Afghan Opium.

Bringing the world to it's knees.

Yesterday the UN came out with a report about the wast production of opium in Afghanistan. Urging the world to take the drug situation in Afghanistan more serious.

The report from the UN Offices on Drugs And Crime (UNODC) tells a hard story. A story of a country run by the production of Opium and other drugs. The statistics show that this is the source of income for not just Talibans and the terrorists. The country it built on growing poppy. 3,3 million of the Afghanistan population are working with producing opium. Even the president Hamid Karzai has bin known to own poppy fields.

The problem is that Afghanistan manages to stand for 92% of all the opium in the world. 900 tons leave the country every year. And that's not all, 350 tons of heroin is also exiting the country annually. Only 2% is stopped from leaving the country.

This is the source. This is why the war goes on. This is why people are still scared. If the opium would stop flowing the money would run out. Without that money terror and suffering would be a thing of the past for a lot of people. It's the drug money that is fueling the Taliban.

My question are -Why was the opium problem not a major issue in the beginning of the Afghan war? -Why are the U.S and their allies not smart enough to see that this is the source?

What is need now is a substitute for the opium. Support the farmer so they can make money by growing something other than poppy. Deal with the wide spread corruption and lives would not only be saved in Afghanistan.

For more check The UN's web page www.un.org or the direct link http://tiny.cc/Zlitz

I will do my part as well. I will not do heroin or opium. Not that I have before. Okay, but that one time doesn't count ;)

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The AK47.

Автомат Калашникова 47.

The AK47 has bin produced to such an extent that there are more AK's than any other assault rifle in the world. This planet doesn't seem to get enough of killing and war.

I understand why the AK47 is the weapon of choice, it's cheap to make, it will fire in almost any situation and it's easy to use. If there was post apocalyptic type world this would be the weapon I would be looking for. I find it superior to the M16. But I don't think that aliens will attack or that zombies will walk the earth. There is really no need for them. The only explanation for all these guns is the quest for money and power.

There are other ways of getting what you want.

With that being said, later on today I will go to another place that sometimes can be compared to a war or a battlefield. A place with heroes and casualties. The Friday night.

Have a great weekend and The Best Stuff I See will be back with Sneaker Monday.

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Monopoly City Streets.

Googleism.

Two days ago Google released a world wide edition of Monopoly. You can buy any street that appears on google maps. After you get some streets the building begins.

So far pretty straight forward, but here's the twist and also a bit of a odd thing. You can play dirty, you are even encouraged to play dirty. I was surprised that monopoly would allow you to demolish other people's houses. And that you can without a problem put a prison or bio-hazardous factory on other players street. I guess Google and the Monopoly franchise view the world as a dog eat dog place. Which is not to strange for a company that thinks that all you need to stay out of prison is a small piece of paper with get-out-of-jail-free-card written on it.

This might be a really fun game later on as more players join and as time passes. I just like that fact that I own one of the fancier streets in Stockholm and one of the cooler streets in Berlin.

I might just go and party on one of my streets later this evening.

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