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But an investigation by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica has found that those same senators voted several times each to support must-pass legislation that included provisions undermining efforts to repay millions of dollars in land debt to Hawaiians. At least six other current and former members of Hawaii’s congressional delegation have supported such legislation one or more times.
Dawn Picken: Why I believe multi-level marketing schemes are like cults
5 May, 2021 10:00 PM
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Experts say MLMs are similar to pyramid schemes, writes Dawn Picken. Photo / Getty
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I think several of my friends have joined cults. These are not hippy types who wear robes and renounce material pleasures. Among my cult-indoctrinated peers are medical professionals, an accountant, several stay-at-home mums and an artist. They belong to different groups with a common theme: many members fail.
Multi-level marketing schemes, or MLMs, are using Covid to grow, according to a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Time Magazine and The Atlantic.
The COVID-19 pandemic opened up remote working options for millions, and for some that meant choosing small towns in Alabama over the high prices and traffic headaches of larger cities. Reckon South’s Anna Claire Vollers profiled some of the new residents of Greensboro, Ala., who are creating their own “magical community” in Hale County, where everyone attends “roaming porch parties” and the .
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DETROIT A new, extra-potent methamphetamine is growing increasingly popular in Michigan and unlike past iterations of the highly addictive stimulant more of it’s showing up in urban areas including metro Detroit, law enforcement officials said.
Adding to the level of danger associated with the drug: evidence it’s being laced with fentanyl, the ultra-deadly synthetic opioid that’s involved in most of the nation’s overdose deaths.
“Because the opioid epidemic has required so much of our attention and focus … I think people have assumed that meth has kind of gone away,” said Keith Martin, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Detroit division. “Meth is powerful and available. … We’re seeing it come into the urban areas where it may not have come into some of those pockets previo
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