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It could happen to anyone said:
“There’s a Posionous Spectre [European spellings FTW!] out there…he’s a scumbag…his whole deal is “Well I’m gonna prevent people being taken advantage of and screwed”
Sheesh. Who’s the scumbag again?
Actually, I should be grateful to comments like the one I’ve quoted. When I first arrived here, I nearly bought the Douchebags’ “hater” smokescreen. Comments like these (& Ms Dunford’s hysterical over-reaction) were the only thing which made me look closer and realise this is on the level, saving me a LOT (or alot, if we’re going with the quasi-literacy of the Douchebags) of time and money.
Even when they’re trying to damn the droid, they only succeed in damning themselves.
WINNER!! ::   +19
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# 16 February 2012 at 7:06 am

Rafael Marquez said:
Dude, I was watching wife swap last night and they had some ass hat on there that was spouting lame brain crap about the “law” of attraction and talking shit about people being poor because they don’t manifest their true desires or that they’re not manifesting this, that or the other material thing. It makes me think that maybe Mikey can manifest some hair on his head?
Also, it’s interesting that he says all that crap about
what you believe you see or hear may or may not be what it appears to be; think about the
intent of the creator
Which is exactly one of the missions of this site.
The irony and the pwnage, are both epic.
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Head Honcho Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 10:17 am
@Rafael Marquez, Good point. I think it’s even funnier that Mikey’s comment you quoted — “what you believe you see or hear may or may not be what it appears to be; think about the
intent of the creator,” — applies so perfectly to his own sites, emails, stage presentations and — well — even the way he breathes.
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# 16 February 2012 at 9:53 am

Ryan Healy said:
Great way to end that post. Pwned.
I’m always amazed by how committed certain individuals are to their distorted view of reality. Seems quite common on the Interwebz.
Ryan
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zipnar Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
@Ryan Healy,
A business associate who has quite a bit of first hand experience with scammers once told me,
“The reason con artists are so good at their craft is because they believe their own BS.”
I think that explains quite a bit.
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# 16 February 2012 at 10:09 am

Reality said:
Keonigs is like that smarmy little weasel that everyone went to high school with and couldn’t stand being around. That, and the fact that he is taking people’s money in exchange for utter bullshit. It seems appropo that his wife is (seriously) the author of a book called, “The Tao of Poop.”
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# 16 February 2012 at 10:14 am

Jack said:
Always with the “don’t throw stones” and “don’t judge me” for scamming. But I thought about that probably in their own circulating syndicate-circles they can’t say it because,
“What if when Jesus said, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” all the people’s big sins there were that they were liars? Uh oh.
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# 16 February 2012 at 1:41 pm

jacqui said:
That would be a big ‘uh oh’!!
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# 16 February 2012 at 4:15 pm

zipnar said:
Speaking of statues of critics…
Aw, snap!
WINNER!! ::   +18
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SD Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
@zipnar ::
Much success! Suck it Koenigs!
Exclamation points!
That’s like two neighborhoods north of where I could roll past it every day … I wish someone would have consulted with me. The northside is for wankers :: no offense … except to northsiders.
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Lanna Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
@SD,
Start a petition to have it moved to Ping Tom Park. It’ll look awesome next to the pagoda.
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Lanna Reply:
July 22nd, 2012 at 12:41 pm
The petition was approved.

Props to @zipnar for the design.
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zipnar Reply:
July 23rd, 2012 at 1:06 am
Props to @Lanna for moving that thing all by herself. The Droid replica weighs at least a couple of jigotons thanks to the recent installation of the AntiScammer™ Scud missiles (patent #208-577-6210).
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jacqui Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 6:05 pm
@zipnar,
Nice! I wonder where I can get one of those for my yard…
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zipnar Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
@jacqui,
That might be a bad idea.
What if it gives Dr. Frog size envy?
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jacqui Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
@zipnar,
Hmm…I see your point.
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# 16 February 2012 at 5:39 pm

jacqui said:
I bet Mike BLB will feel a lot better now that you’ve acknowledged his feelings about your robot pwnage. That was super nice of you.
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# 16 February 2012 at 6:33 pm

