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Joe Louis Walker - T-Bone Shuffle
"Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives."
-- Gore Vidal
News and Opinion
NYPD Clarifies That New Counterterror Unit Won’t Carry Machine Guns At Protests
The New York City Police Department says it won’t be carrying machine guns at protests, despite comments Commissioner Bill Bratton made recently. Speaking at a breakfast hosted by New York City’s Police Foundation Thursday, the commissioner unveiled a new unit–the Strategic Response Group or SRG–that will be made up of hundreds of officers tasked specifically with counterterrorism and “disorder” policing.
“They’ll be equipped and trained in ways that our normal patrol officers are not,” the commissioner said. “They’ll be equipped with all the extra heavy protective gear, with the long rifles and machine guns that are unfortunately sometimes necessary in these instances.” Bratton said the SRG “is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris.”
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When asked if New Yorkers should expect to see police officers with “machine guns” at city protests, a spokesman for the NYPD told The Intercept, “No. They’re not carrying them at protests.” In general, however, the spokesman said officers would have access to the weapons “either on them or in their vehicles.”...
According to CBS New York, City Hall will help fund the new NYPD terrorism/protest unit, along with grants from the Department of Homeland Security. While de Blasio condemned the assault on the police officers in December, he has broadly supported the New York City demonstrations, saying they “provided an example to the world on how to protest.” Addressing the new unit at a press conference Friday, the mayor avoided the subject of protesters and machine guns. ...
The SRG’s unveiling was met with immediate pushback from groups in New York City’s activist and civil liberties community, many of whom pointed to a dangerous blurring of lines in a single unit responsible for both counterterrorism and the policing of lawful protests.
Amid Violence Against Journalists Worldwide, Egypt Releases 1 of 3 Jailed Al Jazeera Reporters
One Al Jazeera Journalist Freed While Two Remain Prisoners of Egyptian Crackdown
One of the three Al Jazeera journalists who had been held in Egypt for 400 days has been freed, sources reported Sunday.
Peter Greste, an Australian national, has reportedly boarded an Egypt Air flight and is being accompanied by his brother. However, Greste's colleagues, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, remain imprisoned for allegedly colluding with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in a case that has sparked international condemnation.
A recent presidential decree in Egypt stated that imprisoned foreign nationals may be deported to complete their sentence in their home country, which observers note is likely the reason behind Greste's release.
Chris Hedges: Malcolm X Was Right About America
Malcolm X, unlike Martin Luther King Jr., did not believe America had a conscience. For him there was no great tension between the lofty ideals of the nation—which he said were a sham—and the failure to deliver justice to blacks. He, perhaps better than King, understood the inner workings of empire. He had no hope that those who managed empire would ever get in touch with their better selves to build a country free of exploitation and injustice. He argued that from the arrival of the first slave ship to the appearance of our vast archipelago of prisons and our squalid, urban internal colonies where the poor are trapped and abused, the American empire was unrelentingly hostile to those Frantz Fanon called “the wretched of the earth.” This, Malcolm knew, would not change until the empire was destroyed. ...
King was able to achieve a legal victory through the civil rights movement, portrayed in the new film “Selma.” But he failed to bring about economic justice and thwart the rapacious appetite of the war machine that he was acutely aware was responsible for empire’s abuse of the oppressed at home and abroad. And 50 years after Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem by hit men from the Nation of Islam, it is clear that he, not King, was right. We are the nation Malcolm knew us to be. Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed. ...
