Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- 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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Absolutely no legalising of criminal activity.
A definite eye opening TED Talk.
Best TED talk in a LONG time :)
I like how he says "Mafia".
Have tried to post a link to an op-ed in the NY-times written by Misha Glenny in which he writes about his views on prohibition and the war on drugs. It won´t work however, so I can just recommend you to do a search on their website. The article, like the talk, is informative, well written and courageous.
you got that right -- legalize it! The entire problem is either caused or exacerbated by outdated laws.
Dude, 15% is INSANE.
GLOBALIZATION TERMS GLOSSARY
The economy = the corporate global economy.
Industrialization = corporate usurpation of production and destruction of the independent craftsman.
Economic development = replacement of small businesses and self-sufficient local economies with the corporate global economy.
Job creation = 1. (Global South) sweatshops, plantations, child labor. 2. (Global North) paper-shufflers paid 20 times the hourly rate of Global South workers who do the real, productive work.
Economic freedom = working for the corporations and buying from the corporations.
Economic growth = ever-increasing profits for white collar parasites (e.g., Wall Street manipulators and big corporate and banking executives).
Global labor competition = economic growth by giving your job to a sweatshop worker in another continent.
Global labor market = elimination of environmental, worker safety, minimum wage, benefits, & child labor laws.
Outplacement interview = You’re fired.
Globalization = imperialism; destruction of all cultures.
Mobility of capital and ideas = rootlessness, unaccountability.
Competitive production costs = revocation of centuries-old protective tariffs (trade barriers), which enables production to be moved to off-shore sweatshops.
Free trade = massive oil-burning transportation system that centralizes economic power in the corporations.
Privatization = corporate appropriation of public lands and resources which creates favored monopolies.
The poor = people who live sustainably in true communities and diverse cultures, crafting their own homes, clothing, and utensils, and growing their own organic food. These millions are termed “poor” because industrial capitalism places no value on communities, culture, and the goods and services people provide for themselves.
Stabilization = subjugation, as in "The US military presence has stabilized the region."
Shift to export economy = corporate agribusiness theft of peasants' land creating massive mono-crop plantations and forced migration into big city slums and sweatshops.
Business-friendly environment = corporate puppet regime installed by U.S. military, CIA, Mossad, MI6, etc., and controlled by detailed and conditional World Bank loans.
European Union = elimination of democracy and borders and the homogenization of Europe's diverse cultures.
Costs outsourcing = subsidies, bailouts, and tax breaks given to corporations in exchange for campaign contributions and cash payments.
Media = propaganda machine owned by corporations and funded by corporate advertising.
Industry consultant = corporate lobbyist.
Market creation = advertising and selling increasingly complex, costly, and unnecessary consumer products.
Automobile = an expensive, dangerous, and environmentally destructive personal isolation chamber and unpaid part-time job, which disrupts, disperses, and destroys compact pedestrian communities.
Infrastructure = subsidized freeway sprawl forcing reliance on the automobile.
Television = an addictive corporate advertising and “news” propaganda device, which wastes time formerly used for family, friends, community, and reading.
Military-industrial complex = $Trillions in obscene profits for the financial elite, made from the mass murder of millions of non-elites.
Peace-keeping forces = occupying army.
Terrorist = a person who counter-attacks the country that is invading or occupying his native land.
Private security contractors = US mercenaries who replace soldiers in occupied countries to create the image of US departure and local rule.
BRAVO!!! THANK YOU!!!
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.
If you want a drug problem have a look at Sydney. I've worked in Canada and Amsterdam and have never seen anything like this, its nuts.
Microbial drug resistance scares the hell out of me. That's a serious problem.
every video I watch makes me feel that USA is somehow most responsible for this outcome!!
the US is to blame for most wars, organized crime not so much. i mean sure there are dozens of gangs and mafias operating freely in the US. but the gov isnt responsible for their rise. Id say that the US is responsible for all the terror and war that goes on legally in countries that become destabilized. Yeah i'm blaming the birth of terrorism on the US, its creation of foreign terror groups, and leaders. (its a pattern, the US secretly appoints a leader in a foreign country, those leaders become a little more greedy than the US wanted, and somewhere along the lines crimes against their own citizens transpire, which give the US gov and military the opportunity to come in, steal resources like Oil and minerals, and appoint a new shadow figure of their liking.) this has transpired in almost every arab nation, and then the media turns the blame on the Arab citizens and victims of the conflicts. its truly pathetic.Sorry to write so much.
the solution: legalize everything, then they wont have any income anymore
Excellent talk, very useful.
