The Diagnostic Criteria for Amway (Multi-Level Marketing ) Addiction Disorder

In response to our latest crop of intellectually-castrated commentators, here are:

The Diagnostic Criteria for Amway (Multi-Level Marketing ) Addiction Disorder

1 - Do you feel preoccupied with Amway (MLM)?

2 - Do you have complete faith that Amway (MLM) is not a dissimulated fraud, and/or cult, and that it really is a viable income opportunity?

3 - Have you never seen the audited accounts (particularly, income-tax receipts) of persons who have made verbal claims to have earned income from Amway (MLM)?

4 - Do you have complete faith that Amway (MLM) products and services are of sufficient quality and value that they can be regularly sold for a profit on the open market (i.e to the public)?

5 - Do you have complete faith that the instigators of Amway (MLM) are law-abiding and can be trusted?

6-  Do you have complete faith that the persons above you in the Amway (MLM) Network hierarchy are law-abiding and can be trusted?

7 - Do you have complete faith that all quantifiable evidence proving, and all persons suggesting, that Amway (MLM) is a dissimulated fraud, and/or cult, cannot be trusted?

8 - Do you regularly buy  Amway (MLM) products, and/or services? 

9 - Have you never regularly sold Amway (MLM) products, and/or services, to the public for a profit?

10 - Have you regularly bought Amway (MLM)-related publications, recordings and tickets to meetings?

11 - Do you have complete faith that Amway (MLM)-related publications, recordings and meetings contain secrets vital to achieving freedom and success?

12 - Have you changed your usual manner of speaking since becoming involved with Amway (MLM)?

13 - Do you find yourself habitually-repeating key words, phrases and acronyms (IBO, PV, BV, BSM, etc.) which have been constantly-repeated to you in Amway (MLM)-related publications, recordings and meetings?

14 -Have you changed your usual manner of dress since becoming involved with Amway(MLM) ?

15 - Have you changed your usual sleep pattern, and/or diet, since becoming involved with Amway (MLM ?

16 - Have you fixed positive images of your dreams and goals at strategic places in your home? 

17 - Have you regularly focused on positive images of your dreams and goals and visualised yourself achieving them?

18 - Do you dream of achieving Amway (MLM) freedom and success as a means of escaping from personal, and/or financial, problems or of relieving a distressed mood (i.e. feelings of helplessness, guilt, anxiety, depression, alienation, etc.)

19 - Do you believe that a 100% positive attitude (complete faith) is one of the secrets of achieving freedom and success in Amway (MLM), and that if you fail to achieve freedom and success this will be the result of a negative attitude and, therefore, you will only have yourself to blame?

20 - Do you find yourself habitually dividing everything in your life into: Amway (MLM) and positive, for winners (to be included)versus non-Amway (MLM) and negative, for losers (to be excluded)?

21 - Do you have complete faith that you can achieve total financial freedom within just a few years, through duplicating a positive plan to buy Amway (MLM) products and to recruit others to duplicate the same positive plan? 

22 - Have you drawn up a prospect list (i.e. all the names of all the people you have ever encountered in your life)?

23 - Have you tried to find and contact the individuals on yourprospect list with the intention of recruiting them into Amway (MLM)?

24 - Have you used a positive script to try to recruit people intoAmway (MLM), but which actually hid your real objective?

25 - Do you believe that all tactics are justified to recruit others into Amway (MLM), because, in the end, Amway (MLM) will be of great benefit to everyone ?

26 - Have you repeatedly made unsuccessful attempts to control, cut back or stop your Amway (MLM) involvement? 

27 - Do you feel restless, moody, depressed, or irritable when attempting to cut down or to stop your Amway (MLM) involvement?

28 - Have you spent far more time and money on Amway (MLM) than you originally intended?

29 - Have you jeopardised or risked the loss of a significant relationship, job, educational or career opportunity because of Amway (MLM)?

30 - Have you lied to friends and family members, professional advisers, and/or to others, to conceal the extent of your losses in Amway (MLM)

Anyone truthfully answering 'yes' to more than 5 of the above question, is suffering from Amway (MLM) Addiction Disorder

Corporate Frauds Watch (copyright 2012)

With whom have the billionaire 'Amway' bosses really been associated?

