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Leo Messi’s impressive shirts collection

Chris Iannetta hit in the mouth by a 93mph fastball

Kevin Durant at the 2007 NBA Draft Combine

Kobe’s high school grad write up

Kobe Bryant Talks About a Brilliant Defensive Strategy

All NBA Voting 

NFL Players Read Their Own Critical Scouting Reports in This Compilation

He’s yet to play a down of football but Daniel Faalele already has 23 D-1 offers

Damn Son!

Conor McGregor and his newborn son

Rogan posts photo with fighters names. We finally see how to pronounce Joanna’s last name

Bruce Buffer’s fight card for Conor McGregor vs Eddie Alvarez

Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez relaxing, while watching their kids play

These drills could put any player to the test!

In honor of Jeter’s number retirement 

Immaculate innings are rarer than you think

Ballboy’s Awesome Catch 

World’s Strongest Man Follows A Ridiculous 12,000-Calorie-Per-Day Diet Plan

Broke by ESPN: Why Athletes go Broke

Boxing vs MMA PPV 2002-2016 

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Fighting isn’t macho. It’s not how a man proves himself to another man or how he proves himself to a lady. Fighting has nothing to do with anything but the individual and his desire to prove to himself that he can face his fears, that he can take the pain of getting hit and hit back.

Fighting, just as it is in the metaphorical sense as we fight and claw our way to a better position in life, is completely internal. Every guy wants to know how he’d fair in a fight, and I feel bad for those who don’t know; not because they’re better men if they’re fighters, fighting, after-all, is merely a skill like skating or shooting, actually it’s more than that. Fighting is how we prove to ourselves that we’re men. It’s how we prove to ourselves that we’re not pussies, that even though we’re afraid we’ll stand and fight.

Fighting can be, and often is, a good thing, as well as a bad thing. Like most things there’s a double edge to it. It’s great when there’s both a reason to fight and when it’s purely for sport. The sport of fighting in any form is sport at its purest form. After-all, sport and athletic competition began as a means to train for war. Every “sport” was a skill that could be used in battle, be it running or swimming, throwing the javelin or discuss, and of course punching another human in the face or wrestling them to the ground. Competition has changed from being about war but we still war in the squared circle and in the octagon, and that’s where true competition between men resides. It’s bad when the reasoning for the fight is idiotic and unnecessary, which is typically the case when booze or broads are involved.

We’re not going to get into the various different reasons for fighting, going over which are good and which are bad, you can decide that for yourself, and you likely have a pretty good internal compass to determine a good reason for fighting and a stupid one. The only question I want to ask is how much do you really know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?

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Man meets officer who saved his life 19 years prior

Hello friend, do you need assistance?

Dog keeps girl from wandering too far out in the ocean

Getting that beach body ready

Kind-hearted man goes through 220 pounds of watermelon to make juice for the homeless

Dog scared to go on escalator

How to stop your little dog from escaping the garden 

Dog loves his human

This little kid’s reaction to kicking out his birthday candle 

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Dad adopts four kids, gives them childhood he never had

How to Drink Whisky 

Female Sex Robots To Replace Real Women In The Future?

This is how you Tow Truck

56 Year Old Virgin

Raw video of a press conference in Jackson, Ms where a 6 year old child was kidnapped and found dead. Law enforcement held a press conference before notifying the parents. The parents showed up mid interview

Drivers in Mosul seek high value targets and then detonate.

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10 Famous Rock Bands That Were Struck By Horrifying & Violent Tragedies – Ranker

Anthony Weiner Cries in Court When Told to Register as a Sex Offender and Give Up iPhone – Maxim

A damn fine collection of bewbs, awesomeness and everything in between – Leenks

The Unauthorized History of the Pussy Posse – Complex

The Dirtiest Secret In American Diplomacy – OZY

Some inspiration to help you design your home like a sophisticated adult – Marysia

Hot selfies are what girls do best (30 Photos) – Bad Sentinel

Big Baller Brand Has Sold a Pathetic Amount of Shoes – Radass

Jerry Seinfeld is selling one of his beloved cars – here’s how much it would cost you – Rare

Cum for Me: Intimate photographs of men and women at the point of orgasm – Dangerous Minds

Students at University of Michigan triggered by wood paneling – Trending Views

Church School Teacher Becomes Porn Star After Winning Contest – Mandatory

We Are Most Attracted to the Faces Around Us – Newser

Nicole Scherzinger Is An Instagram Model Now – Hollywood Tuna

Things Go Instantly Wrong For Range Rover Driver Trying To Look Cool – Jalopnik

Engineer Tears Down The Juicero Press To Find Out Why It’s So Absurdly Expensive – Digg

