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Tonya Ferguson gave a presentation to the Reno County, Kansas, commissioners on how essential oils—which she just happened to sell—can help fight COVID-19. “I like to use an immune support, which is like putting my body in a bubble. It’s a powerful...
by SemDem
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on Mon Jan 24, 2022 at 05:59 AM PST
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AMWAY EDUCATION SECRETARY- BETSY DEVOS’S WORLD- A TRUE STORY
In the Winter of 1980, John Lennon dies while I'm on a ratty bus with AMWAY ‘artist’ Sammy Hall’s band on 'tour' to sell Mountain Sound’s old Charlie Daniels sound system.
Hall is...
by aurabass
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on Wed Feb 08, 2017 at 06:45 AM PST
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I have had three personal run ins with Amway, and I can say from my Amway experience that Betsy Devos should not be appointed to ANY government office. Period. Let me explain.
During the 1990’s, I lived in the Research Triangle Park area of NC....
by Merlin1963
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on Wed Jan 18, 2017 at 08:45 PM PST
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Pursuing Charles and David Koch and their funding of the far right and an ultra-conservative agenda is important. Identifying the “charitable” organizations they launder money through – which ...
by Bob Sloan
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on Fri Sep 12, 2014 at 05:56 PM PDT
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Amway CEO and State GOP Campaign Financier - Dick Devos
Forewarning - The Opinion/...
by kayla9170
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on Sun Dec 30, 2012 at 07:00 AM PST
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Towleroad reports Out Gay GOP Presidential Candidate Fred Karger's Rights Equal Right organization has launched a boycott of Amway .
Fred Karger's organization Rights Equal Rights has ...
by Vegas Dave
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on Fri Aug 03, 2012 at 09:08 PM PDT
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Hey everyone, I posted a long comment in The Troubadour's diary earlier today. Several people have asked me to post this is as a diary. I do not have an inside track, at the present time, ...
by foucaultspendulum
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on Sat Apr 28, 2012 at 02:27 PM PDT
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Ada Michigan just gave a tax abatement to Dick DeVos's multi-level marketing scam ...
by Muskegon Critic
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on Wed Jul 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM PDT
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From a Group message to members of Progressive Strategy at http://dailykos.com/user/Progressive%20Strategy
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So, yeah! Sit on your ass and read Daily Kos for your Infotainment. And watch us ...
by winkk
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on Fri Jun 24, 2011 at 08:55 AM PDT
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"The DeVos family crusade to eradicate public education... [is] being marketed as a solution to save public schools, but the big donors are tied to right-wing think tanks that openly ...
by Troutfishing
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on Wed May 04, 2011 at 05:26 AM PDT
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Because time is short, I'm going to post here the first segment of researcher Rachel Tabachnick's story framing an astonishing video I discovered a few days ago, while revisiting a 2007 Alternet ...
by Troutfishing
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on Tue May 03, 2011 at 10:17 AM PDT
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For the dear naive folks of his home town, Holland, MI, the swaggering & unrepentant Erik Prince of Blackwater ill-repute is an upstanding & "fine Christian" & a "true blue American patriot."
by Morton Montgomery
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on Thu May 06, 2010 at 07:57 AM PDT
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Feeling a bit of insomnia tonight, so I figured I'd share a little non-political late-night story for anyone who's interested...or who's been in a similar situation.
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About 15 years ago, ...
by Brainwrap
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on Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 11:30 PM PDT
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http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/dmiddletown.htm
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the legendary founder of Standard Oil, ...
by host
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on Wed Feb 17, 2010 at 01:22 PM PST
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I can't be the only loyal Olbermann watcher to have noticed this. Starting (I think) sometime last week, I started noticing 30-second spots for Amway/Quixtar during Countdown. I may have missed them ...
by electric meatball
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on Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 12:37 AM PDT
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In previous posts, I have sketched a rough outline of some authoritarian features of the Bush administration its political base, and its path to power. One of the key tenets of Bush's governance is ...
by Dana Houle
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on Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 07:23 AM PDT
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The administration of George W. Bush has pursued an agenda and engaged in a governance style that breaks radically from any previous administration. Some of the characteristics of what I’m ...
by Dana Houle
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on Sun Oct 21, 2007 at 05:33 PM PDT
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I have had a bit of an evidentiary katamari that I've been rolling up for some time, and--whilst I've embargoed it on here, I've ...
by dogemperor
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on Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 01:35 PM PDT
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My mother was a public school teacher. My sister is a principal at a nonprofit high school for troubled teenagers. My wife teaches art in a public high school. Unsurprisingly, I think public schools ...
by Troutfishing
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on Tue Mar 27, 2007 at 07:08 AM PDT
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Last Monday, after the Superbowl, Bill in Portland Maine reminded me about the Mars candy bar family with his diary .
I'd already ...
by CSI Bentonville
108 comments
on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 04:40 AM PST
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