Posting History for Ray Pensador

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The Democratic Party: Tasked With Delivering The Final Blow to Democracy My heart goes out to all the good people around the country who have risen in protest against what is clearly a criminal oligarchy. I know they are good, decent, hard-working, moral people (by and ...	Ray Pensador	11/04/2011	30	17	-	202
The Lewis Powell Memo: The Intellectual Genesis of The American Corporatocracy After reading the entire text of the "confidential memo" written by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., in 1971, and addressed to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, I was left with a ...	Ray Pensador	12/09/2011	18	35	5	201
Not An Empire in Decline, But A Barbaric Corporatocracy in Ascendency Much is written about how the U.S. compares to the Roman empire in decline. Not a chance. We are witnessing a brutal and barbaric system in ascendancy. For such system and the people who benefit ...	Ray Pensador	01/16/2012	26	27	1	201
Need Your Input - What Explains The Apathy? I'm perplexed. Millions and millions of Americans have been plunged into despair, economic uncertainty, and actual harm by the actions of a very small group of people. Trillions of dollars stolen ...	Ray Pensador	07/01/2011	75	14	2	199
The Republicans Are Not Crazy - They Take Advantage of Our Naïveté ¡ Pobrecitos ! I take a look at my Liberal brethren with pity. Yes, I'm aware that that "sounds" arrogant, but it's not meant to be. It's genuine concern about how the essence of what it ...	Ray Pensador	07/17/2011	38	18	1	199
The 2011 American Revolution - I Knew it Would Happen The American people are about to show the world how to take on plutocratic sociopaths that have somehow taken over our government. Yes, the Arab Spring led to the U.S Autumn, or what could also be ...	Ray Pensador	09/29/2011	39	14	-	197
Scams, Fraud And Corruption Now Legal In California Grifters, scammers, banksters and thieves, listen up: It is about to be open season for the ...	Ray Pensador	07/23/2011	19	10	-	196
Understanding The Nature of The U.S. Corporatist Fascism A very cute hummingbird was just hovering outside my home office window as I started writing... I'm writing this as I take a break from working on some projects I got recently; the economy is ...	Ray Pensador	04/13/2012	31	24	4	195
We're On Our Own: The Future is in Our Hands Some people find that prospect scary, since it connotes a very deep sense of personal responsibility about the type of society we will live in, in the future. I welcome it, not because I don't ...	Ray Pensador	04/24/2012	25	37	1	195
The Real Danger of Armed Conflict in The U.S. There is a constant struggle that takes place in every culture. It's a struggle between ideologies ...	Ray Pensador	07/24/2011	29	9	-	194
Paul Ryan Likes Obama's Program To Let Workers Work For Free We finally have an area of agreement between Paul Ryan and president Obama. As much of the middle class continues its inexorable march towards serfdom (without really putting up too much resistance),	Ray Pensador	09/18/2011	39	9	-	194
Treasury Department Helps Mortgage Companies Commit Foreclosure Fraud The reign of criminality continues to expand, engulfing the entire country in a wet blanket of filth, unquenchable greed, monstrous lies, and the sadistic crushing of people's dreams and aspirations.	Ray Pensador	10/04/2011	28	26	1	194
My Faith in Humanity Has Been Restored Between family responsibilities, struggles, work, and the typical things average middle class people have to deal with on a daily basis, for the last ten years (at least) I've also been running ...	Ray Pensador	12/04/2011	9	19	-	191
Next Steps in The Occupy Movement: Targeted, Distributed, Rapid Disruption First, brothers and sisters of the revolution, let me humbly congratulate you for your success. ...	Ray Pensador	11/17/2011	54	11	-	187
Reality is not what it seems Every important aspect of our lives is totally misrepresented by the system. Our perception of reality is warped by the effects of being exposed to a massive amount of misinformation, lies, and ...	Ray Pensador	01/02/2012	39	18	1	185
Reality check... Are we on the same page? I'm trying to understand something from the readers here... Are we all on the same page? Is there any doubt about the situation we face in this country? I'm starting to wonder, because I see so ...	Ray Pensador	09/08/2011	24	14	-	184
