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The New Generation as World Patriots: Climate Change, Nukes & War
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – Young people are increasingly becoming world citizens and World Patriots. They want to save the world. The biggest mistake by climate change activists is a failure to demand an end to war as one of its top priorities. US/NATO with over 700 foreign military bases is one of the largest polluters in the world while also illegally attacking a number of nations.
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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
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Julian Assange’s Health Is Central to Upcoming Ruling on Extradition to the U.S.
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – In a case that puts press freedoms on trial, a British appeals court is considering the suicide risk should Assange be sent abroad.
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U.S. Empire: The Global Grim Reaper! And It’s Not Just for Halloween!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
26 Oct 2021 – The U.S. Military is the greatest polluter and creator of chaos on the planet. All Empires eventually crumble and fall. I know of no empire in history that has repented and made an about face. The chickens from the U.S. Empire’s foreign wars are coming home to roost with increased spread of violence, hate and division.
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Snowden Calls Assange ‘Political Criminal’ Ahead of Extradition Hearing, Where the Pressure Might Now Be on Biden’s Legal Team
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden went on the attack against the US and UK and he appealed for the freedom of his pal, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, who faces the US’ attempt to overturn a UK court decision to deny his extradition.
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The Julian Assange Case
Chris Hedges | On Contact/RT America - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
23 Oct 2021 – Chris Hedges talks to documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist John Pilger about the upcoming appeals hearing in London for the Julian Assange case.
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The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Several million dollars’ worth of fiction exploded the other day, leaving cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — age 42, a wife, a mom — dead, and plunging Alec Baldwin, who accidentally shot her, into a state of unimaginable hell.
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The Syrian Charity Scam
Paul Larudee | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – Americans want to feel good about themselves by giving money to charities that claim to be helping the Syrian people. But they are being duped into supporting terrorist forces that have brought misery and violence to the country—while crippling U.S. sanctions accentuate the humanitarian crisis.
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‘In the Spirit of Mandela’: International Tribunal Seeks to Charge U.S. Government with Crimes Against Humanity
Bob Lederer and Matt Meyer | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – An historic International Tribunal on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples will take place in New York City on October 22-25, 2021. It is designed to propel this and related issues into the forefront of public consciousness.
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“Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School, Philadelphia, 26 Oct 1967
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Assange: A Threat to War Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – The Pentagon’s offer of “condolence money” to the relatives of the ten people (seven of them children) who were killed in the final U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan — originally declared righteous and necessary — bears a troubling connection to the government’s ongoing efforts to get its hands on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and punish him for exposing the inconvenient truth of war.
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Blessed Be the Warmakers? Why Post-9/11 American Religious Leaders Must Atone
Jack Gilroy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021 – Who Profits When Our Pastors of Peace Become Enablers of War?
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The Banners of the King of Hell Advance
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
For we are living in a world of endless propaganda and simulacra where vast numbers of people are hypnotized and can’t determine the difference between the real world of nature, the body, etc. and digital imagery. Reality has disappeared into screens. Simulation has swallowed the distinction between the real world and its representations. Meaning has migrated to the margins of consciousness. This process is not yet complete but getting there.
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Biden Demands Ethiopia’s Unconditional Surrender
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
20 Oct 2021 – President Joe Biden continues to play the cluelessly racist and paternalistic Ugly American in the Horn of Africa. Under his leadership, the US has been at war with Ethiopia since last November.
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Fantasies
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – Perhaps my fantasies offer an alternative vision? Western Europe realized these fantasies when they established the Common Market and then the European Union; Europe is flourishing like never before. Will Israel continue with the present policy until death and mutual destruction? Or will we show wisdom and choose the path of peace before this happens?
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NATO’s Plans to Hack Your Brain
Ben Norton | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
8 Oct 2021 – Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries. Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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A Zen Koan on Columbus Day
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
13 Oct 2021 – It’s too easy, right? Too simple — shoving Christopher Columbus off the historical honor roll, pulling down his statues, yanking his “day” away from him and renaming it in honor of the people he murdered, kidnapped, turned into property?
