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Shyam

I observe that young Trivedi has reappeared on your Blog with another intellectualy-castrated comment in defence of the illusory (American) object of his unquestioning (Indian) devotion. What the poor little lad has completely failed to comprehend, is that (for several years), Mr. Angelo Mozilo steadfastly pretended moral and intellectual authority. During this time (right under the noses of SEC officials and American financial journalists) he successfully hid the ugly truth about his company's increasingly-catastrophic position from its wide-eyed 'investors,' who (just like Trivedi) even if some intellectually-rigorous person had spelled-out reality, generally didn't want to face it, because they wanted to believe that they were going to make lots of money. Indeed, far from being exposed as a dangerous shyster, Mozilo (like the Billionaire bosses of the 'Amway' mob) was generally lauded (by publications like Business Week), as one of America's most respected and wealthy businessmen.

Even now, when the truth is there for everyone to confront, most American financial journalists are not openly-condemning Mozilo as a greedy liar who has inflicted a multi-billion dollar burden on all US tax-payers.

These selectively blind observers (like SEC attorneys) have assisted in maintaining the American kleptocracy, because they have earned their livings from it. Consequently, American financial journalists are merely repeating the weasle words of SEC attorneys, who have self-evidently negotiated a sleazy deal with Mozilo's attorneys. In reality, despite what has been fed to the press, Mozilo has been allowed to hand over $67.5 millions of his ill-gotten gains to the US kleptocracy in order to dodge being held to account by the ultimate victims of his lies (i.e. the people of the USA) and without him even having to admit any wrongdoing. If this national scandal was uncovered in any other State, then mainstream American commentators would be throwing up their hands and screaming 'corruption!'

Trivedi is still happily splashing in what he believes to be a nice (if slightly-salted) warm bath. I don't suppose, Shyam, that he will ever realize that he is merely a brainless little lobster being gradually boiled-alive in a vast cooking pot; just one of millions who have already been served up to a party of typically-insatiable American gluttons.

David Brear (copyright 2010)

American hypocracy shields American kleptocracy

Shyam

When you read articles like this http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-16/countrywide-s-mozilo-settles-for-67-5-million-over-sec-claims.html , you begin to realize just how far the USA has descended.

Since the end of WWI, Americans have generally liked to think of themselves as the citzens of the world's most righteous and powerful democracy, but an increasing number of angry American tax-payers now believe that (no matter who has appeared to govern the USA) their country has become a de facto kleptocracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy

Although he once was the widely-respected Chief Executive Officer, and founder, of America's Countrywide Financial Corporation, Angelo Mozilo (b. 1939) is now a proven shyster who, after making catastrophic commercial decisions, deliberately hid the truth from his company's investors before selling $140 millions of his own shares knowing that their artificially-inflated price was about to collapse.

Any reasonable person reading these shocking facts would assume that Mr. Mozilo would have been stripped of all his stolen wealth and sentenced to a long prison term, but no; he hasn't even had to go to court to face civil charges, let alone criminal charges. Those tireless guardians of America's financial system at the Securities Exchange Commission have decided to allow Mr. Mozilo to hand over just $67.5 millions of his ill-gotten gains and they will drop all securities fraud charges against him (and without him even having to admit any wrongdoing). Oh, and they have also slapped him on the wrists by barring him (at the age of 71) from being a director or officer of a US-registered public company in the future.

The immediate victims of Mozilo's lies previously filed a $600 millions class-action lawsuit against his company. This was settled by the Bank of America which (as part of a wider federal government policy to rescue the global economy from total melt-down) was obliged to buy out Countrywide Financial for $4 billions, to save it from bankruptcy. In other words, the immediate victims of Mozilo's lies were paid off, whilst the $600 millions of losses he caused them, were off-loaded on to all US tax-payers (including Mozilo's victims). Despite the announcement that Mozilo's derisory $67.5 millions payment to the SEC will be used to reduce the huge burden he has inflicted on US-tax-payers, in reality, this relative speck of gold dust will now simply be tranferred to the Bank of America where it will vanish into the largest financial black-hole ever to have existed.

The FBI also began to investigate Mr. Mozilo in 2008, but the US Attorney's Office has (so far) declined to make any comment as to whether he might face criminal charges. Obviously, a deal has been done, but (in 2010) in the 'Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave,' handing over stolen money to the federal administration, to avoid being held to account by the American people from whom the money has been stolen, is apparently no longer considered to be a crime against the Republic.

David Brear (copyright 2010)

'Business?' What 'Business?'

Shyam

As you, and your free-thinking readers, know, Joseph Goebbels (the main apologist for the 'Nazi' fiction) said:

‘If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.'

Until their violent demise, the bosses of the 'Nazi' regime continued to reap vast profits from some of the most-pernicious blame-the-victim frauds of all time http://quixtarisacultintervention.blogspot.com/2009/02/worlds-largest-automobile-factory-was.html .

