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HBO Documentary, The Vow, Covers Up Core Fact  about NXIVM and Keith Raniere

HBO Documentary, The Vow, Covers Up Core Fact about NXIVM and Keith Raniere

Dec 28, 2020 | False Profits, Individual / Social Impact, News

The fascinating and shocking documentary on HBO, The Vow, is a gripping true story about a strikingly unremarkable person, Keith Raniere, who somehow made dozens of young women his “sex slaves.” As part of a cultic program that he named, NXIVM, pretentiously...

Fed Prosecution of Pyramid Money-Processor, Payza, Reveals Dilemma of Identifying “Legitimate” MLMs

Jul 29, 2020 | News

by Robert L. FitzPatrick The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) recently obtained guilty pleas from two individuals involved in a global PayPal-like money-transfer company, called Payza. According to the DOJ, Payza served numerous merchants that were “Cyclers” and “MLMs”....

MLM Recruiting during Corona Shut-Down Reveals Sham Identity of “Direct Selling”

Jun 22, 2020 | News

That revenue and enrollments of some multi-level marketing companies have increased during the government-ordered shut-down and quarantining is yet another proof that “MLM” is not “direct selling.” Under pandemic conditions there could be no “parties”, personal...

Economic “Pandemic”, a Review by Robert FitzPatrick of a Groundbreaking New Book in India

Mar 30, 2020 | News

A new and strange phenomenon emerges in one of largest countries in the world. It entered almost silently but soon millions of people are affected. From first impressions, it appears harmless and unconventional, even hopeful and positive, yet virtually all that touch...
Yahoo Finance Podcast on MLM Is a Milestone in Business Media Coverage

Yahoo Finance Podcast on MLM Is a Milestone in Business Media Coverage

Mar 4, 2020 | Economics / Financial, Individual / Social Impact, MLM, News, PSA in the Media

Yahoo Finance’s remarkable 3-episode podcast on multi-level marketing, Illegal Tender, Season 4, should be recognized as a milestone in business media coverage of MLM. For the first time – without equivocation and without entertaining even a hint of...

NXIVM Victim Lawsuit Reveals Toxic Interplay of Pyramid Scheme and Cultism

Feb 4, 2020 | News

Falsely wrapped in the imagery and rhetoric of legitimate commerce, politically protected by a captured Federal Trade Commission and financially supported by Wall Street speculators, the terrible realities of “multi-level marketing” can remain hidden even when in...
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