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ricardostar...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 7/29/2009 12:03:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
sartes...@earthlink.net writes:
Remember her performance of
Sweet Georgia Brown at Newport? Unbelievable.
Yes, I do remember it. Mostly because, if memory serves, it was included
in
Mehmet Cagatay wrote:
I suspect that Jake guy might be Louis as well, intending to discredit the
proponents of MZine position by employing scandalous expressions such as
(self-identified) Iranian Marxists.
No, it was me posing as another contributor named lidia who kept
accusing me of
jlev...@earthlink.net wrote:
It's understandable that you want to change the subject. Thanks for
re-posting my earlier comments; I stand by them
Stand by whatever you want, but you clearly had no business citing me,
especially when it comes to the Ukraine. That was exactly one of those
S. Artesian wrote:
Is that true, Lou? I spent my time arguing with Lidia whom I thought was a
first-class unreconstructed moron suitable for KGB employment, when all the
time it was you?
Geez I guess on the internet nobody does know if you're a dog or not.
Didn't know you had a bit of
Dear Editors,
Below please find a link to a translation of a report by one of the
survivors of Camp Kahrizak, which was just ordered closed by Khamenei,
presumably due to the national and international attention it was
getting and due to the word spreading regarding its horrific reputation
as
Mark Lause wrote:
Since World War II, isolationism has bee the standard imperialist
change against anyone who disagrees with U.S. foreign policy on any
level. There are no isolationists among internationalists.
To the contrary, an internationalist support for Iranian Leftists
should
http://www.since1865.com/doc/19820227/sontag
This is a link to a symposium on Communism and the left held by the
Nation Magazine in 1998 that touches on these questions. It was in
response to Susan Sontag's claim:
All this is obvious, or almost, when one uses the word fascist to
describe the
NY Times, August 4, 2009
Firm Stance on Illegal Immigrants Remains Policy
By JULIA PRESTON
After early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush
administration’s tough policy on immigration enforcement, his
administration is pursuing an aggressive strategy for an
Shawn Redden wrote:
What shit reporting: Judy Miller, but dumber. God I hate the NY Times.
Down with the NED!
Don't waste Marxmail with this kind of rant in the future. If you think
that there are obvious falsehoods in the article, spell them out.
For example, what makes you think that
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Ted Atkinson. Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology,
and Cultural Politics. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. 288
pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-2750-1.
Reviewed by David A. Davis (Mercer University)
Published on H-Southern-Lit (July, 2009)
Commissioned by Lisa
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/01/news.features11
'They raped every German female from eight to 80'
Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed new book about the fall of
Berlin, on a massive war crime committed by the victorious Red Army.
* Antony Beevor
* The Guardian,
1. A number of comrades are overposting. The limit is 5 posts per day.
Please keep track.
2. Comrades are beginning to become abusive. This is the main reason
that I try to steer conversations away from anything having to do with
the USSR.
3. I urge you to write one last thing on the Red
7/30/09
Sisters and brothers,
There are two pieces of good news regarding
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
Edited by Lenni Brenner
1 - The hard cover edition, 3,300 copies, has completely sold out,
showing that there is a lot of interest in the topic.
2 - A new trade
Dogan Gocmen wrote:
The most explicit analysis of violence in Marxist tradition
is in Engels’ *Anti-Dühring*.
Dogan, can you point me to a chapter that spells this out? The work is
online at:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/index.htm
tarr...@aol.com wrote:
GA Cohen was a brilliant philosopher, with a great deal of precision,
and he had a very subtle sense of humor. I met him a few times and
wrote my phd on his relation to Marxism. Yet it must be acknowledged
that he played a strong role in attempting to weaken Marxism
Fred Feldman wrote:
Louis is right about that. Let me note a rather astonishing violation of
list rules that I accepted passively -- the repeated use of my name in a
series of posts. When I or others violate this rule, the next post is
usually from Les pointing out the error and asking that
Jacques Lizot’s critique
There is a cinematic quality between the clash of Napoleon Chagnon and
Jacques Lizot. Chagnon, the blustering American who like to fire pistols
to intimidate the Yanomami, could have been played by the young John
Wayne. Lizot, the gay French disciple of structuralist
(Amit Singh, a new subscriber, had problems posting this to the list.)
