ort in the port
city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As
soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried to
shoo them away, saying there was a dangerous oil leak. So the
troops grew suspicious and searched the jet.
They found 128 black suitcases, packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100 million. The stash was supposed to have
been delivered from Caracas to drug traffickers in Toluca, near
Mexico City, Mexican prosecutors later found. Law enforcement
officials also discovered something else.
The smugglers had bought the DC-9 with laundered funds they transferred through two of the biggest banks in the U.S.:
Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America Corp., Bloomberg Markets
magazine reports in its August 2010 issue.
This was no isolated incident. Wachovia, it turns out, had made a habit of helping move money for Mexican drug smugglers.
Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted
in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected
money laundering by narcotics traffickers -- including the cash
used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of
cocaine.
The admission came in an agreement that Charlotte, North Carolina-based Wachovia struck with federal prosecutors in
March, and it sheds light on the largely undocumented role of
U.S. banks in contributing to the violent drug trade that has
convulsed Mexico for the past four years.
‘Blatant Disregard’
Wachovia admitted it didn’t do enough to spot illicit funds in handling $378.4 billion for Mexican-currency-exchange houses
from 2004 to 2007. That’s the largest violation of the Bank
Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering law, in U.S. history -- a
sum equal to one-third of Mexico’s current gross domestic
product.
“Wachovia’s blatant disregard for our banking laws gave international cocaine cartels a virtual carte blanche to finance
their operations,” says Jeffrey Sloman, the federal prosecutor
who handled the case.
Since 2006, more than 22,000 people have been killed in drug-related battles that have raged mostly along the 2,000-mile
(3,200-kilometer) border that Mexico shares with the U.S. In the
Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El
Paso, Texas, 700 people had been murdered this year as of mid-
June. Six Juarez police officers were slaughtered by automatic
weapons fire in a midday ambush in April.
Rondolfo Torre, the leading candidate for governor in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, was gunned down yesterday,
less than a week before elections in which violence related to
drug trafficking was a central issue.
45,000 Troops
Mexican President Felipe Calderon vowed to crush the drug cartels when he took office in December 2006, and he’s since
deployed 45,000 troops to fight the cartels. They’ve had little
success.
Among the dead are police, soldiers, journalists and ordinary citizens. The U.S. has pledged Mexico $1.1 billion in
the past two years to aid in the fight against narcotics
cartels.
In May, President Barack Obama said he’d send 1,200 National Guard troops, adding to the 17,400 agents on the U.S.
side of the border to help stem drug traffic and illegal
immigration.
Behind the carnage in Mexico is an industry that supplies hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and
methamphetamines to Americans. The cartels have built a network
of dealers in 231 U.S. cities from coast to coast, taking in
about $39 billion in sales annually, according to the Justice
Department.
‘You’re Missing the Point’
Twenty million people in the U.S. regularly use illegal drugs, spurring street crime and wrecking families. Narcotics
cost the U.S. economy $215 billion a year -- enough to cover
health care for 30.9 million Americans -- in overburdened
courts, prisons and hospitals and lost productivity, the
department says.
“It’s the banks laundering money for the cartels that finances the tragedy,” says Martin Woods, director of Wachovia’s
anti-money-laundering unit in London from 2006 to 2009. Woods
says he quit the bank in disgust after executives ignored his
documentation that drug dealers were funneling money through
Wachovia’s branch network.
“If you don’t see the correlation between the money laundering by banks and the 22,000 people killed in Mexico,
you’re missing the point,” Woods says.
Cleansing Dirty Cash
Wachovia is just one of the U.S. and European banks that have been used for drug money laundering. For the past two
decades, Latin American drug traffickers have gone to U.S. banks
to cleanse their dirty cash, says Paul Campo, head of the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration’s financial crimes unit.
Miami-based American Express Bank International paid fines in both 1994 and 2007 after admitting it had failed to spot and
report drug dealers laundering money through its accounts. Drug
traffickers used accounts at Bank of America in Oklahoma City to
buy three planes that carried 10 tons of cocaine, according to
Mexican court filings.
Federal agents caught people who work for Mexican cartels depositing illicit funds in Bank of America accounts in Atlanta,
Chicago and Brownsville, Texas, from 2002 to 2009.
Mexican drug dealers used shell companies to open accounts at
London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by assets,
an investigation by the Mexican Finance Ministry found.
