Geschichte von Preußen: HISTORY OF PRUSSIA

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Es geschah in August

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

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War On Drugs with John Stossel

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FATEFUL HARVEST: AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM AND HEROIN TRADE

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2 of 8 RISE OF THE POPPY PROBLEM
(since 1973 when the King Mohammed Zahir Shah was deposed...)



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5 of 8 HEROIN LAB BUST



6 of 8 CORRUPTION



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8 of 8 A GLOBAL PROBLEM

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

The Secret of Levitation

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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)

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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

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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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Literary Agents

Because I'm (slowly) writing a NOVEL, I dug out these Youtubes... I hope they interest some of you too:

NOW HERE'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Irving "Swifty" Lazar, legendary Hollywood films and books agent who represented Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noel Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams. interviewed here at Spago's Restaurant, Beverly Hills on Oscars night... It is said that if only he hadn't died in the early 1990s, Random House would never have had the cheek to sue Joan Collins in 1996 over badly written novels. He always said "if you pay a star to write a book, don't expect a professional author" ~~ yes, exactly.

Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict

Watch this film about drug addiction from the UK: 5 parts ~
Thanks to Noah from the USA who flagged this up on his
Junkie ~ heroinitis blog http://nodnodnodout.blogspot.com

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KEITH FLOYD ~ A TRIBUTE

KEITH FLOYD was one of the most classic TV cooks of all time. Here from his best series Floyd On France, is his attempt at a mushroom omelette ~ with "angry dragon lady" "simmering" behind ...



And here's the most classic clip of all. This wasn't a set-up ~ the French-Basque lady was for real! "FLOYD CAN'T COOK!"

Cyst 4: The Final Explosion

The title alone is classic.

I don't know what is most shocking: the pus-volcano on this guy's spotty back ~ or the utter lack of hygeine care in its bursting.

Ooo ~ watch that pus ooze!!