DECEMBER 13 AND 14, 2018

NEWS AND VIEWS

OVERNIGHT MY READERSHIP STATISTICS SPIKED, SO I KNOW THERE IS NEWS OUT THERE TO BE FOUND. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIEWERS TODAY IS 257 AS OF NOW, 1:53 PM, MOST OF THEM FROM GERMANY AT 226. LET’S SEE WHAT’S THERE.

IN LOOKING AT THESE I FOUND ALSO A NEWS SITE THAT IS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH, DOESN’T LEAN POLITICALLY TOWARD CHINA, BUT RATHER TOWARD SOUTH CHINA (TAIWAN), AND LOOKS AT EVENTS INVOLVING THE WHOLE SE ASIAN PART OF THE WORLD. FOR INSTANCE, WHAT WAS CHINA DOING BUILDING UP THOSE CORAL REEFS INTO NEW CHINA OWNED ISLANDS? AN EXCUSE TO EXCLUDE WESTERNERS FROM THAT WHOLE PART OF THE WORLD, PERHAPS? MORE PLACES TO PUT THEIR WARSHIPS? YOU MAY LIKE THIS AS A NEWS SITE: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia

NEWS SEARCH:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46567125, Were Taylor Swift fans tracked at her gig?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46562499, Migrant caravan: Girl dies after being taken into custody at Mexico-US border

GERMANY

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/14/angela-merkel-right-integration-figures-show-400000-refugees/, Angela Merkel was right about refugee integration, says German business federation chief

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/12/14/Germany-adds-3rd-gender-option-for-birth-certificates-other-documents/5461544812282/, Germany adds 3rd gender option for birth certificates, other documents

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46552356, Emptying wallet shuts German motorway


BECAUSE I THINK IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE ABOUT GERMANY, I’M GOING WITH THE IMPROVING MIGRANT SITUATION UNDER MERKEL IN GERMANY. THE DEBATE ON THE MATTER IS FOUND BETWEEN THESE TWO.

https://www.thelocal.de/20181214/germany-integrating-migrants-quickly-business-chief
Germany integrating migrants quickly, according to business chief
14 December 2018
11:34 CET+01:00

PHOTOGRAPH -- The picture shows a metal worker. Photo: DPA.

Many among the more than one million people who arrived in Germany as migrants or refugees since 2015 are integrating speedily through work, the head of a key business group said Friday.

"Today more than 400,000 are in employment or training... even I am surprised at how quickly it's progressing," Ingo Kramer, head of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.

"The vast majority are in jobs subject to social security contributions, and that integrates them into society," he added. "Business leaders are getting it done."

Kramer's optimistic tone matches that from the Federal Labour Agency (BA), which counts 30,000 young refugees currently in training.

But some 177,000 refugees were still registered as unemployed in November.

SEE ALSO: How Germany plans to fight worker shortage with new immigration law

German Chancellor Angela Merkel chose in late summer 2015 not to close Germany's borders to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the Middle East and Africa.

The decision stoked support for the anti-immigration populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD), ultimately ushering a potent far-right political force into parliament for the first time since 1945 and weakening Merkel.

While the veteran leader stopped using the phrase "we can manage it" to reassure her people soon after the mass arrivals, Kramer said that "Merkel was right to believe that".

Businesses in Germany are desperate for new workers, as with economic recovery the headline unemployment rate has sunk over the years to 5.0 percent, making available skilled labour increasingly scarce.

"Most young migrants can speak German so well after one year of study that they can follow classes in a vocational school," Kramer said.

That was good news for "Mittelstand"* small- and medium-sized firms -- often hailed as the backbone of the German economy -- in their search for employees, he added.

"We shouldn't be afraid of migration but see people who come to us and work here as an enrichment" Kramer said.

Like other bosses, Kramer complained about frequent deportations of workers or trainees who arrived as refugees.

Merkel's conservatives have pushed through tougher immigration laws since 2015 in a bid to make up ground lost to the AfD.

