uh um stopping back and forth of money into the country one way or another smuggled or through exchange houses and that kind of thing. Um and that is goingto be if that is uh put in stopped to then Iran is going to feel it and it's
And just like a cutting from a grape plant, a sourdough starter, in it's little container, could of course be something that someone smuggled across borders, under cover of darkness.So that's the core of the story.
just a species of wood that's indigenous to that area and being a dogfish fan he smuggled the Wood home uh some of it I don't know if it was in his intestines or in abag uh but he it did come in grams uh and he brought it to us and called us
exclamation points. Everything about him was accelerated, his eating, his thinking, his climbing, his praying. He smuggled rocks into friend's sleeping bags, pillows and packs.
in the tunnel it was the only way we could live or enter the city letters smuggled through a tunnel were a Lifeline between the sponsor and her sister dear calling you write that you hope we are safe in this city there is no safe place when they got a letter it
I mean, coltan, it's estimated that the Congo contains between 60% to 80% of the world's coltan deposits. It is readily smuggled across Congo's borders and ends up in international markets. It generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues and often use towards arms sales for various Congolese-backed military groups and militia groups
That's actually not the problem-solving algorithm at work. But Cochrane who also smuggled vitamins into a prisoner of war camp in World War II because he was a prisoner.
He looks left and right. He hand over me like a smuggled product. It really has become-- you know, why he is doing like that?
And the story basically reports that a former FBI agent turned private investigator has disappeared in Iran while he was investigating a case involving smuggled counterfeit cigarettes. And I thought, hm, this sounds kind of cool.
So towns like Juarez, and Tijuana, and so became known as depots or hubs for smuggling people. And they weren't Mexicans being smuggled . They were Chinese and nationals from other countries.
forced into the commercial sex trade here in the United States uh State Department estimates that over 10,000 around 8 to 10,000 uh children are smuggled every year into the United States forced into the commercial sex trade so it's definitely happening here but it's here it's mostly they have to be craftier here the bad guys um because
Now, I knew how I'd use it. I would go see for myself where all these smuggled arowana were coming from and what made the species so irresistible. Goodall had her noble tool wielding primates.
And I think there are two misunderstandings that we have about sex trafficking in the US. One is we tend to think it involves foreign women being smuggled into the US. And that's real. That happens, especially both with Asians and with Latinas, in particular.
bought an enormous, beautiful Indian Vishnu and he's got it and somebody says, "Well, India says this thing was recently looted and smuggled out of the country." And Norton Simon says, "Hell yes, it was smuggled . I spent between $15 and $16 million in the last two years on Asian art, and most of it was smuggled ." So not exactly a secret, this is business as usual in the museum world.
of that paint has survived antiquity. Greek city state, smuggled in a carrot truck out of the country to Switzerland, laundered, and then sold to the Getty.
behind the garage in the Dusky hours after Aunt Elise had picked up cousin alons after Kevin had to go inside mercy and Onida smuggled the heavy glass containers to their secret spot they only broke one when the boys complained at being
sort of really as a place from which OPM could be smuggled uh into China that was
Which they lied and pretended was the laptop of an Iranian scientist that was smuggled out of Iran by his wife and had all this proof
So people on the move coming towards Libya, smuggled or otherwise, getting on to rubber dinghys and trying to cross the sea there.
And they do so through illicit Chinese cell phones that have been smuggled into the border.
So I was pretty disappointed. But he kept telling me about these illegal super expensive fish that were being smuggled into the city from Southeast Asia. And he said that they were considered good luck in certain cultures.
And then we discovered, we had smuggled out of that prison the testimony of a guy who had been kidnapped in Kenya and
And because she was so small, she could be smuggled out in laundry baskets.
This is known as the Euphronios Krater, it's perhaps one of the finest ancient Greek vases that we have. It had been looted just a few years earlier from a tomb outside of Rome, smuggled through a network of dealers, and presented to the Met. And the Met had a pretty good idea, Thomas Hoving himself had a pretty good idea, that this thing was a fresh find but he couldn't turn it down, it was too nice, it was just
these smuggling Partners to whom they would would they would give this op which was then smuggled into China
you know, it was like a Panasonic, which we had to go to some like shop which had kind of smuggled it in, I guess,
by the restrictions of the GPUs that were shipped into China legally, not the ones that are smuggled , but legally shipped in,
is more that than anything else. Like everything that seems normal and natural now, everything that we take for granted, it was all smuggled and stolen and misappropriated and moved around the planet. So this whole kind of world of stuff I was learning and all the stories wrapped up in it
We also have Antonio Fernandez, who I mentioned earlier, who was the leader of the Latin Kings, and David Victorson, who smuggled 37 tons of marijuana
And we know they're doing it deliberately to destroy the world's environment, because a secret memo from Kim Jong Un has been smuggled out of North Korea.
And as they were able to actually put a stop on maritime smuggling of Chinese coming in directly, they actually were then diverted again, as history showed us in the past, smuggled in across the Canadian border and across the Mexican border. So again, there's a sense of historical deja vu if, in fact, in the policy debate, they actually we're interested in looking back more than a few years or decades.
Our Fourth Amendment, which basically protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the origins of it are actually anger at British customs officials in the late colonial period, basically very abusive, heavy-handed searches and seizures of US vessels, and warehouses, and so on looking for smuggled goods. So when they actually wrote these amendments up, they had this in the back of their mind.
India says this thing was recently looted and smuggled out of the country." And Norton Simon says, "Hell yes, it was smuggled . I spent between $15 and $16 million in the last two years on Asian art, and most of it was smuggled ." So not exactly a secret, this is business as usual in the museum world. Well, that continues apace really for 40 years and I would argue, and over those 40 years there's changes in the law, there's changes in practice, there's lot of changes that go
of that paint has survived antiquity. He was arrested or indicted under an alleged conspiracy to traffic near Eastern material recently looted Egyptian antiquities, smuggled through Bahrain into New York City where they
second, it was the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe and the Western broadcasts and then the fax machines and the Xerox machines that were smuggled into the Soviet Union to
struggle against the factious regime in Spain, helping found a magazine called Peninsula that was produced in Paris and smuggled across the Pyrenees and to Spain and getting involved
So, um, seeing myself as a kind of a movie character and feeling adventurous, uh, I took 20 of these and wrapped them up in brown paper thinking that, and smuggled them out of USDA