Kẻ Thù Từ Bên Trong

Ngành công nghiệp chiến tranh, một quốc gia trong một quốc gia, phá hoại quốc gia, vấp phải thất bại quân sự này đến thất bại quân sự tiếp theo, tước bỏ các quyền tự do dân sự của chúng ta và đẩy chúng ta đến các cuộc chiến tự sát với Nga và Trung Quốc.

Mỹ là một  chế độ quân chủ , một hình thức chính phủ do quân đội thống trị. Một tiên đề giữa hai đảng cầm quyền là phải thường xuyên chuẩn bị cho chiến tranh. Ngân sách khổng lồ của cỗ máy chiến tranh là bất khả xâm phạm. Hàng tỷ đô la  lãng phí và gian lận của nó  bị bỏ qua. Những thất bại quân sự của nó ở Đông Nam Á, Trung Á và Trung Đông đã biến mất vào hang động rộng lớn của chứng mất trí nhớ lịch sử. Chứng mất trí nhớ này, có nghĩa là không bao giờ có trách nhiệm giải trình, cho phép cỗ máy chiến tranh mổ xẻ đất nước về mặt kinh tế và đẩy Đế chế vào hết cuộc xung đột tự đánh bại mình đến cuộc xung đột tự đánh bại mình. Các nhà quân phiệt giành chiến thắng trong mọi cuộc bầu cử. Họ không thể thua. Không thể bỏ phiếu chống lại họ. Tình trạng chiến tranh là một Götterdämmerung, như Dwight Macdonald viết, “không có các vị thần”.

Bi kịch không phải là trạng thái chiến tranh của Hoa Kỳ sẽ tự hủy diệt. Bi kịch là chúng ta sẽ hạ gục rất nhiều người vô tội cùng với chúng ta.

The Enemy From Within. Chris Hedges

The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.

ScheerPost 30 April 2023

America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The militarists win every election. They cannot lose. It is impossible to vote against them. The war state is a Götterdämmerung, as Dwight Macdonald writes, “without the gods.”

Since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its tax dollars on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government. Military systems are sold before they are produced with guarantees that huge cost overruns will be covered. Foreign aid is contingent on buying U.S. weapons. Egypt, which receives some $1.3 billion in foreign military financing, is required to devote it to buying and maintaining U.S. weapons systems. Israel has received $158 billion in bilateral assistance from the U.S. since 1949, almost all of it since 1971 in the form of military aid, with most of it going towards arms purchases from U.S. weapons manufacturers. The American public funds the research, development and building of weapons systems and then buys these same weapons systems on behalf of foreign governments. It is a circular system of corporate welfare. 

Between October 2021 and September 2022, the U.S. spent $877 billion on the military, that’s more than the next 10 countries, including China, Russia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom combined. These huge military expenditures, along with the rising costs of a for-profit healthcare system, have driven the U.S. national debt to over $31 trillion, nearly $5 trillion more than the U.S.’s entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This imbalance is not sustainable, especially once the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency. As of January 2023, the U.S. spent a record $213 billion servicing the interest on its national debt. 

The public, bombarded with war propaganda, cheers on their self-immolation. It revels in the despicable beauty of our military prowess. It speaks in the thought-terminating clichés spewed out by mass culture and mass media. It imbibes the illusion of omnipotence and wallows in self-adulation.

The intoxication of war is a plague. It imparts an emotional high that is impervious to logic, reason or fact. No nation is immune. The gravest mistake made by European socialists on the eve of the First World War was the belief that the working classes of France, Germany, Italy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia and Great Britain would not be divided into antagonistic tribes because of disputes between imperialist governments. They would not, the socialists assured themselves, sign on for the suicidal slaughter of millions of working men in the trenches. Instead, nearly every socialist leader walked away from their anti-war platform to back their nation’s entry into the war. The handful who did not, such as Rosa Luxemburg, were sent to prison.

Six Reasons Why China and Russia Are Catching Up with the U.S. Military

A society dominated by militarists distorts its social, cultural, economic and political institutions to serve the interests of the war industry. The essence of the military is masked with subterfuges — using the military to carry out humanitarian relief missions, evacuating civilians in danger, as we see in the Sudan, defining military aggression as “humanitarian intervention” or a way to protect democracy and liberty, or lauding the military as carrying out a vital civic function by teaching leadership, responsibility, ethics and skills to young recruits. The true face of the military — industrial slaughter — is hidden.

The mantra of the militarized state is national security. If every discussion begins with a question of national security, every answer includes force or the threat of force. The preoccupation with internal and external threats divides the world into friend and foe, good and evil. Militarized societies are fertile ground for demagogues. Militarists, like demagogues, see other nations and cultures in their own image – threatening and aggressive. They seek only domination. 

It was not in our national interest to wage war for two decades across the Middle East. It is not in our national interest to go to war with Russia or China. But militarists need war the way a vampire needs blood.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev and later Vladimir Putin lobbied to be integrated into western economic and military alliances. An alliance that included Russia would have nullified the calls to expand NATO — which the U.S. had promised it  would not do beyond the borders of a unified Germany — and have made it impossible to convince countries in eastern and central Europe to spend billions on U.S. military hardware. Moscow’s requests were rebuffed. Russia was made the enemy, whether it wanted to be or not. None of this made us more secure. Washington’s decision to interfere in Ukraine’s domestic affairs by backing a coup in 2014 triggered a civil war and Russia’s subsequent invasion. 

But for those who profit from war, antagonizing Russia, like antagonizing China, is a good business model. Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin saw their stock prices increase by 40 percent and 37 percent respectively as a result of the Ukraine conflict. 

A war with China, now an industrial giant, would disrupt the global supply chain with devastating effects on the U.S. and global economy. Apple produces 90 percent of its products in China. U.S. trade with China was $690.6 billion last year. In 2004, U.S. manufacturing output was more than twice China’s. China’s output is now nearly double that of the United States. China produces the largest number of ships, steel and smartphones in the world. It dominates the global production of chemicals, metals, heavy industrial equipment and electronics. It is the world’s largest rare earth mineral exporter, its greatest reserve holder and is responsible for 80 percent of its refining worldwide. Rare earth minerals are essential to the manufacture of computer chips, smartphones, television screens, medical equipment, fluorescent light bulbs, cars, wind turbines, smart bombs, fighter jets and satellite communications. 

