Regardless of your political beliefs this is a perfect example of funny political satire that is irreverent and charming at the same time. Watch closely and you will not only be entertained but might feel a bit of sympathy for Obama. All in all a masterpiece of Public Relations.
Then we have this little piece of shit from a Siobahn Hotaling;"I also truly believe that my capacity to be an expressive performer is due to the work I’ve done with NXIVM."
Siobahn you little trollop, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I hope they use this video as a recruiting tool and everyone can see just how well you perform with all your NXIVM training.
And I am adding this little gem.
A star is born.
And at least these people were trying to be funny
WARNING not for the easily offended
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You mean I too can be that talented just by spending tens of thousands of dollars and years of my life with nxivm?
NOT!
Miss H: ask for a REFUND!
You suck! Like REAL bad!
But not as bad as that local band you hang out with. Now they can chase cats for miles.
This lame asss group seems to attract people who have trouble forming sentences that flow nicely.
OMG, Siobahn...You sing about as well as Clare rides horses.
PS: You need to have your hearing tested. And you need a major makeover.
PPS: Thanks for the giggles your performance provided!
Hey don't mock Siobahn, she has 6,000 fans in the world (in Albany, Vancouver and Mexico - c.f. : Number of ESP/NXIVM "students" as said by NXIVM propaganda) !
I don't mind how they could put them altogether in the concert room 8@ !!!
Thanks God, it's Friday !!!
Wohoooh ! 8/ Talking of SH performance and NXIVM artistic coaching, there's another one somewhere else in the world !!! LOL
Hey is that in A minor? I really enjoyed that!
JT
Thanks for the video of a modern president. V. funny and truthy.
Singer is so sad, but good to post as example of how these success programs sell the same bill of goods to those simply hurting for some love and attention.
Willfully mocking another person does almost nothing to effectively prove or rebut an argument. It is effectively an ad hominem fallacy. In fact, it will typically just reinforce the other party's agenda when it comes to an "us against them" mentality which I'm sure NXIVM persistently uses among its people. Satire has its place, but that is different, and it is used for social criticism to change people's bad behavior using wit, and sometimes, biting sarcasm.
IMO, denigrating someone's ability or lack of skills in such a disparaging manner in the blog or the comments, which, although can have elements of truth to it, is weighted by subjectivity, and does little positively towards deconstructing NXIVM in a objective, forthright manner.
Though it may be true that this person feels that NXIVM has improved her ability to perform, it never can improve latent talent. Talent is a blessing, inherent in an individual. A song or voice coach, or a guitar teacher, would be a better person to "maximize her potential", than anyone from NXIVM ever could, i.e. someone with actual experience, rather than a so-called "jack of all trades" fraud, whose claims of accomplishments are looking more and more specious with each passing day.
This whole thing really is just sad - she is a quite ordinary singer, and I don't think her original song shows much promise. So by feeding into her "wants" in life, this group has brainwashed her into being one of their rabid lapdogs instead of helping her take an honest, rational look at her talents and abilities and find a reasonable way to maximize those assets. It's just users training other people to be users and the cycle continues. Hopefully the brakes are starting to be applied to this whole malicious merry-go-round.
Look at it this way:
The "Executive Success Programs" are supposed to make you, well, successful. It then promotes the most successful members to higher ranks within the cult.
So given that this woman is a high ranking member, that means she must be considered one of the most successful of them all.
THIS is success? This is talent? Ha!
I think this video clip summarizes the whole fraud, very nicely.
Here's another Espian singing. This is one of Raniere's Asian karate girls.
Her comment: "Keith Raniere and ESP made me understand how talented I really am. I am now on my way to being the #1 pop singer in the world."
How do you think that's working out? What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dJonNLu6U
H in theory I agree with everything you said. That is in theory. I have no desire to mock or ridicule the average NXIVM devotee. But Siobahn Hotaling is different.I believe she is a high ranking member of NXIVM and it is my opinion that she is active in there Black ops department. I believe she was one of the planners of the Lily’s Tavern operation in Bolton Landing back in August that planned to physicality harm me.
See:
http://saratogaindecline.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-nxivm-trying-to-take-me-out.html
She also verbally attacked me in Mocha Lisa's Caffé in Clifton Park back in August when I had no idea what her name was.
SEE:
http://saratogaindecline.blogspot.com/2010/08/meet-siobahn-hotaling-nxivm-pissed-off.html
NXIVM harasses and sometimes uses legal torture on its victims. They did that with immunity for far to long.
This is a lesson to anyone who crosses the line and tries to harm me or my family or who thinks they can harass me. There are consequences to your actions. The days of NXIVM steamrolling their opponents into submission with immunity are over. You poked the sleeping dog one too many times.