Hi all,
This is my first post on this list.
IIT Kanpur is an elite Science Technology institute in India. For many
years the institute has been violating the labor rights and has
completely failed to ensure the 'minimum
The New York Times
December 4, 2008 Thursday
Endowment Nose-Dives At Harvard
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
In a sign of the economic times, Harvard has sent a letter to its deans
saying that the university's $36.9 billion endowment fund lost 22
percent of its value in the last four months and could
Conyers: “There is no one more disappointed than I am in Barack Obama.”
By Glen Ford
The nation's senior Black congressman fears Barack Obama is in danger of
becoming a one-term president. Obama's health care proposal is “crap,”
says Detroit's John Conyers, and Obama loses whether it passes or
S. Artesian wrote:
2. Heads: I believe the moderator should ban in perpetuity this sort of
discussion from the list.
Well, I didn't quite have that in mind when I asked for the thread to
end. But I would remind everybody who has kept posting on it that they
risk losing their posting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/tampa-town-hall-on-health_n_253478.html
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Jeff wrote:
If no one agrees with that, then this is my last post on the subject.
If someone DOES agree with that, then we really have a problem.
Jeff loses his posting privileges until September 1.
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Dogan Gocmen wrote:
Jscotlive loses his posting privileges until September 1.
I protest emphatically as he has the right to defend against dishonest
claims and falsifications.
The debate was coming to its end any way. The post by Sartesian has provoked
these responses.
He simply could have
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China’s wild west
With July’s violence in Urumqi following last year’s riots in Tibet, is
China under threat in its frontier provinces? Xinjiang’s minorities, the
Muslim Uyghurs in particular, face discrimination. Though their
dislocation is more social and cultural than religious, without
Helen (my wife) and I had trepidations about going to Israel. Mainly
because we knew of pro-Palestinian political activists who were not let
into Israel and summarily deported, sometimes after humiliating
strip-searches and rummaging through luggage. Some were detained for
hours and finally
http://www.businessinsider.com/did-goldman-discuss-suing-taibbi-2009-8
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Permanent Vacation
John Hughes died while strolling through Manhattan. Not to seem
insensitive, but that's a great way to go -- at least to diehard New
Yorkers like me. I'll be in the city in a couple of weeks, so if I croak
while cruising Central Park or Ave.
Mark Lause wrote:
The surrender of Paris to the Germans certainly fueled the Paris
Commune. The problem here is less the rhetorical appeal to patriotism
than when it is used to dehumanize people who happen to be subjects of
the government with which you are at war.
This is skirting the same
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/books/review/Heller-t.html
NY Times Book Review, August 9, 2009
Visuals
The Art of Rebellion
By STEVEN HELLER
If not for Mad magazine, there might never have been (in no particular
order) 1960s youth culture, underground comics, Wacky Packs, “Laugh-In,”
(hat tip to Doug Henwood)
The Huffington Post
August 9, 2009
by Cameron Sinclair
Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and the Open Architecture Network
I thought it was a joke. You know, now twitter has recovered from its
Thursday trauma some pranksters start spreading rumors that Paris
Two idiotic movies inspired by the war in Iraq.
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/in-the-loop-hurt-locker/
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Shawn Redden wrote:
For the life of me, I cannot understand your pathological and
disproportionate obsession with the unfairness of the Iranian
electoral system and the meanness of the Iranian political state at a
time when such criticism dovetails exquisitely with the line espoused
by the US
Shawn Redden wrote:
You insist there's only one protest movement in Iran, and I think it's
more nuanced than that.
Don't you read your own bullshit? Where's the nuance in this
saliva-flecked rant?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/120575/match=iran
What I see is a
Please, does anyone in this list know where I could find materials about
political and economical aspects of swine flu? It seems that pork
business, pig farms and pharmaceutical companies, as well as governments
are to blame. It seems that mass farming of pigs and reduction of
sanitation costs
A Mumblecore movie:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/beeswax/
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The New York Times
August 16, 2009
After the Deluge
By TIMOTHY EGAN
ZEITOUN
By Dave Eggers
Illustrated. 351 pp. McSweeney’s Books. $24
Imagine Charles Dickens, his sentimentality in check but his
journalistic eyes wide open, roaming New Orleans after it was buried by
Hurricane Katrina. He
The Wall Street Journal
LIFE STYLE
AUGUST 15, 2009, 8:20 P.M. ET
The New American Dream: Renting
It's time to accept that home ownership is not a realistic goal for many
people and to curtail the enormous government programs fueling this
ambition. By Thomas J. Sugrue
'A man is not a whole and
(A surprisingly sympathetic article from the Economist.)
