[PDF] Blood Profits eBook

Author : Vanessa Neumann
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1250089360

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International smuggling has exploded, deepening and accelerating the collaboration of transnational organized crime and terrorist groups. Attacks like the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan shootings in Paris, the kidnappings and murders by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the San Bernardino shooting were partially funded by seemingly harmless illegal goods such as cheap cigarettes, smuggled oil, prostitution, fake Viagra, fake designer bags, and even bootleg DVDs. But how can this be? In Blood Profits, Vanessa Neumann, an expert on dismantling illicit trade, explains how purchasing illegal goods translates to supporting organized crime and terrorists. Neumann shows how the effects of the collapsed Iron Curtain, USSR scientists and intelligence agents left without work, regional trade pacts, the dissipation of the East-versus-West mentality, and new-age technology have all led to an intricate network of illegal trade. She leads the reader through a variety of cases, both by geography and by industry (selecting industries where illicit trade is generally poorly understood), before extracting lessons learned into some policy recommendations that we can all embrace.

Author : Vanessa Neumann
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250089352

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Revealing how the multibillion-dollar illegal trade of everyday counterfeit products is actually funding the world's terrorist organizations, a report by an expert on countering illicit trade explains the dangerous consequences of purchasing contraband.

Author : T. Christian Miller
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0316030813

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An investigative reporter pens an explosive indictment of how the Bush Administration wasted billions in Iraq through sweetheart deals to G.O.P. supporters, outrageous contracts to corrupt companies, and absurdly naive assumptions.

Author : James Dale Davidson
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446353168

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The authors discuss a new way of judging and interpreting global events as the necessary context of investment strategy

Author : J. Victor Tomaszek
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782792775

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The very soul of a nation is threatened as three once naive Americans risk the ultimate sacrifice to uncover and expose a global conspiracy to defraud America of trillions funded by Washington war profiteering and illegal drug sales sanctioned by the CIA, controlled by the Mafia and laundered by Wall Street traders. Blood Profit$ will take you into the cigar smoke-filled room where American policy and laws are really made… ,

Author : Richard Nowell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1441143165

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Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in order to claim that these were formulaic, excessively violent exploitation films, fashioned to satisfy the misogynist fantasies of teenage boys and grind house patrons. However, by examining the commercial logic, strategies and objectives of the American and Canadian independents that produced the films and the companies that distributed them in the US, Blood Money demonstrates that filmmakers and marketers actually went to extraordinary lengths to make early teen slashers attractive to female youth, to minimize displays of violence, gore and suffering and to invite comparisons to a wide range of post-classical Hollywood's biggest hits; including Love Story (1970), The Exorcist (1973), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease and Animal House (both 1978). Blood Money is a remarkable piece of scholarship that highlights the many forces that helped establish the teen slasher as a key component of the North American film industry's repertoire of youth-market product.

Author : Kathleen McLaughlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1982171979

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"Bad Blood meets Dreamland in this kaleidoscopic investigation into the shadowy and vampiric blood business and the dangerous limits of demand for the crucial resource that runs through our very veins. Every year, about twenty million Americans sell blood plasma for cash in a barely regulated market dominated by private industry and off-the-grid trafficking. These commercial efforts prey on an insatiable market for medical and scientific innovation fed from the veins of some of the country's most marginalized communities, such as undocumented immigrants and residents of poverty-stricken Flint, Michigan. We are often told that "blood donations" are used to save lives, but blood plasma, a component of whole blood, has become a precious commercial good. Blood plasma is collected and marketed by private industry, with the United States one of just five nations on the planet that have not yet banned the practice of pay-for-plasma giving. This precious resource is used for everything from expensive and unproven age-reversing treatments to costly and experimental cures for novel diseases like COVID-19. Based on a cross-country investigation into the plasma-giving capitals of the country, in-depth research into the blood industry, and her personal experience as a beneficiary of plasma-derived treatment for a rare condition, Kathleen McLaughlin's Blood Money reveals the underhanded machinations and unbalanced power structures of the blood industry. Taking us from China's blood black market to Silicon Valley's shadowy tech startups, this is an unforgettable inside look at an industry many of us had no idea even existed. Blood Money is an electrifying exposé that demonstrates the shadowy overlap between big medicine and big business and paints a searing portrait of the extent to which American industry feeds on the country's most vulnerable"--

Author : Titmuss, Richard
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447349601

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Richard Titmuss (1907-1973) was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, he compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is both safer and more economically efficient. Titmuss’s argument about how altruism binds societies together has proved a powerful tool in the analysis of welfare provision. His analysis is even more topical now in an age of ever changing health care policy and at a time when health and welfare systems are under sustained attack from many quarters.

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0806186844

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The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.