What Is More Important? Universal Health Care Or The War In Afghanistan?

It was recently leaked to the Washington Post that General McChrystal requested more troops be deployed to Afghanistan by President Obama.

McChrystal asked for 40,000 additional soldiers, much like the troop surge that helped us regain the momentum in the war in Iraq during the Bush administration.

The General is so adamant about the need for more troops for the war in Afghanistan to be brought to a successful conclusion that if they are not forthcoming, he has threatened to resign.

In recent days, President Obama has stated that he has not taken this matter under consideration because he has not received a written request for additional troops from the McChrystal.

However, it turns out that statement is not factual.

In the first major “leak” to come from the Obama White House, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post just broke the story that not only has McChrystal made the request through the proper channels, it was made weeks ago!

For those of you who wish to see it, we have an unclassified report that you can read here.

This is going to be a major embarrassment for the Obama administration.

The question is, why not be forthcoming, rather than deny having seen such a document?

Some have speculated that President Obama has an ulterior motive.

When a troop surge was first proposed during the war in Iraq, the hue and cry could be heard all across the United States.

And some feel (we here at the Freedom Medium being among them) that this is the last thing President Obama wants right now.

Such a nationwide debate would take the focus off of the President’s top priority, the passage of a health care reform bill.

So by claiming that he has not received a request for additional troops, Obama would not have to deal with the public discussion, Congressional debate, etc. that would take away health care from being a front page issue.

It will be interesting to see just what sort of spin the White House attempts to put onto this story.

However, anyone with an ounce of common sense will know that there had to be a reason that the President would deny the existence of the request.

Perhaps there is a plausible reason for the President’s actions. (Or lack therof.)

Until such time (if ever) legitimate reasons are forthcoming for Obama’s denial, we will continue to speculate:

What has a higher priority on the President’s agenda?

Winning the war in Afghanistan,and ultimately the war against terrorism?

Or socialized medicine?

What Do Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Elvis Presley And 9-11 Have In Common?

Today marks eight years since one of the darkest days in American history.

And I have spent days agonizing over what would be appropriate to commememorate the events of that faithful day.

There will be millions of people doing the same thing today.

Myself, I am not a professional speechmaker, I am just a simple man who loves his country.

I still get a tear in my eye when I hear the playing of the national anthem.

I also know that, no matter the platitudes or the placating gestures our President makes, there are still many people who desire nothing more than the utter destruction of this land that I love.

And that pretty speeches and needless apologies aren’t going to change that.

President Obama, please listen to the words of two of my favorite people of all time, and come to understand something.

The dream of everyone in the world living in peace, while the world is filled with people who are bent on our country’s destruction, is just that.

A dream.

President Obama, your primary duty as President is to take whatever steps that are necessary to be sure that we never see a repeat of those images.

Your primary duty as a human being is to see to it that never again does someone feel compelled to make a video such as this one:

You Can See How Government-Run Healthcare Works RIGHT NOW!

This is for all of you, the town hall protesters that Nancy Pelosi calls Nazis, as well as all the (declining) members of the Kool-Aid Brigade.

I say declining members because just as when the Clinton’s tried ramming health care “reform” down our throats years ago, the more people learn of the details of this legislation, the people who support it grow less and less.

But I digress.

If you truly want to learn how well the government will run health care, you need to look no further than the Veterans Administration.

Pay a visit to a local VA hospital, talk to the patients, look around, and you will find that the level of (or lack of) services delivered will make you sick!

And if that doesn’t convince you that putting the government in charge of our medical treatment is a recipe for disaster, consider the following:

The leading liberal newspaper in the United States, The New York Times, reported a story of veterans at an Albany NY VA medical center who were subjected to experimental cancer treatments under the supervision of a man who was posed as a doctor, when in actuality he was not a licensed physician.
Calling Doctor Mengle.
Click Here to read the report.

Want to talk about a different kind of abuse?

Let;s consider the case of former VA doctor Robert Ratcliff, who, upon learning he was under investigation for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs, felt that he didn’t want to explain his actions, and before investigators closed in, purged all his records and destroyed his computer’s hard drive.
You can read more about that case here.

