Yuri Viktorovich Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, releases the “Afghanistan Opium Risk Assessment 2014,” reporting that Afghanistan is likely to complete the year having produced a record opium crop for the fourth straight year.

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       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Cleveland, (Federal enclave of) Ohio statute enforcement officers fatally slam a bipolar, nightgown clad, 37-year-old Tanisha Anderson after her mother called 9-1-1 for help in getting her daughter out of the freezing cold.

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       Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

—- Isaiah 5:20

       When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. … you may know that your society is doomed.

—- Francisco d’Anconia, Atlas Shrugged

       Fort Lauderdale, florida statute enforcement officers issue their third citation to Arnold Abbot for feeding homeless people on the beach.

       [added 12/20/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.