https://twitter.com/NotPizzagate/status/1276130633660727296?s=09

This video is 100 % real. I make these blogs for missing children & Human Trafficking please share thank You.

Gun violence continued to upend daily life in parts of Chicago Friday, when a shooting halted traffic on one of the city’s busiest freeways the day after 12 people were shot, five of them fatally, as part of a 52% rise in shooting incidents in the Windy City this year compared with last year.

$42 million. That’s how much President Trump, during this week’s visit to Kenosha, promised for public safety in Wisconsin, described as the “tipping point” state in the 2016 election, which Trump won by a narrow margin. He also promised $4 million for small businesses in Kenosha and $1 million for Kenosha law enforcement.

TOPLINE

 Gun violence continued to upend daily life in parts of Chicago Friday, when a shooting halted traffic on one of the city’s busiest freeways the day after 12 people were shot, five of them fatally, as part of a 52% rise in shooting incidents in the Windy City this year compared with last year.

KEY FACTS

President Trump has repeatedly derided the nation’s third-largest city as a “disaster,” based in part on the rash of shootings that continued minutes into Friday when occupants of a car on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the city’s South Side were hit by shots fired from another car, according to the Chicago Tribune, which was quoting state police; one person was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

One of Thursday’s shooting victims was a male shot as he was riding a bicycle on the sidewalk on the North Side, not far from Lake Michigan, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, which quoted Chicago police; he was pronounced dead at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

As of August 30, shooting incidents in Chicago were up 52% — to 2,152 — compared with the same period a year ago, according to the Chicago Police Department; the shootings are part of a wave of violence to hit major cities this year; according to the website Gun Violence Archive, there had been 12,239 gun deaths this year as of Thursday (not counting suicides); for all of 2019 the figure was 15,404.

The spike in shootings comes as protesters across the country march to decry police violence directed at people of color, and many push cities to reallocate some funding for  law enforcement to support community services, which some activists say could lessen the need for police, particularly in cases involving mental health calls.

President Trump has made “law and order” a key pillar of his reelection campaign, offering vocal support of law enforcement, including on his visit this week to Kenosha, Wisconsin, just north of Chicago. That city of 100,000 was rocked by days of protests over the police shooting of a Black man, which was followed up by the shooting of three protesters, two of whom were killed, by an Illinois teen with pro-law enforcement social media profiles. Trump took the opportunity to heap praise — and funding — on local law enforcement and did not pass up an opportunity to blame the Democrats for problems in Chicago, adding: “We went to Chicago very recently. Obviously, that’s been a disaster, Chicago, total disaster.” Some political observers say the move is designed to win support among suburban women, where Trump’s support has been slipping. Amid reports of increased violence and as images of burning cities flash across the nightly news, support for the Black Lives Matter movement — a key proponent of redirecting police funding — is slipping. Voters’ favorable views of the Black Lives Matter movement dropped by 9 percentage points since June, including a 13-point dip among Republicans, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday. Veteran Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher told Politico slipping support for the Black Lives Matter movement is the “direct effect of the strategy of Donald Trump and Fox News.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Franklin County grand jury returned a 19-count indictment against a man who allegedly forced multiple victims into human trafficking and caused an overdose death of a 21-year-old woman

Thirty-six-year-old Paul Chiles, also known as Tommy Gunz, allegedly had six victims that he forced into human trafficking between January 2019 and June 2020, according to Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien. 

O’Brien said Chiles “primarily targeted and recruited females to work for him that were vulnerable and homeless and he controlled the women through threats, physical abuse, and by keeping them drug dependent.”

Chiles, from Columbus, is accused of providing fentanyl that led to the overdose death of one of the victims, Cecilia Riegel, in April. 

“There are too many young girls out there being victimized by these sick guys. They use them like they are playthings. My daughter was just a meal ticket,” said Angelina Riegel, Cecilia Riegel’s mother. “It’s too late for my daughter, but there has to be something done for the other young girls out there that are hopeless… they just fall through the cracks.”