War with China would result in massive shortages of a variety of goods and resources, some vital to the war industry, paralyzing U.S. businesses. Inflation and unemployment would rocket upwards. Rationing would be implemented. The global stock exchanges, at least in the short term, would be shut down. It would trigger a global depression. If the U.S. Navy was able to block oil shipments to China and disrupt its sea lanes, the conflict could potentially become nuclear.

In “NATO 2030: Unified for a New Era,” the military alliance sees the future as a battle for hegemony with rival states, especially China. It calls for the preparation of prolonged global conflict. In October 2022, Air Force General Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, presented his “Mobility Manifesto” to a packed military conference. During this unhinged fearmongering diatribe, Minihan argued that if the U.S. does not dramatically escalate its preparations for a war with China, America’s children will find themselves “subservient to a rules based order that benefits only one country [China].”

According to the New York Times, the Marine Corps is training units for beach assaults, where the Pentagon believes the first battles with China may occur, across “the first island chain” that includes, “Okinawa and Taiwan down to Malaysia as well as the South China Sea and disputed islands in the Spratlys and the Paracels.”.

Militarists drain funds from social and infrastructure programs. They pour money into research and development of weapons systems and neglect renewable energy technologies. Bridges, roads, electrical grids and levees collapse. Schools decay. Domestic manufacturing declines. The public is impoverished. The harsh forms of control the militarists test and perfect abroad migrate back to the homeland. Militarized Police. Militarized drones. Surveillance. Vast prison complexes. Suspension of basic civil liberties. Censorship.

Those such as Julian Assange, who challenge the stratocracy, who expose its crimes and suicidal folly, are ruthlessly persecuted. But the war state harbors within it the seeds of its own destruction. It will cannibalize the nation until it collapses. Before then, it will lash out, like a blinded cyclops, seeking to restore its diminishing power through indiscriminate violence. The tragedy is not that the U.S. war state will self-destruct. The tragedy is that we will take down so many innocents with us.

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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.

 

 

 

Việc đầu độc hàng loạt bầu trời của chúng ta có gây ra hiệu ứng Cánh đồng chết chóc không?

Đây là một cuộc tấn công có chủ ý và có kế hoạch chống lại loài người và trái đất. Đây là một hình thức vũ khí hóa chiến tranh chống lại tất cả sự sống trong nước và toàn cầu. Những chiến thuật này có thể được sử dụng làm vũ khí chiến tranh, để phá hủy lương thực và nông nghiệp, và để giảm dân số thông qua sự tàn phá hệ thống cơ thể.

“Nguyên lý chính của cuộc tấn công lớn này vào nhân loại dưới bàn tay của nhà nước thao túng, là thúc đẩy chương trình nghị sự về 'biến đổi khí hậu', để có thể củng cố toàn bộ quyền kiểm soát đối với toàn bộ nhân loại và tất cả tài sản với rất ít sự phản kháng." 

Will the Mass Poisoning of Our Skies Cause a Killing Field Effect?

May 3, 2023

By: Gary D. Barnett

“When people look up into the sky and see white trails paralleling and crisscrossing high in the sky, little do they know that they are not seeing ‘condensation’, but instead are witnessing a man-made ‘climate engineering CRISIS’ facing all air-breathing humans and animals on planet earth. These white aircraft spray-trails are the result of scientifically verifiable spraying of aluminum particles and other toxic heavy metals, polymers and chemicals. These toxic atmospheric aerosols are used to alter the weather patterns creating droughts in some regions, and deluges and floods in other locations. Even extreme cold can be created by climate engineering under other conditions. Unfortunately, these unfolding catastrophes are not capturing the attention of America’s citizen nor politicians. Weather warfare has already almost reached beyond possibility of devastation of all mankind and animals. It is that serious, and it is time-limiting.”

Signed: General Charles Jones, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force.

The term Chemtrails, while accurate, is a common term that has been widely mis-used by the general population and media, certainly by design, in order to discredit all efforts against weather and climate geoengineering, cloud-seeding, and the manufacturing and spraying of chemically-based artificial clouds meant to reflect sunlight, by spraying the atmosphere with chemicals, deadly metals, and toxins. This is, and has been done, for a long time in the false name of ‘protecting us’ from the farcical and fraudulent ‘threat’ of manmade ‘climate change.’ Those who expose this fraud are of course, generally called “conspiracy theorists.” This is most always an unwarranted and rhetorical ad hominem attack on character instead of examining substance; all in order to avoid any discussion of what is a valid subject matter concerning the top-down manipulation of weather, and the poisoning of all living things. There is actually manmade weather engineering, and toxic spraying of metals and chemicals, but that has not occurred due to one driving a car, or taking a trip on a plane, but has been affected by government and military operations. In other words, global warming, global cooling, or the benign term, ‘climate change,’ are intentional acts, and not due simply to human existence and the basic daily functions of life.

I will preface the rest of my comments with an anecdotal experience that I personally witnessed over the past two days in the Rocky Mountains here in Montana. What I saw, is almost a daily occurrence here, and most everywhere else as well, but I spent the entirety of both days watching the unfolding of fake chemical cloud seeding, and the resulting atmospheric changes. We had a rare period of total blue skies, although not as blue as in the past. On both days I watched from 9AM until late evening, as jet after jet continued to spray metals and chemicals across the horizon. The patterns were crossing, and at different altitudes, moving from section to section of sky, likely dependent on wind currents. Both days were forecast to be clear, but by afternoon on both days, the unnatural cloud cover was enough to block the sun entirely; at least from partial to heavy.

