tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post3223853880143045442..comments2024-03-19T21:41:42.835+01:00Comments on Poemas del río Wang: Bees against honeyStudiolumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-49475204343892624542011-07-16T16:45:15.690+02:002011-07-16T16:45:15.690+02:00Just one remark: that trace of morphine is still q...Just one remark: that trace of morphine is still quite strong. For instance, there is a subgroup of drug users who make tea with poppy seed milk and they get properly stoned frome it. Of course heroin is many times stronger but that's not the point - the point is that the policeman use narcotics while fighting against drugs. That "puts in brackets" whatever they say to the locals, and I guess the farmers think in the same way. (I don't know whether this pseudo-idiom is understandable in English.)mkristofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09390943474692441095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-54028403891085827942011-07-16T12:58:09.002+02:002011-07-16T12:58:09.002+02:00I know nothing of Afghanistan outside what the pre...I know nothing of Afghanistan outside what the press feed me, but the recent Afghanistan exhibition in London opened my eyes to another version, one with more hope. So the cynicism against the Americans and NATO is the more disappointing. Would the farmers grow opium if left alone? Are they growing for powerful cartels or is it small-scale income?<br />Perhaps the police action is better descibed as "against honey-bees" rather than "bees against honey"<br />The tractor is curious (yes, Belarus - Lukashenko, finally I got it). It's unlikely to arrive on a low-loader with the police task-force so is it commandeered for the day, or do the farmers grub-up their own crop? It's unlikely that the police would hang around to check that every last stalk is uprooted.<br /><br />Pictures leave as much unsaid as they reveal.<br /><br />A last pedantic point: I believe heroin (diacetylmorphine) does not occur in the opium poppy latex, but requires a synthetic step. At best the cigarette might be spiked with a trace of morphine.<br /><br />Thanks for (re-)posting and translating this. As always food for thought.walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02603255065547405744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-36127104201710552472011-07-14T11:31:21.943+02:002011-07-14T11:31:21.943+02:00sensational photo reportage.
The truth is that Wes...sensational photo reportage.<br />The truth is that Western world need Afghanistan to be as it is.Effenoreply@blogger.com