- in this post we'll be looking at organised crime groups. A lot of people say that they pay a minor role in society but it's obvious that this in untrue:
New York Mob Captain Explains How The Crime Families Operate Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL0BnSpKRoI
Confessions Of An Italian Mafia Capo: The Life Of A Top Earner & HITMAN For The Bonanno Crime Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTYAaRbINYc
Mexican Cartel Hitman Reveals Life As A PAID KILLER For Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwwitiXt18
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
Gangs of Marseille: Welcome to the Most Dangerous City in Europe | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCwA4xopUtY
Inside Sinaloa Cartel: Meet the Sicarios | Drug War | Endevr Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ckb01-f2Yc
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
The Chilling Story of Serbia's Human Slaughterhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZHctPA22c
https://www.youtube.com/@occrpofficial
The Secret World Of The Serbian Mafia In Belgrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzotw62EnQ0
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cities (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AX0VI11F-4
Cape Town, South Africa | Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cities (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9eHQ8zY-0
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
How 6 Criminal Businesses Actually Work — From Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling | Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5Dlo96nto
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Unmasking the undercover informant inside the cartel | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kse32_VpTOE
The scandalous case of Lawyer X and the underbelly murder investigations | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjrWDwpNMcU
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
The Price of El Salvador's War on Gangs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLiQnXC7sQ
https://www.youtube.com/@business
How the Mexican cartels are making profits now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_qZ_mvQfoE
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Narco:_Inside_Mexico%27s_Criminal_Insurgency
Mexico: The Cartels Switch to Fentanyl I ARTE Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqeKDVtOaU
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
Ross Kemp on Gangs: Investigating Gangs in Bulgaria, Belize & Kenya | Ross Kemp Extreme World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yxi-0kKqjc
https://www.youtube.com/@rosskempextremeworld/videos
Why the U.S. Department of Justice ended program seizing millions from airline passengers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Z2j2ckUTE
https://www.youtube.com/@investigatetv
Gang Terminology 101 with a Former Gang Unit Cop
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/84dABhtVfVY
https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnRyanClips/shorts
Russian Mafia Expert Rates 10 Russian Mob Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1W8iUtOBE
Russian vs Italian Mafia: who's more dangerous? #mobster #mobboss
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O2uLC6HbABw
Difference between Sicilian and Naples Mafia. #FemaleMafia #WomanMafia #MafiaBoss #NaplesMafia #Mic
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gl3FPU9VU-8
A Day In The Life Inside the Mafia: The Michael Franzese Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KmSk6UpqQ
https://www.youtube.com/@michaelfranzese/shorts
Former KGB Spy Rates 9 Russian Spy Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYo-ziwOAWQ
How The 'Ndrangheta (Italian Mafia) Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0K5l6unj4
How Biker Gangs Actually Work (Mongols Motorcycle Club) | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmMBHJBbbc
How The Latin Kings Gang Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBVoamH5qVM
How The Crips Gang Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VylZeRkWzbY
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Ex-Mob Boss Plays Never Have I Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtfpM0CnX8
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
Breaking the Calabrian Mafia in Italy | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSa4B37sZs
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Mobsters didn't actually hate the police. Defund the police doesn't work on a real level.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tk1BSRmzU4Q
https://www.youtube.com/@michaelfranzese/shorts
The Difference Between Police Officers and Military Operators
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DfqeplVuXT0
https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnRyanClips/shorts
The Economics of the Mafia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MjDEuTuRD0
https://www.youtube.com/@jaketran
I Made $10,000,000 A Week As A Mafia Boss | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OLXQX1d3ig
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
How I Stole $8 Million A Week As A Mafia Boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380Zqbi9luo
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_gangs,_and_syndicates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Collar_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyguard_(British_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_of_Thieves_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_%26_Furious
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_(film_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1999_film)
- the absurd thing about organised crime groups is that a lot them are so large that they are similar in size to TNC/MNC. It makes sense that they have outsized influence in some countries and globally? Projected impact of organised crime on GDP don't make sense at times/seems heavily understated?
politician deaths by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_who_died_in_office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_who_were_assassinated_or_executed
crime percentage of global gdp
Transnational organized crime is big business. In 2009 it was estimated to generate $870 billion - an amount equal to 1.5 per cent of global GDP. [1] That is more than six times the amount of official development assistance for that year, and the equivalent of close to 7 per cent of the world's exports of merchandise.
https://www.unodc.org/toc/en/crimes/organized-crime.html
Illicit Trade is Emerging as a Top 5 World Economy (GDP) in 2024: Yielding Criminals, Bad Actors, and Threat Networks Between $3-5 Trillion a Year in Illicit Wealth
Top 5 World Economies (GDP)
1. United States ($28.0 trillion)
2. China ($18.6 trillion)
3. Germany ($4.7 trillion)
4. Japan ($4.3 trillion)
5. India ($4.1 trillion)
[Source: IMF data (as of February 2024)]
Global Illicit Markets:(Est. Annual Dollar Value)
Money Laundering (At Least $2.6 trillion)
Transnational Crime ($1.6 to $2.2 trillion)
Bribery (At Least $1.0 trillion)
Narcotics (At Least $500 billion)
Counterfeits/Piracy (At Least $500 billion)
Environmental Crimes ($91 to $258 billion)
Human Trafficking (Up to $150 billion)
Illegal Tobacco Products (Up to $50 billion)
The United Nations, IMF and other leading international organizations have estimated that the dirty money laundered annually from such criminal activities constitutes up to 5 percent of global gross domestic product, or an estimated $3-5 trillion. [Estimate World Economy (GDP) in 2024: $105 Trillion]
[Sources: World Bank, UNODC, OECD, FATF, ILO, GFI, INTERPOL, UNEP, World Economic Forum]
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/illicit-trade-emerging-top-5-world-economy-gdp-2024-david-m--mmwoe/
Money laundering is an ongoing and pervasive threat that impacts economies worldwide. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the estimated amount of money laundered annually is 2-5% of the global GDP, or $800 billion - $2 trillion in current U.S. dollars. A recent study by University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor Peter Reuter and Dutch economist Joras Ferwerda from Utrecht University published in the journal Risk Analysis has uncovered major weaknesses in the National Risk Assessments (NRAs) conducted by eight of the most financially important countries. Their study examines critical gaps in understanding and addressing money laundering risks.
https://spp.umd.edu/news/policy-professors-international-study-reveals-weaknesses-global-efforts-combat-money
biggest organised crime group in the world
1. The Notorious History of the Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra)
2. Unraveling the Operations of the Russian Bratva
3. Inside Look at Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel
4. The Yakuza: Japan's Infamous Organized Crime Syndicate
5. Colombia's Ruthless Medellín and Cali Cartels
6. Triads: China's Secretive Underworld Network
7. Hells Angels: From Motorcycle Club to Global Crime Empire
8. Italy's 'Ndrangheta: Masters of Cocaine Trafficking
9. Los Zetas: Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
10. MS-13: Central America's Violent Street Gang Gone International
https://www.guyhadleigh.com/blog/the-top-10-biggest-criminal-organizations-in-the-world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_gangs,_and_syndicates
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Russian Mafia (Late 1980's–) | Net Worth: $100 Billion | Members: Thousands
'Ndrangheta (1860–) | Net Worth: $60 Billion | Members: 6,000–10,000
CJNG (2009–) | Net worth: $50 Billion | Members: 18,800–33,100
Triad (1885–) | Net Worth: $40 Billion | Members: 80,000–100,000
Yakuza (17th Century–) Net Worth: $30 Billion | Members: 10,000–25,000
Los Zetas (1997–) | Net Worth: $25 Billion | Members: 1,000–50,000
Cosa Nostra (19th Century–) | Net Worth: $20 Billion | Members: 2,000–5,500
Camorra (16th Century–) | Net Worth: $11 Billion | Members: 4,500–10,000
Sinaloa Cartel (1987–) | Net worth: $10 Billion | Members: 20,000–100,000
Lebanese mafia (1940s–) | Net Worth: $10 Billion | Members: 1,000–3,000
https://www.quora.com/Which-organized-crime-group-is-the-strongest-today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation
- most people don't notice ingress of organised crime into normal society unless have been involved, they're curious, etc... in this area. Once you've been introducted, it's hard to escape this no matter which side you play on because of the way things have worked for so long regardless of whether you work for government, organised crime, law enforcement, intelligence, defense, etc? Note, the overlap of items commonly stolen and where you often see them? Academic world propers you really poorly to understand it properly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyguard_(British_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_(TV_series)
organised crime and unions
https://www.history.com/news/how-mafia-infiltrated-american-labor-unions
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/cfmeu-deals-put-union-in-bed-with-bikies-and-the-underworld-20240908-p5k8uq
https://www.aigroup.com.au/news/media-centre/2024/national-action-required-to-investigate-cfmeu-links-with-organised-crime/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ucccr0/why_are_unions_such_a_political_bogeyman_in_the/?rdt=45622
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/labor-racketeering-mafia-and-unions-crime-and-justice-review
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/criminal-infiltration-and-a-sudden-resignation-the-cfmeu-saga-explained/b9aks2zf0
organised crime and wall st
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wall-street-crime-and-punishment-the-mafia-micro-cap-market-and-the-largest-securities-fraud-takedown-in-history-1030729849
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-190232/
https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-But-Money-Infiltrated-Street/dp/0425228800
organised crime and politics
Specifically, the presence of organized crime is associated with abnormal spikes in violence against politicians before elections — particularly when the electoral outcome is more uncertain — which in turn reduces voting for parties opposed by criminal organizations.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alesina/files/app_10_18_17.pdf
The problem is not only that the nexus between organized crime and democratic politics often materializes at the local level, but also that the consequences of these relationships are mainly felt locally. Guatemala City is a case in point. There, 'criminal groups interfere with local politics in order to control the granting of permits—for example, the sale of alcohol'(Briscoe, Perdomo and Uribe Burcher 2014: 44). Colombia faces similar challenges: 80 municipalities that went bankrupt between 1999 and 2011 in that country had electoral results favouring candidates with close links to paramilitary groups (Briscoe, Perdomo and Uribe Burcher 2014: 42). Similarly in Peru, for example in the locality of Puno, protracted political corruption and the presence of organized crime have contributed to exacerbating exclusion, poverty and inequality (Briscoe, Perdomo and Uribe Burcher 2014: 146–58).
Organized crime has three main effects on democratic local politics: it (a) further hinders political contestation; (b) exacerbates weak governance and corruption; and (c) contributes to violence
https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/protecting-politics-deterring-the-influence-of-organized-crime-on-local-democracy.pdf
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/organised-crime-and-corrupting-political-system
https://www.unodc.org/e4j/ru/organized-crime/module-4/key-issues/links-to-corruption.html
construction industry and real estate corruption
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/corruption-and-misconduct-risks-in-construction-and-manufacturing
https://www.grantthornton.com.au/insights/blogs/rising-risk-and-financial-crime-impacting-real-estate-and-construction/
https://finintegrity.org/corruption-in-construction/
organised crime and construction
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/16/cfmeu-administration-mark-irving-bikies-violence-report-geoffrey-watson-ntwnfb
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/20/alleged-links-and-the-cfmeu-what-to-know-about-the-political-furore-over-the-construction-union
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/criminal-infiltration-and-a-sudden-resignation-the-cfmeu-saga-explained/b9aks2zf0
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/organized-crime-construction-industry
cash converters fires
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-01/shopping-centre-fire-in-melbourne-epping/101914706
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/11b8rst/sunshine_fire_aftermath/
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1gt1ilv/cash_convertors_in_preston_on_fire_i_counted/
tobacco store fires
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/tobacco-store-fire-fawkner-factory-fire-keilor-park/104411422
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/tobacco-store-in-melbourne-damaged-in-suspicious/104411880
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/blaze-lights-up-tobacco-shop-in-thornbury-victoria/news-story/9bbdb6b61de7d969441ee8603f203c97
https://www.9news.com.au/national/tobacco-store-fire-two-tobacco-stores-targeted-in-separate-attacks-in-melbourne/92a6f2c6-91b0-488e-88a6-5fed2fe738e6
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/27/victorias-tobacco-wars-police-investigate-suspicious-fire-that-destroyed-melbourne-shop-ntwnfb
forensic accounting course
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/courses/forensic-accounting
Forensic Accounting
https://www.swinburne.edu.au/course/unit/a/acc30003/
https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/learning-and-events/specialisations/forensic-accounting
ACF5120 - Forensic accounting and fraud examination
https://handbook.monash.edu/2024/units/ACF5120
Forensic Accounting - ANU - Programs and Courses
https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/course/busn8067
https://event.mq.edu.au/forensic-accounting-feb23/
Master of Forensic Accounting and Financial Crime
https://coursehandbook.mq.edu.au/2020/courses/c000066
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furies_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(2017_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick_(film)
top items stolen from homes
1. Wallets and cash
2. Clothing and furs
3. Prescription drugs
4. Cars and parts
6. Electronics
7. Jewelry and precious metals
8. Personal documents
9. Firearms
10. Power tools
https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/common-items-stolen/
1. Cash
2. Laptops
3. Jewellery
4. Cameras
5. Phones
6. Wallets, handbags, purses
7. Identification documents
8. Televisions
9. Computer and video game equipment
10. Watches
https://crimsafe.com.au/top-10-items-stolen-in-a-burglary/
The most recent statistics show the top 10 items stolen in a burglary to be:
Cash
Laptops
Jewellery
Cameras
Phones
Wallets, handbags, purses
Identification documentation
TVs
Computer and video game equipment
Watches
https://alltronic.com.au/alarm-systems/information/most-common-items-stolen-during-break-ins
1. Jewellery
2. Handbags, wallets and purses
3. Tech
4. Power tools
5. Bikes
https://www.aami.com.au/aami-informed/in-the-home/insuring-a-home/top-stolen-items-from-homes.html
https://www.smartsecurity.com.au/the-most-commonly-stolen-items-in-home-burglaries-and-how-to-protect-them/
https://www.racv.com.au/royalauto/property/insurance/what-burglars-want-to-steal.html
pawnbroker most wanted items
1. Electronic gadgets
2. Jewellery and accessories
3. Musical Instruments
4. Tools and equipment
https://www.cashconverters.com.au/about/blog/buying-selling/what-can-i-sell-at-a-pawn-shop
https://chapelstreetpawnbrokers.com.au/top-10-items-to-pawn-for-quick-cash/
Top 10 Items To Pawn For Cash
1. Jewelry
2. Precious Metals
3. Gemstones
4. Electronics
5. Firearms (registered to you)
6. Power Tools + Equipment
7. Antiques / Collectibles
8. Musical Instruments
9. Sporting Goods
10. Rare Coins
https://ezpawn.com/pawnderings/top-10-items-to-pawn-for-cash/
most popular items sold on ebay
https://printify.com/blog/top-selling-items-on-ebay/
The best selling items on eBay
Cables
Men's Clothing
Fragrances
Computers
Car Phone Holder
Wireless Charger
Necklaces
Supplements
Vitamins
Socks
Fans
Women's Clothing
Bracelets
Action Figures
Smartwatch
https://bloggingwizard.com/best-selling-items-on-ebay/
weapons arrest by region
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/weapons-search-areas
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/almost-20-arrested-melbournes-south-over-drug-and-warrants-offences
https://www.acic.gov.au/subject/firearms
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-20/guns-cash-explosives-seized-three-arrested/103371746
weapons offences by suburb
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/about-the-data/classifications-and-victorian-map-boundaries/offence-classification
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/
Australia's underground market for firearms has ballooned in the past decade and gun-related crime, concentrated in some particular areas, is on the rise.
Melbourne's northern and western suburbs are hotspots for firearms offenders while Sydney's west also has alarming data.
The Melbourne municipality of Hume, which takes in the suburbs of Broadmeadows, Gladstone Park and Jacana, has more firearms offenders than any other location in Australia's two biggest cities – Melbourne and Sydney – according to police statistics.
Police attribute the high data numbers in the area to Middle Eastern gangs.
"We know Middle Eastern organised crime groups and other organised crime groups predominantly residing in the north west metro region who are actively engaged in drug-related trafficking and are using firearms to settle drug debts and to intimidate others," a Victoria police spokesperson told The New Daily.
There were 231 charges laid by Victoria Police against City of Hume residents in the 12 months to the end of June, up almost 200 per cent in a decade.
Meanwhile, the City of Casey, which includes the suburbs of Cranbourne and Berwick on the south-eastern fringe of Melbourne, wasn't far behind – it had 226 charges laid on residents.
In third spot, just one behind Casey, was Brimbank. Taking in the suburbs of Keilor and Sunshine in Melbourne's west, Brimbank residents attracted 225 charges for firearms offences last year.
Police attribute the high data numbers in the area to Middle Eastern gangs.
"We know Middle Eastern organised crime groups and other organised crime groups predominantly residing in the north west metro region who are actively engaged in drug-related trafficking and are using firearms to settle drug debts and to intimidate others," a Victoria police spokesperson told The New Daily.
There were 231 charges laid by Victoria Police against City of Hume residents in the 12 months to the end of June, up almost 200 per cent in a decade.
Meanwhile, the City of Casey, which includes the suburbs of Cranbourne and Berwick on the south-eastern fringe of Melbourne, wasn't far behind – it had 226 charges laid on residents.
In third spot, just one behind Casey, was Brimbank. Taking in the suburbs of Keilor and Sunshine in Melbourne's west, Brimbank residents attracted 225 charges for firearms offences last year.
According to NSW police, unoccupied hobby farms in rural parts of the state are increasingly being targeted by gun thieves in particular.
"There has been an increase in the theft of firearms from registered owners from rural properties, particularly in the Riverina, as remote or 'vacant' hobby farms provide thieves with ample time to search and locate firearms," said NSW firearms squad detective superintendent Mick Plotecki.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-aussie-suburbs-plagued-by-gun-crime-041746656.html
Top 10 Most Dangerous Suburbs in Melbourne
Suburb Crime Rate
Melbourne City 35.76 incidents per 100 residents
Collingwood 21.51 incidents per 100 residents
Fitzroy 19.64 incidents per 100 residents
Campbellfield 19.05 incidents per 100 residents
Docklands 18.65 incidents per 100 residents
South Melbourne 15.68 incidents per 100 residents
St Kilda West 13.87 incidents per 100 residents
Abbotsford 13.59 incidents per 100 residents
Parkville 13.28 incidents per 100 residents
Southbank 13.24 incidents per 100 residents
https://en.uhomes.com/blog/safest-and-most-dangerous-suburbs-in-melbourne
- same theme of stolen weapons and cars being used for crimes? There are favoured weapons and locations to carry out "hits"
homicide map chicago
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Homicide-Map/53tx-phyr
https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/
https://gis.chicagopolice.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_box
professional murder indications
Contract killings in Australia
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp053.pdf
most common weapons used in homicides
https://www.criminalattorneycolumbus.com/which-weapons-are-most-commonly-used-for-homicides/
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-11.xls
The Australian Institute of Criminology has collected data on homicides in Australia since 1989. Homicide includes murder, manslaughter and infanticide, but excludes driving-related fatalities unless these occur in the course of a criminal event. In 2004-05 there were 249 incidents involving 267 victims of homicide, the lowest number of homicide incidents and victims in Australia since the AIC began monitoring. The weapons/methods used in the commission of homicide have remained relatively unchanged over the years. The figure below shows that while the most common types of weapons used in homicide in Australia are weapons of opportunity, such as knives or sharp instruments and hands and/or feet, weapon use tends to differ based on the gender of the victim. Females were more likely to be killed with a knife or sharp instrument (37%), followed by being beaten to death with hands and/or feet (27%). This pattern of weapon use was similar for male victims, although the proportion of males killed with a firearm in 2004-05 declined, with a firearm becoming the third most common weapon for male victims (19%). Fewer than one in 10 females were killed with a firearm in 2004-05.
Homicides in Australia 2004-05: weapon type
https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi141
Highlights
- Although most crime is not committed with guns, most gun crime is committed with handguns. pages 1 & 2
- Although most available guns are not used in crime, information about the 223 million guns available to the general public provides a context for evaluating criminal preferences for guns. page 2
- By definition, stolen guns are available to criminals. The FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) stolen gun file contains over 2 million reports; 60% are reports of stolen handguns. page 3
- In 1994, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) received over 85,132 requests from law enforcement agencies for traces of guns used in crime. Over threequarters of the guns traced by the ATF in 1994 were handguns (mostly pistols), and almost a third were less than 3 years old. page 4
- Surveys of inmates show that they prefer concealable, large caliber guns. Juvenile offenders appear to be more likely to possess guns than adults. page 5
- Studies of the guns used in homicides show that large caliber revolvers are the most frequent type of gun used in homicides, but the number of large caliber semiautomatic guns used in murders is increasing. page 5
- Little information exists about the use of assault weapons in crime. The information that does exist uses varying definitions of assault weapons that were developed before the Federal assault weapons ban was enacted. page 6
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF
burglary rates by suburb
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/crime-statistics/latest-crime-data-by-area
https://nhw.com.au/reporting-crime/access-latest-crime-statistics/
https://redsuburbs.com.au/?lat=-24.4871&lng=138.8232&zoom=4
- back/bathroom method preferred entry point due to steam. Sliding door is often open and not bolted in/locked. Best break in time is daytime as no one home. Anything easy to move, sell, expensive is targeted
Burglar explains how he breaks into homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJRR9tyM14
https://www.youtube.com/@KGWNews8
- reformed burglar, caught 4 times. Security/monitoring systems worth it. Half time security systems not armed/on. Avoid houses with dogs. Looking for exist from moment in. Don't publicise holidays, leave out, provide cover for burglars to make use of. Most people keep stuff in same places. Master bedroom is where jewellery usually is. Cash/coins, videos games, electronics/laptops, precscription medicines targeted. Preferred exfiltration method out is out front door
Confessions of a Burglar Video ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqgtdFg1oxk
https://www.youtube.com/@LBPDMediaRelations1
Inside the Mind of a Thief | Burglar Confessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtwD-c9hn58
https://www.youtube.com/@AllenCityTV
- carry weapons at all times not to hurt people but control situation, be a "professional criminal". Operated 80s-90s era. A lot of gangs in UK were based on social circle. Information gained from social circles, people who publicise their lives, casing random places. Jobs either done quick, maximise time in homes by disabling alarms/security, etc... Most valuables kept in obvious places in home but sometimes searching needs to be done. Jobs done in groups with some lookout, others disabling the job, others taking the goods, transportation, etc... Get rid of goods via well known specialists in London, UK in jewellery, art, gold, etc... Gangs broke up money based on contribution and number of individuals. UK gangs loosely associated but mostly independent? Sometimes corrupt officials and police were used to target rival gangs by using law enforcement against them. Prison helps you to master your crime? Mass surveillance making crime more difficult so lots of them have switched to faceless crimes as much as possible. Lots of criminals have bad or no role models when younger, he drifted into organised crime due to bad social circle. After leaving prison went from labourer to running own business in marketing.
How Organized Burglary Rings Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IGgkuF1YJE
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Town_(2010_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_Room
premier league football burglaries
https://securityandsafetysolutions.co.uk/news/premier-league-football/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12964791/The-Premier-League-crime-footballs-biggest-names-targeted-country-wave-break-ins.html
Premier League stars spend big on ex-SAS security and install panic rooms to combat gang raids
Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne, Chelsea's Raheem Sterling and Manchester United's Victor Lindelof are among the Premier League players who have since their houses burgled
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-security-house-gangs-31724205
A GANG who burgled Jack Grealish's home are believed to have carried out other raids on the home of Prem ace Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Love Island stars Molly Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, The Sun can reveal.
Cops looking into the robberies have dubbed them the "Balcony Burglars" after they used ladders to target balconies connected to the master bedrooms of each mansion.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25385523/gangs-balcony-burglars-premier-league/
https://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2023-2024/jack-grealish-the-victim-of-1m-house-burglary-and-could-miss-sheffield-united-clash_sto9938571/story.shtml
burglaries by country
Bermuda 1,188 2016
New Zealand 1,150 2020
Cape Verde 856 2018
Sweden 783 2020
Dominica 754 2020
United Kingdom 715 2018
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 676 2020
Denmark 661 2020
Chile 623 2020
North Macedonia 623 2014
Luxembourg 603 2018
Austria 544 2020
Australia 522 2020
Grenada 505 2020
Saint Kitts and Nevis 483 2020
Suriname 480 2020
France 458 2020
Israel 431 2011
Saint Lucia 412 2020
Belgium 409 2020
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/burglary-rates-by-country
- racketeering/extortion/blackmail reminds me a lot of domestic violence and colonialism at times? Can you detect strange patterns in spending from their bank statements and transactions (like in betting or tax evasion)?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence
Black market tobacco floods Australian market | Investigations | SBS The Feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjvgj6rKsZ0
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSTheFeed
Tobacco retail sales are plummeting but it's not because people have quit smoking | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCuoMj108s
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
lygon st restaurants mafia
https://www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcast-episode/vi-carlton-fitzroy-and-brunswick-the-stomping-grounds-of-the-honoured-society/sr26fs2kw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carlton_Crew
lebanese gangs tobacco
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/six-people-arrested-over-alleged-15-million-illicit-tobacco-import
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-police-smash-30-million-illegal-tobacco-syndicate-in-major-turf-war-breakthrough/b0f19dec-895c-4aee-b079-10a35154453f
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/victoria-police-tobacco-war-arrests-wa-police/104007356
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/tobacco-wars-melbourne-majid-alibadi/103797524
https://www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-subsite/Pages/Warrants-executed-across-Melbourne-targeting-illicit-tobacco.aspx
asian gangs weapons imports
CHAPTER 6: Japanese Organised Crime in Australia
Introduction
5.1 For over a decade there has been concern expressed about the growth in Australia of organised criminal activity by Vietnamese, with media attention focusing initially on 'crime gangs'. For example, a 1988 media report stated: 'Criminal gangs in the Vietnamese community are increasingly heavily armed, are moving into drugs and gambling, establishing links with Australian crime figures, and becoming involved in standover rackets in their own community'. [1] A 1991 media report quoted an unnamed police source as saying that Vietnamese groups were mainly involved in crimes against their own community including murder, extortion, robbery and petty drug dealing, with standover and extortion being the most common. [2]
5.2 Similar concerns have emerged in Canada [3] and the United States.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Former_Committees/acc/completed_inquiries/pre1996/ncaaoc/report/c06
Firearm trafficking and serious and organised crime gangs - Samantha Bricknell
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp116.pdf
drug import south america asia
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-trafficking/
https://americasquarterly.org/article/why-drug-cartels-are-expanding-to-asia/
https://www.unodc.org/roseap/en/2023/06/biggest-drug-trafficking-corridors/story.html
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/drug-trafficking-pacific-islands-impact-transnational-crime
https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/oceanias-spike-in-synthetic-drug-markets/
african gangs melbourne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_Australia
- organised crime attracted to sports and art due to money laundering, match fixing, tax evasion? It's a semi-feudal system which means sales channels for new products are often very limited? Very similar techniques used throughout criminal and corporate world. Used goods great for laundering as well as heavyily cash dependent businesses, etc... Any good or service/job where the wage/salary can be manipulated easily is very handy/useful for money laundering because it gives you plausible deniability?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
WEBUYANYCAR BANNED MY £7,000,000 CAR COLLECTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCfnt8N4Ylk
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMcCann64
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sports+clubs+money+laundering
How criminals launder money through Football Clubs ⚽
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrjUfPrD9X8
How to Launder Millions of Dollars Through Art 🏞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC6BAU-svJ8
https://www.youtube.com/@Strise
Why is the UK a haven for money laundering?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv2x8qZl4o4
https://www.youtube.com/@occrpofficial
Money-Laundering Expert Rates 8 Money-Laundering Scams In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eDnKct5XAw
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Money Laundering: The Underworld's Dirty Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sanJdU_bK7I
https://www.youtube.com/@WiseguyWhispers-xw1gy
Is Dubai a money-laundering hub? | Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHyb0PooVxw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
The Pandora Papers: How the world of offshore finance is still flourishing | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kPLpZN3I3A
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Asset Laundering In The UK | Corruption | PEPs | Offshore Leaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDB8SQ1u2ic
https://www.youtube.com/@Moconomy
https://www.youtube.com/@vladtv/videos
north korea restaurant chain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_(restaurant_chain)
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/24/15662094/north-korean-restaurant-china
https://www.youngpioneertours.com/pyongyang-restaurant-chain/
How I Laundered Money For Pablo Escobar's Cartel | A DEA Agent's Uncut Story | How Crime Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TkwxK7o90E
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Spain Arrests Top Cop After $21 Million Found in Walls of His House | Vantage With Palki Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7UCXwUqeVw
https://www.youtube.com/@Firstpost
organised crime and tradespeople
https://developer-update.co.uk/2024/01/22/fear-of-theft-and-violence-putting-a-strain-on-tradespeople-with-more-than-nine-in-10-targeted-by-criminals/
https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/fear-of-theft-and-violence-putting-a-strain-on-tradespeople-340393/
https://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/publication/regulatory-regimes-and-organised-crime-consultation-paper/3-the-infiltration-of-organised-crime-groups-into-lawful-occupations-and-industries/
https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/consumers-and-businesses/scams/travelling-con-men
celebrities and money laundering
https://globalradar.com/trending-money-laundering-in-hollywood-more/
New Model Money Laundering Through Famous Artists
https://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.6-5-2023.2333544
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariredbord/2023/02/01/tom-brady-and-other-a-listers-fumble-ftx-endorsements-but-will-they-be-held-liable/
entertainment industry money laundering
https://www.sanctionscanner.com/blog/film-industry-and-money-laundering-402
https://medium.com/aml-watcher/money-laundering-in-the-music-industry-an-unseen-symphony-of-crime-34c9936f11a6
https://www.epgdlaw.com/how-does-the-music-industry-launder-money/
https://insightcrime.org/news/colombian-criminals-use-music-industry-launder-money/
charities money laundering
https://www.acnc.gov.au/tools/guides/terrorism-financing
https://sumsub.com/blog/money-laundering-through-charities-how-to-spot-it/
https://pideeco.be/articles/charities-money-laundering/
https://www.sanctionscanner.com/blog/the-risks-of-money-laundering-for-charities-546
https://www.acnc.gov.au/for-charities/manage-your-charity/governance-hub/governance-toolkit/governance-toolkit-financial-abuse
money laundering collectibles
Australian National University lecturer Anton Moiseienko, whose work focuses on transnational crime, economic crime and cybercrime, agreed it made "perfect sense" for money launderers to invest in luxury items and collectibles such as Bearbricks.
Buying and selling such items distanced the funds from the initial crime, but also made moving value internationally easier.
"Instead of making a bank transfer and running the risk of detection, one may simply take some jewellery across the border," he said.
He said gold, precious metals, jewellery and artworks were all well suited to this purpose but items like luxury handbags and collectible toys had a particular advantage.
"Businesses that buy and sell them are normally not subject to anti-money laundering regulation, unlike gold dealers or art auction houses, which means they do not need to report suspicious customers or activities," Dr Moiseienko said.
"From a money launderer's perspective, that's the sweet spot: expensive, highly liquid goods in an unregulated market."
However, he added that purchasing goods with the proceeds of crime was illegal and those items could still be confiscated by police.
"The line between the legal and the legal is not the nature of the transaction, but where the money comes from," he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-02/singapore-money-laundering-case-bearbricks/102794012
https://www.artandobject.com/news/how-money-laundering-works-art-world
https://financialcrimeacademy.org/money-laundering-through-antiques/
https://financialcrimeacademy.org/the-dark-world-of-art-money-laundering/
sports football transfer market money laundering
https://www.lseg.com/en/insights/risk-intelligence/blowing-the-whistle-on-footballs-financial-foul-play
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/money-laundering-football-not-so-beautiful-game
https://sumsub.com/blog/money-laundering-football/
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/11/football-transfers-rife-with-illegality-and-exploitation-report-money-laundering-third-party-ownership-uefa
How British Merchants "Perfected" Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidsZ5RrjQw
https://www.youtube.com/@HowHistoryWorks
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=money+laundering+documentary
- money laundering, counterfeiting, crime all generally linked. A lot of organised crime groups have parallel societies (including medical, religion, political, utilities, food, etc...) because they can't risk normal channels?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
How North Korea Makes Perfect Fake Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXYI-ABsUw
https://www.youtube.com/@LoupedYT
Operation Royal Charm: six indictments, 57 individuals charged, and seizures of more than $3.3 million in counterfeit currency, $2 million in counterfeit cigarettes, 36,000 ecstasy pills, and nearly a half-kilo of methamphetamine.
Operation Smoking Dragon: four indictments, 30 individuals charged, and seizures of more than $1.2 million in counterfeit currency. The defendants also allegedly smuggled billions of counterfeit cigarettes worth more than $40 million, with an additional $9 million in potential lost taxes.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2005/august/pistole_082205
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Asia_Financial_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime
How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAVpJfG1yQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intaglio_(printmaking)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Collar_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_(2007_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossack_Fonseca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ
https://www.youtube.com/@LastWeekTonight
Money laundering: The Gateway to Criminal Impunity | SLICE EXPERTS | FULL DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT68pMpG8Rg
https://www.youtube.com/@SLICE_Experts
A Full Guide to Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viM_t5kIpGc
https://www.youtube.com/@Doverhill12
How British Influencers Were Used To Smuggle £100m Cash From UK to Dubai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVaqAtCzy8
https://www.youtube.com/@ocgtvofficial
Why Chinese Organized Crime Is Laundering Billions for Mexican Cartels | John Nores | Borderland #42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3zuvVhzSLU
https://www.youtube.com/@thisisironclad
Adam Cranston and the $100m tax fraud | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-C5oh_X5M
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Tax agent caught collecting other people's tax returns | A Current Affair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYalHgvA19o
https://www.youtube.com/@ACurrentAffair9
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
The Rise of Money Launderers on Snapchat and Instagram | Crimewave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfgbZ5wJszs
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
How To Do Crime: Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOLuCRxKXY
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing
How to Clean Dirty Money | The Business of Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxJ7wGpPuM4
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
does all deposit money get checked for counterfeit
- Operation Strangehold, French and US customs officers checking for counterfeit goods. Dhakar point of exit for all West African traffic. Global task force of 174 countries tyring to crack down on counterfeit goods. Customs don't work in suits anymore and are at the ports around the clock now. Hong Kong 3rd largest port in world. Counterfeit all types of products now including electronics, medicine, food, car parts, etc... Fakers even create new products that manufacturers have never created. Fake Nokia phone batteries are detected but actually manufactured in Hong Kong/Asia. Most electronics come from Shenzen or Guandong in China. Fake batteries are all fake, no original. $0.2 USD battery in China is sold for $20-30 USD in US. Wholesale shipments aren't a problem getting past customers in China, Hong Kong, and France. Fake batteries sometimes missing safety and security elements which can cause them to explode. Factory workers live in dorms and often from countryside and earn only ~$150EU per month but it's better then what they can get home. They live and work together. There are various grades of counterfeit batteries. Cheaper ones have no circuitry to deal with overheating and overcharge situations. Prices are jacked up on fake products to give off appearance of legitimacy. Orders in thousands range are small, orders in tens of thousands range more normal. You need to go to Annual Chinese Canton International Trade Fair to trace original source as all that can be sold in China is there. Fake Red Bull=counterfeit Gold Cow, no idea whether it's similar or safe. WHO says that 1/10 medicines is fake. Cambodian medicines 1/4 is fake. Fake medicine can sometimes make things worse, be outdated, contain no active ingredient/s. Banks of Mekong river have heaps of counterfeit products. In spite of strong customs/border protection counterfeit products still get into France. Pfizer/Kent is only place in world where Viagra is made/manufactured but it's also the most faked. ~140 counterfeit samples Viagra per month submitted. 3 Pfizer labs in world in Africa, China, UK. Antibiotics, antidepressants, sleeping, malaria, etc... all made in make shift labs such as in Colombia. Counterfeit car parts in France increased by factor of 15 times in last few years. 4 brake pads for Citreon 206 for 7Euros which is 1/12 price of in France. Dried grass used instead of metal in fake break pads. Car has ~10K parts, 400 are used regularly and must be replaced at intervals. More fake goods then real now in transportation ~80% fake at port. ~ 800K customer officers and 400M shipping containers worldwide
Counterfeit Crackdown: From Fake Viagra to Exploding Phones | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4EeLudyL0
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
10 Greatest Counterfeits In History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9zOH9zpQU
https://www.youtube.com/@Therichest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbing_for_Beginners
- if you've been involved with larger companies (or studied them in detail) you'll see when they've ended up using "creative accounting" and interpreation of "tax law" to get around what they should pay vs what they actually pay. Lots of similar techniques used on both sides to evade the legal/justice/law enforcement system. If you were to tell kids in school who studied law and business how similar organised crime and corporates are at times they'd laugh? Ironic (or not if they're working in union) that a lot the same laws and methods used in the corporate world are used in the organised crime world to skirt the law and launder money. It's obvious that the corporate world and organised crime world work in unison a lot of the time but don't acknowledge it publicly
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/dodgy-job-contract-clauses-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_erosion_and_profit_shifting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_planning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy
How To (Semi) Legally Launder Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uLhh5GSxsQ
https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks
Company vs Trust Structure EXPLAINED SIMPLY (Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBQYvzymWY
https://www.youtube.com/@DavieMach
https://www.amazon.com.au/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/1785030426
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/narconomics-9781785030420
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159062-narconomics
Drug deals, loan sharks, and criminals: What these inspectors saw inside Crown Casino | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2MvXsR0go
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
crime casino correlation
Is there a link between gambling and crime?
Program: The link between gambling and crime
Researchers found that even a 10 per cent increase in gambling expenditure in NSW resulted in an additional 4500 assaults, almost 3000 more home break-ins, and 1300 extra break and enter offences.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/the-link-between-gambling-and-crime/104273166
https://www.connections.edu.au/news/strong-link-between-gambling-expenditure-and-crime-new-study-finds
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1005&context=econ_studt_schol
https://responsiblegambling.vic.gov.au/documents/97/Research-report-crime-and-gaming-machine-expenditure.pdf
Problem Gambling and Crime and its Costs
Gambling is often perceived as a leisure activity. For some people, however, it has serious negative consequences, notably criminal behaviour. The more severe a gambling problem is, the more likely it is to lead to crime (1, 2). Problem gambling rates range from 0.4% to 7.5% in the general population (3). About one half of the individuals experiencing problem gambling commit a crime (4).
U.S. studies estimate that justice system costs, in form of arrests and corrections, range from $2,200 to $3000 per individual with problem gambling (5, 6). One study estimates life-time costs of arrests to be upward of $10,000 for individuals with severe gambling problems (7). Other societal and personal consequences of problem gambling and crime include financial, employment-related (e.g., job loss), legal and mental and physical illness (8-10). Understanding why problem gambling and crime are linked and which groups are most vulnerable can help policy makers allocate resources to prevention and treatment.
https://www.greo.ca/Modules/EvidenceCentre/files/Kryszajtys%20and%20Matheson%20(2017)%20Problem%20gambling%20and%20crime%20and%20its%20costs.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pratt_(businessman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pratt_(businessman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lowy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Union_Buster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-11/kordamentha-investigation-queensland-branch-cfmeu/104585334
Drug Kingpin Explains How Money Laundering Actually Works | The Connect w/ Johnny Mitchell | Ep #3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-DFlIY9St0
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
HSBC: Tax Evasion, Money Laundering for the Mafia & Currency Manipulation | HSBC Scandal Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDq13Lr2ZWw
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Singapore's Biggest Ever Money Laundering Case: How Does It Affect Me? | Talking Point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPPiQWCaDuQ
https://www.youtube.com/@CNAInsider
Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGIp7kdS6E
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes/videos
How British Merchants "Perfected" Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidsZ5RrjQw
https://www.youtube.com/@HowHistoryWorks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_the_Rim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
sanctioned banks
https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/consolidated-list
https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/sanctions-regimes
https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information
https://www.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/procurement/debarred-firms
https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/activities/supervisory-measures/sanctions/html/index.en.html
proceeds of crime law
In Victoria, the Confiscation Act 1997 allows a court to order that property suspected of being the proceeds of crime be restrained or confiscated. Proceeds of crime are cash, property, other assets or benefits gained through criminal activity.
https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/criminal-law/vic/police-powers/proceeds-of-crime/
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29) (POCA) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides for the confiscation or civil recovery of the proceeds from crime and contains the principal money laundering legislation in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceeds_of_Crime_Act_2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
How Dubai became a haven for criminals from around the world | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i823AhR8zKQ
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGIp7kdS6E
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes
Why the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
https://shaunahurley.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Reardon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_(law)
- came across this when he lost job and was desperate for money. Hobby at first but then became better and became more professional. Used bible paper, glue and inks from local craft and hardware shops, imaging and digital technology, etc... Hhe sold currency for money as well as laundering it himself. They selected cashiers to help launder, break up currency. Self checkout machines hard to beat. Over 2-4 years of counterfeiting he was only rejected 3-4 times. He traded drugs for counterfeit money as well. Counterfeit money laundered with normal money by drug dealers to trade for drugs? Counterfeit pen marker, money held against light are common tests used to identify counterfeit. He got caught when a drug dealer associated with him was caught and informed on him to Secret Service. Lima, Medillin deal in counterfeit. Organised crime heavily involved in counterfeit. Art of making money by Art Williams. Strarted counterfeiting at 19yrs old. Counteifiting hard to get rid of. Cash and credit cards are both bigger targets now as electronic banking more popular
How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAVpJfG1yQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Money Counterfeiting Genius Reveals How He Printed Millions In Fake Hundred Dollar Bills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVPM9XAQqkM
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit
- evolution of bank robbery is remarkable as it's become more dependent on electronics and computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_of_Thieves_(film)
I Was On The Run For £6M Bank Robbery | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQfw87g5u8o
Mafia Boss & London Gangster Reveal Their Most Violent Crimes | Crime Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isOs6AUw_xM
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
How Navy SEALs Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eeIMVrwjLY
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_robbery
An ATM looting is a type of bank robbery in which a series of cash machines are robbed of cash. The thieves do the looting by using identity fraud to create debit cards containing other people's banking information, then they withdraw money from other peoples' bank accounts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_looting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_fraud
ATM Machine Theft By Sophisticated Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVnhLMWVkc
https://www.youtube.com/@First60MinuteNews
The First Cyber Bank Heist In History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xnV9l8yHhg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Levin_(hacker)
How Hackers Stole $1.000.000.000 From Banks (Carbanak) Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSNopHdNnKE
https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkerYT
The Rapper Behind The $4.5 Billion Bitfinex Hack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No_GwRsgnDo
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
How Russian Hackers Stole $100M from US Banks | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmR-UsWgxo
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
- 23.3M counterfeit Rolex watches circulating in US right now. Organised crime involved in this. Counterfeits fakes used to be easily seen but not almost impossible. Great counterfeits are called epic, only way to tell difference from original is to open up Rolex watch and check movement. Same machinary and software is used to manufacture fakes as real thing. Customs and border control are flooded/overwhelmed with counterfeit now so can't track/catch everything. Profit margins so high on fakes that getting goods seized is considered "cost of business" and new fakes are just resent. Secondary market mix real and fake products to make it less likely for them to get caught. Law enforcement is often used by private companies to hunt down counterfeiters if law enforcement can't fix the problem. He started investigations with his dad and went into his private practice later in life
How Counterfeit Rolexes Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEi95mhVI4
How Odometer Fraud Became A $1 Billion Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAiduOoZKB4
https://www.youtube.com/@CNBC
- worked as undercover police in London. The most hostile and controlling gangs are the most successful. Arrests create more opportunities? ~10% of users consume ~50% of heroin/drugs. User-dealer is the most exploited/entry level job. Law enforcement creates desperation in organised crime groups which makes things more hostile? The most successful drug gans use immediate violence and intimidation. Some dealers engaged in multiple murders and arms trade. Buying drugs dangerous because trust issues. Sweden, Mexico, UK drug gangs so large hard to keep an eye on things. Dark web have become more efficient. Wants to legalise drugs as war futile and so we can "control things"
https://www.amazon.com.au/Good-Cop-Bad-Neil-Woods-ebook/dp/B019CGXP90
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/good-cop-bad-war-9781473528994
How Drug Gangs Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TV4GuXFoA
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
- drugs are rampant everywhere now. Whether in school or workplace it's very difficult to avoid it. Base on previous experience in any group of 30-50 people, there's always at least a 2-5 who are normally trafficking or know how to procure it and 50-75% of the group know who are doing it but don't say anything? You'll only realise if you know're observant (such as recognising the smell or equipment used, actually see people engaging in it, etc...) or like to socialise. There's plenty of public hard evidence to back this pespective up as well but people are often in denial, are too scared to say anything, are involved themselves, etc...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/05/art-imitating-lifehow-music-and_5.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wolf+of+wall+st
Wolf Of Wallstreet Matthew McConaughey [FULL SCENE] [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6exo00T5I
Wolf of Wall Street - Best Scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idOQXlHVrQE
https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/10/aig-scandal-grows-auditor-quit-in-protest-about-cds-valuations
https://www.kansascityfed.org/publications/research/escp/jackson-hole
https://ca.reuters.com/article/us-aig-swaps-wsj/aig-knew-of-potential-problems-in-valuing-swaps-report-idUSTRE49B2WW20081012
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jackson+hole+symposium
Inside Job (2010 Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/ice-wars
Exposing the suspected barons of Australia's meth trade | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMvKz2fIjc
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Inside Mexico's Billion Dollar Drug Empire | Meet The Drug Lords: Inside The Real Narcos | 1/3 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otSIxPWqCds
Inside Colombia's Cocaine Underworld | Meet The Drug Lords: Inside The Real Narcos | 2/3 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWKI_vyQli0
Inside Peru's Illegal Drug Empire | Meet The Drug Lords: Inside The Real Narcos | 3/3 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjDQAA9WeMI
https://www.youtube.com/@DocoCentral
Tracking the Supply of LSD (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuT-iF2EQhk
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ0I7HyZNiI
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
The power of the drugs mafia - Cocaine and the Netherlands | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itF-rsJKt0
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Why Belgium is now the cocaine capital of Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsH152NE9Ak
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
Ex-Career Criminal on Drug Trafficking, Black Market Smuggling and Helping Prisoners Find Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBvhLYtJx1E
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
Cocaine for Germany | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4-CnqfK3pk
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Kinahan's Cocaine Kingdom: Unpacking the Growing Impact of Drug Trafficking on the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlFm_0NaWsM
https://www.youtube.com/@Nerrissa
Is Thailand the New Weed Capital of the World? | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBYryDFLO4Y
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Why Cocaine is Worth So Much | The War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ped04I84Q
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
The Notorious South African Cocaine DrugLords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlpbA_Dsybg
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSouthAfrican./videos
The ICE Epidemic of Fiji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGxrBL-NeA4
https://www.youtube.com/@Spanian
Returnees: the unlikely heroes fighting Tonga's drug crisis | The Pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arH3CHtF4So
Ex-criminals helping solve Tonga's drug crisis and former Fiji PM Bainimarama jailed | The Pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBn5IEUlM4
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
dare to dream tonga
https://icaad.ngo/2023/04/24/tongareturnees/
https://www.facebook.com/daretodreamfoundationincorporated/
https://islandtimes.org/they-were-deported-to-tonga-as-strangers-to-their-own-land-now-these-returnees-are-helping-fight-a-drug-crisis/
https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/tonga-deportees-centre/13549194
How Fiji Became a Cartel Paradise | The War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBFKrIyJVI
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
The Kids Who Ran a Private School Drug Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2I4uEcidZA
https://www.youtube.com/@bcproductionvideos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chapo_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=training+day+smoke+it
Training Day - 04 - Smoke it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvSQzhOhDO8
https://www.youtube.com/@MovieScenesInHQ
taking drugs on public transport
A survey of public transport workers 'paints a fairly ugly picture' of services, a transport commentator has said.
Some 80% say drug use by passengers on board has got worse in the last 12 months.
The SIPTU survey of more than 650 bus, rail and Luas staff found nearly three-quarters witnessed drug abuse in their workplaces several times a month, while just under 20% said drug use was an issue on a nearly daily basis.
More than 73% of respondents said they had felt threatened and unsafe due to the use of drugs by passengers.
Almost 83% said they have witnessed drug dealing on the public transport system, with 15.31% saying they witnessed it multiple times a week.
https://www.newstalk.com/news/increase-in-drug-taking-on-public-transport-paints-a-fairly-ugly-picture-1716594
TfL also works closely with crime and disorder reduction partnerships across London to ensure transport-related issues are included in their Community Safety Strategy. In addition, the TOCU targets drug-related crime through its dedicated closed-circuit television (CCTV) investigation unit. Drug-related incidents are actively identified and investigated by TOCU to help ensure that offenders are identified and arrested. This work is reflected in the results. In the last 12 months to the end of April 2005, TOCU officers covering the buses made 478 arrests for drug-related offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act, and British Transport Police operating on the Underground made 1,069 arrests in the same period. Overall, this work delivers a network that is generally safe and secure for passengers, though there is never room for complacency on such matters.
https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/drug-taking-buses
- was known as "King of Karachi"? ~1M people in UK using steriods. Can't get form doctor so have have to get steroids from black market. Worked as door security and lots of people in industry wanted steroids so he traced back source of steroids that he had obtained to Karachi, Pakistan. Went to hotel and spoke with prostitutes who redirected to market where he could talk to people who had links to Al-Qaeda, Taliban, police, etc... who were all paid off and allowed to move drugs. Market stall had it. Real for 30pence an ampule or 10pence an ampule for fake/snide. Money 30K up front and then two full taxis trade was all it took to start the operation. Steroids came from registered factories for Big Pharma/Medical industry/Pfizer/Roche. 50K ampoules too much to disguise/smuggle easily so they had to condense/repackage as Vitamin B12 tablets. Bribed Pakistan airport security using adult magazines first time, then 40UK pounds second time, then 100UK pounds for third time for head of Airport Security to give then clear ride/bypass airport security in Pakistan. Paid 2 drug mules ~1K UK pounds each, people he knew to help move drugs with him on 1wk holiday. Clean ride from Pakistan to Newcastle where there was little to no airport security/customs at early hours such as 5AM. Would sell wholesale to scotland, manchester, and liverpool and occasionally retail at 4UK pounds an ampoule. Open secret that steroid often used at gyms and he was well known for doing this as well. Did drug runs every 6wks, 3bag at 20K UK pounds each, ~2.5K on bribes/plane tickets, etc... Various different types of steroid can be purchased. He trafficked as well as used drugs. Arrested with his 2 mules in Alicante, Spain airport in 1999. Wwent to Spanish jail 1999-2002 and then back in again at 2003. Got out of steroids and went into cooking/prostitution. Got caught and then was sentenced for blackmail/prostition for 7yrs but only served 4yrs due to overcrowding. Wife and childre left him in 1998. Got off drugs after second stint in jail. Wrote 2books, started CBD company, etc...
How Steroids Smuggling Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQx1qF00ek
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
king of karachi
https://chetsandhu.com/
https://www.amazon.com.au/King-Karachi-Lockdown-Costa-Crime/dp/153059376X
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/meet-king-karachi-international-drug-18688081
- designer steroids allow professional atheletes to stay ahead of the game. They work but can't be detected. Back testing of all samples makes sense now. Different drugs/hormones and dosages used to mask doping without getting caught. Out of competition testing never used to happen. Once you take drugs/hormones they help you for months to years later. There is no genuine desire to catch doping in sports as it's bad for business/profits? From top to bottom it's an open secret in professional sports that doping is widespread. Use performance enchancing drugs or face losing? Politics, Intelligence, Sports agencies involved as well? Nutritionists/trainers/coaches sometimes doublespeak for performance enhancing drug suppliers? Marion Jones didn't go to jail for drugs but rather cheque fraud. He got caught carrying PEDs to help his atheletes and went to jail for ~6mths. Olympic testing has lots of lots of loopholes. Out of competition testing doens't test for ~80 narcotics, stimulants, drugs, hormones, etc... Lots of legal supplements are performance enhancing. Microdosing, taking at night/out of competition, etc... allows you to get around it. A while back I did some research which indicated that wealthier countries generally performed better in professional sports. In some respects this makes sense, but if they can afford performance enhancing drugs on top of that it makes much more sense why they seem to do so much better? Improper use of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) can cause all sorts of problems. He's trying to go straight now
How Olympic Sports Doping Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2op5XG7LGkI
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Victor Conte Jr. (born July 10, 1950)[1] is an American musician and businessman who was the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), which is now defunct. BALCO was a sports nutrition center in California. In the late seventies Conte played bass with funk / R&B group Tower of Power, appearing on the band's 1978 release We Came to Play!.
Conte served time in prison in 2005 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and to money laundering. He currently operates Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning (SNAC Nutrition).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Conte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnson_(Canadian_sprinter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Griffith_Joyner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Rodchenkov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Francis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_%C5%A0ar%C4%8Dev
sports coaches connected with doping wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_sport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_athletics
top olympics
https://olympics.com/ioc/partners
https://olympics.com/ioc/faq/olympic-marketing/what-is-the-top-programme
enhanced games
https://www.enhanced.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games
snac fighters
https://snac.com/blogs/sponsored-athletes
https://snac.com/products/fighters-training-stack
The Betrayal of Kenya's Athletes | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ej5k_SxUs
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
- medical professionals are distributing performance enhancing drugs to athletes. Street racing was when Tim Montgomerie first saw PEDs being used. He found first supplier in Nassau, Bahamas. Lots of people know how to dope used to be in anti-doping? A lot of athletes are on EPO, Insulin, Hormones, etc... Suspected medical professionals supply often deny what they do but are motivated by money, scientific interest, etc... Ask around and you'll eventually spot suppliers. Carbon 60 used in military as well as professional sports, GH, GRF-129, ROS/NOS, Clomiphene, HGC, IGF-LR3, Ipamorelin, Anabolic stroids, Delta-2, etc... North American doctors trying to break into European markets as well as their own. Drugs used for fertility, fatigue, libido, psychiatric issues can be used for performance enhancement as well. Doping fraud like accounting fraud, you keep multiple sets of documentation to decoy as well as monitor what's actually happening. Football, Baseball, Basketball, Atheletics, etc... Designer steroids less then $30 a syringe. College level sports don't really test as strongly as professional sports so you can use PEDs to boost performance and win a contract into professoinal sports. Peptides spike performance and help revovery. Thomas Mann (likely pseudonym/cover name) chemist/supplier in US with possible intelligence/defense links? MLB had no drug testing until 2003, owners of MLB loved drugs because it helped drive business/profits. Eddie Dominguez/drug tester says at least 1/2 of MLB players doping. Possible links to military/defense/intelligence, paramaceutical, medical industry and sports doping world due to similar goals? Anti-ageing clinics are fronts for PEDs?
The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRPxmTuxoI
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomery
https://www.nhibahamas.gov.bs/doctors/dr-cyprian-strachan/
https://cancersocietybahamas.org/executive-board/dr-nicholas-fox/
Dr. Chad Robertson - Physician Information and Wellness Portal
https://physicians.nshealth.ca/node/894
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/chad-robertson-34b2358a
http://drbrandonspletzer.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/charlie-sly-peyton-manning-hgh-fabrication/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/al-jazeeras-key-source-infamous-sports-doping-documentary-goes-missing-1147939/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Keller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Manning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Neal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Matthews_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Teagarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Howard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Zimmerman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(American_football)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Peppers
https://theguyerinstitute.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-guyer-71787514
Doping Exposed: The Hidden Network Fuelling the Olympics | Java Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcdUdP25Y9Q
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
The History of America & Steroids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0krRbqs-Iw
https://www.youtube.com/@MMAOnPoint
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/02/living-without-google-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
- all sorts of people now used as drug mules. Expendable, plentiful supply, lax laws and/or no/poor extradiation laws are things that organised crime target
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(smuggling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mule_(2018_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mule_(2014_film)
frequent flyers as drug mules
https://viewfromthewing.com/smuggling-in-style-the-surprising-link-between-drug-lords-and-frequent-flyer-miles/
https://afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/scam-victims-aiding-attempted-drug-imports
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/dhs-officials-issue-warning-about-scams-targeting-senior-citizens-unknowingly-act
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Drug_mules_bulletin.pdf
How this mum was duped into smuggling drugs — An Innocent Abroad: Part 1 | Australian Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIk_SxVemo0
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby tells her story from behind bars | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuFmKLZFbjc
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
- smuggler for 53yrs, caught ~12 times, 4 convictions (Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, Denmark, UK). Dealt with poeple in Mexico, Vietnam and Laos, Afhganistan. Introductions often lead to stings, lived with Afghan farmers to gain trust and then transport. Opium poppies are bled of fluid, this is turned into a brick. Brick is then cooked and filtered using sodium anhydride. White heroin safer then brown heroin. Nneed to watch airport security staff, procedures, and equipment closely. Larger amounts dealt with via shipping. Drugs camouflaged to help get things through. Price levels have dropped drasticaly over decades. Hheroin used to be legal medication, now banned. Street level heroin is ~$15-20. Cutting agent are Mintol and Fentynal and even Heroin for Cocaine. Very few people die from using heroin alone, it's normally when they mix with alchohol, sleeping pills or purity level variations. Law enforcement and intelligence could do more but can't due to resource restrictions/limitations. Got involved as teenager, was aware of what he was getting into but he was always mischievious background
How Heroin Smuggling Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0fT6nkvoP4
How Drug Smuggling (Ecstasy) Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bij-89fpFBw
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Cocaine Smuggling Genius Reveals Secrets Of His Global Narcotics Empire, Surviving Ecuadorian Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3bQ5W4wb34
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
International Drug Smuggler On How He Got Through Airport Security | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if72Hhd3BYM
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
- Fentanyl can be made using stuff from local hardware store and imported ingredients from China. It can be taken straight, cut/diluted, mixed with othre drugs
Inside the fentanyl cartel: Mexico crime lords feeding US addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwbjAKQKmoM
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4News
How Cocaine Is Made in Colombia With Bootleg Gasoline | Risky Business | Insider News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXiHyBitbs
https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderNews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
- started with fencing stolen goods, got thrown out of home, worked as mechanic where he sold stolen car parts. Stressed and mental health issues caused him to quite normal life and sold maruijana. Went to prison for 3 months. Thought about counterfeit as didn't have to worry about sales, security, etc... Did research online via government websites mostly. Crane and Co makes paper (cotton and linen blend) for currency in US. Got paper from Artos in Switzerland, print press from Germany for ~15K, etc... Paper cutters and injet printers required to add serial numbers. Lots of different people hired to watch over transport of equipment from port to manufacturing location. Took 5 months to print $250M. Tried sell current via dark web, old acquintances in drug world, referrals, etc... Plates, 1M in counterfeit, drugs, etc... found. He had taken a calculated risk knowing that he would be caught. Canadians generally get 1/6 sentence of US. He got let off on a evidentiary technicality and was only charged for $1350 for drugs and 6wks jail by trading in $200M to be let off. ~50M in the air. Is now a consultant for anti-counterfeiting similar to hackers who
The Hunt for the King of Counterfeiting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaejaGyDsxU
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/489-frank-bourassa-the-worlds-greatest-counterfeiter/id1344999619?i=1000515295498
https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-paper-caper
https://www.heidelberg.com/global/en/products/offset_printing/sheetfed_offset_overview.jsp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
Money Maker – Darknet Diaries
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/102/
How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | Dark Web Counterfeiter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuceecQ-7Gk
https://www.youtube.com/@InsideTrueCrime
- started early. Stolen clothes, then car parts, then counterfeit. He got info from government websites on what to do. 75% of security of US currency is in paper itself. Had his own printing press. Sold currency for ~1yr before he was caught selling to an undercover agent. In the end was only fined ~1500 USD but had printed ~250M USD and sold ~50M USD
This Man Made $250M in Counterfeit Money and Got Away with It*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8dcmXj0Uo
https://www.youtube.com/@GQVideos
- targeted expensive cars. Stole ~300-400 cars. Former Marine/military background. Brazen even against police. Used drugs which heightened his sense. Used jiggler keys which were semi-succesful and slow to help brea into cards. Used Flathead screwdriver and Vise grip initially to try get in and start car. Went from 1-4min to steal a vehicle to 6-7s. Normally had a lookout. Went from drugs to car theft over time. He was backed by organised crime groups. Cars were taken to Texas/El-Paso or Mexico. Cars used for crimes and to get around. Most chop shops are legit businesses. To strip a vehicle takes 1-3hrs. 1 stolen car get ~5K USD. Can steal ~15 cars a day. Person who steals the vehicle gets the least . Single mother household, his connection to crime was form his dad who grew up in difficult area. Went from Marine to music to crime. Denver known for drugs and homelessness
How Car Theft Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHevgEKGwhY
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
- tools to steal cards are widely and openly available nowadays. Some are joyriders, others use it for crimes, while others do it for a living/to make money since they can't make money in norma ways. Countermeasures include not parking on street/shopping centres, disable OBD lock, have a loud siren/alarm that isn't easily bypassed, etc... Back in school, I remember there were always rumors of people and classmates who dealt with this type of stuff but they had a tendency to focus in on prestige/exotic cars? It makes sense why they focused so much on this then their school work now. Organised crime have a tendency to target technical specialists with questionable morals/ethics for recruitment whilst young? When older, blackmail/extortion, kidnapping, bribes/corruption, invisible third party engine immobiliser, etc... more common. Car thieves and gray/black hat hackers are similar in many different ways. They often play both sides? Moreover, since cars have become increasingly dependent on electronics/computers hackers have an even big role to play? Normally, when cars are moved overseas they are
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_picking
blackhat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhat_(film)
https://www.blackhat.com/
PSA: Classic Holden/HSVs being stolen daily using this cheap eBay tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzFCm5gyak
https://www.youtube.com/@CarExpertAus
The SOARING VF Commodore THEFT In Australia EXPOSED!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB2BCAxzSlk
https://www.youtube.com/@RossReviewsau
turbo decoder
https://turbodecoder.com/
Turbo Decoder
Turbo Decoders аrе invented and developed in Bulgaria. The idea behind these tools is to make the unlocking procedure easy and really fast. It does not require any specific skills or qualifications and this is the reason why turbo decoder has become the most advanced lock picking tool that you can find on the market today.
https://au.lockpickable.com/collections/turbo-decoder
obd decoder wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan_tool
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES PT2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cZmJHOuK0
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHIwtiA963M
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMcCann64/videos
types of cars stolen
1) Holden Commodore VE 06 - 13 (898 cars stolen in 2021)
2) Toyota Hilux 05 - 11 (527 cars stolen in 2021)
3) Ford Ranger PX 11+ (495 cars stolen in 2021)
4) Toyota Hilux 15+ (443 cars stolen in 2021)
5) Holden Captiva CG 06+ (404 cars stolen in 2021)
6) Holden Commodore VY 02 - 04 (369 cars stolen in 2021)
7) Nissan Navara D40 05 - 15 (360 cars stolen in 2021)
8) Toyota Hilux 12 - 15 (357 cars stolen in 2021)
9) Holden Commodore VZ 04 - 06 (323 cars stolen in 2021)
10) Ford Falcon BA 02 - 05 (312 cars stolen in 2021)
https://www.solidgps.com/top-10-cars-stolen-in-2022-in-australia/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+americans+you%27re+a+monster
The Americans 2x05 - "You're a monster!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYHmUQFngw
- stolen cars is interesting. They often go to on to be used in other crimes but they often go overseas often via organised crime for use by criminals or I suspect what are considered Oligarchs in other countries
MY £200,000 LAMBORGHINI WAS STOLEN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rwn5oQHxM
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES PT2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cZmJHOuK0
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHIwtiA963M
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMcCann64
https://navcis.police.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vehicle_Crime_Intelligence_Service
Weapons, Drugs, Stolen Cars: a Year With Professional Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUBGvrbUlJ8
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
Smuggling Stolen Cars (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVz6g39ffts
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Market_with_Michael_K._Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_K._Williams
https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/black-market-with-michael-k-williams
BLACK MARKET with Michael K. Williams
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_hwG6UuEJbYLDgBYBevZa4AeetdsExF
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
https://www.vice.com/en/tag/black-market/
- Kenny/Min Jin Yang worked in Chinese military/intelligence in covert operations. Discharged in 1990 for unknown reasons. China had laws which made importation of exotic vehicles impossible. He teamed with Poy Chia and got investment of 500K from local Chinese gang and went to US to steal/import exotic cars. Networked with local criminals such as "Dean" and purchase factory from which he could conduct operations. Mario Lopez was technical specialist at breaking into cars covertly. He setup layers to provide separation/anonymity from theives. Thieves operated in pairs to steal cards quickly and quietly. Malls, homes, etc... anywehere where steal wouldn't be noticed for hours steal was done. Once cars stolen, they were put in car park and left for 2 days to ensure no low jack, then taken to warehouse and all tracking removed/car cleaned up, then shipped/smuggled out of country to China. One day a car thief was caught by police after he ended up in an accident and he gave names. Police watched operation but still didn't have enough evidence. Security slipped and they became sloppy. They were caught and he was sentenced to 10yrs jail, money and cards weren't really recovere though
The Man Who Stole 3,500 Luxury Cars Without Getting Caught
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzwSngaHxM
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOvernightMillionaire
A car theft ring was operational in New York City in 1999 led by Min Jin Yang, a former Chinese Army intelligence officer.
From Army Officer to Car Thief: The Story of the $40 Million Mastermind | Masterminds | Real Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYnGTfRSOF8
https://www.youtube.com/@RealCrime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_in_60_Seconds_(2000_film)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gone+in+60+Seconds+order+list
Gone in 60 Seconds - Scouting The List [4K AI Upscaling]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw8NLGufAfw
https://www.youtube.com/@UpscaleVideos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gone+in+60+Seconds
Gone in 60 Seconds - Official® Trailer [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh8uvTlmh0w
https://www.youtube.com/@TrailersPlaygroundHD
gone in 60 seconds low rider scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igv_ChOEp2E
https://www.youtube.com/@hamitbe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job_(2003_film)
- some general patterns in crime? Exports to sanctioned countries, legitimate businesses to mix normal business and organised crime, food industry, sanitation industry, tax evasion/fraud/money laundering, counterfeiting, cryptocurrency, loan sharking, gambling, online gambling (from Costa Rica mostly), gun/arms trafficking, drugs, prostitution/sex industry, sex hotlines, extortion, debt collection, contruction industry, big rigging, fiber optics, labour racketeering, carting industry, garbage industry, etc...
How 6 Criminal Businesses Actually Work — From Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling | Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5Dlo96nto
How 8 Crimes Actually Work — From Bank Robbery to the New York Mafia | How Crime Works Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jr6gpZ_x8w
00:00 - Intro
00:09 - Range Rover Scam
00:53 - Legitimate Businesses
01:39 - Food Industry
02:46 - Hollywood
03:02 - Sanitation Industry
03:30 - Money Laundering
04:03 - Insider Trading
04:22 - Counterfeiting
04:49 - Cryptocurrency
05:16 - Loan sharking
05:39 - Gambling
06:27 - Online Gambling
06:55 - Gun Trafficking
07:25 - Drug Dealing
07:40 - Prostitution
07:55 - Sex Calls Hotlines
08:11 - Extortion
08:59 - Construction Industry
09:38 - Fiber Optics
10:10 - Outro
All 19 Ways The New York Mafia Makes Money | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyoQr6KdJLU
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_(film_series)
- people think this cybercrime thing is relatively new but it's been going on since computers came about? There is an absurd idea in some intelligence and law enforcement circles is that if you can't stop them from hacking everything you just redirect their attension elsewhere and then round them up when they get caught by foreign intelligence and law enforcement or else just run interference if they are "useful idiots"? In many countries criminals often get time off of their prison sentence if they help law enforcement/intelligence which some use to great effect and build a pretty successful "normal life". It's obvious that some of these hacks is targeted. It helps in identify theft operations, extortion/blackmail, social engineering, etc... The interesting thing is that as the world has become more computerised, anonimisation, and monetisation has become easier on the Internet how organised crime has embraced it?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/07/law-and-disorder-downloader-script_27.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
german intelligence iot android
https://au.pcmag.com/security/108882/30000-android-devices-found-preinstalled-with-malware-in-germany
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/german-bsi-disrupts-android-malware-infecting-iot-devices-a-27062
badbox
https://www.humansecurity.com/company/satori-threat-intelligence/badbox
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/germany-sinkholes-badbox-malware-pre-loaded-on-android-devices/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Hess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_Bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(hacker_group)
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/who-is-fancy-bear/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=russian+hacker+vice
Meeting a Russian Hacker Who Was Hacking VICE | CYBERWAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdfZsJd4D28
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
How Russian Hackers Stole $100M from US Banks | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmR-UsWgxo
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Spotify Has a Malware Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEX60Yuc5DE
https://www.youtube.com/@Seytonic
Where People Go When They Want to Hack You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPHmHPaCiQ
https://www.youtube.com/@cybernews
How Soviet Spies Stole The Atomic Bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sAhAOOjWjI
https://www.youtube.com/@WarStoriesChannel
From Hacking $4.1 Million to Prison | The IRL Money Doubler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsTgOpAIdw
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
This Nerdy Teen Wouldn't Stop Hacking Companies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z2HkVfcEA
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
The Kids Who Hacked The CIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmtFtWVrxFE
https://www.youtube.com/@fern-tv
The Hacker that Broke North Korea's Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5af3UdzJQzI
https://www.youtube.com/@slidebean
Was North Korea Behind Sony's Cyber Attack? | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vWlx_Mgyo
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack
who hacks porn websites
https://nypost.com/2018/02/01/porn-sites-are-a-goldmine-for-hackers/
https://fightthenewdrug.org/hackers-steal-private-info-from-porn-sites/
https://www.wired.com/story/porn-site-malware-ransomware-schools-zoom-two-factor-security-news/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jul/12/shopping.newmedia
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=looney+tunes+ralph+and+sam
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsons+ren+and+stimpy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/scams-and-safety/common-frauds-and-scams/sextortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_trapping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)
One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Squad
Legal aftermath
In February 2023, 25-year-old Aleksanteri Kivimäki was extradited to Finland from France. He has since been kept in custody over crimes related to the hacking of patient records from the Vastaamo psychotherapy centre.[30]
In April 2023, Helsinki District Court sentenced the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, to a three-month suspended sentence. He was found guilty of a data protection crime mandated in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).[31]
In October 2023, Aleksanteri Kivimäki was charged with stealing records of psychotherapy patients and over 21,000 counts of extortion.[32] His trial was scheduled to start on 13 November.[32]
In April 2024 Aleksanteri Kivimäki was sentenced to six years and three months in prison.[33] Author and information technology consultant Petteri Järvinen [fi] has used the relatively light sentence as proof that cybercrime often has no serious consequences for the perpetrator in Finland, even if the victims suffer from its results for the rest of their lives.[34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo_data_breach
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams
The Chinese Hack that Stole 22m People's Data | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqN2Y66lanI
Australian and Philippine authorities have conducted a major raid at a scam centre in Manila, arresting hundreds of people allegedly linked to a transnational romance scam racket.
Last year, Australians lost some $34.3 million to reported dating and romance scams – a scam vector which sees criminals disproportionately target senior Australians with false promises of romance or friendship.
With 3,652 victims reporting romance scams to Scamwatch in 2023, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) saw fit to launch a dedicated crackdown operation in August of this year.
...
Authorities further seized over 300 "computer towers" – suggesting the scam centre was equipped for at least 300 workers – before further seizing more than 1,000 mobile phones and thousands of SIM cards.
...
While the AFP did not provide much detail on the suspected attacks coming out of the scam centre, it is alleged "men over the age of 35 years" were targeted on social media and dating applications.
Scammers would gradually build trust with these victims before asking them to invest in fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platforms – suggesting activity consistent with the increasingly popular "pig-butchering" scam vector where targets are 'fattened up' through gradual investments and false returns before eventually having their money swindled.
To ensure Australians were appropriately duped by these romance and investment scams, the alleged scammers worked shifts to align with domestic time zones, police said.
The AFP reported its technical workers, alongside cryptocurrency experts, the Philippines Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), were now collecting information about who was targeted and the methods used to extort victims.
