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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
various links and websites | 01-31-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe

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http://redgirlrising.blogdns.net/ayersobama-connection-cnns-cooper-not-happy/

Ayers/Obama Connection - CNN’s Cooper Not Happy

Watch the CNN video here. It’s on YouTube, so let’s hope it stays there for a little while.

Watch it on Popmodal and don’t worry about it getting removed!

I knew CNN would bury it. Did you see Anderson Cooper at the end? He looked like someone had kicked him in the vagina.

 
The New Joe Isuzu...
 

DO NOT MISS THIS MOCKING ON YOUTUBE....USING STICK FIGURES, EVEN CHILDREN CAN UNDERSTAND IT

Odinga, his cousin -

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1P_P8lBCsE

Sarah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvROBLortBQ


9,261 posted on 10/07/2008 2:32:46 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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Michelle Obama's Fearful Vision

Obama counts on massive support from 4million new voters

Why Elite Women Hate Palin

It's as though Palin were an average girl from their boarding school class--or, frankly, from the public school down the road--who unexpectedly won a big prize. "Why not me?" is the subtext...
 
She gets close, but misses the mark a little.

Sarah did it, without the trappings of NOW, self-absorption, "feminism," and abortion. And they loathe her for that.

Dems hope Singlaub is McCain’s Ayers

We're Not Headed for a Depression: No, this isn't the crisis that kills global capitalism.

Who says you can't just make stuff up?


9,262 posted on 10/07/2008 2:52:36 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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“Space rock” reveals life’s origins

For more than 150 years, scientists have known that the most basic building blocks of life - chains of amino acid molecules and the proteins they form - almost always have the unusual characteristic of being overwhelmingly “left-handed.”
 

Fingers Point To Rendell


9,263 posted on 10/07/2008 4:22:27 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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At Two Minutes to Midnight, Sheer Madness

When the situation became hopeless in 1945 Germany, Hitler and his monsters retreated to his fuhrerbunker, it said that in their last days any semblance of decency and morality was recklessly abandoned. Europe's political elites remind me of these desperate, bankrupt zombies,  naked and screwing everybody. Strange metaphor I know but it came to mind when reading an email I received from Tomas Kierstein describing the disastrous disintegration of the basic fabric of Danish society (and many European countries).  Tomas Kierstein is vice-chairman of The Danish Association (in Danish: Den Danske Forening  - introduction in English) He wrote me after viewing my video interviews with Lars Hedegaard parts I(here) and II (here).

His account is frightening but less so than Hedegaard's mystification with America's inexplicable and almost deliberate denial,  willful ignorance of  the creeping sharia and stealth jihad descending  over our great nation. At least, Hedegaard insisted, "we know what is happening in our country".[paraphrasing]

Just this week in France Nicolas Sarkozy sent mounted police to patrol worst Paris schools a bottle of acid being thrown at teachers last week. Muslim youth gang warfare is on the rise as battles between the "immigrants"  take place over anything, especially drug deals and territorial disputes:

Earlier this month a man was shot dead in the area, with another seriously wounded. On September 15th two youths were stabbed. The most high-profile attack came in June when a Jewish teenager was left in a coma after being beaten with metal bars by anti-Semitic youth.

Further, the Dutch City of Gouda is being terrorized by Muslim Jihadis, Police And Government Officials Cowed Into Dhimmitude (Pipeline news - WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ)

Dutch police are refusing to take action to quell the ongoing and increasing campaign of violence and intimidation being carried out by gangs of Moroccan Muslims in the city of Gouda. Rather than acting to halt the attacks against innocent citizens the police are ignoring the mounting terror, suggesting that nothing is out of order. "A police officer was knifed this weekend in Gouda. As well, journalists continue to be attacked. But the municipality continues to claim that all is quiet. (hat tip yid with lid)

Here is an excerpt from Kierstein's Report from Denmark:

Lars was telling you about the daily shootings and riot-like conditions in Copenhagen as well as Aarhus. I live close to the latter and, as a result of working as a doorman there for more than a decade (1989-2000), I still have a number of contacts at street level. That makes me well informed as to the activities, strengths and developments of the various groups participating in what could easily be described as the prelude to low intensity civil war.

I must say that I wholeheartedly agree with Lars’ view of the situation. The authorities are caught between a rock and a hard place; between their own actions (or lack of action) and their ideological rhetoric during the past three decades, and the reality which is now evident.

Let me fill you in on a bit of history:
The Danish Association (DDF) was established as early as 1987, thus being the first official group protesting against mass immigration of Muslims. During the early years we where subject to a massive campaign of defamation, in which the authorities/politicians took part:

1) Our meetings where attacked by activists from the extreme left. I remember a particular meeting in Aarhus in 1993, where the predominantly elderly members where showered with empty beer bottles and spat on by protesters, who had gathered at the entrance of the Velodrome, where the meeting was taking place.

The police was only present in small numbers, and the officers where reluctant to take any firm action against those throwing missiles at us. One of them apologised, and hinted that their leaders, one of which was a known Social Democrat, had given the protection of our constitutional rights the lowest possible priority.

2) The Association was routinely mentioned in such a manner as to imply that we where Fascist or indeed Nazis. That occurred notwithstanding the fact that ex-members of the Danish Resistance during the Nazi occupation were numerous among the founding members of DDF.

