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Date Sent: 2009-10-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, October 7, 2009 PM edition |
Fed Frets About Commercial Real Estate -- ObamaCare: Nudging You to Death
Firms and U.S. regulators clash on derivatives rules -- Democrats in Congress push Obama for Iran
sanctions -- Boomers seen driving $10 trillion wealth management
shift -- United States is a
stockholder of MERS -- As dollar fades, gold's currency shine
brightens -- Oversight lacking on war costs -- State Abducted Baby's
Mom Gets Kids Back -- Sec. Geithner
says Americans will have to save more -- Hate Crimes Bill to be
Slipped into Defense Budget -- California spends millions in
late-payment fees -- Drugs and the Constitution -- Windows 7 Will Let Microsoft Track Your
Every Move -- Denninger goes after Mish! -- Vaccines’ Dark Inferno: What is not on
insert labels -- Fannie And Freddie Scheme To Help Independent
Mortgage Lenders Grow -- IMF told to
report back on global tax -- EU draws up plans to establish
itself as 'world power' -- Venezuela Socialism: This is what the
thuggish redistribution of wealth looks like -- Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death
-- The Treasury Department Endorses Lying To The Public
AZ: Vaccine Danger Awareness Meeting Tonight; Breakfast tomorrow with Talk Show Host Jeff
Farias; Phoenix Objectivists meeting tomorrow
evening
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fed Frets About Commercial Real Estate
With Banks Slow to Take Losses, Fears of a Residential-Bust
10-07-2009
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WSJ
Banks in the U.S. "are slow" to take losses on their commercial real-estate loans being battered by slumping property values and rental payments, according to a Federal Reserve presentation to banking regulators last month.
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News Link • Healthcare
ObamaCare: Nudging You to Death
10-07-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
The first nudges are in place. In President Obama's Washington, medical specialists are slightly more popular than the H1N1 virus.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Did FBI delay of DNA test prolong Florida rape spree?
10-07-2009
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McClatchy News
Federal authorities acknowledged they had a DNA sample from home invasion and rape suspect during the months detectives say he attacked numerous women in their homes in a violent crime spree. But Smith's DNA had never been entered into the FBI's DNA
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Firms and U.S. regulators clash on derivatives rules
10-07-2009
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Reuters
Some of the world's biggest companies and U.S. market watchdogs locked horns on legislation to regulate the opaque $450 trillion private swaps market. Large companies that use derivatives to hedge their risk and federal market regulators pushe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Democrats in Congress push Obama for Iran sanctions
10-07-2009
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McClatchy News
Congressional Democrats pushed the Obama administration to get behind tough economic sanctions against Iran, and they voiced deep skepticism that direct negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear ambitions will prove fruitful.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Boomers seen driving $10 trillion wealth management shift
10-07-2009
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Reuters
U.S. financial advisors are due for upheaval as baby boomers, controlling $10 trillion in assets, reach retirement age and shift their investment priorities. Baby boomers will move the industry's main client goal from one from accumulation -- investi
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Tom DeLay: 'No Idea' Whether Obama Constitutionally Eligible (Fancy That! - Ed)
10-07-2009
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World Net daily via e-mail : )
Former Republican House majority leader Tom DeLay says he has "no idea" whether Barack Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as president...
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News Link • Family
Tenn. Abducted Baby's Mom Gets Kids Back
10-07-2009
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AP
A mother was reunited Tuesday with her newborn son after losing him twice, first to a kidnapper and then to state custody after someone claimed a family member had tried to sell him.
Infant Yair Anthony Carrillo and three siblings were no longer i
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News Link • Precious Metals
As dollar fades, gold's currency shine brightens
10-07-2009
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Reuters
As the dollar's dominance fades with the emergence of a multipolar world, gold may stand to gain the most of all assets thanks to an unlikely quality -- neutrality.
While no major currency is likely to replace the dollar anytime soon, the need for
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Sec. Geithner says Americans will have to save more
10-07-2009
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Reuters
"Everyone is going to have to come to terms with the fact that we are going to save more in the United States," Geithner said. "If the U.S. starts saving more, that changes the whole world's economic reality," he said. Geithner said China was already
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Oversight lacking on war costs
10-07-2009
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AP
During a routine check of a watch tower at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, an Army sergeant found the guard leaning back in a chair, his sunglasses on, apparently sound asleep. When the soldier woke the guard, an employee of a defense contractor name
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
CONgress: Working hard or hardly working?
