[Marxism] Fwd: Reform Is Not Enough to Stem the Rising Tide of Inequality Worldwide

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A critique of Piketty type reformism from the always interesting William 
I. Robinspn.


http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34224-reform-is-not-enough-to-stem-the-rising-tide-of-inequality-worldwide
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[Marxism] Fwd: 'House of Morgan': a Chinese mogul, an anti-capitalist artist and an icon of Wall St | Business | The Guardian

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Through 1913 and into 1914, J Pierpoint Morgan spared no expense in the 
construction of an imposing headquarters that might suitably represent 
his reputation as the era’s pre-eminent financial baron – a lair for the 
capitalist’s capitalist smack in the heart of Wall Street.


He imported blocks of pink Knoxville marble weighing as much as 35 tons, 
commissioned a vault with a door weighing another 52, a massive crystal 
chandelier and panelling of English oak.


Morgan believed 23 Wall Street would be so well-known as the 
headquarters of JP Morgan & Co – the “House of Morgan” – that he didn’t 
even bother to order his name inscribed over the facade.


But for the past nine years this imposing monument to America’s most 
famous banker has stood neglected, its windows dirty and plastered with 
advertising, and without use save for occasional fashion industry 
parties or TV shoots. Its ownership is tied to Sam Pa, a jet-setting 
Hong Kong-based businessman with seven names, links to the Chinese 
intelligence services and a network of business contacts stretching from 
Pyongyang to Luanda, whose whereabouts since being detained by Chinese 
communist party authorities investigating corruption in China’s energy 
industry are unknown.


If that was not sufficiently rich in symbolism, keys to the 
102-year-old, 150,000 sq ft Sam Pa-JP Morgan edifice will soon by handed 
over to Simon Birch, a 41-year-old Brighton-born artist who plans to 
fill the space with contemporary art and sculpture based on 
anti-capitalist themes, he says, “of empires expanding and contracting”.


full: 
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/02/house-of-jp-morgan-a-chinese-mogul-an-anti-capitalist-artist-and-an-icon-of-wall-st

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Re: [Marxism] Kiev Struggles to Battle Rampant Corruption

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On 1/2/16 1:27 AM, Shalva Eliava wrote:

Yep. For those of us who can read Russian and Ukrainian and have been
following the "revolution" since its inception, it's not a surprise.
It just goes to show the futility of Maidan-type uprisings in a
country where there is no concept of a non-Stalinist socialism among
the mass of working people. What you see happening in Poland right
now is pretty much the best you can hope for in these post-Stalinist
countries (that or Russian imperialist control a la Moldova or
Belarus); i.e. decidedly right-wing nationalist populism. In Ukraine
it may be a far more violent affair since the ultra nationalists are
being armed by various sides and manipulated by oligarchs like
Kolomoyskiy...


I would not discount the very early mobilization of Russian nationalists 
in Donetsk for the current dynamic, which was Putin's purpose from the 
beginning. He feared Maidan type movements in Russia so he helped create 
the environment in which the democratic and class demands were swamped 
by reactionary nationalism. In effect, he was using the same technique 
that Assad used in Syria.

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[Marxism] Fwd: South African Capitalism's Train-Smash | Opinion | teleSUR English

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By Patrick Bond.

The great sweeps of capital accumulation flowing above, through and from 
South Africa are leaving local businesses weaker than at any other time 
in memory. This may be just the medicine a mostly divided and yet often 
over-confident left opposition requires in 2016. Corporations are now at 
their most unpredictable and unpatriotic, with rapid expatriation of 
dwindling profits, the near death of several mega-mining firms that once 
ruled the roost, and a schizophrenic ruling class giddily backslapping 
some days, but inconsolably depressed most others.


The financial roller-coaster ride that nearly all the emerging markets 
barely survived in 2015 could become more exciting yet in 2016, here, 
especially if rising forces on the political left manage to derail the 
faultiest, most dangerous cars. For a change, these also appear to be 
the ones most ready to tip over in any case, carrying the chief 
executive officers most oriented to brutal labor exploitation, to mining 
and smelting, and to reaping profits from investments elsewhere in 
Africa. Those cars are also bearing the load of boorish, overweight 
politicians like President Jacob Zuma, whose punch-drunk behavior in the 
last month suggests he might well flip the whole train.


full: 
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/South-African-Capitalisms-Train-Smash-20151231-0023.html

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Back to the 1930s: Hitler, Da’esh and the West

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V

"The economic implications of protracted stagnation, and the possible
systemic responses to it at the macroeconomic level, are matters I shall
not enter into here. I shall, however, end by drawing attention to an
obvious political implication, one that relates to the threat to democracy
that this protracted stagnation poses, of particular significance in the
case of my own country, India.