The Pigs Who Keep Vegas Buffets Running – Eater

‘Divorce Selfies’ Are the Hot New Instagram Trend – The Blemish

Donald Trump’s son-in-law ‘Jared Kushner person of interest in Russia investigation’ – Independent

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Sick flow by Jacare

Passing the butterfly guard 

Marcelo’s arm-drag takedowns

Dead-lift armbar

Jiu Jitsu demonstration from 1919 

The Miyao Brothers don’t tap to leg locks! 

Finishing the kimura from top half guard 

Some nice techniques by Guilherme Mendes

Crazy armbar by Rafa Mendes

Rustin Hughes competed for the first time since having his leg amputated 2 years ago. Respect

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Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-tow minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a-half minutes per mile].

So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.”

I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.”

He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.”

I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.”

So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out.

I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” — and we’re still running — “if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles.

Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

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Untitled – Jean-Michel Basquiat- $110.5 Million

Seller: | Buyer: Yusaku Maezawa

Irises – Vincent van Gogh – $110.7 Million

Seller: son of Joan Whitney Payson | Buyer: Alan Bond

Dora Maar au Chat – Pablo Picasso – $111.5 Million

Seller: Gidwitz family | Buyer: Boris Ivanishvili

Portrait of Joseph Roulin – Vincent van Gogh – $112 Million plus exchange of works

Seller: Private collection, Zürich | Buyer: Museum of Modern Art New York

Nude, Green Leaves and Bust – Pablo Picasso – $115.7 Million

Seller: Frances Lasker Brody estate | Buyer:

Flag – Japser Johns – $119.8 Million

Seller: Jean-Christophe Castelli | Buyer: Steven A. Cohen

The Scream – Edvard Munch – $123.7 Million

Seller: Petter Olsen | Buyer: Leon Black

Garçon à la pipe – Pablo Picasso – $130.6 Million

Seller: Greentree foundation | Buyer: Barilla Group

Bal du moulin de la Galette – Pierre-Auguste Renoir $143.3 Million

Seller: Betsey Whitney | Buyer: Ryoei Saito

Three Studies of Lucian Freud – Francis Bacon $144.5 Million

Seller: | Buyer: Elaine Wynn, ex-wife of Steve Wynn

Portrait of Dr. Gachet – Vincent van Gogh – $151.4 Million

Seller: Siegfried Kramarsky family | Buyer: Ryoei Saito

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I – Gustav Klimt – $157.7 Million

Seller: George Maria Altmann | Buyer: Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie

Le Rêve – Pablo Picasso – $157.9 Million

Seller: Steve Wynn | Buyer: Steven A. Cohen

Woman III – Willem de Kooning – $161.8 Million

Seller: David Geffen | Buyer: Steven A. Cohen

No. 5, 1948 – Jackson Pollock – $164.7 Million

Seller: David Geffen | Buyer: David Martinez

The Card Players – Paul Cézanne – $273 Million

Seller: George Embiricos | Buyer: State of Qatar

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Perfectly preserved head of a serial killer, since 1841 (article)

Diogo Alves was born in Galicia in 1810 and traveled to Lisbon early in his life, to serve in the houses of the well-to-do of the Portuguese capital. This southwards migration was common to plenty of Galicians looking for work, but Alves soon realized a life of crime would be more profitable. (History often blames an opportunistic barmaid for this shift in morality, because what’s a story without a temptress?) From 1836 to 1839, he transferred his workplace to the Aqueduto das Águas Livres (Aqueduct of the Free Waters). Nearly one kilometer (0.62 miles) long, the Aqueduto spanned the Alcântara valley, allowing both water and suburbanites to make their way into the city, 213 feet above the rural landscape.

Many of these commuters were humble farmers traveling to the city to sell their produce, a fact Alves was privy to. He would await them on their return by nightfall, divest them of their gains by whatever means possible, and unceremoniously push them to their deaths. He repeated this sequence 70 times in the three years he was active in the Aqueduto, and it’s unclear why he stopped. Police intervention was hardly a factor, as the deaths were dismissed as a wave of suicides—it’s not like anyone in power would have feared a murderer who targeted only the poor.

Having retired from the Aqueduto, Alves set his sights on flightier targets, formed a gang, and started targeting private residences. Eventually, after breaking into a physician’s house and murdering the people inside, he was caught by the authorities and sentenced to hang in February 1841.

