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Date Sent: 2015-10-19
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Monday, October 19, 2015 |
Irwin Schiff (Feb. 23 1928 - Oct. 16 2015) 1996 Libertarian Convention (Video)
UN to call on governments around the world to decriminalise all drugs, says Richard Branson -- t0.com Completes Successful Production Beta Test of its Crypto Exchange Platform -- Cannabis Could Win Big in Today's Canadian Election -- Smoking Gun Memo Changes Context of Middle East -- Assassinations: Is This 'American Exceptionalism'? by Ron Paul -- How Not to Fix Fannie and Freddie -- U.S. Stocks Drop on Morgan Stanley, Metals Slide on China GDP -- Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Set to Scale Back Global Ambitions -- Clinton's Benghazi interrogator is veteran prosecutor -- ESA's GomX-3 CubeSat goes online -- 10-19-15 -- Tone Vays - Glenn Cripe; Adedeji Sunday Akintayo -- (VIDEO LOADED) -- Russia Effectively Undermining Washington's Hegemonic Agenda -- Israel Bans Free Expression -- Endless War Does Not Make Us Safer -- UN to call on governments around the world to decriminalise all drugs, says Richard Branson -- 'Star Wars: Force Awakens' Tickets to Go on Sale Two Months Early -- Facebook Now Warns Users of State-Sponsored Attacks -- Irwin Schiff (Feb. 23 1928 - Oct. 16 2015) at the Libertarian Convention 1996 (Video) -- Belloc's Prophecy -- New Bitcoin Skill & Strategy Physics Game "Crypto Collider" Offers Unique Hedging System -- Bitreserve Rebrands as Uphold, Pivots to New Financial Services and De-Emphasizes Bitcoin -- Alleged Beersheba Attacker Identified -- Robotic Deer Will Help Catch Wildlife Poachers In Arizona -- McDonald's Franchisees Say That The Business Is In Its "Final days" -- Hillary Clinton Looks to Turn Benghazi Hearing Into Next Boost -- China's Selling Tons of U.S. Debt. Americans Couldn't Care Less. -- Injecting 200,000 Syrian Muslims Into America: Multicultural Chaos -- Implantable LCD eye lenses may make glasses obsolete -- 'America is a bomb waiting to explode' --
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Irwin Schiff (Feb. 23 1928 - Oct. 16 2015) at the Libertarian Convention 1996 (Video)
10-19-2015
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Youtube
Video clips of Irwin Schiff speeches, who was imprisoned for his resistance to the federal income tax and, sadly, died this week.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Drug War
UN to call on governments around the world to decriminalise all drugs, says Richard Branson
10-19-2015
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Independent
The British entrepreneur appears to have released details of an embargoed UN report - in case they change their minds
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
t0.com Completes Successful Production Beta Test of its Crypto Exchange Platform
10-19-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
"We have started building things that replace what Wall Street does," said Byrne. "It does them far cheaper, and with far more transparency, and without any of the opportunity for rigging."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Drug War
Cannabis Could Win Big in Today's Canadian Election
10-19-2015
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The Daily Bell
Medicinal cannabis is now legal and federally regulated in Canada from coast to coast, but full decriminalization, let alone adult-use legalization, hasn't yet taken place â€" and legalization seems even farther off.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Smoking Gun Memo Changes Context of Middle East
10-19-2015
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The Daily Bell
So it is all coming out now ... the deliberate, cold-blooded planning to create a war with Iraq no matter the consequences. The evidence is contained in communications from then US Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George W Bush.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Assassinations: Is This 'American Exceptionalism'? by Ron Paul
10-19-2015
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
A new US government whistleblower has revealed just how extensive and how destructive is the US assassination policy worldwide. They call it "targeted killing" to sanitize the term, but it is the same assassination that had long been prohibited. Have
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Federal Reserve
How Not to Fix Fannie and Freddie
10-19-2015
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Bloomberg
The recent push to recapitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and release them from conservatorship is misguided.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Stocks Drop on Morgan Stanley, Metals Slide on China GDP
10-19-2015
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Bloomberg
U.S. stocks declined as Morgan Stanley kicked off a busy week of corporate earnings with disappointing results, while a slowdown in Chinese growth sent commodities lower.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Set to Scale Back Global Ambitions
10-19-2015
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Bloomberg
"The European banks were too long holding onto the past and not realizing that this change is for good -- it's permanent," said Oswald Gruebel, a former chief executive officer of both UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
Clinton's Benghazi interrogator is veteran prosecutor
10-19-2015
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mcclatchydc.com
The South Carolina prosecutor looked straight at the camera, relishing his role on an episode of the show "Forensic Files" as he discussed fingerprints, DNA testing and other evidence pointing to a murder suspect.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
