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Date Sent: 2010-03-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, March 6, 2010 |
NY Congressman resigns under ethics cloud -- McCain, Lieberman bill authorizes indefinite detention
Banks shuttered in Fla., Ill., Md., Utah -- FBI paid racist shock jock Hal Turner 'in
excess of $100,000' -- Obama cancels Yucca Mountain -- Indiana faces wave of 'sovereign citizens'
who declare independence -- Hirsi-Ali Gives Her Side --
Rosenberg: If You Don't Think We're Staring At Deflation, Check This
Out -- Legalizing 10.8 Million Immigrants -- Barney Frank: Fannie And Freddie
Bondholders Will Not Be Made Whole -- Iceland to Reject Paying
British Investors for Banking Losses -- UK Police to be equipped with
mobile fingerprint scanners -- Greece
should sell islands to keep bankruptcy at bay, say German MPs --
The tyranny of the Monopoly in American economic life -- Global Warming
Money Trail -- Active 'Patriot' Groups in the United States in 2009.
Did your group make the list?
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this
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News Link • Corruption
New York Congressman Eric Massa resigns under ethics cloud
03-05-2010
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AP
New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa, facing a harassment complaint by a male staffer, said Friday that he is stepping down from his seat with "a profound sense of failure." "I am guilty," Massa said in an interview with a Corning, N.Y., newspaper col
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Habeas Corpus
McCain, Lieberman bill would authorize indefinite detention
03-05-2010
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RawStory.com
The "Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives, also says suspects should not be told they have a right to remain silent.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Banks shuttered in Fla., Ill., Md., Utah
03-05-2010
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AP
Regulators on Friday shuttered banks in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah, boosting to 26 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year following the 140 brought down in 2009 by mounting loan defaults and the recession.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Constitution
Articles of the Constitution You May Not Have Seen (55 seconds)
3/5/10
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Glenn Beck Clips
video
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Reported by:
Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Police State
FBI paid racist shock jock Hal Turner ‘in excess of $100,000′
03-05-2010
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Rawstory
Turning informant on your fans can be lucrative, if you're a shock jock by the name of Hal Turner. Amid a trial where Turner faces criminal charges for making threats of violence against public servants, he disclosed that the FBI paid him "in excess
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Obama cancels Yucca Mountain
03-05-2010
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Reuters
The project involved more than 2,500 scientists. It cost $ 10.5 billion between 1983 and 2009 and it included one of the most bizarre scientific tasks of all time: evaluate whether nuclear waste stored deep inside a Nevada desert mountain would be sa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Indiana faces wave of ’sovereign citizens’ who declare independence
03-05-2010
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Rawstory
An increasing number of Indiana residents are declaring themselves "sovereign citizens" and personally seceding from the United States. By doing so, residents contend that they no longer have to pay taxes, claiming their homes as embassies and using
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
03-05-2010
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Reuters
A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Hirsi-Ali Gives Her Side at U.W.
03-05-2010
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The Badger Herald
Author and former Dutch M.P. Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks about the abuse of women by Muslims, death threats made against her due to her academic work in Holland in a speech given at the University of Wisconsin.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Propaganda
Militia Fear Propaganda from The Southern Poverty Law Center (video)
8/13/09
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Fox News
Militia Fear Propaganda from Mark Potok & The Southern Poverty Law Center video
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Racism
1998 Congressional Candidate Tears Apart Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC (Video)
8/11/08
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Youtube
In 1998, paleoconservative activist John Mangopoulos ran for U.S. Congress against Debbie Stabenow and Susan Grimes Munsell. Mangopoulos was endorsed by the Reform Party, while Stabenow was running as a Democrat and Munsell ran as a Republican.
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Racism
Lou Takes on Leftist SPLC (video)
3/29/07
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Youtube
Lou takes Mark Potak of the left wing Southern Poverty Law Center to task for essentially calling Lou and his show racist. For anyone not familiar with the SPLC may I point you to: http://oneoldvet.com/?p=692
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Currencies
Fake money circulating at an alarming rate in America
02/25/2010
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By FierceEyedTiger, Youtube.com
WXII News from Winston Salem, N.C. reports on counterfeit money being spread around the local area. Someone is turning $5.00 into $100.00 bills and using them for ordinary purchases.
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Political Parties
Republican National Committee official behind 'fear' pitch under fire for fees
03/05/2010
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By KENNETH P. VOGEL & BEN SMITH, Politico.com
Rob Bickhart, the Republican National Committee official behind the embarrassing fundraising presentation reported this week by POLITICO, has been paid at least $370,000 since last June by the RNC in salary and consulting fees.
The size of Bickhart
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Food
Hierloom Organics Seeds of Action Community Support Program
03-05-2010
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Farm Wars
The Heirloom Organics Seeds of Action! program provides seeds and assistance, free of cost, to non-profit groups and organizations throughout North America, who are using seeds for community service projects.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Political Parties
Top Republicans: Yeah, We're Calling Obama Socialist
03/05/2010
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by Liz Halloran, NPR.com
Revelations that the Republican National Committee urged fundraisers to shake the money trees by playing on fears about President Obama and "socialism" have ignited a classic Washington kerfuffle.
Democrats have dubbed the fundraising plan, conta
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Events: America
Parents of Pentagon shooter warned authorities
03/05/2010
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By TRACIE CONE & BROOKE DONALD, AP, Yahoo.com
HOLLISTER, Calif. " The Pentagon shooter had been behaving erratically, and his family feared in January that he had bought a gun, a law enforcement official said Friday.