CAT scan of a drug mule 

Thoughtful notice at a local vet

Two legendary chess players gauging each others boards. Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand

Keanu Reeves owns a shop building motorcycles…Arch Motorcycles

Turkish newspaper “Freedome of Press” special edition. Completely empty

Context: 19th may is the national day for sports and for children, which was created by Atatürk. On this particular day Erdogan tried to charge Sözcü Newspaper with cooperating with terrorists. Sözcü remains one of the last turkish newspapers, which are not in Erdogans control and therefore a risk for him. This is their special edition after the accusations. The title is: “19th may – freedome of press special edition”. This edition is completely empty and sold worldwide! 

LED Running Track

Close encounter with a whale 

Removal of Robert E Lee Statue in New Orleans

Daft Punk unmasked in the 90s

Here they are now without their helmets.

Aerial view of over 400,000 people at the Woodstock Music Festival, New York, 1969

The stunt doubles for Guardians Of The Galaxy 2

Dave Bautista getting his Drax makeup on

A rare death ritual in Indonesia. Family members gather to remove their relatives from their graves, change their clothes, dust them off, and let them dry in the sun

Behind-the-Scenes/Test footage of actor Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) trying on bite masks for The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

This is the guy that just dropped $110.5 Millon on this Basquiat painting. He posted this via his Instagram:

I am happy to announce that I just won this masterpiece. When I first encountered this painting, I was struck with so much excitement and gratitude for my love of art. I want to share that experience with as many people as possible.

Yusaku Maezawa born 22 November 1975, is a Japanese entrepreneur and contemporary art collector. He founded the Start Today company in 1998 and online fashion retail website, Zozotown in 2004

Net worth: 3.6 billion USD

Saturn V – The rocket that sent us to the Moon 

This is Big Wind, a badass T-34 tank with two MiG-21 jet engines on top used for putting out oil fires. Shoots water at over the speed of sound!

Most popular US attraction in each state

"Gender is one of those things everyone thinks they understand, but don’t. This tasty little guide is meant to be an appetizer for understanding"

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Every now and then, most of us have moments when we think that the industry we are in has had its day or that the office is too riven by politics  and incompetence, and so we start to consider what line of work to do instead.

Something better paid, with a high margin of profit, offering a bit of excitement, maybe the opportunity to travel to exotic locations. Something, perhaps, like the drugs business. That line of work  has so much money sloshing around in it that they carry bundles of cash in suitcases. 

But anyone considering such a jump should first read Tom Wainwright’s Narconomics: How To Run A Drug Cartel, a guide on the economic realities of running a drugs cartel. It carries a stark reminder that your professional life can always be worse. 

Your book is advertised as a business manual for drug lords.

It is a manual for how to run a drug cartel. But as well as that, it’s a blueprint for how to defeat them.

But when you write that “there has never been a better time to run a drug cartel” it sounds quite encouraging. So, please, share some tips on becoming a successful drug lord.

First, it’s not so easy. Actually, the barriers to entry in the drug business are quite high. The key important thing you have to be prepared for is violence, which is inextricable from the drugs trade. And there is a sort of economic reason for that.

Because the business is illegal, the only way people have of enforcing contracts is violence. The contract is a crucial basis of every other business. If you agree with someone that you are going to write an article for them, and they agree they will give you $100, and then one of you fails to meet that contract, you can enforce the contract through the court system, through the justice system. When it comes to drugs, you can’t really use the courts, because the whole business is illegal. So the only way to enforce the contract in an industry like drugs is through the use of violence or at least the threat of it. It’s inextricably linked to organized crime in general. That’s one important thing.

So, if I want to be this nice, pacifist drug lord selling fair trade cocaine, I won’t make an impressive career in drugs?

Sorry, but no. And this idea of fair trade cocaine is a bit of a joke, too. Just look, all of the world’s cocaine comes, really, from three countries: Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. And it’s all controlled by organizations that use extreme violence.

Let me be clear, I’m not saying that this is ok, or a good thing. This is just the economic explanation as to why illegal businesses are always accompanied by violence. It’s not that the people involved in the drugs trade are horrible, even though some of them surely are. There is just no other way to enforce contracts.

What would I need beside a willingness to use violence?

You would also need quite an extensive list of contacts to start off in this business.

Doesn’t that apply to every other business as well?

Okay, let’s say you start selling books online or something; you can advertise openly. People can compare the products, they can compare your prices with other ones, and if you offer a better product, or a better price, or better customer service, then you’ll succeed.

