Chain Gang (Charlie Sheen) (Did you know that Charlie Sheen was once engaged to Kelly Preston Travolta?) ...cal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2G1801PAo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM
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1) NXIVM (pronounced //'nɛksim//), is an Albany County-based organization offering classes and seminars designed to allow its clients to pursue self-discovery.^[1] NXIVM has been called a successful executive coaching program by its supporters^[2] and a "cult" organization by former members and mainstream news reports.^[3]^[4]

2) Controversies

NXIVM has been called a cult by columnist Jeane Macintosh from The New York Post and by billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, Sr., a former participant and the father of NXIVM's two biggest financial supporters, Sara Bronfman and Clare Bronfman.^[7] Responding to such claims, Raniere has stated that "there's nothing in his operation that makes it a cult, and indeed, many enrollees see Executive Success as a good coaching program and nothing more."^[10]

Kenny Rogers - The Last Ten Years (Superman)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOaoP1u5pCU

http://wiki.whyweprotest.net/Former_Church_of_Scientology_members_who_have_spoken_out
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Christopher Reeve - actor, his story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve
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Reeve was a Scientologist, who later became critical of the organization.^[9]^[10]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6224513/ns/health-cloning_and_stem_cells/t/reeves-legacy-stem-cell-research/
Christopher Reeves legacy stem cell research

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Preston
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Preston was married to actor Kevin Gage from 1985 to 1989.^[11] She also had a relationship with George Clooney,^[1] who gave her Max, a pet pig that he kept after the couple split up.^[12] She was briefly engaged to Charlie Sheen in 1990,^[1]^[13] but ended the relationship shortly after he accidentally shot her in the arm.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0227/050.html
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The Man Who Mops Up Elizabeth MacDonald, 02.27.06

Stephen Cooper made the most of Enron's ragged collection of assets. He's pretty good at shoring up his own balance sheet, too.

With the criminal trials of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling under way, Enron itself is playing an endgame. The Houston energy trader exited bankruptcy in November 2004 and now consists of 300 people working at headquarters. It will probably soon spin off Portland General Electric, a financially healthy utility, to Enron creditors, and eventually sell or spin off other pieces.

Behind Enron's tumultuous wind-down is turnaround maestro Stephen F. Cooper, 59, head of Kroll Zolfo Cooper, Marsh & McLennan's corporate restructuring unit. Cooper says he will retrieve an estimated $16.4 billion, 32% of $52 billion in claims. If he had listened to creditors and immediately liquidated, Cooper claims, he would have recovered a mere 5% to 10%. "To those who never get out of their nice, expensive conference rooms, it was like, ‘The sooner Enron died, the better; let's just shoot another 1,000 people and be done with it,'" Cooper says.

http://www.espian.net/
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Executive Success Programs

Executive Success Programs, Inc. (ESP) was founded in 1998 by scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and entrepreneur Keith Raniere and by Nancy Salzman, one of the world's top trainers in the field of human potential. The company advances human potential and ethics through personal and professional development programs, corporate trainings, and a comprehensive coaching program.
ESP has created international coaching standards that allow for accurate, consistent measurement of human psychodynamic performance. All ESP programs maintain standards of excellence and impart a unique, patent-pending technology called Rational Inquiry™ that enhances human performance in virtually every field of human endeavor.
With over 300 Coaches and 40 Regional Executives in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, ESP provides training and special counsel to individuals and renowned leaders worldwide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM
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NXIVM (pronounced //'nɛksim//), is an Albany County-based organization offering classes and seminars designed to allow its clients to pursue self-discovery.^[1] NXIVM has been called a successful executive coaching program by its supporters^[2] and a "cult" organization by former members and mainstream news reports.^[3]^[4]

[edit] Description

NXIVM claims to be the turning point in human evolution, which has "clearly demonstrated tendencies that sway between awe-inspiring rises and cataclysmic falls."^[5] These sways, according to NXIVM, have become more extreme with each rise bringing mankind to new heights, and each fall a destructive act and a mindless regression.
NXIVM advertises itself as having developed a scientific and psychodynamic understanding, an educational program, and the technology for humanity to alter the course of history, offering a new ethical understanding that would allow mankind to explore its fundamental nature and begin to redirect its power of creation towards rising to mankind's noble possibility.
NXIVM offers additional classes geared toward business professionals called "Executive Success Programs" (ESP).^[6] The program costs as much as $7,500 for 16-day seminars called "Intensive Trainings." Students refer to the two leaders of NXIVM, Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman as "Vanguard" and "Prefect", respectively ^[7] ^[8] Some 12,000 people have attended the classes since its founding in 1998.^[9]
Some of its clients include Linda Evans, Richard Branson, the Cafritz family, and actress Kristin Kreuk.^[9] According to Forbes magazine, some 3700 people have taken part in ESP, including Sheila Johnson, co-founder of BET; Antonia Novello, former U.S. surgeon general; Stephen Cooper of Enron, and Ana Cristina Fox, daughter of the former Mexican president.^[10]
NXIVM was founded by Keith Raniere and is run by Nancy Salzman, NXIVM's current president and a former psychiatric nurse.^[11]

[edit] Mission

NXIVM's stated mission is to "help transform and, ultimately, be an expression of the noble civilization of humans." The ongoing struggle against opposing interests and beliefs limits mankind's ability to experience itself and the world, and this struggle has thrived for as long as humanity has existed; NXIVM believes it can reverse this trend through a set of consistent and universal principles in which all humans can participate. These principles are said to be apart from any mystical or religious notions and "allow for life to persist and uphold a diversity of beliefs." NXIVM hopes that by creating a new understanding, it can help mankind utilize its potential to live and work together and bring human existence to a new level—a goal that can only be reached through raising awareness, fostering an ethical humanitarianism, and celebrating what it truly means to be human. ^[12]

http://www.cultnews.com/?cat=49
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02.01.10

The fantasic financial failures of Keith Raniere

Posted in Executive Success Programs (ESP), Miscellaneous at 10:21 pm by Rick Ross

An Albany Times-Union front-page story featured the fantastic financial failures of Keith Raniere (photo left), leader of a purported “cult” near Albany, New York known as NXIVM (pronounced Nexium like the purple antacid pill).
It seems some of Raniere’s devotees became the bank for his business schemes, which culminated in fantastic losses.
Perhaps those investors may prefer the antacid pill now to further financial advice from NXIVM, also known as “Executive Success Programs.”
Raniere, a former multi-level marketing guru that saw his previous business Consumer Buyline go bust, has reportedly blown through about $100 million dollars of other people’s money.
That is, funds primarily provided by two heirs to the Bronfman/Seagram fortune, Sara and Clare Bronfman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Gage_(actor)
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Personal life
Gage was married to actress Kelly Preston from 1985 to 1987.^[2]
On July 30, 2003, Gage was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, starting September 29, 2003, for cultivating marijuana despite owning a California-issued license for medicinal marijuana.^[3] Gage stated that he cultivated medicinal cannabis to help him cope with chronic pain and stress from injuries suffered in a 1993 car accident,^[4] as well as for a sister with cancer and brother with multiple sclerosis.^[5] He was released September 21, 2005.