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Dec. 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 24, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Welcome back to the Rush Limbo Show, ladies and gentlemen.
It's Doug Arbanski here.
Santa Claus is still about to go with presents from the North Pole, and Barack Obama is still in Hawaii at the mansion, probably playing golf.
It's Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
You know what worries me?
I'll tell you something that worries me.
A little trend, a little trend out there.
Comments I've seen people making during recent weeks.
Sean Penn.
You know Sean Penn, the actor, the he used to be a movie star.
Sean Penn was out there.
He went, as you may know, down to Venezuela.
He went, held a vigil.
They didn't use the word prayer vigil, but he held a vigil for Chavez, who was seriously ill.
And Sean Penn was also on one of these television shows.
I want to say it was the Bill Marshow.
But he was he was talking about the need to perhaps arrest people or find them who referred to Chavez as a dictator.
He thought that that was unacceptable.
He thought that this was something that should be punished.
He thought that it was inaccurate.
Let's just let's just start with that.
You have Mr. Harry Belafonte out there.
Excuse me.
Within the past week or so, two weeks.
Harry Belafonti, who is a far left radical Marxist.
Harry Belafonte was suggesting seriously that this president arrest and detain and jail people who disagree with him.
And Belafonte's argument was well that this has worked in other places.
It's been very successful in other places, you know, um arresting and detaining the people who are your opposition.
And somewhere along the way I read a story that some judge has told the hostess Twinkie Company that they have to put a sign on their door that they had refused to negotiate with the Union, even though they're apparently out of business by now.
There's a pattern here.
You've got Jeffrey Eymelt, the president of General Lechik, saying that China is a model.
China's a model.
China's a model.
This is a bloodthirsty communist place with no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion.
And you've got somebody this close to our president talking about what a how wonderful things are in China.
You've got Lord Moncton, who used to be a Mrs. Thatcher's advisor.
He goes to a UN climate summit.
Now, if you know who he is, he is a climate expert.
He's one of the top climate experts in the world.
And he gets taken from the hall and stripped of his UN credentials.
Merely be and they want him deported from this UN conference in Qatar that has to do with climate change.
Even though he's an expert, but he's not the right kind of expert.
Take take take these things together.
Well, you know, take them one at a time.
They're sort of amusing strange stories of oddballs, odd occurrences.
Take them together.
Now I am a person who is certain that there is no such thing as man-made climate change.
I could do this for hours, days, weeks.
We could spend all year going through the research, teaching a course on the topic.
Story after story after story.
I have in a room in my office, an entire file cabinet devoted to the stories that prove that there's no such thing as man-made climate change.
Now what would they do with me?
Do they want to put a big red paintbrush X on my house because I'm a climate change denier?
Here's what I find unsettling about all of this.
I I find it very unsettling.
And this is what Mao Seitung loved.
The left love the idea of ridicule, ridicule, embarrass.
shame you shame you away from your beliefs, shame you away from your religion, shame you away from making a profit.
Their words for profit.
I may have said this to you before, their words for profit are the overcharge.
Shame you away from smoking, shame you away from real information on climate change, shame you away from owning a gun.
This is the whole whole thing that I find creepy with Mr. Penn, Mr. Belafonte, Mr. Imelt.
Creepy days, because it is now totally acceptable to engage in divisive hate speech that is aimed at shaming and humiliating people who have normal beliefs.
The shame conducted by people who have very distorted beliefs.
And our side says and does nothing.
Oh, I do love, I do love that there's that petition out there to take Piers Morgan and send him back to England.
I mean, in England, there are certain Americans who are not allowed to go there, even though they've said nothing outrageous, but the powers that be in England didn't like it.
Certain people are not allowed to go there.
Now, on this broadcast, one month ago, we were talking about Susan Rice.
And the curious case of Susan Rice.
You know who Susan Rice is.
If you don't know, you're going to know in the next five minutes who she is.
This is a woman with a very flamboyant personality.
She's known for being abrasive, for being judgmental, for being difficult.
And this is the woman who, as you already know, went on the Sunday morning shows and talked about the video being the cause for the last minute uprising in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including our ambassador.