The drug business is a completely different kind of market: a hidden market. If you’re a new dealer of cocaine, you can’t really advertise your product and customers can’t find out where you are. The big local dealer of a particular drug with all the contacts within the area will always have a big advantage over someone just starting off.
I see, it’s not easy to get into the drug business as a street dealer. But I asked you how to become a drug lord, not some low-level pusher. The most powerful cartels don’t really get involved in dealing, or do they?

It varies a lot, actually. There is a quite interesting example at the moment in the United States, where heroin has taken off again. One reason for this increase in consumption is the epidemic of opiate abuse, OxyContin, and other prescription drugs. But another one is that Mexican cartels are pushing the product quite heavily in the United States. And in some cases, it seems that they are doing that by actually sending their own people to the United States to don the dealing. That’s quite unusual.

What usually happens is that the Mexican cartel would ship their product through the border and then it’s distributed by the local American dealers. But it changes when it comes to heroin. I spoke to some guys from the DEA in Colorado. They were saying that there’s a new strategy used by the Sinaloa Cartel. They would send over a small team of people from Mexico to the United States to start pushing the drug. For the cartel, it’s always risky to send over very expensive product with a bunch of employees that they don’t necessarily trust. When they use their own people from Mexico they have a stronger hold on them; they know who these guys are, and they know who their families are, so they can put a lot of pressure on them. The cartel changes the personnel involved every two or three months, so it’s harder to get infiltrated by the DEA.

That would be the Sinaloa’s way of doing business. They control everything from the cultivation of the poppies from which the heroin is made, to the distribution in the United States.

That sounds quite old-school. I thought that every global business is run like Apple nowadays: every part of the product is manufactured in a different place in the world.

You’re right that the drug businesses are in some instances less sophisticated than other businesses. But you have to remember that every time you’re moving the product around somewhere you’re facing the risk. Crossing borders is very expensive, you have to bribe the guards. It makes sense that the Sinaloa Cartel tries to keep as much of the process as they can within one single organization. It minimizes the risk of the product being discovered, it minimizes the cost of the product being shipped around.

This model applies to every drug cartel?

Los Zetas Cartel is different. They have their franchise.

A franchise? You mean like McDonald’s?

Pretty much like McDonald’s or Hilton hotels. And they seem to be pretty successful, they spread very, very quickly. Instead of sending their own guys, like the Sinaloa Cartel does in the U.S., they would go to the city and find out who the local criminals are, and they offer them a chance to become a part of the franchise. What they offer is the use of the brand, weapons, sometimes training.

The brand?

Yes, exactly. The brand matters in most business, drugs included. But it’s especially important with crimes like extortion. In Mexico, extortion is quite a big business, so it’s pretty common to receive a phone call from someone claiming that they kidnapped a family member and asking you to send them some money. Sometimes they do it on Facebook, I know someone who received a ransom like that. Most of them are ignored, because it’s like those emails you get telling you that you’ve inherited the fortune of the King of Nigeria. Almost everybody sends those emails straight to the bin, but there’s a very small percentage of people that fall for it.

I get it, but what does the brand have to do with it?

To make this kind of extortion profitable you have to drive up the response rate. When the threat comes from a well-known criminal brand, from the Zetas, for instance, it’s more likely to be taken seriously, because of their fearsome reputation. It works both ways, because when people read the story on how the Zetas have just decapitated someone in some far away state, that reinforces the Zetas’ brand quite dramatically. The branding is a really big deal, and the local gangs will pay the Zetas a cut from all of their earrings just to use it.

Decapitations, tortures, violence – it all adds up to this fearsome image, which is then capitalized upon at some point. But many drug lords love to present themselves as men of the people. Pablo Escobar built all these schools and playgrounds in Medellín, right?

That’s Corporate Social Responsibility in action. It’s completely cynical on the part of drug lords like Pablo Escobar. Many of them spent quite large sums of money on helping Colombian people.

In Mexico, there are even churches with brass plates on them saying that it was built with a generous donation from some guy that turns out to be the head of the Zetas.

They need a basic level of support from their people, and in order to gain that support you have to invest in a local community project.

Because otherwise, the people would rat them out?

Yes, exactly. Watch Narcos and you will see how the Colombian people kind of know where Pablo Escobar is. It’s impossible to stay completely hidden, and the same was true with El Chapo.

We know that Sean Penn knew where El Chapo was hiding.

