'War On Drugs' in Afghanistan?

In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. As a result of this ban, opium poppy cultivation was reduced by 91% from the previous year's estimate of 82,172 hectares. The ban was so effective that Helmand Province, which had accounted for more than half of this area, recorded no poppy cultivation during the 2001 season.

But since the invasion...

Poppy crop eradication could even have damaging side-effects for Afghanistan's process of stabilization and reconstruction. Director of policy research for the Senlis Council, Jorrit Kamminga, says:
...the poppy eradication campaign has been ineffective, counterproductive and could well give the Taliban the decisive advantage in their struggle for the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.

Below: Opium output in Afghanistan. NATO invaded in late 2001. Since then it seems opium production is healthier than ever, despite supposed attempts to curb production. It's hard to fight a war on drugs when your superiors are the people shipping them...

[source of image and red text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan]

In other words, the Taliban were shutting down the source of over 90% of the world's opium (therefore heroin). Another ulterior motive to go to war in that place, don't you think?

The 1996 film An Unholy Alliance explores the link between the drug trade and war (and the CIA)...



And they're growing WEED in Afghanistan too apparently. Ha!

It should be noted that I don't see any legitimate way that banning drugs helps us as a society; I suspect the banning of drugs merely serves to give the state and other criminals a monopoly on drug production and trade. I believe using police to try to stop people from producing or consuming substance X is not only immoral, but impossible, and serves as an excuse to get police used to viewing ordinary people minding their own business as the enemy.

If there's a market for drugs, someone will trade in them. I'd rather this was done in the legitimate marketplace, as opposed to the profit going to criminals and criminals in government.

Internet 'game' where people report real CCTV crime

It's important that you are in no doubt this isn't made up, so please do click through to the Daily Mail story:

Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise'

Basically, "Internet Eyes" is the next step in the Stasification of Britain. Good civilised people will be able to access this 'game', watch real, live CCTV footage, and receive cash rewards in exchange for reporting the criminal acts of their fellow citizens. Essentially, this is training us to become little Stasi style informants.

Don't forget this story about hiring citizens to act as spies for local government

One of the big misunderstandings about Nazi Germany is that the Gestapo came and got everyone. While they may be scary on their own, they wouldn't have been nearly as efficient were it not for ordinary people who helped them, usually out of an instinct of self-preservation, or fear that they would be turned in by the other person if they didn't call the Gestapo first.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo#Daily_operations

Contrary to popular belief, the Gestapo was not an omnipotent agency that had agents in every nook and cranny of German society. "V-men", as undercover Gestapo agents were known, were used to infiltrate Social Democratic and Communist opposition groups, but this was the exception, not the rule. The District Office in Nuremberg, which had the responsibility for all of northern Bavaria employed a total of 80-100 informers in the years 1943-1945. The Gestapo office in Saarbrücken had at its service 50 informers in 1939.

As historian Robert Gellately's analysis of the local offices established, the Gestapo was for the most part made up of bureaucrats and clerical workers who depended upon denunciations by ordinary Germans for their information. Indeed, the Gestapo was overwhelmed with denunciations and spent most of its time sorting out the credible from the less credible denunciations. Far from being an all-powerful agency that knew everything about what was happening in German society, the local offices were understaffed and overworked, struggling with the paper load caused by so many denunciations.
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"Our state collects more data than the Stasi ever did. It's time to fight back" - says Timothy Garton Ash writing for The Guardian.

Fluoride: A Professional Perspective

Dr. Bill Osmundson - a dentist - speaks out against fluoridation of water.



Question: Who pioneered the mass fluoridation of drinking water? I'm not telling you the answer, search it for yourself...

See this video for more fluoride info.

Grim Reaper says "Get your flu shot!"

This is possibly the worst PR ever witnessed.


Another hilarious and/or disturbingly ironic vaccine advert: Gardasil (HPV) vaccine - I wanna be "One Less".

(Yeah, one less human on the planet!)



I wanna be one less, one less!
Us 'eaters' are useless, useless!

Bwahaha.

House Slave Manual

The future, as envisioned by the elite, is a global slave plantation. Social engineering has decimated us...

I'm from the IMF, and I'm here to help.