Of course, it turned out that none of that was true.
Turned out that the video was not the cause.
It was not an immediate uprising, and it was Al Qaeda, and we now know this.
You recall that Hillary Clinton went on and said it's the video.
We apologize for the video, the video is despicable.
America should never allow the video to be shown.
She said it with vastly less enthusiasm than I just said.
That very weird talk where she, you know, she appears to me medicated heavily.
The video, the video.
Susan Rice has a little bit of a history with Osama bin Laden.
I don't know if you know that, not a good history.
She was the person, as we know, out there with the altered Benghazi talking points.
It was Susan Rice, one and the same, who played a very key role in blocking the attempts by Sudan to turn over Osama bin Laden to the Clinton administration.
This is someone who has always turned a blind eye, always been clueless about the reality of terror.
Now I said to you one month ago that Susan Rice would never be put forward by this president as Secretary of State.
And there's a very good reason why.
Too many questions about Benghazi would be asked.
And this administration could never have that.
Now it gets worse.
Follow the plot here.
Because if you're wondering why the narrative about the videotape, and many of you already know the answer, but we now have smoking guns in it.
We know a little bit more about her as well, by the way.
When she was a secret assistant secretary of state for African Affairs under Madeline Albright, Susan Rice helped persuade President Clinton to turn down Osama bin Laden, who was offered to Clinton.
And there's a book by Richard Minator called Losing Bin Laden.
And it turns out that Rice played the primary role in scuttling the deal in which Sudan would have turned over bin Laden to the United States pre 9-11.
That was in 96 and 97.
The FBI had their terrorism data.
And Susan Rice overruled the State Department, overruled rather the FBI, every time they wanted to get bin Laden.
She was also influential in the Clinton administration's remaining uninvolved in the Rwandan genocide that took place in that nation in 94, including an article in the Atlantic written by Samantha Power of all people called bystanders to Genocide.
And here's the key.
Here's the money phrase.
Susan Rice is quoted as saying, if we use the word genocide and are seen as doing nothing.
What will the effect on the November congressional election be?
In other words, this is somebody who had her eye on election results.
It makes you ask the next question.
When she was out there talking about videotapes, had a similar calculation regarding Benghazi and Obama's chances of re-election in 2012.
Had that already been taken into consideration.
These are not racist questions.
These are just little things, little facts about Susan Rice.
This is a woman who was widely seen by many to have a sort of personality disorder of temper, temperament problems.
She's talked about by her critics and in the press as brusque or aggressive, undiplomatic in the extreme, one called her, which is great resume and answer for someone who's a diplomat.
Undiplomatic.
She's 48 years old, she's very wealthy.
There's the story about her making a certain hand gesture to her colleague Richard Holbrook during some high level meeting, which shocked everyone who was president.
So I told you back then.
What's that, sir?
It was a it was a hand gesture that I'm not going to describe on Christmas Eve because they're family program here.
But Susan Rice was never going to be put forth because she was right there in the catbird seat about Benghazi.
So she withdrew her name.
The idea being that it would spare Obama the embarrassment of acknowledging that there were people, McCain and Graham, who were going to ask a lot of questions about her upcoming hearings, which now of course would never be taking place.
Here's what really happened.
According to my own theories, the only conceivable explanation is that Obama, our dear leader, threw her under the bus too.
But he never had any intention of nominating her.
She had become a reason to keep the Benghazi story alive.
So, you know, it's today's chapter of For Whom the Bus Rolls.
Now, why that would bother him at this juncture is anybody's guess.
Anybody's guess, because it looked for a few moments like he was going to poke his finger in the Republicans' eye, I'll appoint anyone I want, was his attitude.
But he did not want the Benghazi story kept going.
That is what is that is what is clear.
Now she's gonna have to be, she's gonna be required to testify before Congress.
I'm gonna come to the curious story of Susan Rice, John Kerry, Congress, Benghazi, and Michael Dukakis, right after this.
It's Duggar Bansky, ladies and gentlemen, filling in for Rush Limbaugh today, Christmas Eve 2012.
Welcome back to the show.