And if you read his article, it’s quite obvious that many people locally knew where he was as well. It makes their job much easier when local people aren’t actively hostile to them; when they are willing to tolerate them. Because they operate in the communities in which the government has frankly not been adept at serving the public, drug lords can easily earn trust and support by filling this vacuum. That’s why they employ Corporate Social Responsibility.

Again, consider other companies. Why do you think it is that the so-called dirty industries, like the oil industry, are some of the most enthusiastic users of CSR? Because they know they have a reputation problem. They think, “Okay, if we spend a lot of money on community projects in the country, where we operate, people may be a bit less likely to complain about the pollution that is going on with our kind of dirty business.” The cartels are involved in a huge amount of violence, and that’s why the drugs business is particularly keen on Corporate Social Responsibility.

What you’re telling me is that starting off as a new player in the traditional drug business is extremely difficult. Not only do I have to be a merciless criminal, but also a shrewd businessman. Is there some easier way for beginners? Selling online?

Do you know Etsy?

The website where you can buy handmade jewelry and clothing, right?

So, you can buy and sell drugs in a pretty similar way to buying and selling clothes on Etsy, but on the Dark Web. The internet made it much easier for start-ups, for new people in the industry to enter the retail business, and not only drugs. Imagine if you make clothes or jewelry, normally setting up a shop would have involved incredible expenses. You’d need a huge amount of stock, and to rent a place. It’s a really big undertaking. With the internet, now you can do it more or less for free. So it makes it much easier for new entrants. And I think it’s particularly important for the drug business because this market is a hidden market.

If you go online you’ll see that the drug business there is much more alike any ordinary business. It’s run like a regular open market, where people advertise their prices. Customers are flagging up the quality and purity of the products, and choose between the different companies offering the best price.

The online drugs market is the one where really the person who gets the highest market share is a person who offers the best product for the best price. In the traditional drugs market, it’s often not the case because there the person who is controlling the market is simply the one who has been in business the longest. So if you’re a new person trying to start out in this business I think the internet is definitely the place to go, that’s your best option really.

If the online drug market is so convenient both for customers and retailers, aren’t drug cartels worried they’ll lose their customers?

Not really. I suppose the role the internet is filling at the moment is that it bridges the gap between the (sort of) wholesalers and the consumers. As I understand it, the people who are selling drugs online probably buy quite large quantities on the wholesale level, in the port of Southampton for example. They don’t grow the drugs themselves, it still remains cartels’ job.

What is interesting is that I haven’t seen Mexican cartels selling their product online. I’m wondering whether or not they eventually will. Shipping internationally would be more difficult from a security point of view. If you look online at the Dark Web, what you tend to find is people selling products in their own country, or perhaps within the EU.

And there could be another reason. The people who are successful in the cartel business tend to be the ones who’ve got good contacts in border smuggling. That’s where their sort of comparative advantage is. I suppose they might resist any kind of move to shipping online. It would mean that their skills would become less profitable. Or maybe it’s just that the Mexican postal service is really dreadful. When I lived in Mexico I told people to send me Christmas cards in July, because it would take them so long to arrive. So, if you ordered cocaine from Mexico, you’d probably receive it months later. Often people want it the next day, and these online retailers offer them next day delivery for an extra charge. Very professional.

Online you can buy illicit drugs and so-called legal highs. And many consumers tend to choose the latter, because their possession is usually decriminalized. Aren’t Mexican drug lords bothered about losing the market to legal highs industry?

I don’t think so. They have a bigger problem to be bothered about: legalization of cannabis. They find it very, very hard to compete with legal producers who produce the drug of much higher quality. If you go to a dispensary in Denver, the typical potency of the THC there is around 18-20%. But with illegal cannabis imported from Mexico, the typical potency is more like 6-7%/. It’s a completely different product.
The legal producers also sell edibles, chocolate bars, drinks, all of these things that cartels just don’t do.

Why don’t they start, then?

It’s quite difficult. Doing the drinks, for instance, is technically more difficult and more expensive. Imagine you’re smuggling something, you want to smuggle the most highly concentrated variety possible. It’s like when alcohol was illegal in America, the bars that would sell illegal alcohol tended to sell really strong whiskey or gin, they tended not to sell a kind of light wine. They focused on the strongest stuff because that’s the easiest stuff to smuggle in terms of the volume.

In the same way, Mexican cartels are fairly unlikely to start smuggling cannabis-infused ice tea for instance (which is something you can buy in Colorado and is very popular by the way). But imagine smuggling that, it’s very heavy, not particularly strong, and hence not very efficient. So they’re never going to get into that.