Two Tracks: Reality And Illusion - Why The Left Keeps Losing Ground The greatest accomplishment of the contemporary capitalistic ruling class has been its ability to manufacture an almost mystical demarcation between reality, and the perception of it. In many ways, ...	Ray Pensador	03/24/2012	28	20	1	184
Here's What a True Progressive Movement Would Look Like I often criticize some elements of the left and the progressives for obsessing about anything Republican. What animates that criticism is that I see the phenomena as the result of the effects of ...	Ray Pensador	04/10/2012	24	20	-	184
Obama's Political Reality vs. Facts By now, the current state of affairs in the United States (and much of the developed world) is not difficult to describe. A criminal cabal of powerful individuals has colluded to act as a "giant ...	Ray Pensador	06/06/2011	10	4	-	183
Progressives Should be Thankful to President Obama President Obama and the Democratic party may have done the biggest favor to the progressive movement by finally showing their true colors. Not that the signs (and actions) have not been there all ...	Ray Pensador	07/31/2011	13	10	-	183
The Upcoming Massive Worldwide Financial Collapse: A Sophisticated Power Grab and Scam Don't you find it almost insulting by now? Insulting to your intelligence? Every time the markets go up, all the news outlets, like parrots, repeat the same inane reasons for it. Every time the ...	Ray Pensador	11/09/2011	9	13	2	180
The Extrajudicial Killings of American Citizens by The State Allowing the government to target people for assassination represents a grave and mortal danger, not only to the targeted individual, but to the viability of a free and democratic society, and to ...	Ray Pensador	10/01/2011	56	26	-	178
Deal on payroll tax holiday: A farce, and an insult to one's intelligence I've heard it said many times: that a true progressive Left in the U.S. does not exist, by and large. I keep trying to have faith, and believe otherwise, but when I see this type of transparent ...	Ray Pensador	12/22/2011	14	12	-	174
The Real POWER Of The Worker It comes down to whether you value yourself as a person. In the final analysis, you have the power . Whether you choose to exercise that power or not, it's up to you. If you think ...	Ray Pensador	09/04/2011	32	13	1	173
We Are Winning! The Beatings, Massive Arrests, And Smack-Downs Prove It I've noticed an interesting pattern when it comes to the conflict between the criminal plutocracy in charge of the levers of power in this country (and its right-wing allies), and the Left: The right-	Ray Pensador	10/17/2011	17	5	-	170
Greece, Italy - Int'l Criminal Bankster Cartel Takes Over The World, One Country At a Time The other day I listened to a program on NPR where Terry Gross was interviewing someone who has written extensively about the Greek economy. From what he reported, the main points hat stuck with me ...	Ray Pensador	11/12/2011	37	23	1	169
Diversionary tactics used to dilute your POWER If you knew how powerful you really are you'll be shocked! That's the main issue. "They" know how much (potential) power you have and that's why they have put in place the most sophisticated ...	Ray Pensador	06/10/2011	43	6	-	167
Tactical Response Team: A Proposal for Occupy Wall Street The militarized police-cum-corporate goons are getting impatient, and are doing everything they can to goad members of the Occupy movement into violence, with an increasingly brutal crackdown on ...	Ray Pensador	12/17/2011	14	8	-	167
Fascism is Here: Private Jails, SEC Coverups, Wall Street Thievery It's amazing how these things happen in history. Many people wonder how entire societies in the past allowed for the establishment of horrid fascist and tyrannical systems. Were they complicit? ...	Ray Pensador	08/18/2011	20	20	-	166
Occupiers: Time To ESCALATE; Occupy Mainstreet Your cause is a just cause. There is no ambiguity; there is no lack of clarity. Everybody knows what's up: There is a brutal war on the middle class; Wall Street looted the country plunging tens ...	Ray Pensador	11/13/2011	10	16	-	166
I Figured It Out! Creeping Fascism In The U.S., And How It Happens Ignorance. Fear. Greed. Selfishness. In that order, those are the reasons that explain the phenomena of creeping fascism. And this of course applies to the nascent fascism in the United States ...	Ray Pensador	08/26/2011	23	10	-	163
The Reasons Behind The November 17th Revolution There is a people. They get together and form a government based on the rule of law, unalienable ...	Ray Pensador	11/16/2011	15	10	1	163
