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JUST ASKIN': XLIII--- CONUNDRUM FEVER
Tags: 2008, america, candidates, clinton, commentary, mccain, norman-liebmann, politicians, politics, satire on 2008-02-25 -All Annotations (0) -About
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JUST
ASKIN': XLIII
CONUNDRUM FEVER
By: Norman Liebmann -
Just
askin’: Should someone pass along to John McCain Tennessee Williams’
observation that "Old men make war because they can’t make love"? -
Just askin’: Is the only difference between
the media and the Mafia - the Mafia has a Code of Honor? -
Just askin’: Is the reason Bill Clinton
lasted so long because therednecks in the Ozarks spike their moonshine with embalmingArkansas
fluid? -
Just askin’: Has theexperience givenViet NamaAmerica
different type of military hero in Kerry and McCain? (Something in the water, perhaps?) -
Just askin’: Will Al Sharpton declare himself
the First Pope of the Inner City? And does Sharpton realize that theis an inner city and it already has a Pope?Vatican -
Just askin’: Is the sexual gap narrowing
between the unreasonable and the effeminate? -
Just askin’: If the “folks” inwearSan Francisco
leather, why don’t their Forty Niners play football with balls made of chiffon? -
Just askin’: If John McCain is elected, is it
possible he will spend most of his term in office in the hospital lying on a Presidential
gurney in the Oval Recovery Room? -
Just askin’: Wasn’t this a more
wholesome society beforebecame obsessed with sex and the kids just “picked it upHollywood
on the streets”? -
Just askin’: Will the NAACP get suckered in
by Hillary Clinton’s promise that if she is elected she will re-free the slaves? -
Just askin’: Why doesn’t that fascist
family change the name of its compound fromHyannisPortto Berchtesgaden-by-the-Sea? -
And in honor of Teddy Kennedy,
will the U.S. Navy go forward with plans to raise a sunken ship, christen it the USS
Kopechne, - and re-sink it? -
Just askin’: Whatever happened to Pat
Schroeder - that slant-eyed, lantern-jawed ex-Congresswoman who looked like Fu Manchu in
drag? -
Just askin’: If as rumored, under battle
conditions would John McCain have jumped out of his plane’s cockpit and dug a foxhole
in the carrier’s deck? -
Just askin’: Should the increased liberal
bias of information on the Internet be called Google-ization? -
Just askin’: Will Al Sharpton lobby the
Justice Department to keep Caucasians from
sitting on the juries of any and all future O.J. Simpson murder trials? And whatever
became of Judge Ito - and what took it so long? -
Just askin’: Is the latest conflict of
interest between the homeless and the Mexicans as to what gutters are for – sleeping
or protesting? -
Just askin’: Does it seem as though the more
people use vulgarity the more telephone voice mail becomes polite? -
Just askin’: Do all the dinosaurs that Steven
Spielberg has made into movie stars now worry about getting old and losing their looks? -
And is there in contemplation a gay version ofJurassicParkin which the
ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex is renamed the Tyrannosaurus Regina? -
Just askin’: Doesn’t it attest to the
fact that Satan can’t be all bad because he never wrote and published a long boring
novel? -
Just askin’: Is it Barack Obama’s turn
to get elected and keep a real President out of a job? -
Just askin’: When will someone please tell
Kofi Annan that a scruffy wino beard doesn’t go with a Saville Row pinstripe suit? -
Just askin’: Have O.J. Simpson and Wesley
Snipes proved that immunity from prosecution is “a black thing”? -
Just askin’: Is Theresa Heinz Kerry still
locked in her room? -
Just askin’: Could
it be that Bill Clinton is behind amnesty for cantina girls who will perform indecent sex
acts that American hookers won’t do? And what if Bill Clinton threw an orgy and
nobody came? -
Just askin’: Will Conservatives ever overcome
their addiction to Republicanism? -
Just askin’: Will the Arabs succeed in
destroyingwhen the Irish Republican Army failed to accomplish it?Great Britain -
Just askin’: Isactually aVermont
Princess Cruise Liner that ran aground (although the passengers still retain an ability to
float?) -
And isn’t it just a matter of time until people
in Vermont pass a law making it legal to marry outside your species? -
Just
askin’: Will some Democrat politician explain to us why they thinkis bad andGuantanamoSiberiais good? -
Just askin’: Why is it people who lament this
second war in Iraq do not blame Colin Powell who convinced Bush Senior it was a nifty idea
