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Lawyer: FBI Paid Right-Wing Blogger Charged With Threats
By David Kravets August 19, 2009
A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI “agent provocateur” paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric, his attorney said Wednesday.
Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which prosecutors claim amounted to an invitation for someone to kill Connecticut lawmakers and Chicago federal appeals court judges.
But behind the scenes the reformed white supremacist was holding clandestine meetings with FBI agents who taught him how to spew hate “without crossing the line,” according to his lawyer, Michael Orozco.
“Almost everything was at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Orozco said in a 45-minute telephone interview from New Jersey. “Their job was to pick up information on the responses of what he was saying and see where that led them. It was an interesting dynamic on what he was being asked to do.”
“He’s a devoted American,” added the lawyer, who claims Turner was paid “tens of thousands of dollars” for his service.
Bill Carter, an FBI spokesman, said in a telephone interview the bureau’s policy is “to neither confirm nor deny whether an individual has an association with the FBI.”
Turner’s alleged 5-year-long bureau stint ended sometime in 2007, Orozco said, the year the mischievous online group, Anonymous, briefly shuttered his site — turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com — with a denial of service attack. At the time, hackers also posted what appeared to be private e-mails between Turner and the FBI.
The e-mails are legitimate, said Orozco. The FBI approached Turner, now 47, in 2002, and he spewed rhetoric about politics, white supremacy, immigration, abortion and other hot-button issues for years in exchange for government cash.
Turner was arrested in June at his apartment in suburban New Jersey.
According to court documents, (.pdf) after a three-judge panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals upheld a Chicago handgun ban, he blogged that the judges should be “killed.”
“Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions,” he wrote.
A day later he posted addresses, photos, maps and other identifying information about Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook and Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer, the authorities said. State charges are also pending in Hartford, Connecticut, where Turner is accused of inciting readers to “take up arms” against state lawmakers.
Though the alleged threats came after his FBI service ended, Orozco said Turner’s relationship with the FBI is relevant to his defense.
“It is not trivial that the very government that trained an individual where the line was is prosecuting him when he has not stepped over the line,” Orozco said.
In addition, he is banking (.pdf) on the First Amendment to save his client’s skin.
“It’s a protected political statement. He opined,” Orozco said. “He said they deserved to be killed. He did not say grab a gun and go out and do what is necessary.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/lawyer-fbi-paid-right-wing-blogger-charged-with-threats/
A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI “agent provocateur” paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric, his attorney said Wednesday.
Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which prosecutors claim amounted to an invitation for someone to kill Connecticut lawmakers and Chicago federal appeals court judges.
But behind the scenes the reformed white supremacist was holding clandestine meetings with FBI agents who taught him how to spew hate “without crossing the line,” according to his lawyer, Michael Orozco.
“Almost everything was at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Orozco said in a 45-minute telephone interview from New Jersey. “Their job was to pick up information on the responses of what he was saying and see where that led them. It was an interesting dynamic on what he was being asked to do.”
“He’s a devoted American,” added the lawyer, who claims Turner was paid “tens of thousands of dollars” for his service.
Bill Carter, an FBI spokesman, said in a telephone interview the bureau’s policy is “to neither confirm nor deny whether an individual has an association with the FBI.”
Turner’s alleged 5-year-long bureau stint ended sometime in 2007, Orozco said, the year the mischievous online group, Anonymous, briefly shuttered his site — turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com — with a denial of service attack. At the time, hackers also posted what appeared to be private e-mails between Turner and the FBI.
The e-mails are legitimate, said Orozco. The FBI approached Turner, now 47, in 2002, and he spewed rhetoric about politics, white supremacy, immigration, abortion and other hot-button issues for years in exchange for government cash.
Turner was arrested in June at his apartment in suburban New Jersey.
According to court documents, (.pdf) after a three-judge panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals upheld a Chicago handgun ban, he blogged that the judges should be “killed.”
“Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions,” he wrote.
A day later he posted addresses, photos, maps and other identifying information about Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook and Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer, the authorities said. State charges are also pending in Hartford, Connecticut, where Turner is accused of inciting readers to “take up arms” against state lawmakers.
Though the alleged threats came after his FBI service ended, Orozco said Turner’s relationship with the FBI is relevant to his defense.
“It is not trivial that the very government that trained an individual where the line was is prosecuting him when he has not stepped over the line,” Orozco said.
In addition, he is banking (.pdf) on the First Amendment to save his client’s skin.
“It’s a protected political statement. He opined,” Orozco said. “He said they deserved to be killed. He did not say grab a gun and go out and do what is necessary.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/lawyer-fbi-paid-right-wing-blogger-charged-with-threats/
Monday, August 17, 2009
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASPARTAME
Aspartame is a very addictive drug, methanol is classified as a narcotic. You may go through withdrawal symptoms when getting off it. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon wrote Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills and says in it that magnesium protects the brain and the heart from excitotoxins. This may help a bit.
The phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers manic depression, panic attacks, anxiety, mood swings, insomnia, rage, etc. You have no control over it and unfortunately, because of the lies from industry and FDA, physicians do not correlate the problems with aspartame. Instead try to medicate the symptoms as usual but aspartame interacts with antidepressants and many other drugs. Dr. H. J. Roberts has written a new medical text on the world plague titled Aspartame Disease: The Ignored Epidemic, available at www.sunsentpress.com or by calling 1-800-814-9800. Not only will every physician should have a copy and read it but so should every pharmacy because of drug interaction.
There is a detox page on www.aspartame.ca and Newton Labs in Atlanta has made an antidote to try and remove some of the formaldehyde from the system. They also have a good liver detoxifier. In the new medical text there is a chapter for physicians on how to treat the consumer who has used aspartame as well as a chapter on options for the patient.
