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	<title>Havocscope Black Markets</title>
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		<title>Percentage of stores in Russia selling pirated copies of Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, one-quarter of all stores selling software in Russia were selling pirated copies of Windows, according to Microsoft.
Source:  Associated Press, &#8220;Microsoft: Pirated software still in Russian shops,&#8221; San Jose Mercury News, February 8, 2010. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/percentage-of-stores-in-russia-selling-pirated-copies-of-windows/</link>
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		<title>Reach of Mexican Drug Cartels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the start of 2010, the US Justice Department found Mexican Drug Cartel operatives working in 195 cities across the United States.
In addition, researchers in Mexico has found links to the cartels in 47 different countries around the world.
Source:  Chris Hawley, &#8220;Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming &#8216;narco-state&#8217;,&#8221; Arizona Republic, February 7, 2010. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/reach-of-mexican-drug-cartels/</link>
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		<title>Price of methamphetamine in the United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between September 2007 and September 2008, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration reported that the average price of a gram of methamphetamine decreased from $212 to $184 while the potency of the drug increased.
Source:  Chris Hawley, &#8220;Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming &#8216;narco-state&#8217;,&#8221; Arizona Republic, February 7, 2010. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/price-of-methamphetamine-in-the-united-states/</link>
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		<title>Cocaine price in the United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between September 2007 and September 2008, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration reported that the average price of a gram of cocaine increased from $132 to $182.
Source:  Chris Hawley, &#8220;Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming &#8216;narco-state&#8217;,&#8221; Arizona Republc, February 7, 2010. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/cocaine-price-in-the-united-states/</link>
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		<title>Percent of cocaine entering the United States from Haiti and Dominican Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up to 9 percent of the cocaine entering the United States is believed to be trafficked through Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Source:  Chris Hawley, &#8220;Experts: Haiti chaos may lead to rise in drug trafficking,&#8221; Arizona Republic, February 8, 2010. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/percent-of-cocaine-entering-the-united-states-from-haiti-and-dominican-republic/</link>
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		<title>Cigarette Smuggling losses in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tax revenue losses from cigarette smuggling activities in China is estimated at $2.2 Billion (15 Billion Yuan) each year.
Source:  Xinhua, &#8220;Smoking costs China 250 billion yuan last year,&#8221; China Daily, November 18 2006. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/cigarette-smuggling-losses-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Value of drugs seized in Australia in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$224.5 Million (260 Million Australian) of drugs was seized in Australia in 2009. Marijuana was that largest drugs seized, with $164 Million (191 Million Australian) worth of cannabis seized by police.
Source:  Peter Hawkins, &#8220;Ecstasy use up as police seize drugs worth $260m,&#8221; Sydney Morning Herald, February 7, 2010. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/value-of-drugs-seized-in-australia-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>$1 Billion of Russian made cigarettes smuggled into Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$1 Billion worth of &#8220;Jin Ling&#8221;, a Russian-made cigarettes that is only sold on the black market, is smuggled into Europe each year.
The illegal factories in Russia making cigarettes to be smuggled are able to produce up to 24 billion cigarettes annually, equal to 7 percent of the EU&#8217;s legal imports.
Source:  Roman Shleynov, Stefan Candea, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/1-billion-of-russian-made-cigarettes-smuggled-into-europe/</link>
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		<title>Cigarette smuggling in Paraguay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 90 percent, or $1 Billion worth, of cigarettes produced in Paraguay is smuggled out of the country and into Brazil and Argentina.
Source:  Marina Walker Guevara, Mabel Rehnfeldt, and Marcelo Soares, &#8220;Smuggling Made Easy,&#8221; Tobacco Underground, Center for Public Integrity, June 28, 2009. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/cigarette-smuggling-in-paraguay/</link>
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		<title>Cigarette Smuggling in Ukraine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The illegal cigarette smuggling market in Ukraine is estimated to be worth $2.1 Billion a year.
Source:  Vlad Lavrov, &#8220;Ukraine’s ‘Lost’ Cigarettes Flood Europe,&#8221; Tobacco Underground, Center for Public Integrity, June 28, 2009. 
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		<link>http://www.havocscope.com/cigarette-smuggling-in-ukraine/</link>
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