The general incompatibility between capitalism and democracy is too obvious
to need repetition here: capitalism is a spontaneous system driven by its
own immanent tendencies, while the essence of democracy lies in people
intervening through collective political praxis to shape their destinies,
including especially their economic destinies, which militates against this
spontaneity. The fate of Keynesianism, which thought that capitalism could
be made to operate at close to full employment, and thereby be made into a
humane system through state intervention in demand management, shows the
impossibility of the project of retaining capitalism while overcoming its
spontaneity.

This conflict becomes particularly acute in the era of globalization, when
finance capital becomes globalized, while the state, which remains the only
possible instrument through which the people could intervene on their own
behalf, remains a nation-state. Here, as already mentioned, the state
accedes to the demands of finance capital, so that no matter whom the
people elect, the same policies remain in place, as long as the country
remains within the vortex of globalized finance. Greece is only the latest
example to underscore this point.

But once we reckon with the tendency of the system in the era of
globalization to fall into a protracted crisis, this incompatibility
becomes even more serious. In the context of crisis-induced mass
unemployment, the corporate-financial oligarchies that rule many countries
actively promote divisive, fascist, and semi-fascist movements, so that
while the shell of democracy is preserved, their own rule is not threatened
by any concerted class action. And the governments formed by such elements,
even when they do not move immediately towards the imposition of a fascist
state as in the case of classical fascism, move nonetheless towards a
“fascification” of the society and the polity that constitutes a negation
of democracy. In third-world societies such fascification not only
continues but even increases the scope for “primitive accumulation of
capital” at the expense of petty producers (which also ensures that the
world labor reserves are not exhausted).

But that is not all. Since such fascism invites retaliation in the form of
counter-fascistic movements, as in the case of Hindu supremacism in India,
which is starting to encourage a Muslim fundamentalist response, the net
result is social disintegration. This disintegration is the denouement of
the current globalization in societies like mine, and no doubt in many
others. It is important, of course, to struggle against this, but at the
current juncture, when there are no international workers’ movements, let
alone any international peasant movements, and hence no prospects for any
synchronized transcendence of capitalist globalization, any such struggles
must necessarily be informed by an agenda of “delinking” from capitalist
globalization. This delinking should entail capital controls, management of
foreign trade, and an expansion of the domestic market through the
protection and encouragement of petty production, including peasant
agriculture; through larger welfare expenditure by the state; and through a
more egalitarian distribution of wealth and income."
http://monthlyreview.org/2016/01/01/capitalism-and-its-current-crisis/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Interview with Kiev International Democracy Institute Director and Ukraine expert, Sergiy Taran | Samuel Ramani

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Q: You mentioned that many Russian speakers opposed Putin's military 
intervention in Southern and Eastern Ukraine. What explains this 
resistance, and does this opposition indicate that language is declining 
as a source of identity polarization in Ukraine?


Sergiy Taran: Language is not the magic indicator for political choice 
in Ukraine. The emphasis on language is a common stereotype about 
Ukraine. In Kiev, many people speak Russian yet most of these Russian 
speakers support pro-European parties. The pro-Russian party did not 
even receive 1% of the vote in the local elections. In Eastern Ukraine, 
there are Ukrainian villages that supported Yanukovych for many years. 
The main regional distinction is that in Western Ukraine, people 
primarily make decisions based on ideology and the charisma of leaders; 
while in Eastern Ukraine, decisions are made based on patronage. This is 
where Putin got it wrong. He thought if he went into an area where more 
than 51% of Ukrainians spoke Russian, he would get support but that did 
not work out.


full: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samuel-ramani/interview-with-kiev-inter_b_7745766.html

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[Marxism] 47 heads severed by the Saudi oil dictatorship, but those are the good friends

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 In just one day, the Saudi dictatorship got 47 people executed, and the 
regular way to execute in the Saudi Kingdom is by beheading. 