Shyam 

In the past, if the agents of an enemy power had tried to set up a serious fraud in Britain, presumeably, British security services would have been interested. Yet, the evidence proves beyond all reasonable doubt that (starting in 1973) a gang of Americans (linked financially to the Republican party) was allowed to set up, and shield, a multi-billion dollar, corporate fraud in Britain (and operate it for 34 years without the slightest regulatory challenge) whilst British security services never even noticed. 

Similarly, today, if the agents of an enemy power tried to set up a serious fraud in India, presumeably, the republic of India's security services would be interested. Yet, the evidence again proves beyond all reasonable doubt that (starting in the late 1990s) the same gang of Americans (linked financially to the Republican party) was allowed to set up, and shield, the same multi-billion dollar, corporate fraud in India (which they continue to operate without the slightest regulatory challenge) whilst the republic of India's security services haven't even noticed.  

One would have thought that, at the very least, the Indian security services would be interested in the fact that the American-based bosses of 'Amway,' have been linked to the instigator of 'Blackwater.' 

The mediocre, but rich, little Prince who apparently created 'Blackwater,' is Erik Dean Prince http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince.  If your free-thinking readers care to take a look at his background, they could almost be reading the life-story of the second generation of deluded billionaire 'Amway' crime bosses (with whom he has been so closely-associated). 

However, perhaps more than any other single person, Erik Prince reflects the morally and intellectually (and soon-to-be financially) bankrupt America of the 21st. century. Behind his wealthy, clean-cut, patriotic, Christian, capitalist, hero mask, lurks a puerile narcissist of no real importance, but who inherited sufficient cash to live-out a kitsch, comic-book, 'Rambo'-style fantasy of his own moral and intellectual authority as though it is total reality. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vZDaMqAP_I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_oPmS7pKiA&feature=related 

Erik Prince, and his equally-unimportant ilk, will probably never be able to face external reality, but why should they, when (to date) no grown-up, true, morally and intellectually authoritative, potential leader has emerged in the USA, with the courage and vision to try to re-establish the Constitution, and the rule of law, before it's too late.  

The 'Blackwater' company went from nothing, to become the corporate front for perhaps the most-profitable, private mercenary force in history. At one time, the US Congress began to investigate what was going on, because Prince had been awarded annual, unclassified contracts of more than $1.6 billion with the US government (+ an unknown quantity of classified contracts), but there didn't seem to have been any real competition for this juicy business, or any truly-independent control over the budget. In 2007, Prince was finally asked to appear before a Congressional committee, and one of the financially-dependent politicians politely asked him: what influence members of the DeVos family had in his acquiring all this cash from the Bush administration? Young Erik simply smiled, and replied in the negative. Faced with further investigations, Prince was later obliged to sell his multi-billion dollar company (but only on paper). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxj812hxZc0 

There is very little essential difference between Erik Prince and the global terrorists he has claimed to oppose; for he is undoubtedly a self-righteous sociopath who believes that he is one of God's chosen people and that Christian America is engaged in a never ending struggle against evil. This two-dimensional fiction, has allowed Erik Prince systematically to justify his grandiose objective that the US government should de-regulate its armed forces to run them like a business - renting-out American military muscle for a profit (presumeably, to anyone who is willing to pay). 

David Brear (copyright 2012)

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The bosses of the 'Amway' and 'Blackwater' armies have obliged their expendable foot-soldiers to sign away their rights as US citizens

Shyam

'Blackwater'  a.k.a. 'Academi', is the corporate front for a deceptive organization which I personally find very difficult to believe has been allowed openly to exist by the US people and their elected-government. On the contrary, what anyone with an ounce of common-sense should have immediately-recognized as an unconstitutional, and potentially-dangerous, military Order, which has required of its members an absolute subservience to the organization and its leadership above all other persons, has been sub-contracted by the democratically-elected American government to carry-out military tasks on behalf of the American people, which previously were the sole-preserve of America's official armed forces (the commanders, and members, of which are all subject to the rule of law). Thus, 'Blackwater' has operated in a legal no-man's land, where its US-based commanders and their deployable agents, have been neither subject to US military law, nor to the laws of the various foreign lands where they have been deployed. This has led many free-thinking people to assume that 'Blackwater' has been the US Central Intelligence Agency under another name, and that it was deliberately set up by US Intelligence chiefs, to prevent, and/or divert, investigation and to isolate these same chiefs from liability.