not to win the first one? -
And did Colin Powell get his combat training in his nativewatching roostersJamaica
in the barnyard “duke it out”? -
Just askin’: Is it possible that ninety
percent of blacks can only think politically like ninety percent of blacks? -
Just askin’: For a guy who has never been in
a fight, how did Bill Clinton get a cauliflower nose? -
Just askin’: On Election Day will John McCain
go back towhere he established residence in order to vote?Hanoi -
And is
political expediency the reason why John McCain made himself the hood ornament for
captivity? -
Just askin’: Where did the ACLU get the idea
that scripture doesn’t carry the weight of minority opinion? -
Just askin’: Where did liberals get the idea
that a multi-culture swamp is the same thing as equality? -
Just askin’: How come Americans have never
been able to organize a political party that John McCain could be loyal to? -
And why
doesn’t John McCain try standing a little further away from his arms? -
Just askin’: Should someone tell music guru
Phil Specter he doesn’t have to shoot a gun in a woman’s mouth in order to know
what it feels like to be Bill Clinton? -
Just askin’: Did Madeleine Albright decide
she had acquired an understanding of the hardships of life in theMiddle Eastafter someone
put sand in her Feminique? -
Just askin’: Doesn’t
“journal-ette” Margaret Carlson display all the anxious twitching of a
laboratory mouse that is worried about whether it got the antidote or the placebo? -
Just askin’: How is it that generations of
inbreeding indid not produce a woman who doesn’t look like SisterArkansas
Theresa or a man who can think like Mahatma Gandhi? -
And how is it the people who should have known
about thefirst, found out about them last?Clintons -
Just askin’: Isn’t it time for George
Bush to abandon compassion and try dealing with Islam by using some other form of
cowardice? -
Just askin’: Did thedecide to tradeClintons
their fifteen minutes of fame for a two lifetimes of corruption? -
Just askin’: What is it about fiscal deficits
that give every guy in Congress an erection? -
Just askin’: If Bill Clinton were bisexual,
would Hillary catch him “cheating” on himself? -
Just askin’: Isn’t it time the taxpayers
stopped funding National Public Radio - the media’s ‘round the clock Pravda
propaganda outlet? -
Just askin’: Has Clint Eastwood’s catch
phrase “Make my Day” passed in popularity the crocheted motto on samplers in old
folks institutions “Home Sweet Home”? -
Just askin’: Is John McCain suffering from
senility overkill? -
Just askin’: If the Democrats are so
determined that it is time forto have a black President, why not nominate Daffy Duck?America -
Just askin’: Which is more transparently
false: Bill Clinton biting his lip with counterfeit contrition, or Barbara Walters
wrinkling her brow with phony concern? -
Just askin’: If Hillary is elected, will the
White House receive regular air drops of Botox? -
Just askin’: Whatever became of NATO? And if
NATO is still composed of so many nations how will its army surrender to itself? -
Just askin’: Isn’t it time Billowned up to hisClinton
black constituents that he’s really white? -
Just askin’: Has Hillary’s campaign hit
the retaining wall, and does it need an auto club wrecker to tow it into the pits? -
And shouldn’t the day Hillary Clinton’s
campaign capitulates be set aside as a national holiday? -
Just askin’: Has the principal industry ofbecome chop shopsMexico
and making serapes out of auto upholstery from stolen cars? -
Just askin’: Why is the media reporting that
theClintons
are using their own money in the campaign when they’ve never earned an honest buck of
their own? -
Just askin’: Has Barack Obama become the
Britney Spears of the editorial pages? And is it a menace to the nation that Barack Obama
has begun to accept Barack Obama at Barack Obama’s own estimation of Barack Obama? -
Just askin’: Shouldn’t the airlines
equip its “Occupados” with bomb bay doors that can be opened when flying over?Berkeley -
Just askin’: Why not exclude Mexicans, and
invite in the Japanese who are intelligent, resourceful, inventive, clean, and would have
a willingness to fight for their host country instead of protesting against it? -
Just askin’: Should Hallmark create a
national condolence card for a nation that isn’t able to produce even one honorable
candidate for President? -
And has disgrace been the Democrat’s only program so long
that it has morphed into its political identity? -
Just askin’: Is Rush Limbaugh the last
American?