Thanks TED!
Let's do one for 2024. Rampant terrorism in government, militia, high tech and society et al.
The point to legalizing drugs and prostitution is not that organized crime would disappear. It would however be greatly diminished. Furthermore, and very importantly, the resources that are currently spent on countering drug crimes would then be available to counter the rest of the crime. So organized crime would be significantly reduced both by reducing their potential market and by increased enforcement.
I believe his short comment on the necessity of a rethink of drugs policy was referring to something like this. The guy seems to have too good an idea of what´s going on not too realize it.
thankyou. I (and i'm sure others too) wouldn't have known that otherwise, and would have otherwise come away from this talk harboring an incorrect correlation.
An excellent video with information that we should all already have access to.
My heart is a lovely shade of pink.
I think we all know what the Coltan is really used for...
The picture with the three men wearing gold chains is actually from Romania
It's alive and well today and it's actually for the most part somehow legal and it brings in way more than 15%!!!
That is not an end all solution. It wouldn't stop the other corporate corruption scams in government. It's not all about drugs.
...so true....
criminals are very moraly week people, they can't posably feel good about themselves.
In the "Sarah Conner Chronicles", the terminators are made from "a coltan alloy".
Just sayin, one of those funny connections.
May 15% is a bit but even it would be 10% that is gigantic!
Could you explain a little more?
If there is the Season 2 of McMafia, I hope that it will set up in British Columbia
great speaker
The anecdote about coltan is misleading. Yes, 80% of coltan comes from DRC but coltan is only one of the many ores of Tantalum, the element that is actually used in electronics. The United States Geological Survey reports in its 2006 yearbook that DRC produced a little less than 1% of the worlds Tantalum. Australia is the largest producer of Tantalum.
Use this to see what happens when you decriminalize all drugs: watch?v=8HpW7GY2KHQ
Portugal did it and overall use has dropped 10%. It's still illegal to sell drugs, but users are not criminalized. As a result many went and got help offered by the govt. to stop their own drug use.
Brilliant.
Yeah i mainly just wanted to give that "Drug Legalisation will solve everything!" idealism a reality check.
Legalisation of victimless crimes (ie: prostitution, drugs) will indeed solve a lot of problems, and i'm all for it. But it won't solve everything in the criminal world.
Mind you - given the huge impact it would have, you could get away with calling it a silver bullet.
REGULATION IS WHAT BROUGHT US HERE. WE NEED TO GET RID OF REGULATION TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM NOT PROMOTE MORE REGULATION! once organized crime will not have so much money from drugs and prostitution they will not be so widespread in other areas.
Legalise both and we wont have to.
if they were to decriminalise drugs and prostitution the crimials would be out of business....there is more money to be made keeping it illegal......
what has this got to do with coltan and slavery?
ALL DRUGS--yes, even cocaine and heroin--were legal essentially EVERYWHERE a hundred years ago. HOW did people ever survive!?!?!
Furthermore, even when Americans WEREN'T AWARE that cocaine and heroin were addictive--still only about
15%? wow...
Backbone, the world needs backbone.
Legalise ALL drugs!!!
Yes, so legalizing drugs and prostitution will only have a minimal effect the kind of slavery you mention. That being said, the kind of slavery you mention is a minor part of the problem isn't it?
If you are looking for a silver bullet, you won't find it. Legalizing drugs and prostitution will take much of the power away from organized crime.
How about getting rid of punitive tarrifs so that Africa can trade sugar and other commodities with the US? Better than more "War on X" which has failed
The reason drugs are banned is it increases petty theft, aggression, and unemployment etc. But criminalizing it does the same thing also. So why not let druggies do drugs somewhere, where they wouldn't trouble civilization. And why not let murderers murder each other somewhere..
I don't see how legalising drugs helps in resource conflicts (ie: Congo's coltan and Sierra Leone's diamonds), or Human traffic trade.
Unless you are suggesting we legalise and tax slavery?
We pay taxes ( wether we work or not ) although it is not all a one way street. In resurn we expect food, shelter, work and protection from criminals and there drugs etc. I could go out and become a criminal and make money but i wont because ive got caracter pribe and backbone. criminals have no respect
if organised crime networks want drugs legalised, then no doubt they'll be legalised -- but it's not really in their interest is it? and it's certainly not in the best interests of the hundreds of thousands of people making a lucrative living from drugs enforcement
Does it matter what their ethnicity is? They operate from within Russia never the less...