 But the most reactionary force in the Arab East is a good friend of the 
imperialist petroleum giants and their armies, so beheadings by the House of 
Saud are excusable, and the Saudi dictatorship is still a welcome partner to 
put down those other beheaders who have committed the big crime of wiping off 
the artificial borders in the sand of the Arab deserts. The Saudis on the other 
hand have followed the good example of the USA and have built a fences hundreds 
of kilometers on their Northern border. 
 

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Lüko Willms
mailto:wil...@luekowillms.de 
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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Radical Anthropology talks in London

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[Please publicise widely]

Radical Anthropology talks, Spring 2016

Mythology as a window into other worlds

Tuesdays, 6.45–9.00pm  

Language, art, music and culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, 
culminating in a symbolic explosion or ‘human revolution’ whose echoes can 
still be heard in myths and cultural traditions from around the world. These 
talks are a general introduction to social and biological anthropology, ranging 
over fields as diverse as hunter-gatherer studies, mythology, primatology, 
archaeology and archaeoastronomy. Radical Anthropology brings indigenous rights 
activists, environmentalists, feminists and others striving for a better world 
together with people who just want to learn about anthropology. There is always 
time for questions and discussion after each talk and there are good local pubs 
for those wishing to socialise into the evening. 

Jan 12  Decoding Chomsky’s linguistic theories: Science and revolutionary 
politics   Chris Knight

Jan 19  Myths of Aboriginal Australia: rainbow snakes and song-lines   Chris 
Knight

Jan 26  A Plains Indian myth: The Wives of the Sun and Moon   Chris Knight

Feb 2   Biological and social anthropology: a stormy relationship   Hilary 
Callan

Feb 9   Stories, myths and ways of knowing among Kalahari hunters and herders   
 Chris Low

Feb 16  An Amazonian myth: The hunter Monmanéki and his wives   Chris Knight 

Feb 23  Archaeogenetics and modern human dispersals   Martin Richards 

Mar 1   A special world of time: lived myths of the Bayaka Pygmies of Central 
Africa   Jerome Lewis

Mar 8   The Incredible Bleeding Woman, a cabaret performance   Marisa Carnesky  
  

Mar 15  A Greek comedy: Lysistrata and the sex-strike   RAG workshop

Mar 22  Lysistrata decoded   Camilla Power

All talks are free and open to all in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 
Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton St, off Gordon Square, London WC1E 6BT.

Tube: Euston. Info: radicalanthropologygroup.org  @radicalanthro  Facebook

  
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Re: [Marxism] 47 heads severed by the Saudi oil dictatorship, but those are the good friends

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 on Samstag, 2. Januar 2016 at 18:27, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:

>  In just one day, the Saudi dictatorship got 47 people executed,
> and the regular way to execute in the Saudi Kingdom is by beheading. 

>  But the most reactionary force in the Arab East is a good friend
> of the imperialist petroleum giants and their armies, so beheadings
> by the House of Saud are excusable, and the Saudi dictatorship is
> still a welcome partner to put down those other beheaders who have
> committed the big crime of wiping off the artificial borders in the
> sand of the Arab deserts. The Saudis on the other hand have followed
> the good example of the USA and have built a fences hundreds of
> kilometers on their Northern border. 

  Those are, of course, the best people to bring "democracy" to Syria.  

  Since beheading equals democracy when it is done with the right ally, i.e. 
the USofA, but beheading is devilish, if you do it in a drive  to efface the 
colonial borders of 1919. 


 
Cheers, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
http://www.mlwerke.de
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Re: [Marxism] Kiev Struggles to Battle Rampant Corruption

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It should be pointed out, especially on this list, that the only reason
they can do this is the utter failure of the "Left" to provide mass
leadership for either struggle.