Meanwhile, the German Institute for Human Rights highlighted in its annual report this month that foreigners are often underpaid, hired without formal contracts or pushed to work overtime with no pay.


EVERY TIME I GOOGLE A WORD OR CONCEPT I COME ACROSS MORE THAN I WAS EXPECTING. THIS PARTICULAR ARTICLE DESCRIBES SOMETHING WHICH, IN THE 1950S AND EARLY 60S IN THE USA, WAS THE NORM. UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS NOW ALMOST GONE. IT’S HARD NOWADAYS TO FIND A JOB IN A BUSINESS THAT ACTUALLY DOES HAVE A LINK TO THE COMMUNITY, AT ANY RATE IF IT PAYS WELL ENOUGH, HAS HEALTH INSURANCE, ADVANCEMENT POTENTIAL ETC. THAT MAY BE PARTLY THE FAULT OF THE EMPLOYEES WHO BEGAN TO LEAVE FOR LARGER CITIES, SO THE COMPANY AND EMPLOYEE WERE NOT EQUALLY AS INVESTED IN EACH OTHER. WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL MY FATHER’S JOB WAS AT A COMPANY WHICH HAD A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. THEY ALSO DID THINGS LIKE GIVE A TURKEY EVERY CHRISTMAS TO EACH WORKER’S HOUSEHOLD (PROBABLY FULLTIME ONLY). THOSE ARE SMALL THINGS, BUT THEY WERE PERSONAL. BUSINESSES ARE FAR FROM BEING PERSONAL ANYMORE, UNLESS IT’S BEN AND JERRY’S PERHAPS.

ON THIS TERM MITTELSTAND, THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT SOME BUSINESSES PLAY WITH THE FIGURES IN ORDER TO CALL THEMSELVES BY THAT TERM, APPARENTLY LIKE THE TERM “MIDDLE AMERICA” AND “MIDDLE CLASS.” NEITHER OF THOSE ARE CLEARLY DEFINED, BUT THEY GIVE A PLEASING CONNOTATION, SO PEOPLE TRY TO PRESENT THEMSELVES IN THAT LIGHT. I CAN REMEMBER MY SISTER SAYING, “WE’RE MIDDLE CLASSED!” MY FATHER’S REJOINDER WAS “WE’RE POOR!” WE WERE WHAT BILL CLINTON CALLED “THE WORKING POOR,” AND NOW BERNIE SANDERS CALLS SIMPLY “WORKING CLASS.”

IT MEANS THAT YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOUR JOB, AND YOU NEED A BETTER ONE. PLEASE PARDON MY GRIPING. WE ALWAYS HAD FOOD, CLOTHING, AND HEAT. PLUS, MY MOTHER MADE THE WORLD’S BEST CAKES AND PIES, AND MY FATHER COULD RECITE SOME FIVE OR SIX LONG CLASSIC POEMS “BY HEART,” AND ONLY IN ONE CASE WOULD HE TEAR UP AT THE LAST FEW LINES. WE WEREN’T “POOR” IN ALL WAYS. I LEARNED SOME THINGS ABOUT HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT MUCH MONEY, AND THAT WAS INVALUABLE TO ME, AND ABOUT WHAT IS WORTH MORE THAN MONEY. THE POEM THAT ALWAYS MADE HIM CHOKE UP WAS SOHRAB AND RUSTUM, BY MATHEW ARNOLD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_and_Rustum
Sohrab and Rustum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes first published in 1853 by Matthew Arnold.[1] The poem retells a famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic Shahnameh relating how the great warrior Rustum unknowingly slew his long-lost son Sohrab in single combat. Arnold, who was unable to read the original, relied on summaries of the story in John Malcolm's History of Persia and Sainte-Beuve's review of a French prose translation of Ferdowsi.[2] In Sohrab and Rustum, Arnold attempted to imitate the "grandeur and rapidity" of Homer's style which he was to discuss in his lectures On Translating Homer (1861).[3] The poem consists of 892 lines of blank verse.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand*
Mittelstand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Representation of the supporting role of the Mittelstand in Walter Wilhelms „Mission des Mittelstandes“ (Mission of the Mittelstand, 1925)
Mittelstand commonly refers to small and medium-sized enterprises in German-speaking countries, especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, however Britain also has its own.[1][2][3] The term Mittelstand proves difficult to translate and causes a lot of confusion. The majority of definitions define the Mittelstand as a statistical category and most commonly suggest that Mittelstand firms are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs; German, kleine und mittlere Unternehmen or KMU) with annual revenues up to 50 million Euro and a maximum of 499 employees.[4][5]

