The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no longer make a living through growing traditional crops. Afghan with experience in planting poppies have been helping farmers switch to producing opium in fertile parts of Diyala province, once famous for its oranges and pomegranates, north- east of Baghdad.
Sphere: Related ContentOVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.
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Fantastic energy. ..and a great, goosebump inducing speech. I love this guy. He just has to be our next president. It’d be so great.
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Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary here on Saturday, defeating his Democratic rivals and emerging with a win that puts him at rough parity with Hillary Clinton as they barrel toward the Super Tuesday primaries.
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On Bill Maher tonight it was mentioned that Rupert Murdock has a dossier a mile high of all the women, photos, testimony, etc, Bill has ****ed in the last three years. NONE OF THEM ARE HILLARY.
Sphere: Related ContentThe reality is that Obama wasn’t in the senate in 2001, and then when he was, he was one of of a small band of senators who actually jumped in at the last minute to oppose the re-authorization of the legislation without more checks in what was a pretty bad bill that sought to remove what was left of the existing checks against abuses of the government’s investigative powers.
Sphere: Related ContentSome Democrats — bruised by three decades of hardball Republican tactics — are admiring how Bill and Hillary Clinton are applying similar strategies to tear down Barack Obama. Like Republican strategist Karl Rove, the Clintons are showing the audacity to attack Obama even on issues where they may be more vulnerable.
Sphere: Related ContentFormer BET president and founder Bob Johnson is an ******* and hypocrite. Lemme not pull punches, be politically correct, beat around the bush or try to impress high-brow readers who feel I should be less crass and gentler with my words so I can appeal to their sensibilities.
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From the early days of our “First Black President”. William Jefferson Clinton, then a student at Georgetown University, sent a postcard to his grandmother (whom he addresses as “Mammaw”) in a nursing home in Hope, Arkansas, a ‘racially insensitive’ postcard (see what we can do with these politically correct arrows?) where we can see a black man ‘polishing’ a watermelon…
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Despite giving away their album practically for free in October, Radiohead still managed to muster enough sales to claim the top spot on the Billboard chart, as the finally on-CD-and-in-stores In Rainbows sold 122,323 copies to hit Number One.
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