here’s the latest episodes of the X22 Reports:
Ep. 3089b - Assange On Deck, Communication Blackout, State Secrets, Military Intelligence
Ep. 3089a - Banks Begin To Limit Withdrawals, We Are Witnessing An Economic Restructuring
This is interesting. Maybe the only reason the US went into A’stan was to keep up the heroin production.
https://thecradle.co/article-view/25742/taliban-successfully-eradicates-poppy-cultivation-report
Taliban successfully eradicates poppy cultivation: Report
Afghan poppy cultivation, which long provided most of the world’s heroin supply, flourished for decades due to US intervention in the country
The Taliban government of Afghanistan has carried out “truly unprecedented reductions in poppy cultivation” in 2023, according to a new analysis published by Alcis, a UK-based geographic information services firm specializing in geospatial data collection, statistical analysis and visualization.
The poppy reduction followed a ban on drugs in Afghanistan issued in April 2022 by Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah, only seven months after the Islamic movement took power following the August 2021 US military withdrawal from the country.
Alcis reports that an effective ban on poppy cultivation is in place and that opium production in 2023 will be negligible compared to 2022. High resolution imagery analyzed by the firm shows that in the province of Helmand, poppy cultivation was reduced from 120,000 hectares in 2022 to less than 1,000 hectares in 2023. This amounts to the largest reduction in poppy cultivation ever recorded in the country, including after the Taliban banned poppy production in 2000, one year before losing power following the 2001 US invasion.
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