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		<title>The Thuggery of Obamacare Czarina Kathleen Sebelius</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's brass-knuckles approach to keeping ailing businesses in line.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209052" alt="large" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/large-437x350.jpg" width="306" height="245" /></a>U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is allergic to the truth. She is the ruthless enforcer of Obamacare&#8217;s Jenga tower of lies upon lies upon lies. Now that this fatally flawed government edifice is collapsing, you can expect Sebelius to do what she has done her entire career: blame, bully and pile on more lies.</p>
<p>Three years ago, when insurers and other companies had the audacity to expose Obamacare&#8217;s damage to their customers and workers, Sebelius brought out her brass knuckles. Remember? As I reported at the time, the White House coordinated a demonization campaign against Anthem Blue Cross in California for raising rates because of the new mandate&#8217;s costs. Obama singled out the company in a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview, and Sebelius sent a nasty-gram demanding that Anthem &#8220;justify&#8221; its rate hikes to the federal government.</p>
<p>A private company trying to survive in the marketplace was forced to &#8220;explain&#8221; itself to federal bureaucrats and career politicians who have never run a business (successful or otherwise) in their lives. Sebelius went even further. She called on Anthem to provide public disclosure of how the rate increases would be spent — a mandate that no other private companies must follow.</p>
<p>In an even more heavy-handed effort to suppress criticism, Sebelius wrote America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association of health insurers, &#8220;calling on their members to stop using scare tactics and misinformation to falsely blame premium increases for 2011 on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act.&#8221; The threatening cease-and-desist letter commanded: &#8220;I urge you to inform your members that there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases. &#8230; Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.&#8221;</p>
<p>The speech-stifling gag order declared war on every opponent of Obamacare who dared to question the administration&#8217;s phony claims of cost-savings or expanded access.</p>
<p>When McDonald&#8217;s notified the feds that it might have to cancel health insurance plans for 30,000 workers because of Obamacare&#8217;s effective prohibition on low-cost plans, Sebelius slammed The Wall Street Journal for reporting the story. She then rushed to issue McDonald&#8217;s an Obamacare waiver, the first of thousands to quell criticism and bleeding.</p>
<p>Health care policy analyst Merrill Matthews points out that Sebelius cracked her whip against health insurer Humana even before the law had passed. When the insurer warned seniors that an Obamacare proposal to cut reimbursements could harm their Medicare Advantage benefits and coverage, Sebelius demanded that the company &#8220;suspend potentially misleading mailings to beneficiaries about health care and insurance reform.&#8221;</p>
<p>The warning, of course, proved true. In September 2010, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care canceled MA policies covering 22,000 seniors precisely because of Obamacare rules on reimbursements and MA-style plans.</p>
<p>Sebelius&#8217; power-mad partner on Capitol Hill, Henry Waxman, targeted companies including Deere, Caterpillar, Verizon and ATT in a brass-knuckled effort to silence companies speaking out about the cost implications and financial burdens of Obamacare. After the firms reported write-downs related to the Obamacare mandate (disclosures that are required by law), Waxman scheduled an inquisition hearing to berate them publicly. After the Democrats&#8217; own congressional staff pointed out that the companies &#8220;acted properly and in accordance with accounting standards&#8221; in submitting filings that were required by law, Waxman called off the hounds.</p>
<p>It was a temporary reprieve. Caught with their pants down on the Obamacare website abomination and unable to stifle the cries of millions of Americans who are unable to keep the plans and doctors they like, Sebelius and her corrupt company are now blaming insurers, contractors and customers for the Obama administration&#8217;s ideological mess. In short: They lied, but for your own good. Culture of Corruption 101.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood Producer: John Wilkes Booth a “Poster Child for the Tea Party”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood leftists say they hate bullies. Too bad they are bullies.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/hollywood-producer-john-wilkes-booth-a-poster-child-for-the-tea-party/john_wilkes_booth/" rel="attachment wp-att-172406"><img class="size-medium wp-image-172406 alignleft" title="john_wilkes_booth" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/john_wilkes_booth-262x350.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="350" /></a>Last year, noted Hollywood entrepreneur of independents Harvey Weinstein put out a movie about bullying. <em>Bully</em> featured the stories of teenagers who had been bullied in school. The <em>New York Times</em> lauded the film for taking a look at “the extent to which that cruelty is embedded in our schools and therefore in our society as a whole.”</p>