The integration of elites of color, including Barack Obama, into the upper echelons of institutional and political structures has done nothing to blunt the predatory nature of empire. Identity and gender politics—we are about to be sold a woman president in the form of Hillary Clinton—have fostered, as Malcolm understood, fraud and theft by Wall Street, the evisceration of our civil liberties, the misery of an underclass in which half of all public school children live in poverty, the expansion of our imperial wars and the deep and perhaps fatal exploitation of the ecosystem. And until we heed Malcolm X, until we grapple with the truth about the self-destruction that lies at the heart of empire, the victims, at home and abroad, will mount. Malcolm, like James Baldwin, understood that only by facing the truth about who we are as members of an imperial power can people of color, along with whites, be liberated. This truth is bitter and painful. It requires an acknowledgment of our capacity for evil, injustice and exploitation, and it demands repentance. But we cling like giddy children to the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. We refuse to grow up. And because of these lies, perpetrated across the cultural and political spectrum, liberation has not taken place. Empire devours us all.
How Guantánamo Diary Escaped the Black Hole and Got Past the Censors (Mostly)
The first word of Guantánamo Diary is a black bar.
The book, in which Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi tells of his odyssey through overseas prisons and his torture and abuse by the US and its counterterrorism allies, is pockmarked with redactions left by military censors.
The diary was finally published last week, more than nine years after Slahi wrote it, and it jumped onto bestseller lists. But the details of how his lawyers fought for its release are still under seal – highlighting the secrecy that still surrounds everything to do with the U.S. military prison and the 122 men who remain there.
“The starting point is that everything that Mohamedou says, like anything that any Guantanamo detainee says, is considered classified and has to be cleared by the government,” said Hina Shamsi, the director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, who was involved in the negotiations for the manuscript’s release. ...
Slahi began to write his memoir in the summer of 2005, soon after he first met with attorneys. But, consistent with its policy of censoring communications from detainees, the government refused to approve it for release: Instead, the manuscript sat in a facility near Washington D.C., off-limits to anyone without the right security clearance. His attorneys, Shamsi said, fought to get it declassified, but that litigation remains under seal. Once they obtained an unclassified version, it could still only be read by Slahi’s legal team. It took further negotiations to get the government to approve it for public release. ...
For Larry Siems [editor of the book], censorship is at the core of Slahi’s story, and while the redactions sometimes impede his narrative, they serve a literary function as well.
“Secrecy was imposed in order for abuse to happen, and then more secrecy was imposed in order to cover it up,” said Siems. “The redactions are like the fingerprints of that longstanding censorship regime.”
Why America Needs to Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba
There's too much detail to fairly excerpt this article, so here's a teaser:
Under Suspicious Circumstances, FBI Places Brother of No-Fly Litigant on Most Wanted Terrorist List
I obviously have no idea whether Liban has done anything the FBI accuses him of doing: the indictment remains sealed. But independent of that issue, there is a serious question about why the FBI waited until the day before a key hearing in Gulet’s no-fly case to so melodramatically brand his brother as one of the world’s “most wanted terrorists,” particularly since they have had the arrest warrant for almost a full year.
What is beyond doubt is that the FBI has previously used dubious criminal charges, specifically terrorism accusations, to demonize and punish those who had the temerity to challenge the legality of the U.S. Government’s terrorism policies.
US considers providing arms to Ukraine as rebels step up attacks, says report
- John Kerry and military ‘open to arming Kiev forces’, says New York Times
- Washington concerned by renewed fighting after breakdown of truce
President Barack Obama’s administration is considering providing Ukrainian forces with defensive weapons and equipment in the face of a rebel offensive that has shattered a five-month truce, according to the New York Times.
The newspaper quoted US officials as saying secretary of state John Kerry and US joint chiefs chairman Martin Dempsey were open to discussions of the idea and that Nato military commander General Philip Breedlove supported providing such lethal aid.
One official was quoted as saying that US national security adviser Susan Rice was also prepared to reconsider her previous resistance to providing such assistance.
Kerry will visit Kiev on Thursday for talks with president Petro Poroshenko and other Ukrainian officials. Obama voiced concern last week about renewed fighting between Russian-backed separatist and government forces in eastern Ukraine and said the United States was considering all options short of military action to isolate Russia.
March to Folly in Ukraine
The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia.
Rule number one of geopolitics: nuclear-armed powers must never, ever fight.
