Sunday, 28 April 2024

The Big 'Multi-Level Marketing' Lie explained using the humorous analogy of the mousetrap.

For any Blog readers who might not know, there is a conference due to take place commencing this coming Thursday May 2nd. However, the academic organizers of this event, and some, but not all, of the presenters, have, so far, completely failed to identify accurately what it is that they are actually going to be discussing. Namely, a classic example of the 'totalitarian' information/mind control technique known as, the 'Big Lie.' That is to say, the spreading of a falsehood which is so colossal and outrageous that the average person cannot even begin to conceive that anyone would have the audacity to invent it. Yet, it has been known for a long time that, even when the most-crazy of 'Big Lies' gets repeated enough times, eventually many people will come to accept it as the truth. The actual truth then becomes a threat to the self-esteem of those who have fallen for the 'Big Lie,' and in this way, the actual truth itself can become mistaken for a lie. Consequently, the 'Big Lie' can be described as a form of sustainable criminal deception, because it can also prevent victims from facing reality and complaining.

'The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor, is the mind of the oppressed.'

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Conference of Mice Skirts “Tray” Deception | Pyramid Scheme Alert

Conference of Mice Skirts “Tray” Deception

Apr 28, 2024 | Humor, News

Reports of mice losing lives or limbs in what are called “mouse trays” containing delicious food had increased to alarming levels. It became the subject of intense controversy, leading to a conference of concerned mice.

The mice have been told by other trusted mice that the trays offer a unique opportunity to obtain nutritious food – the daily challenge of all mice – without need of night-time searches or having to gnaw through packaging or shells and without the risk of cats, owls, foxes, and the discomforts of cold weather. The trays, they said, were a path to a long and healthy mouse life.

Escaping that drudgery and struggle is the dream of every mouse. They heard that the “smart” mice were taking advantage of the trays. Their plump size and beautiful teeth showing no signs of gnawing were proof of the trays’ benefits.

Regarding those that reportedly died or were injured, the mice are informed they are only the greedy mice who misuse the trays, grabbing the food carelessly. Others don’t take time to learn the tray “system.” They didn’t follow the simple rules. They mistreated the trays as get-food-quick.

Others were said to make little or no effort. Also, the mice are told, the reports of death and injury are not verified. They were reassured that any mouse that truly tries and follows the tray rules properly can succeed

Big Lie, Say Critics; Call for Agenda Change

A small group of mice said they had done independent research. They called the whole story of mouse “trays” a Big Lie. They said it’s common sense that humans don’t offer free food to mice. They said it was pointless to speak about types of trays. All the trays were identical, just with different colors or shapes, and using varieties of foods.

The critics made the incredible charge that the trays were not food trays at all but carefully engineered traps intended to harm mice. They said the word “mouse tray” was part of the Lie. The correct term was “mouse trap.” The food is not for mouse nutrition. It is just bait! Those who say they are “trays” are either in denial or delusional or are just lying like rats.

They asked that the mouse conference agenda be changed to focus only on one question: Are the trays mouse trays or mouse traps?

The critics made one other incredible claim. They said that those plump and happy looking mice who promote the trays are actually getting their food, not on the trays, but served on human plates as a reward for getting other mice to use the deadly trays. They are selling out their own family and friends.

Mickey Mouse as Proof

Many mice find these claims impossible to believe. They personally know some mice who promote the trays. They are trusted friends, even cousins. They also believe the humans who set out the trays must be kind and generous because they love Mickey Mouse! They wear Mickey Mouse images on tee-shirts. They watch Mickey in movies.

Mickey Mouse is the ultimate role model of mice. He is wholesome, healthy, and happy. He and Minnie have a great marriage. They seem to have it all.

Most mice also believe that if the trays are intended to harm mice, human authorities would classify them illegal as “animal cruelty.” But there is no such declaration and the trays have been around for a long time, so the trays must be legitimate, they reason. One other thing leads the mice to trust the trays. There is real food on them, the types consumed by humans, dogs and even cats!

This all made the story of “traps” seem unimaginable. And, finally, it was pointed out that the vast majority of mice did not complain about the trays.

The exasperated critics cried out that the reason there was little complaint was that the mice who had never encountered a tray couldn’t know, and most of those who had encountered them were dead! Many others who know the truth are understandably silent because they want to be seen as “good” mice and not get criticized or shunned.

