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Ignorance and irrational belief certainly create the atmosphere in which bad storms develop. Cult like adherence, while seemingly benign when describing the heyday of Amway, today is exhibited in the totally irrational world of Trumpism. Hopefully the storms that develop aren't those as horrendous as another world war? </div>
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Was just now thinking that for some very few people, Amway is a good
scheme. I've discussed Kingpins and want to be Kingpins. I am not really
certain that I've left anything unsaid. I would like to reiterate that
much of the criminal fraud that has been discovered involving the
Amway/Quixtar business involved developing other avenues of lucrative
frauds, investment schemes and frauds being the more common. <br /><br />Amway,
an over the counter drug, a gateway drug to other less legal drugs.
People selling much more than a basket of cosmetics. Lone sharking has
always been a sister business of MLM. Enthusiasm for a scheme can be
lucrative for some. <br /><br />I am not particularly impressed by claims
made by some about Amway. I can see that it has its potential for
getting some kind of leg up for any number of things, both legal and
illegal. <br /><br />Many that profess to be financially successful in the
Amway business, giving hope to the believers, are many times essentially
frauds, hiding the fact that their appearance of success comes from
questionable side operations. Robbing gold eggs from the nests of new,
but very gullible Amway believers is a con man's dream.</div>
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Recently Robert Fitzpatrick researched and wrote an article entitled <i><a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/3956452-herbalifes-mlms-2015-data-show-growth-era-ended" target="_blank">Herbalife's And Other MLMs' 2015 Data Show Their Growth Era Has Ended</a></i>. As an observer and a critic of the MLM phenomena, this is certainly good news. I would like to hope that such statistics might signal the death knell of an industry founded upon a fraudulent business model, I remain skeptical of the market saturation argument being the panacea of MLM critics. <br />
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If the MLM market contracts somewhat, does that signal that the corrupt industry is doomed? I seriously doubt it. All industry, questionable or legitimate is subject to contraction and expansion all the time. Just one look at the automotive industry shows how a companies on the edge of extinction can rebound and expand. There will always be a market for cars, and there will most assuredly be a market for people willing to believe in the ideals of economic alchemists like Amway or Herbalife. <br />
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The first people to go during contraction in any industry are people in the form of layoffs. In MLM, layoffs occur when people do not realize their "pie in the sky" dreams, and discover recruiting their friends and family into the scheme is much more difficult than they first thought. Even when some success in recruitment is achieved, many discover that the building of a downline chain is fraught with the curse of broken links, making the dream an ever elusive and expensive nightmare. Some people persist, even when they see their recruiter quit. It is just in the DNA of the MLM chain of misery. <br />
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MLM sponsors an irrational belief system. Rational arguments do not work very well against those who choose to believe in the irrational chemistry of an industry that requires recruits to disregard any rational argument against the "tried and true" MLM system. Disregarding "nay-sayers" is touted as the secret to success in MLM. It is the MLM equivalent of fundamentalist religions teaching adherents to believe that man earth and the universe were created in six days. As long as irrational belief systems are extent in the World, then there will be any number of the gullible willing to sign up to buy and recruit for Herbalife and Amway.<br />
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Does contraction in MLM occur? Yes. Does that signal the death knell of MLM? Probably not. Is MLM an inherently corrupt industry? Yes. Do corrupt industry necessarily fail? I would like to think so, but under the ideals of Capitalism, such industry seems alive, and many are very well. I point to the arms industry that likewise thrives on the propagation of fear worldwide. MLM survives on fear and economic uncertainty that promotes drowning people to grasp for straws that are held out to them as viable alternatives to traditional enterprise that MLM con men discount.<br />
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I do not totally discount MLM market saturation. It does present a significant problem to people hoping to recruit others, but there will always be a pool of irrational people who can be persuaded to join pyramid schemes and eventually join the other people who have tried and failed at the revolving game of MLM greed. <br />
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential election, although roughly 500 days away, is heating up. The list of declared and probable Republican candidates has already been described as a "clown car" referring the the circus clown act where, to the amazement of children, an unbelievable number of clowns jump into a colorful prop much too small to contain the large number of clowns vying to enter. Much to the amazement of the audience, they all miraculously fit. Notable and not so well known Republican candidates include Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, <span itemprop="articleBody">John Kasich, Ben Carson, </span><span itemprop="articleBody">Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Donald Trump, </span><span class="sn_snip">Mike Huckabee</span><span class="sn_snip">, Skip Andrews, Kerry Bowers, </span>Dale Christensen, John Dummet, Jr., Mark Everson, Chris Hill, Michael Kinlaw, <span itemprop="name">Dennis Michael Lynch, George Pataki, </span><span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name">Michael Petyo, Brian Russell, </span></span><span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name">Bob Ehrlich, Peter King, Rick Snyder, and assuredly many more. Possibly, even Sarah Palin might be persuaded to enter the fray? </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name">A new book,<u> Clinton Cash</u> published and released on May 5, 2015, has become an overnight best seller. The local library acquired 100 copies, all of which have been loaned out. Not wanting to actually buy the book, I have placed myself on a waiting list that is over 100 requests long, so it may be some time before I actually get a chance to read it. (It isn't my intention to write a review on the book, which questions the ethics of Bill and Hillary Clinton.) </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name">The timing of the Clinton Cash book is interesting as it has been published at the beginning of the Presidential horse race that will soon monopolize the news media for the too long extent of the campaign season. I tended to disregard the book and the ensuing onslaught of media attention that it has invoked as nothing more than election year rhetoric, launched to further the interests of those piling into the <b>Republican clown car</b>. Generally I find it easy to disregard such tomes which (obviously) have ulterior motives for attacking the Clintons. </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name">As a moderate/independent, it is should be easy for me to conclude that corruption allegations against the Clintons by Republicans and the right wing media (like Fox News) has been manufactured to derail Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign. I am not predisposed to jump onto the anti-Clinton bandwagon. I do not support the Republican agenda or the platform most of the Republican candidates will be running on. That being said, I do believe there may be <b>fire beneath the smoke</b> that this new book supposedly reveals. </span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name"><i><b>Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich</b></i> is a 2015 book by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schweizer" title="Peter Schweizer">Peter Schweizer</a>, in which he investigates donations made to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation" title="Clinton Foundation">Clinton Foundation</a> by foreign entities.</span></span><br />
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<span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name">Peter Schweizer, is alleging that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/11/clinton-cash-why-controversy-matters-to-every-american.html" target="_blank">'questionable' money</a> has been pouring into Clinton coffers, a percentage of which has come from speaking fees paid to Bill Clinton. Under the guise of supporting the Clinton Foundation, Bill and Hillary have accepted unusually enormous payments for speaking engagements totaling 130 million dollars. Generally, these speaking fees or contributions to the Clinton Foundation have not been publicly disclosed. These and contributions to the Clinton charity are the subject of Schweizer's book. The acceptance of these enormous funds from foreign entities and businesses supposedly represent of "</span></span><span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name"><b>Quid Pro Quo</b>" conflict of interest in light of Hillary Clinton's former office as Secretary of State. </span></span><br />
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India, Russian acquisition of a uranium mining company, and the
relationship between Bill Clinton's paid speeches and Hillary's work as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">Secretary of State</a>." (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</blockquote>
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<span itemprop="name"><span itemprop="name">I opened this blog post with a picture of one of Bill Clinton's speaking engagements. </span></span>It was part of a headline act at an <b></b>event in Osaka Japan. Bill joined Jenifer Lopez and Doug Devos on stage at a Amway convention.<br />
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<b>What strange bedfellows Doug Devos and Bill Clinton make on the same stage based on political ideologies.</b> The Amway/Devos empire has supported pro-Republican/anti-Democrat rhetoric with millions upon millions of contributions. Amway organizations have long promoted Republican ideals from their Amway podiums. In past times Bill Clinton himself has been villanized by Amway leaders and speakers. One of which has been Dexter Yager who is reported to have outed <a href="http://www.transgallaxys.com/~emerald/casestudies.html" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton as a lesbian</a>. (During the Clinton presidency, <a href="http://www.corporations.org/amway/mollyivins.html" target="_blank">Congress granted Amway a hugh tax break which Bill Clinton signed into law</a> in one of the more shameful acts of his presidency. )<br />
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After the Japanese Amway Rally appearance, it was rumored by Amway cult adherents in the U.S. and elsewhere that <i>Bill Clinton had become a Amway 'business owner' himself</i>. Although, not true, it wouldn't surprise me that this rumor has been used to help sell the Amway opportunity to prospective recruits. Laughably, the rumor has spawned comedic <a href="http://www.amquix.info/humor/clintonam/bill.htm" target="_blank">Amway/Quixtar business myths</a>. <br />
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I suppose that one might say that Bill Clinton wasn't actually advocating Amway to a large group of Japanese 'Ambots' but was touting support for his charitable organization while lining his own pocket with a notable speaking fee from Amway. How convenient that Bill Clinton can hide behind the pretense of his Clinton Foundation while effectively pandering the American based fraud which has been exported widely throughout Asia? <i>At one time I held out hope that the Democrats under Barrack Obama would take action to crack down on Amway and MLM fraud, but under Obama, MLM has been 'business corruption' as usual. </i><br />
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Recently I came across this video below on YouTube. At center, Bill Clinton gives a video recorded speech advocating and praising the Direct Selling Industry. The YouTube poster edited the speech (before and after) as a promotion for Network marketing. <i>Network marketing</i> or <i>multi-level marketing</i> is a highly controversial industry based on<i> pyramid compensation plans</i> where chance of success is less than 1 percent and business losses are certain. Amway, the grandfather of Herbalife has operated a criminogenic pyramid scheme fraud, not a legitimate business opportunity. Bill and Hillary Clinton ought to hang their heads in shame. As sheltered a life as they live, surely they must be aware of Amway's seedy side.<br />
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After Hillary Clinton announced her 2015 Presidential candidacy, she has chosen her own '<i>clown van</i>' to drive from campaign stop to campaign stop. She claims that she wants to hear the opinions of the common folk before she announces her platform. Since the allegations of Clinton Money, I am surprised that Hillary and Bill have not commandeered a armored clown car to gather and secure their cash? Hillary admits that she hasn't driven a car in decades. Yet she hopes to take the helm of the United States? <br />
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Citizens of the U.S. have plenty of media distraction to sort through. Most will not bat an eye lid over renewed allegations of dirty money and <i>'business as usual'</i> political corruption. While the news media devotes air time to social evils and <i>Black Lives Matter</i>, U.S. politicians are quietly going about their business of building war chests of 'dirty' money. It is a veritable smorgasbord of influence peddling--<i>the perfect crime</i>.<br />
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Recently a disgruntled 61 year old postal employee, Doug Hughes took it upon himself to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/16/gyrocopter-pilot-expected-in-federal-court-thursday-as-questions-mount-over/" target="_blank">illegally fly and land his gryro-copter on the Congressional lawn</a> to deliver letters to the Congressmen asking them to enact campaign reform and to stop the taking of money from special interest lobbyists who support narrow legislation favoring big business and special interest, all to the detriment of the tenets of democracy .He of course was arrested and branded a kook. His message to Congress will go unheeded because it threatens the political golden goose.<br />