What began as completely clear skies, changed to a manmade and broad-based cloud cover that hung in the air until I could no longer see the skies. This was obviously the purposeful spraying of toxins in order to block vital sunlight, but much more is going on than just simply blocking the sun, as all these metals and chemicals eventually disperse and fall to earth, harming every single living thing. This very adversely affects all plants and animals, including humans. Given what has been proven to be in these payloads, the risk of agriculture devastation, changing weather patterns, killing bug life and pollinators, weather manipulation, geoengineered weather systems, and cancer-causing toxins made up of nano-particle metals and chemicals, are all threats to all of nature, including to water, soil, insects, animals, birds, fish, and humans.

This has been going on for decades, but at this point in time, it is inundating airspace everywhere in this country and the world. Some of this is being done by commercial aircraft, but most it seems is being done by the military, mainly the Air Force, by and with approval of this government, by NASA, and by others. This is a deliberate and planned attack against mankind and the earth. This is a weaponized form of war against all life domestically and globally. These tactics can be used as war weaponry, for food and agricultural destruction, and for depopulation through bodily system devastation.

Weather phenomena recently have been extreme. While proving without question that these are not normal, but designed events, is certainly difficult, but these anomalies are happening so often and are so far beyond reason, that one cannot ignore that these events are likely engineered. Well above average temperatures in mid-spring have been changing to very cold and heavy snow, and then back to high temperatures in many areas across the country.  Even in my area in just the past two weeks, I saw record temperatures, then very cold and record snow, two feet or more, and now temperatures of close to 80 degrees. This is happening everywhere, and is not due to what is called ‘climate change,’ but in my opinion, it is due to manmade manufactured systems. There are masses of tornadoes, 90 degrees and then snow, unreal flooding, as happened in Florida recently, and many weather events that belie imagination, in that a vast reversal of normalcy is present in most every area at once.

But this is not the only threat concerning the toxic chemical and metals spraying that is continuous across the country and the world. We are literally being poisoned, sickness is expanding greatly, and cancer is advancing in numbers and severity. This is certainly due to this heinous spraying, but it is also evident due to deadly ‘covid’ bioweapon injections, poisoning of food, including plants and animals, destruction of farming and ranching, and land and water poisoning due to very toxic chemicals and metals. This population and others are being attacked from every angle in what appears to be a mass depopulation effort by the State, its controllers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, the CIA and military, NASA, HAARP, the so-called scientific community, and the technological giants. This war against humanity is now seemingly never ending.

Geoengineering, weather engineering, and bogus ‘climate change’ policies, are not meant to help humanity or the earth, they are purposely being used only to harm and control. In addition to what I have mentioned here, there have been an inordinate number of chemical spills, massive explosions and fires of not only toxic materials, but in food production facilities nationwide. At this point, no mass food distribution can be trusted, as it is impossible to know what is being put into our food supply.

Solar geoengineering, high-energy waves, and toxic poisoning of the skies and earth, are causing increased storm activity, droughts, floods, tornados, fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and extreme volcanic activity. In addition, the health of humanity is being systematically destroyed. As I noted last year: “The most major tenet of this grand assault on humanity at the hands of the manipulative state, is advancing the ‘climate change’ agenda, so that total control over all of humanity and all property, can be solidified with very little resistance. It is all based on false fear, as always, but the state players in their haste to complete this takeover coup, have actually through climate and weather manipulation, also placed themselves in harm’s way. The plot was allowed to continue because multiple state agendas were being sought, and it is still in place today, even with the risks to all due to this horrendous plan. Oh, what a tangled web they weave.”

“What’s coming will make post-apocalyptic movies look like a Disney world vacation.”

~ Dane Wigington

Reference and source links:

Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth

Geoengineering Watch

Geoengineering Parts I, II, and III–Congressional Hearings 2009 and 2010

Elana Freeland: Geoengineering Transhumanism

“The Dimming: Exposing the Global Geo-Engineering Cover-Up”

Weather Modification History Timeline

HAARP and the Sky Heaters

Spain Allows Geoengineering as do over 50 Other Countries

Spain Admits to Spraying Chemtrails in Secret U.N. Program

 Chemtrail Poisons Are ruining Your Health From Above

Chemtrails are not Contrails– J. Marvin Herndon and Mark Whiteside

Tại sao chương trình Nghị Sự Xanh Không Carbon là sự kiện không thể đạt đến được

Tại sao các chính phủ lớn, tập đoàn, tổ chức tư vấn và Davos WEF đều thúc đẩy chương trình nghị sự toàn cầu Zero Carbon nhằm loại bỏ việc sử dụng dầu, khí đốt, than đá? Họ biết rằng việc chuyển sang sử dụng năng lượng mặt trời và năng lượng gió là không thể. Không thể vì nhu cầu nguyên liệu thô từ đồng đến coban, lithium đến bê tông và thép vượt quá nguồn cung toàn cầu. Điều đó là không thể vì chi phí pin dự phòng hàng nghìn tỷ đáng kinh ngạc cho một lưới điện tái tạo 100% “đáng tin cậy”. Nó cũng không thể không gây ra sự sụp đổ mức sống hiện tại của chúng ta và sự phá vỡ nguồn cung cấp thực phẩm của chúng ta, đồng nghĩa với cái chết hàng loạt vì đói và bệnh tật. Tất cả điều này cho một gian lận khoa học được gọi là sự nóng lên toàn cầu do con người tạo ra?

Why Zero Carbon Green Agenda Is Impossible  

© F. William Engdahl                                                                               9 April, 2023

 

 

Why are major governments, corporations, think tanks and the Davos WEF all promoting a Zero Carbon global agenda to eliminate use of oil, gas, coal? They know that the turn to solar and wind-based electricity is impossible. It is impossible because of the demand for raw materials from copper to cobalt to lithium to concrete and steel exceeding global supply. It is impossible because of the staggering trillions in cost of battery backup for a “reliable” 100% renewable electric grid. It is also impossible without causing the collapse of our present standard of living and a breakdown of our food supply that will mean mass death from starvation and disease. All this for a scientific fraud called man-made global warming?

 

Even paling the brazen corruption surrounding the recent vaccine push by Big Pharma and major government officials globally is the mindless push by especially EU and USA governments to advance a Green Agenda whose costs vs benefits have rarely been openly examined. There is a good reason for this. It has to do with a sinister agenda to destroy industrial economies and reduce the global population by billions of human beings. 

