Archive: 08/2014
2014-08-01
- Wisconsin high court rules public workers have no constitutional right to organize
- Los Angeles water main break points to failing national infrastructure
- Foreword to The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century
- Less than 40 percent of Canadian jobless eligible for benefits
- Ukrainian parliament approves deployment of foreign armed forces to crash site
- Australian pseudo-lefts line up behind US war preparations against Russia
- German drug company covered-up deadly side effects of anticoagulant Pradaxa
- A law unto themselves: The CIA and the torture cover-up
- UK parliamentary panel demands NATO prepare for confrontation with Russia
- John le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man brought to the screen
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) public meeting August 4: Oppose the bombardment of Gaza!
- Maine governor met repeatedly with violent ultra-right group
- Detroit kindergartens “experiment” with 100-student class sizes
- US boosts missile sales to Iraq
- Hundreds of undocumented migrants begin hunger strike at Tacoma, Washington detention facility
- Israel calls up more troops to join Gaza slaughter
- Ebola epidemic highlights poverty in Africa
- US court forces Argentina into default
- Charges of anti-Semitism used to intimidate and criminalise opponents of war in Germany
2014-08-02
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vigilante groups patrol the US-Mexico border
- Wave of traffic fatalities in Detroit highlights disrepair of infrastructure
- Video blog on Gaza devastation by British Channel 4 News presenter attracts wide audience
- Obama defends CIA torturers
- European Union’s confrontation with Russia raises tensions in Moldova
- State Department acknowledges widespread torture in leaked memo
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Mediocre US jobs report points to ongoing unemployment crisis
- Guy Charron, 1962-2014: Canadian fighter for Trotskyism
- Israel intensifies Gaza slaughter after ceasefire collapses
- California: Immigrants eligible for Medicaid may not receive coverage
- Influential Washington think tank pushes US war drive in the South China Sea
2014-08-04
- Low turnout at Detroit “Water Affordability” stunt
- Eastern Ukraine faces humanitarian crisis as Kiev steps up attack
- This week in history: August 4-10
- Contamination leaves 400,000 Ohioans without tap water
- Thai junta installs military-dominated assembly
- House of Representatives authorizes constitutional lawsuit against Obama
- Anti-conscription protests grow in Ukraine
- The slaughter in Gaza: A warning to the international working class
- Third week of protests in New Zealand over Gaza invasion
- New York judge upholds US efforts to seize emails from Microsoft
- US markets in biggest fall for six months
- Protesters denounce UK and US support for Israeli military massacres
- US immigration attorney: “I deal with great numbers of children and young adults fleeing violence and poverty”
- German expenditure for weapons research has more than doubled since 2010
- Death of Eric Garner at hands of New York police ruled a homicide
- Deadly auto parts plant explosion in China
- The lessons of August 4, 1914
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, or Yawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014-08-05
- EU, US intensify confrontation with Russia
- Sri Lankan president appoints advisory panel to head off UN human rights inquiry
- Bogus agrarian reform ends in the Philippines
- One hundred years since the outbreak of World War I
- US researcher victimized over article opposing nuclear weapons
- Lloyds Bank admits fixing repo rate
- Gaza death toll climbs over 1,800
- Protests in France against Israeli war on Gaza
- The return of German Great Power politics and the attacks on the historian Fritz Fischer
- Anti-Gaza war demo in Manchester, UK
- Earthquake in southern China leaves nearly 400 dead
- Canada’s telecoms aid state surveillance by handing over personal data
- Demonstration against Gaza massacre in Berlin: “Enough is enough!”
