Herman Van Rompuy Named EU President
After years of effort the European Union named its first full-time president and powerful foreign policy chief on Thursday – but handed the jobs to two little-known compromise figures instead of global heavy hitters.
Belgian Premier Herman Van Rompuy (vahn rohm-POY) – a soft-spoken technocrat who shuns the public eye and has written haikus about European unity – will be the EU's new president. EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton of Britain, recognized by few in her home country and never elected to public office, was named foreign policy chief. "Most people in Europe have never even heard of Herman Van Rompuy or Catherine Ashton, yet here they are to represent us in the global arena. Surely Europe can do better than this"
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Obama Predicts Conviction In 9/11 Case
2009 11 19
The president, in a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, said those offended by the legal rights accorded Mohammed by virtue of his facing a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."
"Failure is not an option" |
TV ad seeks to recruit Arab-Americans to CIA
2009 11 19
There's a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made.
An older man tries to swipe a felafel off an appetizer plate but instead gets a loving hand slap from a woman. The happy, well-dressed guests move to a table full of food in a dining room adorned with Middle Eastern wall-hangings.
It's an inviting, if ... |
Canada in Afghanistan: Torture and Coverup
2009 11 19
All detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured by Afghan officials and many of the prisoners were innocent, says a former senior diplomat with Canada's mission in Afghanistan. He said the most common forms of torture were beatings, whipping with power cables, the use of electricity, knives, open flames and rape. |
Judge: Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding
2009 11 19
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims. |
Shroud of Turin Reveals Levitating Man
2009 11 19
Three scientists studying the images created on the Shroud of Turin have created a three dimensional model of an unmistakable and shocking image. The man who the shroud photographed was not laying on a stone slab, as previously believed by scientists and historians. The man, according to computer imaging experts, was actually levitating when the shroud was created.
The ... |
Ukraine, WHO and the Geopolitics of Swine Flu Panic
2009 11 18
Latest reports of what is being called a deadly Swine Flu outbreak in Ukraine according to on sight reports appear to be a political concoction by a threatened government to avoid election defeat and possibly declare martial law. The details indicate how convenient the current WHO "Swine Flu" H1N1 "pandemic" scare is for regimes in trouble. |
Is Algae the Biofuel of the Future?
2009 11 18
There are some signs that the algae-based fuel industry might be ready to bloom.
One of the nascent industry's biggest and most well-heeled players, Sapphire Energy, announced last week that it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011, double its initial estimates.
The La Jolla, Calif.-based company – with big-name backers like Bill Gates ... |
Seed Hunter Ken Street - Collector to the Global Seed Vault AKA Doomsday Vault (Video)
2009 11 18
Seed Hunter Ken Street is working to collect seeds for the Global Seed Vault AKA the Doomsday Vault in Svalbard. He's looking for ancient seeds that have a high genetic diversity. If you know about the origins of agriculture, where farming comes from and the Sumerian connection and the Anu-Nagi (Annunaki), then this documentary will be even more interesting for ... |
Stop MK ULTRA and all of its secret sub-projects!
2009 11 17
President of the United States Barack Obama
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon
United States Congress
United States Senate
United States House of Representatives
Respective Governments of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Russian Federation, Amnesty International
Greetings from the Survivors of Project Talent.
We, the survivors of MK ULTRA and all of its sub-projects — Project Talent being one of them — are coming to ... |
Extraterrestrial Life Official Disclosure Imminent
2009 11 17
An official announcement by the Obama administration disclosing the reality of extraterrestrial life is imminent. For several months, senior administration officials have been quietly deliberating behind closed doors how much to disclose to the world about extraterrestrial life. Dissatisfaction among powerful institutions such as the U.S. Navy over the decades-long secrecy policy has given a boost to efforts to disclose ... |
The Egyptologist, the Sphinx and the cover-up
2009 11 17
The clampdown on excavations at many archaeological sites in Egypt and the inconsistent attitudes of antiquities supremo Dr Zahi Hawass on the existence of tunnels and cavities within the Giza Plateau suggest a hidden agenda is being played out. Ten years ago, three books—Giza: The Truth (by Chris Ogilvie-Herald and Ian Lawton), The Stargate Conspiracy (by Lynn Picknett and Clive ... |
The Significance Of The Bow: Obama Is A House Servant For The Global Elite
2009 11 17
President’s body language proves his fealty to generationally inbred and racist royalty of the world. The predictable response to criticism surrounding Obama’s botched bow to Emperor Akihito this weekend has been to claim that the outrage is a contrived creation of the political right-wing. However, the Japanese themselves are obviously just as embarrassed about the whole spectacle. |
EU Presidency candidate Herman Van Rompuy calls for new taxes
2009 11 17
New Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, center left, is sworn in by Belgium's King Albert II, center right, at the Royal Palace in Laeken, Belgium, Tuesday Dec. 30, 2008
Herman Van Rompuy, the man widely expected to be appointed the first President of Europe this week, has called for new eco-taxes and levies on the financial sector to fund a ... |
Water on the Moon? Where are the aliens?
