#and the road to wealth is a type of pyramid scheme

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"Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times." -Kurt Vonnegut

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Allison Mack leaves Federal court Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Mack, an actress best known for playing a young Superman's friend, has been granted bail while fighting charges that she helped recruit women into a cult-like group. A federal judge in Brooklyn agreed Tuesday to release Allison Mack on $5 million bond and place her under home detention in California. She'll be living with her parents. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II NXIVM was formed by Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman in the 1990s and billed itself as a self-help multi-level marketing company. The company ceased operations last year after a New York Times exposé alleged that female members were used as sex slaves within the group. The exposé prompted a federal investigation, and several members, including Raniere and "Smallville" actress Allison Mack, are now facing criminal charges. Visit INSIDER.com for more stories. When NXIVM first formed in the 1990s, it was billed as a self-help multi-level marketing company that offered professional development seminars. But over the last year and half, the organization has fallen apart after a New York Times exposé alleged that female members were branded and used as sex slaves by the group's founder, Keith Raniere. The exposé prompted a federal investigation and the arrests of several members, including Raniere and "Smallville" actress Allison Mack. In recent months three defendants have pleaded guilty and admitted to allegations made in The Times' piece, including blackmail and enslaving members. NXIVM has since shut down, but Raniere has yet to take a plea deal. Here's everything you need to know about NXIVM and the criminal case against the organization: Keith Raniere launched NXIVM as a self-help company in the 1990s. The NXIVM Executive Success Programs sign outside of the office at 455 New Karner Road on April 26, 2018 in Albany, New York. Photo by Amy Luke/Getty Images NXIVM — pronounced like "nexium" — is a self-help multi-level marketing company in Albany, New York. A self-help guru named Keith Raniere, and a former psychiatric nurse and consultant named Nancy Salzman, founded the business in 1998. Over the next twenty years, some 16,000 people enrolled in courses through NXIVM, which describes itself as "a community guided by humanitarian principles that seek to empower people and answer important questions about what it means to be human." Most people enrolled in NXIVM through its Executive Success Programs (ESP), a series of workshops designed to "actualize human potential" that cost up to $7,500. Founder Keith Raniere was born in 1960 in Brooklyn. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1982. The second founder, Nancy Salzman, was born in 1954 in Newark, New Jersey, and later obtained a nursing license. Raniere's website describes him as a "the conceptual founder of NXIVM" as well as a prolific inventor and writer. Salzman's website touts her "thirty years of intensive study and practice in the fields of healthcare, human potential and human empowerment" and her "incredible wealth of knowledge, wisdom and experience." Forbes named several members in a 2003 report, including businesswoman Sheila Johnson and the daughter of former Mexican President Vicente Fox. Others who reportedly attended ESP sessions include Dynasty star Linda Evans and Virgin founder Richard Branson, according to Macleans. Seagram's liquor heirs Clare and Sara Bronfman lost more than $100 million investing in the organization, according to Vanity Fair. The meaning of the company's name, which is pronounced like the heartburn medication Nexium, is unclear. The exterior of the NXIVM Executive Success Programs office at 455 New Karner Road on April 26, 2018 in Albany, New York. (Photo by Amy Luke/Getty Images Last year, a whistleblower offered the theory that it refers to nexum, a type of contract used in the Roman Republic in which a person agreed to offer their body as collateral for a loan. If they defaulted, they became a slave of the person who loaned them money. Journalists started labeling the company as a pyramid scheme in the early 2000s. Attorneys representing NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, Mark Agnifilo, right, and Paul DerOhannesian, II, center, leave following Raniere's arraignment in federal court on Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York. AP Photo/Kevin Hagen Before launching NXIVM, Raniere ran an alleged pyramid scheme that brought in $33 million in a year, Forbes reported in 2003. Raniere had signed 250,000 people up for Consumers' Buyline, another multi-level marketing company. This one claimed to obtain products and services at a significant discount. In 1993, the New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit that accused Consumers Buyline of being a pyramid scheme. Raniere never admitted wrongdoing, and instead settled for $40,000. Forbes' 2003 article, titled "Cult of Personality," investigated whether or not NXIVM also portrayed pyramid-scheme-like tendencies. Seagram's late CEO, Edgar Bronfman Sr., who had previously taken courses with NXIVM, told the magazine: "I think it's a cult." Raniere, Salzman, and Bronfman's daughter Sara were reportedly upset about his remark, according to Vanity Fair. Cult experts told local media that Raniere was probably running a cult in 2012. The exterior of the former townhome of NXIVM founder Keith Raniere at 3 Flintlock Lane in Clifton Park, New York on Thursday, May 3, 2018. Photo by Amy Luke/Getty Images The Times Union, a local paper that serves the upstate New York area surrounding Albany, published an article in 2012 in which it questioned NXIVM's motives. "Some experts say Keith Raniere, the guru behind the unusual training business, is really a cult leader," the article said. The article said Raniere was called the "Vanguard" within the group, while devotees called Salzman "Prefect." The Times Union reported that within NXIVM, there was a "close knit" group of women who "tended to [Raniere], paid his bills," and "satisfied his sexual needs." Cult Tracker Rick Ross told the paper that NXIVM was "one of the most extreme groups [he had] ever dealt with in the sense of how tightly wound it is around the leader, Keith Raniere." October 17, 2017: The New York Times published an exposé about NXIVM’s branding ritual and sex slave allegations. Actress Catherine Oxenberg, left, with Stanley Zareff and Toni Natalie, talks to the press following the arraignment of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere in federal court on Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York. AP Photo/Kevin Hagen The New York Times exposé featured an interview with former NXIVM member Sarah Edmondson and her experience with the organization. Edmondson claimed that Salzman's daughter, Lauren Salzman, had recruited her into a secret organization within NXIVM in the mid-2000s. She claimed she had to turn over damaging information before joining that was held by NXIVM leaders as "collateral." Several women who were in the group told The Times that the organization inside NXIVM consisted of distinct circles, each led by a "master" who would control a number of sex slaves. The name of the organization was later revealed to be called Dominus Obsequious Sororium, which loosely translates from Latin to "lord over the obedient female companions" according to a later feature on NXIVM by The New York Times. The group was called DOS for short. Edmondson showed The Times a scar resembling Raniere's initials, and said every woman in the group had one. Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg also spoke to The Times, claiming her daughter had been initiated into the group. The exposé prompted an investigation by the Department of Justice. Attorneys representing NXIVM leader Keith Raniere in a sex trafficking case, Mark Agnifilo, second from left, and Paul DerOhannesian, second from right, prepare to hold a news briefing outside Brooklyn Federal Court. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews Two months after The New York Times released its report on NXIVM, the Justice Department started investigating the group. March 26, 2018: Raniere was arrested and charged with sex trafficking after fleeing to Mexico following The Times' exposé. In this courtroom sketch Keith Raniere, second from right, leader of the secretive group NXIVM, attends a court hearing Friday, April 13, 2018. Elizabeth Williams via AP Raniere was arrested in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and brought to Texas on March 26, 2018, the Brooklyn US Attorney's office said at the time. He had fled to Mexico after The Times story published the previous October. "Keith Raniere displayed a disgusting abuse of power in his efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves," FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney said in the press release announcing Raniere's arrest. He was charged with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy. Prosecutors alleged that Raniere "created a secret society of women whom he had sex with and branded with his initials, coercing them with the threat of releasing their highly personal information and taking their assets." According to a criminal complaint, prosecutors alleged that Raniere told followers that men need multiple sex partners while women need to be monogamous. The also claimed Raniere had "over 50 sex slaves," NBC News reported. March 30, 2018: "Smallville" actress Kristin Kreuk explains reports that she was part of NXIVM. Kristin Kreuk "Smallville" actress Kristin Kreuk told Elle in March 2018 that she had taken self-help classes through NXIVM, but she was never part of the DOS inner circle. "I took an Executive Success Programs/NXIVM 'Intensive,' what I understood to be a self-help/personal growth course that helped me handle my previous shyness, which is why I continued with the program," she said in a statement last year. She said she was 23 when she took courses with NXIVM, which would have been in 2006. "The accusations that I was in the 'inner circle' or recruited women as 'sex slaves' are blatantly false," she added. April 20, 2018: "Smallville" actress Allison Mack was arrested and and charged with sex trafficking and forced labor. Allison Mack leaves Federal court Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Mack, an actress best known for playing a young Superman's friend, has been granted bail while fighting charges that she helped recruit women into a cult-like group. A federal judge in Brooklyn agreed Tuesday to release Allison Mack on $5 million bond and place her under home detention in California. She'll be living with her parents. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II Mack was arrested on April 20, 2018 on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, and forced labor conspiracy. The actress was accused by two unnamed women of requiring them to engage in sexual activity with Raniere, CNN reported at the time. Prosecutors alleged that Mack received financial benefits in exchange for the women's cooperation. The women claimed they were blackmailed into performing sexual favors. INSIDER previously reported that Mack sent cryptic messages to prominent feminists on Twitter, trying to recruit women for "an organization that focuses on empowering women from the inside out." The women she reached out to include actress Emma Watson, parenting expert Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, and singer Kelly Clarkson. Mack pleaded not guilty to charges. Allison Mack leaves Brooklyn federal court in New York, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. AP Photo/Seth Wenig Mack pleaded not guilty to the charges shortly after her arrest. She was released on a $5 million bond. April 21, 2018: The New York Post reported that NXIVM moved its operations to Brooklyn. Clare Bronfman, left, leaves federal court, Tuesday, July 24, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Bronfman, an heiress to the Seagram's liquor fortune and three other people were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the investigation of a self-improvement organization accused of branding some of its female followers and forcing them into unwanted sex. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer NXIVM moved its operations from Albany, New York, to Brooklyn, in April 2018, the The New York Post reported. As Raniere faced criminal charges, longtime member Clare Bronfman — a multimillionaire heiress to the Seagram's liquor fortune — took control of the organization, The Post said. An insider told The Post that the organization's "crisis mode" as Raniere and Mack faced charges. May 4, 2018: Raniere pleaded not guilty and his attorney said "everything was consensual." Actress Catherine Oxenberg, left, arrives at federal court with Stanley Zareff and Toni Natalie, who is Keith Raniere's ex girlfriend, for the arraignment of NXIVM leader Raniere on Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York. AP Photo/Kevin Hagen Raniere pleaded not guilty all all charges on May 4, 2018. After the hearing, his lawyers told NBC News that "everything was consensual" within NXIVM. "There are well-known groups of men who brand themselves," attorney Marc Agnifilo said. "A group of women do that and suddenly they're victims." Following his not guilty plea, Raniere was held without bail. May 30, 2018: Mack told The New York Times that she instituted the branding ritual. Television actress Allison Mack leaves federal court in New York, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. AP Photo/Seth Wenig Allison Mack told the New York Times Magazine that it was her idea to brand members of the alleged sex cult. She said tattoos weren't intense enough and wanted a stronger brand that would be more meaningful. "I was like: 'Y'all, a tattoo? People get drunk and tattooed on their ankle 'BFF,' or a tramp stamp,'" she told the Times. "I have two tattoos and they mean nothing." The