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Syl Johnson - Keep On Loving Me
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
-- John Steinbeck
News and Opinion
Political prisoner Occupy activist Cecily McMillan released from jail after two months
Cecily McMillan, the Occupy Wall Street activist who was imprisoned for assaulting a police officer, was released on Wednesday after spending eight weeks at New York’s Rikers Island jail.
McMillan, 25, left the facility after serving two thirds of the three-month jail sentence that she received in May for deliberately striking NYPD officer Grantley Bovell as he led her away from a protest in lower Manhattan in 2012. She now faces five years of probation.
At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon beside the entrance bridge to Rikers Island, in Queens, McMillan read a lengthy statement that she said was on behalf of a group of female inmates in which she called for better access to healthcare, drug rehabilitation services and education inside the jail.
"I am inspired by the resilient community I have encountered in a system that is stacked against us," she said. Promising to continue her activism, she said: "The court sent me here to frighten me and others into silencing our dissent, but I am proud to walk out saying that the 99% is, in fact, stronger than ever. We will continue to fight until we gain all the rights we deserve as citizens".
Read Cecily McMillan's full statement at the time of her release here.
Dennis Kucinich on the Iraq Crisis & What the U.S. Can Learn From Sweden’s Political Diversity
Water supply key to outcome of conflicts in Iraq and Syria, experts warn
The outcome of the Iraq and Syrian conflicts may rest on who controls the region’s dwindling water supplies, say security analysts in London and Baghdad.
Rivers, canals, dams, sewage and desalination plants are now all military targets in the semi-arid region that regularly experiences extreme water shortages, says Michael Stephen, deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute thinktank in Qatar, speaking from Baghdad.
“Control of water supplies gives strategic control over both cities and countryside. We are seeing a battle for control of water. Water is now the major strategic objective of all groups in Iraq. It’s life or death. If you control water in Iraq you have a grip on Baghdad, and you can cause major problems. Water is essential in this conflict,” he said.
Isis Islamic rebels now control most of the key upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates, the two great rivers that flow from Turkey in the north to the Gulf in the south and on which all Iraq and much of Syria depends for food, water and industry.
“Rebel forces are targeting water installations to cut off supplies to the largely Shia south of Iraq,” says Matthew Machowski, a Middle East security researcher at the UK houses of parliament and Queen Mary University of London.
“It is already being used as an instrument of war by all sides. One could claim that controlling water resources in Iraq is even more important than controlling the oil refineries, especially in summer. Control of the water supply is fundamentally important. Cut it off and you create great sanitation and health crises,” he said.
Kurdish president proposes independence referendum
Massoud Barzani, the president of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, appears to have moved the country closer to being broken up after asking MPs to form a committee to organise a referendum on independence.
An MP from the Kurdistan Democratic party (KDP) who was present at the closed session said Barzani did not offer a timetable, but it follows the Kurdistan president telling the BBC this week that a referendum was "a question of months" away.
"The president asked us to form an independent electoral commission to carry out a referendum in the Kurdistan region and determine the way forward," the MP, Farhad Sofi, said.
In his interview with the BBC, Barzani said the lightning advance of Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) through the west of the country with the Shia prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, left in control of Baghdad and the south, had reaffirmed the Kurdish goal of full independence.
"Iraq is effectively partitioned now; should we stay in this tragic situation that Iraq is living? Of course, we are all with our Arab and Sunni brothers together in this crisis, but that doesn't mean that we will abandon our goal," he said.
"I have said many times that independence is a natural right of the people of Kurdistan. All these developments reaffirm that."
Maliki Cracks Down on Shi’ite Rival: 45 Killed In Karbala Clash
Maliki’s forces attacked the offices of a popular cleric in the Shi’ite holy city of Karbala today, aiming to arrest him for public criticism of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s call to arms to fight the rebels.
