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Myanmar: UN Expert Calls for Tolerance and Safety from Reprisals after Online Threats to Activists
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – The UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has condemned online threats against activists campaigning for justice and accountability, urging the Government and social media firms to do more to protect campaigners. “The online threats, including those targeting prominent activists Dr. Maung Zarni and Mr. Nay Say Lwin of the Free Rohingya Coalition are deeply concerning,” Lee said.
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Bolivia’s Coup Dictator Seeks to Annihilate Opposition from Exiled
Ramona Wadi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
27 Dec 2019 – In light of what is occurring in Venezuela, the latest imperialist intervention in Bolivia must be exposed as a plan not only to oust Morales, but also as one aimed at regional destabilisation. Deposed President Evo Morales will be working with an international team that includes the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, who in 1998 issued an international arrest warrant for Pinochet.
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Families Fleeing from Guatemala: A Case of Corporate and State Aggression
Marc Pilisuk, Jennifer Rountree and Rebecca Ferencik | Council of Hemispheric Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019 – In its attempt to stem the number of Latin American men, women, and children traveling to the U.S. seeking asylum, the Trump administration has pushed Guatemala and other countries in the region to sign “safe third country” agreements. The U.S. is bound by law to receive asylum seekers and this new agreement is an attempt to avoid this obligation by declaring Guatemala as a safe third country. However, an agreement does not make it so.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Appears at ICJ as UN Rights Expert Urges Greater Protection for Myanmar Activists
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
10 Dec 2019 – “I call on each and every organ of the Myanmar State to ensure that absolutely no reprisals are taken against any group or individual that is advocating for justice and accountability in Myanmar,” said the independent expert in a statement issued today, adding that those targeted include members of the Free Rohingya Coalition.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
20 Dec 2019 – “The preliminary examination into the Situation in Palestine has concluded with the determination that all the statutory criteria under the Rome Statute for the opening of an investigation have been met”, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said, “I am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in Palestine”.
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Sore Sports: Russia Barred from Olympics for Thwarting Washington’s Geopolitical Game Plan?
Robert Bridge | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – Clearly, the motivation here is to humiliate, provoke and punish Moscow by any means available – even on the field of dreams.
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We’ve Been Epsteined! The Death of the “Conspiracy Theorist” Label
James Grundvig | Vaxxter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
The hairy canard of the CIA’s 1967 “conspiracy theorist” label died a thousand deaths when Epstein had his neck broken. With the murder of Jeffrey Epstein – only press lapdogs believe this narcissist committed suicide – the spin cycle has come to a full stop. The centrifuge is over. No more wet lies to be squeezed out of the bedsheets of pedophile rings or false flag events. I’m sure Epstein helped the hit squad turn off the hallway video cameras, too.
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Nepal Makes First ‘Period Hut’ Arrest after Woman Dies during Banned Custom
Arun Budhathoki – The Guardian,
23 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019 – A 21-year-old woman has died after spending three nights in an outdoor “period hut”, prompting police in Nepal to make their first ever arrest in connection with the illegal practice. The tradition of chhaupadi, where menstruating women in Nepal are banished from their homes, is still widespread in remote and poorer parts of the country.
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One Third of Poorer Countries Face both Undernutrition and Obesity: WHO Report
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
16 Dec 2019 – With one in three low and middle-income countries facing the two extremes of malnutrition – undernutrition and obesity – the World Health Organization is calling for a new approach to deal with rapidly changing food systems.
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The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State: The Pentagon Budget Still Rising, 40 Years Later
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – It is staggering the number of tax dollars that persistently go into what passes for national security in this country, i.e., subsidizing the U.S. military-industrial complex, year in, year out, at levels that should be (but aren’t) beyond belief. In 2019, Pentagon spending is actually higher than it was at the peak of either the Korean or Vietnam wars and may soon be twice the Cold War average.
