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This article is not about the Taliban or any terrorist group, for
that matter. It is about the humble farmers who cultivate
opium poppy as a means of livelihood. These are the people
who grow the crop, not out of addiction or greed, but out of
compulsion. Needless to say, the value of opium is much higher
than any other crop available to Afghan farmers. Portable and
long-lasting, the high value per kilo of opium makes it
attractive to families who fear they may need to flee, or see
fields of conventional crops destroyed by fighting. For some, it
has become the only way to cover the basic expenses that come
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ocials, armed groups and investors who fund the large poppy
plantations- cannot be overstated.
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Sharing is to ownership what the iPod is to the 8-track, what solar power is to
the coal mine.
-Mark Levine, The New York Times
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In this model, owners rent out something they are not using,
such as a car, house or bicycle to a stranger using these peer-to-
peer services. The companies typically have an eBay-style
rating or review system so that people on both sides of the
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www.financialexpress.com/article/personal-finance/hand-in-hand-
sharing-economy/56123/
articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-07-31/news/
65074200_1_car-ownership-uber-and-ola-app-based-cab-services
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Originally written for WCC One thing that sets the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham
MUN, March 2015. (ISIS) apart from its counterparts is that it has fast become
self-sucient in terms of revenue. What started out as a group
of extremists receiving Saudi funding in order to spread Sunni
Islam across Shiite Iraq has turned into one of the most pro
table yet appalling ventures that the Saudis could have possibly
invested in.
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But then again, maybe the Trojan War was inevitable. After all,
literature suggests that Zeus wanted to use the War as a means
to depopulate the Earth of his demigod children. A more
religious soul might believe that the will of the lord is supreme.
Let us now assume that for some reason, Agamemnon wages
war against Troy. The Greeks spend the next ten years engaged
in fighting Trojan forces. Finally Odysseus comes up with the
plan of building the wooden horse that has lent its name to a
variety of commercial products and is the subject of many a
popular culture reference. Using subterfuge to attack the
enemy in their own home ground was a smart yet malicious
move on the part of the Grecians. Whether they were heroes
or cowards is a matter for another time. What matters is that,
here also, if the Greeks and Trojans had access to modern
sources of media, the plan would not have been as massive a
success as it was in the Trojan War. Assuming that both parties
had access to free internet, it mildly amuses me to conjure a
scenario where Hermes writes a blog with a beat-by-beat of
each move. He sees through the gift horse and writes a post
titled Please Look the Gift Horse in its Mouth thereby
warning the Paris.
The War goes on a few more years until Helen dies an untimely
death. Both Troy and Greece mourn the loss of a woman whose
face launched a thousand ships.
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