Major fighting ensued with a militia loyal to the cleric, Mahmoud al-Sarkhi, and at least 45 people have been killed already. ... What with Karbala being the most important city in Shi’a Islam, the fighting sparked a major reaction across Iraq’s Shi’ite territory, which is to say the only territory Iraq has left.
Iranian Warplanes Deployed to Iraq to Fight ISIS
In addition to the handful of Su-25 warplanes Iraq purchased over the weekend from Russia, several other warplanes are showing up on Iraqi airfields: apparently brought in by Iran.
The planes, shown in Iraqi Defense Ministry videos, have the serial numbers of Su-25 warplanes that are known to be Iranian operated, and some have visible Iranian flags on them.
Even more unclear, and perhaps more interesting, is who is flying those planes. Though Iraq’s Air Force at one point had Su-25s in their fleet, they haven’t in at least 11 years, and it’s unclear if they have any pilots capable of flying them anymore. The speculation is that Iranian troops are flying the planes.
Oops, I guess the Saudis are now worried about a bit of blowback.
Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq: al-Arabiya TV
Saudi Arabia deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Thursday, but Baghdad denied this and said the frontier remained under its full control.
The world's top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia shares an 800-km (500-mile) border with Iraq, where Islamic State insurgents and other Sunni Muslim militant groups seized towns and cities in a lightning advance last month.
King Abdullah has ordered all necessary measures to protect the kingdom against potential "terrorist threats", state news agency SPA reported on Thursday.
The U.S.-allied kingdom overcame its own al Qaeda insurgency almost a decade ago and is wary of any encroaching new threat from radical Sunni Islamists.
U.S. discloses secret Somalia military presence, up to 120 troops
U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, U.S. officials said.
The comments are the first detailed public acknowledgement of a U.S. military presence in Somalia dating back since the U.S. administration of George W. Bush and add to other signs of a deepening U.S. commitment to Somalia's government, which the Obama administration recognized last year.
The deployments, consisting of up to 120 troops on the ground, go beyond the Pentagon's January announcement that it had sent a handful of advisors in October. That was seen at the time as the first assignment of U.S. troops to Somalia since 1993 when two U.S. helicopters were shot down and 18 American troops killed in the "Black Hawk Down" disaster.
The plans to further expand U.S. military assistance coincide with increasing efforts by the Somali government and African Union peacekeepers to counter a bloody seven-year insurgent campaign by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab to impose strict Islamic law inside Somalia.
Those U.S. plans include greater military engagement and new funds for training and assistance for the Somali National Army (SNA), after years of working with the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, which has about 22,000 troops in the country from Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
Airport security may be tightened permanently after US warning
A tightening of security at UK airports may remain in place on a permanent basis in the face of a new extremist bomb threat to transatlantic aircraft, Nick Clegg has said as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
Speaking after the government announced an increase in airport security amid fears in the US that terrorists in Syria and Yemen were developing explosives that could be smuggled on to planes, the deputy prime minister said the new measures would not be temporary.
"I don't think we should expect this to be a one-off temporary thing," Clegg said on his weekly LBC phone-in. "We have to make sure the checks are there to meet the nature of the new kinds of threats. Whether it is forever – I can't make any predictions. But I don't want people to think that this is just a sort of a blip for a week. This is part of an evolving and constant review about whether the checks keep up with the nature of the threats we face."
Clegg was speaking after US officials told Reuters that security at European airports would be increased following intelligence that al-Qaida operatives in Syria and Yemen had joined forces to develop bombs that could avoid detection and bring down aircraft. The US did not specify which airports or countries would be affected, nor did it say what triggered the extra precautions.
Ray McGovern: The Risk of a Ukraine Bloodbath
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko – by thumbing his nose at the leaders of Russia, Germany and France as they repeatedly appealed to him to renew the fragile ceasefire in eastern Ukraine – has left himself and his U.S. patrons isolated, though that’s not the version of the story that you’ll read in the mainstream U.S. press.
