Latah Boy

Latah syndrome is a cultural and psychiatric phenomenon peculiar to Malaysia-Indonesia where the affected person copies the words and actions of others. In various manifestations it is described as hysterical-dissociative or psychotic.

Spare the rod and spoil the criminal..?

LAW AND ORDER: LET'S HAVE A HEATED DEBATE. Should they bring back the lash for burglars, muggers, rapists and child abusers?

Filmed in a Malaysian prison, this shows an individual getting 20 lashes (on top of a prison sentence) for rape.

It's supposed to be pretty gruesome. His backside is torn open. If I was the victim of serious crime I'd be well pleased if this happened to the offender.

WARNING don't watch if the sight of blood and gore apalls you. And be warned, the still only shows about a third of the way into it.

I tried to find a less gory one but ended up with the same one twice. The first one goes black and white for some reason, but it's less blurry.





Ukh. Well it is pretty nasty. I heard the Tory party want all this. Or they want it back in schools. Anne Widdecomebe wanted it back, I believe.

It was never done quite this viciously at school, where I only remember 3 kids getting caned. Most corporal punishment was done with paddles or shoes and caning was never done on the bare bum. Then again nobody committed rape at my school.

In my view this punishment serves the rapist right.

Please share your comments and opinions below. Should whipping be brought back for burglars and sex offenders? If someone stole my plasma screen TV I'd be delighted to see them get 20 strokes. If my daughter got raped I'd be even more pleased if the bastard who did it got soundly whipped. It's just a shame he doesn't scream more. They're obviously not beating him hard enough.

Newsnight: Does Prison Work?

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Black Tar Heroin: "dark end"

"Of all the heroin in the world, this is the worst, it looks like shit, it is shit." And that tiny "gram" STICKS TO HIS FINGER... yukh!

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李白 ~ 诗人 ~ 纪录片 Li Bai (Li Po) documentary

Documentary on Li Bai 李白 (aka Li Po), Tang Dynasty poet. Considered the greatest of China's golden age of lyric poets. Mandarin with Chinese (simplified) subtitles.

李白，中国最伟大的诗人。 普通话，中文字幕。


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Heroin: das Beste High?
("They said heroin was the best high they had ever had"... antidrugs ad)



Geschichte einer Drogensuchtiger
An addict's story



Drogenpark
Needle park

Learn Mandarin Chinese Lesson One

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This one's more professional, but includes no English! You can pick up a lot from context... Actually it does have English ~ dur! ~ and it's very good. I speak as someone who's done classes in eight languages and this is good:



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Heroin on Eastenders

NICK COTTON'S DRUG HABIT
POOR DOT (HIS MOTHER): POOR NICK!



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NICK COTTON GOES COLD TURKEY

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Absolutely Fabulous: Gay

2002 special episode in which Eddie and Patsy trek to New York to track down Eddie's long lost (gay) son Serge...

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East Berlin 1990
Video shot through car window. V good considering.
Shot just after the wall came down, showing the half-stylish, half-depressing DDR-half of the city.

East Germany/West Germany

DDR/Bundesrepublik
Film über die Grenze zwischen die zwei Teilen Deutschlands
Film about the old border between East and West in Germany

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FILM ÜBER DER BERLINER MAUER
Film about the Berlin Wall ....

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FATEFUL HARVEST: AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM AND HEROIN TRADE

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(since 1973 when the King Mohammed Zahir Shah was deposed...)



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HOW HEROIN IS USED

BALTIMORE, EASTERN UNITED STATES, THE CITY WHERE ONE PERSON IN TEN IS A HEROIN ADDICT

101 East: Golden Triangle Drug Problem

2008: HEROIN and METHAMPHETAMINE ~ yaa-baa in the Golden Triangle border areas of Thailand, Burma/Myanmar and Laos

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Deutsche ICE Zug geht nach Russland

Der Siemanns-gebaute Zug geht aus der Bundesrepublik nach Russland...
Film about the German-built ICE highspeed trains being exported to Russia...

Christiane F ist zurück auf Drogen (2010)

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German
2010 news item from German TV: Christiane F, the woman whose life of child prostitution and heroin addiction inspired the famous book (1979) and film (1981) Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo... after a life travelling the world and running away and lapsing and relapsing... and losing custody of her son to child protective services in Amsterdam... is back on drugs in 2010.

Links:
Stern-magazin: Wie geht es mit Christiane F (2009)
Stern-magazin: 27 Jahren nach Christiane F (2005)

Sind wir eine gedopte Gesellschaft? Menschen bei Maischberger

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German

Sandra Maischberger presents discussion about drug use in Germany: are we a doped-up society? Featuring a painkiller-addicted housewife, reformed crack addict, red-haired pro-cannabis advicate, the mother of a heroin addict and a medical expert this in-depth look at drugs in modern society also includes an extended interview with Christiane Vera Felscherinow ~ the Christiane F of the famous film and book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.


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How much citric?

Most of the heroin illicitly produced in the world today is the "number three" base form of the drug, which is usually brown in colour, but can be grey or white. This base form of heroin is high purity at point of manufacture (though nearly always adulterated by dealers) yet readily smokeable. (The heroin is put on a strip of tinfoil and gently heated from underneath, which causes it to melt into a little puddle. The foil is tilted and encouraged to run and the fumes are inhaled through a foil tube stuck in the mouth. This gives a better "bioavailability" than snorting (ie more of the drug taken actually reaches the brain), but to smoke anything more than a tiny dose this way takes tens of minutes as the heroin only vapourizes fairly slowly... Many long term users prefer to inject heroin as all the drug taken hits the brain in a matter of seconds, saving money and maximizing the high.
Injection-quality heroin hydrochloride is produced in small amounts in Afghanistan and, more famously in the Golden Triangle area centring on Burma, where the product is known as China white, because production and distribution has long been controlled by ethic Chinese gangs from Thailand, Vietnam and surrounding countries. But "number four" heroin as it's known in the trade, is more expensive than the more common "number three", and is considered by dealers to be a less versatile product, because it cannot readily be smoked. Injecting addicts, however, usually prefer number four heroin because it dissolves easily into plain tap water without the need to add citric acid or vitamin C, which can sting and cause damage to veins.
This video uses actual heroin of about 75% purity to demonstrate the "cooking up" process and shows how much citric acid should be added and what the resulting heroin solution should look like...
Too much citric damages veins!

Heroin Wars

Heroin trade... from Burmese opium fields to the streets of London

Glee: Like A Prayer

GLEE Club ~ there is no such thing as a Glee club here in the UK. I mean, I didn't even know "Glee" was a generic name for theatre groups till I accidentally fell across a passage in a Bette Davis biography that mentioned her own schooltime Glee associations... Here, "Glee" Club would be called the School Drama Society... Anyway, the TV show has been running here since late last year. I think the actress who plays Sue is amazing... some of the musical performances are pretty good too...





Glee cast: Like a Prayer (sound only) ...

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OR "BANGCOCK" ~ AS I TEND TO SPELL IT

I HAVE RECURRENT NIGHTMARES of being in this situation, though I have never trafficked (or wanted to traffic) drugs of any kind. But I AM addicted to heroin... so I kind of have an empathy for this type of thing...

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