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A Poem for 9/11
Robert Cable – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 September, iconic date
Like 7 December 60 years before,
Rushed us to judgment and a bloody war
As if war had been our unchosen fate.
Pandora Papers: An Offshore Data Tsunami
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
3 Oct 2021 – The ICIJ spent more than a year structuring, researching and analyzing the more than 11.9 million records in the 2.94 terabyte Pandora Papers leak: over 330 politicians, 130 Forbes billionaires, celebrities, fraudsters, drug dealers, royal family members, and leaders of religious groups. The task involved journalists, technology and time.
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Shell Shocked in Amhara, Ethiopia: “I don’t even want to hear the word ‘America’”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – A displaced person in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region told photographer and human rights investigator Jemal Countess that he didn’t want to talk to him because he was American and “didn’t even want to hear the word America” because of all the damage America has done in Ethiopia.
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Florida’s Republican Governor Awards Medal of Freedom to Che Guevara’s Assassin
Michael Stephen Smith | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – After Rodriguez ordered Che be shot, his hands were chopped off and shipped to Langley, but not before he stole the Rolex from Che’s corpse that was meant for the son of one of his compatriots in Bolivia.
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Killing Off Humanity: How the Global Elite Is Using Eugenics and Transhumanism to Shape Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
30 Sep 2021 – The world as we knew it has ended. If we are to recover the vaguest semblance of what we once had and, hopefully, an even better version of it, we have a monumental struggle ahead of us. So our choice is simple. Resist, strategically, as outlined above or watch Earth being depopulated to a planet of cyborg slaves.
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China’s ‘Hostage Diplomacy’ Wins: Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Flies Home a National Heroine after Her Release from Detention in Canada
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – Big crowds greeted Huawei senior executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrival back in China, which believes its show of strength against the USA forced Washington to back down in this three-year standoff.
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Good Riddance… Afghanistan Wins
Paper Cartoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
One more down.
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Free Julian Assange!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
CIA Plotted to Kidnap and Assassinate Assange! What the US and UK are doing to Julian Assange for exposing the crimes of empire is criminal. A free society stands on freedom of the press, speech, and dissent. We all need to speak out for his freedom. If not, we’re next!
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Ethiopian Mystery: The Case of the 428 Disappearing Food Aid Trucks
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
29 Sep 2021 – For nearly a year, warmonger and USAID administrator Samantha Power has been shrieking about famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray, and demanding the humanitarian corridor that 428 massive food aid trucks have now mysteriously disappeared into.
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Biden Threatens Sweeping Sanctions on Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Responds
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021 – The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put their old puppet, the TPLF, or a new one, in power.
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The Profits of War: How Corporations Won the War on Terror
William Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented: a staggering $8 trillion. Who has benefited most from such an orgy of military spending has received far less attention, however. -How U.S. Corporations Cashed in on the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge-
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The U.S. May Have Lost the Military War in Syria, but Has Won the Propaganda War at Home by Portraying Its Murderous Invasion as a Moral Crusade
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021 – As It Did with Castro in Cuba and Noriega in Panama, the “Mighty Wurlitzer” of U.S. Propaganda Defused Antiwar Sentiment by Painting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a Brutal Animal Who Had to Be Removed
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The Empire’s Last Stand
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
20 Sep 2021 – The origins of the first Cold War have been hopelessly blurred in the histories. We can watch this time. It is occurring before our eyes. I venture a prediction. When enough people begin to resist the madness and we begin to get somewhere, Cold War II will turn out to be the American empire’s last stand.
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Breakthrough Strategy: The Earth Constitution & the United Nations
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
16 Sep 2021 – The public is largely unaware that forming a world federal union government is the solution to critical world problems, or that the Earth Constitution is the key to the needed changes. The United Nations, hampered by its fatally flawed Charter, is trying to resolve global problems with one hand tied behind its back.
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How Many Satellites Are Orbiting Earth?
Supriya Chakrabarti | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
17 Sep 2021 – In the past decade, the number of satellites in orbit has skyrocketed thanks to tiny electronics and cheap launches. The crowded night sky is posing problems for astronomers and astronauts.
