Mohammed was a paedophile, but hush, you can’t say that on Australian radio

[Spendulus]

Are you being sarcastic?

I was no more sarcastic than you were.

Opium production has sky-rocketed under the Taliban.

Bullshit.



Opium production sky-rocketed after establishing the new "democratic" regime, and everybody knows that. Also, everybody knows that Kosovo is not an independent state, it's just a logistic centre for opium distribution.

Market forces - supply and demand - will establish production rates.  Momentary blips are efforts at some entity attempting to influence market forces.

Start with that idea.

Then explain how motives for war could possibly encompass "increasing or decreasing opium production."

It's a good slap at the USA, but it's totally illogical.

[galdur]

Parliament no place for tear gas, Kerry tells Kosovo

PRISTINA | BY ARSHAD MOHAMMED

DEC 2 REUTERS

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on opposition lawmakers in Kosovo on Wednesday to stop setting off tear gas in parliament, and on the young country to combat corruption, Islamic radicalism and ethnic division.

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Nice. Sixteen years after the war scam to put these gangsters into power and the warscammers don´t seem to have them trained yet. I guess they don´t really care. Like seeks like.

[Balthazar]

Market forces - supply and demand - will establish production rates.  Momentary blips are efforts at some entity attempting to influence market forces.

Start with that idea.

Then explain how motives for war could possibly encompass "increasing or decreasing opium production."

It's a good slap at the USA, but it's totally illogical.

Heroine is not a milk, start with that idea.

Market forces are establishing production rates only if there is no external regulation of supply and demand. Heroine industry is not a free market, otherwise heroine would be cheaper than citric acid.

[galdur]

Hahahahahahahahaha. Yeah, he´s just the right man to preach democracy to gangsters, a place of reverence, hahahahahahahah. This is like Lucky Luciano teaching business ethics.

After meeting Kosovo's Prime Minister Prime Minister Isa Mustafa at the Pristina airport, Kerry said parliament should be "a shrine to democracy, a place of reverence, of respect, that is not the place for tear gas and it is not the place for intimidation."

[bryant.coleman]

Opium production sky-rocketed after establishing the new "democratic" regime, and everybody knows that. Also, everybody knows that Kosovo is not an independent state, it's just a logistic centre for opium distribution.

It is not the "democratic" regime which is encouraging the opium production in Afghanistan. Actually it is the NATO, which is encouraging the heroin production. The NATO even helps the drug traffickers to smuggle the Afghan heroin to Russia and Iran. It is like a proxy war. NATO is destroying the youth in Russia and Iran, without spending a penny. Every year 300,000 Russians die from Heroin addiction and its consequences (such as Hepatitis B and HIV). In Iran also, tens of thousands of people are dying every year as a result of this. And the most important thing is that most of those who lose their lives, are in their teens or in their 20s.

[Spendulus]

Market forces - supply and demand - will establish production rates.  Momentary blips are efforts at some entity attempting to influence market forces.

Start with that idea.

Then explain how motives for war could possibly encompass "increasing or decreasing opium production."

It's a good slap at the USA, but it's totally illogical.

Heroine is not a milk, start with that idea.

Market forces are establishing production rates only if there is no external regulation of supply and demand. Heroine industry is not a free market, otherwise heroine would be cheaper than citric acid.

So black markets are not free markets?

Odd, I would have thought they were the very essence of the rising of free markets in and around attempts to stifle such things....

[panju1]

Are you being sarcastic?

I was no more sarcastic than you were.

Opium production has sky-rocketed under the Taliban.

Bullshit.



Opium production sky-rocketed after establishing the new "democratic" regime, and everybody knows that. Also, everybody knows that Kosovo is not an independent state, it's just a logistic centre for opium distribution.

You are right. Opium production dipped in 2000, when Mullah Mohammed Omar was in control.

But you also have news articles like this

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-taliban-double-opium-income-new-strain-high-yield-poppy-seed/
Experts say the Taliban, who have been waging war on the Kabul government for more than a decade, derive around 40 percent of their funding from opium, which in turn fuels their insurgency

Ideologically they might be opposed to opium, but they need the money. 

[galdur]

Yeah panju, but most people with a modicum of brain activity learned at least a decade ago to be very wary of news reports starting with "Experts say". Hoping to welcome you to the club soon.

[panju1]

Yeah panju, but most people with a modicum of brain activity learned at least a decade ago to be very wary of news reports starting with "Experts say". Hoping to welcome you to the club soon.

You do have to wonder where the Taliban obtain their funding from.
They have no backing from the Western powers. They can't depend on extortion alone.

[galdur]

Yeah panju, but most people with a modicum of brain activity learned at least a decade ago to be very wary of news reports starting with "Experts say". Hoping to welcome you to the club soon.

You do have to wonder where the Taliban obtain their funding from.
They have no backing from the Western powers. They can't depend on extortion alone.

I don´t know, they control territory, right? If there´s people there which seems likely maybe they do what those who control territory that contains people have done for thousands of years to fund operations. You get one guess.

[bryant.coleman]

You do have to wonder where the Taliban obtain their funding from.
They have no backing from the Western powers. They can't depend on extortion alone.

The Taliban obtains their funds in the form of illegal taxation, extortion and funding from radical Salafis in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. They are also involved in human trafficking and arms smuggling. Opium poppy is not one of the major income sources for them. All of the major poppy growing areas are located in the government controlled parts of Afghanistan.

[galdur]

You do have to wonder where the Taliban obtain their funding from.
They have no backing from the Western powers. They can't depend on extortion alone.

The Taliban obtains their funds in the form of illegal taxation, extortion and funding from radical Salafis in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. They are also involved in human trafficking and arms smuggling. Opium poppy is not one of the major income sources for them. All of the major poppy growing areas are located in the government controlled parts of Afghanistan.

You can´t mention those Saudi fruitcakes. It´s not politically correct. They are in OUR team. Experts say that what makes them such dear friends of our leaders is first shared mentality and second money, but that doesn´t matter. We stick with our team no matter what. Even if they chop heads off people and jail people for ten years and a thousand lashes for criticizing them. They fund terrorists here and there but that doesn´t matter. What matters is that they´re in our team. Period.