Lanna said:
D’aww – Mikey tweeted about his kitty!
https://twitter.com/#!/MikeKoenigs/status/146104035932520448/photo/1
And his kiddie!
http://yfrog.com/h3s63wpj
That’s so relatable! That totally negates the crazy-ass dino costume and self-proclaimed title of “Chief Disruptasaurus.” Maybe. Can somebody explain about this claim from his About page?
For over 20 years, Mike has worked with Sony Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, 3M, General Mills, Dominos Pizza, BMW, Ralston and Mazda.
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Jack Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 4:02 am
@Lanna, More odd stuff on the About Page:
“His celebrity and bestselling author clients and friends include Paula Abdul, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Debbie Ford, John Assaraf from “The Secret”, Brian Tracy, Jorge Cruise, Dan Kennedy and Harvey MacKay.
I’m going through my brain to think about when other business people/companies profess about who their friends are along with who clients but no luck until now.
I see mr. Koenigs finally updated his FTC disclaimer for Main
“Per the current FTC guidelines, we have made every effort to collect “typical” or “average” results from our members. Based on a recent survey of past Main Street Marketing Machines customers, the average income generated was $2,324 per month, and customers who spent more than 11 hours per week on their Main Street Marketing Machines business generated over $3,032 per month.”
…maybe he can explain about “more than 11 hours per week” because I think maybe knowing the upper limit could make this small-tale seem taller. Also, maybe he can run over the median value for it.
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Leo Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 5:04 am
@Jack, The “every effort” part is outrageous. Maybe he only surveyed one “customer.” And by “more than 11 hours a week,” that could translate to require working “96 hours a week.” He also calls it a “Main Street Marketing Machines business,” which is nothing short of a business-in-a-box.
You just can’t present something as already being a viable “business opportunity” and LATER ask some vague sampling of buyers to help you prove that it is, after the fact. His whole disclaimer and pitch are beyond egregious.
This guy is a shark, and he needs some FTC attention, badly. He smells like Utah boiler room, and he ain’t even in Utah.
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zipnar Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 5:44 am
@Jack,
John Assaraf from “The Secret”
It’s funny how every time I see Assaraf mentioned, it is always accompanied by “from ‘The Secret.’”
Clearly nobody would know who the f*ck that guy was (or his brain-enhancing program) if he hadn’t been featured in “The Secret.”
Makes me want to make him a “secret” all over again.
But really I’m just bitter and jealous because he lives in his big, expensive house that is the exact same house he had posted on his vision board all those years ago… LOA FTW!
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Cosmic Connie Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 10:45 am
@zipnar, Did anyone mention that John Assaraf’s “coaching” empire apparently went into bankruptcy a few years after he was in The Secret?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_One_Coach_file_bankruptcy
I wonder if he even still lives in that big house. I’m thinking not…
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Lanna channelling Crystal Cox Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 11:39 am
@Cosmic Connie,
OneCoach WaS DoIng FiNe AN HeLPinG pEoPle BUiLd ThEY BIZnASSes UnTiLL tHeY CoRruPt bAnKrUpTcY tRusTeE dRoVe OC iNtO tHe gRoUnD! fIgHT THA cOrrUpT USofA baNKRuPtcy cOuRtZ!
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Barbara Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 4:22 am
@Lanna,
May I just say for the record that of the roughly 1.8 billion photos of cats on the internet that was the least interesting one I’ve ever seen? An extremely generic looking cat sitting in a a nondescript gym bag and being photographed out of focus is the best he’s got to offer?
And I’m assuming the twenty years association with Domino’s pizza was at the wheel of a delivery car or maybe he was the inspiration for the Noid.
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# 17 February 2012 at 3:33 am

Mark said:
My favourite of all your posts :)
The cult of positive thinking convinces us that if we’re critical we’ll Law of Attract negative stuff into our lives… what a load of crap.
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# 17 February 2012 at 3:54 am