But the reality is that an unusual flurry of high-level conference calls last weekend from key European capitals failed to dissuade Poroshenko from launching major attacks on opposition forces in eastern Ukraine. Washington was alone in voicing support for Poroshenko’s decision, with a State Department spokeswoman saying “he has a right to defend his country.” ...
Nastupat is a strong word in Ukrainian and Russian. It means “attack” – and Poroshenko hit the word hard in announcing he had ordered his forces to “attack and free our lands.” He seemed intent not only on snubbing his peace-seeking telephone partners from last weekend, but also on channeling John Kerry’s hawkish buddy John McCain.
There were even hints of Bandera’s old attitude about ethnically purifying Ukraine in Poroshenko’s warning that Kiev’s new attack would rid Ukraine of “parasites.” The Ukrainian defense ministry quickly announced the launching of attacks “from the air and land,” and the violence has escalated sharply. ...
[T]he performance of Ukrainian troops sent to the east so far [has not been the best]. But it would be far too easy to underestimate the kinds of casualties that elite Ukrainian units are capable of inflicting on lightly armed opponents – not to mention the highly trained Right Sektor and other fascists. A bloodbath may be in the offing.
Entire E.Ukraine village bombed by airstrike, 5yr-old among dead
An excellent article by Stephen Cohen:
The Silence of American Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities
For weeks, the US-backed regime in Kiev has been committing atrocities against its own citizens in southeastern Ukraine, regions heavily populated by Russian-speaking Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. While victimizing a growing number of innocent people, including children, and degrading America’s reputation, these military assaults on cities, captured on video, are generating pressure in Russia on President Vladimir Putin to “save our compatriots.”
The reaction of the Obama administration—as well as the new cold-war hawks in Congress and in the establishment media—has been twofold: silence interrupted only by occasional statements excusing and thus encouraging more atrocities by Kiev. Very few Americans (notably, the independent scholar Gordon Hahn) have protested this shameful complicity. We may honorably disagree about the causes and resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, the worst US-Russian confrontation in decades, but not about deeds that are rising to the level of war crimes, if they have not already done so.
Hollande, Merkel urge Putin to broker Ukraine ceasefire
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday to encourage separatists in eastern Ukraine to reach an agreement with the Ukrainian authorities, the French president's office said. ...
Hollande and Merkel are due to hold a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the coming hours, Hollande's office added.
Violent clashes as Palestinians demand justice after teenager's body found
Clashes continued late into the night in East Jerusalem after the discovery on Wednesday of a body believed to be that of a 17-year-old Palestinian boy who had been abducted hours earlier from an Arab neighbourhood. ...
The abduction took place just hours after the funeral of three Jewish seminary students – Gilad Shaer and US-Israeli national Naftali Frenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19 – who Israel says were abducted and killed by the militant Islamist group Hamas.
The ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners and came amid a clamour of calls for retribution. After the funeral, extremist Israeli youths rampaged through Jerusalem chanting "death to Arabs" and assaulting passers by. Around 50 far-right Israeli youths were arrested. ...
The killings of the teenagers have ratcheted up tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, and prompted a wave of racial incitement on social media. A Hebrew Facebook page – We are Israel and We Demand Revenge – attracted 35,000 "likes" before it was removed from the social media site on Wednesday night. The page included pictures of Israeli soldiers and police officers, posing with guns and signs and calling for "revenge".
Two young women posted a selfie holding a sign saying: "Hating Arabs is not racism, it's values."
Bombings Continue as Israeli Troops Mass on Gaza Border
As tensions rise and violence continues between Israeli military forces and Palestinians, a buildup on the border of the Gaza Strip on Thursday is creating worry that a large scale bombardment or military operation of the sealed-off enclave may soon occur.
Israel has launched dozens of airstrikes into Gaza this week as street-level skirmishes in the occupied West Bank have followed the murder of both Israeli and Palestinian teenagers and other civilians in recent weeks.