Following Rules
Those two banks weren’t accused of wrongdoing. Bank of America spokeswoman Shirley Norton and HSBC spokesman Roy Caple
say laws bar them from discussing specific clients. They say
their banks strictly follow the government rules.
“Bank of America takes its anti-money-laundering responsibilities very seriously,” Norton says.
A Mexican judge on Jan. 22 accused the owners of six centros cambiarios, or money changers, in Culiacan and Tijuana
of laundering drug funds through their accounts at the Mexican
units of Banco Santander SA, Citigroup Inc. and HSBC, according
to court documents filed in the case.
The money changers are in jail while being tried. Citigroup, HSBC and Santander, which is the largest Spanish bank
by assets, weren’t accused of any wrongdoing. The three banks
say Mexican law bars them from commenting on the case, adding
that they each carefully enforce anti-money-laundering programs.
HSBC has stopped accepting dollar deposits in Mexico, and Citigroup no longer allows noncustomers to change dollars there.
Citigroup detected suspicious activity in the Tijuana accounts,
reported it to regulators and closed the accounts, Citigroup
spokesman Paulo Carreno says.
Criminal Empires
On June 15, the Mexican Finance Ministry announced it would set limits for banks on cash deposits in dollars.
Mexico’s drug cartels have become multinational criminal enterprises.
Some of the gangs have delved into other illegal activities such as gunrunning, kidnapping and smuggling people across the
border, as well as into seemingly legitimate areas such as
trucking, travel services and air cargo transport, according to
the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center.
These criminal empires have no choice but to use the global banking system to finance their businesses, Mexican Senator
Felipe Gonzalez says.
“With so much cash, the only way to move this money is through the banks,” says Gonzalez, who represents a central
Mexican state and chairs the senate public safety committee.
Gonzalez, a member of Calderon’s National Action Party, carries a .38 revolver for personal protection.
“I know this won’t stop the narcos when they come through that door with machine guns,” he says, pointing to the entrance
to his office. “But at least I’ll take one with me.”
Subprime Losses
No bank has been more closely connected with Mexican money laundering than Wachovia. Founded in 1879, Wachovia became the
largest bank by assets in the southeastern U.S. by 1900. After
the Great Depression, some people in North Carolina called the
bank “Walk-Over-Ya” because it had foreclosed on farms in the
region.
By 2008, Wachovia was the sixth-largest U.S. lender, and it faced $26 billion in losses from subprime mortgage loans.
That cost Wachovia Chief Executive Officer Kennedy Thompson his
job in June 2008.
Six months later, San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, which dates from 1852, bought Wachovia for $12.7 billion, creating the
largest network of bank branches in the U.S. Thompson, who now
works for private-equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners LLC in
New York, declined to comment.
As Wachovia’s balance sheet was bleeding, its legal woes were mounting. In the three years leading up to Wachovia’s
agreement with the Justice Department, grand juries served the
bank with 6,700 subpoenas requesting information.
Not Quick Enough
The bank didn’t react quickly enough to the prosecutors’ requests and failed to hire enough investigators, the U.S.
Treasury Department said in March. After a 22-month
investigation, the Justice Department on March 12 charged
Wachovia with violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to run
an effective anti-money-laundering program.
Five days later, Wells Fargo promised in a Miami federal courtroom to revamp its detection systems. Wachovia’s new owner
paid $160 million in fines and penalties, less than 2 percent of
its $12.3 billion profit in 2009.
If Wells Fargo keeps its pledge, the U.S. government will, according to the agreement, drop all charges against the bank in
March 2011.
Wells Fargo regrets that some of Wachovia’s former anti- money-laundering efforts fell short, spokeswoman Mary Eshet
says. Wells Fargo has invested $42 million in the past three
years to improve its anti-money-laundering program and has been
working with regulators, she says.
‘Significantly Upgraded’
“We have substantially increased the caliber and number of staff in our international investigations group, and we also
significantly upgraded the monitoring software,” Eshet says. The
agreement bars the bank from contesting or contradicting the
facts in its admission.
The bank declined to answer specific questions, including how much it made by handling $378.4 billion -- including $4
billion of cash-from Mexican exchange companies.
