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Rene Magritte Memory 1948

In mid-October, I had a ‘cerebral infarction’. Spent some time in hospital, then in a revalidation center. Now, I intend to revive/continue The Automatic Earth. It will be step by little step. Both my body and my mind are ‘shaken’ and my eyesight was hit badly. Sorry.

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    Rene Magritte Memory 1948 In mid-October, I had a ‘cerebral infarction’. Spent some time in hospital, then in a revalidation center. Now, I intend to
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 29 2025]

    #217213
    Maxwell Quest
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    Had to do a double-take when I saw the new post!

    No apology is necessary, Raul. Please take care of yourself and continue with your rehab. Whatever is best for you right now is what is most important. Thanks for letting us know what occured to take you away from your blog. As you can see, we knuckleheads just kept on going in your absence.

    #217215
    redshift
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    Wow, sorry to hear that. Wish you a speedy recovery.

    Going through the news without your curation is just not the same, I’m glad you’re back, but take your time.

    I’ll make a donation which I haven’t done in a long time.

    #217245
    Kimo
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    Bravo, dear friend, post not at the expense of your health. That said, the world seemed darker these past 46 days, but now is now light again.
    Kimo

    #217268

    Welcome back, Raúl Ilargi Meijer!

    #217375
    Sam Birch
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    Wishing you health, happiness and good cheers Ilargi.

    #217393
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Wow, Christmas miracles do happen!

    You’ll have to tell us the hospital/address/contact for the next time. That was the most needed part. We tried by about a dozen methods, but none of us are in the country.

    #217394
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Did get rid of Aspnaz tho. Since he figured this site was no longer an investment in stirring people to fight and kill each other, Mossad has assigned him elsewhere.

    #217456
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “US Buzzbombing Venezuela.” Um, so the U.S. is training people in international waters and airspace? Yes, they are. Every day. Worldwide. This is the same as UK “mobilizing and escorting” Russian ships in the North Sea. Is Russia in international waters? Yes, except when they’re in port. Sooo…translation, By the Law of Nothing Ever Happens, Nothing has happened?

    Do you really need to waste my time saying international warships are in international waters? I mean, when France refuses all treaties and PAYS for England to be invaded by 100,000 army-aged men a year? Like, maybe pay attention to real things.

    Meanwhile, the GOOD people aren’t sinking fishing boats but 1,000ft oil tankers, but that is all the GOOD explosions, from truly MORAL people and won’t cause WWIII or nothin’. I think Trump made them do it, that’s the ticket.

    Here’s how nothing happens:
    saw

    It’s all a scam, an op, of where they put the camera. Anyone have the other TV meme on that? Did “Muslims” attack in D.C. AGAIN? Yes, actually. But I wouldn’t just gloss over us in Syria AGAIN doing far worse. Or 90 other countries. And that our “Muslim” was a direct CIA employee. Co-inky-dinky.

    Luongo seems reliably back (he was moving) and pointed out that, as above, they have outed all the Left and Europe as war mongering corporate psychopaths, BUT also now all the GOP “Right” like Judge Napolitano, who aren’t pro-war but have been positioned as Black Pill Hate America First people, either knowingly or unknowingly. I hate picking on the Judge, but he’s the best example because he’s so earnest and centrist in a way, and is “legit” unlike Fuentes and Shapiro, etc, who are obviously paid ops, or Candice who probably is, but is definitely a pot-stirrer for any shiny new cause.

    We’re trying to point out the Masseys, the MTG’s, etc. Okay, you SAY you are X, but then what, you cede your congressional vote to AOC and Muslims who openly campaign they are loyal to Somali First, (Ilhan, for reals) and who Chant “Death to America” at all their rallies with approval (Talaib, MI). Although we were picking on the OBVIOUS RINOs like Graham, Pence, well…virtually everyone? We needed to get down a layer and get these secret foot-draggers too who are more dangerous. For whatever reason. They campaign, get on TV, great talk! Libertarian, law, Constitution! …until they have to vote, then they cave and obstruct. They are counted as solid GOP block…until there’s any critical event like the Patriot Act, then they vote FOR. They’re like secret sleepers who are activated, but you insert them in the same room where things happen.

    It’s very difficult to discuss them, it’s complicated, and sure the DNC has them too, despite chanting “Death to America” is just a core DNC message with white kids right now. Until we can clear this, the people can’t understand why T – or anyone – can’t move forward and get anything done over “The Uniparty.” Sure, that exists, but it’s handwaving. HOW does it exist? Like this. Where some are open, some are hidden; some are far, some are near. Some are pressured, some are outright owned, blackmailed, puppeted. Some are just fed wrong “secret” “Inside” information that is false, and some they don’t know, but when that pivotal vote happens, they roll up to their house with a manila folder and have a “talk”. — The person was totally legit and earnest and even they themselves had no idea they were blackmailed until the photos are put in their hands. …There were many of these.

    Justice Roberts was one, getting in as a legit competent Judge, one with unlimited executive power (which is obviously unconstitutional, but this was Bush, and Congress loves it) then once in, he voted against and was visibly shaken, took a month holiday to recover. …Rumored it was his family not him they blackmailed. Etc.

    So Candice they’re just feeding pure BS to discredit this side? I have no idea, but I bloody well would. She’d have no idea she was being conned, slowly now about 90% of what her “sources say” is false. But we can’t have a Democracy until we contain and have immune response to this. That means We, the People need to see, build, know, test, judge that. Could Trump arrest them? Probably, but that doesn’t solve the problem. 1) They will just blindly trust whoever comes after Trump and do it all again. 2) The arrested will call “Dictator” and be wildly believed, no matter what evidence is presented, by who, as we saw with CV9. Or with Comey. So Comey says something happened with HRC, Mueller says nothing happened with Trump, and both are believed up until that moment then the Left/America does a Reality a la Carte and suddenly doesn’t believe them that next moment. Now COmey and Meuller are ALSO Putin-Bots, until they say something bad again, then they’re honest and we never though otherwise. Then believes Comey again, then doesn’t again, then does, then doesn’t. So what’s the difference with Truth or not with such people? Nothing. They need the discernment. To engage their braaaaaains….

