Zion Train, Night Shift Station
"Where there's a will, there's always a way"
Full Armor. Comfy AF.
>What if the Taliban are the good guys?
What happened right b4 sept 11? Taliban fuQed up [their] cash flow
https://www.tni.org/en/article/learning-lessons-from-the-taliban-opium-ban
Learning Lessons from the Taliban Opium Ban
01 March 2005Article
A response to: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Evaluation Of The Taliban Crackdown Against Opium Poppy Cultivation In Afghanistan", by Graham Farrell and John Thorne
Special Focus: The Taliban and Opium - www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09553959
Authors
Martin Jelsma
Programmes
Drugs & Democracy
The Taliban opium ban in 2000/2001 had, there is no doubt, the most profound impact on opium/heroin supply in modern history, as the authors argue. Exogenous global causes can indeed be eliminated as explanations. It was a rare historical moment that allowed almost absolute compliance in the south of the country, with hardly any direct enforcement or punishment required. From the eastern regions, where Taliban control was far from absolute, several cases of disobedience were reported, largely resolved by means of negotiations and pay-offs to local war lords. By harvest time in spring 2001, the effectiveness of the ban was already confirmed beyond any doubt, and astonished the international community at the time. (Major Donors mission, 2001). Bernard Frahi, then head of the office in Pakistan of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC, at the time operating under another name but for the purpose of consistency and ease of reading UNODC is used throughout this text), applauded the success of the opium ban: "This is the first time that a country has decided to eliminate in one go - not gradually - these crops on its territory," and called it "one of the most remarkable successes ever" in the UN drug fight. Sandeep Chawla, head of UNODC research cautioned later, however, that "in drug control terms it was an unprecedented success, but in humanitarian terms a major disaster" (Transnational Institute, 2001).
more at sauce
'taliban' will share whatever evidence they may 'discover' implicating guilty entities of HUMAN/ORGAN TRAFFICKING with the world. In a mother phuQin' second.
>that this nation, under God, shall have a new BIRTH of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - Abraham Lincoln
https://t.me/s/McafeeAfterlife
The most "joyous 'division'"? BIRTH?
https://gizmodo.com/the-origin-of-joy-divisions-most-famous-album-cover-fi-1686589791
The Origin of Joy Division's Most Famous Album Cover, Finally Revealed
BySarah Zhang
2/18/15 5:50PM
The cover of Joy Division'sUnknown Pleasuresis famously graced with the radio pulses of a dying star. Its origins, however, have always been unclear. But now, Scientific American's Jen Christiansen hasfollowed the rabbit hole to the very end—to an obscure 1970 PhD astronomy thesis and the guy who wrote it.
Joy Division fans and astronomy nerds might already know that album cover depicts radio pulses from the first pulsar ever discover, CP1919. And the album's designer, Peter Saville, has said the image was copied directly from a plot from The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy.
Here, however, the trail runs cold. How did the encyclopedia get the image? Who actually created the plot? What did they think of inspiring one of the most famous album covers of all time?
Christiansen embarks on an obsessive hunt, scouring early papers and books about the discovery of pulsars. Eventually, he stumbles upon a clue that leads him to the Cornell's rare book room. And there he finds it, the exact pulsar plot in a 1970 PhD thesis entitled "Radio Observations of the Pulse Profiles and Dispersion Measures of Twelve Pulsars," by Harold D. Craft, Jr. Christiansen also manages to track down Harold D. Craft, who had this to say about the album cover.
It was a complete surprise. In fact, I didn't know anything about it, and a colleague in the space sciences department, who is now a professor of astronomy at Cornell, Jim Cordes, saw me on the street – he's been a long time friend – and he said, "oh, by the way, did you know that your image is on the cover of Joy Division?" And, I said no, I had no clue. So I went to the record store and, son of a gun, there it was. So I bought an album, and then there was a poster that I had of it, so I bought one of those too, just for no particular reason, except that it's my image, and I ought to have a copy of it.
The rest of the interview (with audio!) is on Scientific American's SA Visual blog, where Craft divulges many more details about how the plot was made. Hipsters can now finally know the true origins of their favorite t-shirt. [Scientific American]
>first pulsar
Illustration of the "lighthouse" effect produced by a pulsar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar
Liar then. Got it.