Drugs use map of the world
Not strictly on topic, but fits here.
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The World Drugs report for 2012 is out and it shows that 230 million people around the world - 1 in 20 of us - took illicit drugs in the last year. The report also says that problem drug users, mainly heroin - and cocaine-dependent people number about 27 million, roughly 0.6% of the world adult population. That's 1 in every 200 people. The report is published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and is full of fascinating stats - we've extracted some of the key ones for you in this visualisation, created by Andy Cotgreave of Tableau. Click on the map to see how drug use changes around the world.
Link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datab...-use-map-world
Not sure whether the UNODC has the best data.
SSI Study Of Failed US Counter Drug Strategy
Link to "Insanity: Four Decades Of US Counter Drug Strategy"
http://strategicstudiesinstitute.arm...cfm?pubID=1143
And people wonder why we have the highest incarceration rate in the world
US judge receives 28-year jail term for his role in kids-for-cash kickbacks. The Independent, 30 April 2013.
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An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars.
Mark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitution after he was found to be a “figurehead” in the conspiracy that saw thousands of children unjustly punished in the name of profit in the case that became known as “kids for cash”.
Of course it is illegal for judges to receive kickbacks from private prison companies; however it is completely legal for private prison companies to dump money into legislative campaigns across the country. No doubt many of the cases that came into his courtroom were drug related.
If I had it my way, this man would receive the death penalty.
This Is One Reason We Loose!
What Happens When The CIA goes up against Wall Street?.......They loose!!
H/T to zenpundit for finding this!
http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/search/label/Mexico
Colombia Peace Talks and Military Transformation
Looking for thoughts and references on successful transformations of militaries after a successful negotiated peace or demobilization of an insurgent force.
Looking at the future of the Colombian military, either the FARC will come to terms at the negotiating table or will be reduced through military action in the coming years. I'm interested in best practices and earlier blunders in this type of situation.
What worked and didn't work in El Salvador and other places?
Colombia Peace Talks and Military Transformation
Created to assist Mike Burgoyne's quest.