Other charges for Chiles include gross abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, possession and trafficking of cocaine.

Chiles is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges on Sept. 4.

The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Protection has, since 2019, rescued, supported and given care to over 611 victims of human trafficking while the adult shelter in the period under review received 63 survivors of human trafficking.

The Minister of Gender, Child and Social Protection said out of this number, 200 were children and 411 were adults.

This was contained in a presentation delivered by MsCynthia Mamle Morrison at this week’s ‘Meet the Press’ engagement at the Ministry of Information.

Cynthia Morrison said Ghana is currently on a tier-2 ranking with the US Department of Labour (DOL) ranking.

She said this shows that Ghana is making significant efforts to fight human trafficking.

The government, she said, “has released GHS1 million into the Human Trafficking Fund to effectively combat the menace with the operationalisation of two (2) government shelters to give care to rescued victims of human trafficking.”

According to the minister, the ministry has so far trained 45 law enforcement officers with the aim of building their capacity to better help with the fight against human trafficking in Ghana.

On the issue of public education, the minister said her outfit undertook series of community dialogues and sensitisation programmes in an effort to increase awareness and education on human trafficking and irregular migration issues.

She said this ultimately improved in reducing the rate of human trafficking and its related activities in the country.

“As part of the Blue Day, the ministry embarked on a social media awareness raising campaign on human trafficking.

Ghana joined the world to commemorate this year’s World Day against Trafficking in Persons (Blue Day).

“This was to intensify our prevention mechanisms through awareness-raising campaigns.”

NEW YORK – Clare Bronfman is standing by her “Vanguard.”

The Seagrams’ heiress and longtime NXIVM executive told the federal judge who will sentence her next month that Keith Raniere and his cult-like organization “greatly changed my life for the better” – and she refused to disavow them as she stands convicted of NXIVM-related crimes.

“Through my many years with NXIVM, I started to enjoy life, to feel accepted, loved and happy,” Bronfman told the judge in a letter dated Friday, Aug. 28. “Subsequently, many members of the community became like family to me and I cannot find it in me to now turn my back on those friendships, nor deny how profoundly Keith and NXIVM impacted my life. Even though some of them have now been labeled as bad for remaining friends, I experience them as some of the most kind-hearted and well-intentioned people I know.”

The 41-year-old Bronfman, who has homes in Clifton Park and Manhattan and was widely considered the financial muscle behind NXIVM, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to conceal and harbor illegal aliens for financial gain, and fraudulent use of identification. She faces 21 to 27 months in prison – and possibly more time – at her sentencing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Sept. 30.

Podcast: NXIVM whistleblowers pull back curtain on shadowy self-help organization

Her new attorney, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., asked for three years probation. He noted she has been on a $100 million bond since her arrest in July 2018.

“Clare’s culpability, with respect to the criminal conduct alleged against her co-defendants, is no different than the dozens of other sophisticated professionals who believed that Keith Raniere and NXIVM were doing good in the world,” the lawyer wrote.

Raniere, 60, will be sentenced on Oct. 27. In June 2019, a jury convicted the self-styled guru of all counts, including sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy and racketeering charges with underlying counts that included child exploitation, possession of child pornography, extortion and identity theft.  Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn asked Senior U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis to sentence Raniere to life in prison in a sentencing memo that noted the man known as “Vanguard” had asked a supporter to “get scrutiny” on Garaufis and have the judge know that he’s “being watched.”

In her letter, Bronfman apologized for her crimes but offered no apologies for being part of NXIVM, a purported personal growth company based in Colonie.

“Many people, including most of my own family, believe I should disavow Keith and NXIVM, and that I have not is hard for them to understand or accept,” Bronfman wrote.  “However, for me, NXIVM and Keith greatly changed my life for the better. Most of my teenage years and early 20s, I was ashamed of who I was, constantly focused on my shortcomings and ridden with self-hate. NXIVM changed that. I learned a sense of who I am beyond my faults and the tools of how to transform things I didn’t like about myself into traits and behaviors I do. I started to embrace myself and turn outwardly to care for and help others.”