The wood alcohol or methanol in aspartame (10%) converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the body which affects the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve. Dr. Morgan Raiford who was a specialist in methanol toxicity and diagnosed many of those who went blind on aspartame in the l980's did say if vision was in the "wet stage" that it could return. We have even had consumers blind on aspartame have their vision return after getting off of it. Not all of them, of course, just some where the optic nerve had not been destroyed, and there is chance for reversal.
Aspartame also triggers an irregular heart rhythm, and again most cardiac medication interact with aspartame.
Sugar free gum is particularly bad because aspartame is a drug with small molecules - goes through the mucous membranes of the mouth, straight into the blood and thus straight to the brain. It is the same as if you gave yourself an IV.
As to Congressional Hearings, there have already been three. Senator Orrin Hatch was one of the problems - paid by Monsanto. Senator Metzenbaum wrote a bill to have independent studies completed by the National Institute of Health on some of the problems being seen in the population such as seizures, drug interactions, behavioral problems and the effect on the fetus (aspartame is an abortifactent and teratogen). You can read the dead bill on "Dead Bill" It never got out of committee because of senators like Hatch and heavy Monsanto lobbying. The evidence was enough to take aspartame off the market and a moratorium was asked, yet money and political influence in the corrupt US Congress and Senate saw to it that nothing was accomplished.
There has to be such an outrage from thousands that this time nothing will be able to prevent the right action from being taken. It should make class actions easier.
Twenty years on the market using the consumer public as guinea pigs has shown that aspartame is a deadly chemical poison that has probably caused more deaths than in many wars.
Aspartame Disease has been declared a global plague by H. J. Roberts, M.D., who has published a 1000 page medical text so that doctors can diagnose their patients, pharmacists will know about drug interaction and consumers will know the problems this toxin triggers.
Even Europe is probing the sweetener for ban. It was approved in the UK because Searle, the original manufacturer, made a business deal with Professor Paul Turner, and when Parliament found out there was a big blowout. However, it was not rescinded but in 2004 a lengthy investigation has been undertaken in the UK.
Several crimes were committed to approve aspartame. For example an additive must be inert. Aspartame is a drug that interacts with other drugs and changes brain chemistry. It is about as inert as nitroglycerin. Other crimes are listed in a letter to the former Attorney General, Janet Reno.
A board of Inquiry told the FDA aspartame had not been proven safe and could not be approved. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer at $1000/day, and has refused to talk to the press ever since. The FDA in an effort to cover up the revolving door lists Dr. Hayes on their web site but omit his employment with Burston Marsellar!
The situation is so serious there are now aspartame detoxification centers in the US.
A worldwide volunteer force is warning consumers all over the world. This site , www.aspartame.ca has been on line since August 1995 and has, as of May 2005 won 45 awards and we constantly get calls and e-mails from doctors and scientists all over the world.
The FDA had good reason to have Monsanto ban aspartame in l986 when they were petitioned by the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. because so many consumers were going blind and having seizures from aspartame. The FDA showed their loyalty to industry as usual instead of the consumer public by denying the petition.
The FDA notoriously refuses to record all reports. In fact, in original hearings it was admitted they went so far to get rid of recording aspartame complaints that they were actually referring them to the AIDS Hotline!
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that aspartame can abort the fetus and if a live baby survives it is liable to have birth defects. The FDA has refused to order even a warning on the label to stop the murder of babies in their mother's womb.
Their own FDA toxicologist, the late Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment because beyond a shadow of a doubt it triggers brain tumors. Dr. Gross concluded and "if the FDA violates its own law who is left to protect the public." In time political influence got the Delaney Amendment which forbid putting something known to cause cancer in food, repealed but that's the corrupt Congress for you again. Aspartame in original studies triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, thyroid, pancreatic and testicular tumors.
Some of the original studies were the target of an indictment which was not carried out because the two U.S. Prosecutors on the case quit and hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. One of those studies, SC-18862, a 52 week oral toxicity infant monkey study, was actually used as pivotal evidence in the approval of aspartame. Seven infant monkeys were fed aspartame with 5 having grand mal seizures, and one dying. Rather than proving the safety of aspartame it proved the cause of an epidemic of seizures now in the population.
Aspartame is an addictive drug, methanol is classified as a narcotic (Louis, R. J. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. Eighth Edition, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold (1992), pp. 2251-2252.
Because of industry's funding of professional organizations the propaganda on aspartame has been spread to consumers and physicians alike covering up the deadly effects of the drug. The FDA likewise lies to the public about safety. Misleading the public is a crime under US law Title 18, Section 1001.
Aspartame damages DNA as shown on the Barcelona Report (Trocho Study. Trocho C, Pardo R, et al.) Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Life Sciences 63: 337-349, l998. When you damage DNA you can destroy the human race! Two thirds of the US alone uses aspartame, and more than 100 countries of the world.
A better opoison would be hard to make. Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components, phenylalanine(50%), aspartic acid (40%), methyl ester (10%). Aspartic Acid and phenylalanine are two amino acids you cannot isolate from their protein base because they become neurotoxins. The famed Dr. John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, did studies on aspartic acid in l970 and found that it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He told Searle, the original manufacturer, but they did not tell the FDA until AFTER it was approved. Aspartic acid is an excitotoxin that stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage of varying degrees. Methanol or wood alcohol is a severe metabolic poison that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid (ant sting poison). Phenylalanine at 50% goes directly into the brain as told to Congress by Dr. Richard Wurtman of MIT. The phenylalanine lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers manic depression, rage, mood swings, anxiety, panic attacks, hallucinations, paranoia, suicidal tendencies, insomnia, etc.
The damage doesn't stop there as aspartame breaks down into a witches brew of toxins including diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent. In secret trade information volunteered in congressional hearings it was admitted in the last paragraph that they (Searle) had to consider almost complete conversion to DKP and if they told the FDA they wouldn't get approved. Searle and their CEO at the time, Donald Rumsfeld, currently Secretary of Defennce for the US, was intent on getting aspartame approved knowing full well that consumers in the population would get brain tumors just like the rats did in original studies and they didn't care. Money was their only interest.
