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Feral Finster's avatar

Lord Posonby's Ten Commandments of War Propaganda:

1. We don’t want war, we are only defending ourselves.

2. Our adversary is solely responsible for this war.

3. Our adversary’s leader is inherently evil and resembles the devil.

4. We are defending a noble cause, not our particular interests.

5. The enemy is purposefully committing atrocities; if we are making mistakes this happens without intention.

6. The enemy makes use of illegal weapons.

7. We suffer few losses, the enemy’s losses are considerable.

8. Recognized intellectuals and artists support our cause.

9. Our cause is sacred.

10. Whoever casts doubt on our propaganda helps the enemy and is a traitor.

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Spunty's avatar

11. God is on our side.

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Feral Finster's avatar

See 9. "Our cause is sacred."

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Steven Marriott's avatar

Travelled to America last century and it certainly felt like stepping back in time . A totally rascist ,violent and uneducated lot totally ignorant of the outside world. It really was like travelling to the New World. They did want to know though with their question "What's on the Outside"

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Occam's avatar

Wow, shocking that the NEW YORK TIMES, of all outlets, produces a war porn article.

NYT, you know, the outlet that disapproves of EVERYTHING done by the administration.

But then, maybe renaming it Department of War, they got all tingly in their naughty parts.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

I always wonder. Is our cause noble because it's sacred or sacred because it's noble. The theme song from Camelot plays in my head but offers little clarity on the issue.

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Basil Rathbone's avatar

A law was made a distant moon ago here,

July and August cannot be too hot.

And there's a legal limit to the snow here--

In Camelot!

I have the whole soundtrack running in my head too often.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Far too often!

The key lines that best parallel America:

Camelot, I know it sounds a bit bizarre,

Camelot, that's how conditions are.

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Robert Billyard's avatar

......you might sub-title this as the low road to the cesspool of ruination.

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wrknight's avatar

You missed one:

11. Victory is within our grasp.

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Ling's avatar

Timeless

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Nick Douglas's avatar

What a joke. Empire of lies that was built on genocides and theft of land, resources, and property. Protecting "free" world. More like stealing and killing innocent people. What a crazy fucked up world we live in. As long as the Empire of lies is ZOG the humanity will be on the edge of extinction.

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Jo Waller's avatar

I'd don't see:

Will we do whatever the US interests in fossil fuels and arms say, including increasing our military spending to 5% of GDP on command by cutting social services, buying US weapons, buying LNG shipped across the ocean rather than Russian gas (now moot as the US blew up the pipelines), take the heat from Russia on the US's behalf, who name the UK and Europe as the aggressor because they can't directly call out the US and finally being prepared to be fed feet first into the meat grinder after the last Ukrainian.

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Feral Finster's avatar

The europeans are the ones begging the Americans not to leave them, making increasingly outrageous promises to Ukraine to keep them fighting, trying to psych themselves up to enter the war directly.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Crazy, isn't it? The west is corrupt and dysfunctional beyond belief. They hate their own citizens.

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Stephen Walker's avatar

—> Ponsonby

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

A Strong America. There's the rub. Take a tour around the real America -- Dollar Generals and gigantic food desert wastelands of struggling people inured to their own dilemma because of excessive busyness fueled by survival anxiety, superimposed upon their lifelong brainwashing by media like the Times . . . punching away at social media on their phones as an unguent for a society that rips them off at every turn. There is no strong America. Only the excuse that more bombs will rectify a terribly weak and collapsing societal sub-structure.

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

These mother-humpers will not be satisfied until every dollar of tax revenue goes into the war machine--they can just cancel Social Security (not the tax--just the expenditures on recipients), Medicare, Medicaid and the VA, all agencies and the Post Office, all federal spending on schools, highway maintenance (they don't need highways, they can just use their private jets). They likely think it doesn't matter if a hefty chunk of the US population dies because they can replace us with AI and robots--but what about the need for spending by the middle class to keep the economy going? Maybe they have herculean dreams of a post-capitalist world where they just take whatever they want and money is obsolete.

We need to turn the Congressional buildings and the Money Capital on Wall street into hospitals for the criminally insane.

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Alan's avatar

They already are.😊

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"These mother-humpers will not be satisfied until every dollar of tax revenue goes into the war machine--they can just cancel Social Security..."

That's NOT how taxes and taxation in the U.S. works (please take the time to understand MMT - which is the ACTUAL way monetary policy works in the U.S.).

This has NOTHING to do with taxes. The fact is - those in power in the US "JUST DON'T CARE" about ordinary citizens. Yes - it's a difficult TRUTH to swallow - but it is the REALITY.

