
Whatever boost Keith Raniere {Vanguard} thought he would achieve through the visit of the Dalai Lama never materialized. The only tangible effect of the visit had was to put both Raniere and the Dalai Lama under even closer scrutiny by the Press and bloggers.
Both the Times Union and the Metroland started asking why RPI and Skidmore College wouldn’t touch the event even with the prestige the coup of sponsoring the Dalai Lama would bring to their respective colleges. Bronfman herself stated “I believe Skidmore and RPI rebuffed organizers' attempts to bring the Dalai Lama to their campuses because of negative publicity about Nxivm.”
Why did the Dalai Lama back out at first and than change his mind and agree to come after all? Why did the Times Union Center really loose interest in sponsoring his visit?
The event itself brought the whole unknown history of the Dalai Lama to light. The idea that all his detractors were simply Chinese government stooges know longer held up.
As this video shows
As word was leaked that the Dalai Lama’s speaking fee was raised into the seven figure range and with the lack of any charitable benefit from his appearance, people locally began to realize it was just another NXIVM scam.
But the Dalai Lama controversy was small change compared to the shit storm that was coming Raniere’s way.
In January 2010 documents filed in a lawsuit claim that NXIVM, an Albany County personal growth organization, is actually a cult whose leader is a compulsive gambler and investor who risks other people's money .
A year after the visit of Dalai Lama, Raniere finds himself in the fight of his life. With his fiscal confidant Barbara Bouchey testifying against him in open court . His employment of Mossad hitman Steven Rambam to intimidate Bouchey and her friends only show that Raniere is running scared.
Rumors are flying in Saratoga about FBI investigations into the fiscal dealing of Nxivm and the mystery surrounding his “Golden Child”. Politicians such as Val Keehn who once bragged of her personal relationship with Raniere, claim they never met the man.
So the question is where are the Bronfman sister’s Sara and Clare in all this?
Standing by their Man I’m afraid.
As this post from Sara Bronfman’s personal blog dated February 27, 2010 says about what it means to be cool according to Raniere.

“A few years ago, I felt incredibly inspired listening to my friend and mentor Keith Raniere speak about what he hoped would become a new humanitarian trend. His vision caused me to rethink my concept of “cool,” as well as my relationship to what I consider “cool” and what it even means to be “cool.
As a person of influence living in the most cosmopolitan city in the world, I recognize my responsibility in this skewed notion of cool, and as such, my capacity to change it. For as long as I can remember I have striven for coolness. I’ve worked hard to be cool; suppressing myself, hiding anything I cared about or liked, being careful not to show any emotion or spontaneous form of expression. I have been protecting myself against a misidentified enemy, armed with “cool.”
http://www.sarabronfman.com/wpnew/a-brave-new-cool/
This is one fucked up chick. Did you notice she calls herself “As a person of influence living in the most cosmopolitan city in the world”?
Sara really I hope you wake up someday and realize that you have been a fool for too long
You along with your Clare have enabled this con man to flourish to long.
You have pissed away over 100 million dollars. People have been sued threatened and fiscally destroyed because of you. One young lady is dead because you enabled this clown to sadistically torture people in self help programs;
As Math teacher Nellie Forst wrote
"I wanted to control my temper better so I could one day become a principal." So at the advice of her father, the 28-year-old Philadelphia resident drove to Nxivm in Colonie for a five-day seminar expecting enlightenment and career advice.
But by the first evening, Forst says she ran out of the personal development company's New Karner Road office and left the Capital Region in tears. . .
"I consider the 11 hours I spent at the place to be psychological rape. It left me a totally different person with all this fear I never had before," said Forst, who has a master's degree from Drexel University.
You gave him your body your money and surrendered your pride to him. You then encouraged other women to do the same. Listen to the people around you and not Salzman and Raniere. Listen to your Father he loves you. Call your friend Bouchey, listen to her. No matter how deep you think you’re in and how hard it is to admit to yourself you’ve been had, the alterative is to keep enabling this clown to rip off and destroy other people.
We live in a free society and as such people are free to ruin their lives, piss away their money and offer themselves up to any one they wish.
So buy all means join NXIVM open up your checkbooks and spread your legs.
But if you are reading this, don’t ever say you weren’t warned.

20 comments:
Keith Raniere is such a sick, twisted, manipulative fraud. I just want kick his ass.
Great article and thanks for wanting to save our region.
I agree with Anonymous, Keith Rain-man aka The Worlds Smartest Dumb Man does not have to deal with any consequences to his behavior – yet. People must believe he is going to show them the path to enlightenment and a life of happiness if they will cover up his lies, gamboling debit and will lie themselves and give him million and millions of dollars. I bet there are a bunch of his followers who work for next to nothing to help him cover up his trail of destruction to shut up the few who know the truth and want to expose him.