I think the cartels have a real problem here. The cannabis market is becoming a totally different market. Much more aspirational.

What do you mean by aspirational?

Just look at Snoop Dogg’s cannabis chocolate, Leafs by Snoop. I haven’t tried them, but they look very high quality. The packaging is quite beautiful. It looks like a kind of posh perfume or something like that. Now imagine if you’re the Sinaloa cartel, maybe you can compete in terms of the drug. But this is a lifestyle product, you can’t beat Snoop Dogg in that.

So how do cartels adapt to this new economic reality?

A lot of the farmers in Mexico that used to grow cannabis are now growing opium. We can observe a quite significant increase in the heroin supply. There were some reports as well of drug tunnels being used to smuggle people. From a purely business point of view, it doesn’t make much sense because people trafficking is much less profitable than drugs trafficking. And it also doesn’t make sense to risk a very expensive asset like a drug tunnel to smuggle a few people. So it all suggests that in some areas the cartels are finding it very difficult. Legalizing cannabis is big deal. In the past the people reckoned that up to about a half of the income of the Sinaloa cartel came from cannabis. If that business can be shifted into the legal economy, that’s a pretty serious blow against organized crime.

Maybe if cannabis was legal, drug dealers could leave the criminal world and become legitimate businessmen.

It’s not really happening in the U.S. One of the things that people worried about before legalization was the idea that the people who’d run the legal cannabis business would basically be criminals.

Why worry about that? When cannabis is legalized a lot of street dealers lose their income. A job in cannabis industry sounds like a perfect career opportunity for them.

Well, that’s true. But I’m not talking about former dealers. What people were worried about was the idea of an organized crime network suddenly having access to this lucrative bigger market and using that money in other types of crime. I think that worry is a reasonable one. So far there is no evidence that’s happening.

When you go to a place like Colorado and meet the people who are running these businesses they’re a mixture of some people who you might call enthusiasts (that have been growing their stuff in their bedroom for many years) and some people who are just business people; there’s a lot of people with MBAs running these companies. I’ve found nobody that had any kind of criminal background.

When I spoke to the police in Colorado, even people who were very against the idea of legalization admitted that so far there is no sign of organized crime getting involved in the legal business. Above all, succeeding in business like this requires completely different skills to those that were important in the illegal business.

If you want to be a successful drug lord, you have to be an expert on violence, smuggling across borders, and bribing the police. Selling legal cannabis is a completely different job.

Succeeding in this business requires you to be good at marketing, in making these chocolates and cookies and other edibles. It requires you to be very good at obeying hundreds of new regulations. It’s very complicated from a regulatory point of view.

So even the booming legal cannabis industry doesn’t seem to be an easy way to score some big money. What else can I do? Maybe I could apply for a job in the Drug Enforcement Agency. But would I still have a job in next ten, twenty years?

If you’re looking for a high level of job security, you can be sure that you’ll still have a job as an anti-drug police officer in twenty years. The key reason that illegal drug business will continue in the countries in the West (including the States, Britain, and Poland) is that these countries insist that drugs should be illegal while at the same time importing millions of dollars’ worth of these drugs every year. As long as those two things continue, a very large criminal market is going to exist. The only way to get around that is either those countries stop importing drugs completely, meaning that people living there have to stop taking drugs. Well, experience suggests that probably isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Or these countries could think seriously about legally regulating these drugs rather than just banning them. This is actually something that more and more people are thinking about seriously.

But as long as those two things continue. As long as countries demand these drugs stay illegal and continue to buy them, I think careers in law enforcement will still exist. Certainly, you’ve got more job security as a police officer than you have as a drug lord.

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Midge Fly Burger

Each midge patty contains around half a million flies and contains 7x more protein than the average beef patties. People there can seldom afford to eat meat so alternative sources of protein are welcomed.

After Bank of America forecloses on wrong house, homeowner, lawyer, moving crew, and police officers arrive at bank to seize assets and settle debt

Motorcycle got cut off on LA freeway

 The very first time a “Perdue” chicken-factory farmer allows film crew inside the farm to reveal the cruelty on chickens and the despicable conditions they are rapidly raised in

Vegas Security Cam Captures Vegas Escort Before & After A Long Night!