The available evidence indicates that 'Blackwater' has been a multi-billion dollar private army, financed, and armed to the teeth, by US tax-payers, but commanded by a handful of persons apparently suffering from delusions of grandeur and self-righteousness, and who have been compelled to pursue grandiose objectives, but whom their many American, and international, victims cannot hold to account.

The latest headlines about 'Blackwater,' and the supine reaction of the mainstream media, is, frankly, terrifying 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/settlement-ends-blackwater-wrongful-death-suit-7-years-after-4-contractors-killed-in-fallujah/2012/01/06/gIQA5YgIfP_story.html

 

Exactly like the all-powerful commanders of the 'Amway' army, the all-powerful commanders of the  'Blackwater' army, have sent their powerless foot-soldiers on suicide missions. However, they have taken the precaution of getting them to sign (take-or-leave-it) contracts which have obliged them to abandon their rights as US citizens to take any disputes with their masters to an independent tribunal (i.e. a court of law).  Instead,  the poor,  bloody  'Amway' and  'Blackwater'  infantry,  have been obliged to enter into what has been defined as 'arbitration,' but which their billionaire commanders have refused to finance.

 It is a matter of public record that 'Blackwater'  and 'Amway' are linked via their commanders.  'Blackwater' instigator, Erik Prince, is married to the sister of Dick DeVos. 

David Brear (copyright 2012)

Mitt Romney is a paid traitor to the American Republic

Shyam

Your free-thinking readers ought to be more-than-alarmed to discover that, Mr. Mitt Romney http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16404413 , the apparently pious, perceptive and patriotic  'Mormon' front-runner in the race to win the Republican party's nomination for candidate in the 2012 US Presidential election, has been bought by the gang of 'MLM income opportunity' cultic racketeers behind the pernicious 'Amway' copy-cat known as 'NuSkin. 

In return for large bundles of stolen cash, Mr. Romney has become a misleading guarantee for criminals who has already enthusiastically-participated in promoting, and hiding, the blame-the-victim 'NuSkin' fraud.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/mitt-romney-nu-skin-mormon-church

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44011308/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/firm-gives-million-pro-romney-group-then-dissolves/

'NuSkin' has been described as the 'Mormon Amway.' The organization's US front-company has been investigated, and prosecuted on behalf of the public, by the Federal Trade Commission, for lying about the effectiveness its absurd pseudo-medical products ('weight-loss supplements, baldness cures,' etc.) and about the amount of money it is possible to make from participating in the so-called 'Nuskin MLM income opportunity.'

In the adult world of quantifiable reality, 'NuSkin' has merely been the title over the entrance to yet another, classic, dissimulated closed-market swindle and related advance fee fraud. Apart from an insignificant minority of grinning schills, the hidden failure/drop-out rate in the so-called 'NuSkin MLM income opportunity' has always been a solid 100%, because victims have not been regularly retailing 'NuSkin's' banal, and grossly-over-priced, wampum to the public for a profit. Predictably, in 1994, the company's shyster-attorneys halted the case with the FTC, by making a series of familiar, 'Amway'-style, false-undertakings to introduce 'retail rules' and to stop telling lies. However, in 1997, 'NuSkin's' bosses were obliged to hand over $1.5 millions to the FTC for continuing to do what their shyster-attorneys had faithfully-promised they would stop. The less-than-intellectually-rigorous interest of US civil trade regulators has apparently led to the billionaire bosses of the 'NuSkin' mob shifting their criminal activities overseas. Currently, 85% of the constantly-churning-victims of the inter-related 'NuSkin' frauds, are to be found in Asia - where the demonstrably-false undertakings given to wide-eyed US trade officials and federal judges, do not apply.