The critics asked that the conference take one of the traps apart. They said an examination clearly reveals a trigger right there where the food is placed that sets off a powerful spring connected to a bar that slams down on the mouse’s neck. It’s not a mouse’s fault if they get injured or killed. The traps are elegantly designed killing machines.

Conference planners rejected the requests. The agenda remained unchanged:

Studies of mice psychology: why some mice are attracted by the trays and others not.
Why the trays are especially attractive to female mice.
A report on new places the trays are being placed to attract more and more mice.
A study on whether the trays could be a partial food source, supplementing traditional foraging?
New types of foods being offered on the trays
Exaggerated claims about the quality of the food on the trays
Misleading claims that it is easy to locate the trays and get free food
The complexity of animal cruelty rules, and why the mice are not currently protected.

Critics Banned

Just before the conference was to begin, several of the critics were banned from participating. Organizers said they had gone too far! The final straw was when they published the extraordinary and dangerous claim that Mickey Mouse, the model of all good mice, was not real!

These radical critics claimed Mickey was invented, a fiction, a myth, and he was being used to fool mice into thinking humans cared about mouse welfare and happiness. Mickey Mouse was part of the Big Lie!

Robert FitzPatrick (copright 2024)

Friday, 19 April 2024

The Express publishes the pernicious 'Multi-Level Marketing' fiction as 'fact,' but doesn't mention 'MLM.'

Side hustle: Single mum makes £2,600 a month from the comfort of her own home | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk

The article linked-above appeared in the personal finance section of the Express online, January 13th 2024. It has only recently been brought to my attention.

Temie Laleye

The article has obviously never been researched, and it is not clear what was the actual motivation of Temie Laleye - the journalist who signed it.

Director General of the DSA, Susannah Schofield OBE, on BBC Radio (youtube.com)

I could be wrong, but I suspect that Ms. Laleye has been approached, and groomed, by Susannah Schofield, 'Director General' of the so-called 'UK Direct Selling Association,' who is quoted in the article. Despite its official sounding label, this corporate structure is a privately controlled limited liability commercial company - a member of the US-based, so-called 'World Federation of Direct Selling Associations.'

Whatever was Ms. Laleye's motivation, the article reports the pernicious 'MLM' fiction as fact - ie. highly-misleading carefully-scripted, anecdotal statements made by a 43 year old British woman, Kelly Quick, who has been under contract to a UK registered so-called 'Multi-Level Marketing' company, known as 'The Juice Plus + Company (UK) Ltd.' These take-it-or-leave-it 'MLM' contracts invariably have clauses which prevent their signatories from making 'unapproved statements' to the media. Thus, Kelly Quick has been programmed to tell a 'totally positive' Utopian story of how she freed herself from powerless employment and entered the perfect world of 'MLM financial freedom.' Susannah Schofield OBE, who has been employed by the so-called 'UK DSA', is a different case. She recites essentially the same Utopian script, but she has been previously trained in transparent marketing techniques, and these are what she is employing. Susannah Schofield's reputation, as well as her salary, currently depends on maintaining the Big 'MLM' Lie, but evidently she knows enough not to use the contraversial term, 'MLM.' The Express article is tailored to fit the instinctual desires of women. It's signed by a woman and it only includes quotes from two women who are portrayed as empowered and wanting to empower other women. However, if either Kelly Quick or Susannah Schofield were asked the right common-sense questions, they would be revealed as powerless fakes playing a pernicious game of make-believe. Their role has been to try to lure others into playing the same game. Sadly, to date, there has never been a journalist in the UK with enough insight to keep asking the right questions about the 'MLM' cult phenomenon.

'MLM' The American Dream Made Nightmare: 'Juice Plus +' - O.J. Simpson, Bear Grylls and Theresa May - their connection with the 'Amway' copy-cat 'MLM' racket known as 'Juice Plus.' (mlmtheamericandreammadenightmare.blogspot.com)

'The Juice Plus + Company (UK) Ltd.' is a subsidiary of a contraversial American owned multi-national corporation. As explained in my previous article, in the past, 'Juice Plus' was fronted in the USA by none other that OJ Simpson (who has recently been in the news, due to his sudden death). That is, until OJ Simpson found himself compelled to break his own employment contract and to tell the truth about his fraudulent paid-activities on behalf of the wealthy bosses of 'Juice Plus.'