How about a surgeon with a history of alcohol abuse performing knee surgery while intoxicated, and botching the operation?
Does it give you some idea of the level of indifference to the patient’s well being it takes to have a hospital staff not stop a man from performing surgery while he is drunk?
You really think that something like this won’t happen under Obamacare?
Click Here to read about the drunk doctor.

Need some more proof that you are handing your health care over to disciples of the Doctor Of Death?
How about the deaths of over 100 patients of the VA due to botched colon, breast and prostate cancer experimental treatments  with the vets acting as human guniea pigs?
Read about it here.

Think you’ll receive a fair hearing (if you’re still alive) if something like this happens, or if you are denied treatment under Obamacare?
You have a better chance of seeing Nancy Pelosi and Rush Limbaugh splitting an ice cream sundae.
Veterans filing claims against VA hospitals see their claims rejected by a three to one ratio.
Read about it here.

Still think that under a government run program that you will receive, at the very least, adequate medical care?
Ready to bet your life on it?
Before you answer, read the story of one vet who compared his doctors to Mafia killers’
Calling Doctor Tony Soprano.

Are you willing to be treated by a doctor who, under government supervision, was responsible for the deaths of at least nine patients? And his supervisors continued to overlook his lack of credentials?
Not THAT guy. I don’t want to die!

If government run health care is such a good thing, explain the existence of the Veterans Affairs Whistleblower Coalition, after you have read their letter to the Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee.

Finally, I can speak from experience just how inefficent government run health care is.

My father, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, had himself admitted to a VA hospital because he was experiencing pain and swelling in his legs.
He wound up being there for over three months, and when I would visit him he would remark about how it did not seem that the doctors there were doing anything for him, and their refusal to discuss his symptoms in any detail, a sentiment I heard echoed by the other vets in the ward regarding thier own health issues.

I never had the chance to learn why my father was discharged from the VA hospital.

Because on a Friday they decided to send him home.
And on Saturday he died.

Yes, reform of America’s health care system is needed.
And those of you not totally blinded by ideology should be at the very least concerned by the treatment that our country’s veterans receive before we rush to fix a system that really isn’t broken, just needs some fine tuning.

And you have to pause and ask yourselves that if the government has such problems with running a health care system that has been established for decades, maybe we need to slow down a little before we hand over even more decisions about our medical treatment to federal bureaucrats.

And for those of you who will claim that I am citing isolated incidents, if you can’t take off your rose colored glasses long enough to see that these are only a few cases of the neglect, fraud and incompetence that goes on, and that we need to slow down and make sure we get this right, think about this.

Those of us who want the government to start over and deliver sensible and effective health care reform have something in common (about the only thing) with the folks who advocate for stricter gun control laws:

“If it saves one life, it’s worth it.”

The Health Care Video Obama Doesn’t Want You To See

Astroturfers?

Brooks Brothers Brigades?

Nazis?

UnAmerican?

These are just a few of the terms that have been directed at people who have the courage to voice their opposition to Barack Obama’s health care reform package.

Now the Obama camp has taken things to the next level.

In Obama’s America, if you exercise your Constitutional rights, you are subject to arrest:

An Update On Obama’s Army

Yesterday, we received a comment on one of our articles about Barack Obama’s Civilian Defense Force, or as we here at the Freedom Medium call it, Obama’s Army.

The writer took issue with the fact that we speculated that perhaps this force would be used to carry out tasks that the military refused to do because perhaps the orders they would receive they would consider to be unconstitutional.

We had also provided a link at the end of the article to the White House website that outlined the requirements (at that time) of the program, and the person leaving the comment also stated that they found nothing on the White House website that made mention of this force being used to do anything that would be against the Constitution.

Before we get into this, let’s have a recap of President Obama’s statement on this topic:

“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”

We are going to address things somewhat out of order, and talk about the link to the White House website first.

The folks running the White House website are a bit more clever than some people give them credit for, and are not going to spell out violations of the Constitution.
In it’s original wording, the change.gov website announced the President’s  proposal for requiring 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school, and 100 hours for each year a young person was attending college.
The wording was later changed to “setting a goal for service.”

