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mortil2 · 04/07/2015 07:20

To follow on so to not lose what is such an interesting thread

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Annie65 · 24/07/2015 20:21

Betty I think its a bit of both. My flbot putting the deep heat stuff on her 1 year olds soles of her feet to help her sleep. I would think reading her a story would be better, but guess thats the old fashioned way of doing it.

clarinsgirl · 25/07/2015 01:06

I have plenty of FLBots but recently became aware of 'Nouyou'. Similar style of posts (company not named, aimed at sahm's, usual bs about having it all). Am I late to the party on this one or this this some kind of fresh hell?

lastuseraccount123 · 25/07/2015 01:51

googling

lastuseraccount123 · 25/07/2015 01:53

this? looks like utter shite

nuyou.org/Services-Products.html

lastuseraccount123 · 25/07/2015 01:57

nuyouscotland.com/aboutus.html

clarinsgirl · 25/07/2015 06:29

This could be the same company. Her posts are mainly about 'beauty products'. I followed a link she posted of Brad using one their anti ageing gadgets, a snip at 270 quid.

clarinsgirl · 25/07/2015 06:33

Oh and lots of helpful before and after shots of teeth whitening. Your link to detox is disturbingly shite.

Eyespying · 25/07/2015 07:48

According to an Asian journalist who contacted my Blog last year, the 'Nuyou MLM' racket was apparently instigated by the self-styled 'world's future richest man', Zhang Jian (a former monk from China).

www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/10/28/world-future-richest-man-arrested-in-thailand/

Eyespying · 25/07/2015 08:01

'NuYou' which is currently active in the UK, is actually another front for the 'Mormon MLM' racket called 'NuSkin.'

It seems that, the Chinese 'MLM' instigator, Zhang Jian, registered the same name.

clarinsgirl · 25/07/2015 08:04

Thanks. I presume this is the same company. Seems to follow the same formula as FL. All of the recruitment marketing screams 'scam', just don't get why so many people get sucked in.

clarinsgirl · 25/07/2015 08:06

Ahh, that makes sense Eye. Nuyou seems spookily similar to FL.

bettyberry · 25/07/2015 08:21

'Detox your body! Try this supplement because your own kidneys just aren't enough!'

bettyberry · 25/07/2015 08:22

I think I might have to get on and make some truthful quack ads hehe... when I have the time... would be a fun thing to do.

Eyespying · 25/07/2015 08:31

The bosses of the 'NuSkin' racket have peddled a fountain of eternal youth, 'ageLOC,' combined with a fountain of eternal wealth, an 'Amway' copy-cat 'MLM income opportunity.'

Like 'Herbalife', the front company for the blame the victim 'NuSkin' cultic racket has been unlawfully traded on Wall Street, but financial journalists have been unable to look further than the ends of their noses.

quotes.wsj.com/NUS

Eyespying · 25/07/2015 08:44

In February 1999, Mitt Romney was hired as President and CEO of the 'Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2002.' In that professional capacity, Mitt Romney arranged for the 'Nu Skin' racketeers to pay $20 millions to 'sponsor' the Salt Lake City Olympics. At the time Romney was hired, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee was facing a budget deficit of approximately $400 millions. Although 'Nu Skin' has been legally-registered as a commercial company, the source of its bosses' timely $20 millions contribution to save the Olympics, was crime.

Immediately after the 'Nu Skin' Olympic 'sponsorship' deal was made public, Romney appeared at a typically-kitsch 'NuSkin' orgy of deluded self-gratification (held in Salt Lake City), attended by more than 10 000 adherents.

At the same 1999 assembly, 'Nu Skin' Boss, Steve Lund openly-boasted: 'We have aligned ourselves with the Olympics because this alignment helps you do your jobs better.' Lund then claimed that the Olympic rings on distributors' business cards would bring them loads of new recruits, and that Olympic affiliation would 'also further mainstream our brands in the business community.'