Times said hundreds of NXIVM members were branded with a symbol that resembled a "K" and "R," which stands for Keith Raniere. According to The Times, Mack was once one of Raniere's sex slaves. When she acquired a slave of her own, the slave was branded with both the "KR" symbol as well as an "AM" symbol. June 12, 2018: NXIVM suspended all operations. The exterior of the NXIVM Executive Success Programs office at 455 New Karner Road on April 26, 2018 in Albany, New York. Photo by Amy Luke/Getty Images NXIVM announced it was suspending all operations on June 12, 2018. The organization said in a statement on its website: It is with deep sadness that we inform you we are suspending all NXIVM/ESP enrollment, curriculum and events until further notice. We will be in touch with more information for anyone currently enrolled in upcoming events/programs. While we are disappointed by the interruption of our operations, we believe it is warranted by the extraordinary circumstances facing the company at this time. We continue to believe in the value and importance of our work and look forward to resuming our efforts when these allegations are resolved. July 24, 2018: Four more people, including heiress Clare Bronfman were arrested and charged with racketeering and conspiracy for their roles in NXIVM. Clare Bronfman leaves Brooklyn federal court in New York, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. Court papers say a trust largely funded by Seagram's liquor fortune heiress Bronfman is bankrolling the defense for her co defendants in a sex trafficking case. AP Photo/Seth Wenig Federal authorities arrested Clare Bronfman, Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, and Kathy Russell on charges of racketeering conspiracy for their alleged involvement in NXIVM. Prosecutors alleged that all four women recruited and groomed women into being sexual partners for Raniere. The women are accused of using "harassment, coercion and abusive litigation to intimidate and attack perceived enemies and critics," according to the indictment, published by The Daily Beast. The indictment accused the women of a number of crimes, including identity theft, harboring of aliens for financial gain, extortion, forced labor, sex trafficking, money laundering, wire fraud and obstruction of justice. It described Bronfman as "a member of the Enterprise and a high-ranking member of Nxivm" who served on the organization's board from 2009 to 2018. March 13, 2019: Nancy Salzman pleaded guilty, saying in court that she tracked and monitored women as part of NXIVM Nancy Salzman, exits following a hearing on charges in relation to the Albany-based organization Nxivm at the United States Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn at New York. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Nancy Salzman pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy in federal court on March 13. Salzman admitted to hacking emails of NXIVM critics, and said in court that she had monitored women as part of her role within the organization. She said in court that she had obtained passwords and usernames of people who were suspected of leaking NXIVM secrets. "I want you to know I am pleading guilty because I am, in fact, guilty," she told the court, according to The Post. "I accept that some of the things I did were not just wrong, but sometimes criminal." March 14, 2019: Prosecutors alleged that Raniere had sex with a 15-year-old girl and charged him with child pornography. Mark Agnifilo and Paul DerOhannesian, attorneys representing Keith Raniere and Allison Mack, speak to reporters following a status conference where Raniere was again denied bail, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, June 12, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Hours after Nancy Salzman pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors charged Raniere with child pornography. In a superseding indictment seen by Reuters, prosecutors accused Raniere of coercing a child into sexual conduct to produce visual depictions of it and of possessing child pornography between 2005 and 2018. At a Brooklyn hearing, prosecutors alleged that Raniere had sex with a 15-year-old girl who later became a "sex slave," The Cut reported at the time. March 27, 2019: Bronfman fainted in court after being asked if Michael Avenatti was her lawyer. Clare Bronfman, center, a member of NXIVM, an organization charged with sex trafficking, arrives at Brooklyn Federal Court, Monday, April 8, 2019, in New York. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan During court hearing on March 27, Bronfman fainted in court after a discussion about whether she was being represented by lawyer Michael Avenatti. According to The New York Post, Judge Nicholas Garaufis had asked Donna Newman, one of Bronfman's lawyers: "Did she retain Mr. Avenatti to represent her in this case, yes or no?" The question came days after Avenatti was charged with trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike. Newman requested a sidebar discussion with the judge, and on Bronfman's way back to her seat after the conversation, she fell forward and fainted. Paramedics were called, but Bronfman was not taken to a hospital for treatment. April 2, 2019: Lauren Salzman pleaded guilty, admitting she enslaved a woman for just over two years. Lauren Salzman, a co defendant in the sex trafficking and racketeering Nxivm cult, departs the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, following a hearing in New York. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Lauren Salzman — the daughter of NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman — became the second defendant to plead guilty on April 2. The 42-year-old pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy and admitted in court to keeping a personal slave locked in her home for two years, according to the New York Post. "I knowingly and intentionally harbored Jane Doe 4, a woman whose identity is known to me, in a room in the home in the Northern District of New York," Salzman said in court, according to The Post. She also admitted to being a member of NXIVM's inner circle, DOS. April 8, 2019: Mack reverses her not guilty plea and pleads guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of racketeering. Actress Allison Mack leaves Brooklyn federal court Monday, April 8, 2019, in New York. Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering charges on Monday in a case involving a cult like group based in upstate New York. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan Mack reversed her plea on April 8, nearly a year after she pleaded not guilty charges including sex trafficking, identity fraud, and money laundering for her role in NXIVM's alleged sex ring. Mack entered a plea agreement on racketeering charges, according to the Associated Press. Prosecutors alleged that Mack helped procure women for a cult-like group within NXIVM that recruited sex slaves for its leader in upstate New York. "I know I can and will be a better person," Mack said at her hearing on Monday. She is scheduled to be sentenced on September 11.