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14209490
A biography of Friedrich Engels
A very special business angel
Aug 13th 2009
Marx’s General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels. By Tristram
Hunt. Metropolitan
I have not seen this movie yet, but two of my colleagues in NYFCO did
not care for it very much.
Prairie Miller, a hard-core leftist like me, wrote:
Relentlessly clunky and grating in the extreme, District 9 takes its cue
from Cloverfield's contrived artsy vertigo to situate the futuristic
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/whole-foods-fight/
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http://chronicle.com/blogPost/What-Does-Europe-Have-That-We/7705/
August 17, 2009, 10:00 AM ET
What Does Europe Have That We Don't?
By Teresa Ghilarducci
France, Germany, and most European nations are pulling out of the global
recession faster than the U.S. Euro-zone GDP is down 0.4 percent:
This is not an easy post for me to write. I have been reading Alexander
Cockburn for over two decades. He was unlike most progressive writers
in that he took the time to critique American liberalism, although
always with a tint of a European leftover from the '68 siege on Paris.
And like in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/17/iran-cabinet-women
Hardline women won't help Iran
I wish I could feel proud about the proposal for female cabinet members
in Iran – but they will do nothing for equal rights
by Massoumeh Torfeh
It is difficult to know how to react to the
http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/13644/frankfurt-on-the-hudson/
Frankfurt on the Hudson
How the fathers of Critical Theory found their way to America
By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 am August 18, 2009
It would be hard to overstate the importance of the Frankfurt School in
recent American
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Max Clark wrote:
Just picked up Walter Benjamin's On Hashish and am already utterly enthralled
by it.
Which leads me to pose the question of what ever the hell happened to
hashish? In the early 60s I used to pay $75 for a lump about the size of
a bottle cap that would last me for months. And
Marv Gandall wrote:
===
It's remarkable how rapidly and with such depth of passion Obama's liberal
base is melting away. We haven't seen such outpouring of anger since the
Sixties. Question is: where will all those still interested in politics go?
There are no longer
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/19/obama/index.html
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CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhydyxRjujUfeature=player_embedded
It'll be interesting to see Moore's take on Obama in this flick. There
is a hint in the trailer that the 2-party system is the enemy. Honestly,
if Moore had the gumption to run for
Would eugenics have a legitimate
place in a communust society?
Jim F.
I am afraid that Trotsky's musings on eugenics was the tip of the
iceberg. There was far too much scientism in his writings and an
insensitivity to ecological questions. Somebody (can't remember who)
wrote a crude
Health Care Reform Drawing More Criticism From Left
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:52 PM
Through most of the summer, opposition to President Obama and his
health-care initiative has come almost entirely from the right. In the
past week, however, the
NY Times, August 23, 2009
Daschle Has Ear of White House and Health Industry
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON — Six months have passed since the morning when Tom Daschle,
a former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain
taxes, called President Obama in his study off the
Jim Farmelant wrote:
Perhaps, either you or Lou can do us the favor of explaining
what you mean by scientism. Whenever, I hear people
using that term (without explaining what they mean by it),
I am tempted to reach for my revolver, which is quite
inconvenient for me since I don't own one.
Jim Farmelant wrote:
So once again I will raise the question
as to what role would eugenics,
voluntary or not, have in a communist
society?
The main contribution communist society could make toward eugenics is
making sure that every baby had access to the food, housing, health and
I of course was referring to Deutscher's bio below.
This is the sort of thing I had in mind. Trotsky's remarks on the
Dnieper Dam are cited in Trotsky's bio:
In the south the Dnieper runs its course through the wealthiest
industrial lands; and it is wasting the prodigious weight of its
Clare Midgley. Feminism and Empire: Women Activists in Imperial Britain,
1790-1865. London: Routledge, 2007. X, 206 S. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-415-25014-6; $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-25015-3; (cloth), ISBN
978-0-203-08949-1.
