[Marxism] Fwd: The paradoxes that sit at the very core of physics ...

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Theoretical physics is beset by a paradox that remains as mysterious 
today as it was a century ago: at the subatomic level things are 
simultaneously particles and waves. Like the duck-rabbit illusion first 
described in 1899 by the Polish-born American psychologist Joseph 
Jastrow, subatomic reality appears to us as two different categories of 
being.


But there is another paradox in play. Physics itself is riven by the 
competing frameworks of quantum theory and general relativity, whose 
differing descriptions of our world eerily mirror the wave-particle 
tension. When it comes to the very big and the extremely small, physical 
reality appears to be not one thing, but two. Where quantum theory 
describes the subatomic realm as a domain of individual quanta, all 
jitterbug and jumps, general relativity depicts happenings on the 
cosmological scale as a stately waltz of smooth flowing space-time. 
General relativity is like Strauss — deep, dignified and graceful. 
Quantum theory, like jazz, is disconnected, syncopated, and dazzlingly 
modern.


Physicists are deeply aware of the schizophrenic nature of their science 
and long to find a synthesis, or unification. Such is the goal of a 
so-called ‘theory of everything’. However, to non-physicists, these 
competing lines of thought, and the paradoxes they entrain, can seem not 
just bewildering but absurd. In my experience as a science writer, no 
other scientific discipline elicits such contradictory responses.


full: 
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[Marxism] Guardian: Fears grow of repeat of 2008 financial crash as investors run for cover

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"William White, a former chief economist of the Bank for International 
Settlements (BIS), the central bankers club, who now chairs the OECD’s review 
committee warned that central bankers had “used up all their ammunition”.

“The situation is worse than it was in 2007. Our macroeconomic ammunition to 
fight downturns is essentially all used up. Debts have continued to build up 
over the last eight years and they have reached such levels in every part of 
the world that they have become a potent cause for mischief,” he said on the 
eve of the event."


http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/20/investors-run-cover-repeat-of-2008-financial-crash-davos-bear-markets



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[Marxism] Guardian: Children as young as seven mining cobalt used in smartphones, says Amnesty

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http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/19/children-as-young-as-seven-mining-cobalt-for-use-in-smartphones-says-amnesty



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[Marxism] Crumbling, Destitute Schools Threaten Detroit’s Recovery

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(A more accurate title for this article would be "Crumbling, Destitute 
Schools Product of Detroit's Economic Collapse".)


Crumbling, Destitute Schools Threaten Detroit’s Recovery
By JULIE BOSMAN

DETROIT — In Kathy Aaron’s decrepit public school, the heat fills the 
air with a moldy, rancid odor. Cockroaches, some three inches long, 
scuttle about until they are squashed by a student who volunteers for 
the task. Water drips from a leaky roof onto the gymnasium floor.


“We have rodents out in the middle of the day,” said Ms. Aaron, a 
teacher of 18 years. “Like they’re coming to class.”


Detroit’s public schools are a daily shock to the senses, run down after 
years of neglect and mismanagement, while failing academically and 
teetering on the edge of financial collapse. On Wednesday, teachers 
again protested the conditions, calling in sick en masse and forcing a 
shutdown of most of the city’s almost 100 schools.


As Michigan’s governor, Rick Snyder, grapples with the crisis in Flint, 
where residents have been poisoned by the local water supply under a 
state-appointed emergency manager, he has also had to confront the 
emergency here, another poor, largely African-American city with a 
problem that has also festered under state control.


Things have become so bad, district officials say, that the Detroit 
public school system could be insolvent by April.


“They’re in need of a transformational change,” Mr. Snyder, a 
Republican, acknowledged in his State of the State speech Tuesday. “Too 
many schools are failing at their central task. Not all Detroit students 
are getting the education they deserve.”


Many worry that the state of the schools will hamper Detroit’s recovery 
from bankruptcy, a recovery evident in the new loft-style townhouses and 
the bustling Whole Foods that Ms. Aaron passes near her school, where 
she teaches fifth grade.


Residents wonder how the city can ever recoup its lost population and 
attract young families if the public schools are in abysmal shape.


“As we begin to rebuild this city and we’re seeing money and development 
moving in, people are understanding that there is no way we can improve 
Detroit without a strong educational system,” said Mary Sheffield, a 
native of Detroit and a City Council member. “We have businesses and 
restaurants and arenas, but our schools are falling apart and our 
children are uneducated. There is no Detroit without good schools.”