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Can You Connect A Multi-Level Marketing Company For Retirement Income?

At some point in your lifetime you've been chucked a malaysia mlm software(MLM), lead marketing or network marketing business opportunity. As the pitch changes from company to company, it fundamentally promises a chance to ditch your 95 work schedule, be your own boss, and make lots of money when making new friends while in the practice.

 It all sounds good on paper, yet there is a seemingly endless debate on if these businesses and programs are legitimate business opportunities or perhaps not, so that I stumbled and found the real scoop. Because of this, I think that the entire industry is well poised for explosive growth and can be one of the most significant methods to America's present retirement savings catastrophe.

 Initially, which could sound like a bold statement, however it's not for those who understand retirement precisely the way I really do. The truth is, making an effective transition to retirement has more to do with psychology than with money... and the exact same could hold true for multi level and network marketing.

 Do not misunderstand me, money gets a role in retirement, however it is not the first one everybody gives it. Combine that concept with eye-opening statistics like AARP's estimate that half of seniors (76 million) are interested in establishing a company and the makings of a massive tendency have been inplace.

 So far as the retirement rental catastrophe is concerned, a growing number of folks are coming to terms with the reality they probably are not going to have the ability to save enough cash to sit around and slowly reevaluate their nest egg from age 62 to 100. With the average 50 yearold estimated to have less than50,000 in retirement savings, then there's an evident need to discover alternative techniques to save more or generate supplemental income starting now, and continuing through the duration of retirement. Going past only the dollars and cents, boomers are becoming sick and tired of feeling guilty or bad in their past savings habits and therefore are enthusiastic about moving towards possible solutions.

 Yet another growing reality which could benefit MLM and associated companies is the rising number of seniors that are pleased with their current livelihood. They are tired from years of their organization mill and do not feel the connection between their occupation and the people it affects out their office walls or company grounds. They truly are changing their focus from accumulating a huge nestegg to an urge to be part of something bigger and better... to have a positive effect on the others... and employed in retirement. Issues with life which can be fulfilled with specific types of goods and service available through a few MLM or Direct selling chances.

 MLM and direct marketing applications also offer very reduced hurdles into entrepreneurship, frequently providing training, service, and considerable encouragement on the way. As retirees start to appreciate they need tasks that keep them busy, important, in good health and fitness, and connected to the others, the full time, energy and cost to engage in these types of organizations make them very attracting large parts of the populace swept up in those dynamics.

 This is not just a ringing endorsement for your entire industry. Like every investment, money, and energy, most folks have to know about what they're stepping involved in and perform their homework. That's the key reasons I started investigating the issue by reaching outside to regular everyday people engaged in these sorts of companies and who have been eager to bypass the hype and offer a transparent opinion of their apps and also give their feedback as to if this is often a realistic source of retirement income.

 I initially talked to a retired friend who said she joined a health and fitness and beauty guide marketing firm for a means of meeting new folks. She had recently remarried and transferred to another location, therefore that she joined the custom of meeting new individuals with earning extra income. After a decade in the commercial, she has built a small niche business with friends and family despite switching to in one company to another competitor after three years.

 She admits she does not attend all of the company's local meetings along with goal-setting sessions because she is not thinking about being a top producer. She just loves to utilize the company activity to keep busy (especially in winter months) and use the additional money she earns to travel and spoil the grand kiddies.

 With studied the psychology and behavior of boomers this case represents a major shift in my thinking about the industry. I perceive these sorts of chances as profitable pyramid schemes. Instead, I finally see it as a means to boost many of the personal aspects of retirement which are rarely discussed let alone intended for, with the additional benefit of supplementing additional favorite retirement income sources like retirement and social security.

 Daria M. Brezinski Ph.D, a practicing psychologist and former marketing manager for a multi-level advertising magazine, echoes these sentiments. "Many individuals don't recognize that multi level advertising businesses are successful because they help people meet a number of essential human requirements, for example feeling significant, using links, learning something brand new, and also making a difference. I've heard people in network marketing say over and over, 'I'm doing so because I am meeting great people ... making so many links ... and that I feel so good about myself. '''

 Many MLM and NM companies adapting a three-to-five year plan to attain freedom and wealth, yet many of the people running company meetings are at the company for ten or five years and still haven't left their full-time job or landed on road. "As it happens," Dr. Brezinski notes, "if other human demands have been met, both the members and advisors don't focus solely on the monetary areas."

