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May 13, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 13, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The views expressed by the host on this program still documented to be almost always right.
99.7% of the time.
An important thing to remember, folks, do not doubt me.
It's great to have you here.
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Really loaded here today, folks.
This is one of those days I wish I could say everything that needs to be said that's very important in the first segment.
I wish I could get to all of it first.
But sadly, I can't.
So let's just get started and prepare to buckle in and hang in and be tough.
First, the train derailment, Amtrak train derailment.
Now, obviously, this is a tragedy.
There's injury.
There is death.
And I must sadly be the one to remind you that there is a political component to this.
And you will be hearing about it very soon.
The political component to this is going to be, it will not be very long.
In fact, it may have already happened.
I have been able to monitor all this stuff constantly since this accident first happened.
And it's predictable as easily as the sun coming up in the morning.
We're going to hear that we need to really ramp up infrastructure spending.
We're going to hear hand-wringing, see hand-wringing and complaints.
How could this have happened?
We are letting our country just dilapidate right in front of our eyes.
Where is all the infrastructure spending?
And at that point, somebody needs to say, you have asked for over a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending since 2008, and we'd like to see where the money already allocated for infrastructure spending has actually gone.
The original Porculus bill, $800 billion that soon became close to a trillion dollars.
The vast majority of that was for infrastructure, right?
Rebuilding roads, rebuilding bridges, rebuilding schools.
How much of it actually went to that?
Since the original Porculus, how many other times has the regime gone on television, wrung its hands, and practically cried about the need for infrastructure spending?
The point is, they've gotten it.
They have gotten every dime they have asked for for infrastructure spending, and yet they are going to try to complain or can convey the idea that they haven't had enough, not nearly enough, and this Amtrak derailment is a great, glaring example of it.
And of course, this will be used as more ammunition to further raise people's taxes.
And I would hope in a presidential campaign year, I would hope that some of these Republican candidates, maybe if it's just one, would stand up and push back and say, did you ever stop to think that we have given you enough money on infrastructure that whatever the problem here, if it indeed is that, should have been addressed long ago, given the over trillion dollars you have asked for already, and simply demand an accounting.
Where has all of that infrastructure money, money allocated for that, where has it actually gone?
You know what we'll find.
We will find just as in the original stimulus bill, it went to teachers unions and public employee unions, particularly in the early days of the recession to keep them employed while other people were losing their jobs.
Because as employees, they continue to pay union dues, and union dues are how money allocated to unions end up back in the coffers of Democrat Party campaigns and other efforts.
So just keep a sharp eye on that.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama went to Georgetown University and participated in some kind of a conference on poverty and spirituality and just a whole bunch of stuff.
And I am telling you, it is a gold mine.
We have more from Barack Obama yesterday in terms of helping everybody understand who he is and who he has been from the beginning.
He perfectly illustrated the chips on his shoulder about this country, the aspects of it that he doesn't like, and his efforts on going to transform it and change it.
The things that he said yesterday were simply outrageous.
Some of the things that he said were just over the top.
And I haven't, I mean, there's extensive reporting of it in the drive-by media, but not in a critical way, naturally.
The reporting in the drive-by media is all supportive.
In many cases, on television, much of what he said has been ignored.
It hasn't been reported on at all.
Just a couple of little excerpts of Obama waxing eloquent about poverty and how we need to do something about it, which is classic to me.
Here we have the latest representative of the Democrat Party, happens to be president, happens to have been descendants from the architects of the war on poverty 50 years ago.
We've had no improvement, except Obama believes we have.
The only reason that you don't know it is Fox News.
And Obama said we need to change the way poverty news is reported.
And then he targeted Fox News and blamed Fox News for what people think about poverty, when in fact, it's actually improved and gotten much better since Obama has been running the show.
And then Fox News came under assault for practically everything else that's going wrong in the country as well.
So we have that coming up.
Record Antarctic ice is causing a logistic problem for scientists.
Growing sea ice surrounding Antarctica could prompt scientists to consider relocating research stations on the continent, according to the operations manager of the Australian Antarctic Division.
You know, just like they say about politics, all cooling is local.
In this case, no, no, no, this has nothing to do with global warming.