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Return to the Source: The US Military Swarms over Africa
Editorial | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Sep 2021
Military exercises carried out by AFRICOM on the African continent in recent years have occurred across the continent–east, west, north, and south–as well as on the surrounding seas and oceans. They have included participation from Europe and from almost every African country.
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Ivermectin Obliterates 97 Percent of Delhi Cases
Justus R. Hope, MD | The Desert View - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
A 97% decline in Delhi cases with Ivermectin represents the last word in an epic struggle to save lives and preserve human rights. This graph symbolizes the victory of reason over corruption, good over evil, and right over wrong. It is an absolute vindication of Ivermectin and early outpatient treatment. It is a clear refutation of the WHO, FDA, NIH, and CDC’s policies of “wait at home until you turn blue” before you get treatment.
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Victoria, Australia Will ‘LOCK OUT’ Unvaccinated People from Its Economy
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
6 Sep 2021 – Premier Dan Andrews made the announcement. Victoria is currently under draconian lockdown restrictions, with residents under a 9pm to 5am curfew, forbidden from leaving their homes except to work, buy groceries, or get a Covid-19 vaccination.
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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Rollout Is a Hopelessly Ambitious, Hugely Unpopular Economic Disaster Waiting to Happen
Bradley Blankenship | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
8 Sep 2021 – El Salvador’s right-wing government has adopted the cryptocurrency bitcoin as mass protests filled the streets, with many concerned about having to rely on the highly volatile digital asset for their income.
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‘The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai’i in a Nuclear World’ Now Free Online
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
Folks in Hawai’i, the Pacific and elsewhere will be glad to know that the classic 1980 book, The Dark Side of Paradise: Hawai’i in a Nuclear World, is available again in PDF. Please click to download:
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We Need Open and Honest Discussion about the Pros and Cons of Vaccine Mandates, Not the Hysterical Shouting Match We Have Now
Ramsha Afridi | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
6 Sep 2021 – Vaccines are a medical miracle. Vaccine mandates are also a massive infringement on personal choice. We need a proper and public cost benefit analysis to work out the best way forward; instead, we just have tribal yelling.
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The Medical-Industrial Complex, like the Military-Industrial Complex, Is a Threat to Democracy
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The public has caught on to the use of fear to shape opinion in support of costly wars that give free license for control under the guise of security. But now it’s falling for the same illusion from the medical-industrial complex.
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Is Billionaire Philanthropy a Sham?
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – Remember when Jeff Bezos was showered with praise for donating $100 million to food banks last year? That may seem like a lot, and it is. But once you consider all that Bezos has raked in during the pandemic – including making $13 billion in a single day in 2020 – it’s a few hours of his earnings.
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Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
11 Sep 2021 – It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of this book. Reading ‘Unanswered Questions’ will roil you to the depths of your soul and illuminate your mind as Ray McGinnis presents fact after fact backed up by almost one thousand endnotes and twelve years of meticulous research. There is nothing speculative about this book. It is not a “conspiracy theory.”
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
8 Sep 2021 – The term “United Nations” in front of the UN’s various humanitarian agencies is deceptive. It implies that they’re funded by the UN’s general budget and therefore are politically neutral but the UN High Commission for Refugees, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the UN High Commission for Human Rights are all donor dependent, primarily on the EU and other European nations, who look out for their interests and those of the US.
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Meet the Real-Life Devil’s Advocate Battling Australian Courts on Behalf of Satan after Religious Education ‘Got His Goat’
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
7 Sep 2021 – Trevor Bell, the first Advocatus Diaboli of the Noosa Temple of Satan, is currently leading litigation challenging religious teaching in Queensland schools, and “the Christian stranglehold over Australia’s government and society.”
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Military Space Report
Northrop Grumman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
Military Doom & Gloom News
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Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The U.S.-led global war on terror has killed nearly 1 million people globally and cost more than $8 trillion since it began two decades ago. These staggering figures come from a landmark report issued today by Brown University’s Costs of War Project, an ongoing research effort to document the economic and human impact of post-9/11 military operations.