Among them was an old lady (not a Jew herself) whom had actually lived underground in Berlin 1943-44, acting on behalf of the Chief Rabbi of Denmark, whom she knew. She provided food for Danish Jews in hiding that had been caught by the outbreak of war while visiting German relatives. Our then chairman Dr. Sune Dalgaard had been a prisoner of the Gestapo.

The media where willing participants in these campaigns against us, which forced us to engage in more than 20 libel cases, all of which lead to us being vindicated. The strategy was one of legal attrition in the hope that we would collapse and finally shut up. Our legal consultant and also former Chairman, Professor of Law Ole Hasselbalch did not collapse, but pulled us through. In the process, he was literally on the brink of working himself to death.

While this was going on, the authorities allowed more than 200,000 Muslims to enter a country with a native population of around 5 million. They ignored all warnings, and met any and all factual and statistic arguments with sheer ideological rhetoric and with the defamation strategy already mentioned. This was combined with a nauseatingly self-righteous use of the platitude of "humanism" as a magical formula to separate the “good” from the “evil”.

Last year, when we where celebrating our 20th anniversary, we summed up everything we had predicted and could demonstrate that every single prediction has come true, if not been surpassed by reality.

That is why our politicians, our mainstream media and the influential professional humanists (some earning more than US $ 200,000 a year as do-gooders) are now in trouble. In order to react sensibly to what is happening, they would be forced to admit that they had not only been wrong, but had stubbornly persisted in their policy of open borders, while deliberately and arrogantly dismissing the massive and desperate warnings from various people, whom they have all treated worse than the dirt underneath their shoes.

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The future looks dire. Please do everything to warn against a similar development in the US, and please help Lars and other Europeans in their efforts. 

When (no longer if) the crap really hits the fan here, you will not have enough marines to patrol 1% of the conflict areas in Europe. Think about Iraq times 30 and populated by a far more well educated population, driven by desperation. 

On the other hand, if Europe becomes a failed Continent, you don’t have to consider whether or not to intervene. At that point you will simply not have the money to support your military efforts anymore, as both the Chinese and your domestic economies, which are heavily tied to each other and the European market, will probably collapse – as more than half a billion of what used to be among the wealthiest consumers in the World will leave the World economy and enter the abyss of perpetual hostilities.

It is two minutes to midnight!


9,264 posted on 10/07/2008 4:27:26 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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McCain linked to private group in Iran-Contra case

 Intersting how the AP titles (twists) the article: “McCain linked to private group”. Remember the article on Ayers that didn’t “link” Obama to a terrorist but “linked” Palin’s truth of same to “racism”? Not even a hint of journalistic objectivity.

Video Footage/Overseas' Interference: Palestinian Phone Bank Established For OBAMA (YouTube)

Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya [a $1,000 cheque for George Obama....] A look into the future under the dictatorship of The One.

Gotcha Questions For Katie And Her Colleagues (The MSM And Red State America Alert)

The Bailaholics

 Tombstone, Ariz., has nothing on Washington, D.C. Friday's financial OK Corral took place when federal politicians had a standoff over the mother of all bailout bills. Bullets called ballots were fired from both congressional houses and the White House. And when the smoke cleared, the bad guys appeared: Bush, Paulson, Barney Frank, Pelosi, Dodd and most of the other members of the House and the Senate, including Obama and even McCain.

The truth is most members of Congress voted to pass the bill but don't have a clue what is in this 500-plus-page legislation, which was birthed in the White House just two weeks ago as an infant of only three pages. Then it was voted down at the Capitol a week later in its adolescent-sized 100 pages. And of course, in good bureaucratic fashion, it met the criteria to be mature when it was more than five times that size and packed with governmental goodies. And the president signed it just an hour after receiving it from Capitol Hill Friday. I guess that speed-reading course paid off.

In the fine print, inserted between the lines of that 500-plus-page bill, are loads of fiscal additives and more financial toxic relief. H.R. 1424 -- the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which now has been signed into law -- officially includes more than $112 billion in political hors d'oeuvres and pork-barrel teasers and sweeteners that have absolutely no direct relation to the Wall Street bailout but were included to bribe congressional naysayers and others to get on the greed train:

--$6 million in tax breaks for wooden-arrow manufacturers in Oregon.

--$148 million in tax breaks for wool-producing companies.

--$128 million in tax breaks for the manufacturers of car-racing tracks.

--$10 million in tax breaks for small television and film producers.

--$223 million in tax breaks for Alaskan fishermen.

--$33 million in tax breaks for corporations operating in American Samoa.

--$192 million in tax breaks for rum producers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

What the &$=/?! And that's just a drop in the bailout bucket. And we the taxpayers are just supposed to sit back and take it in the arrears?

Chinese counterfeit chips causing military hardware crashes [Clinton-era laws: off-the-shelf OK]

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Read What Californians Are Saying to Hallmark About Their "same-sex couple" Cards

Robot Suit To Help People Walk


9,265 posted on 10/07/2008 4:54:09 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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SARAH PALIN DRAWING HUGE CROWDS ALL ACROSS AMERICA

Petroleum News organization publishes book about Sarah Palin

Weather Underground Documentary Counters MSM Claim That Ayers Merely a Benign '60s Radical'

Thomas Sowell: The Real Obama (“past associations”)

EDITORIAL: The mortgage scandal roots

'RESCUE' REWARDS HOUSING HUSTLERS (Bwaney Fwank loves ACORNS--titter)

New Deal Prolonged Depression by Seven Years

Voter-Fraud Chaos

 
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Friend or Foe? Tough to Tell-we need new approach to counter small vessel threat on our waterways

Marine Commander Recalls Beirut Bombing--25 Years Later: We Came in Peace


9,266 posted on 10/07/2008 6:13:19 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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The McCain Campaign and the Financial Crisis

IMPORTANT: Obama video "KEATING ECONOMICS: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis"

McCain revisiting Keating 5 banking scandal again.