2009 11 17
To determine exactly what might be going on, Swann was given coordinates to a suspected location on the lunar surface, where he psychically encountered massive structures, weird green fog, and humanoid forms apparently going about their business.
Swann quickly realized his mental probing had been detected by the beings he was seeing and, sensing danger, pulled away from the site. |
Shame and Demonization: An Environmentalist's Arsenal
2009 11 17
"How reputation could save the Earth"
By David Rand and Martin Nowak
Have you ever noticed a friend or neighbour driving a new hybrid car and felt pressure to trade in your gas guzzler? Or worried about what people might think when you drive up to the office in an SUV? If so, then you have experienced the power of reputation for ... |
Scahill: Obama may be afraid of Blackwater
2009 11 16
Despite news reports that the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater has seen its contracts dry up and its influence wane, the company continues to do brisk business in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and the Obama administration may be too afraid of the firm to do anything about it, says investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill. |
'Road trains' get ready to roll
2009 11 16
Road trains that link vehicles together using wireless sensors could soon be on European roads.
An EU-financed research project is looking at inexpensive ways of getting vehicles to travel in a 'platoon' on Europe's motorways.
Each road train could include up to eight separate vehicles - cars, buses and trucks will be mixed in each one.
The EU hopes to cut fuel consumption, ... |
Fort Hood suspect 'is paralysed'
2009 11 16
The US Army psychiatrist accused of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood is paralysed, his lawyer says. Mr Galligan said he was not pleased that his client had been charged by military authorities while he was in hospital, without his lawyers present. |
Mukasey: ‘very high’ risk of attack over NYC 9/11 trial
2009 11 16
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said today that it is highly likely that terrorists will attack New York City as a consequence of the Obama administration's decision to send five alleged Sept. 11 plotters there for trial in federal court.
During a question and answer period following a speech to a conservative legal group, Mukasey was asked about the possibility that ... |
Italian MEP on Bilderberg and Trilateral nominations for EU President and foreign minister (Video)
2009 11 15
Mario Borghezio, Lega Nord (ITALY), Member of the European Parliament with the group 'Europe of Freedom and Democracy', questions the nominations of Bilderberg and Trilateral attendees for the posts of EU President and EU foreign minister. European Parliament, Brussels, 11.11.2009
Masonic Influence in the EU
Buttiglione 'outs' his EU successor as a Freemason |
Population Reduction: Globalist Endgame Begins?
2009 11 14
On October 30th,”2009 editors of local papers in Kyiv, Ukraine received a flood of phone calls from citizens reporting low flying aircraft spraying an unknown aerosolized substance over L’viv, Ternopil and other cities. On October 27th”the Ukrainian media broke the story that on October 26th”in Ternopil an unknown flu had killed seven people , and that over the past few ... |
The Vatican joins the search for alien life
2009 11 13
The Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding its first ever conference on alien life, the discovery of which would have profound implications for the Catholic Church. "This does not conflict with our faith, because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God." |
Signature of consciousness captured in brain scans
2009 11 13
A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes.
It turns out that there is a similar pattern of neural activity each time we become conscious of the same picture, but not if we process information from the image unconsciously. These contrasting patterns of activity ... |
Contact lenses to get built-in virtual graphics
2009 11 13
A contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device.