    Also WHO is he going to arrest? Ilhan? Probably he is (recent noises) but also Massey? Ah. See, arrest your own party? And like ALL of them, or what? They wouldn’t be there UNLESS they were felons, all of them. And if you arrest ALL, the government falls, which is what they want. The American Experiment is discredited. No. It can only be US. You. Me. Use your heads and be adults. We are the government or there is none.

    “No Mercy For Repeat Offenders As “Iryna’s Law” Takes Effect In North Carolina

    Here’s a case of doing it wrong. So the Judges are doing what no judge does for 1,000 years and stays on the bench. …And isn’t a lawyer, but a waitress or something, and ALSO is double-dealing to make money for her own company on the bench…but no impeachment and arrest. Then the PEOPLE vote her in again, find out, have no problem with all that. And so you’re going to PASS ANOTHER LAW? Pass a law saying you have to follow the laws we already have? No. This has to come from US. Georgia is just passing a “PS you have to follow the law, ackshully” rider again. How about YOU follow the d—n law and arrest this judge, you punks? And you can bet she’s not the only one.

    If you just make all law, all sentencing, as AI logic-tree, what do you need judges for? Plug it in like a loan application software, pops out the sentence. Which works great on 80% and utterly fails millions of good people elsewhere. (with false info in their record, small business, appeals, high cash collateral and a dozen others) Same here, you’re going to just “Computer sez” from 30,000 feet is the only thing that would be WORSE than now, so we’re aiming for it like a heat-seeking missile. This specific law may be okay, but you see my point and we’ve done this before (3 strikes) which was instantly abused and failed. …And reliably failed back to Dick Turpin.

    “Chaos In New York As Trained Activists Try To Block ICE Operations

    Back to Venezuela, suppose – and for the love of God and all things holy they need to SAY such things – the CIA Derp State has set up in drug cartels as we know they have. And are in Venezuela, as we know they are. Okay, well OUR army has a lot of problems, is tied up in legal orders, posse comitatus, and should be. But WE are funded. Like any army, any war, you lean into your strengths and fight their weakness. What is the Derp State’s weakness? They’re cockroaches and have to hide. That is, they can’t BE a real army. They have to be a fake, deniable army. You have to look and they say “Nope, only these three honest men and a goat”.

    Ah, but that means their army has a major weakness: it’s all run through international banking. They have an alternative universe of shell corporations, money laundering etc. But that means TO work their army, at the Darian Gap, to get kids out in the streets of NYC, they need to ACTIVATE those bank accounts and move them around. UN NGOs. And refill them with a lot of leakage. If their HQ is in Venezuela, you ring fence them so they can’t do that. And have JPM as a critical backer to this, with the Fed who has deep visibility to what’s moving.

    So they can have infinity money in their Dr. No volcano in Venezuela, but they can’t get a power boat of cash out to buy off NYC. Buy off the next Hogg in Broward County.

    Why does JPM, etc all back Epstein, Madoff to the nines? Aren’t they the criminals then?

    The UN TOLD you why: in like 2009 they said World Drug Money was the only thing holding up the whole world banking system. If you pull the drug money, all banks collapse. Yay. So grow up. Now: IF the U.S. wants to “Prosecute Crime” why wouldn’t they start with Citigroup as Krainer says? It would be simple and done overnight. Boom. Uh, sir? Because EUROPE WON’T. So the US banking system collapses, LEAVING ALL THE CRIMINALS, congratulations. So we can’t clean up if it collapses us. Think of it like a Gresham’s Law for crime. IF there is crime, it MUST grow until it en-cancers everything. Because anywhere it touches, that will be how it interacts, finds blackmail, weak people, and steals more. But here it is all corrupt, worldwide since 2000. So if you have a SINGLE good man, even a less-bad man as we’ve had, let’s forget Trump, let’s say LePen or Corbyn. They are TRULY bad people, no ways legit and white at all. But they are LESS corrupt so are still intolerable and hit just as hard as actual good, honest men. The system of evil can’t tolerate them at all. Because if less-bad happens, crime, evil, shrinks. Like an empire, it destabilizes and risks them to collapse.

    Same here with drug money. We clean up the U.S., 30% of all cash vanishes from our system, causing a bank run into “Fully capitalized” (With murder and human trafficking money) Europe. So we lose by being good, they win by being evil. And so on. And Evil knows this, this is how they operate. Checkmate Mr. Bond.

    No. If we, like any evil person or addict, CHOOSE to go straight, we can. And that’s just as hard, grey, and complex as for an addict is. We have to reform our hearts and make hard, costly choices. And in this case, doing things one at a time, un-doing each evil one by one, reversing the clock of how we got here. Like with tariffs. Like with re-backing the UST with gold. Like with not lying. Like with people being sick of this and going to church. Like with them turning off MTV and Black Robin Hood on Netflix. One tiny step at a time. And tiny HONEST step at a time.

    Zoom out. We are now openly talking about DOZENS of things that were obviously true but no one would believe only 2 years ago? 10? Epstein now has the DEMOCRATS demanding accountability even as they were just all named in the files. We’ve been trying to get them to admit there were even any Pedophiles on earth for like 25 years. Since LBJ put his hand on the Bible in December. Now they’re everywhere and in the White House too, they say. Yay! Finally someone put their brains back on. Hey are now saying “Hey Israel seems to have undue influence” and “Why is this not a genocide”. Yay! It’s been since 1963 and the US Liberty that we might have said that, but them selling all our nukes to Pakistan might have been a clue. It’s publicly stated that government is widely blackmailed. Welcome to the party, pal, good.