 

We can examine the stated goal of Zero Carbon globally by 2050, the UN Agenda 2030, allegedly to prevent what Al Gore and others claim will be a tipping into irreversible sea level rise, “boiling oceans,” iceberg meltdowns, global catastrophe and worse. In one of his first acts in office, in 2021 Joe Biden issued a proclamation that the USA economy shall become Zero Net Carbon by 2050 in transportation, electricity and manufacturing. The European Union, under the notoriously corrupt Ursula von der Leyen, has announced similar targets in its Fit for 55 and countless other Green Agenda programs. 

 

Farming and all aspects of modern agriculture are being targeted with fake allegations of greenhouse gas damage to the climate. Oil, natural gas, coal and even CO2-free nuclear energy are being phased out. We are being pushed for the first time in modern history from a more energy-efficient economy into a dramatically less energy-efficient one. No one in Washington or Berlin or Brussels talks about the true required natural resources for this fraud, let alone the cost.

 

 

Clean Green Energy?

 

One of the most remarkable aspects of the fraudulent global hype for so-called “clean, renewable” Green Energy—solar and wind—is how non-renewable and environmentally dirty it actually is. Almost no attention goes to the staggering environmental costs that go into making the mammoth wind towers or solar panels or EV lithium-ion batteries. That grave omission is deliberate.

 

Solar panels and giant wind power arrays require huge amounts of raw materials. A standard engineering evaluation between “renewable” solar and wind versus present nuclear, gas or coal electricity production would begin by comparing bulk materials used such as concrete, steel, aluminum, copper consumed per production of TeraWatt hour (TWh) of electricity. Wind consumes 5,931 tons of bulk material per TWh, and solar 2,441 tons, both many times higher than coal, gas or nuclear. Building a single wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of non-recyclable plastic. Solar power farms require even more cement, steel and glass—not to mention other metals. [i] Keep in mind the energy efficiency of wind and solar is dramatically lower than for conventional electricity. 

 

A recent study by the Institute for Sustainable Futures details the impossible demands of mining for not only EV vehicles, but, in addition, for 100% renewable electric power, mainly solar and wind farms. The report notes that the raw materials to make solar PV panels or windmills are concentrated in a small number of countries—China, Australia, DR Congo, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina. 

 

They point out that, “China is the largest producer of metals used in solar PV and wind technologies, with the largest share of production for aluminum, cadmium, gallium, indium, rare earths, selenium and tellurium. In addition, China also has a large influence over the market for cobalt and lithium for batteries.” It continues, “While Australia is the largest producer of lithium ...the largest lithium mine, Greenbushes in Western Australia, is majority owned by a Chinese company.” [ii] Not so good when the West is escalating confrontation with China.

 

They note that regarding the huge concentration of cobalt, that the DR Congo mines more than half of the world’s cobalt. The mining there has led to “heavy metal contamination of air, water and soil… to severe health impacts for miners and surrounding communities in DR Congo, and the cobalt mining area is one of the top ten most polluted places in the world. Around 20% of cobalt from DR Congo is from artisanal and small-scale miners who work in dangerous conditions in hand-dug mines and there is extensive child labor. ‘’ [iii]

 

Rare earth metals mining and refining is essential for the Zero Carbon transition in batteries, windmills and solar panels. According to one report by energy specialist Paul Driessen, “Most of the world’s rare earth ores are extracted near Baotou, Inner Mongolia by pumping acid into the ground, then processed using more acids and chemicals. Producing one ton of rare earth metals releases up to 420,000 cubic feet of toxic gases, 2,600 cubic feet of acidic waste-water, and a ton of radioactive waste. The resulting black sludge is piped into a foul, lifeless lake. Numerous local people suffer from severe skin and respiratory diseases, children are born with soft bones, and cancer rates have soared.” [iv] The USA also sends most all its rare earth ores to China for processing since it shut down domestic processing during the Clinton presidency. 

 

Because they are vastly less energy efficient per area, the land used to produce the mandated Zero Carbon global electric output is staggering. Wind and solar require up to 300 times the land required to produce the same electricity as a typical nuclear plant. In China 25 square kilometers of a solar farm are required to generate 850 MW of electric power, the size of a typical nuclear plant. [v]

 

 

Ground Up Total Cost

 

Almost no studies by the Green Lobby look at the total production chain from mining to smelting to production for solar panels and wind assemblies. Instead they make fraudulent assertions of the alleged lower cost per KWh of produced solar or wind at the highly subsidized costs. In 2021 Professor Simon P. Michaux of the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) published an unusual study of the materials costs in terms of raw materials to produce a global Zero Carbon economy. The costs are staggering.

 

Michaux points first to the present reality of the Net Zero Carbon challenge. The global energy system in 2018 was 85% dependent on carbon fuels—coal, gas, oil. Another 10% came from nuclear for a total of 95% energy from conventional energy. Only 4% came from renewables, mainly solar and wind. So our politicians are talking of replacing 95% of our current global energy production by latest 2050, and a major part of this by 2030. [vi]

 

In terms of electric vehicles—cars or trucks or buses—of the total of the global fleet of vehicles of some 1.4 billion vehicles, less than 1% is now electric. He estimates that, “the total additional non-fossil fuel electrical power annual capacity to be added to the global grid will need to be around 37 670.6 TWh. If the same non-fossil fuel energy mix as that reported in 2018 is assumed, then this translates into an extra 221 594 new power plants that will be needed to be constructed… To put this in context, the total power plant fleet in 2018 (all types including fossil fuel plants) was only 46 423 stations. This large number reflects the lower Energy Returned on Energy Invested (ERoEI) ratio of renewable power compared to current fossil fuels.”  [vii]

 

Michaux estimates further if we were to go total EV, “To make just one battery for each vehicle in the global transport fleet (excluding Class 8 HCV trucks), it would require 48.2% of 2018 global nickel reserves, and 43.8% of global lithium reserves. There is also not enough cobalt in current reserves to meet this demand... Each of the 1.39 billion lithium ion batteries could only have a useful working life of 8 to 10 years. So, 8-10 years after manufacture, new replacement batteries will be required, from either a mined mineral source, or a recycled metal source. This is unlikely to be practical…” [viii] He is stating the problem very mildly.