Reviewed by Michelle Tusan
Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (May,
(Silone does not come across as a very admirable character here,
especially serving as a fascist snitch, but Bread and Wine is one of
the finest leftwing novels I have ever read.)
NY Times Book Review, August 23, 2009
Bread, Wine, Politics
By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
BITTER SPRING
A Life of Ignazio
NY Times Book Review, August 23, 2009
Crossroads
Theory and Morality in the New Economy
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The indispensable economist of the moment is clearly John Maynard
Keynes. Keynes’s prescription for financial crises — aggressive
government action and, by definition, big budget deficits
Shane Mage wrote:
Why this slander? Wheatcroft wrote It does seem that Silone had at
least some contact with the police, who had arrested his one
surviving brother, Romolo (who would die in prison at the hands of his
captors), but it’s hard to see evidence of any great betrayal.
New
Shane Mage wrote:
On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
(Silone does not come across as a very admirable character here,
especially serving as a fascist snitch...
Why this slander? Wheatcroft wrote It does seem that Silone had at
least some contact with the police, who had
nada wrote:
It is pretty easy to get into a centrifugal discussion about food.
Before Greg was thrown off the list this morning (I would of *warned*
him about this, he's simply bouncing silly rumors he picked up from the
wsws.org, before throwing him off) he did post a comment I think that
gregoryabut...@aol.com wrote:
I do apologize for one little error - in my haste to make a post last night,
I relied on my memory rather than double checking the original source.
I attacked a George Hansen of the Socialist Workers Party as being an
[alleged] NKVD and FBI asset.
I
Greg Butler has been unsubbed.
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Bill Quimby wrote:
Whatsa apst, please?
alt.politics.socialism.trotsky, a newsgroup for the criminally insane
that David Walters and Einde O'Callaghan still inexplicably post to. It
has daily doses of anti-Semitism, conspiracy mongering, xenophobia, etc.
It is like drinking out of a
Baba Aye wrote:
This I suggest with the view of assuaging any latent view of the
implementation of these being an arbitrary dictatorship of the moderator.
This is an excellent idea. I am finally getting ready to build a new
website for Marxmail and will incorporate this.
Swans Commentary http://www.swans.com/ August 24, 2009
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Dennis Brasky wrote:
On 8/23/09, Jewbonic wordpr...@maxajl.com wrote:
Jewbonics has posted a new item, 'Alex Cockburn RIP? Naa'
I come back from vacation, and what’s the latest? Apparently, Counterpunch
editor Alexander Cockburn is dead. According to mailing lists, leftist
bloggers,
and
latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gordon20-2009aug20,0,1126906.story
Opinion
Boycott Israel
An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it's the only way to
save his country.
By Neve Gordon
August 20, 2009
Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the
(Go to url below for embedded links.)
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6363
Kosovo, East Timor, R2P, and Ian Williams
Noam Chomsky | August 17, 2009
Editor: John Feffer
In a discussion of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Foreign Policy In
Focus, Ian Williams vehemently denies my
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/black-cats/
August 17, 2009, 8:48 pm
Black cats
I really had no intention of writing more about Niall Ferguson. Regular
readers may recall that he wrote an article in the Financial Times that
began,
President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/08/ferguson_obama_and_felix_the_c.php
Ferguson, Obama, Felix the Cat -- and Pluto
17 Aug 2009 11:28 pm
Let me tell this one in order:
On August 11, last Tuesday, Niall Ferguson wrote an op-ed in the
Financial Times whose theme was that Barack
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http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/08/hbc-90005592
The Myth of the Obama Movement
By Ken Silverstein
“Grass-Roots Battle Tests The Obama Movement,” ran a headline in the
Washington Post yesterday atop an article that looked at why health care
reform has bogged down. The story examined the
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Pat Costello wrote:
Well, shut my mouth and burn my britches!
Lockerbie outrage moves Obama to extradite long-wanted CIA-terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles to Venezuela...
Did Carl Davidson get invited up to Martha's Vineyard? Hmmm.
