President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers sparred in sometimes-heated terms Thursday over how to improve the nation's health care, ultimately failing to bridge their deep fundamental differences over how much the federal government can or should do.
Friday, February 26, 2010
McClatchy Washington Report 2/26
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner remains the go-to-guy for politicians who want to hold the Obama administration responsible for high unemployment and job losses. A year into the job, though, Geithner can cite some accomplishments: a stabilizing housing sector and a recovering economy.
- President Barack Obama has burnished his Christian credentials, courted Jewish support and preached outreach toward Muslims. On Friday, his administration will host a group that fits none of the above: America's nonbelievers.
- The shootout drew hundreds of armor-clad officers from Fresno, Clovis and other central California police agencies into the tiny community of Minkler. Authorities set up roadblocks on Highway 180, cleared the local airspace, locked down a nearby school and evacuated residents. Three officers were shot. One died and another was on "non-recoverable life support." The suspect was found dead inside his mobile home.
- Taliban militants hit the center of Kabul early Friday morning, using a powerful car bomb and attackers with suicide vests to target a prominent hotel and guest houses favored by Indians. The attack on Afghanistan's capital came in the midst of American-led efforts to rout Taliban forces from a key southern stronghold.
- More details have come out on how Marco Rubio, the former Florida speaker and conservative darling vying to defeat Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican Party's U.S. Senate nomination, used a state party American Express card. Crist and Democrats denounced the spending, the latest in an ongoing controversy over how state party funds have been used.
- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Thursday said that the central bank is examining investment titan Goldman Sachs' use of exotic financial instruments to profit from the deepening debt problems of Greece and other European nations.
- Israel hasn't launched a major military strike on Gaza in more than a year, and it's been more than two years since a Palestinian suicide bombing anywhere in Israel. There are no plans for serious peace talks, however, and like guests at the Hotel California, Palestinians with permission to leave Gaza often wait for days at the border before being told they can't leave.
- The bearded Taliban prisoners at Bagram broke off from a spirited game of soccer in the yard to greet a McClatchy reporter, the first journalist allowed into the notorious U.S. jail in Afghanistan since detainees there were moved into a shiny new multimillion-dollar facility.
- Billy Demong's victory, along with a second-place finish by teammate Johnny Spillane, capped a historic two weeks for the U.S. in this obscure sport that combines ski jumping with cross-country skiing. The Americans come away from Vancouver with a startling four medals in three events.
- Ken Hunter has a right to be upset. The man who killed his father by crashing a plane intentionally into a Texas IRS building is being portrayed as hero on Web sites and even has a fan page on Facebook.
- Count me among those mystified by January's Supreme Court decision to sweep away decades of established law limiting the amount of money corporations can inject into political campaigns.
If I accepted money from Toyota, my employer would forbid me to write about it or, at the very least, require me to disclose the connection. If a judge accepted money from Toyota, she would be expected to recuse herself from any lawsuit to which the automaker was a party. If a police detective accepted money from Toyota, her lieutenant would remove her from any investigation in which the company was involved. But the people who make the laws are financially entangled with this and other companies, and we act as if that has no bearing on their ability to be fair and impartial where those companies are concerned. It makes zero sense.
Afllicting the afflicted
By PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times
If we’re lucky, Thursday’s summit will turn out to have been the last act in the great health reform debate, the prologue to passage of an imperfect but nonetheless history-making bill. If so, the debate will have ended as it began: with Democrats offering moderate plans that draw heavily on past Republican ideas, and Republicans responding with slander and misdirection.
Nobody really expected anything different. But what was nonetheless revealing about the meeting was the fact that Republicans — who had weeks to prepare for this particular event, and have been campaigning against reform for a year — didn’t bother making a case that could withstand even minimal fact-checking.
It was obvious how things would go as soon as the first Republican speaker, Senator Lamar Alexander, delivered his remarks. He was presumably chosen because he’s folksy and likable and could make his party’s position sound reasonable. But right off the bat he delivered a whopper, asserting that under the Democratic plan, “for millions of Americans, premiums will go up.”