 

Michaux also points to the staggering demand for copper, noting that, “for copper alone 4.5 billion tons (1,000 kilograms per ton) of copper are needed. That's about six times the total amount that humans have so far extracted from the Earth. The rock-to-metal ratio for copper is more than 500, so it would be necessary to dig up and refine more than 2.25 trillion tons of ore.” And the mining equipment would have to be diesel-powered to work. [ix]

 

Michaux concludes that simply, “To phase out petroleum products and substitute the use of oil in the transport sector with a completely Electric Vehicle fleet, an extra capacity of 1.09 x 1013 kWh (10 895.7 TWh) of electricity generation is required from the global power grid to charge the batteries of the 1.416 billion vehicles in the global fleet. As total global electricity generation in 2018 was 2.66 x 1013 kWh (Appendix B), this means that to make viable the EV revolution, an extra capacity of 66.7% the existing entire global capacity to generate electricity is required to be added…The task of making the EV battery revolution is much larger in scope than previously thought.” [x]

 

That is only to replace vehicle internal combustion engines globally.

 

 

Wind and Solar?

 

Then if we look to the proposed substitution of solar arrays and onshore and offshore wind power for current 95% conventional electric power sources to get to the absurd and arbitrary Zero Carbon goal in the next few years, all to avert Al Gore’s fake “tipping point” of 1.5 C rise in average global temperature (which itself is an absurd notion), the calculus gets even more absurd. 

 

 The main problem with wind and solar farms is the fact that they are not reliable, something essential for our modern economy, even in developing countries. Unpredictable power blackouts that affect the grid stability were almost nonexistent in the US or Europe until introduction of major solar and wind. If we insist as do the Zero Carbon ideologues, that no backup oil, gas or coal plants be allowed to stabilize the grid in low solar times such as night or cloudy days or winter, or times when wind does not blow at the optimal velocity, the only serious answer being discussed is to build EV battery storage, lots of it. 

 

The cost estimates of such E-battery storage backup vary. Van Snyder, a retired mathematician and systems engineer calculates the cost for such huge battery backup to the USA power grid to ensure reliable steady electricity at today’s level: “So, how much would batteries cost? Using the most optimistic 400 watt hours requirement -- something a real engineer would never do -- and assuming installation is free -- another thing a real engineer would never do -- one might look in Tesla's catalogue and discover the price is $0.543 per watt hour -- before installation -- and the warranty period, roughly equal to the lifetime, is ten years. Activists insist that an all-electric American energy economy would have average demand of 1,700 gigawatts. If one evaluates the formula 1,700,000,000,000 * 400 * 0.543 / 10, the answer is $37 trillion, or about twice total USA 2020 GDP, every year, for batteries alone.” [xi]

 

Another estimate by Ken Gregory, also an engineer, is similarly impossibly high. He calculates, “If fossil fuel fired electrical power is not available to back up the highly variable S+W energy and only batteries can be used as back up, the battery backup becomes extremely expensive…The total cost to electrify the USA is US$258 trillion with the 2019 profile and US$290 trillion with the 2020 profile.” [xii]

 

 

The Hidden Agenda

 

Clearly, the powers behind this mad Zero Carbon agenda know such reality. They don’t care, as their goal has nothing to do with the environment. It is about the eugenics and culling of the human herd as the late Prince Philip famously remarked.

 

Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program, in his opening speech to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, declared, “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” At the Rio summit Strong oversaw drafting of the UN “Sustainable Environment” goals, the Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development that forms the basis of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, as well as creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN. [xiii]

 

Strong, a protégé of David Rockefeller was far the most influential figure behind what is today the UN Agenda 2030. He was co-chairman of Klaus Schwab’s Davos World Economic Forum. In 2015 on Strong’s death, Davos founder Klaus Schwab wrote, “He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board.”

 

Tuân thủ và ngoan ngoãn là ung thư của tự do

“Sự vâng lời là nơi ẩn náu lớn nhất của những kẻ yếu đuối và hèn nhát!”

~ Mehmet Murat ildan

Chế độ chuyên chế và toàn trị, hoặc bất kỳ quy tắc nào đối với người khác về vấn đề đó, dựa trên thực tế là hầu hết mọi quy tắc đều được chấp nhận một cách tự nguyện và thường được chấp nhận bởi bầy đàn bình dân tập thể. Mối quan hệ chủ / nô lệ không bao giờ có thể tồn tại nếu không có nô lệ.

Chế độ chuyên chế không thể phát triển mạnh trong bất kỳ xã hội nào có cư dân sẵn sàng phủ nhận Nhà nước để ủng hộ tự do.

Bạn, mỗi người trong số các bạn, hoàn toàn chịu trách nhiệm về những hành động và không hành động của chính mình. Bạn khiến chính mình trở thành nô lệ bởi sự hèn nhát của mình và không sẵn lòng nói không với chính phủ và Nhà nước tàn ác này. Bạn là người hoan nghênh đội quân sát nhân này trong khi họ tàn sát những người vô tội trên khắp thế giới, và bạn là người ẩn mình trong bóng tối khi những người hàng xóm của bạn bị tổn hại do chế độ chuyên chế của Nhà nước, mới là vấn đề. Vâng lời dẫn đến nô lệ, và không vâng lời dẫn đến tự do. Quần chúng phải hiểu điều này nếu đất nước này muốn được tự do hoặc có bất kỳ giá trị nào.

 

 

The Compliant and Obedient Are Freedom’s Cancer

April 27, 2023

By: Gary D. Barnett

“Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!”