<p>And the Obama administration immediately showed the film at the White House, just after informing the public that he would support two bills designed to target bullying. Valerie Jarrett said, “Earlier today, we screened BULLY at the White House. This film is a powerful call to action: We must do everything we can to work toward the day when no young person or family suffers the pain, agony, and loss caused by bulling in our schools and communities.”</p>
<p>But the Obama administration has no interest in stopping Hollywood bullying. So they didn’t call out Weinstein for his own career-long bullying – he has assaulted a reporter from the <em>New York Observer</em>, threatened a director’s companion, and screamed at Democratic higher-up Terry McAuliffe, “You motherf***er! I’ll rip your balls off!”</p>
<p>Hollywood bullying isn’t restricted to the screaming producers and vile thugs who inhabit the town. It carries over to the political viewpoint of those who work here. For example, producer Erik Jendresen, writer of Bill O’Reilly’s <em>Killing Lincoln</em> special on National Geographic, said that Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth was just like today’s Tea Party:</p>
<blockquote><p>This is not the act of somebody who can be easily dismissed as a psychopath so that it&#8217;s easy to understand: &#8216;Oh, well, he was crazy.&#8217; No. It&#8217;s more disturbing to find out who Booth was. This is a man who believed what still probably 20 percent of this country still believes. He could be a poster child for the Tea Party.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, no. Booth was an ardent anti-abolitionist who believed strongly in slavery. He actually signed up for the local militia to watch anti-slavery zealot John Brown meet his maker at his hanging. He smuggled quinine from North to South to help the slavery cause during the Civil War. This was not a Tea Partier, opposed to the growth of government and believing in basic capitalism. The Confederacy was an agrarian economy based on forced labor. And it was the Democrats primarily who defended its racism and its evil.</p>
<p>But the left isn’t interested in the truth. They’re interested in bullying. They don’t want to deal with the Constitutional and economic and moral arguments of the Tea Party. They just want to paint Tea Partiers as morally evil, so that they don’t have to debate them. Because who would debate a John Wilkes Booth? Who would debate a Nazi? Even though its own ideas are marginal, the left knows that there is a mainstream of thought – and that if you can marginalize your opposition beyond that mainstream, you need not contemplate their arguments.</p>
<p>Insults and emotion are the only tactics Hollywood liberals have left. And it’s infected our national politics. Now all that matters is the emotion in politics – the sheer demonization of the other political point of view, the slandering of their intentions. And if you can cry – if you can show that you care – you can be as incompetent as you want. Bill Clinton said it himself during this last campaign cycle:</p>
<blockquote><p>Governor Romney&#8217;s argument is, we&#8217;re not fixed, so fire him and put me in. It is true we&#8217;re not fixed. When President Obama looked into the eyes of that man who said in the debate, I had so much hope four years ago and I don&#8217;t now, I thought he was going to cry. Because he knows that it&#8217;s not fixed.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you cry, you’re a good person. And if you disagree, you are an uncaring jerk unworthy of further discussion, even if your policies are more successful at forwarding human happiness.</p>
<p>This is the way the Hollywood emotional calculus has infected traditional politics. We can laugh off the stupidity of the Hollywood celebs – their shallowness, their foolishness – but they have their desired effect: they turn the political into the emotional. And that’s how they bully conservatives into defeat.</p>