- Obama hosts Africa summit amid deepening global crises
2014-08-06
- Australia: SEP and IYSSE meetings discuss dangers of new world war
- Australia: A barrage of pro-war propaganda to mark World War I centenary
- Ukrainian government forces deploy heavy weaponry as they encircle Donetsk
- Release of Senate report on torture stalled by CIA redactions
- Australian government unveils sweeping new “terror” powers
- Deadly gas explosion in Taiwanese city kills dozens
- US spy plane incident raises more questions over MH17 crash
- Sage Francis’s Copper Gone: A critic, but frustrated
- Federal report exposes “culture of violence” in New York City’s Rikers Island prison
- Washington plans for world war
- US terror list ensnares hundreds of thousands
- Greek court frees men charged with attacking migrant workers
- European leaders use World War I commemoration to press for new wars
- Frictions over trade at US-India Strategic Dialogue
- New Snowden leak highlights collaboration between NSA and Israeli intelligence
- Israel Defense Forces soldiers condemn destruction of Gaza
- August 1914 and the myth of general enthusiasm for war in the German working class
- Detroit water workers denounce shutoffs
- US major general killed in insider Afghan army attack
2014-08-07
- Ukrainian offensive against Donetsk raises threat of war with Russia
- Fifty years since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- Special operations commander to head University of Texas
- Austrian court delivers draconian verdict against student protester
- Washington Post accuses Snowden of aiding Al Qaeda
- First televised debate on Scottish independence referendum exposes fraud of “Yes” and “No” campaigns
- The international significance of Australia’s World War I “celebrations”
- Business leader selected as new chair of UK schools inspectorate
- Shaky truce holds in the Gaza Strip
- Missouri carries out seventh execution of 2014
- Australian government moves to cut public sector pay and conditions
- Political crisis intensifies over Australian austerity budget
2014-08-08
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Bruce Weber’s Detroit: “Projection” as truth?
- US, NATO support the Ukrainian army’s bloody offensive
- Turkey to hold first popular election for president
- Sri Lankan SEP and IYSSE demonstrate against Israeli assault on Gaza
- What lies behind the warmongering by Der Spiegel?
- Rosetta spacecraft becomes first manmade probe to orbit a comet
- Alarm bells sound louder over danger of financial collapse
- Australian unemployment rate rises to highest level in 12 years
- Obama authorises a new air war in Iraq
- Florida courts prepare fast-track hearings for immigrant children
- University of Illinois blocks appointment of professor critical of Israeli crimes in Gaza
- London mayor threatens to dock pay of striking firefighters
- California’s 2014-2015 budget attacks education
2014-08-09
- A key moment in the prehistory of the Enlightenment
- Sri Lankan SEP to hold public meeting in Colombo on world war threats
- Snowden permitted to stay in Russia for three more years
- Oppose the Israeli assault on Gaza!
- UK government attempts to conceal its involvement in rendition and torture
- ISIS in Iraq: A disaster made in the USA
- New Zealand: Internet-Mana parties wage bogus anti-establishment campaign
- Malaysian press charges Ukraine government shot down MH 17
- Germany’s Left Party suppresses opposition to militarism
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Japan’s defence white paper targets China
- Bradford meeting: “What Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide—there is no other word for it”
- German commission undermines parliametary approval requirement for military operations
- Israel resumes indiscriminate killings in Gaza
- Fed Report: Most US families can't raise $400
- Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds meeting in Bradford against war in Gaza
- Bank of America reaches $16 billion mortgage fraud settlement
- Australian PM backs NATO threats against Russia
2014-08-11
- SEP and IYSSE speak-outs at Australian universities on danger of new world war
- This week in history: August 11-17
- Anger erupts after police killing of unarmed teen in St. Louis, Missouri
- Over 100,000 protest in defence of Gaza in South Africa
- Continuing protests against Gaza massacre in Australia
- The war cabal in Washington
- Pakistan: Opposition protests demand government’s resignation
- Fourth major party formed as Mexican Congress passes oil legislation
- 150,000 protest in London against Israel’s siege of Gaza
- No end date for US military intervention in Iraq
- London: Protesters denounce mass murder in Gaza and biased BBC media coverage
- Canada’s Harper marks World War I with bellicose address
- Tensions grow in Germany over threat of war with Russia
- New York police arrest man who taped Eric Garner’s death
- France backs renewed US war in Iraq
- International emergency declared in Ebola outbreak
- Baltimore enacts law fining parents whose children violate curfew
- Canada providing military aid to Ukrainian regime as it wages war
- Assault on Donetsk risks war with Russia
- US stokes South China Sea tensions at ASEAN summit
2014-08-12
- A “lost year” for Washington, DC economy
- The political issues facing Los Angeles teachers
- War threat grows as Russia prepares to intervene in east Ukraine
- Kiev deploys fascist militias against Donetsk