As further evidence becomes available, the Joint Policing Cybercrime Collaboration Centre (JPC3), in partnership with the National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC), will contact potential Australian victims.
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/police-raid-romance-scammers-allegedly-targeting-aussies.html
- overlap between the work of intelligence, defense, organised crime, etc... happening over and over again? You can purchase passports, identity documents, immigration, to a lot of countries now which allows you to get away with all sorts of crimes by making use of poorly written laws, juridistictional issues, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aljazeera+purchase+passports
Diplomats for Sale | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Yba1-ijh4
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-26/mossad-factory-churned-out-fake-australian/343612
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealand_passport_scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/17/your-id-for-400-warnings-issued-after-australian-gambling-syndicates-offer-money-for-documents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Research
The (Very Real) World of Corporate Espionage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHAuDetWlUc
https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks
No Time To Die: The Business of Spies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcmWaLQHSs
Corporate Espionage: Make BIG Money Spying on Companies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8ezsjhPdw
https://www.youtube.com/@jaketran
Espionage and Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-OGHXUtmto
https://www.youtube.com/@dartmouth
https://www.youtube.com/@wallstreetmillennial/videos
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/10/vacuum-filter-troublesplanned.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/recyclingunlockinghacking-devices-for.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
- hard to believe that heaps of stuff isn't organised or isolated events. Very similar racketeering/protection rackets between European/Asian organised crime groups, African/Middle Eastern/South and Central American. Triads are highly structured organisations. Similar ceremonies between Triads and Yukuza sometimes. Foot soldiers/fighters and money makers never cross paths because those at the bottom may become a threat to those at the top? This aspect is similar between Italian Mafia and Chinese Triads? Ironically, similar culture between military and enforcers in organised crime sometimes? You need lack of fear to join organised crime. I wondered how some kids got drug money sometimes as they came from poor backgrounds. It's obvious they were sort of blackmailed/extorted into it now?
Black Market with Michael K. Williams is a television series that airs on VICELAND, and is hosted by Michael K. Williams. The series features Williams journeying into the dangerous world of illicit trade.[1] In the first season, Williams hangs out with thieves, poachers, drug users, gun runners, and possible killers to learn why crime pays for them.[2]
In the second season, Williams invites guest hosts from all over the world to explore global black markets, including poaching, smuggling, and underground fights.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Market_with_Michael_K._Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_K._Williams
https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/black-market-with-michael-k-williams
BLACK MARKET with Michael K. Williams
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_hwG6UuEJbYLDgBYBevZa4AeetdsExF
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
https://www.vice.com/en/tag/black-market/
I Was An Enforcer For The Chinese Mafia | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqY-z2uadEA
- difficult childhood. Killed his dad after dad raped his sister. Became a Sicario/hitman after his options in the normal world diminished. A lot of people in cartels didn't get through/past primary school. You need to become connected to cartel to make money in Mexico (and some other countries). You have to use your head and masculinity to survive to get through. 50/50 whether law enforcement are corrupt. Killed ~70 people. Mexican and US prisons completely different. US prisons very relaxed and everything provided but in Mexican prisons toiletries and clothes must be handled by family, 11-16 inmates for a cell designed for 4 people, inmates/cartel handled prison politics, bribery and prostitution happens a lot in Mexican prisons, etc... Foot soldiers in cartels are considered expendable/useful idiots and that's why he got out
Former Hitman on Mexican Prison, Cartel Brutality and Police Corruption | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istqQZQctM4
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
Former Mafia Boss EXPOSES How The Real MAFIA KILLS People... | Michael Franzese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_QJNnA5yQ
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDiaryOfACEOClips
- the absurd things about some prison gangs is that they sometimes run the prison themselves and the staff who run the prison go along with it. In some prisons, the staff will openly say that the prisoners run things while they just keep a lookout on things on the outside. Lots of contraband often gets in and out in spite of regular searches because of corruption, bribes, threats, etc... to prison staff and their family and friends. Businesses are even run inside of prison? A continuation of behaviour on the street often. Some criminals basically go insane in prison which causes cascading effects in terms of group behaviour. Many prisons overpopulated, falling apart, underfunded, which means tools/shanks can be made by prisoners. Have to fight constantly to be respected. Lots of prison staff end up with mental issues to prisoner behaviour
How US Prison Gangs Actually Work (New Mexican Mafia) | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2FI-mJokoQ
How US Prison Gangs (Nuestra Familia) Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnH3JNjayc
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
How the US's Most Dangerous Jail (Rikers) Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKi1ygs_xHw
Surviving 7 Years Inside Russia's 'Unbearable' Prison Colonies | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVgHfUaI3LY
prison gangs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_gangs_in_the_United_States
A prison gang[1][2] is an inmate organization that operates within a prison system, that has a corporate entity, exists into perpetuity, and whose membership is restrictive, mutually exclusive, and often requires a lifetime commitment.[3] Political scientist David Skarbek argues the emergence of prison gangs are due to the dramatic increase in the prison population and inmate's demand for safety. Skarbek observes that in a small, homogeneous environment, people can use social norms to interpret what behavior is acceptable, but a large, heterogeneous setting undermines social norms and acceptable behavior is more difficult to determine. Prison gangs are geographically and racially divided, and about 70% of prison gang members are in California and Texas.[4] Skarbek suggests prison gangs function similar to a community responsibility system. Interactions between strangers are facilitated because you do not have to know an individual's reputation, only a gang's reputation. Some prison gangs are transplanted from the street. In some circumstances, prison gangs "outgrow" the internal world of life inside the penitentiary, and go on to engage in criminal activities on the outside.[5] Gang umbrella organizations like the Folk Nation and People Nation have originated in prisons.[6]
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Christian Parenti argues in his book Lockdown America that prison gangs serve a convenient function for the prison establishment and officers. They help regulate rogue and rebellious elements within the prison population without intervention from prison authorities.[32]
Parenti sees the repression dished out by gangs on non-affiliated prisoners as a latent function of prison gangs. Thus, gangs are often more-or-less tolerated by prison administrators due to the side-benefits they afford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shank_(weapon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissary_(store)
- the mentality in a lot of "so called" criminals is sort of funny? They're looking to balance things up at times?
The Bank Robber Who Stole Millions to Help the Poor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TII2kXzHJ9I
The Man Who Became Millionaire Due To a Bank Glitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iKnb0aVzxU
https://www.youtube.com/@RobbersIQ
https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-australian-bartender-dan-saunders-found-an-atm-bank-glitch-hack-and-blew-16-million-dollars/
2024 Election was the Oligarchic Elite vs. Corporate Elite (w/ Chris Hedges)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDj2dUIQcA
https://www.youtube.com/@BadFaithPodcast
Martin Wolf and Yanis Varoufakis: Should We Fix Capitalism or Abandon It? (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeUN1M78NA
https://www.youtube.com/@Intelligence-Squared
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Heist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_(magazine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcocorrido
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=narcocorrido+songs
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=breaking+bad+narcocorrido+
Negro y Azul (The Heisenberg Song) | Breaking Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ykOTpzuZN0
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingbad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
Cartel Propaganda is Fuelling Mexico's Drug War | The War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZH9ZYFU26U
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
- super restrictive laws have led to black market for tobacco. Black market substitude called chop chop (reminds me of cocaine/heroin markets where poorly made/filtered cocaine and good stuff fetch very diffirent prices) and the dealers often trade in other goods as well. Black market tobacco ~50% price of normal retail market tobacco. Asia, Middle East, and China are main sources of tobacco. Used to be larger shipments via sea but now smaller packages via air. Thousands of shipments caught per week via ABF (Australian Border Force). 100 cigarettes for ~$35 on black market. Easy to get as long as you know the right people and they trust you. Illegal whites are cigarettes that are manufactured overseas but illegally imported. 15% of all tobacco in Australia is black market?
Inside Australia's black market tobacco trade | SBS The Feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZ5PVUwJSA
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSTheFeed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(film)
- the great thing about the world of organised crime and the normal world is that they are sort of similar? When interests collide you begin to recognise the same names and groups and they sort of recognise one another? Very similar scams on both sides. Can't change the laws to make them work effectively because they lock out your own whitewashed crimes and hypocrisy? Some people obviously don't know what they're get into sometimes. If they're trying to take money from fronts from organised crime it makes so much sense why they get into trouble so quickly?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-vix-script-jim-simonsed-thorp.html
Gangsters of Capitalism - Jonathan M. Katz Pt. 1/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAMde8Oj0pw
https://www.youtube.com/@theAnalysisnews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Blakeley
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/vulture-capitalism-9781526638076/
https://theconversation.com/vulture-capitalism-grace-blakeleys-new-book-is-smart-on-what-has-gone-wrong-since-the-1980s-228214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
delivery drivers and organised crime
https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/organised-crime-gangs-used-food-delivery-services-to-deal-drugs-across-australia/news-story/3963b1255c03855f719f22fd745a8538
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/ubereats-menulog-deny-allegations-their-platforms-are-used-for-drug-dealing/news-story/cf44053d67d33bde3a3a06d618e067d7
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-low-level-runner-courier-package-delivery-person-for-organised-crime-If-so-how-does-it-work-and-what-is-it-like-to-be-one
list corrupt politicians
The members of the "Most Corrupt" list include:
Sen. Rick Scott (Florida)
Sen. Josh Hawley (Missouri)
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas)
Rep. David Schweikert (AZ-01)
Rep. Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06)
Rep. Mike Garcia (CA-27)
Rep. Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Rep. Ryan Zinke (MT-01)
Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (NJ-07)
Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (NY-04)
Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Rep. Marc Molinaro (NY-19)
https://endcitizensunited.org/latest-news/press-releases/end-citizens-united-unveils-most-corrupt-politicians-list-for-2024-cycle/
#10 Ray Nagin
#9 The Keating Five
#8 Randy "Duke" Cunningham
#7 Edwin W. Edwards
#6 Paul Powell
#5 Kwame M. Kilpatrick
#4 Warren G. Harding
#3 Richard M. Nixon
#2 Ulysses S. Grant
#1 William M. "Boss" Tweed
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/28/meet-americas-most-crooked-politicians.html
1. Siemens: corruption made in Germany
2. Draining Nigeria of its assets
3. Fujimori's Peru: death squads, embezzlement and good public relations
4. Kadyrov's Chechnya: bikers, boxers, bribes
5. Shutting down competition in Tunisia
6. Ukraine's missing millions
7. Ricardo Martinelli's spy-game in Panama
8. The 1MDB fund: from Malaysia to Hollywood
9. The Russian Laundromat (with a little help from Moldova)
10. Spain's largest corruption scandal: Gürtel
11. Venezuela's currencies of corruption
12. The Panama Papers
13. Maldives: a paradise lost
14. Teodorín Obiang's #LuxuryLiving in Equatorial Guinea
15. How the Gupta family captured South Africa through bribery
16. Lebanon's garbage: the stench of corruption
17. FIFA's football parallel universe
18. Myanmar's dirty jade business
19. Fighting impunity in Guatemala
20. Turkey's "gas for gold" scheme
21. The Azerbaijani Laundromat
22. Paradise Papers: where the rich & powerful hide their money
23. Operation Lava Jato: clean cars, dirty money
24. The Troika Laundromat
25. Andrej Babiš's conflict of interest in Czechia
https://www.transparency.org/en/news/25-corruption-scandals
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=matrix+red+pill+and+blue+pill+scene
The Matrix (1999) - The Pill scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ1_IbFFbzA
https://www.youtube.com/@Freeestyler365
The woman in the red dress | The Matrix [Open Matte]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJ5ZEn67tk
What is The Matrix? | The Matrix [Open Matte]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5b0ZxUWNf0
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=matrix+see+the+matrix
Neo - 'The One' | The Matrix [Open Matte]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-0RHqDWcJE
https://www.youtube.com/@flashbackfm
matrix - neo and cypher talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXkd3O2ow
https://www.youtube.com/@anomalovideo
Matrix - The Matrix is Everywhere.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qedAzTA8nY8
https://www.youtube.com/@smartebooklibrary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_22
- organised crime has learned a lot from normal society? In the legal, diplomatic, defense, intelligence, and political spheres in particular
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/dodgy-job-contract-clauses-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/07/law-and-disorder-downloader-script_27.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones
https://www.youtube.com/@OwenJonesTalks/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Blakeley
https://graceblakeley.co.uk/
Here's How Australia's SHADOW Government works! | Punter's Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQvlWmqkk0U
https://www.youtube.com/@punterspolitics
Robert Reich: One party is making up excuses, and the other party isn't talking about corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyjH0tXoemc
https://www.youtube.com/@therealnews/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@moreperfectunion/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_equivalence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_state
The Medellín Cartel and the Cali Cartel both managed to bribe Colombian politicians, and campaigned for both the Conservative and Liberal parties. Although the difference between the two cartels was that the Medellín Cartel used its "money or death" law through a huge army of hitmen, the Cali Cartel preferred to use bribes by having politicians, journalists, police officers, army officers, judges, etc. on its payroll.[58][59] Hence, Escobar and many other Colombian drug lords were pulling strings in every level of the Colombian government because many of the political candidates whom they backed financially were eventually elected.[58] Although the Medellín Cartel was only established in the early 1970s, it expanded after Escobar met several drug lords on a farm in April 1978, and by the end of 1978 they had transported some 19,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States.[60]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n
Ex-Mob Boss Plays Never Have I Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtfpM0CnX8
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franzese
https://www.amazon.com.au/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/1785030426
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159062-narconomics
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/narconomics-9781785030420
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=narconomics+how+to+run+a+drug+cartel
How Cartels Build Billion-Dollar Empires | News on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfdRbIVaBQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Making a Fake Movie to Understand Hollywood's Shady Accounting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-l2oFKZNak
https://www.youtube.com/@morning-brew
Why the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Donor Class and MIC Impairing the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEbyQdWOCk
https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Backyard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
stanford study corporate corruption politics
Corporations, Corruption, and Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYKu8nsJseA
Corporations and the Justice System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwqt4XW9YmQ
https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordgsb
political lobbying corruption
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/publications-and-resources/article/corruption-risks-associated-with-donations-and-lobbying
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-differences-between-bribery-and-lobbying.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_money_in_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Crime_(Transparency_and_Enforcement)_Act_2022
Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGIp7kdS6E
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes/videos
How British Merchants "Perfected" Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidsZ5RrjQw
https://www.youtube.com/@HowHistoryWorks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_the_Rim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
Human Rights Lawyer On Serial Killers, Execution Methods and Guantanamo Bay | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DdjGd2kW7c
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dw+documentary+mafia+lawyer
The narco-lawyers behind Mexico's drug cartels | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJyTDiFJxhI
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
narco lawyer background
https://www.latimes.com/la-fg-mexico-lawyers12-2009oct12-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_de_Greiff
According to the Colombian office of Lawyers Without Borders, 24 lawyers were killed in Colombia in 2011, the majority of them litigators. Though not all worked on trafficking related cases or had capos for clients, many of them were based in provinces most afflicted by the drug trade, reports Semana magazine. Another four litigators have been reported killed so far in 2012, by the magazine's count.
Throughout Latin America, lawyers are targeted by organized crime. In Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, an estimated 245 law firms have closed their doors since 2009 due to violence and threats from organized crime, cutting by 70 percent the number of law offices in the city. During the same time period, 50 lawyers have been killed in the state of Chihuahua; as of March 2011 none of their cases had been resolved.
In Honduras alone, 25 attorneys, many of them criminal lawyers, have been killed in the past five months, according to the National Human Rights Comissioner. Most of these lawyers were shot inside their cars by groups of gunmen on motorcycles or in other vehicles, just as Pardo was killed in Colombia. In at least 18 of the cases, the lawyers could have been killed by hired assassins, the official said.
While some private criminal defense lawyers are lured by the sky-high fees charged for handling drug cases, others have little choice. In some cases, it may be riskier for lawyers to decline to take on a case rather than agreeing to do so but in Mexico, for example, large law firms often assign amateur defense attorneys to handle them.
Cartel lawyers oil the gears that keep the organizations running, performing duties from handling finances, securing official papers, to handling property transactions. As a brief by the White House on transnational organized crime points out, lawyers are often "critical faciltators" for criminal groups. They are "semi-legitimate players… who cross both the licit and illicit worlds and provide services to legitimate customers, criminals, and terrorists alike."
https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/narco-lawyer-killings-highlight-risks-of-the-trade/
- 4km between PNG and Australia in Torres Straight. Contraband brought in via Asia and/or South America, it's driven across PNG and then sent across Torres Straight. Illegal fishing in Austalia from PNG not allowed so they have to deal in drugs since it's more lucrative?
How meth and cocaine are entering Australia's far north | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yylMynArS1g
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
Inside the Pacific drug highway | The Pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5V5MtC4Q58
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
- Indonesians coming down to northern Austalia. Rowley sholes, Ashmore Reef to fish. They are technically protected marine parks but they fish there anyhow
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=illegal+fishing
Farmers question government commitment after illegal fishing boats caught in northern WA | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13YRwSVYxEw
Illegal fishing in Australian waters causing unreported deaths of Indonesian fishers | ABC Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hkaCu-lib0
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_fishing
- ~IM australians use cocaine per year in Australia? Parasite smuggling: sea chests, ship containers, etc... Fiji has usage and trafficking problem, they have limited resources to surveil. Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga used as launching pad into bigger markets like Australia and New Zealand by South American drug cartels. Locals and motorcycle gans used to help traffic. Somoa open market you can get drugs, Tonga prisons used to be full of robbers but now drug related offences. ~20-25% stop rate at port in Australia, 50-60% stop rate at port in Rotterdam/Netherlands. Shipping companies to ports have been infiltrated/corrupted. ~1K people under investigation here and there are many people in law enforcement/intelligence as well
Australia's Border Force fighting drug cartels under the sea | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRIa1awXo2I
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
parasite smuggling wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_drug_smuggling_into_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_cocaine_smuggling
Drug Bust: Hidden Coke on Ships (Full Episode) | To Catch a Smuggler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVmgYOAsQzY
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
A cocaine-lined shipwreck and busting the lucrative drug route in the Pacific | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgL5pHILyO4
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
- Cape Verde known as Highway 10/Parallel 10 is midpoint between South America and European 11B Cocaine market. Cocaine comes by sea and air. Poor maintence and sabotage of patrol boats reminds me corrupt politics whereby lobbyists pay for reduced regulation. Patrolling Cape Verde seas is impossible due to limited resources. Violence used to secure access to ports and harbours. The interesting thing about smuggling operations is how often they're used over and over again for different types of smuggling
Finding Mr Fox: Inside West Africa's drug trafficking highway - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVgeXV817o0
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Crime_Agency
papua new guinea drug route
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-18/png-torres-strait-drug-smugglers-bringing-meth-to-australia/103455440
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/24/the-new-drug-highway-pacific-islands-at-centre-of-cocaine-trafficking-boom
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/drug-trafficking-pacific-islands-impact-transnational-crime
cape verde drug trafficking
Cape Verdean organized crime refers to the various criminal organizations that are active in Cape Verde & Cape Verdean diaspora communities. Cape Verde is important as a transshipment point in the cocaine trade, and the existence of sizeable Cape Verdean communities in New England, the Dutch port city of Rotterdam as well as in several cities in Portugal, France and Switzerland, led to the formation of criminal gangs in the community active in the international drug trade supplemented with other criminal activities. Cape Verdean organized crime primarily comes in the form of street gangs, with varying levels of organization and sophistication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verdean_organized_crime
https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/2021/english/ocindex_profile_cabo_verde_2021.pdf
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/can-cape-verde-keep-drug-traffickers-out
https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-international-narcotics-and-law-enforcement-affairs-work-by-country/cabo-verde-summary/
golden crescent drug routes
The Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being the Golden Triangle). Located at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Asia, this space covers the mountainous peripheries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, extending into eastern Iran.
In 2007, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) heroin production estimates for the past 10 years showed significant changes in the primary source areas. In 1991, Afghanistan became the world's primary opium producer, with a yield of 1,782 metric tons (U.S. State Department estimates), surpassing Myanmar, formerly the world leader in opium production. The decrease in heroin production from Myanmar is the result of several years of unfavorable growing conditions and new government policies of forced eradication.[1] Afghan heroin production increased during the same time frame, with a notable decrease in 2001 allegedly as a result of the Taliban's fatwa against heroin production.[1] Afghanistan has produced over 90% of the world's illicit opium in the recent past.[1][2] In addition to opiates, Afghanistan was also the world's largest producer of hashish during that time.[3] Opium production and trafficking are known to have funded the Taliban's military activities and insurgency.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Crescent
cayman islands drug trafficking
Countries/Jurisdictions of Primary Concern - Cayman Islands
https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2014/supplemental/227750.htm
https://caymannewsservice.com/tag/drug-smuggling/
The Illicit Shipping Trade Hiding in Plain Sight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpgzsTrW78
https://www.youtube.com/@business
are drugs and counterfeit goods smuggled along same routes
https://www.unodc.org/documents/counterfeit/FocusSheet/Counterfeit_focussheet_EN_HIRES.pdf
Drug trafficking is often associated with other forms of crime, such as money laundering or corruption. Trafficking routes are used by criminal networks to transport other illicit products including firearms, uncut diamonds and live pangolins creating a convergence of crime.
As criminals devise ever-more creative ways of disguising illegal drugs for transport, law enforcement officials face challenges in detecting such concealed substances. In addition, new synthetic drugs are produced on a regular basis, so police need to be aware of new trends and products on the illicit market.
Since the types of drugs trafficked and the routes used are constantly evolving, it is essential that countries work together in a united and coordinated way. At INTERPOL, we offer a range of services including training and operational support to help law enforcement agencies around the world increase their capacity to detect and investigate drug trafficking.
https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Drug-trafficking
https://eacpm.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/7-Smuggling-and-Counterfeiting.pdf
https://www.safeseas.net/evidence/2020/02/10/counterfeits-smuggling/
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/8.Counterfeit_products.pdf
animal trafficking smuggling routes
Why is wildlife targeted for illegal trade?
Wildlife trafficking is a global issue that affects every populated region of the world. The drivers behind wildlife trafficking can vary widely by location, but common uses include:
- Illegal pet (or collection) trade: An array of live animals, eggs, and taxidermy are targeted by buyers worldwide for private collections and zoos or as exotic pets. Examples include reptiles, such as chameleons and tortoises; birds, such as parrots and falcons; and mammals, such as tiger cubs and apes.
- Medicine, decoration, and status symbols: Wildlife products are purchased illegally for their aesthetic, social and medicinal value. Prominent examples include: elephant ivory, which is used for decorative items such as statues and jewelry, and is highly valued in parts of Asia as a status symbol; rhino horn and pangolin scales, which are used in parts of Asia for traditional medicines; and mammal furs and reptile skins, which are sold illegally for fashion or decorative items.
- Food: Live animals (such as turtles, tortoises, and lizards) as well as processed, dried, and frozen meat (abalone and pangolin, for example) are commonly trafficked into food markets for consumption.
Commonly trafficked wildlife species:
- More than 7,000 species are affected by the illegal wildlife trade2, often with devastating effects on wildlife populations and local economies. Together, elephant ivory, rhino horn, birds, reptiles, pangolins, mammals and marine products make up 81% of all trafficked wildlife.3
- 90% of African elephants have been killed in the last 100 years4
- 1 rhino is poached every 7 hours in Africa for its horn5
- 100 million sharks are killed every year6
- Over 100 tigers a year enter the illegal trade chain in Asia7
- An estimated 24 million seahorses are taken from the wild every year8
- One million pangolins were trafficked between 2000–2013 alone9
- Nearly 3,000 helmeted hornbill casques, skulls, and products seized from 2010 to 201710
- More than 3,000 great apes are captured or killed each year11
- Considered the world's rarest tortoise, only around 200 mature ploughshare tortoises are left in the wild12
What are the impacts of the illegal wildlife trade?
Wildlife trafficking is a global epidemic, affecting communities and wildlife populations in every region of the world. Often run by organized international criminal networks, the illegal wildlife trade has been linked to other illicit activities, such as human and drug trafficking, with the profits being used for all manner of criminal activity. Unabated, illegal wildlife trade threatens to wipe out some of the world's most iconic species in our lifetime.
However, wildlife trafficking is not just a conservation issue, nor a wildlife issue, nor a health issue: it is also a business and governance issue. In Africa, the current elephant poaching crisis costs African countries around USD $25 million annually in lost tourism revenue13. Between July 2017-2018, more than 100 wildlife rangers died on the job in Asia and central Africa, with nearly half killed by poachers14. Widespread wildlife trafficking also indicates the presence of organized crime and often corruption. Supply chains susceptible to wildlife trafficking could be exploited more easily by other forms of trafficking, including human trafficking and narcotics. As counter-trafficking governance and regulation tighten in every region, the risk of legal liabilities increases for companies that fall behind the rest of the industry in taking action.
For more information on wildlife trafficking and how to take action, view the ROUTES factsheets and guidance documents
https://routespartnership.org/about-routes/background
https://www.traffic.org/what-we-do/thematic-issues/private-sector-guidance/routes/
https://mag.wcoomd.org/magazine/wco-news-96/the-illegal-wildlife-trade-modus-operandi-and-transport-routes-in-west-and-central-africa/
https://www.unodc.org/e4j/zh/wildlife-crime/module-1/key-issues/locations-and-activities-relating-to-wildlife-trafficking.html
https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/illegal-wildlife-trade
From the Sahel to Dubai: on the trail of dirty gold • FRANCE 24 English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFscpY_H1GE
https://www.youtube.com/@France24_en
ngo dinh diem gold smuggling
Diệm's rule was also pervaded by family corruption. Cẩn was widely believed to be involved in several illegal operations, namely the illegal smuggling of rice to North Vietnam on the black market, the opium trade via Laos, in monopolizing the cinnamon trade, and amassing a fortune in foreign banks.[74][75] With Nhu, Cẩn competed for U.S. contracts and rice trade.[76] Thuc, the most powerful religious leader in the country, was allowed to solicit "voluntary contributions to the Church" from Saigon businessmen, which was likened to "tax notices."[77] Thuc also used his position to acquire farms, businesses, urban real estate, rental property, and rubber plantations in the name of the Catholic Church. He also used Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) personnel to work on his timber and construction projects. The Nhus amassed a fortune by running numbers and lottery rackets, manipulating currency and extorting money from Saigon businesses, while Luyen became a multimillionaire by speculating in Piastres and Pounds on the currency exchange using inside government information.[78]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sanctions+evasion
#IACC2024 | Lessons Learned from Investigating Cross-Border Sanction Evasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa8VPnvQ-VI
https://www.youtube.com/@IACCseries
- normally if they're involved in one crime they often end up engaged in other forms of it as well (and possibly other crimes). In general, social graphs of criminals will lead to others
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/salaried-pro-golf-tour-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/06/self-sufficientlearning-golf.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/04/struggling-professional-golfers.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/03/becoming-golf-coach-becoming-better.html
Why the counterfeit business is booming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyqL8OTMXc
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
How Forgers Print Fake Money | I WAS A TEENAGE FELON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIylnZ7lCEM
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
How Do They ACTUALLY Print Counterfeit Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZhqStOwhc
https://www.youtube.com/@TheInfographicsShow
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=counterfeit+organised+crime
How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime | Alastair Gray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UH7uTpTa44
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
Exposing the criminal networks behind the counterfeit industry | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7wH3FUrs4
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
How Police Are Cracking Down on Counterfeit Goods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdjLNa5sNf4
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Why the counterfeit business is booming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyqL8OTMXc
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Logo
Counterfeit city | Carte Blanche | M-Net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN4PQqtk0c
https://www.youtube.com/@carteblanchetv
The $500 Billion/Year World of Counterfeits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31AOa426Qi0
https://www.youtube.com/VICENews
Inside Italy's designer bag sweatshops | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owXegVj1NC4
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- you don't think about it but using kids is a brilliant idea at times whether for drugs, weapons, theives, etc... because laws tend to be much more lenient on them normally, they're in plentiful supply, expendable, and they're often easily influenced (read up on imprinting, torture, and how slaves are broken in). Similar to the way kids are used in a lot of terrorist groups? Always floating at the edge of society but so many people not realising it? Kid criminals in lower demographics are just trying to make their way in life, kid criminals in high demographics are trying to make some money on the side. Problem is the lack of training, tradecraft, professionalism, for a lot of kids who are new to this area which makes trafficking and operations far more complex?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+wick+weapon+selection
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) - Gun Shopping Scene (2/10) | Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIalODmFrZk
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
John Wick does tactical shopping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km7DDDE-i0c
https://www.youtube.com/@BoxofficeMoviesScenes
lebanese gangs tobacco
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/six-people-arrested-over-alleged-15-million-illicit-tobacco-import
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-police-smash-30-million-illegal-tobacco-syndicate-in-major-turf-war-breakthrough/b0f19dec-895c-4aee-b079-10a35154453f
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/victoria-police-tobacco-war-arrests-wa-police/104007356
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/tobacco-wars-melbourne-majid-alibadi/103797524
https://www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-subsite/Pages/Warrants-executed-across-Melbourne-targeting-illicit-tobacco.aspx
asian gangs weapons imports
CHAPTER 6: Japanese Organised Crime in Australia
Introduction
5.1 For over a decade there has been concern expressed about the growth in Australia of organised criminal activity by Vietnamese, with media attention focusing initially on 'crime gangs'. For example, a 1988 media report stated: 'Criminal gangs in the Vietnamese community are increasingly heavily armed, are moving into drugs and gambling, establishing links with Australian crime figures, and becoming involved in standover rackets in their own community'. [1] A 1991 media report quoted an unnamed police source as saying that Vietnamese groups were mainly involved in crimes against their own community including murder, extortion, robbery and petty drug dealing, with standover and extortion being the most common. [2]
5.2 Similar concerns have emerged in Canada [3] and the United States.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Former_Committees/acc/completed_inquiries/pre1996/ncaaoc/report/c06
Firearm trafficking and serious and organised crime gangs - Samantha Bricknell
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp116.pdf
drug import south america asia
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-trafficking/
https://americasquarterly.org/article/why-drug-cartels-are-expanding-to-asia/
https://www.unodc.org/roseap/en/2023/06/biggest-drug-trafficking-corridors/story.html
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/drug-trafficking-pacific-islands-impact-transnational-crime
https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/oceanias-spike-in-synthetic-drug-markets/
african gangs melbourne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_Australia
- they don't seem related but call centre scams, prostitution, and human trafficking scams are somewhat related. Some are voluntary but people are often tricked or forced into taking these jobs. They work in normal office buildings and follow a process but it just revolves around scamming people of money?
How Call Center Scams Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZZan7QfEo
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Fraud Fighters: Hackers expose illegal call centres and phone scams (Marketplace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iii_MtlKOrs
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-07/scammers-are-targeting-australians-in-offshore-call-centres/104406170
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-29/inside-call-centre-scams-in-cambodia-torture-fear-and-survival/101770352
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/02/i-couldnt-escape-the-people-trafficked-into-call-centres-and-forced-to-scam-australians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
- ~20% of all sextortion is from Nigeria globally. People are targeted, manipulated, conned into giving people money to invest/steal. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost in Canada alone due to romance and pig butchering scams. Asian and Africa are sources. People are baited into giving/investing more money to someone before they pull the rug from underneath them. Some scammers have applied to what they thought were legitimate jobs. When they're brought into scamming compound threatened with beating, electric shock and/or death if they don't perform well and/or try to escape. People who are baited into working for these schemes are often well educated, multi-lingual, desperate for work, etc...
Investigating the con that combines romance scams and crypto fraud (Marketplace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDg2z8QPuWc
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
The Top 5 Countries For Sextortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUPJUgKYZM
https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalForensics
3 Nigerians Arrested for Sextortion and Romance Scams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2SPjpltutM
https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalForensics
pig butchering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/pig-butchering-scam-targeting-australians-afp-warns-lonely-hearts-be-wary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam
international justice mission
https://www.ijm.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Justice_Mission
Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
https://www.youtube.com/@LastWeekTonight
- interesting counter-scam/sting/counter-intelligence operations? A lot of people have obviously figured out how Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) works now. Thta means for a technical isues calls may go through to a scam call centre where upon people are scammed of their money. Gift cards and cryptocurrency used to get around avoid anti-fraud and anti-money laundering automated system issues? Modify HTML code to give the appearance of giving money and then ask customer to give back overpaid amount? Law enforcement are of limited help due to lack of resource and training? Obvious they know how the internal workings of major legitimate companies/organisations work and are using this knowledge to scam potential marks? This can mean they were former employees, customers, partners, etc... It's obvious some of them are current insiders as they know stuff in real time. Sell stuff they don't own from overseas.
How YouTube Scambaiters Turn the Tables on Internet Fraud | Bloomberg Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_9Ix_6pK8
https://www.youtube.com/@business
DO NOT REDEEM (The Angriest Scammer I've Called)
DO NOT REDEEM THE CARDS - Original Scammer Rage #funny
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/csy5RHcXT6Y
Scammer Cries Watching $500 Disappear After 10 Hours (Abel's Raw Meltdown)
Scammer watches $500 disappear after wasting 10 hours #Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ceKa7kTOaYw
Scammer Watches $455K Disappear After Wasting 48 Hours #shorts #krakenpartner
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D53HF_okHi8
When Scammers See $3 vs $3,000,000 in your Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsAEYJOjGro
Scammers Cry After Ruining Their Own Scam - $430K Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyvwuk7v94s
Entire Scam Call Center Goes Mad While I Redeem Gift Cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7V0Oda3DAA
DO NOT REDEEM (The Angriest Scammer I've Called)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mceb_t8EIs
Scammer Loses His Mind Over $5,000,000 Mistake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFEBY_9J30
I Made This Angry Scammer Cry After 1 Year (we caught him)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhspnzeDzFw
My Best Revenge Scam Call Ever - Extreme Scammer Rage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgqMVheROA
I Shut Down a Scam Car Dealership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY-rEBV15-g
Telling Scammers I Actually Got Their Prize Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNytYOaAYI
The Most Evil Scammer I've Ever Called
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzTyBIHx5Jk
Scammers Expect $400K - I Install Malware Instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23XR8JMKtA
Scammers Wanted $15,000 - I Bought a Car Instead *RAGE*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GERlBA87NcE
Will Scammers Notice I'm Using Windows 3.11?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAomglv541s
Will Scammers Notice Windows "Really Good" Edition?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0peLpovDB8
https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourced_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourced
Scammers PANIC When I Speak Through Their CCTV Cameras!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAtK_NjurQ0
https://www.youtube.com/@Scambaiter
Hacking Connection Reversals on SCAMMERS - Scam Call Center Destroyed
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xtoxfle6NJE
Torturing a Scammer Till They Give Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmty7AC5z5Y
https://www.youtube.com/@ScammerPayback
Paying A SCAMMER Using HIS OWN Banking Details!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYgDIqcabxk
https://www.youtube.com/@mrwnSB
https://www.youtube.com/@mrwnSB/videos
RUSSIAN HACKER OBLITERATES INDIAN SCAMMER WITH CHERNOBYL MALWARE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9tMioLbAw
RUSSIAN HACKER DESTROYS INDIAN SCAMMER WITH 100 VIRUSES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25QGUhzODA
https://www.youtube.com/@Scambaiter
Angry Scammer Loses It for 3 Hours Straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82kA4Dz_LT0
https://www.youtube.com/@RinoaPoison
Showing Scammers Their Own CCTV Cameras On My Computer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFopLfxsfVE
https://www.youtube.com/@mrwnSB
https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/customer/code.aspx
Inside the Shadowy World of Professional Scambaiting | Bloomberg Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_9Ix_6pK8
https://www.youtube.com/@business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
- Yatai city, Myanmar scam centres. Many volunteer but others also are forced to work there. Chinese triads/mafia run them. Dating and relationship scams. Wworkers are beaten and abused if they can't bring in money. 2.5K USD ransoms are required to leave scam call centres. Yatai city property management groups say they've cracked on but human trafficking and underage workers still happening. Cambodia has scam call centres too. Crypto, scams, casinos, etc... Scam buildings normally hard to get in and out. Locations constantly changing and names of businesses for scam call centres too such as Bevet. Bangaldesh best country to target as they don't think too much. US is targeted as people there have a lot of money. Scammers have scripts that they follow. Best earners ~$4M USD per year. Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, Myanmar people all work in these call centres
Scam: Inside Asia's criminal network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNn2pHtRH4
https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNews
- SEO, strong script, etc... Outbound conversion rate lower then (inbound 0.18% of 18349 calls vs 30% of 233 calls). Only if they can obtain remote access to PC are scam agents intersted in continuing call. They run basic Batch scripts and scans before they grab bank/credit card details and selling stuff to people like a firewall or service to do stuff on their computer. Hire Assistance group run operation in Texas, US. Scambaiter claimed he was from FBI and breached and then installed malware on their systems and reported case to relevant authorities. Hire Assistance no longer running their operation
Scammers REGRET Challenging An FBI Agent!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovoJ5I5PUc
https://www.youtube.com/@Scambaiter
Man Meets His Romance Scammer In Real Life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3lPgw3T2M
https://www.youtube.com/@CatfishedOnline
I was swept up in an international romance scam | SBS Insight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSh0vravJ2c
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSInsight
- online scams account for ~50% of all cybercrime. 3/5 tech support scam account for all online scams. 85% of all tech support scam calls are from India. After several years working as scam agent you can end up running things and have others invest in you. Structure of scam call centres similar to legitimate call centres: agent, TL, call centre manager. Family/friends don't often know what scam agents are doing but they know they are bringing in money. They preferred to have normal life but money is lucrative in scam call centres. People over 55 targeted for tech support scams not because dumb but because gullible and lonely with no one to support them. Start of millenium Guargon, Kalkota, Bangalore, Mumbai were call centre hubs for Western IT. Legitimate call centre agents turned to scams when legit jobs were moved elsewhere? During this time and when shutdown operations sprung up where customer database information was stolen and used to startup? People just trying to make ends meet in bad economy such as matrimoney scam, romance scam, job scam, etc... Infections of PC's via popup ads also used to bring in marks to scam call centres. Even if you report scam call centres not much is done. Scambaiters/scammer.info contains information reagrdsing existing scams. Sector 5 is one location where scam call centres are. Police raid scam call centre buildings 6-7times a month? 10K ruppee, 1K USD is base salary for scam call centre agent per month. A lot of people in scam call centres don't really understand that they're doing something wrong? Job scams require you to pay money to get a job. People who run these operations tend to come from well known outsourced call centre operation firms? 35-40 reports today inside Indian police stations regarding domestic cases. money transfer and sextortion cases common most. Advent of high speed Internet in India in 2016 led to explosion in digital scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-16/asic-sue-hsbc-court-finance-banking-scam-customer-protection/104690472
Baiting the Indian Scammers | Undercover Asia | FD Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bX8bux3fZY
https://www.youtube.com/@FDCrime
https://www.samarthbansal.com/
https://www.snigdhapoonam.com/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kritika+Jain+scam+call+centre
Scam: Inside Asia's criminal network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNn2pHtRH4
https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNews
Behind Asia's cyber slavery | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti7YDegRMYE
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Beating Scammers at Their Own Game | Super Users
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbEQsKLRZQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
Scam City: Istanbul - Scammed at Night, the Police Don't Care | Free Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0lAPENe1o
Scam City: Prague - Scammers Disguised as Beautiful Girls & Harmless Hawkers | Free Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Kpu4aXjXU
https://www.youtube.com/@FreeDocumentary
abc uae scam centre
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-11/inside-the-scam-factory-pig-butchering-and-cyberscams/103937064
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/notorious-01-inside-the-scam-factory/103952702
Cambodia's Fake Orphan Scam | Open Secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gC-UfGRcQ
The World's Most Complex Catfishing Scam | Investigators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MgCUdAUhc8
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Asia's Tinder Swindlers: Exposing Love Scam Rings In Cambodia | Talking Point | Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZacChEz3Am8
https://www.youtube.com/@CNAInsider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson
Fool's Gold: Inside Ghana's Million Dollar Scamming Syndicates | REWIND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYa2_3ZRcg
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
How a small Chinese company tricked the German state | DW Investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_S97Ae1eg
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
- smuggling is critical for any operation requiring movement of physical goods. Organised crime, terrorist groups, etc... are perfect vehicle to get your way if you can't compete against traditional powers? Shadow naval/ship fleet and creative use of pipelines used to get around sanctions? Number of defense companies have doubled since sanctions put in place against Russia and their annexation of Crimea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Reign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraband_(2012_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_smuggling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_smuggling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(smuggling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Smuggling
guerilla tactics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_and_tactics_of_guerrilla_warfare
sanctions smuggling
https://www.state.gov/iran-sanctions/
Russian counter-sanctions and smuggling: Forensics with structural gravity estimation☆
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199624001417
sanctions smuggling counter moves
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning five Mexican individuals associated with the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's most dangerous criminal organizations. Those designated today are tied to the Gulf Cartel's involvement in criminal activities associated with illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, human smuggling, and narcotics trafficking in the Gulf of Mexico. IUU fishing often involves criminal activity, forced labor, and human rights abuses, and is often a revenue stream for criminal organizations. IUU fishing is also a threat to U.S. maritime security, as criminal organizations may use the same vessels for smuggling narcotics and humans across borders.
Treasury Targets Cartel-Enabled Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Operations
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2729
Where Does Kim Jong-Un Get His Cash? | Inside North Korea's Bureau 39 | North Korea Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAn3HnLpTE4
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39
How Russia Beat Sanctions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSf6UdVa5WM
https://www.youtube.com/@AltSimplified
- the irony of modern society is that a lot of groups consider the family the "perfect unit" but the people who are most dangerous to you are your family and co-workers according to common statistics? Law enforcement and legal system doesn't generally get involved in family matters which makes it hard to avoid this type of stuff?. Other ironic thing is that a lot of weapons are just used for suicides?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
occupation of homicide victims
There were 392 workplace homicides in 2020. There were also 37,060 nonfatal injuries in the workplace resulting from an intentional injury by another person.
The five occupational groups with the most workplace homicides in 2020 were sales and related, transportation and material moving, management, construction and extraction, and production. Homicides in sales and related occupations accounted for 23.5 percent of all workplace homicides in 2020.
...
Service occupations accounted for about half of all nonfatal intentional injuries by another person that required at least a day away from work in 2020. Service occupations include healthcare support, protective service, food preparation and serving related, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance, and personal care and service occupations. Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations made up about 23 percent of cases.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/workplace-violence-homicides-and-nonfatal-intentional-injuries-by-another-person-in-2020.htm
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/work-related-homicides-the-facts.pdf
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/recorded-crime-victims/latest-release
https://apps.who.int/violence-info/homicide/
familiarity breeds contempt
https://rehoboth.wa.edu.au/addressing-issues-familiarity-breeds-contempt/
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/familiarity-breeds-contempt
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Norton_Michael_Less%20is%20more%20The%20lure%20of%20ambiguity_26f23155-6eb1-485c-9132-2e084822cd96.pdf
- some organised crime operations are rediculous and pretty funny? You suspect some corporate esionage/sabotage operations rumours may be real after you've looked around for a while?
The Green Energy Copper War taking place on the streets of South Africa | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEPtmDMX1fw
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams
stealing copper cabling
https://www.crimestoppersvic.com.au/current-focus/copper-cable-theft/
Three Sydney contractors have been charged over the alleged theft and unlawful sale of over 300 tonnes of copper wiring potentially worth up to $3.5 million.
The arrests come after an investigation sparked by industry reports of contractors removing copper wiring and selling it to scrap metal collectors for a profit while purporting to run a legitimate business.
In March this year police attached to the financial crimes squad motor unit searched a scrap yard in Ingleburn and seized approximately $200,000 worth of stolen copper wiring.
Later that day, authorities executed a search warrant on a property in Campbelltown, where they found an additional $105,000 worth of cabling and subsequently arrested and charged two men with larceny.
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The appeal of copper is due to its high re-sale value, with a single kilogram of material able to fetch up to $10, making it one of the most sought-after scrap metals available.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/contractors-charged-stealing-copper/103844380
stealing catalytic converter
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-16/catalytic-converter-thefts-australia-rare-metal-value/102224790
https://www.vox.com/2023/5/20/23728557/catalytic-converter-theft-scrap-price-replacement-toyota-prius-cars-insurance-protection
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-27/catalytic-converters-stolen-across-south-east-queensland/102269360
https://www.met.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/keeping-vehicles-safe/catalytic-converter-theft/
The investigation expanded between then and the third quarter of 2022, by which time it was nicknamed Operation Heavy Metal, included over 70 local and federal agencies and linked independent investigations into regional theft rings in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York and Virginia. On November 2, police executed simultaneous search warrants across the US on over 32 sites, resulting in 21 arrests in 5 states. The dismantling of the interstate theft ring was described as the first national takedown of a catalytic converter theft ring by the Department of Justice.
Following the dismantling of the interstate theft ring, the theft of catalytic converters dropped dramatically. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, over 5,000 catalytic converter thefts were reported per month in 2022. In the first nine months of 2023, there were 2,675 catalytic converter thefts reported per month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932022_catalytic_converter_theft_ring
- organised crime and illegal mining are strange bedfollows? They make more money selling to black market/direct to locals then via legit channels/government wholesaler/Pertamina often. Even if workers own land they're not allowed to drill new wells on it to encourage/allow foreign investment form companies such as Exxon Mobile who do automated/machine based mining first. Refining process is from ancient times and is a form of crude heating and distillation to get various fuel types. Yield of oil fields is too low to become wealthy from it now
How Toxic Century-Old Oil Wells Trap Thousands Of Workers In Java | Risky Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwKWXDyRvMY
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=illegal+refining
Troops Destroy Massive Illegal Refinery in Delta State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqmd-5uw-s
https://www.youtube.com/@tvcnewsnigeria
Special Report On Nigeria's Illegal Oil Refineries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjrgM7ysVE
https://www.youtube.com/@ChannelsTelevision
Is a shortage of oil refineries pushing up global fuel prices? | Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12GOlDED38
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Afghanistan's Secret Billion Dollar Emerald Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_CWLsPQS8
Zimbabwe's Blood Diamond Killing Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Bk5VIhjiY
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
- lots of technically illegal mining operations by Chinese people in Ghana? Licensing and registration of these operations is under a cloud of legitimacy? ~95% of small scale mining is illegal. Chinese miners work with locals but both sides regulary carry weapons to protect against items from being stolen. Illegal Chinese miners pay bribes to local police to look the other way and to ignore illegal acts. Mining has poisoned land and water supply locally. PMMC ultimate buyer of gold in Ghana?
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary | Guardian Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrrE1rjzLo
https://www.youtube.com/@theGuardian
https://www.pmmc.gov.gh/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_Ghana
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gold+illegal+mining
Trapped for gold: The dangers facing illegal miners in South Africa | The Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ufadhTTsw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVQWFmy2A_k
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
The Story
For over a hundred years, South Africa was the largest producer of the world's gold.
More gold has been extracted from its reserves than from all the other mines in the world combined. Ever.
But today, many of these mines are closing. New waves of migrants are entering into their abandoned but unsealed shafts, to scavenge for gold in the deep. The most daring of these informal miners are called 'zama zamas.' The phrase means to "keep on trying," but also "to gamble."
Zama zamas stake everything to survive - but not all of them do. The work is dangerous, both for the men who go underground and for the women who grind the rock by hand in order to extract the gold. Without helmets or safety equipment, with neither ventilation nor dewatering, lighting the way with only bicycle head-lamps, zama zamas are indeed gamblers, those who stake everything for survival.
We are Zama Zama tells their stories.
https://www.wearezamazama.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wearezamazama/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zama_zama
Gold Mafia - Episode 1 - The Laundry Service I Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evWEuVR1XIs
Gold Mafia - Episode 2 - Smoke & Mirrors | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIcCoYt9YE
Gold Mafia – Episode 3 – El Dorado I Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_rhbJHokw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Dirty Gold: Secrets of the Gold Industry | From Mafias & Rebel Gangs to Switzerland | Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r5LedUJ2t4
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Dubai's Dirty Gold I ARTE.tv Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTxTkPMQC04
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
We are Zama Zama - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jNZf9DvYfA
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
- they found gold a while back in Mauritania. They mine manually still. People sleep and live down in tunnels for days at a time. Once ore is dug out it's refined by using mills to crush and convert stone to liquid and then mixed with mercury to react with and isolate gold. Ministry of minerals normally buys from miners but often sell on blackmarket to get better price
48 Hours with gold miners in the Mauritanian desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXmH_C9KEm0
https://www.youtube.com/@JoeHattab
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=illegal+ore+smuggling
- prospects poor in Africa so children often work in their mining industries. Cobalt required for electronics and battery technology in US and China. Mining is done manually and Cobalt is poisonous which causes health problems. Mining has poisoned land and water supply locally. Chinese and Indian buys don't care about how cobalt is extracted or whether process is safe, they just want the best price. People living and born in these mining areas are stuck in a loop. Miners generally are at subsitence level and profits accrue at the top in the Big Tech sector? Modern artisan mining isn't as bad as colonial era but not much different conceptually? Big Tech sector very similar to how chocolate industry deals with issues of slavery, they just hide it or stop only while media attension is on them. Much like global oil sector the core mining/extraction is done in poorer countries while the refining and processing is done in developed/wealthy countries. Ores/minerals moved from illegal mine sites and laundered via legal ones? Yield on a lot of manual mine sites is less then the cost of the mining license? Geological fingerprint can be used to identify point of origin. DRC mining code requires contractors to be DRC nationals?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=congo+cobalt+illegal+mining
Special report : Inside the Congo cobalt mines that exploit children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJ8me22NVs
https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNews
The horror of cobalt mining in DR Congo | The Listening Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJdktQ97rZ8
https://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish/videos
"It's Always About Oil": CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7coh9-MpFJo
"Cobalt Red": Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I3K7fhLmcE
https://www.youtube.com/@DemocracyNow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Conference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Jamaica
Why the conference that divided Africa still matters today | DW News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKgTf-_ouVI
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cocoa+farm+slavery
Chocolate's Child Slaves? Secrets of the Chocolate Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcf2o42txUE
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
How the Chocolate Industry Still Profits from Child Labor | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRc9hjejY0o
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Ghana Grows Our Cocoa, So Why Can't It Make Chocolate? | Big Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X7wAKMNBXI
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
- they normally carry ~25-30kg bags of backfill dirt to another location where they try and extract whatever copper there is left after machine based mining has gone through area
Diggers and Merchants: A Congolese copper digger | Africa Direct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1j9Lv6_BVk
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9camines
Mining Coltan in the DRC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPIB17PE2vM
https://www.youtube.com/@CIDSETogetherforGlobalJustice
Mines of hell: risking their lives for coltan | FULL DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZAUC12iedc
https://www.youtube.com/@SLICE_Full_Doc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa
Why isn't the DR Congo the world's richest country? | Mapped Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tny2usCxhc4
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://www.fairtrade.net/en/products/Fairtrade_products.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade
- just like other mining industrial miners/extractors go in first, artisan/independent miners go in afterwards. They prefer to work in family groups even if that means children have to work. Children just want to make enough money to help them survive but the older they get the wiser they become to the importance of diamonds and who gets them? Heavy labour stunts the growth of kids in mining areas. Since money is low from diamond mining they can't go to school and are stuck in that job
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blood+diamonds+illegal+mining
Blood Diamonds and Religious War In The Central African Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbT_b0obeg8
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
DIRTY DIAMONDS - The Child Miners of Sierra Leone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-EqMzeGNQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ProgettoHappiness
https://koidulimited.com/diamonds/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koidu_Limited
https://actionaid.org.au/
Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas, or to label an individual diamond as having come from such an area. Diamonds mined during the 20th–21st century civil wars in Angola, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau have been given the label.[1][2][3] The terms conflict resource or conflict minerals refers to analogous situations involving other natural resources. Blood diamonds can also be smuggled by organized crime syndicates so that they could be sold on the black market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diamond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Perkins describes what he calls a system of corporatocracy and greed as the driving forces behind establishing the United States as a global empire, in which he took a role as an "economic hit man" to expand its influence. In this capacity, Perkins recounts his meetings with some prominent individuals, including Graham Greene and Omar Torrijos. Perkins describes the role of an economic hit man as follows:
Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_military_contractors
- dangerous life in Chinatown? Snipers and all sort of other strange stuff happening? Even crazy people avoid pain. A lot of people die through perceived lack of respect. Italian Mafia and Asian Triads sometimes got involved with one another. Extortion, stolen credit cards, bootlegged video tapes, drug trafficking, gambling, protection/security rackets. People you least expect to have a gun is the one most likely to have it. Safe houses used to sleep, live, meet, etc... Police didn't really care about safe houses but did care about guns. Lots of secret passages and tunnels in Chinatown used to hide crimes. Joined to avoid bullying, wine/blood/incense used to mark joining (similar to Yukuza). Local police didn't really have resources to fix but FBI did. ~1993 FBI started rounding up people at the top and he decided to go to NYPD. Gangs broke up and became smaller. Gang members gave each other nicknames like Onionhead or Bighead based on their characteristics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(2018_film)
triad hierarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(organized_crime)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14K_(triad)
https://www.universalcompendium.com/tables/soc/tria.htm
Mike Moy says he was a gang member in New York City's Chinatown. He was recruited at his school's gates and then got involved in a gang in the 1970s. Moy claims he was involved in gambling houses, counterfeit money, bootleg kung fu movies, gunrunning, and credit-card fraud. He then joined the New York City Police Department as an officer in 1995 and worked there for 26 years.
Moy discusses the Chinatown gang's links with the Italian Mafia and how extortion worked. He talks about the locations of safe houses in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, and the secret smuggling tunnels around the city.
Moy founded the YouTube channel Chinatown Gang Stories, where he speaks with former gang members about their lives. Find more of Moy's interviews here:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Chapter 1 | The Rivalries
02:09 Chapter 2 | The Money
04:45 Chapter 3 | The Weapons
05:36 Chapter 4 | Smuggling Tunnels
07:13 Chapter 5 | The Recruitment
08:54 Chapter 6 | The Hierarchy
10:09 Chapter 7 | Changing Times
11:48 Chapter 8 | Becoming a Cop
14:34 Chapter 9 | The Aftermath
How New York Chinatown Gangs Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2osXEixd3kM
https://www.youtube.com/@chinatowngangstories/videos
Jimmy Tsui is a former member of Tung On in New York City's Chinatown and of the Sun Yee On triad in Hong Kong.
In 1985 in New York, he was arrested and charged with robbery and homicide, with a $1.5 million-dollar bail. The case was later dismissed. This led to his transition into Sun Yee On, where he became a "426 general" in 1988.
He traveled back and forth between Hong Kong and New York City and was involved in karaoke bars, gambling houses, and various scams. In 1992, he was shot five times while sitting in his car. This ended his involvement in mob life. Around this time, the influence of the Chinese mafia in New York was declining, and Tsui's network dissolved.
Tsui speaks with Insider about how the triads make money, such as extortion and protection rackets. He discusses the initiation ceremonies and rules of membership as well as the ties to the movie business. He also covers the triads' global expansion.
After leaving the triads, Tsui got involved with Chinatown Gang Stories, a YouTube channel organized by Mike Moy, a former gang member, and New York City Police Department officer.
Chapter 1: Joining the Triads - 00:34
Chapter 2: The Money - 03:16
Chapter 3: The Secret Codes - 06:16
Chapter 4: The Hierarchy - 07:52
Chapter 5: The Rivalries - 10:35
Chapter 6: The Parking Lot Shooting - 13:24
Chapter 7: The Origin - 16:12
Chapter 8: The Backstory - 17:15
Chapter 9: The Future - 19:02
How The Triads (Hong Kong Mafia) Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzZF9krC34M
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
- cost of black market weapons ~1K, 3D printer weapons ~300, Ghost guns are hybrid plsatic, metal guns. It's illegal to download and manufacture 3D printed guns in many countries. 3D printer guns being used by terrorists, gangs, freedom fighters, etc... Yet again defense, intelligence, organised crime world blending into one another with techniques and choices of weapons often similar?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
Army Firearms Specialist Rates Gun Technique In 13 Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PD8mW-lVw
Special Ops Sniper Rates 11 More Sniper Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlx548y1NDY
Special Ops Sniper Rates 8 Sniper Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB0CZ_5sPPw
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killer_(2023_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_martial_arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Wilson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Distributed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homemade_firearm
favorite guns of organised crime
Firearm trafficking and serious and organised crime gangs - Samantha Bricknell
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp116.pdf
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-03/ti622_illicit_firearms_and_other_weapons_on_darknet_markets.pdf
https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/guns-of-the-mob-the-most-popular-firearms-used-by-the-mafia/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-04/3d-printed-guns-rising-australia-semi-automatic/104538082
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3D-printed+guns+on+rise+in+Australia+4+corners
3D-printed guns look like children's toys. They're lethal and on the rise | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS_UBFz2rBY
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
I 3D-Printed a Glock to See How Far Homemade Guns Have Come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dBuPJ9p7A
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
military style kill
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/ned-dobos-military-training-and-moral-damage/12925446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_house
https://www.wired.com/story/america-civilian-tactical-training-industry/
https://theconversation.com/police-with-lots-of-military-gear-kill-civilians-more-often-than-less-militarized-officers-141421
mafia murder style
south american cartel murder style
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/worse-than-any-horror-film-inside-a-los-zetas-cartel-kitchen-1.4225436
The origin of the double-tap technique is credited to William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes, British police chiefs working in Shanghai during the 1930s who developed the technique in order to overcome the limitations of full-metal-jacketed (FMJ) ammunition. FMJ ammunition is commonly used by militaries for feeding reliability, adherence to the Hague Conventions regarding non-expanding ammunition, and improved penetration. FMJ rounds can sometimes fail to cause sufficient damage (at least when compared to expanding bullets), requiring more hits and better shot placement. In Ian Dear's book Sabotage and Subversion about British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) forces, Fairbairn is reported to have instructed SOE personnel in the double tap from 1944 to 1945 at the SOE training school directed by Fairbairn and Sykes near Arisaig in Scotland. The term double tap is now used to describe the more general technique of firing two rounds quickly and accurately to disable an opponent. The tactic is still used by firearms handlers, police tactical teams, military personnel, counter-terrorist combat units, and other special operations forces personnel.
The Russian assault rifle AN-94 can automatically shoot two bullets in a rapid burst; this feature was intended to improve the single shot hit probability of the rifle.
Double taps are an integral part of the El Presidente combat pistol shooting drill developed by Jeff Cooper during the 1970s and published in the January/February 1979 issue of American Handgunner.[5] Also developed by Cooper during the 1970s is the Mozambique Drill or Failure Drill, for a situation whereby a double-tap to the torso fails to stop an attacker, adding a third shot to the head.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap
The modern technique (abbreviation of modern technique of the pistol) is a method for using a handgun for self-defense, originated by firearms expert Jeff Cooper.[1] The modern technique uses a two-handed grip on the pistol and brings the weapon to eye level so that the sights may be used to aim at the target. This method was developed by Cooper into a teachable system beginning in the 1950s, based on the techniques of shooters like Jack Weaver, Mike Rousseau and others, after experiments with older techniques such as point shooting. The method was codified in book form in 1991 in The Modern Technique of the Pistol by Gregory B. Morrison and Cooper.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_power
- ~70% guns come form north/US, drugs and money come from south/Mexico.. Operation Hormingas/Ant. Handguns smuggled across border easily in backpack, AK47 dismantled. Tijuana specialises in smuggling operations. Drug tunnels, trebuchet, drones, agricultural and electrical equipment, etc... all used to help smuggle. Border force is extremely corrupted. Retirees and young teenagers are used/hired to smuggle guns as it's not expected. Guns strapped and duct taped to body. The closer to border the cheaper guns are, the further south the more expensive they are. ~70% of weapons are stolen from corrupted members of the US military? There are so many guns out there that it's unrealistic to get rid of them all. US has outsourced it's counter-cartel and counter-drug policy to Mexico? Mexico and police are hugely corrupted
How Gun Smuggling Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-HQgP2TpUI
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcoculture_in_Mexico
Investigating the Ghost Gun Epidemic (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQ-GKl-Q-o
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
Arming and Funding Cartels | CBS Reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JsvNSmLxa0
https://www.youtube.com/@CBSNews
The world's most dangerous arms dealer | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqDCrdZVZnk
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
- ~70% of criminal network bribe officials to help them. ~3T per narco-sub. Travel from South America all the way to Europe. Hundreds of smugglers in Galicia Spain alone for South American drug cartels. Only ~5% of drugs entering Spain stays in Spain, rest goes to rest of Europe
Inside Spain's Narco Submarines | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfKs6xbQ0Xs
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
Torture Chambers & Billion-Euro Profits: Inside Amsterdam's Mafia | Java Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQgipcBJUk
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
The $193,000,000,000 Evolution of the Narco Mule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm0ACNu4Gg4
https://www.youtube.com/@waterlinestories
Hijacking and Murder in Global Shipping's Grim Underbelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZuvXWxOJTE
How a Balkan Drug Cartel Infiltrated Global Shipping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpiOLdnAGBw
https://www.youtube.com/@business
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
- there is a huge irony to the the many coup attempts around the world. If you examine the sale, flow, type of weapons and training of groups who use violence it's the usual suspects. The US, Russia, China are the main sources. It's the same theme with many weapons that are flowing throughout the world from leftover conflicts such as the Cold War between the US and USSR. It's remarkable how well equipped some rebel groups and major crime groups are? My suspicion is that they would outstrip a lot of law enforcement forces and that's the reason why there's been an militarisation in arms within many police forces to at least maintain parity? It's obvious that training, weapons, knowledge, skills, etc... are being shared between many different groups and governments around the world
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
According to Clayton Thyne and Jonathan Powell's coup dataset, there were 457 coup attempts from 1950 to 2010, of which 227 (49.7%) were successful and 230 (50.3%) were unsuccessful.[1] They find that coups have "been most common in Africa and the Americas (36.5% and 31.9%, respectively). Asia and the Middle East have experienced 13.1% and 15.8% of total global coups, respectively. Europe has experienced by far the fewest coup attempts: 2.6%."[1] Most coup attempts occurred in the mid-1960s, but there were also large numbers of coup attempts in the mid-1970s and the early 1990s.[1] Numbers of successful coups have decreased over time.[1] Coups occurring in the post-Cold War period have been more likely to result in democratic systems.[16][17][18] Coups that occur during civil wars shorten the war's duration.[19] Research suggests that protests spur coups, as they help elites within the state apparatus to coordinate coups.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts_since_2010
african warlords weapons
The typical weapons available through these markets are small arms and crew-served infantry weapons, including Kalashnikov assault rifles, RPGs, mortars, anti-tank weapons, and surface to air missiles like the SA-7.
https://jamestown.org/program/weapons-for-warlords-arms-trafficking-in-the-gulf-of-aden/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/world/europe/07cnd-liberia.html
https://www.euractiv.com/section/africa/news/central-africa-rebels-rearm-after-military-gets-russia-weapons/
Technicals consist of weapons mounted on a four-wheel drive pickup truck. Many pickups have been used as technicals including Ford Ranger and Mitsubishi Triton, but the most favoured are the Toyota Hilux and Toyota Land Cruiser. They are typically fitted with heavy machine guns (especially the DShK and M2 Browning), anti-aircraft artillery (usually the ZPU or ZU-23-2), recoilless rifles (usually the SPG-9 or M40 recoilless rifle) and Multiple rocket launchers such as the Type 63 multiple rocket launcher or the M-63 Plamen.
Optional add-ons include steel plates welded on for extra defense from small arms fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)
cartel weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_firearms_into_Mexico
People are jokingly commenting on a past post asking what gun stores these came from. Well short answer. Most of the military grade stuff comes from South America and can be traced to US and Soviet shipments to a few countries back in the late 80's. They were used to set up or dismantle governments all over the place back in the ideological battles of the cold war… The rest is civilian grade rifles that can (in more than one case) be traced back to Obama's Fast and The Furious operation.
I know this shit has been used as propaganda to take away gun rights from Americans. That is fucked up. But to deny that these are mostly US in origin isn't helping anyone's cause. This was an Obama administration fuck up.. own that shit. I have high hopes for this current adminstration, really. Despite all the anti Mexican stuff being propagated I'm not blind to the true problems that are actually effecting millions of lives on both sides of the border. Trump is looking out for his people. I respect that.
There are people who are making a killing off the current turmoil and propagating the antimaericanism sentiment in Mexico.. and those people are not your friends.
People ask why the Mexican Marines don't apply the same aerial assaults on the Sinaloa Cartel in Culiacán. Well the answer is simple. They have anti-aircraft capabilities and have down a few helicopters already.
https://sofrep.com/gear/mexican-cartels-weapons/
https://www.thetrumpet.com/21860-mexican-cartels-get-european-guns
https://armamentresearch.com/weapons-used-by-cartel-sicarios-in-culiacan-mexico/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming-mexican-cartels-inside-story-of-a-texas-gun-smuggling-ring-866836/
rebel groups weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_weapons_and_tactics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_equipment_used_by_Syrian_opposition_forces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-materiel_rifle
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/01/where-the-insurgent-groups-of-the-world-get-their-weapons/
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/about-us/highlights/highlights-2015/weapons-and-the-world.html
Man-portable air defense systems are a popular black market item for insurgent forces.[22] Their proliferation became the subject of the Wassenaar Arrangement's (WA)22 Elements for Export Controls of MANPADS, the G8 Action Plan of 2 June 2003,[23] the October 2003 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, Bangkok Declaration on Partnership for the Future and in July 2003 the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Forum for Security Co-operation, Decision No. 7/03: Man-portable Air Defense Systems.[24]
Understanding the problem in 2003, Colin Powell remarked that there was "no threat more serious to aviation" than the missiles,[25] which can be used to shoot down helicopters and commercial airliners, and are sold illegally for as little as a few hundred dollars. The U.S. has led a global effort to dismantle these weapons, with over 30,000 voluntarily destroyed since 2003, but probably thousands are still in the hands of insurgents, especially in Iraq, where they were looted from the military arsenals of the former dictator Saddam Hussein,[26][27] and in Afghanistan as well. In August 2010, a report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) confirmed that "only a handful" of illicit MANPADS were recovered from national resistance caches in Iraq in 2009, according to media reports and interviews with military sources.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-portable_air-defense_system
military training rebel groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_rebel_groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Train_and_Equip_Program
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mitchprothero/us-special-forces-are-secretly-training-syrian-rebels-and
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/18/pentagon-wasted-500-million-syrian-rebels/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/08/west-training-syrian-rebels-jordan
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-us-allies-military-syria-fail-troops-rebels-606327
The panel said it has identified the presence of mercenaries from Wagner in Libya since October 2018, "providing technical support for the repair of military vehicles, participating in combat operations and engaging in influence operations."
The panel said it was provided with details of 122 Wagner operatives who are "highly probably operational" in Libya, including 39 from its specialist sniper group and 83 from its 1st Attack and Reconnaissance Company or other combat units.
The panel said mercenaries from the Russian company Rossiskie System Bezopasnosti Group have also been identified as providing maintenance and repair support for military aircraft.
The experts said they continue to investigate reports that mercenaries from Russian-based Moran Security Group and Schit Security Group deployed to Benghazi on January 6.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/libya-s-hifter-got-fighters-from-russian-company-un-experts-20200507-p54qnl.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Haftar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Police_(Mexico)#Equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Police_of_Colombia#Equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_States#Police_equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
Military weapons are given to some police
Experts say one of the major issues in American police enforcement is the type of weapons some officers carry.
The US Department of Defence gives 'surplus' military equipment to certain civilian police forces.
Between 1997 and 2014, more than 8,000 local law enforcement agencies were given about $US5 billion in excess military equipment.
"Police departments are generally funded by local government. As with all areas of local government, over the last few decades, they've suffered really debilitating cuts," said David Smith from the United States Studies Centre (USSC).
"Offloaded military equipment is one of their main sources of equipment. Related is just the sheer availability of that equipment after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars."
For police forces with limited funds, the excess gear helps keep them stocked up in items like sandbags, torches, sleeping bags and medical supplies.
But agencies also get items including assault rifles, night-vision goggles, armoured vehicles, bayonets and grenade launchers, according to US criminal justice reform expert Jeremiah Mostelle.
He says that some police officers have become more aggressive as their weapons have become more powerful.
"The increased use of military equipment has coincided with an increased use of military tactics, such as SWAT teams and no-knock raids," he wrote for the Charles Koch Institute.
But it wasn't until 2014 that the Pentagon's program first received widespread scrutiny, when riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri.
During demonstrations over the police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, authorities arrived at the scene in an armoured vehicle, dressed in military camouflage and carrying assault weapons.
Republican Senator Rand Paul criticised US leaders for helping municipal governments "build what are essentially small armies".
"Police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement," he wrote in Time magazine in 2014.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-02/why-do-us-police-have-such-powerful-weapons-in-protests/12307798
why do us police have military weapons
Militarization of police refers to the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers.[1] This includes the use of armored personnel carriers, assault rifles, submachine guns, flashbang grenades,[2][3] grenade launchers,[4] sniper rifles, and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams.[5][6] The militarization of law enforcement is also associated with intelligence agency-style information gathering aimed at the public and political activists,[7][8] and a more aggressive style of law enforcement.[9][10] Criminal justice professor Peter Kraska has defined militarization of police as "the process whereby civilian police increasingly draw from, and pattern themselves around, the tenets of militarism and the military model."[11]
Observers have noted the militarizing of the policing of protests.[12][13] Since the 1970s, riot police have fired at protesters using guns with rubber bullets or plastic bullets.[14] Tear gas, which was developed by the United States Army for riot control in 1919, is still widely used against protesters. The use of tear gas in warfare is prohibited by various international treaties[15] that most states have signed; however, its law enforcement or military use for domestic or non-combat situations is permitted.
Concerns about the militarization of police have been raised by both ends of the political spectrum in the United States, with both the right-of-center/libertarian Cato Institute[16] and the American Civil Liberties Union[17] voicing criticisms of the practice. The Fraternal Order of Police has spoken out in favor of equipping law enforcement officers with military equipment, on the grounds that it increases the officers' safety and enables them to protect members of the public and other first responders (e.g., firefighters and emergency medical services personnel).[18] However, a 2017 study showed that police forces which received military equipment were more likely to have violent encounters with the public, regardless of local crime rates.[19] A 2018 study found that militarized police units in the United States were more frequently deployed to communities with large shares of African-Americans, even after controlling for local crime rates.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
- organised crime is so strong that you can't crack down on gun laws without causing major conflict/war? Money source is irresistable to those in the legtimate economy as well. Weapons croming from all over the place such as the the US, Guatamala, Central/South America, etc... I did a basic check online and you can get handguns for a few hundred dollars. Assault class weapons can be had for four figures? Ammunition really, really cheap. A few dollars a round/bullet. Things may be much cheaper on the genuine black market?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
weapons black market
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/the-sale-of-illegal-weapons-on-the-dark-web-and-the-impact-on-international-security/
https://www.ultimategunsales.net/gun/black-market-guns
https://www.ultimategunsales.net/armory
We ship all over, and customers do not require any paper work to get a firearm with us. We also provide discreet shipping. We take a wide variety of payment methods for clients who wish to keep their identity discreet.
https://www.ultimategunsales.net/about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_trafficking
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arms+trafficking
'All weapons we sell are from the US' - Smuggling guns into Mexico _ Talk to Al Jazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQz9CUMavIs
Dueling presidents - What's next for Venezuela _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZIsdGguNQ
Gun economics - The weaponisation of the US _ Counting the Cost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBkieBTKqM
Gunfire as Sudan military moves in to clear Khartoum sit-in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7POKSI7sk
Iran's FM Zarif - 'End to US presence in the Middle East has begun'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRagm3M85Y
Is this the answer to stopping US gun violence _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Say_56drjnA
NRA and One Nation - What is the gun lobby hiding _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQngITFbanw
Arms trafficking is a 'Big Business' in Central America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWZiC7sJrbE
How guns are getting across the border _ Guns in Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDdm-PkhZ4
How Guns Are Smuggled Across State Lines in Just 3 Hours _ NowThis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roU6d31KSJ4
How Mexican Cartels Exploit America's Gun Laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRqUiM4Fw1c
Lebanon's Illegal Arms Dealers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxumsOQMxLE
NRA - The Truth About Arms Trafficking in Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNuQ8mdIMog
Shadow World Inside the Global Arms Trade (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viXqHzMrIaE
The Business of War - SOFEX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_3Qg-SADY
The Eastern European Gun Runners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjueUbCmwn4
The Gun Markets of Pakistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FinRqCocwGE
This is what an international arms deal looks like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yORN-8_C35A
Yemen and the global arms trade _ DW Documentary (Arms documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkUv2R97I-Y
Investigating the Ghost Gun Epidemic (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQ-GKl-Q-o
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
Outdoor Gun Markets of Afghanistan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPDRAtGg7VI
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisMustList
Arms Trafficking - Dirty Dollars Inc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4WKM6DzD2U
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
How Arms Trafficking Actually Works — From The 'War Dogs' Arms Dealer | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6N_M4P3Ihg
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packouz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraim_Diveroli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/comparing-icos-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/02/cryptocurrency-market-manipulation.html
- culture is very similar between organised crime groups? They're often culturally based and despite what is said about their honour code revolving around honour, loyalty, and respect it's similar to normal society and greed and selfishness are hallmarks of thir culture
Inside Australia's deadly gang wars | Full documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvumUqQwEL0
https://www.youtube.com/@7newsSpotlight
How The Hells Angels Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyTxdT4u60I
How Biker Gangs Actually Work (Mongols Motorcycle Club) | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmMBHJBbbc
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Inside Australia's gangland wars | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwm9nSVfATo
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
How Drug Trafficking Actually Works — From Heroin to Cocaine | How Crime Works Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfRcOoXKAc
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
How 6 Criminal Businesses Actually Work — From Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling | Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5Dlo96nto
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
How The New York Mafia Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGLoylT4hzQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartel | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IQuXbExjU
Inside the cartels controlling Australia's cocaine trade | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0iZvG4kEM
Exposing the suspected barons of Australia's meth trade | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMvKz2fIjc
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Ex-Gang Member On Drug Dealing, Violence And Surviving Grooming | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHydYA8PJY
Ex-Gang Member On Teen Murders, £27,000 Robberies and Prison | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKH64eGEHvE
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
does crime run in families
A large Swedish study including 12.5 million men and women found much continuity between violent crime in families, reporting that first-degree relatives (i.e., parents and siblings) were 4.3 times more likely to engage in violent crime than matched controls (Frisell, Lichtenstein & Langstrom 2011).
