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Date Sent: 2013-12-31
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
Don't Let Other Countries Declare War For America
'Core' Al-Qaeda not behind Benghazi attack: US -- The "Wounded Warriors Project" Is a Scam -- 2013: Why no prosecution or publicity for child sex abuse and mass murders? -- I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on -- Turkey's politicians, gold dealer and the pop star -- Sued for a Study -- Definitive proof that the mainstream media is scripted? -- Burn the Fucking System to the Ground -- 2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse -- Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? Anger Grows As Unemployment Benefits Get Cut -- Iran Nuclear Talks Resume in Geneva -- Radio Beam Device Disables
Engines to 50m -- Successive
suicide bombings in Russia kill over 30 -- Does fighting
crony capitalism necessarily involve fighting the growth of
government? -- US Universities of Shame -- Palestinian Political
Prisoners
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club, Dave Hodges speaking, Sat. Jan.
4, 2014
NV: Ernie Hancock at Passport to Freedom 2014, Jan. 23-25, 2014
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Don't Let Other Countries Declare War For America
12-30-2013
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Reason Magazine
The American people should know that pending right now in Congress is a bipartisan bill that would virtually commit the United States to go to war against Iran if Israel attacks the Islamic Republic. “The bill outsources any decision about
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News Link • Libya
'Core' Al-Qaeda not behind Benghazi attack: US
12-30-2013
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AFP
She was speaking after the New York Times published a lengthy investigation which found no evidence that the Al-Qaeda network had direct involvement in the attack, in which ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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News Link • Corruption
The "Wounded Warriors Project" Is a Scam
12-30-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Per Veterans Today, "As far as I can determine, WWP does little, if any, direct support of wounded warriors and wounded warrior programs." It turns out "compensation for the top 10 WWP employees runs from $150K to $333K per officer annually."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
2013: Why no prosecution or publicity for child sex abuse and mass murders?
12-30-2013
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Judy Byington, author www.ChildAbuseRecovery.com
The early December discovery of 30 child skeletons in a mass grave on the grounds of a United Church residential school for native children in Port Alberni, B.C. has garnered no mass media excitement.
The unmarked graves should have been no surpr
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Judy Byington
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News Link • WAR: About that War
I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
12-30-2013
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The Guardian
Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the drone program " aka drones " I wish I could ask them a few questions. I'd start with: "How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?"
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Turkey's politicians, gold dealer and the pop star
12-30-2013
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The Telegraph
Huge sums of cash seized in dozens of shoeboxes in the homes of the highest in the land, revolve around a lucrative oil and gold trade with Iran. Large amounts of the proceeds were found in the boxes at the home of a state bank's chief
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Sued for a Study
12-30-2013
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Reason Magazine
A plaintiff's lawyer is suing a medical journal and two doctors because they published a case report that makes it harder to win birth-injury lawsuits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Definitive proof that the mainstream media is scripted?
12-30-2013
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Ben Swann
On his late night TV, Conan O’brien decided to highlight local news stories over the holidays. What he shows his audience probably doesn’t shock many, but seems to provide warrant for the growing movement challenging the mainstream media.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Archaeology
Ten Most Amazing Archaeological Discoveries of 2013
12-30-2013
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This year has seen some incredible discoveries in the field of archaeology " from ancient myths proven true, to evidence of ancient technology, and findings that have solved enduring mysteries, such as the death of Tutankhamun.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Burn the Fucking System to the Ground
12-30-2013
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"I'm a good judge" … said judge Gisele Pollack who, it seems, sentenced people to jail because of their drug use…while she, herself, was high on drugs.
But, in her defense, "she’s had some severe personal tragedy in her life".
And that's why, i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse
12-30-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
2014 is upon us. For a person who graduated from Georgia Tech in 1961, a year in which the class ring showed the same date right side up or upside down, the 21st century was a science fiction concept associated with Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, “2001
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? Anger Grows As Unemployment Benefits Get Cut
12-30-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month. As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented level
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Chris Menke
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News Link • TERRORISM
Radio Beam Device Disables Engines to 50m
12-30-2013
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arclein
‘At the weight of frequencies we’re taking about - L and S-Band - the wiring loom of, say a metre…is almost the perfect aerial,’ said Wood.