- Judge Rhodes and his royal entourage tour Detroit
- Obama’s “recovery” and the social crisis in America
- Germany: Osram cuts 7,800 jobs worldwide
- Political crisis grips Baghdad as US escalates intervention
- Israel rejects calls to lift Gaza blockade
- Automaker Fiat shifts headquarters out of Italy
- Police fire tear gas at protests in St. Louis suburb over police killing of unarmed teen
- US-backed Ukrainian regime shells civilians in Donetsk, Luhansk
- Delaware Art Museum sells masterworks to pay construction debts
- UK rail union’s “Listen to London” conference a fiasco
- Condolences on the death of Guy Charron
- Socialist Workers Party’s Alex Callinicos backs Scottish nationalism
- 100,000 Bay County, Michigan residents threatened with water crisis
- Japanese PM tours Latin America
- Australian government backs renewed US war in Iraq
2014-08-13
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Comic actor and performer Robin Williams, dead at 63
- Venezuelan National Guard guns down protesting steelworkers
- The Australian media and the severed-head photo
- Luxury goods sales soar amid global economic slump
- The police murder in St. Louis and the militarization of American society
- Australia: NAIDOC glorifies Aboriginal involvement in World War I
- The crisis in American mental health care
- Kiev pledges to block Russian aid convoy to eastern Ukraine
- London mayor Boris Johnson to return as Tory MP on anti-European Union platform
- Scores arrested in three days of protests over Missouri police shooting
- Louisiana procured death penalty drug through deception
- Human Rights Watch: Egyptian regime guilty of crimes against humanity
- Financial meltdown threatened by bankruptcy of any Wall Street bank
- Detroit mayor employs damage control as city prepares to resume water shutoffs
- AUSMIN talks deepen Australian integration into US war plans
2014-08-14
- Russian aid convoy prompts Ukraine war threats with US backing
- UFCW in Southern California continues talks with Food 4 Less in wake of strike vote
- Turkey: Erdoğan’s presidential win presages deepening social, political conflicts
- Australia: Sydney university staff and students oppose job cuts
- Storm brings widespread flooding to southeast Michigan
- Defend the rights of immigrant workers! Unite the working class of North, Central and South America!
- Gaza, Ukraine and US preparations for urban warfare
- Lockout deadline at New York’s Metropolitan Opera extended
- Italy’s Northern League backs Scottish independence
- Los Angeles police shoot and kill unarmed man
- The use of archaeology in Jerusalem as a political weapon
- US combat troops return to Iraq
- India and US to further expand military-strategic ties
- The fascist atrocities in east Ukraine and the fraud of “humanitarian” war
- Gaza truce extended but Israel refuses to end blockade
- Social inequality fuels anger over police killing of St. Louis youth
- No significant recovery in world economy, says US Fed official
- Bulgarian government commits itself to more aggressive policy against Moscow
- Get On Up: The James Brown story
- Bangladesh’s government mobilises police to attack striking garment workers
- Atlanta school cheating trial scapegoats teachers
2014-08-15
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Protesters denounce police killing of Michael Brown
- Snowden discusses US surveillance and cyber-warfare programs in interview with Wired
- Scottish workers speak for a “no” vote in independence referendum
- Ferguson, Missouri: War comes home
- Pakistani opposition parties launch anti-government protest
- NZ Internet-Mana Party meeting promotes nationalist, pro-business agenda
- US: Market Basket workers protest ousting of CEO, threat to jobs and benefits
- Kiev regime blocks humanitarian aid as fighting spreads in eastern Ukraine
- Dropping initial pretext, Obama vows to continue Iraq intervention
- Missouri governor shifts tactics against Ferguson protests
- German economy contracts as Europe slides closer to recession
- Signs of serious problems in Chinese and Japanese economies
- Actress Lauren Bacall, Hollywood star at 19, dies in New York
2014-08-16
- Kiev’s blocking of Russian aid convoy to east Ukraine escalates risk of war
- Texas National Guard deploys to US-Mexico border
- Tommy Sheridan’s nationalist diatribe in service of Scottish big business
- US war drive in Asia continues apace
- New Zealand pseudo-lefts support Washington’s war preparations against China
- German secret service implicated in fascist murders
- Federal government programs in the US have turned police into military force
- Lucy: A little knowledge is apparently a dangerous thing
- German Left Party calls for military intervention in Iraq
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Evidence of Israeli war crimes mounts as Gaza cease-fire continues
- French government staggered by mounting economic crisis
- Police, media smear victim of Missouri police shooting
- Executive order 12333 authorizes NSA to collect vast quantities of US data
- New Zealand opposition parties campaign on anti-Chinese xenophobia
- Court in Cambodia convicts two former Khmer Rouge leaders
- Candidate’s death in plane crash reconfigures Brazil’s presidential race
- Amnesty International report: Widespread killings of Afghan civilians under Obama administration
2014-08-18
- Video: Ferguson, Missouri residents determined to fight police violence
- Why have the media and Obama administration gone silent on MH17?