The US could (without any tax dollars) spend/infuse enough money into fixing the health care system, educational system, housing, etc. starting TOMORROW (if it wanted to). But if it does "give the people what they want", WHO will do the dirty/necessary work that needs to be done to support "those in power"?

NOT spending/fixing the health care system, housing, education, poverty, food insecurity, etc. is a CONSCIOUS and VOLUNTARY choice (by those in POWER). It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with TAXES! Taxes are an EXCUSE used by them WHEN they want to avoid fixing the problems that need fixing!

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Nick Douglas's avatar

You mean prisons for criminally insane.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Take a look at the now broken British Empire, then look at Europe.

Nothing lasts but there is always light at the end of the tunnel. What are these Oligarchs going to spend their money on when the world disintegrates and these same people who survive in their bunkers will be fighting each other for scraps.

I wonder why these eejits don't look at the future!

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Nick Douglas's avatar

They are oligarchs and zionists. Not rocket scientist or even mildly smart. Evil, stupidity, and arrogance is the main feature of oligarchy and zionism. Facst, truth, reason, etc. will NEVER win the argument against Money and Power in this fucked up world.

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Marci Sudlow's avatar

Reminiscent of the last days of the old Soviet Union.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Because the rulers are still doing just fine. As for the peons, why should they care?

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Feral Finster's avatar

The oligarchs are happy and that is all that matters.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Oi, you mean . . . you mean that whole strength in numbers, that democracy thinggie . . . was all bollocks?

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Spunty's avatar

Yep, has been right from the start.

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JennyStokes's avatar

IF the people do no make a stand............forget living a life with healthcare etc.

I have NO idea where we are going but 'chaos' is always good for a short time.

It enables 'US the people' to do what we can?

IF you do not take up this challenge then do not whine and moan.

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denmla's avatar

...imagine, having a country the size of the USA well informed, wow, Ponzi Washington. D.C. 'state scammers!, wouldn't have a chance, playing with American people!

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Seems like a hallucination.

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CK's avatar

The USA has been in an economic war with China for the past five decades. US multinationals including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, IBM, RCA, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and at least a thousand more have been supporting both sides of that war, for fun and profit— mostly profit — not for the benefit of poor and working class Americans.

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Gery's avatar

Very well put!

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Well expressed Vin!

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Feral Finster's avatar

They are a strong, in that they can impose their will when they want, and mete out consequences to those who resist.

Moral strength never comes into it, any more than it does for tiger seeking prey to eat.

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JennyStokes's avatar

I am on the periphery here Feral.

I do know that the people can bring down Governments (by deciding not to work for the Elite) for instance.

BUT I also think we are too far gone and I am interested in seeing the West dissolved.

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The Big Lie here by the NY Times Editorial are these 4 words: "A more secure world"

Building up the US military even more beyond its now 1 trillion a year budget - while at the same time eschewing any kind of good faith diplomacy, in fact, being the world's playground bully, does not make the US more safe, or the world - it does the exact opposite. However, it does produce for the MIC and defense industry contractors near infinite profits, while impoverishing the rest of the nation.

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Jo Waller's avatar

More secure world= one dominated by the white US based patriarchy.

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Occam's avatar

100%

Shocking that this was the NYT with the war-porniest of war porn.

Might be a sign of either the fix is in, or the end times. Maybe both.

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Landru's avatar

I love you friend.

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David's avatar

When I read about the "Leader of the Free World" I want to find a place to throw up. Thanks Caitlin and Tim for another dose of reality which is becoming as scarce as a morning star in this world of lies and propaganda.

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Loam's avatar
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The phrase "Leader of the Free World" has surprised me a couple of times while I've been having coffee... and I've had to wipe the table. Sometimes it's impossible to suppress a fit of laughter.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

In my case, it's more like spewing.

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DMarlene's avatar

It's almost as if Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan are on their editorial board. Wait. Are they?

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John Macleod's avatar

Why do we search for sanity within obviously insane policies? As John Lenon said " the world is run by insane people for insane purposes"!

It's time to call them out!

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Sue's avatar

Thank you for this report. Wonder how much the billionaire class paid for that war propaganda. I think like all empires, U$ has spread itself too thin and now crumbling. U$ can’t keep printing $ for the billionaires. The billionaire never has enough and their worshippers have stars in their eyes that they too will be billionaires one day and taken care of by the same billionaire who will drop them when they are no longer needed. Tech bros need the resources around the world for their brainless deadly ambitions. 800+ military bases around the world! Sorry not sorry to say that military personnel are only helping the billionaire class get richer. Why can they not see that and conscientiously object and leave the military??? Come home and help us get universal healthcare, affordable housing, and more. Wouldn’t it be better to fight for a better happier America than a billionaire who doesn’t give a shit if you live or die just get them the resources by protecting their corporations all around the world?