The 1970 Bank Secrecy Act requires banks to report all cash transactions above $10,000 to regulators and to tell the
government about other suspected money-laundering activity. Big
banks employ hundreds of investigators and spend millions of
dollars on software programs to scour accounts.
No big U.S. bank -- Wells Fargo included -- has ever been indicted for violating the Bank Secrecy Act or any other federal
law. Instead, the Justice Department settles criminal charges by
using deferred-prosecution agreements, in which a bank pays a
fine and promises not to break the law again.
‘No Capacity to Regulate’
Large banks are protected from indictments by a variant of the too-big-to-fail theory.
Indicting a big bank could trigger a mad dash by investors to dump shares and cause panic in financial markets, says Jack
Blum, a U.S. Senate investigator for 14 years and a consultant
to international banks and brokerage firms on money laundering.
The theory is like a get-out-of-jail-free card for big banks, Blum says.
“There’s no capacity to regulate or punish them because they’re too big to be threatened with failure,” Blum says. “They
seem to be willing to do anything that improves their bottom
line, until they’re caught.”
Wachovia’s run-in with federal prosecutors hasn’t troubled investors. Wells Fargo’s stock traded at $30.86 on March 24, up 1 percent
in the week after the March 17 agreement was announced.
Moving money is central to the drug trade -- from the cash that people tape to their bodies as they cross the U.S.-Mexican
border to the $100,000 wire transfers they send from Mexican
exchange houses to big U.S. banks.
‘Doesn’t Stop Anyone’
In Tijuana, 15 miles south of San Diego, Gustavo Rojas has lived for a quarter of a century in a shack in the shadow of the
10-foot-high (3-meter-high) steel border fence that separates
the U.S. and Mexico there. He points to holes burrowed under the
barrier.
“They go across with drugs and come back with cash,” Rojas, 75, says. “This fence doesn’t stop anyone.”
Drug money moves back and forth across the border in an endless cycle. In the U.S., couriers take the cash from drug
sales to Mexico -- as much as $29 billion a year, according to
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That would be about
319 tons of $100 bills.
They hide it in cars and trucks to smuggle into Mexico. There, cartels pay people to deposit some of the cash into
Mexican banks and branches of international banks. The narcos
launder much of what’s left through money changers.
The Money Changers
Anyone who has been to Mexico is familiar with these street-corner money changers; Mexican regulators say there are
at least 3,000 of them from Tijuana to Cancun, usually
displaying large signs advertising the day’s dollar-peso
exchange rate.
Mexican banks are regulated by the National Banking and Securities Commission, which has an anti-money-laundering unit;
the money changers are policed by Mexico’s Tax Service
Administration, which has no such unit.
By law, the money changers have to demand identification from anyone exchanging more than $500. They also have to report
transactions higher than $5,000 to regulators.
The cartels get around these requirements by employing legions of individuals -- including relatives, maids and
gardeners -- to convert small amounts of dollars into pesos or
to make deposits in local banks. After that, cartels wire the
money to a multinational bank.
The Smurfs
The people making the small money exchanges are known as Smurfs, after the cartoon characters.
“They can use an army of people like Smurfs and go through $1 million before lunchtime,” says Jerry Robinette, who oversees
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations along the
border in east Texas.
The U.S. Treasury has been warning banks about big Mexican- currency-exchange firms laundering drug money since 1996.
By 2004, many U.S. banks had closed their accounts with these
companies, which are known as casas de cambio.
Wachovia ignored warnings by regulators and police, according to the deferred-prosecution agreement.
“As early as 2004, Wachovia understood the risk,” the bank admitted in court. “Despite these warnings, Wachovia remained in
the business.”
One customer that Wachovia took on in 2004 was Casa de Cambio Puebla SA, a Puebla, Mexico-based currency-exchange
company. Pedro Alatorre, who ran a Puebla branch in Mexico City,
had created front companies for cartels, according to a pending
Mexican criminal case against him.
Federal Indictment
A federal grand jury in Miami indicted Puebla, Alatorre and three other executives in February 2008 for drug trafficking and
money laundering. In May 2008, the Justice Department sought
extradition of the suspects, saying they used shell firms to
launder $720 million through U.S. banks.
Alatorre has been in a Mexican jail for 2 1/2 years. He denies any wrongdoing, his lawyer Mauricio Moreno says. Alatorre
has made no court-filed responses in the U.S.
