Black market medical and pharmaceutical demand and supply and the trafficking in related products.

Trafficking of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies through black markets to sustain limited health care options.

How land limits people, people reduce land, and the political, health and regional politics as a result - all the way to geopolitics.

Extrapolating real world conflict&development to fictional

Conflict, power base, international politics, democratic reform

This is a matter of principle not a popularity complaint. Corporate Espionage includes bootlegging, including podcasts, an intellectual property theft that undercuts and subverts government and business as mentioned in several previous episodes - "research monitoring" included. It is illegal according to U.S. Constitutional Law and EU laws.

Find the entry into the supply line

Making a living in a harsh land

Seems dull and full of statistics but it is actually a colorful historical pattern rich in local stories and history throughout the region where firearms are trusted allies and as close as family members. In a land with rotating governments, corrupt police, minimal national border distinctions and roving bands of brigands firearms are a way to protect families lands livestock territories travel and trade.

Vatican ransoms Columbian nun from AQMaghreb, Seamy trial over wire transactions, Slovenian front companies, femme fatale security consultants, the UK Inkerman Co and Vatican moneymen hung beneath London Bridge with a boulder attached to feet, recent days piracy of Monjasa Reformer and short discussion of how trafficking in raid goods, weapons, humans and medical supplies makes moderate to good business in impoverished regions. Stabilization Operations and Humanitarian Missions covered in short as was discussed in the many times oft mentioned missing 5 episodes - now old news one hopes.