- Fighting continues in east Ukraine, as Kiev regime moves on Luhansk
- This week in history: August 18-24
- Dozens of immigrants discovered trapped, one dead, in British shipping container
- Mass graves from Spain’s civil war uncovered
- Leaders of pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine resign
- Australia’s pseudo-left covers up for US imperialism in Iraq
- The state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri
- US expands air war in Iraq
- German army intervenes in Iraq
- Canada’s callous indifference to human suffering in Gaza
- Missouri governor deploys National Guard to Ferguson
- US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
- Political interference alleged in Australian sports doping investigation
- Police refuse to release video after Dayton-area killing
- Australian budget impasse continues
- Democratic Party operatives seek to stifle opposition, facilitate police crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri
2014-08-19
- Workers and youth across US speak on police murder of Michael Brown
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Australian government “celebrates” first WWI military action
- Video: Ferguson residents say police crackdown turns city into war zone
- Ukrainian army steps up offensive in the east
- Fight cuts to education and the drive to war!
- Journalist James Risen denounces President Obama as the “greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation”
- Capitalism and the police-military mobilization in Ferguson, Missouri
- Tankers, barge collide on Mississippi River, spilling oil
- Two years on, Marikana massacre continues to radicalise South African workers
- Rising British self-employment used to obscure worsening job situation
- Japanese lawmakers visit notorious Yasukuni war shrine
- Obama claims “progress” in Iraq intervention
- Still no evidence of Russia’s alleged military incursion into Ukraine
- New report details depth of hunger crisis in the United States
- National Guard, police tighten grip on Ferguson, Missouri
- EU advisors advocate use of military against strikes and protests
- Australian journalist targeted under Racial Discrimination Act over Israel war coverage
- Richard Linklater’s Boyhood: American lives over the course of a dozen years
- Autopsy confirms execution-style killing of Michael Brown
2014-08-20
- Anger mounts in Ferguson, Missouri over police repression
- Western powers talk “peace” while eastern Ukraine is decimated
- Rich Hill: A story that “could be told in hundreds of towns”
- De facto martial law in Ferguson, Missouri
- Australian mining magnate’s outburst against “Chinese mongrels”
- Toxic wastewater from copper mine spills into river in northern Mexico
- New Met Opera contract sets precedent for further givebacks
- Germany expands its intervention in Iraq
- Another police killing in St. Louis, Missouri as assault on protesters continues
- Unemployment up in most US states
- UK joins US military offensive in Iraq
- Australia: Deaths of young homeless couple highlight social crisis
- Further plant closures at Germany’s Heidelberg Press
- German journalists arrested in Ferguson
- Israel resumes assault on Gaza
- Sri Lankan Central Bank chief covers up debt crisis warnings
- Detroit Public Schools announces 10 percent wage cut, new round of school closures
- Major dip in China’s property market
- The political fraud of the Canadian Peoples’ Social Forum
- Assange says he may soon leave Ecuadorian embassy
2014-08-21
- Australia: Real wages cut as corporate profits soar
- Australia: Student “day of action” over education cutbacks
- SEP campaigners oppose Scottish separatism, call for class unity
- Spain: United Left and Podemos seek to join forces
- Class, race and the police killing in Ferguson, Missouri
- Political tensions escalate in Pakistan as protests demand PM’s resignation
- Obamacare threatens immigrants with loss of health coverage
- Vote “No” in the Scottish referendum—Fight for a socialist Britain
- Fight over Common Core testing roils Louisiana state government
- ISIS murders US journalist James Foley
- More US troops and air strikes in Iraq
- Israeli airstrike kills wife and baby son of Hamas leader
- Attorney General Holder backs police-military siege in visit to Ferguson, Missouri