YOU
Jeff wrote:
At 21:00 24/08/09 +0200, Nasir Khan wrote:
[see [Marxism] The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization]
[full text: http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/the-us-war-against-iraq/]
by James Petras, Dissident Voice, August 21, 2009
The US seven-year war and occupation
(Well over 10 years ago, a friend who had a tenure-track position in
Columbia University's sociology department did not have his contract
renewed after Charles Tilly took over the department and began putting
his own people into the newly vacated positions. My friend was totally
outraged and
Here's Thomas Frank of What's the Matter with Kansas fame giving Obama
advice that he should be more like Harry Truman:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574373000964995482.html
In response to the article, I wrote him:
Whatever happened to the Baffler radicalism?
Giving
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/microsofts-ad-in-poland-p_n_269366.html
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/27/football
'College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era'
August 27, 2009
Are you ready for some football? Or, given that football season is still
over a week away, at least ready to read about it?
Kurt Edward Kepmer, an associate
(A nice appreciation of one of the great writers from the 1930s but
unfortunately does not mention his membership in the CPUSA nor his
defiance of the party's proletarian novel diktats.)
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-caw-paperback-writers16-2009aug16,0,70316.story
Nathanael West and
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/a-war-of-words-over-wikipedias-spanish-version/
August 27, 2009, 6:45 am
A War of Words Over Wikipedia’s Spanish Version
By Noam Cohen
When Wikipedia held its annual Wikimania conferences in Egypt and
Taiwan, the locations presented obvious political
Counterpunch Weekend Edition
August 28-30, 2009
Growls From the Wake in Massachusetts
Kennedy's Sins Against Labor
By STEVE EARLY
I was raised, like most Irish-Catholics, not to speak ill of the dead—at
least while the wake is still underway. Of course, the affliction known
as “Irish
NY Times, August 29, 2009
The Saturday Profile
A Child of the Amazon Shakes Up a Nation’s Politics
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
BRASÍLIA
FOR Marina Silva, life began in the heart of the Amazon. From the age of
11, she walked nine miles a day helping her father collect rubber from
trees.
These days,
If you are looking for socially relevant movies featuring likable heroes
and heroines in dramatically exciting situations, your only recourse
nowadays is the documentary. Fortunately, two of the better
documentaries, both involving environmental activism, can be seen in New
York City
sandia wrote:
Hello,
Some friends and I are starting a socialist film and lecture series on
campus. We want to show documentaries and films that will both
entertain students and stimulate discussion. We want to show things
like With Babies and Banners and Sir No Sir, etc. -- films that
This month has been a very good one for leftist documentaries. Joining
“The Cove” and “Crude” are two more films at the Film Forum. The first
is “American Casino”, which opens today. Directed by Andrew Cockburn
(Alexander’s brother) and his wife Leslie, this amounts to a film
version of Matt
Boston Review
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009
Crisis and Hope
Theirs and ours
by Noam Chomsky
Perhaps I may begin with a few words about the title. There is too much
nuance and variety to make such sharp distinctions as theirs-and-ours,
them-and-us. And neither I nor anyone can presume to speak for
Original Message
Subject: re:Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatchers
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:27:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: sebastian tarazona sebs...@yahoo.se
To: l...@panix.com
Here is an interview and a debate from al-jazeera with Donald Boström
In preparing reading material for an Introduction to Marxism mailing
list on Yahoo, I scanned in a chapter of Jose Carlos Mariategui’s “Seven
Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality”. One thing led to another and
before long I had scanned in all seven essays which were then added to
the
http://www.isreview.org/issues/67/critthink-iran.shtml
ISR Issue 67, September–October 2009
CRITICAL THINKING by PHIL GASPER
Which side are you on?
Why are some U.S. leftists siding with the repressive Iranian regime
against pro-democracy protesters?
At the beginning of August, the government
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/22515
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Jim Farmelant wrote:
LA CHINOISE and WEEKEND (1967)
4 Fists
With these two landmark works of agit-art, Jean-Luc Godard announced that
narrative was a bourgeois contrivance and the cinema a weapon of
revolution. “Chinoise’’ features actors playing students discussing
radical theory;
Néstor Gorojovsky wrote:
The day you overcome your liberal-progressive worship of those
national movements that, in fact, seek to destroy larger national
movements that tend to supersede imperialist domination, that day, you
will begin to understand something in this terrain.
In the
NY Times, September 6, 2009
Back to Business
Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance
By JENNY ANDERSON
After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment
banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think
they may have found one.
The
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