NY Times, Mar. 28 2016
How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Voters to Donald Trump
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
The manufacturing executives had gathered in an Atlanta conference room
last year to honor their senior United States senator, Johnny Isakson,
for his tireless efforts on their behalf in
On 3/27/16 8:49 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> So, in other news, the Washington Post is now running avowedly socialist
> pro-Sanders op-eds from the editor of Monthly Review.
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/03/23/is-democratic-socialism-the-american-dream/
>
"All of these
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By Doug Greene
The rise of Donald Trump and his odious brand of right-wing populism has
been one of the hallmarks of 2016’s election season. Certainly, Trump is
an odious person who hates women, calls Mexicans rapists and criminals,
and (not so subtly) courts support from white supremacists.
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(Just by coincidence, or maybe because of the ineluctable logic of
analyzing Swedish social democracy dictates, the very next article I
began looking at in order to write an article on Sanders, Sweden, etc.
made basically the same point I made in my last message. This is once
again from
(From Stuart Wilks's "Class Compromise and the International Economy:
The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy" in the Spring 1996
Capital and Class. He makes an important point here that I don't think
has been grasped by a left that continues to see Sanders and Obama
before him (much
It's true. His dad was Carlos Hudson, who was imprisoned in 1941 with
other leading Trotskyists under the Smith Act. He was known to his
comrades as Carl O'Shea. Here's a letter by Trotsky that mentions him:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1940/08/letter10.htm
On 3/26/16 3:05 PM,
A guest post by Vijaya Kumar Marla
Usually any charged atmosphere with a large number of people can
metamorphose in to a frenzy and mob violence. But in Vijayawada (capital
city of the state of Andhra Pradesh), on the evening of 24th March 2016,
a large number of people had gathered in
On 3/26/16 9:32 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> Ralph Nader on the futility of running as a third party candidate in
> the corrupted US political system dominated by the two
> corporate-funded major parties: “I was wrong and Bernie Sanders is
> right”.
This is the direction Nader has been traveling for
WSJ, March 25, 2016
Brazil Economic Woes Deepen Amid Political Crisis
Country is heading for one of its worst recessions ever, yet its
political straits draw all the attention
By JOHN LYONS
SÃO PAULO—Brazil’s economic crisis is as bad as its political one.
Latin America’s biggest economy
Just by coincidence apparently, two narrative films open this week in
theaters everywhere about Miles Davis and Chet Baker, trumpet players
that were noted for their “cool” style and debilitating drug habits.
They both can be described as attempts to “re-imagine” the musicians, a
choice made
For 15 years, Russia has had a flat income tax rate of just 13%. Back in
2002, the government introduced a new pension system, which split the
state pension into a basic safety net pension (which is financed
pay-as-you-go) and an earnings-related contribution. Russia’s minimal
wage is
It’s understandable that voters are angry about trade. The U.S. has lost
more than 4.5 million manufacturing jobs since NAFTA took effect in
1994. And as Eduardo Porter wrote this week, there’s mounting evidence
that U.S. trade policy, particularly with China, has caused lasting harm
to many
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Interesting article on the "social gospel" origins of the American
Economics Association.
http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/40/economists-of-the-world-unite/
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And when the U.S. embargo is lifted, Cuba - which for much of the 19th
and 20th centuries was the Caribbean’s predominant economy — is likely
to take a growing bite out of Puerto Rico’s fortunes, in tourism,
manufacturing and services. And that’s before accounting for Puerto
Rico’s existing
Excellent documentary about boogaloo, a hybrid of Afro-Cuban and soul
music popular in the late 60s.
https://louisproyect.org/2016/03/22/we-like-it-like-that/
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We are living in a very peculiar time. You didn't need me to tell you
that. With Donald Trump leading on one side and a 74-year-old man who
has proclaimed to be a democratic socialist for decades competing on the
other, it's clear that if we were ever going to try something truly
Robert Reich predicts the rise of a third party to the left of the
Democrats, bless his heart.
