Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks

http://www.ted.com Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders.

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[tudoralexe]

Easy solution for all this shit: legalize the drugs.

[tecknixia]

Global crime networks are bigger than you think. All one has to do is study national monetary policies (including the us federal reserve) to figure out how corrupt things really are.

[redeemedOne32]

ordo ab chao! the governments create the chaos so they can be the saviour and bring the order they want. until people realize this they will not understand anything. create horrible criminals and help them along so they can make people scream for their own enslavement. this guy is only telling half of the truths. if he was really telling secrets he would have been taken out. do you think madoff could have pulled off his scam by himself? yet he was the only one implicated.

[redeemedOne32]

the only problem with what this guy is saying about regulations for off shore banking is how would we even get the people who run the world to put in regulations that would keep them from committing the crimes they commit. this goes all the way to the top my friends.everyone has their pockets lined with dirty money. he is for cyber regulations because he works for the bad guys. our own government is involved with the viruses to make people cry for them to regulate the internet.

[lenowin]

You had me til you started looking down on the marijuana trade.

[r0llskyay0]

haha legalize the drugs? you think getting rid of drugs will get rid of violence? they still need to get their paper, if its not drugs it will just be something else

[marbidlilibi]

This man is going to get shot in the forehead by some shady sniper one of these days if he spreads any more insight into global crime.

[Antwnhs92]

misha glenny.. what a f*cking joke, this clown say greeks slaughtered the turks at the turkish invasion in greece at 1821 and nowadays oftenly come to greece to help greece solve national matters..

[DreamsCatcher101]

My uncle was in Berlin as a captain in the british army doing the time the wall fell. He brought all his brothers and sisters a piece of it back. Loads of fist sized jagged pieces of rubbish made concrete with graffiti on the flat bits.

[commanderbige]

@gohjj122 that would be good to know, its pretty sick, be nice for putting in powerpoints and stuff

[gohjj122]

what software does he use for his maps ?

[andreiutza4444]

Well good picture with the mafiots guys. Unfortunatelly gypsies mafiot groups are very active in Bulgaria, Romania, Italy and Spain beeing the main group to trafficate children.