You may ask where does the unconstitutional part enter the picture?

It is our opinion that requiring any American citizen not subject to a military draft to perform a set number of hours of community service at the behest of the federal government is in violation of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

If individual states aren’t allowed to do this, the federal government sure as hell isn’t.

Which brings us back to our speculation that perhaps the members of Obama’s Army would be called upon to perform taks that the military would consider unconstitutional.

And no, we are not a group of conspiracy theorists who take turns trying on each others tinfoil hats.

However, the question remains as to why do we need a civilian defense force that’s “just as powerful, just as strong” as America’s military?

One possible answer is that, unlike the members of America’s Armed Forces, Obama seeks to put together a group that is just as powerful as our military, yet whose members have not taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Factcheck Does What The President Of The United States Cannot

In all of the controversy surrounding the topic of Barack Obama’s birth certificate, (or his lack of one) there are two claims that are common to people who think this is a non-issue.

The first is that Obama has not shown the public his birth certificate because Hawaii will not release it to him.

The second claim, often made by the very same people, is that Factcheck has published Obama’s Certification Of Live Birth, and that should put the matter to rest.

However, one fundamental question seems to be being overlooked by these folks.

If the President Of The United States cannot get Hawaii to give him his birth certificate, how did the people at Factcheck get their hands on it?

The head of the most powerful country on earth connot gain access to his birth certificate, he needs an internet blog to do it for him.

Isn’t it great to have friends?

Also ignored is the fact that the document they allege is proof that Obama is a natural-born american citizen is a certification of live birth, not an actual birth certificate.
And there is a difference between the two.

A Hawaiian birth certificate contains more genealogical information, such as legal residency status of the child’s parents (which seems like it may be important to know) than does a certification of live birth, which is a computer-generated prinout, not an actual original paper document.

Of course, there are the skeptics  among us that question the validity of the images of the document presented by Factcheck.

Or at least we did until our friend Pamela Geller at Atlas Shurgs presented scientific proof that Factcheck’s document is a forgery.

And just how credible of a source is Factcheck anyway?
Not very, as it turns out.

It is a project of the the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Which is an offshoot of the Annenberg Foundation, the same Annenberg foundation that gave Barack Obama and his domestic terrorist cohort William Ayers over 100 million dollars to spend on improving education in Chicago-area schools.

Obama must have spent his share on cheeseburgers and cigarettes and Ayers may have used his to buy more gunpowder, because a follow-up study the Foundation did found no noticeable increase in test scores.

Another factor that should cause most clear thinking people to question the accuracy of anything that they read on Factcheck is that they also make the claim that Obama and Ayers did not even know each other!

This defies all logic in that Ayers founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and hired Obama to be it’s President!
Or that Ayers hosted a “Meet The Candidate” night at his home early in Obama’s political career.

Nevertheless, my viewpoints are subject to change.

I will consider Factcheck to be an unbiased source of information as soon as I see Elvis Presley and the Pope on a stage in Los Vegas singing a duet.

Now, let’s get back to the importance of a valid birth certificate for a moment.

Recently, Salvaterra left this comment on an article:

“A neighbor of mine just took his kids to visit a family member in county jail. Guess what they told him the kids needed in order to get in..
An original copy of their birth certificates!! They won’t accept anything else, including social security cards.”

I called some people I know that work as corrections officers, and they verifed this.

Is it any wonder that the Pentagon backed down when an Army Major demanded proof that Obama was fit to be Commander-In-Chief?

We aren’t going to let this issue drop, and I’ll tell you why.

There are many more implications to this than most of you realize, and the Constitutional crisis that may ensue as the result of all of this is only one factor.

We will be covering those topics, as well as presenting further proof that Obama is hiding something, in future articles, so stay tuned.