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Are We Human? Are We Free? Defeating the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ before It Destroys Us
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
For most people, 2020 will be remembered as the year of the ‘virus’ and 2021 will be remembered as the year of the ‘vaccine’. What most people will probably never know is that 2021 is shaping to be the year in which humanity and freedom are both destroyed. If you wish to play a vital role in their defence, you are invited to undertake the actions indicated on these flyers, and share them with those who you think might be interested.
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AFRICOM in the Congo
Kambale Musavuli | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The US military has operated in the Congo for a long time doing covert operations in South Sudan and Central African Republic. Their current engagement is not covert and highly arrogant after being the military that has trained Rwanda and Uganda, which invaded the Congo twice killing over 6 million people. AFRICOM arrived in the Congo ostensibly to fight ISIS; we can be sure they will do more to support the US looting of the Congo’s wealth than stopping terrorism.
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For the US, India Is Little More Than a Pawn to Be Deployed against China – Not a Nation to Be Respected on Its Own Terms
Maitreya Bhakal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
31 Aug 2021 – The US is desperate to recruit allies in its hybrid war against China, and highly covets New Delhi – which has its own issues with Beijing – as a useful partner. So why is Washington so unhelpful and discourteous to its ally?
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2 Things Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You about FDA’s Approval of Pfizer Vaccine
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr and Meryl Nass, M.D. | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
24 Aug 2021 – Buried in the fine print of yesterday’s approval by the U.S. FDA of the Pfizer Comirnaty COVID vaccine are two critical facts that affect whether the vaccine can be mandated, and whether Pfizer can be held liable for injuries. The FDA is playing bait and switch with the American public. If it doesn’t say Comirnaty, you have not been offered an approved vaccine.
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A Photograph and Its Meaning
Gary Corseri short interview with Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
Note: My American friend, Robert Kowalczyk, a retired Professor and Department Chair at Kindai University, Osaka, Japan, was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, working in Seoul, South Korea, during the Vietnam War. “Can you tell me more about this photo, this image? How did you compose it?” “I always feel the best images compose themselves, that’s how they stay alive.”
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – Cold War and War on Terror destabilize Somalia and cause great suffering for its people.
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U.S. Deploys Marines to Haiti under Guise of ‘Disaster Relief’
Patrick MacFarlane | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – The devastation of the 7.2 earthquake on 21 Aug has provided U.S. leaders the cloak of humanitarian aid to deploy Marines to Haiti. Sadly, as the next few weeks play out, the U.S. Military and international NGOs will likely repeat the “Fatal Assistance” of 2010. Regardless, the Haitian people must be given the respect and dignity to control their own destiny. Haitians and non-interventionists everywhere must insist on it.
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We Are Human, We Are Free – 7 Days Campaign
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
We Are the Power – We Create Our Future
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Insane U.S. Plan to Spend Billions on Weaponizing Space Makes Defense Contractors Jump for Joy
Karl Grossman | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021 – But Rest of World Cowers in Horror at Prospect of New Arms Race Leading to World War III
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As Kabul Is Retaken, Papers Look Back in Erasure
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – Corporate media coverage of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan offered more mystification than illumination. I looked at editorials in five major US dailies: the Boston Globe, LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Their editorial boards consistently trivialized South Asian lives, erased US responsibility for lethal violence, and made untenable assertions about Washington’s supposedly righteous motives in the war.
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US Military Steps up Taliban-Approved Evacuation from Kabul
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
19 Aug 2021 – Some 2,000 US citizens and Afghan associates were flown out of Kabul yesterday, and the US military said it would be able to increase the airlift to 9,000 a day once all runways at the main airport are cleared. There were at least 4,000 US troops at the airport and a total of 6,000 were expected once the full deployment was carried out.
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Slavoj Žižek: The True Enemy for Islamists Is Not the West’s Neocolonialism or Military Aggression, but Our ‘Immoral’ Culture
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 – Ayatollah Khomeini once wrote: “We’re not afraid of sanctions. We’re not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of Western immorality.” And it is this fear that fuels the Taliban.