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A review of "How the West Came to Rule".
https://www.academia.edu/22674507/Globalizing_the_history_of_capital_Ways_forward
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The last entry in the latest Harper’s Magazine Index, a compendium of
interesting factoids featured each month, reminded me that I wanted to
say a few words about cosmology:
Percentage of Americans who feel a deep sense of wonder about the
universe at least once a week: 46
I am one of those
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/21/story-of-cities-6-potosi-bolivia-peru-inca-first-city-capitalism
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NY Times, Mar. 20 2016
Carrier Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, of Global Trade
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
INDIANAPOLIS — The fuzzy video, shot by a worker on the floor of a
Carrier factory here in the American heartland last month, captured the
raging national debate over trade and the future of
(Just yesterday I keep thinking about how the DP has become the party of
Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford and George Romney while the Republicans
have become a mixture of George Wallace and Pat Buchanan. When Sanders
ran as a Democrat, he did not understand that the sands were shifting
beneath
Opening today at the Film Forum in New York, “Fireworks Wednesday” is
now the fourth film I have seen by Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian director I
hold in the highest esteem. Unlike the persecuted Jafar Panahi whose
works take up broad social and political questions, Farhadi’s films are
domestic
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/17/robert_reich_americas_problem_isnt_free_trade_its_the_demise_of_an_entire_economic_system_partner/
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(What a joke. As if Obama would have nominated someone like Thurgood
Marshall if he wasn't facing a hostile Republican Party. The truth is
that Garland = Obama = Goldman-Sachs.)
In a span of about 12 hours, Americans were given definitive evidence
that the Republican Party is now in thrall to
https://louisproyect.org/2016/03/19/is-kathryn-bigelow-our-leni-riefenstahl/
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Have you considered writing for Worker's Spatula?
On 3/16/16 3:22 PM, Tom Walker wrote:
> Just what you'd expect from the objectively Mitch McConnellist "left"
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(Merrick B. Garland: no legal rights for Guantanamo prisoners.)
Washington Post, March 12, 2003
Detainees Are Denied Access to U.S. Courts
By Neely Tucker
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the 650 suspected
terrorists and Taliban fighters held at a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo
Bay,
After I joined the Trotskyist movement in 1967, I always kept a certain
distance from the pulsating heart of the movement that consisted of
people on staff. This was partly a function of having a day job as a
computer programmer and a sense of an existential identity forged by
readings of
Playing tonight at 8:30 PM and tomorrow at 2:00 PM at the Walter Reade
Theater as part of the annual Lincoln Center/MOMA New Directors/New
Films festival, “Nakom” is like no other African film I have ever seen.
With a fidelity to the reality of village life among the Kusaal-speaking
residents
NY Times, Mar. 15 2016
Labor Protests Multiply in China as Economy Slows, Worrying Leaders
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
GUANGZHOU, China — For nearly seven years, Li Wei rose before dawn seven
days a week for his 10-hour shift at the steel plant, returning home
each night soaked in sweat, the clank
Jeffrey Goldberg, the unctuous Zionist liberal and diehard supporter of
George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, gained extraordinary access to
President Obama for an Atlantic Magazine interview titled “The Obama
Doctrine”. This 20,000-word document has been hailed by Patrick Cockburn
as evidence
“Censored Voices”, now available on VOD
(http://www.musicboxfilms.com/censored-voices-movies-126.php), is the
latest in a series of Israeli films that rue the transformation of David
into Goliath. Typically they feature members of the IDF or Mossad
wringing their hands over the evil that
On 3/14/16 9:02 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>
>> 2016/03/14 21:31、Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> のメール：
>>
>> The 2007/2008 Great Recession, unlike the Great Depression, did
>> not lead to a working class radicalization.
>
> Can't it be at least
Robert Dreyfuss writes: "Among other things, for such a movement and the
armed militias that would go with it to coalesce, you might need another
2007/2008-style economic meltdown, a crisis long and profound enough for
such a movement to seize the moment."
On 3/13/16 11:33 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> However in the next breath you say you would have supported Norman
> Thomas in “booting out” the small and troublesome Trotskyist faction
> from the relatively insignificant Socialist Party where the stakes
> were less than trivial by comparison.
You
On 3/13/16 7:22 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> No need to fast forward, Jim. Thomas’ political trajectory was an
> outgrowth of the antipathy between the reformist and the
> revolutionary left which, as we know, was evident in the 1930’s and
> well beyond, predating their formal split into two rival
>
In today's NY Times there's a fascinating article on Trump that explains
his presidential ambitions as a response in part to getting roasted by
Obama at the White House Correspondent's Dinner in 2011 that left him
feeling shat upon. It is the stuff of an Honore Balzac or Sinclair Lewis
novel.