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Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

It seems the New York Times has read the writing on the wall, i.e., Trump's New "National Security Strategy" and wants the wars to continue to wreak havoc thousands of miles away and not close to home.

The Trumpster is pivoting from the China, China, China rhetoric to focusing on the Western Hemisphere with the desire to reign supreme in the Americas. The old Monroe Doctrine is being dusted off and re-invented to give the USA dominion and hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. In this doctrine, a doctrine that outlines the USA's geopolitical strategy, the USA aims to make stronger alliances with Russia. A smart move some would say as an attack on Russia or China would have the USA up against 2 nuclear powers. Instead, if the USA uses its muscle to intimidate, regime change and destabilize countries in its own back yard, it will become even more powerful than Russia and China combined. Just imagine, garnering the dominion over Greenland, Canada, central and South America.

So threatening Venezuela with a ground incursion, releasing Honduras' Ex-President, Hernandez from prison thus creating a strong ally in the region, threatening to bomb Mexico's drug cartels on Mexican soil, lobbying for military bases in pro-USA countries (Ecuador's referendum said no) destabilizing countries in Latin America will make the USA a regional power out of the Israel playbook. (Me sense a bit of jealous competition with Bibi who's doing just that). Just beat up your neighbors, destabilize their countries, bomb their fishermen, militarize the Caribbean, undermine elections and place USA puppets in the region and put that trillion dollar military budget to good use, right here at home.

No more wars thousands of miles away for oil, drugs and resources when all the oil, drugs and resources are right here for the picking. Hegseth wants "Americans" to sacrifice their sons and daughters to defeat the drug cartels who are killing them and their children.

Remember, Trump is a Capitalist. Most Capitalist want to turn a profit with the least amount of financial losses and the most amount of exploitation.

Some say the New "National Security Strategy" is just words on a paper and can only be implemented by Congress, but it does set the stage and turn the tide from foreign wars to domestic ones. It's obvious that the foreign wars, invasions and destabilizations, especially in West Asia, have been disastrous. Let Israel control the Middle East while the USA can strengthen its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. The greatest military power in the Western Hemisphere is the United States of America. So it will be a cake walk to subdue all the countries in the region. And just like the mealy mouth Arab nations won't go up against Israel's military arsenal that contains nuclear warheads, the countries in the western hemisphere will be just as deterred to go up against the USA.

You have to take a walk through the Trumpster's brain to make any sense of his madness.

He's not wheeling and dealing with the Saudis for nothing. He's not undermining his agreements with Bibi because he wants Peace in the Middle East. He's not backing away from Ukraine because he wants Europe to show its muscle and take care of Russia on their own. He's salivating over the rare minerals, oil and gold that is right here. The countries in this region are an easier target and he can get "trillions" of dollars invested in the USA by the Saudis (which I am assuming he's getting a big slice of that pie behind closed doors). He's not promising them military security so as to deter Israel from its Greater Israel plan that includes a nice chunk of Saudi Arabia. Nope, nope and nope. He could care less. He's focusing on using the USA's military hegemony and the CIA to battle the "narco-terrorists" in the Western Hemisphere so he can keep his promise of "Making America Great Again". See? Easy, Peezy.

Does Trump's National Security Strategy Really Put America First? Glenn Reacts

https://rumble.com/v72sxa8-does-trumps-national-security-strategy-really-put-america-first-glenn-react.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

Congress Prepares To Pass NDAA That Will Give Trump His $1 Trillion Military Budget

The NDAA is worth about $901 billion and will be added to a $156 billion supplemental bill to bring the total US military budget to over $1 trillion

by Dave DeCamp | December 8, 2025 at 7:37 pm ET | ndaa

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/08/congress-prepares-to-pass-ndaa-that-will-give-trump-his-1-trillion-military-budget/

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Antonio Brownlowe's avatar

America has enough Nuclear Weapons to destroy the whole world 5,000 time over yet the NY times thinks its not enough, How much more do America need o defend themselves from China, and the rest of the world would 10,000 times over Be enough???

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Nick Douglas's avatar

The short answer is NO! Maybe Trillion Trillions times, but that is an optimistic estimate. The west has a right to "self-defense". Where did I hear that before?