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Chuck Baldwin -- Is The Handwriting On The Wall For America?
Tags: 2008, america, babylon, belshazzar, bible, candidate, chuck-baldwin, daniel-5, founding-fathers, god, handwriting, judgment, mccain, mene-mene-tekel-upharsin, nwo, ron-paul, usa, wall, warning on 2008-02-21 -All Annotations (0) -About
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IS THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL FOR
AMERICA? -
By
Pastor Chuck Baldwin
February
19, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
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"In
the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against
the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and
the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." Daniel 5:5 (KJV)
"And
this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This
is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom,
and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided." Daniel 5:26-28 (KJV) -
Secularists
will not admit it, but nations rise and fall at the pleasure of Almighty
God. -
America's founders certainly understood this fact.
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Even Benjamin
Franklin, who was one of the least spiritual of America's Founding Fathers,
told the delegates at the constitutional convention, "We have been assured,
Sir, in the sacred writings, that 'Except the Lord build the house, they
labour in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe
that without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building
no better than the Builders of Babel." -
Our
first and greatest President, George Washington, agreed with Franklin.
He said, "No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible
hand which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United
States." -
Thomas
Jefferson, too, believed that nations rose and fell before God. -
He said,
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed
their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these
liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but
with his wrath?" -
The
sentiments expressed by Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson were expressed
almost universally by America's founders. -
From the founding of these United
States and throughout most of our history, people (even our leaders) understood
that "God governs in the affairs of men" (Franklin). -
We understood that
it was not so much our military might, industrial strength, or financial
stability, but divine blessing that secured our liberty. -
We believed that
scriptural injunction, "The horse is prepared against the day of battle:
but safety is of the LORD." Proverbs 21:31 (KJV) -
However, it appears obvious
that most Americans (including Christians), and especially most of our
political leaders, have forgotten this principle. -
As a
result, many of us are asking the question, Is the handwriting on the
wall for America? Have our days been numbered by God? Is our republic
finished? Will God divide and conquer our country? Many are suggesting
that the signs indicate the answer is yes. -
For
one thing, we have a federal government that is totally out of control. -
The checks and balances that were built into our constitution have been
all but eviscerated. -
For the most part, the people have no real input
into their governance anymore. -
Between Big Media, Big Business, and vote
fraud, even honest and fair elections may be a thing of the past. -
The
American people cannot trust their government spokesmen--or the media
that is entrusted with the task of keeping them honest--to tell them the
truth. -
The dishonesty and duplicity of our political and business leaders
have produced an almost universal distrust among the American people. -
We have been lied to so often that it is hard to remember when we were
last told the truth by almost anyone in Washington, D.C., especially at
