Back in 2000 - 2001 with the Taliban in control of Afghanistan, opium poppy production was nearly eradicated. It was such a sudden phenomenon that it took the world by surprise:
The chairman of the Central Asia Institute at Johns Hopkins, Frederick Starr, said the West, especially Europe, had been inexplicably slow in recognizing developments in [...]

I have two quotations that go a good long way toward answering the question.
First, from Robert Anton Wilson - he probably stole it from someone else; that’s what great artists do: “If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. If not voting could change the system, it would be illegal.”
Next, allegedly from Iosip [...]

We’re talking about all of the FRNs her… although “a” dollar of course refers to the one with a picture of George Washington and the words “One Dollar”.
So far as I can tell, such a piece of paper “is” not a dollar. It “is” a promise to PAY a dollar, sort of… but it’s not [...]

This may seem like an idle question.
It is not.
Let me elucidate.
You are a human being - man or woman. Let’s ignore the question of age and not slip into dichotomy of child and adult… whether you are ten years old, twenty years old, thirty years old, older or younger than those - matters not: you [...]

Quaternion Physics
Maxwell says:
“The proposed Theory seeks for the origin of
electromagnetic effects in the medium surrounding the electric or
magnetic bodies … The properties attributed to the medium in
order to explain the propagation of light are -
1st. That the motion of one part communicates motion to the
[...]

Biophotons - The Light in Our Cells - Google Search
I have no idea what happens if you click the link. I’m assuming that it goes to google and performs an all-new search - which means that what I’m seeing right now (I’m on a Firefox browser tab, looking at a google search result, and I [...]

Real Estate Blog - How I made a video slideshow in 5 minutes

Huh? What about it?
Well, for starters - how come there is a whole passel of laws relating to genetic discrimination, basically in the nature of “you can’t do it”, but there isn’t a single law regarding memetic discrimination?
Not only does it exist in fact, it’s vicious - if you are carrying the wrong [...]

The Doors of Perception and the Language of Spin
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD PROPAGANDA
As the science of mass control evolved, PR firms developed further guidelines for effective copy. Here are some of the gems:- dehumanize the attacked party by labeling and name calling- speak in glittering generalities using emotionally positive words- when covering something up, don’t use [...]

The material quoted below comes from the link at its top. I strongly urge you to use the link and read the entire article. Besides having much additional information, it also has numerous links to other articles from a wide range of sources.
Majesterium and the Tipping Point
No project is more interesting at the moment [...]