I think the poor little rich girls were board nobodies in the world and when they went to NXIVM they must of been made "important" among the followers (what about 200 – I’m impressed Sue Sisters). All so Keith Rain-man and Nurse Nancy could get their paws on the Sue Sisters trust fund to feed the Smartest Dumb man gamboling addiction, do another failed business, do their evil manipulation of the court system, hire the “do whatever it takes to win a legal case and get a the part of your trust fund the smartest dumb man hasn't lost for the Sue Sisters trust fund - yet lawyers and Bully PI's. Did the poor little rich girls get brainwashed into believing they are important to the "mission" of NXIVM.
Their mission from their website – “The mission of NXIVM is to help transform and, ultimately, be an expression of the noble civilization of humans. We all have the potential to live and work together, but this potential is often cut short by opposing interests and beliefs”.
Is Keith Smart Dumb Man and Nurse Nancy’s behavior “Noble”? How can we all live and work together when every time some want people to know what goes on behind the “curtain” of NXIVM smoking mirrors of the educational front. Sounds like their program is used to learn people’s weakness and then use their weakness against them to suck them into the web of lies about the Great and Powerful Keith Smart Dumb Man. It can be used to weed out the ones who will do almost anything to be accepted by these two “leaders” within the compound of NXIVM.
What has he done that is so great in the world? Is he adding to world peace, nope can’t even create it within his couple hundred followers. Is he helping people build “Success”? People within the group seem to be broke. Once you leave your money (if you have any left) is used up in legal fees. I have not heard anyone make it really big who thanks their success to NXIVM. That might be bad for your career to mention you be a part of this group.
How do they get people like the Sue Sisters fork over a huge chuck of their trust fund? Would anyone buy a ticket on the merry go round of NXIVM if the truth of their Vanguard was known before buying their “Success” program? Big Fat Nope The truth about NXIVM what is really going on with the inner circle of is hidden in lawsuits, gag orders and court documents being sealed. So people don’t really know what they are supporting do they, until it’s too late they bit the big weenie, (no pun intended as he must have a big one to get so many chicks) hook line and sinker and use justification to keep on giving.
In the loving words of Dr Phil, Sue Sisters “What are you, STUPID”. Wake up and get deprogrammed before you are family saves you from your STUPIDITY and shut you off from your trust fund for wasting your grand daddy and daddy’s money. You will either thank them later or be forever followers of mentors Keith and Nancy.
Maybe your will find a real way to help the world and not these jerks you believe are so noble and “cool”.
Thank you for showing us that the Dalai Lama is just another power hungry asshole in saffron robes. i think he would fit nicely into congress
Thanks, John. Great research and insight as always. The man is nothing but a 2-bit conman and when he, finally, gets kicked out of NYS (Cuomo where are You????????) he will just move on to another scam, another pyramid scheme.
I have been mulling over for awhile now how I might act as a ‘force for good’ in this world. I am particularly interested in the danger associated with cults and indoctrination at all levels of the human experience. How might I help combat this?
It is interesting how inconsistent Americans can be. While searching for philosophies that are not as dogmatic and ritualistic as Western religion, they choose the one that has no fewer than 362 scriptural books containing well over 84,000 separate teachings.
The Dalai Lama is in it for the money the great majority of which comes from lost Americans. Nobody can sell you happiness; you must find it on your own.
Why are you against a more ethical humanity and new ways or perception?
If each of us can establish basic rules of how we treat our fellow man -- based on objective reality and logic -- we are therefore following a system of science and reason. It is up to the more enlightened among us to define those systems-and yes; to teach them to others.
Once the system is absorbed and practiced, it is not a cult that has been developed. It is called leaderhip; individuals than can lead the way for others to follow.
THERE: Pretty good, isn't it? I'm now in competition with Vanguard. Just call me Longschlong. We'll call out group BOINGSTER. Instead of using bored housewives for our political power, we'll use teenage girls. No sashes here, we'll wear berets.
Now give me all your money --- and your women. Bur just the hot ones.
Ben,
Great reporting and columns. Appreciate your courage in putting the spotlight on NXIVM.
It would be great if more people in Saratoga came forward and shared their experiences with the manipulative impact of this gang and how it eventually flowed into the Valerie wing of the Democratic Party.
There are several marriages in town that were blown apart by NXIVM - including Ed Mitzen's. The climate in the Valerie wing of the Democratics became totally toxic - with enemies lists published on their websites to a sense of "if you are not with us 100% you are the enemy and deserving of scorm and defeat at any cost".
I would love to see RICO (racketeering) charges brought against this scam.
Finally, it is important to state that the First Amendment gives the right of any group, even ones we fully despise, to gather and have their free speech. But, when the conspire to commit fraud and to manipulate a local political party, it is racketeering.
District Attorney Murphy, please take note!