As part of the Olympic 'sponsorship' deal, 'Nu Skin' and its subsidiary, 'Pharmanex,' gave free 'nutritional supplements' and 'vitamins' to Olympic athletes. At the exactly the same time, the International Olympic Committee was instructing participants not to take any supplements, because of concerns that these might be adulterated with banned substances. The IOC even cited lax US regulation as being part of the problem. However, Mitt Romney insisted that he personally had 'no problem with Nu Skin's quality,' and, as a result, the 'NuSkin' racket was heavily-promoted on television during the 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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

In the light of the wider-evidence, the laundering of 20 millions stolen dollars to infiltrate the Olympic movement for the purpose of perpetrating and dissimulating a global fraud, clearly forms part of a pattern of ongoing, major racketeering activity (as defined by the US federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 1970).

To date, no rigorous investigation has ever been pursued into these extensive organized crimes, and, if Mitt Romney, had been elected to the White House, the chances of any 'MLM' racketeers being held fully to account in the USA, would have become effectively zero.

In 2011, it was revealed that two Utah-registered corporate structures controlled by the bosses of 'NuSkin' had each given $1 million to 'Restore Our Future,' a so-called 'Super PAC' (instigated by former aides to Mitt Romney), to 'support Mr. Romney's bid for the White House.'

LilyAlpha · 25/07/2015 10:46

The plot thickens & once again the rabbit hole appears to lead to the same culprits. I think u're right when u say in years to come, wider society will realise how insidiously rife this phenomena of cultism, truly is. Shocking & fascinating in equal measures.

agoodyearforblossom · 25/07/2015 11:08

Have been reading these threads with interest. My Mum fell hook, line and sinker for Anyway when I was a child, and called the other day raving about the miracle cleaning product that is Enjo.... I'm scared history is repeating. God forbid she's introduced to FL! It's so frustrating, but she just seems to fall for the evangelicalism, and nothing we say seems to help.

Eyespying · 25/07/2015 11:27

LilyAlpha - The US-based bosses of ongoing major organized crime groups like 'NuSkin,' 'Forever Living' and 'Amway,' have been stealing billions of dollars from countless millions of vulnerable individuals all over the globe and using large chunks of their haul to buy off various corrupt, and/or naive, American politicians and political factions, mainly from the so-called 'Religious Right.' However, certain so-called American 'Democrats and Liberals' have also had their noses deep in the stinking 'MLM' trough.

It is one of the great ironies of history that successive US governments have poured trillions of tax-payers dollars into defending the world from toalitarianism dressed-up as 'revolutionary socialism or communism,' but completely failed to identify exactly the same cultic phenomenon, simply because it had been re-branded as 'The American Way Association' (later to become known as 'Amway Inc.').

The latest narcissistic 'MLM' racketeer to feature in the US political tragicomedy, is Presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

Annie65 · 25/07/2015 16:49

My Sil has invited me to like and share her Fl page, dont want to upset her but dont want that shit all over my fb, think I will stick to my principles.

LilyAlpha · 25/07/2015 17:39

agoodyear I feel your pain, it's sad to watch loved 1's get drawn into this crap. U're bang on, about the evangelicalism...that's what seems to sprinkle the zombie dust on unsuspecting victims- the feel good factor & sense of belonging.

Eye, yh doesn't get much more narcissistic than Donald Trump!

Eyespying · 25/07/2015 19:36

LilyAlpha Unfortunately, apart from Bernie Madoff, 'The Donald' has some really tough competition.

Sergei Panteleevich Mavrodi (b.1955) defrauded an estimated 30 million Russians out of several billion dollars in the aftermath of the 'Soviet Union.' However, Mavrodi was ultimately only convicted of stealing 4 million dollars from 10 thousand victims. Unbelievably, before he could be jailed, Mavrodi succeeded in becoming a Russian member of parliament, by convincing many of his victims that he was just as much a victim of corrupt government as they were, and that (if elected) he would get them all their money back (+ interest).

Mavrodi did finally get removed from the Russian paliament and jailed, but he is at currently large, and yet again he steadfastly ptretending that his latest miraculous money-making scheme (which is aimed at the entire planet) is liable and pefectly legal.

It seems not unreasonable to ask if Donald Trump's has modelled his career on that of Sergei Mavrodi?

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lastuseraccount123 · 26/07/2015 01:53

she's buzzing with her bee pollen!

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lastuseraccount123 · 26/07/2015 01:54

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