In protest over the conditions, teachers began a series of sickouts in 
recent weeks, inconveniencing many families and reducing classroom 
instruction time for many students who could ill afford it, but pushing 
the matter to the forefront.


The problems predate the municipal bankruptcy. One of the biggest is 
enrollment, which has been in free fall. In 2000, Detroit Public Schools 
had close to 150,000 students; this year, there are fewer than 45,000.


In recent decades, large numbers of people have left Detroit, which was 
once the nation’s fourth most populous city. Many of those who stayed 
chose to enroll their children in traditional public schools in the 
suburbs, or in charter schools, which more than half of school-age 
children from Detroit now attend.


According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, about 20 
percent of school-age children in Detroit were attending charter schools 
in 2006. By 2014, that number was up to 55 percent.


Most of the charter schools are outside district control but receive 
public money, drawing funds from the traditional system that would be 
used for its overhead and wages, critics complain.


Even after closing schools and reducing its work force, the Detroit 
Public Schools have $3.5 billion in outstanding debt, much of it from 
pension liabilities, according to a report this month from the Citizens 
Research Council of Michigan, a nonpartisan public affairs research 
organization in Lansing.


The appointment in 2009 of an emergency manager to take charge of the 
struggling district has not turned the finances around. (The appointment 
predates the election of Mr. Snyder in 2010, but he has elected to 
maintain the arrangement.)


“We’re on our fourth emergency manager here,” said Craig Thiel, a senior 
research associate for the Citizens Research Council. “They each seem to 
be borrowing from the same playbook: figure out a way to get through the 
current year, end the year without going insolvent, and then push costs 
onto the next year in the hopes that things will improve in some way. 
They’re dealing with these debts that should have been paid off years 
ago that have instead been put on future budgets.”

[Marxism] Yassin al Haj Saleh: “Syria is a unique symbol of injustice, apathy and amnesia”

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Yassin al Haj Saleh: “Syria is a unique symbol of injustice, apathy and 
amnesia”

http://chronikler.com/middle-east/iraq-and-the-levant/yassin-al-haj-saleh/By 
Boštjan Videmšek/DELOIn an exclusive interview, prominent Syrian writer and 
dissident Yassinal-Haj Saleh talks about Syria’s past, tragic present and 
uncertainfuture.Wednesday 20 January 2016Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leading 
Syrian writer, a former politicalprisoner and one of Syria’s foremost 
intellectuals. Ever since hisstudent days, Saleh has been a vocal critic of the 
Assad regimes. He wasarrested in 1980 during the presidency of Hafez al-Assad 
and spent thenext 16 years as a prisoner of conscience.During the early days of 
the Syrian uprising, his voice became louderthan ever. In 2012, he was given 
the Prince Claus Award (supported bythe Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) but 
was unable to collect it, ashe was living in hiding in Damascus. In 2013, he 
fled to Turkey. Hiswife and brother were abducted the same year. He is the 
author ofseveral books,  including Deliverance or Destruction? Syria at 
aCrossroads (2014).Here, he speaks to Boštjan Videmšek about Syria’s past, 
tragic presentand uncertain future.(Long, but very worthwhile, interview 
follows):http://chronikler.com/middle-east/iraq-and-the-levant/yassin-al-haj-saleh/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Flint water crisis: emails reveal governor Snyder informed of problems a year ago | US news | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Fwd: Kent State Professor Posted ISIS Pictures on Facebook - The Daily Beast

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An article about Julio Pino, a Marxmail alum.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/20/kent-state-professor-posted-isis-pictures-on-facebook.html
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[Marxism] Prehistoric Massacre Hints at War Among Hunter-Gatherers

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NY Times, Jan. 21 2016
Prehistoric Massacre Hints at War Among Hunter-Gatherers
By JAMES GORMAN

The scene was a lagoon on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The time 
about 10,000 years ago. One group of hunter-gatherers attacked and 
slaughtered another, leaving the dead with crushed skulls, embedded 
arrow or spear points, and other devastating wounds.


The dead, said the scientists who reported the discovery Wednesday in 
the journal Nature, seem to have been scattered in no apparent order, 
and eventually covered and preserved by sediment from the lake. Of 12 
relatively complete skeletons, 10 showed unmistakable signs of violent 
death, the scientists said. Partial remains of at least 15 other people 
were found at the site and are thought to have died in the same attack.