Yet Washington just announced that by spring, it will deploy unspecified numbers of military “trainers” to Ukraine to help build Kiev’s ramshackle national guard. Also being sent are significant numbers of US special heavy, mine resistant armored vehicles that have been widely used in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US and Poland are currently covertly supplying Ukraine with some weapons.
The US soldiers will just be for training, and the number of GI’s will be modest, claim US military sources. Of course. Just like those small numbers of American “advisors” and “trainers” in Vietnam that eventually grew to 550,000. Just as there are now US special forces in over 100 countries. We call it “mission creep.”
The war-craving neocons in Washington and their allies in Congress and the Pentagon have long wanted to pick a fight with Russia and put it in its place for daring to oppose US policies against Iran, Syria and Palestine. What neocons really care about is the Mideast.
Some neocon fantasies call for breaking up the Russian Federation into small, impotent parts. Many Russians believe this is indeed Washington’s grand strategy, mixing military pressure on one hand and social media subversion on the other, aided by Ukrainian oligarchs and rightists. A massive propaganda campaign is underway, vilifying Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin as “the new Hitler.”
Back to eastern Ukraine. You don’t have to be a second Napoleon to see how a big war could erupt.
Netanyahu: No One Immune to Israeli Attacks
In comments that were widely seen as bragging over the January 18 assassination of top Hezbollah anti-ISIS commanders and an Iranian general, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel “have acted and thus we will continue to act.”
Netanyahu said he had “proven that nobody is immune from our intention to foil attacks against us.” Israeli officials claimed, without providing any evidence, that the Hezbollah fighters were plotting to attack Israel.
Spanish Peacekeeper Is the Latest Example of Israel Killing United Nations Personnel
On January 28th a barrage of Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, killing United Nations peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria, 36, was a Spanish citizen deployed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a peacekeeping mission tasked with maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon in the occupied Golan Heights.
His death came in the midst of a recent flare-up of violence between Israel and Hezbollah, and Spain’s ambassador to the United Nations placed blame for the incident upon the Israeli Defence Forces, citing an “escalation of violence [which] came from the Israeli side.” The exact circumstances which led to Soria’s death are still under investigation; Israeli officials expressed condolences for his death and said their forces were responding to fire in the area.
What is clear however is that Israeli forces have been killing an alarming number of United Nations personnel in the course of their recent military operations — and that UN officials have vociferously criticized the attacks, sometimes saying they appeared deliberate.
This past summer in the Gaza Strip, Israel forces attacked seven different schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, schools that had been serving as temporary shelters for the displaced population of the territory. Despite repeated warnings, condemnations and entreaties, United Nations targets were hit again and again by Israeli airstrikes and shelling during the conflict.
As many of 46 civilians are believed to have been killed in these attacks, as well as eleven UNRWA staff members. ... Israel’s repeated bombing and shelling of United Nations positions in the region comes against this backdrop, with Soria’s death being only the latest incident in which Israeli forces have been responsible for killing UN personnel. To date, no one has been held legally responsible for any of these attacks.
Pegida: Germany’s useful idiots
The politically murky and uneasy protest on the street matches the situation in the Bundestag. All dissent in parliament has now been marginalised by the grand coalition of the CDU/CSU and SPD. Any challenge to government policy is either tame (the Greens have almost entirely abandoned their aims of social equality and pacifism) or is barely noticed (the post-communist Left party, when not tripping over its own feet, gets a cold shoulder from the media). If in doubt, our elected representatives bow to the party whip rather than feeling bound to election promises, bringing further alienation. Dresden’s local and regional elected representatives are paralysed, speechless and helpless.
And then the speeches are all over. And I think: these people don’t actually have any demands related to their lives and their disaffection. They appear to lack suitable terms – instead of society, they use Volk; instead of talking about social inequality, they scapegoat those who are allegedly workshy, or foreigners who want to live on what we’ve worked hard for; politics’ permanent genuflection to the demands of the business lobby is reduced to complaining about outside regulation by Brussels, etc, etc.