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Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” about Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
India McKinney and Erica Portnoy | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage and messaging systems. Apple’s compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, but it is a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.
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And So It Begins Again: The Media Recycles Afghanistan War Lies
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
20 Aug 2021 – Following the desperate evacuation of US troops, the corporate press is raising concerns for the “human rights” of Afghans. For the last 20 years, the corporate media raised no objections as the USA killed over 100,000 people, set up black site torture chambers, carried out drone assassinations, robbed the country of its resources, and facilitated horrific crimes by promoting the war as a “just cause,” a necessary response to 9/11.
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Tigrayans Speak Out in Support of Ethiopia and Prime Minister Abiy, not the TPLF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – A Tigrayan speaks in support of the Ethiopian government.
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In the Tradition of U.S. Puppets, When They Finally Get Kicked Out, They Steal as much of the Country’s Treasure as They Can
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
17 Aug 2021 – True to Form, Last Sunday the U.S. Puppet President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, Fled Kabul with Four Luxury Vehicles and a Helicopter Stuffed So Full of Cash That a Huge Pile of It Could Not Fit and Had to Be Left on the Tarmac
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When Will We Stop Letting Our Presidents Lie USA into Wars?
Thom Hartmann | The Hartmann Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – Let’s never forget that what we are watching happen right now in Afghanistan is the final act of George W. Bush‘s 2004 reelection strategy. The U.S. has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in terms of money, credibility and blood. We must remember the lies. We can’t afford to let this one go down the memory hole, too.
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John Pilger: A Day in the Death of British Justice
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The veteran journalist has covered Julian Assange’s case from the beginning and was in London this week to witness the latest shameful episode. “The reputation of British justice now rests on the shoulders of the High Court in the life or death case of Julian Assange.” Here is his dispatch.
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Epic Afghan Failure Shows That USA’s Naive Belief It Can Cure the World’s Ills with Democracy, Dollars, and M16s Is Wrong
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – The Taliban’s close to retaking control and the US occupation’s been a total failure. Yet the fundamental lesson’s being ignored: Washington needs to stop exporting its ideology as if it’s an answer to the problems countries face.
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Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
Obama’s Vineyard mansion stands as an outward sign of his inner disgrace, his soullessness. Trump’s golden towers and his never-ending self-promotion or the multiple million-dollar mansions of high-tech, sports, and Hollywood’s superstars send the same message. Take Bill Gates’ sixty-three-million-dollar mansion, Xanadu, named after William Randolph Hearst’s estate in Citizen Kane, that took seven years to build.
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War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
On 10 Aug 1961 the U.S. started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides to deprive the commies of Ho Chi Minh of food and ground cover. Agent Orange Awareness Day was on 10 Aug. I think we should spend the rest of the year honoring War and Dehumanization Awareness Day.
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Does China’s Rise Really Threaten the U.S.—Or Just Its Sociopathic Power Elite, Who Want to Keep Ruling the World Even If It Drags Us into WW III?
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
14 Aug 2021 – Government-sponsored “fake news” is brainwashing the public into accepting a new U.S./NATO-sponsored Cold War with China.
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship around the World
Kurt Opsahl | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
11 Aug 2021 – Apple’s new program for scanning images sent on iMessage steps back from the company’s prior support for the privacy and security of encrypted messages. It has created an infrastructure that is all too easy to redirect to greater surveillance and censorship. Apple has paved the road to mandated security weakness around the world, enabling and reinforcing the arguments that, should the intentions be good enough, scanning through your personal life and private communications is acceptable.
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Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
9 Aug 2021 – Very quietly and with no media fuss, in the space of a week the IDF destroyed two Palestinian villages, Humsa al Bqai’a (for the sixth time) and Ras a-Tin, in a drive to compel the residents to relocate. The IDF has devised a strategy for circumventing legal measures that would delay execution of demolition orders, issued only after the fact.