→ read full articleAung San Suu Kyi Defends Myanmar from Accusations of Genocide, at Top UN Court
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019 – Myanmar will have “no tolerance” for human rights abuses committed in Rakhine state and will prosecute the military, if war crimes have been committed there, Aung San Suu Kyi told the International Court of Justice, the UN’s main judicial body, today.
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Kashmir Is Heading to a Point of No Return
Naveed Mehmood Ahmad | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The crackdown on the mainstream leadership in Jammu and Kashmir and the inability of the present dispensation, to take into confidence the Abdullah’s and the Mufti’s, is deeply problematic. The political doctrine that has been operating in Kashmir since 1947 has now been challenged. A rudderless policy may lead Kashmiri politics to a point of no return, with Khalida Shah recently calling for unity amongst leaders, including the separatists.
→ read full articleNew Citizenship Law in India ‘Fundamentally Discriminatory’: UN Human Rights Office
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
13 Dec 2019 – A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.” It gives priority to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians resident in India before 2014, but excludes Muslims.
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US Weaponizing Space in Bid to Launch Arms Race
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019 – The US has utilized the 29-nation NATO alliance to rubber-stamp its criminal weaponization of space.
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The Threat 5G Poses to Human Health
James Grundvig – The Epoch Times,
16 Dec 2019
What You Don’t Know Will Alarm You – “EMF and RF waves corrupt human DNA. They contribute to the environmental impact of autism, Parkinson’s disease, cancers, and low sperm count. We need to make this a No. 1 priority,” Belpoggi said, calling the current state an “insane policy, where technology is more important than human health.”
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Ela Gandhi on Nonviolence and the Mahatma, Her Grandfather
Clovis Community College – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
14 Oct 2019 – Nearly 300 students, staff, and community members gathered to listen to Ms. Ela Gandhi. Ms. Gandhi, a peace activist and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, spoke about the power and peace and transformation in the 21st century.
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A Game-Changer in the Fight against Ebola
Sarah Baldwin | Watson Institute, Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 -In modern medicine, physicians and health care practitioners tend to talk about treatments rather than cure. It’s a spectrum. For a disease that had 66 percent mortality that can now be decreased to as low as 10 or 15 percent if you get this treatment early, I have no problem calling that a cure.
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Inequality and Its Many Discontents
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram | IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
3 Dec 2019 – Much recent unrest, such as the ‘yellow-vest’ protests in France and the US ‘Abolish the Super-Rich’ campaign, is not against inequality per se, but reflects perceptions of changing inequalities. Most citizens resent when they are not only unacceptably high but also rising. Excessive inequality is widely seen as fundamentally unfair. Even President Obama described “dangerous and growing inequality” as “the defining challenge of our time”.
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Comparative Study of Gandhi and Marx
Pragya Markandey | Hidayatullah University, Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2019
• Gandhian political thought
• Marxian political theory
• Similarities & dissimilarities
Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem
Laffoley, D. and Baxter, J. M. | International Union for Conservation of Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019 – Abstract: The ocean represents 97% of the physical habitable space on the planet and is central to sustaining all life on Earth. Since 2000 significant and dedicated effort has been directed at raising awareness and understanding of the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions on the ocean. Carbon dioxide emitted by human activities is driving the ocean towards more acidic conditions. Ocean Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem–Causes, Impacts, Consequences and Solutions, Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 2019, 562 pp.
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NATO Splits Reveal Alliance Is Redundant
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019 – The 70th anniversary summit-turned-circus this week would seem to be a portent for NATO’s overdue redundancy.
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Serena and Venus Williams Included in Top 11 World’s Best Vegan Athletes
Claudiu Pop | Tennis World Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
2 Dec 2019 – Both Serena and Venus Williams were featured in the world’s 11 most successful vegan athletes by Guinness World Records. Veganism has seen increasing popularity among sports figures like Novak Djokovic, Patrick Baboumian, Dana Glowacka, Nate Diaz, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lewis Hamilton and many more great examples.