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The shameful state of the 'American way' is obvious <b>Presidential candidates and lawmakers will continue to accept money from nearly anyone (domestic or foreign) with an agenda to further.</b> <i>The 'American Way' describes a system where democracy is merely an ideology and influence peddling a verifiable fact.</i><br />
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The<a href="http://www.pyramidschemealert.org/PSAMain/news/DSABill/DSAbill.html" target="_blank"> Direct Selling Association</a> Lobby represents a snake nest of <b>unscrupulous criminals</b> who sell a <i>trick bag</i> of extortionately priced <i>bullshit</i> and a plethora of nearly worthless motivational materials.<br />
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Is Bill Clinton's reputation furthered by advocating the direct selling myth? Does Hillary Clinton's claim to represent the ideals of the common man become just another fraud on those who easily believe they have found a champion in her? <b>Hillary might as well join the GOP clowns in the <i>thought stopping</i> clown car of American politics?</b><br />
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Bill Cosby, <b>"America's Dad,"</b> has been described as a "predator", a "sociopath," a "narcissist" and a "rapist" by one of five accuser appearing on a CNN special <u><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/08/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/bill-cosby-future/" target="_blank">The Cosby Show: A Legend Under Fire</a></u> which aired December 8th hosted by Don Lemon. These women are not the only Cosby accusers to have come forward with disturbing accusations. Another woman appeared and also accused Cosby of being a sexual predator and described how Cosby's victims are being "victim shamed" and suffer the effects of post traumatic stress disorder. One accuser said that she suffered alone not realizing that she was but one of many Cosby victims. <br />
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The allegations against Cosby are much similar to those made posthumously against British comedic pop presenter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile" target="_blank">Sir Jimmy Savile</a>,a scandal which shocked the British people and represented a significant embarrassment to Her Majesty The Queen. Nearly a year after Savile's death, evidence shows that Savile lead a secret life as a sexual predator. Savile's corpse has since remained "mum" on the allegations. <br />
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Unlike Savile, Cosby's accusers have come forward while he is yet alive and have significantly tarnished the comedic star's reputation. Whether Cosby will actually be held to account for any of his alleged crimes is left to be determined. Because California has a statute of limitations, victims only avenue towards justice would be to bring civil charges. Cosby's lawyers have maintained that the accusers are lying to seek financial gain. </div>
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Much like Bill Cosby, allegations against the last founding member of the Amway Mob remain indeterminate. Amway has in the past settled allegations by former distributors of operating a pyramid scheme and fraud out of court. Just as Jimmy Savile escapes allegations of sexual crimes by the slumber of death, Jay Van Andel's corpse obviously will never be held to account. Rich DeVos is still alive and it is left to be determined if he or his heirs will be held to account for the "financial holocaust" suffered by present and past adherents of the Amway Cult? DeVos and the Amway Mob could care less for those who have fallen and will fall into the Amway trap. <br />
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"Enthusiasm for a scheme" fostered by "dream selling" continues to claim new victims who "pay to play" in Amway's game of greed. Believers are significantly fleeced by the Amway Kingpins who operate a secondary scheme, selling the "tools" that inexperienced newbies are lead to believe will make them into multimillionaire successes in the pyramid. Recruitment of new 'distributors' to replace those who 'lose and leave' serves to keep the Amway scam moving forward. Notice that the Amway Cult initiators are usually shown smiling (all the way to the bank with money extracted from their deluded flock.) </div>
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Donald Sterling has in so many ways become infamous for making what many believe to be racist remarks which were illegally recorded and distributed to the news and entertainment media by his supposed 'girl friend' turned backstabber V. Stiviano. In the infamous recording, Mr. Sterling is heard telling Stiviano not to bring blacks with her to the Clippers games--and more specifically for her not to be seen bringing pro basketball legend, Magic Johnson. Mr. Sterling has been accused of making 'racist' statements and has since been given a lifetime ban from the National Basketball Association and has been ordered by the NBA owners to sell the Los Angeles Clippers.<br />
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I am not trying to defend Sterling, who has since proven that every time he makes a phone call he seems to enhance his 'racist' persona. I will say 'somewhat in his defense' that the infamous 'offensive' recording was made illegally. I would also like to point out that Sterling's remarks referred to 'blacks' and did not use the more common racist description usually uttered by 'dyed in the wool' racists, the infamous 'N' word which rhymes with Tigger. <br />
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Obviously Mr. Sterling was infatuated with Stiviano and was 'green' with jealousy. He saw the impropriety of having his love interest showing interest in other men who just happened to be black. My guess is he wouldn't have been happy to see her bring any other number of white ex NBA stars to the Clipper games either. Legally, these conversations should have remained private between a 'guy and his gal'. Surely Donald (who remains married to someone else) should not have trusted a 'gold digger' like Stiviano. Oh well, Sampson had his hair cut by Delilah and Donald has had his 'do' blown back by V. (Never trust a gal named V.)<br />
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Ironically, Sterling has gone on to be recorded making many more embarrassing remarks which have since been leaked. I suppose when you are wealthy persona like Sterling , you have a target on your back and, no one is to be trusted! Surely he is left to wonder just who is taping his phone and running their recording equipment? Anyway,<b> Sterling has hired lawyers to dig up what dirt they can find on the other NBA owners</b>, so here is the man Sterling should be looking up too: <br />
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Here is Amway Global Cult Intervention's nominee for inclusion in the NBA owners club 'Hall of Shame'. <b> Richard DeVos</b>, owner of the NBA Orlando Magic,<br />
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'the initiator of the Amway<i> 'pay as you go advanced fee fraud' </i>cult whom DeVos et.al have schemed into the <b>#1 spot as the Worlds Greatest Scam!</b>" </blockquote>
DeVos and the late Jay Van Andel and their myriad 'kingpin' cronies have duped and swindled believers for billions of their hard earned money, and left them holding an empty bag with a note saying they...<br />
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I have previously wrote an editorial type blog post where I compared DeVos to Rush Limbaugh which I now invite you to read by clicking<a href="http://amwayglobalcultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/10/rush-limbaugh-and-amways-richard-devos.html" target="_blank"> here.</a><br />
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This blog has many times in the past described how Amway operates to screw those who want to believe in DeVos's corrupted vision of the "American Way." I must also give credit to contributing author David Brear for his contributions to this blog. David writes the enlightening <a href="http://mlmtheamericandreammadenightmare.blogspot.com/">'MLM' The American Dream Made Nightmare blog. </a><br />
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I believe that Donald Sterling's lawyers should have little trouble digging up dirt on the NBA's biggest dirt bag owner. I also make reference to the scandal that Amway is currently experiencing in The Republic of India where authorities have correctly identified Amway's corrupt business model which violates Indian law. For the latest developments, Shyam Sundar has the details on his<a href="http://corporatefraudswatch.blogspot.com/"> Corporate Frauds Watch </a>blog.<br />
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Thinking about joining Amway? <span class="st"><i>FaGetAbout It</i>!</span><br />
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In the past this blog has described<a href="http://amwayglobalcultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/04/amway-violates-india-statutes-while.html"> Amway's entry into the Republic of India</a>. Anti-corruption author David Brear has described this entry into India as a <a href="http://corporatefraudswatch.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html">'Trojan Horse'</a>. Right thinking Indian authorities have correctly deduced that Amway is indeed a illegality which violates Indian laws against Prize Chits and Money Circulation schemes. (What people in the United States might describe as 'pyramid' scams.)<br />
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Now, it seems that Amway has gone on what Harish Bijoor describes in an <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8017027141007412501#editor/target=post;postID=1198010905860998384">online 'business article'</a> as a media blitz to redeem Amway's tainted image in the World's largest Democracy.
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Unsuspecting 'marks' recruited into the Amway cult have very little control over how they operate their supposed 'independent' business with Amway dictating<b> BY CONTRACT</b> what these 'drones' can and cannot do. <i>Entrepreneurial</i> and <i>Independent</i> 'business owners' these believers in the Amway system are not!<br />
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Anyone familiar with Amway knows that recruits into this cult are taught to follow a very strict methodology: which is to buy and consume the intentionally overpriced products and recruit others who are then brainwashed with this same 'self defeating' strict code. Indeed, for Amway, a chain of customers is formed by its own sales channel 'non-distributors'. These Amway's drones are asked to devote themselves religiously to the 'pie in the sky' insane idea of achieving 'financial independence'. They are brainwashed by pictures of successful upline distributors who are displayed 'living in the lap of luxury': driving expensive autos, vacationing on yachts, and living the American dream.<br />
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Amway recruits are 'schooled' by the Amway Kingpins to consume their own purchases. (Amway intentionally prices their products to be unmarketable to those not participating in the 'distribution channel' and the primary method the Amway Cult Initiator's (DeVos/Van Andel) have used to 'over-charge' for relatively mundane crap--vitamins, energy bars, water filters and the like--to extract billions in U.S. dollars and leave those who fail to realize an impossible dream in a carefully devised scheme to blame themselves. <br />
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For all intents and purposed, those recruited into this money circulating scheme are those who 'believe' the Amway message: that they can become fabulously wealthy by devoting themselves whole-hardheartedly to a 'narrowly defined' marketing scheme which can be described as a 'zero sum game' where nearly all lose their time, money and self respect in a futile attempt to recruit family, friends and strangers into Amway's carefully 'plotted' product pyramid scheme.<br />
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David Steadson is best known as "IBOfighback" on the World Wide Web. He is a shameless "Apologist" for the Amway MLM Opportunity Fraud. Steadson, <a href="http://amwaysoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/05/amway-apologists-revealed-as-jack-and.html">along with a few of his followers</a> to include <a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMUEtDE04iRmDfS9Ogjrh44M-dORGQ73U-MLZqbMwkeKxqrZ5G">"Bridgett Baron"</a> and "Wearyeyed" who collectively travel throughout the Internet promoting Amway as a great business opportunity and supposedly setting anti-Amway bloggers and commentators straight. I have accused Steadson, a citizen of Sweden, previously of committing the crime of "Intent to Defraud". Steadson cannot be unaware of the fact that nearly all who join the Amway Cult make no money, but lose their investments of time, money and prestige. Amway operates a "Closed Market Swindle" whereby those recruited hoping to make money lose it instead and become victims of the very fraud Steadson and his ilk promote, although they provide zero proof that they themselves have been or are successful in the very scheme they advocate to others. <br />
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Who is Steve Nakamura? Steve is a Anti-Amway blogger, a former Amway adherent who writes <a href="http://amwayscheme.blogspot.com/2012/04/joecools-view-on-amway.html">Amway - The Dream Or The Scheme</a> and who also has a presence on the Internet as a well known anti-Amway author and commentator best known as "Joecool". Steve Nakamura's views about the Amway opportunity are diametrically opposed to those of David Steadson's. As Joecool, Steve asks his readers to critically analyze Amway, the Amway 'tool systems' and the real chances of success in the Amway scheme. <br />
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David Steadson as IBOFightback in his role as apologist for Amway seeks to divert the attention of prospective Amway Cult Recruits to the lies and deceits that Amway has promoted for itself over the past half-century. Anti-Amway author <a href="http://mlmtheamericandreammadenightmare.blogspot.com/">David Brear</a> describes these lies as the 'Amway Labyrinth'. Steadson basically parrots the lies the Amway Cult has been promoting as reality inverting truth. One of these lies is "that if the dream is big enough, the truth doesn't matter." <br />