For the conservative and governing parties, Pegida demonstrators are a comfortable opposition, because the actual questions are not being asked. Pegida are the useful idiots. They can be used as an excuse to tighten laws and to discredit real opposition. But the anti-Pegida demonstrators are no help either, at least when it comes to better formulating our problems.
Oh looky, Obama is now Mister Big Talk about taxing the wealthy and corporate interests, except of course, there is the fact that he wants to cut them a deal that allows them to avoid paying their fair share. Even when he's trying to act all progressive, the guy can't help sneaking it past the public that he's trying to reward his rich cronies.
Obama will propose mandatory tax on US companies' earnings held overseas
Barack Obama will propose a major clampdown on US corporations with a one-off levy on an estimated $2tn of untaxed earnings being stashed overseas, using the windfall to rescue America’s crumbling road infrastructure.
The centrepiece of the White House budget, which will be unveiled on Monday but was shared in advance with the Guardian and other media, is a one-off 14% tax on untaxed foreign earnings multinational companies are shielding overseas.
That is less than half of the current 35% top tax rate for corporations. But the White House predicts the 14% tax will raise $238bn, a sum it wants to immediately inject into a nationwide project to upgrade roads, bridges and public transport.
“These investments would be paid for by closing tax loopholes as part of reforming the business tax rules to level the playing field and make sure everyone pays their fair share,” a White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Podemos 'March for Change': Tens of thousands rally in Madrid against austerity
Launching 'New Era of Political Change,' Tens of Thousands March in Madrid
Fed up with conservative economics and fueled by Syriza's recent victory in Greece, tens of thousands of Spaniards flooded the streets of Madrid on Saturday to say: "No to Austerity and Yes to Change!"
The march, dubbed the "March for Change," is the first mass demonstration in support of the country's new leftist party, Podemos, which is Spanish for "We Can."
According to reports, demonstrators chanted "yes we can" and "tic tac tic tac" suggesting the clock was ticking for the country's two main political parties. Many waved Greek and republican flags and banners reading "The change is now."
"This is not about asking for anything from the government or protesting. It’s to say that in 2015 there will be a government of the people," said party leader Pablo Iglesias when the march was first announced. ...
Iglesias, a 36-year-old political science academic, is frequently compared to Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras. Like Syriza in Greece, Podemos has captured the country's attention by running on a slogan that politicians should "serve the people, not private interests," and promising to write off a portion of Spain's debt, which has caused soaring unemployment.
After Historic Victory, Greece's Leftist Syriza Party Begins Mandate Against "Vicious" Austerity
Greece debt standoff: George Osborne urges Athens and Brussels to strike deal
George Osborne has warned that the standoff between Greece and the eurozone poses “the greatest risk to the global economy” after meeting the new Greek finance minister.
The chancellor hosted a meeting at 11 Downing Street with his Greek counterpart, Yanis Varoufakis, who is on a whistlestop tour of Europe to win support for a renegotiated debt deal.
After the meeting, Osborne warned that the confrontation could affect the stability of the eurozone, the UK’s biggest trading partner.
“We had a constructive discussion, and it is clear that the standoff between Greece and the eurozone is the greatest risk to the global economy,” Osborne said. “I urge the Greek finance minister to act responsibly but it’s also important that the eurozone has a better plan for jobs and growth.
Greece rejects austerity in tense meeting with eurozone's bailout chief
Greece, the US and the Neo-Liberal Coup
In Argentina in the early 2000s there was little confusion as to whose interests the I.M.F. served. The ‘public’ debt the I.M.F. was working to get repaid was formerly private debts that were socialized, bank and corporate liabilities converted to obligations of the Argentine people, not unlike the trillions in bank ‘assets’ dumped by the (George W) Bush and Obama administrations into Federal government agencies to save Wall Street in 2008. This conflation of private with public debt is a primary component of neo-liberal extraction. And the ‘privatization’ of Greek ‘assets’ now being repudiated by Syriza was used to loot Argentina by this international kleptocracy as a core I.M.F. policy. This is to suggest that the Troika’s austerity programs for Greece have little to do with theoretical economics and everything to do with Western imperial ambitions. The policies may have ‘logic’ as economic theory, but the logic emerged from several centuries of imperial practice.