 Continuing my interviews, I contested the others who are in the industry to be straightforward, and persuade me that the process works. Everything I found was so good, consistent small business advice applicable to almost any new small business.

 She's been able to displace her fulltime cash flow but explains, "It didn't happen overnight, and I still work every day. Iam very disciplined with my organization and wake up each day knowing what I must complete in order to succeed at this. You've got to take care of it as a company and also be prepared to follow along with others who have left it"

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Is That Net Company A Pyramid Plan? Below's How you can Inform

In globe where their's a myriad of online organisations it can be difficult and time consuming to locate the one that functions, and that will certainly put you right into revenue, while maximizing a lot of your time. There are great deal of systems around that pride them selves on tons of BOGUS software application and also items such as: e-books outdated software application as well as various other fluff that they put up to front that they as a matter of fact a genuine work at home business, when as a matter of fact its just a cloak for re-selling the business and by definition is defined as a 'a pyramid scheme'. The 1980's saw a lots of these fluctuate promptly leaving the individuals at the bottom absolutely nothing, and also fat budget for proprietor. Today there is internet go figure. This is why its essential when taking a look at any type of business to examine the product for REAL MARKET VALUE, this will certainly be the best indicator of success. To start with pyramid schemes have no genuine item (or pretend to such as old software application, electronic books and also other no usage scrap people will certainly never ever purchase. Perfect examples of this are: huge ticket to wealth, road map to treasures, ticket to riches, perfect wealth formula, craig garcia as well as michael corcoran s edc, edc gold and also edc diamond.This is an usual method you will see in over buzz net companies and also are a tell tale sign of a level outright fraud. Commonly these so called products are a hide for a pyramid scheme, it simply astounds me the number of so called businesses online and also abroad are outright pyramid systems. No there's nothing incorrect with having a join cost as long as official items are being marketed, not just the opportunity that will certainly fall apart the pyramid leaving you in the roar and the leading factor or owners affluent. Just ask around as well as see if anybody entailed with business your looking at really made a dime, because this so rare. Nonetheless if you can review between the lines you'll learn the fact that they only market business. Also if you are comfortable with simply re-selling business I can ensure that just the original couple of that first joined are mosting likely to have the mass of the sales as well as remain to parade their "hefty players" over as well as over once more as if you also will make millions, while day-to-day there on forth the marketplace comes to be over saturated and sales sluggish to a flow and also undoubtedly business implodes and crashes down on your dream of being abundant. The END. fort wayne homes for sale I myself have actually spent several months searching for the actual offer, and I've found it with the wealthfunnelsystem. Derrick Harper, a 12 web marketing has actually placed an effective marketing as well as selling system right into place with this wealth funnel system. I've never ever found another business that this high of a success price. With over 55 hours of video training step by step this really a paint by numbers come close to that trains a participant despite having absolutely no experience to succeed. Likewise unlike numerous another organisations, this system truly does encourage ON GOING TEAM FUNCTION, and also won't leave you in the dust. See mentors like me have a beneficial interest in you since exactly what your going to make, I'm mosting likely to make as well till infinity, not just a couple of sales. When your system is in location $1000 payments can conveniently end up being a day-to-day event. This is the end of your search duration. Please check the adhering to sites to obtain your monetary future on the right track for success.Does that biz opp have a lot of 2nd rate electronic books as well as old software that no person in their best mind would certainly ever really. Are you told that people truly do market that scrap, only to learn on closer examination they only sell and also market business. Well after that you possibly discovered an additional everyday pyramid system infesting the internet left and right.