Weeding Out Juice Plus' Illegal Health Claims - Truth in Advertising

Had Temie Laleye applied her critical faculties, the briefest research would have revealed that 'Juice Plus' has faced various civil regulatory investigations/prosecutions around the world, because what the American bosses of 'Juice Plus' have actually been peddling, is quite obviously a poisonous-cocktail of 'medical' and 'financial' quackery, designed to exploit the vulnerable and financially-illiterate.

Kelly Quick

Sadly in the Express article, Kelly Quick is pictured with her young daughter. She claims to have been earning as much as £2600 per month, and to have been able to give up her traditional employment and spend more time with her daughter, as a result of becoming 'an independent direct seller with Juice Plus.' Tellingly, the article does not specify whether Ms. Quick's income claims represent a net-income (after deducting all previous operating expenses) or a gross-income (before deducting all previous operating expenses). Indeed, the journalist who signed this uncritical piece, will not have seen, and will not have asked to see, any quantifiable evidence (in the form of income tax payment receipts) demonstrating the reality of Ms. Quick's financial situation with regards to 'Juice Plus.'

The Express article completely fails to explain that 'Juice Plus' offers a so-called 'Multi-Level Marketing Income Opportunity.' Tellingly, so-called 'MLM' has never been described by those peddling it, as a 'net-income opportunity.' The Express article merely describes Kelly Quick's activity as, 'Direct Selling.'

However, it is generally accepted (even by trade regulators) that far less than 1% of 'MLM' contractors generate a net-profit each year, and this income doesn't come from just selling products. Due to many built in anti-commercial factors and inevitable operating expenses, in reality, it has been effectively-impossible for the average participant to make an overall net-profit lawfully by regularly retailing 'MLM' products to members of the general public (ie. persons who are not 'MLM' contractors themselves) based on value and demand. Thus, so-called 'MLM' companies have all offered commission payments to their contractors based on their contractors' own purchases of products and/or services, and on the purchases of the recruits of their contractors, and on the purchases of the recruits of their recruits, etc. etc. ad infinitum. Contractors' payments from so-called 'MLM' companies have, therefore, really been based on finding further recruits to purchase the products, and/or services, not on genuine retail sales to members of the general public.

In order to lure further unwary recruits into handing over their cash in return for an effectively-unsaleable investment commodity, 'MLM' contractors need to pretend to have been earning money, and to hide their true financial situation. Indeed, 'MLM' contractors are actually indoctrinated to ignore the reality of their situation as 'negative thinking,' and to 'duplicate a step-by step positive mindset plan to achieve success.' What these so-called 'positive mindset plans' actually comprise have been what are technically defined as: 'totalistic thought reform programs.' In everyday terms, 'MLM' contractors, like Ms. Quick, have been programmed to commit themselves to, and robotically to execute, the exploitative, non-rational, pseudo-economic theory, that endless-chain recruitment + endless payments by the recruits = endless profits for the recruits. They have been further tricked into believing that they are 'independent business owners,' and that any financial losses they incurred, must have been 'entirely their own fault.'

Consequently, so-called 'MLM' companies have all set no common-sense limits on the number of contractors being recruited, and have never published (in an easy-to-understand format) the overall net-loss churn rates of their contractors. Imagine if the McDonalds company set no common-sense limits on the number of restaurant franchises it sold, or common-sense restrictions on the sites where these restaurants were located. How could any of the vast concentration of franchisees expect to keep finding enough real customers to make an overall net-profit?

In simple terms, so-called 'MLM' companies like 'Juice Plus' (which has claimed 14000 contractors in the UK) have all been essentially-identical corporate-fronts, hiding in plain sight whilst peddling a financially-suicidal, insidious form of self-perpetuating, blame-the-victim pyramid fraud.

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The extraordinary history of the Big 'MLM' Lie can be found in 'Ponzinomics,' by Robert FitzPatrick.