San Benito County Sheriff Curtis Hill told the AP the parents of John Patrick
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Join Cops for Coffee Next Week (Ahwatukee Residents)
03-05-2010
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Ahwatukee News
"The coffee klatch provides an opportunity for people to ask officers about local crime trends, crime prevention tips or updates on local changes."
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Entering the U.S. Without Paying For a Visa? THAT WILL BE TEN DOLLARS, PLEASE!
03-05-2010
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Yahoo! News
This one almost slipped under the radar. Read the last line of the article...
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rosenberg: If You Don't Think We're Staring At Deflation, Check This Out
03-05-2010
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businessinsider.com/
As per the revised Q4 data, we now see that unit labour costs slid at a 5.9 %
annual rate, the third decline in the past four quarters. On a year-over-year
basis, unit labour costs plunged 4.7%, which is unprecedented...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science
Popular Science's Archive Now Free
03/05/2010
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PopSci
137 years of archives are now available for search online... for free. [Don't expect to see Ernie around for a while...]
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David Alpha
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News Link • Immigration
Legalizing 10.8 Million Immigrants in a Depression: Because Obama Cares
03-05-2010
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LAtimes.com
The basis of a bill would include a path toward citizenship for the 10.8 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Citizenship would not be granted lightly, the White House said. Undocumented workers would need to register, pay taxes and pay...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barney Frank: Fannie And Freddie Bondholders Will Not Be Made Whole
03-05-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
“We’re not remaking Fannie and Freddie,” Frank said. “We’re going to start from scratch and do housing finance.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Birth Death Model Magic: Newly Unemployed Went Up 148,000 in Feb.
03-05-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
One more point on the unemployment numbers. It should be noted that the infamous BLS fudge factor, the Birth/Death Adjustment resulted in adding 97,000 to the ranks of the employed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
UK Police to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners
03-05-2010
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BlackListedNews.com
But fears have arisen the technology could contribute to the so-called "surveillance state" and encourage random searches.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Iceland to Reject Paying British Investors for Banking Losses
03-05-2010
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businessinsider.com/
About 75 per cent of Iceland is expected to vote “no” in an emotionally charged referendum to be held tomorrow. Despite last-minute negotiations with the UK and the Dutch finance ministry, the referendum looks a lost cause.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Seven in Ten Putting Off Retirement Do So for Financial Reasons
03-05-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
This is proof of a statement I made years ago that boomers would be competing against their kids and grandkids for jobs at Walmart.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Constitution
It’s not About Political Parties. It’s About Liberty
03-05-2010
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Michael Boldin
All undelegated powers exercised by the federal government are unathoritative, void and of no force.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Military
Gunman killed after shooting 2 Pentagon police-Updated Shooter Information
03/05/2010
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By MATT APUZZO & DEVLIN BARRETT, AP, Yahoo.com
"John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter. Officials said they'd found no immediate connection to terrorism but had not ruled it out. Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Economy - International
Greece should sell islands to keep bankruptcy at bay, say German MPs
03/04/2010
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Phillip Inman and Helena Smith, guardian.co.uk
Greece must consider a fire sale of land, historic buildings and art works to cut its debts, two rightwing German politicians said today in a newspaper interview that is bound to exacerbate tensions between Athens and Berlin.
Alongside austerity mea
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Activism
Rallies across California decry high-education funding cuts
03/04/2010
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Los Angeles Times, LAtimes.com
A day of passionate protest against education funding cuts attracted thousands of demonstrators Thursday to generally peaceful rallies, walkouts and teach-ins at universities and high schools throughout California and the nation.
From Los Angeles
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Activism
US police arrest 150 students in California
03/05/2010
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PressTV.com
Police in the US have arrested at least 150 students participating in peaceful nationwide rallies to protest against cuts in educational funding.
Baton-wielding police said Thursday they arrested the protestors who blocked a freeway and caused tr
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The tyranny of the Monopoly in American economic life
03-05-2010
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arclein
t is simple. We pass laws insisting the consumer must buy turnips from a licensed vender. We then sell a few licenses to a handful of venders at a high price. He then got to the producer and demands a cut for peddling his turnips. He also jacks u
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Fraud
03-05-2010
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arclein
In turn, this apparent consensus misled not only the media and the public but also the wider scientific community, which had remained largely unaware of the ongoing debate and of the work of the many reputable climate experts who disagreed with the I
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Livermore Fusion Fine Tuned
03-05-2010
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arclein
By extrapolating from these results, they scientist say they should be able to achieve fusion using the laser system at Livermore, which was officially opened last year. Glenzer says this could happen by the end of the year.
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
High Energy Density Biofuel Advance
03-05-2010
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arclein
It really is very simple," says Bond, of the two-step catalytic process. "We can pull off these two catalytic stages, as well as the requisite separation steps, in series, with basic equipment. With very minimal processing, we can produce a pure st
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming Money Trail
03-05-2010
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arclein
Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion dollar trading scheme. Big Oil's supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking.
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
City of Phoenix Food Tax Harms the poor the most!
03-05-2010
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KPHO / offthegridguy.com
Morpheus Blasts Phoenix City Council. The food tax is a Regressive tax hurting the poor the most. PHOENIX- The Phoenix City council meeting on March 2 2010, where Off the grid Guy Aka Morpheus blasts the city council for running a SCAM on the peopl
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Active 'Patriot' Groups in the United States in 2009. did your group make the list?
03-04-2010
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http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence
The Intelligence Project identified 512 "Patriot" groups that were active in 2009. Of these groups, 127 were militias, marked with an asterisk, and the remainder includes "common-law" courts, publishers, ministries and citizens' groups. Generally, Pa
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Drew
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