Doctor Mario said:
Jesus :: “… critical of stones” :: lulz img title tag FTW!
Seriously tho … after how many times he’s been pwnd for being a douche-brain, I am surprised BLB-Mike still has enough stones of his own to show that balding dome on the interwebz at all.
I am finally starting to feel like it is just a matter of time before the BLB & his French for Trade Union butt-buddies find their unicorn-turd-empire crumbling thru their Adderal-blue stained finger-tips.
Good riddance.
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# 17 February 2012 at 4:37 am

Barbara said:
One of the products the Dipshitosaurus sells is “The Relationship Kit”. It teaches you invaluable things such as:
“•Comforting, health-enhancing processes known as “feelingizations” that summon the powerful forces of attraction!”
Now if you’re wondering how just a plain old feeling like, oh, I don’t know, say…rage for instance, differs from a “feelingization” of rage all I can tell you is that you are not ready for the powerful law of attraction.
Right now I’m having the feelingization of wanting to kick this guy’s spiny ass.
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Lanna Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 11:23 am
@Barbara,
I’m so glad you’re back on active duty!
I plugged “feelingizations” into the ol’ Google unicorn, and it magically shat out 1,830 results. I hoped feelingization was something really far out, like some kind of twelve-step program to unlock my inner clairsentience so I could grope invisible cthulhus for a second or two before being swallowed.
Alas, I learned from this article that feelingization is a fancy word Arielle Ford made up for the step in guided imagery exercises where you’re told to feel the sun on your face and sand between your toes while you’re in your happy place.
Remember that time I got all worked up about Mindie Kniss not calling the chi chi? It’s like that. Was Arielle so ignorant she missed the Google unicorn’s 4,210,000 results and PubMed’s 1,395 articles dating back to 1970 for “guided imagery”? Or was she hoping to make a quick $247 by claiming she’d invented something new?
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Jack Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
@Lanna, I think Eugene Gendlin might take some issues to her big-idea, too.
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# 17 February 2012 at 4:42 am

Kevin said:
Wow. This phoney is such an arrogant DICK he can’t even hide it. Behind that fake, forced smile is one cold, ruthless asshole.
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Mike Really Cares Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 5:50 am
@Kevin,
Mike’s fake charity is proof that he really cares.
You must be a critic (hater) if you can’t understand how pretending to help starving people in Africa while committing tax fraud is just the same as being Mother Teresa.
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# 17 February 2012 at 5:26 am

IM conference attendee said:
Something you might not know about Koenigs.
Even the people in the syndicate think he is a total D Bag and don’t like him..
Unless he thinks he can get something from you, he is the most pompous, arrogant prick you will ever meet. It is really funny that he thinks he is a fucking rock star when in reality he is a total dweeb who probably has to pay women to have sex with him.
He also lies about launch results saying shit like “I did 8 million on my last launch” when everyone who promoted it was bitching about the shitty conversion rates..
Also, he knows dam well that most people who buy programs don’t put 11 hours a week into ANY program. So, if he truly surveyed the whole list, it would be like every other make money program, 1% at best get any results at all…
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SD Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
@IM conference attendee ::
I’d say “people don’t like him” is a bigtime understatement :: people fucking hate him … almost everyone hates him.
Except maybe for Colligan :: who loves him longtime I guess … which is why I told Julie that she’s embarrassing herself by even being in the same room as Paul … no less partnering with him. I’m standing by that … yep yep. Is that because I’m a hater who doesn’t care about anyone? Prolly not … I prolly care about Julie.
Anywayz :: people take great delight in betraying Mike BLB’s secrets to me :: I wish I could purge some it from my memory … but fake robots don’t work like that.
Real shocker that he thinks Tiger’s spectacular betrayal of a personal :: legal :: and religious contract is all for the good. Blatant disrespect for a person you’re pretending to love says nothing about your deeper non-golf character … keep telling yourself that Mike BLB … maybe you can wish it into truth.
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# 17 February 2012 at 7:43 am