This means that, although it is public-knowledge in the USA that huge quantities of stolen cash (removed from countless Americans and Asians by US-based 'MLM income opportunity' racketeers) is currently being used to corrupt a potential 'Mormon' President of the USA, apparently no US law enforcement agency is in the slightest bit interested.

Obviously, the wealthy criminal, Mr. Romney, and all his wealthy criminal backer/associates, should be facing investigation, and prosecution, under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 1970. However, in an ideal world, they would all be facing charges of treason - as defined by the US Constitution; for, exactly like the billionaire bosses of the 'Amway' mob, these sanctimonious 'MLM' racketeers have been steadfastly pretending moral and intellectual authority, whilst prosecuting an extensive economic, and psychological, war against their fellow citizens and against the citizens of America's allies. 

David Brear (copyright 2012)

Belgian Court rules that 'Herbalife' has been hiding a closed-market swindle

Shyam 

Your free-thinking readers (and particularly, senior Indian police officers and anti-corruption investigators) might be interested to learn that on November 28th, 2011, after 7 years of typical, legalistic/sophistic argument (leading to procedural delay), a Belgian court finally concluded that 'Herbalife International Belgium' has always been the corporate front for a dissimulated pyramid scheme based on the pernicious, self-perpetuating lie that endless-chain recruitment + endless payments by the recruits = endless profits for the recruits. 

http://pyramidschemealert.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Belgian.Court_.Decision.pdf 

In a civil case brought on behalf of the Belgian public by an independent, Belgian consumer protection association, 'Test-Aankoope,' the Belgian commercial tribunal in Brussels, accepted the plaintiff's common-sense arguments, and ordered that 'Herbalife' should be obliged to produce quantifiable evidence which would support its own published claim to be a 'direct selling' company as defined by Belgian law. However, in the end, no such evidence could be produced by 'Herbalife's' Belgian corporate officers or attorneys, because it doesn't exist. The court then ruled that, in the absence of this evidence, although it might have been theoretically possible for 'Herbalife' participants to sell 'Herbalife' products directly to the public for a profit, in practice, the persons whom 'Herbalife' has always arbitrarily defined in its own propaganda as 'direct sellers,' cannot have done this. On the contrary, all active participants in the so-called 'Herbalife MLM income opportunity' can only have been induced to give the Belgian branch of this US-based organization, thousands of dollars annually in exchange for effectively-unsaleable products, on the fraudulent pretext that, by doing this, and by recruiting more and more persons to perpetuate the same hermetic-system of consumption and recruitment, ad infinitum, eventually, all active participants could receive a vast residual income without any further effort.

The Belgian court rejected 'Herbalife's' absurd defence that its 'sales people are retail customers,' or 'consumers' revealing that the racketeers behind 'Herbalife' have maliciously hidden their criminal objectives by falsely describing their victims as 'customers' or 'consumers' in declarations to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and to 'Herbalife' shareholders, but, at the same time, the organization has always told its victims that they are 'direct sellers' or 'distributors.'

In plain language, 'Herbalife's' claim to be 'a lawful direct selling company,' was blown out of the water.

Ignoring this common-sense civil lawsuit in Belgium, and ignoring similar common-sense, class-action civil lawsuits filed in the USA (which 'Herbalife's' bosses have been allowed to halt by handing over millions of dollars of stolen cash to the plaintiffs), to date, no US federal law enforcement agency has taken any rigorous action against the billionaire bosses of 'Herbalife' under the US Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 1970. 

David Brear (copyright 2012)

Intellectual prostitutes cannot defend 'RMP' or any other 'MLM income opportunity' fraud

Shyam 

I observe that a suspicious character signing himself 'D.L.' has committed a criminal offence, by leaving this absurd incitement to commit fraud, on Corporate Frauds Watch:

'nobody can stop the RMP..... RMP will again rock.... so think positive and go ahead...... shift your paradigm.... and join RMP....'

