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• Wikipedia - Roman Abramovich
• Business Insider - How Russia's Billionaire Oligarchs Got So Very Rich
• Wikipedia - Loans for shares scheme
• The Guardian - The deal that made a Russian oligarch
• Independent - Abramovich tells of role in aluminium wars
• Daily Mail - From penniless ‘Del-ski Boy’ orphan flogging dolls in Siberia to Putin’s 'money man': BBC reveals EXACTLY how Abramovich made his fortune in Panorama probe exposing murky Kremlin connections - and asks how it took so long to sanction him?
• Bleacher Report - Roman Abramovich: Not Your Everyday Owner
• Business Insider - Sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich tried to offload his vast assets amid clampdowns on the country's oligarchs. Take a look at his luxury empire, including the 3rd-largest yacht in the world.
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• Sicario (2015)
• The Infiltrator (2016)
• War Dogs (2016)
• The Founder (2016)
• The Wizard Of Lies (2017)
• Vice (2018)

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• TFI Global News - The Russia-Ukraine war is super profitable, and some American lawmakers have made fortunes out of it
• NBC News - How Goldman Sachs profits from war in Ukraine, loophole in sanctions
• Military - These Members of Congress Could Make a Profit on US Arms Shipments to Ukraine
• VOX Ukraine - Billions on Credit: How and Why Ukraine Borrows
• Reuters - Ukraine will service debt on time and in full despite Russian invasion, government says
• Bretton Woods Project - Calls for Ukraine debt relief grow as IMF and World Bank provide fresh loans amidst crisis
• Commons - The origins of Ukraine’s debt dependence
• The Guardian - There’s an easy...

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• The Master (2012)
• The Godfather Part 3 (1990)
• Mulan (1998)
• The Big Short (2015)
• American Made (2017)
• The Wizard Of Lies (2017)

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• Business Insider - Scientology Is Bigger, Richer And Growing Faster Than You Realized
• How Stuff Works - How Scientology Works
• Rolling Stone - Inside Scientology
• Prospect.org - The 'Rapacious' Business Model That Rules the Church of Scientology
• Chelsea - Leah Remini Explains Scientology's Scam (Full Interview) 
• TODAY - Michelle Leclair Shares Her Story Of Leaving Scientology 
• Real Stories - Scientology: Mysterious Deaths (Religious Documentary)  
• 60 Minutes Australia - Where is the missing wife of Scientology's ruthless leader?  
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• Cesarrlc - Going Clear Scientology And The Prison Of B...

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• A Better Tomorrow (1986)
• Infernal Affairs (2002) 
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• Billions
• Blow (2001)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• War Dogs (2016)
• Limitless (2011)
• Narcos Mexico
• The Panic In Needle Park (1971)
• The Wizard Of Lies (2017)
• The Crime Of The Century
• Rush Hour 3 (2007)

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• CBC News - Vancouver model for money laundering unprecedented in Canada, BC inquiry hears
• National Crime Syndicate - The Vancouver Model: How Organized Crime Used Canada's Casinos to Launder Millions - The NCS
• Financial Crime Academy - The Vancouver Model: Canadian Casinos And Money Laundering. 
• Global News - 'Vancouver Model' money laundering connects BC, Las Vegas and Macau casinos, inquiry hears | Globalnews.ca 
• The Sanction Scanner - Vancouver Model for Money Laundering - Sanction Scanner 
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• Water Calculator - The Water Footprint of Beef: Industrial vs. Pasture-Raised
• Climate And Capitalism - Why avoiding meat and dairy won’t save the planet
• The Guardian - The true extent of America’s food monopolies, and who pays the price
• Food Dive - Impossible Foods preparing to go public with $10B valuation, Reuters reports
• NY Post - Vegan, plant-based ‘meat’ yields mouth-watering profits
• The Conversation - The dark side of plant-based food – it’s more about money than you may think
• FT - The veganism boom does more for food company profits than the planet
• VOX - Meatless meat is becoming mainstream — and it’s sparking a backlash
• Market Watch - Bill Gates roasted for saying rich countries should eat ‘100% synthetic beef’
• NY Times - Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice.
• Huffington Post - Why Is Plant-Based 'Meat' So Dam...