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Hiroshima Never Again!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Aug. 6th marks the anniversary of the U.S. dropping the first atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. Three days later, on Aug. 9th a second atomic bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki. In two blinding flashes of light, heat and radiation, hundreds of thousands of people were killed.
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Reflections from Kyoto (on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Dissonance Searching for Resonance
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Pentagon Documents Reveal How the DOD Bullies Movie and TV Producers into Forcing Them to Accept Their ‘Assistance’
Tom Secker | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
5 Aug 2021 – The US military’s central office for dealing with Hollywood revealed how the Department of Defense strong-armed the industry to achieve its propaganda goals. The reports were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Brilliant New Film ‘Pray Away’ Picks Personal Stories of ‘Ex-Ex-Gays’ to Expose Faith-Based Conversion Therapy as a Religious Sham
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – Conversion’s therapy’s bogus science is exposed in a new documentary in which ‘ex-gay’ Christian cheerleaders admit they’re homosexual and confess they were lying all along as they brought misery to vulnerable young people.
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Twitter Will Allow You to Deny the Genocide of Palestinians, but Not a ‘Uighur Genocide’, So I’ve Been Banned
Maram Susli | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
7 Aug 2021 – Big Tech censors are shutting down voices like mine, because they don’t like me exposing the truth of what’s going on in Palestine. But they’re happy with tweets about killings in Xinjiang, even when there’s no evidence for it.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes…
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Rethinking the Critical Race Theory Debate
Patrick D. Anderson | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The conspicuous absence of Derrick Bell who levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
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Journalist Craig Murray Jailed for Eight Months in a Major Assault on Democratic Rights
Robert Stevens | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – Yesterday, Murray was informed that the UK’s Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal for a punitive eight months by a Scottish court. The railroading of Murray into prison is the culmination of a politically motivated witch-hunt. For the last decade, he has been a trenchant defender of Julian Assange.
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Taking Control by Destroying Cash: Beware Cyber Polygon as Part of the Elite Coup
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Anyone who is paying attention to what is taking place in the background is well aware that the life we knew before 2020 has already ended and what is being systematically put in its place as the World Economic Forum implements its ‘Great Reset’ will bear no comparison to any period prior to last year. Of course, those of us who qualify as ‘ordinary people’ have had no say in the shape of what is being implemented.
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Chris Hedges and Slavoj Žižek on the Pandemic’s Ramifications (Parts 1 & 2)
On Contact | RT America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
13-15 Jul 2021 – Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
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Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-led Operation Condor
Nan McCurdy and Nora McCurdy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
19 Jul 2021 – Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s-’80s in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay, which resulted in the torture and “disappearance” of thousands of people. Plan follows precedent of state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.
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Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Popular Movement
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
It is imperative that we respect the people’s aspirations for progress and for a just society. It is paramount that we stand in solidarity with the people’s protests demanding a new form of state. The nation deserves a new system that is more in harmony with the dreams of our founders, a new vision of the republic rooted in justice, transparency and participation.
→ read full articleWhat if Socialism (or Communism) Is a Better Deal for Poor People?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
22 Jul 2021 – China’s outstanding economic successes are the worst thing that has ever happened for American capitalists (who control most of the American government). Their fear is that economies that favor socialism or communism will become attractive to Americans, especially its poor people and the middle classes who would stand to benefit.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – We crossed the Atlantic, encountered a bunch of savages, defeated them, claimed the continent. We won! This is the history I remember learning, as satisfying and stupid as a John Wayne movie.
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The Covid Deception Exposed
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
21 Jul 2021 – Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the mRNA technology, has provided data that clearly show that the countries with the smallest percentage of their population vaccinated have the fewest number of new Covid cases. Countries with the largest percentages of population vaccinated have surging numbers of new Covid cases. How can this be?
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These 3 Deceptively Simple Questions Can Shatter the Mythology That Sanctifies U.S. Imperialism
Matt Mckenna | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – The 20th century muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair once opined that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” With this in mind, it is easy to understand why a small but powerful class of war profiteers might not acknowledge or seek to educate the public about the nefarious nature and immorality of U.S. empire.