As to the latter part of the Express article which includes ludicrous, and ourageous, false average 'MLM' earnings claims (£833 per month) from Susannah Schofield's so-called 'UK Direct Selling Association.' Laughably, without employing the increasingly-contraversial term, 'MLM', Ms. Schofield is quoted reciting elements of the pernicious 'MLM' fairy story, but she fails to mention that one of the member 'MLM' companies of the so-called 'UK DSA' has been 'Herbalife UK Ld.' Again, this is a subsidiary of a US-based multi-national corporation. The main 'Herbalife' company recently was obliged to hand over $200 millions to the US Federal Trade Commission, in order to settle an outstanding civil prosecution in which the company was accused of fronting a pyramid scheme. Around 350 thousands compensation cheques were then issued by the FTC to recent American victims of 'Herbalife.' This 'MLM' front company is now supposedly reformed and operating under independent regulatory surveillance, but only in the USA. 'Herbalife' is one of several 'MLM' front companies that has never faced the slightest regulatory investigation in the UK. The UK press has been equally absent.

Another 'UK DSA' member that Ms. Schofield failed to mention, has been 'Amway UK Ltd.' This company (again a subsidiary of a US-based multi-national corporation) mysteriously survived a public interest civil bankruptcy petition filed by the UK Consumer Affairs Minister in 2007. The government investigation discovered that between 1973 and 2006, around one million UK and Irish citizens were churned through 'Amway's' so called 'MLM income opportunity.' In private, UK regulators described 'Amway' to me as 'operating like the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.'

'Amway India Enterprises' has recently been charged by the Indian Enforcement Directorate with being the corporate-front for a pyramid scheme preying on millions of financially-illiterate Indian citizens, as well as being the front for a $7 billions international money laundering racket. Around $200 millions of 'Amway India Enterprise's' assets have already been seized by the Enforcement Directorate.

Another 'UK DSA' member which Ms. Schofield again failed to mention, has been 'Tiens UK Ltd.' This is a subsidiary of the world's largest 'MLM' cult, which is Chinese based. Yet infinite level product-based pyramid schemes peddled as 'MLM income opportunities,' are specifically identified as being intrinsically fraudulent, and are banned by law in China. 'Tiens' has lately claimed 40 millions adherents, and it has even been suggested that it could be a corporate-front for Chinese intelligence agencies.

The so-called 'UK DSA' has lately claimed 630 000 UK and Irish citizens under contract to its member companies - more than 95% are women. However, this figure is just a misleading snapshot, because at least 50% of 'MLM' contractors are known not renew their annual contracts. In some official investigations (like that of 'Herbalife' in the USA), the hidden annual 'MLM' net-loss churn rate, has been discovered to exceed 90%. This means that in the UK and Ireland, at least 315 000 unwary people are currently being quietly churned through these reality-controlling so-called 'MLM income opportunities' each year, or 3.15 millions per decade. However, this figure is a conservative estimate.

Worldwide, more than 130 millions persons have lately been claimed as contractors of 'DSA' member companies, but not all 'MLM' front companies have been 'DSA' members. This means that at least 65 millions persons are being churned through these dissimulated cultic rackets each year, or 650 millions per decade. The true figure could easily be in excess of one billion per decade.

Thus, the Express article (in its entirety) is dangerous drivel - Utopian propaganda that has been fed to Ms. Laleye by the agents of foreign-based cultic racketeers. Indeed, the Express article can actually be used to lure unwary persons into de facto servitude, and eventually prevent them from facing reality and complaining to law enforcement agents, investigative journalists, legislators, etc.

Friday, 12 April 2024

'Juice Plus +' - O.J. Simpson, Bear Grylls and Theresa May - their connection with the 'Amway' copy-cat 'MLM' racket known as 'Juice Plus.'

The disgraced American celebrity, O.J. Simpson, is dead.

OJ Simpson, NFL star acquitted in ‘trial of the century’, dies aged 76 (bbc.com

Before his spectacular, and widely publicized, fall, O.J. Simpson (aka. 'The Juice') was once the paid celebrity face of the 'Amway' copy-cat 'Multi-Level Marketing' cult known as, 'Juice Plus +.' Even when O.J. made international headlines, after he was filmed being chased in his white SUV across California by police, arrested and put on (televised) trial for committing a brutal double murder with a knife, the 'Juice Plus +' mob had not yet publicly dropped him. Part of OJ.'s defence was that his arms and hands were too weakened by arthritis for him to grip the murder weapon. However, during the trial, a 'Juice Plus +' propaganda video was cited by the prosecution featuring O.J. apparently bursting with energy; both insisting and demonstrating how his arthritis had been 'cured by Juice Plus + products.' O.J. had claimed in the video that he was able to grip, and freely-swing, his golf clubs again and lower his handicap. When challenged by the prosecution, O.J.'s immediate response to this evidence was that he'd merely been acting a scripted-role. Under oath, he said that 'Juice Plus+' products actually had no effect on his arthritis and that he had continued to suffer from it.