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Bolivia’s Lithium Is Fair Game in a World Ruled by Spheres of Influence
Joaquin Flores | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019 – The US approach to overthrowing governments in Latin America and the trail of tears and blood it left in its wake will no doubt be highly motivating to the broad masses of Latin Americans who will support the coming Latin American bloc.
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Knowledge & Belief
The Mind Unleashed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Wisdom
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Is Peace Possible?
Charles Webel | UNYP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Most of us think we know what peace is, but people often have very different definitions of this apparently simple word. And although almost everyone would agree that some form of peace—however it is defined—is desir¬able, there are often forceful, even violent, disagreements over how to obtain it. Peace is like the human project itself—a work (and a word) in progress.
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UN Commemorates International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 – The UN has underlined its unwavering commitment to the Palestinian people in their ongoing struggle to achieve self-determination, independence and sovereignty. Senior officials joined ambassadors and other representatives today to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, officially observed each year on 29 November.
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Boycott Myanmar Campaign
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
We urge you to stand with the country’s oppressed national minorities.
→ read full articlePeace Studies: Inspiration, Objectives, Achievement
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Peace appeals to the heart; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.
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American Exceptionalism Driving World to War – John Pilger
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 – John Pilger gives his wide-ranging views on the systematic deterioration of Western mainstream journalism which has come to function as a nakedly propaganda matrix for power and corporate profit.
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House of Gods or Plea for Peace
Mitali Chakravarty | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
Oh house of Gods! Oh house of Gods!
Temples or Mosques
Churches or Synagogues
Displaced they stand—
Evil Hour in Honduras: A Banana Republic Lives On
Joseph Grosso | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
23 Nov 2019 – To find callous and hypocritical American statecraft one would have no shortage of choices. From the betrayals of the Kurds, to the support for the House of Saud, including in its brutal war in Yemen, to the billions of dollars pumped into dictatorship in Egypt, to the continual dispossession of the Palestinians. However, in terms of pure cynicism the answer is found closer to home in Central America.
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At UN, Middle East Countries Discuss Steps towards Regional Nuclear-Free Zone
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – Representatives from across the Middle East are meeting at UN Headquarters this week in efforts to negotiate a legally binding treaty establishing a regional zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
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“They’re Killing Us like Dogs” – A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help
Medea Benjamin | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
22 Nov 2019 – I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power.
→ read full articleUN ‘Regrets’ New US Position on Legality of Israeli Settlements
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
19 Nov 2019 – The longstanding position of the UN regarding Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory – that they are in breach of international law – is unchanged, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said during a press briefing today in New York, reacting to the policy reversal announced by the United States.
→ read full articleUS Pardons for Accused War Criminals, Contrary to International Law: UN Rights Office
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
19 Nov 2019 – A presidential pardon for two United States soldiers accused of war crimes, and a sentence reduction for a third, “run against the letter and the spirit of international law which requires accountability for such violations”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said today.
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India: Intimations of an Ending
Arundhati Roy – The Nation,
25 Nov 2019
22 Nov 2019 – The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right. While protest reverberates on the streets of Chile, Catalonia, Britain, France, Iraq, Lebanon, and Hong Kong, and a new generation rages against what has been done to their planet, I hope you will forgive me for speaking about a place where the street has been taken over by something quite different.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019 – Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday authorized an investigation into alleged crimes against humanity, namely deportation, which have forced between 600,000 and one million Rohingya refugees out of Myanmar, into neighboring Bangladesh since 2016.
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Deathly Silence: An Inside Look at Kashmir
Laura Höflinger and Sunaina Kumar – Der Spiegel,
18 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019 – Kashmir has been largely cut off from the outside world for months and the internet remains cut off. Residents share stories of state violence and terror.
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UN Envoy’s Grim Warning over Assange’s Life in British Prison
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – A UN expert in torture diagnosis has issued a stark warning that Australian whistleblower Julian Assange is in danger of dying from extreme prison conditions in Britain. It is testimony to the rank hypocrisy of British and American governments that lecture others around the world about democracy, human rights and international law. One can only imagine the hysterical outcry among Western governments and media if somehow Assange was being detained in a Russian, Chinese or Iranian prison.
