Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Tea Party and RICO

The Tea Party and RICO

http://technorati.com/politics/article/the-tea-party-and-rico/

Having fulfilled their purpose of dumping the vulnerable US economy back into the toilet of recession, the Tea Party wing of the GOP has a final job: to flush it using the president as a commode handle. However, in bragging about it as some kind of ideological triumph, they admit ownership of creating a lucrative opportunity for profiteers to engage in short-selling the United States. As Republican sympathizers and media pundits attempt to divert public attention almost apologetically for this blatant racketeering, the Republican Tea Party members have breached their Congressional oath of office knowing that they cannot be impeached nor be recalled. But they are not above the law. It is called RICO. ...
... Put another way, the way to gain power is through extortion.


That may all look and sound merely political, but it is not. The behavior has less to do with proclamations about ideology and principal than it does about money. In this regard there is an argument that has not yet been made. That argument is that allegedly these Tea Party Representatives in Congress have deliberately conspired to devalue the US credit for political and/or personal benefit. Whether it has to do with preparation for an election or not, allegedly they have knowingly or otherwise been party to committing the following actions punishable under the RICO Act: securities fraud, obstruction of justice and extortion.


Originally written to go after the Mafia in 1970, Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act [Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1961-1968]. However, RICO is almost never applied to the Mafia today. RICO is applied to individuals and businesses. In addition to criminal claims, Section 1964(c) of the RICO Act allows civil claims to be brought by any person injured by reason of a RICO violation. Tea Party members of Congress are not immune.


Their behavior looks like that of racketeers. As such they could be seen as an ongoing criminal organization subject to RICO that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action that focuses specifically on racketeering. RICO allows for the leaders of a syndicate, such as the Tea Party appears to be, to be tried for the alleged crimes which they ordered and assisted. Violations of the RICO laws can be alleged in civil lawsuit cases. It is important to bear in mind that a RICO-related charge focuses on patterns of behavior as opposed to criminal acts. Additionally, a civil RICO action can be filed in state or federal court. Both the federal and civil components allow for the recovery of triple the amount of actual and compensatory damages.


Look at the provision for private parties to sue. For example, stock holders whose stocks lost value can be considered as a "person damaged in his business or property." They can sue one or more "racketeers", Tea Party members. As plaintiffs, the stock holders, including people with 401(k)s must prove the existence of an "enterprise", that they are victims of the racketeers. What needs to be shown is that the defendants conducted or participated in the affairs of the enterprise "through" the pattern of racketeering activity.
The crimes punishable under the RICO Act alleged here are securities fraud, obstruction of justice and extortion.


Tea Party members committed securities fraud in several ways. They made and publicized misstatements on the financial report of United States and the US debt as elected public officials. That resulted in driving down stock prices. As a stock manipulation scheme, that allowed for insider trading. Those fraudulent schemes that have been perpetrated in the securities and commodities markets can ultimately have a devastating impact on the viability and operation of those markets at home and abroad, which is what Tea Party Representative Bachmann bragged about in Iowa.


Tea Party members have obstructed justice by interfering with the work of other government officials, such as the Secretary of the Treasury and members of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Obstruction can include crimes committed by elected officials. In this regard, they were aware that their actions could manipulate markets for the purpose of financial gain of others or themselves. It was obstruction of justice that the House used to impeach President Clinton and brought about President Nixon’s resignation from office.


ea Party members, as elected government officials, have practiced extortion under color of authority. That includes false pretenses, like Cantor’s charge to stick together and “demonstrate that we’re a team that will fight for and stand by our principles.” Their extortion has included promises and representations as well as the deprivation of the right of citizens to the honest services of their elected officials. While extortion is more commonly practiced by and associated with organized crime groups, it is defined as a criminal offense which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains money, property or services from a person(s), entity, or institution, through coercion.


There is no excuse for the Tea Party members of Congress deliberate effort to drive down the credit worthiness of the United States, let alone to do as elected public officials. There is no defense for participating in actions by which people can make money on the resultant market manipulation which is unfolding. That their pattern of behavior has hurt both investors and consumers in the false claim of principal is calumny. Seeking the political defeat of the president by purposely trashing the US economy is criminal.


The administration may feel its hands tied and not unleash the Justice Department to prosecute this alleged criminal activity, but that does not prevent the private sector from bringing these seeming racketeers to justice severally and jointly. The harm that has been perpetrated by the Tea Party cannot be justified. Both criminal and civil litigation under RICO can at least marginalize the Tea Party’s willful and destructive influence in Congress and defeat its members.