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/19-1415-FinalReport.pdf
When Crime Is a Family Affair
Kids have a habit of imitating their parents' criminal behavior. It's no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/crime-runs-family/573394/
Crime families: Gender and the intergenerational transfer of criminal tendencies
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi414.pdf
do people normally send their kids to school close to home
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-31/how-you-can-send-your-child-to-school-outside-catchment-zone/11914606
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/where-do-your-neighbours-send-their-kids-to-school-20171031-gzbms3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/saving-money-without-sacrificing-random.html
- what a lot of countries do makes a lot of sense now? Co-operation/co-existance and even outright performing crimes at times make sense given the hostile foreign policy of some countries now? You can't put it in a business or organisational name because it will be linked so you have to put it under a personal name but under many shells to hide the source and origin? I previously thought that organised crime was learning from the corporate world but it's obvious that they're often operating in unison with them? The main difference between white collar crime and organised crime is that there is more of an air o legitimacy to white collar crime? A lot of operations and institutions make a lot of sense now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_state
The Medellín Cartel and the Cali Cartel both managed to bribe Colombian politicians, and campaigned for both the Conservative and Liberal parties. Although the difference between the two cartels was that the Medellín Cartel used its "money or death" law through a huge army of hitmen, the Cali Cartel preferred to use bribes by having politicians, journalists, police officers, army officers, judges, etc. on its payroll.[58][59] Hence, Escobar and many other Colombian drug lords were pulling strings in every level of the Colombian government because many of the political candidates whom they backed financially were eventually elected.[58] Although the Medellín Cartel was only established in the early 1970s, it expanded after Escobar met several drug lords on a farm in April 1978, and by the end of 1978 they had transported some 19,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States.[60]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n
mafia democracy
https://www.amazon.com.au/Mafia-Democracy-Republic-Became-Racket/dp/1544530811
https://www.thenile.com.au/books/michael-franzese/mafia-democracy/9781544530819?srsltid=AfmBOoqvSi_PZSc3qTDomWrm92bUiJXeqm6KqCjt0so8y8eP_V8M6LOv
https://www.storytel.com/tv/books/summary-of-michael-franzeses-mafia-democracy-1803229
The New Mob | A Mafia Democracy with Michael Franzese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voog3O0xlKY
https://www.youtube.com/@michaelfranzese
https://www.amazon.com.au/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/1785030426
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159062-narconomics
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/narconomics-9781785030420
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=narconomics+how+to+run+a+drug+cartel
How Cartels Build Billion-Dollar Empires | News on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfdRbIVaBQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Making a Fake Movie to Understand Hollywood's Shady Accounting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-l2oFKZNak
https://www.youtube.com/@morning-brew
Why the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Donor Class and MIC Impairing the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEbyQdWOCk
https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Backyard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
stanford study corporate corruption politics
Corporations, Corruption, and Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYKu8nsJseA
Corporations and the Justice System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwqt4XW9YmQ
https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordgsb
political lobbying corruption
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/publications-and-resources/article/corruption-risks-associated-with-donations-and-lobbying
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-differences-between-bribery-and-lobbying.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_money_in_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Crime_(Transparency_and_Enforcement)_Act_2022
sanctions
Economic sanctions or embargoes are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals.[1][2] Economic sanctions are a form of coercion that attempts to get an actor to change its behavior through disruption in economic exchange. Sanctions can be intended to compel (an attempt to change an actor's behavior) or deterrence (an attempt to stop an actor from certain actions).[3][4][5]
Sanctions can target an entire country or they can be more narrowly targeted at individuals or groups; this latter form of sanctions are sometimes called "smart sanctions".[6] Prominent forms of economic sanctions include trade barriers, asset freezes, travel bans, arms embargoes, and restrictions on financial transactions.
The efficacy of sanctions in achieving intended goals is a subject of debate.[1][2][3][4][6][7] Scholars have also considered the policy externalities of sanctions.[7][8] The humanitarian consequences of country-wide sanctions have been a subject of controversy.[9] As a consequence, since the mid-1990s, United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions have tended to target individuals and entities, in contrast to the country-wide sanctions of earlier decades.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wolf+of+wall+street+swiss+bank+meeting
The Wolf of Wall Street - Swiss Bank scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTbiDQjbiE
https://www.youtube.com/@Adam-eg1xy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)
macau casinos money laundering
https://financialcrimeacademy.org/money-laundering-through-casinos-in-macau/
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-use-macau-to-launder-money-2013-11
https://igamingbusiness.com/casino/illegal-money-exchanges-ban-macau/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/18/macau-convicts-gambling-junket-king-alvin-chau
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-12/macau-casino-stocks-slump-on-renewed-money-exchange-crackdown
macau economy
Banking
Macau is an offshore financial centre, a tax haven, and a free port with no foreign exchange control regimes.[44] [45][46] The offshore finance business is regulated and supervised by the Monetary Authority of Macao,[47] while the regulation and supervision of the offshore non-finance business is mainly controlled by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute.[48] In 2007, Moody's Investors Service upgraded Macau's foreign and local currency government issuer ratings to 'Aa3' from 'A1', citing its government's solid finances as a large net creditor. The rating agency also upgraded Macau's foreign currency bank deposit ceiling to 'Aa3' from 'A1'.[49]
There are twenty other licensed banks, sixteen of which are foreign. Macau has five of the top 500 commercial banks in Asia, including Banco Tai Fung and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Macau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_financial_centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_port
money laundering monaco
https://en.gouv.mc/Policy-Practice/The-Economy/Combating-money-laundering
https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/monacos-anti-money-laundering-system-inadequate-risks-name-and-shame/
https://eucrim.eu/news/moneyval-fifth-round-evaluation-report-on-monaco/
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/01/21/monaco-scrambles-to-avoid-appearing-on-money-laundering-grey-list_6452653_8.html
switzerland money laundering
https://www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/corruption/corruption-money-laundering-and-the-role-of-switzerland
Over the past fifteen years, notable investigations and exposés, such as the Magnitsky Investigation, Laundromats, Offshoreleaks, Panama Papers, and Pandora Papers, have shed light on the staggering scale of global money laundering with trillions of dollars, predominantly originating from kleptocracies like Russia and other former USSR countries. These illicit funds are cleverly disguised and anonymized through laundering mechanisms, infiltrating the Western financial systems via a vast network of banks, lawyers, real estate agents, and have been utilized to purchase influence, garner political support, and secure positions within local establishments.
Recently there have been efforts to combat money laundering such as the Prevezon Case in the US, notable for its lawyer's meeting with Donald Trump Jr., and Danske Bank's guilty plea for laundering $160 billion through US banks. The most notorious money laundering banks in Cyprus, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have been closed and major banks, including Santander, Wachovia, Standard Chartered, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs, have faced penalties for their involvement in money laundering[1].
https://www.amlintelligence.com/2023/08/opinion-switzerland-a-new-haven-for-money-launderers/
- difficult early life, parents split, got girlfriend pregnant young so started stealing cars but got caught. Father in law was a counterfeiter and taught him how to counterfeit money. He started to dress up as a fake cop and started robbing drug dealers after knocking them out. Moved back into counterfeiting when new US bills came out. Purchased stuff using counterfeit bills in order to launder and get back real cash. Russian Mafia found out he made good counterfeit and wanted. Got off on technicality since their was no cause for search, illegal search and seizure. Went back to original dodgy dad (who was also involved in organised crime/Mob) who encouraged him to counterfeit more. Secret Service gets 99.3% conviction rate. Art II wanted Art III to go legit but ironically Art III was into counterfeiting too Art I, Art II, Art III were all counterfeiters
How A Mall Cop Exposed a $10.3 Million Counterfeit Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCiuXfnwd9k
https://www.youtube.com/@VinceVintage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_J._Williams_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
- loved computers and technology as a kid, got into hacking for fun as a kid and - joined hacking forums who pushed him into more ethically challenging operations such as keyloggers and botnets. Was tricked into writing a banking trojan which cost 7K and renamed Kronos on black market and sold on Alphabay, Darkcode, Exploit.in/Database. When doing another job he lost some money and gave away the Kronos code to make up for it. He built a anti-malware mapper under contract which was leveraged into a fulltime job. his non-legit life was discovered after he found a killswitch in WannaCry which caused ~$4B USD damage?
The FBI's Hunt to Destroy a Hero Hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySLPB9yT1SA
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutchins
https://malwaretech.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cybercriminals
- been hunting for ~20yrs in Nigeria. Pangolin expensive and scarce compared to other animals. Used to get 4-5 pangolin per week now very rare. Pangolin scales more expensive then elephant ivory tusks. Global wildlife back market value ~23B per year. Only after 2016 did pangolin trade explode and become popular. Pangolin are natural pest controllers and eats millions of ants and other insects. Laws to protect pangolin are there but no one enforcing those laws across almost all countries globally. Chinese wants panglolins for some reason? People want pangolins for meat and/or skin normally. Chinese medicine says that pangolin skin can cure cancer, help arthritis, increase lactation, help stroke victims, etc... Chinese destroyed their own pangolin population so now get it from Nigeria/Africa where corruption is high and borders porous. Smuggling techniques similar to drug trafficking and even uses same routes. Can also be camouflaged as medicine or food. China has officially banned use of Pangolin scales in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) but usage is still high. ~12-15K ingredients used in TCM. Other ingridients can be substituted for Pangolin scales in TCM. Pangolin are very senstive and shy animals. If kept in captivity for too long they just die off
Inside the Global Underground Wildlife Trafficking Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fUlWJ8VsE
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin_trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin
https://env4wildlife.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_for_Nature_Vietnam
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
- long tail macque. They wait until monkeys go up trees then chop them down and get them to land in nets. 10-20 caught at a time. ~50K per monkey. Wildlife trade driven by greed, exacerbated by sticking a value on their lives. Difficult to distinguish wild vs domestically bred animals. Doctoring/laundering documetation of caught wild animals used to help purchase wild animals for research. US fish and wildlife service agency investigates wildlife issues globally not just in US but couldn't get traction into macques in spite of heaps of time and resources being spent on this. Vanny Bioresarch Cambodia. Put into crates and then sent to US. China used to be largest exporter of monkeys, US is largest importer of monkeys. Cambodia took over after China stopped exporting. Charles River Labs, Worldwide Primates, Inotiv, are buyers, etc... only 3-4 worldwide. Too many industries with vested interests? Agustin Fuentes macaque specialist. Macaques hang in groups ~30-40 and are highly sociable
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/history-of-launceston-monkeys/104694610
chimp pet trade
https://davidshepherd.org/species/chimpanzees/trade-statement/
https://www.bornfreeusa.org/2024/09/12/reflecting-on-the-primate-pet-trade-after-watching-chimp-crazy/
https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/hbo-chimp-crazy-captive-animals-pets
The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering | Bloomberg Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7BDSt_u9A
https://www.youtube.com/@business
vanny bio research
http://vannylifesciences.com.hk/farm.html
https://vodenglish.news/tag/vanny-bio-research/
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/alleged-macaque-smuggling-ring-exposed-as-u-s-indicts-cambodian-officials/
https://bkktribune.com/alleged-corruption-in-cambodias-monkey-farms-taints-global-wildlife-trade/
operation longtail liberation
https://www.doi.gov/ocl/operation-long-tail-liberation
https://www.fws.gov/testimony/fish-and-wildlife-service-gone-wild-examining-operation-long-tail-liberation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque
planet of the apes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Planet_of_the_Apes_film_actors
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=snow+macaque+hot+springs
Japanese Onsen Ryokan Where You Can Bathe with Snow Monkeys🐒♨️ | Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park | ASMR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfi0sYR-hZQ
https://www.youtube.com/@its_time_to_travel
Orangutan and Monkey _ Unlikely Animal Friendships _ Love Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoLd0PDNaQ
Meryl at Nyaru Menteng, Save the Orangutan 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ-3ih26EBM
We Love Orangutans - "Babysitter Coordinator, Sri Rahayu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzDDRU5ElyY
pony orangutan
https://www.orangutan.or.id/update-on-pony
https://www.streetkidindustries.com/post/pony-the-orangutan-prostitute-and-the-legalities-of-bestiality
https://theweek.com/98117/orangutan-shaved-made-up-and-prostituted-to-men-for-six-years
animal prostitution
Prostitution among animals is the phenomenon in which non-human animals practice transactional sex. This was first noted in 1998 among female Adélie penguins trading stones for sex during a shortage of stones.[1][2] Transactional sex has also been noted in various species of primates, including chimpanzees.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals
rape in animal world
Animal coercive sex
Behavior resembling rape in humans can be seen in the animal kingdom, including ducks and geese, bottlenose dolphins, and chimpanzees. Indeed, in orangutans, close human relatives, such copulations constitute up to half of observed matings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiological_theories_of_rape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sociosexual_behaviour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
- a monkey is ~40K USD. Required to test products. Cambodia has heaps of monkeys/long tailed macaques. Long tailed macaques declared endangered in 2022. They used to come right up into homes of humans and line up along river and hunt for crabs but not too scared so hide from humans. A few years ago 2-3 people in each village looking for monkeys in good health ~1.2KB with no lesions for ~$150 USD each. Tonnes sold by the boatloads. Massive facilities where monkeys are bred/kept at places such as Fanny Bio. Chinese managers, US buyers, Cambodian caretakers. You need to double number of animals you want to safely smuggle as half normally die. Catch females via hand, and poles for males as they bite. Catch in wild via food bait and nets. Exports mainly go to US, Japan, and China. Common marmoset and macaques studied to help understand how to treat many illnesses. EU only allows experimentation on 2nd generation primates nothing from wild. Undercover investigations says that EU claims not honest. Big Pharma outsources experimentation to other companies such as LPT which provides them with plausible deniability?
Monkey Business: The Transnational World of Primate Testing | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgycpxLWOA
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- normally Bank of Bangladesh prints out all transactions. One day they had problem which meant that printer stopped working, when they figured out how to start/fix printer they noticed lots of dodgy transactions and losses of $1B USD. Employee clicked on malicious email link caused breach of network. SWIFT trades order information not actual funds. Forged SWIFT orders were used to try route/steal money of ~$1B in total. ~$870M stolen money orders were stopped but the rest was stolen in well timed and co-ordinated attack? Signature of this attack is similar to that of other attacks globally. Cyberattacks, cyberespionage, money heists all. Evidence of North Korean language and IP address source in North Korea
The $1,000,000,000 North Korean Bank Heist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usu9z0feHug
https://www.youtube.com/@KentoBento
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group
john story hacker north korea
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/jon-chang-hyok
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible-rise-of-north-koreas-hacking-army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-north-korean-military-hackers-indicted-wide-ranging-scheme-commit-cyberattacks-and
https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-07-26-north-korean-hacker-indicted-allegedly-extorting-us-hospitals-agencies-issue-cyberthreat-advisory
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-hacker-hired-ecurity-company-malware/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/north-korean-regime-backed-programmer-charged-conspiracy-conduct-multiple-cyber-attacks-and
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/22/north-korea-deadliest-weapon-cyber-operations-sony-pictures
- dark web used for all sorts of stuff including drugs, arms, services, etc... Became a translator for US military during Iraq War. Many US troops used steroids so he started selling drugs (makes sense as a lot of them in some units seem to bulk up easily?). He became a hacker at another military base. He migrated to US via special visa for those who helped US military. He wanted to enter medical school or enter IT. Struggling financially so he trafficked drugs in school. He discovered Silk Rd/AlphaBay/Dark Net enabled/allowed him to traffick in drugs much more safely. He mixed and cut drugs purchased from elsewhere but he mainly dealt in meth and fentynal which he often passed off as other drugs. Campus security and DEA/law enforcement traded information and traced back to Allawi. Used individuals rather then exchanges to launder his money back. Earned $14M USD in ~2yrs. His drugs caused overdoses and even deaths because of poor Quality Control which meant he had no idea how much active ingredient were in each tablet. DEA they smoked him out of property by dropping power to building which meant no aircon could run. He went on the run but DEA found him and his employees/co-workers again. He was found with drugs, weapons, laundering. Despite taking down online markets it still continues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web
The Hunt For The Fentanyl King Of The Dark Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLvAJZz29bY
https://www.youtube.com/@KiraTV1
mohammed allawi fentanyl
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/fentanyl-distributor-who-used-dark-web-and-crypto-currency-furtherance-his-criminal
The Most Illegal Business In The World: Silk Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsfoqdqyykI
https://www.youtube.com/@MagnatesMedia
- Unica and Mu Bong ship ship to ship transfer late at night for oil to get around sanctions. If company is sanctioned name of company changes. Authentication used by Renmimbi note torn in half with half given to other side. Counterfeit, arms, drugs, piracy, etc... High level Chinese/Hong Kong triads involved in helping North Korea. Underground banking network/Suncity Casino used to hide/launder money by North Korea. Hong Kong and Macau a proxy for North Korea to Japan, US, South Korea. China's antipathy towards US and Western powers makes them less amenable to coercive action against North Koreas and relationships with other powers with similar sentiment? 90% of trade to North Korea is with China China sees North Korea as buffer state against trouble from Western powers. White collar criminals such as accountants and lawyers are a big problem because they shield North Korea. Sanctions, diplomacy, and forces/threats not getting anywhere with North Korea
North Korea and the triads: gangsters, ghost ships and spies | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-6J5X9E-lE
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Mi_Terry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Lankov
https://www.afr.com/by/primrose-riordan-hvf7a
https://rusi.org/people/aaron-arnold
https://rusi.org/people/byrne-0
https://rusi.org/
https://www.sipri.org/about/bios/hugh-griffiths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Kuok-koi
https://globalinitiative.net/profile/sharon-kwok/
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ex-suncity-boss-alvin-chau-jailed-for-18-years-in-macau-20230118-p5cdmj.html
https://ig.ft.com/north-korea-oil-smuggling/
https://ccsi.global/teams/maiko-takeuchi/
https://rsea.fas.harvard.edu/people/maiko-takeuchi
- strange laws on prostitution and what feels like contradicting ones in many parts of the world? People in some Indian areas used to be circus entertainers but went into prostitution due to particular laws brought about with caste system brought about by the UK. Their families are stuck in these professions due to the difficulties in moving bewteen social castes/classes?
webcam girl statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam_model
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/sex-and-relationships/cam-girl-reality-755176
https://fightthenewdrug.org/how-the-webcamming-industry-traps-the-financially-desperate/
https://www.insidehook.com/culture/what-happens-when-women-run-porn-industry
The 'Anti' Pornstar - Harriet Sugarcookie | UNILAD Original Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVhfunqDeE
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
girls who paid for college via porn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Gone_Wild_(franchise)
https://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2014/03/12/college-student-works-in-pornography-to-pay-tuition/
Knox believes that the public response exhibited a double standard that sex workers face from those who seek their services.[24] In February 2014 Knox gave an interview to the campus newspaper The Chronicle, in which she used the pseudonym "Lauren A.", and referred to her stage name as "Aurora" to avoid identifying herself. She expressed frustration over her treatment stating, "I feel like girls at Duke have to hide their sexuality. We're caught in this virgin-whore dichotomy."[17] Knox published a similar defense on lifestyle website xoJane, but the storm of harassment continued. Knox's identity, contact information, and location were posted, but when Knox contacted the police over the ongoing threats, she said, the police failed to respond seriously to her concerns.[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Knox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_worker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin-whore_dichotomy
In psychoanalytic literature, a Madonna–whore complex (also called a Madonna–mistress complex) is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed and loving relationship.[1] First identified by Sigmund Freud, who called it psychic impotence,[2] it is a psychological complex that is said to develop in men who see women as either saintly Madonnas or debased whores. Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded (whore) while they cannot desire the respected partner (Madonna).[3] Freud wrote, "Where such men love they have no desire, and where they desire they cannot love."[4] Clinical psychologist Uwe Hartmann wrote in 2009 that the complex "is still highly prevalent in today's patients".[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%E2%80%93whore_complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Khalifa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian
Romance Scams (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XfCVk2gZCY
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_porn
Ilona Staller (born 26 November 1951), known by her stage name Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-Italian former porn star, politician, and singer. Staller gained fame in the early 1970s through her radio show Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? and became widely recognized by her stage name Cicciolina. She appeared in numerous films and gained notoriety for being the first to bare her breasts on live Italian television in 1978. Staller ventured into politics and was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, campaigning on a libertarian platform with the Radical Party.
Throughout her career, Staller made provocative offers, such as offering to have sex with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden in exchange for peace. Staller also had a brief marriage to American artist Jeff Koons, with whom she had a son. Despite her controversial career, she has left a lasting impact on popular culture and continues to be remembered for her contributions in the entertainment industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Staller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Next_Door_(2004_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustlers_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Collar_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series)
sextortion
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/image-based-abuse/deal-with-sextortion
https://www.accce.gov.au/sextortionhelp
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/sextortion
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/scams-and-safety/common-frauds-and-scams/sextortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/gold-coast-porn-star-shags-schoolies-team-gets-evicted-from-airbnb/news-story/9c226dfa4f6f35464f9fb892697ce72e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Tribes_Act
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Tribes_Act
India's prostitution villages | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7-Z2xCMgE
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
asian and east european prostitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe
Abandoned babies, forged birth records: Surrogacy in the Philippines | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEocVVzjz8k
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- abusive background led to her going to streets. Constantly under flight or attack mode. Got raped and assualted by strangers, pedophile, neighbourhood boys. Started working for smut magazine at 17yrs old. Massage parlour with ~10 girls. 40-60 girls on rotation. Massage parlour law double as brothels and laws are obscure enough to allow it? Law enfocement and politicians know what's going on but don't do anything about it. They act as points for arms, drugs, sex trafficking at the same time as well. Nordic model punshishes purchasers and helps trafficked girls to get out
I was sex trafficked for years. Brothels are hidden in plain sight. | Casandra Diamond | TEDxToront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6xCRemYw4
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
The elite squad fighting organised crime to free trafficked women in Spain - BBC World Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO2YU2DYi5g
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
- Ketamine therapy used in military PTSD also helpful to deal with anxiety issues in abuse victims. Trafficked, beaten, drugged. Just because people are involved in sex industry doesn't mean it's consensual. Thought she was getting into fitness modelling but was tricked into doing porn films. There were warning signs but she didn't heed them. Was intimiated/forced into signing consent papers, drugged, raped, and filmed. There were a group of girls who took Girls Do Porn to court but didn't get any compensation due to careful asset protection startegies
MY THAI GIRLFRIEND SCAMMED ME OUT OF EVERYTHING VOL - 243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6nRjavL3o
https://www.youtube.com/@ThailandBound
Why these American men are settling in Kenya and what they really want from Kenyan women | LNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVR1Oz2KiFQ
https://www.youtube.com/@LynnNgugi
I was sex trafficked by GirlsDoPorn Pt.1 || Consider Before Consuming Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHJW5j7cYQ
My life after being sex trafficked by GirlsDoPorn Pt. 2 || Consider Before Consuming Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUeAmI8v060
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Khalifa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_trauma_syndrome
LAS VEGAS - 60% Chance She's A SEX WORKER (+ MORE TIPS for Newbies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9U1qarBLU
https://www.youtube.com/@TangerineTravels
The hidden lives of sex workers in Brazil's illegal gold mines - BBC World Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md9Ieeq4LvE
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
Exploring grief and shame with children born from rape - BBC World Service Documentaries | 100 Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE9Iq82hy7I
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
who hacks porn websites
https://nypost.com/2018/02/01/porn-sites-are-a-goldmine-for-hackers/
https://fightthenewdrug.org/hackers-steal-private-info-from-porn-sites/
https://www.wired.com/story/porn-site-malware-ransomware-schools-zoom-two-factor-security-news/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jul/12/shopping.newmedia
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug/videos
- first time she saw modern slavery was in 1996 when she met girl in Russia and she was moved from Maldova to Istanbul so that she could be sex trafficked. Girls beaten, threatened, intimidated, drugged, etc... so that they would go along with it. Slavery is everywhere now. California prime destination and they help agriculture, I5 highway is major gateway, Disneyland favoured place to process a sale as it's not as wierd to see an adult with a bunch of kids there, street gangs getting into it too. $40 for 15min sex run by chico gangs for Mexican sex slaves. Food, nail parlours, prostitution, waiters/waitreses/hospitality, contruction works, agriculture fruit pickers, etc... Most slaves in US are American citizens. Common 122 items from 52 countries actually are made by slaves. More slaves per capita now then any other time in human history. Estimates put 3M slaves today. Human trafficking becoming more popular then arms and drugs trafficking now. Women applying for one job are tricked/conned/coerced into prostitution? Female prostitues can go through 40 men a day at casinos. $90 is average price of slave worldwide which is collapse vs cost in 1840 where cost was $5400. Kevin Bales says these people are disposable people. 67K is average profit for 1 girl per brothel. 200-300K US children are sold into slavery each year. International Boulevard, Oakland California on any night of week ~100 kids for sale by pimps (there are similar trends in many parts of the world if you look carefully or are observant). Average age of forced prostitution is 13. Younger girls preferred as more compliant and less likley to run off, only one week to "break them" after sodomy and gang rape they stop trying to run off. Traffickers see humans as commodities rather then individual people. Main issue to stopping human trafficking is lack of awareness. ~75% of people in US found by people who reported/recnogised signs of trafficking which led arrest not intelligence/law enforcement proactive checks/raids. To a certain extent most people's lives in the developed world depend on slavery? There's a lot of talking but not much action regarding human trafficking. Sentences for human trafficking lower then that of drug trafficking, average sentence is ~5yrs with 2yrs served only normal. Education required to reduce demand side of things
Hidden in plain sight - slavery in your Community: Dr. Kate Transchel at TEDxChico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm3UfctR5ZA
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
kate transchel
https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/outstanding-faculty/Pages/Transchel,Kate.aspx
https://upittpress.org/authors/kate-transchel/
abolition movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
fbi trafficking human signs
https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/human-trafficking/recognizing-signs
https://humantraffickinghotoline.org/
https://www.state.gov/identify-and-assist-a-trafficking-victim/
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/human-trafficking
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/topic/human-trafficking
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip
https://slaveryfootprint.org/
https://www.fairtradecertified.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Trade_USA
https://www.fairtrade.net/
pimpology
https://thepowermoves.com/pimpology/
https://www.amazon.com.au/Pimpology-Hunter/dp/1416961046
The Dark Side Of The Porn Industry They DON'T WANT You To Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZ0FXq6viw
https://www.youtube.com/@gianfrancomartinez
Where Are P0rn Stars Today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOYXWRaI9w
https://www.youtube.com/@Moon-Real
What do sex workers want? | Juno Mac | TEDxEastEnd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Domestic Sex Trafficking - A Survivor's Perspective | Karly Church | TEDxOshawaED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh1emIVHy8g
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Ex Porn Performers Share What Really Happens in the Porn Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rdSxVXxrc
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug
Inside the Global Taskforce Fighting Child Sex Abuse in the Philippines | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYXgHV_SNeY
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Exposing an international human trafficking ring hidden in plain sight | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOran43Ju9U
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
- regardless of whether you're co-erced into it or if you don't want to be found no choice but to enter black economy in many parts of the world?
missing people demographics
https://www.statista.com/statistics/240396/number-of-missing-persons-files-in-the-us-by-race/
Missing Persons: Incidence, Issues and Impacts
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi144.pdf
missing people by country
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/missing-persons-statistics-by-country
One Missing Child Is One Too Many
The lack of a common definition of "missing child," and a common response to the issue, results in few reliable statistics on the scope of the problem around the world.
Even with this challenge, we know that:
In Australia, an estimated 20,000 children are reported missing every year.
Australian Federal Police, National Coordination Centre.
In Canada, an estimated 45,288 children are reported missing each year.
Government of Canada, Canada's Missing – 2015 Fast Fact Sheet.
In Germany, an estimated 100,000 children are reported missing each year.
Initiative Vermisste Kinder.
In India, an estimated 96,000 children go missing each year.
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Missing Children of India.
In Jamaica, an estimated 1,984 children were reporting missing in 2015.
Jamaica's Office of Children's Registry
In Russia, an estimated 45,000 children were reported missing in 2015.
Interview with Pavel Astakhov MIA "Russia Today", Apr. 4, 2016.
In Spain, an estimated 20,000 children are reported missing every year.
Spain Joins EU Hotline for Missing Children, Sep. 22, 2010.
In the United Kingdom, an estimated 112,853 children are reported missing every year.
National Crime Agency, UK Missing Persons Bureau.
In the United States, an estimated 460,000 children are reported missing every year.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, NCIC.
This, however, is only a snapshot of the problem. In many countries, statistics on missing children are not even available; and, unfortunately, even available statistics may be inaccurate due to: under-reporting/under-recognition; inflation; incorrect database entry of case information; and deletion of records once a case is closed.
The lack of numbers, and the discrepancy in the numbers that do exist, is one of the key reasons why ICMEC developed and advocates for the Model Missing Child Framework, which assists countries with building strong, well-rounded national responses, and facilitates more efficient investigations, management, and resolution of missing children cases.
We firmly believe that one missing child is one too many, and we are committed to improving the global understanding of and response to missing and abducted children.
https://globalmissingkids.org/awareness/missing-children-statistics/
phone sex organised crime
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/12/usa.danglaister
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2023/07/01/rise-in-call-center-gangs-tied-to-human-trafficking-and-organized-crime/
https://www.austrac.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-02/AUSTRAC_FCG_DetectingAndStoppingForcedSexualServitude_web.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/anom-encrypted-app-fbi-afp-australia-federal-police-sting-operation-ironside-an0m
https://respectqld.org.au/301022-2/
https://www.afp.gov.au/crimes/human-trafficking-and-people-smuggling/human-trafficking-and-slavery
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi436.pdf
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/private-public-partnership-to-tackle-sexual-exploitation
- 10K cases last year in US of human trafficking. ~72% of human trafficking cases are related to sex trafficking. Hotel chains big sources of sex trafficking? Human trafficking contributes ~$99B USD world wide. The more overt sexualism is present in culture at a location the more likely they're to be engaged in human and sex trafficking. Low-brow chain hotels prime candidates for sex trafficking (like Motel 6, Super 8 by Wyndham, Days Inn, Red Roof, La Quinta by Wyndham) but well known ones like Marriot, Hilton, Hyatt, etc... as well. Regular customers, carrying large aounts of cash, indications of coercian, skimpy clothing, no bagage, etc... all indicators human trafficking
Why Hotels Like Marriott Have A Human Trafficking Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjhHYi95rQ
https://www.youtube.com/@CNBC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Trafficking_and_Violence_Protection_Act_of_2000
- bait girls into doing it? Drug or forced into sex work. Strip clubs and escort agencies are double entendre for sex workers? Image modelling job advertisements is front for luring girls offshore into sex work. They ask you to send compromising pictures like kids in cases of sextortion and then use this to force you into sex work?
The Dark Side of Modelling: Uncovered - Paid To Party | In Too Deep | Channel 4 Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whinmj6dlwQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
The Crazy Story From Taylor Bell's Modeling Career
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YGhFuptzWSE
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyMiranda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)
sexting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexting
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/staying-safe/sending-nudes-sexting
sextortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/image-based-abuse/deal-with-sextortion
https://www.accce.gov.au/sextortionhelp
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/scams-and-safety/common-frauds-and-scams/sextortion
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/afp-warning-over-rise-sadistic-sextortion-online
- Peter Daglish worked in law but then chose to move in different direction/humanitarian work. Convicted and in prison for child sex abuse issues in Nepal. Off duty police officer caught piet hans with 4-5 young kids with undercover kids and he tracked him. Surveillance put on him. Gifts often given to kids but also inappropriate touching. Religion and NGOs are perfect vessel through which to exploit kids? Perpetrators often try/want to buy their way out of justice if caught.
Street kids and orphans are targeted by tourists. Small villages and poorer countries targeted. Little to no screening of people who work for NGOs, UN, etc... Kids of a particular age are trusting of everyone and they're exploited for that reason
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/05/art-imitating-lifehow-music-and_5.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/saving-money-without-sacrificing-random.html
God to Peasant "worship me and I'll protect you."
Peasant "protect me from what."
God "the unspeakable things I will do to you, if you don't."
https://theaimn.com/scomoreligiousbacktrack/
Buying Children in Cambodia | Nefarious Documentary Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIsCEprvtJM
https://www.youtube.com/@ExodusCry
It's a Man's World: Rape in Cambodia | REWIND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuyWUO3gn8k
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Nepal's Children At Risk: The vulnerability of Nepal's poorest children draws humanitarian workers from around the world. But some foreigners exploit the trust of young children, sexually abusing those they claim to protect.
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"I do think that Nepal, like any country where there are a lot of very poor children, is a target because paedophiles look for disposable children", says Llori Handrahan, who tracks abuse by aid workers. Wealthy foreigners like the Canadian Peter Daglish win the trust of entire families. After police surveillance, Daglish was charged with paedophilia, although he denies the allegations. "Since April this year, Nepalese police have charged four other foreigners with similar offences", says filmmaker Steve Chao. Dutch psychologist Piet Hein Van Terwisga is one such man and has been jailed for his crimes. "There's no screening going on whatsoever", Handrahan explains.
For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7538
child grooming
Sexual grooming is the action or behavior used to establish an emotional connection with a vulnerable person – generally a minor under the age of consent[1][2] – and sometimes the victim's family,[3] to lower their inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse.[4][5] It can occur in various settings, including online, in person, and through other means of communication.[6] Children who are groomed may experience mental health issues, including "anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and suicidal thoughts."[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_grooming
Nepal Cracks Down On NGO Workers Exploiting Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDrvXCXM3qY
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dalglish
Pregnant and trapped: Guatemala's child sex abuse crisis | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb72aMa-GO0
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
Sex trafficking isn't what you think it is | Meghan Sobel | TEDxMileHighWomen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyhF7q3_bpk
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Confessions, Silence, and Child Abuse: Secrets of the Clergy | Fault Lines Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgtnpGyf5o
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
5 Signs of a Human Trafficker // Human Trafficking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivM8HSZzusc
https://www.youtube.com/@FaithInEveryDay
child sex tour
Child sex tourism has been closely linked to poverty, armed conflicts, rapid industrialization, and exploding population growth.[10] In Latin America and Southeast Asia, for instance, street children often turn to prostitution as a last resort. Additionally, vulnerable children are easy targets for exploitation by traffickers.[10] South Africa,[11] United States,[12] Thailand, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Dominican Republic, Kenya and Morocco have been identified as leading hotspots of child sexual exploitation.[13] Also, child victim ages have been found in Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand to range from 6 to 11 years old, followed by 12 to 15 years old, and 15 to 17.[14]
In 2012, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography reported: "Countries of origin of international child sex tourists vary depending on the regions, but the demand is usually recognized as coming from the industrialized countries, including the richer countries of Europe, North America, the Russian Federation, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Australians, for instance, have been identified as the largest group of sex tourists prosecuted in Thailand (31 percent of the total). Of the 146 cases investigated by Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) in Cambodia between 2003 and April 2012, 32 were American, 24 French and 20 Vietnamese. In the coastal regions of Kenya, for example, 30 percent were residents and 70 percent of the abusers were foreign: Italians (18 percent), Germans (14 percent), Swiss (12 percent), with tourists coming from Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania fifth and sixth on the list. In Costa Rica, according to available information, between the 1999 and 2005, the Child Exploitation Unit had arrested a total of 74 persons on suspicion of commercial sexual exploitation of children. Of those arrested, 56 were Costa Rican nationals and 18 foreign nationals".[15]
In Thailand, the exact number of child-prostitutes is not known, but Thailand's Health System Research Institute reports that children in prostitution make up 40% of prostitutes in Thailand.[16] In Cambodia, it has been estimated that about a third of all prostitutes are under 18.[17][18] In India, the federal police say that around 1.2 million children are believed to be involved in prostitution.[19] Up until recently, Brazil has been considered to have the worst child sex trafficking record after Thailand.[20] As per Chris Rogers report on BBC World[21] "Now Brazil is overtaking Thailand as the world's most popular sex-tourist destination". DLN reports that "Brazil at the moment is on a high trend of child sex tourism and is all geared to take up the first spot beating out Thailand."[22]
Sex tourism targeting children creates huge monetary incentives for traffickers. Human trafficking impacts an estimated 1.2 million child victims.[23][24] The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) recently stated that 79% of all global trafficking is for sexual exploitation, which is one of the fastest growing criminal activities in the world.[24]
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According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimate, there are 750,000 predators online at any given time in 40,000 public chat rooms. Offers from 20,000 internet users to pay for webcam sex performances were found in a 10-week investigation conducted from a warehouse in Amsterdam, in the Terre des hommes Dutch action against WCST, using "Sweetie", a 3D computer model. Out of 21,000 perpetrators, 1,000 were identified from Australia, Canada, Jamaica, Germany, Ghana, India, Italy, Mauritius, the Netherlands, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 110 of the alleged online abusers were based in the UK and another 254 were traced to computers in the US.[26] Together with Avaaz.org, Terre des Hommes Netherlands has created an online petition to pressure governments to adopt proactive investigation policies in order to protect children against webcam child sex tourism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex_tourism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/02/children-sex-tourists-leave-behind-fathers-visited-philippines
why is sex industry so big in united states
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_States
https://tribuneonlineng.com/top-5-countries-with-the-most-sex-workers-in-the-world/
1. China – 5 million sex workers
2. India – 3 million sex workers
3. United States – 1 million sex workers
"communities of need" as reported in AIDS United in 2023. According to the
4. Philippines – 800,000 sex workers
5. Mexico – 500,000 sex workers
- US pimps more evil then Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists because at least terrorist have an ideology that half makes sense? Pimps are just in it for themselves. Underage girls being pimped out and don't get paid. They're forced into it rather then going into it willingly. Family terminology used: pimp is daddy, fellow prostitutes are sisters, etc... Girls are branded with tattoos. Girls are branded as chattel/products as well. There are codes/terminology used by people involved with this. Special forces also operates against human trafficking?
Ex-Delta Operator on the Extreme Evil of Sex Traffickers | Jeff Tiegs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaoZgRyQLoo
https://www.youtube.com/@DaltonFischerPodcast
Sex Trafficking Survivor interview-Victoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DPNo97OkDY
https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=organised+crime+forced+labour
Human Trafficking -The Signs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWKFp0o6Su8
https://www.youtube.com/@PeelRegionalPoliceOfficial
How to spot human trafficking | Kanani Titchen | TEDxGeorgeSchool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrxhptvEOTs
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Human Trafficking 101: Risk Factors & Traffickers' Tactics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-5XFBFq11o
https://www.youtube.com/@UNBOUNDNOW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattel
Secrets Of The Multi-Billion Dollar Human Trafficking Industry - Sex Slaves - Crime Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtT0V7yNgow
https://www.youtube.com/@ILoveDocs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(2017_TV_series)
Ex-Delta Force Commander is Now Hunting Sex Traffickers With No Mercy - Jeff Tiegs | Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPZ8bxTJgI
https://www.youtube.com/@DaltonFischerPodcast
Hunting Sex Traffickers (with Glenn Devitt) | CA #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfEJFfQIvE
https://www.youtube.com/@thisisironclad
Why Delta Operators are Psychopaths 🫢 | Dale Comstock
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zhRJZOMepNE
https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips/shorts
First time to a brothel in Australia! What to expect!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUFmsRXqlo
https://www.youtube.com/@msjessicajaye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
cartels kidnapped engineers
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/radio-silence/
https://www.edn.com/kidnapped-engineers-enslaved-by-drug-cartels/
https://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-cartels-private-phone-networks
- parents joined religious organisation in 90s. Parents were told their kids were called to God at age 12 but were actually labour trafficked. If didn't do as told they were beaten, abused, not fed, etc... They were taken to multiple states around country to do labour. Phone calls were monitored so couldn't get help. Friend died after she was worked too hard and immune system shut down. Escaped after 9 years while acting as waiter as restaurant. Could only heal once he embraced/acknowledged what happened to him via therapy and developed relationships with others
My Experience as a Labor Trafficking Survivor | Elijah Muhammed | TEDxDayton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fovsme5Ljt4
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Reporters - Morocco: the hellish world of sex tourism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR8pXCNnIww
https://www.youtube.com/@France24_en
The Senegalese Island That's a Magnet for Paedophiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tqJPAKUms0
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
- fastest growing black market is human trafficking: women and children. Cheap labour and cheap sex are most favoured. Human trafficking everywhere now. Was introducted to it while studying at College/University. 27M trafficked worldwide currently. 98% are females/girls for sex. Organised crime moved to human trafficking after law enforcement success in drug trafficking. Agriculture, restaurant/hospital, commercial residental/domestic work, textile and garment factories, etc... 90% of forced labour in private economy. In 2010, DOJ alleges global/labour horizons hired 400 Thai slaves and took away their passports/visas, forced debt, deporting those that didn't agree, etc... More research required as reasons for human trafficking different in different parts of world. Special tribunals/courts deal with human trafficking in US. Laws in US strange where prostitution is illegal. Prostitute gets treated more harshly then purchaser of sex because they're soliciting? Human trafficking is driven by supply and demand so report it. Average age of prostituion for girls in US is 12-14yrs old which is also average age of human trafficking start
Why you should care: the human trafficking footprint in the U.S. | Ryan L. Brooks | TEDxJerseyCity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YCncaE1Ho
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
- human trafficking is sometimes used to run counterfeit/cheap food factories. They're often run with poor safety and regularly shutdown due to poor standards
Walk through: Illegal food factory in Johannesburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X9_AMM080c
Sauces, cookies & bottled water produced in filthy Joburg sweatshops, staffed by foreigners, kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgll3xVihs
https://www.youtube.com/@thecitizen_news
The Wine Industry Scam... (They Make a Fool Out of You)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xOedkdRvOY
https://www.youtube.com/@thefactuallychannel
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sour+grapes+documentary
How the FBI Finally Solved The Great Wine Scam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioj25fSLVb8
https://www.youtube.com/@Therichest
- 1/5 fish caught is done illegally globally. Organised crime groups often steal food from farms making it difficult for them to be profitable or even from neighboring countries/regions which depletes food stocks and makes them unsustainable
7 Of The Most Faked Seafoods In The World | Big Business Marathon | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjZJeKyV00
6 Of The Most Smuggled Foods In The World | So Expensive | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgWwg2Ykew
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
On the FRONTLINES: Illegal Fishing in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbQL_mXFQQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Sea.Shepherd
Unseen menace: tracking China's elusive fishing fleets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kfioTMk3uI
https://www.youtube.com/@F24Observers
The Italian Mafia's New Weapon: Olive Oil | Food Fraud Mafia Investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyrangVexI
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Criminal gangs exploiting the olive oil crisis in Spain | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbT04og2veo
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
- came from border between India and Pakistan area. Enforced child labour, forced marriage, etc... entrenched in some societies (such as India, Pakistan, Nepal). She was forced into become tailor at ~9yrs age in Nepal. Lived, slept, ate, worked, etc... in same place. Paid by contract ~$2USD per day for 12-15hrs per day and amount of clothes delivered. If can't deliver enough clothes in a day no money. No days off/weekends. Clothes dye stays stuck to skin and can only get it off with kerosense and now they're stuck with smell of kerosense. Most of the clothes looks very similar. She started talking to clothes as a way of dealing with that life. After 2yrs it got shutdown and agent ran off with 2mths of salary. Other co-workers found work at another sweat shop while she remained a street kid. A monk helped to educate her and she sold goods she made to stores direct rather then going through agent which allowed them to make more money. She and other women moved into that life and developed some independence too. Heaps of people in US/West unaware that their goods depend on human trafficking/forced/child labour?
I Am A Child Labor Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=956WWBGN5bc
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
women's empowerment centre nepal
https://www.facebook.com/womenempowermentcentre/
We have successfully completed the 8th batch of training in the last 4 years (2014-2018), providing essential job-oriented skills in our Women's Empowerment Centre, Ghachowk, Kaski, Nepal. for about 200 single women living under the poverty level.
Most of these women have already been empowered by becoming successful small business entrepreneurs and others have been employed in other jobs. We are happy to have provided them a second chance to live their lives with financial independence.
https://www.ncf-nepal.org/newsletter_posts/womens-empowerment-centre/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=castaway+wilson
Cast Away (6/8) Movie CLIP - I'm Sorry, Wilson! (2000) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtgKIFoQfE
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement
- Black Book contains name of people banned from casinos. They're often from organised crime groups. Slug are coin on end of string to avoid having to pay money for slot machines. Tommy Carmichael started in television repair, friend introducted him to beating casino slot machines. Early models were mechnically based. Later versions required you to complete a circuit to trigger a win which he devised a tool to help him win/cheat. Kept no moving to new casinos to stop from getting caught. Winning was easy, hiding how he cheated wasn't. ~5yrs before he got caught and he was sent to prison for ~5yrs. Met michael balsamo in prison where he developed better strategies. Had to buy a new slot machine to understand and develop tool to beat it. Mechanical tool used to beat microswitch which controlled how much money released. CCTV surveillance made things harder but they used signs and marketing material to hide their activities. Machines changed so that optic sensors now used to determine how much money was released so he used a light wand to beat it. Sold light wants for 12-13K each and also played himself as well. Timing delay used to stop light wand. In 1996 caught again but he threw away want and lawyer used technicality to get him off. Ticket in, ticket in out machines used to beat devices which manipulated coin release mechanism. He beat this by manipulating input mechanism for cash. Got caught again but then bargained for reduced sentence. Michael Malsamo and his family tried to continue to cheat, family got caught and Michael fled. Modern slot machines are basically computers now. Organised crime often had/have part ownership in casinos. Pits in casinos started getting hit bank robbery style by LA gang kids. Pits used to be poorly secured but things have become much better now
This Man Spent Decades Outsmarting Vegas' Slot Machines | Cheating Vegas | Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts70LHeJXU4
https://www.youtube.com/@WonderDocs
tommy carmichael
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Vegas
https://hotchip.co.uk/tommy-carmichael/
https://thedarkroom.co.uk/how-tommy-carmichael-stealthed-millions-from-las-vegas/
The Casino Chip Forgers Who Scammed Vegas For Millions | Cheating Vegas S1 EP3 | Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvFvi9QO3Q
https://www.youtube.com/@WonderDocs
- cheating casinos is difficult and dangerous so avoid it if you can. That said, over his entire career of 2 decades He did it without getting caught. Griffin investigations, private investigators hire to try catch him but never did. People thought he a was a technical cheater but he was just making probability bets in his favour. Savannah move was one which involved escalatting bets when a mistake was made by the dealer which meant that if he lost he lost small but if he won he won big. Scams all similar Walkaway scam similar to Savannah move. He hooked up with a bunch of other casino cheaters. Worked in teams of 3. Hand/body signals used instead of verbal. Busy times are best such as New Years Eve when surveillance may be overrun. They split everything equally to avoid fallouts/conflicts. Italian Mafia/mob used to skim from count rooms. Tony spliotro, hole gang. He was threatened as there were suspicions he was cheating but no proof. Different strategies used to cheat for different games. UK is most difficult place to cheat as extensive supervision. Italians were best casino cheats. One day at Golden Nugget they stopped paying. Golden nugget incident and increased penalties for cheating effectively ended his cheating career. Nevada game board can push for 1yr jail sentence but in Europe things very liberal if caught. Best defense is to understand cheating and take proactive measures to protect against it. Law enforcement have lot of options to gain background on potential. SLot machines are predictable? Chinese and Russian labs have good experience in beating them? Casino cheating is part of business like shoplifting for retail. Much like card counting casinos are taking measures to push odds back in their favour like Roulette, Blackjack, Bacarrat. Has now become game protection consultant. Statute of limitations for casino cheating different between jurisdictions, 3yrs in Nevada/US, unlimited in Canada
How Casino Scams Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKyT-2mr1bI
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Spilotro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole-in-the-Wall_Gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
The Casino Chip Forgers Who Scammed Vegas For Millions | Cheating Vegas S1 EP3 | Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvFvi9QO3Q
https://www.youtube.com/@WonderDocs
Professional Gambler Exposes Casinos For CHEATING & Reveals How He Beat The Vegas Odds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJWMIue2Bo
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
The Man Who Got Banned From Vegas For Winning $11M…
He Won $11.5M in Vegas and Got Banned For Life…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bLlqRJPa5sQ
https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira/shorts
- bait professoinal sports people them into betting bigger and bigger? Then try to gain it back by getting them to do certain things during a game which people can bet on? Manipulate the spread by foulding/benching certain players via coaches/referees? Very hard to get caught if you're quite about things
Michael Franzese Sr (/frænˈziːs/)[2] (né Grillo; born May 27, 1951) is an American former mobster who was a caporegime in the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese. Franzese was enrolled in a pre-med program at Hofstra University, but dropped out to make money for his family after his father was sentenced to 50 years in prison for bank robbery in 1967. He eventually helped implement a scheme to defraud the federal government out of gasoline taxes in the early 1980s.
By the age of 35, in 1986, Fortune Magazine listed Franzese as number 18 on its list of the "Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses".[3] Franzese claimed that at the height of his career, he generated up to $8 million per week. In 1986, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on conspiracy charges, released in 1989, rearrested in 1991 for a parole violation, and ultimately released in 1994. Soon after, he retired to California and is now a motivational speaker and writer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franzese
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sports+betting+rigging
Michael Franzese on How He Forced Pro Athletes to Shave Points in Games (Part 17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uGfeivlVFo
https://www.youtube.com/@vladtv
Inside The Gambling Ring of NBA Referee Tim Donaghy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZOLwxCStAc
https://www.youtube.com/@VICESports
Dirty Football Business: When Humans Become Commodities | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCGmr-r6uj0
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
- organised crime involvement in the finance/loan market is interesting. In general, you'll see loan sharks step in when normal banks/financial institutions fail. When people still can't deal with this they often end up going to organised crime groups. The trouble with them isn't just servicing the loan but what happens if you can't pay it back as well. They can either react violently or else decide to take your labour or even your life
The Trap: Inside the blackmail scam destroying lives across India - BBC World Service Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JilJhn_tP-c
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_shark
- used to be an insider who protected lottery security but became corrupted/got ideas and used modified code to win multiple times
Man Won $24 Million By Hacking Lottery Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkuUjv9vfk
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOvernightMillionaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Lotto_fraud_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_fraud
- the more businesses you have the easier it is to launder mone. Between 2002 and 2011, 1.08T departed China illegally despite currency countrols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
The ART of MONEY LAUNDERING (Mini Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ezTCiwwyg
https://www.youtube.com/@GameTheSystem
- entertainment and sports such as casinos and betting markets are great ways to make and launder money too. Same methods of recruitment as usual: threaten, bribery/corruption, extortion/blackmail, etc... ~60-70% of cricket matches can be fixed? Financial markets and sports betting market rigging are the same but opposite. Financial market rigging involves betting big and early while sports betting rigging/betting involves better big but late. Makes sense when you understand how bets and spreads work. It's easier to rig and manipulate betting markets if a smaller number of people are involved obviously
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/02/cryptocurrency-market-manipulation.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-vix-script-jim-simonsed-thorp.html
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/13/fbi-raid-polymarket-founder-trump-election
Cricket's Match Fixers l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlk4izYVmw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Warne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Waugh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_bookmaker_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Dirty Football Business: When Humans Become Commodities | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCGmr-r6uj0
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
How the Sports Betting Industry Quietly Consumed America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5bTZRhncY
How to Beat the Casino, and How They'll Stop You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ongqf93rAcM
https://www.youtube.com/@Wendoverproductions
The Mathematics of the Casino | What people get wrong about gambling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHgbkeaRkEQ
https://www.youtube.com/@zachstar
What the Gambling Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Informer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABj7peI_R2M
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
The Big Gamble: The world of online sports betting in the US | Fault Lines Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9qp9UftEE
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
How I got banned from sports betting (Using Maths) | Arbitrage Betting Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kDTwP6SBx4
https://www.youtube.com/@ShaneHuang88
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_(2008_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(2014_film)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=billions+at+the+track
Behind The Algorithm - How to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YfpdB6rIxo
https://www.youtube.com/@BehindTheAlgorithm/videos
Billions - Bobby Axelrod explains how to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Arn8S76yg8
https://www.youtube.com/@emericatrader/videos
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_(TV_series)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=billions+at+the+track
Behind The Algorithm - How to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YfpdB6rIxo
https://www.youtube.com/@BehindTheAlgorithm/videos
Billions - Bobby Axelrod explains how to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Arn8S76yg8
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Murder%2C+Jockeys%2CDrugs+and+Race+fixing+in+Australia+4+corners
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=horse+race+fixing+4+corners
Murder, Jockeys,Drugs and Race fixing in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcCoOYNIBZo
https://www.youtube.com/@Aussiecriminals
The dark side of Australia's horse racing industry | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-ALoBRW20
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
danny nikolic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Nikolic
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/former-jockey-danny-nikolic-charged-with-burglary-stalking-car-theft-and-assault-20240619-p5jmyb.html
https://practicalpunting.com.au/pp-online/pp-blog-stable/hot-gossip/betting-probedanny-nikolic-and-brother-named-over
sports betting organised crime
https://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/Publications/2022/Global_Report_on_Corruption_in_Sport_Chapter_9.pdf
https://www.unodc.org/res/safeguardingsport/grcs/section-9_html/SPORTS_CORRUPTION_2021_S9.pdf
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2024/Web-of-crime-exposed-5-100-arrests-in-illegal-football-gambling-crackdown
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/19/austrac-inquiry-sportsbet-ladbrokes-bet365-money-laundering-investigation-gambling
https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/aleague-footballers-arrested-in-betting-corruption-investigation/news-story/d78883c80efd0760310e7ebace30b28b
https://www.occrp.org/en/news/un-corruption-in-sport-worth-17-trillion-annually
Key Points of the Report:Money Laundering through Athlete Transfers: Criminal organisations use the transfer of athletes, especially young football players, to disguise illicit financial flows. Unlicensed agents and intermediaries often target poor areas and exploit young talent for financial gain. Funds generated from these activities disappear into complex laundering schemes involving multiple companies and countries, making oversight increasingly challenging.Illegal Betting and Match Manipulation: The proliferation of online betting has significantly increased the risks of match-fixing, which is often used as a vehicle for money laundering. Advanced technologies like cryptocurrencies and anonymous payment platforms further exacerbate the issue by facilitating anonymity and quick transactions. Lower-tier events and youth competitions are particularly vulnerable due to lower surveillance and easier access to illicit operations.International Collaboration: The global nature of these illicit activities, as highlighted in the report, demands urgent and close international cooperation. The report underscores the importance of cooperative networks among sports authorities, justice entities, and international organizations to facilitate real-time data and information exchange. Centralised, secure platforms would allow monitoring of suspicious betting patterns and financial transactions, helping combat money laundering in sports.Case Studies Included in the Report:Match Fixing in Tennis: A criminal organisation in Belgium exploited betting on lower-profile tournaments, generating millions in illegal profits.Human Trafficking in Sports Academies: A football academy in Portugal was involved in trafficking minors for exploitation.Money Laundering through Horse Racing: The Los Zetas cartel used horse racing and trading in the U.S. to launder profits from drug trafficking.More cases are listed.Horseracing doping scheme in the United StatesLinkages between football and organised crime in MexicoBribery in biathlonCompetition manipulation and money[1]laundering in IrelandOperation 'Cyclone' Unveils Drug Trafficking Network Linked to Spanish FootballUNODC will continue to advance research on the connection between corruption in sports and other crimes, drawing on past experiences and international best practices to develop solutions that maintain integrity in the sports arena.Sourcehttps://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/safeguardingsport/newsandevents/game-over_-unodc-exposes-the-link-between-corruption-and-organized-crime-in-sport.html
https://www.comsuregroup.com/news/game-over-unodc-exposes-the-link-between-corruption-and-organized-crime-in-sport/
https://www.unodc.org/documents/Safeguardingsport/Publications/Game_Over.pdf
horse performance enhancing drugs
The drugs that are most used include NSAIDs, steroids, and bronchodilators. The other option for drug use involves doping to lose where the ability of the horse is impaired in some way. The most common drugs for this category are sedatives or tranquilizers.
A Review of Therapeutic Drugs Used for Doping of Race Horses
https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/40c35ace-0aed-4b65-a610-18ccaa6d6b5e/content
https://horseracingkills.com/issues/drug-use/
https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/horse-racing-2/horse-racing-industry-cruelty/drugs/
https://ker.com/equinews/prohibited-substances-feed-and-the-performance-horse/
- after you examine enough data it is very difficult to distinguish between criminals, terrorist groups, some politicians, and a lot of corporate behaviour?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/02/wikipedia-people-list-correlation_2.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/EmpireFiles/videos
The World Today with Tariq Ali
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2jL6qpuYAcQKCjRrmGDD2rVE0szr_qVE
https://www.youtube.com/user/telesurenglish/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=davos+man
"Davos Man": How Billionaires Devour the World & Fuel Global Inequality, Prolonging the Pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7BpgDifxc
How Davos Man Devours the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EimOMmsgJfw
Billionaire Can't Comprehend Why People Hate Billionaires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRTGVxjpRHo
Renegade Inc _ Capitalism Closed for Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-44ngyYoA
Winners Take All _ Anand Giridharadas _ Talks at Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM
The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me - Cooperman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSONye1F5M
The Global Power Elite - A Transnational Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsdJhSI63uQ
ACAB: Why All Cops Are Bastards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvjGocdugw
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
Why is the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/02/living-without-google-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-server-global-sampling.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=billions+monster
'I Am A Monster' Ep. 2 Official Clip | Billions | Season 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmCAoPPX5c
BE AM A MONSTER - AXE MOTIVATION - BOBBY AXELROD BILLIONS MOTIVATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWtXuSJVvv0ian
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blacklist+criminals+and+multinationals+run+the+world
multi corporations and criminals run the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-uOee9bCw
Raymond 'Red' Reddington : [outside the White House with Elizabeth] People think it matters who occupies that house. It doesn't. Multinational corporations and criminals run the world.
James Spader as Raymond 'Red' Reddington - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3265304/characters/nm0000652
https://screenrant.com/the-blacklist-reddington-best-quotes/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+americans+you%27re+a+monster
The Americans 2x05 - "You're a monster!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYHmUQFngw
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+interview+movieclips
The Interview (2014) - A Fake Friend Scene (10_10) _ Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74PUHyVj4BQ
The Interview (2014) - They're Honeypotting Us Scene (2_10) _ Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpUxSXWy6I
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sicario+land+of+wolves
Sicario (11/11) Movie CLIP - A Land of Wolves (2015) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJJBMXiwiI
Sicario (Ending Scene) : This is the land of wolves now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L7ZDA9X1k8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Collins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_East_India_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_East_India_Company
- child labour, illegal labour, slavery, organised criminal gangs in areas where this stuff happens, etc... are well and truly still alive still. People trafficking is largest illegal employment agency in the world? Obvious that a lot of countries use it to make money to keep it going?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
Toxic Labels: What is Behind Cheap Clothes | Textile Industry | Fashion | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFEs0uDp_BQ
The Real Price of Cosmetics | Behind Glitter Child Labor Industry | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSc8XurQ4_k
The Real Price of your Cell Phone | Mobile Phone | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLHXHjpal8&t=302s
The World's Junkyard for Electronic Scrap | Digital Dumping in Ghana | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVnu0doouJI
The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axYKPbr9_MA
Soccer Slavery: The African Football Slaves of the 21st Century | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zou_HlotKKE
Israel's Illegal Kidney Market | Organ Trafficking | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYcx0etm_Sw
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
China Desperately Grapples With Its Plastic Waste Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsJVaL5vLc
The Hidden Truth Behind Sweden's Waste Disposal Infrastructure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caw-969W-D4
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
Ghana: fast fashion's dumping ground | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC5KYX74AP4
The Kenyan farmers killed for their crops | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNleYGf8ty4
The dark secrets of sumo wrestling | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3y80b9_QA
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
slavery agriculture
Recent Industry Examples
Enslavement on Thai fishing vessels to assist in producing seafood sold across the world, including to Australia.6
Immigrant labourers on farms being routinely abused.7
Employers withholding wages or forcing staff to work at rates lower than those previously agreed.
Labour agents confiscating the passports of migrant workers, often with little grasp of English, forcing them to work and live in squalid conditions.
Recruitment fees payable by employees from future wages.8
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/9cb18e6c/food-for-thought-the-modern-slavery-acts-impact-in-fresh-food-retail-wholesale-and-agriculture
2021-07-23
Behind the picture-perfect postcards, modern slavery is prevalent in the Australian agricultural industry.
https://greens.org.au/magazine/dangers-farm-work-australia
https://88daysaslave.com/
underage workers statistics
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/
The International Labour Organisation states in its 2013 World Report on Child Labour that there were around 265 million working children in the world—almost 17 per cent of the worldwide child population. According to the publicly available data discussed in more detail below, Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where child labor is most prevalent.
https://ourworldindata.org/child-labor
Fast facts: Child labor
Child labor, by definition, is a violation of child protection and human rights.
Approximately 160 million children have been forced into child labor since 2020. Of these children, 63 million were girls, and 97 million were boys. And nearly half of those young laborers — 79 million children — worked under hazardous conditions.
1 in 3 children in child labor are out of school.
Approximately 70% (112 million) of child laborers work in agriculture like farming and livestock herding.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest number of child laborers at 86.6 million children, followed by Central and Southern Asia with 26.3 million.
June 12 marks the United Nations–sanctioned World Day Against Child Labour, a time to reflect on young workers deprived of their childhood, education, and a rightful future.
https://www.worldvision.org/child-protection-news-stories/child-labor-facts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Spurlock
https://www.holychickenusa.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me_2:_Holy_Chicken!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=holy+chicken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-Joon_Chang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hudson_(economist)
North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes (Documentary) ⎜WHY SLAVERY?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0p6lK-fYs
https://www.youtube.com/@THEWHYFoundation
Investigation: How North Korea Kidnapped Hundreds from Around the World | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5I8kvtebFk
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Why does North Korea hate America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbHSQSRG5FE
Why They Hate The USA: CUBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgWK6_AYq_o
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Backyard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_family
Illegals, from hell to the European dream - Complete documentary in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xmScQEN5io
https://www.youtube.com/@Investigation
From Nigeria to Morocco - In search of a better life in Europe | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsgh_5AIxw
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Dark Waters: Africa's deadliest migration route - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajX6NaVks3w
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
Migrating to the US through the deadly Darien Gap | Fault Lines Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlLb-TV7_c
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Exploited in South Korea: Migrant workers fight for their rights | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3dHEY2Zoc
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- endless crime and corruption when you know where to look?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_opportunity
The ATM Glitch That Made a Millionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Fi_a9QATM
https://www.youtube.com/@Joeseppi
How a back injury turned a doting father into a fentanyl kingpin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-MeK5-NaQ
https://www.youtube.com/@WashingtonPost
How The Wealthy Hide Billions Using Tax Havens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46W5MSk-NBk
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chapo_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs_(film_series)
The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk
All the Prime Minister's Men | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6v_levbUN4
The Minister's Millions I Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-U3PB4xjQ
Stealing paradise l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15N9K3wXh0Y
Anatomy of a Bribe | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FJ1TB0nwHs
The Truth Illusion | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0URbems8M
The Oligarchs l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughFLQDcI_Q
Thailand's Fearless Cop | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76hxGsXN2EI
She Zhijiang: Discarded Chinese spy or criminal mastermind? | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls8Y-2HmvHI
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
China's illegal police stations in 53 countries | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9ubuwBDkI
China's dirty tactics to control the Pacific | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzW1APWxBjs
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
How Putin's Oligarchs Hide Their Billions | Investigators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyx-7CZJfg
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
The Bratva: Russia's Global Crime Syndicate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkciItLCLJ4
The Business of Blood: An Industry that Exploits the Poor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOXCrwX1QZ8
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows
How Dubai became a haven for criminals from around the world | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i823AhR8zKQ
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
Laundering Drug Millions - The Invisibles - Crime Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4p24gW5Yp8
https://www.youtube.com/@BanijayCrime
Why Everything Is A Scam (Except For Scams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD065AplgiU
https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks
Gabor Maté on Moral Fragmentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRvKfDdJ0Sw
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisHedgesChannel
We can do better. We must do better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU3aIpMRRMU
Oligarchy is not just a Russian phenomenon. It exists right here in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2uyVqSnNs
https://www.youtube.com/@BernieSanders
How a billionaire scored hours of glowing coverage | Media Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElfAngpSh6I
Gambling money controlling media and government | Media Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy_fYjVoS9w
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_(2007_film)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shooter+mountain+scene
Shooter (8/8) Movie CLIP - I Won, You Lost (2007) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIN6AtTxFgE
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lord+of+war+interrogation+scene
Lord Of War (2005) - Interrogation Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwE0LGMl3CE
Lord of War final scene...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZ4Rvxhx5w
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mission+impossible+rabbit%27s+foot+
Mission Impossible III - The Purpose of Rabbit's foot..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h40sClPbcOQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(law)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_trustee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Xia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Wyness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/8/10/how-convicted-criminal-can-buy-famous-english-football-club-launder-money
- immigration scams are sort of looped in with human trafficking. Lots of variations of this. Basically, target is promised the world if they pay a fee up front. They're then transported illegally or without proper documentation and dropped into the target country without adequate support whether they may be potential slave, young aspiring sports professional, etc...
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/fake-students-complain-to-indian-newspaper-after-australian-ghost-college-crackdown/news-story/c3fa1380e67d18794b2bc7998a2160d8
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/colleges-shut-thousands-of-students-lose-qualifications-in-fake-diploma-crackdown-20241127-p5ktx4.html
Shocking Truth About Russian Mail Order Brides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNaEaqr8Owc
https://www.youtube.com/@AgentNesty/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_migrant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impediment_to_expulsion
The Shady Business of Trafficking Desperate Refugees | Lethal Cargo | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kWRBmdUUZY
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Soccer Slavery: The African Football Slaves of the 21st Century | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zou_HlotKKE
Inside the Modern British Slave Business | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZNT7v05MI
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
- usual methods of avoiding justice are changing jurisdiction, going to location where there is no extradition agreement in place, another option for high end criminals is to buy immigration papers to avoid extradition?
The Cyprus Papers Undercover | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj18cya_gvw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_Papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Skase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_immunity
- if you didn't know, crime does tend to run in particular families and social circles. Whether you're fighting it or participate in it once you've chosen a particular side it's hard to break out of it. Note, most criminals go to prison for low level crimes like drugs, burglaries, etc... not murder, violent assaults, racketeering, etc...
avo order violation statistics
In 2020–21, 63,711, or 84.2 per cent of people on an active order were not recorded with a breach. Although most people do not breach, in 2020-21, 11,919 people were recorded with at least one breach of a family violence order. This was an increase from 9,008 in 2015–16.
https://www.vic.gov.au/ending-family-violence-annual-report-2021/family-violence-outcomes-framework-measures/domain-3-perpetrators/perpetrators-stop-all-forms-of-family-violence-behaviour
recidivism statistics
In Victoria, 39.5% of prisoners released during 2020–21 returned to prison within two years (to 2022–23). This rate is slightly lower than the Australian rate of 42.5%. The Northern Territory had the highest rate at 58.2%, and South Australia had the lowest rate at 29.0%.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sentencing-statistics/released-prisoners-returning-to-prison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_contemplative_programs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgiven_(2017_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_Time,_Doing_Vipassana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dhamma_Brothers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scared_Straight!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Scared_Straight
does crime run in families
A large Swedish study including 12.5 million men and women found much continuity between violent crime in families, reporting that first-degree relatives (i.e., parents and siblings) were 4.3 times more likely to engage in violent crime than matched controls (Frisell, Lichtenstein & Langstrom 2011).
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/19-1415-FinalReport.pdf
When Crime Is a Family Affair
Kids have a habit of imitating their parents' criminal behavior. It's no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/crime-runs-family/573394/
Crime families: Gender and the intergenerational transfer of criminal tendencies
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi414.pdf
do people normally send their kids to school close to home
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-31/how-you-can-send-your-child-to-school-outside-catchment-zone/11914606
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/where-do-your-neighbours-send-their-kids-to-school-20171031-gzbms3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club
jail sentences for crimes in australia
Did you know that of the more than 23 000 sentenced offenders received
into Australian prisons each year:
• Only about 1 in 10 are likely to remain in custody for one year or more;
• Most have been convicted of property offences (almost one third) or driving offences (almost one quarter);
• Fewer than 1 in 6 are violent offenders, and
• Of those convicted of murder, most serve between 10 and 12 years in
prison?
It is suspected that for most readers, these items of information, together with many others contained in this Trends and Issues, will amount to new facts about prison sentences in this country. They are facts which have been ingeniously deduced from existing prison statistics to provide, for the first time in Australia, an overview of the sentences which are actually being imposed by the nation's courts.
It will be seen that these sentences vary substantially between jurisdictions. For instance, offenders imprisoned in the most populous states of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria overall serve longer terms (on average over six months) than do those in other jurisdictions (on average less than four months); and Aborigines are not only sentenced to prison at twenty times the rate of non-Aborigines, but also tend to go to prison for less serious offences than non-Aborigines. Disparities like these require immediate discussion and redress. The data presented here are intended to contribute to such dialogue and action.
Duncan Chappell
Director
No.20 Prison Sentences in Australia Estimates of the Characteristics of Offenders Sentenced to Prison in 1987-88 John Walker
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi020.pdf
https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/about-sentencing/maximum-penalties
jail sentences for crimes statistics
In 2022–23, the most common sentencing outcomes in the Magistrates' Court were:
fines (52.3% of sentenced cases)
adjourned undertakings (18.5% of sentenced cases)
imprisonment (7.9% of sentenced cases).
Cases receiving a fine have decreased, from a high of 60.6% in 2007–08. In 2022–23, 52.3% of cases received a fine.
Cases receiving an adjourned undertaking have increased, from a low of 9.4% in 2006–07 to a high of 18.5% in 2022–23.