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• Wikipedia - Federal Security Service
• NY Times - When Nokia Pulled Out of Russia, a Vast Surveillance System Remained
• UCSD - Internet surveillance program in Russia
• Daily Mail - Agent Orange in the soup, polonium in the tea and a suspicious hotel bar: How Russia's FSB poison squad target high-profile victims who have displeased Vladimir Putin
• GQ - None Dare Call It a Conspiracy
• Spy Talk - Meet Putin's Top Enabler, FSB Boss Alexander Bortnikov
• Atlantic Council - Lubyanka federation: How the FSB determines the politics and economics of Russia
• RBTH - 3 most famous operations of Russia’s Alpha Group counter-terrorism force
• The Atlantic - The Spies Who Love Putin
• The Guardian - FSB: Vladimir Putin's immensely powerful modern-day KGB
• BBC - Alexei Navalny: Report names 'Russian agents' in poisoning case
• BBC - Boris Nemtsov: Murdered Putin rival 'tailed' by agent linked to FSB hit squad
• Washington Post - In Russia, A Secretive Force Widens
• Wikipedia - Zelimkhan Khangoshv...

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• Wikipedia - GRU
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• WIO News - Ukraine's challenge: How Russia uses Spetsnaz as 'tip of the spear'
• Wikipedia - Spetsnaz GRU
• Wikipedia - Fancy Bear
• Wikipedia - GRU Unit 29155
• Rand - The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
• NY Times - Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say
• Meduza - Psy-ops in high places Putin’s new science adviser to Russia’s National Security Council is a military intelligence agent accused of spreading disinformation about the coronavirus
• Wikipedia - Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
• The Guardian - Novichok poisonings: what is the GRU and how does it operate?
• RFERL - Coup Plots, Poison, Hacking, Sabotage: What Is The GRU’s Unit 29155?
• RBTH - 5 legendary Russian special forces units
• NY Times - Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says
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• The Big Short (2015)
• The Hospital (1971)

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• VOX - The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained
• BBC - The human cost of insulin in America
• Forbes - Insulin’s Out-Of-Pocket Cost Burden To Diabetic Patients Continues To Rise Despite Reduced Net Costs To PBMs
• NBC News - U.S. insulin costs per patient nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016, study finds
• Natap - "The absurdly high cost of insulin" - as high as $350 a bottle, often 2 bottles per month needed by diabetics
• Fortune - Insulin’s deadly cost: Ultrahigh prices in the U.S. mean many diabetics can’t afford the medication they need to survive
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• Ranker - How The Vanderbilts Blew Their Fortune And Went From American Royalty To Flat-Out Broke
• Wikipedia - Vanderbilt family
• Wikipedia - Cornelius Vanderbilt
• History - Cornelius Vanderbilt
• A/V Geeks - Evolution Of The Oil Industry, The (1942)
• FootageArchive - Videos From The Past - The American Railroads in 1897 - Vintage Footage
• Wikipedia - Steamboat
• PeriscopeFilm - TRAVEL IN AMERICA IN THE 1840s STEAMSHIPS, CANALS, STAGECOACHES & TRAINS PH40820
• Pete Devrell - Steamships
• US Embassy - Civil War (1860 ~ 1865) - US Embassy Seoul
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• The Americans
• Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
• Bridge Of Spies (2015)
• Munich (2005)
• The Godfather Part 3 (1990)
• Billions

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• Wikipedia - KGB
• Wikipedia - Aldrich Ames
• Business Insider - Russia probably has more undercover 'sleeper' agents who can assassinate Western targets today than during the Cold War
• BBC - Jack Barsky: The KGB spy who lived the American dream
• Vilaweb - Elena Vavilova, Russian spy: “We weren’t aggressive, we defended our country
• The Guardian - The Russian spy who posed as a Canadian for more than 20 years
• El Pais - Confessions of the Boston soccer mom who was secretly a Russian spy
• QZ - The stranger-than-fiction story of the real Russian spies who inspired “The Americans”
• We Are The Mighty - 9 infamous KGB assassination attempts straight out of spy novels
• Mirror - True tales of treachery - stories of real spies, lies and the KGB
• History Hit - The KGB: Facts About the Soviet Security Agency
• Rbth - How did the KGB work?
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