yeah I lived in I was I was uh when as was a kid we lived in Poland it was Communist country and my father would go illicit just stuff you know um New Yorkers are great um in this era of
She had a stroke, developed Capgras Delusion and was convinced that her husband was replaced by Casanova and that she was having illicit affair with this Casanova that was in her husband's body.And their love life actually improved.
There's also an interesting technology story, perhaps particular of interest to you folks here at Google, about the importance of new technologies in fueling illicit trades of various sort.The mantra in policy circles about transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, and so on today is that they're all greatly aided by new
She, I think, had a stroke, developed Capgras Delusion, and was convinced that her husband was replaced by Casanova and that she was having an illicit affair with this Casanova that was in her husband's body. And then her love life actually improved.
And it's not just a story about government authorities increasingly under siege and unable and out of control, as these illicit actors are taking advantage of new technologies. In fact, it's very much a two-way street, a double-edged sword.
But, deep in the dense forest of the Amazon, there are illegal activities that are happening all of the time. Fields are cleared for illicit crops. Runways are cut for narco traffickers.
associated with what we call a reward system it's one of those chemicals that kind of goes off when we do things that make us happy or things like illicit drugs and so I like to think that that grooming process is very pleasurable for the Cockroach and that they have a lovely lovely time feeling wonderful while this
is my wife we've been married 47 years that was our psychedelic bus uh I think I'm smoking some illicit substance there um I was honored and invited to the Pentagon and given an award uh and asked to speak to the three and a half million Soldiers and Sailors and Marines
intellectual property theft, to become the world's foremost advocate of protection of intellectual property, conveniently forgetting about it illicit past. And again, it wasn't just Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
Thank you so much. What exactly makes an illicit product? It's not necessarily something that's just illegal itself, right?
You want to let people know what the real problem may be. widely used illicit drug in the world.
are here, so-- yeah. Which is more illicit ?
Brian Fitzpatrick: You've got "Three Hundred " in here. We've got "Stargate SG-One." We've got fermented baby food that causes people to hallucinate. Were you under the influence of any illicit drugs while you were writing this? Dan Sinker: I wasn't. People keep saying that. But especially my students. And
A contemporary and friend of mine in the same house recently told me the following nice story. He was illicitly up in a dormitory during the day, kissing one of the house maids. The pair panicked when they had a heavy tread on the stairs.
It was just an amazing part. be on LSD or cocaine or other illicit drugs.
And Bob's contract was with a division within this analytical side of the CIA called the Illicit Finance Group. And the supposed role of the Illicit Finance Group was to follow money laundering and illicit financial transfers involving countries like Iran or North Korea, organized crime groups or Russian criminals or folks like that.
have been able to reestablish contact with their family members inside of that country. And they do so through illicit Chinese cell phones that have been smuggled into the border. And it's through that that they're able to communicate with their family members, sharing and sending information in and out of that country
in this betting shop in Windsor, the neighboring town next to Eton College. And I actually had this illicit account because I was only, I guess, 15. So I had an account under a fake name, which was Mike Smith-- not a very creative name.
A low level middleman in the illicit antiquities trade in Italy crashes his car, dies, the police find some artifacts in the car, they go back to his house and they find this document.
So he really controlled the illicit trade really from kind of Rome north, particularly the Etruscan areas just around Rome and Tuscany.
our understanding of how the illicit trade works and the scope of the problem.
nasty life of rotting garbage and brief illicit forays into daylight. The pregnant girl seems to have slipped even further into herself since I arrived. She just stares into space.
The Hulk Hogan-- the running an illicitly recorded sex tape that the person had loudly said, do not run that-- cease and desists had been ignored,
10 billion pounds a year-- the value of the UK illicit drugs market.
It seems like there's a little bit of illicit trade happening.
And there's this big problem of this sort of illicit trafficking of young players from Africa to Europe.
And basically what Leopold was doing was creating this illicit business in slavery and just making a fortune.
Price is going to influence what happens to the illicit market.
So whenever you're trying to learn about illicit behavior, you know, drug dealing, prostitution-- all the regular kind of crimes-- embezzlement, bank robbery,
So he made some of his fortune in powder runs. He was also involved in the molasses trade and other illicit trades before the Revolution. But part of his fortune was very much as a war profiteer of sorts in our very War of Independence.
It's not necessarily something that's just illegal itself, right? centuries, of fighting various illicit trades.
It's not necessarily something that's just illegal itself, right? It's arguably the most successful case of abolishing an illicit trade.
This document is a org chart for the illicit antiquities trade in Italy.
Hecht really since the 50s had dominated the illicit trade in classical antiquities; he's an amazing man, I got to know him pretty well while reporting this book and he just died
museums after a five year undercover investigation of an illicit antiquities network smuggling Southeast Asian antiquities out of Thailand and Burma and Cambodia through Los Angeles.
The other problem is that our knowledge of the illicit antiquities trade is really rather poor because of this lack of data.
a year and everybody's just guessing 'cause like most illicit trades, it's pretty hard to measure.
asked dumb she shouted and they all giggled at the sheer illicit pleasure of
The only form of criminality that can pay for that level of corruption is the illicit drugs market.
But most of what was bought and sold on there was illegal drugs-- illicit narcotics.
that's in hundreds um and what's it used for drugs illicit activities Oro or stor
to package this and provide economic opportunity for people that have been formerly in the illicit economy.
His talk is gonna provide basically the insider's view of the illicit antiquities trade as well as the international black market in recently excavated artifacts.
suggest, were involved in this illicit trade.
So that's another way that Google might play a role in the illicit antiquities trade.
But in the 18th century, the British demand for tea came to be supplied by the illicit trafficking of another psychoactive drug.
But when we did lottery, it became thuggery and illegal and illicit and all of those things.
I mean, to prosecute the people who administer crypto currency because it's used for illicit purposes would
And then they write up reports that are forwarded to various government officials. And Bob's contract was with a division within this analytical side of the CIA called the Illicit Finance Group. And the supposed role of the Illicit Finance Group was to follow money laundering and illicit financial transfers
They wanted to know what I was doing with cops at the Frick Collection, like something illicit was going on.