Searle did studies in South America sacrificing people in poor villages who developed brain tumors and seizures. These studies showed that aspartame hardens the synovial fluids and destroys the central nervous system and brain. They did not publish them - another crime. People died in the studies.
More than twenty years of consumers going blind, having aspartame trigger neurodegenerative diseases, brain tumors and seizures and a list of 92 symptoms on the FDA report. Women have aborted babies as well as given birth to those with birth defects because of consuming aspartame without a warning. No doubt tens of thousands have died from the symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. The agony, sickness and death by this deadly chemical poison is the greatest atrocity committed in the history of the FDA, and they have covered it up for years with full knowledge of the effects of aspartame.
The FDA refuses to answer 26 questions given to them on aspartame by Newt Gingrich years ago when he was Speaker of the House. The law requires they answer a congressman. The FDA likes to send a packet of Federal Registers and their propaganda Talk Paper but will not answer questions and the law says they must. FDA obviously think they are above the law.
Dependent on where you live you will have to complain to your country's equivalent of the FDA. A high percentage of them have never done any research of their own on aspartame but just taken the word of the corrupt FDA. Of all the studies done only those dne by the industry are favourable to aspartame. All private studies show multiple reasons it should be banned immediately.
Aspartame does have one use however. It gets rid of ants fast. Sprinkle a single blue Equal package on and around the nest and next day they are gone.
In the meantime, one thing that will help is notifying physicians about the new medical text, Aspartame Disease: The Ignored Epidemic. For every physician who understands the diseases and symptoms triggered by aspartame, he can save the lives of thousands, and it will also help to alert pharmacists so they know about drug interactions which also kill.
Bear in mind that according to the Lancet (a British medical publication) the medical industry now kills more people than any other source. You are a lot safer dealing with a Naturopathic or Homeopathic doctor both of whom treat the ailment, not the symptom and do not use drugs. They get you well, the medical industry keep you ill and on drugs as long as possible and it is now being proven that most drugs are ineffective.
Distributed by Aspartame Poisoning Information Canada
The phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers manic depression, panic attacks, anxiety, mood swings, insomnia, rage, etc. You have no control over it and unfortunately, because of the lies from industry and FDA, physicians do not correlate the problems with aspartame. Instead try to medicate the symptoms as usual but aspartame interacts with antidepressants and many other drugs. Dr. H. J. Roberts has written a new medical text on the world plague titled Aspartame Disease: The Ignored Epidemic, available at www.sunsentpress.com or by calling 1-800-814-9800. Not only will every physician should have a copy and read it but so should every pharmacy because of drug interaction.
There is a detox page on www.aspartame.ca and Newton Labs in Atlanta has made an antidote to try and remove some of the formaldehyde from the system. They also have a good liver detoxifier. In the new medical text there is a chapter for physicians on how to treat the consumer who has used aspartame as well as a chapter on options for the patient.
The wood alcohol or methanol in aspartame (10%) converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the body which affects the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve. Dr. Morgan Raiford who was a specialist in methanol toxicity and diagnosed many of those who went blind on aspartame in the l980's did say if vision was in the "wet stage" that it could return. We have even had consumers blind on aspartame have their vision return after getting off of it. Not all of them, of course, just some where the optic nerve had not been destroyed, and there is chance for reversal.
Aspartame also triggers an irregular heart rhythm, and again most cardiac medication interact with aspartame.
Sugar free gum is particularly bad because aspartame is a drug with small molecules - goes through the mucous membranes of the mouth, straight into the blood and thus straight to the brain. It is the same as if you gave yourself an IV.
As to Congressional Hearings, there have already been three. Senator Orrin Hatch was one of the problems - paid by Monsanto. Senator Metzenbaum wrote a bill to have independent studies completed by the National Institute of Health on some of the problems being seen in the population such as seizures, drug interactions, behavioral problems and the effect on the fetus (aspartame is an abortifactent and teratogen). You can read the dead bill on "Dead Bill" It never got out of committee because of senators like Hatch and heavy Monsanto lobbying. The evidence was enough to take aspartame off the market and a moratorium was asked, yet money and political influence in the corrupt US Congress and Senate saw to it that nothing was accomplished.
There has to be such an outrage from thousands that this time nothing will be able to prevent the right action from being taken. It should make class actions easier.
Twenty years on the market using the consumer public as guinea pigs has shown that aspartame is a deadly chemical poison that has probably caused more deaths than in many wars.
Aspartame Disease has been declared a global plague by H. J. Roberts, M.D., who has published a 1000 page medical text so that doctors can diagnose their patients, pharmacists will know about drug interaction and consumers will know the problems this toxin triggers.
Even Europe is probing the sweetener for ban. It was approved in the UK because Searle, the original manufacturer, made a business deal with Professor Paul Turner, and when Parliament found out there was a big blowout. However, it was not rescinded but in 2004 a lengthy investigation has been undertaken in the UK.
Several crimes were committed to approve aspartame. For example an additive must be inert. Aspartame is a drug that interacts with other drugs and changes brain chemistry. It is about as inert as nitroglycerin. Other crimes are listed in a letter to the former Attorney General, Janet Reno.
A board of Inquiry told the FDA aspartame had not been proven safe and could not be approved. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer at $1000/day, and has refused to talk to the press ever since. The FDA in an effort to cover up the revolving door lists Dr. Hayes on their web site but omit his employment with Burston Marsellar!
The situation is so serious there are now aspartame detoxification centers in the US.
A worldwide volunteer force is warning consumers all over the world. This site , www.aspartame.ca has been on line since August 1995 and has, as of May 2005 won 45 awards and we constantly get calls and e-mails from doctors and scientists all over the world.
The FDA had good reason to have Monsanto ban aspartame in l986 when they were petitioned by the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. because so many consumers were going blind and having seizures from aspartame. The FDA showed their loyalty to industry as usual instead of the consumer public by denying the petition.