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Expert: While supporters of our two-party system wring their hands over the sensationalist nonsense reported by the mainstream media, we thought it might be worth touching on the most dangerous lie of all-time: capitalism. It’s an all-encompassing delusion, including: the myth of continual technological progress, the mendacious assumptions of endless economic growth, the lie that constant bombardments of media and consumer goods make us happy, and the omissions of our involvement in the exploitation of the planet and the resources of distant, poorer nations, among other things. We’ve taken the time to hash out some of the most pernicious mendacities we’ve come across in our (relatively) young lives, in the workplace, in our private lives, and in the media. *** Please share these counter-arguments far and wide, in order to educate your fellow citizens, and, if necessary, to provide the intellectual beat-downs needed when arguing with pro-capitalists. So without further ado, here is our list of the most devious “Lies that Capitalists Tell Us”: 1) Wealth will “trickle down” It’s hard to believe an economic policy that conjures images of urination could be wrong, but the idea is as bankrupt as the lower classes who have been subjected to the trickling. Less than ten people now have the financial wealth equivalent to half the planet, and the trickling seems a lot more like a mad cash-grab by the (morally bankrupt) elites. Rather than trickle down, the 1% and their lackeys have hoovered up the majority of new wealth created since the 2008 crash. After 40 years of stagnant wages in the US the people feel more shit on than trickled upon. It’s not a mistake that the elite reap most of the profits: the capitalist system is designed this way.  It always has been, and will be, until we the people find the courage to tear it down and replace it with something better. 2) I took all the risks It can be argued the average employee takes far more risks in any job than the average person who starts a business with employees. The reason being is that the person starting a business usually has far more wealth, where most Americans can’t afford a 500 dollar emergency; meaning if they lose a job or go without work for any stretch it means some tough decisions have to be made. A person with even a failing business cannot be fired, but the employee can be fired for almost any reason imaginable. They are operating without a net at all times. The capitalist uses all sorts of public infrastructure to get his/her company off the ground. From everything to the roads to get you to your job, colleges, public utilities, tax breaks, electricity, etc. Even the internet itself was created from public research. Yet elite business owners still have the audacity, and are so full of hubris, that they believe in the hyper-individualist, macho, rugged-cowboy/pioneer facade they affect. 3) I could pay you more if there were less government regulations Many capitalists argue that layers of government bureaucracy prevent them from paying their employees a fairer, living wage. This is a huge whopper, as our regulations (like no child labor, a minimum wage, disability and worker’s compensation, basic environmental impact studies, etc) actually provide safety against the worst type of exploitation of workers and destruction of the land by corporations. Without these minimum regulations, an age of even more outright neo-feudalism would occur, where employees could be laid-off and rehired ad-infinitum, based on downward market wage forces, at the wishes of ever-more capricious owners, management, and CEOs. 4) If you work hard, one day you can be rich like us (We live in a meritocracy) America is not a meritocracy, and no one should think it is. There exists no tie to the intelligence of work done or the amount of it that guarantees success. Rather to be rich depends more on either being born into it, or being exceptionally good at exploiting others so one may take the bulk of the proceeds for themselves. This is the magic formula for wealth in this ever so “exceptional” land – exploit, exploit, exploit. Inheritance and exploitation is how the rich get rich. To understand the exploitation aspect takes some understanding of how the rich function. Next to none of the super rich become that way solely by meritocracy. Their income is created through complex webs of utilizing leverage usually to extract some form of passive income. They are the rentier class or con artists, or both. You only have to look at what the rich are dabbling in. Like Robert Mercer, for instance, who made his money via “a hedge fund that makes its money by using algorithms to model and trade on the financial markets.” Skimming money off corrupt financial markets hardly seems like a worthwhile activity that contributes anything to humanity. It’s a hustle. Or take Bill Gates, who did some programming for a few years, poorly, and became rich by landing a series of deals with IBM initially, and then by passively making money off the share values of Microsoft. The late Steve Jobs may have been one of the more hands-on billionaires, but even he required thousands of enslaved Asian hands to extract the kind of  profits Apple was able to make. Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson almost certainly has organized crime links, as if owning a casino wasn’t enough of a con to begin with. Rich DeVos became a billionaire by running a pyramid scheme most are familiar with called Amway. The Walton family, owners of Wal-Mart, pays a median wage of 10 bucks an hour (far below a living wage), they strong arm vendors, and also rely on products made with working conditions that resemble old world slavery, while having more wealth than the bottom 40% of Americans. There’s just no way to make that kind of money without having a major market advantage and then profiteering off it. Lie, cajole, coerce, manipulate, bribe, rig, and hustle. These are the tools of the rich. No one is worth this kind of money and everyone needs each other’s help to function, but in the minds of the rich they consider themselves the primary cogs in the machine worthy of their money for doing not much else than holding leverage over others and exploiting it. 5) This is as good as it gets (there is no alternative, TINA) Through a process of gaslighting and double-bind coercion the choices we are fed are propagandized via controlled media outlets owned and operated by elites. We are told our choices must be between the democrats or republicans, attacking the Middle East or face constant terrorism, unfettered capitalism or state run communism. We are given binary choices that lack all nuance, and nuance is the enemy of all those who seek to control and exploit. They feed us a tautology of simpleton narratives which unfortunately do exactly what they hoped, keep people dumb and biting on their red herrings. Capitalists make it seem as if there is no alternative because they hoard all the money, have