So we're talking about Susan Rice and this whole idea that she was never ever, ever going to be nominated for Secretary of State, and it was what we call a twofer.
Obama and his Democrat pals, because they owe those nasty white Republican men a racist for the way they've treated her.
She was never going to be nominated.
But the appearance that she withdrew under pressure from these racists.
Do you remember the stories?
Some of them come from states that had slaves 150 years ago.
Those were the stories that were out there.
Now Rice is going to at some point have to go under oath.
She's going to be forced to testify before Congress.
That ought to be very interesting.
Because somebody's going to crack here.
I don't know who.
I mean, there's Petraeus.
Hillary is still Hillary, who we're told will be the next president by experts.
Hillary is still not turned up.
I mean, they read this report, and it's a little bit like Leopold and Loeb.
It's a little bit like the Menendez brothers trying to get the story straight together.
Look, Susan Rice, let me say it in plain English, she was never going to get the nomination as Secretary of State.
She was led by the nose by this administration, and John Kerry already had the deal in the bag.
That's all.
And Obama thought he could make her look like a little bit of an underdog and make the Republicans look bad and everything, you know, it's all all of it has to do with making the Republicans look bad.
Now, here's a name from the past that has popped up.
Remember the name Michael Dukakis?
He was the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee.
Get this story from the other day here in the Hill that Michael Dukakis may be the interim replacement for John Kerry, because John Kerry will go off and become Secretary of State is the theory, and that Dukakis is likely to be appointed by Governor Deval Patrick, who's a Democrat from Massachusetts.
So now you'll get this whole idea.
Of course, if if Dukakis goes to Senate, will he wear his helmet?
Do any of you remember that commercial of him in the tank with the helmet on?
I mean, wonders never cease in the liberal land of Oz, ladies and gentlemen.
Think of it, a Senate with both Dukakis and Al Franken in it.
It's comic bookends.
Comic book ends.
Well, at the end of the day, this is all because elections have consequences, isn't it?
Isn't it?
Wait a yeah, wait a yeah who Obama drags out to put on the Supreme Court.
That's that's gonna be something.
So yes, oh yes, the image of Dukakis wearing the helmet, the image of John Kerry crawling out of a hatch, what was he wearing, a space suit or a hazmat suit?
That's it.
That's it.
Anyway, there all we've got are these sixties rabble rousers.
There are they do you realize that there are no rising stars in the Democrat Party?
Have you realized that there are no rising young gun stars?
It's all the sixties rabble rousers, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Michael De Kakis.
There is no one with any new ideas in their party.
Of course, that would be a tautology because they can't have no ideas in their party.
There is nobody in their party who loves the United States of America as created, as created by the founders.
It is not merely a cliche, but it is also true to say that they are the party that hates the United States.
So with John Kerry, maybe the appointment of Michael Dukakis, the party of diversity, once again goes back to the same old, the same old white guys, and then you've got John Kerry.
You know, this nomination to be Secretary of State.
This is a guy who's got to be drilled with questions, drilled and pummeled with questions.
I mean, you want an argument for term limits?
The argument will be the fact that John McCain is supporting John Kerry.
John Kerry is the Chinese expression.
The Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times.
These ladies and gentlemen are very interesting times.
John Kerry in 1970 testifies against against his fellow Vietnam War veterans before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
He makes the outrageous claim that they were violating the Geneva Conventions every single day in Vietnam.
And then John Kerry goes to Paris in 1971, where he meets with the North Vietnamese communists.
And I don't think we've ever seen his notes from those meetings.
And if it was negotiations between a U.S. citizen and a foreign power, it would have been illegal.
Then you have Kerry's involvement in the nuclear freeze of the 80s.
Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, that the Soviet KGB, we know for a fact, Was a major funder and promoter of this disastrous idea of the nuclear freeze.
And Kerry was of the view that if we froze nuclear weapons, that we would morally pressure the Soviets into withdrawing their missiles.
Ladies and gentlemen, is it Kerry's view that we're going to morally pressure North Korea?
Morally pressure Iran.
I mean, has John Kerry learned anything from his past bumblings and the disastrous positions of his past experience?