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Breaking! Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Story Is Highly Unprofessional!
Susie Day – CounterPunch,
18 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – Dear Mainstream News Media-MSM: After the verdict came down on October 24, Bill Quigley, a Plowshares’ attorney, stated that the defendants had spent two years in prayerful practice before deciding to carry out this action. You’re right, MSM, this story is simply not newsworthy. Then, when you add in the fact that these seven are well past middle age – the youngest 57; the oldest a few days away from 80 – and that they face a possible 20 years, which could amount to a death sentence in prison, you’ve got a really unsexy story there. So thanks for catching that.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
At the age of 13 Henri fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right. His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54m. tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Physically unable to participate in most of the activities typically enjoyed by men of his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a sanatorium shortly before his death.
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Revealed: Danger and Squalor for Cleaners Who Remove Human Waste by Hand
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
13 Nov 2019 – Highlighting the dangers for the millions of people who clean toilets, sewers and septic tanks, ahead of World Toilet Day on 19 Nov, the World Health Organization (WHO) insisted that while the workforce performs an essential public service, their own health is compromised and they are often shunned.
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UN Member States Overwhelmingly Support End of US Embargo against Cuba
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
For the 28th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. During a vote held on Wednesday [6 Nov], 187 Member States underlined their support for the resolution while Brazil and Israel joined the US in voting no. Two countries—Colombia and Ukraine—abstained.
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WikiLeaks Reveals OPCW Falsified Reports to Blame Syrian Government Instead of Western Backed-Jihadis!
Federico Pieraccini | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
29 Oct 2019 – A whistleblower from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons delivered to WikiLeaks authentic documents to do with investigations into the Douma bombing in Syria in 2018. The revelations–studiously ignored by the mainstream media–shed a light on the tangled web weaved by the complicit media and the West’s shameless hypocrisy, involving the [Nobel Peace Laureate] OPCW, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange’s illegal detention.
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Babri Masjid Verdict: My House Demolished, I Go to Court, It Awards the Land to the Demolisher. Is This Justice?
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
9 Nov 2019 – Babri Masjid mosque: In a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court held that the disputed land of Ayodhya must be handed over for the construction of Ram temple. The verdict is not end of the controversial Ayodhya – Ram Janmabhumi dispute. This opens only a new chapter in the Hindu/Muslim relations in India. One can only hope that harmony will prevail.
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Chile: Bachelet Upholds Pinochet’s Call for Oblivion
Ramona Wadi | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
6 Nov 2019 – What Bachelet describes as a “current crisis” has roots that go deeper into a history which Chilean governments prefer to dissociate from the demonstrations. Neoliberalism in Chile is a brutal ongoing experiment and Bachelet does indeed know better than other diplomats at the UN that the protests must achieve their aim before any so-called dialogue with politicians, whether right-wing or centre-left. However, her role at the UNHRC makes it easy for her to rely on prepared statements.
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How to Crush a Bankers’ Dictatorship: A Lesson from 1933
Matthew Ehret | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2019
8 Nov 2019 – While everyone knows that the 1929 market crash unleashed four years of hell in America which quickly spread across Europe under the great depression, not many people have realized that this was a controlled blowout. While I’m not arguing that a systemic change is not vital to protect people from the effects of a general meltdown of the $1.2 trillion derivatives bubble sometimes called “the western banking system”, what central bankers are proposing is a poison more deadly than the disease they promise to cure.
→ read full articleUnited States vs Moby Dick
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
A national epos communicates a national ethos. What is the national US ethos communicated by Herman Melville? Man against Nature is one. Man, humans we would say today, is destined to fight Nature. And destined ultimately to win even if by paying heavy prices.