    So we’re winning in that sense, and with increasing speed. The actions of the enemy appear to confirm this.

    But I say this over and over for years and was trying to re-focus as this leg of the war seems to be almost under control right now so I could go do other things.

    Looking for the direction on Bitcoin. We were at all-time record fear sentiment. Yet price was still $90? That seems relatively strong for the worst hit ever (no joke). But if I were them, I’d hit it again to see who you could last shake out before reversing. And the financial system has black swans like Europe collapsing in Ukraine. This is not great. Metals seem stronger, as you can see they’re forcing silver into the system and defending it. Crypto may have law now, but they’re not backstopping prices. Maybe you should buy RISK right now instead of reward, picking which is safer of many options.

    #217466
    Valiant Johnson
    Participant

    Raul you do my heart good.
    Slowly, slowly so that you may return to the health and mental strength.
    We all love you

    #217486
    tboc
    Participant

    anyone home?

    #217496
    miltonics
    Participant

    I know you said that you were having WordPress problems. I am familiar with WordPress and would volunteer to help.

    #217499
    those darned kids
    Participant

    welcome back, raúl.

    god is great.

    #217514
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    WOW!! We’re happy you appear to be on the road to recovery. Obviously everyone feels the same! You did say to have patience! Please take care.

    #217519
    Dora
    Participant

    You’re back! Hooray! I missed ya. Best wishes for your good health.

    #217548
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Man, we are glad to see you back. It’s just not the same without you.

    #217562
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    Great news that you’re back with us Raúl! So sorry to hear of your medical misfortunes – hope you make a swift recovery to full health.

    #217570
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    So glad to hear that you are on the mend and have returned home. You have been sorely missed. Having said that, be good to yourself, and take care of your needs first.

    #217584
    Sylvia 1
    Participant

    I checked this site every day hoping for your return. So sorry to hear of your troubles, so happy to hear that you will continue this important work. Here’s to your health my friend—get well.

    #217591
    Clueless Honky
    Participant

    Day after day, I returned to TAE, hoping to see a new post.
    After so long, I was certainly not expecting it.
    But it felt so good to see that you are alive.
    Welcome back.
    Please take your time, and please take care of yourself.

    #217617

    For fans of Luongo and/or Krainer, here is a new video (I am about to watch).

    #217632
    OzC
    Participant

    Welcome back Llargi. Thank you for doing what you do

    #217637
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Good old “ta-daaa type” of showing up again.
    Welcome back and take your time to recover.

    #217640
    BlueSkye
    Participant

    Very glad to know you are alive!

    #217666
    John Day
    Participant

    Ilargi:
    “Welcome back my friend to the show that never ends, we’re so glad you could attend, Come inside, come inside…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLS0Med0s6E

    “Karn Evil 9”, from Brain Salad Surgery seems to have been about the computers defeating the humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karn_Evil_9

    Posterior-circulation cerebral infarction often affects the visual cortex, and can present in odd and mixed ways. I learned to think of it some time ago. I hope you are doing well. You have my email.

    #217678
    those darned kids
    Participant

    hey, raúl..

    i guess you’ve had an imposed-upon “news vacation”.

    may i humbly suggest you return to the madness ever so slowly.

    17 years seem to have passed in the last month and a half.

    #217681
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    What a relief! Welcome back!

    #217692
    John Day
    Participant

    Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a simple compound with a remarkable blend of therapeutic properties. Over the last year, I’ve compiled thousands of studies showing how it treats a wide range of conditions including:

    Neurological disorders such as strokes, dementia, paralysis, and neuropathies (discussed here).
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    Autoimmune, protein, and contractile disorders, such as arthritis, scleroderma, amyloidosis, and interstitial cystitis (discussed here).
    Head conditions, such as tinnitus, ear infections, dental problems, and sinusitis (discussed here).
    Internal organ diseases such as prostate enlargement, pancreatitis, and cirrhosis (discussed here).
    Respiratory disorders, including asthma, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis (discussed here).
    Many different gastrointestinal disorders, such as bowel inflammation, cirrhosis, and pancreatitis (discussed here).
    Skin conditions such as hair loss, acne, ulcers, skin cancer, or psoriasis (discussed here).
    Infections, such as onychomycosis, herpes, and shingles, and many antibiotic-resistant infections (discussed here).
    Many aspects of cancer, including eliminating cancers, enhancing chemotherapy, reducing the toxicity of mainstream cancer treatments, and reducing cancer pain (discussed here).
    Because of how effective DMSO was for a wide range of “incurable” conditions, after being discovered in the 1960s, DMSO quickly became the most demanded drug in the country — at which point the FDA did everything they could to suppress it.
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/dmso-heals-each-level-vision-loss/5907179

    #217697
    John Day
    Participant

    Monday In Moscow https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/monday-in-moscow

