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Former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, said “Everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by an establishment that hates Britain”
J D Vance has told the left-wing Tory-Labour Establishment that support for America’s embattled left-wing deep state must end – or else. Vance reiterated this message directly to UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Stalin, in the White House, saying: “There have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British but also affect American technology companies and by extension American citizens”
After the left-wing Democrats lost to Donald Trump in 2016, the American security establishment began to turn the tools and tactics of counterterrorism, counterinsurgency warfare and regime change that it had developed abroad back on to its own people. MI6 and the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-sharing alliance, followed suit. In the UK, the Army’s 77th Brigade, a military intelligence unit tasked with ‘non-lethal psychological warfare’, set up the 77th Brigade Domestic Psyops Team, which began to surveil and report on British citizens, as well as to work with other British government agencies and cooperating with other Five Eyes intelligence services on defending ‘democracy’ against those who refuse to vote Labour, Conservative, Green or LibDem.
US Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Attorney for Children’s Health Defense, filed an antitrust action against members of the BBC lead “Trusted News Initiative” (TNI) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Monroe Division. Case Name: Children’s Health Defense (CHD) et al. v. the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) et al. For colluding with Big Tech to censor publishers of online health and political news. The complaint alleges that as members of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), Defendants colluded with one another and with social media platforms to target and censor rival online news publishers, violating the Sherman antitrust laws and the First Amendment.
Trump, Musk, Kennedy and Vance point out that if MI6 and the left-wing British Establishment don’t want to be treated as an enemy of the United States, they are going to need to retreat from the war they’ve been waging on behalf of Washington’s old regime. That means reigning in their white upper-class Marxist thugs, cutting off support for their left-wing non-state armies of transnational censorship organisations like CCDH, and backing off of legal frameworks like the DSA and the Orwellian ‘Online Safety Act’ that are designed to control information and political discourse across borders. Vance has been hammering this point ever since he threatened during the campaign to withdraw US support from Nato if Europe continues trying to regulate American politics through the DSA, noting that it would be ‘insane that we would support a military alliance [Nato] if that military alliance isn’t going to be pro-free speech’.
Washington’s message to its putative allies is straightforward: end the information war and get the hell out. If they instead ignore these warnings and continue to meddle in America’s domestic political affairs they may soon find that its new sheriff is willing to impose real diplomatic and economic consequences for their continued aggression: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vances-real-message-to-europe-halt-this-secret-war-against-america/
America First Legal (AFL) released new evidence that the U.K.-based pro-censorship organization Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its leadership, including CEO Imran Ahmed, appear to have engaged in coordinated efforts to censor American citizens’ speech and are part of a foreign influence operation to interfere with U.S. elections. The British Labour Party was found to have sent as many as 100 staff to the United States to help campaign for Kamala Harris. Based on this new evidence, AFL has also now formally requested that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate whether CCDH’s U.S. operation and leadership are “agents of a foreign principal” that must comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA): https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-new-evidence-files-formal-complaint-with-the-doj-to-investigate-uk-based-center-for-countering-digital-hate-for-engaging-in-a-foreign-influence-campaign/
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However, Donald Trump has returned to power and is revealing the criminal activity of the British Establishment, in its attempts to stop him from becoming President of the United States.
I think Trump has read the unredacted version of the Mueller report, and this report showing how MI6 attempted to stop him from becoming President by constructing the fiction of the Trump–Russia dossier.