the Executive level. -
We have
been lied to about the Kennedy assassination, the USS Liberty, Waco, 9/11,
the war in Iraq, the Oklahoma City bombing, and virtually every other
major American tragedy. -
It is to the point that we cannot believe ANYTHING
that this government--and its toadies in the media--tells us. -
Even our
Christian leaders have bought into this deception -
Either
wittingly or unwittingly, our Christian leaders are party to deceiving
the American people. -
For example, not only do they refuse to do any serious
investigation into the shenanigans of the Bush administration, they refuse
to even listen to the factual investigations that have been done. -
Willful
ignorance has destroyed the Church in America today. -
Just
look how our illustrious Christian leaders are beginning to coalesce around
the corrupt candidacy of John McCain (as if a McCain Presidency would
be any better than a Democratic one). -
Remember,
it was Senator John McCain who single-handedly shut down the investigation
and effort to bring home American POWs from Vietnam and surrounding countries. -
Why would a former POW do such a thing, unless, as reported by other Vietnam
Vets who are in the know, it was to keep those POWs from coming home and
testifying to McCain's collaboration with his communist captors? -
Remember,
it is Senator John McCain who is committed to granting amnesty to tens
of millions of illegal aliens. -
It is John McCain who has an F- grade from
the Gun Owners of America for his miserable anti-Second Amendment voting
record in the U.S. Senate. -
It is John McCain who was the ringleader of
the infamous (not to mention unethical) Keating Five, who cost America
taxpayers more than $160 billion. -
As a
longstanding member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),
John McCain will most definitely support the march toward a North American
Union, the NAFTA superhighway, and the creation of a North American currency,
called the AMERO. -
He will also pursue George W. Bush's neocon policy of
empire building and preemptive war. As Pat Buchanan said, "John McCain
will make Dick Cheney look like Gandhi." -
Add
to the above the collaboration between Big Business and Big Government
in a continual, covert conspiracy to spy on the American people. -
Plus, who can tell what God will do with
a serious effort to restore liberty and independence in this land? -
Is the
handwriting on the wall for America? Yes it is. -
Instead
of wringing their hands and simply waiting for Jesus to return, we need
to get in the fight to restore our constitutional republic. The foundation
is still there; and millions of people--churched and unchurched--are ready
and willing to fight with us. -
As Patrick
Henry said during our initial struggle for independence, "[W]e shall not
fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies
of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the
active, the brave." -
But that does not mean
there is nothing we can do. We can do everything we should do, knowing
that there is a God in Heaven who "presides over the destinies of Nations." -
The fact is, the friends of liberty Patrick Henry spoke of may be found
in the most unlikely places and faces. So be it. We are not trying to
build a Sunday School class; we are trying to preserve our constitutional
republic. -
In so
doing, we need political leaders such as Ron Paul, spiritual leaders such
as Pastors Tony Romo and James Riddle (for my list of "Black Regiment"
pastors, go
here, educators such as David Alan Black and Steven Yates, business
leaders such as Frank Fluckiger and William H. Ball, Jr., attorneys such
as Edwin Vieira, Jr., and Herb Titus, journalists and writers such as
Jerome Corsi and John McManus, film makers such as Ron Maxwell, and everyday
patriots such as you and me. -
Besides,
God may think it is time to divide the kingdom out of the hands of the
globalist elitists and place it back where it belongs: with "We the people."