    What may be the mechanisms through which global real-economy declines sharply in 2026, should we accept the projections which opened my last 2 blog posts?
    The underlying cause is the increasing real costs to provide oil, gas, coal and mineral ores, and to refine them to the inputs needed for industry, but that is not what things usually look like. November 2019 peak oil + condensates looked like the 2019 Repo-crisis, then $US trillions in bailouts during COVID lockdowns, for instance.
    When this year was still wet-behind-the-ears, on January 3, I posted BOE Still Needs World War Three, which hearkened back to work of Alex Krainer’s, which I had previously cited. The situation does not seem different. “Peace” in Ukraine will formalize losses of the Bank of England, other investment pools like BlackRock, and European finance, in general. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/boe-still-needs-world-war-three
    I assert that banking is a resource-extraction mechanism forglobal economy, and that military force breaks knees to keep nations and other entities paying into the Western financial control and extraction machinery.
    Russia, China, Venezeula, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, and even Turkey do not need World War-3.
    The US can get by better without actual war, which would grind up its threatening military machine. The US is going through a periodic economic crisis, as Russia did in the 1990s, and China did during the Cultural Revolution. The US has a lot of natural resources per capita, and in absolute terms, second only to Russia.
    The US does need to rebuild and restructure, and is already arranging for Europe and the UK to face the initial crisis. There is elite power-struggle now within western elite factions. The faction that tried to assassinate Donald Trump in July 2024 was forced to make relative peace with the faction he fronts for, which is currently nationalist, militarist, Zionist, extractive-industrialist and technocratic-elites, and which includes Jerome Powell at the Fed, Scott Bessent at Treasury and other monetary-warriors.
    The “craziness” of current news may be due to the fact that underlying real-economy dynamics and elite-faction power struggles must not be revealed. These must be couched as culture-war, left against right, and racial conflicts. This casting is useful to keep citizens of any country divided against each other, so as to be controlled by elites. It is not credible, so people who seek reason, rather than group loyalty, notice that control-narratives are increasingly irrational and divisive. The CIA is particularly adept at running these “color-revolution” plays. Color-revolution divisiveness is what we are seeing in the US, UK, Europe, and 5-eyes countries.
    My simplified estimation of Donald Trump is that he sees that better deals can be made than the current arrangement, and that he would prefer to shake-off a lot of the current parasitic financial elites and make common cause with Russia to produce Arctic, and even Antarctic oil, while defending these holdings militarily, and controlling other countries through managing their access to oil. He needs to close the door to WW-3 in Ukraine before Europe can drag the US into it.
    Trump has been saber-rattling at Venezeula, in order to control their large holdings of expensive-to-extract tarry oil, but does not want to risk loiss of military assets and prestige against hypersonic anti-ship missiles and the Russian air-defense missiles which Venezuela sports, reportedly including new S-400 models recently delivered by Russian military transports, along with operators and a commanding general.
    Every day without a recognizable kinetic World War-3 is a relatively hopeful day, as we might see it. Do prepare for worse, please.

    Martin Armstrong points out that global financial infrastructure is $US denominated, and still works: Hating the Dollar – Nearly a 60 Year Tradition
    The US dollar had (and still has) immense “network effects.” It is the currency of international trade, finance, and central bank reserves. This creates a powerful lock-in effect that is incredibly difficult to dislodge…
    ..Since 1971, all there has been is this anti-American view of the dollar with every scenario calling for its demise. They do not understand the sheer depth of the US economy and the backing of any currency is the productivity of its people. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/foreign-exchange/usd/hating-the-dollar-nearly-a-60-year-tradition/

    Gilbert Doctorow, How is multipolarity advancing against the hegemony of the Collective West?
    So it (“balderdash”) is with the idea that BRICS is overturning Western dominance now that the share of global GDP held by BRICS countries in 44% while that of G7 countries is 28% (approximate numbers). I have heard this nonsense about GDP as the measure of Hard Power going back to a little debate I had with the doyen of the Realist School of international relations, John Mearsheimer, in my house in Brussels together with Steve Cohen and his wife Katrina vanden Heuvel in March 2015.
    John said then that Russia was a declining power and just a spoiler: look at its miserable GDP. Then in 2016 during the Russian elections the same point was made by the Liberal party Yabloko who insisted that standing up to the US as the Putin government proposed was impossible. The money being spent on arms was a waste, they said, because Russia just represented 3% of global GDP.
    Rubbish. Russia is doing just fine in Hard Power notwithstanding its still being a tiny part of global GDP. John Mearsheimer has, in the meantime, changed his tune ever since Russian command of the field of battle in Ukraine became undeniable about six months ago. He now calls Russia a ‘Great Power.’
    Hard Power is determined not only by GDP: other key factors include national will, fighting spirit and readiness for self-sacrifice, as well as the talent and dedication of the boys and girls in the labs and in the military industrial complex.
    I say that multipolarity is not being advanced by BRICS, which was smashed by Trump’s secondary tariffs…
    ..Finally, it has occurred to me that the death of Western hegemony has been grossly exaggerated time and again. It should have occurred following WWI, when the enormous prosperity of Europe had been dissipated on the battlefields that also wiped out an entire generation of potential national leaders. Then it received what should have been the coup de grâce in WWII, which bankrupted Britain…
    ..Did this end the global dominance of the Collective West? Not at all! What occurred was a shift in power and decision-making within the Collective West from the former imperial powers to the United States, while the Collective West in its entirety continued to exploit the Rest of the World economically and otherwise…
    ..This is not to say that a decisive reordering of power at the global board of governance is not occurring before our eyes. But, I insist, it is happening on the field of battle in Ukraine.
    Russia has won the war. The challenge now is to win the peace. And a large task will be to ensure changes in the policies or in personnel at the top in 23 out of 27 European Member States. Their leaders have locked arms and stood together behind a program of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia by proxy war in Ukraine and to this day they refuse to acknowledge defeat.
    Note that I now add Belgium to Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia as a country led by someone independently thinking and accepting realities, as against the conformist and plainly stupid others.
    Europe must come around to revising the security architecture on the Continent to bring Russia in from the cold. This is an essential step for the move towards a multipolar world to proceed on track. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/how-is-multipolarity-advancing-against