The bones at the lake, in northern Kenya, tell a tale of ferocity. One 
man was hit twice in the head by arrows or small spears and in the knee 
by a club. A woman, pregnant with a 6- to 9-month-old fetus, was killed 
by a blow to the head, the fetal skeleton preserved in her abdomen. The 
position of her hands and feet suggest that she may have been tied up 
before she was killed.


Violence has always been part of human behavior, but the origins of war 
are hotly debated. Some experts see it as deeply rooted in evolution, 
pointing to violent confrontations among groups of chimpanzees as clues 
to an ancestral predilection. Others emphasize the influence of complex 
and hierarchical human societies, and agricultural surpluses to be raided.


With Richard Wrangham, a professor of biological anthropology at 
Harvard, Dr. Glowacki has traced the evolutionary roots of human warfare 
in chimpanzee behavior. And, he said, this find “shows warfare occurred 
before the invention of agriculture.”


Douglas P. Fry, a professor of anthropology at the University of 
Alabama, who was not involved in the research, agreed that the evidence 
looked like a massacre of one group by another but said that “based on 
skeletal evidence from one site in an area, it may be jumping the gun to 
call this ‘war.’”


Dr. Fry said in an email that nomadic foragers were unlikely to practice 
war, which tends to arise in more complex societies, and that these 
foragers may have already been in transition to a more settled life.


He said he would like to see “fortifications, villages built in 
defensible locations, specialized weapons of war, artistic or symbol 
depictions of war,” and more than one site before calling it warfare.




The Birth of War

An archaeological survey concludes that warfare,
despite its malignant hold on modern life, has not
always been part of the human condition.

By R. Brian Ferguson

Thirty years ago all the anthropologists studying war would have fit 
into one small room. Granted—and guaranteed—that room would frequently 
erupt in heated debate, but few outside would notice or care. Tribal 
warfare? Exotic, maybe, but so what? Anthropologists see war as 
potentially lethal violence between two groups, no matter how small the 
groups or how few the casualties. But how much light could such a broad 
definition of conflict, or cases of precivilized human strife, shed on 
modern warfare, the struggles that have flared in Iraq, Kosovo, Rwanda, 
Vietnam, Korea—and on and on?


How times have changed! The anthropological study of war has expanded 
and matured. Ideas from academic debates are finding their way into 
foreign policy journals and, yes, the mass media. The questions raised 
by anthropologists and the once-academic disputes within the discipline 
have become important public issues, to be debated by pundits and 
politicians.


full: http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/htmlsite/0703/0703_feature.html

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Re: [Marxism] Crumbling, Destitute Schools Threaten Detroit’s Recovery

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re Economic Collapse as per Louis, absolutely. Notice mentions of debt -
just as protests against debt-mandated austerity are mushrooming again in
Greece.
I think we're going to have to invite CADTM

