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...antiquities trafficking in Iraq is funding the insurgency and has since at least 2004. That's a fact. And it shouldn't surprise anyone. Mao tells us that terrorist organizations have to adapt in order to survive. Adapt or die. Look at the Taliban in Afghanistan. They're using opium to support their activities. Why? Because opium is a limitless cash crop. Well they don't have opium in Iraq. But what they have in almost limitless supply are antiquities. So they're using them to fund their activities. It is not the number one source of funding. Kidnappings...
...Jawad’s platform. Jawad said the government could successfully fight the Taliban’s influence by winning over its impoverished members, many of whom subsist on less than $300 a day—a figure the government could easily double. The nation’s thriving opium trade, which Jawad said funded many terrorists efforts, must also be curtailed through providing alternative forms of agriculture such as pomegranates. Jawad added that this approach would be more successful than a policy of eradication, which he said would be unrealistic. Though Afghanistan still faces major problems, Jawad said assistance...
...symphonic composition, Berlioz, with the production of “Symphonie Fantastique,” is credited with expanding the genre’s potential. By moving its traditional structure into a freer and more dramatic form he moved classical music further into Romanticism. The piece describes the opium-induced hallucinations of a young musician who dreams of his lover and has a variety of fantastical visions, culminating in a dance of monsters and witches who attend his funeral.Yannatos and the HRO set the stage wonderfully from the outset. In the first movement, the strings achieved a dreamy sound with...
...writer has swallowed all of Singapore, from its stately colonial bungalows to its once opium-infested slums, with the verve and wit of the late J.G. Farrell, whose 1978 saga The Singapore Grip remains the great Singapore novel. From its opening passages Farrell signals the vastness of his literary ambition - and then brilliantly brings it off in the ensuing 500-odd pages. "When you staggered outside into the sweltering night," he writes of Singapore, "you would have been able to inhale that incomparable smell of incense, of warm skin, of meat cooking in coconut oil, of money and frangipani...
...These days Barmak spends more time courting financiers than dodging rockets. Making movies in Afghanistan is expensive, and there is no local market to speak of. Instead he relies on foreign distribution - Opium War will be screening in some 15 cities across Asia and Europe this spring, largely based on his success last fall at the Rome International Film Festival, where Opium War won the critics' award for best film. He hopes for more success - and jokes about the remote possibility of failure. "If I can't make it as a director," he says, "at least I now know...