What say you? -
Where was John Hagee? Where
was Pat Robertson? Where was James Dobson? Where was Tony Perkins? -
Christians
should not bury their heads in their theology books, however. -
Notice,
too, how those who refuse to go along with this New World Order are treated
by the political and media establishments. -
McCain's nomination makes it all the more imperative
that we break the two-party death grip that is choking the life out of
America. -
See how they virtually ignored
Duncan Hunter, Alan Keyes, and Tom Tancredo. Even the liberal Democrat,
Dennis Kucinich, was ignored and lampooned, because he dared to question
the globalist agenda of the elites in Washington, D.C., and New York City. -
I was
one of only a handful of Christian ministers with any kind of a national
following who publicly endorsed Ron Paul. -
Yes, they have
the power to restore Biblical principles and constitutional government
to America's public life. -
I, therefore, strongly urge Dr. Paul to continue
his Presidential campaign by obtaining the nomination of the Constitution
Party. (It is his for the taking, should he pursue it.) -
In
fact, a John McCain administration will finish whatever semblance of conservatism
yet remains in the GOP. -
One
does not have to possess the gift of prophecy to read the signs. -
See, especially, how they demonized Congressman Ron Paul. As Dr. Paul's
campaign grew, so did the attacks against him from the media and political
elites. Even Christian leaders opposed him. -
Of course,
America's pastors and churches are in the unique position of being able
to lead our people to a revival of honesty and integrity. -
Good grief! Our government
is even selling our own infrastructure to foreign powers. -
However, it would first require that they step
away from their own infatuation and preoccupation with money and power
long enough to see the handwriting themselves. That they refuse to do
so is another sign that the handwriting is already on the wall. -
I continue
to support Ron Paul, although I believe the only way he can effectively
bring his revolution to the forefront of America is to seek the Presidency
via a third party ticket. -
Otherwise, it is just another sign that the handwriting is already on
the wall. -
The Republican
Party is too corrupt, too sympathetic to New World Order ideologues to
allow principled patriots such as Ron Paul to obtain the nomination. -
The handwriting
is there as plain as day in letters large enough that even a blind man
can read them. -
See how
our government is selling America's financial interests--not to mention
our security interests--to foreign powers. -
They
were all supporting establishment neocons Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee,
John McCain, or even Rudy Giuliani.
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Andrew C. Wallace -- Wake Up, or You Will Die Homeless and Hungry
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WAKE
UP, OR YOU WILL DIE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY
By
Andrew C. Wallace
February 13, 2008
NewsWithViews.com -
Most
people are just like those in Nazi Germany under Hitler, some see
the evil affecting others, but will ignore it until it's too late,
but a majority of Americans are as uninformed as a box of rocks because
they rely on the controlled media propaganda for information. -
Our
media is really amazing, run by Liberals who do not have a clue that
their liberal leaders are communists and their corporate employers
are Fascists, with no loyalty to any country. -
The constitutional right
of a free press was to insure Americans the information they must
have to remain free, but our media is nothing more than the propaganda
arms of owners in the “Chain of Command for Treason” who are in the
process of enslaving us and taking our sovereignty. -
Two of our primary
defenses against usurpation are the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and
the Right to Freedom of Speech. -
Both of these rights are under serious
attack right now and could be instantly denied by traitors in government
using existing unconstitutional policy. -
Your
Enemy is the “Chain of Command for Treason”-CCT, consisting of Elites
and their Foundations, who control the Corporations and Media, who
in turn control our Government with the direction of their think tank
and shadow government, The Council on Foreign Relations, CFR et al. -
Elites are mostly the progeny of wealth, a few have earned or stolen
their own money, many of the forebears were ruthless and very active
supporters of Fascism and Communism as are the leaders of both parties
today. -
These statements are not subject to question, there is just
too much documented evidence to support them. -
Today’s leaders of the
CCT and their supporters have been taught from birth that they are
superior to average Americans who are only ignorant and common people
born to be their slaves. -
No Question, we will be their slaves if they
take away our Sovereignty. The ultimate objective of the CCT leadership
is Power, Wealth and a One World Government with them as the unelected
despots. -
The
CCT, unlike average Americans, is well organized and directed by the
Council on Foreign Relations, their think tank and shadow government. -
As of June 30, 2007 the CFR had annual operating income of $39,441,800
and net assets of $336,638,800. As one example, the “Security and
Prosperity Plan for North America” SPP, that President Bush signed
to give away our Sovereignty and combine America with Canada and Mexico
was published by the arrogant CFR. Follow the money. -
When
I was in the military we would have said that the CCT was awarding
Americans the “Royal Order of the Purple Shaft with Barbed Wire Clusters,”
younger people would refer to this as getting the “Finger,” which
I did not think was adequate to describe the complete and total destruction
and enslavement of a proud nation and its people. -
The
CCT is absolutely ruthless by allowing millions of Americans to be
Murdered, Killed, Raped, Robbed, and Molested by millions of illegal
invaders so they could make Billions in Blood Money by exploiting
illegals and paying slave wages. -
Politicians at all levels of
government as part of the CCT are guilty of Treason for refusing to
obey the constitution and laws of the United States to protect Americans.