Realising that display size is increasingly a constraint in mobile devices, Babak Parviz at the University of Washington, in Seattle, hit on the ... |
NASA on crusade to debunk 2012 apocalypse myths
2009 11 13
The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie. The latest big screen offering from Sony Picture, "2012," arrives in theaters on Friday, with a 200-million-dollar production about the end of the world supposedly ... |
War With Iran? America's Titanic Rushes The Iceberg
2009 11 13
Admiral Michael Mullen oddly asserted that Iran was indeed an "existential threat" to Israel (nice of the Israelis to have provided that sound bite), that he was open to a US attack on Iran (which is no threat whatsoever to the US) to forestall that supposed danger to Israel, and that the attack "would also be incredibly destabilizing." |
Justice Dept. Requested News Site's Visitor Lists
2009 11 13
In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.
The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized ... |
IBM Internal Document Outlines Knowledge of Planned Pandemic With 100% Certainty
2009 11 12
“Services & Global Procurement pan IOT Europe, Pandemic Plan Overview,”an official inter-departmental document was distributed to upper-level management of IBM, France in 2006. Disclosed in this secret document was the prediction of a “planned” pandemic described as having a “100% chance of occurring within the next 5 years.” |
Talking Blues: Gitmo Gets Harsher Under "Progressive" Rule
2009 11 12
Talk is cheap; actions speak volumes. And it seems Barack Obama is compiling quite a volume for himself at America's flagship concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. As Andrew Wander reports, conditions for prisoners at Gitmo have grown worse since Obama took office: Guantanamo conditions 'deteriorate'. |
CAMPS: People Dying to Get In?
2009 11 12
"Red Cross has concerns about displacement camps":
"Camps for people uprooted by natural disasters or armed conflict inside their own country can stir envy among locals and become a recruiting ground for armed groups, the International Committee of the Red Cross warns.
In many cases displaced people are better housed in towns and villages, the ICRC said in a 22-page report released ... |
Washington sniper executed
2009 11 12
The mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 in the Washington, D.C., region has been executed.
John Allen Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia, confirmed prison spokesman Larry Traylor.
Muhammad had no final words, Traylor said, adding he didn't hear Muhammad utter a word the entire time.
An undated photo from the Virginia ... |
Classroom as Parliament and the Death of the Adult
2009 11 11
As children are treated as mini-grown-ups whose opinion must be heard on everything from the content of the curriculum to the attributes of their teachers, education becomes viewed as a place where political debates can and should take place. Both education and the relationship between children and adults can safely be said to be in a state of crisis. |
Scientists Use Laser To Give False Memories to Flies
2009 11 11
It’s not enough that we swat flies or lure them to get stuck on glued paper, now we are also writing false memories into their brains.
A team of neuroscientists at the University of Oxford have discovered a way to trigger behavior in flies by selectively modifying neurons in their brain and stimulating them with a laser in order to simulate ... |
Caesar rises: several millennia's artefacts from the bed of the Rhone
2009 11 11
An intrepid team of archaeologists has been diving for 20 years, struggling with poor visibility, strong currents and flipper-nibbling bullhead catfish to bring up the 500 or so objects on displayed. And then they brought up the most extraordinary buried treasure of all: a bust of Julius Caesar. |
'Something may come through' dimensional 'doors: CERN
2009 11 11
A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or "unknown unknowns" - for instance "an extra dimension".
"Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it," said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, briefing reporters ... |
Thinking negatively can boost your memory, study finds
2009 11 11
Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory. The study, authored by psychology professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales, showed that people in a negative mood were more critical of, and paid more attention ... |
Nobel Peace Laureate Obama Will Send 40K More Troops To War
2009 11 11
Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama has decided to send close to 40,000 more troops into Afghanistan over the course of 2010, according to insiders. "Informed sources tell CBS news he intends to give General McCrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for," the network reported Monday night. According to the report, Obama has decided to ... |
Court blames three EU states for wasted billions
2009 11 11
Spain, Italy and Portugal are responsible for the bulk of the financial errors detected by European auditors in the field of regional policy, where some €2.7 billion should not have been paid out in 2008.
The European Court of Auditors on Tuesday was for the 15th year in a row unable to sign off the EU accounts, due to a high ... |
The Fight over the Future of Food
2009 11 11
Ed comment: "GM Crops and Monsanto, our only hope"
At first glance, Giuseppe Oglio's farm near Milan looks like it's suffering from neglect. Weeds run rampant amid the rice fields and clover grows unchecked around his millet crop.
