Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, let that sink in.
This page is going to be about the military. Don’t think for one second, that the United States of America and it’s military are not acting as global policeman, because they are, they even have a name for it, “POLICE ACTION” , that is what the war in Korea and Vietnam were called. Don’t think for one second, that the police action enforces upon other nations by the United States Military are not also enforced domestically. It might not be done with bombs, but it is being done. Nuclear power is accomplished by an explosion at the atomic level, one atom at a time. With every breath you take, you are inhaling millions of exploding atoms into your lungs. These nano particles at the atomic level penetrate the walls of your cells where they wreck havoc. Including right into your brains. This is being done by the United States of America and it’s Military, IE Veterans on a global scale. You can step right outside your front doorstep, look up into the sky, and watch it happen right in front of your face.
9/11 An Inside Job.
Connecting The Dots…
Drug trafficking constitutes “the third biggest global commodity in cash terms after oil and the arms trade.” Are US military planes being used to export opioids out of Afghanistan? US occupation forces have been instructed to turn a blind eye?
While the number of heroin users in America has increased about 20 times (2001-2016), the cultivation and production of opium used to produce heroin increased 41 times (2001-2017): 8000 hectares in 2001 rising to 328,000 hectares in 2017. In 2017, ironically coinciding with the influx of more US troops into Afghanistan, the areas under opium poppy cultivation according to UNODC have since increased by 83 percent in a single year.
“Who owns the planes and the ships that transport 90% percent of the world’s heroin from Afghanistan to the rest of the world in the first place? It sure isn’t the Taliban”
While the supply-demand relationship is complex: the dramatic increase in the consumption of heroin would not have been possible without a concurrent increase in the production of opium from 183 metric tons in 2001 to an estimated 9000 metric tons in 2017 (a 49 fold increase in relation to 2001). It stands to reason that the increase in heroin usage could not have occurred without a corresponding surge in opium production.
Needless to say, the drug trade is a multi billion dollar operation which has been supported by successive US administrations. The unspoken truth is that US foreign policy is supporting this lucrative trade…
globalresearch.caHeroin Addiction in America Spearheaded by US-led War on Afghanistan – Global Research
So the following comments are my own on this Afghanistan issue. The United States of America is in Afghanistan for one reason and one reason only, and that is to control the growth, manufacture, and distribution of Heroin. The President of the United States of America, Clinton, got on national television and apologized for his part in using American Military transport planes and servicemen to import tons of cocaine and heroin into this country. Do you seriously believe that this stopped when he left office ? The money from drugs fund the black operations of the alphabet agencies. This whole opioid crises is a manufactured crises by the United States government and it’s military to get rid of the pain management division of the pharmaceutical industries, which are in direct competition to the United States Of America Military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about, but we did not listen to him. When a person goes to a doctor with chronic pain, and the doctor writes a prescription, that check goes to pharmacy companies, or insurance companies. By passing laws making it illegal for a person to go to a doctor for pain relief, it pushes the people to the street pharmacist. The street pharmacist, gets his drug supply, not from Eli Lilly, but from Afghanistan, and it is not paid by checks, it is paid for in untraceable cash, in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and that my friends buys allot of bombs and the resulting political instability to keep the whole machine running, like mice on a squirrel cage. Always remember this, what your government is telling you, what they really mean is the exact opposite. The war on drugs is really the war FOR drugs.
Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete
“A Frankenstein material” is teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.
By Amos Zeeberg
For centuries, builders have been making concrete roughly the same way: by mixing hard materials like sand with various binders, and hoping it stays fixed and rigid for a long time to come.
Now, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has created a rather different kind of concrete — one that is alive and can even reproduce.
Minerals in the new material are deposited not by chemistry but by cyanobacteria, a common class of microbes that capture energy through photosynthesis. The photosynthetic process absorbs carbon dioxide, in stark contrast to the production of regular concrete, which spews huge amounts of that greenhouse gas.
Photosynthetic bacteria also give the concrete another unusual feature: a green color. “It really does look like a Frankenstein material,” said Wil Srubar, a structural engineer and the head of the research project. (The green color fades as the material dries.)
