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		<title>Exposing the Racket</title>
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			<title>Speaking of stats</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-732</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This is a good article addressing the church's expansion stats as stated in the recent Impact magazine. [censored]://leavingscientology.wor dpress.com/2009/12/19/scientologys- invisible-expansion/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>P. Henry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:20:28 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Eldon Braun</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-677</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I worked on some of the earlier event preparations - it was one of the things that convinced me how corrupt upper management had become - because they were looking for anything and everything - ways to show "some" stats that were impressive. The sad part of it is that we could not show the statistics of actual orgs and ACTUAL expansion because it wasn't there. Having worked behind the scenes, I assure you that the hype in those events is stretched and exceeds any concept of actual truth. It's designed to keep the sheep in the pen - nothing more.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>OTB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:52:41 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Completion statistics May 2007</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-654</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This site might be of interest to you, and to others in this thread: [censored]://www.truthaboutscientol ogy.com/stats/source/source190.html]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bill holbung</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:57:37 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>p.Henry</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-651</link>
			<description><![CDATA[p.Henry - excellent site you referred to. That gives a clear-cut picture of where David Miscavige has taken Scientology - PURELY on a statistical basis. Shocking.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>OTB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:32:53 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Eldon Braun says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-649</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Look what just got leaked: The 2009 LRH Birthday event. It's a major piece of fantasy! [censored]://gawker.com/5426671/sci entology-the-crusade-continues?skyl ine=true&s=x]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Eldon Braun</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:19:07 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>p. Henry says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-627</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Your Welcome OTB. Heres another good reference as it pertains to church statistics in magazines. [censored]://www.friendsoflrh.org/S ection3/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>p. Henry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:57:26 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>p.Henry</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-616</link>
			<description><![CDATA[p.Henry. Good idea. That post of Scientology stats endorses what we're saying. Good reference - thanks.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>OTB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:40:41 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>p. Henry says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-613</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A most excellent post OTB! I was reading a suggestion elsewhere (I think it was made by "The Pilot") that proposed that when a person receives promo from the church that they write REFORM on the pieces and then send them back in the postage paid envelope provided. After reading your burning questions I believe that writing them on the promo pieces might impinge more. As I still get a daily avalanche of promo pieces from the church I think I will give it a go. FYI: Scientologys Stats are Down [censored]://www.truthaboutscientol ogy.com/stats/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>p. Henry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:14:45 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>This cuts right to the heart of the matter</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-598</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You have created one of the most consistently thought-provoking sites of Independent Scientology, but on this occasion I think you have outdone yourselves. Asking these four questions of any staff member or public will start a chain reaction that will eventually crumble the wall of Not-Knowingness that they have erected around themselves to avoid seeing what is going on. I do not know if the CofS can be saved as an institution, but there are thousands of us beginning to realize that the future of scientology lies in the hands of Independent Scientologists. Your website is an important resource for all of us, so I have placed a link on my site. I have also posted an article to help new arrivals to the world outside the church. [censored]://possiblyhelpfuladvice. com/?p=149]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Old Auditor</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:55:37 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>About course completions</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-596</link>
			<description><![CDATA[RJ, In comparing the number of course completions at different times, I think you'd have to take into account how many "life improvement" courses have been concocted that never existed back in 1980 or before. Presumably, they're being sold to the same pool of captive Scientology members, not newly recruited "raw meat."]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Eldon Braun</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:53:11 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RJs Comment</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-597</link>
			<description><![CDATA[RJ - Really good point about the Auditor mag. Org mags are probably the very same - if we compared them now to years back - it would be shocking to see the difference. I remember in my org, back in the 70s, we used to graduate several auditors EACH week at times. AUDITORS! OTB]]></description>
			<dc:creator>OTB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:14:53 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Jim Logan says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-593</link>
			<description><![CDATA[OTB, You're damn straight that's the truth!!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jim Logan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:56:22 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Exposing the Racket</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-601</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Very good points OTB. Another way to do this without missing any withholds is grab any copy of your favorite org mag that you may have stashed away for a rainy day going back to the mid '80's like 'Auditor' for example and compare the completions (i.e. by that I mean actual Div IV auditor training courses not the Div VI basic courses) then compare it to any current Auditor mag that comes in the mail. Ignore the 24 point headline type and the hype they now use and count the actual number of major course completions compared to what they were back then. In other words look don't listen to the "Idle Org" PR and how "Scientology has gone through the greatest period of expansion in the last five years then the previous fifty", etc. You'll find no actual products just hot air and PR. No auditors made. In fact someone from ASHO told me recently "they weren't into making auditors anymore, because they were too busy making 'Scientologists'" as if these things were mutually exclusive. Yeah, whatever. Anyway another great post OTB :-)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RJ</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:52:26 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Exposing the Racket</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/exposing-the-racket.html#comment-595</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Spot on! Absolutely spot on! I also suggest anyone asking these questions of their Org read (re-reading) HCOPL 8 Feb 1968 Issue I AKH Series 18 STATISTIC RATIONALIZATION so you aren't tempted to accept all of the reasons you will most likely be given for why the above 4 stats are down. Excellent post, Outside the Box]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Freedom Fighter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:50:45 -0600</pubDate>
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