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A Conspiracy of Decency
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children,
Decisive International Action Needed to End Israeli Occupation: UN Rights Expert
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2019
23 Oct 2019 – The international community has a responsibility and legal obligation to compel Israel to end its 52 year-long “occu-annexation” of Palestinian territory and remove barriers preventing Palestinian self-determination, a UN independent human rights expert told the General Assembly today.
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Paul Robeson (9 Apr 1898 – 23 Jan 1976): Lessons from a Remarkable Life
Tayo Aluko | Counterfire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Black Lawyer, Singer and Football Player, Paul Robeson’s Extraordinary Life Holds Many Lessons for the Present Day
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2019 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award Acceptance Speech
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 – Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” I would add, as I’m sure he would, that we must work diligently to attain this reality.
→ read full articleNarrative: Whistleblower Denounces Lies, Deceit and Cover-up by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Report on Syria
Courage Foundation & Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – Panel Criticizes ‘Unacceptable Practices’ in the OPCW’s Investigation of the Alleged Syria Chemical Attack of April 2018 – The Courage Foundation convened a panel of concerned individuals in Brussels on 15 Oct, which met with a member of the investigation. On this basis the panel issued the following statement. [Foreword by Richard Falk]
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Yi Jing – I Ching 易經 — The Book of Changes
Igor Micunovic | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 — Ancient culture of China has made great contributions to world culture. Book of Changes is one of the most precious contributions of Chinese culture, which has exerted a great influence on Chinese philosophy, literature, historical study, as well as natural and social sciences.
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In Memoriam: Dietrich ‘Dieter’ Fischer (22 Sep 1941 – 18 Oct 2015)
Prof. Johan Galtung | Founder – TRANSCEND Network of Peace Practitioners,
28 Oct 2019
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND, let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general.
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Tulsi Nails It on National TV… US Regime-Change Wars
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
18 Oct 2019 – Peace will come to the Middle East when Washington finally ends its criminal regime-change wars and its support for terrorist proxies. Tulsi Gabbard seems to be the only politician with the intelligence and integrity to tell Americans the truth.
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Kashmir–The Curious Case of Indian Collective Conscience
Dr Mudasir Firdosi | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
19 Oct 201 9 – Kashmir has been cut off from the rest of the world for more than two months now. The perpetual worry about that ‘phone call’ has traumatized so many. One fears that people are developing traumatic stress even when not physically present in the valley. Even when people do manage a phone call after begging or borrowing, the harrowing silence on the other side says it all.
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What Is ‘the UN We Need’ and Who Gets to Choose?
Ben Donaldson and Florencia Gor | UN2020 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Why are civil society organisations excited about strengthening the UN when momentum seems distinctly in the opposite direction? When divisions are rife and the international system is in damage limitation mode, as the US cuts funding and repeatedly pulls out of UN bodies? The opportunity is the UN’s 75th anniversary next year and there are modest reasons for hope.
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Bestselling Pentagon Fiction: Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform
William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger – TomDispatch,
14 Oct 2019
The pentagon is pledging to reform itself. Again. It Won’t. The new secretary of defense, a former Raytheon lobbyist, won’t even pledge not to go back through the revolving door. With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high, even as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come.
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(Castellano) Crisis en Ecuador: Lenín Moreno vs. Rafael Correa, los antiguos aliados cuya enemistad divide al país
BBC News Mundo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
10 octubre 2019 – ¿El hombre que transformará la economía ecuatoriana o el que “traicionó” el “socialismo del siglo XXI” que quería implantar su antecesor? El presidente ecuatoriano, Lenín Moreno aka neo-coño, afronta la mayor crisis de su gobierno tras acabar con más de 40 años de subsidios a los combustibles, en lo que constituye un paso más en la dirección contraria a la política de su predecesor, Rafael Correa.
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Afghanistan Probe: ‘At Least 60 Civilians’ Killed after US Military Airstrikes on Alleged Drug Labs
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
9 Oct 2019 – “Multiple” airstrikes by the US military on alleged methamphetamine drug labs in a remote area of western Afghanistan earlier this year, killed or injured hundreds of civilians who should not have been treated as military targets, the UN said today.