During the period in which Wachovia admitted to moving money out of Mexico for Puebla, couriers carrying clear plastic
bags stuffed with cash went to the branch Alatorre ran at the
Mexico City airport, according to surveillance reports by
Mexican police.
Alatorre opened accounts at HSBC on behalf of front companies, Mexican investigators found.
Puebla executives used the stolen identities of 74 people to launder money through Wachovia accounts, Mexican prosecutors
say in court-filed reports.
‘Never Reported’
“Wachovia handled all the transfers, and they never reported any as suspicious,” says Jose Luis Marmolejo, a former
head of the Mexican attorney general’s financial crimes unit who
is now in private practice.
In November 2005 and January 2006, Wachovia transferred a total of $300,000 from Puebla to a Bank of America account in
Oklahoma City, according to information in the Alatorre cases in
the U.S. and Mexico.
Drug smugglers used the funds to buy the DC-9 through Oklahoma City aircraft broker U.S. Aircraft Titles Inc.,
according to financial records cited in the Mexican criminal
case. U.S. Aircraft Titles President Sue White declined to
comment.
On April 5, 2006, a pilot flew the plane from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Caracas to pick up the cocaine,
according to the DEA. Five days later, troops seized the plane
in Ciudad del Carmen and burned the drugs at a nearby army base.
‘Wachovia Knew’
“I am sure Wachovia knew what was going on,” says Marmolejo, who oversaw the criminal investigation into
Wachovia’s customers. “It went on too long and they made too
much money not to have known.”
At Wachovia’s anti-money-laundering unit in London, Woods and his colleague Jim DeFazio, in Charlotte, say they suspected
that drug dealers were using the bank to move funds.
Woods, a former Scotland Yard investigator, spotted illegible signatures and other suspicious markings on traveler’s
checks from Mexican exchange companies, he said in a September
2008 letter to the U.K. Financial Services Authority. He sent
copies of the letter to the DEA and Treasury Department in the
U.S.
Woods, 45, says his bosses instructed him to keep quiet and tried to have him fired, according to his letter to the FSA. In
one meeting, a bank official insisted Woods shouldn’t have filed
suspicious activity reports to the government, as both U.S. and
U.K. laws require.
‘I Was Shocked’
“I was shocked by the content and outcome of the meeting and genuinely traumatized,” Woods wrote.
In the U.S., DeFazio, who had been a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent for 21 years, says he told bank executives
in 2005 that the DEA was probing the transfers through Wachovia
to buy the planes.
Bank executives spurned recommendations to close suspicious accounts, DeFazio, 63, says.
“I think they looked at the money and said, ‘The hell with it. We’re going to bring it in, and look at all the money we’ll
make,’” DeFazio says.
DeFazio retired in 2008.
“I didn’t want anything from them,” he says. “I just wanted to get out.”
Woods, who resigned from Wachovia in May 2009, now advises banks on how to combat money laundering. He declined to discuss
details of Wachovia’s actions.
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan told Woods in a March 19 letter his efforts had helped the U.S. build its case
against Wachovia.
‘Great Courage’
“You demonstrated great courage and integrity by speaking up when you saw problems,” Dugan wrote.
It was the Puebla investigation that led U.S. authorities to the broader probe of Wachovia. On May 16, 2007, DEA agents
conducted a raid of Wachovia’s international banking offices in
Miami. They had a court order to seize Puebla’s accounts.
U.S. prosecutors and investigators then scrutinized the bank’s dealings with Mexican-currency-exchange firms. That led
to the March deferred-prosecution agreement.
With Puebla’s Wachovia accounts seized, Alatorre and his partners shifted their laundering scheme to HSBC, according to
financial documents cited in the Mexican criminal case against
Alatorre.
In the three weeks after the DEA raided Wachovia, two of Alatorre’s front companies, Grupo ETPB SA and Grupo Rahero SC,
made 12 cash deposits totaling $1 million at an HSBC Mexican
branch, Mexican investigators found.
Another Drug Plane
The funds financed a Beechcraft King Air 200 plane that police seized on Dec. 29, 2007, in Cuernavaca, 50 miles south of
Mexico City, according to information in the case against
Alatorre.
For years, federal authorities watched as the wife and daughter of Oscar Oropeza, a drug smuggler working for the
Matamoros-based Gulf Cartel, deposited stacks of cash at a Bank
of America branch on Boca Chica Boulevard in Brownsville, Texas,
less than 3 miles from the border.