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Steadson has written an <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutamway.com/who-is-amway-critic-joecool-and-does-he-owe-me-50000/">article</a> critical of Joecool, Steve Nakamura on his "<a href="http://www.thetruthaboutamway.com/">The Truth About Amway</a>" in which his primary goal is to smear his arch nemesis as some sort of sexual deviant who makes up lies about himself and Amway. The author of this blog asks readers to ask who is the bigger liar here? Why would Steadson spend so much of his time to smear Joecool? Obviously, the truth hurts, and so Steadson has gone to extremes to paint Joecool as the ultimate anti-Amway troll. The truth is, there is no bigger pro-Amway troll on the Internet than the Amway whore, IBOFightBack, the pundit of deceit: David Steadson.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-1116874890793293752012-05-24T10:32:00.004-04:002012-06-02T14:15:43.384-04:00How is Being a Amway IBO a Cult?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij0pFkOXKPJPDGcfcjt4Cl7xzy7QssftuLxNJ-1gkpt-2-_pOVgKGMWBKpeLyN7meLLSpevzYT-TJWx0YDuIFqP9mBKK53DLxqcDTbE7IUhyphenhyphenU8NxyKz811YO3PPGkYVs7ABwU-sDCmgX1d/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="176" width="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij0pFkOXKPJPDGcfcjt4Cl7xzy7QssftuLxNJ-1gkpt-2-_pOVgKGMWBKpeLyN7meLLSpevzYT-TJWx0YDuIFqP9mBKK53DLxqcDTbE7IUhyphenhyphenU8NxyKz811YO3PPGkYVs7ABwU-sDCmgX1d/s400/images.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Today I moderated a comment left on this <a href="http://amwayglobalcultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-amwayquixtar-gift-from-dark-side.html">Blog</a> by a person named Isaac. Isaac wrote:<br />
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<blockquote>Obviously you have joined the cult. Why is Amway/Quixtar like joining a cult? Just read any of my blogs and you will soon discover your answer. I notice that you seem to repeat much of the Amway "tape-speak" that is paraded out for new Ambots.<br />
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You repeat that Amway is not a get rich quick business. What then is their 5 year plan all about?<br />
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Oh yes, Amway wants people to be excited and positive for their scheme. It works for Amway, but will it really work for you?<br />
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Want to find out about your wonderful Amway upline? Read "<a href="http://marriedtoanambot.blogspot.com/">Married to an Ambot</a>." Are you married? If yes, I'm sorry to hear about what your wife most likely will be going through.<br />
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My friend Isaac is a perfect example of how new recruits begin to talk like their recruiter. They begin to look and sound like everyone else in their insane cult. They repeat the same things--the tapespeak--of their upline cultic leaders. Isaac parrots maybe the biggest lie of them all: that IBOs get paid for buying all the things they need from Amway. Isn't that insanity? <br />
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Notice that Isaac also repeats what nearly all Amscam cult members say, that "Amway isn't a get rich quick scheme." (Doesn't this imply that Amway is a get rich scheme after all?) I suppose that the Soviet style <i>'5 year plans'</i> must be considered an exceptionally long time by Ambots, and Amway therefore must not be considered a quick scheme--since it takes upwards of five years to achieve "financial freedom." <br />
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Isaac, are you a real person? You have lost your ability to think independently. You have become just another obnoxious Ambot drone? Cults lie, and yes, my dear Isaac, you and hundreds of thousands of others like you in your cult have swallowed the same camel. <br />
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No, Isaac, I have never been an Ambot, and no I've never signed up for the Quixtar cult. You don't need to be taken in by these either. Let me know how well you've succeeded after your 5 year plan is up, okay?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-28034448501529663202012-01-26T15:32:00.001-05:002012-01-26T16:01:24.024-05:00Amway Imitator Found By Belgium Courts To Be Carefully Designed Pyramid Recruitment Scheme With No Real Retail Customers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ntclrZyPpok/TyG4BqCYCRI/AAAAAAAABos/5Mxi0eUTku0/s1600/angryjudge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="172" width="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ntclrZyPpok/TyG4BqCYCRI/AAAAAAAABos/5Mxi0eUTku0/s400/angryjudge.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Recently I received an email from Robert Fitzpatrick, a consumer advocate and prominant critic of 'multi-level marketing.' Mr. Fitzpatrick brought to my attention a Belgium court decision that found Amway clone, <b>Herbalife</b>, to be a disguised recruitment pyramid scheme. <br />
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The court found that Herbalife could not conclusively prove that it had any significant retail customers, and therefore all profits were generated via a never ending recruitment of new distributors.<br />
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Herbalife, Amway, and nearly all of their numerous MLM clones, seek to describe their own <i>'distributors'</i> as <i>'retail customers.'</i> Readers of this blog know that I have always maintained that the products these MLMs <i>supposedly</i> market are effectively unsellable to outside retail customers. The court correctly determined that Herbalife failed to prove that it had any real customers and therefore all commissions and profits were paid by the ever churning recruitment of new distributors. <br />
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I have maintained that few people signing up as a distributor in these MLM frauds ever make a cent of profit and most ultimately despair and quit. Many are decieved by the 'dream selling' nature of these MLM cons. They are lured by the potential of lucrative profits and follow a destructive course of action where their own money is extracted to enrich the company founders and a small group of distributors who sell 'tools,' useless propaganda that prompts the newly recruited distributors to convince even more of their relatives, friends, and neighbors into <i>'investing'</i> in the scheme.<br />
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Mr. Fitzpatrick went on to say in his email: <br />
<blockquote>If Herbalife is a fraud, as the Belgian court decided, it is one of vast proportions, affecting millions of people worldwide, year after year. Herbalife has 1.2 million distributors in 74 countries. Each year it enrolls hundreds of thousands more to replace the huge numbers who lose money and quit.<br />
</blockquote>The full decision of the Belgian court is available at the <a href="http://pyramidschemealert.org/a-european-court-rules-herbalife-is-an-illegal-pyramid-scheme/">Pyramid Scheme Alert website.<br />
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In the past Robert Fitzpatrick has called Amway the <i>'American Scam'</i> and it is to the shame of all presidential candidates in the U.S. who accept campaign funding from these disreputable schemes spawned by a supposed 'cult of free enterprise.'<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-36922132428478312402011-08-29T12:33:00.007-04:002011-08-29T16:07:27.419-04:00The Black Amway Gift From the Dark-side Revisited<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhV2t3-UsO_q22dKFnfAEoTobMcAYfS8Z8nAWt-9IwdX5d3OCmpFrJWvI5NaJeAjzffUM5alxE9YPNYMjIhJkLFjIpWZoduf_INoH7eVRl2E5fd4-u_FIrDi8SVNfhCLTLnNMmmQ-nlEbM/s1600/The+Black+Amway+Gift+From+the+Dark-side.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhV2t3-UsO_q22dKFnfAEoTobMcAYfS8Z8nAWt-9IwdX5d3OCmpFrJWvI5NaJeAjzffUM5alxE9YPNYMjIhJkLFjIpWZoduf_INoH7eVRl2E5fd4-u_FIrDi8SVNfhCLTLnNMmmQ-nlEbM/s400/The+Black+Amway+Gift+From+the+Dark-side.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646351824672006082" /></a>
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<br />I thought I'd revisit a January, 2009 blog post entitled '<a href="http://amwayglobalcultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-amwayquixtar-gift-from-dark-side.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FcjBs+%28Amway+Global+Cult+Intervention%29">The Black Amway/Quixtar Gift From the Dark Side</a>.' I didn't know it at the time, but these so called 'Ribbon' gifts were to become the subject of a <a href="http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2011/04/amway_will_replace_20_million.html">class action civil suit</a> in the state of California and eventually another of Amway's famous "out of court" settlements. Of course we have the same answer from Amway that they have provided countless times when corporate Amway has been called to task for treachery before the bar of justice. Amway North America spokeswoman Jenie Altruda said:
<br /><blockquote>“We feel we're completely innocent in this matter."</blockquote>
<br />The controversy began over expiration dates appearing on the black ribbon gift cards. Amway claims that the date appearing on the cards was intended to encourage buyer/recipients to redeem the cards in time to secure the best selection of gifts. (The gifts behind the card are a selection of rather mundane, over-valued candle, potpourri, and bath items.)
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<br />How these cards really work describes how Amway Global Cult fleeces its very own and profits handsomely from their only real customers. The intended customers for these gift cards are not '<span style="font-style:italic;">outside retail customers</span>,' but the very gungho Amway '<span style="font-style:italic;">dream believing</span>' cult adherents themselves (the so called Independent Business Owners, IBOs). These erstwhile, <span style="font-style:italic;">albeit bad businessmen</span>, are taught by their 'up-line' recruiters to buy, for general self consumption, a significant amount of Amway product, soap powder, vitamins, and sundry consumables each month; all to maintain the magical "PV" (Purchase Volume) which is the core of the Amway '<a href="http://quixtariscultinterventionarchives.blogspot.com/">closed market swindle</a>.' To maintain the magical 100 PV, an 'Ambot' would purchase $300 worth of 'core' Amway products. These core products are those closely manufactured either for or by Amway itself. This smaller subset of available Amway products creates a bit of a '<span style="font-style:italic;">bottleneck</span>' problem for the <span style="font-style:italic;">cult stooge</span> intent on ponying up their 100 PV 'pound of flesh' because choice is vastly more limited. Core products primarily consist of health bars, vitamins, gourmet coffees, and energy drinks. This invariably leads to 'distributor stock pilling' of the core Amway products. <blockquote>(<span style="font-style:italic;">My daughter in law's larder began overfilling with uneaten health bars, unused energy drinks, individually wrapped vitamins, gourmet coffees and enough soap powder to wash several years worth of 'whitey tighties.'</span>)</blockquote> Add to this short list of high PV core products the Amway Ribbon gift cards. What better way to make PV without stock pilling perishables than to buy these black gift cards with ribbon? These black gift cards might be described as an <span style="font-style:italic;">Amway Utopian savings bond</span> with no shelf expiration date. An Amway product intended to have no end customer beyond the <span style="font-style:italic;">stooge</span>. Of course Ambots could '<span style="font-style:italic;">consume</span>' these cards as any occasion gifts and still further their Amway dream of becoming an Amway '<span style="font-style:italic;">pin</span>' in Amway's product based pyramid scheme.
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<br />Purchasers of the cards brought suit in California claiming Amway would not honor the expired gift cards which holders discovered actually had just as little shelf life as a stock-pilled, stale health bar. <span style="font-style:italic;">(Again, a situation where Amway cultists turned traitor and brought suit against their primary business partner, the Amway cult mother ship in Ada, Michigan.)</span> These gift cards became relatively worthless fancy black paper. Thousands of thousands of aspiring Amway Cult millionaires were left holding the 'trick' bag on these ticking time bombs. Even when redeemed 'on time' these cards only redeem <span style="font-style:italic;">in my estimation</span> nearly worthless, incredibly overpriced 'trinkets' (like a scented candle or bath soap combination). Not much to show for the minimum $50 retail cost of the card.
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Believers in the <span style="font-style:italic;">Amway Myth</span> get fleeced in the <span style="font-style:italic;">Closed Market Swindle</span> by purchase of overvalued products that they buy and self consume in an incredible <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://quixtariscultinterventionarchives.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-amway-fraud-works-bakkers-advance.html">advanced fee fraud</a></span>.</span>
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<br />I was clicking on some links under the heading <a href="http://www.amquix.info/amquix_whats_new.html">What's New</a> on Scott Larsen's extensive <a href="http://www.amquix.info/amway.html">web site</a> when I discovered an <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/14/amway-direct-sales-advertising-cmo-network-amway-positive.html">article by Forbes</a> wherein the author described Amway thus:
<br /><blockquote>"Amway, the privately owned global direct sales company, known for its network of salespeople who sell vitamins, beauty products and other household staples door-to-door..."</blockquote>
<br />The article went onto describe Amway's ongoing campaign at damage control concerning its well deserved bad reputation. What struck my attention was Amway being described as a 'door to door' operation. Hmmm? Of course anyone who actually is knowledgeable about how the Amway Cult operates knows this door to door description to be another Amway myth.