all the hired guns, and pay off teams of servile lawyers, judges, and lobbyists to write and enforce their anti-life laws. Capitalists demand “law and order” whenever their servant classes get too restless. In general, the most hardened, dogmatic capitalists exhibit bewilderment and/or disgust at genuine human emotions like joy, creativity, spontaneity, and love. Many capitalists have an unconscious death wish, and want to drag the rest of us and the mother Earth down with them. Capitalists have stolen all the farmlands, hold all the patents to technology, and don’t pay enough to mass amounts of citizens to get out of the rat race and get back to live off the land. The screws are turned a little tighter every year. If we are not done in by massive natural disasters or an economic collapse, expect a revolution to occur, hopefully a non-violent one. 6) We give back to the community Corporations set out to create non-profits as a public relations move. They cause the problems and then put small band-aids on the gaping wounds they have directly contributed to and use the charity as a source of plausible deniability to obscure the fact that they are exactly what we think they are: greedy. Handing out bread-crumbs after you’ve despoiled, desecrated, and bulldozed millions of hectares of valuable habitat is not fooling anyone. The elite one-percenters are the enemies of humankind and the biosphere itself. 7) The system (and economic theory) is rational and takes into account social and environmental costs People tend to think someone somewhere is regulating things to keep us safe. They look around and see sophisticated technology, gleaming towers in the sky, and what they believe to be is a complex intelligent world. But in truth no one is running the show. The world functions as a mad cash grab driven by neo-liberal ideology. Our leaders are driven by power, fame, and money, and exhibit strong psychopathic, sociopathic, and narcissistic traits. The problems of modern industrial capitalism and its impact on the world are clear – our exploitation of the resources, people, and other species are a direct result of our consumer-based infinite growth model. Just a few of the problems we face are species extinction, climate change, ocean acidification, and a toxic carcinogen filled trash dump of a planet that reached population overshoot decades ago. If the system was rational, we would begin planning to lower birth rates to decrease the world’s population, and voluntarily provide education, decent, dignified jobs, as well as birth control and contraception to women worldwide. We live by money values, and think in money terminology. When we discuss healthcare the topic arises about how to pay for it before nearly anything else. The priority isn’t on saving lives but how to pay for things. Yes, how will we pay for healthcare when banks can create money on a computer through the magic of fractional reserve banking, which they often use to bail out their crony friends. The money isn’t real but the implications of restricting it from the populace are. Money is created out of thin air by the magic of the Federal Reserve, yet we have all heard our bosses, and the pricks in Washington complaining that “we don’t have enough money for that” when it comes to healthcare, improving schools, and humanitarian relief for the poorest parts of the world. Again, if the system was rational, world poverty would be solved within a few short years. Money destined for weapons and “defense” could be used domestically as well as abroad to Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, and there is more than enough money (75 trillion is the annual world GDP, approximately 15 trillion in the US alone) to pay for a good home, clothing, and food for every family worldwide, with an all-renewable powered energy grid. 8) The future will be better When Trump’s slogan “make America great again” was on the lips of every alt-right fascist, most of us stopped to ask, when was it great? The truth is that politicians have been promising something better since the inception of this country and “better” has never arrived. There is always another expensive war to fight and another financial meltdown occurring on average every eight years. Wait, you might say, what about those sweet post-WWII growth years brought about by the New Deal? The sad truth is those years were only materially beneficial to white, middle-class men, who were highly sexist, racist, and complicit in incubating today’s consumer-driven Empty Society. The post-WWII era was an aberration in our history and the result of having more jobs available than people, but as the country rapidly exploited its natural resources and reached the limits of linear growth while the population exploded the leverage that allowed people to have higher wages receded. Even though efficiency increased enormously, the people lost leverage to demand higher wages. Without leverage held by the people capitalism will return to its status quo goal – exploit, and that’s just what it did. In the US, corporations grew richer and the people grew poorer starting from the mid 1970’s to the present. 9) It’s Just Business Employees devote years of their lives to companies and when they are let go they are told it’s nothing personal, it’s just business. This is how all bad news is delivered even when personal. It says we are cold-hearted organizations that adhere to a bottom line first and human needs second. So know when they say “it’s just business” what they are saying is understand we are sharks, and acting like a shark is just what we do. This is also the logic behind defending war crimes and similar atrocities. Nations like the US claim they have a “responsibility to protect” civilians from terrorists. Then, when American bombs kill civilians (or their proxies use US-made weapons), they are referred to as “collateral damage”. 10) Financial markets & debt are necessary The health of the entire economy is too often gauged by the stock markets. But the reality about financial markets is they are extraneous gambling machines designed to place downward pressure on companies to post good numbers to elevate share prices. These financial markets funnel capital to a smaller and smaller number of multinational corporations every year, and perpetuate non-linear economic growth (and therefore more pollutants, CO2, pesticides, strip mining, razing of forests) that is killing the planet. Debt is the most fundamental lie in our economy. Money is only supposed to be a tool to move goods efficiently around a market, but for money itself to be a wealth engine is a Ponzi scheme. And we all know how that ends. *** For a wider taste of our oeuvre, visit Reason Bowl Radio to watch Jason expose the Trump administration for the sorry sacks of shit that they are and discuss current events, as well as Jason and Bill’s commentary and ramblings about topics such as psychedelics, the nature of consciousness, and reflections on how to effect social change. http://clubof.info/