The author of the 'Scientology' fiction, L.Ron Hubbard, was fully-aware of Goebbels' reality-inverting, ritualistic propaganda tactics. Indeed, Hubbard is reported as instructing his apologists to keep talking about 'Religion' and critics will have to talk about 'Religion.' Sixty years of damning evidence, proves 'The Church of Scientology' to have been the reality-inverting, ritualistic label for an occult totalitarian movement presented externally as a 'religious/self-betterment movement'. During this period, the narcissistic bosses of 'Scientology' have been allowed to create a mystifying labyrinth of (apparently independent) corporate structures pursuing lawful, and/or unlawful, enterprises in order to prevent, and/or divert, investigation and isolate themselves from liability. They have steadfastly pretended absolute moral and intellectual authority whilst reaping vast profits from various ongoing, pernicious, blame-the-victim rackets.

So why do critics keep talking about 'Religion' in respect of the 'Scientology' mob? For that matter, why do critics keep talking about 'Business' in respect of the 'Amway' mob and their many copy-cats? Self-evidently, the authors of the 'Amway/MLM' fiction have instructed their apologists to keep talking about 'Business' and critics will have to talk about 'Business'.

More than fifty years of damning evidence proves that anyone who has been deceived into giving his/her cash to any so-called 'Multilevel Marketing' company or related corporate structure (in return for effectively-unsaleable wampum, and/or publications, recordings, tickets to meetings, etc.) and persuaded others to do the same, has not been in 'business' in the traditional sense of the word. In reality, during this period, tens of millions of individuals around the world have temporarily become the de facto slaves of various gangs of racketeers who have all peddled essentially the same big lie. The wealthy bosses of these gangs have maintained the lie by shielding the outside world from the political and economic consequences of the lie. It has, thus, become vitally important for them to use all their powers to repress dissent.

I would, therefore, politely request all critics of the 'Amway' mob, and of their many copy-cats, to refrain from talking about 'Business' in respect of 'MLM' fraud (that is, unless the reality-inverting, ritualistic term, 'Business,' is accompanied by detailed qualification or heavy irony).

David Brear (copyright 2010)

The 'UKDSA's' celebrity, Useful Idiot was (and still is) Tony Blair

Shyam

I wonder if the Director of the so-called 'Indian Direct Selling Association' has any Indian, celebrity, Useful Idiots up his sleeve?

In 1999, according to Richard Berry (the smiling, silver-haired Director of the so-called 'UK Direct Selling Association'),'Amway UK Ltd.'s' multi-million pound annual 'retail sales' accounted for a sizeable proportion of the 'overall annual retail sales' of the entire 'Direct Selling Industry' in the UK. Indeed, at one time, almost 20% of the total claimed 'approximately half a million Direct Selling commission agents' in the UK, were those temporarily under (take it or leave it) annual contracts to 'Amway UK Ltd.' However, despite his benign, paternal appearance and his organization's published 'Code of Ethics,' in reality, Mr. Berry's dishonest living has always depended on him steadfastly pretending that significant numbers of commission agents of all the member companies of the so-called 'UK DSA' have earned money lawfully by regularly retailing products for a profit. Nothing could have been further from the truth, because, in reality, since the'Amway/MLM Prosperity Gospel' first infected the UK in 1973, hundreds of thousands of constantly-churning persons have not been retailing anything. Instead, they have regularly been handing over their cash (in return for effectively-unsaleable wampum) to US-based racketeers who have been running blame-the-victim closed-market swindles disguised as 'Low Risk, Perfectly Lawful, Direct Selling Business Opportunities' and related advance fee frauds disguised as 'Proven Business Training/Motivation Systems.'

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is currently promoting himself as a possible future leader of the European Union. He is also making a fortune selling his memoirs. However, the ease with which this classic, Useful Idiot was tricked into making an unqualified video message of support for US-based 'MLM' racketeers in 1999, almost beggars belief. The effects of the resulting propaganda coup can be clearly seen here http://www.flp-living.co.uk/flp/dsa.htm . Indeed, 11 years later, Tony Blair is still being touted as a celebrity-supporter of 'MLM'. Unfortunately, the deliberate fooling of an ill-informed British Prime Minister took place 7 years before agents of the previous Labour government finally began to uncover what was really lurking behind the kitsch façade of 'Amway UK Ltd.' Far from 'making a tremendous contribution to the overall prosperity of the UK economy' (as Tony Blair naively believed) by 2006, at least one million UK and Irish citizens had been duped into signing an annual contract with 'Amway UK Ltd' in which they were arbitrarily, and falsely, defined as 'Independent Business Owners.' During the period 1973-2006, the overall rolling-failure rate for so-called'Independent Amway Businesses' is now known to have been effectively 100% in the UK and Ireland, whilst hundreds of millions of pounds were syphoned (tax-free) out of the UK and Irish economies by means of 'Amway'-related advance fee frauds (a.k.a. 'tool scams').