Wow. I guess you could say that he wasn’t technically lying, since the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Senate Democrats’ plan does say that average payments for insurance would go up. But it also makes it clear that this would happen only because people would buy more and better coverage. The “price of a given amount of insurance coverage” would fall, not rise — and the actual cost to many Americans would fall sharply thanks to federal aid.
His fib on premiums was quickly followed by a fib on process. Democrats, having already passed a health bill with 60 votes in the Senate, now plan to use a simple majority vote to modify some of the numbers, a process known as reconciliation. Mr. Alexander declared that reconciliation has “never been used for something like this.” Well, I don’t know what “like this” means, but reconciliation has, in fact, been used for previous health reforms — and was used to push through both of the Bush tax cuts at a budget cost of $1.8 trillion, twice the bill for health reform.
What really struck me about the meeting, however, was the inability of Republicans to explain how they propose dealing with the issue that, rightly, is at the emotional center of much health care debate: the plight of Americans who suffer from pre-existing medical conditions. In other advanced countries, everyone gets essential care whatever their medical history. But in America, a bout of cancer, an inherited genetic disorder, or even, in some states, having been a victim of domestic violence can make you uninsurable, and thus make adequate health care unaffordable.
One of the great virtues of the Democratic plan is that it would finally put an end to this unacceptable case of American exceptionalism. But what’s the Republican answer? Mr. Alexander was strangely inarticulate on the matter, saying only that “House Republicans have some ideas about how my friend in Tullahoma can continue to afford insurance for his wife who has had breast cancer.” He offered no clue about what those ideas might be.
In reality, House Republicans don’t have anything to offer to Americans with troubled medical histories. On the contrary, their big idea — allowing unrestricted competition across state lines — would lead to a race to the bottom. The states with the weakest regulations — for example, those that allow insurance companies to deny coverage to victims of domestic violence — would set the standards for the nation as a whole. The result would be to afflict the afflicted, to make the lives of Americans with pre-existing conditions even harder.
Don’t take my word for it. Look at the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the House G.O.P. plan. That analysis is discreetly worded, with the budget office declaring somewhat obscurely that while the number of uninsured Americans wouldn’t change much, “the pool of people without health insurance would end up being less healthy, on average, than under current law.” But here’s the translation: While some people would gain insurance, the people losing insurance would be those who need it most. Under the Republican plan, the American health care system would become even more brutal than it is now.
So what did we learn from the summit? What I took away was the arrogance that the success of things like the death-panel smear has obviously engendered in Republican politicians. At this point they obviously believe that they can blandly make utterly misleading assertions, saying things that can be easily refuted, and pay no price. And they may well be right.
But Democrats can have the last laugh. All they have to do — and they have the power to do it — is finish the job, and enact health reform.
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Nobody really expected anything different. But what was nonetheless revealing about the meeting was the fact that Republicans — who had weeks to prepare for this particular event, and have been campaigning against reform for a year — didn’t bother making a case that could withstand even minimal fact-checking.
It was obvious how things would go as soon as the first Republican speaker, Senator Lamar Alexander, delivered his remarks. He was presumably chosen because he’s folksy and likable and could make his party’s position sound reasonable. But right off the bat he delivered a whopper, asserting that under the Democratic plan, “for millions of Americans, premiums will go up.”
Wow. I guess you could say that he wasn’t technically lying, since the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Senate Democrats’ plan does say that average payments for insurance would go up. But it also makes it clear that this would happen only because people would buy more and better coverage. The “price of a given amount of insurance coverage” would fall, not rise — and the actual cost to many Americans would fall sharply thanks to federal aid.
His fib on premiums was quickly followed by a fib on process. Democrats, having already passed a health bill with 60 votes in the Senate, now plan to use a simple majority vote to modify some of the numbers, a process known as reconciliation. Mr. Alexander declared that reconciliation has “never been used for something like this.” Well, I don’t know what “like this” means, but reconciliation has, in fact, been used for previous health reforms — and was used to push through both of the Bush tax cuts at a budget cost of $1.8 trillion, twice the bill for health reform.