    Richard Murphy, The UK Is Cursed: How Finance Destroyed Our Economy
    The choice that was made by  Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s, when she realised that she was going to have   the most phenomenal inflow of funds from the seas, largely off Scotland, was not accidental. She chose to pursue a deliberate political project, and we still live with the consequences of that.
    Thatcher inherited a windfall.  North Sea oil and gas delivered it. Few governments have ever had luck on that scale,   and she blew it.
    She could have modernised manufacturing.
    She could have rebuilt infrastructure.
    She could have created a sovereign wealth fund, as Norway did.
    And she could have renewed the industrial fabric of this country, making it suitable and fit for future generations, but she didn’t.
    She funded mass unemployment.
    She funded the destruction of British industry, quite deliberately.
    She funded tax cuts for the wealthy.
    She sustained industrial closure.
    And she expanded the impact of the City of London upon our economy.
    She quite literally burned our future to fund her neoliberal dream.
    Sterling   was pushed upward in value by the demand for oil, and the pound, in fact, rose in value and was maintained above value until 2008 as a consequence. Oil did this at first, and then, when oil began to fall in terms of its significance within the UK economy,  Gordon Brown ensured that we suffered a ‘Finance Curse’ instead, and kept sterling overvalued as a result for far longer than it should have been.
    An overvalued pound makes our exports uncompetitive.
    It means that the UK cost base rises when compared to our competitors.
    And it means that imports can price out homemade products.
    The consequence of the overvalued pound created by oil, and then the hot money in the City of London, has been that many industrial sectors in the UK have collapsed:  shipbuilding, steel, engineering, textiles, and electronics. In all cases, these have been largely eliminated from the UK economy.   It’s as if we’ve forgotten how to make anything but things that are financially engineered. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/the-uk-is-cursed-how-finance-destroyed-our-economy.html

    #217699
    John Day
    Participant

    Especially for European banking… Global risk of shocks is unprecedentedly high, warns ECB https://greencentralbanking.com/2025/11/26/global-risk-of-shocks-is-unprecedentedly-high-warns-ecb/

    A practical head-of-state: Hungary’s Orban Seeks More ‘Cheap’ Russian Oil & Gas In Warm Meeting With Putin https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/hungarys-orban-seeks-more-cheap-russian-oil-gas-warm-meeting-putin

    Gilbert Doctorow, Kazakhstan Ukraine Tension: Ukraine Drone Attack on CPC Terminal Has Created Spark – NewsX World, 30 November
    I consider my most important discussion point in this interview the observation that the attack on Russia’s Novorossiisk oil terminal which has shut down 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports was by one or more Ukrainian naval drones. It is reasonable to believe that the British have enabled this attack which punishes not Russia but the American companies that own the wells and partly own the pipeline transporting the oil to the now damaged port terminal on the Black Sea. Let us remember that it is precisely the British who were behind the naval drone attack on the Kerch bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia more than a year ago and also behind drone attacks on Russian naval vessels based in Sevastopol. It would be useful if this question of British dirty work were put to Prime Minister Starmer for clarifications. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/kazakhstan-ukraine-tension-ukraine

    Ukraine Releases Footage Of Kamikaze Drone Boats Striking Russian Shadow-Fleet Tankers
    Two Russia-linked “shadow fleet” tankers suffered sequential strikes on Friday in Turkey’s Black Sea waters… Visegrád 24 circulated new footage from Ukraine showing explosive-laden kamikaze drone boats striking both tankers at the stern, rendering the vessels inoperable. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-releases-footage-kamikaze-drone-boats-striking-russian-shadow-fleet-tankers

    Zelensky’s Sacked Top Aide ‘Escapes’ To Front-Line To ‘Hide’ From Corruption Investigators
    Andriy Yermak, the man who until just over 24 hours ago was Zelensky’s right hand man and the president’s top most powerful aid as chief of staff, and Ukraine’s appointed chief negotiator with the US on the peace process, is going to the front lines, apparently to “fight”.
    After his home and offices were raided by Ukraine’s anti-corruption investigators Friday related to the ongoing massive energy sector kickback scandal, Yermak announced by text message to The New York Post, “I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals.” …
    ..Yermak, with his security detail, was brought to the location of commander nicknamed Madjar – one of the most media-prominent Ukrainian fighters, known for harsh Telegram rhetoric and the “Drone Wall” project. Unit commanders refuse to assign Yermak to their ranks.
    He is physically present but has no tasks, no role, and no assigned position. Yermak is hiding from NABU anti-corruption investigations in a zone where detectives cannot serve him a notice of suspicion or court summons. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelenskys-sacked-top-aide-goes-front-line-lawmaker-says-hes-hiding-corruption

    #217700
    John Day
    Participant

    Andrew Korybko, Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Scandal Is Turning Into A Rolling Coup
    Zelensky might be next after Yermak was just taken down unless he complies with Trump’s demands for peace, in which case it’s not unforeseeable that he too could be formally implicated in this scandal as the catalyst for a US-backed regime change carried out in collusion with his domestic allies. https://korybko.substack.com/p/ukraines-anti-corruption-investigation

    “Long term prosperity”, Marco? For who? U.S. and Ukrainian officials hold ‘very productive’ meeting in Florida
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the talks were “not just about the terms that ends fighting; it’s about also the terms that set up Ukraine for long-term prosperity.”
    ​ Top U.S. officials and a Ukrainian delegation met in Florida on Sunday for the latest round of discussions on a plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine — talks both sides described positively but about which they provided no details and took no questions.​ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/us-ukrainian-officials-hold-productive-meeting-florida-rcna246598

    December 1-2, 2021, Putin and Lavrov presented the west with a comprehensive security plan. When Putin will meet Witkoff: Kremlin clarifies timing
    The Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet with the US President’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in the first half of next week, states the Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov, according to RIA Novosti.​ “In the first half of the week. We will announce the exact day in due course,” Peskov said, commenting on the possible date of Witkoff’s visit.​ https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/when-putin-will-meet-witkoff-kremlin-clarifies-1764362660.html

    ​ December 1-2 anniversary: Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, will travel to Moscow on Monday, a U.S. official tells Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-heads-moscow-ukraine-peace-talks-gain-momentum