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> (A more accurate title for this article would be "Crumbling, Destitute
> Schools Product of Detroit's Economic Collapse".)
>
> Crumbling, Destitute Schools Threaten Detroit’s Recovery
> By JULIE BOSMAN
>
> DETROIT — In Kathy Aaron’s decrepit public school, the heat fills the air
> with a moldy, rancid odor. Cockroaches, some three inches long, scuttle
> about until they are squashed by a student who volunteers for the task.
> Water drips from a leaky roof onto the gymnasium floor.
>
> “We have rodents out in the middle of the day,” said Ms. Aaron, a teacher
> of 18 years. “Like they’re coming to class.”
>
> Detroit’s public schools are a daily shock to the senses, run down after
> years of neglect and mismanagement, while failing academically and
> teetering on the edge of financial collapse. On Wednesday, teachers again
> protested the conditions, calling in sick en masse and forcing a shutdown
> of most of the city’s almost 100 schools.
>
> As Michigan’s governor, Rick Snyder, grapples with the crisis in Flint,
> where residents have been poisoned by the local water supply under a
> state-appointed emergency manager, he has also had to confront the
> emergency here, another poor, largely African-American city with a problem
> that has also festered under state control.
>
> Things have become so bad, district officials say, that the Detroit public
> school system could be insolvent by April.
>
> “They’re in need of a transformational change,” Mr. Snyder, a Republican,
> acknowledged in his State of the State speech Tuesday. “Too many schools
> are failing at their central task. Not all Detroit students are getting the
> education they deserve.”
>
> Many worry that the state of the schools will hamper Detroit’s recovery
> from bankruptcy, a recovery evident in the new loft-style townhouses and
> the bustling Whole Foods that Ms. Aaron passes near her school, where she
> teaches fifth grade.
>
> Residents wonder how the city can ever recoup its lost population and
> attract young families if the public schools are in abysmal shape.
>
> “As we begin to rebuild this city and we’re seeing money and development
> moving in, people are understanding that there is no way we can improve
> Detroit without a strong educational system,” said Mary Sheffield, a native
> of Detroit and a City Council member. “We have businesses and restaurants
> and arenas, but our schools are falling apart and our children are
> uneducated. There is no Detroit without good schools.”
>
> In protest over the conditions, teachers began a series of sickouts in
> recent weeks, inconveniencing many families and reducing classroom
> instruction time for many students who could ill afford it, but pushing the
> matter to the forefront.
>
> The problems predate the municipal bankruptcy. One of the biggest is
> enrollment, which has been in free fall. In 2000, Detroit Public Schools
> had close to 150,000 students; this year, there are fewer than 45,000.
>
> In recent decades, large numbers of people have left Detroit, which was
> once the nation’s fourth most populous city. Many of those who stayed chose
> to enroll their children in traditional public schools in the suburbs, or
> in charter schools, which more than half of school-age children from
> Detroit now attend.
>
> According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, about 20
> percent of school-age children in Detroit were attending charter schools in
> 2006. By 2014, that number was up to 55 percent.
>
> Most of the charter schools are outside district control but receive
> public money, drawing funds from the traditional system that would be used
> for its overhead and wages, critics complain.
>
> Even after closing schools and reducing its work force, the Detroit Public
> Schools have $3.5 billion in outstanding debt, much of it from pension
> liabilities, according to a report this month from the Citizens Research
> Council of Michigan, a nonpartisan public affairs research organization in
> Lansing.
>
> The appointment in 2009 of an 

[Marxism] Fwd: Anglocentrism and the real subsumption of labor | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Yesterday an old friend from my misspent Trotskyist youth sent me an 
excerpt from Harry Harootunian’s “Marx After Marx” that he described as 
“a further contribution to the transition debates and a polemic against 
Western Marxism, stagist theories, and by implication some aspects of 
Political Marxism (but no index entries for Brenner or Wood).” He warned 
me, however, that before tackling it I review Marx’s discussion of 
formal vs. real subsumption at 
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/economic/ch02a.htm#469. 
I did know that Marx wrote about subsumption in the Grundrisse, a 
“classic” that I confess never having read. I suppose if you are going 
to be a professional Marxist qualified to speak at HM plenaries, you 
need to have read the Grundrisse and earned a PhD from York University 
or some other top-drawer institute. Poor me to have no such qualifications.


Charles Post was someone who obviously had read his Grundrisse on the 
evidence of having uttered the sacred words “real subsumption” in his 
speech at the Ellen Meiksins Wood Symposium where he took on the 
“critics of Political Marxism” who harped on “the persistence of legally 
coerced labor under capitalism.” He referred them to Mike Zmolek’s 
recently published book on the history of capitalism in England from a 
Brennerite perspective, where the “the state plays a crucial role” in 
primitive accumulation by using “legal-juridical forces was necessary to 
ensure the sale of labor-power.” Once the state has finished playing 
this role by kicking the workers in the teeth, the markets can kick in 
after “capital has achieved real subsumption of labor.” Now, anybody who 
has not read Marx might scratch his or her head about this “real 
subsumption” business? What was it while the state was still a player? 
Unreal subsumption? No, Marx called it formal subsumption. Don’t ask me 
why. I have trouble enough with Hegel.


full: 
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[Marxism] The vote, the first world war and working class women – the story of the Suffragettes

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In the latest edition of Australian socialist magazine Solidarity, Geraldine 
Fela discusses the new film Suffragette, and how the fight for the vote 
polarised between wealthy and working class women.

To link to the article click here. 

http://enpassant.com.au/2016/01/22/the-vote-the-war-and-working-class-women-the-story-of-the-suffragettes/
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Re: [Marxism] Prehistoric Massacre Hints at War Among Hunter-Gatherers

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Current work seems to be smudging the line between hunter gatherers and
people settling down to some purposes.  The Mesolithic turned out to have
been particularly messy.

What used to be seen as "nomadic" groups actually stayed for longer and
longer stretches where they could, and they seem to have been using millet
across parts of Eurasia around 10,000 years back.  If people were putting
in crops, then the old general arguments about fighting to protect lands in
which they invested time and energy might fit these finds.