→ read full articleWhy Work to Abolish Nuclear Weapons?
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
We can change the world in important and necessary ways.
We can take a giant step forward for humankind.
We can join with others in demonstrating good stewardship of the planet…
Professionalization in Peace Research
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
The purpose of peace research is to produce intersubjectively communicable and verifiable knowledge according to the general rules of research. Thus, research is incompatible with secrecy, as it has to take place in public space. And one purpose of peace studies is the communication of the findings of peace research, in line with general rules for education, another public space activity.
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The Human and Financial Costs of the Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
Suzanne Fiederlein and SaraJane Rzegocki | James Madison University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Costs of War – Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University – Afghanistan ranks as one of the most landmine- and unexploded ordnance-impacted countries in the world, even after thirty years of clearance operations supported extensively by the UN and a number of major donors.
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Systemic Failure
Arundhati Roy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Input => Output
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Japan Is Lying about the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, as It Promotes the 2020 Olympic Games
Nuclear News | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
16 Sep 2019 – Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which experienced three massive meltdowns in 2011, is running out of room to store radioactive water. No surprise! But now, what to do about phosphorescent water? The Japanese government is lying and should be held accountable for hoodwinking the world about the ravages of Fukushima, especially with the Olympics scheduled for next year.
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Nuclear Abolition: Q&A with Dr. David Krieger
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
A special dialogue held at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation during our overseas fieldwork on 1 Feb 2019. This session was held between 13 Kansai Soka High School students and Dr. David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
→ read full articleGenocide Threat for Myanmar’s Rohingya Greater than Ever, Investigators Warn Human Rights Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
16 Sep 2019 – Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya who remain in Myanmar may face a greater threat of genocide than ever, amid Government attempts to “erase their identity and remove them from the country”, UN-appointed independent investigators said today.
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Top 100 Polluter Indexes
Political Economy Research Institute | University of Massachusetts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Aug 2019 – The Top 100 Polluter indexes identify the top corporate air and water polluters and top greenhouse gas emitters using the most recent data available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932
→ read full articlePrinciples for Global Sustainability
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – I would encourage you to seek to advance global sustainability by adopting a planetary perspective, doing no harm, engaging in doing good for the planet and its present and future inhabitants, choosing hope, and persevering. If we accept these responsibilities as individuals and work to implement them in our national and international policies, we can turn Earth Day into a year-around commitment to creating a planet we can be proud to pass on to future generations.
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Sparking Change: How Movements Pass on Inspiration
Rivera Sun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – Change doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Resistance is a continuum. Nonviolent movements arise amidst the efforts of many other struggles. The knowledge of how to organize for change is a global legacy passed between movements and generations of activists through lineages of inspiration that stretch through hundreds of years.
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Peace as a Profession and New Peace Action Roles
Johan Galtung | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
1974 – Today we see relatively clearly that there are liberal and Marxist conceptions of peace, and perhaps we also see more clearly than before that «liberalism vs. Marxism» is a false dichotomy—although we still live under the pressure of the false dichotomies, and particularly in the thinking about peace. Hence, this essay is an effort to try to indicate, at a very simple, common sense level, that both views are fruitful in conceiving of new forms of peace action, and that they in a sense reinforce each other.
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Hospitals among Seven Health Centres Attacked in Syria
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
2 Sep 2019 – Seven health centres in Syria have been reportedly attacked in recent days and two of them have been destroyed, the World Health Organization said today.
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UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
3 Sep 2019 – Allegations of torture and ill-treatment leading to the death of ethnic Rakhine men and boys being held in incommunicado detention by Myanmar’s military, has prompted three independent UN rights experts to call for an end to the practice and for “credible, independent” investigations.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
An important year, being one generation of 30 years ahead of us; neither too close, nor too far into the future, for predictions and prescriptions about The Year 2050 to be realistic–within the range of the probable for predictions and the feasible for prescriptions.