The rate of imprisonment increased from 4.9% in 2004–05 to 13.0% in 2019–20. But that rate has since fallen steadily to 7.9% in 2022–23.
In 2022–23, suspended sentences were imposed in just 18 cases, down from a high of 7,659 cases in 2009–10. Wholly and partially suspended sentences have been phased out in the Magistrates' Court for offences committed after 1 September 2014. However, suspended sentences can still be imposed for historical offences.
The use of community correction orders (CCOs) (or community-based orders before January 2012) has fluctuated. Cases receiving a community order increased from 5.3% in 2007–08 to a high of 10.5% in 2015–16 and 2016–17, before decreasing to a low of 6.2% in 2020–21. In 2022–23, 6.9% of cases received a CCO.
Note: The percentages in the graph include cases that received a criminal justice diversion plan. The criminal justice diversion plan is not a sentence, but it is an important disposition available in the Magistrates' Court.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sentencing-statistics/sentencing-outcomes-magistrates-court
- sort of funny how drug trafficking has evolved and how cyber has crossed over? Reminds me of cross over between car theives/burglaries of high tech secure homes/businesses
How this Nerdy Teen Became a $32.7 Million Drug Trafficker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAvYgpI9YnQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VinceVintage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali_Nine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schapelle_Corby
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/mercedes-corby-sues-federal-police-after-raids-on-seven-west-media?CMP=gu_com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mass_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
- there are sex offender villages? It's known as area where there are sex offenders but normal people live there as well. Sex offenders have heavier sentences then violent offenders and murderers? Life is difficult once you become a criminal and/or sex offender. Limewire sting program caught some people, others just mistook age of relationships, others were drunk and made a mistake, etc... Only people who helped them after their offences were people who had previously been in jail with them. Tragic irony is that much of the trafficking is done by people in wealthier countries to people in poorer ones. You can't fix this without reducing inequality and getting rid of the attraction in the first place?
Miracle Village (officially City of Refuge since 2014)[1] is a community on Muck City Road, about three miles (4.8 km) east of Pahokee, Florida, that serves as a haven for registered sex offenders. It is located within one of the most isolated and poorest parts of Palm Beach County.[2][3] The site was chosen because of its isolation given that the sex offender residence restrictions do not apply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Village
I Investigated the City Where Only Criminals Live...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmJ9gMQrZoE
https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira
limewire child porn operation
https://www.bernardbrody.com/case-results/child-pornography-charges-dismissed-against-cobb-county-teacher/
Police stings
Police sting operations involving police actively soliciting offenders on the internet are shown in Table 4. The first most notable sting operation was mounted in the US in Operation Rip Cord in 1997. Rip Cord commenced after a bookseller involved in the adult pornography trade in New York approached the New York State Attorney General about the widespread availability of child pornography online. In conjunction with the US Customs Service, a sting was mounted in which law enforcement officials posed as trading partners online for the sale of child pornography. Some 1,500 leads worldwide sought child pornography from them.
The Italian police operation known as Amantideibambini shadowed an internet-based child pornography group based in Russia. Members of that group were enticed to join Amantideibambini and when the sting was conducted there were 1,032 subscribers under investigation. The sting was apparently set up to capture those accessing a Russian child sexual abuse site, which supplied hard-core video material. It was reported that the Russian site involved children abducted from orphanages, circuses and public parks who were filmed while being forced to perform sexual acts.
Operation PIN represents the adoption of a cooperative preventive approach by police from Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. In this ongoing operation the police maintain a 'honeypot' web site that presents itself as offering explicit child pornographic content. As browsers click through screens warning of the explicit nature of the content, they come to a screen that announces that their attempt to obtain online child pornography has been tracked and will be reported to local police. The purpose of this operation is not simply to capture those who might come to this particular site but to undermine the presumed anonymity of the internet.
The police stings shown in Table 5 are representative of police investigations based on the monitoring of internet traffic. It is notable that the Greater Manchester Police in the United Kingdom made an early commitment to implement this type of monitoring activity. The numbers of arrests reported are similar to other types of operations investigating private groups.
International police operations against online child pornography
https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi296
The depraved world of online predators who hunt children | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4vuWBDy_NM
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
The UK's fight against child sexual abuse online | SBS Dateline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF75rooxoB0
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSDateline
Hunting A Predator On The Dark Web | Undercover Asia | FD Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKWIha7MDo8
https://www.youtube.com/@FDCrime
- kidnapped one day from petrol station and then pimped out to thousands of men in Las Vegas when ~16-19yrs of age. During day a few hundred pimps on the strip. Pimp took 100% of money. Girls could be 13-15yrs gold. Bars are where deals are done for sex. All sorts of people use prostitutes: married men, celebrities, virgins, executives, etc... Trauma bonding, isolation, coercian, control, manipulation are used to keep the prostitute bonded to their pimp. Prostitutes work for 12-16hrs/3-6K per day for no money for their pimp and can't come home until they meet their quota. Dodgy backgrounds often for pimps and prostitutes. Pimps used this to control their prostitutes. More then half customer don't realise girls are being trafficked. A lot of customers buy gifts for prostitutes and come from wealthy backgrounds. 15-20 friends died due to illness, murdered, overdose, etc... Brother actually helped break her out of prostitution using gun.
I Investigated the Pimps & Prostitutes of Las Vegas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuPxiYBn5bI
https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_bonding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
https://hookersforjesus.net/annie-lobert/
https://hookersforjesus.net/pinkchair/
https://hookersforjesus.net/
- illegal mining. Poor immigrants for neighbouring countries work in abandboned mines. They live there for years at a time and the mines are controlled by ganga. Like those in control of scammer gangs they are often forced into this work
Trapped for gold: The dangers facing illegal miners in South Africa | The Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ufadhTTsw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- In Zulu Zama Zama means "those who try their luck" in mining. 86% of country's electricity comes from coal. Was scared of mines when first got into it. Someone else taught him how to do it. Very little oxgen in mines so hard to breath. No buttressing so dangerous as structural integrity not guaranteed either. 1 tonne coal=15 euro. He stays down for 11-12hr stretches at a time. 2wks = 10tonnes up by himself. He is only person in family in works and takes care of grandparents, siblings, nephews/nieces, etc... Lost both parents in 2001/2002. Miners here have few other job prospects. These mines are technically illegal but coal from these mines are still sold at market rate. Burning coal produces mercury and led. 1/2 of people in area (around coal mine site) have asthma. No specialist doctors/hospitals in area. Wheel barrow pushers are paid least and youngest. Workers get lung cancer and kidney issues. Activists can get murdered for standing up to mining companies
South Africa: Mining Coal to Survive | ARTE.tv Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKn_eRm8Vmo
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_South_Africa
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http://vem.org.za/about/
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How a Sovereign Group in Jamaica Is Fighting a US Mining Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nbHC24Z0rQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
- hot, low on oxygen, etc... Very low clearance and low mobility in these mines and highly dangerous. No real machinery, it's mainly hand tools
The Children Working On Indian Coal Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZA5Az09Zj4
The Children Risking Their Lives In Underwater Gold Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1L_pxYZVwE
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
- 1M children wroking in Nepal brick factories. ~10% are child labour. 1000 bricks = 7 USD. Makes ~1.75USD per day. Learnt by wathcing someone else in village. No safety equipment, and improper training leads to injuries. Bricks made by these kids used by ADB, UN, US, UK. Kids between 5-14yrs of age. Kids cheaper to pay. Povery and corruption drive child labour. 1/7 kids in Nepal have jobs and work in textiles, bricks/construction, farms, etc... 10 child labour inspectors for 13M people. Can't make bricks when it's raining. Mum forces him to work as dad passed away and he has to earn a living. Would like to go to school and become teacher or doctor but can't as no money. They are dallits in caste system in Nepalese society. Unskilled labour with no assets. Primary and part secondary are compulsary in Nepal. 1/5 between 5-12 age are out of school. Local brick factory is owned/run by local politician who denies he is hiring children in spite of hard/video evidence. Child labour is a way of life for Dalit for multiple generations. Rice given away/traded to families so that kids are allowed to go to school instead of having to work. Child labour still happening but they're trying to get rid of it. Counselling offered for first ~6months and then switched over to normal school afterwards. Supported up until higher education.
Why Young Children Are Working From Dawn to Dusk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UQ-DVtRO4
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Dalit (English: /ˈdælɪt/ from Sanskrit: meaning "broken/scattered") is a term used for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent.[1] They are also called Harijans.[2] Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste hierarchy and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama. Several scholars have drawn parallels between Dalits and the Burakumin of Japan,[3] the Baekjeong of Korea[4] and the peasant class of the medieval European feudal system.[5]
Dalits predominantly follow Hinduism with significant populations following Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Islam. The constitution of India includes Dalits as one of the Scheduled Castes; this gives Dalits the right to protection, positive discrimination (known as reservation in India), and official development resources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit
Bangladesh | Too young to work | 101 East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsLpvPqi-70
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- there are laws against trafficking of organs but it still happens. ~80% of people on waiting lists are waiting for kidneys. Kidneys regulate fluid levels in body and cleaning of toxins. By the time you can get a donor organ via legit channels these days it's too late? Asia, East Europe, Middle East are often sources for organs. Slums, executed prisoners are sometimes donors. Men are generally recipients not women. ~140K USD for kidney transplant which includes travel, organ, surgeon and hospital costs, etc... Israeli/Jewish people have high rate of kidney failure generally but aren't generally donors. If transplants not properly done both people involved in organ donation can die. More people need to be encourage to donate organs to make it less of a problem. The real world is sometimes more screwed up then what we even see in movies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
Israel's Illegal Kidney Market | Organ Trafficking | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYcx0etm_Sw
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Rosenbaum pleaded guilty to brokering the sale of three kidneys, buying them from people in Israel for as little as $10,000, then selling them to U.S. patients who did not qualify for transplants or did not want to wait. The cost of the sale was over $100,000, and the operations were performed at top U.S. hospitals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/black-market-kidney-broker-levy-izhak-rosenbaum-released-from-prison/
body organ trafficking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-09/illegal-organ-trafficking-how-to-solve-it/104188548
https://www.ag.gov.au/crime/publications/organ-trafficking-fact-sheet
Black Market Organs (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRbOsQgRXU
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
- illegal kidney transplants done in Turkey. If you didn't know prisoners, paid volunteers, kidnapped victims, homeless people, etc... are often sources of donor organs. 10K organ transplants done per year done in spite of laws against it in most parts of the world. 5-6 figures for organs nowadays. Aftercare is crucial after a organ transplant. Israel is often a focus of organ transplants. Organ donation rate in Israel poor due to traditions/relgion/ideologies? No real desire to curb organ trafficking in Israel as it's saving the political and economic elite of Israel. Organ traffickers looking for legal loopholes to maximise profits and voice justice
People & Power - The Organ Traders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3sZvfzNWDY
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
dr frankenstein turkey
https://eurasianet.org/meet-turkeys-dr-frankenstein
I recently interviewed Yusuf Ercin Sonmez, the transplant surgeon charged in relation to the organ trafficking scandal at the Medicus clinic in Kosovo.
The interview appeared in the Times today, and you can read it here (or, more likely, you can't because you're not signed up to the paywall).
For those of you not up to speed, the Medicus Clinic is at the centre of an alleged organ snatching ring, which involved scamming impoverished donors into giving kidneys which were then sold to recipients from Israel, Germany and elsewhere.
It blew up into an international news story because elements within the Kosovan government were allegedly involved, and more importantly, the case has been linked to a Council of Europe report (which makes fascinating, chilling reading) investigating alleged war crimes by Kosovo's current leadership during their war of independence against Serbia.
Most shockingly, the report claims KLA leaders murdered Serb prisoners and sold their organs into the black market.
Sonmez is accused of being a lynchpin of the organ trafficking operation at Medicus, and performing kidney transplants there during 2008. He was arrested last week in Istanbul, bailed, and is now fighting extradition to Kosovo.
He is, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. Dubbed 'Dr Frankenstein', 'Dr Vulture' and 'The Butcher' in the Turkish press, he first came to public attention 14 years ago when a Turkish TV show conducted an undercover investigation into his transplant activities in Istanbul.
https://turkeyetc.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/dr-frankenstein-speaks/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/europe/04iht-organ04.html
Yusuf Sonmez
https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a43339367/a-carnivorous-dinner-with-doctor-vulture/
https://www.occrp.org/en/people/yusuf-sonmez
Organ Thieves: Inside the Dark World of Organ Trafficking | Organ Trade Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SDNmeStmGQ
https://www.youtube.com/@witnessdocumentaries
On the Trail of the Illicit International Organ Trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPXLeb9GSQ
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
selling organs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/criminal-justice/files/organ-trafficking-fact-sheet.PDF
Paid organ donation: the case against - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3291132/
- a lot of crime are sort of tragic. You can't can't get rid of human trafficking unless the need for cheap labour and prostitution goes away, you can't get rid of child labour without getting rid of inequality, you can't get rid of poverty without getting rid of laws which stop it from happening in the first place (especially when there are enough homes around), you can't get rid of arms trafficking/gun crime without getting rid of guns or coming up with alternatives to just killing one another to solve problems, you can't get rid of money laundering if you're dependent on those laws/tactics for your corporate sector, you can't get rid of terrorists/organised crime if you partner with them regularly, you can't get rid of corruption if you long to be corrupt yourself, etc... What I find silly is that a lot of the questions asked in the world of entertainment and science fiction often seems more interesting and seems to facilitate more progress then questions asked by the academic and political worlds. Surely, it should be the other way around?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens_(TV_series)
How Millionaire Bankers Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GumiLIxLMM
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://www.youtube.com/@garyseconomics/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(TV_series)
Australia's Tax System Is RIGGED! | Punters Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJCT6de793o
How Foreign Powers Are ROBBING Aussies Blind | Punters Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w59KsFmSF5U
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are COSTING AUSSIE'S BILLIONS! | Punter's Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAhF5oirM7k
Why Qatar Earns $76 Billion from Gas While Aussies Get Scammed | Punter's Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nNpSaLxO8
https://www.youtube.com/@punterspolitics
WEED, GREED and Billions - Have the US corporations replaced the Drug Cartels? | FD Finance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k636Fjivs7Y
https://www.youtube.com/@FD_Finance
This TRUTH About NATO Will Blow Your Mind. Only Argument You Need. | Dr. Jan Oberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8HrXfnyxg
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://janoberg.me/2021/11/28/welcome/
https://oberg.life
https://transnational.live
A Rogue Reporter vs. The American Empire (w/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1raT5Gxk_M
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisHedgesChannel
Settler colonialism or pure innocence?A conversation with a 3rd Generation British settler in Kenya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamVKsCrq-k
https://www.youtube.com/@LynnNgugi
Why Australia WON'T stop Corrupt Politicians | Punters Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aumFW-LmpB8
https://www.youtube.com/@punterspolitics
https://cbe.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/dr-priya-dev
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monk+corruption
Sex, drugs, money and murder in Thailand's Monkhood | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJJmMSnqdM
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Trailer park entirely inhabited by paedophiles and sex offenders | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiquubYVbWQ
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/what-motivates-australian-women-become-catholic-nuns/104730172
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomena_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leunig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Maguire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate:_The_Ark_of_Truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/banking/outgoing-anz-chief-executive-shayne-elliott-forgoes-3m-bonus/news-story/86248d90b1ddeb3e096d6d4e4ca6dc38
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/inquiry-launched-in-peru-after-alleged-prostitution-ring-uncovered-in-congress/ar-AA1wbAyJ?ocid=BingNewsBrowse
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/537297/how-diplomats-have-broken-the-law-in-nz-and-what-happened-next
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/19/peru-sex-for-votes-scandal
operation playboy
https://www.amazon.com.au/Operation-Playboy-Kathryn-Bonella-ebook/dp/B075JC7G3K
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/their-friends-faced-firing-squad-but-playboys-kept-drug-running/news-story/2f0b5b48c7dc19a4cf34007d0e184efb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=21+savage+a+lot
21 Savage - a lot (Official Video) ft. J. Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmWWqogr_r8
https://www.youtube.com/@21savage/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Savage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eminem+beautiful
Eminem - Beautiful (Edited) (Explicit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avLxcVkPgug
https://www.youtube.com/@EminemExplicit
Eminem - Beautiful (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgT1AidzRWM
https://www.youtube.com/@eminem/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem
50 Cent - My Life ft. Eminem, Adam Levine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN4fNaUAMbA
https://www.youtube.com/@50Cent/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/IBAC-releases-public-sector-corruption-and-misconduct-allegations-data
How I Hacked The US Government Aged 16 | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXoO0FwUKQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
paedophile rings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex_ring
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-21/whistleblowers-reveal-paedophile-ring-in-newcastle-anglicans/7645228
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/08/australia-paedophile-ring-fbi-agent
https://theconversation.com/au/topics/westminster-paedophile-ring-11491
CHAPTER 3: Paedophile Networks in Australia - Extent and Activities
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Former_Committees/acc/completed_inquiries/pre1996/ncapedo/report/c03
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drake+call+you+on+my+cell+phone
Drake - Hotline Bling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpDa-c-4Mc
https://www.youtube.com/@DrakeOfficial/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=et+phone+home
E.T. Phone Home - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (4/10) Movie CLIP (1982) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZif3WmG7I
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(American_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_(TV_series)
- Max bradett, master forger. Made ~500K pounds art forgery. 60-70s was prime era for forgeries. Forensics have become too good to make. Bought pot boiler/old paintings, scrubbed out old painting, primed it, and then painted over top. Oil takes ~3months to dry. Brolac undercoat + paint and then run hairdryer over top would take ~2hrs to dry. Run fabric dipped in turpentine around edge to create framed looked. Bee glue on top and then radiant heat to age/crack it. Wash off bee blue and run vacuum cleaner over it to fill in cracks. Talcum powder gets rid of remaining bee glue. He was spotted as talented forger/artist on Portobello road by an older man. Sothebys/Lots Rd was first auction. Impressions mean a lot in forging. Vendor/false bids helped to boost price. Somebody gave him up and he went to jail. Did forgeries in prison as well via smuggling. Banned from Sothebies and Christies now. Poor background.
Arts market
How Art Forgery Actually Works | How Crime Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54O-fxQd-P8
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
I Can Fake Any Painting | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iy2DO7lXyo
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
http://www.maxbrandrett.com/
Forgery Experts Explain 5 Ways To Spot A Fake | WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amu2mOsIz-w
https://www.youtube.com/@WIRED
Con Artist | Documentary | Full Movie | Art Forgery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_Amb9WWKM
https://www.youtube.com/@stash_freedocumentaries
- Ken Perengyi had been forging for decades before getting caught. FBI investigated him but was never actually caught/prosecuted. Stumbled across this field rather then actually pursuing it. Allowed him to live a better lifestyle then a normal life. He makes more money as himself then while he was faking paintings. There's been a rise of black American artists of late. Prime target for forgery.
Inside the Weird World of Art Forgery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UsQqVM2CFU
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Buttersworth
https://www.kenperenyi.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1999_film)
Fakes in the art world - The mystery conman | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNSXB4i4fE
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
- they're registered for tax but often pay low/no tax. There are specilists around the world who deal with counterfeit and are often representatives for large brands. South Africa has no manufacturing capability so everything imported and local assembly of counterfeit goods is done there. It used to be law enforcement had to pay for destruction of countefeit goods but now brands pay for storge, transport, destruction of conterfeit. Drugs, terrorism, counterfeit, etc... all tied in? Mafia and Yukuza deal in counterfeit now as it's more socially acceptable, lower risk, and profitable
Counterfeit city | Carte Blanche | M-Net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN4PQqtk0c
https://www.youtube.com/@carteblanchetv
- in 2021 20% of cybercrimes were randomware. ~623M ransomware attacks for 2021. Only ~10% of randomware victims pay ransom costs normally. Ransomware increase do ~60% in 2022. Sebastian looked normal from outside but had drug trafficking and money laundering background and even had 3yr jail sentence (0.5yr servered). Got job in IT public service in Canadian government but trafficked drugs at night. Got caught for drug traffciking again in 2013. Answered ad on darkweb to join ransomware business Netwalker. It was a proper criminal business with proper organisational structure, training, guidelines, etc... Only businesses/companies of larger then 30M were targeted. Companies of this size were more likely to give in to ransomware to save public embarassment. Made half of what Netwalker made, $21M USD individually vs $40M USD for entire Netwalker group. They were originally Russian only but then expanded out. Netwalker group caught out by law enforcement via information published on their blog regarding existing operations. Ironically, most ransomeware victims don't help law enforcement due to worries to organisational reputation. ~95% cyber/ransomware attacks unreported? Billions in danger caused. Sébastien Vachon‑Desjardins was only 1 affiliate member of 100 caught. He was sented to 20yrs jail. Rest of group dispersed/disappeared into the ether once he was caught but they planned to go bigger and better prior to him being caught
The Hunt For The Ransomware King of The Dark Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LY5XReHuYM
https://www.youtube.com/@KiraTV1
Sébastien Vachon‑Desjardins
https://canadianbusiness.com/ideas/sebastien-vachon-desjardins-ransomware-netwalker-hacker/
https://iapp.org/news/b/canadian-national-convicted-in-us-for-involvement-in-russian-ransomware-gang
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-national-sentenced-connection-ransomware-attacks-resulting-payment-tens-millions
netwalker wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/netwalker-ransomware-explained/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-launches-global-action-against-netwalker-ransomware
- xss.is online market malware. Ransomware as a service?
Hunting The Dark Web's King of Ransomware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTVlw8c2dE
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
lockbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LockBit
https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/advisories/understanding-ransomware-threat-actors-lockbit
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/lockbit-leader-unmasked-and-sanctioned
https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/lockbit-ransomware
- parents divorced early. Developed skills in computing in young age. In 2001, when at 17 mum died from alchohol poisoning. He eventually became homeless. He hacked, ID theft, credit card theft. After he became known in criminal circles he got threatened/beaten but he still came back to carding. His pseudonym was mcux (psycho in Russian) became carder by stealing credit card details to purchase gift cards. This crime most common in US. Most websites and credit card systems have poor security which helps with this. He moved into carding. Carding World and Carding Planet. Secret service noticed him as he developed such a big business and watched him for ~4yrs. Secret service tried to extradite/try him but he had contacts at FSB who tipped him off and he retired one month after. Later in year came back as pseudoynm track2 and bulba on carder.su He would target Point of Sales/Service (POS) systems using malware and ironically information was sent to Russian server in cleartext. Another criminal was caught and data implicated him with www.track2.name www.bulba.cc Search warrants on local businesses/restaurants indicated hundreds of thousands cards were breached and credit card information sent to server back in Russia. Wide area IP scan and then RDP breach was method of information extraction. One server had 400K credit card details sorted by IP address on it as well as his personal details. He tried to live it up with his family in Indonesia. Secret service went to court to try to extradite him this time. He and his family got caught up in Al Qaeda terrorist attack in Morroco.
Divorced during recovery process from attack. Likely still had inside information being leaked to him from FSB so he was able to stay ahead of Secret Service. In 2013, 2pac.cc carding website started where he tried to mass sell dump of credit card numbers. In 2014, US Secret Service able to catch him after he went to Maldives. His dad was well known Russian politician with connection to Putin and both he and son refused to please bargain. Legal defense tried all sorts of defense options including bribing prosecutor, prison break, etc... He was sentenced to 27yrs in prison. Breaches cost business ~$169M USD and no money ever recovered.
The Hunt For Russia's Most Successful Credit Card Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EeEf6ydtI
https://www.youtube.com/@KiraTV1
Roman Valerevich Seleznev[a] (or Seleznyov,[2] Russian: Роман Валерьевич Селезнёв; born July 23, 1984), also known by his hacker name Track2, is a Russian computer hacker. Seleznev was indicted in the United States in 2011, and was convicted of hacking into servers to steal credit-card data. His activities are estimated to have caused more than US$169 million in damages to businesses and financial institutions.[3] Seleznev was arrested on July 5, 2014, while vacationing in the Maldives, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison for wire fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and identity theft.[3] Seleznev would only serve ten years in prison before he would take part in the 2024 Ankara prisoner exchange that involved 26 total people, including himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Seleznev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Seleznev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarderPlanet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale
- difficult childhood. Smart but got into technical crime in his spare time. Got involved in cryptocurrencies and SIM swap attacks. Was too overt about spending which led tohim getting caught
react taskforce
https://www.reacttf.org/
https://www.reacttf.org/About_Us.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/hacker-joel-ortiz-sim-swapping-10-years-in-prison/
33,513 views Nov 18, 2024 #TrueCrime #millionaire #documentary
#TrueCrime #CyberCrime #CryptoHeist #documentary #money #millionaire
In 2018, Joel Ortiz, a 21-year-old student from Boston, orchestrated a series of SIM swapping attacks that resulted in the theft of over $7.5 million in cryptocurrency from at least 40 victims in the united states. SIM swapping involves manipulating mobile carriers to transfer a target's phone number to a SIM card controlled by the attacker. This allows the attacker to intercept calls and messages, including two-factor authentication codes, granting access to the victim's online accounts.
Ortiz and his associates targeted individuals in the cryptocurrency industry, exploiting the high value and relative anonymity of digital assets. Notably, during the Consensus conference in May 2018, he stole $5.2 million from a single entrepreneur within minutes.
Following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018, Ortiz pleaded no contest to multiple felony charges, including identity theft and grand theft.
This case underscores the vulnerabilities in mobile carrier security and the importance of safeguarding personal information to prevent such attacks.
The College Student Who Stole $7.5 Million Using SIM Cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07JkY-feGVk
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOvernightMillionaire
- discovered ISP doxxing/impersonating ISP could be used to gain important information regarding account. Used SQL injection and social engineering of workers at telcos. Stole money in targeted attacks on well known people. He laundered money via people he found online back into Bitcoin. He returned money when caught via relationship with another well known con artist.
The Teen Who Stole $24 Million and Never Got Charged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb4j-x9XDoQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink
ellis pinsky
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/crypto-heist-teenage-hacker-ellis-pinsky-1367400/
https://ellispinsky.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_and_crime
- went from law enforcement to criminal world. Ran stolen credit card markets
The Hacker Who Ruled the Criminal Underworld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o_IZApln08
https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink
- moving money is difficult because of density/weight/volume. Diamonds, gold, cryptocurrencies are low weight and high volume which makes money transfers easier. Easy to exchange, hard to trace
A Criminal's Guide to Laundering Money with Crypto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL5bv5MOUu4
https://www.youtube.com/@jaketran
drugs price per kg
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2021/8.1_Prices_an_purities_of_Drugs.pdf
UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement request:
International and Domestic Drug Prices
Microsoft Word - ACC Response - PJC Request for Drug Prices.doc
https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=652d887b-0ccd-4477-837c-600a1d9a3ec3
- to deal with high inflation 2-3 figures they have online bartering markets and illegal FOREX markets. Central bank and financial institutions deny that they have insiders that are helping blackmarket bartering and FOREX exchanges. High inflation is making business life difficult as you can end up selling stuff for less then what you purchased it for if you don't line things up correctly
Living With Nearly 100% Inflation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3FGZTN9rwk
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
TOP Five Worst cases of Hyperinflation in History | ENDEVR Explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHOCbEekR0
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
- US/UK ex-patriots cold calling and selling fake shares. TNC/MNC organised crime. People handed over life savings/superannuation to Timber Hill Group fake company which didn't even have an office. First 3wks of year in Australia $15M sent to scammers overseas. A few weeks is enough time for scammers to gain confidence of people and get them to give up their money? Australia is an easy/soft target comapred to other jurisdictions/countries? Most victims will never see their money back. Government not really interested?
Reporter tracks down scammers in dramatic raid | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSXPW4wZB4
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
ken gamble private eye
https://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-cybercrime-expert-ken-gamble-lands-billiondollar-malasyia-bust/news-story/e06de903cd79f35e2c255c4485f52201
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2024/02/24/aussie-cyber-sleuth-ken-gamble
https://www.ifwglobal.com/about-us/
https://au.linkedin.com/in/ken-gamble-4799a28
https://amwmedia.com.au/talent/ken-gamble/
Busting the Scammers - The World Wide Investigation | 7NEWS Spotlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYTRZSlfi0
Busting a billion dollar British scammer cartel | Part 1 of 2 | 7NEWS Spotlight Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63F_dFTn34
Busting the Scammers Part 2: Scam victims confront Government| 7NEWS Spotlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey2zn3y0O04
https://www.youtube.com/@7newsSpotlight
- hacking since 12. Stole $100M USD money from Epic Games, MS, US military. Co-workers got caught, he didn't and fled to Poland. Started out as kids trying to hack Xbox360. Xbox was very hackable which caused Microsoft to try to lock it down on Xbox360 version. Xbox360 was unhackable for 4yrs before they found a dev kit and they figured out a JTAG hack to run mods/custom code. XBox360 only runs signed code but XBox360 dev kit runs any code out there. David Pakora found and purchased a dev kit that was given away to a recycling centre and started doing Halo mods. Anthony Clark teamed up and were able to access PartnerNet and started playing games before full public release. In 2009 German JTAG exploit allowed normal XBox360 to run unsigned code. They sold mods/cheats for $100USD a day. Justin May was banned from XBox Live and tried to steal game from Atomic Games at Pax conference but got caught. Mods were stopped via intervention order. Anthony Clark used bot technology and dev kits used to automatically earn FIFA coins. They made money by stealing games/hacking networks. They found blueprints of new XBox One/Durango and decided to build one of their own and sell it. Was warned by Microsoft not to do it but when they tried it it was reported to Australian police who raided them. Another of the group (Armand) decided to break into Microsoft headquarters by bypassing elevator pass security by using the stairs and stole the XBox One/Durango. IRS/FBI went after Fifacoins so they lost money. Dylan Wheeler fled to Czech Republic to avoid extradition to US. While in Czech Republic he got into counterfeiting and embezellment/fraud and was put on probation. Fled to UK and then Poland and then tried a bank robbery which led to 10yr jail sentence. Anthony Clark died of alchohol/vicodin drug oversdose before he could be sentenced
Master file of passwords in Word file used to leverage into other companies and elsewhere in Epic games
This Nerdy Teen is the FBI's Most Wanted Hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2Gsok5wgI
https://www.youtube.com/@VinceVintage
https://www.fifacoin.com/aff/240118
dylan wheeler hacker
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-27/teenage-hacker-dylan-wheeler-accused-of-hacking-us-army-flees/6977106
Xbox Underground was an international hacker group responsible for gaining unauthorized access to the computer network of Microsoft and its development partners, including Activision, Epic Games, and Valve, in order to obtain sensitive information relating to Xbox One and Xbox Live.
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The group is also accused of breaching the computer network of Zombie Studios, through which they obtained Apache helicopter simulator software developed for the United States military.[3] In a wiretap, David Pokora was quoted as saying: "Have you been listening to the [expletive] that I've done this past month? I have [expletive] to the U.S. military. I have [expletive] to the Australian Department of Defense ... I have every single big company – Intel, AMD, Nvidia – any game company you could name, Google, Microsoft, Disney, Warner Bros., everything."[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Underground
- highest volume of shoplifting since records began. 900 incidents per hour, $1.8B stolen in 2023. 1/4 of incidents down to organised crime gangs. Morrison's store chain targeted by gang/group. Operate in groups of 4 generally: 1 spotter and 2-3 stealers. Razors, medication, cosmestics, etc... targeted. Facial recognition and police intelligence produced nothing. Resold at car boot sales in Essex and Nine Elms Market. Most will deny but some will admit their goods are stolen and that's how they keep their costs low. Big black market for stolen goods. Multiple gangs operating across UK with target lists of things wanted, target retail chains, modus operandi, etc... Operating in Northampton, Zeno Gugalay may be connected to Russian/East European Mafia. Connected to Romania and loan sharking, smuggling, tobacco, European human trafficking, etc... Tracked down marriage certificate to Romania, Bucharest. Stolen stuff is normally sold in Bedford wholesale to Indians Prime Value Distribution. Proctor & Gambell said no distrbution agreement with Indians Prime Value Distribution who on sale to others all around the world. Prime Value Distribution will try to get cheap goods from anywhere to on sell (including shoplifters), deals in visa scams/sham marriages too.
Britain's Shoplifting Gangs - Exposed | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbBYK51eEM
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
organised shoplifting gangs
https://www.nationalretail.org.au/policy-advocacy/safe-retail/organised-crime-gangs/
https://www.brownejacobson.com/insights/the-word-december-2024/shoplifting-epidemic
Organised criminals are behind the recent rise in shoplifting and violence against shop workers rather than people stealing to survive, one of the UK's largest grocery chains has told a parliamentary inquiry.
Paul Gerrard, the public affairs director at the Co-op, told the House of Lords justice and home affairs committee into shoplifting that a 44% rise in retail crime it experienced last year was mostly down to gangs stealing to order at scale – clearing shelves in some cases.
"There have always been people who steal to make ends meet … and you could argue that happens more in a cost of living crisis," he said. "But that is not what is driving the 44% increase.
"What is driving it is people stealing to order, people coming into store with wheelie bins or a builder's bag to steal the entire confectionery section or spirits or meat section.
"If one of my colleagues gets in the way they won't say sorry and walk out, there will be a violent threat; it might be a knife or might be a syringe. I've had colleagues attacked with a medieval mace. We've had colleagues lose their eye or colleagues miscarry. This is a level of violence, abuse and threat that nobody in retail has ever seen before."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/03/retail-crime-co-op-organised-criminals-lords
https://news.sky.com/story/police-arrest-93-gang-members-behind-4m-thefts-in-shoplifting-crackdown-13270885
- 50K ships pass through Somalian area each year. Somalians used to fish in area but foreign trawlers sucked out all fish from area. Hijacks and ransoms allow them to make a living, ~$2-3M ransom per ship. Lloyds insurance insure a lot of these boats and first remands is normaly 20-30M but they haggle them down. Money is parachuted or boated to the hijackers. Naval ships and primitive coast guard unable to do anything due to lack of resources. Even if caught priates are put into overburned legal system/jails and not much can be done to deter them. Former fishermen/piraters would go back to fishing if they could and there are no fish?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ship+hijacking+crime
Gang of Somali pirates taking over the high seas | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qChWCVqvGU
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
Modern Pirates | Menace On Africa Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfanBWX3Fwg
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntland
What Really Happens When Somali Pirates Attack Cruise Ships, This is How Cruise Ships Respond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypg1nG73lVs
https://www.youtube.com/@Nauctis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Breeze
Kidnapping in Nigeria | ARTE.tv Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCpnW26HUs
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
Inside Nigeria's Kidnap Crisis - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRADCzmEX6w
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
confiscation ship united states
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-confiscates-iran-oil-cargo-tanker-amid-tehran-tensions-sources-2023-04-28/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/27/us-navy-thwarts-attempted-seizure-of-israel-linked-cargo-ship
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1968/jan/23/usa.northkorea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nikolas_(ship)
Iran Seizes Oil Tanker In Retaliation For Earlier US Confiscation
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401117649
- a lot of cargo ships have safe/panic rooms now? Crews of cargo ships kidnapped/ransomed. Pirate's Alley is from Liberia to Gabon and is prime spot for naval piracy. UN security council approved counter piracy operations. BP-Shell first setup oil operations in 1958. Oil extraction killed local fish and livelihood of fishermen. Niger Delta people got tired of it so sabotaged pipelines and stole oil from cargo ships. Livelihood of locals very difficult because wealthy is being extracted and no profits being put back into local population. Fishing vessels of China and EU destroying food stock of Africa. Locals don't want to become pirates are being forced due to loss of livelihood. Illegal fishing common so trawling vessels reluctant to call naval patrol boats/law enforcement but some have taken to having weapons themselves to fight off pirates. Higher costs of transportation of cargo due to losses being pushed back on locals. Local states have no naval capability due to colonial overhang issues. A lot of pirates willing to stop if they had an alternative to achieve livelihood
Pirates are Running Wild off West Africa's Coast | System Error
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XtuPck0b4U
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=866fXIAZsDk
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Phillips_(film)
How Modern Pirates Are Still a Threat in The Coast of Africa | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfh9suqsIPs
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Modern Pirates | Menace On Africa Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfanBWX3Fwg
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
Pirate Hunting: Meet the Counter-Piracy Task Force | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaL_vSdZKZo
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=utopia+australian+defence+policy
Australia's Defence Policy Explained | Utopia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgspkxfkS4k
https://www.youtube.com/@workingdogproductions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
- intelligence, defense, crime world crossing over constantly? Strongly suspect a lot of criminals gain skills from the "normal world" and then switch over and/or vice-versa?
The Day the World's Biggest Companies Got Hacked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LybeGMF9aVo
https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(hacker_group)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petya_and_NotPetya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Lab
This Russian Hacker Group Made Americans Sweat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNA1jodqTo
https://www.youtube.com/@LUNAE-r6h
Ransomware Is An Epidemic And It's Getting Worse | Cryptoland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TewhGZWryg
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
158,059 views 2 Aug 2024 #CNBC
He was young, rich and on the rise in Moscow. But when up-and-coming Russian oligarch Vladislav Klyushin boarded a private jet for a luxury ski vacation in the Swiss Alps, he had no idea that all of it was about to come crashing down. Klyushin was the owner of a cybersecurity company in Moscow called M-13, but the firm was secretly a front for a computer hacking and insider trading operation that plagued Wall Street for years, and generated more than $90 million in illicit profits for Klyushin's criminal gang. Now, with exclusive access to the FBI investigators and Department of Justice prosecutors who chased Klysuhin around the globe, CNBC's Eamon Javers can reveal the shocking details of the spectacular rise and fall of this audacious criminal enterprise. We learn about their insider trading in stocks of American companies including Tesla and other high-tech firms, and we see the crooks' own text messages, which give a revealing look at the bromance between the oligarch and a veteran Russian intelligence hacker at the center of the crime ring. And in an exclusive interview, Javers sits down with a former Russian spy — an officer of the Russian FSB intelligence agency — who explains why all of this, and more, was so important to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
And in a turn of events, the White House just announced a massive, multinational prisoner swap between the U.S., Russia and other nations. As part of the historic deal, the Russian government released high-profile Americans held in captivity there, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who had been in a Russian prison for more than a year.
Also included in the trade were a number of Russians who had been arrested for various crimes and held in prisons in the U.S. and other countries. Klyushin was one of the prisoners released. Watch "Putin's Trader" for the full story.
It took our investigative team countless hours to unravel the mysteries of "Putin's Trader"—chasing down sources, going deep into a criminal web spun by those at the highest levels of global power. Join CNBC's Eamon Javers in every step of this gripping journey by following and listening to the limited podcast series "The Crimes of Putin's Trader". It's the expanded universe of this real-life thriller, featuring exclusive spy interviews and behind-the-scenes reporting. You can find "The Crimes of Putin's Trader" podcast wherever you get your podcasts or click here and be the first to get notified about new episodes: https://cnbc.com/putinstrader
How Russian Hackers Stole Millions from U.S. Investors — Putin's Trader | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kWugbH4qo
https://www.youtube.com/@CNBC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Katsuyama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
- some comical organised crime operations in some parts of the world? Create ads on Gumtree. Bait people into using the service but then dump it anywhere/at illegal dump areas to make a profit. This isn't just in UK but in other parts of the world as well if you look around
Britain's Illegal Fly Tipping Gangs: Exposed | Rubbish Tip Britain | Dispatches | Channel 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQlpb3fvmyc
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
- robbed ~100 banks between 1999-2001. Former US Marine. Went after merchant teller as most likely to have money/currency. Tried to keep robberies low key to reduce further attention to bank. Altereted communication based on situation. Only went after vault if "temperature was right". Picked banks that were close to merchants which meant more cash on hand. Wanted multiple exit points/interstate highways. Watched banks and employees beforehand to see who was in control. Took a few weeks to months off and then studied employee manuals and stuff about safes and cased targets. Diguise depended on situation. Used superglue to hide fingerprints. Police response time ~3-5mins. Getaway car was something that blended in and was generally hidden. Checked for dyepacks by spreading out money. Burnt clothes, got rid of superglue using solvent and hid money back at hideout. Got into it to pay off debt for relative who got into debt with organised crime and would have been killed had debt not been repaid. Purchased replica/toy gun to threaten bank staff. Eventually turned himself in but worked with victims to try and right previous wrongs.
https://video.vice.com/en/video/kangaroo-bandit/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Bandit
How Bank Robberies Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhuYiozj2Eg
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Former Bank Robber Breaks Down 9 More Bank Heists In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH3gFE15Ivc
Master Safecracker Rates 10 Safecracking Heists In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbgeExmIAO0
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
state backed bank robberies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_robbers_and_robberies
Nearly a dozen foreign nationals indicted for multi-state bank robberies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSfHy6SMQtQ
https://www.youtube.com/@cbssacramento
How A Barber Stole Millions From An American Bank | Biggest Robbery In American History Ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmDw1OjggOg
https://www.youtube.com/@TheUnsolvedFiles07
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/banks-are-tracking-your-every-click-it-could-save-you-thousands/ar-AA1wrdQj?ocid=BingNewsBrowse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_of_Thieves_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vault_(2021_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Heist
- get prepaid credit cards, remove numbers using solvent, magnetic data is where data is stored, embossing machine used to imprint name. Buy credit card information on dark web for $10 per card. Use that information to buy stuff online ($500-$1000 is within limit of most people straight away) and then resell on Facebook marketplace for cash or talk to drug dealer and they can cash out for them. Drug dealers also generally involved with sex trade as well. Some scammers do it to survive, others do it to provide a lifestyle. They think that government doesn't care
A Credit Card Scammer Shares His Secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm9wdwka8X0
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
More Chase customers lose money to ATM thieves using glue, 'tap' feature to steal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDG4Hgca9BA
https://www.youtube.com/@abc7news
Inside the Underground Markets for Your Stolen Credit Cards | Trulane Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u76c3wlLsE
https://www.youtube.com/@InsideTrueCrime
Inside the Underground Markets For Your Stolen Credit Cards🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 32: The Carder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzOymxr7_SA
https://www.youtube.com/@JackRhysider
Inside a Teen's Credit Card Fraud Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cj--G4Nc4E
https://www.youtube.com/@financialwolf
- credit card scanners available readily and cheap $85 USD off Amazon. MSR-X6 is small model card reader $291 USD. Professional criminals obviously have specialised/stripped down devices which they can use to skim and more stealthy. Only defense against this is to only scan card at places you know are safe?
Super skimmers: The new way criminals are hacking your account, even if you don't swipe your card
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YeEkcHuWQA
https://www.youtube.com/@Boston25News
https://www.amazon.com.au/Deftun-MSRX6-Smallest-Magnetic-Credit/dp/B00KB0UTCS
Credit card cloning is too easy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyd24FlJCFg
https://www.youtube.com/@davidbombal
- contactless cards/chip based credit cards defenseless against remote Flipper device. Only defense is disable chip, shield it, hide it, etc...
Your Credit Card is at Risk because of this hacking device!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DXGnQFzGxU
https://www.youtube.com/@LironSegev
- jewellery heist business similar to drug business. Markups ~500-800% when go in store. Did diamond heists between 20-25yrs old (caught at 25years old). Dad was brain, brother was brawn, he was driver, dad's friend provided inside information. Went after dodgy stores who reported fake robberies, never went after clean stores (clean stores were rare). Stolen cars were used for jobs. Cased stores very important. Job needed to be done in 90s. 90s rule was from bank jobs which reduced chances of getting job. 90s started when staff are subdued. Trinkets easier to sell then high end stuff. Easier to sell cut stone then uncut stone. If buy stolen stuff margins are way higher. Moving stuff in bulk is difficult unless you have a fencer/wholesaler you can deal with. Alternate is sell it off piecemeal. Lots of laser engraved diamonds with paperwork now but you can always fake the paperwork. If you're good in organised crime you'll understand law enforcement structure and allocation. His job started out as trying to save his dad from someone who scammed him, then escalated into moral robberies? Prison was like criminal university and helped how to do it right. He sobered up (and become drug and alchohol counseller) but dad and brother didn't really.
How Diamond Heists Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8vxS0eZVo
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/gem-thief-explains-how-diamond-heists-actually-work-crime-2023-7
gold buyers melbourne money laundering
In August 2020, Chey Tenenboim, Alejandro Mendieta Blanco, and Julio Mendieta Blanco were sentenced for charges related to the purchase of stolen goods through a Melbourne-based gold-buying business. The accused were brothers, and the third was an employee of their gold-buying business.
https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/13079/New-money-laundering-laws-Millions-at-stake-in-the-jewellery-industry
https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/your-industry/bullion-dealers/bullion-dealers-overview
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/from-first-class-to-jail-gold-dealer-jailed-for-stolen-jewellery-scheme-20200825-p55oyw.html
They probably thought they had the Midas touch.
A trio of gold dealers suspected of running a racket purchasing stolen jewellery from criminals linked to violent robberies and burglaries around Melbourne had a system to keep their scheme off the books.
Sometimes the discussion would take place over Snapchat or via text message.
When ready to sell, the crooks would go up to the 11th floor of the Collins Street building to fence the precious ornaments they had pinched.
A discount rate was allegedly offered, well below the spot price of gold, and in return for easy cash the thieves weren't obliged to provide identification, details supposed to be recorded in the second-hand dealers ledger under law.
Staff were trained in the alleged enterprise to ensure the transactions, of which there were about 100 a month, stayed under the table.
In total, it's alleged the traders bought an estimated $500,000 worth of hot gold and diamonds. The plan was to melt the gold down so it couldn't be traced. It is suspected the financial pressure of a multimillion-dollar tax debt drove the ruse.
"Their current business plan, without the purchasing of stolen property, would not be able to maintain a profit," an investigator said, according to a recent tribunal decision.
Detectives from the anti-gangs taskforce raided the offices of Gold Buyers Melbourne in October, having kept an eye on the men linked to it for months.
Inside, they are said to have found plastic resealable bags marked with the word "old" that contained the allegedly stolen merchandise.
On each bag there was a date and the initials of the dealer, as well as a weight and dollar value. None of the acquisitions were recorded in the second-hand dealers book, police are likely to allege, in offending stretching back to 2013.
Details of the suspected plot were described in a police affidavit recently provided to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, where the men are challenging the suspension of their second-hand dealer licences.
About $600,000 in cash was seized as part of the raid, as well as $3 million in gold jewellery, bullion and diamonds. Documents and computers were also confiscated. While the raid was taking place, criminals continued to turn up with purloined gold and jewels.
Police charged Alejandro Mendieta Blanco, his brother Julio Mendieta Blanco, and Chey Tenenboim with receiving stolen goods and two counts of dealing with the proceeds of crime. They were released on bail.
As well as the police charges, the three companies linked to the men – The Gold Buying Company, Sell Your Gold and Diamonds On Sale – were accused by the pawnbroking regulator of failing to identify those selling second-hand goods and failing to record transactions.
One of the men, Mr Tenenboim, filed an affidavit with VCAT seeking a stay of the suspension to allow the businesses to trade while they await a review.
"If the stay is not granted the companies and their respective businesses will suffer devastating financial consequences," the affidavit said.
"The businesses will have to cease and the companies may have to be liquidated, in circumstances where no charge has been proven."
VCAT member Elisabeth Wentworth rejected the application for a stay, writing in her decision that there was a public interest in stopping pawnbrokers accused of trading in stolen goods from operating.
The companies can still buy and sell some metals. When The Sunday Age rang Gold Buyers Melbourne, a person said they were still buying gold but in bullion only. No licence is required to trade in investment-grade bullion stamped into bars or coins.
Another gold trader, John Stylianou from Gold Digger Trading Co in Melbourne's CBD, said part of doing business was identifying when something was stolen. Sometimes that meant making a judgment about what someone looks like or how they might have come across something precious.
"It's the usual story, 'It belonged to grandma', and you say 'Yeah, yeah, what's your grandma's name?' and they can't answer quickly enough," he said.
"But sometimes the thieves can come in here in a suit, he's all prim and proper. Gives you ID. And he's a thief."
The gold industry had become challenging, Mr Stylianou said, as the rise of smartphones had made sellers more likely to quibble on price while at the counter. A tax fraud which cost the Commonwealth $879 million in lost GST from gold had also made the banks wary of dealing with traders.
"It's dog eat dog out there," he said.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/gold-dealers-running-alleged-stolen-jewellery-scam-want-their-pawnbroker-licence-back-20171117-gzns9q.html
https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/your-industry/bullion-dealers/bullion-dealers-overview
https://www.vgccc.vic.gov.au/three-charged-over-alleged-47m-money-laundering-scheme-melbourne-gaming-venue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1999_film)
- if you think about it the balance between what can be done to stop crime, prevent it, etc... is really interesting. There are serious enormous limits which is why I'm guessing why intelligence and law enforcement are constantly pushing for more powers. This has to be balanced up by civic rights and the chance that too much concentrated power can lead to corruption in our legal, political, judicial, law enforcement, etc... systems. 90% of crimes go uncharged in UK. ~2-5% money only recovered from online scams at the moment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_cause
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_seizure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Tragic Impact of $98,000 Life Savings Scam On Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPq6Kh-KBU
https://www.youtube.com/@TheProjectTV
Mortgage deposit scams becoming more prevalent in Australia | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uu3CaEDdwM
How to avoid falling victim to an online financial scam | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbF46RvY5k
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
Britain's Unsolved Crimewave | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj2ghENIjvo
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
How Intelligence agencies catch criminals | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6S4_cZswWE
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
The dramatic undercover sting exposing Nigerian fraud syndicates | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHLiVT4eeM
PART II: The dramatic undercover sting exposing Nigerian fraud syndicates | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4xdTD05EQ4
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
EXPOSED: Is this alleged Ponzi scheme Australia's biggest financial scandal? | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnljXGlfEM
A con man's confession to a multi-billion dollar investment scandal | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00urGhfe2Mw
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
false confessions statistics
What is the percentage of false confessions?
According to the Innocence Project, 30 percent of all DNA exonerations involve false confessions. The National Registry of Exonerations estimates that 182 out of 1432 known exonerations (or 13 percent) involved a false confession as a contributing factor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-truth-about-false-con_b_5857094
If you were under interrogation, would you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
It's more common than you might think. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 27 percent of people in the registry who were accused of homicide gave false confessions, and 81 percent of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities did the same when they were accused of homicide.
But why?
Scientists are working to understand more about the psychology of false confessions. In "The confession," an article in the journal Science, journalist Douglas Starr focuses on one of them. Starr features Saul Kassin, a psychologist and interrogation expert who is changing the way law enforcement thinks about interrogation.
Kassin has testified in criminal matters, such as the one concerning Barry Laughman, a 24-year-old with an intellectual disability who was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder in 1988. His research has revealed more about how police interrogation techniques, such as applying increased psychological pressure and bluffing with suggestions of additional incriminating evidence, put people at risk for false confessions.
Starr delves into that research and speaks with detractors who say Kassin's studies don't apply to real-life interrogations. He paints a picture of a confrontational criminal justice system that inadvertently triggers false confessions.
It's a system that's primed for change. "Confessions are being questioned as never before," Starr writes, "not just by defense lawyers, but by lawmakers and some police departments, which are reexamining their approach to interrogation."
His incisive examination of the present and future of interrogation provokes questions about how to move forward, and a reconsideration of the lives that have been irrevocably changed by false testimony.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/examining-why-false-confessions-occur-in-the-us-criminal-justice-system/2019/06/20/10128bb4-9207-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html
Would you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
It's a question to which most people would respond with a confident and resounding "no".
That is because few people are aware of the techniques police in the United States are permitted to use during interrogations; techniques that presume guilt and are designed to break people down into a sense of complete despair before offering them one route out: a confession.
In fact, in the US, more than 25 percent of overturned wrongful convictions involve a false confession.
"Any time you do an exoneration case where there's been a false confession, it's like trying to ride a tricycle uphill," explains defence attorney Jane Fisher-Byrialsen. "Everybody's already against you, the person's been convicted by a jury, the judge thinks he's guilty, the jury thinks he's guilty. Now you have to convince everybody that they're wrong."
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2019/03/false-confessions-innocent-people-confess-crime-190311093100363.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/07/law-and-disorder-downloader-script_27.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
- drug labs require specialised knowledge, unique/specialised equipment, precusors often require licenses so hard to believe that there isn't some sort of corruption involved in a lot of large scale operations.
What a house looks like when it's used as a meth lab | SBS The Feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Nct9JLqOI
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSTheFeed
Inside the 'most sophisticated' drug lab in Canadian history | About That
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJSfgf3x9QA
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=breaking+bad+cooking+van
Breaking Bad — The First Cook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xgdry2TNw
https://www.youtube.com/@S810X/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
- fraud is stealing with a style according to some fraud police? Similar perspectives and concepts in organised crime and wealthy circles often? Weight, drug, investment, loan, etc... scams all very similar?
wealthiest people in australia vs gdp
Ordinary Australians are struggling to make ends meet while the richest enjoy billions in untaxed capital gains, a new report says.
The background: The Australia Institute's analysis reveals that the wealth of the richest 200 Australians rose from 8.4 per cent of national GDP in 2004 to 23.7 per cent by 2024, indicating a widening wealth gap where the richest benefit from untaxed capital gains while ordinary Australians struggle financially.
The report warns that such inequality could harm social cohesion, exacerbate political polarisation, and hinder economic growth.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/getting-more-unequal-australias-wealth-divide-widens-as-the-rich-get-richer/0f7r7i7nc
Australia's richest captured 93% of economic growth between 2009 financial crisis and Covid, paper shows
Wealthiest 10% captured growth in company profits while most Australians watched their real wages shrink, Australia Institute finds
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/11/australias-richest-captured-93-of-economic-growth-between-2009-financial-crisis-and-covid-paper-shows
How One Woman Stole 3% of Vietnam's GDP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IsZribF2EQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_M%E1%BB%B9_Lan
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/vietnam-tycoon-truong-my-lan-sentenced-to-death-faces-new-fraud-trial
Hong Kong family offices: how wealth management intersects with art and philanthropy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIh3qVHFx0
https://www.youtube.com/@euronews
The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk
The Oligarchs l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughFLQDcI_Q
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Stolen in seconds: Why aren't car makers doing more? | Marketplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21131Sz6mMM
Oil change scams: Hidden camera investigation on what really happens to your car (CBC Marketplace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avpx8UTakI
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Homes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Brokers
drug rehab success rate
Statistics on relapse after rehab
The AIHW 2016-17 report suggests that approximately 65% of addicts complete their drug or alcohol rehabilitation. Of those, about 50% relapse.
https://www.rayhaderclinic.com.au/resource-centre/rehab-statistics
psychiatric drug succcess rate
The efficacy of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies for mental disorders in adults: an umbrella review and meta‐analytic evaluation of recent meta‐analyses
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8751557/
weight loss program success rate
What is the success rate of weight loss?
Here's a sobering statistic: Roughly 90 percent of people who lose a lot of weight eventually regain just about all of it.
https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/weighing-facts-tough-truth-about-weight-loss
The principle of weight gain is simple: energy intake exceeds energy expenditure. However, as discussed in Chapter 3, overweight and obesity are clearly the result of a complex set of interactions among genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors. While hundreds, if not thousands, of weight-loss strategies, diets, potions, and devices have been offered to the overweight public, the multi-factorial etiology of overweight challenges practitioners, researchers, and the overweight themselves to identify permanent, effective strategies for weight loss and maintenance. The percentage of individuals who lose weight and successfully maintain the loss has been estimated to be as small as 1 to 3 percent (Andersen et al., 1988; Wadden et al., 1989).
Weight Management: State of the Science and Opportunities for Military Programs.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221839/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
abc news ndis scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-04/ndis-scam-fraud-participants-manipulated-australia/103934188
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-31/three-people-sentence-fraud-ndis-ato/104546856
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-05/ndis-fraud-costs-billion-dollar-loss/103184130
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-mornings/calls-for-tight-regulation-following-ndis-fraud/103936776
abc news ato scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/how-to-spot-text-email-phone-tax-scams/102778352
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-26/ato-reveals-cost-of-mygov-tax-identity-crime-fraud/102632572
https://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/scams-and-fraud
https://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/tax-evasion
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-01/companies-that-paid-no-tax-in-2022-23-revealed-profit-shifting/104545520
abc news solar scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13/solar-systems-sold-to-vulnerable-pensioners/100494892
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/dodgy-solar-panels-spur-calls-for-greater-consumer-protections/101478300
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-02/solar-panel-scam-warning/2868172
- people forget the origins of a lot of organised crime groups and the history of a lot of kids who join or work with such groups. "Normal society" doesn't really have a place for them. They're sort of doomed and they often realise it form a young age. A lot of them dip their toes in their because of what their social group encouraged them to do, others enjoy the notoriety, others just want a way to make money at that stage and later in life. Ideological criminals (this includes psychopaths and sociopaths who manage to succeed in the normal world) are dangerous because they don't see the point of Civilisation or playing nice if they can get what they want via force. Ironically, most religions, legal frameworks, ideologies, etc... can't solve this type of problem within their own framework (no matter how much they try to convince you otherwise) and often need help from all over the place. Parents/teachers/adults/co-workers/employers seem very naive sometimes. If some kids/people seem to be able to produce large amounts of money, drugs, products, weapons, etc... they're probably not that innocent. We've come to a strange acceptance of organised crime as a natural part of society? Just because kids grow up it doesn't necessarily mean that becoming a gangster, terrorist, organised criminal, etc... should be normal?
Inside the Mind of a Thief | Burglar Confessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtwD-c9hn58
https://www.youtube.com/@AllenCityTV
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bourne+supremacy+abbot+and+pam
The Bourne Supremacy (7/9) Movie CLIP - Confronting Abbott (2004) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq295Mg6PHg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Angels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franzese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snitch_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(smuggling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(organized_crime)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African_warlords
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_warlords_in_the_Central_African_Republic
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfly_(2018_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
- forced animal labour has been existence for as long as we can remember? There's videos of coconut picking monkey training on YouTube... They're forced to roll the coconuts until they drop? Even their owners admit they'd run off if given the chance? Cartel members often see animals and big cats as status symbols
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monkey+coconut+labour
TERRIBLE!!! Thailand Monkey Slavery to take Coconut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHov5PEnyU
Concerns grow as Thai monkeys used as farm labor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplK2MhYePc
Monkeys trained to pick coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnucgquEZ0
Thailand denies claims of monkey abuse in coconut harvesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6trO-3enA
Mexico's Exotic Pet Trade | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Qq7cqWfbw
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=animal+trafficking
An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQ8blCdAtA
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
- obviously, humans have attempted to segregate/ostracise/subjugate the animal kingdom for the own needs and most people believe in "human supremacy". Ironically, many animal/primate ethics are strangely similar to that of humans? When some animals can't figure out how to forage for themselves they resort to crime (both individually as well as a group)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology
How Caretakers Teach Orangutans to Fear Snakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUM8qFX1fs
Three's a Crowd in this Orangutan Relationship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwPFnFhl_z0
Baby Orangutans Learn How to Crack Coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtsHKKb-CI
Chimp Little Larry Learns to Climb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw94Z0B7i_E
Orangutan and Monkey _ Unlikely Animal Friendships _ Love Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoLd0PDNaQ
Forest School for Orangutans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRTkB9imBo
How This School Prepares Orphan Orangutans for the Wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUIicYFFhmE
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beni+banana
An Overweight Orangutan Loses His Banana Privileges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuKpcmW0Vnc
A Young Orangutan Turns to Coconut Theft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWKfraX1qlM
Baby Orangutans Learn How to Crack Coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtsHKKb-CI
Beni's Tips on Dealing with Food Temptation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ZqTkupDfs
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/where-to-watch/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+jungle+school
rape in animal world
Animal coercive sex
Behavior resembling rape in humans can be seen in the animal kingdom, including ducks and geese, bottlenose dolphins, and chimpanzees. Indeed, in orangutans, close human relatives, such copulations constitute up to half of observed matings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiological_theories_of_rape
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
- if you get to know a lot of animals I suspect a lot of them are fun to be around?
Orangutan and Monkey _ Unlikely Animal Friendships _ Love Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoLd0PDNaQ
Meryl at Nyaru Menteng, Save the Orangutan 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ-3ih26EBM
We Love Orangutans - "Babysitter Coordinator, Sri Rahayu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzDDRU5ElyY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-27/chunk-the-groundhog-gardening-wildlife-steal-fruit-vegetables/12360190
Chunk The Groundhog
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV8EscIh3Lhbf51g8MsF9mg
https://www.youtube.com/c/ChunkTheGroundhog/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wild+guinea+pig
Guinea pigs living wild in the garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBIh-GnjI7I
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
- one interesting theory in the world of conspiracy thery and criminal world is that they're condemned to that life because of the circumstances to into which they are born and not necessarily the choices that they made. It would be interesting to see what choices people would make if the opportunities were equal for everyone?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/dodgy-job-contract-clauses-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/02/wikipedia-people-list-correlation_2.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/lawyer-x-nicola-gobbo-tells-court-of-years-spent-in-hiding-as-she-sues-for-compensation/news-story/e12c0605975dd454a0dfa6f255392c1d
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/25/victoria-police-nicola-gobbo-tony-mokbel-hearing-ntwnfb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Gobbo
ACAB: Why All Cops Are Bastards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvjGocdugw
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Alexander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariame_Kaba
http://mariamekaba.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_S._Vitale
https://www.amazon.com/Who-You-Serve-Protect-Resistance/dp/1608466124
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joe-macare-maya-schenwar-and-alana-yu-lan-price-who-do-you-serve-who-do-you-protect
DEBATE: The West, DEI & Slavery - Konstantin Kisin, Yanis Varoufakis & Cynthia Miller-Idriss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DZJNRJ3AI0
https://www.youtube.com/@triggerpod
China's Disillusioned Youth | ARTE.tv Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7gULymU2A
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_quitting
Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDzL_2EP0mU
https://www.youtube.com/@moreperfectunion
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- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has drawn criticism this week for an interview where he said "we were working 100-hour weeks" on the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2. The ensuing conversation, which now includes many current Rockstar employees speaking publicly for the first time, has reignited a long-running argument about how much "crunch time" (if any) should be expected from developers in the run-up to major game releases.
The controversy started Sunday, when a rare interview with Houser and fellow studio co-founder (and brother) Sam Houser ran on New York Magazine's Vulture vertical. Dan's statement that "we were working 100-hour weeks" several times in 2018 is treated as almost a throwaway line in the context of other numbers highlighting the immensity of the game: 300,000 animations; 500,000 lines of dialogue, and "several hundred" edits for every trailer. It's a theme that runs throughout the interview, where the Housers brag about the game's 2,000 page "main story" script, 1,200 SAG-AFTRA actors, 2,200 days of motion-capture work, and 192 separate "interactive" musical scores, for example.
"We always worked ourselves to the bone," former Grand Theft Auto developer Navid Khonsari notes in the Vulture piece. "We all thought we were making badass shit, so it didn't matter how hard we worked."
Impressively scaled "badass work" or not, many people were disturbed by the idea that Rockstar employees were being pushed through a week's worth of work days lasting over 14 hours each (assuming no weekend breaks). That kind of sustained overwork is common enough to have a widely accepted shorthand name around the industry: "Crunch." And the problems for employee health and well-being brought on by that kind of sustained crunch have been heavily discussed for years in and around the industry. The International Game Developers Association cites research showing that level of sustained overwork is actually damaging to productivity.
Off-handed talk of "100-hour weeks" on RDR2 prompted many developers to share their own stories of how crunch has negatively impacted their lives during their time in the game industry. "My first job in Games we had a leaderboard where we tracked who worked the most hours in one week on the project. I made it to 3rd place... with 118 hours," Iron Galaxy CEO Adam Boyes wrote in a representative example.
Other developers took issue with the prideful, almost bragging tone of Houser's comments, which suggested the long work weeks were worth it to create "this seamless, natural-feeling experience in a world that appears real, an interactive homage to the American rural experience," as Houser put it. "This needs to stop being a point of pride, no matter how bittersweet you make it sound," Creative Assembly developer Pete Stewart wrote. "I don't want devs to work 100-hour weeks, even if the end result is a game of the year. No game is worth that kind of burnout."
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/
- People consume fake news because it is more fun. This is not a new phenomenon. Just think about the way gossip works. The stories people are most interested to hear and repeat are the most outrageous and exaggerated ones ("She never!"). This is because truth tends to be less interesting than falsehood, precisely because truth tends closely to resemble what we already know. It doesn't surprise or excite us. In contrast, false stories are much more likely to succeed because they are engineered to be exciting and are not constrained by boring facts. They can be tailored to the audience's expectations.
Before the Enlightenment we didn't have much more than gossip (and acquiescence to certain politically convenient truths by threat of raw power). We lacked the trustworthy institutions that would guarantee the credibility of facts, and so we were stuck having to decide for ourselves what we preferred to believe. But then we built institutions ― such as science and government and responsible journalism ― capable of determining truth from falsehood. We started to take the idea of objective truth for granted, even though we never actually conquered our consumerist impulses.
Consider the news media. There are high fixed costs to setting up and running a television station or newspaper. The business logic of mainstream media requires long-term investment for long-term returns. Therefore, there was some enduring institution that could be held accountable to society for the truth and decency of its output. Even gossipy, sensationalist tabloids like the Daily Mail or Fox News had to keep one foot on the ground. Moreover, some people actually preferred to consume their news rich in facts; enough that it made financial sense for some media companies to build a reputation for truth.
Social media has disrupted the institutional constraints so laboriously built against truth consumerism. It provides a distribution system, and, by means of AdTech, a targeting and payment system, that frees publishers from even minimal accountability to society or the long-term. Unfortunately, a system where people decide for themselves what they like to believe has not empowered consumers but degraded the products on sale. Food scientists spent the last fifty years loading their products with the evolutionary signals of nourishment while removing the expensive nutrition part. Social media companies likewise employ the latest behavioural science to manipulate our cognitive biases so that we will keep scrolling and liking and sharing. This is because the longer we stay on their platform, the more of our attention they can hive off for resale to advertisers. In both cases, we end up consuming junk. The quality of the products is simply irrelevant to the business model.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/democracy-and-the-problem-of-fake-news/10392514
- China's President Xi Jinping has officially opened the world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China Tuesday.
The 55-kilometer crossing, which includes a snaking road bridge and underwater tunnel, links Hong Kong with the southern mainland city of Zhuhai and the enclave of Macau, across the waters of the Pearl River Estuary.
Xi presided over an inauguration ceremony attended by Hong Kong's and Macau's city leaders at a new port terminal in Zhuhai.
"I declare the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge officially open," Xi said in a one-line address, as digital fireworks exploded on a screen behind him at the indoor ceremony, before leaving the stage immediately.
Supporters of the multi-billion-dollar bridge promote it as an engineering marvel that will boost business and cut travel time, but critics say it is one more way to integrate Hong Kong into China.
China's Vice Premier Han Zheng characterized the bridge as part of the development of the Greater Bay Area — a Beijing-driven project to create an economic hub linking nine southern mainland cities to Hong Kong and Macau.
At the ceremony, he described the strategy as "deployed and driven by Xi Jinping personally."
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said the bridge would help transform Hong Kong from a "connector to a more active participant."
It is the second major infrastructure project tying Hong Kong to mainland China to launch in a matter of weeks, after the opening of a high-speed rail link last month.
The main section of the new bridge is also considered mainland territory, even though Hong Kong was slated to pay at least half the cost of the project, according to the original blueprint from the city's government.
Hong Kong cars and drivers travelling over it "must comply with the laws and regulations of the mainland," the city's transport department said.
The total price tag is unclear but some estimates run to over 100 billion yuan ($14.4 billion).
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/23/577829/China-president-Hong-Kong-bridge
The researchers said DarkPulsar also included functionality to disable NTLM protocol security meaning that the need to enter a username and password during authentication was bypassed, indicating that an attack using this malware was meant to be a long-term one.
There was one bright note, however. "...to exploit this backdoor on infected victims, the attackers need to know the private RSA key which pairs to the public key embedded in the backdoor," the Kaspersky trio said. "It means that no one except [the] real DarkPulsar's managers can exploit compromised systems."
They recommended the following measures to avoid infections:
Keep your security products up to date;
Do not turn security product components off;
Keep your OS updated;
Install all security patches asap;
Use special traffic analysis tools and pay attention to all encrypted traffic;
Do not use weak passwords or the same password for several endpoints;
Use complex passwords;
Do not allow remote connections to endpoints with administration rights; and
Do not allow domain administrators to be local administrators with the same credentials.
https://www.itwire.com/security/84992-windows-servers-still-infected-by-darkpulsar-nsa-exploit.html
- Linus Torvalds — foul-mouthed programmer
"Please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place." Emails such as this were common at Linus Torvalds's company, Linux. Torvalds posted thousands of messages targeting programmers at his computer-operating-system kernel, which runs the computers of Google, PayPal and Amazon. Over a thousand of the 21,000 emails he sent in a four-year period used the word "crap."
https://www.dw.com/en/you-dont-have-to-be-a-psycho-to-be-ceo/g-46022739
An official says the Iranian government needs no more wheat imports thanks to favorable crop harvest and procurement from local farmers at a time of diminishing grain stocks around the world.
Largely self-sufficient in wheat a decade ago, Iran emerged as one of the world's biggest importers a few years ago but a raft of measures taken by the government is returning the country to where it was.
"With the government's measures in recent years, the country has been freed of wheat imports and the volume of imports has reached zero," the man in charge of the program at Iran's Ministry of Agriculture Jihad Esmaeil Esfandiari said.
Iran's last major government-sponsored wheat import in 2011 stood at more than 2.6 million tonnes. Last year, the government purchased about 9 million tonnes of wheat from local farmers out of 11 million tonnes planned.
According to state officials, the country usually maintains a carryover from previous wheat crops and past stocks which cover any shortfall.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/23/577850/Iran-agriculture-wheat-drought-Russia-US
- The state of the art in cloud security was "not good enough - not even close," according to Ellison, so Oracle has developed a new architecture. But "if it was easy to do, someone else would have already done it," he said.
Oracle Cloud Gen 2 represents "a completely new hardware configuration for the cloud" using "dedicated, independent computers to surround the perimeter of our cloud" and each customer's zone. This approach stops malicious customers moving laterally to attack their peers, or to interfere with the control of the infrastructure.
It has two way implications for security: Oracle can't see its customers' data ("you don't have to trust us"), and customers cannot access the computers controlling Oracle Cloud.