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Reflections from Kyoto
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
25 Jul 2021 – Dissonance Searching for Resonance – Last night from Tokyo, Japan those of our troubled, speculative, hopeful, and cynical world who had live-screen accessibility could watch the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
→ read full articleHUFUD Peace & Human Rights Award – Essay Competition
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
We are looking for bright and imaginative Peace Seekers to come up with innovative plans for the planet to be free of Armed Forces – that is, free of wars, politically concocted as well as those of a private initiative. Submissions Deadline: 30 Sep 2021. The recipient of the £1000 HUFUD Peace Award will be announced on 30 Nov 2021.
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“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.
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CIA Stories: The CIA is Born
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
20 Jun 2021 – Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most nefarious criminal organization in the world, with CIA expert Douglas Valentine.
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Drinking Coffee in the Early Morning Rain and Thinking of Donald Rumsfeld
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – I think of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on his recent deathbed. Here was a man whose entire life was dedicated to the American Empire. He spent all his allotted time making war or making money from the spoils of war. He was a desert maker, a slaughterer for the Empire. No doubt he died very rich in gold.
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The Controversial Prosecutor at the Heart of the Julian Assange Case
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – The battle to extradite Assange from the UK to the US is of paramount importance to the future of national security reporting. Prosecutor Gordon Kromberg has been dogged by allegations of bias and politicized prosecutions. Now he could shape the future of journalism.
→ read full articleMoral Intelligence or Nuclear War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
14 Jul 2021 – Let’s dance at the border! One of these days, something will give — the rich, the powerful will suddenly look around cluelessly. What’s happening? Awareness will sweep across the planet: We are one, and life is sacred. This consciousness will even invade political life and what I call moral intelligence will find political traction.
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Media Play Up Protests, Play Down Effect of US Sanctions in Cuba
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – The Media were quick to give the protests front and center coverage. Far larger and more deadly movements in Chile and Ecuador were mostly ignored by the corporate press. Meanwhile, the political situation in Haiti, which has seen three continuous years of nationwide protest, was overwhelmingly ignored until the assassination of US-backed President Jovenel Moïse last week.
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Cry, the Bedeviled Country: I Weep for My Homeland of South Africa, As I Watch Its Disintegration from Afar
Jani Allan | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – Widespread looting and burning has killed over 100, and wrecked factories, shops and homes, with Indian and whites increasingly the target. Is the country I love, where I spent 30 years of my life, spiralling into racial warfare?
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Disgusting Perverts or Just Misunderstood? Meet the Zoophiles Who Have Sex with Animals and Want to Be Embraced by Pride
Chris Sweeney | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
6 Jul 2021 – Zoophiles believe it’s acceptable to be intimate with an animal, and want the LGTBQ+ movement to add a Z to its name. RT spoke to one about their secret world, and with members of the ‘furry’ and ‘therian’ communities.
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Ethiopian Conflict and International Law
Ann Garrison interviews Francis A. Boyle | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 -Legal scholar Francis A. Boyle told Ann Garrison that a “Responsibility-to-Protect” intervention in Ethiopia would be illegal and catastrophic.
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Data, Not Arms, the Key Driver in Emerging US-China Cold War
Robert Reich | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
10 Jul 2021 – Cybersecurity comes down to which side has access to more information about the other and can utilize it best.
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The Syria Deception: The Public Has Been Hoodwinked Yet Again into Supporting a Criminal War of Aggression—and One That Has Been Effectively Lost
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – United States warmakers have become so skilled at propaganda that not only can they wage a war of aggression without arousing protest; they can also compel liberals to denounce peace activists using language reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Take the case of Syria. The people and groups one would normally count on to oppose wars have been the ones largely defending it.
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Letting Filthy Private Jets Go Tax-Free Shows How the EU Prioritises the Mega-Rich Over the Masses
Damian Wilson | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
8 Jul 2021 – Despite being hugely damaging for the environment, private planes operated by mi(bi)llionaires are to be given carbon tax exemption by hypocritical bureaucrats who tirelessly push a green agenda. It’s Brussels hypocrisy at its finest.
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