No, no, this is an aberration.
No, no, no.
Do not make any broad analyses out of this.
This is just a simple little locale, or it's a little colder than we thought it was going to be.
And we've got to move a little research station.
It doesn't mean anything because all cooling is local.
Rod Woodling said the resupplying Australia's Mawson station, the longest continuously operated outposts in Antarctica, relied on access to a bay, a task increasingly complicated by sea ice blocking the way.
It is kind of problematic if you're claiming it's all melting.
And then you can't get to your research station because there's too much ice in the way.
Rob Woodling said that at Mawson, the ice typically only breaks up for one or two months of the summer, but in the last four to six years, this has not happened every year.
And some years only partially.
Ice is getting more plentiful.
It's getting bigger and more of it.
And it isn't melting like it used to.
And it only used to melt one or two months a year, but now that isn't even happening because things have been getting worse over the last six years.
How odd.
While we've all been told that climate is heating up inexorably and uncontrollably, cataclysmically, catastrophically, there's more ice at this Antarctic sea station than they've ever had, and it's causing them to move their station, which has been there longer than any station on ice anywhere.
How many of you have believed there is a rape culture on college campaign and that the rape culture on college campaign being perpetrated by elite, well-to-do winners of life's lottery white students, white male students?
How many of you believe that?
Let me rephrase it.
How many of you have heard that?
Okay, everybody raise their hand.
You've heard that.
All right?
No, no, no, no.
Not a laughing matter.
This is the laughing matter.
Headline: rumors spread that Bloods gangbangers want to kill Houston sorority girls for their initiation.
And here we thought it was evil white frat boys the greatest threat to college girls.
Thus far this week, members and would-be members of the notorious Bloods street gang in Houston have found better things to do instead of murdering sorority girls.
However, illegal drug sales, hating the Crips, that's their gangbang competitors, sorting laundry, and the mundane realities of gang life have not stopped a rumor about the impending murder of sorority members from spreading like wildfire on the campus of the University of Houston.
All this in the Houston Chronicle.
A May 10th, three days ago, for those of you in Rio Linda, a May 10th communique entitled Be Safe said they are planning on killing a sorority girl tonight.
The Bloods sorority murder would be their initiation.
So new members have to prove their chops to get the official Bloods uniform and official membership card.
A rumor is that to murder a sorority sister.
Another message instructed sorority sisters to not wear Greek letters or have any letters on their cars, meaning don't let anybody know you're Greek.
Don't advertise that you are a member of a sorority.
It's your fault if you do.
Can anybody say the name Pam Geller?
It's your fault if you let them know down there in Houston that you're in a sorority because you may as well be waving the red flag to the bull.
A new hope-to-be initiated member of the Bloods might see you and kill you.
University of Houston officials say the ganglion sorority murder gossip appears to be baseless.
It's just a rumor.
But it, you know, wouldn't it have a better chance of being believed if somehow it was a gang of white guys who were planning on doing this?
Because that's what everybody's got, everybody trying to believe.
Did you know that there continue to be murders and shootings in Baltimore?
What did you mean it can't be?
No, no, it's not peaceful at all since the cops have been arrested.
It's not peaceful at all since Marilyn Mosby has come on the scene.
It's not peaceful at all since Ray Lewis and other notorious Baltimore athletes have spoken to the community to calm them down.
The increase in violence, Baltimore Sun, major newspaper of the region.
The increase in violence that has followed the death of Freddie Gray continued through the weekend.
Four homicides reported since Saturday, according to Baltimore police.
Ten people were shot Sunday alone, including three who were shot to death within a span of 39 minutes.
The violence comes as the city prepares for the preakness on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
Is that what they're preparing for?
Are you telling me that in Freddie Gray's neighborhood, they're getting ready for the preakness?
I thought they were getting ready for the trial.
How many police have been arrested?
I don't know.
Let's find out.
We haven't.
Numbers continue to flow here.
At least 87 people have been killed in Baltimore this year, 22 more than at this time last year.
Non-fatal shootings are up nearly 50% across the city.
You mean 87, at least 87 people have been killed in Baltimore?
I thought there was only one.
I think Freddie Gray.