Another way to see the issues is to ask where the U.S. Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, found the $4 trillion to buy financial assets through its QE (Quantitative Easing) programs? The money was conjured ‘out of thin air,’ by making digital entries against the assets being purchased. The E.C.B. similarly has fiat currency; it can conjure money at will. If an asset is needed to be booked to balance the Central Bank’s books, a nominal asset like the trillion dollar coin being proposed a while back in the U.S. would work just fine. The point is that the E.C.B. could technically, if not politically, resolve Greece’s public debt with a few keystroke entries. The debt is being used as a political and economic lever by the Troika, much as was the case in Argentina in the early 2000s and is currently the case in the U.S. The budget ‘deficit’ being used to sell austerity in the U.S. is a contrived fiction. It isn’t that the accounting isn’t ‘real,’ it is that it misrepresents for political purposes how government spending is really financed.
The point in uniting the victims of an engineered Great Depression in Greece with the plight of Argentinians in the early 2000s to that of the growing poor underclass in the U.S. is that the problems are social— class warfare, not a function of material limitations. Each of these circumstances represents a struggle for social resources; the differences are over economic distribution, not ‘natural’ limitations. ... The economic policies forced on Greece are being imposed by degree across the West. School systems in major U.S. cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit are being systematically looted by neo-liberal ideologues and self-serving ‘managers’ for their own benefit. ... Public and private pensions are being cut under claims of material scarcity when the taxes and pay that were intended to fund them have been cut to benefit the wealthy. ...
The economic policies forced on Greece are more draconian than in the U.S. and European core, but be degree, not by type. Wall Street, which includes major German and French banks, has used manufactured crises to affect ‘soft’ coups around the globe for decades. Debt is used as a weapon. The Greek people have a very difficult battle to fight. But the neo-liberal coup is international. Americans and Northern Europeans who think they are on the ‘winning’ side just haven’t had their jobs and life savings stolen yet. To one degree or another, we are all Greeks now.
Hellraiser Preview
Sherman, set the time machine for tomorrow's Hellraisers Journal which will feature an article from the Masses on organized charities corporation and the careful investigations of the morals of mothers.
Tune in at 2pm!
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Global deflation risk deepens as China economy slows
PMI data shows excess supply and insufficient demand in vast manufacturing sector with prices and output falling
The risk of global deflation looms large for 2015 as surveys of China’s mammoth manufacturing sector showed excess supply and insufficient demand in January drove down prices and production.
While the pulse of activity was livelier in Japan, India and South Korea, they shared a common condition of slowing inflation.
“The slide in global oil prices and inflation has turned out to be even bigger than anticipated,” said David Hensley, an economist at JP Morgan, and central banks from Europe to Canada to India have responded by easing policy. “What is now in the pipeline will help extend the near-term impulse from energy to economic growth into the second half of the year.”
Huckabee: having to accept gay marriage is like telling Jews to serve 'bacon-wrapped shrimp'
The Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee on Sunday said same-sex marriage was like drinking and swearing – a concept appealing to others but not to him as a Christian.
The former Arkansas governor, appearing on CNN, said forcing people opposed to same-sex marriage to accept it was the same as telling Jews they had to serve “bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli”. ...
“For me … this is not just a political issue,” Huckabee said. “It is a biblical issue. And unless I get a new version of the scriptures it’s really not my place to just say, ‘OK, I’m just going to evolve.’”
The Evening Greens
Dear Democrats, gift horse approaching. Put down the dental inspection tools.