10-07-2009
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Politico
Like most Americans, members of the House are expected to report promptly when summoned by their bosses for the start of another workweek. For lawmakers, starting time doesn’t come until about 6:30 Tuesday evening.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Languages and Definitions Lecture
10-07-2009
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their first October meeting on the 8th, Phoenix Objectivists will listen to a pre-recorded lecture by Barbara Branden titled "Languages and Definitions".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Media: Television
NOW blasts Letterman over sexual affairs with staff
10-07-2009
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CNN
The National Organization for Women has sharply criticized comedian David Letterman, accusing him of promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment.
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News Link • Constitution
Feingold hits Obama's use of 'czars'
10-07-2009
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Washington Times
A top Senate Democrat said just because other presidents have created "czars" to carry out administration policy does not mean President Obama is right to follow their lead - and warned that Congress may have to step in and keep White House appointee
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News Link • Free Speech
Hate Crimes Bill to be Slipped into Defense Budget
10-07-2009
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The Christian Post
Obama signed this a few weeks ago, now to get the rest of the bums to go along with it and snuff out any hope; "Officially". Next up: the "Thought Police"~
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Charles Gillespie
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News Link • TERRORISM
8 Signs of Terrorism " Video
The Cell- Recognizing the 8 sign of Terrorism
10-07-2009
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The Cell- The Center for Empowered Living & Learni
New DHS video portays all Americans as terrorists.
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Steven Arthurs
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News Link • Philosophy: Liberalism
The Left's "General" Hypocrisy
10-07-2009
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NBC
When it comes to presidents tuning out generals, the left has changed its tune, now that it has a commander-in-chief it believes in
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News Link • Government
California spends millions in late-payment fees
10-07-2009
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LA Times
Reporting from Sacramento - Bureaucratic bungling, red tape and political gridlock don't come cheap -- especially when they get in the way of paying California's bills.
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News Link • Corruption
E-mail inquiry yields 2d computer Machine may hold most of Menino aide’s data
10-07-2009
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Boston.com
Boston officials acknowledged yesterday that they have discovered a second computer used by chief mayoral aide Michael J. Kineavy, a hard drive tucked away in a sixth-floor office that may contain the bulk of the e-mail subpoenaed by federal authorit
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News Link • Constitution
Drugs and the Constitution
10-07-2009
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Liberty Maven (HT Liberty Pulse)
Many people seem not to care what the Constitution requires. Today’s message is for those who do care.
Drug control is NOT a Constitutional power of the federal government.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
What Is Money?
Part 3: Schizophrenic Economists
10-07-2009
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Lew Rockwell (HT Liberty Pulse)
There is a reason for this. Bankers for five centuries have benefited from a grant of privilege from the state: a legal privilege. Banks are allowed to write contracts that are prohibited to all other profit-seeking agencies. They are allowed to prom
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obama and the VAT: Now it’s Pelosi’s turn
10-07-2009
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Reuters (HT Liberty Pulse)
You can add House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the group of Democrats or Obama allies (John Podesta, Paul Volcker, Roget Altman) calling for a value-added tax. (I predicted all of this days ago.) Here is Pelosi (via The Hill):
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News Link • Police State
Montana City's Jail Deal Delayed Amid Controversy
10-07-2009
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signonsandiego.com via rense.com
The decision came as Hardin's leaders announced the resignation of both the attorney and the economic development official who helped craft the jail deal for the city.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Windows 7 Will Let Microsoft Track Your Every Move
10-07-2009
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Webmonkey.com via Drudgereport.com
The bad news is that if you turn the geo features on, there are very few controls available and, yes, Microsoft could easily track your every move. Now you can freak out.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Major economist smackdown predicted: Denninger goes after Mish!
10-07-2009
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Karl Denninger
When Mish went after Schiff I guess he put himself on the firing line. Denninger has been getting hotter under the collar for a while now and now Mish is in his cross-hairs. Karl thinks we're all hard-money morons.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Vaccines’ Dark Inferno
What is not on insert labels?
10-07-2009
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Global Research
Our investigation shows that most people do not know what is actually in a vaccine: the active ingredients listed on product labels, inert ingredients, and, most important, the hidden ingredients. To our amazement, that truth was easy to find. But i
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
UK, US PC: British Nanny State Tries For The Extreme
10-07-2009
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pat
Nanny State extremism is on the march as the UK, Michigan and New York duel for the Title of Most Oppressive Nanny. The citizens of the winning Nanny State loses liberty and freedom.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • States' Rights
Letter to Sheriff of Bighorn County From MT Director of Oathkeepers
10-07-2009
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Oathkeepers.org via Oathkeepers.ning post
Here is a letter... sent to the sheriff of Big horn County MT. regarding the American Police Force presence in Hardin Montana..