What really struck me about the meeting, however, was the inability of Republicans to explain how they propose dealing with the issue that, rightly, is at the emotional center of much health care debate: the plight of Americans who suffer from pre-existing medical conditions. In other advanced countries, everyone gets essential care whatever their medical history. But in America, a bout of cancer, an inherited genetic disorder, or even, in some states, having been a victim of domestic violence can make you uninsurable, and thus make adequate health care unaffordable.
One of the great virtues of the Democratic plan is that it would finally put an end to this unacceptable case of American exceptionalism. But what’s the Republican answer? Mr. Alexander was strangely inarticulate on the matter, saying only that “House Republicans have some ideas about how my friend in Tullahoma can continue to afford insurance for his wife who has had breast cancer.” He offered no clue about what those ideas might be.
In reality, House Republicans don’t have anything to offer to Americans with troubled medical histories. On the contrary, their big idea — allowing unrestricted competition across state lines — would lead to a race to the bottom. The states with the weakest regulations — for example, those that allow insurance companies to deny coverage to victims of domestic violence — would set the standards for the nation as a whole. The result would be to afflict the afflicted, to make the lives of Americans with pre-existing conditions even harder.
Don’t take my word for it. Look at the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the House G.O.P. plan. That analysis is discreetly worded, with the budget office declaring somewhat obscurely that while the number of uninsured Americans wouldn’t change much, “the pool of people without health insurance would end up being less healthy, on average, than under current law.” But here’s the translation: While some people would gain insurance, the people losing insurance would be those who need it most. Under the Republican plan, the American health care system would become even more brutal than it is now.
So what did we learn from the summit? What I took away was the arrogance that the success of things like the death-panel smear has obviously engendered in Republican politicians. At this point they obviously believe that they can blandly make utterly misleading assertions, saying things that can be easily refuted, and pay no price. And they may well be right.
But Democrats can have the last laugh. All they have to do — and they have the power to do it — is finish the job, and enact health reform.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Truthout 2/25
Keith Olbermann | An American Cry for Help (Video)
Keith Olbermann, MSNBC "Countdown": "Finally tonight, a Special Comment about health care reform and tomorrow's summit at Blair House. If I prove to have trouble getting through this, I apologize in advance. Last Friday night my father asked me to kill him. We were just shy of six months since he was hospitalized and it was the end of a long day at the end of a longer week."
Read the Article
US Using Iraqi Political Discord to Justify Continuance of Occupation
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "As Iraqi national elections on March 7 approach, violence and political discord in the country have escalated dramatically. On February 22, Gen. Ray Odierno, the top US commander in Iraq, announced that the US was preparing contingency plans to delay the withdrawal of all combat forces from Iraq if violence or political instability increase after the national elections scheduled for March 7."
Read the Article
Hearing Debates Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Veterans' Suicides
Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "Psychiatrists and mental health experts spoke about the relationship between medication and veterans' suicides when the House Veterans' Affairs Committee hosted a committee hearing on the topic on Wednesday. Although speakers offered different views on whether antidepressants help to decrease veterans' chances of committing suicide, there was agreement that suicide is a topic of concern, as suicide rates climb among young veterans who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan."
Read the Article
American Bar Association: Deportation System "Severely Flawed"
William Fisher, Truthout: "The number of people deported from the US annually has grown from just over 69,000 to over 356,000 in the past eight years, while resource-starved immigration judges issue decisions without sufficient time to conduct legal research and analyze the complex cases they are asked to decide."
Read the Article
William J. Astore | Push Back, Democrats
William J. Astore, Truthout: "The Democratic Party has lost the thread of its own narrative. Instead of positioning itself as the friend and ally of the working and middle classes against the power and privilege of exploiters, the party has allowed its opponents to portray it as being openly in the service of powerful elites, e.g. 'Talibankers,' and naively in the service of powerless 'elites,' e.g. 'welfare cheats.' In this Tea Party/Republican narrative, Democrats are depicted as feeding and favoring both the 'fat cats' on Wall Street and the 'fat poor' on Main Street."