MI6 had to dispose of the Skripals’s because they feared that they wanted to return to Russia and talk about the Steele Dossier, also known as the Trump–Russia dossier. MI6 first tried to stop Trump from becoming President when MI6 agent Christopher Steele met with the FBI’s Peter Strzok in July 2016. During the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, then head of GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief John Brennan personally. CIA Director John Brennan then briefed Senate Minority leader Harry Reid in August 2016 on the Steele dossier. This briefing then led Reid to send FBI Director James Comey a letter demanding an investigation of the collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians. The British manufactured ‘Steele Dossier’ was also a key foundation for the FISA warrant issued to spy on Trump’s close aide Carter Page, in the hope of finding incriminating information, or getting Page to prejudice himself in police interviews by giving statements conflicting with the tapes. After the Skripal incident someone started publishing purloined documents from the British military’s Integrity Initiative, an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, foundations, and military officers engaged in a very dirty black propaganda campaign. The Steele Dossier and the Integrity Institute involve the same British intelligence networks revolving around Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6. Dr. Victor Madeira, one of the key staffers at the Integrity Institute used to work directly for Dearlove and Sir Christopher Andrew at the Cambridge Intelligence Forum. Documents show that Sir Andrew Wood and Pablo Miller, Sergei Skripal’s MI6 handler, who are both players in Christopher Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence, also have significant relationships to the Initiative.
The GCHQ Codeword IRIS refers to the British link between the attempt to stop Trump from becoming president and the Sergei Skripal poisoning hoax. The IRIS list of names includes the political handler of Porton Down, the UK’s chemical weapon facility, Skripal’s MI6 handler, the BBC, and representatives of the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office, and the U.S. Embassy. Reports imply that the Skripals are probably dead and the British are panicking about Trumps return to power. Both the Tories and Labour Parties have produced dossiers on the potential impact to Britain if Donald Trump returns to power and reveals the criminal activity of MI6 and the Skripal hoax.
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Don’t forget our man in Washington is proud of his role in meddling:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-10/alexander-downer-report-may-surface-in-trump-impeachment/11782834
Did he ever come back to Australia?
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There ya go Vlad, all explained for you…
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Heard you loud and clear, KP (not serious…)
There are other opinions though, for the last 2 weeks more than ever : Лучше с умным потерять, чем с дураком найти.
Heard from yesterday’s US vassals in Europe and Asia, obviously some Oceanian leaders smelled the air too and acted accordingly.
Who is the former – Emperor Xi, naturally Emperor Don becomes the latter.
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The ‘trusted news source’ BBC copping an antitrust suit.
Now that is just beautiful. Irony with a big bow on it.
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we don’t believe you BBC: https://uk.yahoo.com/news/altered-bbc-broadcast-zelensky-using-152926561.html
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The BBC, like Australia’s ABC, is no longer a trusted news source.
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I think President TRUMP realises that Once Great Britain and Western Europe can or soon will no longer be able to be trusted due to infiltration of Communists into Government who hate their own countries plus the open borders policies which have led to a vast population of military age males who are radicalised followers of the seventh century warlord and they DO intend to take over, and will then dispense with the useful idiots of the Left. (Australia, NZ and Canada will also fall for the same reasons.)
The United States under TRUMP, Vance and their successors may be in future the only viable Western country. This is why I think TRUMP is looking to Russia as a possibile future ally to counter a hostile radicalised Europe with nuclear weapons, a hostile China and Iran with nuclear weapons.
Remember that TRUMP is five moves ahead of everyone else in a game of three dimensional chess.
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A poll – who on this blog considers Russia to be a communist country?
Green tick for yes, red tick for no.
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Another poll – who considers President Putin to have been democratically elected.
Green tick for yes, red tick for no.
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FWIW – a reminder
The ALP send trainees to learn what the Democrats have learned. And
“Australian Labor fined $14,500 over campaign push to stop Trump”
https://www.inkl.com/news/australian-labor-fined-14-500-over-campaign-push-to-stop-trump
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Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, Pronounced In Antarctica And Poland, 2 New Studies Show:
https://notrickszone.com/2025/03/09/medieval-warm-period-undeniable-pronounced-in-antarctica-and-poland-2-new-studies-show/
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The climate lockdown freaks are running hot on the internet comments with their ‘what’s a few days of lockdown – stop being a sook, it might have been serious’ type of comments on the internet – this guys getting mad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8w2qxFjjdY
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But at least in these difficult times, Queenslanders are getting a reduction on their power bills…
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Dave Right now gives a short run down on the Climate Hysteria that blew in with Alfred:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO716Hl8nqQ
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In case you think “15 minute cities” are just a lunatic totalitarian idea of the WEF and the Left in general, we have them in Victoriastan (Australia’s most communist state, Australia’s equivalent of Commiefornia) but rebranded.