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<br />There indeed are a lot of door to door selling scoundrels, but Amway's products are generally not something you will ever be confronted with by a knock on your front door. Amway's potions and pills are peddled mostly to those willing to join on as an 'associate' and who are then taught to recruit others into buying into the 'closed market swindle' themselves by recruiting more potential suckers in a well disguised pyramid scheme. Generally, Amway cultists hope to initiate their scheme by a 'curiosity invite,' a simple ruse to lure unsuspecting victims into a carefully disguised 'advanced fee fraud.'
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<br /><a href="http://www.travelingsalescrews.info/">Door to door sellers do not generally have a very good reputation anymore.</a> Isn't it significant that Amway intends to garner good will with the public by promoting the myth that it is a door to door company? The Amway Devil is just as bad as the <a href="http://amwayglobalcultintervention.blogspot.com/2011/08/soap-crew-worker-discovers-horrors-of.html">door to door devil</a>, but it's methods differ greatly.
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<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">I would like to thank author David Brear for coining many of the terms I used in this blog post to more easily describe the Amway devil.</span> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-81652448704606357242011-08-18T12:22:00.003-04:002011-08-18T12:44:01.797-04:00Soap Crew Worker Discovers Horrors of Traveling Sales Crew Devil<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbucFL8KiXG9nHRLqDEdmoXO32AoajJqX4Acba_55i2q86pyqIEE7JtYtUhvAg92L93coLMf_rI3gd-TOFtkpUQbT-vo6GnU9fiAaEEnd00dvEH9MT9IL3D59NRroKGeg9g_8I5SUabLh/s1600/Horrors+of+Traveling+Sales+Crews+Sleep+Deprivation.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbucFL8KiXG9nHRLqDEdmoXO32AoajJqX4Acba_55i2q86pyqIEE7JtYtUhvAg92L93coLMf_rI3gd-TOFtkpUQbT-vo6GnU9fiAaEEnd00dvEH9MT9IL3D59NRroKGeg9g_8I5SUabLh/s400/Horrors+of+Traveling+Sales+Crews+Sleep+Deprivation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5642220988020951138" /></a>
<br />I recently noticed a comment made on one of my several articles on the horrors of the traveling sales crews <a href="http://amwaysoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/01/amway-cult-youth-initiates-deaths.html">Amway Cult Youth Initiate's Deaths Possibly Related to Sleep Deprivation.</a> msawyer wrote:
<br /><blockquote>"I came from a soap crew and I was abused by most of the staff and the owners too. Its really hard to find some place to go when you give your life to these people. I had no clue that for the first year I would be stuck selling this junk. They treated me good at first. and then when my mom ended up in the hospital that's when I saw there true colors. They would extort me and threaten me. you guys that don't have a clue what this is about are foolish and blinded. these companies trap,brain wash and threaten. They take your pay that you earned so you cant go any where. Then you feel lost and homeless , so you end up going back to them so you have some place to go. Its Sad and I will help to get all door to door sales companies to be gone, they are the devils."</blockquote>
<br />It has been some time since I have visited the Horrors of the Traveling Sales Crew issue or wrote any blog posts concerning Malinda's Law. The beautiful summer weather brings with it the likelihood that you will be receiving that unexpected knock at the door from a wondering "soap crew" salesperson of one type or another. Just as in msawyer's comment above, those victimized many times do not understand what type of "devil" they are signing up with. At first, all seems to be bright adventure and travel, and then degenerates into what <a href="http://www.travelingsalescrews.info/malinda%20turvey%20phil%20ellenbecker%20traveling%20sales%20crew%20crusade.html">Phil Ellenbecker</a> has documented as a potentially horrifying experience which exploits youthful exuberance and has the potential to end badly.
<br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;">"Persons seeking "financial freedom" in the Amway Cult also arrive all bright eyed and exuberant, pursuing their dream, only to discover the devil that preys on its own as well"</span>... quixtarisacult</blockquote>
<br />Please visit the <a href="http://www.travelingsalescrews.info/">Traveling Sales Crews Information Web Site</a>.
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Obviously the National Basketball Association would be a better fit for Limbaugh since they obviously do not set very high standards for membership in their club for which I will explain. Consider the Orlando Magic owner, <strong>Richard Devos</strong>.<br /><br />Devos and the late <strong>Jay Van Andel</strong> are the cult initiators of the <em>'American Way,'</em> now known collectively as <em>'Amway.'</em> For half a century, <em>'Amway,'</em> has operated a monopolistic <em>'closed market swindle'</em> while <em>'preying'</em> on their own <em>children</em>, the prosperity believing cult adherents in what amounts to a form of <em>'advanced fee fraud'</em> very similar in nature of one operated by <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-amway-fraud-works-bakkers-advance.html">Jim and Tammy Bakker</a>. These <em>'true believers'</em> now make up what British born author and <em>guide to the Amway Labyrinth </em><strong>David Brear</strong> describes as <em>'the financial holocaust'</em> having been flim-flammed into what pyramid scheme expert <a href="http://www.falseprofits.com/Americanscam.html">Robert Fitzpatrick calls the <em>'American Scam'.</em></a> <br /><br />In a recent <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/09/mother-of-mercy-could-this-be-end-of.html">blog post</a> on <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/">Quixtar Cult Intervention</a>, Brear details how the present Amway world cult evolved from an earlier <em>'snake-oil' 'Nutrilite'</em> vitamin swindle started by the late <strong>Carl Rehnborg</strong> and his business partners <strong>Mytinger and Casselberry</strong>. Devos and Van Andel co-opted Mytinger, Casselberry and Rehnborg's questionable <em>'Multilevel Marketing Strategy'</em> and have once again made Nutrilite <em>'Double X'</em> snake oil supplement the <em>flagship product </em>of their assault on the wallets of <em>'Independent Business Owners'</em> who, in the end, are generally left holding the <em>'trick bag'</em> once Devos, Van Andel and the Amway 'Kingpins' make off with their cash. Brear rightly describes the <em>'Double X'</em> vitamins as a <em>'Double Cross'</em> on those folish enough to believe the Amway <em>'reality inverting' 'land of will'</em> myths. Cult adherents (IBOs) purchase these <em>'snake oil-like'</em> tablets at an extortionately high price in the <em>'pay to play'</em> Amway game of greed. Rehnborg's <em>'soups'</em> formulated into compressed tablets had once been occulted to be a cure all for nearly all of man's ills and have always been offered up in classic <em>'huckster'</em> fashion. Rehnborg, Mytinger and Casselberry have since disappeared from their <em>'confidence game,'</em> but the game they invented continues now under the Devos, Van Andel <em>'Amway'</em> Banner. In a past <a href="http://amwaysoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/09/nutrilite-nutriscam-vitamins-used-to.html">blog post</a>, I described how <em>'Nutrilite'</em> fathered Devos and Van Andel's <em>'American Way.'</em><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/SuHsSbKvHwI/AAAAAAAABes/NPIDNEwJ3nY/s1600-h/Rush+Candidate+for+NBA+Ownership.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/SuHsSbKvHwI/AAAAAAAABes/NPIDNEwJ3nY/s200/Rush+Candidate+for+NBA+Ownership.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395853629841153794" /></a><br />Rush Limbaugh and Rich Devos are remarkably similar personages, both wealthy supporters of conservative right wing Republican ideologies and candidates they believe support their pro-big business conservative view of the world. Rich Devos heads up the Amway cult adherents, while Limbaugh heads up his drone like <em>'ditto-heads.'</em> Both groups are bombarded with <em>'mind numbing' 'reality inverting'</em> rhetoric. Many of Limbaugh's group purchase the <strong>Limbaugh Letter</strong>, while the Amway group is extolled on the virtue of purchasing their rhetoric in the form of <em>'tools'</em> from the <strong>Amway <em>'Kingpins'</em></strong> who operate a secondary <em>'closed market swindle'</em> known as the 'tool and function' business. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjwCy05a9y7NOB8MqLyFDfUrYVrXLvQnn7bPp3vPZpO4Ac5mTZ6IpH3xXypk45ixwso6EADruWCE2Xehyphenhyphen18AGONtAF8s741erVZP0wo4TbKkSK5KpiLT7BotLjARPRNiK-mahhefccxaH/s1600-h/Rich+Devos+Defrauds+Canadian+Tax+Evasion.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjwCy05a9y7NOB8MqLyFDfUrYVrXLvQnn7bPp3vPZpO4Ac5mTZ6IpH3xXypk45ixwso6EADruWCE2Xehyphenhyphen18AGONtAF8s741erVZP0wo4TbKkSK5KpiLT7BotLjARPRNiK-mahhefccxaH/s200/Rich+Devos+Defrauds+Canadian+Tax+Evasion.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395862709427131890" /></a><br />Significanly enough, both Devos and Limbaugh have criminal histories. Devos was involved in the defrauding of the Canadian government in a <a href="http://www.cocs.com/jhoagland/canada.html">import tax evasion</a> case for which Devos and the late Jay Van Andel agreed to pay Canada 25 million dollars to avoid spending time in Canadian jail cells. Limbaugh, an admitted oxycodone pain pill addict was involved in his own <em>'doctor shopping'</em> scandal and agreed to a plea agreement to keep himself out of a jail cell as well.<br /><br />Both Devos and Limbaugh can be described as controversial fellows whose right leaning rhetoric borders on the psychotic. Devos espouses a narrow <em>'dominionistic</em>' view of the world and is an avowed homosexual hater. Limbaugh spews a rabid hatred of anything 'Democrat' and brands anyone supportive of the Democratic platform as a <em>'liberal kooks.'</em> Devos loves to paint his Amway Scam as <em>'big business'</em> and uses this as cover for his unjust enrichment. Limbaugh not surprisingly is also a supporter of big business and detests any move by the present administration towards effecting any type of social change like health care reform. Limbaugh has also been known to make what many people considered <a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/10224104/Analysis:-Limbaugh's-words-keep-him-from-a-dream">controversial statements against African Americans</a>. <br /><br />Devos's Amway, much like <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/07/next-to-amway-mob-madoff-is-amateur-he.html">Bernie Madoff's</a> former <em>'investment business'</em> is always represented as <em>'legitimate business'</em> although it actually is a Ponzi-like scheme which has miraculously been allowed to continue long after the truth of this affair has been revealed to the mainstream population. Devos has managed to keep Amway alive through a half century of scandal by carefully protecting his self interests with cash suckered from those foolish enough to believe in the swindle that began with Rehnborg. Political contributions and support of key Republican politicians, many of which have since been involved in their own scandals, have helped keep Amway operating and off of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission regulator's hit list of scam companies. <br /><br />I, therefore, to be fair, propose that Rush Limbaugh (a veritable Saint compared to Rich Devos) be allowed to become the owner of whatever professional sports team that comes onto the market to include even Devos's NBA Orlando Magic. The good people of Orlando and NBA fans everywhere deserve better than a known 'criminogenic' swindler owning a team that nearly won the NBA championship last season. Although I am not a big fan of 'entertainer' Limbaugh, I believe his money came to him honestly, not the result of an enormous swindle, and he should indeed be allowed to buy into the NBA owners club!<br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhER0hL61hUEK-TPvLvJZ56IX4xvfwHrf5G5B2UaJ5g6ND7-iGAh2IaIpmEJt_iTkwsr014aCsQAJbCjyh8d9vzvTHhaPRwNmay7M-kMgVaSWdgiLOyJBzXu7zwxXahgYdq01pmoAzyoVwV/s1600-h/Rush+Professional+Team+Owner+Candidate+and+Former+Oxycodone+Addict.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhER0hL61hUEK-TPvLvJZ56IX4xvfwHrf5G5B2UaJ5g6ND7-iGAh2IaIpmEJt_iTkwsr014aCsQAJbCjyh8d9vzvTHhaPRwNmay7M-kMgVaSWdgiLOyJBzXu7zwxXahgYdq01pmoAzyoVwV/s400/Rush+Professional+Team+Owner+Candidate+and+Former+Oxycodone+Addict.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395852528715799378" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-47991251182013298572009-10-08T11:39:00.002-04:002009-10-08T11:56:03.946-04:00Get Wealthy by Selling Amway Products<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvPiDchRYvfckc6I_q-G6gMuvQN8NdN0QK8aJ0tQTlm5PxHEc6EfWLu2m1T_QQlnMZ9ki191SuyfLp7OT2lk9NkQYbW4Jza9l-peakjgK10vqR9Qq7ezY982rp_yPFAXUY8LCEuTrUbiN/s1600-h/You+Can+Have+It+All+With+Amway.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvPiDchRYvfckc6I_q-G6gMuvQN8NdN0QK8aJ0tQTlm5PxHEc6EfWLu2m1T_QQlnMZ9ki191SuyfLp7OT2lk9NkQYbW4Jza9l-peakjgK10vqR9Qq7ezY982rp_yPFAXUY8LCEuTrUbiN/s400/You+Can+Have+It+All+With+Amway.