    Ukrainian Prosecutors Handling More Than 300,000 Desertion Cases
    The General Prosecutor’s office wrote to the New Voice of Ukraine in early November that 310,000 criminal cases related to unauthorized absence from a military unit or place of service (AWOL) and desertion are currently registered, 162,000 of which came just this year. There have been over 21,000 desertions in October 2025 alone. https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/11/27/ukrainian-prosecutors-handling-more-than-300000-desertion-cases/

    #217701
    John Day
    Participant

    Kid, They Will Reassign You in a War! France Launches New Military Service Plan To Counter Supposed Russian Menace
    French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced a new avenue of voluntary military service for 18- and 19-year olds with the goal of gradually bolstering both active duty and reserve strength. In a critical sweetener for would-be recruits who are wary of dying in Ukraine, those who enlist under the new program will only serve in the French mainland and French territories abroad. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-launches-new-military-service-plan-counter-supposed-russian-menace

    Brussels Bends The Knee: EU Signs Off On Deep Tariff Cuts For American Goods https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brussels-bends-knee-eu-signs-deep-tariff-cuts-american-goods

    Antifa Mob Mobilizes Terror Campaign Against AfD Event https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/antifa-mob-mobilizes-terror-campaign-against-afd-youth-event-targets-politicians

    For the first time, fewer than 50% of Germans categorically reject voting for the anti-immigration AfD party – Despite threats of a ban, mass surveillance, and powerful media campaigns aimed at the party, the AfD continues to make inroads with the German public. https://rmx.news/article/for-the-first-time-fewer-than-50-of-germans-categorically-reject-voting-for-the-anti-immigration-afd-party/

    ​ German Christmas Market Installs ‘Anti-Tank’ Barriers; Public Cheers ‘Creative’ Solution
    The German town of Külsheim is dealing with the soaring costs of terror-proofing German Christmas markets with a very festive solution: anti-tank barriers.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-christmas-market-installs-anti-tank-barriers-public-cheers-creative-solution

    #217702
    John Day
    Participant

    How Tucker Carlson put Arab Christians on America’s map
    Prominent conservative journalists and politicians have broken ranks to call out Israeli crimes against Arab Christians. The effects continue to ripple through Donald Trump’s support base.​
    ​ Trump’s unquestioning support for Israel is increasingly causing him political problems, yet those problems are not coming from the progressive or liberal left, as might be expected, but from the heart of the United States’ deep south, home to millions of Christian conservatives, many of whom listen to journalists like Tucker Carlson.​ https://en.majalla.com/node/328469/politics/how-tucker-carlson-put-arab-christians-americas-map

    ​Bibi set it up and stood the army down the night before: Netanyahu accused of dodging blame as Israel confronts Oct 7 failures https://www.arabnews.com/node/2624086/middle-east

    More Palestinian remains returned by Israel mutilated, tortured – Not a Ceasefire Day 48​ https://israelpalestinenews.org/more-palestinian-remains-returned-by-israel-mutilated-tortured-not-a-ceasefire-day-48/

    ​ Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender
    Far-right minister defends killing of two men who appeared to have given themselves up, saying ‘terrorists must die’​ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/28/video-shows-israeli-forces-shooting-palestinians-dead-moments-after-surrender

    ‘Everything is soaked’: Winter rains in Gaza bring new misery for Palestinians​ https://apnews.com/article/gaza-palestinians-weather-rain-929c8cecd6dbe2b112770e361105b097

    #217703
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Only 1 out of 8 planned aid movements facilitated into Gaza on Tuesday, UN says​ – ‘Every delivery into Gaza makes a significant difference,’ says spokesperson​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/only-1-out-of-8-planned-aid-movements-facilitated-into-gaza-on-tuesday-un-says/3754972

    ​ Israel launches major assault in West Bank city as helicopters shoot at homes
    Troops forcibly expel Palestinians from their homes in Tubas, turning the properties into temporary military barracks​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-apache-helicopters-shoot-civilian-homes-tubas

    Israel cuts water lines, bulldozes roads and seizes homes as West Bank operation escalates​ https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-cut-water-lines-bulldoze-roads-and-seize-homes-west-bank

    ​ A map redrawn piece by piece: Palestinians describe a country annexed in plain sightAnnexation in the occupied West Bank has become so routine that it now unfolds largely unnoticed and rarely reported​ https://www.trtworld.com/article/37e1b713269a

    ​ “Purchase” from thieves: Knesset advances bill allowing Israelis to purchase land in occupied West Bank
    The measure opens the door for Israelis to seize more occupied land while sidestepping long-standing legal constraints​ https://thecradle.co/articles/knesset-advances-bill-allowing-israelis-to-purchase-land-in-occupied-west-bank

    #217704
    John Day
    Participant

    Israel launches fresh strikes in southern Lebanon​ https://en.mehrnews.com/news/239262/Israel-launches-fresh-strikes-in-southern-Lebanon

    EXPOSED: 121 Former IDF SOLDIERS Now Working as ICE Agents in CHICAGO… America Is Officially OCCUPIED​ https://x.com/ProjectConstitu/status/1993423751766065388

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, What’s shattering America? It’s NOT “the left,” as rightists think, nor is it Trump, as “leftists” think. It’s something else, which both sides have learned not to think of/ Mark Crispin Miller – Bottom line, think 3 letter agencies
    Specifically, it’s not “as if the script were lifted straight from a CIA playbook for overseas regime change operations.” That “script” makes clear—or should—that all that “leftist” agitation is, in fact, yet one more subversive operation by the CIA, whose specialty it is, and always has been, to destabilize the countries in its sights. Thus, whereas that paranoid survey of “unhinged progressive billionaires” and “far-left militant groups” and “foreign-aligned NGOs” (and why not “radical Islam,” too?) suggests that such a jumble of bad actors could (somehow) act as one, the fact is that no such sprawling group is capable of such “dark” discipline—which the CIA has long since wielded, to the profit of its corporate clients, and the misery of the peoples of Iran, Guatemala, Brazil, Greece, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Libya, Ukraine and scores of other sovereign nations.
    ​ And now it’s clearly active here on our own soil, and not just on “the left,” but on the right, as well; or, to put it more precisely, it has—especially since COVID—been actively dividing We the People, into “red” and “blue,” black and white, Jews and gentiles, maskers and anti-maskers, then “vaxxers” and “anti-vaxxers,” and other seething dyads now impelling us toward civil war.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/whats-shattering-america-its-not