Wyrd said:
Statues of critics…
Well it’s true that much of the time the initial reaction to a critic is negative. At least–the initial reaction to a critic by the group being criticized is negative. But then that’s kinda obvious, right?
Of course, over time, History makes its own judgement as to whether the criticism was valid or not. If the person/thing/group that was being criticized was pretty big and important, and if History comes to find that the criticism was valid, then the person that did the criticizing will probably get a lot of recognition in the history books. Sometimes, he/she will even get a statue out of the deal.
IM-MMO is only a subset of MLM which in turn is only a subset of that wide ranging array of semi-fraud/scam and full on fraud/scam products, frauducts, services, and fake-services that are not regulated and that allow people to relinquish their money to someone else for the promise of some form of wish fulfillment that is unrealistic.
Examples of this array that I’m thinking of include but are not limited to: fortune telling, “natural cures”, homeopathy, speaking with deceased loved ones, feng shui, ghost hunting, conspiracy theory peddlers (I’m looking at you Dylan Avery (Loose Change / 911 Truth) ), penis enlargement, and faith healers.
As far as I can tell, those folks have been around for as long as civilization has. So… it’s hard to see how they are going to go away, like ever.
Still that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to score some major victories about some smallish subset like the IM-MMO scammers.
–
Furry cows moo and decompress.
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# 17 February 2012 at 9:09 am

Cosmic Connie said:
I was kinda disappointed that the Tony Robbins/syndicate stuff didn’t get more “real press” too, but at least it’s all here for the record. People seem to have an endless capacity (and desire) to be fooled, to believe in those unicorns. Those who are ready to stop chasing unicorns, or who want to do some preliminary research about whether or not those unicorns exist, will be able to find a wealth of information right here.
The hustledorks and hucksters are always babbling about how critics’ names will be lost to history, ‘cos they’re haters, whereas the h-dorks will be forever remembered for the service they have provided for humanity. I just got another love letter from a believer in the Abrascam-Hicks fraud (Anonymous, of course), informing me that we haters are a waste of space that Anon is ashamed to count us among his or her fellow humans, and that our souls are a poisoned swamp. The defenders of the scam go on and on about how the Hicks have helped millions of people. Meanwhile, Merry Widow Esther Hicks continues to ham it up on stage, but now, of course, she’s channeling her dead hubby Jerry as well as “Abraham.” And people are still paying to hear this crap.
Unicorn chasers everywhere… But in the words of Mike Koenigs, BLB, himself: “So here’s the bottom line: good work always wins…”
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SD Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
@Cosmic Connie ::
You never know when the real press is going to change their half limp collective hive mind. I think some handcuffs on Mike Koenigs … and suddenly that audio is a lot more interesting to reporters who don’t want to work too hard.
Please Aslan … make it happen!
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Phil Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 6:49 pm
@SD, Oh, please, let there be a handcuff god!
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# 17 February 2012 at 10:40 am

Alexa Smith said:
I’m pretty certain that Frank Kern was a psychopath before ever taking Adderall.
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Jack Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
@Alexa Smith, Also went to your site with-obvious-overwhelming evidence about ms. Smith trickery, stolen photos, and probable duplicate fake-friend names.
Just how dumb will she think Warrior Forum is to let her get away with it?
Oh wait…found the answer already:
http://www.warriorforum.com/members/alexa-smith.html
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Alexa Smith is Fake Reply:
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:54 am
@Jack, The warriorforum mods are deleting all posts that expose alexa smith and they are even censoring the links that expose the stolen photos.
A member was banned after posting this:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2i0xhrd.jpg
It is amazing the level of censorship that shithole has…
Something similar happened in a thread about Lethal Commission, Anik Singal´s frauduct. Several members were having technical echoes with the software and they started to post negative posts, as they should, about the frauduct. Minutes after the posting several of those posts were deleted…
BTW here are the links that are currently censored by the mods:
http://timothynagley.byethost16.com/index.html
http://timothynagley.byethost16.com/stolen-photos.html
After the Alexa incident, she said in a thread that some mentally ill guy is stalking her. I can´t believe how warriors still believe all her/his crap… No wonder that forum is a dream place for scammers
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Jack Reply:
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:02 pm
@Alexa Smith is Fake,