They are not above the law.


Special Report -Rapid growth of U.S. militias feeds off politics

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2010/04/28/uk-usa-militias-idUKTRE63R2NY20100428

... The militia movement has no single national leader and it contains wildly divergent strains of thought, according to militia members and experts. These include white supremacists and neo-Nazis; "Millenarians," who say major social transformation is imminent; and believers in "Christian Identity," a pro-white version of Christianity.


But the vast majority seem to be "constitutional" militias, fans of low taxes and small government -- values similar to those of many conservatives and the Tea Party movement. ...




... One leading light is Robert Schulz, founder and chairman of We The People Foundation, a non-profit that organized two national gatherings last year. The meetings popularized a check list of alleged constitutional violations cited by elements of the conservative Tea Party movement and militias, according to "Midwifing the Militias", a report by the Southern Poverty Law Centre, a non-profit which tracks hate groups.
Such violations included undeclared foreign wars, gifting and lending money and credit to private corporations, unconstitutional tax levying and unenforced immigration laws. ...

... In the early 1990s the militias were politically isolated. Today, they appear to be an armed point along a much bigger popular continuum that includes the Tea Party and the Oath Keepers, both gaining momentum fast.


Lackomar and other militia members, while certainly sympathetic to the Tea Party's goals, insist the two groups are unconnected -- even informally. "What we've tried to do is to make it so our group does not take political positions, except for constitutional versus unconstitutional, and the necessary focus on the Second Amendment," Lackomar said.

Still, in conversations with Reuters, SMVM members expressed admiration for the Tea Party's rapid growth in the past year and its ability to draw big crowds and mainstream politicians like Sarah Palin.

The online invitation to the SMVM's picnic this year encouraged guests to "show, shoot, shout then sip some tea with us." Lackomar says the reference was designed to appeal "to people who might be put off by the pure militia aspect."

 The picnic culminated with a shooting competition. Among the promised targets: Copies of the U.S. tax form known as the 1040.

The Tea Party movement has sought to distance itself from the militia phenomenon, but the Oath Keeper movement seems closer to it in many ways while also sharing some common ground with the Tea Party.






Idaho GOP Leader, Tea Party Organizer Arrested For Assault With A Deadly Weapon (a gun)



http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/idaho-gop-leader-tea-party-organizer


Idaho GOP Leader, Tea Party Organizer Arrested For Assault With A Deadly Weapon (a gun)
By Logan Murphy Friday Aug 21, 2009 7:00am

The Republican Party has a huge problem on their hands. They are quickly being taken over by the most extreme, paranoid, fringe elements in our society and this case is just another glaring example of the path they are on:

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho Republican Party leader who helped oust the state GOP chairman in 2008 faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an altercation escalated while he photographed a home with a delinquent mortgage.

Challis McAffee, 33, the GOP chairman from the Boise suburb of Garden City and one of 231 voting members of the Idaho Republican Central Committee, was in Ada County jail after being accused of pointing a gun at the homeowner.

McAffee, a backer of libertarian-leaning former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and an activist in this year's anti-big-government "Tea Party" protests, helped organize Paul backers who aligned at last June's Idaho State Republican Convention in Sandpoint with other foes of then-state GOP Chairman Kirk Sullivan. Sullivan was voted from office in favor of Norm Semanko.

According to police in the Boise suburb of Meridian, resident Robert Lutes called officers just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to report McAffee had pointed a .357 Magnum handgun at him during a verbal confrontation. McAffee acknowledged he pointed the gun at Lutes, according to the police account.

"I'm unarmed, I'm an old man," Lutes, 51, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I'm trying to find out why he's taking pictures of my house. I said, 'Knock on my door, let me know what you want.' Then, I think he's reaching for his business card and he pulls out a concealed weapon and I think he's going to blow my head off." Read on...

http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/idaho-gop-leader...






Treasure Valley Tea Party

Challis McAffee Assistant Organizer

Location: Boise, ID 


Idaho GOP Leader, Tea Party Organizer, Charged With Assault

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Friday, August 21, 2009 at 3:34 pm
The goings-on of red state Republican officials aren’t usually national news, but this story from Boise is a fitting postscript to a week that started with Second Amendment activists bringing guns to a presidential speech and muttering about “forcefully resisting” the government.