    ​Nobody goes back to live in Haiti voluntarily: ‘Self Deport’ Or Else: DHS Guts Biden’s Haitian Invasion Pipeline https://www.zerohedge.com/political/self-deport-or-else-dhs-guts-bidens-haitian-invasion-pipeline

    ​ DC National Guard Shooter Worked for CIA-Backed Kandahar Strike Force in Afghanistan
    Rahmanullah Lakanwal, worked for a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” known as the Kandahar Strike Force (KSF) or the “03” unit, which has been implicated in war crimes against Afghan civilians.​ Lakanwal, 29, arrived in the US in September 2021 as part of a program called “Operation Allies Welcome​”​. https://news.antiwar.com/2025/11/27/dc-national-guard-shooter-worked-for-cia-backed-kandahar-strike-group-in-afghanistan/

    #217705
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Escape Key, Own nothing. Clear everything.​ A Field Guide to Planetary Management
    ​ The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism does double duty: it forces importers to calculate and report embedded carbon across supply chains — creating the metrics — then makes trade conditional on that accounting. Before CBAM, most goods didn’t have a standardised carbon cost attached. After CBAM, they do, because you can’t trade without it. Lenin’s ‘accounting and control’ in real time: build the accounting, then use it for control. CBAM builds the carbon accounting. ISO 20022 carries it. CBDC wallets can act on it.
    ​ Clearing presents as neutral infrastructure. It isn’t. When a middleman makes itself indispensable between all parties, it doesn’t mediate conflict — it supersedes it. The original Marxist framing was owner versus worker, direct exploitation. The clearing architecture doesn’t resolve that conflict. It interposes itself between everyone and extracts compliance from all sides. Factory owner and worker alike need the rails to transact. Both become subjects of whoever controls the clearing. The clearer doesn’t take sides in the old war. It ends the war by becoming the new sovereign.​ https://escapekey.substack.com/p/own-nothing-clear-everything

    ​ It’s Not Only About Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect
    ​ It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a longer timescale in some cases – across several of the countries in the Caribbean Basin, aiming to cleanse the region of governments deemed undesirable to Washington.
    ​ As international relations professor at the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer reminds us, the US “does not tolerate left-leaning governments… and as soon as they see a government that is considered to be left-of-center they move to replace that government.”…
    ..Former Bush and Trump official Marshall Billingslea says the ultimate target of a US regime change assault is the entire Latin American left, “from Cuba to Brazil to Mexico to Nicaragua.” Military intervention leading to the end of the Maduro government would halt what he alleges (without evidence) is the flow of money from Caracas that has led to the “socialist plague that has spread across Latin America.”
    ​ US-imposed regime-change in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua – where the “socialist plague” has taken deep root – is a bipartisan project. For other progressive and left-leaning Latin American states – Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, and even Chile – the Pax Americana prescription stops short of outright deep regime change; infiltration, intimidation and co-optation are employed to keep them subordinate.
    ​ For Democrats and Republicans alike, the US imperial projection on the region is a given. Trump and his comrade-in-arms Rubio are leading the charge. But the so-called US opposition party is offering weak constraints.​ https://original.antiwar.com/John_Perry/2025/11/27/its-not-only-about-venezuela-trump-intends-a-wider-domino-effect/

    ​ The official US legal rationale is that the drugs fund narco-cartelmilitary action against the neighbors, and that deaths are an unintentional consequence.
    Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report
    ​ More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder ​ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-drug-boat-survivors-order-b2874580.html

    ​ He has no choice but to deny: Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
    Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military​ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/pete-hegseth-denies-ordering-deaths-narco-boat

    ​ Moon of Alabama has a lot of well organized information here: Trump Pardons Drug Smuggler, Threatens Venezuela
    Trump’s South America policy is getting more ridiculous by the day. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/11/trump-pardons-drug-smuggler-threatens-venezuela.html

    #217706
    John Day
    Participant

    Fighters and bombers fly up to a country on attack-approaches to get the air-defense radar to light-up and show where it is, so they can take it out.
    They can tell what kind of system it comes from, too. U.S. B-52s Conduct ‘Bomber Attack Demonstration’ Near Venezuela https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/b52s-bomber-attack-demonstration-venezuela

    ​ I think he explains why it WON’T start there: WWIII Will Start in Venezuela – Steve Quayle
    ..There is now confirmed involvement by China, Russia and Iran in Venezuela, and that is causing security concerns for America in the Western Hemisphere. Top generals are making rounds with our military in the region. Quayle warns, “Risk is something we deal with every day, but let’s talk about a heightened level of risk and World War III. . . .. This does not get any more critical. Venezuela has received the hypersonic missiles that are available. Iran has them, they are in Venezuela. Russia has them, they are in Venezuela. The Chinese are in Venezuela. . ..”
    ​ Quayle says his sources say the US called off an attack. Quayle explains, “It was called off. . . . They did not want to send their multibillion-dollar bombers that were in the sight if the S-500 anti-missile system. . .. In essence, the plan was to bomb, and to use heavy bombers to go in heavy loaded . . . then they found out that those S-400 and S-500 missile systems were deployed, and they were manned by people who know how to run them. . .. I think it would be silly to initiate a World War event, and bombing Venezuela would only be the start of it. It is the same for the cartels in Mexico. My sources tell me that President Trump has been told by China and Russia that if you bomb them, we will come to their aid.”​ https://usawatchdog.com/wwiii-will-start-in-venezuela-steve-quayle/