Read the Article
Senate Panel Blasts Blackwater Over Theft of Assault Weapons, Civilian Deaths
Grace Huang, Truthout: "'Multiple irresponsible acts' and 'troubling gaps in government oversight' plagued the Afghan operations of a Blackwater Worldwide affiliate defense contractor named Paravant, according to a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday."
Read the Article
Norman Solomon | War Politics: Numb and Number
Norman Solomon, Truthout: "Playwright Lillian Hellman said, 'I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.' The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly different than our own - but what about the political fashions of 2010?"
Read the Article
Beverly Bell | Putting "Humanitarian" Back in "Humanitarian Aid"
Beverly Bell, Truthout: "One of the first things that Haitians now living in the streets want to talk about is their disgust over the international food aid program. In such places as the camps in the downtown parks on Boulevard Champs de Mars, residents report, food is given sporadically - last week not for four or five days. Moreover, it is uncooked rice, and many of those living in the crowded shelters have no way to cook it. Some have been able to sell the rice and, with the funds, buy food that they can eat."
Read the Article
Silicon Sweatshops: Another Black Eye for Apple Supplier
Kathleen E. McLaughlin, GlobalPost: "A Taiwanese manufacturer that makes LCD screens and components for tech giants like Apple confirmed Thursday that more of its workers in China were sickened by chemical exposure than it previously reported."
Read the Article
E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Next New Dealers
E.J. Dionne Jr.: "Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them? The relative strength of conservatives in American politics since the 1980's was built on generational change: Voters whose views had been shaped by the New Deal were gradually replaced with the more cautious souls who came of age after FDR."
Read the Article
Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi: End Male Power Structures
Janet Benshoof, On The Issues Magazine: "Aung San Suu Kyi's unwavering commitment to a nonviolent path to democracy in Burma, and her decades-long detention have made her a global icon. But true justice for Aung San Suu Kyi requires dismantling the male power structures, as well as addressing her situation and that of the people in Burma. Women Nobel laureates are now organizing to find new strategies to challenge these obstacles."
Read the Article
Climate Change's Secret Weapon
Khadija Sharife, Foreign Policy in Focus: "The water is crystalline, the sand is whiter than white, and elegantly bent palm trees sway in the breeze. This is how the Seychelles markets itself: as 'another world.' Tourism is the mainstay of this heavenly island, averaging 20 percent of GDP and 60 percent of foreign exchange earnings."
Read the Article
Keith Olbermann, MSNBC "Countdown": "Finally tonight, a Special Comment about health care reform and tomorrow's summit at Blair House. If I prove to have trouble getting through this, I apologize in advance. Last Friday night my father asked me to kill him. We were just shy of six months since he was hospitalized and it was the end of a long day at the end of a longer week."
Read the Article
US Using Iraqi Political Discord to Justify Continuance of Occupation
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: "As Iraqi national elections on March 7 approach, violence and political discord in the country have escalated dramatically. On February 22, Gen. Ray Odierno, the top US commander in Iraq, announced that the US was preparing contingency plans to delay the withdrawal of all combat forces from Iraq if violence or political instability increase after the national elections scheduled for March 7."
Read the Article
Hearing Debates Link Between Psychiatric Drugs and Veterans' Suicides
Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "Psychiatrists and mental health experts spoke about the relationship between medication and veterans' suicides when the House Veterans' Affairs Committee hosted a committee hearing on the topic on Wednesday. Although speakers offered different views on whether antidepressants help to decrease veterans' chances of committing suicide, there was agreement that suicide is a topic of concern, as suicide rates climb among young veterans who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan."