Challis McAffee, a Ron Paul-supporting Republican Party leader from a suburb of Idaho’s capital city, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for pointing a gun at a homeowner. Why was he confronting the homeowner? Well, he was hired “to document the condition of homes where mortgages are past due or in foreclosure.”



Violent tea partier arrested at Democratic rally in Houston



Tea Party Violence: Teabagger Tries To Kill Man With Obama Bumper Sticker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pdwTQ4xA8

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Grass-Roots Goliath Citizens for a Sound Economy

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Call it fertilizing the grass roots. On the morning of April 16. a few leaders of Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) pitched an elite bunch of corporate lobbyists about financing a new grass-roots lobbying project~a muitiyear, multimillion-dollar effort to overhaul the nation's environmental regulations.

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Named Organization
AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organiza)
Labor Union
American Petroleum Institute
Chamber of Commerce
Citizens for a Sound Economy (Powerful industry-funded think tank that promotes deregulati)
Edison Electric Institute
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
George Mason University
Georgetown University
Heritage Foundation
House of Representatives
Justice Department
National Association of Manufacturers
Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer, incorporated in U.S. in 1902)
Philip Morris & Co. Ltd.., was incorporated in New York in April of 1902; half the shares were held by the parent company in London, and the balance by its U.S. distributor and his American associate. Its overall sales in 1903, its first full year of U.S. operation, were a modest seven million cigarettes. Among the brand offered, besides Philip Morris, were Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a ladies favorite name for the London street where the home companies factory was located - Marlborough.
Public Citizen ("PC") (Nonprofit consumer advocate organization founded by Ralph Na)
Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocate-action organization founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader.
Republican Party
Senate
University of Vermont
Vanderbilt University
Washington Post (Newspaper)
White House
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Bahler, Brent
Bash, George
Beckner, Paul N.
Boron, David L.
Brewster, Bill
Burke, John F. Jr. Ph.D. (Economist, Cleveland St. U, Anti-Tobacco Expert)
Burke, John P.
Burke, Sheila P.
Care, Clinton
Cicconi, James W.
Claybrook, Joan B.
Coverdell, Paul
Davis, Michele
Delay, Tom D.
Dole, Robert (U.S. Vice President, Senator (R-KS))
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Ellsworth, Robert F.
Fink, Richard H.
Forbes, Steve
Fuller, Craig L. (Sr. V.P. Corporate Affairs for PM, 1994)
He was Philip Morris' top spokesman in 1994. (WSJ 6-3-94) He was a Philip Morris Vice President. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)
Gray, C. Boyden
Hargrove, Erwin C.
Johnson, Lyndon
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (U. S. President, 1961-1963)
Koch, David
Koch, David H.
Lewis, Charles
Mitchell, Nancy L.
Motley, John J.
Parks, Carl
Reed, Scott
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Solomon, Burt
Stone, Peter H.
Sweeney, John J.
Truluck, Phillip N.
Wayne, Stephen J.
Whitman, Christine Todd
Woodward, Bob
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Monday, December 12, 2011

DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis


DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
by Michael B. First, Allen, MD Frances, Harold Alan, MD Pincus
Paperback: 247 pages
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association; 1st edition (January, 2002)
ISBN: 1585620548

SOCIOPATHY
The DSM-IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines anti-social personality disorder as a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the following:

  1. failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
  2. deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
  3. impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
  4. aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
  5. reckless disregard for safety of self or others
  6. consistent irresponsibility
  7. lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another

Friday, December 9, 2011

Psychopathy, Definitions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

Psychopathy (/sˈkɒpəθi/[1][2]) is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime. Though lacking empathy and emotional depth, they often manage to pass themselves off as average individuals by feigning emotions and lying about their past.

