http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/07/ducks-head- soup.html#115299294873092658 Kris Millegan said...
Well, we will try again, Someday I may take a typing class. And here are the changes according to populatin and ages. The CIA World Fact book is where the population numbers come from. Kris Millegan said... I find very little reality in official drug stats or officially related history. Much mis and dis-information. I have found that the most reliable information comes from much earlier and "untainted" information. One may read at: http://www.rand.org/commentary/050405UPI.html that "The Islamic Revolution in 1979 in Iran used some of the same police-state tactics as China to eliminate the large production and consumption of opium that had prevailed under the rule of the shah of Iran." A canard if I ever heard one. We have all been told that in all aspects that Red China and Islamist fundie Iran are or have been "evil." And then we are also told that that have both eradicated their opium crops and do not use heroin as historical documented by most major countries to facilitate black ops and other agendas. According to: www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/13846/heroin.htm Worldwide heroin production was estimated at 426.9 metric tons in 2003. 472 tonnes in 2005 according to UN http://www.unodc.org/unodc/ en/world_drug_report.html . A metric tonne equals 2,204.622 pounds According to the UN, ( http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ world_drug_report.html ) Russia has the highest heroin usage rate 2.0% of the population aged 15 to 65 or about 2,000,000 folks. Let us round down to 1,800,000 daily addicts. Well, that is over 1.8 metric tonnes a day and over 665 tonnes a year. The USA's figures are all over the map most US official figures are from 600,000 to 1,000,000 users. The UN says 0.6% of the population or around 1,200,000 users. Again rounded down to 1,000,000 daily users is over 1 tonnes a day, around 369 tonnes a year. These numbers are figured with average use at a gram per day, which is supported by most research and anecdotal reports. So as you see there seems to be a supply problem … Now one may say that well, maybe most users are just casual. That has not been my personal observation of users. And even if you cut my figures in half, just those two countries would still consume more than the official figures of production. It behooves those running the "shit" to keep the official numbers down and untrue. I mean who can check. It is an illegal and unregulated industry. And considering that they generally run or at the very least have big influence on interference and bean counting, its a rigged play. If you will notice many of the heroin production "records" will put a big NA in the columns for Iran and China and then follow "conventional wisdom" of saying both countries used ruthless methods to eradicate, etc. I find the contention unconvincing. Opium became the largest commodity on earth in the 1830s and has been there ever since. A very good book on the dynamics From Carl A Trocki’s excellent book, Opium, Empire and the Global Economy(1999): "The trade in such drugs usually results in some form of monopoly which not only centralizes the drug traffic, but also restructures much of the affiliated social and economic terrain in the process. In particular two major effects are the creation of mass markets and the generation of enormous, in fact unprecedented, cash flows. The existence of monopoly results in the concentrated accumulation of vast pools of wealth. The accumulations of wealth created by a succession of historic drug trades have been among the primary foundations of global capitalism and the modern nation-state itself. Indeed, it may be argued that the entire rise of the west, from 1500 to 1900, depended on a series of drug trades." <> ". . . the image of the "opium empire," a metaphor first offered by Joseph Conrad. It takes up the early history of opium and other "traditional drugs" such as tobacco and sugar and develops the paradigm of commercialized drug trades and ties that to the growth of European colonialism in the Americas and Asia . . ." <> ". . . links between drug trades, European colonial expansion, the creation of the global capitalist system and the creation of the modern state. Drug trades destabilized existing societies not merely because they destroyed individual human beings but also, and perhaps more importantly, because they have the power to undercut the existing political economy of any state. They have created new forms of capital; and they have redistributed wealth in radically new ways." <> "Opium thus created a succession of new political and economic orders in Asia during the past two centuries. These included the state of the East India Company itself, the new Malay polities of island Southeast Asia, the colonial states of nineteenth-century Southeast Asia and the warlord regimes of post-Qing China as well as the Guomindang and communist states that arose out of that milieu. At the same time, the economies of the entire region were radically reoriented, or perhaps "re-occidented" would be a more appropriate word. India's opium production was brought under western control while China's domestic economy was opened to the west. Southeast Asia was first opened to western traders and then to western control. With the migration of Chinese labor, Southeast Asian economies were transformed into commodity-producing regimes focused on exporting to the industrializing western Powers. Underlying all of this, opium rearranged the domestic economies and pushed them down the path of mass consumption, which together with mass production, typified the "modern" economic order. It is possible to suggest a hypothesis that mass consumption, as it exists in modern society, began with drug addiction. And, beyond that, addiction began with a drug-as-commodity. Something was necessary to prime the pump, as it were, to initiate the cycles of production, consumption and accumulation that we identify with capitalism. Opium was the catalyst of the consumer market, the money economy and even of capitalist production itself in nineteenth- century Asia. <> Opium was the tool of the capitalist classes in transforming the peasantry and in monetizing their subsistence lifestyles. Opium created pools of capital and fed the institutions that accumulated it: the banking and financial systems, the insurance systems and the transportation and information infrastructures. Those structures and that economy have, in large part, been inherited by the successor nations of the region today." ==== Onward to the utmost of futures! Peace Om K ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End 5:08 PM = ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/vseplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! 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