In 2013, Herbalife, facing a full-on assault from a hedge fund manager still bitter about not rowing varsity crew at Harvard; a class action lawsuit inexplicably emanating from Salt Lake City; and several ominous Sword of Damocles style government inquires… added a mandatory arbitration and class waiver provision to its ridiculous consumer “contract”.
Here’s the first version of that provision. (Please make sure to read every word carefully because it’s desperately important to the story. I can’t overemphasize the importance of reading the provision, in its entirety, before continuing.)
SECTION 29 ARBITRATION AGREEMENT FOR DISPUTES BETWEEN MEMBERS AND HERBALIFE
Jessie Conners Tieva is a scammer who’s spent most of the last ten years fronting for various Utah fraud operations. She’s a grinder–always out on the road, talking about doing things she’s never done. Jessie is one of the few scammers who I’ve had the pleasure of heckling in person. When we met in a half empty hotel conference room in Chicago six years ago, she was fronting for the Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad Utah-backed op.
This week Jessie and her husband Matt Tevia were busted by the FTC and the Minnesota Attorney General for operating a short-lived hustle called Sellers Playbook.
The Fake News should be running the headline:
Trump University “Professor” and Failed “Apprentice” Busted for Fraud
This is my most viewed video. It’s amazing. I won’t pretend that I don’t love it–the greed, the panting, the epic drama of secret audio recordings.
It’s been floating around the internet for eight years now, but it’s not allowed on YouTube. My heartbreaking work of staggering genius has been taken down from the big social media sites an absolutely uncomical amount of times.
This article is brought to you by the advertising that brings you Slate.
I started sometimes reading Slate when Slate started publishing stuff to read. Slate, an exclusively online news magazine, was one of the first of its kind. I thought it was going to change the world. Back then I naively thought that just about everything that was happening on the fledgling web was going to change the world.
Oh, M&M’s have their own website now? This is going to change the world!
Bloomberg reports that top YouTube stars can expect poverty level wages. That doesn’t surprise you because you’re sophisticated (and good looking, and smart, and conscientious) and you read a site taglined: “… you can’t make money online.” But other–lesser–people are surprised.
Straight to the guts:
Breaking into the top 3 percent of most-viewed channels could bring in advertising revenue of about $16,800 a year, Bärtl found in an analysis for Bloomberg News. That’s a bit more than the U.S. federal poverty line of $12,140 for a single person. (The guideline for a two-person household is $16,460.) The top 3 percent of video creators of all time in Bärtl’s sample attracted more than 1.4 million views per month.
That’s almost enough money to buy gas, drive to the library, and take a nap.
One in 3 British children age 6 to 17 told pollsters last year that they wanted to become a full-time YouTuber. That’s three times as many as those who wanted to become a doctor or a nurse.
You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney–and obviously you cannot–then screw you.
That’s how the law “works” for real people. The system is built for, and run by, powerful synthetic people. Corporations, cartels, partnerships, shells, professional associations, unions, and government agencies are “the people”–the people are the pawns.
When Herbalife needs lawyers to fight off fraud claims, they get to pick from the biggest and the bestest. It makes no difference that their business model is a blatant deception bringing about a humanitarian crisis. Members of the legal monopoly don’t have to care about petty triflings like morality. Herbalife’s got the cash to put up a huge retainer–and to pay legal bills larger than the operating budgets of most companies–so the “best” lawyers and law firms are immediately available to them… less than no questions asked.
“Our new name, Herbalife Nutrition, reflects our strategic transformation as a leader in the nutrition industry.”
They’ve strategically transformed into a leader in nutrition. But they don’t sell food; they sell food replacements isolated from commodity crops and industrialized into unnatural pills and powders. It’s the opposite of everything that science, and life, has to tell us about nutritiousness.
The shifty internet marketing outfit Cambridge Analytica, attached to the shifty editor of internet propaganda site Breitbart.com, attached to the shifty too-old-for-the-internet billionaire Robert Mercer; mined Facebook data and used it to target voters.
Also, if you need any Ukrainian prostitute type stuff… that’s a yes for Cambridge Analytica. They do it all - from spamming, to expounding on spamming, to pretending that they know a guy who knows a guy who does murders while spamming.
On September 18, 2017, myself (an online activist) and my longtime friend Etan Mark (an offline litigator) filed a federal class action lawsuit against Herbalife’s fraudulent Circle of Success event system.
The suit doesn’t accuse Herbalife of being a pyramid scheme, or make any claim for damages related to the purchase of Herbalife’s products. Instead, it focuses on a cartel of shady creeps who run a dirty side business mandating that victims spend small fortunes attending a never-ending sequence of expensive events.
Live events are the backbone of the Herbalife scam, and of the scam industry in general; the draw and the glue that makes all of the life ruining possible. It can’t be “too good to be true” when you can see other people believing that it is true. The best weapon against nice people is other nice people.
Have you been suspended from Twitter? NO! You haven’t! Because you aren’t fucking punk rock enough. You’re all like :: “Did you hear about Michael Jackson? #rip #MJdead” :: And everyone else is like :: “Yeah I know! #kingofpop #omgosh” :: And then Oprah gives you a golf clap :: And everyone fucking hugs everyone :: And the shiny “New Media” Cup gets passed around so that each person can kiss their own reflection. blah blah.
On a completely unrelated subject {wink wink} :: Let’s look at some graphs :: Because graphs will make you smarter … and right now you are very very stupid. See if you spot any patterns stupid ::
Remember when I got my claws on Evil Jowls Perry Belcher’s program before it launched :: And then I thrashed the crap out of it {link} :: Released the direct links to it {link} :: Wrote a christian version of my BeatDown {link} :: And then swallowed up his whole Fat Ass on Twitter for the entirety of his lame ass Frauduct Launch?
Are you going to make any money from Evil Jowls Perry Belcher’s newest Frauduct :: Social Media Money System? Spoiler Alert :: NO! You aren’t. Read my review {obvious link} and find out exactly why it blows so much chunk.
That said :: Here it is for FREE :: what what what???
Yep! Along with not understanding Social Media or Marketing :: Evil Jowls is also a suck ass nerd {as in … most definitely NOT a nerd}. ALL of the files for the Social Media Money System are available for FREE download below.
Due to the power of Perry’s stupidity :: The Salty Droid was able to access this entire program free of charge more than a week ago {and you can too!}. Nothing less than my {fake} devotion to you :: my foolish reader :: Gave me the temerity and will power required to actually listen to a large portion of this program. It was a harrowing experience in which several times I feared I might actually fucking perish from** stupid-overload**. But I have survived to tell you the tale :: And I’m sure the flashbacks will cease within a couple of months.
Perry Belcher is a recently convicted FELON. His crimes were willful, deliberate, and perpetrated over a protracted period. The vast majority of his victims were sick and vulnerable, and they were never compensated for the harms which he inflicted upon them. Perry Belcher’s story is one of disregard for the humanity of others. In pursuit of shallow greed, Perry Belcher was willing to defraud thousands of sick and hurting people.
Between 2002 and 2008 Belcher ran a fraudulent medical remedy company which sold expensive fake remedies to a long list of serious ailments {including: high blood pressure, infertility, bladder infection, ADHD, parasites, kidney stones, IBS, and fibromyalgia}. The company, Selmedica Healthcare, was marketed as a legitimate alternative health company with experts, research scientists, and state of the art testing facilities. In reality, it was little more than Belcher and a handful of low level employees.
