UN: Opium harvest soars to record level in Afghanistan
"Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year has reached the highest levels ever recorded, showing an increase of almost 50% from last year", Antonio Maria Costa,the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said on Saturday in Kabul , reports Carlotta Gall in Sunday's (3rd Sept. '06) edition of The New York Times.
So that should shut up the Moaning Minnies who say the Coalition of the Willing are having no effect .... and the slaughter of the UK soldiers is a waste of lives. Rupe's Rag the Screws of the World reports today Tory leader David Cameron saying "I am deeply shocked and saddened.Our servicemen and women are engaged in a dangerous mission in Afghanistan. We cannot allow it to slide back into being a failed narco-state." ... oooops looks like we have David.
Just a small snapshot of the costs of drugs to UK communities. Rochdale MBC (Pop approx 220K) in 2001/02 had 11 staff working in the drugs sector, in 2004/05 this had risen by 809% to 100. "Clients" in the same period had risen 72% from 712 to 1,324 - 76% of them male and 90% white. Source : Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership. Safer Communities Strategy 2005 / 2008 Page 9.
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The value of fiat currencies are enhanced whenever a commodity is sold using that fiat currency. The opiates add to the value of the fiat currencies that they are sold in. The war in Afghanistan is not about the narcotics but about which currency has its value enhanced by the narcotics. Compare the size of the world narcotics market to the size of the world oil market. Imagine what would happen to the currency they supported if one of them disappeared overnight.
Secondly, "If two race cars are capable of doing 240 mph the race will be A tie. No one will win. The world economy is a fierce competition for capital, liquidity, markets and, perhaps most importantly, currency. Therefore the race car capable of doing 241 mph is the one that will win the race. That $1.5 trillion a year of highly liquid, low cost, unrestricted capital is what is determining the results in the present day world economy. This is because, as noted by former US Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts, "Those with the lowest cost of capital win." Winning, however, comes with a heavy price. I have confirmed that even now the US government works directly with some of the biggest drug dealers in history."
see http://www.drugwar.com/cv25.shtm
The Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership document makes interesting reading. The document is essentially jargon and misdeduction: to say for instance that higher hate crime reporting means that people trust the police more is not necessarily the case. Perhaps, there are just a lot more hate crimes taking place. Perhaps as a result of there being no less than 44 Hate Crime Reporting Centres throughout the borough. One wonders why police stations are not adequate for this task, or why there needs to be a centre, with its associated manning, rental and running costs, for every 5000 residents.
Needless to say, in all its 52 pages, I could find no mention of how much all these partnerships, alliances, strategy groups etc cost the ratepayers of what is a socially deprived community.
But it must all be working because the bottom of every page bears the slogan 'Everyone is Safe and feels Safe'. Or maybe that's not so much a slogan as a legend...
Tom. The document was used merely as a source of statistics.
Written by a chorus of optimists and laced with the inmpenetrable jargon of social engineers, it represents the muddled thinking and the desire for a sustainable structure for the careerists who erect and run these improbable plans and programs.
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