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390256837958589442" /></a><br />Not only can you join the 2 to 5 year plan to fabulous luxury, dump that 9 to 5, and join hands with the world's largest 'direct seller.' To learn more fabulous truth about what the 'utopian state' of Amway could mean to you, <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com"><strong>click here</strong></a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-76732542596207676992009-07-06T10:43:00.005-04:002009-07-07T09:56:14.796-04:00The Smoke and Mirrors of Scientology and Amway<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoo9zrSKaBIrS9sJC4nAsWTFFmajS_Eq3hbmzg2miLE6wiRVAfT0YYr_Fcct_-xqQgIGRjcQuE6dsG66-9-CS0DGnc0-Sf-xS3mtDH4gIXxCvY-ExFNFvN_5EyUZFJpcT-rPCy7bQZ93C-/s1600-h/Ying-Yang-Amway-Scientology.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoo9zrSKaBIrS9sJC4nAsWTFFmajS_Eq3hbmzg2miLE6wiRVAfT0YYr_Fcct_-xqQgIGRjcQuE6dsG66-9-CS0DGnc0-Sf-xS3mtDH4gIXxCvY-ExFNFvN_5EyUZFJpcT-rPCy7bQZ93C-/s400/Ying-Yang-Amway-Scientology.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355359295577853122" /></a><br />Possibly the most well known of cyber battles in the Internet era has been the struggle between ‘Anonymous’ and ‘Scientology.’ Anonymous might be described as a movement of non-violent detractors who come together in a common cause to reveal the 'dark side' of Scientology and form a ‘Yang’ for the Scientology ‘Ying.’ There’s nothing unusual about large cults drawing detractors. All cults seek to control the information and thereby disguise ‘their dark side.’<br /><br />Cults like Scientology throw up ‘smoke and mirrors’ and seek to ‘monopolize’ information revealed about themselves. They generally seek to isolate their cult initiates from information that is critical of their criminogenic ‘dark side’. They always seek to monopolize the mind of their adherents. It is only when the cultic leaders loose control of their ‘monopoly’ of information that their plans perish. Reference the infamous Jim Jones’s of The People’s Temple? When Jones had discovered that his monopoly of information had disappeared as ‘critical scrutiny’arose, he chose to implode his cult, refusing to be held to account for fraud, subsequent misdeeds and, in the end, murder.<br /><br />Scientology is an insane denial of advancements in science and technology, especially in the field of psychiatry and psychology. Adherents of Scientology are asked to believe some of the most intellectually mind-numbing myths ever presented to mankind as religion. <br /><br />Amway, is the <em>‘religion of business.’</em> Scientology is the <em>‘business of religion.’</em> When Amway looks in the mirror, the image of Scientology looks back. This gives new meaning to the expression ‘smoke and mirrors.’ The smoke seeks to disguise the ‘dark side’ of both cults. For more information about Scientology and Amway <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/06/amway-and-scientology-apart-from-their.html">click here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-6508492227459068482009-06-23T14:32:00.002-04:002009-06-26T14:11:44.183-04:00Amway Global Incorporates Fraud to Make Claim to be #1 Online Retailer of Health and Beauty Products<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCMBa0xZkbSie4mDyExRunK51GB6STjebiTntrwTKu2ygkQh9fOG22IwIKqQfONPWCl_99OzmC4PVdoQCL3sT1YtYYyFVWdtR4q-N-4r4JPUFAl41ql2RURAL8XtWvAAhPOOXXuRp05b9/s1600-h/fraud.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCMBa0xZkbSie4mDyExRunK51GB6STjebiTntrwTKu2ygkQh9fOG22IwIKqQfONPWCl_99OzmC4PVdoQCL3sT1YtYYyFVWdtR4q-N-4r4JPUFAl41ql2RURAL8XtWvAAhPOOXXuRp05b9/s400/fraud.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351700512731745074" /></a><br />It has been reported that only 3 to 4 percent of Amway's sales are made to persons outside of Amway's 'distributor' networks. So, in other words, 96 to 97 percent of all of Amway's sales are made to the distributors themselves, who in the end sell and 'distribute' next to nothing to non-distributor true 'retail' customers. Therefore, these so called 'distributors' end up being the end 'retail' consumers themselves. These sales--which are contracted online--are not technically made at retail, but at 'distributor' discount; or if you prefer at the 'middleman' price. <br /><br />Amway promotes a fraud of titanic proportions by claiming to be the '#1 online retailer of health and beauty products,' an incredible lie that even the IBO 'distributors' themselves seem to accept, although they are clearly not 'retail' customers, and they generally only manage to make token sales to actual retail customers. <br /><br />Amway Global is selling 96 to 97% of their health and beauty products to their own 'supposed' distributors, clearly the middleman in Amway's failed distribution system. Only when any of these middlemen distributors make a sale at the suggested retail price, can these product sales be considered 'retail.' <br /><br />Isn't Amway Global guilty of false advertising? Shouldn't an investigation be launched into these patently fraudulent claims? Claiming to be the #1 Online retailer in health and beauty is an ironic lie, and in my opinion deserves to have the federal regulators look into this matter.<br /><br />What is amazing here is that Amway's prosperity dream duped 'defacto slaves' buy all the overpriced, mundane products and then accept being called 'retail' customers by Amway Global in many of their reality inverting online claims to be #1. These folks end up being the end consumer of hugely unsellable products in order to participate in Amway's 'closed market swindle' where they are the only customers of any significance that Amway has to brag about. Indeed, economists might accurately describe Amway products as being sold in a monopoly market. Those familiar with Amway know that IBO/ABO 'distributors' are taught to exclude 'negative' (brick and mortar) products from their homes and only buy through Amway. It has been reported reliably that Amway 'upline' distributors many times audit (inspect the homes of their downline 'distributors) to determine if these guidelines are being strictly followed. <br /><br />It is this author's belief that Amway's Nutrilite and Artistry brands are not exclusive--unique--products, and can indeed be compared to hundreds of vitamin supplements and makeup products currently sold nationwide through traditional distribution methods. Avon, I believe actually sells more makeup, and as far as vitamin supplements are concerned, Nutrilite is well behind in market share compared to the well known 'One-a-Day' brand (to name just one competitor from amongst hundreds that market vitamin and health supplements). <br /><br />Obviously the Federal Trade Commission seemingly has no problem with Amway representing their sales to Amway distributors as retail sales. They have done nothing to put a stop to this incredible consumer fraud. Could it be that they believe that all these IBO customers only sign up as distributors to receive the 'distributor' discount? <br /><br />Allowing Amway to use blatent fraud of this type only serves to permit others to become victimized by Amway's incredible 'closed market swindle,' which is wide scale 'consumer' fraud! <br /><br />The fact that Amway openly describes their distributor sales force as 'retail' should say it all! The fact that the dupes buying the overpriced mundane makeup and vitamins allow themselves to be called retail customers seems to signify exactly what kind of pyramid scheme Amway is operating. To Amway, all purchases made through their online order system are considered final 'retail' sales, even though those people doing the buying are technically not the retail customers Amway should be boasting about. The Amway products are priced so as to make further retail sales beyond the distributors nearly impossible. It is only Amway's monopolistic 'closed market' which makes these sales possible in the first place. Now you know!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-42769096585309411832009-06-01T05:55:00.010-04:002009-06-01T06:58:40.462-04:00How Amway Global Recruiters Lie As Told By Recurited IBO Eight Months Later<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRmxD5ToEVANYeulN7lC5rCcIu1rSdRD9DkR3_Re0Z7eDzgSptE3U4dglgXjt9ddyQM2v4Lyf5G-PQww4YhlGxuFk1cu9PnMZHNeA7LE_WCe36Z2TmX-KuZ_RrZApS3hF4q50epULPVZHe/s1600-h/Amway+Global+Lie+Detector.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRmxD5ToEVANYeulN7lC5rCcIu1rSdRD9DkR3_Re0Z7eDzgSptE3U4dglgXjt9ddyQM2v4Lyf5G-PQww4YhlGxuFk1cu9PnMZHNeA7LE_WCe36Z2TmX-KuZ_RrZApS3hF4q50epULPVZHe/s400/Amway+Global+Lie+Detector.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342308739291259810" /></a><br />Is Amway Global all it is cracked up to be? Do Amway IBO recruiters tell the truth when recruiting new prospects? You be the judge. The following review of Quixtar--Amway Global can be read on Ebay Reviews. Fellow blogger and Amway critic, <em>Joecool</em>, re-published this review recently on his <a href="http://thefactsabouttheamwayopportunity.blogspot.com/2009/05/amway-global-former-ibo-testimony.html">The Truth About the Amway Global Opportunity</a> blog. The <a href="http://reviews.ebay.com/The-Problems-I-have-with-the-Quixtar-Amway-System_W0QQugidZ10000000002574505">original review</a> by 'Randall' can be read by <a href="http://reviews.ebay.com/The-Problems-I-have-with-the-Quixtar-Amway-System_W0QQugidZ10000000002574505">clicking here</a>. This is what Randal, an IBO for eight months said:<br /><blockquote><strong>The Problems I have with the Quixtar/Amway System</strong><br /><br />I was signed up with Quixtar for 8 months or so, and had a huge problem with everything they are and everything they stand for. In my opinion, and I’m sure many people disagree with me, Quixtar/Amway is one of the worst scams to hit North America… Ever!<br /><br />1. They Sell Hope to People Who Need it The Most: The recruiters tell you how easy it is, how little time it takes, and how a 6-figure income is just around the corner. What they don’t tell you is how much it costs in the long run, how many tapes, books, etc… you’re going to have to buy, and how hard it is to recruit people.<br /><br />2. 1 Hour a Week: Yeah right, they glamorize how little time you have to spend talking to people to get them to sign up. My recruiter talked drove 2 hours to get to me, 2 hours talking to me, 1 hour signing me up, and 2 hours driving home. Wow… 1 hour a week, and he’s experienced.<br /><br />3. Highest Quality Products Available: In what world? These products aren’t any better than the products you buy in stores, I tested the laundry detergent on two brand new shirts and the Quixtar brand faded a lot quicker than Tide.<br /><br />4. Lower than Costco Prices: In what century? The prices are unbelievably high. When I asked my recruiter why he told me that the prices are a little higher because they save us time and gas money. What?<br /><br />5. Products not available anywhere else: Only if you don’t know where to look, all the supplements I signed up to receive at discount prices were available online for ¾ of the price Quixtar offered them.<br /><br />6. Food Products Are Delicious: Nope, sorry, no way. These products were disgusting, worst protein shakes ever, the candy was stale, and the energy drinks tasted like battery acid.<br /><br />7. They’ll Ship Right to Your Door, Even if you Live out of Town: Wrong again, I live 5 minutes out of town and I had to meet the delivery guy at the bus station. I wouldn’t be upset about this, but my Recruiter promised me that he would make sure the products were delivered to my door.<br /><br />8. 6-Figure Income: The average salary of a Quixtar IBO is $115 a month. You spend at least $180 a month getting your 20 points, so most members are in the hole $65 every month.<br /><br />9. Success: This is the main beef I have with Quixtar. The success of the people at the top is dependant on the failure of the people at the bottom. Top level Quixtar members can make up to $150,000 a month, but the majority of people are losing up to $200 a month. That’s what keeps the system in perfect balance.<br /><br />I hope you’ve enjoyed this read, if you’re looking for more info on the Quixtar “Opportunity” google Dateline Quixtar. <br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />Randall, of Randalls-eBooks<br /><br />P.S. Please Vote if your found this guide helpful, and please don’t hesitate to contact me with your questions or comments</blockquote><br />I am sure that there are countless others who have discovered what Randall discovered after being lead down the primrose path by an Amway Global Recruiter. Exagerations are really lies aren't they? The title to Eric Scheibler's free ebook, <a href="http://www.merchantsofdeception.com/DOWNLOADBOOK.html">Merchants of Deception</a>, truly applies to Randall's recruitment. Have you been prospected for the glorious Amway opportunity? If you have, word to the wise! <br /><br />quixtarisacult<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-36803861809309230242009-04-15T12:55:00.007-04:002009-04-15T14:00:36.925-04:00Amway Violates India Statutes While Representing Their 'Closed Market Swindle' as 'Free Enterprise'<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZZpA0cWc787qeWAhMmULMPkYvK8_AGnO_XOSykqcYtD5DqbabGWbguUy2tGtQImOAP4hlfJ66s4edDth-ijgHJUnOMJ5K8DvYISybGoTvwartNMGGQ1adIGBpsHdMtkpj50H6DykRy_e/s1600-h/gandhi19yx.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 343px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZZpA0cWc787qeWAhMmULMPkYvK8_AGnO_XOSykqcYtD5DqbabGWbguUy2tGtQImOAP4hlfJ66s4edDth-ijgHJUnOMJ5K8DvYISybGoTvwartNMGGQ1adIGBpsHdMtkpj50H6DykRy_e/s400/gandhi19yx.