ESA's GomX-3 CubeSat goes online
10-19-2015
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gizmag.com
The European Space Agency has declared that its miniature GomX-3 technology demonstration satellite is in good health and ready to begin its primary mission.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
UN to call on governments around the world to decriminalise all drugs, says Richard Branson
10-19-2015
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Independent
The British entrepreneur appears to have released details of an embargoed UN report - in case they change their minds
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
'Star Wars: Force Awakens' Tickets to Go on Sale Two Months Early
10-19-2015
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Bloomberg
'Star Wars: Force Awakens' Tickets to Go on Sale Two Months Early...Sales will start after showing of new trailer on Monday night
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook Now Warns Users of State-Sponsored Attacks
10-19-2015
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Wired
IN 2012, GOOGLE began notifying its users if it believed those people's accounts or computers were at risk of a state-sponsored attack. Three years later, Facebook has now followed suit, the latest in a string of security-conscious measures the soc
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Irwin Schiff (Feb. 23 1928 - Oct. 16 2015) at the Libertarian Convention 1996 (Video)
10-19-2015
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Youtube
Video clips of Irwin Schiff speeches, who was imprisoned for his resistance to the federal income tax and, sadly, died this week.
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Belloc's Prophecy
10-19-2015
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LewRockwell.Com - Joseph Sobran
Belloc saw Islam not as an alien religion, but in its origins as a Christian heresy, adopting and adapting certain Christian doctrines (monotheism, the immortality of the soul, final judgment) and rejecting others (original sin, the Incarnation and d
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
New Bitcoin Skill & Strategy Physics Game "Crypto Collider" Offers Unique Hedging System
10-19-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
The game features a transparent "GameChain" ledger and supports most popular digital currencies including Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Peercoin, NXT, Primecoin, LTC and more. It is fun, innovative and an excellent multi-functional hedging tool / trading pl
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitreserve Rebrands as Uphold, Pivots to New Financial Services and De-Emphasizes Bitcoin
10-19-2015
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Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin startup Bitreserve is becoming a full-fledged financial services company and rebranding as Uphold. CEO Anthony Watson announced the move with a post titled " Welcome to Uphold. The Internet of Money."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
McDonald's Franchisees Say That The Business Is In Its "Final days"
10-19-2015
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True Activist
In recent months, we have been paying close attention to how McDonalds and other popular junk food brands are falling out of favor as people become more conscious about their diets. GMO food in general is also quickly losing trust among consumers.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Hillary Clinton Looks to Turn Benghazi Hearing Into Next Boost
10-19-2015
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Bloomberg
With the Republican-led committee under fire, the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential front-runner prepares to testify.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
China's Selling Tons of U.S. Debt. Americans Couldn't Care Less.
10-19-2015
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Bloomberg
For all the dire warnings over China's retreat from U.S. government debt, there's one simple fact that is being overlooked: American demand is as robust as ever.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Implantable LCD eye lenses may make glasses obsolete
10-19-2015
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gizmag.com
The potential for replacing aging or damaged eye lenses with artificial lenses that do more than just restore eyesight has long been recognized.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
'America is a bomb waiting to explode'
10-19-2015
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RT
The United States is in decline. While not all major shocks to the system will be devastating, when the right one comes along, the outcome may be dramatic.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
Border Patrol Makes Few Immigrant Arrests at Checkpoints
10-19-2015
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
But very few arrests are made at checkpoints. For example, only about 800 of the 120,939 immigrant apprehensions made by the Border Patrol in the Tucson Sector in fiscal year 2013 were made at checkpoints. That's 0.67 percent.
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Terry Bressi
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News Link • Government
Holder Defends Record of Not Prosecuting Financial Fraud
10-18-2015
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https://theintercept.com, Dan Froomkin
Former attorney general Eric Holder was the honored guest at a Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reception on Wednesday (leading investigative reporter Murray Waas to reasonably wonder: How's that again?).
