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Hillary and Her Cult Following - The NXIVM Group
#1
This article is from 2007, but I will show some recent articles that tie in below.



Quote:A purported pyramid-scheme operator who was run out of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor has reinvented himself as the head of an upstate group accused of being a “cult” – and his devotees have pumped thousands into Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s presidential run.

Executives and top associates of the Albany-based NXIVM group – along with their family members – donated $29,900 to Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to federal records.

On March 14 and April 13, records show, more than a dozen contributions poured into Clinton’s coffers from NXIVM, an executive and group-awareness training organization led by Brooklyn-born Keith Raniere, 47.

Most were from first-time political donors, each giving the $2,300 maximum.
The revelation comes on the heels of the arrest of Norman Hsu, who raised $1.5 million in campaign contributions for the Clintons and other Democrats, even though he was technically a fugitive from fraud charges in California.
Hsu jumped bail in early September but was nabbed and is currently locked up in California.

In his previous incarnation, the Svengali-like Raniere ran a $30 million multilevel marketing business that imploded after federal agencies and regulators in 23 states alleged it was an illegal pyramid scheme.

He has managed to attract famous names to NXIVM.
Three of the March and April Clinton pledges came from Raniere’s most high-profile followers: Seagram heiresses Clare and Sara Bronfman, and Pamela Cafritz, daughter of D.C. A-listers Buffy and Bill Cafritz.
Cafritz shares a condo with Raniere.

The Bronfman sisters are also deeply involved with NXIVM and, according to a 2003 article in Forbes magazine, have loaned millions to the group and provided use of their jet.

Their father, Edgar Bronfman Sr., once took NXIVM classes but soon severed ties, telling Forbes, “It’s a cult.”
The Clinton campaign downplayed the significance of the NXIVM-related contributions.

“Over 100,000 people from across the country have contributed to Sen. Clinton’s campaign for change, and regardless of who supports her, she will always continue to stand up for what she feels is right,” said campaign spokesman Blake Zeff.
Hillary isn’t the only Clinton NXIVM officials are attracted to.

At least three of them – group President Nancy Salzman and the Bronfman sisters – are members of Bill’s charitable organization, the Clinton Global Initiative. Membership is by invitation only and requires at least a $15,000 donation per person for one year.
NXIVM spokesman Frank Roberts told The Post the organization doesn’t have a presidential candidate it is officially backing.
Last month, the Albany Times Union reported that NXIVM associates gave $31,600 to the state Republican Senate Campaign Committee and provided $34,763 worth of air transportation.

The recent campaign contributions led one close observer of NXIVM to speculate that the group is trying to curry favor for its effort to expand training centers upstate.
In the 1990s, several states investigated the Raniere-run Consumer Buyline Inc., a marketing firm in which members were paid commissions for recruiting new members.
A 1992 Arkansas lawsuit filed by Bill Clinton’s then-attorney general, Winston Bryant, charged Raniere, Cafritz and two others with fraud and business deception. Soon after, then-New York AG Robert Abrams sued CBI, branding it “illegal.”

Raniere didn’t admit wrongdoing, but agreed to pay hefty fines in both states.
After closing the Albany-based CBI, he became involved in a health-food and vitamin venture that led him to Salzman. Sharing a passion for motivational training, the pair launched NXIVM.

At NXIVM – according to court papers, cult watchdogs and relatives of members – Raniere has defrauded devotees, shattered families and drove at least one person to suicide.

After four months attending NXIVM’s expensive, “intensive” studies, Alaska resident Kristin Marie Snyder grew angry, depressed and irrational.

In winter 2003, she disappeared. Her family believes she drowned herself. Her body was not recovered. Snyder was last seen leaving a NXIVM course, and police released a note she left behind.

“I was brainwashed and my emotional center of the brain was killed/turned off,” Snyder scrawled in a spiral notebook.
churt@nypost.com

Here is the complete list from 2007:  LINKY

This article was posted today:  FBI raids several properties in connection to NXIVM investigation

Quote:HALFMOON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Hours after charges were filed against Keith Raniere in Texas, federal agents here in the Capital Region were also busy searching the home of Raniere’s closest allies.

