Word: opium
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...contribute to the welfare of the people." Jin, who is an eighth-generation Chinese Catholic, has waited for that epiphany a long time--including 27 years spent in Chinese prisons. "In the past," he explains, "people opposed religion as the 'opiate of the masses.' But now that 'opium war' is over...
...read at a young age, Tintin kindled my fascination with writing, foreign affairs and travel. The eponymous hero of Herge's series is a young newspaper journalist who travels about the world solving one scandalous affair after another (and manages to spend surprisingly zero time at the office). Opium smuggling in the Orient, counterfeiting schemes in Scotland and underwater treasuring hunting pose no problem for the resourceful Tintin. With the aid of Captain Haddock and pet dog Snowy, Tintin makes short work of the thugs and brings the ringleaders to justice...
...wanted to know about Skull and Bones but were afraid to ask: three threads of American social history--espionage, drug smuggling and secret societies--intertwine into one." The essay explains the origins of Yale and Skull and Bones, tying the latter institution to the CIA, the Kennedy assassination, opium trade with China, the Illuminati and Nazi Germany. William Huntington Russell 33 founded Skull and Bones Society, also supposedly called the Russell Trust Association. The secret organization also supposedly spread to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. in the 1870s...
...Skull and Bones begins:"Everything you wanted to know about Skull andBones but were afraid to ask: three threads ofAmerican social history--espionage, drug smugglingand secret societies--intertwine into one." Theessay explains the origins of Yale and Skull andBones, tying the latter institution to the CIA,the Kennedy assassination, opium trade with China,the Illuminati and Nazi Germany. WilliamHuntington Russell 33 founded Skull and BonesSociety, also supposedly called the Russell TrustAssociation. The secret organization alsosupposedly spread to Phillips Academy in Andover,Mass. in the 1870s...
...world. During Bollywood's Golden Age in the 50s and 60s, the traditional Indian family drama gave way to the Masala (mixed spice) film, a particulars brand of brownsploitation filled, as the liner notes entice, "with Kung-fu, gunfights, car chases, loose women, badass hoods in smoke-filled opium dens and of course the good guys." This collection of never-been-released music from the original motion pictures, unearthed from a Bollywood bungalow, delivers just that promise. The brothers combine the rhythms of their native Rajasthan with the grooves that came vibing Eastward from America and Europe to kick...