It's a pretty balanced article, especially for the AP:

The irony of the Keating case is that McCain received the mildest ethics committee rebuke of the five senators in 1991, and was kept as a defendant because he was the only Republican. The special counsel in the case had recommended that McCain and one of the Democrats be dropped as defendants. But Democrats, who controlled the Senate, refused to take all the heat for the scandal and all five remained in the case to the end.

Media Omission: Lehman CEO Contributed Heavily to Democrats

Palin is no rube; she deserves media's respect

Live(streaming) Sarah Palin Rally in JAX

How to Ruin the U.S. Economy

1960s Terrorist - Hyperbolic Arguments

Post 1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2099535/posts
The 1960s Terrorist Threat

Post 2

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2099546/posts
1960s Terrorist - Hyperbolic Arguments

Post 3

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2099571/posts
The U.S. Courts and 1960s Terrorism

Newsweek: Obama Just like Lincoln?

It's Easy AND Illegal for a Foreigner to Donate to Obama

Planting Seeds of Disaster--ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party (& Subprime Crisis!)

Best written piece I've read on the whole subprime scandal. Normally business data-heavy stories give me a headache, but even a Joe Six Pack Wal-Mart shopping rube like me was able to comprehend. Good job by Kurtz.
 

Sit Down For This One: CNN Throws Obama Overboard on Ayers

There are some important personal and monetary relationships in this story. Obama’s claim that it was “a guy who lived in the neighborhood” is an outright lie.

Not only did he serve on two boards, Obama gave grants to Ayer’s wife, and it links us back into the Rev Wright liason with a grant going to him as well.

This investigative reporter opened up a huge can of worms for Obama here.

What makes me angry is the way the relationship with Ayers is being spun by everybody in the media; even Fox News:
The Weather Underground was NOT an anti-Vietnam war group (they used the war as a rallying issue), instead they were communist revolutionaries, trying to destabilize the country and bring about the overthrow of the government.


9,267 posted on 10/07/2008 7:54:51 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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A word of caution about tonight’s town hall debate

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 7, 2008 11:00 AM

Here we go again. Tonight’s second presidential debate will be moderated by another left-leaning journalist, Tom Brokaw. More significantly, the format will be a town hall. Brokaw will pick the questions from a pre-selected pool. “Tuesday’s match-up at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., will be moderated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw, with the questions to be culled from a group of 100 to 150 uncommitted likely voters in the audience and another one-third to come via the Internet. The Gallup Organization — as in past debates like this — has the job of making sure the questioners reflect the demographic makeup of the nation. Brokaw selects the questions to ask from written queries submitted prior to the debate, according to the ‘contract.’”

Anyone remember the last time a liberal media outlet invited “undecided” citizen questioners to participate in a presidential campaign debate?

Hint: CNN/YouTube/plant debacle.

Refresher:

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Concerned Young Undecided Person “Journey” = John Edwards supporter “Journey”

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Concerned Undecided Log Cabin Republican supporter David Cercone = Obama supporter David Cercone

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Concerned Undecided Mom LeeAnn Anderson = Activist for the John Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers union LeeAnn Anderson

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Concerned Undecided Gay Military Retiree Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr = Hillary/Kerry supporter and anti-”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” activist Keith H. Kerr

Brokaw and his minions better be making damned sure there isn’t a single plant among its “undecided” questioner pool.

On a related note: It would be wise to dramatically lower your expectations of this debate. The town hall format lends itself to the worst pander-style, personal sob story politicking.

Reader David sends a good prediction:

My prediction is that the most prominent topic covered tonight, of course, will be the one nobody has been talking about - except Obama in the last week - which is healthcare.

Yep, it’s going to be a bunch of “real people” whose moms are sick and can’t get health care, yada-yada-yada, “What are you going to do for me?”-type questions.

One caller this morning did offer Bill Bennett a chance for McCain to attack Obama on health care, because his “universal coverage” plan includes insuring illegal immigrants and Gitmo detainees. But you and I both know, McCain will not go there.

Exactly.

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Related: Beware of Ponytail Guy — how townhall debates can go very wrong.

 
DAVE HARDY on Obama and the Second Amendment: "As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama must demonstrate executive experience, but he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation, a billion dollar tax-exempt organization. He has one obvious reason: during his time as director, Joyce Foundation spent millions creating and supporting anti-gun organizations." But there's more.
 
How to respond to bogus charges of racism, illustrated. I agree that she handled this well.
 

AS PALIN BRINGS UP AYERS, OBAMA BRINGS UP KEATING. But McCain's role in the Keating Five affair is a bit overstated. Here's what we wrote about it in The Appearance of Impropriety, back in 1997 when thoughts of the current election were rather far away:

The televised "Keating Five" senate ethics hearings focused on the substantial contributions S&L high-roller Charles Keating had arranged for five senators' reelection campaigns, and the pressures the senators had exerted on federal regulators on behalf of Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan. Special Counsel Robert S. Bennett argued in his opening statement that the committee should judge the senators' conduct under the "appearance standard."

