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Taking money from various Russian and Chinese newly rich crowd usually means dealing with mafia or governments/military (and thugs and government are much close
by sheeshkebab 6y ago
Taking money from various Russian and Chinese newly rich crowd usually means dealing with mafia or governments/military (and thugs and government are much closer together in those places than elsewhere).
- specialist 6y agoI think about this all the time. Not the "honest graft", which I can kinda wrap my head around. What worries more are the hidden economies. The traditional trifecta of drugs, arms, human trafficking. Which would probably now include industrial espionage, demographic data, computer security stuff. (Just occurs to me this may be the "Dark Web" category.) The kind of stuff mid-career Seymour Hersh covered. I really thought Sibel Edmonds' whistle blowing was going to mainstream this topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds I guess I feel like there are so many hidden factors, of significant influence, that talking about visible finance, corruption, globalization, whatever feels wholly inadequate.
- mofosyne 6y agoReminds me of the Paradise papers leaks and how the journalist uncovering an international potential money laundering operation got car bombed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
- specialist 6y agoAgreed. Honestly, I try to not think too hard about all the people who've been killed, punished. It quickly takes me to a very dark place. Back when I was working on election integrity I fully expected to be arrested, end up in jail and then prison. Maybe a dozen activists before me (nationwide) got pretty roughed up for telling the truth.