Wait a minute.
Yeah, Freddie Gray.
I thought he was the only one, right?
Well, I don't think the cops killed these other 86 people.
Oh, I know.
It's like a duh moment.
The most recent homicide came Monday afternoon.
Police said a man was shot in the head in the 3,400 block of Clifton Avenue, Southwest Baltimore, Southwest Baltimore.
On Sunday, officers responding to a shooting in the 5,400 block of Chrismer Avenue in the Woodmere neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore, 10.21 p.m., found a man shot in the lower back.
He died at an area hospital from his injuries.
The police said, police had nothing to do with the shooting.
Nine minutes later, which would be at 10.30, police investigated the discharging of a gun in a 1,300 block of North Cary Street in the Santown Winchester section of West Baltimore, the neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested on April 12th.
Officers found the man shot several times, and he died shortly after they got there.
At 11 p.m., officers returned to the same neighborhood for another shooting, the police said.
They found a man shot several times just one block from the homicide at 10.21 p.m.
The man died at an area hospital.
Police said that they have no suspects in the homicides.
And there is two pages here that report all of these incidents.
Wave of Baltimore shootings and killings continue.
Now, I don't know if the mayor knows.
I don't know if the drive-by media knows.
I mentioned a national drive-by media.
I don't know about quick addition here, but after all the riots in Baltimore, if you look at the timeline, at least in this story, after those riots, after the curfew, there have been at least 25 shootings of young blacks in Baltimore, and the cops are not accused of a single one of them.
25 shootings since the curfew ended.
25.
You haven't heard about it, I'll bet.
This is a Baltimore Sun local story.
Cops not involved in a single one of them.
And yet, what's the narrative?
White cops, any cops, shooting innocent black citizens wantonly, all the time, frequently.
Think of the toll.
Seriously here, folks.
Think of the toll all of these incidents take on the police responding on the medical people who have to try to save them all.
You've got the first responders, you've got emergency room personnel, doctors, nurses, and the cops.
25 shootings alone, at least, since the Baltimore riots.
And we were led to believe it was all fixed.
Ever since Mosby came out and charged the six cops, we were led to believe the town had been satisfied.
Their desires and demands had been met, and they had all gone home and were living now, once again, peaceful lives.
Well, that concert from Prince, what good did it do?
I mean, a concert from Prince, it doesn't seem like anything they've done in there has reduced the incidence of gun-related incidents.
There is also this trade deal.
Folks, if you're questioning, if you don't know what it is, you are at the right place.
I'm going to tell you what this trade deal is, this Pacific Rim trade deal.
I'm going to tell you why the Democrats are fit to be tied over it.
Obama insulted Elizabeth Warren, and I'm convinced, I told Snerdley this morning, it's out of pure jealousy that he did so.
So you sit tight.
We've got more all straight ahead when we get back.
Don't go anywhere.
I wonder how many of these shooting incidents in Baltimore can be traced back to the ongoing efforts from the Department of Justice to make police departments act with more restraint.
In other words, back off.
This is what the DOJ is enforcing on all the police departments.
It's taking over.
Because as you know, the left believes, and it's Obama, Obama, Eric Holder, the rest of the crowd believe that violence in communities is the result of the police.
Too big a presence.
Militarized police force.
Cops everywhere.
Cops in your face.
Cops here, cops there.
That promotes violence, they believe.
Of course, it's just the exact opposite.
Anyway, they think if you withdraw the cops, make them invisible, then they're not provoking anybody.
And the citizens will not feel as though they're being put upon and will behave peacefully.
I just wonder how much of, I mean, I've looked up the numbers, actually 50, folks, from the Baltimore Sun article.
More than 50 people have been shot, not all dead, but more than 50 people have been shot since the April 28th Baltimore riots.
And I just wonder if police restraint could be responsible.
Grab soundbite number 20, Josh Ernest at the White House press briefing just now.
Tell me where you just heard this.
The president has been a longtime advocate for investing in our infrastructure and making sure that we have the kind of 21st century infrastructure that we know is going to be critical to the success of our country.
Just yesterday, the president's budget director, Sean Donovan, sent a letter to House Appropriators raising concerns about this.