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Nightwing #8

"Nightwing" looks like a verb that is probably a pretty raunchy sex act. "I'm nightwing your mom right now because we nightwed last week and she was totally into it."

Last issue, Raptor tried to convince Dick that he was Dick's dad because it's always a laugh riot convincing your friends you've banged their mother. But then Raptor also decided it would be a good idea to kidnap Bruce Wayne for some reason. I think it had to do with branding. Branding is not a superhero name. Dick decides to start this issue by having a vague memory of one night when his mom and dad were up late talking about some strange guy bothering his mother. He had two attributes that made Nightwing's dad uncomfortable: his eyes and his...okay, it was just his eyes! I meant both of his eyes. The two of them! I totally wasn't going to say his penis because I'm maturing. It's 2017 and Donald Trump is about to be president. The time for dick jokes is long over and, possibly, took us down this road.

That must have been one uncomfortable cavity search. Although I'm sure Bruce could handle it. He probably had a miniature Batcycle crammed up there.

Raptor is upset with how Batman and Bruce Wayne fight crime. He's more upset that he took a Romani child and turned him into another rich white douchebag who battles street crime instead of helping destroy poverty and racism and other probably important stuff. The kind of stuff I can't be arsed to care about because, individually, I'm doing okay. But when I stop doing okay, you better believe I'll be out there trying to convince people to care about my issues! I'll be all, "I totally cared about your issues back then! Just don't read my commentary on Nightwing #8 and if you do, remember that I'm a largely facetious person who never really expresses perfect truths! I'm complicated!" Maybe I shouldn't even mention this review if I don't want people to read it because asking them not to read it will probably make them curious and then they'll read it! What jerks!

Raptor had better hope he found Bruce's microphone which broadcasts constantly to Alfred just in case a bad guy decides to monologue his plans (which is nearly every case). I won't say where the microphone is hidden but it involves gauging.

People who believe in the Stock Market as some sort of entity that creates wealth will still acknowledge that certain press drives stock prices up and down. Yet the people who listen to experts about the Stock Market never question how that's a thing if stocks are supposed to be representative of a company's profit and prosperity. They're not. Prices are representative of how popular a stock is and whether people think it's worth holding onto for a little longer because people are still buying it. But give some bad press about a company and watch the stock drop. Not because the press affects the profitability of the business. It simply damages its reputation which makes people fear other people will sell the stock so they sell the stock in fear that the price will drop and then the price drops because everybody starts selling. Analysts point to these things and call them anomalies or bubbles or blips and that they're not part of the actual system. The system, they say, is that prices generally go up and money keeps getting created and everybody eventually has a retirement fund. But the truth is that if no new buyers entered the Stock Market, it would cease to function profitably. The Stock Market does not generate money. It does not grow cash. Just like a pyramid scheme, it needs money coming in for those already in it to make money. Yes, yes. There are things called dividends which companies pay out to shareholders when the company makes a profit. Those are totally different and probably the way every stock should work. If I'm investing money into your stupid company, I should get more of a return than the hope that later somebody will want to buy the stupid piece of paper with the Gold Star I received for giving the company my cash. Of course, it's probably more like I gave the five thousandth owner of that piece of paper money, like a comic book sold across many buyers, long since in the hands of the original owner. But at least I can read a fucking comic book. I have this Stock Market rant once or twice a year and nobody has ever been able to explain to me how I'm wrong and the Stock Market actually does work in the way that analysts will tell you it works (mostly because analysts have lots of money in it and they want to keep perpetuating the system until they can cash out). I'll stop when somebody explains it to me in a way that doesn't make it out to be a scam instead of the answer I usually get which is "I'm sure it doesn't work like that at all." Nightwing arrives to save the day! Except that Raptor isn't done with his rant against capitalism. Or whatever he's on about. I know he's really into branding so he can't be totally against capitalism. That's where branding really shines! Raptor also begins going on and on about their man-suits. He's totally lost me but I think it's just making me like him even more. He's become mysterious and unrelatable! Just the kind of person I love to fuck! Raptor explains to Dick how he came down with leprosy and was driven out of the circus. But Dick's mom eventually came to him and offered compassion and thrills. Not those kinds of thrills! At least not yet. No, she and Raptor became the Robin Hoods of Paris, stealing from the rich and elite and giving back to the Romani and themselves.

I think Marie would just be glad that Dick was safe and well-protected and, eventually, happy.

It's easy to attack Bruce Wayne because he's rich and constantly gets richer. But what should he do? Give away all of his money so that he can't help in whatever ways he helps? I'm not sure what those ways are because it just seems like he's using his money to constantly make more money. But then "Bruce Wayne's Charitable Contributions to Gotham and Beyond" is kind of a boring title for a comic book. After getting beat up and lectured, Nightwing smiles. That's the point Raptor loses because everybody knows Nightwing has it all figured out and when he smiles, he's about to explain it all as he kicks ass. This time, Dick is all, "You're just like Bruce, you idiot!" And Raptor is all, "What? NO! I'm melting!" But then he remembers his trap and he's all, "Bruce is dead!" And Dick is all, "Bruce has been free for like five minutes and now he's standing right behind you!" And then Bruce smiles which means bones will be breaking. Also, I'm not sure any of that happens after and including the "I'm melting!" part because I got ahead of myself as I was typing and haven't gone back to the comic book.

I like that Dick says this because I don't think it can be said enough. It's my favorite reason (and maybe the only one) that allows for Batman's use of young sidekicks. They've always existed to save Batman even if, as they're doing it, Bruce Wayne seems to be saving them as well.

Dick does some of that Batman justice Raptor hates which means he breaks the arm and leg of Raptor to incapacitate him. Then he goes up to save Bruce who has basically already saved himself but Bruce allows Nightwing his moment and pretends to almost fall to his death. Later, Tiger arrives to take Raptor into Spyral custody. He makes sure to tell Bruce Wayne that he doesn't know he's Batman at all and will keep it that way.

See?! I never would have thought Bruce was the type of dad to lose games to his kids on purpose. Sucker!

The Ranking! +1! I'm sad that Raptor didn't get to become a friend and mentor to Nightwing. I suppose Nightwing already has enough friends who are also kind of enemies. There's probably a word for that. Anyway, at least he'll be back. The main reason superheroes don't kill is because fans want to see the bad guys return over and over again. Who reads Batman for Batman? It's all about Joker and Catwoman, really! But not Penguin. Fuck Penguin.