The term is not officially defined or self-explanatory hence, in English linguistic terms SMEs are not necessarily equivalent to the Mittelstand. In fact, even larger, and often family-owned, firms claim to be part of the Mittelstand, such as Robert Bosch[6] based on the Mittelstand's positive connotations.[7] The term Mittelstand mainly applies to mid-sized firms as opposed to larger listed companies and most importantly Mittelstand companies are characterized by a common set of values and management practices.[8]

Ludwig Erhard, the Economics Minister who crafted the post-war (West) Germany's economic miracle (German: Wirtschaftswunder) warned against reducing the Mittelstand to a mere quantitative definition, but instead emphasized more qualitative characteristics which embody the German Mittelstand, as it is "...much more of an ethos and a fundamental disposition of how one acts and behaves in society."[9]

What does define the Mittelstand, is a much broader set of values and more elastic definitions.[10] Business historians[11][12] define various traits associated with Mittelstand firms, such as:

Family ownership or family-like corporate culture
Generational continuity
Long-term focus
Independence
Nimbleness
Emotional attachment
Investment into the workforce
Flexibility
Lean hierarchies
Innovativeness
Customer focus
Social responsibility
Strong regional ties

The latest English publication on Mittelstand firms by Prof. Bernd Venohr, Prof. Jeffrey Fear and Dr. Alessa Witt highlights that: "These companies are predominantly run by classic “owner-entrepreneurial families” (Unternehmerfamilien) seeking to sustain the business by instituting a core ideology of longevity, conservative long-term financing, and operating practices."[8] The Mittelstand acts as a counterpoint to a singular focus on shareholder value and dispersed investor-orientated shareholding.


MERKEL AND THE AFD

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2175950/merkels-exit-leaves-germanys-far-right-afd-struggling-hate-figure
Merkel’s exit leaves Germany’s far-right AfD struggling for a hate figure
‘Merkel must go’ is the main slogan of the Alternative for Germany party. The trouble is, now she is going, what’s the point in voting for it?
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 01 December, 2018, 6:45pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 01 December, 2018, 10:31pm

PHOTOGRAPH -- A year after it entered Germany’s parliament, the far-right AfD party is facing turbulence, including a donations scandal and the looming departure of its favourite enemy Chancellor Angela Merkel. Agence France-Presse

The troubles have come thick and fast since the five-year-old Alternative for Germany reached a key goal in October by entering the last of the country’s 16 state assemblies, winning 13 per cent in the region of Hesse.

A relative newcomer feared and loathed by the bigger mainstream parties, the AfD has however now stagnated at around 15 per cent in the polls while another party, the left-leaning Greens, has booked a series of stunning successes.

Billing themselves as “the alternative to the Alternative” with a clear stance against the AfD’s anti-immigration message, the Greens are now polling at around 20 per cent, making them the second-strongest party after Merkel’s CDU-CSU bloc.

Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel, leadership members of Germany's hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Photo: AFP
The AfD meanwhile have faced charges of accepting illegal campaign funds from a non-EU donor, in Switzerland – an especially damaging charge for a party that accuses all the “establishment parties” of being dishonest and corrupt.

Co-leader Alice Weidel has been under fire after media reports said her party chapter received 130,000 euros (US$148,000) from a Swiss entrepreneur.