Clay Claiborne, Director
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> On 1/2/16 1:27 AM, Shalva Eliava wrote:
>
>> Yep. For those of us who can read Russian and Ukrainian and have been
>> following the "revolution" since its inception, it's not a surprise.
>> It just goes to show the futility of Maidan-type uprisings in a
>> country where there is no concept of a non-Stalinist socialism among
>> the mass of working people. What you see happening in Poland right
>> now is pretty much the best you can hope for in these post-Stalinist
>> countries (that or Russian imperialist control a la Moldova or
>> Belarus); i.e. decidedly right-wing nationalist populism. In Ukraine
>> it may be a far more violent affair since the ultra nationalists are
>> being armed by various sides and manipulated by oligarchs like
>> Kolomoyskiy...
>>
>
> I would not discount the very early mobilization of Russian nationalists
> in Donetsk for the current dynamic, which was Putin's purpose from the
> beginning. He feared Maidan type movements in Russia so he helped create
> the environment in which the democratic and class demands were swamped by
> reactionary nationalism. In effect, he was using the same technique that
> Assad used in Syria.
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[Marxism] [Pen-l] Fwd: Reform Is Not Enough to Stem the Rising Tide of Inequality Worldwide

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Louis Proyect wrote:  A critique of Piketty type reformism from the always 
interesting William I. Robinson. 
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34224-reform-is-not-enough-to-stem-the-rising-tide-of-inequality-worldwide
John Foster and I wrote an extended review and critique of Piketty that 
criticizes his reformist proposals to reduce inequality, while praising his 
work on the extent of inequality, its proximate causes, and likely trajectory: 
http://monthlyreview.org/2014/11/01/piketty-and-the-crisis-of-neoclassical-economics/.
On January 29, my new book on inequality will be published by Routledge. It is 
titled "The Great Inequality" and consists of a set of essays that detail the 
nature of inequality, the causes of it, its multiple consequences, and the 
political movements necessary to end it. There is a chapter on global 
inequality that is a good companion piece to the Robinson essay Louis 
references.   
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[Marxism] Fwd: Greece as Rashomon | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Like Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”, the story of Syriza is also one about 
a rape told from different, self-serving and contradictory perspectives. 
For both the sectarian “Leninists” and the anarchists, Tsipras’s failure 
was ultimately a failure to smash the state and proceed rapidly toward 
the construction of communism. For a post-Keynesian like Jamie 
Galbraith, there was not that much of a failure. As a Nation Magazine 
wrap-up on the deal between Syriza and the German bankers put it, 
Galbraith summed it up as one in which “it was the German authorities 
that had blinked” and a “deal makes no dramatic concessions to the 
pro-austerity camp”. For other post-Keynesians like Mark Weisbrot, there 
is more of an emphasis on what was lost even if there is a reluctance to 
admit that it was a full-blown defeat. As for the capitalist ideologues 
at the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal, you get more or less 
the inverse interpretation of the ultraleft. Greece was a tragedy caused 
by Tsipras’s hubris.


Since the last version of what happened is so patently absurd, there is 
no point commenting on it. It is the clash between the first two that 
interests me especially since they both strike me as undertheorized. 
Probably the best presentation of the Marxist analysis can be found on 
Michael Roberts’s blog in an article titled “Greece: Keynes or Marx?” 
that was written before the infamous deal that amounted to a new round 
of debt and austerity. Referring to an interview that Sebastian Budgen 
conducted with Costas Lapavitsas, he finds fault with Lapavitsas’s 
confession that he remains committed to Keynesianism despite being a 
sharp critic of Alex Tsipras: “Let me come clean on this. Keynes and 
Keynesianism, unfortunately, remain the most powerful tools we’ve got, 
even as Marxists, for dealing with issues of policy in the here and now.”


full: http://louisproyect.org/2016/01/02/greece-as-rashomon/
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Re: [Marxism] 47 heads severed by the Saudi oil dictatorship, but those are the good friends

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On 1/2/16 2:59 PM, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:

   Those are, of course, the best people to bring "democracy" to Syria.


I don't know about that but the TOW Missiles are saving Syrian lives.
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[Marxism] My analysis of what Trotssky selction in Witness represents?

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[Marxism] Palestinian liberation

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https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/palestinian-liberation/
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[Marxism] Ireland water tax - hilarious

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Einde wrote:
>In one attack a right-wing politician argued against the protestors.
"You'd almost think that water falls from the sky ..." He missed the
fact that in Ireland that's exactly where the water comes from.

That made me laugh out loud mate.