Obama Signs Executive Order Barring Release Of His Birth Certificate

UPDATE: At the time this post was published it appears as though we may have been misinterpreting the section of US Code covered by this Executive Order. While this EO may not necessarily cover Obama’s birth certificate, the question raised in the post still applies. Why, with everything going on at the time, was this one of Obama’s first orders of business? For a more precise analysis of this EO and its implications see Pamela Geller’s comment below or visit this link: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/atlas-exclusive.html. Our attention to the eligibility issue started with the case of Major Cook because of the implications the outcome of his case could have on all members of the military and the potential of a Constitutional crisis. We will continue to follow his case and others that reach the courts.

Original Post:

First, we did a story about an Army Major who filed suit regarding his deployment to Afghanistan on the grounds that Obama was not America’s legitimate Commander-In Chief.

World Net Daily thought highly enough of this article to link to it on their front page.

Then we did an article pointing out the differences between a Birth Cerificate and a Certification Of Live Birth.

Some of the biggest names in conservative news have weighed in on this topic, such as Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and numerous others have offered their opinions.

One of the people at the forefront of this issue is Joseph Farah and his staff over at World Net Daily.

They are even running an online petition demanding Obama produce a long-form birth certificate.

Thanks to the alertness of our great friend and loyal supporter Erica, who gave us the heads-up on this.  it appears that the issue of Obama being forced to produce a copy of his birth certificate may prove to be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

On January 21st, 2009, his very first day in office, Barack Obama implemented and signed into law Executive Order 13489.

For those of you who can’t take the time to read it. here is the section that applies:

“Sec.2

Notice Of Intent To Disclose Presidential Records

When the Archivist provides notice to the incumbent and former Presidents of his intent to disclose Presidential records  pursuant to section 1270.46 of the NARA regulations, the Archivist, using any guidelines providied by the incumbent and former Presidents, shall identify any specific materials, the disclosure of which he believes may raise a substantial question of executive privilege.”

Now for all of you who commented on our previous articles that we were no more that right-wing nut jobs, that this thing about Obama’s birth certificate was a non-issue, and those of you who tried to shift the focus of the stories, doesn’t this strike you as just a little odd?

That the first order of business Obama took care of on day one of his Presidency was to sign off on an Executive Order that states that only the records he chooses to be made public will be released?

This is the subject that was at the absolute top of his agenda?

If this isn’t proof that Obama is hiding something, I don’t know what is.

Obama And His Birth Certificate Are About To Make History

OK, I confess, the title is a bit misleading.

It should read Obama And His Lack Of  A Birth Certificate Is About To Make History.

Yesterday, World Net Daily broke the story of Army Major Stefan Cook, who argued that he should not have to deploy to Afghanistan because President Obama has not proven that he is a natural-born citizen, therefore he is unable to serve as Commander-In-Chief.

This is something that will receive little, if any, coverage from the mainstream media.

However, the fact that the U.S. Army revoked the orders of a soldier about to be sent overseas based wholly upon such a claim is unprecedented.

This controversy over Obama’s failure to produce a valid birth certificate has been an ongoing saga.

And all calls for him to do so have either been belittled or ignored by the White House.
Which may lead some folks to suspect that the reason he doesn’t simply produce the blasted thing and put this story to rest once and for all is because he doesn’t have one!

About the only attention we have seen regarding this issue was the presentation of a “Certification Of Live Birth” supposedly issued by the State of Hawaii.

This proves less than nothing, as first, to look at it you would think that a 12-year old made it on their home computer, and secondly is the fact that a child does not have to be born in Hawaii in order for the state to issue such a document to the child’s parents.

Even if this document is legitimate, it is a far cry from an actual birth certificate, and it surely is not proof of where Obama was actually born.

However , there are literally thousands of articles and opinions floating around about Obama’s birth certificate, or lack therof, and I don’t want to bore you with re-visiting the same stories.

Rather, I would like to expound on my claim that Obama’s lack of a birth certificate will make history.
Consider the following:

If indeed it is proven that Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen, and therefore is unable to serve as President, he will not be remembered as America’s first black President, rather history will remember him as the man who was the cause of the biggest Constitutional crisis this country has ever seen!

The question will be raised of what will happen to other troops deployed by Obama, and the troops already serving under orders from an ineligible commander in chief.

Every piece of legislation that Obama has signed since taking office would now be considered under law to be null and void.

