyone in the Red Cross wordlwide because a Volunteer Minister in Manila had a photo taken with the local Red Cross coordinator. Scientology could hardly scrape together 1.5 million BT's if they rounded up their 6500 OT's and had them pool their resources. This is simply absurd. And apparently they say it with a straight face. Seeing this, I just had to click on their link to "get the story." So, here is their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations, Scientology Tagged With: Freedom Magazine, Ideal Orgs, real estate, social betterment, study tech, study technology, truth about drugs, TWTH, volunteer ministers, way to happiness

Thursday Funnies

February 20, 2020 By Mike Rinder 78 Comments

  On the road again... Mystery ailments and a mystery cure. Who said scientology doesn't cure physical conditions? She can drive again!     This quote is not about joining staff... Typical, they can't even get their quotes from Ron right   Talking Half-Heads? What happened here?   Another young life wasted... But she was an employee of Grant Cardone, so it's not a whole lot different. She just won't have as much free time or money.   This is all they could muster? A CLO, an AOSH and an Ideal Org and the best shots they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising, Funnies Tagged With: Barry Coziahr, Chill EB, fundraising, funnies, IAS, Ideal Orgs, Inglewood, Michael Chan, Missions, noi, Scientology, Scientology Idle Orgs, tampa org, volunteer ministers, way to happiness

The IAS is doing EVERYTHING

January 25, 2020 By Mike Rinder 37 Comments

  The IAS is truly the biggest scam in scientology. And that is saying something. Just look what they say here: "At new orders of magnitude, we are tackling ANY planetary ruin ANYWHERE, from the edge of the world to your neighborhood." This is such astonishing bullshit it even surprises me. They also claim that the they are the ONLY solution to war, criminality and immorality. And "WE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD"... And they are serious! And how odd is it that the person doing this pitch is Ruddy Rodriguez, IAS Freedom Medal Winner from VENEZUELA! Hey Ruddy, how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: IAS Tagged With: CCHR, fundraising, IAS, Ideal Orgs, International Association of Scientologists, psychiatry, Ruddy Rodriguez, volunteer ministers

What Those IAS Billions Buy

December 2, 2019 By Mike Rinder 38 Comments

Back in October Tony Ortega's article about Nancy Cartwright highlighted how much money people give to the IAS. More recently Tracey McManus got Bob Duggan on the phone and he informed her that the Forbes information stating he had given $360 million to scientology was in fact considerably on the low side, that is was "much more" (half a billion maybe?) Scientology constantly claims that this money is used for all their social betterment programs around the world -- it is their standard plea for more money "we need to do more good." But how much good does this money actually do? Simply … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fundraising, IAS Tagged With: Bahamas, Drug Free World, fundraising, IAS, nancy cartwright, public relations, volunteer ministers

More on VM’s to Bahamas

September 18, 2019 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

This is an update on the VM's activities in the Bahamas since I posted this:  Scientology Volunteer Ministers scam exposed once again First up, the urgent call to get a photographer to accompany the "1,000 VM's we are activating for immediate deployment” to the Bahamas (yes, that IS what they said was happening). What could be more important to get to the disaster site than a photographer? Seriously? They put this on social media and don't even care.     Now, here is the latest update sent out by the VM's on Tuesday night. I guess they didn't find a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Volunteer Ministers Tagged With: Bahamas, volunteer ministers

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