"It's an isolated network they can't get at," said Ellison, "threats can't enter and threats can't spread."
https://www.itwire.com/enterprise-cloud/85016-second-generation-oracle-cloud-impenetrable-ellison.html
New York Mob Captain Explains How The Crime Families Operate Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL0BnSpKRoI
Confessions Of An Italian Mafia Capo: The Life Of A Top Earner & HITMAN For The Bonanno Crime Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTYAaRbINYc
Mexican Cartel Hitman Reveals Life As A PAID KILLER For Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwwitiXt18
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
Gangs of Marseille: Welcome to the Most Dangerous City in Europe | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCwA4xopUtY
Inside Sinaloa Cartel: Meet the Sicarios | Drug War | Endevr Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ckb01-f2Yc
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
The Chilling Story of Serbia's Human Slaughterhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZHctPA22c
https://www.youtube.com/@occrpofficial
The Secret World Of The Serbian Mafia In Belgrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzotw62EnQ0
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cities (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AX0VI11F-4
Cape Town, South Africa | Inside the World's Most Dangerous Cities (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9eHQ8zY-0
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
How 6 Criminal Businesses Actually Work — From Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling | Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5Dlo96nto
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Unmasking the undercover informant inside the cartel | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kse32_VpTOE
The scandalous case of Lawyer X and the underbelly murder investigations | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjrWDwpNMcU
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
The Price of El Salvador's War on Gangs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLiQnXC7sQ
https://www.youtube.com/@business
How the Mexican cartels are making profits now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_qZ_mvQfoE
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Narco:_Inside_Mexico%27s_Criminal_Insurgency
Mexico: The Cartels Switch to Fentanyl I ARTE Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqeKDVtOaU
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
Ross Kemp on Gangs: Investigating Gangs in Bulgaria, Belize & Kenya | Ross Kemp Extreme World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yxi-0kKqjc
https://www.youtube.com/@rosskempextremeworld/videos
Why the U.S. Department of Justice ended program seizing millions from airline passengers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Z2j2ckUTE
https://www.youtube.com/@investigatetv
Gang Terminology 101 with a Former Gang Unit Cop
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/84dABhtVfVY
https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnRyanClips/shorts
Russian Mafia Expert Rates 10 Russian Mob Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1W8iUtOBE
Russian vs Italian Mafia: who's more dangerous? #mobster #mobboss
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O2uLC6HbABw
Difference between Sicilian and Naples Mafia. #FemaleMafia #WomanMafia #MafiaBoss #NaplesMafia #Mic
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gl3FPU9VU-8
A Day In The Life Inside the Mafia: The Michael Franzese Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KmSk6UpqQ
https://www.youtube.com/@michaelfranzese/shorts
Former KGB Spy Rates 9 Russian Spy Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYo-ziwOAWQ
How The 'Ndrangheta (Italian Mafia) Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0K5l6unj4
How Biker Gangs Actually Work (Mongols Motorcycle Club) | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmMBHJBbbc
How The Latin Kings Gang Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VylZeRkWzbY
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Ex-Mob Boss Plays Never Have I Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtfpM0CnX8
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
Breaking the Calabrian Mafia in Italy | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSa4B37sZs
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Mobsters didn't actually hate the police. Defund the police doesn't work on a real level.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tk1BSRmzU4Q
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The Difference Between Police Officers and Military Operators
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DfqeplVuXT0
https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnRyanClips/shorts
The Economics of the Mafia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MjDEuTuRD0
https://www.youtube.com/@jaketran
I Made $10,000,000 A Week As A Mafia Boss | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OLXQX1d3ig
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
How I Stole $8 Million A Week As A Mafia Boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=380Zqbi9luo
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_gangs,_and_syndicates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Collar_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyguard_(British_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_of_Thieves_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_%26_Furious
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_(film_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1999_film)
- the absurd thing about organised crime groups is that a lot them are so large that they are similar in size to TNC/MNC. It makes sense that they have outsized influence in some countries and globally? Projected impact of organised crime on GDP don't make sense at times/seems heavily understated?
politician deaths by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_who_died_in_office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_who_were_assassinated_or_executed
crime percentage of global gdp
Transnational organized crime is big business. In 2009 it was estimated to generate $870 billion - an amount equal to 1.5 per cent of global GDP. [1] That is more than six times the amount of official development assistance for that year, and the equivalent of close to 7 per cent of the world's exports of merchandise.
https://www.unodc.org/toc/en/crimes/organized-crime.html
Illicit Trade is Emerging as a Top 5 World Economy (GDP) in 2024: Yielding Criminals, Bad Actors, and Threat Networks Between $3-5 Trillion a Year in Illicit Wealth
Top 5 World Economies (GDP)
1. United States ($28.0 trillion)
2. China ($18.6 trillion)
3. Germany ($4.7 trillion)
4. Japan ($4.3 trillion)
5. India ($4.1 trillion)
[Source: IMF data (as of February 2024)]
Global Illicit Markets:(Est. Annual Dollar Value)
Money Laundering (At Least $2.6 trillion)
Transnational Crime ($1.6 to $2.2 trillion)
Bribery (At Least $1.0 trillion)
Narcotics (At Least $500 billion)
Counterfeits/Piracy (At Least $500 billion)
Environmental Crimes ($91 to $258 billion)
Human Trafficking (Up to $150 billion)
Illegal Tobacco Products (Up to $50 billion)
The United Nations, IMF and other leading international organizations have estimated that the dirty money laundered annually from such criminal activities constitutes up to 5 percent of global gross domestic product, or an estimated $3-5 trillion. [Estimate World Economy (GDP) in 2024: $105 Trillion]
[Sources: World Bank, UNODC, OECD, FATF, ILO, GFI, INTERPOL, UNEP, World Economic Forum]
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/illicit-trade-emerging-top-5-world-economy-gdp-2024-david-m--mmwoe/
Money laundering is an ongoing and pervasive threat that impacts economies worldwide. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the estimated amount of money laundered annually is 2-5% of the global GDP, or $800 billion - $2 trillion in current U.S. dollars. A recent study by University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor Peter Reuter and Dutch economist Joras Ferwerda from Utrecht University published in the journal Risk Analysis has uncovered major weaknesses in the National Risk Assessments (NRAs) conducted by eight of the most financially important countries. Their study examines critical gaps in understanding and addressing money laundering risks.
https://spp.umd.edu/news/policy-professors-international-study-reveals-weaknesses-global-efforts-combat-money
biggest organised crime group in the world
1. The Notorious History of the Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra)
2. Unraveling the Operations of the Russian Bratva
3. Inside Look at Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel
4. The Yakuza: Japan's Infamous Organized Crime Syndicate
5. Colombia's Ruthless Medellín and Cali Cartels
6. Triads: China's Secretive Underworld Network
7. Hells Angels: From Motorcycle Club to Global Crime Empire
8. Italy's 'Ndrangheta: Masters of Cocaine Trafficking
9. Los Zetas: Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
10. MS-13: Central America's Violent Street Gang Gone International
https://www.guyhadleigh.com/blog/the-top-10-biggest-criminal-organizations-in-the-world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_gangs,_and_syndicates
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Miguel Vidal Martinez - SpanishOct 23
Russian Mafia (Late 1980's–) | Net Worth: $100 Billion | Members: Thousands
'Ndrangheta (1860–) | Net Worth: $60 Billion | Members: 6,000–10,000
CJNG (2009–) | Net worth: $50 Billion | Members: 18,800–33,100
Triad (1885–) | Net Worth: $40 Billion | Members: 80,000–100,000
Yakuza (17th Century–) Net Worth: $30 Billion | Members: 10,000–25,000
Los Zetas (1997–) | Net Worth: $25 Billion | Members: 1,000–50,000
Cosa Nostra (19th Century–) | Net Worth: $20 Billion | Members: 2,000–5,500
Camorra (16th Century–) | Net Worth: $11 Billion | Members: 4,500–10,000
Sinaloa Cartel (1987–) | Net worth: $10 Billion | Members: 20,000–100,000
Lebanese mafia (1940s–) | Net Worth: $10 Billion | Members: 1,000–3,000
https://www.quora.com/Which-organized-crime-group-is-the-strongest-today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation
- most people don't notice ingress of organised crime into normal society unless have been involved, they're curious, etc... in this area. Once you've been introducted, it's hard to escape this no matter which side you play on because of the way things have worked for so long regardless of whether you work for government, organised crime, law enforcement, intelligence, defense, etc? Note, the overlap of items commonly stolen and where you often see them? Academic world propers you really poorly to understand it properly?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyguard_(British_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_(TV_series)
organised crime and unions
https://www.history.com/news/how-mafia-infiltrated-american-labor-unions
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/cfmeu-deals-put-union-in-bed-with-bikies-and-the-underworld-20240908-p5k8uq
https://www.aigroup.com.au/news/media-centre/2024/national-action-required-to-investigate-cfmeu-links-with-organised-crime/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ucccr0/why_are_unions_such_a_political_bogeyman_in_the/?rdt=45622
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/labor-racketeering-mafia-and-unions-crime-and-justice-review
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/criminal-infiltration-and-a-sudden-resignation-the-cfmeu-saga-explained/b9aks2zf0
organised crime and wall st
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wall-street-crime-and-punishment-the-mafia-micro-cap-market-and-the-largest-securities-fraud-takedown-in-history-1030729849
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-190232/
https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-But-Money-Infiltrated-Street/dp/0425228800
organised crime and politics
Specifically, the presence of organized crime is associated with abnormal spikes in violence against politicians before elections — particularly when the electoral outcome is more uncertain — which in turn reduces voting for parties opposed by criminal organizations.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alesina/files/app_10_18_17.pdf
The problem is not only that the nexus between organized crime and democratic politics often materializes at the local level, but also that the consequences of these relationships are mainly felt locally. Guatemala City is a case in point. There, 'criminal groups interfere with local politics in order to control the granting of permits—for example, the sale of alcohol'(Briscoe, Perdomo and Uribe Burcher 2014: 44). Colombia faces similar challenges: 80 municipalities that went bankrupt between 1999 and 2011 in that country had electoral results favouring candidates with close links to paramilitary groups (Briscoe, Perdomo and Uribe Burcher 2014: 42). Similarly in Peru, for example in the locality of Puno, protracted political corruption and the presence of organized crime have contributed to exacerbating exclusion, poverty and inequality (Briscoe, Perdomo and Uribe Burcher 2014: 146–58).
Organized crime has three main effects on democratic local politics: it (a) further hinders political contestation; (b) exacerbates weak governance and corruption; and (c) contributes to violence
https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/protecting-politics-deterring-the-influence-of-organized-crime-on-local-democracy.pdf
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/organised-crime-and-corrupting-political-system
https://www.unodc.org/e4j/ru/organized-crime/module-4/key-issues/links-to-corruption.html
construction industry and real estate corruption
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/corruption-and-misconduct-risks-in-construction-and-manufacturing
https://www.grantthornton.com.au/insights/blogs/rising-risk-and-financial-crime-impacting-real-estate-and-construction/
https://finintegrity.org/corruption-in-construction/
organised crime and construction
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/16/cfmeu-administration-mark-irving-bikies-violence-report-geoffrey-watson-ntwnfb
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/20/alleged-links-and-the-cfmeu-what-to-know-about-the-political-furore-over-the-construction-union
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/criminal-infiltration-and-a-sudden-resignation-the-cfmeu-saga-explained/b9aks2zf0
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/organized-crime-construction-industry
cash converters fires
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-01/shopping-centre-fire-in-melbourne-epping/101914706
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/11b8rst/sunshine_fire_aftermath/
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1gt1ilv/cash_convertors_in_preston_on_fire_i_counted/
tobacco store fires
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/tobacco-store-fire-fawkner-factory-fire-keilor-park/104411422
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/tobacco-store-in-melbourne-damaged-in-suspicious/104411880
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/crime/blaze-lights-up-tobacco-shop-in-thornbury-victoria/news-story/9bbdb6b61de7d969441ee8603f203c97
https://www.9news.com.au/national/tobacco-store-fire-two-tobacco-stores-targeted-in-separate-attacks-in-melbourne/92a6f2c6-91b0-488e-88a6-5fed2fe738e6
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/27/victorias-tobacco-wars-police-investigate-suspicious-fire-that-destroyed-melbourne-shop-ntwnfb
forensic accounting course
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/courses/forensic-accounting
Forensic Accounting
https://www.swinburne.edu.au/course/unit/a/acc30003/
https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/learning-and-events/specialisations/forensic-accounting
ACF5120 - Forensic accounting and fraud examination
https://handbook.monash.edu/2024/units/ACF5120
Forensic Accounting - ANU - Programs and Courses
https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/course/busn8067
https://event.mq.edu.au/forensic-accounting-feb23/
Master of Forensic Accounting and Financial Crime
https://coursehandbook.mq.edu.au/2020/courses/c000066
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furies_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(2017_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick_(film)
top items stolen from homes
1. Wallets and cash
2. Clothing and furs
3. Prescription drugs
4. Cars and parts
6. Electronics
7. Jewelry and precious metals
8. Personal documents
9. Firearms
10. Power tools
https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/common-items-stolen/
1. Cash
2. Laptops
3. Jewellery
4. Cameras
5. Phones
6. Wallets, handbags, purses
7. Identification documents
8. Televisions
9. Computer and video game equipment
10. Watches
https://crimsafe.com.au/top-10-items-stolen-in-a-burglary/
The most recent statistics show the top 10 items stolen in a burglary to be:
Cash
Laptops
Jewellery
Cameras
Phones
Wallets, handbags, purses
Identification documentation
TVs
Computer and video game equipment
Watches
https://alltronic.com.au/alarm-systems/information/most-common-items-stolen-during-break-ins
1. Jewellery
2. Handbags, wallets and purses
3. Tech
4. Power tools
5. Bikes
https://www.aami.com.au/aami-informed/in-the-home/insuring-a-home/top-stolen-items-from-homes.html
https://www.smartsecurity.com.au/the-most-commonly-stolen-items-in-home-burglaries-and-how-to-protect-them/
https://www.racv.com.au/royalauto/property/insurance/what-burglars-want-to-steal.html
pawnbroker most wanted items
1. Electronic gadgets
2. Jewellery and accessories
3. Musical Instruments
4. Tools and equipment
https://www.cashconverters.com.au/about/blog/buying-selling/what-can-i-sell-at-a-pawn-shop
https://chapelstreetpawnbrokers.com.au/top-10-items-to-pawn-for-quick-cash/
Top 10 Items To Pawn For Cash
1. Jewelry
2. Precious Metals
3. Gemstones
4. Electronics
5. Firearms (registered to you)
6. Power Tools + Equipment
7. Antiques / Collectibles
8. Musical Instruments
9. Sporting Goods
10. Rare Coins
https://ezpawn.com/pawnderings/top-10-items-to-pawn-for-cash/
most popular items sold on ebay
https://printify.com/blog/top-selling-items-on-ebay/
The best selling items on eBay
Cables
Men's Clothing
Fragrances
Computers
Car Phone Holder
Wireless Charger
Necklaces
Supplements
Vitamins
Socks
Fans
Women's Clothing
Bracelets
Action Figures
Smartwatch
https://bloggingwizard.com/best-selling-items-on-ebay/
weapons arrest by region
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/weapons-search-areas
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/almost-20-arrested-melbournes-south-over-drug-and-warrants-offences
https://www.acic.gov.au/subject/firearms
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-20/guns-cash-explosives-seized-three-arrested/103371746
weapons offences by suburb
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/about-the-data/classifications-and-victorian-map-boundaries/offence-classification
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/
Australia's underground market for firearms has ballooned in the past decade and gun-related crime, concentrated in some particular areas, is on the rise.
Melbourne's northern and western suburbs are hotspots for firearms offenders while Sydney's west also has alarming data.
The Melbourne municipality of Hume, which takes in the suburbs of Broadmeadows, Gladstone Park and Jacana, has more firearms offenders than any other location in Australia's two biggest cities – Melbourne and Sydney – according to police statistics.
Police attribute the high data numbers in the area to Middle Eastern gangs.
"We know Middle Eastern organised crime groups and other organised crime groups predominantly residing in the north west metro region who are actively engaged in drug-related trafficking and are using firearms to settle drug debts and to intimidate others," a Victoria police spokesperson told The New Daily.
There were 231 charges laid by Victoria Police against City of Hume residents in the 12 months to the end of June, up almost 200 per cent in a decade.
Meanwhile, the City of Casey, which includes the suburbs of Cranbourne and Berwick on the south-eastern fringe of Melbourne, wasn't far behind – it had 226 charges laid on residents.
In third spot, just one behind Casey, was Brimbank. Taking in the suburbs of Keilor and Sunshine in Melbourne's west, Brimbank residents attracted 225 charges for firearms offences last year.
Police attribute the high data numbers in the area to Middle Eastern gangs.
"We know Middle Eastern organised crime groups and other organised crime groups predominantly residing in the north west metro region who are actively engaged in drug-related trafficking and are using firearms to settle drug debts and to intimidate others," a Victoria police spokesperson told The New Daily.
There were 231 charges laid by Victoria Police against City of Hume residents in the 12 months to the end of June, up almost 200 per cent in a decade.
Meanwhile, the City of Casey, which includes the suburbs of Cranbourne and Berwick on the south-eastern fringe of Melbourne, wasn't far behind – it had 226 charges laid on residents.
In third spot, just one behind Casey, was Brimbank. Taking in the suburbs of Keilor and Sunshine in Melbourne's west, Brimbank residents attracted 225 charges for firearms offences last year.
According to NSW police, unoccupied hobby farms in rural parts of the state are increasingly being targeted by gun thieves in particular.
"There has been an increase in the theft of firearms from registered owners from rural properties, particularly in the Riverina, as remote or 'vacant' hobby farms provide thieves with ample time to search and locate firearms," said NSW firearms squad detective superintendent Mick Plotecki.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-aussie-suburbs-plagued-by-gun-crime-041746656.html
Top 10 Most Dangerous Suburbs in Melbourne
Suburb Crime Rate
Melbourne City 35.76 incidents per 100 residents
Collingwood 21.51 incidents per 100 residents
Fitzroy 19.64 incidents per 100 residents
Campbellfield 19.05 incidents per 100 residents
Docklands 18.65 incidents per 100 residents
South Melbourne 15.68 incidents per 100 residents
St Kilda West 13.87 incidents per 100 residents
Abbotsford 13.59 incidents per 100 residents
Parkville 13.28 incidents per 100 residents
Southbank 13.24 incidents per 100 residents
https://en.uhomes.com/blog/safest-and-most-dangerous-suburbs-in-melbourne
- same theme of stolen weapons and cars being used for crimes? There are favoured weapons and locations to carry out "hits"
homicide map chicago
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Homicide-Map/53tx-phyr
https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/
https://gis.chicagopolice.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_box
professional murder indications
Contract killings in Australia
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp053.pdf
most common weapons used in homicides
https://www.criminalattorneycolumbus.com/which-weapons-are-most-commonly-used-for-homicides/
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-11.xls
The Australian Institute of Criminology has collected data on homicides in Australia since 1989. Homicide includes murder, manslaughter and infanticide, but excludes driving-related fatalities unless these occur in the course of a criminal event. In 2004-05 there were 249 incidents involving 267 victims of homicide, the lowest number of homicide incidents and victims in Australia since the AIC began monitoring. The weapons/methods used in the commission of homicide have remained relatively unchanged over the years. The figure below shows that while the most common types of weapons used in homicide in Australia are weapons of opportunity, such as knives or sharp instruments and hands and/or feet, weapon use tends to differ based on the gender of the victim. Females were more likely to be killed with a knife or sharp instrument (37%), followed by being beaten to death with hands and/or feet (27%). This pattern of weapon use was similar for male victims, although the proportion of males killed with a firearm in 2004-05 declined, with a firearm becoming the third most common weapon for male victims (19%). Fewer than one in 10 females were killed with a firearm in 2004-05.
Homicides in Australia 2004-05: weapon type
https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi141
Highlights
- Although most crime is not committed with guns, most gun crime is committed with handguns. pages 1 & 2
- Although most available guns are not used in crime, information about the 223 million guns available to the general public provides a context for evaluating criminal preferences for guns. page 2
- By definition, stolen guns are available to criminals. The FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) stolen gun file contains over 2 million reports; 60% are reports of stolen handguns. page 3
- In 1994, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) received over 85,132 requests from law enforcement agencies for traces of guns used in crime. Over threequarters of the guns traced by the ATF in 1994 were handguns (mostly pistols), and almost a third were less than 3 years old. page 4
- Surveys of inmates show that they prefer concealable, large caliber guns. Juvenile offenders appear to be more likely to possess guns than adults. page 5
- Studies of the guns used in homicides show that large caliber revolvers are the most frequent type of gun used in homicides, but the number of large caliber semiautomatic guns used in murders is increasing. page 5
- Little information exists about the use of assault weapons in crime. The information that does exist uses varying definitions of assault weapons that were developed before the Federal assault weapons ban was enacted. page 6
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF
burglary rates by suburb
https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/crime-statistics/latest-crime-data-by-area
https://nhw.com.au/reporting-crime/access-latest-crime-statistics/
https://redsuburbs.com.au/?lat=-24.4871&lng=138.8232&zoom=4
- back/bathroom method preferred entry point due to steam. Sliding door is often open and not bolted in/locked. Best break in time is daytime as no one home. Anything easy to move, sell, expensive is targeted
Burglar explains how he breaks into homes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJRR9tyM14
https://www.youtube.com/@KGWNews8
- reformed burglar, caught 4 times. Security/monitoring systems worth it. Half time security systems not armed/on. Avoid houses with dogs. Looking for exist from moment in. Don't publicise holidays, leave out, provide cover for burglars to make use of. Most people keep stuff in same places. Master bedroom is where jewellery usually is. Cash/coins, videos games, electronics/laptops, precscription medicines targeted. Preferred exfiltration method out is out front door
Confessions of a Burglar Video ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqgtdFg1oxk
https://www.youtube.com/@LBPDMediaRelations1
Inside the Mind of a Thief | Burglar Confessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtwD-c9hn58
https://www.youtube.com/@AllenCityTV
- carry weapons at all times not to hurt people but control situation, be a "professional criminal". Operated 80s-90s era. A lot of gangs in UK were based on social circle. Information gained from social circles, people who publicise their lives, casing random places. Jobs either done quick, maximise time in homes by disabling alarms/security, etc... Most valuables kept in obvious places in home but sometimes searching needs to be done. Jobs done in groups with some lookout, others disabling the job, others taking the goods, transportation, etc... Get rid of goods via well known specialists in London, UK in jewellery, art, gold, etc... Gangs broke up money based on contribution and number of individuals. UK gangs loosely associated but mostly independent? Sometimes corrupt officials and police were used to target rival gangs by using law enforcement against them. Prison helps you to master your crime? Mass surveillance making crime more difficult so lots of them have switched to faceless crimes as much as possible. Lots of criminals have bad or no role models when younger, he drifted into organised crime due to bad social circle. After leaving prison went from labourer to running own business in marketing.
How Organized Burglary Rings Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IGgkuF1YJE
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Town_(2010_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_Room
premier league football burglaries
https://securityandsafetysolutions.co.uk/news/premier-league-football/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12964791/The-Premier-League-crime-footballs-biggest-names-targeted-country-wave-break-ins.html
Premier League stars spend big on ex-SAS security and install panic rooms to combat gang raids
Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne, Chelsea's Raheem Sterling and Manchester United's Victor Lindelof are among the Premier League players who have since their houses burgled
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-security-house-gangs-31724205
A GANG who burgled Jack Grealish's home are believed to have carried out other raids on the home of Prem ace Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Love Island stars Molly Mae Hague and Tommy Fury, The Sun can reveal.
Cops looking into the robberies have dubbed them the "Balcony Burglars" after they used ladders to target balconies connected to the master bedrooms of each mansion.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/25385523/gangs-balcony-burglars-premier-league/
https://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2023-2024/jack-grealish-the-victim-of-1m-house-burglary-and-could-miss-sheffield-united-clash_sto9938571/story.shtml
burglaries by country
Bermuda 1,188 2016
New Zealand 1,150 2020
Cape Verde 856 2018
Sweden 783 2020
Dominica 754 2020
United Kingdom 715 2018
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 676 2020
Denmark 661 2020
Chile 623 2020
North Macedonia 623 2014
Luxembourg 603 2018
Austria 544 2020
Australia 522 2020
Grenada 505 2020
Saint Kitts and Nevis 483 2020
Suriname 480 2020
France 458 2020
Israel 431 2011
Saint Lucia 412 2020
Belgium 409 2020
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/burglary-rates-by-country
- racketeering/extortion/blackmail reminds me a lot of domestic violence and colonialism at times? Can you detect strange patterns in spending from their bank statements and transactions (like in betting or tax evasion)?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence
Black market tobacco floods Australian market | Investigations | SBS The Feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjvgj6rKsZ0
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSTheFeed
Tobacco retail sales are plummeting but it's not because people have quit smoking | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCuoMj108s
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
lygon st restaurants mafia
https://www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcast-episode/vi-carlton-fitzroy-and-brunswick-the-stomping-grounds-of-the-honoured-society/sr26fs2kw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carlton_Crew
lebanese gangs tobacco
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/six-people-arrested-over-alleged-15-million-illicit-tobacco-import
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-police-smash-30-million-illegal-tobacco-syndicate-in-major-turf-war-breakthrough/b0f19dec-895c-4aee-b079-10a35154453f
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/victoria-police-tobacco-war-arrests-wa-police/104007356
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/tobacco-wars-melbourne-majid-alibadi/103797524
https://www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-subsite/Pages/Warrants-executed-across-Melbourne-targeting-illicit-tobacco.aspx
asian gangs weapons imports
CHAPTER 6: Japanese Organised Crime in Australia
Introduction
5.1 For over a decade there has been concern expressed about the growth in Australia of organised criminal activity by Vietnamese, with media attention focusing initially on 'crime gangs'. For example, a 1988 media report stated: 'Criminal gangs in the Vietnamese community are increasingly heavily armed, are moving into drugs and gambling, establishing links with Australian crime figures, and becoming involved in standover rackets in their own community'. [1] A 1991 media report quoted an unnamed police source as saying that Vietnamese groups were mainly involved in crimes against their own community including murder, extortion, robbery and petty drug dealing, with standover and extortion being the most common. [2]
5.2 Similar concerns have emerged in Canada [3] and the United States.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Former_Committees/acc/completed_inquiries/pre1996/ncaaoc/report/c06
Firearm trafficking and serious and organised crime gangs - Samantha Bricknell
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp116.pdf
drug import south america asia
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-trafficking/
https://americasquarterly.org/article/why-drug-cartels-are-expanding-to-asia/
https://www.unodc.org/roseap/en/2023/06/biggest-drug-trafficking-corridors/story.html
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/drug-trafficking-pacific-islands-impact-transnational-crime
https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/oceanias-spike-in-synthetic-drug-markets/
african gangs melbourne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_Australia
- organised crime attracted to sports and art due to money laundering, match fixing, tax evasion? It's a semi-feudal system which means sales channels for new products are often very limited? Very similar techniques used throughout criminal and corporate world. Used goods great for laundering as well as heavyily cash dependent businesses, etc... Any good or service/job where the wage/salary can be manipulated easily is very handy/useful for money laundering because it gives you plausible deniability?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
WEBUYANYCAR BANNED MY £7,000,000 CAR COLLECTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCfnt8N4Ylk
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMcCann64
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sports+clubs+money+laundering
How criminals launder money through Football Clubs ⚽
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrjUfPrD9X8
How to Launder Millions of Dollars Through Art 🏞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC6BAU-svJ8
https://www.youtube.com/@Strise
Why is the UK a haven for money laundering?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv2x8qZl4o4
https://www.youtube.com/@occrpofficial
Money-Laundering Expert Rates 8 Money-Laundering Scams In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eDnKct5XAw
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Money Laundering: The Underworld's Dirty Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sanJdU_bK7I
https://www.youtube.com/@WiseguyWhispers-xw1gy
Is Dubai a money-laundering hub? | Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHyb0PooVxw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
The Pandora Papers: How the world of offshore finance is still flourishing | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kPLpZN3I3A
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Asset Laundering In The UK | Corruption | PEPs | Offshore Leaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDB8SQ1u2ic
https://www.youtube.com/@Moconomy
https://www.youtube.com/@vladtv/videos
north korea restaurant chain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_(restaurant_chain)
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/24/15662094/north-korean-restaurant-china
https://www.youngpioneertours.com/pyongyang-restaurant-chain/
How I Laundered Money For Pablo Escobar's Cartel | A DEA Agent's Uncut Story | How Crime Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TkwxK7o90E
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Spain Arrests Top Cop After $21 Million Found in Walls of His House | Vantage With Palki Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7UCXwUqeVw
https://www.youtube.com/@Firstpost
organised crime and tradespeople
https://developer-update.co.uk/2024/01/22/fear-of-theft-and-violence-putting-a-strain-on-tradespeople-with-more-than-nine-in-10-targeted-by-criminals/
https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/fear-of-theft-and-violence-putting-a-strain-on-tradespeople-340393/
https://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/publication/regulatory-regimes-and-organised-crime-consultation-paper/3-the-infiltration-of-organised-crime-groups-into-lawful-occupations-and-industries/
https://www.consumer.vic.gov.au/consumers-and-businesses/scams/travelling-con-men
celebrities and money laundering
https://globalradar.com/trending-money-laundering-in-hollywood-more/
New Model Money Laundering Through Famous Artists
https://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.6-5-2023.2333544
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariredbord/2023/02/01/tom-brady-and-other-a-listers-fumble-ftx-endorsements-but-will-they-be-held-liable/
entertainment industry money laundering
https://www.sanctionscanner.com/blog/film-industry-and-money-laundering-402
https://medium.com/aml-watcher/money-laundering-in-the-music-industry-an-unseen-symphony-of-crime-34c9936f11a6
https://www.epgdlaw.com/how-does-the-music-industry-launder-money/
https://insightcrime.org/news/colombian-criminals-use-music-industry-launder-money/
charities money laundering
https://www.acnc.gov.au/tools/guides/terrorism-financing
https://sumsub.com/blog/money-laundering-through-charities-how-to-spot-it/
https://pideeco.be/articles/charities-money-laundering/
https://www.sanctionscanner.com/blog/the-risks-of-money-laundering-for-charities-546
https://www.acnc.gov.au/for-charities/manage-your-charity/governance-hub/governance-toolkit/governance-toolkit-financial-abuse
money laundering collectibles
Australian National University lecturer Anton Moiseienko, whose work focuses on transnational crime, economic crime and cybercrime, agreed it made "perfect sense" for money launderers to invest in luxury items and collectibles such as Bearbricks.
Buying and selling such items distanced the funds from the initial crime, but also made moving value internationally easier.
"Instead of making a bank transfer and running the risk of detection, one may simply take some jewellery across the border," he said.
He said gold, precious metals, jewellery and artworks were all well suited to this purpose but items like luxury handbags and collectible toys had a particular advantage.
"Businesses that buy and sell them are normally not subject to anti-money laundering regulation, unlike gold dealers or art auction houses, which means they do not need to report suspicious customers or activities," Dr Moiseienko said.
"From a money launderer's perspective, that's the sweet spot: expensive, highly liquid goods in an unregulated market."
However, he added that purchasing goods with the proceeds of crime was illegal and those items could still be confiscated by police.
"The line between the legal and the legal is not the nature of the transaction, but where the money comes from," he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-02/singapore-money-laundering-case-bearbricks/102794012
https://www.artandobject.com/news/how-money-laundering-works-art-world
https://financialcrimeacademy.org/money-laundering-through-antiques/
https://financialcrimeacademy.org/the-dark-world-of-art-money-laundering/
sports football transfer market money laundering
https://www.lseg.com/en/insights/risk-intelligence/blowing-the-whistle-on-footballs-financial-foul-play
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/money-laundering-football-not-so-beautiful-game
https://sumsub.com/blog/money-laundering-football/
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/11/football-transfers-rife-with-illegality-and-exploitation-report-money-laundering-third-party-ownership-uefa
How British Merchants "Perfected" Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidsZ5RrjQw
https://www.youtube.com/@HowHistoryWorks
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=money+laundering+documentary
- money laundering, counterfeiting, crime all generally linked. A lot of organised crime groups have parallel societies (including medical, religion, political, utilities, food, etc...) because they can't risk normal channels?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
How North Korea Makes Perfect Fake Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXYI-ABsUw
https://www.youtube.com/@LoupedYT
Operation Royal Charm: six indictments, 57 individuals charged, and seizures of more than $3.3 million in counterfeit currency, $2 million in counterfeit cigarettes, 36,000 ecstasy pills, and nearly a half-kilo of methamphetamine.
Operation Smoking Dragon: four indictments, 30 individuals charged, and seizures of more than $1.2 million in counterfeit currency. The defendants also allegedly smuggled billions of counterfeit cigarettes worth more than $40 million, with an additional $9 million in potential lost taxes.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2005/august/pistole_082205
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Asia_Financial_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercrime
How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAVpJfG1yQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intaglio_(printmaking)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Collar_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_(2007_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossack_Fonseca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ
https://www.youtube.com/@LastWeekTonight
Money laundering: The Gateway to Criminal Impunity | SLICE EXPERTS | FULL DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT68pMpG8Rg
https://www.youtube.com/@SLICE_Experts
A Full Guide to Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viM_t5kIpGc
https://www.youtube.com/@Doverhill12
How British Influencers Were Used To Smuggle £100m Cash From UK to Dubai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVaqAtCzy8
https://www.youtube.com/@ocgtvofficial
Why Chinese Organized Crime Is Laundering Billions for Mexican Cartels | John Nores | Borderland #42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3zuvVhzSLU
https://www.youtube.com/@thisisironclad
Adam Cranston and the $100m tax fraud | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-C5oh_X5M
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Tax agent caught collecting other people's tax returns | A Current Affair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYalHgvA19o
https://www.youtube.com/@ACurrentAffair9
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
The Rise of Money Launderers on Snapchat and Instagram | Crimewave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfgbZ5wJszs
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
How To Do Crime: Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOLuCRxKXY
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing
How to Clean Dirty Money | The Business of Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxJ7wGpPuM4
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
does all deposit money get checked for counterfeit
- Operation Strangehold, French and US customs officers checking for counterfeit goods. Dhakar point of exit for all West African traffic. Global task force of 174 countries tyring to crack down on counterfeit goods. Customs don't work in suits anymore and are at the ports around the clock now. Hong Kong 3rd largest port in world. Counterfeit all types of products now including electronics, medicine, food, car parts, etc... Fakers even create new products that manufacturers have never created. Fake Nokia phone batteries are detected but actually manufactured in Hong Kong/Asia. Most electronics come from Shenzen or Guandong in China. Fake batteries are all fake, no original. $0.2 USD battery in China is sold for $20-30 USD in US. Wholesale shipments aren't a problem getting past customers in China, Hong Kong, and France. Fake batteries sometimes missing safety and security elements which can cause them to explode. Factory workers live in dorms and often from countryside and earn only ~$150EU per month but it's better then what they can get home. They live and work together. There are various grades of counterfeit batteries. Cheaper ones have no circuitry to deal with overheating and overcharge situations. Prices are jacked up on fake products to give off appearance of legitimacy. Orders in thousands range are small, orders in tens of thousands range more normal. You need to go to Annual Chinese Canton International Trade Fair to trace original source as all that can be sold in China is there. Fake Red Bull=counterfeit Gold Cow, no idea whether it's similar or safe. WHO says that 1/10 medicines is fake. Cambodian medicines 1/4 is fake. Fake medicine can sometimes make things worse, be outdated, contain no active ingredient/s. Banks of Mekong river have heaps of counterfeit products. In spite of strong customs/border protection counterfeit products still get into France. Pfizer/Kent is only place in world where Viagra is made/manufactured but it's also the most faked. ~140 counterfeit samples Viagra per month submitted. 3 Pfizer labs in world in Africa, China, UK. Antibiotics, antidepressants, sleeping, malaria, etc... all made in make shift labs such as in Colombia. Counterfeit car parts in France increased by factor of 15 times in last few years. 4 brake pads for Citreon 206 for 7Euros which is 1/12 price of in France. Dried grass used instead of metal in fake break pads. Car has ~10K parts, 400 are used regularly and must be replaced at intervals. More fake goods then real now in transportation ~80% fake at port. ~ 800K customer officers and 400M shipping containers worldwide
Counterfeit Crackdown: From Fake Viagra to Exploding Phones | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4EeLudyL0
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
10 Greatest Counterfeits In History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9zOH9zpQU
https://www.youtube.com/@Therichest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbing_for_Beginners
- if you've been involved with larger companies (or studied them in detail) you'll see when they've ended up using "creative accounting" and interpreation of "tax law" to get around what they should pay vs what they actually pay. Lots of similar techniques used on both sides to evade the legal/justice/law enforcement system. If you were to tell kids in school who studied law and business how similar organised crime and corporates are at times they'd laugh? Ironic (or not if they're working in union) that a lot the same laws and methods used in the corporate world are used in the organised crime world to skirt the law and launder money. It's obvious that the corporate world and organised crime world work in unison a lot of the time but don't acknowledge it publicly
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/dodgy-job-contract-clauses-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_erosion_and_profit_shifting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_planning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy
How To (Semi) Legally Launder Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uLhh5GSxsQ
https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks
Company vs Trust Structure EXPLAINED SIMPLY (Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBQYvzymWY
https://www.youtube.com/@DavieMach
https://www.amazon.com.au/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/1785030426
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/narconomics-9781785030420
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159062-narconomics
Drug deals, loan sharks, and criminals: What these inspectors saw inside Crown Casino | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2MvXsR0go
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
crime casino correlation
Is there a link between gambling and crime?
Program: The link between gambling and crime
Researchers found that even a 10 per cent increase in gambling expenditure in NSW resulted in an additional 4500 assaults, almost 3000 more home break-ins, and 1300 extra break and enter offences.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/the-link-between-gambling-and-crime/104273166
https://www.connections.edu.au/news/strong-link-between-gambling-expenditure-and-crime-new-study-finds
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1005&context=econ_studt_schol
https://responsiblegambling.vic.gov.au/documents/97/Research-report-crime-and-gaming-machine-expenditure.pdf
Problem Gambling and Crime and its Costs
Gambling is often perceived as a leisure activity. For some people, however, it has serious negative consequences, notably criminal behaviour. The more severe a gambling problem is, the more likely it is to lead to crime (1, 2). Problem gambling rates range from 0.4% to 7.5% in the general population (3). About one half of the individuals experiencing problem gambling commit a crime (4).
U.S. studies estimate that justice system costs, in form of arrests and corrections, range from $2,200 to $3000 per individual with problem gambling (5, 6). One study estimates life-time costs of arrests to be upward of $10,000 for individuals with severe gambling problems (7). Other societal and personal consequences of problem gambling and crime include financial, employment-related (e.g., job loss), legal and mental and physical illness (8-10). Understanding why problem gambling and crime are linked and which groups are most vulnerable can help policy makers allocate resources to prevention and treatment.
https://www.greo.ca/Modules/EvidenceCentre/files/Kryszajtys%20and%20Matheson%20(2017)%20Problem%20gambling%20and%20crime%20and%20its%20costs.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pratt_(businessman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pratt_(businessman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lowy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Union_Buster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-11/kordamentha-investigation-queensland-branch-cfmeu/104585334
Drug Kingpin Explains How Money Laundering Actually Works | The Connect w/ Johnny Mitchell | Ep #3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-DFlIY9St0
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
HSBC: Tax Evasion, Money Laundering for the Mafia & Currency Manipulation | HSBC Scandal Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDq13Lr2ZWw
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Singapore's Biggest Ever Money Laundering Case: How Does It Affect Me? | Talking Point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPPiQWCaDuQ
https://www.youtube.com/@CNAInsider
Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGIp7kdS6E
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes/videos
How British Merchants "Perfected" Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidsZ5RrjQw
https://www.youtube.com/@HowHistoryWorks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_the_Rim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
sanctioned banks
https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/consolidated-list
https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/security/sanctions/sanctions-regimes
https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information
https://www.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/procurement/debarred-firms
https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/activities/supervisory-measures/sanctions/html/index.en.html
proceeds of crime law
In Victoria, the Confiscation Act 1997 allows a court to order that property suspected of being the proceeds of crime be restrained or confiscated. Proceeds of crime are cash, property, other assets or benefits gained through criminal activity.
https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/criminal-law/vic/police-powers/proceeds-of-crime/
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29) (POCA) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides for the confiscation or civil recovery of the proceeds from crime and contains the principal money laundering legislation in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceeds_of_Crime_Act_2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
How Dubai became a haven for criminals from around the world | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i823AhR8zKQ
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGIp7kdS6E
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes
Why the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
https://shaunahurley.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Reardon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_(law)
- came across this when he lost job and was desperate for money. Hobby at first but then became better and became more professional. Used bible paper, glue and inks from local craft and hardware shops, imaging and digital technology, etc... Hhe sold currency for money as well as laundering it himself. They selected cashiers to help launder, break up currency. Self checkout machines hard to beat. Over 2-4 years of counterfeiting he was only rejected 3-4 times. He traded drugs for counterfeit money as well. Counterfeit money laundered with normal money by drug dealers to trade for drugs? Counterfeit pen marker, money held against light are common tests used to identify counterfeit. He got caught when a drug dealer associated with him was caught and informed on him to Secret Service. Lima, Medillin deal in counterfeit. Organised crime heavily involved in counterfeit. Art of making money by Art Williams. Strarted counterfeiting at 19yrs old. Counteifiting hard to get rid of. Cash and credit cards are both bigger targets now as electronic banking more popular
How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAVpJfG1yQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Money Counterfeiting Genius Reveals How He Printed Millions In Fake Hundred Dollar Bills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVPM9XAQqkM
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit
- evolution of bank robbery is remarkable as it's become more dependent on electronics and computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_of_Thieves_(film)
I Was On The Run For £6M Bank Robbery | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQfw87g5u8o
Mafia Boss & London Gangster Reveal Their Most Violent Crimes | Crime Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isOs6AUw_xM
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
How Navy SEALs Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eeIMVrwjLY
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_robbery
An ATM looting is a type of bank robbery in which a series of cash machines are robbed of cash. The thieves do the looting by using identity fraud to create debit cards containing other people's banking information, then they withdraw money from other peoples' bank accounts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_looting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_fraud
ATM Machine Theft By Sophisticated Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVnhLMWVkc
https://www.youtube.com/@First60MinuteNews
The First Cyber Bank Heist In History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xnV9l8yHhg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Levin_(hacker)
How Hackers Stole $1.000.000.000 From Banks (Carbanak) Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSNopHdNnKE
https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkerYT
The Rapper Behind The $4.5 Billion Bitfinex Hack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No_GwRsgnDo
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
How Russian Hackers Stole $100M from US Banks | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmR-UsWgxo
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
- 23.3M counterfeit Rolex watches circulating in US right now. Organised crime involved in this. Counterfeits fakes used to be easily seen but not almost impossible. Great counterfeits are called epic, only way to tell difference from original is to open up Rolex watch and check movement. Same machinary and software is used to manufacture fakes as real thing. Customs and border control are flooded/overwhelmed with counterfeit now so can't track/catch everything. Profit margins so high on fakes that getting goods seized is considered "cost of business" and new fakes are just resent. Secondary market mix real and fake products to make it less likely for them to get caught. Law enforcement is often used by private companies to hunt down counterfeiters if law enforcement can't fix the problem. He started investigations with his dad and went into his private practice later in life
How Counterfeit Rolexes Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEi95mhVI4
How Odometer Fraud Became A $1 Billion Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAiduOoZKB4
https://www.youtube.com/@CNBC
- worked as undercover police in London. The most hostile and controlling gangs are the most successful. Arrests create more opportunities? ~10% of users consume ~50% of heroin/drugs. User-dealer is the most exploited/entry level job. Law enforcement creates desperation in organised crime groups which makes things more hostile? The most successful drug gans use immediate violence and intimidation. Some dealers engaged in multiple murders and arms trade. Buying drugs dangerous because trust issues. Sweden, Mexico, UK drug gangs so large hard to keep an eye on things. Dark web have become more efficient. Wants to legalise drugs as war futile and so we can "control things"
https://www.amazon.com.au/Good-Cop-Bad-Neil-Woods-ebook/dp/B019CGXP90
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/good-cop-bad-war-9781473528994
How Drug Gangs Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TV4GuXFoA
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
- drugs are rampant everywhere now. Whether in school or workplace it's very difficult to avoid it. Base on previous experience in any group of 30-50 people, there's always at least a 2-5 who are normally trafficking or know how to procure it and 50-75% of the group know who are doing it but don't say anything? You'll only realise if you know're observant (such as recognising the smell or equipment used, actually see people engaging in it, etc...) or like to socialise. There's plenty of public hard evidence to back this pespective up as well but people are often in denial, are too scared to say anything, are involved themselves, etc...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/05/art-imitating-lifehow-music-and_5.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wolf+of+wall+st
Wolf Of Wallstreet Matthew McConaughey [FULL SCENE] [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6exo00T5I
Wolf of Wall Street - Best Scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idOQXlHVrQE
https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/10/aig-scandal-grows-auditor-quit-in-protest-about-cds-valuations
https://www.kansascityfed.org/publications/research/escp/jackson-hole
https://ca.reuters.com/article/us-aig-swaps-wsj/aig-knew-of-potential-problems-in-valuing-swaps-report-idUSTRE49B2WW20081012
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jackson+hole+symposium
Inside Job (2010 Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/ice-wars
Exposing the suspected barons of Australia's meth trade | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMvKz2fIjc
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Inside Mexico's Billion Dollar Drug Empire | Meet The Drug Lords: Inside The Real Narcos | 1/3 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otSIxPWqCds
Inside Colombia's Cocaine Underworld | Meet The Drug Lords: Inside The Real Narcos | 2/3 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWKI_vyQli0
Inside Peru's Illegal Drug Empire | Meet The Drug Lords: Inside The Real Narcos | 3/3 | DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjDQAA9WeMI
https://www.youtube.com/@DocoCentral
Tracking the Supply of LSD (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuT-iF2EQhk
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ0I7HyZNiI
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
The power of the drugs mafia - Cocaine and the Netherlands | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itF-rsJKt0
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Why Belgium is now the cocaine capital of Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsH152NE9Ak
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
Ex-Career Criminal on Drug Trafficking, Black Market Smuggling and Helping Prisoners Find Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBvhLYtJx1E
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
Cocaine for Germany | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4-CnqfK3pk
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Kinahan's Cocaine Kingdom: Unpacking the Growing Impact of Drug Trafficking on the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlFm_0NaWsM
https://www.youtube.com/@Nerrissa
Is Thailand the New Weed Capital of the World? | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBYryDFLO4Y
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Why Cocaine is Worth So Much | The War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ped04I84Q
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
The Notorious South African Cocaine DrugLords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlpbA_Dsybg
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSouthAfrican./videos
The ICE Epidemic of Fiji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGxrBL-NeA4
https://www.youtube.com/@Spanian
Returnees: the unlikely heroes fighting Tonga's drug crisis | The Pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arH3CHtF4So
Ex-criminals helping solve Tonga's drug crisis and former Fiji PM Bainimarama jailed | The Pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBn5IEUlM4
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
dare to dream tonga
https://icaad.ngo/2023/04/24/tongareturnees/
https://www.facebook.com/daretodreamfoundationincorporated/
https://islandtimes.org/they-were-deported-to-tonga-as-strangers-to-their-own-land-now-these-returnees-are-helping-fight-a-drug-crisis/
https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/tonga-deportees-centre/13549194
How Fiji Became a Cartel Paradise | The War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBFKrIyJVI
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
The Kids Who Ran a Private School Drug Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2I4uEcidZA
https://www.youtube.com/@bcproductionvideos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chapo_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=training+day+smoke+it
Training Day - 04 - Smoke it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvSQzhOhDO8
https://www.youtube.com/@MovieScenesInHQ
taking drugs on public transport
A survey of public transport workers 'paints a fairly ugly picture' of services, a transport commentator has said.
Some 80% say drug use by passengers on board has got worse in the last 12 months.
The SIPTU survey of more than 650 bus, rail and Luas staff found nearly three-quarters witnessed drug abuse in their workplaces several times a month, while just under 20% said drug use was an issue on a nearly daily basis.
More than 73% of respondents said they had felt threatened and unsafe due to the use of drugs by passengers.
Almost 83% said they have witnessed drug dealing on the public transport system, with 15.31% saying they witnessed it multiple times a week.
https://www.newstalk.com/news/increase-in-drug-taking-on-public-transport-paints-a-fairly-ugly-picture-1716594
TfL also works closely with crime and disorder reduction partnerships across London to ensure transport-related issues are included in their Community Safety Strategy. In addition, the TOCU targets drug-related crime through its dedicated closed-circuit television (CCTV) investigation unit. Drug-related incidents are actively identified and investigated by TOCU to help ensure that offenders are identified and arrested. This work is reflected in the results. In the last 12 months to the end of April 2005, TOCU officers covering the buses made 478 arrests for drug-related offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act, and British Transport Police operating on the Underground made 1,069 arrests in the same period. Overall, this work delivers a network that is generally safe and secure for passengers, though there is never room for complacency on such matters.
https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/drug-taking-buses
- was known as "King of Karachi"? ~1M people in UK using steriods. Can't get form doctor so have have to get steroids from black market. Worked as door security and lots of people in industry wanted steroids so he traced back source of steroids that he had obtained to Karachi, Pakistan. Went to hotel and spoke with prostitutes who redirected to market where he could talk to people who had links to Al-Qaeda, Taliban, police, etc... who were all paid off and allowed to move drugs. Market stall had it. Real for 30pence an ampule or 10pence an ampule for fake/snide. Money 30K up front and then two full taxis trade was all it took to start the operation. Steroids came from registered factories for Big Pharma/Medical industry/Pfizer/Roche. 50K ampoules too much to disguise/smuggle easily so they had to condense/repackage as Vitamin B12 tablets. Bribed Pakistan airport security using adult magazines first time, then 40UK pounds second time, then 100UK pounds for third time for head of Airport Security to give then clear ride/bypass airport security in Pakistan. Paid 2 drug mules ~1K UK pounds each, people he knew to help move drugs with him on 1wk holiday. Clean ride from Pakistan to Newcastle where there was little to no airport security/customs at early hours such as 5AM. Would sell wholesale to scotland, manchester, and liverpool and occasionally retail at 4UK pounds an ampoule. Open secret that steroid often used at gyms and he was well known for doing this as well. Did drug runs every 6wks, 3bag at 20K UK pounds each, ~2.5K on bribes/plane tickets, etc... Various different types of steroid can be purchased. He trafficked as well as used drugs. Arrested with his 2 mules in Alicante, Spain airport in 1999. Wwent to Spanish jail 1999-2002 and then back in again at 2003. Got out of steroids and went into cooking/prostitution. Got caught and then was sentenced for blackmail/prostition for 7yrs but only served 4yrs due to overcrowding. Wife and childre left him in 1998. Got off drugs after second stint in jail. Wrote 2books, started CBD company, etc...
How Steroids Smuggling Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQx1qF00ek
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
king of karachi
https://chetsandhu.com/
https://www.amazon.com.au/King-Karachi-Lockdown-Costa-Crime/dp/153059376X
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/meet-king-karachi-international-drug-18688081
- designer steroids allow professional atheletes to stay ahead of the game. They work but can't be detected. Back testing of all samples makes sense now. Different drugs/hormones and dosages used to mask doping without getting caught. Out of competition testing never used to happen. Once you take drugs/hormones they help you for months to years later. There is no genuine desire to catch doping in sports as it's bad for business/profits? From top to bottom it's an open secret in professional sports that doping is widespread. Use performance enchancing drugs or face losing? Politics, Intelligence, Sports agencies involved as well? Nutritionists/trainers/coaches sometimes doublespeak for performance enhancing drug suppliers? Marion Jones didn't go to jail for drugs but rather cheque fraud. He got caught carrying PEDs to help his atheletes and went to jail for ~6mths. Olympic testing has lots of lots of loopholes. Out of competition testing doens't test for ~80 narcotics, stimulants, drugs, hormones, etc... Lots of legal supplements are performance enhancing. Microdosing, taking at night/out of competition, etc... allows you to get around it. A while back I did some research which indicated that wealthier countries generally performed better in professional sports. In some respects this makes sense, but if they can afford performance enhancing drugs on top of that it makes much more sense why they seem to do so much better? Improper use of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) can cause all sorts of problems. He's trying to go straight now
How Olympic Sports Doping Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2op5XG7LGkI
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Victor Conte Jr. (born July 10, 1950)[1] is an American musician and businessman who was the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), which is now defunct. BALCO was a sports nutrition center in California. In the late seventies Conte played bass with funk / R&B group Tower of Power, appearing on the band's 1978 release We Came to Play!.
Conte served time in prison in 2005 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and to money laundering. He currently operates Scientific Nutrition for Advanced Conditioning (SNAC Nutrition).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Conte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Johnson_(Canadian_sprinter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Griffith_Joyner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Rodchenkov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Francis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_%C5%A0ar%C4%8Dev
sports coaches connected with doping wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_sport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_athletics
top olympics
https://olympics.com/ioc/partners
https://olympics.com/ioc/faq/olympic-marketing/what-is-the-top-programme
enhanced games
https://www.enhanced.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games
snac fighters
https://snac.com/blogs/sponsored-athletes
https://snac.com/products/fighters-training-stack
The Betrayal of Kenya's Athletes | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ej5k_SxUs
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
- medical professionals are distributing performance enhancing drugs to athletes. Street racing was when Tim Montgomerie first saw PEDs being used. He found first supplier in Nassau, Bahamas. Lots of people know how to dope used to be in anti-doping? A lot of athletes are on EPO, Insulin, Hormones, etc... Suspected medical professionals supply often deny what they do but are motivated by money, scientific interest, etc... Ask around and you'll eventually spot suppliers. Carbon 60 used in military as well as professional sports, GH, GRF-129, ROS/NOS, Clomiphene, HGC, IGF-LR3, Ipamorelin, Anabolic stroids, Delta-2, etc... North American doctors trying to break into European markets as well as their own. Drugs used for fertility, fatigue, libido, psychiatric issues can be used for performance enhancement as well. Doping fraud like accounting fraud, you keep multiple sets of documentation to decoy as well as monitor what's actually happening. Football, Baseball, Basketball, Atheletics, etc... Designer steroids less then $30 a syringe. College level sports don't really test as strongly as professional sports so you can use PEDs to boost performance and win a contract into professoinal sports. Peptides spike performance and help revovery. Thomas Mann (likely pseudonym/cover name) chemist/supplier in US with possible intelligence/defense links? MLB had no drug testing until 2003, owners of MLB loved drugs because it helped drive business/profits. Eddie Dominguez/drug tester says at least 1/2 of MLB players doping. Possible links to military/defense/intelligence, paramaceutical, medical industry and sports doping world due to similar goals? Anti-ageing clinics are fronts for PEDs?
The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRPxmTuxoI
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomery
https://www.nhibahamas.gov.bs/doctors/dr-cyprian-strachan/
https://cancersocietybahamas.org/executive-board/dr-nicholas-fox/
Dr. Chad Robertson - Physician Information and Wellness Portal
https://physicians.nshealth.ca/node/894
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/chad-robertson-34b2358a
http://drbrandonspletzer.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/charlie-sly-peyton-manning-hgh-fabrication/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/al-jazeeras-key-source-infamous-sports-doping-documentary-goes-missing-1147939/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Keller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Manning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Neal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Matthews_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Teagarden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Howard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Zimmerman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(American_football)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Peppers
https://theguyerinstitute.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-guyer-71787514
Doping Exposed: The Hidden Network Fuelling the Olympics | Java Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcdUdP25Y9Q
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
The History of America & Steroids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0krRbqs-Iw
https://www.youtube.com/@MMAOnPoint
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/02/living-without-google-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/what-people-eatate-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
- all sorts of people now used as drug mules. Expendable, plentiful supply, lax laws and/or no/poor extradiation laws are things that organised crime target
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(smuggling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mule_(2018_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mule_(2014_film)
frequent flyers as drug mules
https://viewfromthewing.com/smuggling-in-style-the-surprising-link-between-drug-lords-and-frequent-flyer-miles/
https://afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/scam-victims-aiding-attempted-drug-imports
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/dhs-officials-issue-warning-about-scams-targeting-senior-citizens-unknowingly-act
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Drug_mules_bulletin.pdf
How this mum was duped into smuggling drugs — An Innocent Abroad: Part 1 | Australian Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIk_SxVemo0
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby tells her story from behind bars | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuFmKLZFbjc
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
- smuggler for 53yrs, caught ~12 times, 4 convictions (Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, Denmark, UK). Dealt with poeple in Mexico, Vietnam and Laos, Afhganistan. Introductions often lead to stings, lived with Afghan farmers to gain trust and then transport. Opium poppies are bled of fluid, this is turned into a brick. Brick is then cooked and filtered using sodium anhydride. White heroin safer then brown heroin. Nneed to watch airport security staff, procedures, and equipment closely. Larger amounts dealt with via shipping. Drugs camouflaged to help get things through. Price levels have dropped drasticaly over decades. Hheroin used to be legal medication, now banned. Street level heroin is ~$15-20. Cutting agent are Mintol and Fentynal and even Heroin for Cocaine. Very few people die from using heroin alone, it's normally when they mix with alchohol, sleeping pills or purity level variations. Law enforcement and intelligence could do more but can't due to resource restrictions/limitations. Got involved as teenager, was aware of what he was getting into but he was always mischievious background
How Heroin Smuggling Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0fT6nkvoP4
How Drug Smuggling (Ecstasy) Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bij-89fpFBw
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Cocaine Smuggling Genius Reveals Secrets Of His Global Narcotics Empire, Surviving Ecuadorian Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3bQ5W4wb34
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
International Drug Smuggler On How He Got Through Airport Security | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if72Hhd3BYM
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
- Fentanyl can be made using stuff from local hardware store and imported ingredients from China. It can be taken straight, cut/diluted, mixed with othre drugs
Inside the fentanyl cartel: Mexico crime lords feeding US addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwbjAKQKmoM
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4News
How Cocaine Is Made in Colombia With Bootleg Gasoline | Risky Business | Insider News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXiHyBitbs
https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderNews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
- started with fencing stolen goods, got thrown out of home, worked as mechanic where he sold stolen car parts. Stressed and mental health issues caused him to quite normal life and sold maruijana. Went to prison for 3 months. Thought about counterfeit as didn't have to worry about sales, security, etc... Did research online via government websites mostly. Crane and Co makes paper (cotton and linen blend) for currency in US. Got paper from Artos in Switzerland, print press from Germany for ~15K, etc... Paper cutters and injet printers required to add serial numbers. Lots of different people hired to watch over transport of equipment from port to manufacturing location. Took 5 months to print $250M. Tried sell current via dark web, old acquintances in drug world, referrals, etc... Plates, 1M in counterfeit, drugs, etc... found. He had taken a calculated risk knowing that he would be caught. Canadians generally get 1/6 sentence of US. He got let off on a evidentiary technicality and was only charged for $1350 for drugs and 6wks jail by trading in $200M to be let off. ~50M in the air. Is now a consultant for anti-counterfeiting similar to hackers who
The Hunt for the King of Counterfeiting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaejaGyDsxU
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/489-frank-bourassa-the-worlds-greatest-counterfeiter/id1344999619?i=1000515295498
https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-paper-caper
https://www.heidelberg.com/global/en/products/offset_printing/sheetfed_offset_overview.jsp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
Money Maker – Darknet Diaries
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/102/
How Counterfeit Money Actually Works | Dark Web Counterfeiter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuceecQ-7Gk
https://www.youtube.com/@InsideTrueCrime
- started early. Stolen clothes, then car parts, then counterfeit. He got info from government websites on what to do. 75% of security of US currency is in paper itself. Had his own printing press. Sold currency for ~1yr before he was caught selling to an undercover agent. In the end was only fined ~1500 USD but had printed ~250M USD and sold ~50M USD
This Man Made $250M in Counterfeit Money and Got Away with It*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8dcmXj0Uo
https://www.youtube.com/@GQVideos
- targeted expensive cars. Stole ~300-400 cars. Former Marine/military background. Brazen even against police. Used drugs which heightened his sense. Used jiggler keys which were semi-succesful and slow to help brea into cards. Used Flathead screwdriver and Vise grip initially to try get in and start car. Went from 1-4min to steal a vehicle to 6-7s. Normally had a lookout. Went from drugs to car theft over time. He was backed by organised crime groups. Cars were taken to Texas/El-Paso or Mexico. Cars used for crimes and to get around. Most chop shops are legit businesses. To strip a vehicle takes 1-3hrs. 1 stolen car get ~5K USD. Can steal ~15 cars a day. Person who steals the vehicle gets the least . Single mother household, his connection to crime was form his dad who grew up in difficult area. Went from Marine to music to crime. Denver known for drugs and homelessness
How Car Theft Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHevgEKGwhY
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
- tools to steal cards are widely and openly available nowadays. Some are joyriders, others use it for crimes, while others do it for a living/to make money since they can't make money in norma ways. Countermeasures include not parking on street/shopping centres, disable OBD lock, have a loud siren/alarm that isn't easily bypassed, etc... Back in school, I remember there were always rumors of people and classmates who dealt with this type of stuff but they had a tendency to focus in on prestige/exotic cars? It makes sense why they focused so much on this then their school work now. Organised crime have a tendency to target technical specialists with questionable morals/ethics for recruitment whilst young? When older, blackmail/extortion, kidnapping, bribes/corruption, invisible third party engine immobiliser, etc... more common. Car thieves and gray/black hat hackers are similar in many different ways. They often play both sides? Moreover, since cars have become increasingly dependent on electronics/computers hackers have an even big role to play? Normally, when cars are moved overseas they are
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_picking
blackhat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhat_(film)
https://www.blackhat.com/
PSA: Classic Holden/HSVs being stolen daily using this cheap eBay tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzFCm5gyak
https://www.youtube.com/@CarExpertAus
The SOARING VF Commodore THEFT In Australia EXPOSED!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB2BCAxzSlk
https://www.youtube.com/@RossReviewsau
turbo decoder
https://turbodecoder.com/
Turbo Decoder
Turbo Decoders аrе invented and developed in Bulgaria. The idea behind these tools is to make the unlocking procedure easy and really fast. It does not require any specific skills or qualifications and this is the reason why turbo decoder has become the most advanced lock picking tool that you can find on the market today.
https://au.lockpickable.com/collections/turbo-decoder
obd decoder wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan_tool
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES PT2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cZmJHOuK0
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHIwtiA963M
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMcCann64/videos
types of cars stolen
1) Holden Commodore VE 06 - 13 (898 cars stolen in 2021)
2) Toyota Hilux 05 - 11 (527 cars stolen in 2021)
3) Ford Ranger PX 11+ (495 cars stolen in 2021)
4) Toyota Hilux 15+ (443 cars stolen in 2021)
5) Holden Captiva CG 06+ (404 cars stolen in 2021)
6) Holden Commodore VY 02 - 04 (369 cars stolen in 2021)
7) Nissan Navara D40 05 - 15 (360 cars stolen in 2021)
8) Toyota Hilux 12 - 15 (357 cars stolen in 2021)
9) Holden Commodore VZ 04 - 06 (323 cars stolen in 2021)
10) Ford Falcon BA 02 - 05 (312 cars stolen in 2021)
https://www.solidgps.com/top-10-cars-stolen-in-2022-in-australia/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+americans+you%27re+a+monster
The Americans 2x05 - "You're a monster!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYHmUQFngw
- stolen cars is interesting. They often go to on to be used in other crimes but they often go overseas often via organised crime for use by criminals or I suspect what are considered Oligarchs in other countries
MY £200,000 LAMBORGHINI WAS STOLEN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4rwn5oQHxM
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES PT2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cZmJHOuK0
I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF CAR THIEVES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHIwtiA963M
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMcCann64
https://navcis.police.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vehicle_Crime_Intelligence_Service
Weapons, Drugs, Stolen Cars: a Year With Professional Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUBGvrbUlJ8
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
Smuggling Stolen Cars (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVz6g39ffts
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Market_with_Michael_K._Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_K._Williams
https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/black-market-with-michael-k-williams
BLACK MARKET with Michael K. Williams
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_hwG6UuEJbYLDgBYBevZa4AeetdsExF
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
https://www.vice.com/en/tag/black-market/
- Kenny/Min Jin Yang worked in Chinese military/intelligence in covert operations. Discharged in 1990 for unknown reasons. China had laws which made importation of exotic vehicles impossible. He teamed with Poy Chia and got investment of 500K from local Chinese gang and went to US to steal/import exotic cars. Networked with local criminals such as "Dean" and purchase factory from which he could conduct operations. Mario Lopez was technical specialist at breaking into cars covertly. He setup layers to provide separation/anonymity from theives. Thieves operated in pairs to steal cards quickly and quietly. Malls, homes, etc... anywehere where steal wouldn't be noticed for hours steal was done. Once cars stolen, they were put in car park and left for 2 days to ensure no low jack, then taken to warehouse and all tracking removed/car cleaned up, then shipped/smuggled out of country to China. One day a car thief was caught by police after he ended up in an accident and he gave names. Police watched operation but still didn't have enough evidence. Security slipped and they became sloppy. They were caught and he was sentenced to 10yrs jail, money and cards weren't really recovere though
The Man Who Stole 3,500 Luxury Cars Without Getting Caught
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzwSngaHxM
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOvernightMillionaire
A car theft ring was operational in New York City in 1999 led by Min Jin Yang, a former Chinese Army intelligence officer.
From Army Officer to Car Thief: The Story of the $40 Million Mastermind | Masterminds | Real Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYnGTfRSOF8
https://www.youtube.com/@RealCrime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_in_60_Seconds_(2000_film)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gone+in+60+Seconds+order+list
Gone in 60 Seconds - Scouting The List [4K AI Upscaling]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw8NLGufAfw
https://www.youtube.com/@UpscaleVideos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gone+in+60+Seconds
Gone in 60 Seconds - Official® Trailer [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh8uvTlmh0w
https://www.youtube.com/@TrailersPlaygroundHD
gone in 60 seconds low rider scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igv_ChOEp2E
https://www.youtube.com/@hamitbe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job_(2003_film)
- some general patterns in crime? Exports to sanctioned countries, legitimate businesses to mix normal business and organised crime, food industry, sanitation industry, tax evasion/fraud/money laundering, counterfeiting, cryptocurrency, loan sharking, gambling, online gambling (from Costa Rica mostly), gun/arms trafficking, drugs, prostitution/sex industry, sex hotlines, extortion, debt collection, contruction industry, big rigging, fiber optics, labour racketeering, carting industry, garbage industry, etc...
How 6 Criminal Businesses Actually Work — From Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling | Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5Dlo96nto
How 8 Crimes Actually Work — From Bank Robbery to the New York Mafia | How Crime Works Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jr6gpZ_x8w
00:00 - Intro
00:09 - Range Rover Scam
00:53 - Legitimate Businesses
01:39 - Food Industry
02:46 - Hollywood
03:02 - Sanitation Industry
03:30 - Money Laundering
04:03 - Insider Trading
04:22 - Counterfeiting
04:49 - Cryptocurrency
05:16 - Loan sharking
05:39 - Gambling
06:27 - Online Gambling
06:55 - Gun Trafficking
07:25 - Drug Dealing
07:40 - Prostitution
07:55 - Sex Calls Hotlines
08:11 - Extortion
08:59 - Construction Industry
09:38 - Fiber Optics
10:10 - Outro
All 19 Ways The New York Mafia Makes Money | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyoQr6KdJLU
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_(film_series)
- people think this cybercrime thing is relatively new but it's been going on since computers came about? There is an absurd idea in some intelligence and law enforcement circles is that if you can't stop them from hacking everything you just redirect their attension elsewhere and then round them up when they get caught by foreign intelligence and law enforcement or else just run interference if they are "useful idiots"? In many countries criminals often get time off of their prison sentence if they help law enforcement/intelligence which some use to great effect and build a pretty successful "normal life". It's obvious that some of these hacks is targeted. It helps in identify theft operations, extortion/blackmail, social engineering, etc... The interesting thing is that as the world has become more computerised, anonimisation, and monetisation has become easier on the Internet how organised crime has embraced it?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/07/law-and-disorder-downloader-script_27.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
german intelligence iot android
https://au.pcmag.com/security/108882/30000-android-devices-found-preinstalled-with-malware-in-germany
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/german-bsi-disrupts-android-malware-infecting-iot-devices-a-27062
badbox
https://www.humansecurity.com/company/satori-threat-intelligence/badbox
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/germany-sinkholes-badbox-malware-pre-loaded-on-android-devices/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Hess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_Bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(hacker_group)
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/who-is-fancy-bear/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=russian+hacker+vice
Meeting a Russian Hacker Who Was Hacking VICE | CYBERWAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdfZsJd4D28
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
How Russian Hackers Stole $100M from US Banks | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmR-UsWgxo
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Spotify Has a Malware Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEX60Yuc5DE
https://www.youtube.com/@Seytonic
Where People Go When They Want to Hack You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPHmHPaCiQ
https://www.youtube.com/@cybernews
How Soviet Spies Stole The Atomic Bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sAhAOOjWjI
https://www.youtube.com/@WarStoriesChannel
From Hacking $4.1 Million to Prison | The IRL Money Doubler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsTgOpAIdw
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
This Nerdy Teen Wouldn't Stop Hacking Companies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z2HkVfcEA
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
The Kids Who Hacked The CIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmtFtWVrxFE
https://www.youtube.com/@fern-tv
The Hacker that Broke North Korea's Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5af3UdzJQzI
https://www.youtube.com/@slidebean
Was North Korea Behind Sony's Cyber Attack? | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vWlx_Mgyo
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack
who hacks porn websites
https://nypost.com/2018/02/01/porn-sites-are-a-goldmine-for-hackers/
https://fightthenewdrug.org/hackers-steal-private-info-from-porn-sites/
https://www.wired.com/story/porn-site-malware-ransomware-schools-zoom-two-factor-security-news/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jul/12/shopping.newmedia
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=looney+tunes+ralph+and+sam
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simpsons+ren+and+stimpy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/scams-and-safety/common-frauds-and-scams/sextortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_trapping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)
One Drunken Mistake Destroyed Finland's Scummiest Hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCcvPfT_jU
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Squad
Legal aftermath
In February 2023, 25-year-old Aleksanteri Kivimäki was extradited to Finland from France. He has since been kept in custody over crimes related to the hacking of patient records from the Vastaamo psychotherapy centre.[30]
In April 2023, Helsinki District Court sentenced the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, to a three-month suspended sentence. He was found guilty of a data protection crime mandated in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).[31]
In October 2023, Aleksanteri Kivimäki was charged with stealing records of psychotherapy patients and over 21,000 counts of extortion.[32] His trial was scheduled to start on 13 November.[32]
In April 2024 Aleksanteri Kivimäki was sentenced to six years and three months in prison.[33] Author and information technology consultant Petteri Järvinen [fi] has used the relatively light sentence as proof that cybercrime often has no serious consequences for the perpetrator in Finland, even if the victims suffer from its results for the rest of their lives.[34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo_data_breach
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams
The Chinese Hack that Stole 22m People's Data | Cyberwar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqN2Y66lanI
Australian and Philippine authorities have conducted a major raid at a scam centre in Manila, arresting hundreds of people allegedly linked to a transnational romance scam racket.
Last year, Australians lost some $34.3 million to reported dating and romance scams – a scam vector which sees criminals disproportionately target senior Australians with false promises of romance or friendship.
With 3,652 victims reporting romance scams to Scamwatch in 2023, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) saw fit to launch a dedicated crackdown operation in August of this year.
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Authorities further seized over 300 "computer towers" – suggesting the scam centre was equipped for at least 300 workers – before further seizing more than 1,000 mobile phones and thousands of SIM cards.
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While the AFP did not provide much detail on the suspected attacks coming out of the scam centre, it is alleged "men over the age of 35 years" were targeted on social media and dating applications.
Scammers would gradually build trust with these victims before asking them to invest in fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platforms – suggesting activity consistent with the increasingly popular "pig-butchering" scam vector where targets are 'fattened up' through gradual investments and false returns before eventually having their money swindled.
To ensure Australians were appropriately duped by these romance and investment scams, the alleged scammers worked shifts to align with domestic time zones, police said.
The AFP reported its technical workers, alongside cryptocurrency experts, the Philippines Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), were now collecting information about who was targeted and the methods used to extort victims.
As further evidence becomes available, the Joint Policing Cybercrime Collaboration Centre (JPC3), in partnership with the National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC), will contact potential Australian victims.
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/police-raid-romance-scammers-allegedly-targeting-aussies.html
- overlap between the work of intelligence, defense, organised crime, etc... happening over and over again? You can purchase passports, identity documents, immigration, to a lot of countries now which allows you to get away with all sorts of crimes by making use of poorly written laws, juridistictional issues, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aljazeera+purchase+passports
Diplomats for Sale | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Yba1-ijh4
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-26/mossad-factory-churned-out-fake-australian/343612
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel%E2%80%93New_Zealand_passport_scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/17/your-id-for-400-warnings-issued-after-australian-gambling-syndicates-offer-money-for-documents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_Research
The (Very Real) World of Corporate Espionage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHAuDetWlUc
https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks
No Time To Die: The Business of Spies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcmWaLQHSs
Corporate Espionage: Make BIG Money Spying on Companies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8ezsjhPdw
https://www.youtube.com/@jaketran
Espionage and Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-OGHXUtmto
https://www.youtube.com/@dartmouth
https://www.youtube.com/@wallstreetmillennial/videos
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/10/vacuum-filter-troublesplanned.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/06/youtube-car-repair-channels-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/11/recyclingunlockinghacking-devices-for.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
- hard to believe that heaps of stuff isn't organised or isolated events. Very similar racketeering/protection rackets between European/Asian organised crime groups, African/Middle Eastern/South and Central American. Triads are highly structured organisations. Similar ceremonies between Triads and Yukuza sometimes. Foot soldiers/fighters and money makers never cross paths because those at the bottom may become a threat to those at the top? This aspect is similar between Italian Mafia and Chinese Triads? Ironically, similar culture between military and enforcers in organised crime sometimes? You need lack of fear to join organised crime. I wondered how some kids got drug money sometimes as they came from poor backgrounds. It's obvious they were sort of blackmailed/extorted into it now?