Other researchers have worked on incorporating biology into concrete, especially concrete that can heal its own cracks. A major advantage of the new material, its creators say, is that instead of adding bacteria to regular concrete — an inhospitable environment — their process is oriented around bacteria: enlisting them to build the concrete, and keeping them alive so they make more later on.
The new concrete, described Wednesday in the journal Matter, “represents a new and exciting class of low-carbon, designer construction materials,” said Andrea Hamilton, a concrete expert at the University of Strathclyde, in Scotland.
To build the living concrete, the researchers first tried putting cyanobacteria in a mixture of warm water, sand and nutrients. The microbes eagerly absorbed light and began producing calcium carbonate, gradually cementing the sand particles together. But the process was slow — and Darpa, the Department of Defense’s speculative research arm and the project’s funder, wanted the construction to go very quickly. Necessity, happily, birthed invention.
An arch made from living building materials in Dr. Srubar’s lab.Credit…CU Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science
Dr. Srubar had previously worked with gelatin, a food ingredient that, when dissolved in water and cooled, forms special bonds between its molecules. Importantly, it can be used at moderate temperatures that are gentle on bacteria. He suggested adding gelatin to strengthen the matrix being built by the cyanobacteria, and the team was intrigued.
The researchers bought Knox brand gelatin at a local supermarket and dissolved it in the solution with the bacteria. When they poured the mixture into molds and cooled it in a refrigerator, the gelatin formed its bonds — “just like when you make Jell-O,” Dr. Srubar said. The gelatin provided more structure, and worked with the bacteria to help the living concrete grow stronger and faster.
After about a day, the mixture formed concrete blocks in the shape of whatever molds the group used, including two-inch cubes, shoe box-size blocks and truss pieces with struts and cutouts. Individual two-inch cubes were strong enough for a person to stand on, although the material is weak compared to most conventional concretes. Blocks about the size of a shoe box showed potential for doing real construction.
“The first time we made a big structure using this system, we didn’t know if it was going to work, scaling up from this little-bitty thing to this big brick,” said Chelsea Heveran, a former postdoc with the group — now an engineer at Montana State University — and the lead author of the study. “We took it out of the mold and held it — it was a beautiful, bright green and said ‘Darpa’ on the side.” (The mold featured the name of the project’s funder.) “It was the first time we had the scale we were envisioning, and that was really exciting.”
When the group brought small samples to a regular review meeting with officials from Darpa, they were impressed, Dr. Srubar said: “Everyone wanted one on their desk.”
Stored in relatively dry air at room temperature, the blocks reach their maximum strength over the course of days, and the bacteria gradually begin to die out. But even after a few weeks, the blocks are still alive; when again exposed to high temperature and humidity, many of the bacterial cells perk back up.
The group can take one block, cut it with a diamond-tipped saw, place half back in a warm beaker with more raw materials, pour it in a mold, and begin concrete formation anew. Each block could thus spawn three new generations, yielding eight descendant blocks.
The Department of Defense is interested in using the reproductive ability of these “L.B.M.s” — living building materials — to aid construction in remote or austere environments. “Out in the desert, you don’t want to have to truck in lots of materials,” Dr. Srubar said.
The blocks also have the advantage of being made from a variety of common materials. Most concrete requires virgin sand that comes from rivers, lakes and oceans, which is running short worldwide, largely because of the enormous demand for concrete. The new living material is not so picky. “We’re not pigeonholed into using some particular kind of sand,” Dr. Srubar said. “We could use waste materials like ground glass or recycled concrete.”
The research team is working to make the material more practical by making the concrete stronger; increasing the bacteria’s resistance to dehydration; reconfiguring the materials so they can be flat-packed and easily assembled, like slabs of drywall; and finding a different kind of cyanobacteria that doesn’t require the addition of a gel.
Eventually, Dr. Srubar said, the tools of synthetic biology could dramatically expand the realm of possibilities: for instance, building materials that can detect and respond to toxic chemicals, or that light up to reveal structural damage. Living concrete might help in environments harsher than even the driest deserts: other planets, like Mars.
“There’s no way we’re going to carry building materials to space,” Dr. Srubar said. “We’ll bring biology with us.”
How I See it 