Outlets report a surge in IDF forces moving to the border region on Thursday amid continuing airstrikes. ...
Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned what is widely seen as the Israeli government's policy of 'collective punishment' during these recent developments. The human rights group said in a statement: "Justice will not be served by Israel seeking revenge by imposing collective punishment, or committing other violations of Palestinians’ rights."
'Potential Extremists': Merely going to Tor's website will land you on NSA's red list
If you search for privacy tools, you're a target for the NSA
In a shocking story on the German site Tagesschau (Google translate), Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz report on the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance.
Since the start of the Snowden story in 2013, the NSA has stressed that while it may intercept nearly every Internet user's communications, it only "targets" a small fraction of those, whose traffic patterns reveal some basis for suspicion. ... The authors of the Tagesschau story have seen the "deep packet inspection" rules used to determine who is considered to be a legitimate target for deep surveillance, and the results are bizarre.
According to the story, the NSA targets anyone who searches for online articles about Tails -- like this one that we published in April, or this article for teens that I wrote in May -- or Tor (The Onion Router, which we've been posting about since 2004). Anyone who is determined to be using Tor is also targeted for long-term surveillance and retention.
Tor and Tails have been part of the mainstream discussion of online security, surveillance and privacy for years. It's nothing short of bizarre to place people under suspicion for searching for these terms.
More importantly, this shows that the NSA uses "targeted surveillance" in a way that beggars common sense. It's a dead certainty that people who heard the NSA's reassurances about "targeting" its surveillance on people who were doing something suspicious didn't understand that the NSA meant people who'd looked up technical details about systems that are routinely discussed on the front page of every newspaper in the world.
Sure, send the Bill of Rights to Britain. The US government and its owners don't want 'em here.
Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights to go on show in UK
Two of the most fundamentally important documents in American history, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, are to go on display in the UK for the first time next year as part of an exhibition about the Magna Carta.
To call the loans to the British Library a coup is perhaps understatement. "It is extremely exciting," said spokeswoman Claire Breay. "They are the biggest loans that the library has ever had, and fitting for the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta."
The Declaration of Independence is on loan from the New York Public Library. The text is that which Thomas Jefferson copied in his own hand, incorporating changes by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.
It is particularly interesting because it shows passages subsequently excised in Congress, such as Jefferson's lengthy condemnation of slavery.
The Bill of Rights is coming from the US National Archives in Washington and was one of 14 copies made in 1789, one each for Congress and the original 13 states. Twelve survive and the one being shown in London is that which Delaware received.
Hello, Henry Kissinger? Yes, the Chileans say that the skeletons are rattling in the closet and the noise is disturbing them.
It's long past time Kissinger took a trip to the Hague.
Chilean Court Rules U.S. Had Role in Murders
SANTIAGO, Chile — The United States military intelligence services played a pivotal role in setting up the murders of two American citizens in 1973, providing the Chilean military with the information that led to their deaths, a court here has ruled.
The recent court decision found that an American naval officer, Ray E. Davis, alerted Chilean officials to the activities of two Americans, Charles Horman, 31, a filmmaker, and Frank Teruggi, 24, a student and an antiwar activist, which led to their arrests and executions.
The murders were part of an American-supported coup that ousted the leftist government of President Salvador Allende. The killing of the two men was portrayed in the 1982 film “Missing.” ...
The decision said the murders were part of “a secret United States information-gathering operation carried out by the U.S. Milgroup in Chile on the political activities of American citizens in the United States and in Chile.” ...
“The Chilean military would not have acted against them on their own,” Mr. Corvalán said. “They didn’t have any particular interest in Horman or Teruggi, or evidence of any compromising political activity that would make them targets of Chilean intelligence agencies.”
Greece forges template for economic recovery as tourists pour in
After six stark years of recession, debt-stricken Greece is back, doing what it has done since the 50s, drawing in holidaymakers from far and wide, only this time at record-breaking rates.