~ Mehmet Murat ildan

Sometimes, in order to clear the air, it is necessary to expose the real risk to our freedom, instead of simply concentrating on the obvious evils that surround us. Those obvious evils of course consist of the State, government, criminal politicians, their enforcers in police and military, and corporate and banking heads, who actually control the government, and therefore, the people. Yes, these are bad people and entities who seek power and control, but are they the only real problem? Most would claim that the real problem lies with others, and never accept any responsibility themselves. Whether this is simply a human trait of avoidance, or purposeful deception matters not, as it comes down to covering up fact to hide the truth in order to escape all responsibility.

Tyranny and totalitarian rule, or any rule over others for that matter, is based on the fact that most all rule is voluntarily accepted, and usually embraced by the collective plebian herd. The master/slave relationship could never exist without the slave. Once any individual decides to be free, he is free, because his mind and soul are free. This reality is overlooked by the general population, for adversity is avoided at all cost, as the masses willingly choose to accept their own serfdom to supposedly gain false safety. This would not be such a monumental problem except that most all those who deliberately accept rule, expect everyone else to act in the same manner. They expect, as their chosen condition is obedience and submission to the State, that everyone be subject to government rule, and therefore, free and sovereign individuals are looked down upon, censored, marginalized, and cursed.

Compliance, submission, and obedience in the face of any governing system seeking rule,  is like a malignant cancer that spreads throughout the population at large. It is entirely based on fear and cowardice, and the ensuing refusal to accept the truth, to face any difficulty, or to accept any personal responsibility for protecting their own lives and liberty. What is forgotten is that no State can exist unless the masses allow it to exist. Tyranny cannot thrive in any society whose residents are willing to negate the State in favor of freedom. No government can gain power unless the people voluntarily give them that power. This is evidenced in the insane act of voting, where the populace gets together to ‘elect’ a master-class to rule over them. This is done willingly by purposely picking a king and his court to claim power over the people. When one is able to understand that this voting scam is a trick, and meant only as a confirmation of voluntary rule, and nothing more, then why continue looking for political saviors instead of looking to self?

Governments lie, politicians lie, fascists lie, and the controlled media lies. What is worse however, are those who remain silent in the face of war, murder, slaughter, torture, lockdowns, pedophilia, child trafficking, and economic destruction. By this apathetic behavior, they allow the ruling class lies to stand, and worse, by their silence and non-action, they sanction the horrors committed by the State in their name. Many, especially in this country called America, not only remain silent, but honor and applaud the terror committed by what they call ‘their country.’ This atrocious behavior can be witnessed at any sporting event, any concert, most all churches, and at any large gathering of people, especially when all are a part of the collective herd in any bread and circus environment.

Those who stand against the state are in the vast minority, and have been targeted for some time; from extreme censorship, to shunning by this pathetic society, to outright violence against them. This will only worsen, as dissent, especially when so few are willing to rebel and disobey, will bring out the State enforcers, but it will also bring out the dregs and snitches of society, those conformists who seek dependence, and hide behind the State.

As I wrote over a decade ago:

“In America today, the many are ruled by the few. The many allow this tyranny voluntarily, and with open arms. The only men who can be reduced to servitude are those who choose to do so. For men who cling to liberty with passion can never be ruled, and will never allow their freedom to be taken from them. These are men of truth and character, and sadly, they are the extreme minority. These men of integrity are now directly in the crosshairs of this oligarchy called America, and without them, the rest of society is doomed to a life of serfdom.”

Is any clarity of realty beginning to soak into the minds of those who are becoming inquisitive concerning their own freedom? Is it not obvious that the base cause of our loss of freedom lives in the mind and body of most every common citizen? Is it not apparent, that the silence and indifference, and the lack of a backbone, are at the core of our problems? It is easy to blame the accepted antagonists called government, rulers, and their enforcers. It is easy to blame one side or the other in a country split down the middle and pathetically labeled as red or blue, or black or white. It is easy to be lazy and cowardly in the face of adversity, but it is not easy to deal with the very extreme consequences of this lack of courage by those who have caused so much misery to others.

Yes, the hard truth is that most who comply with draconian measures initiated by the State, most who have succumbed to government mandates, most who only consider their own personal temporary position, all who ignore the plight of the victims of aggressive wars and totalitarian rule, and all who obey on command, are in fact at great fault for their own and other’s enslavement.

You, each of you, are fully responsible for your own actions and non-actions. You cause your own enslavement by your cowardice, and unwillingness to simply say no to this heinous government and State. You who applaud this murderous military while they slaughter innocents around the world, and you who hide in the shadows when your neighbors are in harms way due to State tyranny, are the problem. Obedience leads to slavery, and disobedience leads to freedom. This has to be understood by the masses if ever this country is to be free or of any value.

You who claim to be special and deserving of more due only to the color of your skin, your sexual misconceptions, your culture, your minority status, or your political party, are also at fault for our downfall. Division is always purposely stoked by those seeking power so as to be able to gain control, but brought to fruition by the very people claiming to want ‘equal’ treatment. Division destroys fair treatment of individuals, and pits all against all. Hypocrisy and contradiction at this level are asinine, as each of you seek out enemies amongst yourselves, instead of living and working together in harmony against the State monsters. How insane is this reversal of logic, and effort in idiocy?

Every act of compliance and obedience to tyranny, drives another nail into the coffin of freedom. When you actually want to know how to escape this madness, when you seek and demand easy and impossible solutions from others instead of self, when you think you have had enough, and do not want to allow this misery to continue, and when you actually want to see and face your real enemy; just look in the mirror!

 “In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And a government is only a government so long as it can make itself obeyed, and therefore it always strives for that and will never willingly abandon its power.”

Mỹ Lai, 'Hình Thức Diệt Chủng' & Khả Năng Bất Tuân Lệnh: Hôm Nay 55 Năm Đã Qua

Tất cả những gì Thompson biết chắc chắn là quân đội Mỹ mà anh ta nhìn thấy đang truy đuổi dân thường  buộc phải bị chặn lại.

Mạnh dạn hạ cánh máy bay trực thăng của mình giữa các GI đang tấn công và dân làng đang chạy trốn, Thompson ra lệnh cho Colburn chĩa súng máy vào lính Mỹ nếu họ còn tiếp tục bắn giết những người đàn ông, phụ nữ và trẻ em không có vũ khí.

