Golden Crescent

The main producer of medicinal opium is India, whilst poppy straw is cultivated in Turkey, Russia, and Australia. Opium destined for the black market originates from the Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos, and Thailand), the Golden Crescent (Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan), and Mexico. 

Heroin is a narcotic derived from the opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum). Opium poppy is grown primarily by destitute farmers in what is known as the Golden Crescent in Southwest Asia (encompassing Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan) and the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia (Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam). In the Americas, Columbia and Mexico are chief producers. 

Bin Laden is said to have links to the Western backed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which is funded in part from the narcotics business originating out of the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Drugs with an... 

We might be tempted to say that at last the Masculine Principle is triumphant, as expressed by the wonderful sun-like radiance. But the picture tells us something different. There is no sun in evidence the planetary ruler is the moon. This young king is under the sign of the moon, and he is standing on the convex surface of a golden crescent moon. So he is not a symbol of the Masculine only but rather a symbol of the Masculine tempered by the Feminine. 

At times she is a bride, wearing her ambivalence like a crown (the sign of alchemical mercury appears literally on her head as a diadem). She is the sum of Diana (the crescent moon) plus Venus, in some variants. Yet at the same time. Gold speaks in his own golden voice and explains Mercury is my brother he is female and 1 am male Hermetical Triumph 13). 

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