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The Mexico Series: Weapons Of The Mexican Drug Cartels & The Mexican Police
Peter Thiel’s Golden Touch
My fascination with Peter Thiel continues to build – in this case based upon his seeming involvement in every successful or interesting project to come out of Silicon Valley these days… PayPal, Facebook, Clarium Capital, Palantir, etc. The article is below… By SIOBHAN GORMAN for The Velvet Rocket PALO ALTO, Calif. — From a Silicon … Continue reading
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How To Launder Money (And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Money Laundering)
Interesting piece from Forbes Magazine… Tough Rules You can thank the USA Patriot Act (passed after the 2001 terrorist attacks) for this rapid global change. The Patriot Act required financial institutions to set up rigorous anti-money-laundering programs, ostensibly to thwart terrorist financing. However, with a powerful new tool on their hands, various law enforcement agencies did not … Continue reading
Sex Slaves – Where They Come From
According to a very reliable source (my cousin Molly), the highest percentage of sex slave victims (per capita) originate in the following countries: Belarus Moldova Russia Ukraine Albania Bulgaria Lithuania Romania China Thailand Nigeria Continue reading
Is This What America Has Become?
In spite of decades of knowledge that science has brought forth about basic cause and effect of our actions, we are still seeing more rather than less specimens like this. POSTSCRIPT: Not that it’s relevant, but here is a description of the American consumer pictured that was included with the email from my American source… … Continue reading
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