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	SuperTrend: The Global Black Economy

baydawg

7-29-2009 12:24 PM

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terrorism, economics, supertrend, trend, black economy, globalization, state sponsorship

baydawg says:

First, there was state sponsorship (e.g. US). Karma is such a bitch.

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They were constantly searching for cash...</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html"><STRONG>She found in terrorism a parallel economy</STRONG>, that had been around since the close of World War II.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html">. First, there was state sponsorship. During the Cold War there was a fully funded mix of legal and illegal entities, and she also points to the contras in Nicaragua.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html">During the 1970s and 1980s, some groups carried out privatization. <STRONG>They gained independence and started funding themselves.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html">with globalization</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html">organizations were able to link with each other and started to do serious business with crimelords.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html"><STRONG>Politics loses control of an economy and economy becomes a rogue force acting against us.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/business/off-the-shelf-terrorism-s-cost-in-a-global-economy.html">she estimates that 5% of the global economy</A>, or $1.5 Trillion in income and $7 Trillion in financial assets, is directly related to terrorism/guerrilla warfare</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html">Criminal activity now accounts for over 15 percent of the world’s GDP</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html">massive growth</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/07/black-globalization-ted-talks.html">a game changer</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9DDEC4BB-3F58-4D35-9078-13A7D26D7860/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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