As Banks Plunder The World's Coffers, The Economic Depression Takes Hold You can't just steal tens of trillions of dollars overnight. Even for the most sophisticated class of high-finance criminals in history, it takes quite some time to empty the world's treasury--and ...	Ray Pensador	09/15/2011	57	15	1	162
Truly Revolting - 12 Year-old And 700 Citizens Arrested While Criminal Banksters Walk Free There is something truly revolting to see these New York City cops, with the smugness and, brashness, and arrogance lay their hands on peaceful demonstrators exercising their constitutional right of ...	Ray Pensador	10/02/2011	23	15	1	162
The "Minority Report" World is Here: DHS Total Information Awareness Reality is stranger than fiction, as they say. What fiction writers have been writing about for decades is now reality. As you read this, there is a total information awareness police state ...	Ray Pensador	11/29/2011	12	23	2	162
Anatomy of the unfolding financial system collapse As the financial system continues its course towards an inevitable collapse, it's important to understand why is failing, and why it is very unlikely that there is nothing governments can do to ...	Ray Pensador	10/09/2011	20	5	1	161
Understanding President Obama's Choices Let me start with some facts that are generally accepted as accurate, in order to set the stage for my theory. According to ...	Ray Pensador	07/07/2011	13	13	-	160
The System Failed - How to Deal with The Current Economic Depression By now I think that even the biggest skeptics may be considering the possibility that perhaps the capitalist system in its current form has failed. The skepticism about the reality of the failure ...	Ray Pensador	08/20/2011	26	14	1	160
Very Dangerous Ideas... This morning as I was driving and stopped at an intersection, I noticed a middle-age woman in a car on the left-turn lane, next to me. The reason she caught my attention is because when I got to ...	Ray Pensador	10/19/2011	17	12	1	160
"Hackers attack BART site" - Due to breakdown in justice system By allowing the rich and powerful to commit crimes with impunity, what those in charge of the power structure in the United States are doing is relinquishing the right of the State to impose order. ...	Ray Pensador	08/15/2011	31	6	-	158
Without A Clear Narrative, The Truth Becomes Irrelevant When it comes to the cognitive understanding of the world around us, the most powerful influence is a clear (and generally-accepted) narrative. And often, a narrative that has either been widely ...	Ray Pensador	10/11/2011	24	14	1	157
What Does It Mean To Be A True Progressive? True progressives stand for social justice, separation between Church and State, protection of the environment, participatory democracy, education, efficiency in government operations, prevention of ...	Ray Pensador	08/29/2011	27	19	-	156
What Do Elizabeth Warren, Paul Krugman, And Alan Grayson Have in Common? Elizabeth Warren, Paul Krugman, and Alan Grayson are despised and hated by the fascistic Right in the U.S. (i.e., the current Republican party and their corporatist owners). Why? Because they are ...	Ray Pensador	09/15/2011	9	12	-	156
Dear Tea Party: Thank You! The Tea Party may have done us a huge favor. Maybe now Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives will begin to understand that when it comes to power struggles in the political arena, the most ...	Ray Pensador	08/08/2011	27	9	-	155
Where is my religion? I'm awestruck at the concept of existence, and of being aware of it. I feel an almost overwhelming love for humanity in general, and for mother nature. The littlest things amaze me... I was ...	Ray Pensador	12/30/2011	15	19	-	154
The Good Sociopath Let me start with my interpretation and definition of a sociopath: Unlike "normal" people, a sociopath is incapable of feeling real emotions, especially when it comes to how he relates to other ...	Ray Pensador	10/15/2011	35	6	-	153
George Soros: Financial Markets Driving The World Towards a Great Depression I've written about this issue several times before, and my perspective about it comes from a cursory observation of the current state of affairs as it relates to the international financial markets.	Ray Pensador	09/30/2011	12	11	-	152
Unions, MoveOn, DailyKos, Bold Progressives - Here's What Needs to Happen First and foremost, please let's stop the complaining and focusing on pointing out how thuggish, and mean, and greedy, and corrupt, the Republicans are (along with their corporate overlords). The ...	Ray Pensador	06/24/2011	21	11	1	151
Keep Up The Pressure: Flash Mobs Coordinated Rapid Disruption Here's how the Powers That Be are planning to address your grievances: They will pass laws to allow ...	Ray Pensador	12/11/2011	14	16	-	150