Tony Blair's 1999 statement to the members of the so-called'UK DSA,' repeats carefully-scripted lies designed to exploit the victims of an ongoing, global criminal deception and prevent them from complaining. These lies were fed to Tony Blair by the reality-inverting agents of US-based, billionaire racketeers.

Given the wider evidence, it's not difficult to guess what Tony Blair's reaction would be if a member of his own family, or a close friend, now suddenly announced that he/she had signed a contract with a so-called 'Direct Selling Company.'

David Brear (Copyright 2010)

'DSA' officers have lied, because their salaries depend on lies

Shyam

Currently, the so-called 'Indian Direct Selling Association' is just one of a global labyrinth of 58 copy-cat corporate structures (taken from an American model) pursuing lawful, and/or unlawful, enterprises which have been used to dissimulate some of the most pernicious blame-the-victim frauds since the demise of the 'Third Reich.' In plain language, the 'IDSA' is an absurd, but nonetheless dangerous, little lie within an absurd, but nonetheless dangerous, big lie known as the 'World Federation of Direct Selling Associations.'

So-called 'DSAs' have no other source of revenue other than their member companies' contributions. According to the'WFDSA' Website, membership contributions are based on the annual 'retail sales' conducted by individual 'Direct Selling Companies' http://www.wfdsa.org/about_wfdsa/index.cfm?fa=membershipInfo . Conveniently, there has never been any means by which any 'DSA' can verify that any member company's non-salaried commission agents have actually been conducting retail sales to outsiders. Thus, the entire shifty labyrinth of 'DSAs' has always been financed by contributions which have been calculated on the reality-inverting fairy-tale that the DSA member companies' declared 'annual sales figures' are authentic retail sales. Hence, the officers of the various 'DSAs,' have had a conflict of interests (to say the least); for their salaries have been paid by contributions which, according to their own un-enforced rules, can only accrue as a result of 'retail selling'. Consequently, these useful idiots are hardly likely to want to confront the ugly reality that virtually no retail selling has ever taken place.

In the adult world of quantifiable reality, for decades, the overwhelming majority of all the billions of dollars of transactions declared by various fake 'Direct Selling' companies (like 'Amway') have secretly been contributions (arbitrarily defined as 'sales') to illegal money circulation schemes (in return for which, victims have received effectively-unsaleable wampum). In respect of numerous 'Amway' copy-cats, there has never been any significant, or sustainable, authentic retailing selling taking place. The overwhelming majority of so-called 'retail customers' for 'Amway's' effectively-unsaleable wampum have been the ill-informed victims of a giant, blame-the-victim, closed-market swindle who have been arbitrarily, and falsely, defined as, 'Independent Business Owners,' and led to believe that the 'exact duplication of a plan of recruitment and self-consumption can lead anyone to Total Financial Freedom.'

In order to continue to receive his fat salary cheques, for three decades, Richard Berry, the (now elderly) 'Director' of the so-called 'UK DSA' (which has been registered as a privately-controlled, limited-liability, commercial company) was obliged steadfastly to pretend that all 'UKDSA' member companies (including 'Amway' UK) were subject to a code of ethics and were acting within the law by retailing products.

Self-evidently, the 'UKDSA' has also been an absurd, but nonetheless dangerous, little lie within an absurd, but nonetheless dangerous, big lie known as the 'World Federation of Direct Selling Associations.'

David Brear (copyright 2010)

IDSA's Code of Ethics is a bunch of jokes

These are some of the rules in the Code of Ethics of the Indian Direct Selling Association. A look at them reveals that this code is more in breach than in observance. Let us examine one of after another point of this code and how they are observed.

Self-Regulation: This Code is not law, but its obligations require a level of ethical behaviour from Companies and Direct Sellers which conforms with or exceeds applicable legal requirements. Non-observance of this Code does not create any civil law responsibility or liability. With termination of its membership in IDSA, a Company is no longer bound by this Code. However, the provisions of this Code remain applicable to events or transactions that occurred during the time a Company was a member of IDSA.

This rule speaks volumes. There is no compulsion on anybody to observe this rule. There is not a single incident of cancellation of membership of any company.

Inventory: Companies shall not require or encourage Direct Sellers to purchase Product inventory in unreasonably large amounts. Companies shall take reasonable steps to ensure that Direct Sellers who are receiving compensation for downline sales volume are either consuming or reselling the Products they purchase in order to qualify to receive compensation.

Many companies flout this rule. Herbalife is a glaring example. Herbalife induces people into buying products in bulk on the pretext that they would get maximum discount. There are hundreds of people laden with un-saleable Herbalife products with them. Even Amway indulged in this activity. One Mrs Sujata of Vijayawada complained about products worth Rs. 3 lakh remained with her. But Amway did not take the products back.