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Report: Seoul International Conference on Protection of Rohingya Survivors and Accountability for Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – The Seoul International Conference focused on the illegal and barbaric uses of sexual violence and rape of target victim population as a matter of strategy and policy by genocidal and militaristic regimes, past and present, in Asian region, from the WWII-era Fascist Japan, Suharto’s Indonesia and General Yaya Khan’s West Pakistan in the civil war in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) to Pol Pot’s Cambodia of the late 1970’s to present-day Myanmar. The conference attracted 150 activists, engaged scholars and experts from 12 different countries, far and near.
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Inaction on China and India’s Crimes Emboldens Myanmar
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera,
2 Sep 2019
25 Aug 2019 – How can Myanmar reverse its anti-Rohingya policies if it has China and India as an example? Today, Rohingya refugees and survivors in refugee camps, as well as their diasporic communities, commemorate the second Rohingya Genocide Memorial Day.
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Millions in Idlib ‘Counting on Your Support to Make the Violence Stop’, UN Relief Chief Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
29 Aug 2019 – Despite an agreement signed nearly a year ago on a halt to further escalation in Syria’s war-battered Idlib, “the bombing and fighting go on in plain sight, day in and day out”, the UN humanitarian chief told the Security Council today.
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‘The World Never Learns’, Rohingya Pay the Price
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
25 Aug 2019 – Today, Rohingya communities and their international supporters commemorate the 2nd anniversary of what is widely acknowledged as a textbook genocide commissioned by the UN member state of Myanmar. ‘Without UN, external intervention, Rohingya will remain most persecuted, vulnerable population’.
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Perspective
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Drawing
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US Reprehensibly Inciting New Global Arms Race
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia and China are right to condemn the testing this week of an INF-busting new ground-based cruise missile off the coast of California under the usual cynical guise of “defense”. It was reportedly a Tomahawk-type nuclear-capable warhead, but the Pentagon said it was conventionally armed.
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Hawai’i: Mauna Kea Is only Latest Thing They Want to Take, ‘We Will Not Give It to Them’
Anne Keala Kelly | Indian Country Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – Mauna Kea is a 13,800-foot high mountain on Hawai‘i Island, and considered the most sacred site to Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, the Native Hawaiian people. Named after Wākea, Father Sky, it is home to a number of religious deities, and is a traditional burial ground for the most revered ali‘i (royalty) and kahuna (priests). So far, Hawaiians have managed to stop all efforts to begin construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope through legal challenges and civil disobedience.
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Hong Kong, Kashmir: A Tale of Two Occupations
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Much to the distress of neocons and humanitarian imperialists, there won’t be a bloody mainland China crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong – a Tiananmen 2.0. Why? Because it’s not worth it. While China identified “Occupy Hong Kong” as a mere Western-instilled and instrumentalized plot, India, for its part, decided to go for Full Occupy in Kashmir. Welcome to the Kashmiri Intifada.
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Speaking for the Silenced: The Holy Inquisition in Portugal
Richard Zimler | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
Prisoners in Inquisitorial prisons who refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah and make a full confession of their Jewish practices would be burnt at the stake in a public ceremony known as an auto-da-fé, meaning act of faith. In 1560, Portugal imposed this same religious dictatorship in Goa, where tens of thousands of converted Hindus and their descendants were arrested and tortured – and hundreds burnt alive – by the Inquisition from 1560 to 1820. The Inquisition was also a diabolically effective money-making scam, since all the assets of its victims were confiscated and given to the Church.
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We Are in a War Situation with China!
John Pilger | Going Underground – RT,
26 Aug 2019
22 Aug 2019 – John Pilger describes the current state of global affairs as in a state of world war, warning that the ‘coming war on China’ he warned about has now arrived. He also discusses the Hong Kong protests and US involvement in the unrest, the collapse of the INF Treaty and the beginning of a new arms race with Russia in Washington’s goal to break up the Russian Federation under Putin. He slams sanctions on Venezuela and Iran and also updates us on the condition of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange, after he visited him recently in UK’s Belmarsh prison.