Read the Article
American Bar Association: Deportation System "Severely Flawed"
William Fisher, Truthout: "The number of people deported from the US annually has grown from just over 69,000 to over 356,000 in the past eight years, while resource-starved immigration judges issue decisions without sufficient time to conduct legal research and analyze the complex cases they are asked to decide."
Read the Article
William J. Astore | Push Back, Democrats
William J. Astore, Truthout: "The Democratic Party has lost the thread of its own narrative. Instead of positioning itself as the friend and ally of the working and middle classes against the power and privilege of exploiters, the party has allowed its opponents to portray it as being openly in the service of powerful elites, e.g. 'Talibankers,' and naively in the service of powerless 'elites,' e.g. 'welfare cheats.' In this Tea Party/Republican narrative, Democrats are depicted as feeding and favoring both the 'fat cats' on Wall Street and the 'fat poor' on Main Street."
Read the Article
Senate Panel Blasts Blackwater Over Theft of Assault Weapons, Civilian Deaths
Grace Huang, Truthout: "'Multiple irresponsible acts' and 'troubling gaps in government oversight' plagued the Afghan operations of a Blackwater Worldwide affiliate defense contractor named Paravant, according to a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday."
Read the Article
Norman Solomon | War Politics: Numb and Number
Norman Solomon, Truthout: "Playwright Lillian Hellman said, 'I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.' The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly different than our own - but what about the political fashions of 2010?"
Read the Article
Beverly Bell | Putting "Humanitarian" Back in "Humanitarian Aid"
Beverly Bell, Truthout: "One of the first things that Haitians now living in the streets want to talk about is their disgust over the international food aid program. In such places as the camps in the downtown parks on Boulevard Champs de Mars, residents report, food is given sporadically - last week not for four or five days. Moreover, it is uncooked rice, and many of those living in the crowded shelters have no way to cook it. Some have been able to sell the rice and, with the funds, buy food that they can eat."
Read the Article
Silicon Sweatshops: Another Black Eye for Apple Supplier
Kathleen E. McLaughlin, GlobalPost: "A Taiwanese manufacturer that makes LCD screens and components for tech giants like Apple confirmed Thursday that more of its workers in China were sickened by chemical exposure than it previously reported."
Read the Article
E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Next New Dealers
E.J. Dionne Jr.: "Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them? The relative strength of conservatives in American politics since the 1980's was built on generational change: Voters whose views had been shaped by the New Deal were gradually replaced with the more cautious souls who came of age after FDR."
Read the Article
Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi: End Male Power Structures
Janet Benshoof, On The Issues Magazine: "Aung San Suu Kyi's unwavering commitment to a nonviolent path to democracy in Burma, and her decades-long detention have made her a global icon. But true justice for Aung San Suu Kyi requires dismantling the male power structures, as well as addressing her situation and that of the people in Burma. Women Nobel laureates are now organizing to find new strategies to challenge these obstacles."
Read the Article
Climate Change's Secret Weapon
Khadija Sharife, Foreign Policy in Focus: "The water is crystalline, the sand is whiter than white, and elegantly bent palm trees sway in the breeze. This is how the Seychelles markets itself: as 'another world.' Tourism is the mainstay of this heavenly island, averaging 20 percent of GDP and 60 percent of foreign exchange earnings."
Read the Article
FP morning post 2/25
India and Pakistan hold first meeting since Mumbai attack
Top story: India and Pakistan held their first talks since the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack today. No formal breakthroughs were achieved, or expected, in the four-hour meeting in New Delhi between Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, but the two discussed terrorism, the ongoing conflict in Kashmir, and conflicting water claims.
Pakistan has sought the resumption of bilateral peace talks, but India has resisted over complaints that Pakistan is not doing enough to crack down on terror networks or pursue those responsible for the Mumbai siege. Bashir countered that Pakistan "has done everything that was proper and could be done" in response to Mumbai.
When asked if today's meetings would set a road map for future cooperation, Rao replied, "“We are not talking about road maps here. We are talking about staying in touch.”