Bronfman distanced herself from Raniere’s crimes and his secret master/slave club, Dominus Obsequious Sororium (DOS). In the supposedly all-women group, secretly led by Raniere, women were branded with Raniere’s initials, forced to live on 500-calorie diets and told to obey all commands of their “masters” under a lifetime vow. Many known members of NXIVM and DOS – including actress Nicki Clyne and physician Danielle Roberts, the latter of whom who used a cauterizing pen to brand women – wrote on Bronfman’s behalf to the judge.

“It is direly important that you know that, to my knowledge, Clare knew nothing about DOS, not even about its existence,” Roberts told the judge. “I am uniquely qualified to know this because: I was in DOS and I have had many conversations with the first line DOS members about DOS – none of which involved Clare. “

Clyne, formerly of Halfmoon and who was on the show “Battlestar Gallactica,” was one of eight “first-line slaves” in DOS who answered directly to Raniere, trial evidence showed. Clyne told the judge Bronfman was generous and that when Clyne’s father desperately needed an oxygen machine, Bronfman provided one that her own father had used.

“From the bottom of my heart, Clare is one of the sweetest, most earnest and compassionate souls you will ever meet and I sincerely hope you consider how much she has already endured as an effect of her charges and the hate campaign against her and other people who were part of NXIVM,” Clyne wrote.

Photo: TCarby, U.S. Department Of Justice

A man who authorities say was involved in an international sex trafficking ring was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison Monday.

Michael Morris, 66 of Seal Beach, Calif., was sentenced in the U.S. District Court in St. Paul following his trial conviction in December 2018. Four others were also convicted in the 2018 trial. Morris was allegedly involved in a sex trafficking organization that coerced hundreds of Thai women to engage in commercial sex acts across the country, including Minneapolis, according to a news release.

Prior to Morris’ trial, 31 defendants pleaded guilty. To date, 29 defendants have been sentenced, the release said.

According to the release, the women were forced to participate in the scheme through promises of a better life in the United States and the opportunity to provide money to their families in Thailand.

Where is human trafficking most common in California?Slavery is found throughout California, but major hubs are centered on Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco. According to the 2011 Department of State report, California, together with New York, Texas, and Oklahoma, has the largest concentrations of survivors of human trafficking.

The number of human trafficking victims in Orange County doubled between 2011 and 2013 as law enforcement officials sought to rout pimps, free prostitutes and break up human smuggling rings, county officials said today.

A report on trends in human trafficking was released today to coincide with the unveiling of a Orange County Transportation Authority a bus with wrap- around ad promoting public awareness of the issue.

A man and woman were arrested Saturday, hours after police said they kidnapped a 1-year-old boy from his mother at gunpoint in a Chamblee neighborhood.

The child was taken about 12:30 p.m. as the woman pushed her son in a stroller on Clairview Drive, Chamblee police said.

A man and woman were arrested Saturday, hours after police said they kidnapped a 1-year-old boy from his mother at gunpoint in a Chamblee neighborhood.

The child was taken about 12:30 p.m. as the woman pushed her son in a stroller on Clairview Drive, Chamblee police said.null

The child’s mother told officers a man got out of a maroon Acura SUV and pointed a gun at her hip before looking into the stroller and taking her son. She attempted to fight off the suspect, taking one of his shoes and ripping a piece of fabric from his shorts. She also managed to wrestle the gun away from the man and tried to shoot him, but the weapon didn’t fire, according to police.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1299817388704247808&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.com%2Fnews%2Fbreaking-amber-alert-issued-after-1-year-old-taken-from-mother-at-gunpoint%2FUKYRCJ2JEBBY5OLCTQJD73CAOE%2F&siteScreenName=ajc&theme=light&widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&width=550px

The suspects, later identified as Maynor Dario Valera Zuniga and Kristin Nicole Valera Zuniga put the child in the SUV and drove toward I-85, authorities said.

An Amber Alert was issued for 1-year-old Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera and the FBI was called in to investigate.