Angela Merkel’s exit may mean a policy shift for China in Europe
While she has denied wrongdoing and said the money was returned, German prosecutors in mid-November asked parliament to lift Weidel’s immunity as they stepped up their enquiries.

OBJECT OF HATE

A more fundamental, long-term problem may be that the AfD’s declared nemesis, Merkel, has rung in the beginning of the end of her chancellorship after 13 years in power.

Weakened by several election setbacks for her CDU, she has declined to stand again for the leadership of the party at a December congress and declared she will leave politics when her term ends in 2021.

The AfD, whose main slogan has been “Merkel must go”, may hail the news as a triumph as they have long railed against Merkel over her decision to allow more than one million asylum seekers into the country since 2015.

But they may yet come to miss the leader on whom they have projected their discontent, typically by portraying Merkel wearing a Muslim headscarf or with bloody vampire fangs on protest posters and in social media posts.

An election campaign poster for the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany. Photo: Reuters

“When Merkel goes, the AfD will need a new object of hate,” wrote the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel.

“With her retreat, Angela Merkel may have achieved something in which she previously failed: to truly hurt the AfD.”

Much will depend on who succeeds Merkel at the helm of the party.

If Merkel’s preferred successor, the moderate Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, nicknamed “mini-Merkel”, wins the race, the AfD is likely to be happy to train their sights on her.

Germany’s Angela Merkel to miss start of G20 after plane makes emergency landing
The other two candidates – corporate banker Friedrich Merz and right-wing Health Minister Jens Spahn – may however be tougher targets since they have signalled shifting the party back to the right, including on immigration.

In this case, “the AfD will probably lose some of its voters”, said Sudha David-Wilp, a researcher at think-tank the German Marshall Fund.

LOST THE BATTLE

The AfD itself is still deeply divided between relative moderates who joined the party when it started as a mainly Eurosceptic group, and its openly revisionist and far-right members.

Its most extreme major figure, Bjoern Hoecke, has demanded “a 180-degree shift” in the nation’s culture of remembrance and atonement over Nazi crimes and the Holocaust – an era which another leader, Alexander Gauland, has termed a “speck of bird shit” in Germany’s long history.

A demonstration by Germany’s anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany. Photo: Reuters
This summer the AfD, which was long labelled “right-wing populist”, for the first time publicly closed ranks on the streets with the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement at mass rallies in the eastern city of Chemnitz where neo-Nazis performed Hitler salutes.

The country’s domestic intelligence services have started surveillance of some members of the AfD’s youth wing, JA, for links to right-wing extremists – a fate the AfD as a whole wants to avoid at all cost.

Last week the party executive declared that it had noted “with disgust” statements made by some members of the JA organisation that betrayed a “contempt for humanity”, and demanded they be excluded from the group.

The same week a leading member, Steffen Koeniger from Brandenburg state, left the AfD, declaring that in many regions “the moderates within the AfD have lost the battle against the destructive ones once and for all”.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Merkel exit could pose headache for far-right.



I KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT MICK MULVANEY, BUT IF HE CAN CALL HIMSELF A RIGHT-WING NUTJOB, HE PROBABLY HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR. MAYBE HE WILL MAKE AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-announces-mick-mulvaney-as-new-chief-of-staff
Trump’s New Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney Is a Self-Proclaimed ‘Right-Wing Nutjob’
The president’s budget director will replace John Kelly after a tumultuous year-and-a-half.

Julia Arciga, Andrew Kirell, Asawin Suebsaeng
12.14.18 5:25 PM ET

PHOTOGRAPH -- Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Trump announced on Friday that Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney will be his new White House chief of staff, apparently on a temporary basis.

“I am pleased to announce that Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management & Budget, will be named Acting White House Chief of Staff, replacing General John Kelly, who has served our Country with distinction,” the president tweeted. “Mick has done an outstanding job while in the Administration… I look forward to working with him in this new capacity as we continue to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

While Mulvaney was named acting chief of staff, a senior administration official told reporters that there is “no time limit” on his tenure.