The electromagnetic blast travels through the wiring loom as a series of pulses, arriving at the vehicle’s
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Pineal Gland and Floride
12-30-2013
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arclein
can be activated to spiritual world frequencies and enables you to have the sense of all knowing, godlike euphoria and oneness all around you. A pineal gland once tuned into to proper frequencies with help of meditation, yoga or various esoteric, oc
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
1887 Variations in Climate
12-30-2013
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arclein
On the contrary, the formation of ice increases annually if the winters are strongly cold, long and dark. The reverse of that state of things is found by calculations for the year 1122 A.D., and it is precisely at that time that we find the Danes and
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robert klein
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News Link • Free Speech
Mission Accomplished - Edward Snowdon
12-30-2013
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arclein
During more than 14 hours of interviews, the first he has conducted in person sincearriving here in June, Snowden did not part the curtains or step outside. Russia granted him temporary asylum on Aug. 1, but Snowden remains a target of surpassing int
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News Link • TERRORISM
Successive suicide bombings in Russia kill over 30
12-30-2013
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AP
A suicide bomber killed 14 people aboard an electric bus in the Russian city of Volgograd during the Monday morning rush hour, and authorities believe it was the work of the same group that set off a bomb at the railway station a day earlier.
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News Link • Crony Capitalism
Does fighting crony capitalism necessarily involve fighting the growth of government?
12-30-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
I have to say that I enjoy articles like this one by Mike Konczal in the New Republic. He argues that all the focus on crony capitalism is a “Right-wing” ruse. He argues that it is just a smear used by reactionary idiologues to tarnish this progressi
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Chris Menke
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Opinion • Surveillance
Ray McGovern: My Take
Gen. Michael ‘No Probable Cause’ Hayden
12-29-2013
Ray McGovern
Ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden, who once declared that “probable cause” is not part of the Fourth Amendment, is sure to hurl more stones at NSA leaker Edward Snowden, especially after a New York judge endorsed the NSA’s “metadata” as legal, says ex-CIA
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, Best of 2013
12-28-2013
John Semmens
President Says “Right of Conscience” Not Valid for Military Personnel
“I am the Commander-in-Chief,” Obama explained. “It is every soldier's duty to carry out my orders without hesitation or mental reservation. No religious dogma can be permitted
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Kansas Cops Bully Man into Arrest for Trying to Record Them
12-27-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Nevertheless, the man said he would provide his identification, but wanted to put his camera down first. However, the pair of cops began crowding him in typical bully fashion until they arrested him. “I don’t sit here and wait for you to give me ID
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Racism
Sharpton, Obama, and the “Hate Crime” Fraud
12-27-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
For the past several months, gangs of mostly black thugs have been sucker punching mostly elderly white, Asian, and Jewish men and women, even killing several people, in what they call the “knockout game.” Self-appointed “civil rights leaders”
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News Link • Surveillance
NY district judge rules that NSA phone surveillance is legal
12-27-2013
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ars technica
Judge Pauley ruled that the National Security Agency’s mass collection of phone records is lawful. The judge ruled that Fourth Amendment protections do not extend to records held by third parties, like telecom companies.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Albany Faces The Second Battle of the Lies
12-27-2013
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Simple Justice
This was a watershed decision, where the court upheld “pretext stops,” a benign phrase meaning police can lie to eviscerate a person’s right to be left alone. Lies were elevated above constitutional rights, because it was an effective law enforcemen
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals
12-27-2013
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Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years ago. The newly found species, Tiktaalik roseae, has a skull
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Controversial Montana Judge Sentences Man Who Brutally Attacked Woman To Writing
12-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Montana District Judge Todd Baugh is the subject of national criticism (again) in his handling of a criminal case. Baugh previously caused a national uproar over his treatment of a rape of a 14 year old girl who he described as “older than her chrono
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
PA Boy, 10, Suspended for Using Imaginary Bow and Arrow
12-27-2013
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A 5th-grader was suspended from school for using an imaginary bow and arrow. Johnny Jones, 10, fell prey to South Eastern Middle School’s zero-tolerance weapons policy when he used a No. 2 pencil to engage in a playful back-and-forth
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Family banned from homeschooling after divorce
12-27-2013
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WND
A Florida judge has ordered several children in a homeschooling family into public school district classes based on the “gut reaction” of a court appointee in a divorce and custody case where homeschooling wasn’t even an issue.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Growers resume push for Christmas tree 'tax'
12-27-2013
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FOX News
The push for a Christmas tree "tax" is back. The initiative first surfaced, and then screeched to a halt, in 2011. Christmas tree growers petitioned the Department of Agriculture to impose a fee on trees, in order to fund a new board to promote their
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News Link • Internet
Saving Internet information from the Memory Hole
12-27-2013
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Files That Last
The questions I’m addressing here are: (1) If you want to wipe some information from the Internet, can you do it? (2) If someone tries to wipe information which you suddenly realize you want, how much can you recover?