    Very low-risk announcement: Trump Declares Airspace Above Venezuela “To Be Closed In Its Entirety”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/military/trump-declares-airspace-above-venezuela-be-closed-its-entirety

    ​Just words to “support” China: Russia warns Japan against deploying medium-range missiles on relevant islands https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/28/WS69294410a310d6866eb2beb6.html

    Japan Denies Trump Asked PM Not To Provoke Beijing​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/japan-denies-trump-asked-pm-not-provoke-beijing

    #217707
    John Day
    Participant

    DRAMA! Trump says he will cancel all Biden orders ‘signed by autopen’ and threatens ex-president with ‘perjury’ charges (if he says he approved them)
    President’s threats come as he also seeks to investigate members of Congress​ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-autopen-perjury-charges-b2874633.html

    ​Caitlin Johnstone brings up very good points about pervasive modern propaganda: It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Preserve Our Mental Sovereignty https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-getting-harder-and-harder-to

    Now Hiring: “We Are Everywhere” – Fort Bragg Psychological Warfare Group Posts Chilling Video https://www.zerohedge.com/military/we-are-everywhere-fort-bragg-psychological-warfare-group-posts-chilling-video

    Jessica Rose Ph.D. “Researchers” are making novel chimeric bat/pig explosive diarrhea viruses – Gain-Of-Function (GOF) in the name of “what if” to potentiate zoonosis? https://jessicar.substack.com/p/researchers-are-making-novel-chimeric

    Meryl Nass MD, Has an Honest Review of the COVID Vaccine Fiasco Begun, Finally? F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
    “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”–Dr. Vinay Prasad​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/has-an-honest-review-of-the-covid

    #217709
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Celia Farber, FDA Chief Officer Vinay Prasad Wrote 3 Page Dam-Break Internal Memo To Staff, Day After Thanksgiving, Certifying First Definite 10 Deaths In Children From Covid Shots Via VAERS, NYT Reported It
    ​ Prasad Wrote: “The Real Number Is Higher.” Pharma Gatekeepers Go Berserk With Moral Thunder, Calling It “Irresponsible,” And “Misleading,” As NYT Readers Fill Comments Section With Denials​ https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/fda-chief-officer-vinay-prasad-wrote

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, Here is the very interesting CBER Director Prasad’s email to FDA staff, which is the reason for the NYT’s admission of at least 10 children’s deaths due to COVID vaccines https://merylnass.substack.com/p/here-is-the-very-interesting-cber

    Drink nice organic coffee in the morning with little or no sweetener: Daily Coffee Habits May Shield Your Liver – Coffee’s Bioactive Compounds May Aid Liver Function https://news.justcarehealth.com/p/daily-coffee-habits-may-shield-your

    A Midwestern Doctor, From Sharper Night Vision to Curing Lifelong Blindness — How DMSO Heals Each Level of Vision Loss
    Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a simple compound with a remarkable blend of therapeutic properties. Over the last year, I’ve compiled thousands of studies showing how it treats a wide range of conditions including:
    Neurological disorders such as strokes, dementia, paralysis, and neuropathies (discussed here).
    Circulatory disorders such as Raynaud’s, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids (discussed here).
    Chronic pain (e.g., from disc herniations, bursitis, or complex regional pain syndrome) and tissue injuries, such as sprains, concussions, burns, surgical incisions, and spinal cord injuries (discussed here).
    Autoimmune, protein, and contractile disorders, such as arthritis, scleroderma, amyloidosis, and interstitial cystitis (discussed here).
    Head conditions, such as tinnitus, ear infections, dental problems, and sinusitis (discussed here).
    Internal organ diseases such as prostate enlargement, pancreatitis, and cirrhosis (discussed here).
    Respiratory disorders, including asthma, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis (discussed here).
    Many different gastrointestinal disorders, such as bowel inflammation, cirrhosis, and pancreatitis (discussed here).
    Skin conditions such as hair loss, acne, ulcers, skin cancer, or psoriasis (discussed here).
    Infections, such as onychomycosis, herpes, and shingles, and many antibiotic-resistant infections (discussed here).
    Many aspects of cancer, including eliminating cancers, enhancing chemotherapy, reducing the toxicity of mainstream cancer treatments, and reducing cancer pain (discussed here).
    Because of how effective DMSO was for a wide range of “incurable” conditions, after being discovered in the 1960s, DMSO quickly became the most demanded drug in the country — at which point the FDA did everything they could to suppress it…
    ..It’s hence quite noteworthy that DMSO is both able to create many of these same therapeutic effects (e.g., by increasing microcirculation to the eyes, it greatly increases the vital nutrition retinal cells receive), and like those therapies, restore vision, but do so in a much more broad and economical way (rather than only targeting one component of vision loss).
    “I’ve had countless patients who were already doing all the ‘right’ things with nutrition and weren’t getting better with their pain/autoimmune problems, and then they did well after adding DMSO.” — James Miller MD
    More importantly, the fact that DMSO can quickly and easily treat “incurable” conditions like vision loss provide a critical lesson into the myriad of other chronic illnesses we are facing, as the eyes are not the only part of the body affected by the ever increasing circulatory impairments (many of which result from vaccination) and nutritional depletion of the food supply seen throughout society.
    The significant health challenges our society faces require doing something different. Fortunately, as things like DMSO’s saga show, the solutions we are searching for already exist.
    More importantly, we have reached a unique historical crossroad, as the dire need to fix America’s disastrous healthcare has thrust us into a never-before-seen political climate where large parts of the culture, media, and government support rather than oppose the adoption of these real and affordable pathways to health. It is up to each of us to make the best of this moment and rediscover the forgotten umbrella therapies. https://www.globalresearch.ca/dmso-heals-each-level-vision-loss/5907179

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    Germ
    Participant

    Blessings and prayers for you, Raul!

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