Oglio, a third generation farmer eschews modern farming techniques -- chemicals, fertilizers, heavy machinery -- in favor of a purely natural approach. It is ... |
1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth
2009 11 10
A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament ... |
Health Insurance Insider: 'They Dump the Sick'
2009 11 10
Frustrated Americans have long complained that their insurance companies valued the all-mighty buck over their health care. Today, a retired insurance executive confirmed their suspicions, arguing that the industry that once employed him regularly rips off its policyholders. |
Our Evolving Solar System: Plasma, Polar Reversals, and 2012
2009 11 09
It seems likely that the increase in this cosmic energy does have some role to play in influencing climate, but it may be one of many contributing factors, rather than a sole cause. Dmitriev himself points out that planetary changes are complex affairs with many interdependent factors. |
Did Obama Just Convict the Suspected Fort Hood Shooter?
2009 11 09
President Obama began his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday with these words: "This past Thursday, on a clear Texas afternoon, an Army psychiatrist walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, and began shooting his fellow soldiers."
Did the president, speaking directly about the man suspected in the killings, prejudice any jury that might be called to hear the case? ... |
Stretching Hard: They've Linked Alleged Fort Hood Shooter to 9/11
2009 11 09
The alleged Fort Hood shooter apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.
Whether the Fort Hood shooter associated with the hijackers is something the FBI will probably look into, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
The ... |
Lady Gaga, the Illuminati Puppet – Part 2
2009 11 09
The name “Lady Gaga” was taken from the Queen video Radio Gaga, in which many scenes were taken from the movie Metropolis. This movie is known for its highly occult themes (Black Magic, sacrifices to the pagan god Moloch, mind control, the whore of Babylon) and is very often referred to in the music industry. |
Obama agrees to recognize Palestine's statehood
2009 11 09
US President Barack Obama in a secret meeting with Palestinian officials has agreed to recognize Palestine's statehood, Israeli media outlets report.
The Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration over US recognition of an independent Palestinian state, Israeli news website, Haaretz, reported in Sunday.
Tel Aviv is concerned about the possibility of ... |
Goldman Sachs boss says banks do "God's work"
2009 11 09
Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaks during a panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 23, 2009.
Goldman Sachs behind every market crash since 1920s
The chief executive of Goldman Sachs, which has attracted widespread media attention over the size of its staff bonuses, believes banks serve a social purpose and are doing "God's work."
In ... |
'I will kill 10 of these people for each IED we find'
2009 11 09
Guardian photographer Sean Smith documents the methods used by Afghan National police in the arrest and questioning of a group of Pashtuns after an insurgent bomb went off in Paktia province, Afghanistan. The incident was filmed while Smith's was embedded with Nato forces in June 2009 |
"me.exe": Mind Hacking, the Next Tech Frontier
2009 11 08
There is no doubt that brain-computer interfaces will arrive - because they're already here, in simple forms, and we'll have movie-style mind links within a decade at most. |
Focusing on Fort Hood Killer's Beliefs Is an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the Massacre
2009 11 08
That alleged killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim is not enough to explain the attacks.
It's hard to pinpoint what's the most shocking thing about Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan's shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas.
Hasan, left.
I'll start with this: There's nothing all that groundbreaking about it. It happens all the time, it's just that we're a ... |
Texas Gov. Rick Perry: “There Were Three Shooters” (Video)
2009 11 08
Texas Gov. Rick Perry comments on the Ft. Hood shooting, noting that “there were three shooters”.
Video from: YouTube.com
Fort Hood Shooter Information Not Adding Up
From: InfoWars.com
November 6, 2009
What happened Thursday November 5, 2009 was a tragedy. Gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly snapped and went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, killing at least 12 ... |
China's 'weather modification' works like magic
2009 11 08
Beijing transformed by clear blue skies after massive cloud seeding operation.
The Chinese air force claimed today that the biggest weather modification operation in the country's history cleared the skies over Tiananmen Square just in time for the National Day parade.
