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- Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'? https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48923485 54 comments
- Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48923485 12 comments
- "Opium polls, not opinion polls": Akhilesh Yadav says polls mislead people and favour the BJP without producing any facts or substantiation https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/akhilesh-yadav-says-opinion-polls-favouring-bjp-in-up-are-opium-polls-to-mislead-people-2726857 6 comments india
- Member of the European Parliament, Ana Gomes: "In Portugal, football is the opium of the people. Football corrupts everything and everybody. The criminals in the industry want to punish [Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto], to silence him, to destroy him, this is to break him psychologically." https://euobserver.com/justice/145163 54 comments soccer
- [Aldridge] Marx said it best: “The repeater tax is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…it is the opium of the people." https://twitter.com/daldridgetnt/status/882274657956704256 32 comments nba
- North Koreans are 'Hooked on state supply of opium', defector claims - A defector from North Korea has sensationally claimed that local people are hooked on drugs as a result of living in “big criminal state” which he claims is fuelled by the drugs industry. http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/754100/north-korea-opium-drugs-hermit-state-pyongyang-nuclear-drugs-empire 10 comments worldnews
- The Philistines were a seafaring Indo-European people who appeared in the southern coastal area of modern-day Israel around 1,250 BC, most probably from the Aegean region. They brought to the region not just themselves but also their plants like Cumin and Opium Poppy, says a team of archaeologists http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-philistines-cumin-opium-poppy-levant-03185.html 21 comments science
- What Is the Opium of the People? https://hecticdialectics.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/what-is-the-opium-of-the-people/ 25 comments philosophy
- Zizek: The new opium of the people -- No-attachment Buddhism as the ideological supplement to global capitalism http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2122/ 38 comments philosophy
- "All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way" and other reasons I miss Hunter S. Thompson. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/hunter_s._thompson 15 comments philosophy
- What's the real the "opium of the people"? http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2010/09/religion-is-opium-of-people-or-is-it.html 8 comments politics
- When are you people going to get it!? The United States is protecting the Opium fields in the middle east. This isn't a war against terror -- it's a war for money. http://www.reuters.com/article/idustre62r0qh20100328 29 comments worldnews
- Karl Marx, who described religion as “the opium of the people”, joins Galileo, Darwin and Wilde on list of historical figures being reappraised by the Vatican http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6884704.ece 4 comments worldnews
- Afghan opium kills 100,000 people every year worldwide -- more than any other drug -- and the opiate heroin kills five times as many people in NATO countries each year than the eight-year total of NATO troops killed in Afghan combat, the United Nations said Wednesday. http://www.reddit.com/r/currentevents/comments/9wfz4/afghan_opium_kills_100000_people_every_year/ 13 comments reddit.com
- Israel is the Opium of the People: Collective amnesia in the Middle East http://www.adbusters.org/features/israel_opium_of_the_people.html 7 comments worldnews
- Top Macron Advisor : How can a rich western democracy have growing mass shootings, a 40% obesity rate, collapsing life expectancy and an opium epidemic ? Part of america is suicidal. Suicidal people can be a threat to themselves but also to others http://blogs.lexpress.fr/attali/2018/02/26/why-is-the-american-superpower-suicidal/ 40 comments europe
- He passes the pipe to his wife. She passes it to their daughter. The daughter blows the opium smoke into the baby's tiny mouth. The baby's eyes roll back into his head. From just one family years ago, at least half the people of Sarab, population 1,850, are now addicts. http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/08/afghanistan---village-of-addic.html?mi_atom=the%20frame 62 comments reddit.com