Termination: If requested upon termination of a Direct Seller’s relationship with a Company, Companies shall buy back any unsold, resaleable Product inventory, promotional material, sales aids and kits, purchased within the previous twelve months and refund the Direct Seller’s original cost, less a handling charge to the Direct Seller of up to 10% of the net purchase price. The Company may also deduct the cost of any benefit received by the Direct Seller based on the original purchase of the returned goods.

Ms B Sujata of Vijayawada, after the death of her husband ran from pillar to post asking Amway officials to take back the products worth Rs. 3 lakh remained with her after her husband’s untimely death. But nothing happened.

Earnings Claims: Companies and Direct Sellers shall not misrepresent the actual or potential sales or earnings of their Direct Sellers. Any earnings or sales representations made shall be based upon documented facts.

This is one rule blatantly violated by all the IBOs or distributors or consultants or whatever name they are given. One Ms. Padma told me personally that her earnings are Rs. 68,000 per month. But one look at her two-room rented shack tells the real tale. A housewife in Vijayawada boasted to an auto rickshaw driver that their income was Rs. 70,000 per month which resulted in a dastardly attack on her person. And an ENT surgeon prescribes Amway products as if they are medicine to his patients.

Business Information: Information provided by Companies to prospective or existing Direct Sellers concerning the opportunity and related rights and obligations shall be accurate and complete. Companies shall not make any factual representation to a prospective Direct Seller that cannot be verified or make any promise that cannot be fulfilled. Companies shall not present the advantages of the selling opportunity to any prospective recruit in a false or deceptive manner.

This is also blatantly violated. All the upline members tell the prospective new members is that it is a good business opportunity and if they recruit more people they could earn a lot of money and retire early in life. It would take just 2 to 5 years to earn sizable amount of money and later they could enjoy the rest of life. The gullible would never realize that it is a mirage.

Recruiting: Companies shall not use misleading, deceptive or unfair recruiting practices in their interaction with prospective or existing Direct Sellers.

The recruiting practice is totally misleading, deceptive and unfair. They always induce the prospective members with huge profits and early retirement in life. The interaction with the prospective or existing direct sellers would be completely false and totally deceptive.

Referral Selling: Companies and Direct Sellers shall not induce a person to purchase goods or services based upon the representation that a Consumer can reduce or recover the purchase price by referring prospective customers to the Direct Sellers for similar purchases, if such reductions or recovery are contingent upon some uncertain, future event.

It could safely be said that without inducement there is no direct selling at all. This rule is nothing but hypocrisy. Every distributor tells the new member to recruit more members in order to earn more money. Amway India’s 6-4-3 is the glaring example. Some other companies blatantly advertise in their brochures about the binary scheme which is mathematically impossible.

Fairness: Direct Sellers shall respect the lack of commercial experience of Consumers. Direct Sellers shall not abuse the trust of individual consumers, or exploit a Consumer’s age, illness, lack of understanding or unfamiliarity with a language.

In the referral marketing or network marketing, the distributors tend to abuse the trust of the consumers. Otherwise they could never recruit a single member.

Prohibited Practices: Direct Sellers shall not use misleading, deceptive or unfair sales practices.

This is the rule all distributors unscrupulously breach every day. They always mislead the distributors and follow deceptive and unfair sales practices while selling the products or recruiting new members.

MVT racket exposed

A Reader asks a simple and direct question to the MyVideoTalk apologists. Kindly attempt to answer him.

HI FRIENDS,
RECENTLY I ATTENDED THE MVT PRESENTATION & FINALLY I ASKED SOME QUESTIONS TO THE PEOPLE & THEY REFUSED TO ANSWER IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.
FINALLY I ASKED THEM PERSONALLY THEY TOLD THAT YOU NOT NEED TO KNOW THE ANSWER.
THE QUESTION IS :MVT PRODUCT IS 350$. IF I JOIN TWO PERSONS UNDER ME, I WILL GET 100 $ ( 50 FROM EACH) & THE PERSON WHO INVITE ME TO JOIN WILL GET 25$, & HIS BOSS WILL GET 25 LIKE THAT EVERY ONE WILL GET 25$ EACH. SO IF THERE IS 20 CYCLE ( MEANS ONE PERSON UNDER ONE PERSON), EACH ONE WILL GET 25$ THEN THE TOTAL AMOUNT IS 500$. HOW THEY CAN GIVE 500 $ MONEY TO ALL THESE PEOPLE ONLY WITH 350$, & WHAT IS THE PROFIT OF THIS COMPANY?
I ASKED THIS QUESTION & I CAN'T GET THE ANSWER FROM THEM, PLEASE REPLY GUYS WITH THE TRUTH.