These are all questions to be asked, those and many more, ladies and gentlemen, about John Kerry, who this president wants to be, Secretary of State, a man uniquely unqualified in every way.
And it is Duggar Baski.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Um, you know, there's a lot of movement going on with the whole John Boehner thing.
There's a there are theories out there that he's that he may not remain as Speaker of the House.
To that end, Dave has been holding from Northern New Mexico.
Dave, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you today, sir?
And Merry Christmas, by the way.
Oh, God's blessings and peace on the celebration of the birth of his son Jesus for the redemption of man.
Oh, Dave, Dave, Dave, I couldn't put that any better.
That's beautiful.
Well, I think that every day, and I wish people would think that all year long.
But Dave, you know you've probably offended a bunch of people by saying that.
I don't care if it offends them or not.
Okay, I'm in agreement with you, sir.
So what's on your mind.
Now, this this nonsense about Boehner.
Two months ago I I tried to tell talk show hosts and and such that Boehner is too timid.
Get rid of him and put Ryan in there and put some of those uh Tea Party uh Republicans in power.
This nonsense uh playing footsies with the Democrats.
Uh read, take a p uh uh uh a page from uh Reed's playbook.
He hasn't passed uh uh a budget in four years.
So why are the Republicans so much in a hurry to pass a budget that they haven't passed in four years?
We have people up there that don't want to speak up or speak out.
Dave Reed does not look afraid of very much, does he?
On what the people need.
People need information and facts.
We don't need rhetoric, we don't need uh codling.
We need to know the facts.
And we need some of these uh Rhino and uh Manchurian candidate Republicans out of office.
They're holding up the people.
Were you hearing my fantasizing earlier about term limits?
Well, term limits is okay, but the people have to get the information on the politician that they're voting for.
Well, that's right.
I that's why I want every politician to have to work for my vote.
But look, I don't the the rumors are out there that Boehner may not even be able to survive uh a vote come um the new session.
You know, they need people like uh Sarah Palin, Kane, they need to have them have a program of their own so they can uh get it across to the people like uh the election on uh 2010, people were uh, you know, uh let's say enthused that they got these people in office, but all of a sudden, these Rhino uh Republicans, they don't want them in office, so they they started tapping them down.
Well, Dave, you and you and I, Dave are on the same, same, same page here.
I couldn't, I couldn't agree with you more.
And I want to say to you, Merry Christmas, and thank you so much for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm running out of time here, and I want to quickly squeeze in a couple of other kind people who've been holding.
Dave, thanks so much and again, Merry Christmas.
Paul in San Antonio, Texas.
You've been holding for a while, Paul.
How are you today, sir?
And Merry Christmas, by the way.
Uh, pretty good, uh, Doug, thank you very much, and Merry Christmas to you.
What I wanted to say was that uh this old Benghazi thing, I think it needs to be hung around Hillary Clinton's neck, just like uh Chappaquittock was hung around Ted Kennedy's neck.
What do you think about this idea?
What do you think about this idea?
That because she was once a senator, part of the Senate club, That they all eventually just circle around and protect each other.
Well, I'm uh I don't know, I've never really taught thought much about that, but uh, I think it is.
Well, look, look, look, look, Paul, here's what we're gonna have.
We're gonna have John Kerry is nominated as Secretary of State, and the gentleman's club of the Senate is all gonna tell us what a great choice he is.
He's a dreadful choice.
Well, that's what they may think.
Uh I don't think that that wouldn't be what I would think, and I don't think there are very many Americans who think that as well.
Given his past and his uh Look, I think if you if you want to put Benghazi around Hillary's neck on her trophy wall, it it by all means it belongs there, and but I I think that there are many, many other things.
The entire Arab Spring, a disaster, Arab Spring, a disaster for millions of people around the world.
I mean, she's heavily involved in all of this.
All of the disasters, arrangements with Israel, all of the disastrous arrangements with North Korea.
In what front has she been successful?
And we are told, Paul, you've heard this as well by experts that she will be the next president.
You've heard that, have you not?
Well, I don't think that's gonna happen.