The child was located about 5 p.m. after state troopers spotted the suspects’ SUV in Carroll County and stopped the vehicle, according to Chamblee police. The boy, who was unharmed, has since been reunited with his mother.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1299829047455866881&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.com%2Fnews%2Fbreaking-amber-alert-issued-after-1-year-old-taken-from-mother-at-gunpoint%2FUKYRCJ2JEBBY5OLCTQJD73CAOE%2F&siteScreenName=ajc&theme=light&widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&width=550px

CALIFORNIA — The Los Angeles Police Department was responding to a bomb threat at a U.S. Postal Service facility Wednesday. The scene is in the 7100 block of Central Avenue on the South side of the city.

The building was evacuated and the LAPD bomb squad was called in, according to KABC. No injuries were reported.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=GrantB911&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1298716505509466115&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbreaking911.com%2Fbreaking-lapd-bomb-squad-responding-to-u-s-postal-service-facility-in-los-angeles%2F&siteScreenName=Breaking911&theme=light&widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&width=550px

DEVELOPING STORY

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4 News) – A Utah woman was arrested after police said she admitted to shaking a 1-year-old toddler, hard enough the child may be permanently blind, according to doctors.

Arresting documents state that about 9 a.m. on August 17, the Salt Lake City Police Special Victims Unit (SVU) received information from the Department of Child and Family Services and Primary Children’s Medical Center that there was a child who was believed to have been severely abused.

Detectives arrived at the hospital where the child was located and was informed the 1-year-old had received major trauma to the head, neck, and to the skeletal system. Medical staff further stated the child’s potential long term injuries include blindness.

Detectives interviewed Sabrina Ewer, 21, after staff said the injuries were consistent with abuse. Ewer admitted to police to shaking the child.

Days after the incident the child’s body showed significant swelling and bruising, documents state.

Ewer was arrested for second-degree felony child abuse causing serious physical injury and booked into the to Salt Lake County Jail.

Ewer does not have any criminal history in Utah.

In 2017, a New York Times expose inspired a justice department investigation that took down an American multi-level marketing scheme turned ‘sex cult’ known as NXIVM. The organization had been operating for nearly two decades under the guise of offering self-help deprogramming to heiresses, Hollywood actors and powerful CEOs. But, after one survivor came forward to the New York Times, NXIVM had finally been exposed for what it was—a barbaric organization that abused its members emotionally and physically.

But rewiring your brain to learn Raniere’s “ethical framework of human experience” came at a steep price. The cost for the first course, a 5-day intensive, was $2700, and from 1998 through to 2018, over 16,000 people completed ESP courses at centers across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The “scientific” technique taught in the Executive Success Programs, trademarked as “Rational Inquiry” by Raniere, was called a form of expensive mind-control “aimed at breaking down his subjects psychologically”by forensic psychiatrist John Hochman in his 2003 evaluation of the organization.

Raniere was hailed as an elusive, god-like savant within the company. The Vow’s ex-NXIVM interview subjects recount overcoming anxieties, phobias, and even witnessing peers have medical conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourettes cured by Raniere’s method in Episode One. The Dalai Lama even visited Albany to commend Raniere’s ethical work in May of 2009 (after an initial cancelation of the visit due to concerns surrounding the group).

Actress Allison Mack (R) departs the United States Eastern District Court after a bail hearing in relation to the sex trafficking charges filed against her on May 4, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.JEMAL COUNTESS

The Executive Success Program had a 12-point mission statement that was read aloud before each session began. One such point purports that “There are no ultimate victims; therefore, I will not choose to be a victim.” In light of Raniere’s present day conviction, this deep psychological manipulation of ESP students from Day One of their enrollment feels glaring. But the indoctrination was subtle, too: students signed NDAs on the ESP session material before they began. In classes, they were acclimatized to ritualistic practices like removing their shoes, wearing different colored sashes to denote their ranking in the ESP multi-level universe, and standing when a higher ranking member entered the room. All greetings with “Vanguard” Keith Raniere included a kiss on the mouth. Incredibly draining, 17-hour days alienated participants from the outside world. And ESP was just the entry point into the world of NXIVM. High-ranking members of the organization would live together in commune-like housing, instructing classes and sessions (usually without pay, according to the HBO testimonials of former members) at the organization’s spin-off spider-like web of cash-grabbing enterprises, such as a women’s only program entitled Jness, a men’s only program called Society of Protectors (SOP), and a fitness-focused program called Exo/Eso. Celebrities, CEOs, and affluent figures including Smallville’s Allison Mack and Seagram heiresses Sara and Clare Bronfman are among the notable former members of the cult.