- Cleveland, Ohio residents denounce repression in Ferguson
- Workers and youth in Berlin: “What is taking place in Ferguson is war”
- Federal judge refuses to halt “keep moving” order in Ferguson
2014-08-22
- War and social attacks spread throughout Ukraine
- Sri Lankan unions call off health workers’ strike
- One-third of the US population has no retirement savings
- “Poor Door” for lower-income tenants underscores class divide in New York
- Philippine Supreme Court controversy: A revealing glimpse into Washington’s machinations
- Who is responsible for the murder of James Foley?
- Scottish National Party issues its hollow “Declaration of Opportunity”
- Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight: Keeping life at a distance
- A right-wing critique of Australia’s World War I centenary celebrations
- Workers and young people speak on Ferguson, Missouri, police violence
- German government to deliver weapons to Kurds in northern Iraq
- Killings in Gaza, arrests on West Bank
- Second St. Louis area police shooting highlights unrestrained police violence in the US
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Clashes in Monrovia, Liberia as West African Ebola epidemic grows
- Wave of layoffs sweeps North American coal industry
- Australian government switches message on budget “crisis”
- Bank of America agrees to sweetheart settlement with US Department of Justice
2014-08-23
- US Fed chair Yellen seeks to “buy time” on monetary policy
- UK minister signals further welfare cuts ahead of 2015 general election
- US condemns China over close aerial encounter
- US and NATO threaten Moscow as Russian aid convoy crosses into Ukraine
- Thai coup leader installed as prime minister
- The Bank of America settlement and the “justice” of capitalism
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Kiev
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Sectarian massacre in Iraq as US escalates intervention
- South Bronx residents say Ferguson unrest is about class
- Military helicopters descend on Twin Cities, Minnesota in unannounced “urban warfare” exercises
- Meeting Wednesday in Detroit: Police Violence in Ferguson and the Detroit Bankruptcy—the class issues
- The homeless “problem” in Florida
- Media turns against New Zealand government ahead of election
- New York Mayor de Blasio’s mantle of “progressivism” wears thin
2014-08-25
- Thousands attend “affordability fair” as Detroit prepares to resume water shutoffs
- Top US general suggests lifting ban on arms sales to Vietnam
- This week in history: August 25-August 31
- Sri Lankan SEP holds public meeting on world war threat
- The Fight Against War and the Political Tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
- Quebec’s Bill 3 targets municipal worker pensions
- Obama administration “review” aimed at systematizing transfer of military arms to police
- Imperialist war in search of a pretext
- Australia: Clive Palmer advised on the civil way to demonise China
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon quits leadership of France’s Left Party
- LAPD officers ignored pleas from dying asthmatic arrestee
- Scottish Socialist Party seeks to divide the working class
- Germany: Convicted real estate speculator takes over store chain
- Italian government sends weapons to northern Iraq
- Detroit workers, retirees denounce water shutoffs
- Thousands march in New York City against police violence
- Foley execution used to call for UK military action in Iraq
- Australian government weighs up joining US air war in Iraq
- Australia: Workers and youth speak on Ferguson, Missouri and police violence
2014-08-26
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- Detroit “water affordability fair” attendees denounce shutoffs
- German chancellor Merkel visits Kiev and backs regime
- Ukrainian economy in free fall
- US military to initiate operations in Syria
- How Scotland’s Radical Independence Campaign sells nationalism to the working class
- Class and race in US police killings: A further comment
- UK undercover police escape prosecution for abusing women
- Holocaust survivors indict Israel’s massacre in Gaza
- South Korean auto unions hold token strikes
- French government collapses amid mounting anger over austerity policies
- Compton, California, school police to carry assault rifles