Israel - 1 Million People - Spain Hundreds of Thousands - Chile Tens of Thousands - U.S. ? The problem is the same: A tiny global elite of sociopaths trying to manipulate and subjugate people. Having bought off the political class,	Ray Pensador	09/03/2011	24	16	1	143
Striking Similarities Between Oceania And The United States The similarities are truly amazing! As in Oceania, in the United States today, the society is ruled by an oligarchical one-party system. And just like in Oceania, we are now in a perpetual state ...	Ray Pensador	09/29/2011	21	10	-	142
Constitutional Protections Are Not Quaint - How To Deal With Police Brutality The First Amendment of the Constitution states that the authorities are prohibited from "interfering with the [people's] right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental ...	Ray Pensador	10/14/2011	24	5	-	141
The Most Dangerous Type of Criminals Because of the relentless amount of propaganda we are all subjected to, there seems to be confusion about identifying the most dangerous types of criminals in society. I understand that this ...	Ray Pensador	01/08/2012	9	22	3	141
Right Wing Extremists And The Debt Ceiling Debate	Ray Pensador	07/22/2011	9	9	-	138
Wall Street Occupation Protest Starts This Saturday, Sept. 17th Pardon me, but I'm going to indulge a little in daydreaming. And I know it is so, because at this point, I really don't know what it would take for the good people of this country to say "enough is ...	Ray Pensador	09/16/2011	12	17	-	137
Cognitive Dissonance: Understanding America's Current State of Affairs One way of looking at the systemic incessant attacks on education and intellectual pursuits, by the corporatist power structures who have taken control of our entire system of government is that it ...	Ray Pensador	12/10/2011	15	11	1	137
The looting continues - 2008 and S&P downgrade are more of the same The events that led to the 2008 financial sector crisis were caused by a level of criminality unprecedented in American history. The fraud was done at a massive scale, and pretty much in broad ...	Ray Pensador	08/05/2011	7	8	-	135
SYG Laws - The Genesis of Right Wing Paramilitary Groups As it's the case in every generation, the general public has a tendency to miss the signs of the rise of fascistic threats until it's too late. We are now entering a new phase in that threat, and ...	Ray Pensador	04/01/2012	20	15	2	134
Bamboozled or Razzle Dazzled - "Debt Ceiling" Edition I'm sure the smart reader knows that this whole debate about the so-called debt ceiling is a ruse; a sham. Also, by now people should be aware about how the mainstream media is used to manipulate (...	Ray Pensador	07/11/2011	20	2	-	133
Echoes of 2008 - Obama's Shock Doctrine Approach to Cutting SS and Medicare I watched president Obama's press conference this morning (in its entirety). By the end, I started thinking... "This is weird. I have a funny feeling that I've felt exactly like I'm feeling right ...	Ray Pensador	07/15/2011	9	14	1	133
West Coast Ports Shutdown: Why I'll Be There	Ray Pensador	12/11/2011	21	17	2	131
Pressure Grows on NY Atty General Eric Schneiderman To Accept Financial Crimes Cover-up I'm really having a hard time understanding what is so difficult about the concept that when there is sufficient evidence of the commission of crimes, that those alleged crimes should be fully ...	Ray Pensador	08/23/2011	33	15	1	129
It's Time For BOLD Action - Taking on The Corrupt System Head-on The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you that you are powerless . You are beaten down every day with all kinds of pressures from an evil system that's hell-bent on ...	Ray Pensador	08/25/2011	34	9	1	128
Liberals Aversion to POWER I support the Occupy Movement, and I think it has been very effective in changing the national dialogue thus far. My hope is that it grows to the point where it can actually effect change: Ending ...	Ray Pensador	12/01/2011	35	13	-	128
Understanding Anarchists Actions in The U.S. To tell you the truth, I've never fully understood the concept and/or advocacy of anarchy. ...	Ray Pensador	08/17/2011	47	6	-	127
The Oldest Trick - Using Fear (of The Default) to Manipulate You It's 2008 all over again. A made-up crisis is used to frighten the public on behalf of a tiny plutocratic group of sociopaths, so they can grab even more power; more money; more influence. So they ...	Ray Pensador	07/16/2011	32	9	-	126