Thus, in reality, the promotional video showed O.J. knowingly-defrauding 4000 cheering 'MLM' adherents at a pay-to-enter 'Juice Plus +' rally. However, the video had also been widely-circulated and used to defraud countless other 'Juice Plus +' recruits. Furthermore, according to the pernicious 'Juice Plus +' fairy story recited by O.J. - the products were so safe and effective that he had been able completely to stop taking his previous medically-prescribed anti-inflammatory treatments. However, again as part of his defence, OJ now declared that he had been lying about that for money as well. He said that he had never stopped taking sulsasfrazine and Ibuprofen. His past and present prescriptions would confirm this.

Only at this point did the 'Juice Plus+' mob publicly end their association with O.J. He was air-brushed out of the group's controlling narrative and the fraudulent propaganda video was ditched.

It is quite obvious that 'Juice Plus +' has been the corporate-front for a ludicrous, but nonetheless dangerous, quack-medical scam combined with an 'MLM' cultic racket - classically hiding an inevitable overall net-loss/churn rate for participation of effectively 100%.

Just like the 'Amway' racket, the 'Juice Plus +' racket has been global. It has been allowed to operate in plain sight in the UK for years, where its bosses have paid another celebrity, Bear Gylls, to act as pitchman. Although Bear Grylls doesn't seem to be currently employed by the 'Juice Plus +' mob, today his name and image still remain highly-visible in the group's reality-controlling narrative. Again, this tactic of associating with celebrities, can make it seem impossible to the average victim that 'Juice Plus +' is a fraud.

Juice Plus+ opens new offices in Maidenhead - Maidenhead Advertiser (maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk)

Why we're appalled that an MP and Government Minister promoted MLMs like Amway in Parliament - Talented Ladies Club

In 2015, the 'Juice Plus +' mob lured the (then) UK Home Secretary (Minister for the Interior), Theresa May, into playing the role of 'Useful Idiot' in their propaganda. Indeed, it's very likely that Bear Grylls' enthusiastic endorsement of 'Juice Plus+' was used to fool her. Theresa May's parliamentary office was subsequently contacted by phone and, at the (verbal) request of one of her assistants, she was sent much information and analysis regarding the 'Juice Plus + MLM' racket. Theresa May and her staff did not acknowledge receipt of this important information which contained my written request for her (the Minister with responsibility for the UK Police) to pass this intelligence (concerning a foreign-controlled major organized crime group, preying on significant numbers of vulnerable UK citizens), to the relevant UK law enforcement agencies. To date, my own approaches to UK Law enforcement agencies regarding these serious matters, have never been taken up.

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Multi-Level Marketing' Warning.

The following deconstructed analysis has been formulated to sharpen the critical and evaluative faculties of all unwary persons approaching so-called 'Multi-Level Marketing' from the dangerous (subjective) point of view that it must be a business/industry, rather than from the safe (purely-objective) point of view that they don't really know what it is.
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More than half a century of quantifiable evidence proves beyond all reasonable doubt that:

the widely-misunderstood phenomenon that has become popularly-known as 'Multi-Level Marketing' (a.k.a. 'Network Marketing') is nothing more than an absurd, non-rational, economic pseudo-science maliciously-designed to lure unwary persons into de facto servitude, dissociate them from external reality and not only steal their money, but also deceive them into unconsciously acting the role of bait to lure other unwary persons (particularly their friends and family members) into the same trap.

the technical-sounding made-up jargon term, 'MLM,' is therefore, the misleading title for an enticing structured-scenario of control which has been developed, and constantly acted out as reality, by the instigators, and associates, of various copy-cat, major and minor, ongoing organised crime groups (hiding behind labyrinths of legally-registered corporate structures) to shut-down the critical, and evaluative, faculties of victims, and of casual observers, in order to perpetrate, and dissimulate, a series of blame-the-victim 'Long Cons' - comprising self-perpetuating rigged-market swindles, a.k.a. pyramid scams (dressed up as 'legitimate direct selling income opportunites') and related advance-fee frauds (dressed up as 'legitimate: training and motivation, self-betterment, programs, recruitment leads, lead generation systems,' etc.).