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324963440813453954" /></a><br /><strong>India is truly </strong>a remarkable country. Possibly readers might not realize that India is the <em>largest democracy in the world</em>, having a diverse population which is only second to China in total number. India boasts the <em>fastest growing </em>economy in the world for some years running. Also India is home of the <em>hospitals</em> of the world, possessing one the most efficient health care systems available anywhere. If all of this wasn't incredible enough, India is home to the <em>largest</em> motion picture industry anywhere, producing more movies and features than even Hollywood USA. <br /><br />A fellow of India, <strong>Shyam Sundar</strong>, a retired journalist, <a href="http://corporatefraudswatch.blogspot.com/">has taken a stand</a> to warn his fellow citizens about the <em>menace</em> that Amway and others MLM frauds represent. Shyam describes Amway's purposeful violation of Indian law to those citizens <em>wise</em> enough to hear his message. Amway in a recent <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News-By-Industry/Services/Retailing/Regulate-direct-selling-but-not-be-reactive-Amway-to-Govt/articleshow/4374845.cms">press release</a> is seeking to have their direct marketing swindle <span style="font-style:italic;">'regulated'</span> and therefore <span style="font-style:italic;">'legitimized'</span> in India. <br /><br />Pride, hard work and the <span style="font-style:italic;">'themes of social justice'</span> have made India one of the <em>grandest of recent world success stories</em>, all balanced by their historical struggles and the <em>wisdom of the past </em>personafied in <span style="font-style:italic;">Mahatma Gandhi</span>. Indeed, the best legal minds of India, the High Justices have held in a 2-1 majority opinion that Amway violates India's laws against <span style="font-style:italic;">money circulating 'prize chit' schemes</span>. Shyam points out that it is crucial that Amway advertisement be strictly forbidden in India as it promotes a violation of India law, the bedrock of India's democratic republc. <br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><blockquote>Promoting crime is in and of itself a crime, and I expect that the proposed ban in India should be imposed, all in compliance with Republic of India statue.</blockquote></span> <br />Shyam Sundar has in the past revealed to a world wide audience, the white underbelly of <em>'money circulating' </em>schemes; more commonly referred to as <em>'pyramid schemes' </em>in the United States. Amway, permitted to operate their carefully disguised and conceived systematic swindle as a 'legitimate' business in the United States for what they themselves represent to be 'fifty years'. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Utopian State of Amway</span>, a labyrinth of <span style="font-style:italic;">independent corporate structures</span>, now operate a <em>world class' racketeering</em> operation. Only in recent times have the nature of cults been revealed, described and somewhat understood. The white underbelly of corruption is <span style="font-style:italic;">an open secret</span>, much more pernicious than one might at first believe. Amway corruption operating on a scale so vast as to be imaginable! <br /><br />There is nothing <span style="font-style:italic;">original</span> about Amway, which in many ways is an extension of <span style="font-style:italic;">American Fascism</span>, all carefully disguised as <span style="font-style:italic;">capitalistic free enterprise</span>. The <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/03/truth-is-greatest-enemy-of-all-cults.html">Amway Labyrinth </a>is correctly described as being organized along <span style="font-style:italic;">'mafia' </span>lines by law professor <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/03/do-you-know-who-your-are-in-business.html">G. Robert Blakey</a>. Amway, the twenty first century version of the <em>Cosa Nostra</em>, now operating their closed market swindle world wide. Where the <em>Godfather</em> saga seems to end, Amway corruption expands unmolested, except of course by the wisdom of Gandhi's India.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-68551366584536499532009-02-16T08:37:00.015-05:002009-02-19T09:11:48.376-05:00Amway Global's Fast Track Swindle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOow0d30iHpb912CEa4WTJsFUR3vTPkkb2MWkulLoF1fkxVCW_6i6pjtiLEEDvvoJuBqBBt7TVfgB4jypo02xXkYa6yTZawnul0Wzpm8oCtT8KkRl6qMCiXmKznEGYEyhGmMB8SK1atOtY/s1600-h/fishy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOow0d30iHpb912CEa4WTJsFUR3vTPkkb2MWkulLoF1fkxVCW_6i6pjtiLEEDvvoJuBqBBt7TVfgB4jypo02xXkYa6yTZawnul0Wzpm8oCtT8KkRl6qMCiXmKznEGYEyhGmMB8SK1atOtY/s200/fishy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303447932108671954" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Amway Global is</span> now advancing a new strategy to supposedly help brand new distributors<em>--clueless marks--</em>to become profitable <span style="font-style:italic;">faster</span>. <span style="font-style:italic;">(yeah, sure?)</span> They have named this new strategy <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Fast Track</span></span> but it would be more appropriately named <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Fast Scam</span></span> or <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Fast Swindle</span></span>. <br /><br />Supposedly, advancement in this, the newest wrinkle in the <span style="font-style:italic;">'closed market swindle'</span> requires the new, very impressionable IBO--over a three month period of time--to self consume at least 300 PV worth of Amway's monopoly priced goods, and then retail another 150 PV worth to non-IBOs retail customers. Additionally, the IBO must recruit, not one, not two, but three other IBOs<span style="font-style:italic;">--er suckers--</span>like himself who also want to join in this 'fast track' <span style="font-style:italic;">prosperity dream</span> and also buy and sell all the Amway required extortionately priced products. Should this <span style="font-style:italic;">fast track</span> IBO achieve all the stated goals, having jumped through each and every hoop, then Amway provides him with a $200 bonus check. The IBO has been swindled, as well as helped swindle at the least three other people in the process--not to mention those that are potentially swindled by any of the three recruits. Instead of being on the glorious <em>Amway Fast Track </em>to profitability<em>--my God what a scam--</em>the new IBO joins the ranks of <span style="font-style:italic;">the taken</span> and most likely is too bamboozled to even realize it. The Fast Track, therefore is not the reality inverting myth presented by Amway towards making an IBO profitable <em>sooner</em>--but is indeed a fast ride <em>(like on the traveling sales crew van)</em> into an utter swindle, a form of <em>chain reaction scam</em>, where AmScam <em>Fast Tracks </em>their own <em>take</em>--all from <em>the taken</em>. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Now, let's examine exactly how this works out to be a swindle by doing some simple math.</span> <br /><br />Amway, at the end of the 3 month period receives: 150 PV X 4 X 3 = 1800 PV. Since 100 PV represents about $300 in actual purchases, Amway then records sales of $5,400* minimum from all participants joining in this <span style="font-style:italic;">Fast Track</span> swindle. The Fast Track IBO supposedly purchases for self consumption, $900 worth of goods and then <span style="font-style:italic;">supposedly</span> sells another $450 worth of goods to others. In addition to this the IBO must recruit and make certain that each of his three recruits also buy and sell a similar percentage of products. The original fast track IBO has over the three month period purchased <span style="font-style:italic;">with most being for self consumption</span> $1,350 in over-priced goods and receives a very small stipend-like commission on the $1,800 worth of goods his three recruits buy (are swindled out of). The IBO will receive a check for about $90- $150 on his own 'fast track' purchases which includes what amounts to a rebate on his personal consumption netting Amway sales of $1,350 for goods that are generally for their distributor's self consumption, never to be resold again. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Looking at how this all works out for the original fast track IBO believer:</span> <br /><br />This IBO must recruit (at expense) three other people, all who must <span style="font-style:italic;">'miraculously'</span> join into the fast track <span style="font-style:italic;">prosperity dream</span> scheme, achieve the exact same goal of buying 300 PV and selling an additional 150 PV to retail customers. This is all mostly an impossible task which, in the end, works out quite well from Amway's end of <span style="font-style:italic;">the take</span>. What really does this new IBO actually get and how can this ever really be profitable: $900 dollars of <span style="font-style:italic;">monopoly priced products</span> (which according to pricing calculations could have been bought at a potential savings of at least 33% simply by buying a similar product at a discount brick and mortar retailer). Therefore, the IBO loses about $445.50 in purchasing power right from the beginning--if indeed not more based on Amway's monopoly priced wares! The IBO will receive a stipend-type checks for somewhere between $90 and $150 total for the three month period (save for a potential carrot on a stick bonus of $200). So the potential IBO loss now stands at $445 minus scrawny check from Amway of between $90 and $150 resulting in a <em>gross</em> loss of anywhere from $355 to $295. He then <span style="font-style:italic;">miraculously</span> achieves his <em>fast track</em> status and gets a $200 bonus check from Amway. So, he is still in the hole to the tune of anywhere between $100 and $150--this after grasping the AmScam golden ring--Now for the rest of the math problem. You dear reader must do the math on this one. <br /><br />The fast track IBO has not accounted for all his/ her operating expenses; all the overhead, gasoline, motel stays, insurance, and hourly time spent. Notice, these out of pocket expenses do not include the monopoly priced MLM propaganda tools which are pushed like dope on all newbies in the <em>Tool Scam</em>. Tools are mostly useless tapes and literature heading up the business cult official playbooks of deceit. Notice that <em>out of pocket </em>attendance at Amway quarterly rallies as well as various other seminars are pushed all by the <span style="font-style:italic;">kingpins</span>...<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">...a secondary swindle which supports the original Devos-Van Andel <span style="font-style:italic;">closed market swindle</span>.</span></blockquote> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Conclusion,</span> no matter how you do the math, all these folks believing in the Amway dream--those who don't reenter reality--lose money--usually in the tens of thousands and will continue to lose money throughout their relationship with the Amway <span style="font-style:italic;">closed market swindle</span> unless they personally manage to <em>convince enough others that Amway is not a swindle</em>, something only a small percentage (in the thousandths of one percent) actually manage to do. Sadly, Amway tries to convince every one that they can be that 1 in a 1000. Do the math yourself. Amway seeks to cloak their scheme in mind numbing jargon, all designed to make fools out of their prospective victims. <br /><br />The <span style="font-style:italic;">fast track</span> to Amway profits is merely a pipe dream Amway has carefully devised to <span style="font-style:italic;">expand their own bottom line</span>, all at the expense of every Amway believer who willingly flush their own money down Amway's loo in this newest wrinkle in AmScam fraud. All the figures work out in Amway's favor, while they conveniently pass all overhead expense onto their new independents, who must pony up their money to cover Amway's legitimate marketing costs. Significantly enough, new Amway promotions are usually headed up by the Amway kingpins (tool sellers), and their business cult downline followers who head up new swindles<span style="font-style:italic;">--like last years Perfect Water Scam</span>. Oh how glorious!<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight:bold;">Federal Trade Commission</span> should indeed do the math as well. It doesn't take one long with a piece of scrap paper and a pencil to do the math here friends. I am sure that with the advanced computing power of our government, a simple calculator, they might see what kind of fraud Amway's <span style="font-style:italic;">Fast Track swindle</span> really is. Significantly enough, most people taken in <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-amway-fraud-works-bakkers-advance.html">advance fee swindles</a> usually drop out of the swindle long before there is any conceivable chance they will be that 1 in 10,000 swindler who actually can in any significant way enjoy the tool scammers <span style="font-style:italic;">take</span>. Only the DeVos and VanAndel Crime families and the <em>'top of the pyramid' </em>kingpin distributors achieve this pie in the sky glory. To everyone else, good luck, <span style="font-style:italic;">you defiantly need it! </span><br /><br />END<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">(*) Amway's take in total sales--if all distributors are successful) may actually be larger since the fast track IBO and the three he personally recruited will go about trying to pull more victims into the swindle as well thus adding to the total Amway sales <span style="font-style:italic;">take</span>. (Exactly how long it might take a successful <span style="font-style:italic;">Fast Track</span> IBO to receive a $200 check could potentially take some time, as fulfillment by all recruited participant requirements may require additional time to verify. All recruited IBOs significantly must qualify; while the likelihood of this actually happening being rather long, thus allowing Amway to keep their $200 carrot.