Genghis Khan – this BBC documentary tells the life and death of Genghis Khan and how he managed to create an empire the world have never seen

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30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable – Medium

12 Whiskeys That Are Better Than Pappy Van Winkle, And Way Easier To Find – Maxim

Last Words Spoken By Famous People At Death – Ranker

How to Save Money When You’re Young, Dumb, and Broke – VICE

Yanet Garcia’s Booty Will Blow Your Pants Off – Yes Bitch

How Not to End Up Hating Your Partner – Goop

Top 10 Disastrous Cases Of Regime Change By The US – Listverse

This cat was given a second chance after he was abandoned at 20 years old – Rare

Bras are Optional and Life is Good (44 Photos) – Radass

Man cries in mugshot after failed alleged rape – Trending Views

Everything You Need to Know About Michael Flynn Invoking the Fifth Amendment – Gizmodo

Hunter Crushed To Death By Elephant After It’s Fatally Shot – Mandatory

Models of Instagram: Lindsey Pelas (52 Photos) – Sauce Monsters

McKayla Maroney Needs To Get Into Porn – Hollywood Tuna

Pamela Anderson’s Cannes Look Turns Heads…’Unrecognizable’ is the favored word of the day – Newser

Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere and Other Random Ladies – G-Celeb

46 Ridiculously Hot Instagram Pics Of Amanda Cerny – Regretful Morning

Gecko Can’t Stop Smiling When He’s Around His Toy Gecko – Sad And Useless

8 Ways To Make Friends As An Adult That Are All Awkward As Shit, But Sorry, It’s Only Gonna Get Worse From Here – Runt Of The Web

Nicki Minaj Quietly Kept Sending Funds To An Indian Village, Today It’s Fully Developed – India Times

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I’m pretty sure this is what the entrance to hell looks like

Dumbass drives his Land Rover on the beach

Trying to steal racing bike off the rack of a moving car

Standing on the edge of a boiling lava pool 

The Best Man

She saved the internet from having to endure another "look what I had for lunch" photo

Alert train steward stops a suicidal girl 

Fucking morons!

This made me very uncomfortable

Bank card roulette with the bill

Dog Protecting His Human

Steve Bannon experiencing his worst nightmare

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“Success” isn’t just having lots of money. Many people with lots of money have horribly unhappy and radically imbalanced lives.

Success is continuously improving who you are, how you live, how you serve, and how you relate.

So why won’t most people be successful?

Why don’t most people evolve?

The more evolved you become, the more focused you must be on those few things which matter most. Yet, as Jim Rohn has said, “A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.”

To be successful, you can’t continue being with low frequency people for long periods of time.

You can’t continue eating crappy food, regardless of your spouse’s or colleague’s food choices.

Your days must consistency be spent on high quality activities.

The more successful you become — which is balancing the few essential things (spiritual, relational, financial, physical) in your life and removing everything else — the less you can justify low quality.

Before you evolve, you can reasonably spend time with just about anyone.

You can reasonably eat anything placed in front of you.

You can reasonably justify activities and behaviors that are, frankly, mediocre.

As your vision for yourself expands, you realize you have to make certain adjustments. You need to cut-back on spending all of your money and time on crap and entertainment. You have to save more, and invest more in your education and your future.

The more successful you become, the less you can justify low quality. The more focused you must become. The more consistently your daily behaviors must be high quality — and increasingly higher quality.

This isn’t about perfection. It’s definitely not about being busy all the time. Actually, the balance of true success involves what Tim Ferriss calls “mini-retirements” or regular sabbaticals.

Yet, if your daily behaviors are consistently low quality, what do you expect your life’s output to be?

Your choices must become higher quality.

Your relationships must become higher quality.

Every area of your life affects every other area of your life. Hence the saying, How you do anything is how you do everything. This is very high level thinking. It only makes sense for people who have removed everything from their lives they hate. To actually live this principle: your daily and normal life can only be filled with those things you highly value.

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Bride In Gora Region Between Kosovo And Macedonia

The Gorani people are Muslims by faith, but their traditions and customs contain various pagan elements. The bride is carried on a white horse covered with a scarf and a specially decorated umbrella during wedding festivities, and she accompanies her family to the neighbour’s house of her husband-to-be.

Indian Wedding

In Indian culture, pink or red wedding dresses are often the garment of choice for brides. Married woman in the north of the country can often be identified by a red dot in the middle of their forehead.

Nigerian Bride

Nigeria is a big country with around 250 ethnic groups and over 500 languages. Wedding ceremonies therefore change according to region, religion and ethnic background. However, Nigerian brides often wear brightly colored wedding clothes. They also often wear a Nigerian head tie called a Gele.