Do you think it would be more effective to continue the war on drugs or legalize drugs and use the billions we spend on the drug war on rehabilitation centers and drug treatment centers?
When you use non perscription drugs - you chose to walk with the devil.
People these days have no backbone, they don't say no to drugs, they don't know they are better and stronger without drugs.
Very interesting view into the situation. Living in Canada I see on the news small and medium grow-ops getting busted, sometimes by informants, sometimes by accident. They tend to occupy houses in residential areas where people aren't suspicious of neighbors that don't talk much. But there are many of them. Others are located in the wilderness and Canada has lots of that. Coupled with a low population of citizens and law enforcement, Canada is a great place for criminals.
really? sure, "crime" by definition would go away if you made everything legal, but injustice and evil will continue to exist as long as people have dark hearts.
What does this video have to do with coltan and slavery?
Slavery is wrong, but for human traffickers, it can be enforced because the "slaves" are employed as prostitutes and this keeps them under thumb because the "slaves" won't run for fear of being arrested.
I don't know what "coltan" is...
Dude loves the word ‘equanimity’
It is interesting
I'd rather they spend time going after rapists and murders than people growing dope.
What a waste of time and money.
Hey, how about make it legal? Like booze? No mafia running whiskey is there? (except to places where it is illegal, which proves my point)
Misha is properly identifying the problem but is conflating its casue and its affect. This stuff is a problem because its illegal, not because its not illegal enough...
Someone needs to learn basic economics.
perhaps it is more effective to educate people around the world than cach and blame them?
Sorrie heren en dames maar wat een molen betreft daar kan toch een schroef op dat de tegenovergestelde richting opdraait door het draaien van de wieken en een as die het op de schroef overbrengt dat zou dan met windmolens aangedreven schepen worden en wie weet kan je stroom opwekken en dan een motor aandraaien het lijkt me een methode waarmee je gratis kan reisen over de oceaan
6 boats? how about 1 attack helicopter?
Well, I'm proud of our Canadian Police Forces! :D
Way to go!
Forget the KGB or the Mafia, how is everyone ignoring the Rogue Nation?
legalize drugs, prostitution, and give universal health care to the entire world. Every problem mentioned in this video is solved with simple solutions for me (an idiot).
Well then legalize marijuana already!
People need to develop carachter and backbone, that is what is missing today, no wone can feel prowd of themselves using drugs ( that includes alcohol ). The tradesmen who came to Australia in the 70s from Holland and Germany etc just didn't tolerate drugs. Now if you work in Sydney as a tradesman your surounded by drug nuts. With my hand on the bible people have no backbone.
Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny es un periodista británico, especializado en el sudeste de Europa, el crimen organizado global y la ciberseguridad. Glenny es multilingüe.
Me before hitting the play button: “oh I love that the tilte doesn’t mention the label of organised crime” - 0:47 “ok nevermind”
make a state free for hospital and dump all the drugsusers there so you have them all together no cars alouwd becose you may not leave
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Come on Chelsea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
eh no they're not
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
Doesn't sound like this man is for legalization of cannabis.
madness
yep 100%, new wave capitalism no rules the better now
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The ZOG and the Alien-US Alliance for World Domination.
Only a tiny fraction of the people who saw this will read my comment. And the anecdote is repeated in his book. Everyone is going to be full of western guilt over fueling the war in the DRC with their laptops. :(
whew
Always a great review of Putin's world!
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Agree. Been a lot of dross recently.
Als ik ooit dood ga wil ik graag aan een zeven meter lange krokodil te eten gegeven worden wand ik wil zien dat ik een mensenkrokodillen kerkhof ergens in nederland begin daar moet ik de eerste uitvaard kerkhof en onderneming worden waar mensen tot voeding gaan dienen heerlijk zon hapje denkt dan zon krokodil en wie weet denken wij dat wel van hun dus ook een restaurant ernaast
I'm more disgusted with the damn eu
I'm sure anyone who's ever OD'ed will agree with you. Oh wait, they're all dead.
wow that is a dumb statement.
Congratulations, you just had a direct connection with god.
How about Jewish finance? Talk about organized crime...
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