Bennett was sensitive to the criticism that improper appearances are uniquely in the eye of the beholder. So hea rticulated the folowing "appearance" principle: "A senator should not engage in conduct that would appear to be improper to a resonable nonpartisan, fully informed person." This was an artful formulation. Yet, by design, the majority and minority members of the Senate Ethics Committee are partisans -- a truth they confirmed by including Senators John Glenn and John McCain in their public hearings despite Special Counsel Bennett's contrary recommendation. The two senators had played relatively minor roles in the Keating affair. Senator McCain was a Republican, however, and without him the televised hearing would have given the appearance that Democrats were responsible for the S&L crisis. Senator Glenn's presence, in turn, was necessary to provide the appearance of evenhandedness in reaching out for Senator McCain.

I eagerly await the hearings on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's influence on current members of Congress. . .


9,268 posted on 10/07/2008 8:28:12 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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McCain Must Wake Up and Quit Pussyfooting Around

Focus, People: A life-or-death election

Palin Tells The Truth - Washington Establishment Beware

Man shot three times [with BB gun] in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt "shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt. "

I recall someone here  suggesting that a racial incident could be the tipping point in this election.
 

Flashback: Barack Obama Supports Driver's Licenses For Illegal Aliens!

State officials search ACORN office in voter registration fraud probe

Red flags on voter records may lead to nothing (Ohio Fraud--Checking ID, But No Action Taken)

Crime Passionel (Mark Steyn)

 Who is this man on course to be 44th president? Apparently, it's not just impolite but racist to ask. As notorious white supremacist Thomas Sowell puts it:

But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.

Can the industrial-strength Doris Day fuzzy filter the media are filming him through be penetrated? Time is running out, McCain seems disinclined to do it, and (as Rich says) his lack of an economic message will make the point moot.

The Rich Pay Their Fair Share

The Demoralization of America- Yuri Bezmenov. Prophecy to Reality.


9,269 posted on 10/07/2008 11:06:05 AM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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Obama, Abortion, The Catholic Vote

Of course, this is not simply about the “Catholic” vote - pro-lifers come from all religious backgrounds and even from secular-humanist philosophies. But over the past few days several Catholic readers have either asked me for advice on how to address this issue. One reader has a friend who wore an Obama shirt to Mass, right after Obama told his followers to “get in their faces,” and then was upset when many were offended. Hey, he got right in Jesus’s face, at communion. Obama would be proud, right?

That fellow was offended, and “hurt” btw, when some co-parishioners “got into his face” after mass. Apparently getting “in ones face” is only okay for the Obama side. It figures.

My biggest advice: well, pray for your friends! I wrote: Finally, you could suggest to him that while he is praying, that he pray in all humility for the grace to know God’s will, and to be open to it in his life. Specifically, what God would have him understand about abortion. Offer to make that prayer in good faith both for him and for yourself. And ask him to pray for your intentions. There is no better way to bring about charity than to ask someone to pray for you.

Because we are close to the election, and the topic seems to be coming to the fore for many, I’m going to link to several pieces written here in the past, and one piece I wrote over the summer for Pajamas Media, which - perhaps - would be better read this month. If they help, great.

Also, remember that October is the month of the Rosary, and Mary, as Our Lady of Guadalupe is Patroness of The Americas and also Patroness of the Unborn. Ask for her prayers. She is the most powerful prayer-ally you can have.

Pajamas Media: The Catholic Vote and the Counterbalance to Abortion:

The moral calculus does look easy until one considers that war, torture, the death penalty, poverty, racism and even the excesses of capitalism - those evils so well defined in Catholic social teaching, and of concern to Catholics of all political persuasions - are fully present in the act of abortion.

Consider:
War is a struggle between two evolving powers
over who will have dominance; whether just or unjust, it involves the murder of the innocent and the disruption of families. War introduces pain, fire, violence, savagery and torture into societies.

Abortion is a struggle between two evolving powers
over who will have dominance; whether “justified” or not, it involves the murder of the innocent and the disruption of families. A vacuum abortion, saline abortion or a D&C introduces pain, fire and a limb-shredding, relentless violence deep into the very being of a woman’s body, within her very womb. A partial birth abortion, which involves inserting a scissor into the base of the skull of a partially delivered fetus, then suctioning out its brain before fully withdrawing the fetus from the birth canal, embodies the sort of savagery and real torture which is the most abhorrent part of any war.

The Death Penalty
is a legal execution of an individual judged guilty of heinous acts against the larger society; convicts are sometimes discovered to have been innocent of the charges made against them only after their lives have been taken. Many consider even the most “humane” means of execution to be cruel and inhuman, and even when the convict is guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, it may be well-argued that killing a murderer does not bring back the victim, and that “two wrongs do not make a right.”

In an abortion,
the fetus is as subject to the death penalty as anyone ever so ordered by a jury; the fetus is always innocent. Even the most “humane” means of abortion - whatever that might be - involves cruel and inhuman measures. And even if the fetus - in its innocence - is the product of a violent and “guilty” conception, it may be well-argued that one merciless violation cannot be healed by a second - equally merciless - violation, and that “two wrongs do not make a right.”

The social/political view: Failing to love is killing Europe

Trying to be open: Who Told You You Were Naked?