- Companies sell mobile phone spying tools to governments worldwide
- Fears of “a new cold war” and conflict in Asia
- Thousands gather in St. Louis for Michael Brown’s funeral
2014-08-27
- Obama administration denies FEMA assistance to Washington State fire victims
- Video: Interviews with workers at the funeral of Michael Brown in St. Louis
- New York transit workers discuss political lessons of Ferguson, Missouri
- Obama vows protracted military campaign in Iraq, Syria
- Second televised debate on Scottish independence: A dialogue of bankrupts
- Former head CIA lawyer defends torture in Der Spiegel interview
- Three more US police killings
- The official cover-up of social and political issues in the police murder of Michael Brown
- The Newburgh Sting: A case of entrapment
- Military-police violence in Ferguson, Missouri: The war comes home
- Australian government moves to outsource key social services
- Egypt, UAE conducted joint air strikes in Libya
- Attendees at Michael Brown’s funeral denounce inequality, police repression
- German workers, youth speak on Ferguson: “This is not a democracy any more”
- Indefinite ceasefire commences in Gaza
- France admits it directly supplied arms to Syrian “rebels”
- US backs new French offensive in Mali
- Harper to escalate Canadian military intervention in Iraq
- Bangladesh Tuba garment workers confronted by plant closures
2014-08-28
- Thousands face loss of service as water shutoffs resume in Detroit
- Australian government pushes ahead with university restructuring
- HBO’s True Detective: Gruesome doings and deep-going pessimism
- Income inequality rises sharply in Britain
- The German intervention in Iraq
- Ohio charter schools seek to strip public education of constitutional protection
- New Orleans mayor announces semi-private police force
- NATO steps up military preparations against Russia
- Audio recording sheds light on the murder of Michael Brown
- Australian government ready to join US air war in Middle East
- Gaza truce sets stage for deepening of crisis in Israel
- Florida Democrats nominate former Republican governor
- Ground water is depleting in the Colorado River Basin
- US “errors” and the debacle in the Middle East
- India: Four workers killed in Tamil Nadu plastic depot blaze
- Boston workers denounce militarization of police
- Residents of Bell, California mobilize in support of immigrants
2014-08-29
- White House threatens Russia over alleged incursion into eastern Ukraine
- Syria fighting spills into Golan Heights
- Slovenia’s new government prepares sharp attacks
- Photo gallery: Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Scottish independence referendum
- Phoenix police shoot 50-year-old woman during mental health call
- The collapse of the French government: A crisis of capitalist rule in Europe
- French government moves to prosecute NPA organiser of Gaza protests
- Continuing media silence on the fate of flight MH17
- Tokyo holds talks with North Korea over Japanese abductees
- New facts revealed on 2010 ousting of Australian PM
- GM ignition defect death claims continue to mount
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Obama administration launches new attack on teachers
- Detroit meeting discusses city’s bankruptcy and police violence in Ferguson
- Australian spy chief defends new “terror” laws
- Argentine general strike hits rising prices and job cuts
2014-08-30
- Western threats against Russia increase danger of nuclear war
- US government-funded database created to track “subversive propaganda” online
- Syria refugee total nears ten million
- Der Spiegel calls for military build-up in Germany
- From Detroit to Ferguson: The brutal face of American capitalism
- Pakistani military intervenes in political crisis
- The New York Times and Flight MH17
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- Suicidal teen shot sixteen times by Kansas police
- US west coast dockers union forces through another concessions contract
- Germany sends troops to Iraq
- Australian budget protests: A political balance sheet
- Tony Blair offered advice to Kazakhstan dictator
- British Columbia teachers’ strike in danger
- US military planning to suppress domestic unrest
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