Here is an older story from 2006 that was in the New York Times. Below is a new article describing how the opium trade has continued to increase under US occupation. The important thing to understand is that our troops are guarding these fields!

Afghanistan drug trade hits $4 billion a year
Colum Lynch / The Age | June 28, 2008
AFGHAN opium poppy cultivation grew 17% last year, according to the 2008 World Drug Report, released by the United Nations.
It continues a six-year expansion of the country’s drug trade and increasing its share of global opium production to more than 92%. …

I’m sick and tired of hearing all of these politicians blaming the speculators for high oil prices. It’s not speculators! They have a job to do like everyone else — their job is just predicting what the price of oil is going to be in the future and securing future production at those prices. They don’t “hate the US” and they are certainly not “betting against the US”, but to a bunch of uneducated Americans who have no clue how our economic system works, this sounds fair enough. The speculators and ‘rouge traders’ have become the scapegoats of our day. …

There was more energy in the collapse than the kinetic energy being stored by way of gravity. Take a look at this video of the collapse (especially the first 30 sec.) and then read the article.
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Extra ENERGY in 9/11 buildings: Tell the Teacher
OpEd News | June 27, 2008
High school teacher-level Physics calculations show Gravity ACTION on 9/11 Towers was 0.1 KiloTons of TNT-equivalent ENERGY, and then
debris and dust erupted over 8.5 KiloTons of ‘TNT’ ENERGY in REACTION.
No spin, FACT:
0.1 KT ACTION not equal 8.5 KT REACTION
Who dunnit?
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When the top chunk of Mt. St. Helens turned into a cloud …