I think this I think this is one way we could stop her.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well, but the experts tell us she's there.
And have you ever in your life imagined someone who could just run and hide, not testify, not comment, make her ridiculous comments about a video, and then vanish from the scene, and she's Secretary of State and she doesn't appear and she's not on the record, and she's waiting to see what's in reports so she can get her story right?
I mean, can you ever imagine such a thing?
No, I haven't.
No.
I think it's uh I think it I think it's I think it's very cowardly myself.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it is cowardly.
But she's got a headache and she fell down, and she's been tired from her travels.
All of these things don't.
Yeah, she's got the Benghazi flu.
All of these things uh do not give her great credentials to be a very active president if she were going to run.
Very fascinating.
Thank you so much, Paul.
By the way, Merry Christmas down there in San Antonio.
One of my favorite, one of my favorite places to go visit.
Love San Antonio.
But you know, Paul brings up an interesting point because if you think of the gentleman's club that is the Senate, the gentleman's and gentlewoman's club, they're not gonna really chase Hillary, I don't think, because she was once a member of that of that club, and then they're gonna the same group that's gonna tell us that John Kerry is a great choice.
It's this is the same club that has only put up what I what I call token resistance on Benghazi.
This is the same group of men that has had little or nothing to say about Fast and Furious.
This is the same group of people who that the Democrats run circles around them on the economy.
The same group of people who didn't even attempt to defend Tom Delay.
Who have given Eric Holder a free pass.
To say nothing with nothing to say about the Black Panthers in polling places, nothing to say about Union thugs and mobs.
These are the people who rushed to the defense of Dick Durbin when he compared our troops to Stalin's henchmen's Nazis, Paul Potts killers.
These are the same group who did not fight at all for Bush's uh Supreme Court nominees or for Pickering or Brown or Estrada.
This is the same group of Republicans in the Senate who are very quick to pile on Todd Aiken and Richard Murdoch.
And as a result of that, you've got Claire McCaskill and Donnelly, who are two eager liberals, ready to follow Obama and lick his boots wherever they can.
So yes, our Senate, Senate Republicans lining up, lining up, elbowing each other for position to heap praise on John Kerry.
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John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Susan Collins.
I bet you Marco Rubio even gets on the list.
And I like him.
No resistance at all from Mitch McConnell.
And I like Mitch McConnell too.
If you listen to these people closely, you're going to start to believe in the selection of John Kerry that he's practically George Patton.
I mean, that's all, that's all.
These Republicans in the Senate.
The men's club, the gentleman's club.
They're going to see to it that their pal.
The pal Carey gets in.
And the Swift Boat veterans will pop up.
But I think the die is cast.
I think the die on this one is cast.
And what is with that 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?
Does I want to know, does John Kerry stand by it?
Does he now not stand by it?
And if he doesn't stand by it now, how does he explain giving it then?
His point was that the United States was committing atrocities in Vietnam beyond the havoc of war.
And that we were doing so daily, and it was we were doing so as a matter of policy that was supported at all levels of command.
And the history, of course, has not borne this out.
If this is John Kerry's view of the country, how could he represent us with conviction?
Hasn't it been his policy throughout his career to take the side in the interests of our enemy?
That's been his entire career, and they want him to be Secretary of State now.
He was wrong about the nuclear freeze.
Arguably, arguably, demonstrably, evidentially, the most important policy decision during the Cold War because it set the predicate for our victory in the Cold War.
The freeze was a defeatist policy going in based on the assumption that the Soviet Union was unbeatable.
Mr. Kerry, how'd that work out?
Kerry assumes if we use force, that the United States will do what it always does, and that is commit atrocities as a matter of policy.
How then could he be part of the national security team at all?
This is a guy who believes, like Obama, that our enemies have the moral high ground.
And everybody, everybody knows he thinks this, including the low information voters.
What kind of position does that put him in in any negotiation?
Is it look?
I gotta go to a break, but it's logical that Obama would pick Kerry.
It's a twofer.
Because Obama doesn't believe in the same things that you and I believe in our country either.
And that is the attitude that this Senate apparently wants to associate itself with.