Investigator Robinette sits in his pickup truck across the street from that branch. It’s a one-story, tan stucco building
next to a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet. Robinette discusses the
Oropeza case with Tom Salazar, an agent who investigated the
family.
“Everybody in there knew who they were -- the tellers, everyone,” Salazar says. “The bank never came to us, though.”
New Meaning
The Oropeza case gives a new, literal meaning to the term money laundering. Oropeza’s wife, Tina Marie, and daughter
Paulina Marie deposited stashes of $20 bills several times a day
into Bank of America accounts, Salazar says. Bank employees got
to know the Oropezas by the smell of their money.
“I asked the tellers what they were talking about, and they said the money had this sweet smell like Bounce, those sheets
you throw into the dryer,” Salazar says. “They told me that when
they opened the vault, the smell of Bounce just poured out.”
Oropeza, 48, was arrested 820 miles from Brownsville. On May 31, 2007, police in Saraland, Alabama, stopped him on a
traffic violation. Checking his record, they learned of the
investigation in Texas.
They searched the van and discovered 84 kilograms (185 pounds) of cocaine hidden under a false floor. That allowed
federal agents to freeze Oropeza’s bank accounts and search his
marble-floored home in Brownsville, Robinette says. Inside,
investigators found a supply of Bounce alongside the clothes
dryer.
Guilty Pleas
All three Oropezas pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Brownsville to drug and money-laundering charges in March and
April 2008. Oscar Oropeza was sentenced to 15 years in prison;
his wife was ordered to serve 10 months and his daughter got 6
months.
Bank of America’s Norton says, “We not only fulfilled our regulatory obligation, but we proactively worked with law
enforcement on these matters.”
Prosecutors have tried to halt money laundering at American Express Bank International twice. In 1994, the bank, then a
subsidiary of New York-based American Express Co., pledged not
to allow money laundering again after two employees were
convicted in a criminal case involving drug trafficker Juan
Garcia Abrego.
In 1994, the bank paid $14 million to settle. Five years later, drug money again flowed through American
Express Bank. Between 1999 and 2004, the bank failed to stop
clients from laundering $55 million of narcotics funds, the bank
admitted in a deferred-prosecution agreement in August 2007.
Western Union
It paid $65 million to the U.S. and promised not to break the law again. The government dismissed the criminal charge a
year later. American Express sold the bank to London-based
Standard Chartered PLC in February 2008 for $823 million.
Banks aren’t the only financial institutions that have turned a blind eye to drug cartels in moving illicit funds.
Western Union Co., the world’s largest money transfer firm,
agreed to pay $94 million in February 2010 to settle civil and
criminal investigations by the Arizona attorney general’s
office.
Undercover state police posing as drug dealers bribed Western Union employees to illegally transfer money, says
Cameron Holmes, an assistant attorney general.
“Their allegiance was to the smugglers,” Holmes says. “What they thought about during work was ‘How may I please my highest-
spending customers the most?’”
Smudged Fingerprints
Workers in more than 20 Western Union offices allowed the customers to use multiple names, pass fictitious identifications
and smudge their fingerprints on documents, investigators say in
court records.
“In all the time we did undercover operations, we never once had a bribe turned down,” says Holmes, citing court
affidavits.
Western Union has made significant improvements, it complies with anti-money-laundering laws and works closely with
regulators and police, spokesman Tom Fitzgerald says.
For four years, Mexican authorities have been fighting a losing battle against the cartels. The police are often two
steps behind the criminals. Near the southeastern corner of
Texas, in Matamoros, more than 50 combat troops surround a
police station.
Officers take two suspected drug traffickers inside for questioning. Nearby, two young men wearing white T-shirts and
baggy pants watch and whisper into radios. These are los
halcones (the falcons), whose job is to let the cartel bosses
know what the police are doing.
‘Only Way’
While the police are outmaneuvered and outgunned, ordinary Mexicans live in fear. Rojas, the man who lives in the Tijuana
slum near the border fence, recalls cowering in his home as
smugglers shot it out with the police.
“The only way to survive is to stay out of the way and hope the violence, the bullets, don’t come for you,” Rojas says.
To make their criminal enterprises work, the drug cartels of Mexico need to move billions of dollars across borders.