The blood of our people is on the hands of most politicians, and especially
President Bush, Bush the elder, Bill Clinton and presidential candidates
McCain, Obama and Clinton. -
The only difference between both
political parties is the name, they are both part of the CCT, hold
Americans in contempt, and are up to their necks in the blood of innocent
Americans for their profit and power. -
Because of government failure
to obey our Constitution, lawlessness is so severe, especially in
sanctuary cities, that every citizen who can, should obtain and exercise
a Right to Carry Permit. Anyone who does not accept this fact is an
uninformed future victim, soon to be added to the growing list. -
We
are still not totally dominated, so we are being allowed to participate
in a Sham Election because the CCT fears “We the People” as we are
the most heavily armed population in the world, and have the internet
to inform people at no cost. -
The media as part of the CCT is as effective
at propaganda as Hitler ever was. -
This Election is so important, and
flawed in so many ways that you should read the following experts
on the subject: Devvy Kidd, Frosty Wooldridge, Alan Stang, and Dave
Daubenmire in NewsWithViews, dated 2-7-08. -
The CCT owned media does
not perform the constitutional function of a free press and is losing
consumers to the internet. -
Because of this, the internet as we know
it is not likely to survive as reported by Brent Jessop in “Pentagon:
The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy “weapons
system” in “Global Research, 2-2-08” Jessop reviews a Department
of Defense document released by freedom of information act titled:
“Information Operation Roadmap Part 3, 30 Oct 2003”in which they propose
to destroy the internet as we know it, DOD” is blunt about the fact
that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct
opposition to their goals.” -
If you can’t believe Jessop, read
the damn government document yourself. In simple terms we must take
back our country using the rule of law before they take away the internet
and our guns, or as God is my witness, we will all die homeless hungry
and in pain as slaves. -
Lynn
Stuter said in News With Views on 2-5-08: ”The United States Congress,
at the request of the Bush Administration, has passed laws revoking
habeas corpus, Posse Comitatus, and the 4th Amendment to the Bill
of Rights prohibiting illegal search and seizure.------ the United
States Congress passed a law that defines anyone speaking out against
the criminal acts of the United States government as a “domestic terrorist.” -
Congress
also passed a law prohibiting anyone considered to have a mental illness
from owning a gun, including men coming home from war. -
Through the
New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, established by Bush, the
push has been to label every American as mentally defective, -----
This labeling of every American as somehow mentally defective is no
different than the tactic used in the U.S.S.R. to label dissidents
who refused to conform to the social psychology of oppression practiced
by the communists to control the masses; the same social psychology
now being forced on the American people.” End of quote. -
President
Bush flip flopped, and now supports Government control of fire arms
in case before Supreme court. -
It should give you little confidence
to know that all nine justices have degrees from Ivy League Schools
and eight are from Harvard. Too many judges do not follow the constitution
in their rulings. -
As an example, according to our Constitution, Jurors
have absolute power in deciding validity of the law in a trial,
and guilt or innocence of the accused, but most judges will not allow
the jury to be told this important fact because it reduces their power. -
The
CCT has destroyed the lives of millions of Americans by exporting
two out of every three well paid manufacturing jobs which increased
corporate profits but forced Americans to live in poverty. -
Thirty
six percent of our jobs used to be in better paid manufacturing, now
it is only 12%. -
Both political parties were responsible for the trade
agreements (NAFTA, CAFTA et al) that did this and they are continuing
to do it. -
Our very survival requires that we repudiate all trade agreements
and treaties because they benefit only the CCT, take our sovereignty
and prosperity et al. Thank Bush, McCain, Clinton & Obama. -
The
CCT cost millions of Americans their jobs in the service industry.
This is because each of the better paid manufacturing jobs that we
lost support 4 to 7 service jobs. -
We lost about 1,500,000 service
jobs last year because we lost 269,000 manufacturing jobs that supported
them.
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