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Highly suggest reading Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? Really succinctly lays out how Putin came to power with the help of the Mafia and how he was basically chosen in order to keep people out of prison. Unlike the US where the oligarchs really skate the law, in Russia, the law is basically set up to keep the oligarchs in power. Russia's wealth disparity is mostly due to graft and sweetheart contracts to the oligarchs and Putin is right in the middle of it. He has been since he was deputy mayor of St. Petersberg in the 1990s.
Have you read McMafia (It's also a good TV series) by Misha Glenny?
It goes into detail how Israel became the hub for human traffic/prostitution operations in the early 90’s (mostly girls from Eastern Europe).
If yes, were you able to make some connections to Wexner and Epstein?
if not, then you should read the book first thing in the morning.
Bonus Clip of Glenny talking about it:
The book I just read, Evidence Ignored: What You May Not Know About Columbine has a chapter on the Trenchcoat Mafia. It's pretty detailed. The Amazon preview has the entire chapter you can read for free:
https://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Ignored-What-About-Columbine-ebook/dp/B07ZFDCY2J/
McMafia de Misha Glenny.
Consta histórias do crime organizado na ascensão do capitalismo que culminou com a queda do comunismo e o fim da Guerra Fria. Muito interessante para entender tudo o que aconteceu nos Bálcãs, Rússia, Oriente Médio e se estendeu por todo o globo.
Tem até uma série, que não cheguei a assistir.
Fantastic write-up and very well-reasoned arguments. Anyone interested in the life and crimes of Paul Le Roux should read the authoritative book <em>The Mastermind</em> by Evan Ratliff. Even those who aren't particularly big readers will find Ratliff's book to be a serious pageturner.
This was a good read but it concerns the civilian side of the facility.
If you want to understand just how deeply corrupt Canada has become, and how heavily criminal money laundering has impacted the country and our real housing affordability, then you need to read investigative journalist Sam Cooper's book - Willful Blindness.
It is a massive and complex issue and he breaks it down, piece by piece, delivering the factual information and evidence on what has been happening for the past decade or more. The sheer scale and scope of what is happening right under our noses is breathtaking.
The corruption is evident and reaches the highest levels of our most important institutions that are meant to protect Canadians. Many seem unaware, but the head of the RCMPs national criminal intelligence unit has been arrested for selling inside information about investigations to the heads of transnational criminal organizations. Read that again.
The book is a Globe and Mail Bestseller and #1 Bestseller on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.ca/Wilful-Blindness-criminal-infiltrated-Communist-ebook/dp/B095YZY5GT/
It will be the most important book you read this year - but I have to warn you - you will be very angry.
Or out. Read a book about Leavenworth once. A con in khakis with a clipboard escaped by convincing a guard he was an inspector and to pass him though to the visitor area.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005X0JFUI/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_gl_YZW4RWSTW6WTF16BBSHY
The influence of money laundering on Vancouver RE in particular has been a problem for decades, as documented by Sam Cooper in his book Wilful Blindness and journalist Ian Young.
But over the last couple of years the RE bubble has affected all markets in Canada, literally from coast to coast. At this point it's basically a self perpetuating speculative bubble.
Until now, Chinese vendors have evaded criminal prosecution by selling drugs that mimic the deadly drug. Since they're not covered by drugs laws, these variants are technically legal to sell.
China is now bringing in a blanket ban of all fentanyl-type drugs which is meant to close that loop hole.
Law enforcement agencies have long suspected Chinese exporters are key sources of fentanyl flowing into Canada and the United States.
The new regulations come into effect on May 1.
"It is an encouraging step in controlling the flow of fentanyl into the country and onto our streets," said Mike Tucker, a spokesperson for ALERT, which is a specialized group of police investigators that targets organized crime.
Read this book "Willful Blindness" - https://www.amazon.ca/Wilful-Blindness-criminal-infiltrated-Communist-ebook/dp/B095YZY5GT/ref=sr_1_1?crid=81ZELQN0Q7UM&keywords=Wilful+Blindness%3A+How+a+network+of+narcos%2C+tycoons+and+CCP+agents+infiltrated+the+West+%28Holding+the+Chinese+C...
Most of my family is from rural KY and meth/heroin has riddled all of their communities.