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News Link • Food
Big Food Companies Push to LABEL Genetically Modified Products as “NATURAL"
12-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by emalvini
Big Food Companies Push to LABEL Genetically Modified Products as “NATURAL"
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News Link • Obama Administration
Judge Rules: Obama Social Security Card Fraud May Finally Get Answers
12-27-2013
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http://freedomoutpost.com, By Tim Brown
It took years for Watergate to unravel fully. The controversy over Barack Hussein Obama and his past, along with fraudulent documents continues to make headlines.
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News Link • Police State
My First Encounter with a Texas Game Warden and Local Police
12-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by RobHino
Some of you may recall that I recently left city life and moved back to the country to get away from the hustle and bustle and focus on my small businesses and family property.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
My Experience with the TSA
12-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by andersonone
Several weeks ago I took my wife to NYC so she could see the place done up for Christmas. I would have rather gone to Colorado but when you're married these are the kinds of deals you make. We flew out of Raleigh,NC to NYC then out of La Guardia back
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News Link • General Opinion
Peter Schiff: Unbelievable Liberal Reaction to my Walmart Video
12-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com
The reaction from the left to my recent Walmart video does more to expose liberal intolerance and hypocrisy than my video itself.
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News Link • Syria
Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt " The Wars Continue
12-27-2013
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original.antiwar.com
2013 has expectedly been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed, most violently in some instances, by taking a few countries down the path of anar
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Target Hackers DID Steal Encrypted PINs as Well as 40million Credit and Debit Card Numbers..
12-27-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The hackers who attacked Target Corp and compromised more than 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to steal encrypted personal identification numbers, according to a senior payments executive familiar with the situation.
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News Link • Military
U.S. Sailors Sue Japanese Company Over Radiation Injuries Following The Fukushima Disaster
12-26-2013
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Jonathan Turley
US service members have developed cancer and other illnesses after serving in the rescue efforts following the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The Navy told them there was no harm from radiation so long as they avoided the plume
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News Link • Federal Reserve
PBS Drops a Bombshell on the Federal Reserve’s 100th Birthday Party
12-26-2013
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PBS promised a “debate” this past Friday night on the “benefits and dangers” of the Federal Reserve as the Fed marks its 100 years of existence tomorrow. Instead of a debate, two famous stock market historians made the same stunning announcement " th
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Monsignor William Lynn conviction overturned by Pa. court; D.A. 'most likely' to appeal
12-26-2013
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Lynn served as the secretary for clergy and was tasked with handling child sex abuse complaints. He was found guilty of felony child endangerment for covering up sex abuse claims brought against priests by reshuffling them to other parishes.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
How Debtors' Prisons Are Making A Comeback In America
12-26-2013
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zerohedge.com
Apparently having 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of its prisoners simply isn’t good enough for neo-feudal America.
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Itemizing The Obamacare Fees
12-26-2013
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zerohedge.com
Obamacare's rollout may be in limbo even though the official deadline has come and gone (despite a much touted 2 million visitors to healthcare.gov on Monday which probably means it should IPO immediately), but the real sticker shock of actual fees a
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News Link • China
Now China ... Reasons for Printing Money Abound
12-26-2013
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thedailybell.com
China move calms credit concerns ... Chinese authorities have been trying to curb excessive lending ... China's central bank has pumped $5bn (£3.1bn) into the banking system to ease concerns over a credit squeeze that has caused rising interest rates
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening :
12-26-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Messengers for ...
"You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a differenc
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