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Drug lords make billions smuggling gold to Miami for jewelry and phones

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“Much of that gold comes from outlaw mines deep in the jungle where dangerous chemicals are poisoning rainforests and laborers who toil for scraps of metal, according to human rights watchdogs and industry executives.  In comparison, the U.S. gold supply, mostly mined in Nevada and Alaska, offers stiff competition and regulations. Big companies control the big mines. Smaller companies looking to deal in U.S. gold are restricted to buying recycled ‘scrap’ gold from pawnshops and jewelry stores. To gain a competitive edge, many U.S. gold traders look south.”

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article194187699.html

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The Bulgarian Government Is Sitting on $3 Billion in Bitcoin

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“A crackdown on organized crime by Bulgarian law enforcement in May resulted in the seizure of more than 200,000 bitcoins – an amount worth more than $3 billion at today’s prices.  Twenty-three Bulgarian nationals were arrested during the operation, and officials said at the time that the arrests and subsequent asset seizures followed an investigation into an alleged customs fraud scam.  In all, the alleged perpetrators avoided paying some 10 million leva (Bulgaria’s national currency), worth roughly $6 million.”

Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/bulgarian-government-sitting-3-billion-bitcoin/

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In North Korea, Black Markets Are Saving Lives

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“Initially, these markets consisted of disorganized traders meeting in fields, facing seizure from police if they did not come up with a bribe.  Today, the jangmadang practice has led to fully-fledged markets, complete with stalls selling street food, smuggled electronics, ingredients, and clothes; certain markets allegedly grew to encompass upwards of a thousand stalls.  Today, the markets remain a crucial element of survival for many North Koreans, with some reports estimating that around 5 million (around a fifth of the overall population) are ‘directly or indirectly dependent on the markets’.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/in-north-korea-black-markets-are-saving-lives/

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Is Government Really The Price Of Civilization?

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“The infrastructure-building, law-codifying, biopolitical states of antiquity are not the starting points of universal history for Scott, as they were for both Marx and liberal historians. They are instead a kind of usurpation of a longer and quite possibly richer human practice of mobility and freedom.”

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/145444/paleo-politics-what-made-prehistoric-hunter-gatherers-give-freedom-civilization

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Brave Police Save Town From Man Selling Veggies

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“You need food, so you grow some vegetables. If you have extra you sell them on a street corner to your neighbors, and if you live in California you get arrested for it.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/brave-police-save-town-from-man-selling-veggies/

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Patented insulin prices spike 10x, but black market keeps kids alive

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“Sanofi’s proprietary Apidra brand insulin has increased in price by 1,123% since 1996. So they’ve turned to the black market, trading the insulin that Corely’s insurer will buy with other diabetic people they meet on the internet, who are covered on plans that buy the kind of insulin Corely needs to not slip into a coma and die before her tenth birthday.”

Read more: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/27/cvs-caremark.html

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Black Market Arises In Cash Conversions Following India’s Cash Ban

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“As Indians struggle with the chaos caused by last month’s sudden banning of their 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, money-laundering networks are spreading across the country, seizing on a new market in helping people turn their cash hoards into legal tender.  While people have until year-end to deposit old notes in their bank accounts, the government has said it will scrutinize large cash deposits and money with undeclared origins — and will tax or penalize depositors. That’s created a scramble for ways to turn so-called black money, the local term for cash that has evaded taxation, into white.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-04/money-laundering-networks-thrive-amid-india-s-cash-ban-chaos

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Last flight for US-funded air war on drugs as Colombia counts health cost

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“For more than two decades crop dusters have buzzed the skies of Colombia showering bright green fields of coca with chemical defoliant as part of a US-funded effort to stem the country’s production of cocaine.  Farmers across the country have long complained that indiscriminate spraying also destroys legal crops, and that the chemical used – glyphosate – has caused everything from skin rashes and respiratory problems to diarrhoea and miscarriages.  Authorities in Colombia and the United States – which has funded the aerial eradication programme with as much as $2bn since 2000 – scoffed at those claims.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/colombia-air-war-drugs-last-flight-looms-health-cost

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Meet the Human Smugglers

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“To write Human Smuggling and Border Crossings (Routledge 2015), Gabriella Sanchez interviewed a large sample of human smugglers in Arizona. The result is a fascinating ethnography. [..] Most respondents did not consider any part of their involvement in smuggling to be deviant or criminal. They perceived the provision of these services as benevolent acts conducted on behalf of friends and family.  [..]  Most smuggling activities surveyed in this sample generated returns in the range of US$50 to US$200 to those who performed them.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/meet-the-human-smugglers/

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DOJ: Drug Traffickers Easily Circumvented TSA For Years

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“Fourteen people were charged Monday with perpetuating a drug ring that smuggled suitcases full of marijuana onto airplanes, including three baggage handlers at Oakland International Airport.  The handlers allegedly snuck suitcases full of marijuana through special areas off limits to passengers where they could circumvent TSA screening. The handlers then allegedly used their security badges to go through a door to the main terminal area where they would hand off the suitcases to waiting accomplices who would take them as carry on luggage to their destination.  The operation had been running smoothly since as far back as July 2012.”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/19/doj-drug-traffickers-easily-circumvented-tsa-for-years/

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