WEF: https://intelligence.weforum.org/monitor/latest-knowledge/8d496bec33e74bd9b0e0eaf99b9a1f8f
Victoriastan previously rebranded them as “20 minute neighbourhoods”: https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/guides-and-resources/strategies-and-initiatives/20-minute-neighbourhoods
Now they’ve been further rebranded as “Activity Centres”.
https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/guides-and-resources/strategies-and-initiatives/activity-centres-program
People are so much easier to control and to restrict the movements of when they’re living at high density on top of each other.
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There’s a roadshow going: https://news.smartcitiescouncil.com/news/post/responsible-ai-and-smart-cities-roadshow-2025
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The hypocrisy of private jets to COP in miniature – a team travelling the SE coast of Australia to tell people about 15 min smart cities in person.
Sorry for West Coast folks, they can’t make it over there – that really starts to stretch the 15 min concept I guess
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Worst Australia has ALWAYS been The Penal Colony you have when you are not “officially” a penal colony.
Should we start a revival of the term; “Claytons”?
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I don’t think most Australians (present company excepted) have any clue what an extreme Nanny State Australia is. It becomes more obvious when you see freedoms in other countries that Australians no longer have. And most Australians expect and want to be babysat by Government. Nanny Statism applies to just about every aspect of life in Australia today. We really never progressed much beyond being a free-range prison.
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Our leaders announce that we aussies are tough and resilient in times of peril, blah. Maybe. The repeated feel good terms trotted out every time a fire or flood appears is ridiculous as to give comfort and encouragement. Aided, of course by a brain dead media.
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Language warning – but some on here might enjoy this esoteric podcast: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/waking-worldpodcast
I think there are lessons on how to deal with large cults in what happens in small ones.
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Conspiracy theorists fill your boots, cargo ship sails straight into US jet fuel tanker at rest.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t
Certainly not beyond the capability of terrorists or malicious states.
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Already full – just ate this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/burke-says-dutton-conned-by-caravan-hoax/105033778
The lack of detonator isn’t really proof – it is quite a small thing you can carry with you on the day:
Deputy Commissioner Barrett indicated the caravan plot never posed a genuine threat, noting there had been no detonator.
“Almost immediately, experienced investigators within the joint counter-terrorism team believed that the caravan was part of a fabricated terrorist plot, essentially a criminal con job,” he said.
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“Test run”?
To monitor the scope of the “reactions? Also the language seems a little “inexact”.
“Detonator” has a very specific technical meaning; a device which produces a shock-wave and “brissance” to activate the serious explosive material.
The “box of tricks” which releases an electric current to cause that detonator to function is an “initiator” or “exploder”. Pyrotechnic fuses like “Safety fuse” or the more exciting “Detonating cord / Fuse, instantaneous” are a whole different “playground”. You know when you are working with GOOD pyro operators: They have all their fingers, two good eyes (and eyebrows), and only mild “industrial deafness”.
So, if there were slabs of the good stuff in that van, that is one thing. Were these “charges” fitted with embedded detonators in the time-honoured way? MOST modern explosives only react to a “shock-wave” above specified intensity / velocity. Also, MOST modern explosives, if in a fire and unconfined, will merrily BURN, only. Using a modest off-cut of C-4 plastic explosive to “boil the billy”, is an old Army engineers expedient. A bit harsh on the cookware due to high temperatures, but NO KABOOM. Still, NOT recommended for those with poor attention to detail.
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Until more facts are available, my feeling – as a former safety manager for an LNG Operator, having read hundreds [if not thousands] of accident reports, and done dozens of accident investigations in nearly 50 years in shipping – is it is likely to be human error – not keeping a proper look-out by all available means; perhaps disabling alarms; or possibly asleep on watch.