Imagine what this would mean to the stock market, financial institutions, the auto industry, as well as every other facet of the American economy.

Not to mention, the people who already accuse the president’s critics of being racists will no doubt try to use this as their proof and stoke racial tensions to the point of riot.

Every appointment he has made, regardless if it was an appointment as a “Czar’, or a Cabinet-level position, would have to be overturned, and it would become the duty of the Vice-President to re-fill those positions.

Which leads to perhaps the most intriguing scenario of all.

The Constitution states that if the President is unable to serve, the Vice-President shall assume the duties of the office.

However, if the man who chose you to be his running mate was found to have been elected to the office in violation of Constitutional law, where does that leave you Mr. Biden?

After all, we (well, some of you poor misguided individuals) voted for the two of you as a team running on the same ticket.

So if it is found that the man who picked you to be his running mate did so in direct violation of federal law, doesn’t it follow that you were also elected to the Vice-Presidency under false pretenses?

Barack Obama.
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!

When the U.S. military accepts the claim of a soldier that the man posing as Commander-In-Chief has failed to produce his eligibility to hold that title, we may be on the verge of seeing change beyond belief.

Don’t Call it A Coup Barack!

Let’s imagine for a minute that our worst collective nightmare has come true. Yeah, you guessed it, I want you to imagine – just for the sake of this argument – that the Obama Administration has won a second term in the White House.

Now imagine that at the end of that second term, after eight years of damage done by Obama, he decides that the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution does not apply to him and he is going to serve another term no matter who wins the next presidential election.

We would not stand for any president trying to pull this in our country and we should not support actions such as these in any other country. Removing such a president from office would not be a “coup”, it would be the preservation of our representative republic government and our Constitution.

President Obama seems to disagree however based on his handling of the crisis currently taking place in Honduras.

The Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, has been moving to extend the term limits restricting him to his single term in an attempt to follow the lead of other Latin American presidents in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. On the surface, it appears as though the Honduran government has acted too hastily by removing the president before he has finished his term, but a deeper look shows that they followed a very strict legal guideline to justify the removal.

Since the health of Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been in decline, power in Latin America has been accumulating in the hands of Hugo Chavez. Chavez has nationalized much of Venezuela’s industries moving the country closer to communism and making his government very rich on profits that come primarily from oil exports.

Chavez has been effectively using the influence that has come with his power and money to spread Marxism across Latin America much in the same way Russia grew into the Soviet Union. He is able to provide both economic and military security to countries that follow his lead and Honduras is just the latest gem he has had his eye on.

President Zelaya has been more than complicit in helping Chavez gain influence over Honduras, which is something that the Honduran government and population has been exceedingly aware of (as well as the US Department of State). Having recognized the danger their president has put them in by succumbing to Chavez, the government decided to act.

The Untied States should be backing the actions of the Honduran government 100% (you know Reagan would have), but instead the Obama Administration has decided to side with communist dictators Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro calling the actions of the Honduran government an illegal military coup.

Check that, the administration is still “studying” to find a legal technicality in order to call it a coup so that we could then cut financial assistance to Honduras. We have already suspended military assistance.

But why would Obama go through so much trouble to punish Honduras, a government struggling against a fall to communism, on a legal technicality? Why would he go out of his way to fall on the side of Chavez and Castro?

Weren’t we all scorned and chastised during the 2008 election when we called Obama a socialist because of his statement on redistributing wealth and his associations with radical Marxists? After all since he had no experience we had to make a judgment of how he would act as president based on something didn’t we?

Well it’s sad to say, but our judgments are looking to be correct more and more each day based on Obama’s actions. It is even more clear now that the “change” Obama was promising was a change in the foundation of our government, not a change from “politics as usual” as he played it off.

So, when our president sides with communist dictators, nationalizes the auto and banking industries, allows countries in our backyard to fall to communism and pushes to redistribute the wealth of the United States, is there anyone left to defend Obama as not being a socialist?

The Civil Defense Versus Obama’s Army

Most of you reading this are probably not old enough to recognize the image attached to this article, or what it once stood for.
We’ll get back to that in a minute.