Five Goals By Which To Measure Occupy Wall Street's Success A very small group of (easily-identifiable) financial industry criminals committed fraud of unprecedented proportions in human history, plunging millions of people into unimaginable suffering, ...	Ray Pensador	10/16/2011	20	9	-	126
The Real Power of The 99% It seems like the news media is on propaganda mode, full-throttle. The last few days I've read "hit pieces" on the 99% on the San Francisco Chronicle ; the tone of their writing is one of ...	Ray Pensador	12/14/2011	17	17	1	123
Occupy Street Cred vs. Political Establishment Co-option: A Definitive Answer Congratulations! Once again, historic events beckon the progressive movement, and even though it took a little too long for it to start showing signs of a spine to take on the contemporary ...	Ray Pensador	04/22/2012	14	11	1	123
A Militant Left - You Have to BELIEVE in Something I feel nothing but disdain for the extreme Right. There is no hesitation or equivocation in my mind about the fact that I am one hundred percent right, and the Astroturf-financed Orc-like Right is ...	Ray Pensador	08/19/2011	21	10	-	122
Obama is Preparing The Nation for New Role There is a nation-less plutocratic ruling class: The heads of multinational corporations, and their minions, including hedge fund managers, and top Wall Street executives, and the assorted ...	Ray Pensador	08/01/2011	6	7	-	121
My Plan to Take On The Oligarchy What an ambitious title, don't you think? I guess I have to try to deliver on it... I've been thinking about these things (in detail) for almost 15 years now. During that time I watched with ...	Ray Pensador	12/19/2011	16	9	-	117
It's Time For The LEFT To Go On The Offensive What does it mean to be a member of the Leftist political ideology? I'm aware it's hard to come up with an ironclad definition, but I would venture to say that by and large, most Leftists in the U.S.	Ray Pensador	10/20/2011	9	9	-	112
Hitting Wall Street's "Bulls-eye" - My Demands If I were to play "comandante" of the revolution, here's how I would roll... I would make four demands fully expecting for them to be met--or else. I would command the members of the nationwide ...	Ray Pensador	10/04/2011	13	13	1	111
To love and to be loved in return... What a simple day we had today; this Christmas eve. We had breakfast at home, read the paper, went ...	Ray Pensador	12/24/2011	9	19	-	111
Here's how to deal with the Republican party... You don't. The Republican party and its ancillary minions, including the teabaggers, the neo-nazis,	Ray Pensador	09/20/2011	18	10	-	110
What's that light at the end of the tunnel? Sometimes I wish I could take off my "thinking cap" so I could be a little more euphoric and happy ...	Ray Pensador	09/19/2011	16	8	-	108
Don't Get Mad, Get Even - Thoughts on Organized Resistance The operative word is "organized". I'm aware that many individuals, groups and organizations are engaging in activities to resist the corporatist takeover of the country, but sometimes I wonder if ...	Ray Pensador	06/11/2011	15	7	1	107
Asymmetrical Pressure Tactics Against The Corrupt Plutocracy People are exercising their constitutional rights to assemble peacefully, and the corporatist goons continue to arrest them in a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution. Criminal banks continue ...	Ray Pensador	10/23/2011	7	6	-	106
Irene, The U.S. Media And "The Truman Show" I wish I could find the right words to describe the state of the U.S. news media. The easiest ...	Ray Pensador	08/28/2011	13	7	-	103
Understanding The Current Great Depression We know what's coming next. At some point in the future the government statistics people will come out with a "revision" and show that instead of zero grow in employment, or anemic growth in the ...	Ray Pensador	09/13/2011	3	12	1	103
Time To Up The Ante - (Peaceful) Revolutionary Tactics I shudder every time I hear somebody say that the issues addressed by Occupy Wall Street are too hard for the authorities to handle, and that we may have to wait years before anybody does anything ...	Ray Pensador	10/17/2011	10	3	-	103
What does it mean to be in the "99%"? I've been to several protest marches now in different cities... Yesterday I was in San Diego. I do think that there is something very important happening. I'm encouraged by the fact that people ...	Ray Pensador	10/09/2011	21	7	1	101
Warning To Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, And Other U.S. City Mayors These guys are tone deaf. They talk about how the occupiers are disrupting business; about how it inconveniences neighbors; how the encampments damages city property. They complain about noise, ...	Ray Pensador	11/10/2011	27	8	-	101
