What did $7 billion spent on opium eradication in Afghanistan buy? More opium.

What has the anti-opium effort in Afghanistan yielded US taxpayers?
The latest (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime) Opium Survey estimates that 209,000 hectares are under opium-poppy cultivation, an all-time high and a 36% increase from 2012.
This expansion occurred despite the goal outlined in Afghanistan’s draft National Drug Control Strategy for 2012–2016 of reducing the cultivation of poppy by 50% from its 2011 baseline of 131,000 hectares. Eighty-nine percent of the opium fields are located in nine provinces in the country’s southern and western regions... Opium cultivation has significant social, political, and economic repercussions for the country and the region. The drug trade undermines the Afghan government because it funds the insurgency, fuels corruption, and distorts the economy.     ***Read full article here***
*U.S./NATO invasion and occupation of Afghanistan a success!!!! Afghanistan's opium crop sets new records!

Americans need to Answer: When Will Palestinians get their Fourth of July?

But the some 4 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza, and the several hundred thousand living in Lebanese refugee camps, are living lives the opposite of the ones Jefferson declared natural. They are stateless. In the West Bank they live under Israeli military rule; there are a few civil institutions, but all of these can be over-ruled by the whim of the Israeli army. Palestinians do not control their land, water or air. In Gaza, the Israelis have put them under siege, including the children and non-combatants in general. They aren’t allowed to export virtually anything they produce. They have no port or airport (both bombed by Israel). They suffer from massive unemployment and even malnutrition. The Israelis have placed the Palestinians of Gaza in a huge open-air concentration camp. With American and European help.
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NoAgenda Episode 631 - "Micro Propaganda" - 2014.07.04

PR; TODAY; Iraq; Hobby Lobby; SnowJob; F-Russia / Ukraine / Syria; Follow the Pipes; Shut Up Slave!; Packet Inequality; War on Crazy; The Fix Is In; Agenda 21; Hillary 2016; War on Ca$h, and much more from the two poverty-pleading Journos. Propagate their formula by hitting someone in the mouth today!





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The Doomcast 48 - 2014.07.04

The quite late for a change  Doomcast! Holiday special

In this episode Charlie and Doug morn the loss of the individual rights and our republic. We do note some of the great the things that we can still celebrate, including our first amendment right to talk shit about our government. Lots of banter and blood letting as well in this holiday special!


Iran remembers U.S. downing of Iranian passenger plane


On July 3, 1988, a US Navy ship shot down an Iranian passenger plane in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people on board. Among the dead were citizens of Iran, the United Arab Emirates, India, Pakistan, Yugoslavia and Italy, including 66 children.

The downing of Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes with two surface-to-air missiles has been mostly forgotten in the United States. However, partly due to its timing, it has played a major role in shaping Iranian officials' view of US policy toward Iran.
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