Neighbors say this is the home of Nancy Salzman. Salzman is said to be the co-founder of NXIVM and Raniere’s right-hand woman. On Tuesday, FBI agents hit this house and others in this neighborhood.
“20 years in the making, they need to leave.”

This was just one of many residents who live on Oregon Trail applauding the sight of federal agents in this Halfmoon neighborhood.

One resident didn’t want to show her face but she did, like many others who live here, share what she’s witnessed.
“We first hand witnessed the sleep deprivation of girls who looked emaciated and walked with Raniere. I actually shouted out my window for him to shut up. That we were families and we had young children. And they would walk 24 hours a day sometimes.”
She says starting on Monday, FBI agents visited several homes on Oregon Trail.

Neighbors claim the people who live in the homes are all members of Raniere’s alleged secret society group of sexual slaves with Raniere the ultimate master.
It’s unclear who owns the homes, but Raniere is said to have a few members with very deep pockets and a taste for revenge if anyone dares to leave the group.

The neighbor told us she had seen this happen to a dear friend.
“I do know at that time they ruined her financially. It makes me sad, especially that these women would fall prey to this.”
FBI agents remain here. It is unclear how long they’ll be here.

Raniere appeared in court Tuesday in Texas. He signed a waiver to be sent back to New York with U.S. Marshals at a later date.

You can watch a couple of videos by clicking on the title to the above article.

Here is a link to the DOJ paperwork on Keith Raniere:  DOCS

It wouldn't surprise me if the Clintons don't have their dirty hands in this if we dig deep enough.  tinyok

Here is another great article and video on this topic:  LINKY
#2
More I came across involving this case.


Quote:Keith Raniere, the co-founder and leader of NXIVM, will remain in federal custody and be returned to New York later this week to face federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labor.

Raniere was shackled and dressed in a T-shirt, athletic shorts and sneakers — similar to the clothes he was wearing as he was arrested Sunday near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico — when he was brought before a U.S. magistrate on Tuesday afternoon in Fort Worth, Texas. Raniere declined to speak with reporters and said only, "Yes, Your Honor," when he was asked by the judge if he understood his rights.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Moira Penza, who is leading the investigation for the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, attended the brief proceeding but did not speak. Raniere was represented by a criminal defense attorney from Fort Worth, who told the judge that Raniere would waive his right to challenge his extradition from the Eastern District of New York.

Three people who appeared to be supporters of Raniere's attended the brief proceeding but declined to speak to reporters. Another man, who said he is from Mexico and had driven to Texas to attend the proceeding, said he was "concerned but not worried" about Raniere's arrest. He declined to give his name.

Raniere will remain in the custody of U.S. marshals without bond pending his return to New York. A warrant for his arrest was issued Feb. 14, after federal prosecutors filed a sealed complaint in Brooklyn charging Raniere with several felony counts.
The extraordinary arrest of Raniere marks the downfall of the leader of an international "self-help" organization that has been headquartered in the Capital Region for roughly two decades. Some experts have described NXIVM as a cult, and the criminal prosecution of Raniere has forced the secretive man who calls himself "Vanguard" out of the shadows and under the spotlight of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.

The federal criminal complaint accuses Raniere of forming a group within NXIVM in which women said they were coerced into joining a slave-master club. The women, some of whom said they were pressured to have sex with Raniere, told federal authorities that a female doctor associated with NXIVM used a cauterizing iron to brand them with a design on their lower abdomen that contained the initials of Raniere and Allison Mack, an actress and NXIVM associate who is listed in the complaint as an unnamed co-conspirator.

Raniere was taken into custody by Mexican federal police who tracked him to a $10,000-a-week villa near Puerto Vallarta, where he was staying with several women, federal officials said.

In court filings, U.S. Justice Department officials said that Raniere fled to Mexico last November when the federal investigation began. They have asked for him to be detained without bond while the case is pending, describing him as a flight risk and danger to the community.

Federal authorities said Raniere has access to millions of dollars and private jets, and that he stopped using his mobile phone and began using encrypted email after he arrived in Mexico, which made him difficult to locate.