</span></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-19444939222276159882009-01-10T12:24:00.011-05:002009-03-18T18:27:09.821-04:00Gary Ridgeway: How to become a better person in Quixtar/Amway!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/SWjxd8pwPEI/AAAAAAAABKY/jfuflRZw1Hg/s1600-h/Gary+Ridgeway+Amway+Sales+Rep.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/SWjxd8pwPEI/AAAAAAAABKY/jfuflRZw1Hg/s320/Gary+Ridgeway+Amway+Sales+Rep.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289743259146402882" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">There is a </span>taped interview with Ridgeway where he claims Amway made him a better person because he claims he <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">didn't kill as many people when he was doing Amway.</span></span> It has been on You tube. Of course, he killed people over several different years. Exact count of bodies while he was in Amway, most likely unknown. Whether he killed anyone he actually personally encountered while 'practicing' Amway, most likely unknown. He was however an admitted predator of <span style="font-style:italic;">'ladies of the evening.'</span> He therefore kept some pretty unsavory company at least." Significantly enough, Amway, and therefore Ridgeway, always like to represent themselves as <span style="font-style:italic;">'door to door' sellers</span>; salespeople in an industry that Phil Ellenbecker, proponent of Wisconsin's <span style="font-style:italic;">Malinda's Law</span>, has documented to be rife with <span style="font-style:italic;">horrific crime and human abuse.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Amway can't have it both ways; they can't be a door to door sales company (as they claim to be) and also be far removed from the horrific affairs that true <span style="font-style:italic;">door to door</span> industries are known for.</span> They are the <span style="font-style:italic;">'deep pocket'</span> scoundrels which lurk behind the Direct Selling Association and are most likely the largest single 'quiet' opposition to <a href="http://www.parentwatch.org/JS%20Online%20Regulation%20sought%20on%20traveling%20sales%20jobs.htm">Malinda's Law</a> in the State of Wisconsin, proposed legislation which seeks to reign in direct selling abuses and more closely regulate a corrupt/mafia-like industry. To succeed against the DSA, one must actually succeed against the hidden enemy, the <span style="font-style:italic;">extracted filthy lucre</span> propping up the DeVos and Van Andel vast Amway World Cult! Their supposed success based on a 'closed market swindle' of incredible proportions. <br /><br />A person may become a better con man in Amway, not necessarily a better person from the standpoint of morality. A person joining an organization run like the mafia may possibly have their financial situation improved, but aren't they corrupted by that very same corruption? <br /><br />Amway is a reality inverting affair, a complete perversion of old time faith, and also one which--significantly enough--has in the past depicted itself to be a God fearing, Right leaning, Christian affair--while all the while carrying out fraud on an incredible scale! Money is the god for which these cult initiates worship. <br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Isn't it absolutely ironic that the very same thing that these cult believers worship is the exact same sacrifice they make to their Amway God? </span></span></blockquote> <br /><br />Who cannot recall the <span style="font-style:italic;">fake</span> money raining down on the stadium of people in Dateline's 2004 Expose on Amway Corruption? Significantly enough, they use this very same lust for wealth as evidence that they are merely a business organization; a fraud that helps keep Amway's criminal <span style="font-style:italic;">money extracting</span> fraud operating and one of many <span style="font-style:italic;">reality inverting myths</span> that British born author, David Brear thoroughly describes in his guest articles on <a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/01/amways-woes-in-united-kingdom-by-david.html">Quixtar Cult Intervention</a>. <br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">It is significant that Gary Ridgeway also dreamed the <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">'Amway Dream'</span></span> all the while possibly carrying out some of the most gruesome murders in modern times!</span><blockquote></blockquote></span></blockquote> <br /><br />The Amway training tools--a con themselves--teach adherents of the <span style="font-style:italic;">'closed market swindle'</span> basically how to become a more effective con man while also claiming to be just another of these 'door to door' salesman. The traveling magazine sellers are just the tip of the ice berg in what most people consider door to door selling. The youth on the traveling sales crews are simply amateurs compared to the Amway operated con game, where social networking seeks to circumvent the cold door knocking approach which is widely understood in the door to door scenario. Amway cult initiates do their door knocking in a carefully well thought out deception, usually incorporating the infamous <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/09/amway-ban-curiosity-invite-right-to.html">curiosity invite</a></span>; therefore they work in a significantly different manner than the magazine sellers, whose door to door con <span style="font-style:italic;">only appears more obvious.</span> Of course appearances can be very deceptive indeed.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The desire to swindle on a large scale basis is at the heart of both the fly by nights (like the traveling sales crews) and the <span style="font-style:italic;">supposedly legit</span> Amway World Cult.</span> Both incorporate recruitment into their pernicious affairs. The lives destroyed in the process are meaningless to either group and of course the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Direct Selling Association has blood on its hands</span>. Anyone opening their door to either industries is a potential victim; sadly, the Amway victims many times are financially victimized far worse than someone being scammed out of a few thousand in a magazine sales con or check washing scam. Amway cult members have occulted themselves as independent businessmen for decades, a reality inverting myth--since the cult initiators hold all the cards in their carefully constructed contract all supposed independents must sign. The cult initiates are the willing recipients of deceptive propaganda, and monopoly buyers in what David Brear correctly has described as a <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">closed market swindle</span></span> of global significance! <br /><br />Folks who fall prey to the deception of the Amway Dream are in a <span style="font-style:italic;">'reality inverting black hole'</span> and are forever changed. They follow <span style="font-style:italic;">strange gods</span> indeed, and their family members are left to yearn for their son, daughter or family member as they once knew them. Adherents of these cults, whether it is the traveling sales crew or the pernicious 'the business' cult are all somehow <span style="font-style:italic;">changed significantly</span> enough that their own family members do not even recognize them as being the same person. Family is alienated and must watch from the sidelines as these former family and friends are swallowed up in their worship of the AmQuix god. The offering up of gold to the gods soon follows; the same thing which significantly goes on in another pernicious world cult headed up the Sung Yung Moon.<br /><br />Horrific stories exist in the door to door industry, all of which Amway Global significantly claims to be part of. They take their place along side of the other bad players like Kirby, Southwestern Company, and all the sundry fly by night traveling magazine/household product hawkers, the door to door knockers. Intent to defraud and fraud are most likely to occur, no matter how one opens their door to these scoundrels.<br /><br />Update: I've added a short video to this post. Amway indeed can make you a better person, even if you don't have time to <span style="font-style:italic;">kill</span>! To see additional Ridgeway/Amway videos, click <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La7OmH-Ruys">here</a>.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/La7OmH-Ruys&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/La7OmH-Ruys&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-57375658023210923212009-01-01T20:29:00.007-05:002009-01-02T11:58:05.915-05:00The Black Amway/Quixtar Gift From the Dark Side<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUx2FjQwoL7Nep2JP4_YrVWPT-A9I8boN933YMHg4IQCYpfQfV29IGlJmZgZzNCcuAmnhJ1y3b0VsN9Sk7LZ7lCdn6Sj_xGzWngwvKU5td7iQId7txV1MQGJgNcrk-Vjk5vWxL3wsZTLae/s1600-h/The+Black+Gift+From+Hell.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUx2FjQwoL7Nep2JP4_YrVWPT-A9I8boN933YMHg4IQCYpfQfV29IGlJmZgZzNCcuAmnhJ1y3b0VsN9Sk7LZ7lCdn6Sj_xGzWngwvKU5td7iQId7txV1MQGJgNcrk-Vjk5vWxL3wsZTLae/s400/The+Black+Gift+From+Hell.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286514510107381410" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">A Gift that</span> arrives in the mail with a completely dull black envelope embossed by small silver Ribbon. Have you been a recipient of one of these non-gifts that Amway Global cultists substitute for real presents. These black gifts represent more than just an overpriced product scam, they point out the utter deception the cult members themselves are under. <span style="font-style:italic;">Even their family are relegated to mere PV points on the Amway road to fools gold.</span> <br /><br />Amway Global/Quixtar Ribbon Gifts are a first class rip off; the accompanying catalog is rife with badly overpriced non-presents--candles and scents and the like. Not generally products one might legitimately live without. Recipients recognize this 'black gift' as evidence that insanity exists somewhere possibly in their own gene pool. <br /><br />Receivers of <span style="font-weight:bold;">THE BLACK GIFT</span> are basically made to feel someohow unclean in the sender's fraudulent affairs and <span style="font-style:italic;">their very corrupt totalitarian regime and <span style="font-style:italic;">World Amway cult.</span></span> <br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Beware of the handsomely dressed couple, dressed to the 9's in dress suits to impress and misrepresent. They go out as the 'Conways' perpetrating their scam and themselves as successful, although neither is true. Their <span style="font-style:italic;">'black gift'</span> attempts to represent Amway as a success which any thinking person knows to be a complete and utter myth. The Conways are perpetrating fraud and are guilty of intent to defraud their fellow villagers. Avoid the Amway criminal Conways! You may not be able to avoid their black gift from the darkside. Word Up!</span></span></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-25378745276301087602008-12-06T11:58:00.006-05:002008-12-06T21:03:57.162-05:00Amway/Quixtar: The Shame of it All!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/STq59KcCF0I/AAAAAAAABIg/xC3w8X1u4ro/s1600-h/Amway+The+Shame+of+it+All.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 384px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/STq59KcCF0I/AAAAAAAABIg/xC3w8X1u4ro/s400/Amway+The+Shame+of+it+All.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276734373843048258" /></a><br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;">“Always call it “The Business” in public.</span>”</blockquote><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">To <span style="font-style:italic;">not</span> divulge</span> the name of <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">'Quixtar'</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">'Amway'</span>,</span> or <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">'Amway Global'</span></span> in public doesn't exclusively apply to the deceptive <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">curiosity invite</span></span> practice--where people are basically <span style="font-style:italic;">duped</span> into seeing the Amway business proposal; but is routine public procedure designed to shield distributors from the <span style="font-style:italic;">shame</span> of being involved in such a lowly regarded affair—this despite all the current reputation rebuilding efforts that the Ada, Michigan, Alticor executives have embarked upon. Distributors are taught to only use the term <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">“the business”</span></span> in public to keep their involvement secretive. Distributors are taught to act very cult like indeed by their upline mentors and the never ending training materials they purchase from the <span style="font-style:italic;">tool</span> kingpins. <br /><br />The <span style="font-style:italic;">Amway</span> name is generally held in low esteem by the general public--<span style="font-style:italic;">for good reason.