ML

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-millet-link-prehistoric-humans-transition.html
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Re: [Marxism] Yassin al Haj Saleh: “Syria is a unique symbol of injustice, apathy and amnesia”

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Clicking on the link produces an error message.

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>From: Michael Karadjis via Marxism 
>Sent: Jan 21, 2016 8:35 AM
>To: Thomas F Barton 
>Subject: [Marxism] Yassin al Haj Saleh: “Syria is a unique symbol of 
>injustice, apathy and amnesia”
>
>
>Yassin al Haj Saleh: “Syria is a unique symbol of injustice, apathy and 
>amnesia”
> http://chronikler.com/middle-east/iraq-and-the-levant/yassin-al-haj-saleh/By 
> Boštjan Videmšek/DELOIn an exclusive interview, prominent Syrian writer and 
> dissident Yassinal-Haj Saleh talks about Syria’s past, tragic present and 
> uncertainfuture.Wednesday 20 January 2016Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leading 
> Syrian writer, a former politicalprisoner and one of Syria’s foremost 
> intellectuals. Ever since hisstudent days, Saleh has been a vocal critic of 
> the Assad regimes. He wasarrested in 1980 during the presidency of Hafez 
> al-Assad and spent thenext 16 years as a prisoner of conscience.During the 
> early days of the Syrian uprising, his voice became louderthan ever. In 2012, 
> he was given the Prince Claus Award (supported bythe Dutch Ministry of 
> Foreign Affairs) but was unable to collect it, ashe was living in hiding in 
> Damascus. In 2013, he fled to Turkey. Hiswife and brother were abducted the 
> same year. He is the author ofseveral books,  including Deliverance or 
> Destruction? Syria at aCrossroads (2014).Here, he speaks to Boštjan Videmšek 
> about Syria’s past, tragic presentand uncertain future.(Long, but very 
> worthwhile, interview 
> follows):http://chronikler.com/middle-east/iraq-and-the-levant/yassin-al-haj-saleh/



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[Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg on Political Marxism

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Since capitalist production can develop fully only with complete access 
to all territories and climes, it can no more confine itself to the 
natural resources and productive forces of the temperate zone than it 
can manage with white labour alone. Capital needs other races to exploit 
territories where the white man cannot work. It must be able to mobilise 
world labour power without restriction in order to utilise all 
productive forces of the globe – up to the limits imposed by a system of 
producing surplus value. This labour power, however, is in most cases 
rigidly bound by the traditional pre-capitalist organisation of 
production. It must first be ‘set free’ in order to be enrolled in the 
active army of capital. The emancipation of labour power from primitive 
social conditions and its absorption by the capitalist wage system is 
one of the indispensable historical bases of capitalism. For the first 
genuinely capitalist branch of production, the English cotton industry, 
not only the cotton of the Southern states of the American Union was 
essential, but also the millions of African Negroes who were shipped to 
America to provide the labour power for the plantations, and who late; 
as a free proletariat, were incorporated in the class of wage labourers 
in a capitalist system.(9) Obtaining the necessary labour power from 
non-capitalist societies, the so-called ‘labour-problem’, is ever more 
important for capital in the colonies. All possible methods of ‘gentle 
compulsion’ are applied to solving this problem, to transfer labour from 
former social systems to the command of capital. This endeavour leads to 
the most peculiar combinations between the modern wage system and 
primitive authority in the colonial countries.(10) This is a concrete 
example of the fact that capitalist production cannot manage without 
labour power from other social organisations.



full: 
https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1913/accumulation-capital/ch26.htm

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[Marxism] Trump and the question of fascism

[Scott Hamilton via Marxism]

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http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/01/trumps-fascist-theatre.html

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[Marxism] Argentina's rude awakening -- new gov't launches attacks, repression

[Stuart Munckton via Marxism]

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Every year from around Christmas through to February, Argentina is wrapped
in a summer trance. The usual, frenzied pitch of city centres is muffled as
if by vast blankets of cotton and sticky heat. Families find reprieve from
work by travelling to the coast and mountains, visiting distant family and
towns in the interior.

This lull often translates into a dialling-down of class struggle. There
are fewer and smaller mobilisations, strikes and political activism.

On the other hand, new governments have historically exploited the summer
slumber to push through policies likely to meet with popular resistance.
The new right-wing government under President Mauricio Macri has proven
itself to be no exception.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60919



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