On Euthanasia (if you are arguing it): A Tsunami Cannot Be Drawn in Pastels

Andrea Shea King on the abortion she did not have

Related:
No Greater Love
Zeke lived 1/2 hour; the love lives on
The Coming of Love, And Nothing Like It
Where Your Treasure is There Will Your Heart Be, Part I
Where Your Treasure is, Part II

by TheAnchoress @ 12:19 pm. Filed under Barack Obama, Catholicism, Culture of Life/Death, Election 2008, Euthanasia, Faith, Free Speech?

9,270 posted on 10/07/2008 12:06:35 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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ENERGY LESSONS from the 1970s. "As a rule, it’s not a good idea to revive anything from the 1970s. But this debate is the exception." Plus this:

Today about 20 percent of electricity in America is generated by nuclear power, which is about 20 times the contribution from solar and wind power. Nuclear power also costs less, according to Gilbert Metcalf, an economist at Tufts University. After estimating the costs and factoring out the hefty tax breaks for different forms of low-carbon energy, he estimates that new nuclear plants could produce electricity more cheaply than windmills, solar power or “clean coal” plants.

More nukes, please. They're greenhouse-friendly! Instead, we've gotten the opposite: "By scaring people about the tiny levels of radiation emitted during the normal operation of a nuclear plant, Mr. Tucker says, greens have effectively encouraged the construction of coal plants that actually release more radiation because of the traces of uranium in coal dust."

9,271 posted on 10/07/2008 12:39:26 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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How Obama affect politics in Papua.

I think one of the comments below summed it all up.

"A crusader for West Papua’s right to self-determination? What in the world does this have to do with representing American Samoa in the US Congress?"

What is telling is that there was not one mention of Faleomavaega's trip to Indonesia. And his betrayal of the residents of Papua is startling considering his position.

The story does not end here though. Faleomavaega and Obama will eventually have to come clean.

Not only is it unbecoming, but it is illegal for a Senator and/or Congressman to make promises, negotiate and secure agreements with foreign governments.

The Logan's Act clearly states -

"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both"

Being a Congressman does not give you the right to negotiate on behalf of the US Government - and what was done is Indonesia was criminal.

In an earlier time in our nation's history, people like Faleomavaega and Obama would be in jail - not running for President.

But anyway, don't fret - Im still working on acquiring the information we need to see that Obama never sees the White House. This man is not who he says he is ~ even the Indonesian government knows it.

The United States of America is now considering electing a man the office of President who is not who he says he is and who has conspired with a foreign government to conceal information that is detrimental and that might disqualify him from the office of Presidency.

He must be stopped at all costs.

I know many of you are thinking this is the job of our law enforcement - but who do you think enforces US law overseas? The State Department? The CIA?

Much of our nation's State Department and forces overseas are "in the tank" as well. If you think the USA is divided, imagine how bad our nation's State department is ~ even our nation's DS agents are divided!

Americans need to understand what is at stake and sadly they don't even have a clue.

What can you do to help? You can spread this message to everyone you know. I first reported on "Barry Soetoro" back in Jan of 2007 and was surprised that hardly anyone in the US is aware of who "Barry Soetoro" is.

You can donate and help me. Still today I have been going this completely alone with no help from anyone. When I first started reporting on this story I was called a "liar" and have to date received countless death threats ~ I even had thugs visit me from the US and threaten me ~ but much of what I have reported has now been proven to be true. I've been vindicated. (Corsi's book has covered me and so has Time Magazine) - I dont blog every day but when I do I make sure I have the facts.

Believe me when I say there is more - much more that the American people don't know about Barack Hussein Obama.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia


9,272 posted on 10/07/2008 1:02:00 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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CONFIRMED:Obama LIED about his relationship to Bill Ayers

This is coming down to the wire, people.
 
Get this information out, or lose.

9,273 posted on 10/07/2008 1:23:56 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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Stocks fall hard

To the wire, folks, to the wire.
Choose wisely...

Rush In a Hurry - October 7, 2008

Show Highlight: Name names, Senator McCain. Name Ayers, Wright, Franklin Raines. Forget touting Democrats like Algore for your cabinet. If you do all this, you'll be a bigger hero than you were in Vietnam (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

This campaign is about what kind of country we're going to be in the future, folks. It's serious business, which is why it's so intense. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: "What do Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon."

Gov. Palin has been set free, and McCain is following her lead. She's taking it to Obama on Ayers. Quote: "This is not a man who sees America as you and I do -- as the greatest force for good in the world." Amen! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

APO (Associated Press Obama) takes a falsehood-filled story from a radical left-wing website, and legitimizes it, claiming a link between McCain and the Iran-Contra flap!

Pearl of Wisdom: "This Ayers situation is another example of Barack Obama's morality-optional approach to government. To promote his political career, he was willing to look past Bill Ayers' domestic terrorism. There's no right and wrong for Obama, only things that are advantageous or disadvantageous to him and his career."
» Dr. Thomas Sowell: The Real Obama. Basic Facts

Pundits say the economy is all people care about. They say McCain shouldn't focus on Obama's alliances with the terrorist Ayers, Rev. Wright, Rev. Pfleger, and fraud dealer Tony Rezko. Wrong. It's all tied to the economy. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Obama has locked up all the people who know him best, but his wife has been spotted!

Saturday Night Live ran a skit on Democrats culpability in the mortgage crisis -- a skit they promptly yanked off the web. We have it. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» Watch the Video of the Skit on YouTube: For As Long as NBC Lets It Stay Up
» NB: NBC Scrubs "SNL" Anti-Democrat Bailout Skit From Website
» Planting Seeds of Disaster: ACORN, Barack Obama, the Democratic Party

People shun OJ Simpson. They think he's a murderer. They walk out of rooms when he walks in. They won't golf with him. That's how Obama should've shunned Bill Ayers.