Some of you may recall that during the Presidential campaign, Barack Obama made the claim that “America needs a domestic security force just as strong and just as well funded as our military.”

At the time, I figured that candidate Obama was choosing to ignore the fact that we already have something along those lines, those of us who are sensible know it as the National Guard.

But it turns out that what Mr. Obama had in mind was, in our opinion, his own private army, formed under the pretense of having a domestic group ready to respond in case of a national emergency or terrorist attack.
Again, Mr. Obama, ever hear of the National Guard?

We have written a number of articles about this ludicrous idea, here are just two:

Obama’s Civilian Security Force and the other is  Obama’s Civilian Defense Force Update

Which brings us to the picture we started this article off with.

That picture was the symbol of a now-defunct organization know as The United States Civil Defense.

This was a non-military force, consisting at it’s peak of over 10 million members.

These volunteers were trained, primarily on a local level, to respond to natural disasters, administer first aid, decontaminate after chemical weapons attacks,  and a multitude of other scenarios.
An associated agency’s duties consisted of border patrol and search and rescue missions.

Keep in mind, a trained civilian response team consisting of 10 million members.

To get a better idea of how critical this agency was once considered to America’s internal security, if you ever happen to attend a to attend a classic car show, and happen to spot a 40’s to early 60’s car equipped with the original radio, you will see the CD symbol on the radio dial, so people could tune in for critical announcements and updates.

But, as with all good things, government interference and the fed’s usual hair brained ideas that “we can make this work better”
led to this bastion of Americans trained to help fellow Americans faded away/was folded into the federal bureaucracy.

And despite what Janet Napolitan and her minions at the Department of Homeland Security would have you believe, the United States no longer has any group as well trained or containing nearly the measurement of the Civil Defense in it’s heyday.

So, how does this differ from what President Obama envisions?

Obama wants to recruit high school and college students to serve a term of duty in AmeriCorps.
These kids would be shipped off to various locations, housed in a barracks-style setting, issued uniforms (didn’t someone else in history do something like that? I wonder if the shirts would still be brown?), and “trained” in emergency response techniques.

Feeling safer now?

As  opposed  to the  old Civil Defense, of which I can provide a first-hand account of how well they performed the duties they were trained to do.

Bear with me, as I have to go into some detail in order to illustrate my point.

Years ago, the area where I grew up went through a flood that is still ranked as one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

As fate would have it, the area where I lived, as well as that town’s National Guard Armory, were out of the areas affected by the flooding.

A friend and I happened to be standing in my front yard when all of a sudden a military jeep pulled up in front of the house and the soldier asked me my name.

Upon learning that I was who he was looking for, he asked me to get in, and for my friend to come along.

We returned to the armory where the Scoutmaster of my Boy Scout troop, who also happened to be the head of the local Civil Defense unit, was, along with the members of his group, working with the Guard unit on disaster relief.
He had overheard one of the members of the Guard unit saying that  they were unable to get blankets, food, and water to one section of the town because the only road to it was flooded out.

When my friend and I walked in, he asked me “Carl, do you know of a way to get to Avondale Hill?”

I told him that I did, but it would involve driving through some old abandoned strip mines.

Fifteen minutes later, my buddy was in one jeep and I was in another, leading the soldiers along this route  to take  much needed supplies to people who couldn’t be reached any other practical way.

Yes, I realize that for some of you, especially the ones who have never heard of it, something on the order of the Civil Defense sounds kind of old-fashioned.

However, if you were to find yourself in an area hit by a natural disaster, or, God forbid, a terrorist attack, who would you rather have available to turn to for help?

The National Guard being on hand is a given, regardless of Obama’s feelings, they are always ready to step up when they are called.

But who would you rather have providing them assistance?

A group of well trained, mature. local individuals, volunteers  who know the area where they are working to try and return life to normal?
People who know of the local citizens and resources to turn to to get a task accomplished in a time of crisis?

Or a bunch of out-of-the-area high school kids who, although they miss being at home playing their video games, for most of whom their biggest concern is how much money they will receive towards college tuition for being part of Obama’s Army?

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