And a special message to my NXIVM friends who suddenly find themselves devoted Catholics. Yes you are always welcome in church. Now instead of watching me, try watching the Priest, you might learn something. But if you cause an unprovoked scene or outburst to destroy the peace of a solemn religious experience for my fellow parishioners I will MAKE YOU FAMOUS from Message board to Message board across the globe.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Raniere classifies women in different categories :
-The ones he fucks
-The ones he spoils
-The ones he braiwashes to program kamikazes
-The fame bringers aka VIP members
-etc.
In his kind of newspeak, he defines his lexicon of the combinations : Fuckspoils, Kamfucks, Spoilkam, VIPfuck, SpoilVIP, VIPKam, etc.
That's all !
SH belongs to the kamikaze group, and perhaps the Spoilkam group if she has some cash...
Must say i heartily agree with "H." Difficult as it is not to stoop to their level and fight fire with fire, ridicule of NXIVM suckers (oops) only makes detractors look as low as they are.
Do get your point that this is an example of NXIVM tactics; i.e. pay for NXIVM courses, help NXIVM do their dirty work and you'll be celebrated among their fan base no matter how little or great your talent or skill.
It's 'PAY TO PLAY,' something every true artist detests. It corrupts the meaning of art itself and robs authentic talent of its validity. OPPOSITE OF ETHICAL!
But every voice deserves an opportunity to be heard.
Hey 1:38PM:
People who make fun of Siobahn's shitty music aren't 'as low as' the people in nxivm who have been participating in criminal activity, including stalking, threatening and harassing not only their critics, but their critics' families.
You said "every voice deserves an opportunity to be heard."
Tell that to the NXIVM lawyers and private investigators who are paid millions upon millions of dollars, year after year, to make sure that any voice that criticizes NXIVM should never be heard.
Plus, the video clip in question is Siobahn's performance in a local talent show called "Capital Region's Got Talent." She entered the contest because she wanted to be judged on the basis of her 'talent.' That's all John and the commenters are doing, commenting on her 'talent.'
Siobahn is exercising free speech by allowing her performance to be viewable on the internet, and the people who think she's an atrocious 'musician' and say it on the internet are exercising free speech as well.
While Hotaling is indeed quite a horrid singer, she is indeed a higher up in the NXIVM fantasy world. Before she invoked privacy settings on her Facebook page she listed her "profession" as "coach" and life "trainer" and touted the wonders of NXIVM and ESP. She also had a fair number of pictures of her and her "ladyfriend" as she calls her (she will remain unnamed here since I have no idea of any involvement in NXVIM) traveling and cuddling together. As a rug muncher, I suspect KR had little if any bedroom interest in this misguided young lady. I too have seen her at Mocha Lisa, but as I am not visually well known to the cultists, she had nothing to say to me and I do not get the evil eye from her. I saved her old Facebook page data someplace and when I find it, I will forward it to John as a HTM file. It's quite funny how she claims to be a polished musical performer and her involvement with the accapella movement.
I've also heard, but have not personal knowledge or hard evidence, she has been a "money-mule" to Canada in the past. I think it is still illegal to transport more than $10,000 in US currency across a national border, including the Canadian border. I do know that US and Canadian Customs has been alerted to her name and identity so next time she crosses, it should trigger something in the computers to perhaps search her person and belongings and car (if she were to drive to Montreal or cross in Cornwall again). Of course, the cash might smell like fish a little.
Make her stop...Make her stop. You can have all my money VanTwerp, just make her stop.
H and Anonymous 1:38 PM totally miss the point of John's videoclip of Siobahn Howling. What Raniere and the inner circle members do is make their foolish followers believe that NXIVM's training courses make them better at whatever it is they want to do in life. So Clare Bronfman, who's really just a horse's ass, is made to believe that she can qualify for the USA Olympic Equestrian team. And, when she inevitably fails, they blame her for the failure - and tell her she just needs to take more NXIVM training courses!
NXIVM is full of people who have been made to believe that they have more talent than they really do. Like the Legal Liaison who is actually a high-school dropout. And Sara Bronfman who now believes that she's an "entrepreneur", an "influential person in New York City", and a world-recognized humanitarian. And the mid-50s still aspiring ballerina. And the woefully inept Ms. Howling.
John's videoclip is not intended to belittle poor littel Siobahn. Instead, it's meant to force her to see the reality of just how little talent she still has - even after all of that NXIVM training.
Hey Anon at 3:49 " Of course, the cash might smell like fish a little." November 26, 2010
ur funny
and also close to talking of the old ways of the family clan.
the whole thing stinks
but this performance of "El Tango de Roxanne/Roxanne Medley" by the NXIVM a capella group 'Simply Human' is still one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen on the internet. They are supremely awful from start to finish, with at least one person painfully off key during every second of the performance. Not one of them has an ounce of stage presence and Siobahn's eardrum-stabbing, fist-pumping vocal solo towards the end is pure awkward comedy bliss.