Read a book sometime -- This is a really good one and entertaining - https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0
It's pretty objectively bad -- https://www.healthy-ky.org/res/images/resources/KHIP-heroin-and-meth-FINAL.pdf
So, reading Dreamland, I was really struck by how multifaceted the opioid crisis is. At least the impression that I got from that book, it seemed like it really started with a perfect storm of pharmaceutical salesmanship, legislation, people not double checking the underlying research, moralization of addiction, a proliferation of unscrupulous pain clinics, and heroin starting to come in from Mexico.
With all those other factors, I'm kinda surprised to see CVS and Walgreens as being places to lay blame. And, reading the comment from kombinacja, it doesn't sound like there's a lot there that they could do differently.
The way I understand it, this is how modern neo-fashism masks itself behind this "virtue signaling" and performs recruital. This is not my opinion, but ex-fashists. You can listen about it here https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/121-white-power/ or I guess buy one of the book like this one https://www.amazon.com/White-American-Youth-Americas-Movement-ebook/dp/B076BW7LCT/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=White+American+Youth&qid=1610132136&sr=8-1
Is Jeff Bezos looking to step in for Paul Le Roux since he's locked up?
Quote from synopsis of the book The Mastermind, by Evan Ratliff:
>It all started as an online prescription drug network, supplying hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of painkillers to American customers. It would not stop there. Before long, the business had turned into a sprawling multinational conglomerate engaged in almost every conceivable aspect of criminal mayhem. Yachts carrying $100 million in cocaine. Safe houses in Hong Kong filled with gold bars. Shipments of methamphetamine from North Korea. Weapons deals with Iran. Mercenary armies in Somalia. Teams of hit men in the Philippines. Encryption programs so advanced that the government could not break them.
>The man behind it all, pulling the strings from a laptop in Manila, was Paul Calder Le Roux—a reclusive programmer turned criminal genius who could only exist in the networked world of the twenty-first century, and the kind of self-made crime boss that American law enforcement had never imagined.
Probably the best book I've read on it has been Evidence Ignored: What You May Not Know About Columbine. I'm not sure why it's not a perfect score on Amazon, but it is seriously a phenomenal book, especially if you've just read Cullenbine, you'll find this author countered almost every point Dave made, and backed it up with sources.
Even Randy Brown left a 5 star comment on it. I cannot recommend this book enough, it is insanely good, and if you have Kindle Unlimited you can read it for free!
Amazon Link for the book - currently free on Kindle Unlimited.
Gleason's book discusses this. You can read most of the chapter on the bullying they received for free using the Look Inside feature on the Kindle version. https://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Ignored-What-About-Columbine-ebook/dp/B07ZFDCY2J/ The book's next chapter talks about things they did to bully other people.
I am from Pike County and I would say Portsmouth more so than Chillicothe. At least Chillicothe gets some growth/money being close to Columbus but Portsmouth is a real bummer. It was sad when I was taking a look at this book and cover looked familiar.
Just to add a bit of context, having read a lot of background literature about the so-called opioid epidemic, for example Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic which is a great source, I can tell you that Dr. Kolodny is infamous for his advocacy of drastic curtailment of licit pain medication. He's not just some rando doc that Bloom is trying to discredit. I should probably have provided some context instead of just posting this link without comment, but I was afraid that I might politicize things and offend people if I inserted my opinion, so I just posted the link to the article without comment. I'm not very good at Reddit.
Black tar heroin from mexico is something a lot of people are dying from. https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503058526&sr=8-1&keywords=dreamland A great read that explains a lot of the opioid epidemic.
Strongly recommend that those interested in this nail in the country's coffin read Dreamland.
This book gives much more evidence that Putin, or at the least agents of the FSB in general, were behind the apartment bombings.
I can understand that one would be inclined to great this theory with the same credence one gives to theories that Bush did 9/11. Both cases seem to derive their initial credibility from the fact that the heads of state in question used the respective acts of terror to launch hugely popular wars that solidified their grip on political power. But the Dawisha book brought a lot of facts to bear. Beyond the evidence available in the extremely detailed Wikipedia article, I vaguely recall (sorry, it's been more than year) Dawisha recording a lot of direct evidence of FSB involvements, like eyewitness accounts of vans outside the apartments.
why would you want a "neutral" book rather than a well researched truthful one?
you might actually learn something
Here's a superbly researched book by an actual academic with actual standards
http://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia-ebook/dp/B00L01GHGY
For those interested, I recommend spending $2 and buying Lifted by Evan Ratliff. Tells the story of this robbery, and let me tell you, it is pretty epic. And he's a great writer. Check it out.
(and no, I'm not affiliated with Ratliff in any way. This ain't no commercial)