[Image: pixel.gif?key=document%3A4421505%3Ahttps...784322.php]In the hours preceding Raniere's court appearance in Texas, FBI agents spent several hours combing through the Saratoga County residence of NXIVM's co-founder and president, Nancy Salzman.

The FBI's raid of Salzman's residence signaled a wider criminal investigation of the secretive organization than just the sex-trafficking allegations that led to the arrest this week of its longtime leader.

A former NXIVM associate, Kristen M. Keeffe, who defected from the organization several years ago, alleged in 2015 that large amounts of cash used to be stored in a safe at Salzman's residence.

The allegations made by Keeffe were contained in a transcript of a telephone conversation that took place in March 2015 between Keeffe and Barbara J. Bouchey, a former NXIVM executive board member who was facing computer trespassing charges at the time. Bouchey and three others were accused by NXIVM of of improperly accessing the corporation's website, but the charges against Bouchey and two others were dismissed.

While Bouchey's case was pending, her attorneys filed a copy of the transcript to buttress their argument that top NXIVM officials have used litigation, as well as the criminal case, to attack her and other perceived adversaries. Keeffe described many of those tactics during the lengthy conversation, and also provided allegations about Salzman.

Keeffe, who was part of Raniere's inner circle for many years, told Bouchey that money collected from people who took NXIVM training sessions in Mexico was funneled across the border into the United States. She claimed that Salzman, among others, would allegedly "bring the cash over the border."

The money, which was allegedly funneled through the bank account of a Mexican associate, was "logged on the system as a scholarship and cash was kept in Nancy's house," Keeffe said.

"And the cash for a certain time period, I doubt it's still there, was kept in a safe in Nancy's house," Keeffe added during the recorded conversation. "If Keith ever had to go into hiding it was Keith's off-the-grid fund. And the last time I heard about it, there was two and a half million dollars in it."

In a federal court filing this week, the Justice Department said that for the past 18 months Raniere had been using a credit card and bank account in the name of a former NXIVM associate and girlfriend, Pamela Cafritz, who died in November 2016. Federal prosecutors said the bank account holds about $8 million.

Salzman has been an influential figure in the organization since it was set up more than two decades ago. She also was involved in some of the medical research studies that were performed by a doctor associated with NXIVM, Brandon B. Porter.

On Sunday, the Times Union reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is conducting a separate investigation of a nonprofit foundation associated with NXIVM that allegedly sponsored brain-activity and other human behavioral studies without any apparent oversight, according to court records.

The nonprofit Ethical Science Foundation was formed in 2007 by Clare E. Bronfman, who owns a horse farm in Delanson and is listed in public records as the trustee and donor of the foundation.

At the request of the attorney general's office, a state Supreme Court justice recently signed an order directing Bronfman and Porter, who is involved with NXIVM and conducted the human studies, to turn over all documentation associated with the research, including any written communications, videos, conclusions, consent forms and the names and addresses of "individuals associated with Ethical Science Foundation who participated in any manner with the studies."

A Vancouver woman, Jennifer Kobelt, said in a complaint filed with the state Health Department last year that a bizarre experiment she was subjected to by Porter took place in a small commercial building in Halfmoon that has been used for years by NXIVM for training and seminars.

Kobelt said she was recruited for the study by an assistant of Salzman and that she knew of at least four other women who took part.

Barry Shlachter contributed reporting from Fort Worth, Texas.

There is a document you can read on the Source Article.
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Yep, I knew there would be a connection in there somewhere.  Seems anything related to sex trafficking has the Clinton name smeared all over it.   tinyok 

Quote:Shocking news surrounding Nancy Salzman - Q member of the Clinton Global Initiative - Bill Clinton's charity - whose home has now been raided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in relation to Keith Raniere - a sex trafficking suspect and cult leader who is now in federal custody.

The followers of the cult known as NXIVM would know 57-year-old Keith Raniere, as "The Vanguard,” a name he goes by in the underground scene.
Read the full article here:  Hillary Clinton And Dem Tied To Sex-Trafficking Cult Which Enslaved And Tortured Women
#4
More on this sex cult:  ‘Brainwashed’ Hollywood actresses Allison Mack and Nicki Clyne chase after sex cult leader after his arrest on sex trafficking charges
#5
THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK! 