Black Market with Michael K. Williams is a television series that airs on VICELAND, and is hosted by Michael K. Williams. The series features Williams journeying into the dangerous world of illicit trade.[1] In the first season, Williams hangs out with thieves, poachers, drug users, gun runners, and possible killers to learn why crime pays for them.[2]
In the second season, Williams invites guest hosts from all over the world to explore global black markets, including poaching, smuggling, and underground fights.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Market_with_Michael_K._Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_K._Williams
https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/show/black-market-with-michael-k-williams
BLACK MARKET with Michael K. Williams
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_hwG6UuEJbYLDgBYBevZa4AeetdsExF
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
https://www.vice.com/en/tag/black-market/
I Was An Enforcer For The Chinese Mafia | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqY-z2uadEA
- difficult childhood. Killed his dad after dad raped his sister. Became a Sicario/hitman after his options in the normal world diminished. A lot of people in cartels didn't get through/past primary school. You need to become connected to cartel to make money in Mexico (and some other countries). You have to use your head and masculinity to survive to get through. 50/50 whether law enforcement are corrupt. Killed ~70 people. Mexican and US prisons completely different. US prisons very relaxed and everything provided but in Mexican prisons toiletries and clothes must be handled by family, 11-16 inmates for a cell designed for 4 people, inmates/cartel handled prison politics, bribery and prostitution happens a lot in Mexican prisons, etc... Foot soldiers in cartels are considered expendable/useful idiots and that's why he got out
Former Hitman on Mexican Prison, Cartel Brutality and Police Corruption | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istqQZQctM4
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
Former Mafia Boss EXPOSES How The Real MAFIA KILLS People... | Michael Franzese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_QJNnA5yQ
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDiaryOfACEOClips
- the absurd things about some prison gangs is that they sometimes run the prison themselves and the staff who run the prison go along with it. In some prisons, the staff will openly say that the prisoners run things while they just keep a lookout on things on the outside. Lots of contraband often gets in and out in spite of regular searches because of corruption, bribes, threats, etc... to prison staff and their family and friends. Businesses are even run inside of prison? A continuation of behaviour on the street often. Some criminals basically go insane in prison which causes cascading effects in terms of group behaviour. Many prisons overpopulated, falling apart, underfunded, which means tools/shanks can be made by prisoners. Have to fight constantly to be respected. Lots of prison staff end up with mental issues to prisoner behaviour
How US Prison Gangs Actually Work (New Mexican Mafia) | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2FI-mJokoQ
How US Prison Gangs (Nuestra Familia) Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnH3JNjayc
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
How the US's Most Dangerous Jail (Rikers) Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKi1ygs_xHw
Surviving 7 Years Inside Russia's 'Unbearable' Prison Colonies | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVgHfUaI3LY
prison gangs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_gangs_in_the_United_States
A prison gang[1][2] is an inmate organization that operates within a prison system, that has a corporate entity, exists into perpetuity, and whose membership is restrictive, mutually exclusive, and often requires a lifetime commitment.[3] Political scientist David Skarbek argues the emergence of prison gangs are due to the dramatic increase in the prison population and inmate's demand for safety. Skarbek observes that in a small, homogeneous environment, people can use social norms to interpret what behavior is acceptable, but a large, heterogeneous setting undermines social norms and acceptable behavior is more difficult to determine. Prison gangs are geographically and racially divided, and about 70% of prison gang members are in California and Texas.[4] Skarbek suggests prison gangs function similar to a community responsibility system. Interactions between strangers are facilitated because you do not have to know an individual's reputation, only a gang's reputation. Some prison gangs are transplanted from the street. In some circumstances, prison gangs "outgrow" the internal world of life inside the penitentiary, and go on to engage in criminal activities on the outside.[5] Gang umbrella organizations like the Folk Nation and People Nation have originated in prisons.[6]
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Christian Parenti argues in his book Lockdown America that prison gangs serve a convenient function for the prison establishment and officers. They help regulate rogue and rebellious elements within the prison population without intervention from prison authorities.[32]
Parenti sees the repression dished out by gangs on non-affiliated prisoners as a latent function of prison gangs. Thus, gangs are often more-or-less tolerated by prison administrators due to the side-benefits they afford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shank_(weapon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissary_(store)
- the mentality in a lot of "so called" criminals is sort of funny? They're looking to balance things up at times?
The Bank Robber Who Stole Millions to Help the Poor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TII2kXzHJ9I
The Man Who Became Millionaire Due To a Bank Glitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iKnb0aVzxU
https://www.youtube.com/@RobbersIQ
https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-australian-bartender-dan-saunders-found-an-atm-bank-glitch-hack-and-blew-16-million-dollars/
2024 Election was the Oligarchic Elite vs. Corporate Elite (w/ Chris Hedges)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDj2dUIQcA
https://www.youtube.com/@BadFaithPodcast
Martin Wolf and Yanis Varoufakis: Should We Fix Capitalism or Abandon It? (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeUN1M78NA
https://www.youtube.com/@Intelligence-Squared
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Heist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspire_(magazine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcocorrido
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=narcocorrido+songs
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=breaking+bad+narcocorrido+
Negro y Azul (The Heisenberg Song) | Breaking Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ykOTpzuZN0
https://www.youtube.com/@breakingbad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
Cartel Propaganda is Fuelling Mexico's Drug War | The War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZH9ZYFU26U
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
- super restrictive laws have led to black market for tobacco. Black market substitude called chop chop (reminds me of cocaine/heroin markets where poorly made/filtered cocaine and good stuff fetch very diffirent prices) and the dealers often trade in other goods as well. Black market tobacco ~50% price of normal retail market tobacco. Asia, Middle East, and China are main sources of tobacco. Used to be larger shipments via sea but now smaller packages via air. Thousands of shipments caught per week via ABF (Australian Border Force). 100 cigarettes for ~$35 on black market. Easy to get as long as you know the right people and they trust you. Illegal whites are cigarettes that are manufactured overseas but illegally imported. 15% of all tobacco in Australia is black market?
Inside Australia's black market tobacco trade | SBS The Feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZ5PVUwJSA
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSTheFeed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(film)
- the great thing about the world of organised crime and the normal world is that they are sort of similar? When interests collide you begin to recognise the same names and groups and they sort of recognise one another? Very similar scams on both sides. Can't change the laws to make them work effectively because they lock out your own whitewashed crimes and hypocrisy? Some people obviously don't know what they're get into sometimes. If they're trying to take money from fronts from organised crime it makes so much sense why they get into trouble so quickly?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-vix-script-jim-simonsed-thorp.html
Gangsters of Capitalism - Jonathan M. Katz Pt. 1/2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAMde8Oj0pw
https://www.youtube.com/@theAnalysisnews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Blakeley
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/vulture-capitalism-9781526638076/
https://theconversation.com/vulture-capitalism-grace-blakeleys-new-book-is-smart-on-what-has-gone-wrong-since-the-1980s-228214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
delivery drivers and organised crime
https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/organised-crime-gangs-used-food-delivery-services-to-deal-drugs-across-australia/news-story/3963b1255c03855f719f22fd745a8538
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/ubereats-menulog-deny-allegations-their-platforms-are-used-for-drug-dealing/news-story/cf44053d67d33bde3a3a06d618e067d7
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-low-level-runner-courier-package-delivery-person-for-organised-crime-If-so-how-does-it-work-and-what-is-it-like-to-be-one
list corrupt politicians
The members of the "Most Corrupt" list include:
Sen. Rick Scott (Florida)
Sen. Josh Hawley (Missouri)
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas)
Rep. David Schweikert (AZ-01)
Rep. Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06)
Rep. Mike Garcia (CA-27)
Rep. Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Rep. Ryan Zinke (MT-01)
Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (NJ-07)
Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (NY-04)
Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Rep. Marc Molinaro (NY-19)
https://endcitizensunited.org/latest-news/press-releases/end-citizens-united-unveils-most-corrupt-politicians-list-for-2024-cycle/
#10 Ray Nagin
#9 The Keating Five
#8 Randy "Duke" Cunningham
#7 Edwin W. Edwards
#6 Paul Powell
#5 Kwame M. Kilpatrick
#4 Warren G. Harding
#3 Richard M. Nixon
#2 Ulysses S. Grant
#1 William M. "Boss" Tweed
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/28/meet-americas-most-crooked-politicians.html
1. Siemens: corruption made in Germany
2. Draining Nigeria of its assets
3. Fujimori's Peru: death squads, embezzlement and good public relations
4. Kadyrov's Chechnya: bikers, boxers, bribes
5. Shutting down competition in Tunisia
6. Ukraine's missing millions
7. Ricardo Martinelli's spy-game in Panama
8. The 1MDB fund: from Malaysia to Hollywood
9. The Russian Laundromat (with a little help from Moldova)
10. Spain's largest corruption scandal: Gürtel
11. Venezuela's currencies of corruption
12. The Panama Papers
13. Maldives: a paradise lost
14. Teodorín Obiang's #LuxuryLiving in Equatorial Guinea
15. How the Gupta family captured South Africa through bribery
16. Lebanon's garbage: the stench of corruption
17. FIFA's football parallel universe
18. Myanmar's dirty jade business
19. Fighting impunity in Guatemala
20. Turkey's "gas for gold" scheme
21. The Azerbaijani Laundromat
22. Paradise Papers: where the rich & powerful hide their money
23. Operation Lava Jato: clean cars, dirty money
24. The Troika Laundromat
25. Andrej Babiš's conflict of interest in Czechia
https://www.transparency.org/en/news/25-corruption-scandals
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=matrix+red+pill+and+blue+pill+scene
The Matrix (1999) - The Pill scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ1_IbFFbzA
https://www.youtube.com/@Freeestyler365
The woman in the red dress | The Matrix [Open Matte]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJ5ZEn67tk
What is The Matrix? | The Matrix [Open Matte]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5b0ZxUWNf0
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=matrix+see+the+matrix
Neo - 'The One' | The Matrix [Open Matte]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-0RHqDWcJE
https://www.youtube.com/@flashbackfm
matrix - neo and cypher talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvEXkd3O2ow
https://www.youtube.com/@anomalovideo
Matrix - The Matrix is Everywhere.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qedAzTA8nY8
https://www.youtube.com/@smartebooklibrary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_22
- organised crime has learned a lot from normal society? In the legal, diplomatic, defense, intelligence, and political spheres in particular
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/12/dodgy-job-contract-clauses-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/07/law-and-disorder-downloader-script_27.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones
https://www.youtube.com/@OwenJonesTalks/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Blakeley
https://graceblakeley.co.uk/
Here's How Australia's SHADOW Government works! | Punter's Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQvlWmqkk0U
https://www.youtube.com/@punterspolitics
Robert Reich: One party is making up excuses, and the other party isn't talking about corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyjH0tXoemc
https://www.youtube.com/@therealnews/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@moreperfectunion/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_equivalence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_state
The Medellín Cartel and the Cali Cartel both managed to bribe Colombian politicians, and campaigned for both the Conservative and Liberal parties. Although the difference between the two cartels was that the Medellín Cartel used its "money or death" law through a huge army of hitmen, the Cali Cartel preferred to use bribes by having politicians, journalists, police officers, army officers, judges, etc. on its payroll.[58][59] Hence, Escobar and many other Colombian drug lords were pulling strings in every level of the Colombian government because many of the political candidates whom they backed financially were eventually elected.[58] Although the Medellín Cartel was only established in the early 1970s, it expanded after Escobar met several drug lords on a farm in April 1978, and by the end of 1978 they had transported some 19,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States.[60]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n
Ex-Mob Boss Plays Never Have I Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtfpM0CnX8
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franzese
https://www.amazon.com.au/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/1785030426
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159062-narconomics
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/narconomics-9781785030420
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=narconomics+how+to+run+a+drug+cartel
How Cartels Build Billion-Dollar Empires | News on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfdRbIVaBQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Making a Fake Movie to Understand Hollywood's Shady Accounting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-l2oFKZNak
https://www.youtube.com/@morning-brew
Why the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Donor Class and MIC Impairing the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEbyQdWOCk
https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Backyard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
stanford study corporate corruption politics
Corporations, Corruption, and Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYKu8nsJseA
Corporations and the Justice System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwqt4XW9YmQ
https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordgsb
political lobbying corruption
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/publications-and-resources/article/corruption-risks-associated-with-donations-and-lobbying
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-differences-between-bribery-and-lobbying.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_money_in_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Crime_(Transparency_and_Enforcement)_Act_2022
Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGIp7kdS6E
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes/videos
How British Merchants "Perfected" Money Laundering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IidsZ5RrjQw
https://www.youtube.com/@HowHistoryWorks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_the_Rim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
Human Rights Lawyer On Serial Killers, Execution Methods and Guantanamo Bay | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DdjGd2kW7c
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dw+documentary+mafia+lawyer
The narco-lawyers behind Mexico's drug cartels | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJyTDiFJxhI
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
narco lawyer background
https://www.latimes.com/la-fg-mexico-lawyers12-2009oct12-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_de_Greiff
According to the Colombian office of Lawyers Without Borders, 24 lawyers were killed in Colombia in 2011, the majority of them litigators. Though not all worked on trafficking related cases or had capos for clients, many of them were based in provinces most afflicted by the drug trade, reports Semana magazine. Another four litigators have been reported killed so far in 2012, by the magazine's count.
Throughout Latin America, lawyers are targeted by organized crime. In Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, an estimated 245 law firms have closed their doors since 2009 due to violence and threats from organized crime, cutting by 70 percent the number of law offices in the city. During the same time period, 50 lawyers have been killed in the state of Chihuahua; as of March 2011 none of their cases had been resolved.
In Honduras alone, 25 attorneys, many of them criminal lawyers, have been killed in the past five months, according to the National Human Rights Comissioner. Most of these lawyers were shot inside their cars by groups of gunmen on motorcycles or in other vehicles, just as Pardo was killed in Colombia. In at least 18 of the cases, the lawyers could have been killed by hired assassins, the official said.
While some private criminal defense lawyers are lured by the sky-high fees charged for handling drug cases, others have little choice. In some cases, it may be riskier for lawyers to decline to take on a case rather than agreeing to do so but in Mexico, for example, large law firms often assign amateur defense attorneys to handle them.
Cartel lawyers oil the gears that keep the organizations running, performing duties from handling finances, securing official papers, to handling property transactions. As a brief by the White House on transnational organized crime points out, lawyers are often "critical faciltators" for criminal groups. They are "semi-legitimate players… who cross both the licit and illicit worlds and provide services to legitimate customers, criminals, and terrorists alike."
https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/narco-lawyer-killings-highlight-risks-of-the-trade/
- 4km between PNG and Australia in Torres Straight. Contraband brought in via Asia and/or South America, it's driven across PNG and then sent across Torres Straight. Illegal fishing in Austalia from PNG not allowed so they have to deal in drugs since it's more lucrative?
How meth and cocaine are entering Australia's far north | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yylMynArS1g
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
Inside the Pacific drug highway | The Pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5V5MtC4Q58
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
- Indonesians coming down to northern Austalia. Rowley sholes, Ashmore Reef to fish. They are technically protected marine parks but they fish there anyhow
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=illegal+fishing
Farmers question government commitment after illegal fishing boats caught in northern WA | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13YRwSVYxEw
Illegal fishing in Australian waters causing unreported deaths of Indonesian fishers | ABC Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hkaCu-lib0
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_fishing
- ~IM australians use cocaine per year in Australia? Parasite smuggling: sea chests, ship containers, etc... Fiji has usage and trafficking problem, they have limited resources to surveil. Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga used as launching pad into bigger markets like Australia and New Zealand by South American drug cartels. Locals and motorcycle gans used to help traffic. Somoa open market you can get drugs, Tonga prisons used to be full of robbers but now drug related offences. ~20-25% stop rate at port in Australia, 50-60% stop rate at port in Rotterdam/Netherlands. Shipping companies to ports have been infiltrated/corrupted. ~1K people under investigation here and there are many people in law enforcement/intelligence as well
Australia's Border Force fighting drug cartels under the sea | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRIa1awXo2I
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
parasite smuggling wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_drug_smuggling_into_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_cocaine_smuggling
Drug Bust: Hidden Coke on Ships (Full Episode) | To Catch a Smuggler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVmgYOAsQzY
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
A cocaine-lined shipwreck and busting the lucrative drug route in the Pacific | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgL5pHILyO4
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
- Cape Verde known as Highway 10/Parallel 10 is midpoint between South America and European 11B Cocaine market. Cocaine comes by sea and air. Poor maintence and sabotage of patrol boats reminds me corrupt politics whereby lobbyists pay for reduced regulation. Patrolling Cape Verde seas is impossible due to limited resources. Violence used to secure access to ports and harbours. The interesting thing about smuggling operations is how often they're used over and over again for different types of smuggling
Finding Mr Fox: Inside West Africa's drug trafficking highway - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVgeXV817o0
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Crime_Agency
papua new guinea drug route
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-18/png-torres-strait-drug-smugglers-bringing-meth-to-australia/103455440
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/24/the-new-drug-highway-pacific-islands-at-centre-of-cocaine-trafficking-boom
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/drug-trafficking-pacific-islands-impact-transnational-crime
cape verde drug trafficking
Cape Verdean organized crime refers to the various criminal organizations that are active in Cape Verde & Cape Verdean diaspora communities. Cape Verde is important as a transshipment point in the cocaine trade, and the existence of sizeable Cape Verdean communities in New England, the Dutch port city of Rotterdam as well as in several cities in Portugal, France and Switzerland, led to the formation of criminal gangs in the community active in the international drug trade supplemented with other criminal activities. Cape Verdean organized crime primarily comes in the form of street gangs, with varying levels of organization and sophistication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verdean_organized_crime
https://ocindex.net/assets/downloads/2021/english/ocindex_profile_cabo_verde_2021.pdf
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/can-cape-verde-keep-drug-traffickers-out
https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-international-narcotics-and-law-enforcement-affairs-work-by-country/cabo-verde-summary/
golden crescent drug routes
The Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being the Golden Triangle). Located at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Asia, this space covers the mountainous peripheries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, extending into eastern Iran.
In 2007, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) heroin production estimates for the past 10 years showed significant changes in the primary source areas. In 1991, Afghanistan became the world's primary opium producer, with a yield of 1,782 metric tons (U.S. State Department estimates), surpassing Myanmar, formerly the world leader in opium production. The decrease in heroin production from Myanmar is the result of several years of unfavorable growing conditions and new government policies of forced eradication.[1] Afghan heroin production increased during the same time frame, with a notable decrease in 2001 allegedly as a result of the Taliban's fatwa against heroin production.[1] Afghanistan has produced over 90% of the world's illicit opium in the recent past.[1][2] In addition to opiates, Afghanistan was also the world's largest producer of hashish during that time.[3] Opium production and trafficking are known to have funded the Taliban's military activities and insurgency.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Crescent
cayman islands drug trafficking
Countries/Jurisdictions of Primary Concern - Cayman Islands
https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2014/supplemental/227750.htm
https://caymannewsservice.com/tag/drug-smuggling/
The Illicit Shipping Trade Hiding in Plain Sight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpgzsTrW78
https://www.youtube.com/@business
are drugs and counterfeit goods smuggled along same routes
https://www.unodc.org/documents/counterfeit/FocusSheet/Counterfeit_focussheet_EN_HIRES.pdf
Drug trafficking is often associated with other forms of crime, such as money laundering or corruption. Trafficking routes are used by criminal networks to transport other illicit products including firearms, uncut diamonds and live pangolins creating a convergence of crime.
As criminals devise ever-more creative ways of disguising illegal drugs for transport, law enforcement officials face challenges in detecting such concealed substances. In addition, new synthetic drugs are produced on a regular basis, so police need to be aware of new trends and products on the illicit market.
Since the types of drugs trafficked and the routes used are constantly evolving, it is essential that countries work together in a united and coordinated way. At INTERPOL, we offer a range of services including training and operational support to help law enforcement agencies around the world increase their capacity to detect and investigate drug trafficking.
https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Drug-trafficking
https://eacpm.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/7-Smuggling-and-Counterfeiting.pdf
https://www.safeseas.net/evidence/2020/02/10/counterfeits-smuggling/
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/8.Counterfeit_products.pdf
animal trafficking smuggling routes
Why is wildlife targeted for illegal trade?
Wildlife trafficking is a global issue that affects every populated region of the world. The drivers behind wildlife trafficking can vary widely by location, but common uses include:
- Illegal pet (or collection) trade: An array of live animals, eggs, and taxidermy are targeted by buyers worldwide for private collections and zoos or as exotic pets. Examples include reptiles, such as chameleons and tortoises; birds, such as parrots and falcons; and mammals, such as tiger cubs and apes.
- Medicine, decoration, and status symbols: Wildlife products are purchased illegally for their aesthetic, social and medicinal value. Prominent examples include: elephant ivory, which is used for decorative items such as statues and jewelry, and is highly valued in parts of Asia as a status symbol; rhino horn and pangolin scales, which are used in parts of Asia for traditional medicines; and mammal furs and reptile skins, which are sold illegally for fashion or decorative items.
- Food: Live animals (such as turtles, tortoises, and lizards) as well as processed, dried, and frozen meat (abalone and pangolin, for example) are commonly trafficked into food markets for consumption.
Commonly trafficked wildlife species:
- More than 7,000 species are affected by the illegal wildlife trade2, often with devastating effects on wildlife populations and local economies. Together, elephant ivory, rhino horn, birds, reptiles, pangolins, mammals and marine products make up 81% of all trafficked wildlife.3
- 90% of African elephants have been killed in the last 100 years4
- 1 rhino is poached every 7 hours in Africa for its horn5
- 100 million sharks are killed every year6
- Over 100 tigers a year enter the illegal trade chain in Asia7
- An estimated 24 million seahorses are taken from the wild every year8
- One million pangolins were trafficked between 2000–2013 alone9
- Nearly 3,000 helmeted hornbill casques, skulls, and products seized from 2010 to 201710
- More than 3,000 great apes are captured or killed each year11
- Considered the world's rarest tortoise, only around 200 mature ploughshare tortoises are left in the wild12
What are the impacts of the illegal wildlife trade?
Wildlife trafficking is a global epidemic, affecting communities and wildlife populations in every region of the world. Often run by organized international criminal networks, the illegal wildlife trade has been linked to other illicit activities, such as human and drug trafficking, with the profits being used for all manner of criminal activity. Unabated, illegal wildlife trade threatens to wipe out some of the world's most iconic species in our lifetime.
However, wildlife trafficking is not just a conservation issue, nor a wildlife issue, nor a health issue: it is also a business and governance issue. In Africa, the current elephant poaching crisis costs African countries around USD $25 million annually in lost tourism revenue13. Between July 2017-2018, more than 100 wildlife rangers died on the job in Asia and central Africa, with nearly half killed by poachers14. Widespread wildlife trafficking also indicates the presence of organized crime and often corruption. Supply chains susceptible to wildlife trafficking could be exploited more easily by other forms of trafficking, including human trafficking and narcotics. As counter-trafficking governance and regulation tighten in every region, the risk of legal liabilities increases for companies that fall behind the rest of the industry in taking action.
For more information on wildlife trafficking and how to take action, view the ROUTES factsheets and guidance documents
https://routespartnership.org/about-routes/background
https://www.traffic.org/what-we-do/thematic-issues/private-sector-guidance/routes/
https://mag.wcoomd.org/magazine/wco-news-96/the-illegal-wildlife-trade-modus-operandi-and-transport-routes-in-west-and-central-africa/
https://www.unodc.org/e4j/zh/wildlife-crime/module-1/key-issues/locations-and-activities-relating-to-wildlife-trafficking.html
https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/illegal-wildlife-trade
From the Sahel to Dubai: on the trail of dirty gold • FRANCE 24 English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFscpY_H1GE
https://www.youtube.com/@France24_en
ngo dinh diem gold smuggling
Diệm's rule was also pervaded by family corruption. Cẩn was widely believed to be involved in several illegal operations, namely the illegal smuggling of rice to North Vietnam on the black market, the opium trade via Laos, in monopolizing the cinnamon trade, and amassing a fortune in foreign banks.[74][75] With Nhu, Cẩn competed for U.S. contracts and rice trade.[76] Thuc, the most powerful religious leader in the country, was allowed to solicit "voluntary contributions to the Church" from Saigon businessmen, which was likened to "tax notices."[77] Thuc also used his position to acquire farms, businesses, urban real estate, rental property, and rubber plantations in the name of the Catholic Church. He also used Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) personnel to work on his timber and construction projects. The Nhus amassed a fortune by running numbers and lottery rackets, manipulating currency and extorting money from Saigon businesses, while Luyen became a multimillionaire by speculating in Piastres and Pounds on the currency exchange using inside government information.[78]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sanctions+evasion
#IACC2024 | Lessons Learned from Investigating Cross-Border Sanction Evasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa8VPnvQ-VI
https://www.youtube.com/@IACCseries
- normally if they're involved in one crime they often end up engaged in other forms of it as well (and possibly other crimes). In general, social graphs of criminals will lead to others
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/salaried-pro-golf-tour-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/06/self-sufficientlearning-golf.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/04/struggling-professional-golfers.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/03/becoming-golf-coach-becoming-better.html
Why the counterfeit business is booming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyqL8OTMXc
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
How Forgers Print Fake Money | I WAS A TEENAGE FELON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIylnZ7lCEM
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
How Do They ACTUALLY Print Counterfeit Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZhqStOwhc
https://www.youtube.com/@TheInfographicsShow
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=counterfeit+organised+crime
How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime | Alastair Gray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UH7uTpTa44
https://www.youtube.com/@TED
Exposing the criminal networks behind the counterfeit industry | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7wH3FUrs4
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
How Police Are Cracking Down on Counterfeit Goods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdjLNa5sNf4
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Why the counterfeit business is booming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyqL8OTMXc
https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Logo
Counterfeit city | Carte Blanche | M-Net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN4PQqtk0c
https://www.youtube.com/@carteblanchetv
The $500 Billion/Year World of Counterfeits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31AOa426Qi0
https://www.youtube.com/VICENews
Inside Italy's designer bag sweatshops | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owXegVj1NC4
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- you don't think about it but using kids is a brilliant idea at times whether for drugs, weapons, theives, etc... because laws tend to be much more lenient on them normally, they're in plentiful supply, expendable, and they're often easily influenced (read up on imprinting, torture, and how slaves are broken in). Similar to the way kids are used in a lot of terrorist groups? Always floating at the edge of society but so many people not realising it? Kid criminals in lower demographics are just trying to make their way in life, kid criminals in high demographics are trying to make some money on the side. Problem is the lack of training, tradecraft, professionalism, for a lot of kids who are new to this area which makes trafficking and operations far more complex?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+wick+weapon+selection
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) - Gun Shopping Scene (2/10) | Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIalODmFrZk
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
John Wick does tactical shopping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km7DDDE-i0c
https://www.youtube.com/@BoxofficeMoviesScenes
lebanese gangs tobacco
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/six-people-arrested-over-alleged-15-million-illicit-tobacco-import
https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-police-smash-30-million-illegal-tobacco-syndicate-in-major-turf-war-breakthrough/b0f19dec-895c-4aee-b079-10a35154453f
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-21/victoria-police-tobacco-war-arrests-wa-police/104007356
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/tobacco-wars-melbourne-majid-alibadi/103797524
https://www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-subsite/Pages/Warrants-executed-across-Melbourne-targeting-illicit-tobacco.aspx
asian gangs weapons imports
CHAPTER 6: Japanese Organised Crime in Australia
Introduction
5.1 For over a decade there has been concern expressed about the growth in Australia of organised criminal activity by Vietnamese, with media attention focusing initially on 'crime gangs'. For example, a 1988 media report stated: 'Criminal gangs in the Vietnamese community are increasingly heavily armed, are moving into drugs and gambling, establishing links with Australian crime figures, and becoming involved in standover rackets in their own community'. [1] A 1991 media report quoted an unnamed police source as saying that Vietnamese groups were mainly involved in crimes against their own community including murder, extortion, robbery and petty drug dealing, with standover and extortion being the most common. [2]
5.2 Similar concerns have emerged in Canada [3] and the United States.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Former_Committees/acc/completed_inquiries/pre1996/ncaaoc/report/c06
Firearm trafficking and serious and organised crime gangs - Samantha Bricknell
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp116.pdf
drug import south america asia
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/drug-trafficking/
https://americasquarterly.org/article/why-drug-cartels-are-expanding-to-asia/
https://www.unodc.org/roseap/en/2023/06/biggest-drug-trafficking-corridors/story.html
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/drug-trafficking-pacific-islands-impact-transnational-crime
https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/oceanias-spike-in-synthetic-drug-markets/
african gangs melbourne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_Australia
- they don't seem related but call centre scams, prostitution, and human trafficking scams are somewhat related. Some are voluntary but people are often tricked or forced into taking these jobs. They work in normal office buildings and follow a process but it just revolves around scamming people of money?
How Call Center Scams Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZZan7QfEo
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Fraud Fighters: Hackers expose illegal call centres and phone scams (Marketplace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iii_MtlKOrs
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-07/scammers-are-targeting-australians-in-offshore-call-centres/104406170
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-29/inside-call-centre-scams-in-cambodia-torture-fear-and-survival/101770352
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/02/i-couldnt-escape-the-people-trafficked-into-call-centres-and-forced-to-scam-australians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
- ~20% of all sextortion is from Nigeria globally. People are targeted, manipulated, conned into giving people money to invest/steal. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost in Canada alone due to romance and pig butchering scams. Asian and Africa are sources. People are baited into giving/investing more money to someone before they pull the rug from underneath them. Some scammers have applied to what they thought were legitimate jobs. When they're brought into scamming compound threatened with beating, electric shock and/or death if they don't perform well and/or try to escape. People who are baited into working for these schemes are often well educated, multi-lingual, desperate for work, etc...
Investigating the con that combines romance scams and crypto fraud (Marketplace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDg2z8QPuWc
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
The Top 5 Countries For Sextortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUPJUgKYZM
https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalForensics
3 Nigerians Arrested for Sextortion and Romance Scams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2SPjpltutM
https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalForensics
pig butchering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/pig-butchering-scam-targeting-australians-afp-warns-lonely-hearts-be-wary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam
international justice mission
https://www.ijm.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Justice_Mission
Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
https://www.youtube.com/@LastWeekTonight
- interesting counter-scam/sting/counter-intelligence operations? A lot of people have obviously figured out how Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) works now. Thta means for a technical isues calls may go through to a scam call centre where upon people are scammed of their money. Gift cards and cryptocurrency used to get around avoid anti-fraud and anti-money laundering automated system issues? Modify HTML code to give the appearance of giving money and then ask customer to give back overpaid amount? Law enforcement are of limited help due to lack of resource and training? Obvious they know how the internal workings of major legitimate companies/organisations work and are using this knowledge to scam potential marks? This can mean they were former employees, customers, partners, etc... It's obvious some of them are current insiders as they know stuff in real time. Sell stuff they don't own from overseas.
How YouTube Scambaiters Turn the Tables on Internet Fraud | Bloomberg Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_9Ix_6pK8
https://www.youtube.com/@business
DO NOT REDEEM (The Angriest Scammer I've Called)
DO NOT REDEEM THE CARDS - Original Scammer Rage #funny
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/csy5RHcXT6Y
Scammer Cries Watching $500 Disappear After 10 Hours (Abel's Raw Meltdown)
Scammer watches $500 disappear after wasting 10 hours #Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ceKa7kTOaYw
Scammer Watches $455K Disappear After Wasting 48 Hours #shorts #krakenpartner
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D53HF_okHi8
When Scammers See $3 vs $3,000,000 in your Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsAEYJOjGro
Scammers Cry After Ruining Their Own Scam - $430K Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyvwuk7v94s
Entire Scam Call Center Goes Mad While I Redeem Gift Cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7V0Oda3DAA
DO NOT REDEEM (The Angriest Scammer I've Called)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mceb_t8EIs
Scammer Loses His Mind Over $5,000,000 Mistake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFEBY_9J30
I Made This Angry Scammer Cry After 1 Year (we caught him)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhspnzeDzFw
My Best Revenge Scam Call Ever - Extreme Scammer Rage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfgqMVheROA
I Shut Down a Scam Car Dealership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY-rEBV15-g
Telling Scammers I Actually Got Their Prize Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMNytYOaAYI
The Most Evil Scammer I've Ever Called
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzTyBIHx5Jk
Scammers Expect $400K - I Install Malware Instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s23XR8JMKtA
Scammers Wanted $15,000 - I Bought a Car Instead *RAGE*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GERlBA87NcE
Will Scammers Notice I'm Using Windows 3.11?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAomglv541s
Will Scammers Notice Windows "Really Good" Edition?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0peLpovDB8
https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourced_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourced
Scammers PANIC When I Speak Through Their CCTV Cameras!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAtK_NjurQ0
https://www.youtube.com/@Scambaiter
Hacking Connection Reversals on SCAMMERS - Scam Call Center Destroyed
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xtoxfle6NJE
Torturing a Scammer Till They Give Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmty7AC5z5Y
https://www.youtube.com/@ScammerPayback
Paying A SCAMMER Using HIS OWN Banking Details!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYgDIqcabxk
https://www.youtube.com/@mrwnSB
https://www.youtube.com/@mrwnSB/videos
RUSSIAN HACKER OBLITERATES INDIAN SCAMMER WITH CHERNOBYL MALWARE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9tMioLbAw
RUSSIAN HACKER DESTROYS INDIAN SCAMMER WITH 100 VIRUSES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25QGUhzODA
https://www.youtube.com/@Scambaiter
Angry Scammer Loses It for 3 Hours Straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82kA4Dz_LT0
https://www.youtube.com/@RinoaPoison
Showing Scammers Their Own CCTV Cameras On My Computer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFopLfxsfVE
https://www.youtube.com/@mrwnSB
https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/customer/code.aspx
Inside the Shadowy World of Professional Scambaiting | Bloomberg Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj_9Ix_6pK8
https://www.youtube.com/@business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beekeeper_(2024_film)
- Yatai city, Myanmar scam centres. Many volunteer but others also are forced to work there. Chinese triads/mafia run them. Dating and relationship scams. Wworkers are beaten and abused if they can't bring in money. 2.5K USD ransoms are required to leave scam call centres. Yatai city property management groups say they've cracked on but human trafficking and underage workers still happening. Cambodia has scam call centres too. Crypto, scams, casinos, etc... Scam buildings normally hard to get in and out. Locations constantly changing and names of businesses for scam call centres too such as Bevet. Bangaldesh best country to target as they don't think too much. US is targeted as people there have a lot of money. Scammers have scripts that they follow. Best earners ~$4M USD per year. Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, Myanmar people all work in these call centres
Scam: Inside Asia's criminal network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNn2pHtRH4
https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNews
- SEO, strong script, etc... Outbound conversion rate lower then (inbound 0.18% of 18349 calls vs 30% of 233 calls). Only if they can obtain remote access to PC are scam agents intersted in continuing call. They run basic Batch scripts and scans before they grab bank/credit card details and selling stuff to people like a firewall or service to do stuff on their computer. Hire Assistance group run operation in Texas, US. Scambaiter claimed he was from FBI and breached and then installed malware on their systems and reported case to relevant authorities. Hire Assistance no longer running their operation
Scammers REGRET Challenging An FBI Agent!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovoJ5I5PUc
https://www.youtube.com/@Scambaiter
Man Meets His Romance Scammer In Real Life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3lPgw3T2M
https://www.youtube.com/@CatfishedOnline
I was swept up in an international romance scam | SBS Insight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSh0vravJ2c
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSInsight
- online scams account for ~50% of all cybercrime. 3/5 tech support scam account for all online scams. 85% of all tech support scam calls are from India. After several years working as scam agent you can end up running things and have others invest in you. Structure of scam call centres similar to legitimate call centres: agent, TL, call centre manager. Family/friends don't often know what scam agents are doing but they know they are bringing in money. They preferred to have normal life but money is lucrative in scam call centres. People over 55 targeted for tech support scams not because dumb but because gullible and lonely with no one to support them. Start of millenium Guargon, Kalkota, Bangalore, Mumbai were call centre hubs for Western IT. Legitimate call centre agents turned to scams when legit jobs were moved elsewhere? During this time and when shutdown operations sprung up where customer database information was stolen and used to startup? People just trying to make ends meet in bad economy such as matrimoney scam, romance scam, job scam, etc... Infections of PC's via popup ads also used to bring in marks to scam call centres. Even if you report scam call centres not much is done. Scambaiters/scammer.info contains information reagrdsing existing scams. Sector 5 is one location where scam call centres are. Police raid scam call centre buildings 6-7times a month? 10K ruppee, 1K USD is base salary for scam call centre agent per month. A lot of people in scam call centres don't really understand that they're doing something wrong? Job scams require you to pay money to get a job. People who run these operations tend to come from well known outsourced call centre operation firms? 35-40 reports today inside Indian police stations regarding domestic cases. money transfer and sextortion cases common most. Advent of high speed Internet in India in 2016 led to explosion in digital scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-16/asic-sue-hsbc-court-finance-banking-scam-customer-protection/104690472
Baiting the Indian Scammers | Undercover Asia | FD Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bX8bux3fZY
https://www.youtube.com/@FDCrime
https://www.samarthbansal.com/
https://www.snigdhapoonam.com/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kritika+Jain+scam+call+centre
Scam: Inside Asia's criminal network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNn2pHtRH4
https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNews
Behind Asia's cyber slavery | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti7YDegRMYE
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Beating Scammers at Their Own Game | Super Users
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZbEQsKLRZQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
Scam City: Istanbul - Scammed at Night, the Police Don't Care | Free Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0lAPENe1o
Scam City: Prague - Scammers Disguised as Beautiful Girls & Harmless Hawkers | Free Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Kpu4aXjXU
https://www.youtube.com/@FreeDocumentary
abc uae scam centre
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-11/inside-the-scam-factory-pig-butchering-and-cyberscams/103937064
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/notorious-01-inside-the-scam-factory/103952702
Cambodia's Fake Orphan Scam | Open Secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gC-UfGRcQ
The World's Most Complex Catfishing Scam | Investigators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MgCUdAUhc8
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Asia's Tinder Swindlers: Exposing Love Scam Rings In Cambodia | Talking Point | Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZacChEz3Am8
https://www.youtube.com/@CNAInsider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson
Fool's Gold: Inside Ghana's Million Dollar Scamming Syndicates | REWIND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYa2_3ZRcg
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
How a small Chinese company tricked the German state | DW Investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_S97Ae1eg
https://www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
- smuggling is critical for any operation requiring movement of physical goods. Organised crime, terrorist groups, etc... are perfect vehicle to get your way if you can't compete against traditional powers? Shadow naval/ship fleet and creative use of pipelines used to get around sanctions? Number of defense companies have doubled since sanctions put in place against Russia and their annexation of Crimea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Reign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraband_(2012_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_smuggling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_smuggling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(smuggling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Smuggling
guerilla tactics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_and_tactics_of_guerrilla_warfare
sanctions smuggling
https://www.state.gov/iran-sanctions/
Russian counter-sanctions and smuggling: Forensics with structural gravity estimation☆
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199624001417
sanctions smuggling counter moves
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning five Mexican individuals associated with the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's most dangerous criminal organizations. Those designated today are tied to the Gulf Cartel's involvement in criminal activities associated with illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, human smuggling, and narcotics trafficking in the Gulf of Mexico. IUU fishing often involves criminal activity, forced labor, and human rights abuses, and is often a revenue stream for criminal organizations. IUU fishing is also a threat to U.S. maritime security, as criminal organizations may use the same vessels for smuggling narcotics and humans across borders.
Treasury Targets Cartel-Enabled Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Operations
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2729
Where Does Kim Jong-Un Get His Cash? | Inside North Korea's Bureau 39 | North Korea Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAn3HnLpTE4
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39
How Russia Beat Sanctions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSf6UdVa5WM
https://www.youtube.com/@AltSimplified
- the irony of modern society is that a lot of groups consider the family the "perfect unit" but the people who are most dangerous to you are your family and co-workers according to common statistics? Law enforcement and legal system doesn't generally get involved in family matters which makes it hard to avoid this type of stuff?. Other ironic thing is that a lot of weapons are just used for suicides?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
occupation of homicide victims
There were 392 workplace homicides in 2020. There were also 37,060 nonfatal injuries in the workplace resulting from an intentional injury by another person.
The five occupational groups with the most workplace homicides in 2020 were sales and related, transportation and material moving, management, construction and extraction, and production. Homicides in sales and related occupations accounted for 23.5 percent of all workplace homicides in 2020.
...
Service occupations accounted for about half of all nonfatal intentional injuries by another person that required at least a day away from work in 2020. Service occupations include healthcare support, protective service, food preparation and serving related, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance, and personal care and service occupations. Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations made up about 23 percent of cases.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/workplace-violence-homicides-and-nonfatal-intentional-injuries-by-another-person-in-2020.htm
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/work-related-homicides-the-facts.pdf
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/recorded-crime-victims/latest-release
https://apps.who.int/violence-info/homicide/
familiarity breeds contempt
https://rehoboth.wa.edu.au/addressing-issues-familiarity-breeds-contempt/
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/familiarity-breeds-contempt
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Norton_Michael_Less%20is%20more%20The%20lure%20of%20ambiguity_26f23155-6eb1-485c-9132-2e084822cd96.pdf
- some organised crime operations are rediculous and pretty funny? You suspect some corporate esionage/sabotage operations rumours may be real after you've looked around for a while?
The Green Energy Copper War taking place on the streets of South Africa | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEPtmDMX1fw
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams
stealing copper cabling
https://www.crimestoppersvic.com.au/current-focus/copper-cable-theft/
Three Sydney contractors have been charged over the alleged theft and unlawful sale of over 300 tonnes of copper wiring potentially worth up to $3.5 million.
The arrests come after an investigation sparked by industry reports of contractors removing copper wiring and selling it to scrap metal collectors for a profit while purporting to run a legitimate business.
In March this year police attached to the financial crimes squad motor unit searched a scrap yard in Ingleburn and seized approximately $200,000 worth of stolen copper wiring.
Later that day, authorities executed a search warrant on a property in Campbelltown, where they found an additional $105,000 worth of cabling and subsequently arrested and charged two men with larceny.
...
The appeal of copper is due to its high re-sale value, with a single kilogram of material able to fetch up to $10, making it one of the most sought-after scrap metals available.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/contractors-charged-stealing-copper/103844380
stealing catalytic converter
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-16/catalytic-converter-thefts-australia-rare-metal-value/102224790
https://www.vox.com/2023/5/20/23728557/catalytic-converter-theft-scrap-price-replacement-toyota-prius-cars-insurance-protection
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-27/catalytic-converters-stolen-across-south-east-queensland/102269360
https://www.met.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/keeping-vehicles-safe/catalytic-converter-theft/
The investigation expanded between then and the third quarter of 2022, by which time it was nicknamed Operation Heavy Metal, included over 70 local and federal agencies and linked independent investigations into regional theft rings in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York and Virginia. On November 2, police executed simultaneous search warrants across the US on over 32 sites, resulting in 21 arrests in 5 states. The dismantling of the interstate theft ring was described as the first national takedown of a catalytic converter theft ring by the Department of Justice.
Following the dismantling of the interstate theft ring, the theft of catalytic converters dropped dramatically. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, over 5,000 catalytic converter thefts were reported per month in 2022. In the first nine months of 2023, there were 2,675 catalytic converter thefts reported per month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932022_catalytic_converter_theft_ring
- organised crime and illegal mining are strange bedfollows? They make more money selling to black market/direct to locals then via legit channels/government wholesaler/Pertamina often. Even if workers own land they're not allowed to drill new wells on it to encourage/allow foreign investment form companies such as Exxon Mobile who do automated/machine based mining first. Refining process is from ancient times and is a form of crude heating and distillation to get various fuel types. Yield of oil fields is too low to become wealthy from it now
How Toxic Century-Old Oil Wells Trap Thousands Of Workers In Java | Risky Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwKWXDyRvMY
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=illegal+refining
Troops Destroy Massive Illegal Refinery in Delta State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqmd-5uw-s
https://www.youtube.com/@tvcnewsnigeria
Special Report On Nigeria's Illegal Oil Refineries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjrgM7ysVE
https://www.youtube.com/@ChannelsTelevision
Is a shortage of oil refineries pushing up global fuel prices? | Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12GOlDED38
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Afghanistan's Secret Billion Dollar Emerald Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_CWLsPQS8
Zimbabwe's Blood Diamond Killing Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Bk5VIhjiY
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
- lots of technically illegal mining operations by Chinese people in Ghana? Licensing and registration of these operations is under a cloud of legitimacy? ~95% of small scale mining is illegal. Chinese miners work with locals but both sides regulary carry weapons to protect against items from being stolen. Illegal Chinese miners pay bribes to local police to look the other way and to ignore illegal acts. Mining has poisoned land and water supply locally. PMMC ultimate buyer of gold in Ghana?
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana documentary | Guardian Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrrE1rjzLo
https://www.youtube.com/@theGuardian
https://www.pmmc.gov.gh/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_Ghana
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gold+illegal+mining
Trapped for gold: The dangers facing illegal miners in South Africa | The Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ufadhTTsw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVQWFmy2A_k
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
The Story
For over a hundred years, South Africa was the largest producer of the world's gold.
More gold has been extracted from its reserves than from all the other mines in the world combined. Ever.
But today, many of these mines are closing. New waves of migrants are entering into their abandoned but unsealed shafts, to scavenge for gold in the deep. The most daring of these informal miners are called 'zama zamas.' The phrase means to "keep on trying," but also "to gamble."
Zama zamas stake everything to survive - but not all of them do. The work is dangerous, both for the men who go underground and for the women who grind the rock by hand in order to extract the gold. Without helmets or safety equipment, with neither ventilation nor dewatering, lighting the way with only bicycle head-lamps, zama zamas are indeed gamblers, those who stake everything for survival.
We are Zama Zama tells their stories.
https://www.wearezamazama.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wearezamazama/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zama_zama
Gold Mafia - Episode 1 - The Laundry Service I Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evWEuVR1XIs
Gold Mafia - Episode 2 - Smoke & Mirrors | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIcCoYt9YE
Gold Mafia – Episode 3 – El Dorado I Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_rhbJHokw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Dirty Gold: Secrets of the Gold Industry | From Mafias & Rebel Gangs to Switzerland | Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r5LedUJ2t4
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Dubai's Dirty Gold I ARTE.tv Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTxTkPMQC04
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
We are Zama Zama - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jNZf9DvYfA
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
- they found gold a while back in Mauritania. They mine manually still. People sleep and live down in tunnels for days at a time. Once ore is dug out it's refined by using mills to crush and convert stone to liquid and then mixed with mercury to react with and isolate gold. Ministry of minerals normally buys from miners but often sell on blackmarket to get better price
48 Hours with gold miners in the Mauritanian desert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXmH_C9KEm0
https://www.youtube.com/@JoeHattab
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=illegal+ore+smuggling
- prospects poor in Africa so children often work in their mining industries. Cobalt required for electronics and battery technology in US and China. Mining is done manually and Cobalt is poisonous which causes health problems. Mining has poisoned land and water supply locally. Chinese and Indian buys don't care about how cobalt is extracted or whether process is safe, they just want the best price. People living and born in these mining areas are stuck in a loop. Miners generally are at subsitence level and profits accrue at the top in the Big Tech sector? Modern artisan mining isn't as bad as colonial era but not much different conceptually? Big Tech sector very similar to how chocolate industry deals with issues of slavery, they just hide it or stop only while media attension is on them. Much like global oil sector the core mining/extraction is done in poorer countries while the refining and processing is done in developed/wealthy countries. Ores/minerals moved from illegal mine sites and laundered via legal ones? Yield on a lot of manual mine sites is less then the cost of the mining license? Geological fingerprint can be used to identify point of origin. DRC mining code requires contractors to be DRC nationals?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=congo+cobalt+illegal+mining
Special report : Inside the Congo cobalt mines that exploit children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJ8me22NVs
https://www.youtube.com/@SkyNews
The horror of cobalt mining in DR Congo | The Listening Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJdktQ97rZ8
https://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish/videos
"It's Always About Oil": CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7coh9-MpFJo
"Cobalt Red": Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I3K7fhLmcE
https://www.youtube.com/@DemocracyNow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Conference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Jamaica
Why the conference that divided Africa still matters today | DW News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKgTf-_ouVI
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cocoa+farm+slavery
Chocolate's Child Slaves? Secrets of the Chocolate Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcf2o42txUE
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
How the Chocolate Industry Still Profits from Child Labor | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRc9hjejY0o
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Ghana Grows Our Cocoa, So Why Can't It Make Chocolate? | Big Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X7wAKMNBXI
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
- they normally carry ~25-30kg bags of backfill dirt to another location where they try and extract whatever copper there is left after machine based mining has gone through area
Diggers and Merchants: A Congolese copper digger | Africa Direct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1j9Lv6_BVk
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9camines
Mining Coltan in the DRC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPIB17PE2vM
https://www.youtube.com/@CIDSETogetherforGlobalJustice
Mines of hell: risking their lives for coltan | FULL DOCUMENTARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZAUC12iedc
https://www.youtube.com/@SLICE_Full_Doc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa
Why isn't the DR Congo the world's richest country? | Mapped Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tny2usCxhc4
https://www.youtube.com/@dwnews
https://www.fairtrade.net/en/products/Fairtrade_products.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade
- just like other mining industrial miners/extractors go in first, artisan/independent miners go in afterwards. They prefer to work in family groups even if that means children have to work. Children just want to make enough money to help them survive but the older they get the wiser they become to the importance of diamonds and who gets them? Heavy labour stunts the growth of kids in mining areas. Since money is low from diamond mining they can't go to school and are stuck in that job
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blood+diamonds+illegal+mining
Blood Diamonds and Religious War In The Central African Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbT_b0obeg8
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
DIRTY DIAMONDS - The Child Miners of Sierra Leone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-EqMzeGNQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ProgettoHappiness
https://koidulimited.com/diamonds/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koidu_Limited
https://actionaid.org.au/
Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas, or to label an individual diamond as having come from such an area. Diamonds mined during the 20th–21st century civil wars in Angola, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau have been given the label.[1][2][3] The terms conflict resource or conflict minerals refers to analogous situations involving other natural resources. Blood diamonds can also be smuggled by organized crime syndicates so that they could be sold on the black market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diamond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Perkins describes what he calls a system of corporatocracy and greed as the driving forces behind establishing the United States as a global empire, in which he took a role as an "economic hit man" to expand its influence. In this capacity, Perkins recounts his meetings with some prominent individuals, including Graham Greene and Omar Torrijos. Perkins describes the role of an economic hit man as follows:
Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_military_contractors
- dangerous life in Chinatown? Snipers and all sort of other strange stuff happening? Even crazy people avoid pain. A lot of people die through perceived lack of respect. Italian Mafia and Asian Triads sometimes got involved with one another. Extortion, stolen credit cards, bootlegged video tapes, drug trafficking, gambling, protection/security rackets. People you least expect to have a gun is the one most likely to have it. Safe houses used to sleep, live, meet, etc... Police didn't really care about safe houses but did care about guns. Lots of secret passages and tunnels in Chinatown used to hide crimes. Joined to avoid bullying, wine/blood/incense used to mark joining (similar to Yukuza). Local police didn't really have resources to fix but FBI did. ~1993 FBI started rounding up people at the top and he decided to go to NYPD. Gangs broke up and became smaller. Gang members gave each other nicknames like Onionhead or Bighead based on their characteristics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(2018_film)
triad hierarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(organized_crime)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14K_(triad)
https://www.universalcompendium.com/tables/soc/tria.htm
Mike Moy says he was a gang member in New York City's Chinatown. He was recruited at his school's gates and then got involved in a gang in the 1970s. Moy claims he was involved in gambling houses, counterfeit money, bootleg kung fu movies, gunrunning, and credit-card fraud. He then joined the New York City Police Department as an officer in 1995 and worked there for 26 years.
Moy discusses the Chinatown gang's links with the Italian Mafia and how extortion worked. He talks about the locations of safe houses in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, and the secret smuggling tunnels around the city.
Moy founded the YouTube channel Chinatown Gang Stories, where he speaks with former gang members about their lives. Find more of Moy's interviews here:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Chapter 1 | The Rivalries
02:09 Chapter 2 | The Money
04:45 Chapter 3 | The Weapons
05:36 Chapter 4 | Smuggling Tunnels
07:13 Chapter 5 | The Recruitment
08:54 Chapter 6 | The Hierarchy
10:09 Chapter 7 | Changing Times
11:48 Chapter 8 | Becoming a Cop
14:34 Chapter 9 | The Aftermath
How New York Chinatown Gangs Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2osXEixd3kM
https://www.youtube.com/@chinatowngangstories/videos
Jimmy Tsui is a former member of Tung On in New York City's Chinatown and of the Sun Yee On triad in Hong Kong.
In 1985 in New York, he was arrested and charged with robbery and homicide, with a $1.5 million-dollar bail. The case was later dismissed. This led to his transition into Sun Yee On, where he became a "426 general" in 1988.
He traveled back and forth between Hong Kong and New York City and was involved in karaoke bars, gambling houses, and various scams. In 1992, he was shot five times while sitting in his car. This ended his involvement in mob life. Around this time, the influence of the Chinese mafia in New York was declining, and Tsui's network dissolved.
Tsui speaks with Insider about how the triads make money, such as extortion and protection rackets. He discusses the initiation ceremonies and rules of membership as well as the ties to the movie business. He also covers the triads' global expansion.
After leaving the triads, Tsui got involved with Chinatown Gang Stories, a YouTube channel organized by Mike Moy, a former gang member, and New York City Police Department officer.
Chapter 1: Joining the Triads - 00:34
Chapter 2: The Money - 03:16
Chapter 3: The Secret Codes - 06:16
Chapter 4: The Hierarchy - 07:52
Chapter 5: The Rivalries - 10:35
Chapter 6: The Parking Lot Shooting - 13:24
Chapter 7: The Origin - 16:12
Chapter 8: The Backstory - 17:15
Chapter 9: The Future - 19:02
How The Triads (Hong Kong Mafia) Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzZF9krC34M
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
- cost of black market weapons ~1K, 3D printer weapons ~300, Ghost guns are hybrid plsatic, metal guns. It's illegal to download and manufacture 3D printed guns in many countries. 3D printer guns being used by terrorists, gangs, freedom fighters, etc... Yet again defense, intelligence, organised crime world blending into one another with techniques and choices of weapons often similar?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
Army Firearms Specialist Rates Gun Technique In 13 Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PD8mW-lVw
Special Ops Sniper Rates 11 More Sniper Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlx548y1NDY
Special Ops Sniper Rates 8 Sniper Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB0CZ_5sPPw
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killer_(2023_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_martial_arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Wilson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Distributed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homemade_firearm
favorite guns of organised crime
Firearm trafficking and serious and organised crime gangs - Samantha Bricknell
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/rpp116.pdf
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-03/ti622_illicit_firearms_and_other_weapons_on_darknet_markets.pdf
https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/guns-of-the-mob-the-most-popular-firearms-used-by-the-mafia/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-04/3d-printed-guns-rising-australia-semi-automatic/104538082
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3D-printed+guns+on+rise+in+Australia+4+corners
3D-printed guns look like children's toys. They're lethal and on the rise | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS_UBFz2rBY
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
I 3D-Printed a Glock to See How Far Homemade Guns Have Come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4dBuPJ9p7A
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
military style kill
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/ned-dobos-military-training-and-moral-damage/12925446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_house
https://www.wired.com/story/america-civilian-tactical-training-industry/
https://theconversation.com/police-with-lots-of-military-gear-kill-civilians-more-often-than-less-militarized-officers-141421
mafia murder style
south american cartel murder style
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/worse-than-any-horror-film-inside-a-los-zetas-cartel-kitchen-1.4225436
The origin of the double-tap technique is credited to William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes, British police chiefs working in Shanghai during the 1930s who developed the technique in order to overcome the limitations of full-metal-jacketed (FMJ) ammunition. FMJ ammunition is commonly used by militaries for feeding reliability, adherence to the Hague Conventions regarding non-expanding ammunition, and improved penetration. FMJ rounds can sometimes fail to cause sufficient damage (at least when compared to expanding bullets), requiring more hits and better shot placement. In Ian Dear's book Sabotage and Subversion about British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) forces, Fairbairn is reported to have instructed SOE personnel in the double tap from 1944 to 1945 at the SOE training school directed by Fairbairn and Sykes near Arisaig in Scotland. The term double tap is now used to describe the more general technique of firing two rounds quickly and accurately to disable an opponent. The tactic is still used by firearms handlers, police tactical teams, military personnel, counter-terrorist combat units, and other special operations forces personnel.
The Russian assault rifle AN-94 can automatically shoot two bullets in a rapid burst; this feature was intended to improve the single shot hit probability of the rifle.
Double taps are an integral part of the El Presidente combat pistol shooting drill developed by Jeff Cooper during the 1970s and published in the January/February 1979 issue of American Handgunner.[5] Also developed by Cooper during the 1970s is the Mozambique Drill or Failure Drill, for a situation whereby a double-tap to the torso fails to stop an attacker, adding a third shot to the head.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap
The modern technique (abbreviation of modern technique of the pistol) is a method for using a handgun for self-defense, originated by firearms expert Jeff Cooper.[1] The modern technique uses a two-handed grip on the pistol and brings the weapon to eye level so that the sights may be used to aim at the target. This method was developed by Cooper into a teachable system beginning in the 1950s, based on the techniques of shooters like Jack Weaver, Mike Rousseau and others, after experiments with older techniques such as point shooting. The method was codified in book form in 1991 in The Modern Technique of the Pistol by Gregory B. Morrison and Cooper.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_power
- ~70% guns come form north/US, drugs and money come from south/Mexico.. Operation Hormingas/Ant. Handguns smuggled across border easily in backpack, AK47 dismantled. Tijuana specialises in smuggling operations. Drug tunnels, trebuchet, drones, agricultural and electrical equipment, etc... all used to help smuggle. Border force is extremely corrupted. Retirees and young teenagers are used/hired to smuggle guns as it's not expected. Guns strapped and duct taped to body. The closer to border the cheaper guns are, the further south the more expensive they are. ~70% of weapons are stolen from corrupted members of the US military? There are so many guns out there that it's unrealistic to get rid of them all. US has outsourced it's counter-cartel and counter-drug policy to Mexico? Mexico and police are hugely corrupted
How Gun Smuggling Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-HQgP2TpUI
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcoculture_in_Mexico
Investigating the Ghost Gun Epidemic (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQ-GKl-Q-o
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
Arming and Funding Cartels | CBS Reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JsvNSmLxa0
https://www.youtube.com/@CBSNews
The world's most dangerous arms dealer | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqDCrdZVZnk
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
- ~70% of criminal network bribe officials to help them. ~3T per narco-sub. Travel from South America all the way to Europe. Hundreds of smugglers in Galicia Spain alone for South American drug cartels. Only ~5% of drugs entering Spain stays in Spain, rest goes to rest of Europe
Inside Spain's Narco Submarines | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfKs6xbQ0Xs
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
Torture Chambers & Billion-Euro Profits: Inside Amsterdam's Mafia | Java Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQgipcBJUk
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
The $193,000,000,000 Evolution of the Narco Mule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm0ACNu4Gg4
https://www.youtube.com/@waterlinestories
Hijacking and Murder in Global Shipping's Grim Underbelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZuvXWxOJTE
How a Balkan Drug Cartel Infiltrated Global Shipping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpiOLdnAGBw
https://www.youtube.com/@business
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
- there is a huge irony to the the many coup attempts around the world. If you examine the sale, flow, type of weapons and training of groups who use violence it's the usual suspects. The US, Russia, China are the main sources. It's the same theme with many weapons that are flowing throughout the world from leftover conflicts such as the Cold War between the US and USSR. It's remarkable how well equipped some rebel groups and major crime groups are? My suspicion is that they would outstrip a lot of law enforcement forces and that's the reason why there's been an militarisation in arms within many police forces to at least maintain parity? It's obvious that training, weapons, knowledge, skills, etc... are being shared between many different groups and governments around the world
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
According to Clayton Thyne and Jonathan Powell's coup dataset, there were 457 coup attempts from 1950 to 2010, of which 227 (49.7%) were successful and 230 (50.3%) were unsuccessful.[1] They find that coups have "been most common in Africa and the Americas (36.5% and 31.9%, respectively). Asia and the Middle East have experienced 13.1% and 15.8% of total global coups, respectively. Europe has experienced by far the fewest coup attempts: 2.6%."[1] Most coup attempts occurred in the mid-1960s, but there were also large numbers of coup attempts in the mid-1970s and the early 1990s.[1] Numbers of successful coups have decreased over time.[1] Coups occurring in the post-Cold War period have been more likely to result in democratic systems.[16][17][18] Coups that occur during civil wars shorten the war's duration.[19] Research suggests that protests spur coups, as they help elites within the state apparatus to coordinate coups.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_d%27%C3%A9tat_and_coup_attempts_since_2010
african warlords weapons
The typical weapons available through these markets are small arms and crew-served infantry weapons, including Kalashnikov assault rifles, RPGs, mortars, anti-tank weapons, and surface to air missiles like the SA-7.
https://jamestown.org/program/weapons-for-warlords-arms-trafficking-in-the-gulf-of-aden/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/world/europe/07cnd-liberia.html
https://www.euractiv.com/section/africa/news/central-africa-rebels-rearm-after-military-gets-russia-weapons/
Technicals consist of weapons mounted on a four-wheel drive pickup truck. Many pickups have been used as technicals including Ford Ranger and Mitsubishi Triton, but the most favoured are the Toyota Hilux and Toyota Land Cruiser. They are typically fitted with heavy machine guns (especially the DShK and M2 Browning), anti-aircraft artillery (usually the ZPU or ZU-23-2), recoilless rifles (usually the SPG-9 or M40 recoilless rifle) and Multiple rocket launchers such as the Type 63 multiple rocket launcher or the M-63 Plamen.
Optional add-ons include steel plates welded on for extra defense from small arms fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)
cartel weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_firearms_into_Mexico
People are jokingly commenting on a past post asking what gun stores these came from. Well short answer. Most of the military grade stuff comes from South America and can be traced to US and Soviet shipments to a few countries back in the late 80's. They were used to set up or dismantle governments all over the place back in the ideological battles of the cold war… The rest is civilian grade rifles that can (in more than one case) be traced back to Obama's Fast and The Furious operation.
I know this shit has been used as propaganda to take away gun rights from Americans. That is fucked up. But to deny that these are mostly US in origin isn't helping anyone's cause. This was an Obama administration fuck up.. own that shit. I have high hopes for this current adminstration, really. Despite all the anti Mexican stuff being propagated I'm not blind to the true problems that are actually effecting millions of lives on both sides of the border. Trump is looking out for his people. I respect that.
There are people who are making a killing off the current turmoil and propagating the antimaericanism sentiment in Mexico.. and those people are not your friends.
People ask why the Mexican Marines don't apply the same aerial assaults on the Sinaloa Cartel in Culiacán. Well the answer is simple. They have anti-aircraft capabilities and have down a few helicopters already.
https://sofrep.com/gear/mexican-cartels-weapons/
https://www.thetrumpet.com/21860-mexican-cartels-get-european-guns
https://armamentresearch.com/weapons-used-by-cartel-sicarios-in-culiacan-mexico/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming-mexican-cartels-inside-story-of-a-texas-gun-smuggling-ring-866836/
rebel groups weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_weapons_and_tactics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_equipment_used_by_Syrian_opposition_forces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-materiel_rifle
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/01/where-the-insurgent-groups-of-the-world-get-their-weapons/
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/about-us/highlights/highlights-2015/weapons-and-the-world.html
Man-portable air defense systems are a popular black market item for insurgent forces.[22] Their proliferation became the subject of the Wassenaar Arrangement's (WA)22 Elements for Export Controls of MANPADS, the G8 Action Plan of 2 June 2003,[23] the October 2003 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, Bangkok Declaration on Partnership for the Future and in July 2003 the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Forum for Security Co-operation, Decision No. 7/03: Man-portable Air Defense Systems.[24]
Understanding the problem in 2003, Colin Powell remarked that there was "no threat more serious to aviation" than the missiles,[25] which can be used to shoot down helicopters and commercial airliners, and are sold illegally for as little as a few hundred dollars. The U.S. has led a global effort to dismantle these weapons, with over 30,000 voluntarily destroyed since 2003, but probably thousands are still in the hands of insurgents, especially in Iraq, where they were looted from the military arsenals of the former dictator Saddam Hussein,[26][27] and in Afghanistan as well. In August 2010, a report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) confirmed that "only a handful" of illicit MANPADS were recovered from national resistance caches in Iraq in 2009, according to media reports and interviews with military sources.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-portable_air-defense_system
military training rebel groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_rebel_groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Train_and_Equip_Program
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mitchprothero/us-special-forces-are-secretly-training-syrian-rebels-and
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/18/pentagon-wasted-500-million-syrian-rebels/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/08/west-training-syrian-rebels-jordan
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-us-allies-military-syria-fail-troops-rebels-606327
The panel said it has identified the presence of mercenaries from Wagner in Libya since October 2018, "providing technical support for the repair of military vehicles, participating in combat operations and engaging in influence operations."
The panel said it was provided with details of 122 Wagner operatives who are "highly probably operational" in Libya, including 39 from its specialist sniper group and 83 from its 1st Attack and Reconnaissance Company or other combat units.
The panel said mercenaries from the Russian company Rossiskie System Bezopasnosti Group have also been identified as providing maintenance and repair support for military aircraft.
The experts said they continue to investigate reports that mercenaries from Russian-based Moran Security Group and Schit Security Group deployed to Benghazi on January 6.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/libya-s-hifter-got-fighters-from-russian-company-un-experts-20200507-p54qnl.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Haftar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Police_(Mexico)#Equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Police_of_Colombia#Equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_States#Police_equipment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
Military weapons are given to some police
Experts say one of the major issues in American police enforcement is the type of weapons some officers carry.
The US Department of Defence gives 'surplus' military equipment to certain civilian police forces.
Between 1997 and 2014, more than 8,000 local law enforcement agencies were given about $US5 billion in excess military equipment.
"Police departments are generally funded by local government. As with all areas of local government, over the last few decades, they've suffered really debilitating cuts," said David Smith from the United States Studies Centre (USSC).
"Offloaded military equipment is one of their main sources of equipment. Related is just the sheer availability of that equipment after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars."
For police forces with limited funds, the excess gear helps keep them stocked up in items like sandbags, torches, sleeping bags and medical supplies.
But agencies also get items including assault rifles, night-vision goggles, armoured vehicles, bayonets and grenade launchers, according to US criminal justice reform expert Jeremiah Mostelle.
He says that some police officers have become more aggressive as their weapons have become more powerful.
"The increased use of military equipment has coincided with an increased use of military tactics, such as SWAT teams and no-knock raids," he wrote for the Charles Koch Institute.
But it wasn't until 2014 that the Pentagon's program first received widespread scrutiny, when riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri.
During demonstrations over the police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, authorities arrived at the scene in an armoured vehicle, dressed in military camouflage and carrying assault weapons.
Republican Senator Rand Paul criticised US leaders for helping municipal governments "build what are essentially small armies".
"Police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement," he wrote in Time magazine in 2014.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-02/why-do-us-police-have-such-powerful-weapons-in-protests/12307798
why do us police have military weapons
Militarization of police refers to the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers.[1] This includes the use of armored personnel carriers, assault rifles, submachine guns, flashbang grenades,[2][3] grenade launchers,[4] sniper rifles, and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams.[5][6] The militarization of law enforcement is also associated with intelligence agency-style information gathering aimed at the public and political activists,[7][8] and a more aggressive style of law enforcement.[9][10] Criminal justice professor Peter Kraska has defined militarization of police as "the process whereby civilian police increasingly draw from, and pattern themselves around, the tenets of militarism and the military model."[11]
Observers have noted the militarizing of the policing of protests.[12][13] Since the 1970s, riot police have fired at protesters using guns with rubber bullets or plastic bullets.[14] Tear gas, which was developed by the United States Army for riot control in 1919, is still widely used against protesters. The use of tear gas in warfare is prohibited by various international treaties[15] that most states have signed; however, its law enforcement or military use for domestic or non-combat situations is permitted.
Concerns about the militarization of police have been raised by both ends of the political spectrum in the United States, with both the right-of-center/libertarian Cato Institute[16] and the American Civil Liberties Union[17] voicing criticisms of the practice. The Fraternal Order of Police has spoken out in favor of equipping law enforcement officers with military equipment, on the grounds that it increases the officers' safety and enables them to protect members of the public and other first responders (e.g., firefighters and emergency medical services personnel).[18] However, a 2017 study showed that police forces which received military equipment were more likely to have violent encounters with the public, regardless of local crime rates.[19] A 2018 study found that militarized police units in the United States were more frequently deployed to communities with large shares of African-Americans, even after controlling for local crime rates.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
- organised crime is so strong that you can't crack down on gun laws without causing major conflict/war? Money source is irresistable to those in the legtimate economy as well. Weapons croming from all over the place such as the the US, Guatamala, Central/South America, etc... I did a basic check online and you can get handguns for a few hundred dollars. Assault class weapons can be had for four figures? Ammunition really, really cheap. A few dollars a round/bullet. Things may be much cheaper on the genuine black market?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
weapons black market
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/the-sale-of-illegal-weapons-on-the-dark-web-and-the-impact-on-international-security/
https://www.ultimategunsales.net/gun/black-market-guns
https://www.ultimategunsales.net/armory
We ship all over, and customers do not require any paper work to get a firearm with us. We also provide discreet shipping. We take a wide variety of payment methods for clients who wish to keep their identity discreet.
https://www.ultimategunsales.net/about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_trafficking
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arms+trafficking
'All weapons we sell are from the US' - Smuggling guns into Mexico _ Talk to Al Jazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQz9CUMavIs
Dueling presidents - What's next for Venezuela _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZIsdGguNQ
Gun economics - The weaponisation of the US _ Counting the Cost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBkieBTKqM
Gunfire as Sudan military moves in to clear Khartoum sit-in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7POKSI7sk
Iran's FM Zarif - 'End to US presence in the Middle East has begun'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhRagm3M85Y
Is this the answer to stopping US gun violence _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Say_56drjnA
NRA and One Nation - What is the gun lobby hiding _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQngITFbanw
Arms trafficking is a 'Big Business' in Central America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWZiC7sJrbE
How guns are getting across the border _ Guns in Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDdm-PkhZ4
How Guns Are Smuggled Across State Lines in Just 3 Hours _ NowThis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roU6d31KSJ4
How Mexican Cartels Exploit America's Gun Laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRqUiM4Fw1c
Lebanon's Illegal Arms Dealers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxumsOQMxLE
NRA - The Truth About Arms Trafficking in Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNuQ8mdIMog
Shadow World Inside the Global Arms Trade (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viXqHzMrIaE
The Business of War - SOFEX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_3Qg-SADY
The Eastern European Gun Runners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjueUbCmwn4
The Gun Markets of Pakistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FinRqCocwGE
This is what an international arms deal looks like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yORN-8_C35A
Yemen and the global arms trade _ DW Documentary (Arms documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkUv2R97I-Y
Investigating the Ghost Gun Epidemic (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQ-GKl-Q-o
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
Outdoor Gun Markets of Afghanistan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPDRAtGg7VI
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisMustList
Arms Trafficking - Dirty Dollars Inc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4WKM6DzD2U
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
How Arms Trafficking Actually Works — From The 'War Dogs' Arms Dealer | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6N_M4P3Ihg
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packouz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraim_Diveroli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/comparing-icos-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/02/cryptocurrency-market-manipulation.html
- culture is very similar between organised crime groups? They're often culturally based and despite what is said about their honour code revolving around honour, loyalty, and respect it's similar to normal society and greed and selfishness are hallmarks of thir culture
Inside Australia's deadly gang wars | Full documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvumUqQwEL0
https://www.youtube.com/@7newsSpotlight
How The Hells Angels Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyTxdT4u60I
How Biker Gangs Actually Work (Mongols Motorcycle Club) | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmMBHJBbbc
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Inside Australia's gangland wars | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwm9nSVfATo
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
How Drug Trafficking Actually Works — From Heroin to Cocaine | How Crime Works Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfRcOoXKAc
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
How 6 Criminal Businesses Actually Work — From Money Laundering To Gun Smuggling | Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5Dlo96nto
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
How The New York Mafia Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGLoylT4hzQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartel | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IQuXbExjU
Inside the cartels controlling Australia's cocaine trade | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0iZvG4kEM
Exposing the suspected barons of Australia's meth trade | Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMvKz2fIjc
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Ex-Gang Member On Drug Dealing, Violence And Surviving Grooming | Minutes With
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHydYA8PJY
Ex-Gang Member On Teen Murders, £27,000 Robberies and Prison | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKH64eGEHvE
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
does crime run in families
A large Swedish study including 12.5 million men and women found much continuity between violent crime in families, reporting that first-degree relatives (i.e., parents and siblings) were 4.3 times more likely to engage in violent crime than matched controls (Frisell, Lichtenstein & Langstrom 2011).