Do You Hear the People Sing... The Song of Angry Men I think that one of the things that creates more stress, anger, and disappointment in people is when their trust is betrayed. When they wholeheartedly believe in something or somebody, and then it ...	Ray Pensador	07/07/2011	7	7	-	98
As Winter Arrives, Now It's Time To Escalate The Protest Movement There is only one acceptable outcome to the Occupy Movement: Victory. What is victory? Forcing the release of the brutal and oppressive choke-hold the moneyed and powerful elite has on our ...	Ray Pensador	11/12/2011	9	15	-	98
Super-Committee, Super-Illusion: The Takedown of Democracy Most of what you hear every day in the news, especially when it comes to big news, like the markets, the economy, Wall Street, the national debt here and in Europe, are outright lies and fabrication.	Ray Pensador	11/21/2011	18	8	-	97
The "Rainmakers" - Conservatives Advantage in Selling Their Agenda I've had the opportunity to work in corporate environments where I was able to experience what I consider to be corporate "micro-cultures" in the form of different departments within a company. ...	Ray Pensador	07/03/2011	17	6	-	96
Story-telling, Messaging And Narrative Trump Truth-telling Every Single Time When it comes down to effective communication--the type that actually motivates people to take a certain course of action--truth by itself is almost irrelevant. Any type of "information," whether ...	Ray Pensador	03/25/2012	6	8	-	94
NYPD's And CIA Illegal Domestic Spying Program Everything seems to be going "as planned" when it comes to the implementation of a police State in the United States of America. The sickening thing about it is that as criminals of the higher ...	Ray Pensador	08/24/2011	18	14	1	92
What is the role of government? To understand what government is supposed to be in the United States, the best place to start is ...	Ray Pensador	08/17/2011	8	4	-	87
Unshackle Your Mind And Join The Movement... This is an homage to those who are willing to break through the mental shackles imposed by the current brutal and oppressive corporatist regime trying to consolidate power. You are right. You ...	Ray Pensador	09/05/2011	11	6	-	87
An Open Letter To Mayor Bloomberg And Commissioner Kelly Messrs. Bloomberg, and Kelly: It is very likely that tomorrow Friday, October 14, 2011, you will be making history. I'm not making this statement because I feel I have some sort of prophetic vision,	Ray Pensador	10/13/2011	4	4	-	87
The Biggest Challenge of Our Time Although it has been in the works for decades, and during that time there has been people sounding the alarm, it seems that finally a consensus is building around the notion that a small ruling ...	Ray Pensador	08/27/2011	7	14	2	85
A Better World is Within Our Reach Out of this deep darkness of oppression at the hands of a corrupt and debased global ruling elite, we will soon start to see a glimmer of light in the horizon, as the sun slowly rises turning the ...	Ray Pensador	12/21/2011	13	8	-	85
It's time to stop the machine... The following content is meant to be fictitious. It's just writing. It's not meant to be an active call or incitement of any kind. It's a fictional fantasy of how the people of a corrupt country ...	Ray Pensador	08/15/2011	4	5	-	83
Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither The saying "no justice, no peace" probably represents the most profound explanation about the causes of violence. And perhaps, it may be possible to track a very large proportion of violent acts to ...	Ray Pensador	09/10/2011	16	4	-	82
Powerful Beyond Measure The poem "Our Deepest Fear" alludes to the proposition that in reality, we may be powerful beyond measure. " Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we ...	Ray Pensador	01/02/2012	11	10	-	79
The Surveillance State - Why Crime is Good For Society Crime and the ability to commit crimes by the average citizen in society plays an essential role as an indicator of deep structural problems within a social system. That role could be seen as that ...	Ray Pensador	01/12/2012	18	13	1	79
Chronicles of The Nascent American Plutocracy - Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 Remember Ross Perot's "Giant Sucking Sound" allusion to NAFTA during the 1992 presidential debate? Well, try this... Stop what you're doing for a few seconds, be silent, close your eyes, and you ...	Ray Pensador	06/14/2011	4	5	2	78

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