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12486
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FT, March 13, 2016 5:00 am
China coal protests highlight overcapacity tensions
Lucy Hornby in Beijing
Thousands of Chinese coal miners have taken to the streets in a city
near the Siberian border to protest against unpaid wages, in the first
direct challenge to Beijing’s plan for orderly
On 3/12/16 8:13 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> We’ve been over this many times before - I can recall you more than
> once enthusing about Canada’s New Democratic Party - but in my view
> there is not a hair’s breadth of difference between those who today
> describe themselves as left liberals or
On 3/12/16 5:27 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> I read your comment above, together with your subject line, as
> effectively saying to Sanders and his supporters, “you’re wasting
> your time condemning these deals and attempting to block them. You
> need to make a socialist revolution, failing which you
On 3/12/16 1:41 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> …Which, you neglect to add, will result in socialist revolution. It’s
> mistaken to assert that Marx and Engels linked free trade with the
> bourgeois revolution. They well understood that bourgeois revolutions
> in England, Germany, the US, and elsewhere
(Maybe Patrick Bond is more right than not when he says of oil, "leave
it in the ground".
NY Times, Mar. 12 2016
In South Sudan, City of Hope Is Now City of Fear
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
JUBA, South Sudan — Diu Tut glanced up at the gates of the displaced
persons camp where he lives and shook his
On 3/12/16 12:11 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> This is another good example of armchair Marxists quoting scripture as a
> guide to action without any experience or appreciation of current realities.
You assume too much. I just posted this on the Marxism list:
On 3/12/16 10:01 AM, Jim Farmelant via
WSJ, March 12 2016
China Economic Data Paints Gloomy Picture
Industrial production weaker than forecast for first two months of 2016,
while retail sales miss usual Lunar New Year jump
By MARK MAGNIER
BEIJING—Factories and retailers in China put in weaker-than-expected
performances in the first
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/free-trade/
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(Brief memoir about factory work by a Hmong immigrant.)
Still, none of the work I did in Ban Vinai Refugee Camp has prepared me
for what America would bring. My life in America has been a series of
days spent within the confines of factories. For the last twenty-two
years, I have worked with
f I were to mention that a new film opened today that consisted pretty
much of economists discussing financial crisis, your eyes would glaze
over, right? But when such a film is directed by Monty Python alum Terry
Jones, that’s a horse of another color. (It is co-directed by Bill Jones
who
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On 3/11/16 11:06 AM, Steve Bruns wrote:
> It appears that Mr. Krugman has morphed into one of those Very Serious
> People at whom he was always poking fun. And right quick, too.
It is worth remembering that he was always a supporter of globalization,
mostly on the basis of neo-Ricardianism.
My master’s research was a thirteen-month study of a group of white
supremacist skinheads in Orlando, Florida in 1989 and 1990. I was trying
to figure where these little Nazis came from. Were they crazy? Did they
have abusive parents? Did black guys steal their girlfriends? What I
found was
(From 1997 but still relevant.)
Real wages for most Americans have been falling for more than two
decades. But what is the culprit? Is it the decimation of unions? The
falling value of the minimum wage and the loosening of regulations meant
to protect workers? Technology, by raising the demand
NY Times Op-Ed, Mar. 11 2016
Trade and Tribulation
by Paul Krugman
Why did Bernie Sanders win a narrow victory in Michigan, when polls
showed Hillary Clinton with a huge lead? Nobody really knows, but
there’s a lot of speculation that Mr. Sanders may have gained traction
by hammering on the
NY Times, Mar. 11 2016
On Trade, Donald Trump Breaks With 200 Years of Economic Orthodoxy
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump’s blistering critique of American trade
policy boils down to a simple equation: Foreigners are “killing us on
trade” because Americans spend much more on
On 3/10/16 6:53 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Here's another answer:
>
> A reply to Louis Proyect’s attack on the WSWS
> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/08/proy-j08.html
>
> A postscript on Louis Proyect’s lies
> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/11/proy-j11.html
>
>
People should
On 3/10/16 6:08 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> "Whose toilets are you scrubbing?
That might be obvious from the politicians I write about.