The FDA notoriously refuses to record all reports. In fact, in original hearings it was admitted they went so far to get rid of recording aspartame complaints that they were actually referring them to the AIDS Hotline!
It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that aspartame can abort the fetus and if a live baby survives it is liable to have birth defects. The FDA has refused to order even a warning on the label to stop the murder of babies in their mother's womb.
Their own FDA toxicologist, the late Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment because beyond a shadow of a doubt it triggers brain tumors. Dr. Gross concluded and "if the FDA violates its own law who is left to protect the public." In time political influence got the Delaney Amendment which forbid putting something known to cause cancer in food, repealed but that's the corrupt Congress for you again. Aspartame in original studies triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, thyroid, pancreatic and testicular tumors.
Some of the original studies were the target of an indictment which was not carried out because the two U.S. Prosecutors on the case quit and hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. One of those studies, SC-18862, a 52 week oral toxicity infant monkey study, was actually used as pivotal evidence in the approval of aspartame. Seven infant monkeys were fed aspartame with 5 having grand mal seizures, and one dying. Rather than proving the safety of aspartame it proved the cause of an epidemic of seizures now in the population.
Aspartame is an addictive drug, methanol is classified as a narcotic (Louis, R. J. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. Eighth Edition, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold (1992), pp. 2251-2252.
Because of industry's funding of professional organizations the propaganda on aspartame has been spread to consumers and physicians alike covering up the deadly effects of the drug. The FDA likewise lies to the public about safety. Misleading the public is a crime under US law Title 18, Section 1001.
Aspartame damages DNA as shown on the Barcelona Report (Trocho Study. Trocho C, Pardo R, et al.) Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Life Sciences 63: 337-349, l998. When you damage DNA you can destroy the human race! Two thirds of the US alone uses aspartame, and more than 100 countries of the world.
A better opoison would be hard to make. Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components, phenylalanine(50%), aspartic acid (40%), methyl ester (10%). Aspartic Acid and phenylalanine are two amino acids you cannot isolate from their protein base because they become neurotoxins. The famed Dr. John Olney, who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, did studies on aspartic acid in l970 and found that it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He told Searle, the original manufacturer, but they did not tell the FDA until AFTER it was approved. Aspartic acid is an excitotoxin that stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage of varying degrees. Methanol or wood alcohol is a severe metabolic poison that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid (ant sting poison). Phenylalanine at 50% goes directly into the brain as told to Congress by Dr. Richard Wurtman of MIT. The phenylalanine lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers manic depression, rage, mood swings, anxiety, panic attacks, hallucinations, paranoia, suicidal tendencies, insomnia, etc.
The damage doesn't stop there as aspartame breaks down into a witches brew of toxins including diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent. In secret trade information volunteered in congressional hearings it was admitted in the last paragraph that they (Searle) had to consider almost complete conversion to DKP and if they told the FDA they wouldn't get approved. Searle and their CEO at the time, Donald Rumsfeld, currently Secretary of Defennce for the US, was intent on getting aspartame approved knowing full well that consumers in the population would get brain tumors just like the rats did in original studies and they didn't care. Money was their only interest.
Searle did studies in South America sacrificing people in poor villages who developed brain tumors and seizures. These studies showed that aspartame hardens the synovial fluids and destroys the central nervous system and brain. They did not publish them - another crime. People died in the studies.
More than twenty years of consumers going blind, having aspartame trigger neurodegenerative diseases, brain tumors and seizures and a list of 92 symptoms on the FDA report. Women have aborted babies as well as given birth to those with birth defects because of consuming aspartame without a warning. No doubt tens of thousands have died from the symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. The agony, sickness and death by this deadly chemical poison is the greatest atrocity committed in the history of the FDA, and they have covered it up for years with full knowledge of the effects of aspartame.
The FDA refuses to answer 26 questions given to them on aspartame by Newt Gingrich years ago when he was Speaker of the House. The law requires they answer a congressman. The FDA likes to send a packet of Federal Registers and their propaganda Talk Paper but will not answer questions and the law says they must. FDA obviously think they are above the law.
Dependent on where you live you will have to complain to your country's equivalent of the FDA. A high percentage of them have never done any research of their own on aspartame but just taken the word of the corrupt FDA. Of all the studies done only those dne by the industry are favourable to aspartame. All private studies show multiple reasons it should be banned immediately.
Aspartame does have one use however. It gets rid of ants fast. Sprinkle a single blue Equal package on and around the nest and next day they are gone.
In the meantime, one thing that will help is notifying physicians about the new medical text, Aspartame Disease: The Ignored Epidemic. For every physician who understands the diseases and symptoms triggered by aspartame, he can save the lives of thousands, and it will also help to alert pharmacists so they know about drug interactions which also kill.
Bear in mind that according to the Lancet (a British medical publication) the medical industry now kills more people than any other source. You are a lot safer dealing with a Naturopathic or Homeopathic doctor both of whom treat the ailment, not the symptom and do not use drugs. They get you well, the medical industry keep you ill and on drugs as long as possible and it is now being proven that most drugs are ineffective.
Distributed by Aspartame Poisoning Information Canada
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
Thursday, August 06, 2009
FOOD, Inc.
I went to Magnolia theatre the other day and watched Food, Inc. It was fantastic and horrifying at the same time.
It was fantastic because it opened my eyes to the industrial ranching of cows, pigs, and chickens. It was horrifying because it's sickening to see how cows, chickens, and pigs are being treated.
If you watch the documentary, you'll see how animals are treated about as inhumanly as humanly possible. It is absolutely disgusting.
You'll also see how things could be, but because of oppressive corporations, humanity is being destroyed in farming and ranching community.
The reason oppressive corporations have gained such dominate position in the way food is grown stems largely because Congress lacks a backbone to stand up for the Rights of American farmers and ranchers.
