u/secondsniglet

My TBM Mom just informed me she is feeling AMAZING now that she has stopped taking her prescription medication for Parkinson's and started taking supplements from a Utah MLM called Sisel. She has been consulting with some Sisel "doctor", who "went to BYU" and realized that traditional medicine was bad.

I've been researching Sisel and noticed that the founders led a previous supplements MLM into a collapse and started Sisel out of the ashes. These guys were convicted of fraud and warned to stop making false medical claims by the Biden administration.

Now these scoundrels are hurting old people like my 78 year old Mom with their lies. People who go off of Parkinson's meds can feel a "high" for two or three months, but then find their condition actually gets worse!

What should I do? Telling my mother this is a fraud will likely just convince her to hang up on me. She doesn't want to hear an unkind word from me about how her church, or people in her faith community. She has a long history of getting sucked into one MLM after another. Normally I just shut my mouth with these get rich schemes. But this one is messing with her health!

>By Anne Applebaum

>Even without negotiations, Russia and Ukraine may be heading toward a new status quo. The transparent frontline zone may now be 20 miles wide, but as drone technology improves, it could soon be 30 or even 40 miles wide. At some point the front line will become not just a no-man’s-land but a de facto demilitarized zone, similar to the one that separates North and South Korea, regularly patrolled and maintained by drones.

>After that, it could become a border—a temporary border, one that will not be recognized by either side—but a border nevertheless: no different from a river or mountain range, impossible to move, difficult to cross. This would not be a clear victory for Ukraine, but it would be a major defeat for Putin, whose central goal—the destruction of all of Ukraine, the removal of Ukraine from the map—would never be realized.