Weird stuff

Who is NXIVM and what are they doing? from wikipedia:

In March 2018, Raniere was arrested and indicted on a variety of charges related to DOS, including sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit forced labor.[14][40] He was arrested in Mexico and held in custody in New York after appearing in Federal Court in Fort Worth, Texas.[41] The indictment alleged that followers were coerced into sex with Raniere, who forced them to undergo the branding ritual alleged by Edmondson and others.[42][43] United States Attorney Richard Donoghue stated that Raniere "created a secret society of women whom he had sex with and branded with his initials, coercing them with the threat of releasing their highly personal information and taking their assets,” and the FBI’s New York Field Office Assistant Director-in-Charge stated that Raniere "displayed a disgusting abuse of power in his efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves.”[5] On April 20, 2018, Mack was arrested and indicted on similar charges to Raniere's.

Local Albany paper has lots of stuff on them. lots of big shots?

NYtimes magazine.

The F.B.I. accused Raniere of “a disgusting abuse of power in his efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves ... within this unorthodox pyramid scheme.” The criminal complaint claimed that the severe DOS diet was not for the women’s good, but to please Raniere, who, it asserted, sexually prefers very thin women, whom he entertained in a Clifton Park bachelor pad called “the Library,” outfitted with a bed and a hot tub. Prosecutors also claimed that Raniere, in the 1980s and early 1990s, had repeated sexual encounters with under-age girls. (He denied this to me.)

and local law enforcement has been fielding complaints about them for years.

self help stuff gets people into the cult, which uses NLP type stuff to heal memories and bad feelings etc.

NLP is essentially using self hypnosis and counseling (in this case, the counseling morphed into manipulation) to change people (i.e. can be good or bad). But in the wrong hands, like here, it can lead to really bad stuff: Bad enough to get the feds involved.

Sheesh. Lots of crazy stuff out there.

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what got me started is that I was checking out how the ex bishop of Albany got off and ran into the story. Now there is a new accusation againt the WaCardinal from Albany too.

in the meanwhile, the Pennsylvania bishops coverup report is out there:, which also might point to the present day bishop of Washington DC, who was in Pittsburgh when a lot of this stuff was going on.

OnePeterFive article about how the dominos are going to fall.

between this scandal coming to a head, and the fact that we have a Pope more interested in green ecology than in preaching morality (he does both, but more the former than the latter), I can only sigh.

And get my rosary out and pray.

but the bad news is that this is not just in one church: It is all over the place.