Do you believe their intentions are so noble?

BBC - Pledge for more IMF help for the poor

The French and British governments have announced a $4bn (£2.5bn) allocation to the International Monetary Fund to help poorer countries.

The money will go to the IMF's new loan facility to help countries which do not have enough money to pay for imports as a result of the economic crisis.

It will come from a $250bn (£157bn) allocation distributed a few weeks ago.

The money is essentially created by the IMF so, according to French ministers, there is no cost to the taxpayer.

The allocation of special drawing rights (SDRs) was agreed by the G20 summit in April.

IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn hailed the deal as "historic" and said he hoped other countries would follow suit.

He revealed that the IMF would have run out of money for its low income country loan facility - at zero interest rates - within months had France and Britain not come up with the money.
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First of all, it's asinine to say that there is 'no cost to the taxpayer' because the IMF prints the money. It's called the inflation tax for a reason!

Second, it's not as nefarious as their old school 30% compound interest loans, but there's an ulterior motive to this too...

Cartoon by Mike Adams http://www.naturalnews.com (click here for original page)

See this great article - quoting:

The IMF operates as a supranational agency to take control over helpless debtor states, to impose economic policies that force the country ever deeper into debt, while opening the market to foreign, often US capital and global corporate exploitation. The fact that debtor countries never get out of their dollar debt, only deeper in, is deliberate. IMF policy in fact insures this. The dollar debt is a major prop of the dollar system and of private international banks. When that debt is repaid, banks lose power and credit contracts. So long as debt grows, bank credit can grow, the paradox of modern banking.

Whenever I hear about the 'finance oligarchs' wanting to 'help' anyone, I think of this:
source libertystickers.com

O'Reilly vs Napolitano on Iran

O'Reilly says negotiation isn't enough. Napolitano sees the military industrial complex at work.





A question to those who advocate military intervention in Iran:

Then what?

US or Israel bombs supposed "nuclear weapons sites". Then what?
The only logical process is an attempted blockade by sea from either/both the US and Iran (don't underestimate Iran's naval power). Then what?
Oil prices skyrocket as no oil comes out of Iraq or Iran via the Gulf. Then what?
Economic crisis at home because you realise fighting another war with such a ridiculous national debt is untenable. Then what?
While riots ensue at home, soldiers abroad are spread thinly, underfunded, fighting to occupy a huge nation with a massive paramilitary element. Then what?

Need I go on?

Webster Tarpley lays out the potential for US defeat in the event of an invasion of Iran (see about 5:30 onwards)


The men behind Bush still hold positions of influence under Obama. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me...uh...you can't get fooled again.

Lisbon: the best Yes vote money and lies can buy

And they all voted yes. All of the big money support, de facto bribery, sleazy advertising aimed at the useful idiots, and a 'positive' message of 'reform' (coupled with total lies about how voting 'yes' will save the economy) sold the Irish into internationalist slavery. Never waste a good crisis...

But why should we care, we aren't even getting a vote (unless you believe Bilderberg puppet David Cameron will actually keep his watered down promises).

So let him be pronounced King of Europe for all to see. Anoint the One who howls at the moon like a lunatic. Arise, Emperor Tonius Blairus of New Babylon.

Let us all commemorate this great day in the construction of a satanic global dictatorship by making a tax-deductible donation to Planned Parenthood specifically reserved for aborting 'a black baby'.

Let us kneel before Moloch and Cremate Care.

Let us bask in the glory of knowing that the RFID grid is the future.

All hail Thermal Expansion!
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The film End Of Nations exposes the Lisbon Treaty in the context of the push for a global dictatorship.

Irish vote on Lisbon today...

Just Say No To Thugs.

Blair to be declared President of Europe if Lisbon Treaty passes


Make sure Fianna FAILS, Ireland.

More Ron Paul stuff

Paul with Michelle Bachmann, speaking to Young Americans For Liberty at University of Minnesota:







RP on the Daily Show:

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Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview

"Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers." (source)

Classic from 2007 - speaking truth to power in the face of the Republiklan establishment:



Message to Obama:



How to deal with 9/12ers, from a liberty perspective


"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank." (source)