“After the Alexa incident, she said in a thread that some mentally ill guy is stalking her.”
Maybe it’s from MPD of him/her?
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Jack Reply:
March 3rd, 2012 at 3:06 pm
@Alexa Smith is Fake, mr. & mrs. Smith have now changed their picture to some blurry hard to recognize image…
…hmmm…wonder why? I wonder. I wonder.
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Lanna Reply:
March 3rd, 2012 at 9:20 pm
@Jack,
The blurriness has reverse image search so confused it thinks “Alexa Smith” might be an anime character or a pair of kittens.
I’m amused that “Alexa” keeps swiping dating site photos for “her” avatar, but what’s the big deal here? Warrior Forum is full of fake people shilling fake products and services. There’s no reasonable expectation of legitimacy on WF. So what if one faker is faker than the other fakers?
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Jack Reply:
March 4th, 2012 at 12:03 am
@Lanna, Ha! That anime-pic is just about right up onto mr. & Mrs. Smith’s Alley.
Btw, thx for telling about my potential owners at JBW-blog. Will try to find who THEY are.
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Jack Reply:
March 4th, 2012 at 12:04 am
@Lanna, So-what is because “she” is alarmingly “beloved” there like maybe no others.
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Lanna Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
@Alexa Smith,
I was really hoping to blame Daniel Amen, MD for Kern’s Adderall-caused psychopathy.
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Jack Reply:
February 17th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
@Alexa Smith, I was thinking through about why she would go onto to use the porn picture for her avatar, but now it makes sense with psychopaths trying to push things to the limit to find out the most outrageous things they can get away doing. Seems like the big “fuck-you” to the WF that loves “her” so much.
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# 17 February 2012 at 1:58 pm

Mad Max said:
I’m pretty sure Theodore Roosevelt had some thoughts on critics. I can’t quote it verbatim, but I think it went something like this…
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how your business in a box is a bunch of half-baked, recycled, overpriced shit.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who lies and cheats and steals without regret. Who strives valiantly to rip off the desperate, the unsuspecting and unknowing, who errs and comes up short again and again because he puts all that stolen money up his nose, which he snorts of the bellies of prostitutes because he is a fat-assed internet douche who can’t get laid.
Because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. Even lying and cheating is a trial and error kinda thing. But the brave souls who are willing to pretend they are big business successes, when they are in reality a bunch of scamming high school dropouts, it is THESE MEN who uhhh… have fake internet statues built in their honor and shit.”
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jacqui Reply:
February 18th, 2012 at 10:53 am
@Mad Max,
That’s a beautiful quote…one of my favorites. I’m thinking of getting it embroidered onto a pillow.
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Alley-Cat Reply:
February 18th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
@Mad Max,
While I’m pretty sure Theodore Roosevelt didn’t put it quite in those terms….
I certainly like your version better :) :)
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# 17 February 2012 at 8:57 pm

Shit Storm said:
Dear Mike Koenig,
let me answer your question directly – am I a hater?
Yes I am
I hate scammers like you who pretend to ‘teach’ and ‘educate’ on how to make money when the only money you ever make is STEALING honest peoples money via BIZ OP scams
I hate ‘business in a box’ idea creators like you because your business in a box stuff are short on facts and truth and long on fantasy
I hate people who pretend to be unjustly attacked and or misunderstood in order to explain away ALL the people who point out that you’re a SCAMMER
I hate people like you who organize a crime syndicate of other BIZ OP hucksters in order to pump each others make money scams and rip people off
Mike I hate everything you do
I hate everything you stand for
I hate every person who helps you perpetrate your crimes
Signed
Those that see through your bullshit and are calling you out on it
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# 19 February 2012 at 7:24 am

gatorade said:
but mike koenigs isn’t bald. he paid for hair implants over a year ago….
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Zack Reply:
March 3rd, 2012 at 2:00 am
@gatorade, You mean the people who bought his bullshit paid for his hair implants?
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# 2 March 2012 at 11:43 pm

Lanna said:
Marketing gets a bad rap around here. Marketing is viewed as the inverse of free speech or something. So I wanted to share this article about a Swedish PR firm that spent 100,000 euros of its own money to drop hundreds of free speech teddy bears into Belarus.
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