But nobody, at this stage can absolutely rule out a malicious intent.
Unhappily.
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As a former member of an engineering investigation team, my view is that there is likely to be multiple contributing causes.
One possible contributing factor is the location that the Stena Immaculate was anchored some distance out from the coast and in active sea lanes due to the presence of wind farms closer to the Port of Hull (its destination).
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I understand she was going to Immingham, on the Lincolnshire side.
Also, there were – as usual – several ships anchored off the Humber – the plot I saw suggests about eight in an array running roughly ENE away from the river mouth.
And doubtless there are many wind-subsidy-catchers off shore there, which will complicate passage planning.
Multiple causes – certainly – the ‘Swiss cheese’ principle.
Might that include hours of work/rest, or [perhaps] manual chart correction or cargo calculations or completing paperwork ahead of the arrival in Rotterdam?
But ‘human error’ is a broad bucket.
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My latest on capping killing.
Lift the veil on wind power killing eagles
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/03/10/lift-the-veil-on-wind-power-killing-eagles
Some key excerpts:
“Every land based wind facility in America has a permit to kill a certain number of eagles every year. What these kill numbers add up to is a secret that should be public information. Is it hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands?
Given these numbers we can decide how to limit them. We also need better data on actual kills so it is time to lift the veil on wind power killing eagles.”
“When it comes to eagles and onshore wind projects there is a glaring deficiency that should be corrected — the killing is unlimited. Every project gets a permit so the total number of allowed deaths just keeps going up and up as more projects come online. Surely this is wrong.
There should be a strict limit to the cumulative total number of kills allowed each year. In the regulatory world this is called a cap on killing. We see something like this sort of cap in the issuance of State hunting licenses for large game. It could be called the wind power bag limit.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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This is news! Obama’s third term. Or that of his activist 20 something and 30 something staff.
Most if not all documents ‘signed’ by President Joe Biden were signed electonically with autopen.
He must have been too busy for four years to sign any documents personally, so just a click with Autopen and no way of verifying that he even saw or read the documents or was in the building at the time, given he was down the beach house for half his term.
Which would explain why he was not aware he had signed an Act the day before or the contents of the Act, as ascertained by speaker Johnson. There is now an investigation into who actually signed.
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I have always worried about these fake signatures, even without witnesses. Surely the signing is fully traceable or it is a joke.
So it should not be too hard to determine where these documents were autosigned. Presumably in the White House unless couriered to the beach and back. That is a hard fact. I expect it is possible and connectable to a secure server with tracking, so whoever signed may well have been at the President’s Desk. Who was it?
If it can be ascertained that Joe Biden was at his beach house when the documents were autosigned in the White House, the blowup will be incredible. It would show that Joe Biden was not President and that person or persons unknown were signing or creating laws. This is a task you cannot delegate. It is treason. Biden forgot to pardon Obama or his White House staff.
But you can be sure the records of the AutoSign have been deleted, accidentally. But people will talk when facing a charge of treason.
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Don’t forget that there is already a judgement that Biden wasn’t compos enough to stand a law suit about those confidential documents
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X censors climate content by using an Al Gore Rhythm
(from a meme)
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More science Tomf*ckery in the US.
Some one should find out who has paid for this and anhilate the people responsible.
Peer-Reviewed Study Links Bird Flu Strain to USDA Gain-of-Function Experiment in Georgia
https://slaynews.com/news/peer-reviewed-study-links-bird-flu-strain-usda-gain-function-experiment-georgia/
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Don’t panic ; we’ve got this.