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		<title>The Islamic Schoolyard-Bully and Obama’s America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning the lesson from the classic “schoolyard bully” paradigm.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/the-islamic-schoolyard-bully-and-obamas-america/islamic-terrorist/" rel="attachment wp-att-148852"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-148852" title="islamic-terrorist" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/islamic-terrorist.jpg" alt="" width="297" height="193" /></a>In an era of high education and specialty degrees—from psychology to political science—perhaps it was inevitable for simple common sense to fall by the wayside.  The embassy attacks across the Muslim world, especially the most savage in Egypt and Libya, are a testimony to this: U.S. policy towards these countries fundamentally exacerbated their wild reactions.  To understand all this, one need only turn to the classic “schoolyard bully” paradigm, that any child can understand.</p>
<p>Not especially large or strong, the schoolyard bully—generally a prickly, nasty fellow—picks on two groups: 1) those who are obviously weaker than him and 2) those who, while larger or stronger than him, willingly give in to him—willingly appease.  Bullying the first group, the weak, is an easy matter for the bully.  As for the second group, whose capacities and responses are unclear, these he must first determine through a few bully trial-runs—to see whether they will fight back, or whether they will give in.  He begins small—a shove and harsh word here and there—and takes it from there, always seeing how far he can go.</p>
<p>The bully will receive one of two responses from the second group, those not smaller or weaker than him: either appeasement and giving in, or a punch to the nose.  If he receives the former, he continually ups the bullying to see how much more he can get away with: harsh words and shoves become demands for lunch money and stolen jackets.  His work becomes complete with the absolute subordination of his victim.</p>
<p>As for the one who does not put up with his bullying—who gives him a swift punch to the nose—not only does the bully leave him be, he even begins to respect if not befriend him.</p>
<p>For centuries, people from all walks of life knew this—from experience if not common sense.  Children knew it.</p>
<p>Now consider how the schoolyard bully paradigm helps explain America’s relationship to the Muslim world, especially in the last four years, culminating with the U.S. embassy debacles in the Muslim world.</p>
<p>To set the stage, here are the main characters: the Muslim world represents the bully and the international arena is the schoolyard where his shoves and demands are made; the Muslim world’s religious minorities, Christian and otherwise, represent the weak—they who are bullied incessantly because there is nothing they can do about it, and whose plight is a testimony to the bullying mentality of the Muslim world; the U.S. represents the ostensibly strong figure in the international-schoolyard, whose response to the bully is not wholly known and needs to be tested.</p>
<p>Soon after taking office, Barrack Obama made it clear in numerous ways that he was intent on appeasing the Muslim world—whether by bowing to the Wahabbi King, commanding NASA to make Muslims feel better about themselves, censoring security language deemed insulting to Muslims, or giving terrorist Osama bin Laden an Islamic funeral. No American president has been more appeasing to the Muslim world than Barrack Obama.</p>
<p>Of course, much of this may not be naïve appeasement; it may be something much worse.  But the Muslim masses interpret it as appeasement.</p>
<p>Obama’s most recent concessions were unprecedented: he betrayed America’s longtime secular allies—whose existence was fundamental to U.S. interests, not to mention the interests of the secular and non-Muslim segments of their societies—to appease the Islamists of the world, those groups that share the same ideology, if not always tactics, of the terrorists who struck the U.S. on 9/11; those groups that are fundamentally hostile to the U.S.; those groups renowned for <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12386/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012">bullying the weak in their midst</a>.</p>
<p>Of all Middle East nations, it was his policies in Egypt and Libya that were especially appeasing to the Islamists.  In Egypt, he threw Hosni Mubarak—a staunch 30-year-ally of the U.S.—under the bus and helped empower the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis; in Libya, he provided military aid to the al-Qaeda-affiliated “rebels” who overthrew Gaddafi.</p>
<p>And what thanks did America receive from Egypt and Libya? More bullying, more demands.  Like the proverbial schoolyard bully used to getting what he wants, during the embassy riots and protests across the Muslim world, it was the Islamists of Egypt and Libya—precisely those two groups which Obama did so much for, the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels in Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis—who went on the most violent sprees, made bolder demands (including the release of the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2012/09/jihadis-threaten-to-burn-us-embassy-in-cairo">Blind Sheikh</a> or else), stormed and terrorized embassies, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12268/islam-black-flag-flies-over-egypt">burned American flags</a>, and murdered and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12305/the-rape-of-christopher-stevens">raped</a> American diplomats.</p>