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On 3/10/16 4:37 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> Louis, in the name of Debs, would say your Sanders supporter would be
> wasting her vote. She should instead be throwing her support to Green
> candidate Jill Stein. I'd put greater odds of your friend engaging
> with your question than wanting to pursue
Being a senior citizen is a mixed blessing. On the debit side, I have to
put up with ailments that tend to develop once you are past 50 (as I am
well past) such as cataracts, hypertension, and the male-only benign
prostatic hyperplasia. On the credit side, having been on the front
lines of
(An article by Ethan Young, who was a member of a sect called Line of
March that saw itself as the authentic continuation of the CPUSA in the
same manner as the Socialist Action sect saw itself as the authentic
continuation of the SWP. In 1984, when I was a member of CISPES, I was
dismayed to
On 3/9/16 8:09 PM, Tom Walker wrote:
> As Marx wrote in his September 1843 letter to Ruge...
>
>
> "Hence, nothing prevents us from making criticism of politics,
> participation in politics, and therefore /real /struggles, the
> starting point of our criticism, and from identifying our
Let’s take a peek into what that supposedly irrelevant dead guy Karl
Marx called “the hidden abode of production.” Here in and around the
liberal bastion of Iowa City, a university town where wage-earners’
working class lives are all but invisible to a large local cadre of
privileged and
3 documentaries:
1. "Beneath the Olive Tree": women in their 80s interviewed about being
jailed and tortured during the Greek Civil War.
2. "The Neighborhood that Disappeared": about Nelson Rockefeller's urban
removal of mostly Italian residents of Albany's south end who stood in
the way of
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/south-africas-gold-industry-like-its-economy-is-crumbling/2016/03/07/33ae7a26-cc6f-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html
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The best metaphor for education reform today is Dr. Seuss’s children’s
book Yertle the Turtle. Yertle, the master turtle, forced all the other
turtles to pile themselves into a very high stack so that he could
survey his kingdom. From where Yertle sat, perched on top, everything
looked grand
As a writer who has covered Silvio Berlusconi since he became Italy’s
prime minister in 1994, it has been difficult not to be overcome with a
powerful sense of déjà vu all over again watching the presidential
campaign of Donald Trump.
Some of the resemblances are obvious as well as uncanny.
Although it is tempting to compare Trump to Mussolini given the
similarity of their facial mugging, shoulder-shrugging, and histrionic
hand gestures—not to speak of the obscurantist and deeply reactionary
ideology—I find it much more useful to see him as aspiring version of
Italy’s Silvio
Homosexual orientation or alternating between homosexual and
heterosexual orientation is presented by sections of intellectuals and
artists, especially to the youth as an unconventional, dissident, and
radical form of behaviour, as a "way" to overcome outdated perceptions
of women's position
Reagan, like Obama, won reelection handily with unemployment above 7%,
but with that rate falling, aggregate income rising, and the general
perception that things are getting better.
But there’s still the question “better for whom?” Friday’s jobs report
is a mixed bag, with enough positive
Trump University, incorporated as a limited liability corporation in
2004 and headquartered at 40 Wall Street (known as the Trump Building),
claimed to offer students the opportunity to learn the secrets of
real-estate investment from its namesake’s “handpicked experts.” One
advertisement,
(If you are blocked from reading this, try googling the article title
above.)
KITWE, Zambia—A decadelong commodity boom brought sleek shopping malls,
tidy brick homes and dozens of private schools to this palm-pocked
mining town in the heart of Africa.
The population doubled and incomes
Close followers of the Syrian struggle against the Baathist dictatorship
have probably grown accustomed to the “false flag” arguments of its
apologists who see every regime massacre as an incident staged by the
CIA et al to undermine the regime with the most prominent case being the
sarin gas
I put Charlie into a spam filter so his stuff doesn't come within my
radar screen unless someone includes his email in a reply.
But it is interesting to see him coming out as a Senderista. I suppose
this makes sense given his hard-core Stalinism. After all, we have Joe
Stalin to blame for the
Two films dealing with the jihadist takeover in northern Mali will be
considered in this review. The first is a remarkable documentary titled
“They Will Have to Kill Us First” that opens tomorrow at the Village
East in New York; the other is “Timbuktu”, a narrative film that was
released in
This kind of bluster reveals that you have lost the argument. The
redbaiting, the name calling? Sad really.
On 3/3/16 9:27 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Oh hey that's great. Now you have two stupid people! One more stupid
> person and you can start a Trotskyist group.
On 3/3/16 8:58 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> I guess that according to the ultra-left, the Social Security system is
> intrinsically racist, since you have to have a Social Security number to
> receive Social Security benefits.