Another name that popped up in Food, Inc. again, which is not surprising is Monsanto. I have actually grown to hate this corporation that patents life. I believe this corporation stands for everything evil in our country, and that's all I have to say about that.
What I will find fucking amazing is that this documentary will not ever be shown on mainstream television although if this documentary was shown on NBC, CBS, FOX, or ABC, there would be such public outcry it would cause a revolution in the way food is grown in the United States.
Most likely Food, Inc. would cause farming and ranching to go back to the way God intended free human beings to farm and ranch.
You need to see this documentary.
The Second Wave Of The Depression – Hyperinflation Likely
By Webster Tarpley
– The second wave of the world economic depression is coming soon. Larry Summers, the economics czar of the Wall Street puppet regime currently in power in Washington, recently confessed to the Financial Times in an unguarded moment: “I don’t think the worst is over ….” A few weeks earlier, Jacques Attali, who served in the 1980s as the main economics adviser to French President Mitterrand, told an audience at the International Economic and Financial Forum (FIEF) in Paris that the world might well soon face a “planetary Weimar” in the form of a hyperinflationary depression similar to the German events of 1922 to 1923.
During the last world economic depression, the first wave came in the form of the famous New York Stock market crash of October 1929. But this was only the beginning, and hardly the main event. The world depression of the 1930s was made irreversible by the British bankruptcy of September 1931, when the Bank of England ceased gold payment. At that time, the vast majority of international trade was financed by pounds sterling bills of exchange drawn on London. When the British Pound began to float through a series of competitive devaluations, the lack of a stable reserve currency — and not the US Hawley- Smoot tariff — strangled world trade, thus making that depression as severe as it was. British default in turn undermined the US banking system, setting the stage for the banking panic which ravaged the United States in 1932 and 1933, to the point that not a single bank in the country was still operating by the time Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March of 1933. The United States would almost certainly have been lashed by additional waves of depression had it not been for the banking triage implemented by the Roosevelt administration during the bank holiday, and for other New Deal measures which succeeded in mitigating the Depression. Other countries, notably Germany, went into a permanent depression which was expressed in a series of military campaigns which aimed at the economic looting of the other countries of Europe. Whatever the ideological fanatics of the discredited Austria and Chicago schools of economic analysis may claim, there is no automatic business cycle capable of lifting the modern world out of serious economic disintegration. The depression will end when adequate New Deal style policies are implemented, and not before, as I show in my new book, the second edition of Surviving the Cataclysm.
TODAY: BETWEEN 1929 AND 1931
Today, therefore, we are so to speak in the trough between the October 1929 wave (which corresponds to the derivatives crisis and banking panic of 2008) in the September 1931 wave, which this time around is highly likely to take the form of a hyperinflationary dollar crisis, or in other words a hyper stagflation and depression of the world economy radiating out from Wall Street and the City of London. What then might be the leading characteristics of the next wave of the current world economic breakdown crisis?
The next wave is likely to involve a worldwide dollar panic. Using ballpark figures, we can say that there are about $4 to $5 trillion sloshing around the world in the form of hot money, U.S. Treasury securities, Euro dollars, and various forms of zeno-dollars. Japan has about a trillion, China almost $2 trillion, and so forth. It is naturally very unwise for a developing country like China to hold so many dollars rather than using them to purchase needed infrastructure and capital goods, and the Chinese leaders are now very uncomfortable with their own foolish decision, which was of course taken under heavy US pressure. But the point is that this $4.5 trillion overhang is by its very nature exceedingly unstable. Every country that holds large sums of dollars or US treasury bonds is nervously eyeing every other such country to see if they show signs of bolting for the exit. Up to now, so far as we know, no large holder of dollars has attempted to reduce its exposure to the battered greenback by dumping these dollars on the international market. If anyone did so, would cause a true universal financial panic which would create chaos and mayhem not just in the United States and Great Britain, but in the vast areas of the rest of the world as well. This is concretely how hyperinflation could now very well arise: if one or more US creditor nations attempts to abruptly lighten up on dollars, the value of the US currency could undergo a catastrophic collapse, and that would spell runaway hyperinflation on the US domestic front.
WORLD DOLLAR PANIC IMMINENT?
We need to recall that the value of a modern currency is not determined inside the country, but rather on the international foreign exchange markets. This is where the fatal vulnerability of the US dollar is located. In the ruined form of the Bretton Woods system which has prevailed for almost 40 years since Nixon’s colossal historical vandalism of August 15, 1971, the US has emerged as the only country with a permanent license to finance imports by simply printing more of its own currency and sending those banknotes overseas. Every other country has to manufacture and export something that others want to buy in order to earn the necessary foreign exchange to pay for its own imports. The US license to print has made this country the buyer of last resort and the dumping ground for the unsold junk of the world, leading in the process to high permanent unemployment here. There are many signs that this inherently unworkable arrangement has now reached the breaking point.
INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY RELATIONS, NOT MONEY SUPPLY, ARE THE KEY
Ms. Ellen Brown, who apparently supports the doctrines of the social credit movement of the 1930s, has recently argued that deflation is now on the agenda, and that hyperinflation can be ruled out. She bases this analysis on the fact that the private credit markets in this country have largely collapsed, and on the contention that the M1 and M2 money parameters have either declined or increased only slightly. But all of this is beside the point. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury have so far provided almost $13 trillion of new loans to banks, insurance companies, credit card companies, and other purely financial institutions. This is being done in an effort to bailout the $1.5 quadrillion world derivatives bubble, of which something like two thirds or more, meaning one quadrillion dollars, can be located inside the dollar zone. The world depression started when this derivatives bubble went into reverse leverage, meaning that super losses instead of super profits were generated at the apex of the speculative pyramid, as seen in the case of $3 trillion AIG hedge fund located in London. The Obama regime is engaged in an hysterical attempt to restart derivatives production in the form of securitization, i.e. the creation of more and better asset backed securities derivatives. At the same time, the Obama regime has cynically and deliberately driven the Detroit automakers into bankruptcy, destroying hundreds of thousands of the few remaining industrial jobs here in the United States. This means that US industrial production continues in drastic decline. The mere mention of production reminds us that the assorted Austrian, Chicago, and social credit schools are predominantly or exclusively concerned with money and banking, and pay little or no attention to industrial, agricultural, and infrastructural production, meaning of course that they neglect the creation of those tangible physical use values, capital goods, and related forms of real wealth upon which human existence depends. With bailouts increasing and all forms of commodity production declining, we have the classic situation of far too much money chasing too few goods. Internal pressure towards hyperinflation comes from the fact that the bailout and public debt lending, on top of the bloated, fictitious, and exponentially growing mass of kited derivatives, are all charges which must be added to the prices of commodity production. Add this to the more important factor of looming dollar panic in the international exchanges, and the preponderance of the evidence points towards hyperinflation. Helicopter Ben Bernanke got his name from his famous recipe of throwing bales of dollars out of helicopters onto the lawns of bankers to stimulate the economy out of a depression, and this reminds us that the profile of the Anglo-American financial leadership from Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, and Mervyn King to Summers, Geithner, and Bernanke is decidedly hyperinflationary. Ms. Brown’s belief that hyperinflation is impossible is therefore mistaken.
The German 1923 hyperinflation was generated internationally, not within Germany, as a campaign of economic warfare by Britain and France against theior defeated rival. Germany had signed the Rapallo agreements with Soviet Russia, creating an economic combination which was more than a match for the Anglo-French. To abort the potential of Rapallo by creating chaos in the German economy, the Anglo-French systematically destroyed the value of the German Reichsmark on the international exchanges, taking advantage of the Versailles reparations system and the French occupation of the industrialized Ruhr area. The mark went down every day when the London exchange rate was announced. Today, it is the enormous international dollar overhang which threatens to annihilate the US greenback.
The one way deflation might actually come about is if someone like the self-professed Austrian school ideologue Ron Paul were to take power. Ron Paul’s “libertarian” alternative to Obama’s continued bailouts of Wall Street is evidently an immediate deflationary crash, which he asserts will be followed by an automatic recovery. Ron Paul is a modern representative of the so-called liquidationist school to which 1920s Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon belonged. Mellon demanded the liquidation of stocks, bonds, real estate, and labor. German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, another liquidationist, savagely cut German unemployment benefits (Ron Paul’s “nanny state”) at the height of the Depression, helping to bring on the debacle of January 1933. Liquidationists tend to be people who have money and who believe they will continue to have money even after an all-out crash, when they will be able to buy up distressed assets and desperate unemployed workers for rock-bottom prices and cash in. But liquidationism obviously cannot be a solution to depression of the entire society.
The recent meetings of the leaders of the expanded G-8 countries in L’Aquila, Italy were marked by a growing awareness that the US dollar, because of the criminally irresponsible policies of the Wall Street financiers who have dominated the Bush and Obama administrations, can no longer play the role of the single world reserve currency. Russian President Medvedev showed off a sort of future world coin to try to prod the Obama regime in the direction of serious world monetary reform, which is of course the urgent task before everyone. Naturally, finance oligarchs like Summers, Geithner, and Bernanke want to continue to play the role of world currency dictators, and not be forced to negotiate the end of Anglo-American hegemonism. The world needs to go towards a new pro-growth world monetary system in which the euro, the yen, the dollar, the ruble, the Chinese currency, a possible Latin American monetary unit, and a possible Arab monetary unit would all be included. It will be important to make the transition toward such a new system as orderly as possible, since a catastrophic collapse of the dollar in the short term would be to no one’s advantage, and would rather represent a sure path to universal ruin. World economic growth rates under the 1944 to 1971 Bretton Woods system were the highest in recorded history before or since. This was accomplished through statism and dirigism in the form of narrow bands of isolation among the currencies, combined with gold settlements of surpluses and deficits among the nations, which provided an indispensable reality principle to restrain the hyperinflationary tendencies of the Anglo-Americans. The new world monetary system should include the abolition of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in their current forms, since these institutions have strangled the economic progress of the developing sector. Rather, the goal of the new monetary system should be to restart the export of high technology capital goods of the most modern type from Europe, Japan, and the United States towards the impoverished countries of Africa, South Asia, and certain parts of Latin America.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD STOP BORROWING AND START LENDING
Here in the United States, we need to wipe out the derivatives bubble with the help of a 1% Tobin tax or securities transfer tax, on all speculative financial transactions, including futures, options, stocks, bonds, commodities, foreign exchange, and so forth. A California Tobin tax would solve the state budget crisis. The top 16 Wall St. banks are zombie institutions that need to be seized and liquidated under Chapter 7 bankruptcy at once, with all of their derivatives going into the shredder. Foreclosures on homes, farms, and businesses should be banned outright for five years or for the duration of the depression, which ever lasts longer. To provide a credit supply, the Federal Reserve should be seized and nationalized, and used as a vehicle to issue 0% Federal credit for productive activities only, not for speculation. To revive credit demand, state and local governments could then take out 0% Federal loans for such long overdue projects as the construction of 1,000 hospitals, the building of 50,000 miles of modern maglev rail systems, and 100 fourth-generation, high temperature, pebble bed nuclear reactors, plus the rebuilding of water systems and the interstate highway network. Idled auto plants should be reconverted for these purposes. Science drivers in the fields of space exploration and colonization, high energy physics, and biomedical research should also be fully funded in this way to provide technological modernization. The social safety net needs to be expanded and developed, with larger Social Security pensions for a generation whose 401(k)s and IRAs have been largely destroyed, along with increased Medicare and Medicaid benefits for those whose insurance companies are insolvent, like AIG and The Hartford, which have been devastated by derivatives speculation. These are quite simply the requirements for the maintenance of human civilization in this part of the world. Until measures like these are carried out, the United States and the world will continue to sink deeper into the bottomless pit of economic depression.