Democrat Bob Beckel, who once paid a hooker with a check that bounced, likens Sarah Palin to a movie murderer to distract from Obama palling around with Ayers.

Pearl of Wisdom: "So far, Obama has labeled Bill Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Sarah Palin, McCain, and me all racist. All those white people in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Ohio who voted for Hillary? They're racist, too. Those are the bitter clingers -- and, of course, if you're registered Republican you might as well be in the KKK."

Video: The Obama youth pledges allegiance to the Lord Most Merciful at school.


9,274 posted on 10/07/2008 1:31:39 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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Soros and the hedge funds (shorts) are out to destroy the financial system. They let Fannie & Freddie infect the banks and investment banks then lined them up to pick them off with shorting and buying credit default swaps (CDS). The companies could sustain short attacks but combined with the CDS - it was too much.

This is an election coup paid for by the hedge funds picking off one company after another.

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html


9,275 posted on 10/07/2008 1:34:22 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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Anderson Cooper On Bill Ayers And His Friend Barack Obama

Also another source for the video was mentioned....

ALSO at Hot Air:

CNN: Obama’s lying about William Ayers

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posted at 7:38 am on October 7, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

You’ll want to double-check the logo at the bottom left corner during this report.  It really is CNN and Anderson Cooper fact-checking Barack Obama’s claims to have barely known William Ayers — and calling it dishonest.  Stanley Kurtz even gets to make an appearance on a network other than Fox for this report (via Dirty Harry’s Place):

Drew Griffin runs down most of the salient points raised by people like Kurtz, David Freddoso, Jerome Corsi, and others. Obama’s admission in a debate that he briefly served on “a board” with Ayers with little contact gets shot down. CNN followed up on Kurtz’ work with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and debunks that notion. They also — amazingly — report on the nature of the grants made by the CAC while Obama ran it to Ayers’ favored schools with radical agendas.

Griffin also tells a somewhat nonplussed Cooper that Obama has lied about his “coming out party” at the home of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in 1995. Obama has said that Alice Palmer arranged the fundraiser and the venue, but Griffin spoke to two people who attended the event, who claim Obama lied. Palmer had nothing to do with that event outside of being invited to it. Obama and Ayers planned the event themselves.

Obama has lied repeatedly about his relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist. He spent years working for Ayers, promoting Ayers’ causes. Even CNN won’t buy the Obama line any longer. Expect John McCain to raise this point tonight in the debate.

60 posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:46:21 PM by Ernest_at_the_Beach
 
If they did their research here at FR they could have found this out months ago.

9,276 posted on 10/07/2008 1:50:50 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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CNN Confirms Ayers planned Obams's coming out party

Here is the connection we need to hammer them with:

Michelle Obama organized a University of Chicago panel about Bill Ayers's crime book in November 1997, just as the battle over the juvenile justice bill was heating up. That panel featured appearances by some of the key figures discussed in Ayers's book, along with Obama himself, who was identified in the press release as "working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system." In effect, then, this public event was a joint Obama-Ayers effort to sink the juvenile justice bill-Obama's decision to plug Ayers's book in the Chicago Tribune the following month was part of the same political effort.

Weekly Standard

 

CNN: Obama’s lying about William Ayers
 
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The Real Obama: Part IV (Sowell on Obama)

McCarthy: Why Won't Obama Talk About Columbia?

THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE: (Version 2.0; a work in progress; dates are approximate)

1981-1983 [William Ayers and Barack Obama meet at Columbia?]

1987 William Ayers links up with Barack Obama in Chicago

1988 Ayers solicits Khalid Al-Mansour to raise money for Obama’s Harvard law School education

1989 Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle.

1993 Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation

1995 Ayers makes Obama Chairman of Annenberg Challenge

1995 Ayers hosts a coffee klatch for Obama’s political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he met Ayers)

2007-2008 The structure of Obama’s presidential campaign increasingly comes to resemble an Ayers-designed national “community organizer matrix” straight out of Maoist theory. This is not merely a presidential “campaign.” Obama’s organization is the first installment of an ongoing movement being paid for with tax-exempt contributions to his campaign, approaching half a billion dollars.

2008 Obama In response to ABC News, Obama tells a national TV audience he was “six years old” when Ayers bombed federal buildings, and they are only casual neighborhood acquaintances. A lie.

Even though we have finally started piecing the puzzle together, we continue to investigate. For example, where in Chicago did Barack Obama live in 1985-1988? Help if you have an address.

Because we are still assembling all of the pieces to the Ayers-Obama puzzle, feel free to submit suggestions, additions to the timeline or other information that you believe may be helpful. We will publish updated/corrected versions

19 posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:44:50 PM by kabar (.)

What's Not to Like About Obama?

Flashback: Chicago ACORN leader Madeleine Talbot arrested - Obama contact storms city council

Reframing gun violence as a public health issue

CHECK OUT BARACK OBAMA'S NAME ON THE BOTTOM

The same Barak Obama who claims he doesn't want to take our guns away?

He's lying about his views on gun control.

What else is Barak Hussein Obama lying about?

‘Palin Power’ Reaches Into Canada, Too

Sarah Palin's parallel universe

 Where’s their proof? I wouldn’t take their word for it unless they have video proof.
 