Ladies and gentlemen, Stuggabasky filling in for Russia.
I got a scoot, we'll be right back.
It's Dugarbaske back on Christmas Eve 2012, filling in for Rush Limbo.
I was just thinking, it's gotta be at least 20 years or so since we had a strong Secretary of State.
You have to go way back previous to President Clinton, all the way from Clinton to Obama.
Almost any serious foreign policy decision, any serious effort was run usually by the Pentagon or someplace.
When you think of the list of failure, non-entity individuals at the State Department, my neighbor, Warren Christopher, a few houses down.
This guy was meek and he was loyally.
Madeline Albright, who was a buffoon by every measure of calculation.
Colin Powell, who was not only a disappointment, but a big time Capital D disappointment.
Condoleezza Rice, professional, you know, apple polisher to uh to Bush.
Hillary Clinton, obviously someone who I don't want to say that she loves the free uh adult beverages, but you you know you that that look can happen when you're drinking plenty or when you like the jet set lifestyle.
But you got John Kerry, you see.
John Kerry is considered amongst the left as a sort of foreign policy uh guru.
This is the same thing that we were told for years about Joe Biden, another foreign policy expert.
So only in the United States Senate can a politician with no experience, no training, no academic bona fides, Only coming up through the Senate can you be declared an expert at something enormously important.
Kerry, John Kerry attends a second rate law school.
Couldn't get into Yale.
He served his time as senator, so what?
His his big success is marrying the widow of the late Senator Hines.
To his credit, he did attend a Swiss boarding school.
I give him that.
That should count as something.
Give him a couple points for that.
We've seen him windsurfing, I guess give him a few points for that.
He sounds like an urbane East Coast intellectual.
John Kerry has the sound down.
Look, John McCain and these other Republicans already indicated the fix is in.
They've got no problem with Kerry.
So there's not going to be any surprise revelations coming out of the mainstream media.
Those are the the surprise revelations are reserved especially for Republicans or true conservatives.
John Kerry, who is a dim wit, a mediocrity if ever there was one.
I I ladies and gentlemen, this man will be confirmed as our next Secretary of State.
And he's got a huge ego on top of it.
So it fits just fine.
For the rest of his life, we're going to refer to him now as Mr. Secretary.
We're still waiting for this guy's military records to be released.
The Swift Boaters will probably pop back up, but they have little effect now.
Can you imagine?
Can you just imagine?
It's nothing new, this question, what the left would be doing if this was somebody on the right.
What would the left be doing right now?
It would be conducting massive background checks on all previous statements, any statements this guy made any place at all.
And they'd be coordinating talking points to use against him against him in every headline that you could imagine.
Like they're doing the Chuck Hagel right now.
That's right.
In every discussion, in every article.
Then they start with some predictable but outrageous accusation of racism, sexism, bad grades, anti-patriotism, incompetence.
Then we'd spend days and days discussing those.
Then they would take a few polls to show that he was unfit for the job.
Gotta take a short break, my friends, Duggar Basky, we'll be right back.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Duggar Basky filling into a rush.
I believe that um Mr. Mark Stein will be here tomorrow, or day after tomorrow, picking up the day after Christmas.
Is that correct, sir?
All right.
When I'm back with you folks, I think I'm visiting with you again next week.
I cannot wait to talk to you about the movie Zero Dark Thirty, which I've seen as part of my Oscar voting screening responsibility.
What a magnificent film.
This is the one about the the assault and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
I'll talk about it with you next week.
It is a magnificent film.
Ladies and gentlemen.
It is Christmas 2012.
Please pray for our country.
I'll pray for you and for your families.
Please pray for mine.
And please, please, please, if you have very little to give, if you don't have a lot of money to spend, or if you have a lot of money, nothing can be as valuable as going and paying attention to those who you know who are lonely.
Those who may not appear lonely, please visit them, talk to them, take them little presents, the little leftovers you can't imagine what this will mean to them, and don't do it Christmas week.
Do it every week or twice a month.
This is really really what I wish you to do, and also I wish you'd have a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful, wonderful uh 2013.
The next time I speak to you, it will be the New Year's.
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