Thompson sau đó bước ra khỏi trực thăng vào khu vực chiến đấu và dỗ dành những thường dân đang sợ hãi ra khỏi boongke mà họ đang ẩn náu.

Với những giọt nước mắt lăn dài trên khuôn mặt, anh ấy đã sơ tán họ đến nơi an toàn trên chiếc H-23 của mình.

Đừng bao giờ quên, các bạn của tôi: Đây là cách chúng ta có thể chọn để sống.

My Lai, ‘Killing Ideology’ & Disobeying Orders: 55 Years Ago Today

By Mickey Z

Global Research, March 20, 2023

Post-Woke 16 March 2023

 

“We weren’t there to kill human beings, really. We were there to kill ideology.” (Lt. William Calley)

Officially termed an “incident” (as opposed to a “massacre”), the events of March 16, 1968, at My Lai — a hamlet in South Vietnam — are widely portrayed and accepted to this day as an aberration. While the catalog of U.S. war crimes in Southeast Asia is far too sordid and lengthy to detail here, it’s painfully clear this was not the case.

In fact, on the very same day that Lt. William Calley entered into infamy, another U.S. company entered My Khe, a sister sub hamlet of My Lai. That visit has been described as such:

“In this ‘other massacre,’ members of this separate company piled up a body count of perhaps a hundred peasants — My Khe was smaller than My Lai — ’flattened the village’ by dynamite and fire, and then threw handfuls of straw on corpses. The next morning, this company moved on down the Batangan Peninsula by the South China Sea, burning every hamlet they came to, killing water buffalo, pigs, chickens, and ducks, and destroying crops. As one of the My Khe veterans said later, ‘what we were doing was being done all over.’ Said another: ‘We were out there having a good time. It was sort of like being in a shooting gallery.’”

Colonel Oran Henderson, charged with covering up the My Lai killings, put it succinctly in 1971: “Every unit of brigade size has its My Lai hidden someplace.”

Of the 26 U.S. soldiers brought up on charges related to My Lai, only Calley was convicted. However, his life sentence was later reduced to three and a half years under house arrest.

Never forget, my friends: This is what we’re up against.

My Lai Massacre, 49 Years Later. The Atrocities Have Never Stopped…

But let’s also never forget the actions of a man named Hugh Thompson.

Hugh Clowers Thompson, Jr. wanted to fly choppers so badly that after a four-year stint in the Navy, he left his wife and two sons behind to re-up into the Army and train as a helicopter pilot. Thompson arrived in Vietnam on December 27, 1967, and quickly earned a reputation as “an exceptional pilot who took danger in his stride.”

In their book, Four Hours at My Lai, Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim also describe Hugh Thompson as a “very moral man. He was absolutely strict about opening fire only on clearly defined targets.”

On the morning of March 16, 1968, Thompson’s sense of virtue would be put to the test.

Flying in his H-23 observation chopper, the 25-year-old Thompson used green smoke to mark wounded people on the ground in and around My Lai. Upon returning a short while later after refueling, he found that the wounded he saw earlier were now dead.

Thompson’s gunner, Lawrence Colburn, averted his gaze from the gruesome sight.

After bringing the chopper down to a standstill hover, Thompson and his crew came upon a young woman they had previously marked with smoke. As they watched, a U.S. soldier, wearing captain’s bars, “prodded her with his foot, and then killed her.”

What Thompson didn’t know was that by that point, Lt. Calley’s Charlie Company had already slaughtered more than 560 Vietnamese—primarily women, children, infants, and elderly people. Many of the women had been gang-raped and mutilated.

All Thompson knew for sure was that the U.S. troops he saw pursuing civilians had to be stopped.

Bravely landing his helicopter between the charging GIs and the fleeing villagers, Thompson ordered Colburn to turn his machine gun on the American soldiers if they tried to shoot the unarmed men, women, and children.

Thompson then stepped out of the chopper into the combat zone and coaxed the frightened civilians from the bunker they were hiding in.

With tears streaming down his face, he evacuated them to safety on his H-23.

Never forget, my friends: This is how we can choose to live.

 

All images in this article are from Post-Woke

The original source of this article is Post-Woke

Copyright © Mickey Z, Post-Woke, 2023

 

Hãy tưởng tượng một thế giới không có điện thoại thông minh

Khi mọi người nghĩ về cuộc tấn công vĩ đại vào loài người, họ thường nhắc đến ngày 11 tháng 9, sự bùng nổ của cuộc chiến tranh Iraq, chiến dịch COVID-19 hoặc cuộc xâm lược của Nga vào Ukraine. Nhưng có lẽ đòn tấn công nguy hiểm nhất đối với nhân loại chính là “vũ khí thầm lặng” cho “cuộc chiến thầm lặng” là chiếc điện thoại thông minh. Loại vũ khí này nhằm vào tầng lớp trí thức như một phương tiện để tiêu diệt tâm trí của họ từ bên trong.

Có một kế hoạch nham hiểm đằng sau tất cả những điều này, chúng tôi gọi đó là kế hoạch dập tắt kiến thức rất hiệu quả. 

Nhưng cuốn sách “The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our Brains” của Nicholas Carr đưa ra bằng chứng khoa học sâu rộng rằng toàn bộ internet và điện thoại thông minh nói riêng, trên thực tế đang lập trình lại bộ não của chúng ta, khuyến khích các tế bào thần kinh phát triển các mô hình lâu dài để kích hoạt khuyến khích phản ứng nhanh chóng nhưng điều đó làm cho việc suy ngẫm và suy nghĩ sâu sắc trở nên khó khăn.

Imagine a World Without Smartphones

By Emanuel Pastreich 

March 07, 2023

When people think of the great attack on humanity, they often refer to 9.11, the start of the Iraq war, the COVID-19 operation, or the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But perhaps the deadliest attack on humanity is that of the “silent weapon” for a “quiet war” the smart phone. This weapon is aimed at the intellectual classes as a means of destroying their minds from within.