The rebound offers the first ray of light in a nation that to great degree has been rendered unrecognisable by the corrosive effects of austerity. Like a freak storm, the eurozone crisis has swept over this land, leaving despair and destruction in its wake: almost no household has not felt the effects of wage and pension cuts (slashed by an average 40%), soaring taxes and unemployment that at 26.7% is the highest in the EU and unprecedented in Greece's post-war history.
In such circumstances only one in four Greeks will be able to go on holiday this summer, according to a nationwide poll published by the consumer protection group, Inka, this week.
But in a country where trickle-down economics begins with tourism – one in five of the working population are dependent on the sector – the arrival of foreign visitors has brought relief. ...
This month the Confederation of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) revised its projections for a second time this year – from 18.5 million to 19 million arrivals (excluding 2.2 million on cruise ships) - nearly twice the entire Greek population. Airline bookings are up 25%, with island airports reporting a surge in traffic. Revenues in the first four months of the year had similarly expanded by more than a quarter, according to the Bank of Greece.
Swedish Left Party Surges in Polls With Focus on Climate Action & Fighting Privatization
Hillary and Bill: Their Rugged Journey from Paupers to One-Percenters in 365 Days
In an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer on June 9, Hillary Clinton said that she and former President Bill Clinton were “dead broke” when they left the White House in January 2001. The remark was made in this context by the former first lady: “We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy.” ...
Former Presidents are not “dead broke” by any possible interpretation. They receive a pension, which is currently 10 times the poverty level for a family of three; monies for staff, travel, an office, postage and supplies and Secret Service protection for themselves and their spouse.
The President’s pension kicks in as soon as he leaves office. According to the Congressional Research Service, former President Clinton received in pension and other perks, adjusted for 2013 dollars, $335,000 in fiscal year 2001; $1.285 million in 2002, and over $1 million every year thereafter through 2011. Since 2011, the outlay by the taxpayer for former President Clinton has been just under $1 million. Including what is budgeted for fiscal year 2014, Clinton will have received a taxpayer outlay of $15,937,000 since leaving the White House in 2001.
According to the Congressional Research Service, for fiscal year 2014, “office space rental payments were the highest category of cost for former Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush” with former President Clinton’s office budgeted at $450,000 and former President George W. Bush’s budgeted at $440,000. Both former Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush have offices of over 8000 square feet, more than three times the size of many middle class homes.
Both of the Clintons likely knew they would become multi-millionaires very rapidly upon leaving the White House. Just sixteen days after George W. Bush was sworn in on January 20, 2001, Bill Clinton delivered his first speech for $125,000 to Wall Street brokerage and investment bank Morgan Stanley. The speeches continued every few days, with the former President earning an eye-popping $1.475 million in just his first two months out of office. The price per speech has reached $250,000, $300,000 even $500,000 at times. The Clintons earned millions more in book advances and royalties. ...
It is true that the Clintons had legal debts when they left the White House but they were miniscule compared to the former President’s earning power on the speech circuit.
[And there's much more in the article, including the warm treatment that they received from Citigroup, a bank that Clinton and his minions did much to enrich during his time in office.]
At Obama's White House, Wide Pay Gap Between Male and Female Employees
Women in Obama administration paid 13 percent less
Gender disparities in White House salaries have persisted all throughout President Barack Obama's two terms in office, according to recent data.
An analysis by the Washington Post found that with average salaries of $88,600 for men in the White House and $78,400 for women, the income gap under Obama has stayed steady at 13 percent. Although paychecks for both groups have increased in recent years, the disparity remains the same as it was in 2009, when Obama was in his first term — and made the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act the first bill he signed into law as president.
The figures stand in contrast to Obama's previous optimistic language about increasing pay equality around the country, where the overall gap is 23.5 percent.