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Majority of Americans Want Lawmakers to Take Action on Climate
Ahead of the 2016 elections, the verdict is in: Most people in the United States—including a large number of Republicans—think global warming poses a serious threat to the world and want the government to take action to stave off climate crisis.
A new nation-wide poll conducted by Stanford University, The New York Times, and environmental research organization Resources for the Future found that two-thirds of people in the U.S.—including almost half of Republicans—say they are more likely to back politicians who vow in their campaigns to fight global warming.
Likewise, the majority of respondents said they are less likely to vote for a candidate who denies the reality of human-caused global warming.
Jon A. Krosnick, Stanford University professor and an author of the poll, told The New York Times that the numbers on Republicans constitute "the most powerful finding" in the survey.
While most Republic candidates steer clear of addressing climate change, and many openly deny its scientific foundations, the study suggests that their base of support is moving in a different direction.
Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws - to save cash
Fracking Failure: Frackers In Pennsylvania Violate Health And Environmental Regulations On A Daily Basis
A group of oil and gas companies fracking in Pennsylvania formed the Center for Sustainable Shale Development in 2013. According to its website, CSSD is dedicated to “the development of rigorous performance standards for sustainable shale development and a commitment to continuous improvement to ensure safe and environmentally responsible development of our abundant shale resources.”
“Rigorous performance standards for sustainable shale development” certainly sounds great. The only problem is, none of the four companies that founded CSSD — Chevron Appalachia, Consol Energy, EQT Production and Shell — seems to have actually adhered to those standards.
According to a new report by Environment America titled “Fracking Failures: Oil and Gas Industry Environmental Violations in Pennsylvania and What They Mean for the U.S.,” ever since those four companies “told the public they would adhere to higher standards” in 2013, they have collectively committed as many as 100 violations of Pennsylvania’s existing oil and gas regulations.
And that is hardly the whole story in terms of what Environment America found: “In Pennsylvania, fracking companies violate rules and regulations meant to protect the environment and human health on virtually a daily basis. Between January 1, 2011, and August 31, 2014, the top 20 offending fracking companies committed an average of 1.5 violations per day.”
Groundhog day: Punxsutawney Phil forecasts six more weeks of winter
The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, say the furry rodent has forecast six more weeks of winter.
Members of the top hat-wearing Inner Circle announced the “forecast” just before 7.30am on Monday.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why America’s Wars Persist
Bernie Sanders: America Shouldn't Just Fund Social Security — We Should Expand It
Barrett Brown: My Post Cyberpunk Indentured Servitude
Glimmer of Hope for Assange
Syriza wins in Greece: what it must do
Open letter to the German readers: That which you were never told about Greece
Assuming Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities
A Little Night Music
Joe Louis Walker - Hornet's Nest
Joe Louis Walker- Bluesifyin
Joe Louis Walker - I'm Not Messin' Around
Joe Louis Walker - Blues of the month club
Joe Louis Walker - Rock Me Baby Medley
Joe Louis Walker - Eyes Like A Cat
Joe Louis Walker - Ramblin Soul
Joe Louis Walker - I Didn't Know
Joe Louis Walker - 747
Joe Louis Walker, Matt Guitar Murphy & Billy Boy Arnold - Rebecca
Joe Louis Walker - Runnin' From the Devil
Joe Louis Walker - Change my ways
Joe Louis Walker - Slow Down GTO
Joe Louis Walker - City of Angels
Billy Branch & Joe Louis Walker - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Joe Louis Walker - Little Village
Joe Louis Walker - Eyesight To The Blind
B.B. King and Joe Louis Walker - Everybody's Had The Blues
Joe Louis Walker - Born in Mississipi
Joe Louis Walker - High blood pressure
Joe Louis Walker-Shade Tree Mechanic
Joe Louis Walker - Let's Rock a While Tonight
Joe Louis Walker - Nancy Jazz Pulsation
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