It's like something out of Monty Python or Father Ted.

Made my day.

Happy New Year.

Phil
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[Marxism] Trotsky is selected as best story for BBC History Programme Witness of 2015!

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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06vr1cv/witness-02012016
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[Marxism] Palestinian liberation

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Some key pieces from Redline:

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/palestinian-liberation/
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[Marxism] Irish revolutionary calendar - Irish Citizen Army

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: 'House of Morgan': a Chinese mogul, an anti-capitalist artist and an icon of Wall St | Business | The Guardian

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On 2016/01/02 02:23 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
... Its ownership is tied to Sam Pa, a jet-setting Hong Kong-based 
businessman with seven names, links to the Chinese intelligence 
services and a network of business contacts stretching from Pyongyang 
to Luanda, whose whereabouts since being detained by Chinese communist 
party authorities investigating corruption in China’s energy industry 
are unknown... Sonangol acquired the building in 2008 from 
Africa-Israel, a firm controlled by Lev Leviev, a Russian-born 
entrepreneur with ties to diamond mining in Angola, the construction 
of ultra-orthodox settlements in the West Bank and New York property, 
including the former New York Times building on 43rd Street. According 
to the New York real estate rumour mill, Pa purchased 23 Wall Street 
as a favour to Leviev or perhaps thought he was acquiring a different 
Leviev building – the Madison Square Clock Tower – more amenable to 
development.


I happened to visit Sam Pa's most notorious African dig in August, 
spending the day with one of my PhD students who researches the Marange 
diamond fields in Eastern Zimbabwe. On at least 100 occasions since 
moving to Zim in 1989 and then South Afric I've driven by the Hot 
Springs resort near where many of the Chinese migrant diamond miners are 
housed. It's an old Rhodesian R site based in what was one of the 
hottest liberation war zones during 1975-79, when up and down the nearby 
border, landmines were placed by a white government trying to halt the 
guerrilla movement (transiting to Zimbabwe from Mozambique) headed by 
Robert Mugabe and backed by the Chinese Communist Party.


Since my first visit in 1989, I have seen no 'development' whatsoever at 
Hot Springs or the little indigenous villages up and down that two-lane 
highway a couple of hundred kms from Mutare to Birchenough Bridge. The 
road cuts through the core of the alluvial diamond site, reputed to be 
the second richest area for the stones ever discovered (after 
Kimberley). The /only /thing new I noticed in August was one building 
next to the resort built in the last couple of years: a bank branch.


Sam Pa and his mates (especially Zimbabwean army generals) have utterly 
looted the place, surreptitiously taking away many billions of dollars 
worth of diamonds. Many ended up for polishing and cutting in Israel. 
Here's one report whose author I trust: 
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/308a133a-1db8-11e4-b927-00144feabdc0.html 
and here's a report from the main independent Zimbabwe newspaper (also 
business oriented): 
http://www.theindependent.co.zw/2015/12/04/xi-jinping-visit-connect-the-dots/


The poor Zimbabwean people and the wretched regime are so desperate, 
having lost their own currency in 2009 to hyperinflation, and now 
quickly running out of US$, that they have begged for yuans and claim 
they will be doing much more day-to-day trading in the Chinese currency. 
For more on the way that BRICS corporates and characters like Sam Pa (or 
from India the presidential-corrupting Gupta family and steel tycoon 
Lakshmi Mittal, or from Russia with greed, Roman Abramovich - all 
vigorously milking South Africa) have ripped off this continent, send me 
a note and I'll get you a copy of our new book for review, /BRICS: An 
anti-capitalist critique./


But Louis did a generous one here, if you missed it: 
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/thick-as-brics-an-illusory-alternative-to-neoliberalism/ 
"... “BRICS corporate snapshots during African extractivism” is an 
exposé of all the vultures swooping down on Africa in search of a fast 
buck whether they have been there for a long time (Russia, China), newly 
arrived (India) or are traditional sub-imperialists (Brazil, South Africa)."



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> The strange tale of a mysterious mound of Iraqi cash seized at the border, 
> and the oddball cast that’s fighting for it.
> 


http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-tale-of-a-mysterious-mound-of-iraqi-cash-seized-at-the-border-and-the-oddball-cast-thats-fighting-for-it
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