Click here for instant hilarity.
El Tango de Roxanne/Roxanne Medley - Simply Human
Ms. Howling... LMFAO!
My God that video made Bruno howl. Even my cat ran out of the room
Tried but could not do more than 41 seconds
Love accapella
atocious
the children have been robbed.
they have all been robbed!
shame on raniere, Emperor you have no clothes!
Here's some real
stuff , not phoney.
Just so tired of phoney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAmiaTblGg4&feature=related
omigod that simply human link
reminds me of what kids do when so wound up
they just gotta wanna put on a show!
LMFAO sorry did someone say that already? hate to be repetitive!
Howl!! I warned the cat thanks John.
That broad makes me hot singing like that! You people are idiots!
That clip of Simply Human looks like they are all victims of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, or at least have overdosed on caffeine from their club house. They are going to be sooooo embarassed in years to come when their grandchildren see these videos.
It sometimes is a shame when people think they have talent and get taken advantage like that to perform in front of people. Reminds me of that poor oriental due who got duped into auditioning for American Idol and then became a smash hit with his rendition of SHE BANGS.
Mamie, you don't stand a chance with Hotaling. She's a rug muncher.
That SIMPLY HUMANS a capella shit just might be the worst recorded garbage I have ever hear on my life. Yes, I am 100% serious.
If ANY of you young people on that video have ANY dreams of making a life in show business, let me give you some free advice: end those thoughts right now. There is no chance.
I am not Raniere or any of the other Espsians trying to make you think you have talent for the sole sake of keeping you in the cult (and writing checks). I am an impartial observer, with experience in the buiness,offering my expertise.
Stop now. Otherwise you will be on for a future lifetime of poverty and disappointment.
Use your energy instead to help stop the NXIVM madness.
You have been used. Now, you know the person among you that roped you in. what are you going to do about that?
Hotaling wannabe
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1943315
Here's the singer the Hotaling wannabe in previous posted link was trying to imitate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQIq9ZgHjCs&feature=related
NXIVM reminds me of the current scandal with for profit online schools taking money from folks with no chance to earn in the jobs they think they are training for.
Hotaling and the Bronfman girls have been seduced into believing that the tech will make them accomplished and famous. The theories even operate inside the Bronfman foundation where the training encourages students to think they can create their own reality.
Whitney Houston, the singer in the link, comes from a family of singers, Dionne Warwick is a cousin and Aretha Franklin is a close family friend. Still her life has been very difficult. Why? Because life is full of suffering and you cannot escape it.
In the face of the reality of life, NXIVM offers nothing more substantial than the mental delusions of Keith Raniere.
Why this matters to me is that the influence of the Bronfman name and money is carrying this corrupt delusion into all levels of our government. Very hard to stop. Look how long Maddof ran his schemes and how many were duped. No one wants to stand up to the Bronfmans.
Which makes the effort here impressive. Thank you John.
Some context may offer insight:
What the girls have squandered is nothing compared with the brother.
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/The-Unmaking-of-a-Dynasty_6157
Highlights:
“Of all the unwitting victims of the collapse of the dot-com bubble and the shattering of the myths that fueled the Internet boom, few have lost more -- financially, emotionally, and in terms of stature and prestige -- than the Bronfmans.
“He just kept buying everything in sight, like a kid in a candy store," says Edgar M. Bronfman, Seagram's former chairman and Edgar Jr.'s father. "And he didn't care what the price was”
“... the company added an astonishing $1 billion worth of debt a month to pay for a dizzying media and telecom spending spree that left the Bronfmans and other investors shaking their heads in disbelief. “
Today, (2003) the Bronfman investment is worth less than $800 million and the family's total paper losses exceed $3 billion. "This is not play money," says an insider. "
"It's an unfortunate story," says Edgar Sr., putting it mildly, as he thinks back to the person he thought was the perfect choice to carry the family's fortunes into the new millennium. "He's a good salesman and I thought he was going to do a great job. He made such an impression. But he turned out to be less than we thought."
“His own grandfather, who never took his vast wealth for granted, believed in his darker moments that his grandchildren would one day undo all he had built. Hence, his now prophetic remark: "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I'm worried about the third generation. Empires have come and gone."
On Edgar Jr: “In the press, he was portrayed as a lightweight dilettante drawn to the industry's glitz and glamour, a bumbling rich kid ripe for the picking. As one anonymous Hollywood executive famously opined at the time: "He's like a piñata! Hit him and money comes out."
“He had devoted a working lifetime to carefully nurturing and expanding what his father, a Russian immigrant who grew up in poverty in the harsh landscape of the Canadian Prairies, had started with a single Montreal liquor store in 1916. There's nothing left now to pass on to the fourth generation but diminishing trust funds and memories of what was and what might have been.”