What do you think that was about?
He got a question about the Amtrak derailment.
Oh, yeah, it's an infrastructure spending problem.
He went on to blame the Republicans, not spending enough on infrastructure.
Not authorized.
Predictable as the sun comes up in the morning.
You would not believe my email.
How many people do not believe that all these shootings are going on in Baltimore?
They haven't heard a word about it.
They can't believe it.
They thought peace had been restored once Marilyn Mosby came out and charged the six cops and the curfew was ended.
And they're really stunned.
And I bet most people around the country are because it's not news.
Any more shootings in Baltimore after Marilyn Mosby's taken charge and after Prince goes in and does concert and after the DOJ says, yep, we'll go fix the place.
Of course it isn't going to be reported that shoot 50 shootings since the riots ended.
Of course it isn't going to be reported.
It totally flies in the face of the narrative.
Speaking of narratives, let me ask you people a question.
Do you recall first ladies being criticized or laughed at, ridiculed, or made fun of before Hillary Clinton?
Do any of you recall Nancy Reagan being laughed at and made fun of?
You do?
What was she laughed at for?
She was okay.
That's exactly right.
You know, you're exactly right.
When Nancy Reagan came out as a don't say no, just say no as a policy for drug abuse, the media mocked her, a Democrat Party mocked her, called her a simpleton, said that that certainly wouldn't work.
What do you mean, just say no?
And I remember that campaign.
I mean, he had NFL players doing PSAs all over the country.
Just say no to drugs, that kind of stuff.
And then when Nancy Reagan redesigned the White House China, that'd be the plates and the cups and saucers for those of you in Riolinda.
Oh, they had a field day with that, didn't they?
You would have thought the world was going to come to an end.
Nancy Reagan, there she was, typical, evil, rich white woman, totally out of touch with a people's country, making a big deal, maybe even did a little TV segment on redesigning the White House China.
And then, when they learned that Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer, oh, did they have a field day with that?
Sam Donaldson and ABC News and the rest of the drive-by media just went to town with Nancy Reagan.
And were there any people making fun of Barbara Bush?
I remember editorial cartoons about Barbara Bush and her white hair and her age.
Looks like the president's mother.
I remember several in the drive-by media cartoonists and editorial analysts saying this.
And then, of course, there was Betty Ford prior to all of that.
And you can remember the kind of things that were said about Betty Ford.
And I don't know how old you are, but if you want to go back, I mean, Lady Bird Johnson had her share of people that made fun of her, made fun of her hair, made fun of her daughters.
They never made fun of her husband because scared to death of him.
And they did get on him once when he grabbed his two beagles by the ears and held them up and accused him of animal cruelty.
He said, no, this is just the way you have to treat the Republicans in the Senate.
And everybody applauded.
So anyway, there's a rich tradition, a rich history in America of the media going after.
I mean, I just said Hillary for a reason, but they went after Laura Bush as well.
If you recall Laura Bush, they went after her mercilessly on the basis what an idiot she had to be to marry W in the first place.
Well, listen to this.
It's last night.
They had a roundtable discussion on Comedy Central.
Well, not, yeah, it is Comedy Central.
The nightly show with Larry Wilmore.
Is this the guy that took over for Colbert?
Anyway, roundtable discussion about criticism of Muchel Mybel Obama and her speech at Tuskegee.
And the host, Larry Wilmore, said.
I've seen the way people treat floatists over the years.
Nancy Reagan, she got some job in, but some of this was that astrology stuff.
It seemed like it was all in fun.
Barbara Bush, maybe the George Washington jokes, they said she looked like her, but that was about it, right?
Everybody liked Barbara Bush, you know, seemed like a really nice lady.
But when Hillary, when the Clintons came in, that's when I first heard like vile comments.
I remember Rush Limbaugh saying she had fat ankles or something like that.
I think there's a lot of sexism in here.
You know, we talked about the Raisins.
There's a lot of sexism in here, too.
So you see, everything they said about Barbara Bush, even now, they can laugh at her, make fun of her, joke about her age.
Nancy Reagan, even now, they can laugh at her, make fun of her, tell jokes about her.
But it wasn't until I started making fun of Hillary that it really began.