– The second wave of the world economic depression is coming soon. Larry Summers, the economics czar of the Wall Street puppet regime currently in power in Washington, recently confessed to the Financial Times in an unguarded moment: “I don’t think the worst is over ….” A few weeks earlier, Jacques Attali, who served in the 1980s as the main economics adviser to French President Mitterrand, told an audience at the International Economic and Financial Forum (FIEF) in Paris that the world might well soon face a “planetary Weimar” in the form of a hyperinflationary depression similar to the German events of 1922 to 1923.
During the last world economic depression, the first wave came in the form of the famous New York Stock market crash of October 1929. But this was only the beginning, and hardly the main event. The world depression of the 1930s was made irreversible by the British bankruptcy of September 1931, when the Bank of England ceased gold payment. At that time, the vast majority of international trade was financed by pounds sterling bills of exchange drawn on London. When the British Pound began to float through a series of competitive devaluations, the lack of a stable reserve currency — and not the US Hawley- Smoot tariff — strangled world trade, thus making that depression as severe as it was. British default in turn undermined the US banking system, setting the stage for the banking panic which ravaged the United States in 1932 and 1933, to the point that not a single bank in the country was still operating by the time Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March of 1933. The United States would almost certainly have been lashed by additional waves of depression had it not been for the banking triage implemented by the Roosevelt administration during the bank holiday, and for other New Deal measures which succeeded in mitigating the Depression. Other countries, notably Germany, went into a permanent depression which was expressed in a series of military campaigns which aimed at the economic looting of the other countries of Europe. Whatever the ideological fanatics of the discredited Austria and Chicago schools of economic analysis may claim, there is no automatic business cycle capable of lifting the modern world out of serious economic disintegration. The depression will end when adequate New Deal style policies are implemented, and not before, as I show in my new book, the second edition of Surviving the Cataclysm.
TODAY: BETWEEN 1929 AND 1931
Today, therefore, we are so to speak in the trough between the October 1929 wave (which corresponds to the derivatives crisis and banking panic of 2008) in the September 1931 wave, which this time around is highly likely to take the form of a hyperinflationary dollar crisis, or in other words a hyper stagflation and depression of the world economy radiating out from Wall Street and the City of London. What then might be the leading characteristics of the next wave of the current world economic breakdown crisis?
The next wave is likely to involve a worldwide dollar panic. Using ballpark figures, we can say that there are about $4 to $5 trillion sloshing around the world in the form of hot money, U.S. Treasury securities, Euro dollars, and various forms of zeno-dollars. Japan has about a trillion, China almost $2 trillion, and so forth. It is naturally very unwise for a developing country like China to hold so many dollars rather than using them to purchase needed infrastructure and capital goods, and the Chinese leaders are now very uncomfortable with their own foolish decision, which was of course taken under heavy US pressure. But the point is that this $4.5 trillion overhang is by its very nature exceedingly unstable. Every country that holds large sums of dollars or US treasury bonds is nervously eyeing every other such country to see if they show signs of bolting for the exit. Up to now, so far as we know, no large holder of dollars has attempted to reduce its exposure to the battered greenback by dumping these dollars on the international market. If anyone did so, would cause a true universal financial panic which would create chaos and mayhem not just in the United States and Great Britain, but in the vast areas of the rest of the world as well. This is concretely how hyperinflation could now very well arise: if one or more US creditor nations attempts to abruptly lighten up on dollars, the value of the US currency could undergo a catastrophic collapse, and that would spell runaway hyperinflation on the US domestic front.
WORLD DOLLAR PANIC IMMINENT?
We need to recall that the value of a modern currency is not determined inside the country, but rather on the international foreign exchange markets. This is where the fatal vulnerability of the US dollar is located. In the ruined form of the Bretton Woods system which has prevailed for almost 40 years since Nixon’s colossal historical vandalism of August 15, 1971, the US has emerged as the only country with a permanent license to finance imports by simply printing more of its own currency and sending those banknotes overseas. Every other country has to manufacture and export something that others want to buy in order to earn the necessary foreign exchange to pay for its own imports. The US license to print has made this country the buyer of last resort and the dumping ground for the unsold junk of the world, leading in the process to high permanent unemployment here. There are many signs that this inherently unworkable arrangement has now reached the breaking point.
INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY RELATIONS, NOT MONEY SUPPLY, ARE THE KEY
Ms. Ellen Brown, who apparently supports the doctrines of the social credit movement of the 1930s, has recently argued that deflation is now on the agenda, and that hyperinflation can be ruled out. She bases this analysis on the fact that the private credit markets in this country have largely collapsed, and on the contention that the M1 and M2 money parameters have either declined or increased only slightly. But all of this is beside the point. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury have so far provided almost $13 trillion of new loans to banks, insurance companies, credit card companies, and other purely financial institutions. This is being done in an effort to bailout the $1.5 quadrillion world derivatives bubble, of which something like two thirds or more, meaning one quadrillion dollars, can be located inside the dollar zone. The world depression started when this derivatives bubble went into reverse leverage, meaning that super losses instead of super profits were generated at the apex of the speculative pyramid, as seen in the case of $3 trillion AIG hedge fund located in London. The Obama regime is engaged in an hysterical attempt to restart derivatives production in the form of securitization, i.e. the creation of more and better asset backed securities derivatives. At the same time, the Obama regime has cynically and deliberately driven the Detroit automakers into bankruptcy, destroying hundreds of thousands of the few remaining industrial jobs here in the United States. This means that US industrial production continues in drastic decline. The mere mention of production reminds us that the assorted Austrian, Chicago, and social credit schools are predominantly or exclusively concerned with money and banking, and pay little or no attention to industrial, agricultural, and infrastructural production, meaning of course that they neglect the creation of those tangible physical use values, capital goods, and related forms of real wealth upon which human existence depends. With bailouts increasing and all forms of commodity production declining, we have the classic situation of far too much money chasing too few goods. Internal pressure towards hyperinflation comes from the fact that the bailout and public debt lending, on top of the bloated, fictitious, and exponentially growing mass of kited derivatives, are all charges which must be added to the prices of commodity production. Add this to the more important factor of looming dollar panic in the international exchanges, and the preponderance of the evidence points towards hyperinflation. Helicopter Ben Bernanke got his name from his famous recipe of throwing bales of dollars out of helicopters onto the lawns of bankers to stimulate the economy out of a depression, and this reminds us that the profile of the Anglo-American financial leadership from Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, and Mervyn King to Summers, Geithner, and Bernanke is decidedly hyperinflationary. Ms. Brown’s belief that hyperinflation is impossible is therefore mistaken.