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Obama Administration
Fannie And Freddie Scheme To Help Independent Mortgage Lenders Grow
10-07-2009
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The Business Insider
Do we even have to tell you that this will be a disaster? For some time now, the government owned mortgage finance companies known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been secretly making commitments to purchase loans from Provident Funding Associates
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News Link • China
Janet Tavakoli: China Defaults
10-07-2009
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The Market Ticker
But other extraordinary moves in the capital markets suggest we should take this threat to the dollar’s position very seriously. For example, China has $2.3 trillion in currency reserves (about 70% in dollars), and China knows how to get its way.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Harsanyi: The doers against the "thinkers"
10-07-2009
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Denver Post / David Harsanyi
David Brooks might believe it's Mr. Bentham and Mr. Hume who represent the choices we face in this nation on issue after issue. I believe it's Mr. Hoover and Jim.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Currencies
US Mint Suspends Production Of American Eagle Gold And Silver Bullion Coins Due To "Unprecedent
10-07-2009
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Zero Hedge
It appears gold mania is spreading, and if this press release by the US Mint is any indication, it has hit the broad population. As a result, the administration is taking prompt "corrective" steps:
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News Link • Humor
Sound of Music | Central Station Antwerp (Belgium)
10-07-2009
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YouTube
'CAUSE WE NEED A BREAK :) (Publisher recommended)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Environment
Asian Armies Cheered
10-07-2009
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arclein
In quake-hit Indonesia, the flooded Philippines and typhoon-ravaged Vietnam, troops are evacuating the wounded and stranded, distributing food and medicines -- and gaining the public's admiration.
As countries across Southeast Asia clea
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Fusion Renaissance
10-07-2009
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arclein
Successful research in the projects that follow over the next two to seven years could initiate a race to develop commercial nuclear fusion for energy generation, space technology and weapons. Futurists had speculated that there would be crash resear
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: No one can promise there will never be another attack on U.S. soil
10-07-2009
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The Hill
President Obama expressed gratitude to the newly streamlined intelligence community Tuesday even as he warned that "no one can ever promise that there will never be another attack on America's soil."
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News Link • World News
EU draws up plans to establish itself as 'world power'
10-07-2009
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Telegraph
The European Union has drawn up secret plans to establish itself as a global power in its own right with the authority to sign international agreements on behalf of member states
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News Link • Obama Administration
Venezuela Socialism: This is what the thuggish redistribution of wealth looks like (see video)
10/06/09
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Michelle Malking
A group of red shirt-wearing Chavista thugs show up at a farm and seize the farm in the name of the government, under the pretext that the 103 hectare farm is “idle land” and that the law allows them to take it over for “food production.”
The farm
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Audit the Fed
10-06-2009
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You Tube (HT Liberty Pulse)
Audit the Fed Commercial: 30 Seconds. A really cool dude created this to be aired on TV. Please promote this commercial and if one is interested in having their local tv station air this or some...
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death
10-06-2009
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Current
"A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of "out of body" experiences reported by people who survive near-death ordeals.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Guest Post: The Treasury Department Endorses Lying To The Public
10-06-2009
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Zero Hedge
If you or anyone you know still believes the government (or the media) tell us only the truth, please pass them this direct admission that lying is a primary strategic device for so-called “authority figures”:
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News Link • Economy - International
Irish students told to bring their own toilet paper
10-06-2009
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Digital Journal
Students attending St. John's Girls National School in Carrigaline, Ireland have been asked to bring their own toilet tissue with them to school as part of a cost-cutting measure due to dwindling government funding.
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News Link • Corruption
ACORN hired people still in prison, convicted of IDENTITY THEFT!
10/06/09
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Fireanddreammitchell
Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a democrat, told FOX News that not only was ACORN turning in bogus voter registrations but that they were hiring prisoners for their voter registration drives. (according to Big Government):
Ross said that
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Ed. Dep’t Watchdog: Stimulus Dollars For Schools Miss The Mark
10-06-2009
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Pro Publica
Some states are bending the rules that govern the use of the education stimulus dollars,
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
9/23/09
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The Wall Street Journal
Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until
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