Hutsuls Wedding In Ukrainian Carpathians

The Hutsuls are an ethno-cultural group of Ukrainians who have lived for centuries in the Carpathian mountains. The traditional wedding clothes are very colorful and the weddings themselves are very lively and full of dancing, games and jokes.

Traditional Wedding In Ghana

Traditional weddings in Ghana are often very colorful, and each family has its own cloth pattern that features on the bride and groom’s wedding outfits.

Kazakhstani Bride

In a traditional Kazakh wedding, brides typically wear a headdress known as a “Saukele” as well as a facial veil. The Saukele is usually prepared long before the girls reach the age of marriage.

Japanese Wedding

For a traditional Japanese wedding, the bride often wears a pure white kimono for the formal ceremony, which symbolizes purity and maidenhood. After the ceremony the bride may then change into a red kimono to symbolize good luck.

Mongolian Bride

In a traditional Mongolian wedding ceremony, the bride and the groom each wear what’s known as a Deel. A Deel is a form of patterned clothing that’s been worn for centuries by Mongols and other nomadic tribes in Central Asia.

Scottish Wedding

Men in Scotland traditionally wear the kilt of his clan for his wedding. After the ceremony, the bride wears a shawl emblazoned with her new husband’s clan colors to signify her transition into his family.

Romanian Bride From Oas Region

Weddings in Oas are an important event in the north-west part of Transylvania. The wedding is organized by the parents as well as the bride-and-groom-to-be and various different rituals are involved including the preparation of the dowry and the costumes, choosing the godparents, and preparing the wedding flag.

Chinese Wedding

In China the colour red is considered to symbolize good luck. The colour is also believed to keep away evil spirits. It’s therefore no surprise that traditional Chinese wedding outfits almost always feature the colour red.

Yakan Bride

The Yakan are an ethno-linguistic group that mostly inhabit the island of Basilan in the Philippines. Traditional weddings usually consist of two ceremonies, an Islamic one and an older, pre-Islamic ritual. The weddings are arranged by the parents and both the bride and groom wear face paint for the ceremony.

Traditional Wedding Costumes And Bridal Crown From Norway

In Norway, the traditional wedding costume is called a Bunad. It can also be worn for other occasions such as christening parties.

Indonesian Wedding

Indonesia has over 17,000 islands and so weddings here vary greatly depending on where people live and which of the 300+ ethnic groups they belong to.

Matyo Bride From Hungary

In traditional Hungarian weddings, a brides attire usually includes an embroidered dress with floral patterns and three bright colors. She often wears many underskirts as well as an elaborate head-dress with wheat woven into it.

Peruvian Bride In Sacred Valley Near Cuzco, Peru

Traditional Andean wedding outfits are often bright and include woven cloaks and hats adorned with tassels and reflective material. A special skirt and poncho is made for the bride and groom’s wedding day.

Traditional Wedding Costumes In Veliky Novgorod, Russia

Russia has over 185 different ethnic groups, and many of these have their own separate wedding traditions. However, many Russian weddings last for at least two days and some go on for as long as a week.

Korean Traditional Royal Wedding Costumes

The Korean national costume is called the Hanbok, and a variation of this can be worn at traditional weddings. According to ancient tradition in, the groom should carry his wife around the table on his back. This is so the bride knows that her husband is reliable.

Hamar Woman In Traditional Dress

The Hamar people come from Ethiopia. Unmarried women wear large collars made of red, green, and black coloured beads, and married women wear two distinct metals collars. First wives also wear a leather band with a large visible disk attached.

Malay Wedding

Most weddings in Malaysia are held according to the Muslim tradition. Brides often wear wedding dresses that include colors such as purple, violet, and cream.

Balinese Wedding, Indonesia

Traditional Balinese wedding clothes are often vivid and richly decorated. The bride and the groom often wear crowns of gold on their heads during the ceremony.

Weddings In Jakarta, Indonesia

As in other parts of Indonesia, traditional wedding attire in Jakarta includes plenty of gold, intricate patterns, striking colors and ornate head wear.

Uzbek Bride Wearing Traditional Clothes

In traditional Uzbek weddings (Nikokh-Tui), the bride wears a colorful outfit hand embroidered with intricate patterns. The wedding ceremony plays an essential role in Uzbek life.

Turkmen Bride

In Turkmenistan, the traditional wedding ceremony sees the bride dressed up in a red dress made from silk homemade fabric studded with silver or gilded pendants.

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