apart from an insignificant minority of shills (whose leading-role in the 'Long Con' has been to pretend that anyone can achieve financial freedom simply by following their unquestioning example and exactly-duplicating a step-by-step-plan of endless-chain recruitment and self-consumption), the hidden overall net-loss/churn rate for participation in so-called 'MLM income opportunities,' has always been effectively 100% by design.

The enticing structured-scenario of control fundamental to all 'rigged-market swindles' is that people can earn income by first contributing their own money to participate in a profitable commercial opportunity, but which is secretly an economically-unviable fake due to the fact that the (alleged) opportunity has been rigged so that it generates no significant, or sustainable, revenue other than that deriving from its own ill-informed participants. For more than 60 years, 'Multi-Level Marketing' racketeers have been allowed to dissimulate rigged-market swindles by offering endless-chains of victims various banal, but over-priced, products, and/or services, in exchange for unlawful losing-investment payments, on the pretext that 'MLM' products/services can then be regularly re-sold for a profit in significant quantities via expanding networks of distributors. However, since 'MLM' products/services cannot be regularly re-sold to the general public for a profit in significant quantities (based on value and demand), 'MLM' participants have, in fact, been peddled infinite shares of their own finite money (in the false expectation of future reward).

Thus, in 'MLM' rackets, the innocent looking products/sevices' function has been to hide what is really occurring. i.e The operation of an unlawful, intrinsically fraudulent, rigged-market where effectively no non-salaried (transient) participant can generate an overall net-profit, because, unknown to the non-salaried (transient) participants, the market is in a permanent state of collapse and requires its non-salaried (transient) participants to keep finding further (temporary) de facto slaves to sustain the enticing illusion of stability and viability.
Meanwhile an insignificant (permanent) minority direct the 'Long Con' - raking in vast profits by selling into the rigged-market and by controlling/withholding all key-information concerning the rigged-market's actual catastrophic, ever-shifting results from its never-ending chain of (temporary) de facto slaves.

Although cure-all pills potions and vitamin/dietary supplements, household and beauty, products have been most-prevalent, it is possible to use any product, and/or service, to dissimulate a rigged-market swindle. There are even some 'MLM' rackets that have been hidden behind well-known traditional brands (albeit offered at fixed high prices). Some 'MLM' rackets have included 'cash-back/discount shopping cards, travel products, insurance, energy/communications services' and 'crypto-currencies' in their controlling scenarios.

No matter what bedazzling product/service has been dangled as bait, in 'MLM' rackets, there has been no significant or sustainable source of revenue other than never-ending chains of persons under contract to the 'MLM' front companies. These front-companies always pretend that their products/services are high quality and reasonably-priced and that for anyone prepared to put in some effort, the products/services can be easily sold on for a profit via expanding networks of distributors (based on value and demand). In reality, the underlying reason why it has mainly only been (transient) 'MLM' contractors who have bought the various products /services (and not the general public) is because they have been tricked into unconsciously playing along with the controlling scenario which constantly says that via regular self-consumption and the recruitment of others to do the same, etc. ad infinitum, anyone can receive a future (unlimited) reward.

I've been examining the 'MLM' phenomenon for around 25 years. During this time, I've yet to find one so-called 'MLM' front-company that has voluntarily made key-information available to the public concerning the quantifiable results of its so-called 'income opportunity' in an easy-to-understand format.

Part of the key-information that all 'MLM' bosses seek to hide concerns the overall number of persons who have signed contracts since the front companies were instigated and the retention rates of these persons.

When rigorously investigated, the overall hidden net-loss churn rates for so-called 'MLM income opportunites' has turned out to have been effectively 100%. Thus, anyone claiming (or implying) that it is possible for the average participant to make a penny of net-profit, let alone a living, in an 'MLM,' cannot be telling the truth and will not provide quantifiable evidence to back up his/her anecdotal claims.