Characteristics

The prototypical psychopath has deficits or deviance in several areas: interpersonal relationships, emotion, and behavior.[3] Psychopaths gain satisfaction through antisocial behavior, and do not experience shame, guilt, or remorse for their actions.[22][23][24] Psychopaths lack a sense of guilt or remorse for any harm they may have caused others, instead rationalizing the behavior, blaming someone else, or denying it outright.[25][26] Psychopaths also lack empathy towards others in general, resulting in tactlessness, insensitivity, and contemptuousness. Psychopaths can have a superficial charm about them, enabled by a willingness to say anything to anyone without concern for accuracy or truth. Shallow affect also describes the psychopath's tendency for genuine emotion to be short-lived, glib and egocentric, with an overall cold demeanor. They tend to be impulsive and irresponsible, often failing to keep a job or defaulting on debts.[26] Studies in 2010 at Vanderbilt University revealed that psychopaths seek rewards regardless of consequences or risk, characterised by high impulsivity.[27]
Hare, whose Hare Psychopathy Checklist is widely used, describes psychopaths as "intraspecies predators".[28] R.I. Simon also uses the word predator to describe psychopaths.[29] Elsewhere Hare and others write that psychopaths "use charisma, manipulation, intimidation, sexual intercourse and violence"[30][31][32][verification needed] to control others and to satisfy their own needs. Hare states that: "Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse".[33] He previously stated that: "What is missing, in other words, are the very qualities that allow a human being to live in social harmony".[34]
According to Hare, many psychopaths are superficially charming, and can excellently mimic normal human emotion;[10] some psychopaths can blend in, undetected, in a variety of surroundings, including corporate environments.[35]

Lack of empathy

Psychopaths possess a general lack of empathy; they are simply unable to understand the emotional states of other people, except in a purely detached, intellectual sense.[36] When an empathetic person sees someone else in pain or distress, he instinctively feels distress as well, but a psychopath never does. Thus, psychopaths can commit acts of stunning cruelty and callousness because they are not deterred by any unpleasant reaction to their victims' suffering. A violent psychopath can mutilate a person with all the emotion of a chef carving up a turkey. A psychopathic con man can swindle his parents out of their life savings and not give a second thought to the ruin he has left them in. Because the experiences of others provoke no emotion in psychopaths, they regard others as little more than objects for their personal gratification.

Shallow emotions

Psychopaths do not feel emotions as deeply as an average person. Though they are not completely unemotional, their emotions are so shallow that some clinicians have described them as mere "proto-emotions: primitive responses to immediate needs."[37]

Lying and manipulation

Psychopaths are incorrigible and consummate liars. They frequently and readily lie to get what they want, to impress people, or to simply appear normal, and they do so with such skill that even experienced interrogators are sometimes fooled. This talent lies in a confident presentation that never betrays signs of anxiety, hesitation, or shame, even when they're confronted with contradictory evidence or inconvenient questions. ... Average people typically feel anxiety when they lie, hesitating with their words especially when confronted. When a psychopath lies, however, they are completely indifferent to the possibility of being caught in a lie. When they're caught in a lie, they are rarely perplexed or embarrassed. Without hesitating, they will simply rework the tale so that it appears consistent. Some psychopaths also possess great charm and a great ability to manipulate others. They have fewer social inhibitions, are extroverted,[45] dominant, and confident. They are not afraid of causing offense, being rejected, or being put down. When these things do happen, they tend to dismiss them and are not discouraged from trying again. Thus, psychopaths practice manipulation harder than most people and tend to become very good at it.

Impulsivity, irresponsibility

Psychopaths are impulsive by nature. They do not deeply recognize the risk of being caught, disbelieved or injured as a result of their behavior.[50] ... Psychopaths often fail to learn from past experiences and do not modify their behavior to avoid trouble. They often pursue the same old bad habits despite having suffered retribution and humiliation numerous times. Punishment and rehabilitation have no positive effect on them, and their condition is considered untreatable.[54] The rate of recidivism among psychopaths is roughly double that of normal criminals, with the rate for violent recidivism being roughly three times higher than normal.[55]

Remorselessness

Psychopaths have a total lack of remorse for the abuses they commit. They generally know the difference between right and wrong, but they do not care. Even when they are aware of the consequences of their actions, they frequently rationalize their behavior so as to minimize the seriousness or shrug off responsibility. They often blame their victims for their own crimes; "he shouldn't have provoked me" and "suckers deserve to be swindled" are common sayings.


Egocentricity and grandiosity

Psychopaths have extremely inflated self-esteem. Their egocentricity is comparable to that of narcissists, and indeed it is occasionally hard to distinguish the two conditions from each other.[58] They think they are the center of the universe and see themselves as superior beings. They often appear arrogant, opinionated, domineering, and cocky. A psychopath always thinks he is the smartest person in the room and has no respect for the differing opinions of others. Psychopaths have an exaggerated sense of entitlement. They expect large rewards for mediocre efforts, apply for important jobs despite lacking qualifications, demand authority and privileges above their rank, and are ungrateful. It is not uncommon for psychopaths to describe their victims as weak, inferior beings who deserve to be taken advantage of.[59]








http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Psychopathy_Checklist


The two factors

Factor 1: Personality "Aggressive narcissism"
Factor 2: Case history "Socially deviant lifestyle".
  • Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
  • Parasitic lifestyle
  • Poor behavioral control
  • Lack of realistic long-term goals
  • Impulsivity
  • Irresponsibility
  • Juvenile delinquency
  • Early behavior problems
  • Revocation of conditional release
Traits not correlated with either factor
  • Promiscuous sexual behavior
  • Many short-term marital relationships
  • Criminal versatility
  • Acquired behavioural sociopathy/sociological conditioning (Item 21: a newly identified trait i.e. a person relying on sociological strategies and tricks to deceive)