In 2003, Forbes published a harsh profile of the Jesus-like figure that was Raniere, sowing the first seeds of the cult allegations and dark undercurrents coursing through the organization. Per Forbes:

Edgar Bronfman Sr., father of high-ranking NXIVM members Sara and Clare, is quoted in the story, stating simply that he “think[s] it’s a cult.” The piece detailed Raniere’s history of multi-level marketing fraud in the early ‘90s before he founded NXIVM, as well as testimonials from participants who had suffered hallucinations and psychotic episodes following grueling ESP sessions. But the damning profile didn’t stop the organization from continuing to prosper until nearly two decades later.

In 2017, an exclusive, highly secret women’s society within the organization, called Dominus Obsequious Sororium (DOS), which stands for a Latin phrase roughly translated as “lord over the obedient female companions,” is what finally sparked the downfall of NXIVM. Sarah Edmondson, an actress and decades-long devoted NXIVM member, filed a complaint to the N.Y. State Department of Health after her initiation into DOS. Per the New York Times’ account of her experience, the initiation required Sarah to send naked photos of herself as collateral to her “master,” whom she was recruited by to be a “slave,” and was completed with Sarah being blindfolded, held down naked on a massage table, and instructed to say: “Master, please brand me, it would be an honor.” Edmondson was then branded by a cauterizing device with a small symbol featuring Keith Raniere’s initials near her pelvis. The women in DOS were also required to be on call 24 hours a day—they would be punished with starvation if they did not respond to a text from their master within 60 seconds—and several were assigned to have sex with Raniere, as well. The 2017 media buzz surrounding the DOS ritual is what finally woke many members up to the evils at the core of their organization, prompting many departures and denouncements of NXIVM. Raniere fled to Mexico. But in February of 2018, a complaint was issued in federal court requesting an arrest warrant. Mexican authorities arrested Raniere in March and deported him back to New York.

“Vanguard” Keith Raniere was charged with various crimes including sex trafficking and forced labor and pleaded not guilty. Several other notable NXIVM figures including Allison Mack and Clare Bronfman were indicted as well for an array of crimes including “identity theft, extortion, forced labor, sex trafficking, money laundering, wire fraud and obstruction of justice.” But Raniere’s co-defendants—the women who had followed and served him faithfully for the past two decades—all pled guilty to certain lesser charges (Mack
to racketeering; Clare Bronfman to visa fraud) in lieu of standing trial, and Raniere stood trial alone. In June of 2019, Raniere was convicted by a Brooklyn jury of racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy, and wire fraud conspiracy in less than five hours. Raniere faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years imprisonment and up to life in prison, and his sentencing is set for October 27 of this year.

In January of 2020, a civil lawsuit was filed against NXIVM leadership by more than 80 plaintiffs who had at one time been members of the organization. Many of the plaintiffs filed under pseudonyms. It alleges that Raniere, Salzman, Clare and Sara Bronfman, and Allison Mack, among others, conspired to systemically abuse, manipulate, and extort members of the organization. The civil lawsuit has been stayed pending “final adjudication” and sentencing in the government’s criminal case against Raniere. No defendant in the civil case has yet filed responses to the allegations in that case.

The first episode of HBO’s The Vow just begins to scratch the surface of the dark underworld of NXIVM. The 9-part series is sure to magnify our Sunday Scaries for the upcoming weeks as it dives deeper into the strange rituals and twisted methodology of the cult-like organization.