I have watched how the smart phone, combined with social media, has degraded the capacity of citizens to think for themselves over the last decade. This attack by the multinational corporations on our minds is far more dangerous than any bombing or shooting for it renders us passive, like GHB (gamma hydroxybutyric acid) (the date- rape drug) prone to exploitation and destruction.

The smart phone was launched in full force around 2009. I do not doubt that it had its positive aspects, and I was eventually forced to use one myself. Now you cannot travel without one in many parts of the world, and increasingly governments require them in order to be recognized as a citizen. There is a sinister plan behind all of this, the great dumbing down, we call it.

The passivity and openness to suggestion that exposure to the smart phone induces is best described as a “procedure of conditioning,” to use the term of the German philosopher Günther Anders.

Anders wrote about a previous bid for totalitarian rule that was remarkably successfully, and never completely ended,

“Massenregie im Stile Hitlers erübrigt sich: Will man den Menschen zu einem Niemand machen (sogar stolz darauf, ein Niemand zu sein), dann braucht man ihn nicht mehr in Massenfluten zu ertränken; nicht mehr in einen, aus Masse massiv hergestellten, Bau einzubetonieren. Keine Entprägung, keine Entmachtung des Menschen als Menschen ist erfolgreicher als diejenige, die die Freiheit der Persönlichkeit und das Recht der Individualität scheinbar wahrt. Findet die Prozedur des „conditioning” bei jedermann gesondert statt: im Gehäuse des Einzelnen, in der Einsamkeit, in den Millionen Einsamkeiten, dann gelingt sie noch einmal so gut. Da die Behandlung sich als „fun” gibt; da sie dem Opfer nicht verrät, daß sie ihm Opfer abfordert; da sie ihm den Wahn seiner Privatheit, mindestens seines Privatraums, beläßt, bleibt sie vollkommen diskret.”

(Günther Anders, Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, Beck, München 1961, p. 104)

Here’s the English translation:

“The stage-managing of masses that Hitler specialized in has become superfluous: if one wants to transform a man into a nobody (and even make him proud to be a nobody), it is no longer necessary to drown him in a mass, or to bury him in a cement construction mass-produced by masses. No depersonalization, no loss of the ability to be a man is more effective than the one that apparently preserves the freedom of the personality and the rights of the individual. If the procedure of conditioning takes place in a special way in the home of every person—in the individual home, in isolation, in millions of isolated units—the result will be perfect. The treatment is absolutely discreet, since it is presented as fun, the victim is not told that he must make any sacrifices and he is left with the illusion of his privacy or, at least, of his private space.”

Below is my article on the smart phone from the Korea Times published in 2018. I softened up my criticism at the time to reach a broader audience.

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“Imagine Korea without smartphones”

By Emanuel Pastreich, Korea Times, December 2, 2018

When I make this suggestion, the response I receive from Koreans is one of intense fascination. But the assumption they make is that I am going to describe a futuristic “smart city” in which we no longer will use smart phones because information will be projected on to our eyeglasses, or our retinas, or perhaps relayed directly to our brain via an implanted chip.

But I mean exactly what I say. The unrelenting takeover of our brains and of our society by the smartphone is taking an ominous turn.

Each day I watch almost every person on the subway lost in their smartphones, and increasingly lacking empathy for those around them as a result. They are mesmerized by video games; they flip quickly past photographs of chocolate cakes and cafe lattes, or fashionable dresses and shoes, or watch humorous short videos.

Few are reading careful investigative reporting, let alone books, that address the serious issues of our time. Nor are they debating with each other about how Korea will respond to the crisis of climate change, the risk of a nuclear arms race (or nuclear war) between the United States, Russia and China. Most media reporting is being dumbed down, treated as a form of entertainment, not a duty to inform the public.

Few people are sufficiently focused these days even to comprehend the complex geopolitical issues of the day, let alone the content of the bills pending in the National Assembly.

We are watching a precipitous decline in political awareness and of commitment to common goals in South Korea. And I fear that the smartphone, along with the spread of a social media that encourages impulsive and unfocused responses, is playing a significant role in this tragedy.

What do those smartphones do? We are told that smartphones make our lives more convenient and give us access to infinite amounts of information. IT experts are programming smartphones to be even more responsive to our needs and to offer even more features to make our lives more comfortable.

But Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains” presents extensive scientific evidence that the internet as a whole, and smartphones in particular, are in fact reprogramming our brains, encouraging the neurons to develop lasting patterns for firing that encourage quick responses but that make contemplation and deep thought difficult.

Over time, we are creating a citizenship through that technology that is incapable of grasping an impending crisis and unable or unwilling to propose and implement solutions.

If smartphones are reprogramming our brains so that we are drawn to immediate gratification, but lose our capacity for deeper contemplation, for achieving an integrated understanding of the complexity of human society, and of nature, what will become of us?

But consumption, not understanding, let alone wisdom, is the name of the game for smartphones.

In the case of the worsening quality of the air in Korea, I observe a disturbing passivity, and also a painful failure of citizens to identity the complex factors involved. Even highly educated people seem not to have thought carefully about the exact factors behind the emissions of fine dust in Korea, and in China, and how that pollution is linked to the deregulation of industry, or to their behavior as consumers.

That is to say those phenomena in society have been broken down into discrete elements, like postings on Facebook, and that no overarching vision of complex trends is ever formed in the mind.

We float from one stimulating story to the next, like a butterfly flitting from one nectar-laden flower to another. We come away from our online readings with a vague sense that something is wrong, but with no deep understanding of what exactly the problem is, how it relates to our actions, and no game plan for how to solve it.

There is a powerful argument to be made that certain technologies that can alter how we perceive the world should be limited in their use if there is reason to believe they affect the core of the democratic process. Democracy is not about voting so much as the ability to understand complex changes in society, in the economy and in politics over time.

Without such an ability to think for ourselves, we will slip into an increasingly nightmare world, although we may never notice what happened.

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Emanuel Pastreich served as the president of the Asia Institute, a think tank with offices in Washington DC, Seoul, Tokyo and Hanoi. Pastreich also serves as director general of the Institute for Future Urban Environments. Pastreich declared his candidacy for president of the United States as an independent in February, 2020.

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