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/19-1415-FinalReport.pdf
When Crime Is a Family Affair
Kids have a habit of imitating their parents' criminal behavior. It's no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/crime-runs-family/573394/
Crime families: Gender and the intergenerational transfer of criminal tendencies
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi414.pdf
do people normally send their kids to school close to home
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-31/how-you-can-send-your-child-to-school-outside-catchment-zone/11914606
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/where-do-your-neighbours-send-their-kids-to-school-20171031-gzbms3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/saving-money-without-sacrificing-random.html
- what a lot of countries do makes a lot of sense now? Co-operation/co-existance and even outright performing crimes at times make sense given the hostile foreign policy of some countries now? You can't put it in a business or organisational name because it will be linked so you have to put it under a personal name but under many shells to hide the source and origin? I previously thought that organised crime was learning from the corporate world but it's obvious that they're often operating in unison with them? The main difference between white collar crime and organised crime is that there is more of an air o legitimacy to white collar crime? A lot of operations and institutions make a lot of sense now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Made_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%27s_Finest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(2009_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_state
The Medellín Cartel and the Cali Cartel both managed to bribe Colombian politicians, and campaigned for both the Conservative and Liberal parties. Although the difference between the two cartels was that the Medellín Cartel used its "money or death" law through a huge army of hitmen, the Cali Cartel preferred to use bribes by having politicians, journalists, police officers, army officers, judges, etc. on its payroll.[58][59] Hence, Escobar and many other Colombian drug lords were pulling strings in every level of the Colombian government because many of the political candidates whom they backed financially were eventually elected.[58] Although the Medellín Cartel was only established in the early 1970s, it expanded after Escobar met several drug lords on a farm in April 1978, and by the end of 1978 they had transported some 19,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States.[60]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali_Cartel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n
mafia democracy
https://www.amazon.com.au/Mafia-Democracy-Republic-Became-Racket/dp/1544530811
https://www.thenile.com.au/books/michael-franzese/mafia-democracy/9781544530819?srsltid=AfmBOoqvSi_PZSc3qTDomWrm92bUiJXeqm6KqCjt0so8y8eP_V8M6LOv
https://www.storytel.com/tv/books/summary-of-michael-franzeses-mafia-democracy-1803229
The New Mob | A Mafia Democracy with Michael Franzese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voog3O0xlKY
https://www.youtube.com/@michaelfranzese
https://www.amazon.com.au/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/1785030426
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159062-narconomics
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/narconomics-9781785030420
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=narconomics+how+to+run+a+drug+cartel
How Cartels Build Billion-Dollar Empires | News on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfdRbIVaBQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Making a Fake Movie to Understand Hollywood's Shady Accounting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-l2oFKZNak
https://www.youtube.com/@morning-brew
Why the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Donor Class and MIC Impairing the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEbyQdWOCk
https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Backyard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
stanford study corporate corruption politics
Corporations, Corruption, and Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYKu8nsJseA
Corporations and the Justice System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwqt4XW9YmQ
https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordgsb
political lobbying corruption
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/publications-and-resources/article/corruption-risks-associated-with-donations-and-lobbying
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-differences-between-bribery-and-lobbying.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londongrad_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_money_in_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Crime_(Transparency_and_Enforcement)_Act_2022
sanctions
Economic sanctions or embargoes are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals.[1][2] Economic sanctions are a form of coercion that attempts to get an actor to change its behavior through disruption in economic exchange. Sanctions can be intended to compel (an attempt to change an actor's behavior) or deterrence (an attempt to stop an actor from certain actions).[3][4][5]
Sanctions can target an entire country or they can be more narrowly targeted at individuals or groups; this latter form of sanctions are sometimes called "smart sanctions".[6] Prominent forms of economic sanctions include trade barriers, asset freezes, travel bans, arms embargoes, and restrictions on financial transactions.
The efficacy of sanctions in achieving intended goals is a subject of debate.[1][2][3][4][6][7] Scholars have also considered the policy externalities of sanctions.[7][8] The humanitarian consequences of country-wide sanctions have been a subject of controversy.[9] As a consequence, since the mid-1990s, United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions have tended to target individuals and entities, in contrast to the country-wide sanctions of earlier decades.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wolf+of+wall+street+swiss+bank+meeting
The Wolf of Wall Street - Swiss Bank scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTbiDQjbiE
https://www.youtube.com/@Adam-eg1xy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)
macau casinos money laundering
https://financialcrimeacademy.org/money-laundering-through-casinos-in-macau/
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-use-macau-to-launder-money-2013-11
https://igamingbusiness.com/casino/illegal-money-exchanges-ban-macau/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/18/macau-convicts-gambling-junket-king-alvin-chau
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-12/macau-casino-stocks-slump-on-renewed-money-exchange-crackdown
macau economy
Banking
Macau is an offshore financial centre, a tax haven, and a free port with no foreign exchange control regimes.[44] [45][46] The offshore finance business is regulated and supervised by the Monetary Authority of Macao,[47] while the regulation and supervision of the offshore non-finance business is mainly controlled by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute.[48] In 2007, Moody's Investors Service upgraded Macau's foreign and local currency government issuer ratings to 'Aa3' from 'A1', citing its government's solid finances as a large net creditor. The rating agency also upgraded Macau's foreign currency bank deposit ceiling to 'Aa3' from 'A1'.[49]
There are twenty other licensed banks, sixteen of which are foreign. Macau has five of the top 500 commercial banks in Asia, including Banco Tai Fung and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Macau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_financial_centre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_port
money laundering monaco
https://en.gouv.mc/Policy-Practice/The-Economy/Combating-money-laundering
https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/monacos-anti-money-laundering-system-inadequate-risks-name-and-shame/
https://eucrim.eu/news/moneyval-fifth-round-evaluation-report-on-monaco/
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/01/21/monaco-scrambles-to-avoid-appearing-on-money-laundering-grey-list_6452653_8.html
switzerland money laundering
https://www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/corruption/corruption-money-laundering-and-the-role-of-switzerland
Over the past fifteen years, notable investigations and exposés, such as the Magnitsky Investigation, Laundromats, Offshoreleaks, Panama Papers, and Pandora Papers, have shed light on the staggering scale of global money laundering with trillions of dollars, predominantly originating from kleptocracies like Russia and other former USSR countries. These illicit funds are cleverly disguised and anonymized through laundering mechanisms, infiltrating the Western financial systems via a vast network of banks, lawyers, real estate agents, and have been utilized to purchase influence, garner political support, and secure positions within local establishments.
Recently there have been efforts to combat money laundering such as the Prevezon Case in the US, notable for its lawyer's meeting with Donald Trump Jr., and Danske Bank's guilty plea for laundering $160 billion through US banks. The most notorious money laundering banks in Cyprus, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have been closed and major banks, including Santander, Wachovia, Standard Chartered, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs, have faced penalties for their involvement in money laundering[1].
https://www.amlintelligence.com/2023/08/opinion-switzerland-a-new-haven-for-money-launderers/
- difficult early life, parents split, got girlfriend pregnant young so started stealing cars but got caught. Father in law was a counterfeiter and taught him how to counterfeit money. He started to dress up as a fake cop and started robbing drug dealers after knocking them out. Moved back into counterfeiting when new US bills came out. Purchased stuff using counterfeit bills in order to launder and get back real cash. Russian Mafia found out he made good counterfeit and wanted. Got off on technicality since their was no cause for search, illegal search and seizure. Went back to original dodgy dad (who was also involved in organised crime/Mob) who encouraged him to counterfeit more. Secret Service gets 99.3% conviction rate. Art II wanted Art III to go legit but ironically Art III was into counterfeiting too Art I, Art II, Art III were all counterfeiters
How A Mall Cop Exposed a $10.3 Million Counterfeit Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCiuXfnwd9k
https://www.youtube.com/@VinceVintage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_J._Williams_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
- loved computers and technology as a kid, got into hacking for fun as a kid and - joined hacking forums who pushed him into more ethically challenging operations such as keyloggers and botnets. Was tricked into writing a banking trojan which cost 7K and renamed Kronos on black market and sold on Alphabay, Darkcode, Exploit.in/Database. When doing another job he lost some money and gave away the Kronos code to make up for it. He built a anti-malware mapper under contract which was leveraged into a fulltime job. his non-legit life was discovered after he found a killswitch in WannaCry which caused ~$4B USD damage?
The FBI's Hunt to Destroy a Hero Hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySLPB9yT1SA
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutchins
https://malwaretech.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cybercriminals
- been hunting for ~20yrs in Nigeria. Pangolin expensive and scarce compared to other animals. Used to get 4-5 pangolin per week now very rare. Pangolin scales more expensive then elephant ivory tusks. Global wildlife back market value ~23B per year. Only after 2016 did pangolin trade explode and become popular. Pangolin are natural pest controllers and eats millions of ants and other insects. Laws to protect pangolin are there but no one enforcing those laws across almost all countries globally. Chinese wants panglolins for some reason? People want pangolins for meat and/or skin normally. Chinese medicine says that pangolin skin can cure cancer, help arthritis, increase lactation, help stroke victims, etc... Chinese destroyed their own pangolin population so now get it from Nigeria/Africa where corruption is high and borders porous. Smuggling techniques similar to drug trafficking and even uses same routes. Can also be camouflaged as medicine or food. China has officially banned use of Pangolin scales in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) but usage is still high. ~12-15K ingredients used in TCM. Other ingridients can be substituted for Pangolin scales in TCM. Pangolin are very senstive and shy animals. If kept in captivity for too long they just die off
Inside the Global Underground Wildlife Trafficking Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fUlWJ8VsE
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin_trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin
https://env4wildlife.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_for_Nature_Vietnam
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
- long tail macque. They wait until monkeys go up trees then chop them down and get them to land in nets. 10-20 caught at a time. ~50K per monkey. Wildlife trade driven by greed, exacerbated by sticking a value on their lives. Difficult to distinguish wild vs domestically bred animals. Doctoring/laundering documetation of caught wild animals used to help purchase wild animals for research. US fish and wildlife service agency investigates wildlife issues globally not just in US but couldn't get traction into macques in spite of heaps of time and resources being spent on this. Vanny Bioresarch Cambodia. Put into crates and then sent to US. China used to be largest exporter of monkeys, US is largest importer of monkeys. Cambodia took over after China stopped exporting. Charles River Labs, Worldwide Primates, Inotiv, are buyers, etc... only 3-4 worldwide. Too many industries with vested interests? Agustin Fuentes macaque specialist. Macaques hang in groups ~30-40 and are highly sociable
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/history-of-launceston-monkeys/104694610
chimp pet trade
https://davidshepherd.org/species/chimpanzees/trade-statement/
https://www.bornfreeusa.org/2024/09/12/reflecting-on-the-primate-pet-trade-after-watching-chimp-crazy/
https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/hbo-chimp-crazy-captive-animals-pets
The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering | Bloomberg Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7BDSt_u9A
https://www.youtube.com/@business
vanny bio research
http://vannylifesciences.com.hk/farm.html
https://vodenglish.news/tag/vanny-bio-research/
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/alleged-macaque-smuggling-ring-exposed-as-u-s-indicts-cambodian-officials/
https://bkktribune.com/alleged-corruption-in-cambodias-monkey-farms-taints-global-wildlife-trade/
operation longtail liberation
https://www.doi.gov/ocl/operation-long-tail-liberation
https://www.fws.gov/testimony/fish-and-wildlife-service-gone-wild-examining-operation-long-tail-liberation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque
planet of the apes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Planet_of_the_Apes_film_actors
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=snow+macaque+hot+springs
Japanese Onsen Ryokan Where You Can Bathe with Snow Monkeys🐒♨️ | Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park | ASMR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfi0sYR-hZQ
https://www.youtube.com/@its_time_to_travel
Orangutan and Monkey _ Unlikely Animal Friendships _ Love Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoLd0PDNaQ
Meryl at Nyaru Menteng, Save the Orangutan 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ-3ih26EBM
We Love Orangutans - "Babysitter Coordinator, Sri Rahayu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzDDRU5ElyY
pony orangutan
https://www.orangutan.or.id/update-on-pony
https://www.streetkidindustries.com/post/pony-the-orangutan-prostitute-and-the-legalities-of-bestiality
https://theweek.com/98117/orangutan-shaved-made-up-and-prostituted-to-men-for-six-years
animal prostitution
Prostitution among animals is the phenomenon in which non-human animals practice transactional sex. This was first noted in 1998 among female Adélie penguins trading stones for sex during a shortage of stones.[1][2] Transactional sex has also been noted in various species of primates, including chimpanzees.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals
rape in animal world
Animal coercive sex
Behavior resembling rape in humans can be seen in the animal kingdom, including ducks and geese, bottlenose dolphins, and chimpanzees. Indeed, in orangutans, close human relatives, such copulations constitute up to half of observed matings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiological_theories_of_rape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sociosexual_behaviour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
- a monkey is ~40K USD. Required to test products. Cambodia has heaps of monkeys/long tailed macaques. Long tailed macaques declared endangered in 2022. They used to come right up into homes of humans and line up along river and hunt for crabs but not too scared so hide from humans. A few years ago 2-3 people in each village looking for monkeys in good health ~1.2KB with no lesions for ~$150 USD each. Tonnes sold by the boatloads. Massive facilities where monkeys are bred/kept at places such as Fanny Bio. Chinese managers, US buyers, Cambodian caretakers. You need to double number of animals you want to safely smuggle as half normally die. Catch females via hand, and poles for males as they bite. Catch in wild via food bait and nets. Exports mainly go to US, Japan, and China. Common marmoset and macaques studied to help understand how to treat many illnesses. EU only allows experimentation on 2nd generation primates nothing from wild. Undercover investigations says that EU claims not honest. Big Pharma outsources experimentation to other companies such as LPT which provides them with plausible deniability?
Monkey Business: The Transnational World of Primate Testing | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgycpxLWOA
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- normally Bank of Bangladesh prints out all transactions. One day they had problem which meant that printer stopped working, when they figured out how to start/fix printer they noticed lots of dodgy transactions and losses of $1B USD. Employee clicked on malicious email link caused breach of network. SWIFT trades order information not actual funds. Forged SWIFT orders were used to try route/steal money of ~$1B in total. ~$870M stolen money orders were stopped but the rest was stolen in well timed and co-ordinated attack? Signature of this attack is similar to that of other attacks globally. Cyberattacks, cyberespionage, money heists all. Evidence of North Korean language and IP address source in North Korea
The $1,000,000,000 North Korean Bank Heist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usu9z0feHug
https://www.youtube.com/@KentoBento
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group
john story hacker north korea
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/jon-chang-hyok
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible-rise-of-north-koreas-hacking-army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-north-korean-military-hackers-indicted-wide-ranging-scheme-commit-cyberattacks-and
https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-07-26-north-korean-hacker-indicted-allegedly-extorting-us-hospitals-agencies-issue-cyberthreat-advisory
https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-hacker-hired-ecurity-company-malware/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/north-korean-regime-backed-programmer-charged-conspiracy-conduct-multiple-cyber-attacks-and
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/22/north-korea-deadliest-weapon-cyber-operations-sony-pictures
- dark web used for all sorts of stuff including drugs, arms, services, etc... Became a translator for US military during Iraq War. Many US troops used steroids so he started selling drugs (makes sense as a lot of them in some units seem to bulk up easily?). He became a hacker at another military base. He migrated to US via special visa for those who helped US military. He wanted to enter medical school or enter IT. Struggling financially so he trafficked drugs in school. He discovered Silk Rd/AlphaBay/Dark Net enabled/allowed him to traffick in drugs much more safely. He mixed and cut drugs purchased from elsewhere but he mainly dealt in meth and fentynal which he often passed off as other drugs. Campus security and DEA/law enforcement traded information and traced back to Allawi. Used individuals rather then exchanges to launder his money back. Earned $14M USD in ~2yrs. His drugs caused overdoses and even deaths because of poor Quality Control which meant he had no idea how much active ingredient were in each tablet. DEA they smoked him out of property by dropping power to building which meant no aircon could run. He went on the run but DEA found him and his employees/co-workers again. He was found with drugs, weapons, laundering. Despite taking down online markets it still continues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web
The Hunt For The Fentanyl King Of The Dark Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLvAJZz29bY
https://www.youtube.com/@KiraTV1
mohammed allawi fentanyl
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/fentanyl-distributor-who-used-dark-web-and-crypto-currency-furtherance-his-criminal
The Most Illegal Business In The World: Silk Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsfoqdqyykI
https://www.youtube.com/@MagnatesMedia
- Unica and Mu Bong ship ship to ship transfer late at night for oil to get around sanctions. If company is sanctioned name of company changes. Authentication used by Renmimbi note torn in half with half given to other side. Counterfeit, arms, drugs, piracy, etc... High level Chinese/Hong Kong triads involved in helping North Korea. Underground banking network/Suncity Casino used to hide/launder money by North Korea. Hong Kong and Macau a proxy for North Korea to Japan, US, South Korea. China's antipathy towards US and Western powers makes them less amenable to coercive action against North Koreas and relationships with other powers with similar sentiment? 90% of trade to North Korea is with China China sees North Korea as buffer state against trouble from Western powers. White collar criminals such as accountants and lawyers are a big problem because they shield North Korea. Sanctions, diplomacy, and forces/threats not getting anywhere with North Korea
North Korea and the triads: gangsters, ghost ships and spies | FT Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-6J5X9E-lE
https://www.youtube.com/@FinancialTimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Mi_Terry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Lankov
https://www.afr.com/by/primrose-riordan-hvf7a
https://rusi.org/people/aaron-arnold
https://rusi.org/people/byrne-0
https://rusi.org/
https://www.sipri.org/about/bios/hugh-griffiths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Kuok-koi
https://globalinitiative.net/profile/sharon-kwok/
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ex-suncity-boss-alvin-chau-jailed-for-18-years-in-macau-20230118-p5cdmj.html
https://ig.ft.com/north-korea-oil-smuggling/
https://ccsi.global/teams/maiko-takeuchi/
https://rsea.fas.harvard.edu/people/maiko-takeuchi
- strange laws on prostitution and what feels like contradicting ones in many parts of the world? People in some Indian areas used to be circus entertainers but went into prostitution due to particular laws brought about with caste system brought about by the UK. Their families are stuck in these professions due to the difficulties in moving bewteen social castes/classes?
webcam girl statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam_model
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/sex-and-relationships/cam-girl-reality-755176
https://fightthenewdrug.org/how-the-webcamming-industry-traps-the-financially-desperate/
https://www.insidehook.com/culture/what-happens-when-women-run-porn-industry
The 'Anti' Pornstar - Harriet Sugarcookie | UNILAD Original Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVhfunqDeE
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
girls who paid for college via porn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Gone_Wild_(franchise)
https://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2014/03/12/college-student-works-in-pornography-to-pay-tuition/
Knox believes that the public response exhibited a double standard that sex workers face from those who seek their services.[24] In February 2014 Knox gave an interview to the campus newspaper The Chronicle, in which she used the pseudonym "Lauren A.", and referred to her stage name as "Aurora" to avoid identifying herself. She expressed frustration over her treatment stating, "I feel like girls at Duke have to hide their sexuality. We're caught in this virgin-whore dichotomy."[17] Knox published a similar defense on lifestyle website xoJane, but the storm of harassment continued. Knox's identity, contact information, and location were posted, but when Knox contacted the police over the ongoing threats, she said, the police failed to respond seriously to her concerns.[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Knox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_worker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin-whore_dichotomy
In psychoanalytic literature, a Madonna–whore complex (also called a Madonna–mistress complex) is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed and loving relationship.[1] First identified by Sigmund Freud, who called it psychic impotence,[2] it is a psychological complex that is said to develop in men who see women as either saintly Madonnas or debased whores. Men with this complex desire a sexual partner who has been degraded (whore) while they cannot desire the respected partner (Madonna).[3] Freud wrote, "Where such men love they have no desire, and where they desire they cannot love."[4] Clinical psychologist Uwe Hartmann wrote in 2009 that the complex "is still highly prevalent in today's patients".[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna%E2%80%93whore_complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Khalifa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian
Romance Scams (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XfCVk2gZCY
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_porn
Ilona Staller (born 26 November 1951), known by her stage name Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-Italian former porn star, politician, and singer. Staller gained fame in the early 1970s through her radio show Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? and became widely recognized by her stage name Cicciolina. She appeared in numerous films and gained notoriety for being the first to bare her breasts on live Italian television in 1978. Staller ventured into politics and was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, campaigning on a libertarian platform with the Radical Party.
Throughout her career, Staller made provocative offers, such as offering to have sex with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden in exchange for peace. Staller also had a brief marriage to American artist Jeff Koons, with whom she had a son. Despite her controversial career, she has left a lasting impact on popular culture and continues to be remembered for her contributions in the entertainment industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Staller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Next_Door_(2004_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustlers_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Collar_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series)
sextortion
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/image-based-abuse/deal-with-sextortion
https://www.accce.gov.au/sextortionhelp
https://www.police.vic.gov.au/sextortion
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/scams-and-safety/common-frauds-and-scams/sextortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/gold-coast-porn-star-shags-schoolies-team-gets-evicted-from-airbnb/news-story/9c226dfa4f6f35464f9fb892697ce72e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Tribes_Act
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Tribes_Act
India's prostitution villages | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7-Z2xCMgE
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
asian and east european prostitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Europe
Abandoned babies, forged birth records: Surrogacy in the Philippines | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEocVVzjz8k
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- abusive background led to her going to streets. Constantly under flight or attack mode. Got raped and assualted by strangers, pedophile, neighbourhood boys. Started working for smut magazine at 17yrs old. Massage parlour with ~10 girls. 40-60 girls on rotation. Massage parlour law double as brothels and laws are obscure enough to allow it? Law enfocement and politicians know what's going on but don't do anything about it. They act as points for arms, drugs, sex trafficking at the same time as well. Nordic model punshishes purchasers and helps trafficked girls to get out
I was sex trafficked for years. Brothels are hidden in plain sight. | Casandra Diamond | TEDxToront
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6xCRemYw4
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
The elite squad fighting organised crime to free trafficked women in Spain - BBC World Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO2YU2DYi5g
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
- Ketamine therapy used in military PTSD also helpful to deal with anxiety issues in abuse victims. Trafficked, beaten, drugged. Just because people are involved in sex industry doesn't mean it's consensual. Thought she was getting into fitness modelling but was tricked into doing porn films. There were warning signs but she didn't heed them. Was intimiated/forced into signing consent papers, drugged, raped, and filmed. There were a group of girls who took Girls Do Porn to court but didn't get any compensation due to careful asset protection startegies
MY THAI GIRLFRIEND SCAMMED ME OUT OF EVERYTHING VOL - 243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt6nRjavL3o
https://www.youtube.com/@ThailandBound
Why these American men are settling in Kenya and what they really want from Kenyan women | LNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVR1Oz2KiFQ
https://www.youtube.com/@LynnNgugi
I was sex trafficked by GirlsDoPorn Pt.1 || Consider Before Consuming Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVHJW5j7cYQ
My life after being sex trafficked by GirlsDoPorn Pt. 2 || Consider Before Consuming Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUeAmI8v060
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Khalifa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_trauma_syndrome
LAS VEGAS - 60% Chance She's A SEX WORKER (+ MORE TIPS for Newbies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9U1qarBLU
https://www.youtube.com/@TangerineTravels
The hidden lives of sex workers in Brazil's illegal gold mines - BBC World Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md9Ieeq4LvE
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
Exploring grief and shame with children born from rape - BBC World Service Documentaries | 100 Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE9Iq82hy7I
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
who hacks porn websites
https://nypost.com/2018/02/01/porn-sites-are-a-goldmine-for-hackers/
https://fightthenewdrug.org/hackers-steal-private-info-from-porn-sites/
https://www.wired.com/story/porn-site-malware-ransomware-schools-zoom-two-factor-security-news/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jul/12/shopping.newmedia
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug/videos
- first time she saw modern slavery was in 1996 when she met girl in Russia and she was moved from Maldova to Istanbul so that she could be sex trafficked. Girls beaten, threatened, intimidated, drugged, etc... so that they would go along with it. Slavery is everywhere now. California prime destination and they help agriculture, I5 highway is major gateway, Disneyland favoured place to process a sale as it's not as wierd to see an adult with a bunch of kids there, street gangs getting into it too. $40 for 15min sex run by chico gangs for Mexican sex slaves. Food, nail parlours, prostitution, waiters/waitreses/hospitality, contruction works, agriculture fruit pickers, etc... Most slaves in US are American citizens. Common 122 items from 52 countries actually are made by slaves. More slaves per capita now then any other time in human history. Estimates put 3M slaves today. Human trafficking becoming more popular then arms and drugs trafficking now. Women applying for one job are tricked/conned/coerced into prostitution? Female prostitues can go through 40 men a day at casinos. $90 is average price of slave worldwide which is collapse vs cost in 1840 where cost was $5400. Kevin Bales says these people are disposable people. 67K is average profit for 1 girl per brothel. 200-300K US children are sold into slavery each year. International Boulevard, Oakland California on any night of week ~100 kids for sale by pimps (there are similar trends in many parts of the world if you look carefully or are observant). Average age of forced prostitution is 13. Younger girls preferred as more compliant and less likley to run off, only one week to "break them" after sodomy and gang rape they stop trying to run off. Traffickers see humans as commodities rather then individual people. Main issue to stopping human trafficking is lack of awareness. ~75% of people in US found by people who reported/recnogised signs of trafficking which led arrest not intelligence/law enforcement proactive checks/raids. To a certain extent most people's lives in the developed world depend on slavery? There's a lot of talking but not much action regarding human trafficking. Sentences for human trafficking lower then that of drug trafficking, average sentence is ~5yrs with 2yrs served only normal. Education required to reduce demand side of things
Hidden in plain sight - slavery in your Community: Dr. Kate Transchel at TEDxChico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm3UfctR5ZA
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
kate transchel
https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/outstanding-faculty/Pages/Transchel,Kate.aspx
https://upittpress.org/authors/kate-transchel/
abolition movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
fbi trafficking human signs
https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/human-trafficking/recognizing-signs
https://humantraffickinghotoline.org/
https://www.state.gov/identify-and-assist-a-trafficking-victim/
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/human-trafficking
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/topic/human-trafficking
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip
https://slaveryfootprint.org/
https://www.fairtradecertified.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Trade_USA
https://www.fairtrade.net/
pimpology
https://thepowermoves.com/pimpology/
https://www.amazon.com.au/Pimpology-Hunter/dp/1416961046
The Dark Side Of The Porn Industry They DON'T WANT You To Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyZ0FXq6viw
https://www.youtube.com/@gianfrancomartinez
Where Are P0rn Stars Today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOYXWRaI9w
https://www.youtube.com/@Moon-Real
What do sex workers want? | Juno Mac | TEDxEastEnd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Domestic Sex Trafficking - A Survivor's Perspective | Karly Church | TEDxOshawaED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh1emIVHy8g
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Ex Porn Performers Share What Really Happens in the Porn Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rdSxVXxrc
https://www.youtube.com/@FightTheNewDrug
Inside the Global Taskforce Fighting Child Sex Abuse in the Philippines | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYXgHV_SNeY
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Exposing an international human trafficking ring hidden in plain sight | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOran43Ju9U
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
- regardless of whether you're co-erced into it or if you don't want to be found no choice but to enter black economy in many parts of the world?
missing people demographics
https://www.statista.com/statistics/240396/number-of-missing-persons-files-in-the-us-by-race/
Missing Persons: Incidence, Issues and Impacts
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi144.pdf
missing people by country
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/missing-persons-statistics-by-country
One Missing Child Is One Too Many
The lack of a common definition of "missing child," and a common response to the issue, results in few reliable statistics on the scope of the problem around the world.
Even with this challenge, we know that:
In Australia, an estimated 20,000 children are reported missing every year.
Australian Federal Police, National Coordination Centre.
In Canada, an estimated 45,288 children are reported missing each year.
Government of Canada, Canada's Missing – 2015 Fast Fact Sheet.
In Germany, an estimated 100,000 children are reported missing each year.
Initiative Vermisste Kinder.
In India, an estimated 96,000 children go missing each year.
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Missing Children of India.
In Jamaica, an estimated 1,984 children were reporting missing in 2015.
Jamaica's Office of Children's Registry
In Russia, an estimated 45,000 children were reported missing in 2015.
Interview with Pavel Astakhov MIA "Russia Today", Apr. 4, 2016.
In Spain, an estimated 20,000 children are reported missing every year.
Spain Joins EU Hotline for Missing Children, Sep. 22, 2010.
In the United Kingdom, an estimated 112,853 children are reported missing every year.
National Crime Agency, UK Missing Persons Bureau.
In the United States, an estimated 460,000 children are reported missing every year.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, NCIC.
This, however, is only a snapshot of the problem. In many countries, statistics on missing children are not even available; and, unfortunately, even available statistics may be inaccurate due to: under-reporting/under-recognition; inflation; incorrect database entry of case information; and deletion of records once a case is closed.
The lack of numbers, and the discrepancy in the numbers that do exist, is one of the key reasons why ICMEC developed and advocates for the Model Missing Child Framework, which assists countries with building strong, well-rounded national responses, and facilitates more efficient investigations, management, and resolution of missing children cases.
We firmly believe that one missing child is one too many, and we are committed to improving the global understanding of and response to missing and abducted children.
https://globalmissingkids.org/awareness/missing-children-statistics/
phone sex organised crime
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/12/usa.danglaister
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2023/07/01/rise-in-call-center-gangs-tied-to-human-trafficking-and-organized-crime/
https://www.austrac.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-02/AUSTRAC_FCG_DetectingAndStoppingForcedSexualServitude_web.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/08/anom-encrypted-app-fbi-afp-australia-federal-police-sting-operation-ironside-an0m
https://respectqld.org.au/301022-2/
https://www.afp.gov.au/crimes/human-trafficking-and-people-smuggling/human-trafficking-and-slavery
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi436.pdf
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/private-public-partnership-to-tackle-sexual-exploitation
- 10K cases last year in US of human trafficking. ~72% of human trafficking cases are related to sex trafficking. Hotel chains big sources of sex trafficking? Human trafficking contributes ~$99B USD world wide. The more overt sexualism is present in culture at a location the more likely they're to be engaged in human and sex trafficking. Low-brow chain hotels prime candidates for sex trafficking (like Motel 6, Super 8 by Wyndham, Days Inn, Red Roof, La Quinta by Wyndham) but well known ones like Marriot, Hilton, Hyatt, etc... as well. Regular customers, carrying large aounts of cash, indications of coercian, skimpy clothing, no bagage, etc... all indicators human trafficking
Why Hotels Like Marriott Have A Human Trafficking Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjhHYi95rQ
https://www.youtube.com/@CNBC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Trafficking_and_Violence_Protection_Act_of_2000
- bait girls into doing it? Drug or forced into sex work. Strip clubs and escort agencies are double entendre for sex workers? Image modelling job advertisements is front for luring girls offshore into sex work. They ask you to send compromising pictures like kids in cases of sextortion and then use this to force you into sex work?
The Dark Side of Modelling: Uncovered - Paid To Party | In Too Deep | Channel 4 Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whinmj6dlwQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
The Crazy Story From Taylor Bell's Modeling Career
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YGhFuptzWSE
https://www.youtube.com/@DannyMiranda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)
sexting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexting
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/staying-safe/sending-nudes-sexting
sextortion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextortion
https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/image-based-abuse/deal-with-sextortion
https://www.accce.gov.au/sextortionhelp
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/scams-and-safety/common-frauds-and-scams/sextortion
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/afp-warning-over-rise-sadistic-sextortion-online
- Peter Daglish worked in law but then chose to move in different direction/humanitarian work. Convicted and in prison for child sex abuse issues in Nepal. Off duty police officer caught piet hans with 4-5 young kids with undercover kids and he tracked him. Surveillance put on him. Gifts often given to kids but also inappropriate touching. Religion and NGOs are perfect vessel through which to exploit kids? Perpetrators often try/want to buy their way out of justice if caught.
Street kids and orphans are targeted by tourists. Small villages and poorer countries targeted. Little to no screening of people who work for NGOs, UN, etc... Kids of a particular age are trusting of everyone and they're exploited for that reason
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/05/art-imitating-lifehow-music-and_5.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/saving-money-without-sacrificing-random.html
God to Peasant "worship me and I'll protect you."
Peasant "protect me from what."
God "the unspeakable things I will do to you, if you don't."
https://theaimn.com/scomoreligiousbacktrack/
Buying Children in Cambodia | Nefarious Documentary Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIsCEprvtJM
https://www.youtube.com/@ExodusCry
It's a Man's World: Rape in Cambodia | REWIND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuyWUO3gn8k
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Nepal's Children At Risk: The vulnerability of Nepal's poorest children draws humanitarian workers from around the world. But some foreigners exploit the trust of young children, sexually abusing those they claim to protect.
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"I do think that Nepal, like any country where there are a lot of very poor children, is a target because paedophiles look for disposable children", says Llori Handrahan, who tracks abuse by aid workers. Wealthy foreigners like the Canadian Peter Daglish win the trust of entire families. After police surveillance, Daglish was charged with paedophilia, although he denies the allegations. "Since April this year, Nepalese police have charged four other foreigners with similar offences", says filmmaker Steve Chao. Dutch psychologist Piet Hein Van Terwisga is one such man and has been jailed for his crimes. "There's no screening going on whatsoever", Handrahan explains.
For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7538
child grooming
Sexual grooming is the action or behavior used to establish an emotional connection with a vulnerable person – generally a minor under the age of consent[1][2] – and sometimes the victim's family,[3] to lower their inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse.[4][5] It can occur in various settings, including online, in person, and through other means of communication.[6] Children who are groomed may experience mental health issues, including "anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and suicidal thoughts."[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_grooming
Nepal Cracks Down On NGO Workers Exploiting Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDrvXCXM3qY
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dalglish
Pregnant and trapped: Guatemala's child sex abuse crisis | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb72aMa-GO0
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
Sex trafficking isn't what you think it is | Meghan Sobel | TEDxMileHighWomen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyhF7q3_bpk
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Confessions, Silence, and Child Abuse: Secrets of the Clergy | Fault Lines Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgtnpGyf5o
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
5 Signs of a Human Trafficker // Human Trafficking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivM8HSZzusc
https://www.youtube.com/@FaithInEveryDay
child sex tour
Child sex tourism has been closely linked to poverty, armed conflicts, rapid industrialization, and exploding population growth.[10] In Latin America and Southeast Asia, for instance, street children often turn to prostitution as a last resort. Additionally, vulnerable children are easy targets for exploitation by traffickers.[10] South Africa,[11] United States,[12] Thailand, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Dominican Republic, Kenya and Morocco have been identified as leading hotspots of child sexual exploitation.[13] Also, child victim ages have been found in Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand to range from 6 to 11 years old, followed by 12 to 15 years old, and 15 to 17.[14]
In 2012, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography reported: "Countries of origin of international child sex tourists vary depending on the regions, but the demand is usually recognized as coming from the industrialized countries, including the richer countries of Europe, North America, the Russian Federation, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Australians, for instance, have been identified as the largest group of sex tourists prosecuted in Thailand (31 percent of the total). Of the 146 cases investigated by Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) in Cambodia between 2003 and April 2012, 32 were American, 24 French and 20 Vietnamese. In the coastal regions of Kenya, for example, 30 percent were residents and 70 percent of the abusers were foreign: Italians (18 percent), Germans (14 percent), Swiss (12 percent), with tourists coming from Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania fifth and sixth on the list. In Costa Rica, according to available information, between the 1999 and 2005, the Child Exploitation Unit had arrested a total of 74 persons on suspicion of commercial sexual exploitation of children. Of those arrested, 56 were Costa Rican nationals and 18 foreign nationals".[15]
In Thailand, the exact number of child-prostitutes is not known, but Thailand's Health System Research Institute reports that children in prostitution make up 40% of prostitutes in Thailand.[16] In Cambodia, it has been estimated that about a third of all prostitutes are under 18.[17][18] In India, the federal police say that around 1.2 million children are believed to be involved in prostitution.[19] Up until recently, Brazil has been considered to have the worst child sex trafficking record after Thailand.[20] As per Chris Rogers report on BBC World[21] "Now Brazil is overtaking Thailand as the world's most popular sex-tourist destination". DLN reports that "Brazil at the moment is on a high trend of child sex tourism and is all geared to take up the first spot beating out Thailand."[22]
Sex tourism targeting children creates huge monetary incentives for traffickers. Human trafficking impacts an estimated 1.2 million child victims.[23][24] The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) recently stated that 79% of all global trafficking is for sexual exploitation, which is one of the fastest growing criminal activities in the world.[24]
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According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimate, there are 750,000 predators online at any given time in 40,000 public chat rooms. Offers from 20,000 internet users to pay for webcam sex performances were found in a 10-week investigation conducted from a warehouse in Amsterdam, in the Terre des hommes Dutch action against WCST, using "Sweetie", a 3D computer model. Out of 21,000 perpetrators, 1,000 were identified from Australia, Canada, Jamaica, Germany, Ghana, India, Italy, Mauritius, the Netherlands, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 110 of the alleged online abusers were based in the UK and another 254 were traced to computers in the US.[26] Together with Avaaz.org, Terre des Hommes Netherlands has created an online petition to pressure governments to adopt proactive investigation policies in order to protect children against webcam child sex tourism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex_tourism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/02/children-sex-tourists-leave-behind-fathers-visited-philippines
why is sex industry so big in united states
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_States
https://tribuneonlineng.com/top-5-countries-with-the-most-sex-workers-in-the-world/
1. China – 5 million sex workers
2. India – 3 million sex workers
3. United States – 1 million sex workers
"communities of need" as reported in AIDS United in 2023. According to the
4. Philippines – 800,000 sex workers
5. Mexico – 500,000 sex workers
- US pimps more evil then Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists because at least terrorist have an ideology that half makes sense? Pimps are just in it for themselves. Underage girls being pimped out and don't get paid. They're forced into it rather then going into it willingly. Family terminology used: pimp is daddy, fellow prostitutes are sisters, etc... Girls are branded with tattoos. Girls are branded as chattel/products as well. There are codes/terminology used by people involved with this. Special forces also operates against human trafficking?
Ex-Delta Operator on the Extreme Evil of Sex Traffickers | Jeff Tiegs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaoZgRyQLoo
https://www.youtube.com/@DaltonFischerPodcast
Sex Trafficking Survivor interview-Victoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DPNo97OkDY
https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=organised+crime+forced+labour
Human Trafficking -The Signs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWKFp0o6Su8
https://www.youtube.com/@PeelRegionalPoliceOfficial
How to spot human trafficking | Kanani Titchen | TEDxGeorgeSchool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrxhptvEOTs
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Human Trafficking 101: Risk Factors & Traffickers' Tactics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-5XFBFq11o
https://www.youtube.com/@UNBOUNDNOW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattel
Secrets Of The Multi-Billion Dollar Human Trafficking Industry - Sex Slaves - Crime Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtT0V7yNgow
https://www.youtube.com/@ILoveDocs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(2017_TV_series)
Ex-Delta Force Commander is Now Hunting Sex Traffickers With No Mercy - Jeff Tiegs | Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPZ8bxTJgI
https://www.youtube.com/@DaltonFischerPodcast
Hunting Sex Traffickers (with Glenn Devitt) | CA #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfEJFfQIvE
https://www.youtube.com/@thisisironclad
Why Delta Operators are Psychopaths 🫢 | Dale Comstock
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zhRJZOMepNE
https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips/shorts
First time to a brothel in Australia! What to expect!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUFmsRXqlo
https://www.youtube.com/@msjessicajaye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
cartels kidnapped engineers
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/radio-silence/
https://www.edn.com/kidnapped-engineers-enslaved-by-drug-cartels/
https://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143442365/mexico-busts-drug-cartels-private-phone-networks
- parents joined religious organisation in 90s. Parents were told their kids were called to God at age 12 but were actually labour trafficked. If didn't do as told they were beaten, abused, not fed, etc... They were taken to multiple states around country to do labour. Phone calls were monitored so couldn't get help. Friend died after she was worked too hard and immune system shut down. Escaped after 9 years while acting as waiter as restaurant. Could only heal once he embraced/acknowledged what happened to him via therapy and developed relationships with others
My Experience as a Labor Trafficking Survivor | Elijah Muhammed | TEDxDayton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fovsme5Ljt4
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
Reporters - Morocco: the hellish world of sex tourism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR8pXCNnIww
https://www.youtube.com/@France24_en
The Senegalese Island That's a Magnet for Paedophiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tqJPAKUms0
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
- fastest growing black market is human trafficking: women and children. Cheap labour and cheap sex are most favoured. Human trafficking everywhere now. Was introducted to it while studying at College/University. 27M trafficked worldwide currently. 98% are females/girls for sex. Organised crime moved to human trafficking after law enforcement success in drug trafficking. Agriculture, restaurant/hospital, commercial residental/domestic work, textile and garment factories, etc... 90% of forced labour in private economy. In 2010, DOJ alleges global/labour horizons hired 400 Thai slaves and took away their passports/visas, forced debt, deporting those that didn't agree, etc... More research required as reasons for human trafficking different in different parts of world. Special tribunals/courts deal with human trafficking in US. Laws in US strange where prostitution is illegal. Prostitute gets treated more harshly then purchaser of sex because they're soliciting? Human trafficking is driven by supply and demand so report it. Average age of prostituion for girls in US is 12-14yrs old which is also average age of human trafficking start
Why you should care: the human trafficking footprint in the U.S. | Ryan L. Brooks | TEDxJerseyCity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YCncaE1Ho
https://www.youtube.com/@TEDx
- human trafficking is sometimes used to run counterfeit/cheap food factories. They're often run with poor safety and regularly shutdown due to poor standards
Walk through: Illegal food factory in Johannesburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X9_AMM080c
Sauces, cookies & bottled water produced in filthy Joburg sweatshops, staffed by foreigners, kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgll3xVihs
https://www.youtube.com/@thecitizen_news
The Wine Industry Scam... (They Make a Fool Out of You)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xOedkdRvOY
https://www.youtube.com/@thefactuallychannel
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sour+grapes+documentary
How the FBI Finally Solved The Great Wine Scam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioj25fSLVb8
https://www.youtube.com/@Therichest
- 1/5 fish caught is done illegally globally. Organised crime groups often steal food from farms making it difficult for them to be profitable or even from neighboring countries/regions which depletes food stocks and makes them unsustainable
7 Of The Most Faked Seafoods In The World | Big Business Marathon | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjZJeKyV00
6 Of The Most Smuggled Foods In The World | So Expensive | Business Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgWwg2Ykew
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
On the FRONTLINES: Illegal Fishing in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbQL_mXFQQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Sea.Shepherd
Unseen menace: tracking China's elusive fishing fleets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kfioTMk3uI
https://www.youtube.com/@F24Observers
The Italian Mafia's New Weapon: Olive Oil | Food Fraud Mafia Investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyrangVexI
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Criminal gangs exploiting the olive oil crisis in Spain | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbT04og2veo
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
- came from border between India and Pakistan area. Enforced child labour, forced marriage, etc... entrenched in some societies (such as India, Pakistan, Nepal). She was forced into become tailor at ~9yrs age in Nepal. Lived, slept, ate, worked, etc... in same place. Paid by contract ~$2USD per day for 12-15hrs per day and amount of clothes delivered. If can't deliver enough clothes in a day no money. No days off/weekends. Clothes dye stays stuck to skin and can only get it off with kerosense and now they're stuck with smell of kerosense. Most of the clothes looks very similar. She started talking to clothes as a way of dealing with that life. After 2yrs it got shutdown and agent ran off with 2mths of salary. Other co-workers found work at another sweat shop while she remained a street kid. A monk helped to educate her and she sold goods she made to stores direct rather then going through agent which allowed them to make more money. She and other women moved into that life and developed some independence too. Heaps of people in US/West unaware that their goods depend on human trafficking/forced/child labour?
I Am A Child Labor Survivor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=956WWBGN5bc
https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzFeedVideo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
women's empowerment centre nepal
https://www.facebook.com/womenempowermentcentre/
We have successfully completed the 8th batch of training in the last 4 years (2014-2018), providing essential job-oriented skills in our Women's Empowerment Centre, Ghachowk, Kaski, Nepal. for about 200 single women living under the poverty level.
Most of these women have already been empowered by becoming successful small business entrepreneurs and others have been employed in other jobs. We are happy to have provided them a second chance to live their lives with financial independence.
https://www.ncf-nepal.org/newsletter_posts/womens-empowerment-centre/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=castaway+wilson
Cast Away (6/8) Movie CLIP - I'm Sorry, Wilson! (2000) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtgKIFoQfE
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement
- Black Book contains name of people banned from casinos. They're often from organised crime groups. Slug are coin on end of string to avoid having to pay money for slot machines. Tommy Carmichael started in television repair, friend introducted him to beating casino slot machines. Early models were mechnically based. Later versions required you to complete a circuit to trigger a win which he devised a tool to help him win/cheat. Kept no moving to new casinos to stop from getting caught. Winning was easy, hiding how he cheated wasn't. ~5yrs before he got caught and he was sent to prison for ~5yrs. Met michael balsamo in prison where he developed better strategies. Had to buy a new slot machine to understand and develop tool to beat it. Mechanical tool used to beat microswitch which controlled how much money released. CCTV surveillance made things harder but they used signs and marketing material to hide their activities. Machines changed so that optic sensors now used to determine how much money was released so he used a light wand to beat it. Sold light wants for 12-13K each and also played himself as well. Timing delay used to stop light wand. In 1996 caught again but he threw away want and lawyer used technicality to get him off. Ticket in, ticket in out machines used to beat devices which manipulated coin release mechanism. He beat this by manipulating input mechanism for cash. Got caught again but then bargained for reduced sentence. Michael Malsamo and his family tried to continue to cheat, family got caught and Michael fled. Modern slot machines are basically computers now. Organised crime often had/have part ownership in casinos. Pits in casinos started getting hit bank robbery style by LA gang kids. Pits used to be poorly secured but things have become much better now
This Man Spent Decades Outsmarting Vegas' Slot Machines | Cheating Vegas | Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts70LHeJXU4
https://www.youtube.com/@WonderDocs
tommy carmichael
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Vegas
https://hotchip.co.uk/tommy-carmichael/
https://thedarkroom.co.uk/how-tommy-carmichael-stealthed-millions-from-las-vegas/
The Casino Chip Forgers Who Scammed Vegas For Millions | Cheating Vegas S1 EP3 | Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvFvi9QO3Q
https://www.youtube.com/@WonderDocs
- cheating casinos is difficult and dangerous so avoid it if you can. That said, over his entire career of 2 decades He did it without getting caught. Griffin investigations, private investigators hire to try catch him but never did. People thought he a was a technical cheater but he was just making probability bets in his favour. Savannah move was one which involved escalatting bets when a mistake was made by the dealer which meant that if he lost he lost small but if he won he won big. Scams all similar Walkaway scam similar to Savannah move. He hooked up with a bunch of other casino cheaters. Worked in teams of 3. Hand/body signals used instead of verbal. Busy times are best such as New Years Eve when surveillance may be overrun. They split everything equally to avoid fallouts/conflicts. Italian Mafia/mob used to skim from count rooms. Tony spliotro, hole gang. He was threatened as there were suspicions he was cheating but no proof. Different strategies used to cheat for different games. UK is most difficult place to cheat as extensive supervision. Italians were best casino cheats. One day at Golden Nugget they stopped paying. Golden nugget incident and increased penalties for cheating effectively ended his cheating career. Nevada game board can push for 1yr jail sentence but in Europe things very liberal if caught. Best defense is to understand cheating and take proactive measures to protect against it. Law enforcement have lot of options to gain background on potential. SLot machines are predictable? Chinese and Russian labs have good experience in beating them? Casino cheating is part of business like shoplifting for retail. Much like card counting casinos are taking measures to push odds back in their favour like Roulette, Blackjack, Bacarrat. Has now become game protection consultant. Statute of limitations for casino cheating different between jurisdictions, 3yrs in Nevada/US, unlimited in Canada
How Casino Scams Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKyT-2mr1bI
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Spilotro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole-in-the-Wall_Gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
The Casino Chip Forgers Who Scammed Vegas For Millions | Cheating Vegas S1 EP3 | Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvFvi9QO3Q
https://www.youtube.com/@WonderDocs
Professional Gambler Exposes Casinos For CHEATING & Reveals How He Beat The Vegas Odds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJWMIue2Bo
https://www.youtube.com/@theconnectpod
The Man Who Got Banned From Vegas For Winning $11M…
He Won $11.5M in Vegas and Got Banned For Life…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bLlqRJPa5sQ
https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira/shorts
- bait professoinal sports people them into betting bigger and bigger? Then try to gain it back by getting them to do certain things during a game which people can bet on? Manipulate the spread by foulding/benching certain players via coaches/referees? Very hard to get caught if you're quite about things
Michael Franzese Sr (/frænˈziːs/)[2] (né Grillo; born May 27, 1951) is an American former mobster who was a caporegime in the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese. Franzese was enrolled in a pre-med program at Hofstra University, but dropped out to make money for his family after his father was sentenced to 50 years in prison for bank robbery in 1967. He eventually helped implement a scheme to defraud the federal government out of gasoline taxes in the early 1980s.
By the age of 35, in 1986, Fortune Magazine listed Franzese as number 18 on its list of the "Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia Bosses".[3] Franzese claimed that at the height of his career, he generated up to $8 million per week. In 1986, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison on conspiracy charges, released in 1989, rearrested in 1991 for a parole violation, and ultimately released in 1994. Soon after, he retired to California and is now a motivational speaker and writer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franzese
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sports+betting+rigging
Michael Franzese on How He Forced Pro Athletes to Shave Points in Games (Part 17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uGfeivlVFo
https://www.youtube.com/@vladtv
Inside The Gambling Ring of NBA Referee Tim Donaghy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZOLwxCStAc
https://www.youtube.com/@VICESports
Dirty Football Business: When Humans Become Commodities | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCGmr-r6uj0
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
- organised crime involvement in the finance/loan market is interesting. In general, you'll see loan sharks step in when normal banks/financial institutions fail. When people still can't deal with this they often end up going to organised crime groups. The trouble with them isn't just servicing the loan but what happens if you can't pay it back as well. They can either react violently or else decide to take your labour or even your life
The Trap: Inside the blackmail scam destroying lives across India - BBC World Service Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JilJhn_tP-c
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCWorldService
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_shark
- used to be an insider who protected lottery security but became corrupted/got ideas and used modified code to win multiple times
Man Won $24 Million By Hacking Lottery Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkuUjv9vfk
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOvernightMillionaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Lotto_fraud_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_fraud
- the more businesses you have the easier it is to launder mone. Between 2002 and 2011, 1.08T departed China illegally despite currency countrols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
The ART of MONEY LAUNDERING (Mini Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ezTCiwwyg
https://www.youtube.com/@GameTheSystem
- entertainment and sports such as casinos and betting markets are great ways to make and launder money too. Same methods of recruitment as usual: threaten, bribery/corruption, extortion/blackmail, etc... ~60-70% of cricket matches can be fixed? Financial markets and sports betting market rigging are the same but opposite. Financial market rigging involves betting big and early while sports betting rigging/betting involves better big but late. Makes sense when you understand how bets and spreads work. It's easier to rig and manipulate betting markets if a smaller number of people are involved obviously
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/02/cryptocurrency-market-manipulation.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-vix-script-jim-simonsed-thorp.html
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/13/fbi-raid-polymarket-founder-trump-election
Cricket's Match Fixers l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlk4izYVmw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Warne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Waugh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_bookmaker_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Dirty Football Business: When Humans Become Commodities | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCGmr-r6uj0
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
How the Sports Betting Industry Quietly Consumed America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5bTZRhncY
How to Beat the Casino, and How They'll Stop You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ongqf93rAcM
https://www.youtube.com/@Wendoverproductions
The Mathematics of the Casino | What people get wrong about gambling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHgbkeaRkEQ
https://www.youtube.com/@zachstar
What the Gambling Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Informer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABj7peI_R2M
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
The Big Gamble: The world of online sports betting in the US | Fault Lines Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9qp9UftEE
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
How I got banned from sports betting (Using Maths) | Arbitrage Betting Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kDTwP6SBx4
https://www.youtube.com/@ShaneHuang88
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_(2008_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(2014_film)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=billions+at+the+track
Behind The Algorithm - How to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YfpdB6rIxo
https://www.youtube.com/@BehindTheAlgorithm/videos
Billions - Bobby Axelrod explains how to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Arn8S76yg8
https://www.youtube.com/@emericatrader/videos
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/04/market-consolidationneo-feudalism.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_(TV_series)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=billions+at+the+track
Behind The Algorithm - How to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YfpdB6rIxo
https://www.youtube.com/@BehindTheAlgorithm/videos
Billions - Bobby Axelrod explains how to follow the big money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Arn8S76yg8
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Murder%2C+Jockeys%2CDrugs+and+Race+fixing+in+Australia+4+corners
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=horse+race+fixing+4+corners
Murder, Jockeys,Drugs and Race fixing in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcCoOYNIBZo
https://www.youtube.com/@Aussiecriminals
The dark side of Australia's horse racing industry | 7.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp-ALoBRW20
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
danny nikolic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Nikolic
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/former-jockey-danny-nikolic-charged-with-burglary-stalking-car-theft-and-assault-20240619-p5jmyb.html
https://practicalpunting.com.au/pp-online/pp-blog-stable/hot-gossip/betting-probedanny-nikolic-and-brother-named-over
sports betting organised crime
https://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/Publications/2022/Global_Report_on_Corruption_in_Sport_Chapter_9.pdf
https://www.unodc.org/res/safeguardingsport/grcs/section-9_html/SPORTS_CORRUPTION_2021_S9.pdf
https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2024/Web-of-crime-exposed-5-100-arrests-in-illegal-football-gambling-crackdown
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/19/austrac-inquiry-sportsbet-ladbrokes-bet365-money-laundering-investigation-gambling
https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/aleague-footballers-arrested-in-betting-corruption-investigation/news-story/d78883c80efd0760310e7ebace30b28b
https://www.occrp.org/en/news/un-corruption-in-sport-worth-17-trillion-annually
Key Points of the Report:Money Laundering through Athlete Transfers: Criminal organisations use the transfer of athletes, especially young football players, to disguise illicit financial flows. Unlicensed agents and intermediaries often target poor areas and exploit young talent for financial gain. Funds generated from these activities disappear into complex laundering schemes involving multiple companies and countries, making oversight increasingly challenging.Illegal Betting and Match Manipulation: The proliferation of online betting has significantly increased the risks of match-fixing, which is often used as a vehicle for money laundering. Advanced technologies like cryptocurrencies and anonymous payment platforms further exacerbate the issue by facilitating anonymity and quick transactions. Lower-tier events and youth competitions are particularly vulnerable due to lower surveillance and easier access to illicit operations.International Collaboration: The global nature of these illicit activities, as highlighted in the report, demands urgent and close international cooperation. The report underscores the importance of cooperative networks among sports authorities, justice entities, and international organizations to facilitate real-time data and information exchange. Centralised, secure platforms would allow monitoring of suspicious betting patterns and financial transactions, helping combat money laundering in sports.Case Studies Included in the Report:Match Fixing in Tennis: A criminal organisation in Belgium exploited betting on lower-profile tournaments, generating millions in illegal profits.Human Trafficking in Sports Academies: A football academy in Portugal was involved in trafficking minors for exploitation.Money Laundering through Horse Racing: The Los Zetas cartel used horse racing and trading in the U.S. to launder profits from drug trafficking.More cases are listed.Horseracing doping scheme in the United StatesLinkages between football and organised crime in MexicoBribery in biathlonCompetition manipulation and money[1]laundering in IrelandOperation 'Cyclone' Unveils Drug Trafficking Network Linked to Spanish FootballUNODC will continue to advance research on the connection between corruption in sports and other crimes, drawing on past experiences and international best practices to develop solutions that maintain integrity in the sports arena.Sourcehttps://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/safeguardingsport/newsandevents/game-over_-unodc-exposes-the-link-between-corruption-and-organized-crime-in-sport.html
https://www.comsuregroup.com/news/game-over-unodc-exposes-the-link-between-corruption-and-organized-crime-in-sport/
https://www.unodc.org/documents/Safeguardingsport/Publications/Game_Over.pdf
horse performance enhancing drugs
The drugs that are most used include NSAIDs, steroids, and bronchodilators. The other option for drug use involves doping to lose where the ability of the horse is impaired in some way. The most common drugs for this category are sedatives or tranquilizers.
A Review of Therapeutic Drugs Used for Doping of Race Horses
https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/40c35ace-0aed-4b65-a610-18ccaa6d6b5e/content
https://horseracingkills.com/issues/drug-use/
https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/horse-racing-2/horse-racing-industry-cruelty/drugs/
https://ker.com/equinews/prohibited-substances-feed-and-the-performance-horse/
- after you examine enough data it is very difficult to distinguish between criminals, terrorist groups, some politicians, and a lot of corporate behaviour?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/02/wikipedia-people-list-correlation_2.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/EmpireFiles/videos
The World Today with Tariq Ali
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2jL6qpuYAcQKCjRrmGDD2rVE0szr_qVE
https://www.youtube.com/user/telesurenglish/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=davos+man
"Davos Man": How Billionaires Devour the World & Fuel Global Inequality, Prolonging the Pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7BpgDifxc
How Davos Man Devours the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EimOMmsgJfw
Billionaire Can't Comprehend Why People Hate Billionaires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRTGVxjpRHo
Renegade Inc _ Capitalism Closed for Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-44ngyYoA
Winners Take All _ Anand Giridharadas _ Talks at Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM
The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me - Cooperman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSONye1F5M
The Global Power Elite - A Transnational Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsdJhSI63uQ
ACAB: Why All Cops Are Bastards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvjGocdugw
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
Why is the West is So Rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U-ddRc6GqU
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-much-has-changed-from.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/02/living-without-google-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-server-global-sampling.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=billions+monster
'I Am A Monster' Ep. 2 Official Clip | Billions | Season 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmCAoPPX5c
BE AM A MONSTER - AXE MOTIVATION - BOBBY AXELROD BILLIONS MOTIVATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWtXuSJVvv0ian
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blacklist+criminals+and+multinationals+run+the+world
multi corporations and criminals run the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-uOee9bCw
Raymond 'Red' Reddington : [outside the White House with Elizabeth] People think it matters who occupies that house. It doesn't. Multinational corporations and criminals run the world.
James Spader as Raymond 'Red' Reddington - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3265304/characters/nm0000652
https://screenrant.com/the-blacklist-reddington-best-quotes/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+americans+you%27re+a+monster
The Americans 2x05 - "You're a monster!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYHmUQFngw
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+interview+movieclips
The Interview (2014) - A Fake Friend Scene (10_10) _ Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74PUHyVj4BQ
The Interview (2014) - They're Honeypotting Us Scene (2_10) _ Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpUxSXWy6I
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sicario+land+of+wolves
Sicario (11/11) Movie CLIP - A Land of Wolves (2015) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJJBMXiwiI
Sicario (Ending Scene) : This is the land of wolves now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L7ZDA9X1k8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Collins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_East_India_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_East_India_Company
- child labour, illegal labour, slavery, organised criminal gangs in areas where this stuff happens, etc... are well and truly still alive still. People trafficking is largest illegal employment agency in the world? Obvious that a lot of countries use it to make money to keep it going?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/07/international-manufacturing-youtube.html
Toxic Labels: What is Behind Cheap Clothes | Textile Industry | Fashion | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFEs0uDp_BQ
The Real Price of Cosmetics | Behind Glitter Child Labor Industry | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSc8XurQ4_k
The Real Price of your Cell Phone | Mobile Phone | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxLHXHjpal8&t=302s
The World's Junkyard for Electronic Scrap | Digital Dumping in Ghana | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVnu0doouJI
The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axYKPbr9_MA
Soccer Slavery: The African Football Slaves of the 21st Century | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zou_HlotKKE
Israel's Illegal Kidney Market | Organ Trafficking | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYcx0etm_Sw
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
China Desperately Grapples With Its Plastic Waste Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsJVaL5vLc
The Hidden Truth Behind Sweden's Waste Disposal Infrastructure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caw-969W-D4
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
Ghana: fast fashion's dumping ground | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC5KYX74AP4
The Kenyan farmers killed for their crops | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNleYGf8ty4
The dark secrets of sumo wrestling | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3y80b9_QA
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
slavery agriculture
Recent Industry Examples
Enslavement on Thai fishing vessels to assist in producing seafood sold across the world, including to Australia.6
Immigrant labourers on farms being routinely abused.7
Employers withholding wages or forcing staff to work at rates lower than those previously agreed.
Labour agents confiscating the passports of migrant workers, often with little grasp of English, forcing them to work and live in squalid conditions.
Recruitment fees payable by employees from future wages.8
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/9cb18e6c/food-for-thought-the-modern-slavery-acts-impact-in-fresh-food-retail-wholesale-and-agriculture
2021-07-23
Behind the picture-perfect postcards, modern slavery is prevalent in the Australian agricultural industry.
https://greens.org.au/magazine/dangers-farm-work-australia
https://88daysaslave.com/
underage workers statistics
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/
The International Labour Organisation states in its 2013 World Report on Child Labour that there were around 265 million working children in the world—almost 17 per cent of the worldwide child population. According to the publicly available data discussed in more detail below, Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where child labor is most prevalent.
https://ourworldindata.org/child-labor
Fast facts: Child labor
Child labor, by definition, is a violation of child protection and human rights.
Approximately 160 million children have been forced into child labor since 2020. Of these children, 63 million were girls, and 97 million were boys. And nearly half of those young laborers — 79 million children — worked under hazardous conditions.
1 in 3 children in child labor are out of school.
Approximately 70% (112 million) of child laborers work in agriculture like farming and livestock herding.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest number of child laborers at 86.6 million children, followed by Central and Southern Asia with 26.3 million.
June 12 marks the United Nations–sanctioned World Day Against Child Labour, a time to reflect on young workers deprived of their childhood, education, and a rightful future.
https://www.worldvision.org/child-protection-news-stories/child-labor-facts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Spurlock
https://www.holychickenusa.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me_2:_Holy_Chicken!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=holy+chicken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-Joon_Chang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hudson_(economist)
North Korea's Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroes (Documentary) ⎜WHY SLAVERY?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe0p6lK-fYs
https://www.youtube.com/@THEWHYFoundation
Investigation: How North Korea Kidnapped Hundreds from Around the World | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5I8kvtebFk
https://www.youtube.com/@JavaDiscover
Why does North Korea hate America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbHSQSRG5FE
Why They Hate The USA: CUBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgWK6_AYq_o
https://www.youtube.com/@YaBoiHakim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Backyard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_family
Illegals, from hell to the European dream - Complete documentary in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xmScQEN5io
https://www.youtube.com/@Investigation
From Nigeria to Morocco - In search of a better life in Europe | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsgh_5AIxw
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
Dark Waters: Africa's deadliest migration route - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajX6NaVks3w
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
Migrating to the US through the deadly Darien Gap | Fault Lines Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlLb-TV7_c
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Exploited in South Korea: Migrant workers fight for their rights | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3dHEY2Zoc
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- endless crime and corruption when you know where to look?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_opportunity
The ATM Glitch That Made a Millionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Fi_a9QATM
https://www.youtube.com/@Joeseppi
How a back injury turned a doting father into a fentanyl kingpin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-MeK5-NaQ
https://www.youtube.com/@WashingtonPost
How The Wealthy Hide Billions Using Tax Havens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46W5MSk-NBk
https://www.youtube.com/@BusinessInsider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-Saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chapo_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs_(film_series)
The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk
All the Prime Minister's Men | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6v_levbUN4
The Minister's Millions I Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-U3PB4xjQ
Stealing paradise l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15N9K3wXh0Y
Anatomy of a Bribe | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FJ1TB0nwHs
The Truth Illusion | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0URbems8M
The Oligarchs l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughFLQDcI_Q
Thailand's Fearless Cop | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76hxGsXN2EI
She Zhijiang: Discarded Chinese spy or criminal mastermind? | 101 East Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls8Y-2HmvHI
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
China's illegal police stations in 53 countries | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9ubuwBDkI
China's dirty tactics to control the Pacific | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzW1APWxBjs
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
How Putin's Oligarchs Hide Their Billions | Investigators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyx-7CZJfg
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
The Bratva: Russia's Global Crime Syndicate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkciItLCLJ4
The Business of Blood: An Industry that Exploits the Poor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOXCrwX1QZ8
https://www.youtube.com/@IntotheShadows
How Dubai became a haven for criminals from around the world | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i823AhR8zKQ
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
Laundering Drug Millions - The Invisibles - Crime Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4p24gW5Yp8
https://www.youtube.com/@BanijayCrime
Why Everything Is A Scam (Except For Scams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD065AplgiU
https://www.youtube.com/@HowMoneyWorks
Gabor Maté on Moral Fragmentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRvKfDdJ0Sw
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisHedgesChannel
We can do better. We must do better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU3aIpMRRMU
Oligarchy is not just a Russian phenomenon. It exists right here in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2uyVqSnNs
https://www.youtube.com/@BernieSanders
How a billionaire scored hours of glowing coverage | Media Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElfAngpSh6I
Gambling money controlling media and government | Media Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy_fYjVoS9w
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooter_(2007_film)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shooter+mountain+scene
Shooter (8/8) Movie CLIP - I Won, You Lost (2007) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIN6AtTxFgE
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lord+of+war+interrogation+scene
Lord Of War (2005) - Interrogation Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwE0LGMl3CE
Lord of War final scene...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZ4Rvxhx5w
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mission+impossible+rabbit%27s+foot+
Mission Impossible III - The Purpose of Rabbit's foot..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h40sClPbcOQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(law)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_trustee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Xia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Wyness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/8/10/how-convicted-criminal-can-buy-famous-english-football-club-launder-money
- immigration scams are sort of looped in with human trafficking. Lots of variations of this. Basically, target is promised the world if they pay a fee up front. They're then transported illegally or without proper documentation and dropped into the target country without adequate support whether they may be potential slave, young aspiring sports professional, etc...
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/fake-students-complain-to-indian-newspaper-after-australian-ghost-college-crackdown/news-story/c3fa1380e67d18794b2bc7998a2160d8
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/colleges-shut-thousands-of-students-lose-qualifications-in-fake-diploma-crackdown-20241127-p5ktx4.html
Shocking Truth About Russian Mail Order Brides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNaEaqr8Owc
https://www.youtube.com/@AgentNesty/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_affair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_migrant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_of_labour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impediment_to_expulsion
The Shady Business of Trafficking Desperate Refugees | Lethal Cargo | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kWRBmdUUZY
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Soccer Slavery: The African Football Slaves of the 21st Century | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zou_HlotKKE
Inside the Modern British Slave Business | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZZNT7v05MI
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
- usual methods of avoiding justice are changing jurisdiction, going to location where there is no extradition agreement in place, another option for high end criminals is to buy immigration papers to avoid extradition?
The Cyprus Papers Undercover | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj18cya_gvw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_Papers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Skase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_immunity
- if you didn't know, crime does tend to run in particular families and social circles. Whether you're fighting it or participate in it once you've chosen a particular side it's hard to break out of it. Note, most criminals go to prison for low level crimes like drugs, burglaries, etc... not murder, violent assaults, racketeering, etc...
avo order violation statistics
In 2020–21, 63,711, or 84.2 per cent of people on an active order were not recorded with a breach. Although most people do not breach, in 2020-21, 11,919 people were recorded with at least one breach of a family violence order. This was an increase from 9,008 in 2015–16.
https://www.vic.gov.au/ending-family-violence-annual-report-2021/family-violence-outcomes-framework-measures/domain-3-perpetrators/perpetrators-stop-all-forms-of-family-violence-behaviour
recidivism statistics
In Victoria, 39.5% of prisoners released during 2020–21 returned to prison within two years (to 2022–23). This rate is slightly lower than the Australian rate of 42.5%. The Northern Territory had the highest rate at 58.2%, and South Australia had the lowest rate at 29.0%.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sentencing-statistics/released-prisoners-returning-to-prison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_contemplative_programs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgiven_(2017_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_Time,_Doing_Vipassana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dhamma_Brothers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scared_Straight!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Scared_Straight
does crime run in families
A large Swedish study including 12.5 million men and women found much continuity between violent crime in families, reporting that first-degree relatives (i.e., parents and siblings) were 4.3 times more likely to engage in violent crime than matched controls (Frisell, Lichtenstein & Langstrom 2011).
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/19-1415-FinalReport.pdf
When Crime Is a Family Affair
Kids have a habit of imitating their parents' criminal behavior. It's no wonder, then, that by one measure, 10 percent of families account for two-thirds of criminals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/crime-runs-family/573394/
Crime families: Gender and the intergenerational transfer of criminal tendencies
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi414.pdf
do people normally send their kids to school close to home
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-31/how-you-can-send-your-child-to-school-outside-catchment-zone/11914606
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/where-do-your-neighbours-send-their-kids-to-school-20171031-gzbms3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club
jail sentences for crimes in australia
Did you know that of the more than 23 000 sentenced offenders received
into Australian prisons each year:
• Only about 1 in 10 are likely to remain in custody for one year or more;
• Most have been convicted of property offences (almost one third) or driving offences (almost one quarter);
• Fewer than 1 in 6 are violent offenders, and
• Of those convicted of murder, most serve between 10 and 12 years in
prison?
It is suspected that for most readers, these items of information, together with many others contained in this Trends and Issues, will amount to new facts about prison sentences in this country. They are facts which have been ingeniously deduced from existing prison statistics to provide, for the first time in Australia, an overview of the sentences which are actually being imposed by the nation's courts.
It will be seen that these sentences vary substantially between jurisdictions. For instance, offenders imprisoned in the most populous states of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria overall serve longer terms (on average over six months) than do those in other jurisdictions (on average less than four months); and Aborigines are not only sentenced to prison at twenty times the rate of non-Aborigines, but also tend to go to prison for less serious offences than non-Aborigines. Disparities like these require immediate discussion and redress. The data presented here are intended to contribute to such dialogue and action.
Duncan Chappell
Director
No.20 Prison Sentences in Australia Estimates of the Characteristics of Offenders Sentenced to Prison in 1987-88 John Walker
https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi020.pdf
https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/about-sentencing/maximum-penalties
jail sentences for crimes statistics
In 2022–23, the most common sentencing outcomes in the Magistrates' Court were:
fines (52.3% of sentenced cases)
adjourned undertakings (18.5% of sentenced cases)
imprisonment (7.9% of sentenced cases).
Cases receiving a fine have decreased, from a high of 60.6% in 2007–08. In 2022–23, 52.3% of cases received a fine.