Nobody made fun of First Ladies until I made fun of Hillary.
I don't even remember that Ankles comment.
I know other people came up with a word for it, but I didn't.
Snurdly is saying to me, you didn't say anything.
We asked you and you answered us, but you didn't lead with anything.
Maybe, but I don't even think that is my creation.
The word we're all talking about is cankles.
I'm not, no means was the first to use it, and I won't be the last.
No, you know what these guys are actually.
Here's the thing: one thing they're right about: nobody made fun of liberals.
Nobody told jokes about liberals until I came along.
They're right about that.
And that's what they can't handle.
That's what they can't deal.
They can make jokes, they can ridicule, they can impugn, they can character assassinate us all they want, and it's yuck-yuck time, and they'll win awards and all that.
But you let one of us come along and tell jokes about them.
And especially their heroes and heroines.
Oh, man, it's fighting words.
I did a lot more than make fun of Hillary Clinton.
I mean, our approach to Hillary Clinton, 99.7% of the time, substance.
Hillary care, the vast right-wing conspiracy, blew that to Smithereens.
The travel office, Whitewater, Travelgate, every one of these things.
Billing records, her stupid bus tour that we blew up.
Grand jury testimony.
Oh, yeah, we did a lot of, I mean, really creative, the kind of thing that liberals win awards for on comedy shows.
We did about Hillary.
It's not permitted when you make fun of them.
No, no, no, no, no.
Nobody makes fun of liberals.
Liberals are too important.
Liberals are too serious.
No, and that's what really bugs them.
Two things about me, I think, really bug them.
A, I'm right, make fun of them, not tolerated, impermissible.
And I sound so confident and sure of myself when I do it.
And that is off-putting.
Okay, the Obama stack.
Ladies and gentlemen, and yeah, we've got Tom Brady, but we'll get to that later on the program.
We pretty much led with that yesterday.
And there's not a whole lot new on that front, but what is new we'll get to in time before the program ends.
But man, folks, this appearance by the president yesterday at Georgetown University, it was a poverty confab or conference of sorts.
And it was over the top.
Things that this man said, everybody in this country deserves to hear.
And the majority, two or three of the broadcast networks totally ignored it.
Let me take a break.
And I'm just, I'm first going to go through just the headlines of all the stories, and then we'll get into this in detail.
Even have some soundbite support for it.
So sit tight, back before you know it.
Greetings and welcome back, your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Hillary, by the way, just to be, isn't it funny that a bunch of comedians on a comedy show on a comedy network complaining about a guy telling jokes if that doesn't say it all.
You're just not supposed to make fun of liberals.
And that they had no experience with that when I came along and didn't quite know how to deal with.
And they're still offended by it, they're still bugged by it obviously, but uh, I don't ever recall even using the word cankles.
I had an entirely different term for it, by the way folks, elephantiasis.
But I didn't and I looked it up the the word, the word cancles, is even in the Oxford dictionary.
It's not a new word, it's something that wasn't.
It wasn't created for Hillary, by no means the um the first.
But anyway, she was not just Flotus, she was co-president, she was, she was positioned that way, she was promoted that way.
She was supposed to be the co-president, she wasn't just the first lady.
Buy one, get one free.
Oh, the latest example of buying and get this and I there ought to be fur flying on this.
The latest revelation from our old buddy Peter Schweitzer is when Hillary was secretary of state.
She's traveling all over the world and she's trying to convince foreign governments to buy Boeing fighter and military aircraft from the United States.
And in one particular country and I forget where it was.
It's in the stack here, just forget.
It doesn't matter where it is, I'll find it in just a second.
Doesn't matter.
She succeeded some country that she was acting as a salesperson for.
Boeing actually ordered 3.9 billion dollars worth of Boeing aircraft.
Now, in the old days, that was fine and dandy.
That's exactly what commerce secretaries and secretaries of states were supposed to do.
You're supposed to travel around the world and you sell the United States and you, you make deals for arrangements with countries and so forth, but only if they're allies.
And, of course, you run around, you promote your country.
So I it's not a big deal that Hillary Clinton would be urging foreign countries to buy Boeing aircraft.