The Obama administration has urged the two sides to resume talks and has been frustrated that Pakistan's military often seems to prioritize defending its border with India to regaining control of Taliban-dominated areas in the northwest of the country. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the United States has recently expanded weapons transfers to both Pakistan and India.
U.S. politics: President Barack Obama is hosting a televised bipartisan summit on healthcare reform today in Washington.
Pakistan has sought the resumption of bilateral peace talks, but India has resisted over complaints that Pakistan is not doing enough to crack down on terror networks or pursue those responsible for the Mumbai siege. Bashir countered that Pakistan "has done everything that was proper and could be done" in response to Mumbai.
When asked if today's meetings would set a road map for future cooperation, Rao replied, "“We are not talking about road maps here. We are talking about staying in touch.”
The Obama administration has urged the two sides to resume talks and has been frustrated that Pakistan's military often seems to prioritize defending its border with India to regaining control of Taliban-dominated areas in the northwest of the country. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the United States has recently expanded weapons transfers to both Pakistan and India.
U.S. politics: President Barack Obama is hosting a televised bipartisan summit on healthcare reform today in Washington.
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McClatchy Washington Report 2/25
- President Barack Obama's nationally televised face-off Thursday with Republican lawmakers over health care is as much about politics as policy, more debate than negotiation.
- Abu Mahdi al Mohandas is one of more than 6,000 candidates who are running in the Iraqi parliamentary elections next month, but he's probably the only contender who won't set foot on the campaign trail for fear of a U.S. assassination attempt.
- President Barack Obama's job approval may be eroding nationwide, but in South Carolina, a state he lost in 2008, a new poll gives him higher numbers than the state's two Republican senators.
- U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio charged grocery bills, repairs to the family minivan and purchases from a wine store less than a mile from his West Miami home to the Republican Party of Florida while he was speaker of the Florida House, according to records obtained by The Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times.
- A year ago, North Carolina's U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick was appointed to the House Intelligence Committee, a prestigious post she had long sought. Myrick, a Republican, contends that extremists are working their way into U.S. Muslim communities, infiltrating government institutions and influencing American citizens to attack their own country. Her activism earns plaudits from some conservatives — but criticism from Muslim constituents who fear that her tone endangers a community 3 million strong and deeply embedded in the nation's fabric.
- Cuban leader Raul Castro said Wednesday the death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo was "lamentable," while his security forces clamped down on dissidents to avert protests and foreigners condemned the hunger striker's death.
- More frustrated homeowners turned to federal court this week for help with their mortgages, saying Bank of America and Wells Fargo failed to provide promised payment modifications. The two cases, filed Tuesday in Massachusetts, seek class action status.
- There were conflicting reports of the circumstances that led to the death Wednesday of a whale trainer before horrified spectators at Florida's SeaWorld, but the accident seemed certain to rekindle debate over turning marine mammals, considered deeply intelligent and highly social by many scientists, into captive circus performers.
- California Sen. Barbara Boxer and poultry producers on Wednesday called for stricter labeling so that consumers know when their chicken is stuffed with salt water. About 30 percent of the poultry sold nationwide is injected with saline solution, in a process called "plumping." Currently, the Agriculture Department allows this plumped-up poultry to be labeled as "all natural."
- South Carolinians are far more familiar with Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer and state Attorney General Henry McMaster than the other Republicans running for governor. But nearly as many Republicans dislike Bauer as like him, a factor that could hinder his ability to make it to a runoff. Those are a few of the findings of a Winthrop University poll of 837 voting-age South Carolinians conducted earlier this month.
- With every failed attempt to blow an airplane out of the sky, along comes tighter security. First, we had to take our shoes off. Then we had to pack our liquids in bottles no bigger than 3 ounces. Now, we may have our hands swabbed for explosives.
- Many Alaskans think a natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48 would give the state new riches in the form of taxes and royalties. Don't bank on it, some state senators say. In fact, under some scenarios presented to the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday, if the big gas pipeline is built, and gas starts to flow, the state could make nothing off the gas and might even see a drop in oil revenue.
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