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Lessons from Einstein for Scientists Today
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The year 2005 also marked the 50th anniversary of Einstein’s death and of the issuing of his last public appeal, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. It is an appropriate time to consider what lessons we might draw from Einstein’s life that would benefit those engaged in scientific activities today.
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G7: An Obsolete, Useless Talking Shop
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Russia’s exclusion from the G8 has been a political punishment to bolster a propaganda narrative for undermining and isolating Russia. This is again why the G7 is no longer a viable forum for its stated purpose of advancing the global economy. “Russia should be at the negotiating table,” said Trump, in a rare moment of lucidity.
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As Scientists Warn of Biodiversity Crisis, Trump Administration Guts Endangered Species Act
Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
12 Aug 2019 – The Trump administration finalized its drastic rollback of the Endangered Species Act, just months after the UN released a dire report warning that one million species could go extinct if business continues as usual.
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Listen to People of Jammu & Kashmir: End ‘Reign of Occupation and Terror’
National Alliance of People’s Movements | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) unequivocally condemns the indefensible and totalitarian move of the BJP-led NDA Govt. to repeal Article 370 of the Constitution by way of a Presidential Order and introduce a Bill for bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, not only without but seemingly in violation of the consent of the people and key political actors of the state.
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Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans
Kevin Young | NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
14 Aug 2019 – On August 5, the Trump administration issued an executive order escalating its sanctions against Venezuela. The order froze all Venezuelan government assets in the United States and threatened third parties around the world with punitive action if they trade with the Venezuelan government. Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive.
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Kashmir: A Coup against the Constitution and the Kashmiris
People's Union for Civil Liberties | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – The PUCL condemns the abrogation of key portions of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and the bifurcation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and taking away its statehood. While the deed by itself is deceitful, the manner in which it was done is even more so.
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Rohingya Poets Turn Words into Art of Resistance
Natalie Brinham, Yuriko Cowper-Smith, and Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – Rohingya poets featured in an anthology, I am Rohingya, write with an urgency and passion of genocide survivors. They reclaim their experience, their group identity and their agency from the victimhood that has framed their existence for so long.
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Neoliberalism, Neofascism & Trumpism – Racist Alliance of Mob & Capital
Dr Gideon Polya | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
4 Aug 2019 – Philosopher Hannah Arendt found common causes of genocidal Western European imperialism on 5 continents and genocidal 20th century fascism as an alliance between the mob and capital, with a commonality in this union of extreme nationalism, lying, rapacity, atrocity-justifying racism and anti-humanism. Today American Trumpism is ferociously anti-intellectual, anti-humanist, nationalist and racist, with genocidal Trump threats to “totally destroy” or “obliterate”.
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The Paradox of Mortality: Death and Perpetual Denial
Devaleena Kundu | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Literary discourses often seek to explore the emotional motley experienced by individuals while encountering death and dying. Representations by literary artists offer a virtual space wherein readers partake of the conclusive episode in a character’s lived experience. However, does a reader in the process imagine and accept his/her own cessation? Or does it always have to be an “other” being at whose death we are present as voyeurs? Freud in his 1918 work “Reflections on War and Death” observed: “We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators.”
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Meet Antonio C. S. Rosa: Pioneer in Peace Journalism
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Peace Journalism, a New Paradigm for Journalists Covering Conflict Situations: Meet the man behind TRANSCEND MEDIA SERVICE-TMS
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IPCC Special Report: Climate Change and Land
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
6 Aug 2019 – An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
→ read full articleHave a Nice Day!
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
Ipsis Literis
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto on Nuclear Weapons
Pugwash University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
‘A War with H Bomb Might Possibly Put an End to the Human Race.’
– London, 9 Jul 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.
Homo Roboticus?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
Remote Control
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