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • History
The Warsaw ghetto uprising: Armed Jews vs. Nazis
10-18-2015
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https://www.washingtonpost.com, By David Kopel
During World War II, 30,000 Jewish partisans fought in Eastern Europe, in their own combat units.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
McDonald's franchisees say the brand is in a 'deep depression' and 'facing its final
10-18-2015
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Hayley Peterson
McDonald's franchisees believe the brand is in a "deep depression" and could be facing its "final days," according to a new survey.
McDonald's franchisees believe the brand is in a "deep depression" and could be facing its "final days," according to
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
Internet porn viewers 'should expect viewing histories to be made public'
10-18-2015
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http://www.independent.co, Alexander Sehmer
Blogger warns that 'regular people' are the likely target for the next big internet privacy breach
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Feature Article • B.O.R.G.
SLAVERY - IT'S STILL WITH US.
Bob Podolsky
Most people realize that slavery still exists in the world today. And often, with this awareness, comes the mistaken belief that it happens elsewhere than here at home...
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News Link • Police Brutality and Militarization
American Insurgency: Another Glimpse at the Near Future by Bill Buppert
10-18-2015
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http://zerogov.com, by Bill
Previously, I published a fictional narrative of a very personal nature that painted a grim picture of the possible outcomes police aggression and over-reach in America will look like.
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News Link • China
US patrols in the South China Sea will enrage Beijing -- and Washington knows it
10-18-2015
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http://www.globalpost.com, Patrick Winn
China's push to build military outposts on island specks in the South China Sea is one of Asia's worst-kept secrets.
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Feature Article • Self-Defense
About Lethal Self-Defense
Bob Podolsky
There are many who believe that killing another human being is always unethical...an evil deed, regardless of the circumstances and motivation behind the act... It's time to set the record straight...
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News Link • European Union
EU solution to refugee crisis: Pay Turkey to deal with it
10-18-2015
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http://www.globalpost.com, Peter Gelling
Thanks largely to efforts by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany is expected to receive between 800,000 and 1 million refugees this year.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
10-18-2015
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http://www.ncc-1776.org, by L. Neil Smith
I'm not too good with Facebook. Yesterday I got a note, short and to the point, that said something like, "This is the most stupid thing I've ever read." I could be wrong, but I think he was referring to my essay, "Suppose You Were Fond Of Books ...
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News Link • Surveillance
Defendants Counter Government's Arguments...
10-18-2015
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https://www.techdirt.com, by Tim Cushing
Defendants Counter Government's Arguments That Appeals Court Should Treat Cellphones As 'Personal Homing Beacons'
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
What's in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot
10-18-2015
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https://krebsonsecurity.com
The next time you're thinking of throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, consider tossing the boarding pass into a document shredder instead.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
What's in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot
10-18-2015
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https://krebsonsecurity.com,
The next time you're thinking of throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, consider tossing the boarding pass into a document shredder instead.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Louisiana bans using cash in sales of second-hand goods
10-17-2015
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http://www.rawstory.com,
In a new law that could put every trading post, Goodwill, flea market, garage sale and Craigslist merchant in the state of Louisiana out of business, a bipartisan group of elected representatives has opted to ban all cash payments for the buying and
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News Link • Military
US Military Tank "Intrudes" Into Bombed 'Doctors Without Borders' Hospital...
10-18-2015
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Mike Krieger
US Military Tank "Intrudes" Into Bombed 'Doctors Without Borders' Hospital, Destroys Potential Evidence
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News Link • Activism
Prominent Veterans Group Just Called On US Public To Say No To War
10-18-2015
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Submitted by Nick Bernabe
A group of former U.S. service members called the Veterans For Peace issued a letter to the American public and President Obama today.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Fox News' CIA Expert Arrested for Lying About Being in CIA
10-18-2015
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http://www.thedailysheeple.com, Carey Wedler
A Fox News commentator was arrested and charged for falsely promoting himself as a former CIA agent, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Thursday.
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News Link • Death
Irwin Schiff, RIP
10-17-2015
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https://mises.org
Irwin Schiff, imprisoned for his resistance to the federal income tax, died yesterday. Efforts by his son, the noted financial commentator Peter Schiff, to secure his release from prison so that he could die with his family, were unsuccessful. Schiff
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