You really need to get out of your liberal comfort zone to get an idea
(Bizarre argument from Chris Hedges. Takes Walter Benn Michaels one step
further, making Ivy League schools responsible for the rise of angry
white Trump voters.)
College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the
savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are
Interesting op-ed piece that makes the same point I made last week,
namely that Sanders's Scandinavian utopia is dystopia for immigrants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-wants-to-make-america-more-like-denmark/2016/03/02/6bfc935e-dfd9-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html
FT, March 1, 2016 4:21 pm
Donald Trump embodies how great republics meet their end
by Martin Wolf
The Americans will have to decide what sort of person they want to put
in the White House
What is one to make of the rise of Donald Trump? It is natural to think
of comparisons with populist
(By Louis Hyman, the author of the excellent "Debtor Nation".)
Today, scholars and critics are all abuzz about “precarious” work.
Instead of a job for life with General Motors or AT, we now have many
jobs either in sequence or, increasingly, all at once. Freelancers in
the US labor force are
There are two questions that really matter. What has caused the rise in
inequality? And what can we do about it? Stiglitz attempted to answer
these questions. He did not think inequality had risen because of what
he called normal market forces in capitalism, as Piketty has argued. If
you
On 3/2/16 11:26 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
>
> Very interesting if not groundbreaking.
>
> http://www.nybooks.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/daily/2016/03/02/after-super-tuesday-taking-on-trump/
>
Sorry, use this url instead:
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/03/02/afte
Very interesting if not groundbreaking.
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Ralph Nader raps it down:
Before announcing for President in the Democratic Primaries, Bernie
Sanders told the people he would not run as an Independent and be like
Nader—invoking the politically-bigoted words “being a spoiler.” Well,
the spoiled corporate Democrats in Congress and their
I had never come across the name Tulsi Gabbard until October 30, 2015
when Mike Whitney, the go-to guy for Baathist talking points, advised
CounterPunch readers that “Everything You Needed to Know About Syria in
8 Minutes” could be found in a video interview with the House member
from Hawaii
(Don't think this is behind a paywall but I might be wrong.)
In 2009, Saudi Star took a lease on 10,000 hectares in Gambella for 50
years. Later it added 4,000 more hectares when it bought an adjacent
state farm. But the project struggled at first. The site is remote, the
roads mostly unpaved
I stumbled across this interview with establishment Republican Lindsey
Graham yesterday. It reveals the extent of the crisis in the Republican
party. Just make sure to watch the video clip in the article.
On 3/1/16 1:21 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> At the high tide of such engagement, why didn’t Debs’ Socialists or the
> Communists in the 30’s supplant the Democrats as the mass party favoured
> by the trade unions and social movements?
Well, the Communists had no intention of supplanting the
If a leftwing group doesn’t make a practical difference in people’s
lives, can you blame anybody for not taking them seriously when they
claim to “fight for the interests of the working class?”
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12467
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My interest in the Academy Awards was heightened this year by
nominations for a number of films I deemed exceptional such as “Carol”,
“A Bridge of Spies” and above all “Trumbo”. I was also curious to see
what Chris Rock would have to say about Hollywood racism.
The Academy Awards are mostly of
FT, February 26, 2016 5:16 pm
Apple is right. Our smartphones must be kept secure
by Evgeny Morozov
To watch the confrontation between the US’s most valuable company and
its top law enforcement agency is to find oneself in a state of nearly
permanent cognitive dissonance.
Apparently, America’s
This is the first in a series of articles about some of the films
scheduled for this year’s Socially Relevant Film Festival that I have
been covering since its inception in 2014. This year I am proud to be on
its Documentary award jury. I must admit, however, that my tendency
would be to give
WASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia was the longest-tenured justice on the
current Supreme Court and the country’s most prominent
constitutionalist. But another quality also set him apart: Among the
court’s members, he was the most frequent traveler, to spots around the
globe, on trips paid for by
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NY Times, Feb. 26 2016
Yolande Betbeze Fox, Miss America Who Defied Convention, Dies at 87
By SAM ROBERTS
Yolande Betbeze Fox, a convent-educated Alabamian who defied convention,
and set new standards, by refusing to tour the country as Miss America
of 1951 in revealing bathing suits, died on
Last night out of morbid curiosity, I watched a few minutes of the
Republican Party debate. After Donald Trump said, "People are not going
to die in the middle of the street. People are not going to die on the
sidewalk if I’m president, okay", he was hounded by Ted Cruz who tried
to get him to
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