Quote:A doctor described as the resident physician to the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a state oversight board with illegally conducting human experiments.

The action comes eight months after the state Health Department refused to act on a complaint from a former cult member who alleged that Dr. Brandon Porter, 44, forced her to watch disturbing rape and dismemberment videos for a “fright study” he was conducting.

Jennifer Kobelt, the former member of the notorious cult whose leaders are accused of brainwashing and blackmailing women into becoming sex slaves, said in her August 2017 complaint that Porter may have performed his “fright study” on as many as 100 people.

The practices this man used sound very similar to MKUltra. Did they just give it a new name?

Quote:But the OMPC has now accused Porter of moral unfitness, gross negligence and gross incompetence among other charges. He is accused of showing “human subjects an actual video of the horrific and brutal murders and dismemberment of four women by machetes; and violent film clips, including a male African American being viciously stomped by a Nazi; a conscious male being forced to eat a portion of his own brain matter; and a graphic gang rape.”

Read the full article:  Source


Yes, it's really bad!  All in the name of science, right?   tinyok
#6
I could write-off this horrible set of experiments as one of the darker areas of human studies that
some feel are necessary to understand how the complexity of the brain deals with 'horror' and the
socially-indoctrinated rules of group survival.

Most of the actions humans do to others, whether for reasons that are rational and yet cruel, beneficial
to the majority or simply because it was the acceptable practice at the the time, have been done.

We now know that the subjective cruelty isn't needed, it has no positive effects for the species and is
a personal act that appeases feelings of inferiority and only used to promote self-confidence of control
of the abuser and fear in the victim.

A lot of our present-day medical knowledge comes from trial and error in the past, even documentation
from Nazi experiments assisted in what we know today about the body's endurance. It's not 'nice', but it's
true.

But this is as it's reported. When dealing with cults, the belief structure of belonging and losing one's
individuality for the sake of relinquishing that daunting act of self-accountability, is a novel idea to
younger people who are still mentally growing.

It's easy to use the word 'evil' when we're confronted with something we don't understand and is
alarming. Science has progressed by doing such things we now call evil and callous. But we can only hope
that those performing the terrible deeds on living, dead and dying creatures, had a higher motive than
just enjoying the suffering the acts brought.

But nature had already taught us that 'gang rape' and eating sections of one's brain brings no benefit to
the species and especially in a civilised environment when sexual desire can be relieved consensually and
hunger can be appeased at the nearest 7-11.
I mean, imagine what mental strengths you'd get from growing the food yourself?!

No, this was a sick mother-f*cking monster who wore a lab coat to get his rocks off. Nxivm doesn't raise
awareness -as their  tract suggests, it tricks wealthy donors to pay for it's upkeep and offers them the weirder
side of sex in return.

Young females seem to be the target and ergo, we can assume those who want to use the women's bodies
for pleasure are older. Another indication that experience of life trumps the confusion of the young.
Branding the skin reduces the self-esteem of the victims and any responsibility to oneself and others is
also diminished. Which -many of us may recall, is a child's position in a family unit.

As Mystic has continually pointed out, Nxivm is a legalised sex-trafficking company based in New York with
the sole-aim of catering to the rich and powerful. It performs no scientific benefit to the academic community
and markets itself as "fostering an ethical humanitarian civilisation, and celebrate what it means to be human"

Except it doesn't. It really exists to celebrate what it's like to be a fiscally and politically powerful human with wants
that are taboo in general society or... pay $25000 and learn to be a demon.

This cult isn't looking for what makes a window cleaner or a car-park attendant think, it wants money in exchange
for brainwashed nubile women who are baffled into being sexually used by rich people.

'Dr.' Brandon Porter wants stringing up by his balls and asked how it ethically benefits mankind.
tinysure
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe. 
#7
@"BIAD"  Exactlly!  minusculeclap Well said.
Once A Rogue, Always A Rogue!
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