The German 1923 hyperinflation was generated internationally, not within Germany, as a campaign of economic warfare by Britain and France against theior defeated rival. Germany had signed the Rapallo agreements with Soviet Russia, creating an economic combination which was more than a match for the Anglo-French. To abort the potential of Rapallo by creating chaos in the German economy, the Anglo-French systematically destroyed the value of the German Reichsmark on the international exchanges, taking advantage of the Versailles reparations system and the French occupation of the industrialized Ruhr area. The mark went down every day when the London exchange rate was announced. Today, it is the enormous international dollar overhang which threatens to annihilate the US greenback.
The one way deflation might actually come about is if someone like the self-professed Austrian school ideologue Ron Paul were to take power. Ron Paul’s “libertarian” alternative to Obama’s continued bailouts of Wall Street is evidently an immediate deflationary crash, which he asserts will be followed by an automatic recovery. Ron Paul is a modern representative of the so-called liquidationist school to which 1920s Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon belonged. Mellon demanded the liquidation of stocks, bonds, real estate, and labor. German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, another liquidationist, savagely cut German unemployment benefits (Ron Paul’s “nanny state”) at the height of the Depression, helping to bring on the debacle of January 1933. Liquidationists tend to be people who have money and who believe they will continue to have money even after an all-out crash, when they will be able to buy up distressed assets and desperate unemployed workers for rock-bottom prices and cash in. But liquidationism obviously cannot be a solution to depression of the entire society.
The recent meetings of the leaders of the expanded G-8 countries in L’Aquila, Italy were marked by a growing awareness that the US dollar, because of the criminally irresponsible policies of the Wall Street financiers who have dominated the Bush and Obama administrations, can no longer play the role of the single world reserve currency. Russian President Medvedev showed off a sort of future world coin to try to prod the Obama regime in the direction of serious world monetary reform, which is of course the urgent task before everyone. Naturally, finance oligarchs like Summers, Geithner, and Bernanke want to continue to play the role of world currency dictators, and not be forced to negotiate the end of Anglo-American hegemonism. The world needs to go towards a new pro-growth world monetary system in which the euro, the yen, the dollar, the ruble, the Chinese currency, a possible Latin American monetary unit, and a possible Arab monetary unit would all be included. It will be important to make the transition toward such a new system as orderly as possible, since a catastrophic collapse of the dollar in the short term would be to no one’s advantage, and would rather represent a sure path to universal ruin. World economic growth rates under the 1944 to 1971 Bretton Woods system were the highest in recorded history before or since. This was accomplished through statism and dirigism in the form of narrow bands of isolation among the currencies, combined with gold settlements of surpluses and deficits among the nations, which provided an indispensable reality principle to restrain the hyperinflationary tendencies of the Anglo-Americans. The new world monetary system should include the abolition of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in their current forms, since these institutions have strangled the economic progress of the developing sector. Rather, the goal of the new monetary system should be to restart the export of high technology capital goods of the most modern type from Europe, Japan, and the United States towards the impoverished countries of Africa, South Asia, and certain parts of Latin America.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD STOP BORROWING AND START LENDING
Here in the United States, we need to wipe out the derivatives bubble with the help of a 1% Tobin tax or securities transfer tax, on all speculative financial transactions, including futures, options, stocks, bonds, commodities, foreign exchange, and so forth. A California Tobin tax would solve the state budget crisis. The top 16 Wall St. banks are zombie institutions that need to be seized and liquidated under Chapter 7 bankruptcy at once, with all of their derivatives going into the shredder. Foreclosures on homes, farms, and businesses should be banned outright for five years or for the duration of the depression, which ever lasts longer. To provide a credit supply, the Federal Reserve should be seized and nationalized, and used as a vehicle to issue 0% Federal credit for productive activities only, not for speculation. To revive credit demand, state and local governments could then take out 0% Federal loans for such long overdue projects as the construction of 1,000 hospitals, the building of 50,000 miles of modern maglev rail systems, and 100 fourth-generation, high temperature, pebble bed nuclear reactors, plus the rebuilding of water systems and the interstate highway network. Idled auto plants should be reconverted for these purposes. Science drivers in the fields of space exploration and colonization, high energy physics, and biomedical research should also be fully funded in this way to provide technological modernization. The social safety net needs to be expanded and developed, with larger Social Security pensions for a generation whose 401(k)s and IRAs have been largely destroyed, along with increased Medicare and Medicaid benefits for those whose insurance companies are insolvent, like AIG and The Hartford, which have been devastated by derivatives speculation. These are quite simply the requirements for the maintenance of human civilization in this part of the world. Until measures like these are carried out, the United States and the world will continue to sink deeper into the bottomless pit of economic depression.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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a•sym•met•ri•cal |ˌāsəˈmetrikəl| adjective
having parts that fail to correspond to one another in shape, size, or arrangement; lacking symmetry: It makes sense that having received asymmetrical damage from the planes on 9/11, the Twin Towers would have fallen asymmetrically, but instead the Twin Towers fell in complete symmetry into their own footprint just like a controlled demolition.
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