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A war profiteer is any person or organization that derives unreasonable profit from warfare or by selling weapons and other goods to parties at war. [1] The term typically carries strong negative connotations. General profiteering, making a profit criticized as excessive or unreasonable, also occurs in peacetime. [2]
The Aryan Brotherhood (AB or The Brand) is a neo-Nazi prison gang and an organized crime syndicate that is based in the United States and has an estimated 15,000–20,000 members both inside and outside prisons.
The One Percent doctrine (also called the Cheney doctrine) was created in November 2001 (no exact date is given) during a briefing given by then-CIA Director George Tenet and an unnamed briefer to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in response to worries that a Pakistani scientist was offering nuclear weapons expertise to Al Qaeda after the ...
Here's the net worth you need to rank among America’s wealthiest — plus a few ways to build that first-class portfolio Chris MacDonald October 29, 2024 at 6:26 AM
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," [22] which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, [23] including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.
Median household wealth dropped by 36.1% compared to a drop of only 11.1% for the top 1%, further widening the gap. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] [ 46 ] During the economic expansion between 2002 and 2007, the income of the top 1% had grown 10 times faster than the income of the bottom 90% and 66% of total income gains went to the 1%.
"FBI and FBI: Most Wanted crossover" is a two-part crossover event between FBI and FBI: Most Wanted that aired on CBS on March 24, 2020. The first part, "American Dreams", which is the eigthteenth episode of the second season of FBI and the 40th episode overall, was written by David Amann and directed by Terry Miller, while the second part, "Reveille", which is the ninth episode of the first ...