You imbue words with so much bite, wit and shading that a lyric sheet doesn't begin to suggest the depth of what you’re conveying. What you do is articulate soul-knowledge, truths we hide from or can't find the words for. I listen to it with mouth agape, not because it's radical in content but because it's raw and honest, unconcerned with the truth-gagging politics of politely correctness -- which perhaps makes it radical after all. Stand up to the Buddhist fascist and new age demigods. You are doing great work here.
I have more secrets than one website can hold. In grade six I took the most popular guy in school's hat and took a big, steaming shit in it. When he found it he started crying. I laughed, really hard.
I frequently use street hookers to blow me, but I never pay more than $20.00 I guess I’m cheap. Some don’t even have teeth. I feel that my dick does not belong to me, so much so that I'm even suspicious of it
I have always wanted to pick up a hitchhiker.
I agree w/ anonymous 1:57. Great work and brave considering their track record for violence and intimidation. Good luck, seriously.
ROFL at New Order's comments.
Many friends tried to convince the girls about the probable outcome of NXIVM but to no avail. They are decent girls Clare and Sara, but they are in deep with this dude Keith. They will come out of this. He will NOT.
I concur New Order wins the comment of the series award.
Well done
I hate NXIVM and the leadership. My sister was involved for a few years. I don't think she was one of Keith's girls as she's not his type and was afraid of him. I asked her after reading all the post on the local blogs. She said no way; she didn't find him attractive and found him to be a snob.
Thank God she left what I think is a cult. She tried to get me to take a 16 day and was even going to get me in for free. She was going to do NXIVM “3 for free program” and I could be her free person. I didn’t want to have anything to do with the program after reading Keith got his company CBI shut down by all the attorney generals coming after him. If he was doing business like that, he new company had nothing to teach me about being successful.
Our family was and still is worried about my sister. She is very deeply in debt because she went to training after training. I don’t think she is going to ever pull herself out of the debt she has. When I asked her why she kept going she said she felt intimated into going by Nurse Nancy and Barbara Jeske, her field trainer. She also said she was abused by "Nurse" Nancy and Barbara Jeske who was always giving her feedback about what she said was her breach. After watching the woman who left Scientology on the Today Show she said it was a lot like that. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35768921/ns/today-the_new_york_times/
They are really nice when you first come in and then after taking their second level of training they started to be abusive to her. She has been in therapy now for a couple of years dealing with her PTSD.
I hope the school gets shut down to protect people like my sister. I pray every day for my sister to be returned to emotional heath.
My sister is distant from most people. She feels like she was suckered by NXIVM and ashamed that she could not see what NXIMV was really about.
I keep telling her that Keith is smart and has taught his people well how to take advantage of people. I feel sorry for the Bronfman sister and pray for them and their family every day. Thier mom and dad must be worried sick about them. I know what my parents were and continue to be as they support my sister while she heals emotionally.
We could not help my sister until she wanted help. Any time we tried she would get defensive and make excuses for Keith and Nancy and NXIVM. We decided we wanted to be her “life line” when she was ready to leave so we just worked at being a supporting loving family to her.
Thank God she is out and with the help of God, Keith and Nancy (or one of them) and the Bronfman girls will see the light and put an end to the abuse of people like my sister and the Bronfman sisters and start doing the right thing.
It’s a crime against God and humanity that NXIVM labels their program humanity and ethic based. What I have read on all the blogs, news papers and about NXIVM legal cases, I don’t think NXIVM is about the humanity or ethics my parents taught me and my family and friend live by. My sister and I think most other people never expected a cult to be so cleverly disguised.
I don't want Keith or Nancy to "see the light". I want them to see fire and burn for their hypocrisy and their exploitation of "ethics" to control people for their self-serving purposes.
Keith and Nancy will have to met "the maker" and most likely will be refereed to the devil due to their deeds. I believe ripping people off and harassing people in the legal system to "shut them up" is really the "value" they build in the world.
I believe its never too late to repent for your dirty deeds, for Keith and Nancy it might be too late so they might be telling themselves and each other why bother doing the work to be a better person. At least they have the couple of hundred committed follower believing they are humanitarians and "ethical".
Hog wash, if the followers would take the time to read what is "public" in the law suits and use their high priced "critical thinking skills" they could put two and two together and see the truth.
Maybe the Government agencies would pay attention to what Keith and Nancy are really up to if they had more followers than a couple of hundred.
Why doesn't anyone call out Keith's claim of being listed as the "highest IQ" in the 1989 Gun. Book of World Records? Easy enough to look up and the highest IQ that year (and for most the 80's) was Marylin Vos Savant (who writes the column in Parade Magazine). The world record was taken out of the books by 1991. Keith was NEVER listed as having the highest IQ.
Amazing to heare his great work being successful!
In retrospect I wish I hadn't used the r-word. Too strong, and disrespectful of real victims of that crime. 'Psychological torture' would also be too strong, and should be reserved for prisoners of war and such. I now believe "psychological abuse" would have sufficed.
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