Cases receiving an adjourned undertaking have increased, from a low of 9.4% in 2006–07 to a high of 18.5% in 2022–23.
The rate of imprisonment increased from 4.9% in 2004–05 to 13.0% in 2019–20. But that rate has since fallen steadily to 7.9% in 2022–23.
In 2022–23, suspended sentences were imposed in just 18 cases, down from a high of 7,659 cases in 2009–10. Wholly and partially suspended sentences have been phased out in the Magistrates' Court for offences committed after 1 September 2014. However, suspended sentences can still be imposed for historical offences.
The use of community correction orders (CCOs) (or community-based orders before January 2012) has fluctuated. Cases receiving a community order increased from 5.3% in 2007–08 to a high of 10.5% in 2015–16 and 2016–17, before decreasing to a low of 6.2% in 2020–21. In 2022–23, 6.9% of cases received a CCO.
Note: The percentages in the graph include cases that received a criminal justice diversion plan. The criminal justice diversion plan is not a sentence, but it is an important disposition available in the Magistrates' Court.
https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/sentencing-statistics/sentencing-outcomes-magistrates-court
- sort of funny how drug trafficking has evolved and how cyber has crossed over? Reminds me of cross over between car theives/burglaries of high tech secure homes/businesses
How this Nerdy Teen Became a $32.7 Million Drug Trafficker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAvYgpI9YnQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VinceVintage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali_Nine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schapelle_Corby
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/mercedes-corby-sues-federal-police-after-raids-on-seven-west-media?CMP=gu_com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mass_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacklist
- there are sex offender villages? It's known as area where there are sex offenders but normal people live there as well. Sex offenders have heavier sentences then violent offenders and murderers? Life is difficult once you become a criminal and/or sex offender. Limewire sting program caught some people, others just mistook age of relationships, others were drunk and made a mistake, etc... Only people who helped them after their offences were people who had previously been in jail with them. Tragic irony is that much of the trafficking is done by people in wealthier countries to people in poorer ones. You can't fix this without reducing inequality and getting rid of the attraction in the first place?
Miracle Village (officially City of Refuge since 2014)[1] is a community on Muck City Road, about three miles (4.8 km) east of Pahokee, Florida, that serves as a haven for registered sex offenders. It is located within one of the most isolated and poorest parts of Palm Beach County.[2][3] The site was chosen because of its isolation given that the sex offender residence restrictions do not apply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Village
I Investigated the City Where Only Criminals Live...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmJ9gMQrZoE
https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira
limewire child porn operation
https://www.bernardbrody.com/case-results/child-pornography-charges-dismissed-against-cobb-county-teacher/
Police stings
Police sting operations involving police actively soliciting offenders on the internet are shown in Table 4. The first most notable sting operation was mounted in the US in Operation Rip Cord in 1997. Rip Cord commenced after a bookseller involved in the adult pornography trade in New York approached the New York State Attorney General about the widespread availability of child pornography online. In conjunction with the US Customs Service, a sting was mounted in which law enforcement officials posed as trading partners online for the sale of child pornography. Some 1,500 leads worldwide sought child pornography from them.
The Italian police operation known as Amantideibambini shadowed an internet-based child pornography group based in Russia. Members of that group were enticed to join Amantideibambini and when the sting was conducted there were 1,032 subscribers under investigation. The sting was apparently set up to capture those accessing a Russian child sexual abuse site, which supplied hard-core video material. It was reported that the Russian site involved children abducted from orphanages, circuses and public parks who were filmed while being forced to perform sexual acts.
Operation PIN represents the adoption of a cooperative preventive approach by police from Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. In this ongoing operation the police maintain a 'honeypot' web site that presents itself as offering explicit child pornographic content. As browsers click through screens warning of the explicit nature of the content, they come to a screen that announces that their attempt to obtain online child pornography has been tracked and will be reported to local police. The purpose of this operation is not simply to capture those who might come to this particular site but to undermine the presumed anonymity of the internet.
The police stings shown in Table 5 are representative of police investigations based on the monitoring of internet traffic. It is notable that the Greater Manchester Police in the United Kingdom made an early commitment to implement this type of monitoring activity. The numbers of arrests reported are similar to other types of operations investigating private groups.
International police operations against online child pornography
https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi296
The depraved world of online predators who hunt children | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4vuWBDy_NM
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
The UK's fight against child sexual abuse online | SBS Dateline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF75rooxoB0
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSDateline
Hunting A Predator On The Dark Web | Undercover Asia | FD Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKWIha7MDo8
https://www.youtube.com/@FDCrime
- kidnapped one day from petrol station and then pimped out to thousands of men in Las Vegas when ~16-19yrs of age. During day a few hundred pimps on the strip. Pimp took 100% of money. Girls could be 13-15yrs gold. Bars are where deals are done for sex. All sorts of people use prostitutes: married men, celebrities, virgins, executives, etc... Trauma bonding, isolation, coercian, control, manipulation are used to keep the prostitute bonded to their pimp. Prostitutes work for 12-16hrs/3-6K per day for no money for their pimp and can't come home until they meet their quota. Dodgy backgrounds often for pimps and prostitutes. Pimps used this to control their prostitutes. More then half customer don't realise girls are being trafficked. A lot of customers buy gifts for prostitutes and come from wealthy backgrounds. 15-20 friends died due to illness, murdered, overdose, etc... Brother actually helped break her out of prostitution using gun.
I Investigated the Pimps & Prostitutes of Las Vegas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuPxiYBn5bI
https://www.youtube.com/@TylerOliveira
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_bonding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)
https://hookersforjesus.net/annie-lobert/
https://hookersforjesus.net/pinkchair/
https://hookersforjesus.net/
- illegal mining. Poor immigrants for neighbouring countries work in abandboned mines. They live there for years at a time and the mines are controlled by ganga. Like those in control of scammer gangs they are often forced into this work
Trapped for gold: The dangers facing illegal miners in South Africa | The Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ufadhTTsw
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- In Zulu Zama Zama means "those who try their luck" in mining. 86% of country's electricity comes from coal. Was scared of mines when first got into it. Someone else taught him how to do it. Very little oxgen in mines so hard to breath. No buttressing so dangerous as structural integrity not guaranteed either. 1 tonne coal=15 euro. He stays down for 11-12hr stretches at a time. 2wks = 10tonnes up by himself. He is only person in family in works and takes care of grandparents, siblings, nephews/nieces, etc... Lost both parents in 2001/2002. Miners here have few other job prospects. These mines are technically illegal but coal from these mines are still sold at market rate. Burning coal produces mercury and led. 1/2 of people in area (around coal mine site) have asthma. No specialist doctors/hospitals in area. Wheel barrow pushers are paid least and youngest. Workers get lung cancer and kidney issues. Activists can get murdered for standing up to mining companies
South Africa: Mining Coal to Survive | ARTE.tv Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKn_eRm8Vmo
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_South_Africa
About us
The Vukani Environmental Movement is a registered non-profit organisation that was established in 2016. The organisation focuses it's work on addressing environmental issues within the Mpumalanga Highveld of South Africa. This was promoted by a lack of engagement from authorities regarding the increasing environmental issues emerging in communities. VEM engages with a variety of stakeholders that are impacting communities.
http://vem.org.za/about/
groundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organization working primarily in Southern Africa in the areas of Climate & Energy Justice, Coal, Environmental Health, Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, and Waste.
Our Mission
groundWork seeks to improve the quality of life of vulnerable people in South Africa, and increasingly in Southern Africa, through assisting civil society to have a greater impact on environmental governance.
groundWork places particular emphasis on assisting vulnerable and previously disadvantaged people who are most affected by environmental injustices.
https://groundwork.org.za/about-us/
How a Sovereign Group in Jamaica Is Fighting a US Mining Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nbHC24Z0rQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
- hot, low on oxygen, etc... Very low clearance and low mobility in these mines and highly dangerous. No real machinery, it's mainly hand tools
The Children Working On Indian Coal Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZA5Az09Zj4
The Children Risking Their Lives In Underwater Gold Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1L_pxYZVwE
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
- 1M children wroking in Nepal brick factories. ~10% are child labour. 1000 bricks = 7 USD. Makes ~1.75USD per day. Learnt by wathcing someone else in village. No safety equipment, and improper training leads to injuries. Bricks made by these kids used by ADB, UN, US, UK. Kids between 5-14yrs of age. Kids cheaper to pay. Povery and corruption drive child labour. 1/7 kids in Nepal have jobs and work in textiles, bricks/construction, farms, etc... 10 child labour inspectors for 13M people. Can't make bricks when it's raining. Mum forces him to work as dad passed away and he has to earn a living. Would like to go to school and become teacher or doctor but can't as no money. They are dallits in caste system in Nepalese society. Unskilled labour with no assets. Primary and part secondary are compulsary in Nepal. 1/5 between 5-12 age are out of school. Local brick factory is owned/run by local politician who denies he is hiring children in spite of hard/video evidence. Child labour is a way of life for Dalit for multiple generations. Rice given away/traded to families so that kids are allowed to go to school instead of having to work. Child labour still happening but they're trying to get rid of it. Counselling offered for first ~6months and then switched over to normal school afterwards. Supported up until higher education.
Why Young Children Are Working From Dawn to Dusk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UQ-DVtRO4
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Dalit (English: /ˈdælɪt/ from Sanskrit: meaning "broken/scattered") is a term used for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent.[1] They are also called Harijans.[2] Dalits were excluded from the fourfold varna of the caste hierarchy and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama. Several scholars have drawn parallels between Dalits and the Burakumin of Japan,[3] the Baekjeong of Korea[4] and the peasant class of the medieval European feudal system.[5]
Dalits predominantly follow Hinduism with significant populations following Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Islam. The constitution of India includes Dalits as one of the Scheduled Castes; this gives Dalits the right to protection, positive discrimination (known as reservation in India), and official development resources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit
Bangladesh | Too young to work | 101 East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsLpvPqi-70
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
- there are laws against trafficking of organs but it still happens. ~80% of people on waiting lists are waiting for kidneys. Kidneys regulate fluid levels in body and cleaning of toxins. By the time you can get a donor organ via legit channels these days it's too late? Asia, East Europe, Middle East are often sources for organs. Slums, executed prisoners are sometimes donors. Men are generally recipients not women. ~140K USD for kidney transplant which includes travel, organ, surgeon and hospital costs, etc... Israeli/Jewish people have high rate of kidney failure generally but aren't generally donors. If transplants not properly done both people involved in organ donation can die. More people need to be encourage to donate organs to make it less of a problem. The real world is sometimes more screwed up then what we even see in movies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
Israel's Illegal Kidney Market | Organ Trafficking | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYcx0etm_Sw
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Rosenbaum pleaded guilty to brokering the sale of three kidneys, buying them from people in Israel for as little as $10,000, then selling them to U.S. patients who did not qualify for transplants or did not want to wait. The cost of the sale was over $100,000, and the operations were performed at top U.S. hospitals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/black-market-kidney-broker-levy-izhak-rosenbaum-released-from-prison/
body organ trafficking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-09/illegal-organ-trafficking-how-to-solve-it/104188548
https://www.ag.gov.au/crime/publications/organ-trafficking-fact-sheet
Black Market Organs (Full Episode) | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRbOsQgRXU
https://www.youtube.com/@NatGeo
- illegal kidney transplants done in Turkey. If you didn't know prisoners, paid volunteers, kidnapped victims, homeless people, etc... are often sources of donor organs. 10K organ transplants done per year done in spite of laws against it in most parts of the world. 5-6 figures for organs nowadays. Aftercare is crucial after a organ transplant. Israel is often a focus of organ transplants. Organ donation rate in Israel poor due to traditions/relgion/ideologies? No real desire to curb organ trafficking in Israel as it's saving the political and economic elite of Israel. Organ traffickers looking for legal loopholes to maximise profits and voice justice
People & Power - The Organ Traders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3sZvfzNWDY
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
dr frankenstein turkey
https://eurasianet.org/meet-turkeys-dr-frankenstein
I recently interviewed Yusuf Ercin Sonmez, the transplant surgeon charged in relation to the organ trafficking scandal at the Medicus clinic in Kosovo.
The interview appeared in the Times today, and you can read it here (or, more likely, you can't because you're not signed up to the paywall).
For those of you not up to speed, the Medicus Clinic is at the centre of an alleged organ snatching ring, which involved scamming impoverished donors into giving kidneys which were then sold to recipients from Israel, Germany and elsewhere.
It blew up into an international news story because elements within the Kosovan government were allegedly involved, and more importantly, the case has been linked to a Council of Europe report (which makes fascinating, chilling reading) investigating alleged war crimes by Kosovo's current leadership during their war of independence against Serbia.
Most shockingly, the report claims KLA leaders murdered Serb prisoners and sold their organs into the black market.
Sonmez is accused of being a lynchpin of the organ trafficking operation at Medicus, and performing kidney transplants there during 2008. He was arrested last week in Istanbul, bailed, and is now fighting extradition to Kosovo.
He is, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. Dubbed 'Dr Frankenstein', 'Dr Vulture' and 'The Butcher' in the Turkish press, he first came to public attention 14 years ago when a Turkish TV show conducted an undercover investigation into his transplant activities in Istanbul.
https://turkeyetc.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/dr-frankenstein-speaks/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/europe/04iht-organ04.html
Yusuf Sonmez
https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a43339367/a-carnivorous-dinner-with-doctor-vulture/
https://www.occrp.org/en/people/yusuf-sonmez
Organ Thieves: Inside the Dark World of Organ Trafficking | Organ Trade Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SDNmeStmGQ
https://www.youtube.com/@witnessdocumentaries
On the Trail of the Illicit International Organ Trade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPXLeb9GSQ
https://www.youtube.com/@journeyman
selling organs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/criminal-justice/files/organ-trafficking-fact-sheet.PDF
Paid organ donation: the case against - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3291132/
- a lot of crime are sort of tragic. You can't can't get rid of human trafficking unless the need for cheap labour and prostitution goes away, you can't get rid of child labour without getting rid of inequality, you can't get rid of poverty without getting rid of laws which stop it from happening in the first place (especially when there are enough homes around), you can't get rid of arms trafficking/gun crime without getting rid of guns or coming up with alternatives to just killing one another to solve problems, you can't get rid of money laundering if you're dependent on those laws/tactics for your corporate sector, you can't get rid of terrorists/organised crime if you partner with them regularly, you can't get rid of corruption if you long to be corrupt yourself, etc... What I find silly is that a lot of the questions asked in the world of entertainment and science fiction often seems more interesting and seems to facilitate more progress then questions asked by the academic and political worlds. Surely, it should be the other way around?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens_(TV_series)
How Millionaire Bankers Actually Work | Authorized Account | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GumiLIxLMM
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://www.youtube.com/@garyseconomics/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(TV_series)
Australia's Tax System Is RIGGED! | Punters Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJCT6de793o
How Foreign Powers Are ROBBING Aussies Blind | Punters Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w59KsFmSF5U
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are COSTING AUSSIE'S BILLIONS! | Punter's Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAhF5oirM7k
Why Qatar Earns $76 Billion from Gas While Aussies Get Scammed | Punter's Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nNpSaLxO8
https://www.youtube.com/@punterspolitics
WEED, GREED and Billions - Have the US corporations replaced the Drug Cartels? | FD Finance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k636Fjivs7Y
https://www.youtube.com/@FD_Finance
This TRUTH About NATO Will Blow Your Mind. Only Argument You Need. | Dr. Jan Oberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8HrXfnyxg
https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies
https://janoberg.me/2021/11/28/welcome/
https://oberg.life
https://transnational.live
A Rogue Reporter vs. The American Empire (w/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1raT5Gxk_M
https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisHedgesChannel
Settler colonialism or pure innocence?A conversation with a 3rd Generation British settler in Kenya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamVKsCrq-k
https://www.youtube.com/@LynnNgugi
Why Australia WON'T stop Corrupt Politicians | Punters Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aumFW-LmpB8
https://www.youtube.com/@punterspolitics
https://cbe.anu.edu.au/about/staff-directory/dr-priya-dev
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monk+corruption
Sex, drugs, money and murder in Thailand's Monkhood | Foreign Correspondent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJJmMSnqdM
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
Trailer park entirely inhabited by paedophiles and sex offenders | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiquubYVbWQ
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/what-motivates-australian-women-become-catholic-nuns/104730172
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomena_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_(2016_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leunig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Maguire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate:_The_Ark_of_Truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/banking/outgoing-anz-chief-executive-shayne-elliott-forgoes-3m-bonus/news-story/86248d90b1ddeb3e096d6d4e4ca6dc38
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/inquiry-launched-in-peru-after-alleged-prostitution-ring-uncovered-in-congress/ar-AA1wbAyJ?ocid=BingNewsBrowse
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/537297/how-diplomats-have-broken-the-law-in-nz-and-what-happened-next
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/19/peru-sex-for-votes-scandal
operation playboy
https://www.amazon.com.au/Operation-Playboy-Kathryn-Bonella-ebook/dp/B075JC7G3K
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/their-friends-faced-firing-squad-but-playboys-kept-drug-running/news-story/2f0b5b48c7dc19a4cf34007d0e184efb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=21+savage+a+lot
21 Savage - a lot (Official Video) ft. J. Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmWWqogr_r8
https://www.youtube.com/@21savage/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Savage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_(TV_series)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eminem+beautiful
Eminem - Beautiful (Edited) (Explicit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avLxcVkPgug
https://www.youtube.com/@EminemExplicit
Eminem - Beautiful (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgT1AidzRWM
https://www.youtube.com/@eminem/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem
50 Cent - My Life ft. Eminem, Adam Levine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN4fNaUAMbA
https://www.youtube.com/@50Cent/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent
https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/IBAC-releases-public-sector-corruption-and-misconduct-allegations-data
How I Hacked The US Government Aged 16 | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXoO0FwUKQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
paedophile rings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex_ring
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-21/whistleblowers-reveal-paedophile-ring-in-newcastle-anglicans/7645228
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/08/australia-paedophile-ring-fbi-agent
https://theconversation.com/au/topics/westminster-paedophile-ring-11491
CHAPTER 3: Paedophile Networks in Australia - Extent and Activities
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Former_Committees/acc/completed_inquiries/pre1996/ncapedo/report/c03
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drake+call+you+on+my+cell+phone
Drake - Hotline Bling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpDa-c-4Mc
https://www.youtube.com/@DrakeOfficial/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=et+phone+home
E.T. Phone Home - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (4/10) Movie CLIP (1982) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZif3WmG7I
https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECLIPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(American_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers_(TV_series)
- Max bradett, master forger. Made ~500K pounds art forgery. 60-70s was prime era for forgeries. Forensics have become too good to make. Bought pot boiler/old paintings, scrubbed out old painting, primed it, and then painted over top. Oil takes ~3months to dry. Brolac undercoat + paint and then run hairdryer over top would take ~2hrs to dry. Run fabric dipped in turpentine around edge to create framed looked. Bee glue on top and then radiant heat to age/crack it. Wash off bee blue and run vacuum cleaner over it to fill in cracks. Talcum powder gets rid of remaining bee glue. He was spotted as talented forger/artist on Portobello road by an older man. Sothebys/Lots Rd was first auction. Impressions mean a lot in forging. Vendor/false bids helped to boost price. Somebody gave him up and he went to jail. Did forgeries in prison as well via smuggling. Banned from Sothebies and Christies now. Poor background.
Arts market
How Art Forgery Actually Works | How Crime Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54O-fxQd-P8
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
I Can Fake Any Painting | Minutes With | @ladbiblestories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iy2DO7lXyo
https://www.youtube.com/@ladbiblestories
http://www.maxbrandrett.com/
Forgery Experts Explain 5 Ways To Spot A Fake | WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amu2mOsIz-w
https://www.youtube.com/@WIRED
Con Artist | Documentary | Full Movie | Art Forgery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_Amb9WWKM
https://www.youtube.com/@stash_freedocumentaries
- Ken Perengyi had been forging for decades before getting caught. FBI investigated him but was never actually caught/prosecuted. Stumbled across this field rather then actually pursuing it. Allowed him to live a better lifestyle then a normal life. He makes more money as himself then while he was faking paintings. There's been a rise of black American artists of late. Prime target for forgery.
Inside the Weird World of Art Forgery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UsQqVM2CFU
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Buttersworth
https://www.kenperenyi.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1999_film)
Fakes in the art world - The mystery conman | DW Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lNSXB4i4fE
https://www.youtube.com/@DWDocumentary
- they're registered for tax but often pay low/no tax. There are specilists around the world who deal with counterfeit and are often representatives for large brands. South Africa has no manufacturing capability so everything imported and local assembly of counterfeit goods is done there. It used to be law enforcement had to pay for destruction of countefeit goods but now brands pay for storge, transport, destruction of conterfeit. Drugs, terrorism, counterfeit, etc... all tied in? Mafia and Yukuza deal in counterfeit now as it's more socially acceptable, lower risk, and profitable
Counterfeit city | Carte Blanche | M-Net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN4PQqtk0c
https://www.youtube.com/@carteblanchetv
- in 2021 20% of cybercrimes were randomware. ~623M ransomware attacks for 2021. Only ~10% of randomware victims pay ransom costs normally. Ransomware increase do ~60% in 2022. Sebastian looked normal from outside but had drug trafficking and money laundering background and even had 3yr jail sentence (0.5yr servered). Got job in IT public service in Canadian government but trafficked drugs at night. Got caught for drug traffciking again in 2013. Answered ad on darkweb to join ransomware business Netwalker. It was a proper criminal business with proper organisational structure, training, guidelines, etc... Only businesses/companies of larger then 30M were targeted. Companies of this size were more likely to give in to ransomware to save public embarassment. Made half of what Netwalker made, $21M USD individually vs $40M USD for entire Netwalker group. They were originally Russian only but then expanded out. Netwalker group caught out by law enforcement via information published on their blog regarding existing operations. Ironically, most ransomeware victims don't help law enforcement due to worries to organisational reputation. ~95% cyber/ransomware attacks unreported? Billions in danger caused. Sébastien Vachon‑Desjardins was only 1 affiliate member of 100 caught. He was sented to 20yrs jail. Rest of group dispersed/disappeared into the ether once he was caught but they planned to go bigger and better prior to him being caught
The Hunt For The Ransomware King of The Dark Web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LY5XReHuYM
https://www.youtube.com/@KiraTV1
Sébastien Vachon‑Desjardins
https://canadianbusiness.com/ideas/sebastien-vachon-desjardins-ransomware-netwalker-hacker/
https://iapp.org/news/b/canadian-national-convicted-in-us-for-involvement-in-russian-ransomware-gang
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-national-sentenced-connection-ransomware-attacks-resulting-payment-tens-millions
netwalker wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/netwalker-ransomware-explained/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-launches-global-action-against-netwalker-ransomware
- xss.is online market malware. Ransomware as a service?
Hunting The Dark Web's King of Ransomware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTVlw8c2dE
https://www.youtube.com/@Crumb
lockbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LockBit
https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/advisories/understanding-ransomware-threat-actors-lockbit
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/lockbit-leader-unmasked-and-sanctioned
https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/threats/lockbit-ransomware
- parents divorced early. Developed skills in computing in young age. In 2001, when at 17 mum died from alchohol poisoning. He eventually became homeless. He hacked, ID theft, credit card theft. After he became known in criminal circles he got threatened/beaten but he still came back to carding. His pseudonym was mcux (psycho in Russian) became carder by stealing credit card details to purchase gift cards. This crime most common in US. Most websites and credit card systems have poor security which helps with this. He moved into carding. Carding World and Carding Planet. Secret service noticed him as he developed such a big business and watched him for ~4yrs. Secret service tried to extradite/try him but he had contacts at FSB who tipped him off and he retired one month after. Later in year came back as pseudoynm track2 and bulba on carder.su He would target Point of Sales/Service (POS) systems using malware and ironically information was sent to Russian server in cleartext. Another criminal was caught and data implicated him with www.track2.name www.bulba.cc Search warrants on local businesses/restaurants indicated hundreds of thousands cards were breached and credit card information sent to server back in Russia. Wide area IP scan and then RDP breach was method of information extraction. One server had 400K credit card details sorted by IP address on it as well as his personal details. He tried to live it up with his family in Indonesia. Secret service went to court to try to extradite him this time. He and his family got caught up in Al Qaeda terrorist attack in Morroco.
Divorced during recovery process from attack. Likely still had inside information being leaked to him from FSB so he was able to stay ahead of Secret Service. In 2013, 2pac.cc carding website started where he tried to mass sell dump of credit card numbers. In 2014, US Secret Service able to catch him after he went to Maldives. His dad was well known Russian politician with connection to Putin and both he and son refused to please bargain. Legal defense tried all sorts of defense options including bribing prosecutor, prison break, etc... He was sentenced to 27yrs in prison. Breaches cost business ~$169M USD and no money ever recovered.
The Hunt For Russia's Most Successful Credit Card Thief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EeEf6ydtI
https://www.youtube.com/@KiraTV1
Roman Valerevich Seleznev[a] (or Seleznyov,[2] Russian: Роман Валерьевич Селезнёв; born July 23, 1984), also known by his hacker name Track2, is a Russian computer hacker. Seleznev was indicted in the United States in 2011, and was convicted of hacking into servers to steal credit-card data. His activities are estimated to have caused more than US$169 million in damages to businesses and financial institutions.[3] Seleznev was arrested on July 5, 2014, while vacationing in the Maldives, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison for wire fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and identity theft.[3] Seleznev would only serve ten years in prison before he would take part in the 2024 Ankara prisoner exchange that involved 26 total people, including himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Seleznev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Seleznev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarderPlanet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale
- difficult childhood. Smart but got into technical crime in his spare time. Got involved in cryptocurrencies and SIM swap attacks. Was too overt about spending which led tohim getting caught
react taskforce
https://www.reacttf.org/
https://www.reacttf.org/About_Us.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/hacker-joel-ortiz-sim-swapping-10-years-in-prison/
33,513 views Nov 18, 2024 #TrueCrime #millionaire #documentary
#TrueCrime #CyberCrime #CryptoHeist #documentary #money #millionaire
In 2018, Joel Ortiz, a 21-year-old student from Boston, orchestrated a series of SIM swapping attacks that resulted in the theft of over $7.5 million in cryptocurrency from at least 40 victims in the united states. SIM swapping involves manipulating mobile carriers to transfer a target's phone number to a SIM card controlled by the attacker. This allows the attacker to intercept calls and messages, including two-factor authentication codes, granting access to the victim's online accounts.
Ortiz and his associates targeted individuals in the cryptocurrency industry, exploiting the high value and relative anonymity of digital assets. Notably, during the Consensus conference in May 2018, he stole $5.2 million from a single entrepreneur within minutes.
Following his arrest at Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018, Ortiz pleaded no contest to multiple felony charges, including identity theft and grand theft.
This case underscores the vulnerabilities in mobile carrier security and the importance of safeguarding personal information to prevent such attacks.
The College Student Who Stole $7.5 Million Using SIM Cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07JkY-feGVk
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOvernightMillionaire
- discovered ISP doxxing/impersonating ISP could be used to gain important information regarding account. Used SQL injection and social engineering of workers at telcos. Stole money in targeted attacks on well known people. He laundered money via people he found online back into Bitcoin. He returned money when caught via relationship with another well known con artist.
The Teen Who Stole $24 Million and Never Got Charged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb4j-x9XDoQ
https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink
ellis pinsky
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/crypto-heist-teenage-hacker-ellis-pinsky-1367400/
https://ellispinsky.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_and_crime
- went from law enforcement to criminal world. Ran stolen credit card markets
The Hacker Who Ruled the Criminal Underworld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o_IZApln08
https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink
- moving money is difficult because of density/weight/volume. Diamonds, gold, cryptocurrencies are low weight and high volume which makes money transfers easier. Easy to exchange, hard to trace
A Criminal's Guide to Laundering Money with Crypto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL5bv5MOUu4
https://www.youtube.com/@jaketran
drugs price per kg
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2021/8.1_Prices_an_purities_of_Drugs.pdf
UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement request:
International and Domestic Drug Prices
Microsoft Word - ACC Response - PJC Request for Drug Prices.doc
https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=652d887b-0ccd-4477-837c-600a1d9a3ec3
- to deal with high inflation 2-3 figures they have online bartering markets and illegal FOREX markets. Central bank and financial institutions deny that they have insiders that are helping blackmarket bartering and FOREX exchanges. High inflation is making business life difficult as you can end up selling stuff for less then what you purchased it for if you don't line things up correctly
Living With Nearly 100% Inflation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3FGZTN9rwk
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
TOP Five Worst cases of Hyperinflation in History | ENDEVR Explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHOCbEekR0
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
- US/UK ex-patriots cold calling and selling fake shares. TNC/MNC organised crime. People handed over life savings/superannuation to Timber Hill Group fake company which didn't even have an office. First 3wks of year in Australia $15M sent to scammers overseas. A few weeks is enough time for scammers to gain confidence of people and get them to give up their money? Australia is an easy/soft target comapred to other jurisdictions/countries? Most victims will never see their money back. Government not really interested?
Reporter tracks down scammers in dramatic raid | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSXPW4wZB4
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
ken gamble private eye
https://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-cybercrime-expert-ken-gamble-lands-billiondollar-malasyia-bust/news-story/e06de903cd79f35e2c255c4485f52201
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2024/02/24/aussie-cyber-sleuth-ken-gamble
https://www.ifwglobal.com/about-us/
https://au.linkedin.com/in/ken-gamble-4799a28
https://amwmedia.com.au/talent/ken-gamble/
Busting the Scammers - The World Wide Investigation | 7NEWS Spotlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYTRZSlfi0
Busting a billion dollar British scammer cartel | Part 1 of 2 | 7NEWS Spotlight Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63F_dFTn34
Busting the Scammers Part 2: Scam victims confront Government| 7NEWS Spotlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey2zn3y0O04
https://www.youtube.com/@7newsSpotlight
- hacking since 12. Stole $100M USD money from Epic Games, MS, US military. Co-workers got caught, he didn't and fled to Poland. Started out as kids trying to hack Xbox360. Xbox was very hackable which caused Microsoft to try to lock it down on Xbox360 version. Xbox360 was unhackable for 4yrs before they found a dev kit and they figured out a JTAG hack to run mods/custom code. XBox360 only runs signed code but XBox360 dev kit runs any code out there. David Pakora found and purchased a dev kit that was given away to a recycling centre and started doing Halo mods. Anthony Clark teamed up and were able to access PartnerNet and started playing games before full public release. In 2009 German JTAG exploit allowed normal XBox360 to run unsigned code. They sold mods/cheats for $100USD a day. Justin May was banned from XBox Live and tried to steal game from Atomic Games at Pax conference but got caught. Mods were stopped via intervention order. Anthony Clark used bot technology and dev kits used to automatically earn FIFA coins. They made money by stealing games/hacking networks. They found blueprints of new XBox One/Durango and decided to build one of their own and sell it. Was warned by Microsoft not to do it but when they tried it it was reported to Australian police who raided them. Another of the group (Armand) decided to break into Microsoft headquarters by bypassing elevator pass security by using the stairs and stole the XBox One/Durango. IRS/FBI went after Fifacoins so they lost money. Dylan Wheeler fled to Czech Republic to avoid extradition to US. While in Czech Republic he got into counterfeiting and embezellment/fraud and was put on probation. Fled to UK and then Poland and then tried a bank robbery which led to 10yr jail sentence. Anthony Clark died of alchohol/vicodin drug oversdose before he could be sentenced
Master file of passwords in Word file used to leverage into other companies and elsewhere in Epic games
This Nerdy Teen is the FBI's Most Wanted Hacker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2Gsok5wgI
https://www.youtube.com/@VinceVintage
https://www.fifacoin.com/aff/240118
dylan wheeler hacker
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-27/teenage-hacker-dylan-wheeler-accused-of-hacking-us-army-flees/6977106
Xbox Underground was an international hacker group responsible for gaining unauthorized access to the computer network of Microsoft and its development partners, including Activision, Epic Games, and Valve, in order to obtain sensitive information relating to Xbox One and Xbox Live.
...
The group is also accused of breaching the computer network of Zombie Studios, through which they obtained Apache helicopter simulator software developed for the United States military.[3] In a wiretap, David Pokora was quoted as saying: "Have you been listening to the [expletive] that I've done this past month? I have [expletive] to the U.S. military. I have [expletive] to the Australian Department of Defense ... I have every single big company – Intel, AMD, Nvidia – any game company you could name, Google, Microsoft, Disney, Warner Bros., everything."[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Underground
- highest volume of shoplifting since records began. 900 incidents per hour, $1.8B stolen in 2023. 1/4 of incidents down to organised crime gangs. Morrison's store chain targeted by gang/group. Operate in groups of 4 generally: 1 spotter and 2-3 stealers. Razors, medication, cosmestics, etc... targeted. Facial recognition and police intelligence produced nothing. Resold at car boot sales in Essex and Nine Elms Market. Most will deny but some will admit their goods are stolen and that's how they keep their costs low. Big black market for stolen goods. Multiple gangs operating across UK with target lists of things wanted, target retail chains, modus operandi, etc... Operating in Northampton, Zeno Gugalay may be connected to Russian/East European Mafia. Connected to Romania and loan sharking, smuggling, tobacco, European human trafficking, etc... Tracked down marriage certificate to Romania, Bucharest. Stolen stuff is normally sold in Bedford wholesale to Indians Prime Value Distribution. Proctor & Gambell said no distrbution agreement with Indians Prime Value Distribution who on sale to others all around the world. Prime Value Distribution will try to get cheap goods from anywhere to on sell (including shoplifters), deals in visa scams/sham marriages too.
Britain's Shoplifting Gangs - Exposed | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbBYK51eEM
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
organised shoplifting gangs
https://www.nationalretail.org.au/policy-advocacy/safe-retail/organised-crime-gangs/
https://www.brownejacobson.com/insights/the-word-december-2024/shoplifting-epidemic
Organised criminals are behind the recent rise in shoplifting and violence against shop workers rather than people stealing to survive, one of the UK's largest grocery chains has told a parliamentary inquiry.
Paul Gerrard, the public affairs director at the Co-op, told the House of Lords justice and home affairs committee into shoplifting that a 44% rise in retail crime it experienced last year was mostly down to gangs stealing to order at scale – clearing shelves in some cases.
"There have always been people who steal to make ends meet … and you could argue that happens more in a cost of living crisis," he said. "But that is not what is driving the 44% increase.
"What is driving it is people stealing to order, people coming into store with wheelie bins or a builder's bag to steal the entire confectionery section or spirits or meat section.
"If one of my colleagues gets in the way they won't say sorry and walk out, there will be a violent threat; it might be a knife or might be a syringe. I've had colleagues attacked with a medieval mace. We've had colleagues lose their eye or colleagues miscarry. This is a level of violence, abuse and threat that nobody in retail has ever seen before."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/03/retail-crime-co-op-organised-criminals-lords
https://news.sky.com/story/police-arrest-93-gang-members-behind-4m-thefts-in-shoplifting-crackdown-13270885
- 50K ships pass through Somalian area each year. Somalians used to fish in area but foreign trawlers sucked out all fish from area. Hijacks and ransoms allow them to make a living, ~$2-3M ransom per ship. Lloyds insurance insure a lot of these boats and first remands is normaly 20-30M but they haggle them down. Money is parachuted or boated to the hijackers. Naval ships and primitive coast guard unable to do anything due to lack of resources. Even if caught priates are put into overburned legal system/jails and not much can be done to deter them. Former fishermen/piraters would go back to fishing if they could and there are no fish?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ship+hijacking+crime
Gang of Somali pirates taking over the high seas | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qChWCVqvGU
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
Modern Pirates | Menace On Africa Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfanBWX3Fwg
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntland
What Really Happens When Somali Pirates Attack Cruise Ships, This is How Cruise Ships Respond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypg1nG73lVs
https://www.youtube.com/@Nauctis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Breeze
Kidnapping in Nigeria | ARTE.tv Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCpnW26HUs
https://www.youtube.com/@artetvdocumentary
Inside Nigeria's Kidnap Crisis - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRADCzmEX6w
https://www.youtube.com/@BBCAfrica
confiscation ship united states
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-confiscates-iran-oil-cargo-tanker-amid-tehran-tensions-sources-2023-04-28/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/27/us-navy-thwarts-attempted-seizure-of-israel-linked-cargo-ship
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1968/jan/23/usa.northkorea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nikolas_(ship)
Iran Seizes Oil Tanker In Retaliation For Earlier US Confiscation
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401117649
- a lot of cargo ships have safe/panic rooms now? Crews of cargo ships kidnapped/ransomed. Pirate's Alley is from Liberia to Gabon and is prime spot for naval piracy. UN security council approved counter piracy operations. BP-Shell first setup oil operations in 1958. Oil extraction killed local fish and livelihood of fishermen. Niger Delta people got tired of it so sabotaged pipelines and stole oil from cargo ships. Livelihood of locals very difficult because wealthy is being extracted and no profits being put back into local population. Fishing vessels of China and EU destroying food stock of Africa. Locals don't want to become pirates are being forced due to loss of livelihood. Illegal fishing common so trawling vessels reluctant to call naval patrol boats/law enforcement but some have taken to having weapons themselves to fight off pirates. Higher costs of transportation of cargo due to losses being pushed back on locals. Local states have no naval capability due to colonial overhang issues. A lot of pirates willing to stop if they had an alternative to achieve livelihood
Pirates are Running Wild off West Africa's Coast | System Error
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XtuPck0b4U
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
Piracy in Nigeria | People & Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=866fXIAZsDk
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somalia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Phillips_(film)
How Modern Pirates Are Still a Threat in The Coast of Africa | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfh9suqsIPs
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
Modern Pirates | Menace On Africa Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfanBWX3Fwg
https://www.youtube.com/@BestDoc
Pirate Hunting: Meet the Counter-Piracy Task Force | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaL_vSdZKZo
https://www.youtube.com/@ENDEVRDocs
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=utopia+australian+defence+policy
Australia's Defence Policy Explained | Utopia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgspkxfkS4k
https://www.youtube.com/@workingdogproductions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
- intelligence, defense, crime world crossing over constantly? Strongly suspect a lot of criminals gain skills from the "normal world" and then switch over and/or vice-versa?
The Day the World's Biggest Companies Got Hacked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LybeGMF9aVo
https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(hacker_group)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petya_and_NotPetya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Lab
This Russian Hacker Group Made Americans Sweat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNA1jodqTo
https://www.youtube.com/@LUNAE-r6h
Ransomware Is An Epidemic And It's Getting Worse | Cryptoland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TewhGZWryg
https://www.youtube.com/@VICENews
158,059 views 2 Aug 2024 #CNBC
He was young, rich and on the rise in Moscow. But when up-and-coming Russian oligarch Vladislav Klyushin boarded a private jet for a luxury ski vacation in the Swiss Alps, he had no idea that all of it was about to come crashing down. Klyushin was the owner of a cybersecurity company in Moscow called M-13, but the firm was secretly a front for a computer hacking and insider trading operation that plagued Wall Street for years, and generated more than $90 million in illicit profits for Klyushin's criminal gang. Now, with exclusive access to the FBI investigators and Department of Justice prosecutors who chased Klysuhin around the globe, CNBC's Eamon Javers can reveal the shocking details of the spectacular rise and fall of this audacious criminal enterprise. We learn about their insider trading in stocks of American companies including Tesla and other high-tech firms, and we see the crooks' own text messages, which give a revealing look at the bromance between the oligarch and a veteran Russian intelligence hacker at the center of the crime ring. And in an exclusive interview, Javers sits down with a former Russian spy — an officer of the Russian FSB intelligence agency — who explains why all of this, and more, was so important to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
And in a turn of events, the White House just announced a massive, multinational prisoner swap between the U.S., Russia and other nations. As part of the historic deal, the Russian government released high-profile Americans held in captivity there, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who had been in a Russian prison for more than a year.
Also included in the trade were a number of Russians who had been arrested for various crimes and held in prisons in the U.S. and other countries. Klyushin was one of the prisoners released. Watch "Putin's Trader" for the full story.
It took our investigative team countless hours to unravel the mysteries of "Putin's Trader"—chasing down sources, going deep into a criminal web spun by those at the highest levels of global power. Join CNBC's Eamon Javers in every step of this gripping journey by following and listening to the limited podcast series "The Crimes of Putin's Trader". It's the expanded universe of this real-life thriller, featuring exclusive spy interviews and behind-the-scenes reporting. You can find "The Crimes of Putin's Trader" podcast wherever you get your podcasts or click here and be the first to get notified about new episodes: https://cnbc.com/putinstrader
How Russian Hackers Stole Millions from U.S. Investors — Putin's Trader | Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kWugbH4qo
https://www.youtube.com/@CNBC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Katsuyama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
- some comical organised crime operations in some parts of the world? Create ads on Gumtree. Bait people into using the service but then dump it anywhere/at illegal dump areas to make a profit. This isn't just in UK but in other parts of the world as well if you look around
Britain's Illegal Fly Tipping Gangs: Exposed | Rubbish Tip Britain | Dispatches | Channel 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQlpb3fvmyc
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
- robbed ~100 banks between 1999-2001. Former US Marine. Went after merchant teller as most likely to have money/currency. Tried to keep robberies low key to reduce further attention to bank. Altereted communication based on situation. Only went after vault if "temperature was right". Picked banks that were close to merchants which meant more cash on hand. Wanted multiple exit points/interstate highways. Watched banks and employees beforehand to see who was in control. Took a few weeks to months off and then studied employee manuals and stuff about safes and cased targets. Diguise depended on situation. Used superglue to hide fingerprints. Police response time ~3-5mins. Getaway car was something that blended in and was generally hidden. Checked for dyepacks by spreading out money. Burnt clothes, got rid of superglue using solvent and hid money back at hideout. Got into it to pay off debt for relative who got into debt with organised crime and would have been killed had debt not been repaid. Purchased replica/toy gun to threaten bank staff. Eventually turned himself in but worked with victims to try and right previous wrongs.
https://video.vice.com/en/video/kangaroo-bandit/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Bandit
How Bank Robberies Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhuYiozj2Eg
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
Former Bank Robber Breaks Down 9 More Bank Heists In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH3gFE15Ivc
Master Safecracker Rates 10 Safecracking Heists In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbgeExmIAO0
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
state backed bank robberies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_robbers_and_robberies
Nearly a dozen foreign nationals indicted for multi-state bank robberies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSfHy6SMQtQ
https://www.youtube.com/@cbssacramento
How A Barber Stole Millions From An American Bank | Biggest Robbery In American History Ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmDw1OjggOg
https://www.youtube.com/@TheUnsolvedFiles07
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/banks-are-tracking-your-every-click-it-could-save-you-thousands/ar-AA1wrdQj?ocid=BingNewsBrowse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_of_Thieves_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vault_(2021_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Heist
- get prepaid credit cards, remove numbers using solvent, magnetic data is where data is stored, embossing machine used to imprint name. Buy credit card information on dark web for $10 per card. Use that information to buy stuff online ($500-$1000 is within limit of most people straight away) and then resell on Facebook marketplace for cash or talk to drug dealer and they can cash out for them. Drug dealers also generally involved with sex trade as well. Some scammers do it to survive, others do it to provide a lifestyle. They think that government doesn't care
A Credit Card Scammer Shares His Secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm9wdwka8X0
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE-TV
More Chase customers lose money to ATM thieves using glue, 'tap' feature to steal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDG4Hgca9BA
https://www.youtube.com/@abc7news
Inside the Underground Markets for Your Stolen Credit Cards | Trulane Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u76c3wlLsE
https://www.youtube.com/@InsideTrueCrime
Inside the Underground Markets For Your Stolen Credit Cards🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 32: The Carder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzOymxr7_SA
https://www.youtube.com/@JackRhysider
Inside a Teen's Credit Card Fraud Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cj--G4Nc4E
https://www.youtube.com/@financialwolf
- credit card scanners available readily and cheap $85 USD off Amazon. MSR-X6 is small model card reader $291 USD. Professional criminals obviously have specialised/stripped down devices which they can use to skim and more stealthy. Only defense against this is to only scan card at places you know are safe?
Super skimmers: The new way criminals are hacking your account, even if you don't swipe your card
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YeEkcHuWQA
https://www.youtube.com/@Boston25News
https://www.amazon.com.au/Deftun-MSRX6-Smallest-Magnetic-Credit/dp/B00KB0UTCS
Credit card cloning is too easy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyd24FlJCFg
https://www.youtube.com/@davidbombal
- contactless cards/chip based credit cards defenseless against remote Flipper device. Only defense is disable chip, shield it, hide it, etc...
Your Credit Card is at Risk because of this hacking device!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DXGnQFzGxU
https://www.youtube.com/@LironSegev
- jewellery heist business similar to drug business. Markups ~500-800% when go in store. Did diamond heists between 20-25yrs old (caught at 25years old). Dad was brain, brother was brawn, he was driver, dad's friend provided inside information. Went after dodgy stores who reported fake robberies, never went after clean stores (clean stores were rare). Stolen cars were used for jobs. Cased stores very important. Job needed to be done in 90s. 90s rule was from bank jobs which reduced chances of getting job. 90s started when staff are subdued. Trinkets easier to sell then high end stuff. Easier to sell cut stone then uncut stone. If buy stolen stuff margins are way higher. Moving stuff in bulk is difficult unless you have a fencer/wholesaler you can deal with. Alternate is sell it off piecemeal. Lots of laser engraved diamonds with paperwork now but you can always fake the paperwork. If you're good in organised crime you'll understand law enforcement structure and allocation. His job started out as trying to save his dad from someone who scammed him, then escalated into moral robberies? Prison was like criminal university and helped how to do it right. He sobered up (and become drug and alchohol counseller) but dad and brother didn't really.
How Diamond Heists Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8vxS0eZVo
https://www.youtube.com/@Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/gem-thief-explains-how-diamond-heists-actually-work-crime-2023-7
gold buyers melbourne money laundering
In August 2020, Chey Tenenboim, Alejandro Mendieta Blanco, and Julio Mendieta Blanco were sentenced for charges related to the purchase of stolen goods through a Melbourne-based gold-buying business. The accused were brothers, and the third was an employee of their gold-buying business.
https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/13079/New-money-laundering-laws-Millions-at-stake-in-the-jewellery-industry
https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/your-industry/bullion-dealers/bullion-dealers-overview
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/from-first-class-to-jail-gold-dealer-jailed-for-stolen-jewellery-scheme-20200825-p55oyw.html
They probably thought they had the Midas touch.
A trio of gold dealers suspected of running a racket purchasing stolen jewellery from criminals linked to violent robberies and burglaries around Melbourne had a system to keep their scheme off the books.
Sometimes the discussion would take place over Snapchat or via text message.
When ready to sell, the crooks would go up to the 11th floor of the Collins Street building to fence the precious ornaments they had pinched.
A discount rate was allegedly offered, well below the spot price of gold, and in return for easy cash the thieves weren't obliged to provide identification, details supposed to be recorded in the second-hand dealers ledger under law.
Staff were trained in the alleged enterprise to ensure the transactions, of which there were about 100 a month, stayed under the table.
In total, it's alleged the traders bought an estimated $500,000 worth of hot gold and diamonds. The plan was to melt the gold down so it couldn't be traced. It is suspected the financial pressure of a multimillion-dollar tax debt drove the ruse.
"Their current business plan, without the purchasing of stolen property, would not be able to maintain a profit," an investigator said, according to a recent tribunal decision.
Detectives from the anti-gangs taskforce raided the offices of Gold Buyers Melbourne in October, having kept an eye on the men linked to it for months.
Inside, they are said to have found plastic resealable bags marked with the word "old" that contained the allegedly stolen merchandise.
On each bag there was a date and the initials of the dealer, as well as a weight and dollar value. None of the acquisitions were recorded in the second-hand dealers book, police are likely to allege, in offending stretching back to 2013.
Details of the suspected plot were described in a police affidavit recently provided to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, where the men are challenging the suspension of their second-hand dealer licences.
About $600,000 in cash was seized as part of the raid, as well as $3 million in gold jewellery, bullion and diamonds. Documents and computers were also confiscated. While the raid was taking place, criminals continued to turn up with purloined gold and jewels.
Police charged Alejandro Mendieta Blanco, his brother Julio Mendieta Blanco, and Chey Tenenboim with receiving stolen goods and two counts of dealing with the proceeds of crime. They were released on bail.
As well as the police charges, the three companies linked to the men – The Gold Buying Company, Sell Your Gold and Diamonds On Sale – were accused by the pawnbroking regulator of failing to identify those selling second-hand goods and failing to record transactions.
One of the men, Mr Tenenboim, filed an affidavit with VCAT seeking a stay of the suspension to allow the businesses to trade while they await a review.
"If the stay is not granted the companies and their respective businesses will suffer devastating financial consequences," the affidavit said.
"The businesses will have to cease and the companies may have to be liquidated, in circumstances where no charge has been proven."
VCAT member Elisabeth Wentworth rejected the application for a stay, writing in her decision that there was a public interest in stopping pawnbrokers accused of trading in stolen goods from operating.
The companies can still buy and sell some metals. When The Sunday Age rang Gold Buyers Melbourne, a person said they were still buying gold but in bullion only. No licence is required to trade in investment-grade bullion stamped into bars or coins.
Another gold trader, John Stylianou from Gold Digger Trading Co in Melbourne's CBD, said part of doing business was identifying when something was stolen. Sometimes that meant making a judgment about what someone looks like or how they might have come across something precious.
"It's the usual story, 'It belonged to grandma', and you say 'Yeah, yeah, what's your grandma's name?' and they can't answer quickly enough," he said.
"But sometimes the thieves can come in here in a suit, he's all prim and proper. Gives you ID. And he's a thief."
The gold industry had become challenging, Mr Stylianou said, as the rise of smartphones had made sellers more likely to quibble on price while at the counter. A tax fraud which cost the Commonwealth $879 million in lost GST from gold had also made the banks wary of dealing with traders.
"It's dog eat dog out there," he said.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/gold-dealers-running-alleged-stolen-jewellery-scam-want-their-pawnbroker-licence-back-20171117-gzns9q.html
https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/your-industry/bullion-dealers/bullion-dealers-overview
https://www.vgccc.vic.gov.au/three-charged-over-alleged-47m-money-laundering-scheme-melbourne-gaming-venue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thomas_Crown_Affair_(1999_film)
- if you think about it the balance between what can be done to stop crime, prevent it, etc... is really interesting. There are serious enormous limits which is why I'm guessing why intelligence and law enforcement are constantly pushing for more powers. This has to be balanced up by civic rights and the chance that too much concentrated power can lead to corruption in our legal, political, judicial, law enforcement, etc... systems. 90% of crimes go uncharged in UK. ~2-5% money only recovered from online scams at the moment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_cause
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_seizure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Tragic Impact of $98,000 Life Savings Scam On Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYPq6Kh-KBU
https://www.youtube.com/@TheProjectTV
Mortgage deposit scams becoming more prevalent in Australia | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uu3CaEDdwM
How to avoid falling victim to an online financial scam | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbF46RvY5k
https://www.youtube.com/@abcnewsaustralia
Britain's Unsolved Crimewave | Dispatches | Channel 4 Documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj2ghENIjvo
https://www.youtube.com/@Channel4Documentaries
How Intelligence agencies catch criminals | ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6S4_cZswWE
https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth
The dramatic undercover sting exposing Nigerian fraud syndicates | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHLiVT4eeM
PART II: The dramatic undercover sting exposing Nigerian fraud syndicates | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4xdTD05EQ4
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
EXPOSED: Is this alleged Ponzi scheme Australia's biggest financial scandal? | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnljXGlfEM
A con man's confession to a multi-billion dollar investment scandal | 60 Minutes Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00urGhfe2Mw
https://www.youtube.com/@60MinutesAU
false confessions statistics
What is the percentage of false confessions?
According to the Innocence Project, 30 percent of all DNA exonerations involve false confessions. The National Registry of Exonerations estimates that 182 out of 1432 known exonerations (or 13 percent) involved a false confession as a contributing factor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-truth-about-false-con_b_5857094
If you were under interrogation, would you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
It's more common than you might think. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 27 percent of people in the registry who were accused of homicide gave false confessions, and 81 percent of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities did the same when they were accused of homicide.
But why?
Scientists are working to understand more about the psychology of false confessions. In "The confession," an article in the journal Science, journalist Douglas Starr focuses on one of them. Starr features Saul Kassin, a psychologist and interrogation expert who is changing the way law enforcement thinks about interrogation.
Kassin has testified in criminal matters, such as the one concerning Barry Laughman, a 24-year-old with an intellectual disability who was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder in 1988. His research has revealed more about how police interrogation techniques, such as applying increased psychological pressure and bluffing with suggestions of additional incriminating evidence, put people at risk for false confessions.
Starr delves into that research and speaks with detractors who say Kassin's studies don't apply to real-life interrogations. He paints a picture of a confrontational criminal justice system that inadvertently triggers false confessions.
It's a system that's primed for change. "Confessions are being questioned as never before," Starr writes, "not just by defense lawyers, but by lawmakers and some police departments, which are reexamining their approach to interrogation."
His incisive examination of the present and future of interrogation provokes questions about how to move forward, and a reconsideration of the lives that have been irrevocably changed by false testimony.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/examining-why-false-confessions-occur-in-the-us-criminal-justice-system/2019/06/20/10128bb4-9207-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html
Would you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
It's a question to which most people would respond with a confident and resounding "no".
That is because few people are aware of the techniques police in the United States are permitted to use during interrogations; techniques that presume guilt and are designed to break people down into a sense of complete despair before offering them one route out: a confession.
In fact, in the US, more than 25 percent of overturned wrongful convictions involve a false confession.
"Any time you do an exoneration case where there's been a false confession, it's like trying to ride a tricycle uphill," explains defence attorney Jane Fisher-Byrialsen. "Everybody's already against you, the person's been convicted by a jury, the judge thinks he's guilty, the jury thinks he's guilty. Now you have to convince everybody that they're wrong."
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2019/03/false-confessions-innocent-people-confess-crime-190311093100363.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2022/07/law-and-disorder-downloader-script_27.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2023/05/future-of-artificial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
- drug labs require specialised knowledge, unique/specialised equipment, precusors often require licenses so hard to believe that there isn't some sort of corruption involved in a lot of large scale operations.
What a house looks like when it's used as a meth lab | SBS The Feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Nct9JLqOI
https://www.youtube.com/@SBSTheFeed
Inside the 'most sophisticated' drug lab in Canadian history | About That
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJSfgf3x9QA
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=breaking+bad+cooking+van
Breaking Bad — The First Cook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xgdry2TNw
https://www.youtube.com/@S810X/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-problem-with-useful-idiots-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
- fraud is stealing with a style according to some fraud police? Similar perspectives and concepts in organised crime and wealthy circles often? Weight, drug, investment, loan, etc... scams all very similar?
wealthiest people in australia vs gdp
Ordinary Australians are struggling to make ends meet while the richest enjoy billions in untaxed capital gains, a new report says.
The background: The Australia Institute's analysis reveals that the wealth of the richest 200 Australians rose from 8.4 per cent of national GDP in 2004 to 23.7 per cent by 2024, indicating a widening wealth gap where the richest benefit from untaxed capital gains while ordinary Australians struggle financially.
The report warns that such inequality could harm social cohesion, exacerbate political polarisation, and hinder economic growth.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/getting-more-unequal-australias-wealth-divide-widens-as-the-rich-get-richer/0f7r7i7nc
Australia's richest captured 93% of economic growth between 2009 financial crisis and Covid, paper shows
Wealthiest 10% captured growth in company profits while most Australians watched their real wages shrink, Australia Institute finds
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/11/australias-richest-captured-93-of-economic-growth-between-2009-financial-crisis-and-covid-paper-shows
How One Woman Stole 3% of Vietnam's GDP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IsZribF2EQ
https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_M%E1%BB%B9_Lan
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/19/vietnam-tycoon-truong-my-lan-sentenced-to-death-faces-new-fraud-trial
Hong Kong family offices: how wealth management intersects with art and philanthropy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIh3qVHFx0
https://www.youtube.com/@euronews
The Men Who Sell Football | Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk
The Oligarchs l Al Jazeera Investigations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughFLQDcI_Q
https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish
Stolen in seconds: Why aren't car makers doing more? | Marketplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21131Sz6mMM
Oil change scams: Hidden camera investigation on what really happens to your car (CBC Marketplace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avpx8UTakI
https://www.youtube.com/@CBCNews
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/types-of-scams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Homes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Brokers
drug rehab success rate
Statistics on relapse after rehab
The AIHW 2016-17 report suggests that approximately 65% of addicts complete their drug or alcohol rehabilitation. Of those, about 50% relapse.
https://www.rayhaderclinic.com.au/resource-centre/rehab-statistics
psychiatric drug succcess rate
The efficacy of psychotherapies and pharmacotherapies for mental disorders in adults: an umbrella review and meta‐analytic evaluation of recent meta‐analyses
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8751557/
weight loss program success rate
What is the success rate of weight loss?
Here's a sobering statistic: Roughly 90 percent of people who lose a lot of weight eventually regain just about all of it.
https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/weighing-facts-tough-truth-about-weight-loss
The principle of weight gain is simple: energy intake exceeds energy expenditure. However, as discussed in Chapter 3, overweight and obesity are clearly the result of a complex set of interactions among genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors. While hundreds, if not thousands, of weight-loss strategies, diets, potions, and devices have been offered to the overweight public, the multi-factorial etiology of overweight challenges practitioners, researchers, and the overweight themselves to identify permanent, effective strategies for weight loss and maintenance. The percentage of individuals who lose weight and successfully maintain the loss has been estimated to be as small as 1 to 3 percent (Andersen et al., 1988; Wadden et al., 1989).
Weight Management: State of the Science and Opportunities for Military Programs.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221839/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Dogs_(2016_film)
abc news ndis scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-04/ndis-scam-fraud-participants-manipulated-australia/103934188
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-31/three-people-sentence-fraud-ndis-ato/104546856
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-05/ndis-fraud-costs-billion-dollar-loss/103184130
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-mornings/calls-for-tight-regulation-following-ndis-fraud/103936776
abc news ato scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/how-to-spot-text-email-phone-tax-scams/102778352
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-26/ato-reveals-cost-of-mygov-tax-identity-crime-fraud/102632572
https://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/scams-and-fraud
https://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/tax-evasion
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-01/companies-that-paid-no-tax-in-2022-23-revealed-profit-shifting/104545520
abc news solar scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-13/solar-systems-sold-to-vulnerable-pensioners/100494892
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/dodgy-solar-panels-spur-calls-for-greater-consumer-protections/101478300
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-02/solar-panel-scam-warning/2868172
- people forget the origins of a lot of organised crime groups and the history of a lot of kids who join or work with such groups. "Normal society" doesn't really have a place for them. They're sort of doomed and they often realise it form a young age. A lot of them dip their toes in their because of what their social group encouraged them to do, others enjoy the notoriety, others just want a way to make money at that stage and later in life. Ideological criminals (this includes psychopaths and sociopaths who manage to succeed in the normal world) are dangerous because they don't see the point of Civilisation or playing nice if they can get what they want via force. Ironically, most religions, legal frameworks, ideologies, etc... can't solve this type of problem within their own framework (no matter how much they try to convince you otherwise) and often need help from all over the place. Parents/teachers/adults/co-workers/employers seem very naive sometimes. If some kids/people seem to be able to produce large amounts of money, drugs, products, weapons, etc... they're probably not that innocent. We've come to a strange acceptance of organised crime as a natural part of society? Just because kids grow up it doesn't necessarily mean that becoming a gangster, terrorist, organised criminal, etc... should be normal?
Inside the Mind of a Thief | Burglar Confessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtwD-c9hn58
https://www.youtube.com/@AllenCityTV
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bourne+supremacy+abbot+and+pam
The Bourne Supremacy (7/9) Movie CLIP - Confronting Abbott (2004) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq295Mg6PHg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Angels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Franzese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snitch_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_(smuggling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(organized_crime)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African_warlords
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_warlords_in_the_Central_African_Republic
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfly_(2018_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
- forced animal labour has been existence for as long as we can remember? There's videos of coconut picking monkey training on YouTube... They're forced to roll the coconuts until they drop? Even their owners admit they'd run off if given the chance? Cartel members often see animals and big cats as status symbols
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monkey+coconut+labour
TERRIBLE!!! Thailand Monkey Slavery to take Coconut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHov5PEnyU
Concerns grow as Thai monkeys used as farm labor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplK2MhYePc
Monkeys trained to pick coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnucgquEZ0
Thailand denies claims of monkey abuse in coconut harvesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f6trO-3enA
Mexico's Exotic Pet Trade | Unreported World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Qq7cqWfbw
https://www.youtube.com/@unreportedworld
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=animal+trafficking
An Inside Look at the Exotic Animal Trade: Profiles by VICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQ8blCdAtA
https://www.youtube.com/@VICE
- obviously, humans have attempted to segregate/ostracise/subjugate the animal kingdom for the own needs and most people believe in "human supremacy". Ironically, many animal/primate ethics are strangely similar to that of humans? When some animals can't figure out how to forage for themselves they resort to crime (both individually as well as a group)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology
How Caretakers Teach Orangutans to Fear Snakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUM8qFX1fs
Three's a Crowd in this Orangutan Relationship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwPFnFhl_z0
Baby Orangutans Learn How to Crack Coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtsHKKb-CI
Chimp Little Larry Learns to Climb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw94Z0B7i_E
Orangutan and Monkey _ Unlikely Animal Friendships _ Love Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoLd0PDNaQ
Forest School for Orangutans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRTkB9imBo
How This School Prepares Orphan Orangutans for the Wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUIicYFFhmE
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beni+banana
An Overweight Orangutan Loses His Banana Privileges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuKpcmW0Vnc
A Young Orangutan Turns to Coconut Theft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWKfraX1qlM
Baby Orangutans Learn How to Crack Coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtsHKKb-CI
Beni's Tips on Dealing with Food Temptation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ZqTkupDfs
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/where-to-watch/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+jungle+school
rape in animal world
Animal coercive sex
Behavior resembling rape in humans can be seen in the animal kingdom, including ducks and geese, bottlenose dolphins, and chimpanzees. Indeed, in orangutans, close human relatives, such copulations constitute up to half of observed matings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiological_theories_of_rape
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
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- if you get to know a lot of animals I suspect a lot of them are fun to be around?
Orangutan and Monkey _ Unlikely Animal Friendships _ Love Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoLd0PDNaQ
Meryl at Nyaru Menteng, Save the Orangutan 2016
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We Love Orangutans - "Babysitter Coordinator, Sri Rahayu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzDDRU5ElyY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
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Chunk The Groundhog
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Guinea pigs living wild in the garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBIh-GnjI7I
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-evolution-vs-creationism-debate.html
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/mini-search-engine-prototype-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/web-crawler-script-random-stuff-and-more.html
- one interesting theory in the world of conspiracy thery and criminal world is that they're condemned to that life because of the circumstances to into which they are born and not necessarily the choices that they made. It would be interesting to see what choices people would make if the opportunities were equal for everyone?
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ACAB: Why All Cops Are Bastards
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http://mariamekaba.com/
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https://www.amazon.com/Who-You-Serve-Protect-Resistance/dp/1608466124
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joe-macare-maya-schenwar-and-alana-yu-lan-price-who-do-you-serve-who-do-you-protect
DEBATE: The West, DEI & Slavery - Konstantin Kisin, Yanis Varoufakis & Cynthia Miller-Idriss
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Alabama Is Generating Billions by Trapping People in Prison
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- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has drawn criticism this week for an interview where he said "we were working 100-hour weeks" on the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2. The ensuing conversation, which now includes many current Rockstar employees speaking publicly for the first time, has reignited a long-running argument about how much "crunch time" (if any) should be expected from developers in the run-up to major game releases.
The controversy started Sunday, when a rare interview with Houser and fellow studio co-founder (and brother) Sam Houser ran on New York Magazine's Vulture vertical. Dan's statement that "we were working 100-hour weeks" several times in 2018 is treated as almost a throwaway line in the context of other numbers highlighting the immensity of the game: 300,000 animations; 500,000 lines of dialogue, and "several hundred" edits for every trailer. It's a theme that runs throughout the interview, where the Housers brag about the game's 2,000 page "main story" script, 1,200 SAG-AFTRA actors, 2,200 days of motion-capture work, and 192 separate "interactive" musical scores, for example.
"We always worked ourselves to the bone," former Grand Theft Auto developer Navid Khonsari notes in the Vulture piece. "We all thought we were making badass shit, so it didn't matter how hard we worked."
Impressively scaled "badass work" or not, many people were disturbed by the idea that Rockstar employees were being pushed through a week's worth of work days lasting over 14 hours each (assuming no weekend breaks). That kind of sustained overwork is common enough to have a widely accepted shorthand name around the industry: "Crunch." And the problems for employee health and well-being brought on by that kind of sustained crunch have been heavily discussed for years in and around the industry. The International Game Developers Association cites research showing that level of sustained overwork is actually damaging to productivity.
Off-handed talk of "100-hour weeks" on RDR2 prompted many developers to share their own stories of how crunch has negatively impacted their lives during their time in the game industry. "My first job in Games we had a leaderboard where we tracked who worked the most hours in one week on the project. I made it to 3rd place... with 118 hours," Iron Galaxy CEO Adam Boyes wrote in a representative example.
Other developers took issue with the prideful, almost bragging tone of Houser's comments, which suggested the long work weeks were worth it to create "this seamless, natural-feeling experience in a world that appears real, an interactive homage to the American rural experience," as Houser put it. "This needs to stop being a point of pride, no matter how bittersweet you make it sound," Creative Assembly developer Pete Stewart wrote. "I don't want devs to work 100-hour weeks, even if the end result is a game of the year. No game is worth that kind of burnout."
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/
- People consume fake news because it is more fun. This is not a new phenomenon. Just think about the way gossip works. The stories people are most interested to hear and repeat are the most outrageous and exaggerated ones ("She never!"). This is because truth tends to be less interesting than falsehood, precisely because truth tends closely to resemble what we already know. It doesn't surprise or excite us. In contrast, false stories are much more likely to succeed because they are engineered to be exciting and are not constrained by boring facts. They can be tailored to the audience's expectations.
Before the Enlightenment we didn't have much more than gossip (and acquiescence to certain politically convenient truths by threat of raw power). We lacked the trustworthy institutions that would guarantee the credibility of facts, and so we were stuck having to decide for ourselves what we preferred to believe. But then we built institutions ― such as science and government and responsible journalism ― capable of determining truth from falsehood. We started to take the idea of objective truth for granted, even though we never actually conquered our consumerist impulses.
Consider the news media. There are high fixed costs to setting up and running a television station or newspaper. The business logic of mainstream media requires long-term investment for long-term returns. Therefore, there was some enduring institution that could be held accountable to society for the truth and decency of its output. Even gossipy, sensationalist tabloids like the Daily Mail or Fox News had to keep one foot on the ground. Moreover, some people actually preferred to consume their news rich in facts; enough that it made financial sense for some media companies to build a reputation for truth.
Social media has disrupted the institutional constraints so laboriously built against truth consumerism. It provides a distribution system, and, by means of AdTech, a targeting and payment system, that frees publishers from even minimal accountability to society or the long-term. Unfortunately, a system where people decide for themselves what they like to believe has not empowered consumers but degraded the products on sale. Food scientists spent the last fifty years loading their products with the evolutionary signals of nourishment while removing the expensive nutrition part. Social media companies likewise employ the latest behavioural science to manipulate our cognitive biases so that we will keep scrolling and liking and sharing. This is because the longer we stay on their platform, the more of our attention they can hive off for resale to advertisers. In both cases, we end up consuming junk. The quality of the products is simply irrelevant to the business model.
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- China's President Xi Jinping has officially opened the world's longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China Tuesday.
The 55-kilometer crossing, which includes a snaking road bridge and underwater tunnel, links Hong Kong with the southern mainland city of Zhuhai and the enclave of Macau, across the waters of the Pearl River Estuary.
Xi presided over an inauguration ceremony attended by Hong Kong's and Macau's city leaders at a new port terminal in Zhuhai.
"I declare the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge officially open," Xi said in a one-line address, as digital fireworks exploded on a screen behind him at the indoor ceremony, before leaving the stage immediately.
Supporters of the multi-billion-dollar bridge promote it as an engineering marvel that will boost business and cut travel time, but critics say it is one more way to integrate Hong Kong into China.
China's Vice Premier Han Zheng characterized the bridge as part of the development of the Greater Bay Area — a Beijing-driven project to create an economic hub linking nine southern mainland cities to Hong Kong and Macau.
At the ceremony, he described the strategy as "deployed and driven by Xi Jinping personally."
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said the bridge would help transform Hong Kong from a "connector to a more active participant."
It is the second major infrastructure project tying Hong Kong to mainland China to launch in a matter of weeks, after the opening of a high-speed rail link last month.
The main section of the new bridge is also considered mainland territory, even though Hong Kong was slated to pay at least half the cost of the project, according to the original blueprint from the city's government.
Hong Kong cars and drivers travelling over it "must comply with the laws and regulations of the mainland," the city's transport department said.
The total price tag is unclear but some estimates run to over 100 billion yuan ($14.4 billion).
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/23/577829/China-president-Hong-Kong-bridge
The researchers said DarkPulsar also included functionality to disable NTLM protocol security meaning that the need to enter a username and password during authentication was bypassed, indicating that an attack using this malware was meant to be a long-term one.
There was one bright note, however. "...to exploit this backdoor on infected victims, the attackers need to know the private RSA key which pairs to the public key embedded in the backdoor," the Kaspersky trio said. "It means that no one except [the] real DarkPulsar's managers can exploit compromised systems."
They recommended the following measures to avoid infections:
Keep your security products up to date;
Do not turn security product components off;
Keep your OS updated;
Install all security patches asap;
Use special traffic analysis tools and pay attention to all encrypted traffic;
Do not use weak passwords or the same password for several endpoints;
Use complex passwords;
Do not allow remote connections to endpoints with administration rights; and
Do not allow domain administrators to be local administrators with the same credentials.
https://www.itwire.com/security/84992-windows-servers-still-infected-by-darkpulsar-nsa-exploit.html
- Linus Torvalds — foul-mouthed programmer
"Please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place." Emails such as this were common at Linus Torvalds's company, Linux. Torvalds posted thousands of messages targeting programmers at his computer-operating-system kernel, which runs the computers of Google, PayPal and Amazon. Over a thousand of the 21,000 emails he sent in a four-year period used the word "crap."
https://www.dw.com/en/you-dont-have-to-be-a-psycho-to-be-ceo/g-46022739
An official says the Iranian government needs no more wheat imports thanks to favorable crop harvest and procurement from local farmers at a time of diminishing grain stocks around the world.
Largely self-sufficient in wheat a decade ago, Iran emerged as one of the world's biggest importers a few years ago but a raft of measures taken by the government is returning the country to where it was.
"With the government's measures in recent years, the country has been freed of wheat imports and the volume of imports has reached zero," the man in charge of the program at Iran's Ministry of Agriculture Jihad Esmaeil Esfandiari said.
Iran's last major government-sponsored wheat import in 2011 stood at more than 2.6 million tonnes. Last year, the government purchased about 9 million tonnes of wheat from local farmers out of 11 million tonnes planned.
According to state officials, the country usually maintains a carryover from previous wheat crops and past stocks which cover any shortfall.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/10/23/577850/Iran-agriculture-wheat-drought-Russia-US
- The state of the art in cloud security was "not good enough - not even close," according to Ellison, so Oracle has developed a new architecture. But "if it was easy to do, someone else would have already done it," he said.
Oracle Cloud Gen 2 represents "a completely new hardware configuration for the cloud" using "dedicated, independent computers to surround the perimeter of our cloud" and each customer's zone. This approach stops malicious customers moving laterally to attack their peers, or to interfere with the control of the infrastructure.
It has two way implications for security: Oracle can't see its customers' data ("you don't have to trust us"), and customers cannot access the computers controlling Oracle Cloud.
"It's an isolated network they can't get at," said Ellison, "threats can't enter and threats can't spread."
https://www.itwire.com/enterprise-cloud/85016-second-generation-oracle-cloud-impenetrable-ellison.html