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David Mintz's avatar

CREAM: Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

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Sam's avatar
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"[The NY Times] It’s been run by the same family since the late 1800s and it’s been advancing the information interests of rich and powerful imperialists ever since."

We can be more accurate than that. The family that owns The Times is Jewish, and the paper has always propagandized the US nation in favor of the Jewish Narrative. With this fact, we can gain insight into the true motivation behind the Times' editorials. Do I need to prove what I say? I don't to good students of history that have followed the Times and their decades'-long support for Israel, which illustrates the fanatical belief that Zionism/Israel is necessary for the salvation of Judaism. Such intentions throw traditional Judaism and its followers under the bus for selfish motives.

Few Americans are aware of the enormous political organization presented by the US Jewish political leaders. If you want to get a glimpse of this humongous political force, peruse through a list of over 550 world-wide Jewish political organizations devoted to government bribery and social brainwashing. It's by far the largest such single-purpose lobby in the world:

https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/the-jewish-lobby

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

This list and the amounts of $$ funneled by these orgs is pretty stunning. I won't say eye-opening because I suspected as much. But it certainly validated my suspicions. Thanks for the link.

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Tenggara's avatar

They don’t care about the people. Only about how it affects their pockets. And war is a very lucrative business. They probably think oh well it’s about time the world had another war anyway, the world’s population has grown so much

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gypsy33's avatar

War also offers employment to those who can’t see another way out.

The military recruits disproportionately in poorer states.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Sad but true; and oh so relevant to those economically trapped families.

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Suzanne O'Farrell's avatar

From a UK historian...at last a US citizen who admits that the US are warmongers..it keeps their country united and the arms manufacturers happy but the rest of the world reeling, poorer embattled and destroyed. And they wonder why we the man in the street do not say hurrah

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

If you're saying "at last an American who admits the US is warmongerer" you need to broaden your reading. Most of us oppose most of the wars, but our opposition has little effect as they learned from Vietnam to avoid a draft and use a poverty draft and automation, and endless propganda which convinces half of us to support these damn wars but is more effective at keeping us divided into two camps too busy fighting each other to look to our real enemy.

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Feral Finster's avatar

What brought the War On Vietnam to an end (and the end to the peacetime draft) was the breakdown in army discipline and fears that it might spread further.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Mary but the problem is that both israel-controlled Rs and Ds pursue the same fascist and militaristic policies. Both parties are perfectly OK with theft, genocides, wars, etc. Defending "free world" you know!

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

This is true but "the problem" goes way deeper than the current US parties.

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Niemoller's Ghost's avatar

Poor Trump and the imperialists. They just wanna live in a brutal, hierarchical culture, like Roman Imperators and corrupt Senators. While the rest of us cruel humans force our arduous, bleeding heart 21st century political correctness on their pure, brutal, ignorant, status-addicted mentalities. Where we keep refusing to engage with their absurd and dangerous lies and their insatiable appetite for violence, and instead view them in based disgust and fear. If only they could walk through a time machine and go back 2-3 milleniums, I think we'd all be happier. What used to be satire is now reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

This phrase above bears repeating -> "What used to be satire is now reality". 💯

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denmla's avatar

hmm, fact!: communism, fascism, nazism concentration camps and all other "humane" torture, comes from so called "western civilization" I won't mention the inquisition ... I'll stop here...

and ...

guiding light of NYT's !! >>We have made the Reich by propaganda

Joseph Goebbels

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Roy McIntosh's avatar

Send the NEW YORK TIMES WALLAHS out first!---I do not take sides in conflicts, and I can only hope for hope's sake that more people start speaking out and telling politicians/war mongers/MSM/royals/muslims/jews/christians etc ---NO MORE!? If you want to fight and kill etc off you go and we shall watch. If that was done the wars and attacks would stop—Likewise the CO'n'VID MURDER OF THE VULNERABLE and ELDERLY then followed by the MAIMING and MURDER with POISON JABS only happened as the people allowed it to happen. If the people had united against the WEF/WHO bought SATANIC EVIL ANUS POLITICIANS/NHS/DOCTORS etc it could have been stopped. Look what followed---BLM/LGBTQ/UKRAINE/PALESTINE/CLIMATE CRAP and now it is DIGITAL ID CONTROL POWER FRENZY PLANS!?--awe the best fae Bonnie Scotland

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Loam's avatar

The arms industry is the second; the first is the invention and demonization of imaginary enemies. Then, paranoia and blind obedience do the rest.

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