<p>Thus, as all the talking heads analyze how and why the embassy attacks occurred, the greater lesson is obvious for those with common sense: nothing short of a punch to the nose—or at this very late date, when the image of an appeasing America is so ingrained, <em>several</em> punches—will ever cease the bullying and earn some respect for the United States.</p>
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		<title>The Real Bully Running for President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 04:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intimidating private citizens is only the beginning of Obama's strong-arming tactics. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Obama-Finger-Pointing.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131865" title="Obama-Finger-Pointing" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Obama-Finger-Pointing.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a>Last week <em>Washington Post </em>ran a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html">story</a> attempting to portray presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a homophobic bully. Despite every effort to contain it, the story imploded, as <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/10/Washington-Post-Hit-Piece-Implodes">factual inaccuracies</a> came to light. Furthermore, the victim&#8217;s own sisters (he died of liver cancer in 2004) <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/sister-of-alleged-romney-target-has-no-knowledge-of-any-bullying-incident/">claimed</a> to have no knowledge of incident, with one of them telling ABC News, “If he were still alive today, he would be furious.” Yet as is often the case with highly publicized news stories, other mainstream media outlets attempted to keep the thematic aspect of the piece alive, irrespective of the facts. Thus, when former Newt Gingrich campaign manager Rick Tyler showed up for an MSNBC <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/05/11/former-gingrich-adviser-schools-martin-bashir-romneys-not-bully-obama">interview</a> with Martin Bashir, Bashir attempted to do exactly that. Tyler was having none of it. &#8220;I would consider things like Barack Obama bullying the Supreme Court, bullying the EPA, bullying hundreds of property owners and business owners, bullying donors to the Romney campaign. That’s what bullying is when they have an effect on private citizens not people running against them but people who disagree with them politically,&#8221; said Tyler. &#8220;That’s bullying!&#8221;</p>
<p>Tyler&#8217;s assessment of the current president is spot on. Moreover, one need not go back almost five decades to underscore that reality. As recently as April 26th, the <em>Wall Street Journal&#8217;</em>s Kimberly Strassel <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html">revealed</a> that one of the Obama re-election campaign websites, <a href="http://www.keepinggophonest.com/behind-the-curtain-a-brief-history-of-romneys-donors">&#8220;The Truth Team,&#8221;</a> published &#8220;Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney&#8217;s donors.&#8221; It was an ugly attempt to slur and intimidate donors to Mitt Romney&#8217;s election campaign. Eight private citizens were described as having &#8220;less-than-reputable records,&#8221; being &#8220;on the wrong side of the law&#8221; and making themselves successful at &#8220;the expense of so many Americans.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having &#8216;outsourced&#8217; jobs,&#8221; writes Strassel. &#8220;T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a &#8216;lobbyist&#8217;) and Thomas O&#8217;Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a &#8216;bitter foe of the gay rights movement.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>One of those men, Frank VanderSloot, did an <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/05/romney-donor-on-obamas-enemies-list-theyre-stalking-my-kids-video/">interview</a> with <em>Fox News&#8217;</em> Greta Van Susteren, expressing what it was like to be on a presidential &#8220;enemies list.&#8221; &#8220;Sure enough then the attacks started coming I really thought I&#8217;d made a mistake,&#8221; he told Susteren. &#8220;As I thought about it, I thought, &#8216;this is America and we can&#8217;t let these tactics intimidate us,&#8217; and so I remain undeterred.&#8221; Yet VanderSloot also noted that the media &#8220;have lodged all kinds of innuendo in my direction, accused me of all kinds of bad things. People have called my children. They’ve been surfing their LinkedIn sites. They’ve been asking interviews of my kids.&#8221; VanderSloot also revealed that a &#8220;former U.S. Senate investigator&#8221; and &#8220;member of the sub-committee on Homeland Security&#8221; is doing an investigation of him and his family, which &#8220;worried him a lot.&#8221;</p>