One Last Chance for McCain

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE #2 LIVE THREAD


9,277 posted on 10/07/2008 2:53:16 PM PDT by backhoe (WHO IS THE REAL OBAMA?)
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A Tree Falls In the Forest

Yesterday in Albuquerque, John McCain delivered an excellent speech that finally made the case that Barack Obama and the Democrats are primarily responsible for the current financial crisis. McCain contrasted his own record, particularly as it related to Fannie and Freddy, with Obama's blank slate. He also accused Obama of a lack of leadership in the current crisis. The guts of McCain's speech related to the economy, but he made his economic points in the context of the broader question, "who is the real Barack Obama?" Again and again, McCain argued, Obama's deeds don't match his words.

If you read our post yesterday, you know that McCain talked about the economy in Albuquerque. You even had the opportunity to watch a ten-minute excerpt from his speech in which he did just that.

But if you rely on the mainstream media for your news, you probably have no idea that McCain gave an important speech on the economy yesterday. Patterico documents the fact that the Los Angeles Times quoted McCain's speech right up to the point where he started talking about the economy. Then without, acknowledging that the economy was in fact the main subject of the speech, the Times jumped to a quote from Barack Obama to the effect that McCain is afraid to talk about the economy.

That's pretty bad, but really not much worse than how most mainstream outlets covered the speech. The Associated Press headlined, "Character attacks emerge in McCain-Obama race." The AP's focus was on the negativity that was engaged in by both campaigns yesterday. In one sentence, the AP did at least acknowledge that McCain had referred to economic issues:

In Albuquerque, N.M., McCain delivered an unusually scathing broadside. He accused Obama of lying about McCain's efforts to regulate the home loan industry. And he suggested Obama is a mysterious figure who cannot be trusted.

But that's it: no discussion of the substance of McCain's speech. Instead, the AP launched into a long, disapproving account of campaign "vitriol," the principal instance being Sarah Palin's references to Bill Ayers. The AP went on to peddle the Democrats' line on past instances of Republican "vitriol:"

Obama, meanwhile, has learned the lessons of Michael Dukakis and John Kerry. Those Democrats lost presidential elections after hesitating to counter hard-hitting and factually dubious attacks on their character and judgment. The shorthand terms for those attacks - "Willie Horton" and "Swiftboating" - have become a call-to-arms for Democratic activists who vow always to return fire with fire.

Actually, as we've pointed out many times, the Swift Boat Vets did a number of ads (seven, I think), only one of which contained facts that were questioned by John Kerry. As for Willie Horton, there were at least three ads or speeches that referred to him, a speech by Al Gore, an ad by the Bush campaign, and an ad by an independent Republican group. None of them contained anything that was "factually dubious." The AP just made that up because they don't like it when Democrats lose Presidential elections.

Like the L.A. Times, the New York Times buried the fact that McCain delivered a powerful speech on the economy, and quoted Obama approvingly:

Mr. Obama scolded his opponent as trying to turn attention away from the economy.

“I cannot imagine anything more important to talk about than the economic crisis,” Mr. Obama said, campaigning in Asheville, N.C. “And the notion that we’d want to brush that aside and engage in the usual political shenanigans and scare tactics that have come to characterize too many political campaigns, I think is not what the American people are looking for.”

If you relied on the New York Times, you would not know that McCain had just delivered a speech on the topic Obama said he was avoiding.

Just another day in the mainstream media.

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Bam's bombin' buddy: Whodat??? part 2

The mainstream media are of course collaborating with Barack Obama in his efforts to downplay his relationship with Bill Ayers, to cooperate with Obama in his efforts to dissociate himself from Ayers and to portray Ayers as a former radical turned respectable. Thus Tom Brokaw referred to Ayers this past Sunday on Meet the Press as an educational reformer.

Sol Stern will have none of it. In "The bomber as school reformer," Stern writes:

Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer. (If you find the metaphor strained, consider that Walter Duranty, the infamous New York Times reporter covering the Soviet Union in the 1930s, did, in fact, depict Stalin as a great land reformer who created happy, productive collective farms.) For instance, at a November 2006 education forum in Caracas, Venezuela, with President Hugo Chávez at his side, Ayers proclaimed his support for “the profound educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chávez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution. . . . I look forward to seeing how you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane.” Ayers concluded his speech by declaring that “Venezuela is poised to offer the world a new model of education—a humanizing and revolutionary model whose twin missions are enlightenment and liberation,” and then, as in days of old, raised his fist and chanted: “Viva Presidente Chávez! Viva la Revolucion Bolivariana! Hasta la Victoria Siempre!”
Stern reminds us that Ayers was a revolutionary driven by hatred of the United States when he was planting bombs in the 1970's and he is a revolutionary driven by hatred of the United States now. The intervening years include the period of his alliance with his young Chicago friend Barack Obama. Stern drily observes: "For the first time in his life, Ayers seems to be observing Democratic Party discipline and won’t be talking until after November 4."

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Wake Up, America [How Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, on bad economic conditions]

Muslims For Obama Organize Vote Drive

My 2 cents?
 
Debates only matter
 
1)- to the chattering classes of talking heads, who use them to promote more chatter
 
2)- if one of the parties makes a big enough impression, good or bad, to be remembered days or weeks later...
 
The only "debate" ( or poll ) that counts is Election Day.
 
On that day, the "swing voters"-- the bleeding idiots who just can't make up their feeble little minds- pick the last candidate who made the best impression on them...
 
