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🗓️ 5 August 2021
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They say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But when it comes to the underworld of corruption, murder, and greed, from drug cartels to hackers to political psychopaths, what you see is often just the tip of the iceberg. To understand how the world really works, you have to look at what's hidden below the surface.
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0:00.0 | This was always my worst nightmare, that hackers would get into our water supply |
0:07.4 | and use digital means to poison the water supply. |
0:11.5 | It's a full-time job faking your death. |
0:14.8 | There's a saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
0:19.5 | It only costs someone $20,000 of the time to just set up your own bank and you could do whatever |
0:26.0 | you want with it basically. |
0:28.4 | Billions of dollars from the Russian economy were being funneled into these magical banks |
0:33.3 | and then disappearing gardeners were. |
0:36.1 | And when it comes to the underworld of corruption, murder, and greed, |
0:40.3 | from drug cartels to political psychopaths, what you see is often just the tip of the iceberg. |
0:46.5 | They're paying judges, they're paying politicians, hitman, loads of spies. |
0:53.2 | They went into the room and strangled him. |
0:56.0 | She was right-handed, but the gun was found basically in the crook of her left arm. |
1:02.4 | But there are also lessons to be learned from crooked cops, nefarious oligarchs, |
1:06.8 | and shady lawyers about why our world works the way it does. |
1:11.5 | Like any good businessman he's got an economy one and a premium one. |
1:15.7 | So you can either get the gang bangers for $5,000 to $10,000 or you can go for the premium |
1:21.3 | sniper's international stuff for $20,000 plus. |
1:24.3 | This one trafficker was responsible for over $150 million worth of trafficked artifacts. |
1:30.8 | This is a country that's been pretty openly kidnapping, killing, opposition, and |
1:37.0 | dissidents abroad for two decades. |
1:41.6 | Shell companies, hackers, war criminals, dark web hitmen, |
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