<p>Strassel <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070304577396412560038208.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet">confirmed</a> that outrage, noting that &#8220;a man named Michael Wolf contacted the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls in search of court records regarding Mr. VanderSloot. Specifically, Mr. Wolf wanted all the documents dealing with Mr. VanderSloot&#8217;s divorces, as well as a case involving a dispute with a former Melaleuca employee.&#8221; She further revealed that &#8220;Mr. Wolf was, until a few months ago, a law clerk on the Democratic side of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Con Artists of Climategate &#8211; by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown</title>
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<p><span><span>Just like in the Wizard of Oz, the curtain was torn back and leading proponents of anthropogenic (people-caused) global warming have been caught lying.</span></span></p>
<p>Called Climategate, the scandal exposes the global warming shysters who are conning the public into a massive restructuring of the global economy, while attempting to silence any dissent. But don’t expect to see this in our mainstream media, because they are the spinsters who promote this manipulation of data and propaganda.</p>
<p>It all began when an anonymous person hacked into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in England, releasing 61 megabytes of confidential files, including 1079 e-mails and 72 documents onto the Internet. These files are a wealth of information.</p>
<p>The most damning indictment of proponents of global warming hysteria is a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. The e-mails even included fantasies of violence against those who question anthropogenic global warming. These e-mails show disturbing patterns of “conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more,” says Australian Sun’s Andrew Bolt.</p>
<p>Man-made global warming hysteria has long been fueled by people using junk science, fear and hyperbole to support an agenda that they personally profit from. As they attempt to lead the world into a green revolution, these propagandists are hiding the truth that the average global temperature has fallen since 1998.</p>
<p>The leading profiteering propagandist is Al Gore. After losing the presidential election in 2000, Al Gore became the leader of the hysteria movement. However, this “Eco-Prophet” has hidden a few inconvenient truths of his own. He just happens to be involved with a venture capital firm that has invested approximately a billion dollars in green companies that stand to make a bundle if Cap-and-Trade becomes law.</p>
<p>Reports state that Gore’s net worth now stands at $100 million, when it was $2 million when he left politics. He’s laughing all the way to the bank.</p>
<p>Al Gore has a history of playing loose with the facts.</p>
<p>Recently on TV, while discussing geothermal energy, Al Gore made the outrageous claim that “the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees.” However, the actual temperature here on earth is between 5,000 and 9,000 degrees. This is a gaffe that if Sarah Palin had made, the media would ridicule as her stupid.</p>
<p>Speaking of hypocrisy, Al Gore is a living embodiment of it. As he lectures the world on energy use, and lobbies Congress to regulate productive American companies out of business, Gore consumes more than twenty times more energy than the average American, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. This doesn’t count the energy consumption of his jet.</p>
<p>Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is full of instances where he plays loose with the facts. A 2007 British court ruled that Gore&#8217;s film has nine significant refutable errors. These are examples of Gore’s scare tactics to induce the public to take radical action (to his financial benefit).</p>
<p>Not only is Gore prone to hyperbole, hypocrisy and blatant distortions, he is also a bully. Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT wrote about scientists being &#8220;in the crosshairs&#8221; of Gore, who &#8220;tried to bully&#8221; them into changing &#8220;their views and supporting his climate alarmism.&#8221; Lindzen also refers to a failed Gore effort to &#8220;enlist Ted Koppel (then a TV host) in a witch hunt to discredit anti-alarmist scientists.&#8221;</p>
<p>When one side tries to shut another side out of the debate, it is typically because they feel their arguments won’t stand up to scrutiny.</p>
<p>These propagandists use various tactics. A favorite is to make people feel guilty if they don’t jump on the “green” bandwagon, and those who do are praised for helping the environment.</p>
<p>With the Copenhagen meetings just around the corner, expect to see “green” propaganda exponentially increasing. Open your eyes to these manipulators of data and people, who while acting like do-gooders, see great (green as in money) gain.</p>
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