...and that is what decides elections.
 
Yes, we are in the hands of fools, ond dupes.
 
Look at Washington...
 
The Anchoress on Worst. Townhall. Ever. "Vodkapundit says McCain won, just barely. He might be right…but I think Obama did nothing good for himself tonight by sounding like a policywonk going-on-80, and failing to bring the charisma or even a modicum of humor. Obama made himself seem like any other politician.

LIVEBLOGGING TONIGHT'S DEBATE: Ann Althouse, Stephen Green (drunkblogging), Brendan Loy, and, of course, the gang at The Corner. Also, Jules Crittenden, Jason Pye, and TPM Election Central. Plus, Exurban League. And, a bunch of milbloggers, and Jacob Lybbert.

UPDATE: Also the folks at Contentions. And Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft.

So is Bob Krumm. And, in Nashville, A.C. Kleinheider. And Dr. Melissa Clouthier.

Buying up mortgages: this entire proposal is on McCain’s website http://www.johnmccain.com and has apparently been there since April. You can find it as Issues>The Economy>Relief For Families>Home Plan. Not only that...
 

Obama's debate gaffe ...FReepers caught it, MSM didn't but I predict Rush will (Vanity!)

PUMA Member Explains Media Strategy to Destroy our Morale

Obama Won't Play Well In The Northeast ["stealth-voting block that will shock"]

 
Obama Throws Maoist Hardliner and Weatherman Pal Under the Bus
 

The Bonnie and Clyde of the 1960s: Bill and Bernadine

 
JAMES TARANTO ON "FACT-CHECKING:" It's opinion journalism thinly disguised as straight reporting.
 

Japan Stock Market Falling off A Cliff

ECB sees crisis of "enormous proportions" as Spain creates mortgage rescue fund

Why Wall Street fears Obama (FLASHBACK: JULY 14, 2008)

ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation

CNN Goes All In On Race(James Carville predicts massive riots if Obama does not win)

  "90% of blacks KNOW as much as we do about Obama - maybe more — and they’re STILL going to vote for him in numbers that reflect not ONLY black racism, but uncaring of his unrevealed past, his revealed missteps, his association with a lot of low life bastards and his unknown agenda”

Of course blacks will vote for Obama no matter what — just as with the first OJ jury; the ones who acquitted him and let him go because they didn’t care

Pollster: Don’t believe the Dem hype

I'm Voting Democrat

Obama and Guns: Two Different Views (John R. Lott, Jr.)

Great meltdowns from little acorns grow...
The Spectator ^ | October 8, 2008 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:32:14 AM by Schnucki

As an example of the deranged reaction to Sarah Palin and the astounding hatred and bile she has provoked, this article by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone is hard to beat. All the Palin smears are gathered together in one foam-flecked scream of rage – not just at Palin, mark you, but most significantly at John Public who supports her, because she

appeals to the low-humming narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning.
What respect for Taibbi's fellow human beings! Showing zero insight into the spitting hatred and vicious characterisation of the American people to which he has just given vent, the author then represents his hero (who he concedes may also be ‘slick’) thus:

The Obama image represents tolerance, intelligence, education, patience with the notion of compromise and negotiation, and a willingness to stare ugly facts right in the face, all qualities we're actually going to need in government if we're going to get out of this huge mess we're in.

Is that so. Here’s what Stanley Kurtz has previously revealed about ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Al Sharpton is the guy in the picture above) with which Obama was so closely connected. in abusing the law by forcing banks to make hundreds of millions of dollars in "subprime" loans to often uncreditworthy poor and minority customers:

One key pioneer of ACORN's subprime-loan shakedown racket was Madeline Talbott - an activist with extensive ties to Barack Obama. She was also in on the ground floor of the disastrous turn in Fannie Mae's mortgage policies. Long the director of Chicago ACORN, Talbott is a specialist in "direct action" - organizers' term for

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk

The Palin Effect

The Sarah Palin show

 

Brutal: Sarah Palin's Record on Aerial Wolf Hunting

  I’m in animal rescue and support hunting. I received this video from some of the more leftist leaning e-mail buddies who are also in animal rescue and I told them to hold on.....I was going to do some research.

It seems that the wolves are only hunted by Fish and Game and/or Wildlife Conservationists that know what they are doing. Your everyday hunter is not allowed to hunt by plane. They use planes because Alaska is hugely vast in size and the snow would prevent any lunatic hunter from ever finding them. The wolves wipe out new caribou calves in huge numbers every year. They are only thinned out to allow moose and caribou young to thrive. This is a necessary act to balance out species due to encroachment and other issues. The leftists still didn’t like the killings. I had some choice words with some of these women who asked to be removed from my cat rescue distribution list. All three of them...

If you love your freedom, assail a hack (heckler at Palin rally was a plant)

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The Crime of the Century: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

 

It’s the lies and the manipulation that are part of the cause of this.

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/601-CONgress-Wake-Up-NOW.html

CONgress: Wake Up NOW

It is time for Congress to lock up the children in their playpen and allow the adults to have a discussion with them regarding solutions to the economic problems we face. It is time for Americans to demand that the children, Ivory Tower Savants and those with clear conflicts of interest who are trying to game Congress and regulators to strip hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars for their own enrichment be locked in their playpen beyond both sight and hearing while adults are admitted to the sacred halls of Congress.

 
The real Dow

The Real DJIA

The real S & P

The real SP 500

 
 

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