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“He’s the acting chief of staff, which means he’s the chief of staff. He got picked because the president liked him, they get along,” the official told pool reporters.

Two sources told The Daily Beast Mulvaney indicated in recent weeks that he definitely would not want the chief of staff position beyond a temporary, interim assignment.

“Why would he? He's a sane man,” one administration source said, bluntly.

Mulvaney will replace current Chief of Staff John Kelly, who is set to exit the White House in January. “John will be staying until the end of the year,” the president added. “He is a GREAT PATRIOT and I want to personally thank him for his service!”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-next-chief-of-staff-called-him-a-terrible-human-being-just-before-he-was-elected-president
WHAT CHANGED?
Trump’s Next Chief of Staff Called Him ‘A Terrible Human Being’ Just Before He Was Elected President
Mulvaney left his House seat the next year to serve Trump as both director of the Office of Management and Budget and Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Jackie Kucinich, Asawin Suebsaeng
12.14.18 9:59 PM ET

PHOTOGRAPH – MULVANEY Bloomberg

Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget Director who President Donald Trump tweeted Friday would serve as acting chief of staff after John Kelly departs in January, has been a loyal Trump supporter — he just didn’t always like it so much.

During a debate with his then-congressional challenger, Democrat Fran Person, on Nov. 2 of 2016, less than a week before Trump was elected president, then- congressman Mulvaney was blunt with those gathered at York Middle School in York, South Carolina.

After decrying the Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a liberal who would take the country in the wrong direction, Mulvaney said he was supporting Trump, essentially by default.

“Yes, I am supporting Donald Trump, but I’m doing so despite the fact that I think he’s a terrible human being,” he said, according to a report in The State newspaper.

Mulvaney won his race by more than 20 points, with Trump carrying the same area by 19 points.

A video of the debate remarks was obtained by The Daily Beast.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

PHOTOGRAPH -- David Bossie, president of Citizens United, gestures during South Carolina Freedom Summit hosted by Citizens United and Congressman Jeff Duncan in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S., on Saturday, May 9, 2015. The Freedom Summit brings grassroots activists from across South Carolina and the surrounding area to hear from conservative leaders and presidential hopefuls. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Mulvaney is far from the first person in the administration to openly criticize Trump before signing on for a job in his administration, but he is certainly one of the most high-ranking.

During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Trump opponent Rick Perry called the future president’s campaign a “cancer on conservatism.” Perry now serves as President Trump’s Secretary of Energy. Before Kellyanne Conway became Trump’s 2016 campaign manager during the homestretch of the race, Conway had publicly criticized candidate Trump for refusing to release his tax returns and for his “vulgar” rhetoric. Conway currently serves as one of Trump’s most ardent defenders and as his White House counselor.

Even if Mulvaney had never uttered a critical word about Trump, the chances he would last long in a chief of staff post would have likely been slim regardless. Two knowledgeable sources told The Daily Beast on Friday that Mulvaney has indicated in recent weeks that he definitely would not want the chief of staff position beyond a temporary, interim assignment.

“Why would he? He's a sane man,” one administration source said, bluntly, referencing the routine humiliation, reputational damage, and backstabbing that Trump’s current and past chiefs of staff had famously experienced.


BERNIE IS AGAIN ASKED THE PERENNIAL QUESTION: ARE YOU RUNNING IN 2020? HE ISN'T ABOUT TO COMMIT HIMSELF YET, AND WITH SO MANY CONSIDERING A RUN, WHO KNOWS HOW IT WILL TURN OUT.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-sanders-address-2020-speculation-says-it-s-not-easy-n947691
Bernie Sanders addresses 2020 speculation, says it's not an easy decision
"If" he decides to run, he knows the issues he'll campaign on, the former Democratic presidential candidate said.
Dec. 13, 2018 / 4:11 PM EST
By Julie Tsirkin

PHOTOGRAPH -- Sen. Bernie Sanders joins protesters outside the Capitol as Republicans in the Senate work to pass a tax bill on Nov. 30, 2017.J. Scott Applewhite / AP file

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said on Thursday that "if" he decides to run for president again in 2020, he knows the issues he'll campaign on.

