Reddit reviews McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
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Not surprising, the mystery company is probably some kind of money laundering scheme.
I highly recommend Misha Glenny's book "McMafia" if you want to learn more about this:
https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Underworld/dp/1400095123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541778583&sr=8-1&keywords=mcmafia
And here is a short video where he talks about Dubai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esRT1QdlW0w
I believe McMafia by Misha Glenny might be of interest...It's based very much more on the economic side and I'm unsure what pyschology it touches on as it's still on my "To Read Shelf". There was a terrible BBC drama adaptation of the book recently as well so don't let that put you off. https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Underworld/dp/1400095123
Very good book I read some time ago: McMafia where author investigates international crime since the break up of the Soviet Bloc: book and guardian review.He also exposes the Balkans as a society totally dominated by organized crime.
Well if you're interested in the Balkans I would check out Misha Glenny's books. He was The Guardian and BBC's foreign correspondent in Yugoslavia during the war, and has stayed to write about organized crime. McMafia sounds like it would be right up your alley.
My favorite book about Serbian criminality during the war is Hunting The Tiger about a mafia boss, who turned Red Star Belgrade's ultras into a paramilitary and carried out many of the ethnic cleansing with Karazic and other people who were tried at the Hague.
Given the cultural implications suggested in this Wikipedia entry, I'm not surprised.
Pakistan is NOT a single, uniform society. The Punjabis are vastly more socialized and civilized than the Turkmen (think Lahore vs. Peshawar). The enslavement of young females for use as sexual "products" has been common in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and the old Silk Roads countries -- where (ostensibly) protective Islamic female sequestration never really took hold as it did elsewhere from the eighth century onward -- for at least a millennium; probably much longer.
The influence of the norms of the Silk Road cultures is being felt now in the Russian Caucasus region, as well as even further west in the countries north of the Black Sea where -- since the breakdown of the Soviet Union -- organized crime (and child prostitution) has become a way of life. (See Misha Glenny's disturbing book, McMafia, though what is reported there is limited compared to what is actually the case at this time... including the spread of such activities into the UK and Western Europe.)
Very sad to hear that large-scale CP is going on in ostensibly "civilized" locales like Manchester, but given the dis-inhibition of sexual urge induced by widespread drug indulgence, I am hardly surprised. When the British sought to solve the balance of payments problem with China in the late 18th century by exporting massive amounts of opium into China from India, East Bengal and Burma, the whole region saw an explosion of child prostitution.
Drug addiction, I'm sad to say, is the #1 mechanism of cultural war on this planet now. Get your enemy addicted; watch his culture de-civilize.
Ever read McMafia?
http://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Underworld/dp/1400095123
To understand Russian foreign diplomacy here is a book that I highly recommend . The book is actual research and fact based on what is happening right now. A fictionalized tv series was made by Amazon and it really is very good.
Having lived in Russia as a normal westerner working in Moscow and having lived in Africa (which is not as corrupt as Russia despite appearences) I can say that I had to bribe or grease a palm for basic shit at least once a week in Moscow. The corruption is on every level of society. Its one big criminal society but make no mistake Yeltsin and Berokovsky planned all of this.
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McMafia
https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Underworld/dp/1400095123
And the 2nd book is now free on Audible
Putin : A prisoner of power
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Putin-Prisoner-of-Power-Audiobook/B07W4WVNXK?pf_rd_p=4f428e29-121f-42a7-a03b-524c71c498f7&pf_rd_r=QD957M5JDNKTZYHHJY6X&ref=a_ep_podcas_c2_zing_0
Riveting stuff. Suffice it to say that the poor russian people are being right royaly fucked by their leaders