“As a matter of fact, I'm glad that there isn't any Seagram to leave to them," he says. "You know, this whole question of entitlement and that they're the Seagram Bronfmans or whatever is not a good thing. People have to go and fend for themselves. I don't know who the hell would run it, and there would be family fights. It's much better not to have that as a legacy."
“For now, the best he(Edgar Jr.) can hope for is that no one remembers how he traded his family's crown jewels for the fantasy of a global media empire.”
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/The-Unmaking-of-a-Dynasty_6157
That acappela video looks like a bunch of mentally derranged individuals in a mental institution giving a performance for fellow inmates.
the funny part is Edgar Bronfman jr the head of time warner was invited to watch this performance at the egg theater in 2007.
Amazing, I'm sure he signed them all right on the spot.
Aren't they a bit old for Acapella. On the far right is ED the chiropractor. He's no longer in this organization. I think he realized that he was making an ass out of himself.
Boy OH BOY it sounds sooooo bad.
Please make them stop.
Thanks John,
Have a great weekend.
It would appear that many of Edgar Sr. children are piñata's that when hit with a big stick money falls out of them.
It's the problem with not making your children work in the "real world", have a good education, and be older before coming into their family trust.
I have friends of my family who come from a very wealthy family (billions) and they don’t get a penny from their family trust other than to pay for their college education until they are 31 years old.
No job was given to my friends in "the family business". They had to earn their positions or work outside the family business to support themselves.
From the time they left home for college (or had to move out after high school) until their 31st birthday they completely supported themselves. Once each person came into their trust they had a good understand of money and what it took their family to build the trust they were coming into. Each child is responsible with their money.
No piñata's in this family. There are also teaching their children the same lessons.
It's too bad that the Bronfman children have not learned this lesson. It appears that Clare and Sara believe Raniere knows best how to be responsible for and best how to use their money.
Failed business deals, how to lose millions in the commodities market, and all those law suits, millions on law suits. How is this building humanity?
Is Raniere the big stick hitting the Bronfman girl’s piñata's? Can they and others within NXIVM see how they are being used? Not yet!
Some day they will see the truth of this man and the women who cover up the lies. The piñata's have been hit too hard and with too many sticks.
Things are falling out that they cannot put back in and are being exposed for what they are.
Someday it will be Raniere and Salzman who are the defendants and the piñata's will be empty of money. The rich spoiled children will have taken what is left of their trust and gone home.
I don't think the Nurse reads this blog. If you do or if you care about the Nurse give her this message.
You know what he does. You seen it you've helped him. You know it's just a matter of time, you know your on thin ice, you know that you will be left holding the legal bag.
Run as fast as you can to the nearest FBI office while you still have time. The door to this opportunity is closing and is closing fast. You cannot say I didn't know.
TO THE TUNE OF 'ROXANNE':
Saaara, you don't have to put on that scarf tonight,
Naaaancy, if Vanguard flees they can extradite,
Saaaara, Claaare, it's time to fire up the jet and take flight,
You don't have to, no you don't have to put on those scarfs tonight...Vanguard don't care if it's wrong or it's right!
Raniere of NXIVM reminds me of this quote:
"The Sophists have certainly returned, and Socrates has been jailed again."
There must be a NXIVM module called "Hold your head high while people laugh at you". I mean, these videos are laugh out loud funny! Are these people delusional? They are qualified to sing in the shower and maybe at Karaoke night after a few too many... that's it.
The high pitched howler made my beagle howl right along with her!
Hey 10:35 That's what I'm talking about! She's right up my alley or rug!
If raniere can convince people he's smart, take their money,fuck their wives, patent something useless then he can definatly convince a bunch of morans that they are talented.
Just look at amarican idol. If a person wants to believe something it's very easy to help him achieve that goal especially if you have dozens of idiots reassuring you.
That's NXIVM folks.
My brother in law is a talent agent that deals with new musical talents. The guy can tell if someone has it in less then 30 seconds.
He doesn't know about NXIVM or any of the stuff going on with this group.
I showed him the videos and he laughed so hard he couldn't stop laughing for minutes.
His response was "you have to be kidding me"
He also noted that most people involved in Acapella are generally younger.
He asked me to send him a link so he can show it around his office for laughs.
I agree that potshots for the sake of potshots aren't cool (even if it is soooooo easy), but the whole idea is that these poor folks are being stoked up, like Lily Taylor in the River Phoenix movie DOGFIGHT (GREAT flick). It's actually meaner to lie to these songsters than otherwise, and the decievers are nasty, cruel hearted douchebags. Thanks John, for all you are trying to do, even when your intentions are hazy... we get the point.
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