The Evening Greens
New CO2 Milestone: 3 Months Above 400 PPM
April fell first. It lasted through May. Now June will be the third month in a row with average carbon dioxide levels above 400 parts per million.
Atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas, which helps drive global warming, haven’t been this high in somewhere between 800,000 and 15 million years.
And while the 400 ppm mark is somewhat symbolic (as the increase in warming between 399 ppm and 400 ppm is small), it serves to show how much carbon dioxide has been put into the atmosphere since preindustrial times, when concentrations were around 280 ppm. The increase in this and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has warmed Earth’s average temperature by 1.6°F since the beginning of the 20th century. World leaders agreed at a UN summit in 2009 to limit warming to 3.6°F, but prominent climate scientists like James Hansen have said that amount of warming will still be too much.
'Buzzword List' Reveals What State Officials Can't Say About Fracking
Former state employees told to ignore drilling-related health issues
Former employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Health were ordered by supervisors to ignore complaints about fracking-related health issues and follow a host of other rules to keep the dangers of drilling under wraps — even at the expense of people's health.
NPR State Impact spoke with two retirees from the department who said they were instructed never to return phone calls from residents with health problems stemming from natural gas development, like skin rashes, nausea, and nosebleeds. Employees were also given a laundry list of "buzzwords" and phrases to refrain from using when talking with the public — particularly those that explicitly related to the issue, like "fracking," "gas," and "soil contamination."
Other terms covered health and environmental issues, such as "hair falling out," "water contamination," and "cancer cluster." ...
Marshall P. Deasy, a 20-year veteran of the department, said that drilling was the only issue he could remember being censored by supervisors.
Rejection of Colorado Coal Mine on Global Warming Grounds Could Be Game-Changer
A U.S. District Court judge ruled on June 27 that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service both wrongly approved expansion of the West Elk coal mine in Somerset, Colo., because they failed to take into account the economic impacts greenhouse gas emissions from the mining would have.
The federal agencies said it was impossible to quantify such impacts, but the court pointed out a tool is available to quantify the effects of emissions and the agencies chose to ignore it. The tool, the “social cost of carbon protocol,” puts a price on the damanges from drought, flood, storm, fire and disease caused by global warming.
“It is arbitrary to offer detailed projections of a project's upside while omitting a feasible projection of the project's costs,” U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson ruled.
Arch Coal, Inc. planned to bulldoze vegetation to build about six miles of roads and drill up to 48 exploratory holes in the scenic backcountry of western Colorado's North Fork Valley to vent methane and determine whether a coal seam actually lies beneath the area. ...
The ruling could be game-changing because if the judge's reasoning holds up in other challenges to federal agency decisions, it could change the calculus on dozens of other major projects, such as the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Blair embodies corruption and war. He must be sacked
Stephen Gaskin, founder of The Farm, dies at 79
The Giant Methane Monster Lurking
A Little Night Music
Syl Johnson - Take Me To The River
Syl Johnson - Take Me To The River (Live)
Syl Johnson with Hi Rhythm - Back in the Game
Syl Johnson - Come On, Sock It To Me
Syl Johnson - That's Just My Luck
Syl Johnson - Any Way The Wind Blows
Syl Johnson - I'll Take Those Skinny Legs
Syl Johnson - Little Sally Walker
Syl Johnson - I Feel an Urge
Syl Johnson - Different Strokes
Syl Johnson - Right On part 1 & 2
Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short
Syl Johnson - Get Ready
Syl Johnson - Straight Love No Chaser
Syl Johnson - I Wanna Know (Do You Need Me)
Syl Johnson - Don't Do It
Syl Johnson - Thank You Baby
Syl Johnson - Stuck in Chicago
Syl Johnson - Sockin Soul Power
Syl Johnson - Ode To Soul Man
Syl Johnson with Hi Rhythm - Driving Wheel
Syl Johnson - (She's So Fine) I Just Gotta Make Her Mine
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