Nothing that two ‘vaccines’ per year . . . forever , will not fix.
https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2025/03/06/elanco-and-medgene-on-where-next-for-bird-flu-jab-for-dairy-cows/?cid=DM1199349&bid=641327870
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FWIW
“12 Truths About Legislation”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii8ndRZZipicc5FLLBpT6ECd-nXrKjOQg-pvaM2UM1Ya7eRBPMX8NxnjF8JKzrVw5cqHTr-aeN-0d8Z39YO5E73sQRNmH2F-Vps2fv0-RPqyji4Vi51fmOQrHhcqX514tGt9BpRUYtVj3efZRdt2Jmd10xb5ZAzzfAvsb2AlA_UShPtT-RmmQNqDq09AA/w414-h640/Meme%20-%20truths%20about%20legislation.png
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As Mark Twain noted:
“No man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session” (1866)
And that was before the terminal bloat of the Pubic Serpents and “autopen”.
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The other is that treacherous fake Liberal Malcolm Turnbull and ‘smartest man in the room’ is effectively boasting that he bettered Donald Trump in avoiding tariffs. Trump has reacted very badly and predictably to this double insult, that he was tricked and that he is certainly not as smart as President Xi of China. And Malcolm Turnbull is smarter than both. So why did he do it?
Trump could now ask about Malcolm’s absurd personal gift by himself to himself of $444million given without plan, terms or conditions to his wife Lucy’s committee to ‘save’ the Great Barrier Reef. Just as this genius was being thrown out of office for incompetence having stolen the job from Tony Abbott. The cash has not been seen since. But each year at budget time there is a $14 Million interest bill for the borrowed money. Where’s the money Malcolm? Have you fixed the Barrier Reef yet?
This amount is probably only equivalent to 6 tons of gold with rocketing gold prices, but still comparable to the biggest scams Musk has found in USAID. Who says Australian politicians cannot match Democrat politicians in theft? The new Medici family, like Albanese throwing a cool billion where ever he likes as in the incredibly speculative US company for Quantum Computing or new windmills and solar panels subsidies for aluminum smelting, without a plan or often hope of a return.
Aluminum smelting, highly subsidized to keep the jobs, will not be acceptable to the Americans. It is a scam since electricity prices went through the roof. Our Green electricity is far too expensive, likely more than the value of the metal. Another 25% on the aluminum price will kill sales or subsidies will have to rocket. Probably the latter. But who needs manufacturing, transport or farming? Certainly not the Australian Labor party, British Labor party, EU or Democrats. Down with the workers.
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FWIW – re that Darwin port lease and Turnbull
“Beijing’s ‘Panama Strategy’ Is Global”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijings-panama-strategy-global
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Giving away the Darwin Port, under the fake conservative Liberals no less, and furthermore on a ridiculously long 99 year lease, was stupid and traitorous beyond comprehension.
The lease was even reviewed by the Al-bozo regime and concluded “nothing to see here”. The cluelessness and traitorousness is staggering.
https://www.pmc.gov.au/news/review-port-darwin-lease
Both factions of the Uniparty are in lockstep.
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Some raptors in northern Australia deliberately spread fire by taking burning sticks from existing fires and dropping them in other locations to start new fires to catch prey.
I didn’t believe this when I first read it so did a genuine fact check myself (not a fake “fact check” of the Left).
https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-37/issue-4/0278-0771-37.4.700/Intentional-Fire-Spreading-by-Firehawk-Raptors-in-Northern-Australia/10.2993/0278-0771-37.4.700.full
https://wildlife.org/australian-firehawks-use-fire-to-catch-prey/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wildfires-birds-animals-australia
https://altoona.psu.edu/feature/researching-firehawks
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FWIW – To my amazement I just got a spam email pushing something called
“Hydrogen Water”
Never heard of that so I went looking using that as a search term. An example –
“Hydrogen Water Health Benefits”
https://www.webmd.com/diet/hydrogen-water-health-benefits
And you can buy “Hydrogen Water Bottles”
I think I’ll stick to the thousand odd years geologically filtered version from the Great Artesian Basin
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There is no scam which is too stupid or bizarre for an utterly dumbed-down population.
The same ones that fall for such scams are the sane ones that would vote for Labor, Greens or Teals or even the fake conservative Liberals.
And we just saw in WA that a majority of people are sufficiently stupid to vote for Labor/Greens even though the Liberals would have been the least bad choice.
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