Now what happened next is Boeing deposited 900 grand in the Clinton Foundation.
Some months later, Boeing put, I think it was 900 grants, it's a six-figure number into the Clinton Foundation, but where I expect the fur to fly, Hillary is just a documented, far-left-wing, extreme liberal.
And those people hate the military.
What are they going to find out?
What are they going to do when they find out that Hillary is out there advocating the purchase of weapons of mass destruction and then taking bribe money or payoff money in the process for selling it?
The left wants to get rid of all that stuff: fighter jets and bombers and missiles and mortars and warheads and stuff.
They want to get rid of all of it.
And here's Hillary out selling it and then personally profiting from it while Secretary of State.
Okay, Obama at Georgetown University, in no particular order, it was Russia.
It was Russia that $3.9 billion worth of Boeing military aircraft.
By the way, there's another story about Hillary today that it's very, it prints out like 20 pages.
And I think it's the Washington Free Beacon, the Washington Examiner, might be the Beacon Free.
I don't remember.
I've got it in the stack.
I wasn't going to talk about it, but it just now registered in my synapses.
Hillary Clinton has been accused in this stupid book of hers, which Simon Schuster paid her $14 million for.
It turns out this newspaper story accuses her of plagiarizing herself.
That the book is largely just reprints of speeches that she has made.
And there's example after example after example after example with the editorial comment in the story that the writers expressed doubt that Simon ⁇ Schuster would really pay $14 million for recycled Hillary speeches if they knew that was what was going to happen.
Now, my initial reaction to this, how do you plagiarize yourself?
Look, there isn't anything wrong with publishing a book of your speeches if you tell people that's what you're doing.
I mean, Krauthammer's latest book was a collection of his speeches and made that clear up front.
George Will does this periodically.
When he has enough columns written to fill a book, he'll release a book of them.
So it's not uncommon.
It's not called, when you do that, it's not called plagiarizing yourself.
But Hillary actually rewrote, like, just changed two or three words per paragraph.
They've got the examples here.
And now, and then, of course, the speculation, well, did she really write those speeches?
Probably not.
Huma probably wrote them or who knows whoever else.
Which then becomes, did she write her book?
And the book was supposed to be the way Simon Schuster sold it.
It was supposed to contain all kinds of inside information.
Stuff that she had not said publicly before about being first lady, about being senator, about being secretary of state.
And of course, the book was a dud because she is a dud.
I mean, there's nothing exciting, charismatic.
Nobody shows up for Hillary book tours unless they're paid to go.
Book signings, none of that.
I mean, it was just a total disaster, $14 million up front.
And now the icing on the cake is that Stein und Schuster is learning recycled Hillary speeches.
And there might even be some stuff in there from It Took a Village, or it takes a village.
But I think the allegation that she's stealing from herself, that goes a bit far.
How do you, I mean, I don't think that is, maybe if you don't tell people that's what it is, maybe if you deceive people, which the Clintons constantly do and are experts at, if you deceive people thinking your book is brand new, content never before seen, and then it's just reprinted in part speeches that you've boring, dull speech to boot.
I mean, nothing.
Can anybody remember?
Was there one memorable passage in that book that anybody remembers?
There wasn't one.
There wasn't a hook.
There wasn't one thing in tech terms.
There was no killer app in Hillary's books.
Yeah, I got to have that.
Oh, man, I got to have that.
Oh, man, I want to read that.
There was nothing in that book like that.
No, not even a quote.
There wasn't even a quote.
I mean, there wasn't even any exciting stuff about yoga and Chelsea wedding preparation.
Yeah, yeah, I know I was going to do the Obama stuff, but I can't help it, folks.
I'm sorry, my brain started firing in other directions, and that's what we're doing.
The nation's women are livid, at least the women in the media are livid at Barack Obama because of the way he has treated Focajontas.
And that would be Elizabeth Warren, particularly as it relates to her opposition to his super secret, private, you can't see what's in it trade deal for the Pacific region.
And the insult was he called her by her first name.
Well, you know, I know Elizabeth.
You know Elizabeth.
And she's a politician, you know, like, and I'm going to tell you, like I told Snerdley, what is driving Obama on this?
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