Although a significant number of 'MLM' front-companies (like 'Vemma', 'Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing', 'Wake Up Now') have been shut-down by civil trade regulators in the USA, some of the biggest 'MLM' rackets (like 'Amway' ,'Herbalife', Forever Living Products' ) have continued to hide in plain sight whilst secretly churning tens of millions of losing participants over decades

The quantifiable results of the self-perpetuating global 'Long Con' known as 'Multi Level Marketing,' have been fiendishly hidden by convincing victims that they are 'Independent Business Owners' and that any losses they incurred, must have been entirely their own fault for not working hard enough.

Chronic victims of 'MLM' cults are invariably incapable of describing what they were subjected to in accurate terms. Even though they are no longer physically playing along with the 'Long Con's' controlling-scenario, they unconsciously continue to think, and speak, using the jargon-laced 'MLM' script – illogically describing themselves as 'Distributors, Ambassadors, Business Owners’ etc.'

Chronic victims of blame-the-victim rackets who have managed to escape and confront the ego-destroying reality that they’ve been systematically deceived and exploited, are invariably destitute and dissociated from all their previous social contacts. For years afterwards, recovering victims can suffer from psychological problems (which are also generally indicative of the victims of abuse): depression; overwhelming feelings (guilt, grief, shame, fear, anger, embarrassment, etc.); dependency/ inability to make decisions; retarded psychological/ intellectual development; suicidal thoughts; panic/ anxiety attacks; extreme identity confusion; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; insomnia/ nightmares; eating disorders; psychosomatic illness, fear of forming intimate relationships; inability to trust; etc.

Wednesday, 3 April 2024

The cult of Donald Trump is a classic example of a contagious mind virus.

Why We Want You to Be Rich - Wikipedia

Donald Trump's direct involvement in blame-the-victim 'MLM' cultic rackets, and his associations with 'Prosperity Gospel/self-betterment' gurus, never gets mentioned, let alone explained, in media interviews with Steve Hassan. Furthermore, the concept which Steve Hassan describes as 'Mind Hacking,' is not original. Let's face it, one doesn't need a degree in psychology, to recognize the pernicious fairy story that controls the thinking, and resulting behaviour, of Trump's deluded followers.

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Following on from work he began in 1941, in 1950, Dr. Alan Turing published a paper, 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence,' in which he discussed the existing philosophical question of whether machines can think. He then proposed a test, in the form of a blind question and answer game, where computers would be used to try to convince humans that they were not engaging with machines, but with other humans. Thus, despite its appearance, the 'Turing Test' is not a high-brow parlour-game or even a scientific experiment to determine whether machines can think, but a rudimentary, logical test of whether an artificial mind can be made to appear to have the same cognitive capacity as the human mind.

In recent years, various people have suggested ways in which the 'Turing Test' can be reversed, but, as far as I am aware, no one has yet suggested that Dr. Turing's celebrated thoughts on artificial intelligence, can also be applied to the study of the cult/totalitarian phenomenon; for, due to their incapacity to engage with external reality, the inflexible core-adherents of totalistic cults have often been compared to robots. However, the way that exploitative, self-perpetuating non-rational ritual belief systems bait, trap and enslave their prey, by reflecting common human instinctual desires as being obtainable in exchange for absolute subservience, can also be compared to a phenomenon which Dr. Turing did not live to witness - computer viruses. Had Dr. Turing been able to continue his work, he might have eventually felt the need to propose a rudimentary, logical test of whether an artificial mind can be made to appear to have the same ego-related capacity to become delusional as the human mind; for although cult adherents insist that no one is controlling them and that they are excercizing free-will, nonetheless, illogically, and without exception, they all see the world in mechanical two-dimensional terms ('negative vs positive', 'us vs them' , 'good vs evil' , 'winners vs losers', etc. ), communicate in code-like thought-stopping language and obey their de facto programmers without question (no matter what suffering this entails).

Given a detailed knowledge of any Utopian fiction modifying the personalities and behaviour of the core-adherents of a particular cultic group, it would, therefore, be a relatively simple matter to program a machine to duplicate the adherents' systematic responses (or indignant refusal to respond), to a series of blind questions concerning the contents of the group's controlling narrative. In other words, the predictable answers given by deluded core-cult adherents, and those given by machines programmed to duplicate human minds dissociated from external reality, would be indistinguishable.