Your free thinking readers should be aware that as soon as they see, or hear, the tell-tale word, 'paradigm,' in connection 'MLM income opportunity' fraud, then they are almost-certainly confronted with a co-opted academic - an intellectual prostitute trying to invert quantifiable reality and blind them with 'science.'

At one time, 'paradigm,' was used only in linguistics to mean an 'example or pattern.' However, the word has come to mean 'an established pattern of thinking; particularly, in academic disciplines' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm. The term, 'paradigm shift' generally refers to a revolution in established scientific thinking. 'Paradigm paralysis' is the non-rational refusal, or inability, of persons to accept quantifiable evidence that would change their established pattern of (mistaken) thinking. 'Confirmation bias,' is a term used by psychologists to describe the same, reality-denying phenomenon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias. It has long-since been recognized that the more highly-educated a person is, the less likely he/she is to admit that his/her thinking can be wrong.

Thus (supported only by selective, anecdotal evidence and thought-stopping propaganda), various academic apologists of 'MLM income opportunity' fraud, have tried to invert quantifiable reality, by steadfastly pretending that 'MLM' is a proven, revolutionary economic/commercial theory that goes against an established pattern of thinking, and that biased persons such as you, me, Robert FitzPatrick, etc, are all suffering from paradigm paralysis and who have excluded reality by only examining selective, anecdotal evidence which confirms our absurd, existing, non-rational belief that 'MLM' is a fraud.

Meanwhile, in the adult world of quantifiable reality, no evidence exists (in the form of audited accounts; particularly, income tax receipts) which proves that a significant percentage of participants in any so-called 'MLM income opportunity' has ever received an overall net-income lawfully from regularly retailing goods, and/or services, to the public for a profit. On the contrary, 50+ years of quantifiable evidence, proves beyond all reasonable doubt that (apart from an insignificant minority of grinning schills) all so-called 'MLM income opportunities' have had effectively 100% hidden drop-out/falure rates, because they have all been dissimulated money circulation schemes, or closed-market swindles, based on propagating unquestioning belief in the absurd, but nonetheless pernicious, non-rational, pseudo-economic theory that endless chain recruitment + endless payments by recruits = endless profits for recruits.

Over the decades, the greedy racketeers behind various 'Amway' copy-cat  'MLM income opportunity' cults, have continued to launder countless billions of dollars of unlawful payments by arbitrarily defining these shameful transactions as 'lawful direct sales' whilst, at the same time, giving countless millions of constantly-churning 'MLM' victims effectively-unsaleable wampum in return. A significant proportion of this mountain of stolen cash has found its way into the pockets of not only stupid, and/or lazy, and/or corrupt legislators and law enforcement agents, but also into the pockets of stupid, and/or lazy, and/or corrupt academics who, for obvious reasons, now all refuse to face up to the ugly reality that they have been profiting from an extensive psychological, and economic, war against humanity.

David Brear (copyright 2012)

RMP Infotec faces rude shock in AP High Court

RMP Infotec faced a rude shock in Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday after Honourable Judge Justice Raja Elango refused to give any written order to release crores of rupees as requested by the counsels of the fraudulent company.

Earlier, the former Advocate General of Tamil Nadu, another former Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh and a former Public Prosecutor of AP High Court pleaded in vain to convince AP High Court about the business model of RMP Infotec. One could understand how these stolen cash-rich companies hire top counsels to plead on thier behalf. All these monies were stolen from public, people must understand.

In spite of the presence of these three legal luminaries and their pleadings about the RMP business model, they could not cut any ice as the Honourable judge of AP High Court stated that he was well aware of the facts of the case and their further pleadings would only do further damage to their own case.

The senior counsels appealed to the High Court to release some crores of rupees to facilitate payments. However, the High Court refused to give any written order and adjourned the hearing further after vacations to the third week of January.

Now the 'proud RMPians' who are very optimistic of coming out clean after January 10, might have to wait for more weeks before they learn the fact.

Some stupid fellows have even hurled abuses against me with over-enthusiasm in the belief that they are going to get some relief. They would be the disappointed lot.