</span> Recruiters are forced to seek out the naive and vulnerable to sell their scheme on. The <i>'shame of it all'</i> can only be explained away in a carefully controlled recruitment environment; not inadvertently leaked out in a restaurant or social setting. Most knowledgeable people would avoid attending an Amway recruitment meeting if the name <span style="font-style:italic;">'Amway'</span> was revealed inadvertently or purposefully upfront (as it should be). Many skeptical people ask the question <i> 'Is this Amway?'</i> and never receive anything more than obfuscation as a reply. Attendance at a Amway recruitment meeting is considered a waste of time by many people. <span style="font-style:italic;">(This is why I have proposed a <span style="font-weight:bold;">Do Not Invite Initiative</span> which would work similarly to the national do not call list for telemarketers.) </span> <br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;">Seriously, why would anyone want to be involved in an affair that invokes such shame on the part of those distributors currently involved?</span> </blockquote> <br />Why would someone want to be involved in a situation where it is disguised or denied to employers—a embarrassing situation for many employees. Most importantly, why would anyone want to describe this stinker of an opportunity as a <span style="font-style:italic;">great opportunity</span> when it is absolutely not. <strong>To knowingly do this is indeed criminal intent to defraud!</strong> <span style="font-style:italic;">Amway is about as welcome as a stinker in a car, and who wants to admit to anything that vile?</span> <br /><br />Have you recently been tricked into seeing the Amway <span style="font-style:italic;">'opportunity'</span> fraud? If so, you've found the information necessary to see through the carefully crafted deceptions of <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">'the business cult'</span></span>. You do not want to find yourself in the unenviable desperate 'hope and a prayer' situation of having to acquire an incredibly elusive <span style="font-style:italic;">'downline'</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">who really does not want to be found.</span> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><blockquote>Amway Global is a <span style="font-style:italic;">terminal disease</span> which has a nearly <span style="font-style:italic;">'100% rolling failure rate'.</span> <br /><br />Striving for success in a scheme isn't anyone's idea of real success. Just the fact that it invokes <span style="font-style:italic;">shame</span> in those desperate enough to engage in its fraud should make any thinking person avoid it like the <span style="font-style:italic;">black plague.</span></blockquote></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/STq9yoC7hMI/AAAAAAAABIo/ixpyy7t2al4/s1600-h/Striving+in+a+Scheme.GIF"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 259px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/STq9yoC7hMI/AAAAAAAABIo/ixpyy7t2al4/s400/Striving+in+a+Scheme.GIF" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276738590858773698" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8017027141007412501.post-31054917653603994452008-11-28T08:24:00.021-05:002008-11-28T20:07:06.747-05:00What About The Other 'Big Three'? Amway, Scientology, and the Unification Church<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/SS_zbg3EYBI/AAAAAAAABII/cwItKsM9EWU/s1600-h/The_Big_Three.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75T__VWLm5M/SS_zbg3EYBI/AAAAAAAABII/cwItKsM9EWU/s400/The_Big_Three.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273701342677065746" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">There is a</span> lot of news in the press about the Big Three, <span style="font-style:italic;">GM, Ford and Chrysler</span>, but what about the other famous 'Big Threes', <span style="font-style:italic;">The Yalta World Leaders during World War II and the still existing Big Three World Cults?</span> <br /><br />Amway; Scientology; and the Moonies, the <span style="font-style:italic;">Big Three</span> thrive on human ignorance and lack of complete understanding. <br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;">They attempt to control and define the information about themselves to perpetuate a form of ignorance which works in their favor.</span> </blockquote> <br />What they and their adherents say about themselves is misinformation which seeks to perpetuate their myths. They indeed thrive on human lack of intellectual rigor, a failure to understand beyond the obvious. <br /><br />People have heard the key words 'scam' 'pyramid' 'scheme' and 'cult' so often that the words seem to lose their significance as the hearer juxtapose these against the key words that the Amway cult initiators use to define themselves: 'business' 'selling' 'system' 'legitimate' and 'opportunity'. Amway attempts to define themselves and create a cognitive dissonance in the minds of humanity. They arrogantly brag that they will always seek to define themselves and not allow the critics and naysayers to do this for them. <br /><br />Amway and the other cults benefit when people generally remain in the relative bliss of ignorance about cult affairs. To describe what and who they are by simply describing it as a scheme, a scam, or a pyramid doesn't tell the whole story. Most people do not go beyond these mental images. They live in a state of mind that the cult actually can turn to their advantage. People when confronted by an adherent of the cult in a recruitment scenario usually doesn't have a deep intellectual understanding of what Amway really is, only shallow ideas that take the form of the keywords words scam, scheme, pyramid, and cult. There is no depth of understanding behind these adjectives that the recruiter can psychologically deflect, minimalize and thereby use the prospect's own ignorance and lack of deeper understanding against him or her. They brush aside the allegations of being a cult in an opening salvo in their war to completely <span style="font-style:italic;">invert reality </span>in their prospect's mind. The rest of the deceit then becomes much easier, and the prospect is psychologically disarmed for want of deeper understanding. <br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;">The prospect who hasn't graduated to a keen deeper intellectual understanding of whom and what they are facing presents the cult with an opening they can exploit, much the same way the German military forces exploited the Maginot line in their blitzkrieg against France during their western campaign in World War II. Indeed an understanding of Amway's factual history is necessary to go beyond the superficial. </span></blockquote><br />Amway Cult recruiters quickly try to define and dispel their prospect's misgivings. They seek to reinforce that their affairs are a business or a religion, not an insane cult like the Branch Dividians. Amway apologist recruiters describe <span style="font-style:italic;">how great of an opportunity Amway is</span> and promote this myth in the <span style="font-style:italic;">'reality inverting'</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">'thought stopping'</span> jargon that author David Brear succinctly describes within his writing. <br /><br /><blockquote>It must be absolutely understood that this <span style="font-style:italic;">myth made truth</span> is without a doubt <span style="font-weight:bold;">criminal intent to defraud</span> as Amway recruiters deny <span style="font-style:italic;">the <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Amway financial holocaust</span>.</span></span></blockquote> <br />Failure to graduate to the higher levels of cult understanding and enlightenment then allow the cults to define themselves in terms with which they choose. The cults want their detractors to at least, in part, believe the <span style="font-style:italic;">'myths'</span> that they spread about themselves as <span style="font-style:italic;">'truth'</span> instead. I've seen this phenomena within the opinions of ex-Amway adherents turned critic. If you doubt me, I have to ask readers and critics what they really know about Nutrilite? There is something so much more pernicious about cults and when they succeed in keeping a level playing field by having their reality inverting myths believed, even the critics themselves can be fooled by the propaganda. Nutrilite being just an example, one that will be further explored in more detail in future articles on this blog and sister blogs: Quxitar Cult Intervention and Amway Soap Box. <br /><br />David Brear says that cults seek to get their detractors--and even the cult experts--arguing amongst themselves; They seek to masquerade and infiltrate cult <span style="font-style:italic;">think tanks</span> and thereby define themselves as not being a cult. Scientology has infiltrated and taken over one anti-cult organizations that was originally set up to describe Scientology deceit. To some degree, Amway has attempted to subvert in exactly the same manner with certain cult experts secretly being Amway apologists themselves. David Brear has been more intimately involved in the struggle with these <span style="font-style:italic;">reality inverting</span> cult expert frauds in Europe than I. Isn't it good that we can come to some understanding by reading his thoughts instead of simply assuming that we know, when we really are mentally shallow on the issue. <br /><br />Understanding of and resistance to the development of cults is much farther advanced in European nations because the people have more experience (and fear) of pernicious cults and the human destruction they can wrought in the present because of the history of what they have wrought in the past. Intellectually advanced people have a <span style="font-style:italic;">'never again'</span> view of organizations that promote their <span style="font-style:italic;">myths as reality.</span> <br /><br />Americans have limited experience, allowing cults to develop and achieve their evils. What many Americans discover about Amway is very superficial, and therefore allow a niche in their psychological armor to exist that the Amway cultists seek to exploit when ever they can. Their slogan: <span style="font-style:italic;">"Some will, some will not"</span> points out their strategy. They seek to find those that are open to accepting their <span style="font-style:italic;">reality inverting logic.</span> When they encounter someone who has no true depth of understanding beyond just superficial thinking that Amway is a scam or a scheme, the recruiter quickly seeks to sweep these aside as mere misconceptions; and to some degree, they succeed, at least in those <span style="font-style:italic;">“that will.”</span><br /><br />Quixtar Cult Intervention--as well as my other anti-cult blogs--seek to keep pushing the <span style="font-style:italic;">intellectual bar of understanding</span> forward. David Brear's extensively researched and painstakingly written articles do just this. David, nor I look back, but keep pushing the bar forward because Amway seeks to drive a wedge between the critics if they can. The big three continue to pursue their 'reality inverting' misconceptions which succeed to some degree in making continued cult recruitment possible. They seek to define who they are--even in the minds of their detractors. Word Up!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">If you enjoy reading David Brear, there is more of his work that can be found by clicking on these links:</span> <br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/11/now-what-would-george-orwell-have-made.html">Now What Would George Orwell Have Made of the 'Amway' Myth? By David Brear</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-amway-fraud-works-bakkers-advance.html">How Amway Fraud Works: The Bakker's Advance Fee Fraud</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/amway-how-mind-of-oppressed-is-weapon.html">Amway: How the Mind of the Oppressed is a Weapon in the Hands of the Oppressor</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/esoteric-structure-of-amway-by-david.html">The Esoteric Structure of Amway</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/amway-apologists-inhabit-same.html">Amway Apologist Inhabit the Same Intellectual Bunker</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/amway-if-it-walks-like-duck.html">Amway: If It Walks Like a Duck</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/cultism-and-covert-hypnosis-by-david.html">Cultism and Hypnosis</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/amway-apologists-narcisitic.html">Amway Apologists Narcissistic Personalities! Amway Apologist Cult Like Themselves</a><br /><br /><a href="http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/freedom-is-slavery-by-david-brear.html">Freedom is Slavery</a><br /><br /><a href="http://amwayglobalcultintervention.blogspot.com/2008/10/amway-described-as-premeditated-closed.html">Amway Described as “Premeditated Closed Market Swindle”<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script expr:src='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/blogspot/cjBs?i=" + data:post.url' type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6