I write this post under gorgeously azure skies. Instead of the dull haze I have grown used to in Beijing over ... |
Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
2009 11 08
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to ... |
Whoops! Mexican mayor announces death of his arch nemesis... hours BEFORE his body was found
2009 11 07
A Mexican mayor has sparked fury by announcing the death of a notorious drugs baron - hours before the body was found and two days before it was identified! When questioned about whether he knew anything about his opponent's death, Fernandez said: 'Sometimes there are coincidences in life. It's better to look at it this way.' |
Hey hey, we're the monkeys
2009 11 06
Write about what you know, they say, except what I don't know is much more interesting. So what am I supposed to do? For instance. Lately I've been less impressed by the fact it's only three years till the end of the Mayan's Fifth Sun than that it's been eleven since the final episode of Seinfeld. Or eight months since ... |
Fox hosts want ’special screenings’ for Muslims in military
2009 11 06
In the wake of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood by a military psychiatrist of Middle Eastern lineage, the hosts at Fox News have begun suggesting that all Muslims in the military should be treated as potential threats. |
Italian judge convicts 23 Americans in CIA renditions
2009 11 06
Landmark case revolved around 2003 kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, who was grabbed off a street in Milan, then transferred to U.S. bases in Italy and Germany.
An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in ... |
Israel rejects U.N. assembly vote on Gaza war
2009 11 06
Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities."
A Palestinian girl sleeps in front of a house, destroyed during the three-week offensive Israel launched last December, in the northern Gaza Strip October 16, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
In ... |
Two Israelis Arrested for Organ Trafficking
2009 11 06
Sami Shem-Tov and Dmitry Orenstein allegedly made tens of thousands of dollars for each time they mediated between organ seller, buyer. Police know of at least 10 Israelis who agreed to donate kidney due to financial difficulties. Two Jerusalem residents have been arrested on suspicion of organ trafficking in an affair cleared for publication on Thursday. The police know of ... |
What's really in that burger? E.coli and chicken feces both allowed by USDA
2009 11 06
There are 14 billion hamburgers consumed each year in the United States alone. The people who eat those burgers, though, have little knowledge of what's actually in them. Current USDA regulations, for example, openly allow beef contaminated with E. coli to be repackaged, cooked and sold as ready-to-eat hamburgers. This simple fact would shock most consumers if they knew about ... |
The rise of Japan’s 'girlie man' generation
2009 11 06
Yasuo Takeuchi makes an improbable radical. Skinny, wearing jeans, a striped sports shirt and a baby blue cardigan, he is fidgety and talks in a near whisper. He is 33, works for a major publisher in Tokyo and inspired a label now applied to a new generation of Japanese men. He is the archetypal soshokukei danshi, “herbivorous male” or Ojo-man ... |
Shootings at Texas Base Kill at Least 12; Dozens Hurt
2009 11 05
At least 12 people were killed and 31 wounded Thursday afternoon in a shooting at a military installation in Fort Hood, Texas, according to military spokesmen. Lt. General Bob Cone said in Texas that the shooter was an Army soldier who opened fire in a “readiness facility.” Lt. Gen. Cone confirmed that the shooter had been killed. Two other Army ... |
Microbiologist alleges Baxter "swine flu" vaccine is a bioweapon - Developed in Ukraine
2009 11 05
Today, the MSM are not talking about this case any more. Yesterday, they wanted us to believe that Joseph Moshe was a nutcase and a terrorist, arrested for threatening to bomb the White House. Interesting detail about his arrest (the “Westwood standoff”) was that he seemed to be immune to the 5 cans of tear gas and 5 gallons of ... |
Who is Joseph Moshe?
2009 11 05
Joseph Moshe was detained after an 8 hour standoff. The official story is that he had made “threats against the White House”, yet the story quickly died in the MSM. In fact, if you Google his name, you don’t find one single MSM report on the first page. That’s Odd because it was covered for the full ... |
Martial Law Declared In Ukraine Over Mystery Epidemic
2009 11 05
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has all but declared martial law in the country as he announced yesterday that the National Security and Defense Council will become the supreme ruling authority in the wake of a mystery epidemic sweeping the country. Yushchenko has made high ranking health ministers members of the NSDC, a government body consisting of the president himself, the ... |
Is Membership for Catholics in Freemasonry Really 'Prohibited'?
2009 11 05
Comment & Update: This article was first published in our members section over a year ago. The debate over Membership for Catholics in Freemasonry have surfaced again considering the recent article: Masonic Lodge in Italy appoints Catholic priest as chaplain, claims "openness" to Catholic Church.
I found this interesting article over at catholickey.org, written by Bishop Robert W. Finn, entitled "Membership ... |
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