Addressing speculation that he could enter the wide-open Democratic field, Sanders, 77, told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell that he would "make that decision when I think it's appropriate."

"If, and that is an if, I do decide to run, we're going to be taking on the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance industry, and Wall Street. And all of the powerful special interests who now control much of what goes on in Congress," he said.

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Sanders: 2020 presidential run not an easy decision DEC. 13, 201803:33

He also said that deciding to run for president was no easy decision, and he needed to determine what kind of grassroots support might exist for a potential bid.

When asked by Mitchell whether he thought there might be too many Democratic hopefuls in the mix to effectively challenge President Donald Trump, Sanders said the American people will decide who will do the best job based on issues.

"We're going to talk about the burning issues facing the American people, so that the American people can then determine which candidate, Republican, Democrat, whatever, is addressing those issues,” Sanders said.

In an early straw poll of members of the progressive group MoveOn.org, Sanders was third on a list of more than 30 potential 2020 Democratic candidates, trailing behind Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas and former Vice President Joe Biden with 13.1 percent of the votes.

For Thursday, however, Sanders wanted to keep his sights set on the resolution to end U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia's ongoing war in Yemen.

TWO VIDEOS – SANDERS ON YEMEN

"Today we are trying to end the worst humanitarian disaster on Earth, and so I’m going to focus on that," he said.

Later on Thursday, the resolution, sponsored by Sanders and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, passed the Senate 56-41 in a major rebuke of the Trump administration’s policies in the region, albeit a symbolic one. The House is not expected to take it up.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said on Thursday that he believes the resolution points Congress to reevaluate the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia.

"The reason we’d been working with them on Yemen is because we believed them when they told us that they weren't intentionally hitting water treatment facilities and schools and cholera medical hospitals," Murphy told NBC News' Hallie Jackson. "And so I think that we need to re-evaluate the whole relationship, which is really what this resolution points us toward and why we have bipartisan support for it."

Julie Tsirkin


THIS IS AS MUCH FUN AS THE TIME SOME TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO WHEN A MULTILANE HIGHWAY LIKE THIS WAS STOPPED SO THAT A MAMA WILD DUCK (BROWN WITH NO GREEN HEAD) STEPPED OUT IN FRONT OF TRAFFIC FOLLOWED BY A LARGE BROOD OF LOVELY DUCKLINGS. EVERYBODY STOPPED, BUT JUST BARELY. THERE’S MORE THAN ONE CASE, QUITE A FEW ACTUALLY. I JUST FOUND THREE INCIDENTS JUST A FEW MONTHS APART. APPARENTLY, MAMA DUCKS DECIDE TO RELOCATE PRETTY FREQUENTLY. GO TO GOOGLE AND SEARCH “MOTHER DUCK BABIES HIGHWAY.” THIS ONE BELOW HAS A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN CHASING BABIES, AND EVEN GIVING AN OFF THE CUFF DUCK CALL. FINALLY, THEY GOT ALL OF THEM INTO A BOX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFGncqEJOo

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/brink-s-armored-truck-scatters-money-on-n-j-route-3-west-leads-to-multiple-crashes-1397089859846?icid=recommended

Brink's armored truck scatters money on N.J. Route 3 West, leads to multiple crashes

An armored Brink's truck spilled money on New Jersey Route 3 West leading to multiple crashes as people got out of their cars to collect the cash. According to East Rutherford Police Department, it appears that the armored truck had a malfunction of one of its doors causing it to become unsecured.
Dec. 13, 2018


ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO:

TIME TEAM AT WORK, BRITISH BRONZE AGE SITE, 2012 PRODUCTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hzNokvhQlM


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