“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.” WayKindStillsWaterDifferencesTechnologyEconomyAirMilitaryRevolutionDrugTaxesWeaponsMassIndependentRemainsTradeFinalsDefeatAverageHeavyAccessConsumersClothingsUsersPollutionShelterConsumerismConquestItemsDeprivedNoveltyFurThoroughOrnamentsOverconsumptionStaples Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.” PeopleSoulHelpingTechnologyCrazyFieldsDrugWeaponsTreatsWake UpWakingPsychiatristHealer Author:R. D. Laing
“Terrorists are linked to money laundering, dirty money, drug dealing, arms trafficking. We have to ask ourselves, where do terrorists get their weapons from? Where do they get their communication technology from? Where do they get their financing from? These are some of the aspects where I think the entire international community needs to come together and put a complete stop to access to these three key aspects by the terrorists.” ThinkingNeedsTogetherThreeAsksCommunityTechnologyCommunicationArmsKeysDrugWeaponsAspectInternationalAccessTerroristDirtyLinkedInternational CommunityFinancingTraffickingCommunication TechnologyMoney LaunderingDirty Money Author:Narendra Modi
“The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.” WarWholeKidsCultureSocialBlackCommunityJusticeCitiesPolicyDrugCreatingWeaponsRacismTestsMachinesResponsibleCourtContraryDestroyedDecentNeighborhoodCracksJailCentsCopProhibitionDealerBureaucratsWar On DrugsInvestigatorsGroundworkSocial Policy Book:No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.” GivenLeaderInformationReadyDrugWeaponsMassResourcesDestructionCrisisWestDenyTerrorismAccessContraryHungryFrightenedAggressiveLackingTestedScenariosWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionChargingTraffickingAnti-americanPower HungryDrug Trafficking Author:Michael Parenti
“My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.” CharacterSchoolYoungPurposeThreeFatherCitiesWorstMilitaryTaughtDisciplineDrugWeaponsCleanBlockGangDealerTaught UsSpecialistsKarateAffinityDrug DealersRadius Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I'm really showing the people what's happening. I'm showing them love. You're spending on guns and drugs and bombs and stuff like those and you're still not reaching out to the people who are suffering. You found money to make bombs and destructive weapons, but you ain't finding no money to help people suffering.” PeopleStillsHelpingSufferingFoundStuffLove YouDrugFindingsWeaponsHappeningsGunSpendingBombsReachingDestructiveReach OutNo Money Author:Sizzla
“In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.” DrugWeaponsGunAlcoholInnocentKnivesPrimitiveFists Author:Michael Caine
“So, whenever you hear or see violence, there is violence on both sides of the border, or it's both country's responsibility. When we talk about trafficking with weapons, with human beings or with drugs, we talk about it on both sides of the border.” HumansCountrySidesHuman BeingsResponsibilityViolenceDrugWeaponsBordersBoth SidesTrafficking Author:Demian Bichir
“Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesCuttingArmsDrugWeaponsFlowCartelsDrug Cartels Author:Noam Chomsky
“Each campus should absolutely investigate the use of alcohol, the prevalence of alcohol, and its role in sexual assault. We know that predators will use alcohol as a weapon. We know they will use drugs as a weapon.” KnowsShouldUseRolesDrugWeaponsAlcoholAssaultCampusPredatorSexual Assault Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.” PeopleWorldImportantTodayFightingChallengesEffortMillionsEnvironmentPlanetsDrugWeaponsMassDestructionTerrorismObjectivesStableOur PlanetPredictableJoiningFamineWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBiodiversityProliferationTraffickingDrug Trafficking Author:Vladimir Putin
“What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsDoeHas BeensWholeProblemLawProcessChancePayWillingFineBecomingDrugProveTaxesWeaponsSeriesCriminalsImmigrationSecureBordersReasonableImmigrantsIllegalIllegal Immigration Author:Marco Rubio
“Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals, drug companies, non-governmental organisations. They can buy judges, journalists, politicians, publishing houses, television stations, bookshops and even activists. This kind of monopoly, this cross-ownership of businesses, has to stop.” KindHouseCompanyMediaTelevisionMinesJudgingHugeIndustryPoliticianDrugWeaponsCrossesUniversityProfitJournalistCorporationsStationsHospitalsActivistPublishingOwnershipMonopolyOrganisationBookshopsDrug CompaniesPublishing House Author:Arundhati Roy
“What I criticize is the message that the United States is sending to the youth of the world - to those of us who invite people to leave the ways of violence and the drug trade, we are not given a visa but those that sell drugs and weapons, yes.” PeopleWorldWayStatesGivenUnitedUnited StatesViolenceYouthDrugMessagesWeaponsTradeSellsCriticizeInvitesVisa Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesDrugWeaponsShameDealerFirearmsDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar