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Americans head to Middle East to participate in their national sport: dying for Israel
This is so exciting...
The Americans who can't have healthcare are ecstatic they are about to get something much better: an unwinnable war in the Middle East. Life just isn't the same when they're not fighting an unwinnable war in the Middle East, is it?
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#NormalIslandNews #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #Iran #satire
We're showing up in #Minnesota.
#NoKings #FDT #GOPtraitors #trump @uspolitics #USpolitics #WeThePeople #protests @minnesota
There were about 1000
people at American embassy in Ottawa! Enough to surround the building.There were tons of really clever signs. My sign had a slogan I copied from someone on Mastodon ... "No Truth Decay". A dentist came up to me with appreciation for that : -)
I think the crowd might have been bigger but quite a few people went to the Palestinian support protests which in today's case was at the same time.
Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's
Link: underscoresf.com/in-san-franci…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
If a data-backed trend plays out, Waymo could become San Francisco's biggest ride-hailing service before the year ends.Matt Charnock (Underscore_SF)
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Melissa Hortman was a Democrat.
Murdered for being a Democrat.
Every headline should say so.
This was political terrorism.
Instead of receiving permission from Egyptian authorities to march to the Rafah border crossing, participants have been subject to hotel raids, harassment, arrests, and deportations.Ahmed Dahaby (Drop Site News)
Un normalien découpe Charles Consigny en débat sur l'A69 - YouTube
Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
Link: techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/waym…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times.Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)
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You know what those state reps in Minnesota did after the feds plus local sheriff deputies Luke Michelson and Timothy Inglett assassinated movement rebel Winston Smith in 2021? They gave the thumbs up to more cops and crackdowns, and they certainly never sought to bring the killers to account - we only know the killers names because of a leak.
So yeah, definitely not concerned for a couple politicians who became “collateral damage”
Watching the protests while working on a new forest painting.. pretty similar to the last one, because I liked making that!
Needs something on the foreground I think.. to make it special.. maybe something safe like more foliage, or something weird like a wizard or a witch or some animal..? 
#Acrylic #Painting #AcrylicPainting
If Trump's response to the "No Kings" protests—and, for example, the riots in LA—has been "tyrannical," then we're just gonna need an even more extreme term to describe the left's response to the J6 protests.
There's a protest myth that liberals love to repeat.
Be peaceful so you don't give the cops an excuse to brutalize you.
The fact is that the cops are gonna brutalize you when they get the order to, whether you're sitting and singing kumbaya or not. It's got nothing to do with the actions of you and your fellow protestors. It has to do with when they get the word to swoop in and brutalize you, that's what's going to happen. When some higher up gets his manties in a bunch and decides it's time to crush some skulls.
So do us all a favor and stop saying that crap. It's false and creates dangerous situations for others out there on the streets with you.
The state is the perpetrator of violence, both visible and invisible. The state is going to go medieval on your ass when they feel like it. No excuse necessary.
Authorities were actively searching for a suspect in the hours following the shootings. Gov. Tim Walz said former Minn. House Speaker Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman were deliberately targeted.Tim Sullivan (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Take a peek inside Shearer’s in Kirkwall, believed to be one of Scotland’s oldest shops. Their guarantee: you won’t have seen anything like itDavid Leask (The Sunday Times)
Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) –Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at a major munitions industry ente…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
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#Real-Situation ( #1991) - #Bob-Marley & The #Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers Lyrics
"Real Situation"
Check out the real situation
Nation war against nation
Where did it all begin?
When will it end?
Well, it seems like: total destruction the only solution
And there aren't no use: no one can stop them now
Ain't no use: nobody can stop them now
Give them an inch, they take a yard
Give them a yard, they take a mile (ooh)
Once a man and twice a child
And everything is just for a while
Well, it seems like: total destruction the only solution
And there aren't no use: no one can stop them now
Ain't no use: nobody can stop them now
Check in the real situation (check it out, check it out)
Nation fight against nation
Where did it all begin? Wo-oo-o-o-oh!
Where will it end?
Well, it seems like: total destruction the only solution
And there aren't no use: no one can stop them now
Ain't no use: nobody can stop them now
There ain't no use: no one can't stop them now
Everybody struggling: ain't no use - ain't no use
Ain't no use you even try
Ain't no use: got to say 'bye-'bye!
Ain't no use! Ain't no - ain't no use: no one can stop them now
(No one can stop them now)
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Scientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.United Kingdom
On the tenth anniversary of the release of free-to-play Fallout Shelter, Bethesda has revealed the management sim game has been downloaded 230 million timesUnited Kingdom
Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask
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Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask . Contribute to rajivharlalka/filedb development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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"The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God."
— St. Anthony of Padua
#Iran and #Israel are at war, with the #US already intimately involved and likely to become more so. Which of course means we’ll be spending the foreseeable future getting bashed in the face with lies from the most powerful people in the world.
The most immediately obvious of these is the Netanyahu-promoted narrative that Israel initiated this conflict because Iran was on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon. With absolutely no self-consciousness or sense of irony, the Israeli prime minister followed the attacks with a statement accusing Iran of “genocidal rhetoric” which it has backed up “with a program to develop nuclear weapons.” Israel, as we all know, has an unacknowledged nuclear arsenal, and its leaders are presently committing #genocide in #Gaza while spouting genocidal rhetoric.
“And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time,” #Netanyahu claimed. “It could be a year. It could be within a few months — less than a year. This is a clear and present danger to Israel’s very survival.”
The western political/media class have been dutifully promoting this line and uncritically parroting Israel’s claim that its unprovoked attack on Iran was “preemptive”, but there is absolutely no evidence that any of this is true.
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent literally decades falsely claiming that Iran was a year or two away from developing a nuke, only to have the calendar prove him wrong with the passage of time over and over again.
US intelligence chief Tulsi #Gabbard testified just weeks ago that “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
As journalist Séamus Malekafzali recently noted on Twitter, one of the strongest arguments that Iran had not reversed its decision to refrain from obtaining nuclear weapons is that Iranian nuclear scientists have been publicly expressing frustration about the fact that their government won’t allow them to construct a nuke. They want to do it, but Tehran won’t let them.
US Secretary of Defense Pete #Hegseth helped pave the way for Netanyahu’s claims this past Wednesday when he told the Senate that “there have been plenty of indications” Iran has been “moving their way toward something that would look a lot like a #nuclear weapon.”
This claim by Hegseth was swiftly scooped up and promoted by warmongers like Tom Cotton who said that Hegseth had “confirmed that Iran’s terrorist regime is actively working towards a nuclear weapon.”
Cotton’s claim was then picked up by war pundit Mark #Levin, who has been personally lobbying #Trump to green light an attack on Iran, sarcastically quipping on Twitter, “So, SecDef Hegseth must by lying, too. Everyone’s lying except the isolationists, Koch-heads, Islamists, Chatsworth Qatarlson and their media propagandists.”
But let’s back up and look at what Hegseth actually said. He did not say “Iran is building a nuclear weapon.” He said “there have been plenty of indications” Iran has been “moving their way toward something that would look a lot like a nuclear weapon.”
If the US had intelligence that Iran was building a nuke, Hegseth would have just said so. But instead he performed this freakish verbal gymnastics stunt muttering about indications of something that might kinda sorta look like a nuclear weapon, which his fellow Iran hawks then falsely took and ran with as a positive assertion that Iran was building a nuke.
There are other lies being circulated to help market this war as well. As Moon of Alabama notes, the Washington Post’s odious war propagandist David Ignatius is pushing the narrative that Iran has been cultivating a relationship with de-facto al-Qaeda leader Saif al-Adel. The lie that Saddam Hussein was in league with al-Qaeda was used two decades ago to sell the invasion of Iraq.
At the same time, Trumpian pundits are currently circulating the narrative that the United States is full of Iranian “sleeper cells” who could activate at any moment and begin attacking Americans. The most egregious of these is Laura Loomer’s repeated claims that there are “millions” of such cells awaiting Iran’s orders to strike — possibly the single most bat shit insane claim I have ever seen anyone with any major platform make, since it would mean a very sizable percentage of the US population is actually a secret Iranian proxy army.
The fountain of lies is just getting started. There will be more. Believe nothing unless it is substantiated by mountains of evidence. These freaks have been caught lying to sell wars to the public far too many times for any of their claims to be taken on faith.
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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
This class (forbiddentickets.com/events/pa…) was born through a specific experience - while teaching a class on D/s, panda was asked how it could have multiple dominant partners. Didn’t the other partners get jealous? What happened if there were differing desires? The question baffled panda a little at first, as it had never considered having multiple dominants as a thing that couldn’t be possible.
I get a % of sales but the educators are amazing!
#ENM #Polyamory #BDSM
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How on earth do we balance our dragon hoards of partners with which we exchange power?! Love isn’t pie, but time sure is. Let’s talk about how to keep your cule while ensuring everyone’s needs are cared for.Forbidden Tickets | Balancing Multiple Dynamics
UK announces national inquiry into ‘grooming gangs’ after pressure
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/14/uk-announces-national-inquiry-into-grooming-gangs-after-pressure?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Interest in the issue was pushed by far-right groups and Elon Musk and branded by critics as a racist dog whistle.Al Jazeera
I saw statement issued by group calling themselves
Anarchist Front of lran and Afghanistan
Statement from them reads like a Shitlib/Empire's sympathizer
In the whole statement,it doesnt have the word genocide & declares that they are against state-led wars (how noble of you?)
Reduces overall naked genocidal attack by Jewish Nazi society setting the whole region on fire & trying to start Iraq 2.0 to "redistribution of power among elites".
Empire isnt attacking to free you. Its Iraq 2.0
Unfortunately I could find their statement only on this Nazi website.
Not sure how one can maintain their anonymity by issuing statements on this website(if you are Anarchist⇒you need to maintain some level of anonymity)
Not sure how they are maintaining anonymity as this Nazi (instagram) site works with every regime to screw people.
@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @anarchy @anarchism
3,727 likes, 55 comments - decolonize_anarchism on June 13, 2025: ". English translation of the statement by Anarchist Front of Iran and Afghanistan.Instagram
Ofcourse, there are ethnic groups Empire is nurturing to topple the regime & rule "Iran" just like how Empire + Syrian dictatorship destroyed Syria & now installed ethnic-enclaves.
I wont be surprised if this Anarchist outfit too has elements of that just like how I never felt Rojava's statements were 100% truthful after I looked below the surface.
So, if some groups' statements read like Rojava & it turned out to be Western Capitalistic
This was a quarterly comic book published from 1975 to 1980 by Ehapa Verlag (now Egmont Ehapa). They were also published in the UK as “Frizz and Friends”.EUROPE SAYS
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) — The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at a ceremony of launching a destroyer of the Navy of the Korean People’s Army on June 12.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
'It's heavy on the heart': Israelis survey damage in city hit by Iranian missile
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Two people were killed and several homes destroyed when a missile hit the city of Rishon LeZion early on Saturday.Tom Bennett (BBC News)
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Adam Harvey (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
No Kings in Petaluma.
“I have decided to stick with love.” — MLK
There are two major protests planned in Seattle this weekend: one that starts in Cal Anderson Park and plans to march to Seattle Center, and another at the University of Washington's Red Square.Stranger Staff (The Stranger)
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It's the Trooping the Colour ceremony, which, as the name implies, is an ancient tradition where the British monarch carefully inspects the scarlet tunics of the Guards regiments to see if any have faded too much in the wash.
#TroopingTheColour #History #Histoire
"What You Want" by Evanescence is a powerful anthem that embodies the band's signature sound, blending heavy rock elements with emotive lyrics. This track showcases Amy Lee's dynamic vocals and the band's intense instrumentation, making it a standout piece from their self-titled album. Released in 2011, it resonates with themes of self-empowerment and determination.
Lyrics:
Do what you what you want
If you have a dream for better
Do what you what you want 'til you don't want it anymore
Remember who you really are
Do what you what you want
Your world's closing in on you now (it isn't over)
Stand and face the unknown (got to remember who you really are)
Every heart in my hands like a pale reflection
Hello, hello, remember me?
I'm everything you can't control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way
To believe we can break through
Do what you what you want
You don't have to lay your life down (it isn't over)
Do what you what you want
'Til you find what you're looking for (got to remember who you really are)
But every hour slipping by screams that I have failed you
Hello, hello, remember me?
I'm everything you can't control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe
Hello, hello, remember me?
I'm everything you can't control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe
There's still time
Close your eyes
Only love will guide you home
Tear down the walls and free your soul
'Til we crash we're forever spiraling down, down, down, down
Hello, hello, it's only me
Infecting everything you love
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe
Hello, hello, remember me?
I'm everything you can't control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to learn forgiveness
Hello, hello remember me?
I'm everything you can't control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe we can break through
Remember who you really are
Do what you what you want
Album Artist: Evanescence
Album(s): Evanescence
Written by: Terry Balsamo, Amy Lee, Timothy Todd McCord
Music genre(s): Alternative Rock, Gothic Rock
Released: 2011
Decade for first release: #2010sMusic
#Evanescence #whatYouWant #alternativeRock #2010sMusic #empowerment #gothicRock #AlternativeRock
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Carmie Sellitto, 26, spotted the limited-edition treat on his Instagram explore page and became determined to be among the first to review it. The designerUnited Kingdom
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Tucker #Carlson (un journaliste honnête ostracisé par l'appareil médiatique occidental) fustige #Trump pour son attaque contre l’ #Iran
Extrait:
Les États-Unis sont « complices » des frappes d’Israël sur les sites nucléaires de leur grand rival, a déclaré le journalisteLe soutien du président américain Donald Trump aux frappes d’Israël en Iran pourrait déclencher une « guerre totale » au Moyen-Orient, a averti le journaliste américain Tucker Carlson.
Tôt vendredi matin, des avions israéliens ont bombardé des sites nucléaires et militaires à travers l’Iran, ce qui a incité Téhéran à riposter avec un barrage de drones et de missiles visant les villes israéliennes. L’escalade menace les négociations en cours sur le programme nucléaire iranien, que Trump a relancé plus tôt cette année.
Dans ce qu’il a décrit comme étant peut-être sa « dernière lettre d’information avant une guerre totale », Carlson – un allié clé de Trump lors de l’élection présidentielle de 2024 – a affirmé que les États-Unis étaient « complices de l’acte de guerre ».
« Bien que l’armée américaine n’ait peut-être pas physiquement perpétré l’assaut, des années de financement et d’envoi d’armes à Israël, dont Donald Trump vient de se vanter sur Truth Social, placent indéniablement les États-Unis au centre des événements de la nuit dernière. a écrit Carlson.
« Washington savait que ces attaques se produiraient. Ils ont aidé Israël à les mettre en œuvre. Les politiciens qui prétendent être 'l’Amérique d’abord' ne peuvent pas maintenant se retourner de manière crédible et dire qu’ils n’ont rien à voir avec cela », a-t-il ajouté.
Escalade sans précédent entre Israël et l’Iran : ce que nous savons jusqu’à présent
Dans un post sur X, Carlson a soutenu que « le vrai clivage » n’est pas entre les partisans d’ #Israël ou de l’ #Iran, mais « entre les fauteurs de guerre et les artisans de paix ».
« Qui sont les fauteurs de guerre ? Ils incluraient toute personne qui appelle Donald Trump aujourd’hui pour exiger des frappes aériennes et d’autres implications militaires américaines directes dans une guerre avec l’Iran », a-t-il déclaré. Carlson a déclaré que les « fauteurs de guerre » comprennent les animateurs de talk-shows Sean #Hannity et Mark #Levin, le magnat des médias Rupert #Murdoch et les donateurs républicains Ike #Perlmutter et Miriam #Adelson.
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"The US quietly delivered hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before its unprecedented attack on Iran on Friday"
"The transfer of such a large quantity of Hellfires suggests that the Trump administration was well-informed of Israel’s plans to attack...Iran"
"Hellfires are laser-guided air-to-ground missiles. They would not be useful for Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, but for precision strikes"
Assassinations
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The US quietly delivered hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before its unprecedented attack on Iran on Friday, Middle East Eye can reveal.Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
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"Iranian state media published warnings from Iranian authorities directed at the US, UK, and France, saying that their regional military bases and naval vessels will be targeted if they intervene to stop Iranian strikes on Israel"
They refer to Jordan, Gulf States, Iraq, Syria (what's left of Syria, HTS Syria), and the US bases on those territories.
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As the US-Israeli war against Iran rages for a second day, senior Iranian officials have vowed to escalate attacks on US, British, and French military positionsthecradle.co
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Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles
Link: esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp…
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Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane.www.esa.int
Is this related?
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The Minnesota Legislature passed a bill to repeal a recent expansion of public health insurance to illegal immigrant adults.Hank Long (Alpha News MN)
"Iran's air defense force successfully shot down an Israeli F-35 fighter jet in the western sky of the country on 14 June, Iranian state media IRNA reported"
"It was the third Israeli F-35 shot down since the start of Israel's attack on Iranian military, nuclear, and civilian sites since Friday"
"Iranian Army commandos reportedly captured the pilot of a downed Israeli fighter jet"
Not enough evidence at this point
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The F-35 is widely considered the world's most advanced attack aircraft, boasting stealth technology to help it avoid detectionthecradle.co
Another way of looking at it is that Trump truly wanted a deal, which is why he was against Israel attacking Iran before his 60-day deadline was up, but he wasn’t going to stop them afterwards.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
my favorite tobaccos are aromatics! I like imparting vanilla room notes indoors or leaving behind a sweet scent that trails back to me when I am outside on a walk or smoking at a bar patio. I find it fun whenever I hear random people pick up on it and comment on the pleasant smell. I do collect a lot of rare tobacco tins but tbh I smoke cheap OTC blends like the original Captain Black more than I do my more expensive stuff.
my all time favorite blend is probably Molto Dolce from Sutliff Private Stock. I am sad that it is no longer produced by Sutliff and I only have one sealed tin left of it..
Don't know if Cellini is from Savinelli. I do know that there's only one brand producing pipe tobacco in Italy with Italian-grown leaves and that's Toscano.
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I bought this specific one, but they're all dirt cheap (between 5 and 6 euros per pouch) but this one is less strong and more Italian grown than others (not 100% I think).
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Arnold Schwarzenegger blames both Republicans and Democrats for ICE raids | CNN
“This is the result of Democrats and Republicans not being able to come together in this immigration reform,” the actor and former politician said. “That’s what needs to be done so that you don’t have to go and start arresting people in the first place, so we know who is in this country and who is working here, who has the temporary working permit, who has the permanent working permit.”“Those resources could be funneled to some more effective ways of handling this immigration issue that they are saying we have,” he said. “The 15 guys waiting to get a job at 5 a.m. at the Home Depot parking lot are not the ones we need to be worrying about, but that’s who’s getting scooped up.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger can't be bought because he brought his own money.
Probably the only honest politician who can get an interview.
Too bad he refused to comment directly about the ICE Gestapo, the National Guard federal takeover, and deploying US Marines against USians on our own soil.
“Let our tears become a sea of rage for the injustice that is killing our children.”
Today marks two years since the Adriana trawler sank off the coast of Pylos, Greece. Over 600 people drowned, a shipwreck that remains one of the deadliest in the Mediterranean.
Just weeks ago, the Greek Naval Court confirmed what survivors and civil society have long known: Greek coast guard officials should bear a full investigation in their actions and responsibility for this shipwreck, a state crime that could have been prevented.
However, too often, states like Greece and Italy criminalize survivors. For this shipwreck, nine Egyptian men, the “Pylos 9, were scapegoated, accused of smuggling and causing the tragedy. They were imprisoned for nearly a year before finally being acquitted in May 2024.
Let us not be misguided by this attempt of throwing dust in public opinion’s eyes and putting the blame elsewhere rather than on the State and its bodies’ authority to act and prevent any loss of human life. These smuggling rings that governments claim to be against would not even exist if European states opened borders not just for the privileged but to anyone that decided to build a life elsewhere, even in their territories.
As the families of Pylos victims said recently in a message to the relatives of those who died in a deadly train crash in Greece:
“Let our tears become a sea of rage.”
We echo that rage.
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