Thursday, December 8, 2011

Smoke Koch-Murdoch Tea Party Cigarettes.wmv

Smoke Koch-Murdoch Tea Party Cigarettes.wmv




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vLEHKOHPFQ
Uploaded by on Dec 8, 2011
Bill Koch called his twin brother David Koch "Organized Crime" on CBS National TV, but that was just stealing 300 million gallons of oil from the govt and Indian Reservations. Bill never told you that the Koch-Murdoch Axis was selling cigarettes to kids using ads in Murdoch's TV Guide magazine every time the tykes looked up the start time for Barney the Dinosaur. Bill Koch never spilled the beans on what the Koch empire of think tanks and institutes was doing for the Tobacco Mafia, or Rupert Murdoch's role in it all (as Director of Philip Morris Tobacco Company and Cato Institute at the same time). Koch-Murdoch-Axis has a new scam, the Tea Party, and this video is dedicated to the new merged enterprise of Koch-Murdoch Tea Party branded cigarettes surely in the works. Oh, they can rehire their boy, Herman Cain, who's resume includes selling cigarettes through the Natl Restaurant Association and while director of RJ-Reynolds Tobacco Company Nabisco Holdings -- they go way back, before CSE was called Freedomworks and "Americans for Prosperity". It's all in the tobacco archives online. http://goo.gl/0v9HA



Kochs Started Tea Party With Stalin's Money.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBDgBK4_Dg

Koch Organized Crime 01.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1iDDp0qQY

Herman Cain Told Whopper - Koch Organized Crime 02.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsV3FzQPcJg

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Cain Took $26 Million Jobs Stimulus Money.wmv

Cain Took $26 Million Jobs Stimulus Money.wmv



Uploaded by on Dec 7, 2011
Herman Cain took over $26,000,000 taxpayer dollars of Obama Jobs Stimulus Money for two companies he was director of the Board.

Republicans say that not one single jobs was created with Stimulus Money so he just stole the money right? We want our taxpayer Jobs Stimulus Money back from the Rich Koch-run AGCO Corp and from Whirlpool-Maytag that killed 4,500 Newton Iowa Jobs, and shipped the Factory to Mexico. Let's ship the job-killer Herman Cain to Mexico.



Oh, and Cain sold cigarettes and killed more than jobs when he was director of the RJ-Reynolds Tobacco Company, Nabisco Holdings -- he was a corporate serial killer who helped kill 435,000 Americans per year selling addictive and deadly products intended to harm their users. At RJ-Reynolds Nabisco, Cain was Director of the Board of Nabisco Oreos -- how appropriate.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Herman Cain Told Whopper - Koch Organized Crime 02.wmv




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Herman Cain Told a Whopper. Bill Koch, David's Twin Brother from the SAME MOTHER, corrected Herman Cain. Koch Brothers are ORGANIZED CRIME, and the whole Internet knows it. The only ones who never got the word is law enforcement. Koch Industries actually paid over $288 MILLION in fines and enforcement actions, PLUS got a jury penalty of another $296 MILLION for killing Dawn Smalley and Jason Stone.

GOOGLE: "Koch Brothers" "Organized Crime" http://goo.gl/LSSfp
GOOGLE: Koch-Industries Organized-Crime http://goo.gl/dgSEs
GOOGLE: Koch-Industries R.I.C.O. Racketeering http://goo.gl/VNrbR
GOOGLE: Twin-Brother Bill-Koch calls Koch-Industries Organized-Crime http://goo.gl/zK1Wz

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/
Kochs Started Tea Party With Stalin's Money.wmv
-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBDgBK4_Dg
Herman Cain Lick My Job Bitch.wmv
-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmCcJ19N70
Herman_Cain_Reached_for_My_Genitals_Clip01.wmv
-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik3tI0ysB5k
Herman Cain Bad Businessman.wmv
-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZV2l_wYOrk

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