That’s how they finance the purchase of drugs, planes, weapons
and safe houses, Senator Gonzalez says.
“They are multinational businesses, after all,” says Gonzalez, as he slowly loads his revolver at his desk in his
Mexico City office. “And they cannot work without a bank.”…
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And when I increase this production, I am actually increasing the income of my fellow citizens; if I decrease production, I decrease income, regardless of what salaries are being paid out."Thirdly, Hitler was not a "eugenicist population reductionist." On the contrary, Hitler’s Party - the NSDAP - strongly encouraged the women of the Third Reich to be homemakers so that they could raise large families. The NSDAP gave financial incentives to couples and newly-weds so that they would have more children."On 5th July 1933 the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage was passed. This act gave all newly wed couples a loan of 1000 marks which was reduced by 25% for each child they had. If the couple went on to have four children the loan was wiped out. …On the birth-date of Hitler’s mother, August 12th, awards of the Motherhood Cross were given to women who had produced the most children. 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There is, in fine, no other solution except one: That Germany must perish forever from this earth!"The Jewish-owned media, in 1933, also declared a holy and economic war against Hitler because he freed his people from the Jewish control that gripped Germany beforehand. Fifthly, in a speech, sometimes said to have been delivered in 1935, Hitler is supposed to have exclaimed: "This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"This quote has been popular with Americans who defend the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms." It's cited to discredit those who support restrictions on firearms ownership and use. It's also cited to support the often-made charge that Hitler and his government curtailed gun ownership in Germany, and confiscated weapons held by private citizens.The truth is rather different. When Hitler and his National Socialist Party took power in early 1933, they inherited a somewhat restrictive firearms law that the liberal-democratic "Weimar" government had enacted five years earlier. In 1938 Hitler's government revised the earlier law by loosening those restrictions, thereby enhancing the rights of Germans to own weapons. The most thorough confiscation of firearms ever imposed on Germans was carried out at the end of the Second World War by the occupation forces of the United States and other victorious Allied powers. Adolf Hitler was a patriotic German nationalist who endeavoured to create a Germany for Germans alone; quite the opposite of a "globalist NWO" type. Secondly, Hitler and his National Socialist movement were staunchly anti-Marxist/Communist/Bolshevik and therefore anti-Internationalist and anti-Globalist. The sinister agenda of Communism, not National Socialism, was internationalism — the overthrow and vanquishment of all existing nation states in order to establish a despotic global communist super-state. The pathological criminal madness known as Communism was, from its inception, an international Jewish conspiracy for the destruction and subjugation of the Gentile world whereupon a tyrannical global Jewish imperium would be established. Communism was nothing more than an expression and manifestation of the hateful, supremacist doctrines of the Jewish Talmud, which states: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed." (Minor Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule 10)http://www.nazigassings.com/images/UnemployedBeforeWW2.jpghttp://www.ihr.org/other/weber2011fakequotations.htmlhttp://www.zioncrimefactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/judea-declares-war-on-germany.jpghttp://ia700301.us.archive.org/25/items/GermanyMustPerish/KaufmanTheodore-GermanyMustPerish194135P..pdfhttp://www.historyonthenet.com/Nazi_Germany/women.htmhttp://winstonsmithministryoftruth.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/hilters-debt-free-curency.html?zx=7c6bfdb26cd2d84dhttp://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6720www.justice4germans.comhttp://zioncrimefactory.com/jew-world-order/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1yaFVxo8FEhttp://www.saveyourheritage.com/jews_and_communism.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5sbegfCz7ohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X1owF0vgnwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgIJSOrKeAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Kl6RHKIQk-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ISRAEL INVOLVEMENT IN 9/11, USS LIBERTY AND OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------September 11, 2001, was a horrific and tragic day — nearly three thousand people perished in the terrorist attacks that drove a knife straight into the heart of America. Apart from being a brutal blow to the pride and stature of the most powerful nation on earth, the events of 9/11 were also a major wake-up call for many Americans and others around the world. For many reasons, the attacks of 9/11 inspired a great number of people to begin investigating major world events, attempting to ascertain what sinister force lies behind such atrocities. By looking at historical events more deeply and with a more critical eye, many millions of people across the globe have come to know the truth. In patriot circles it is often said that the engine driving the madness that has engulfed our planet since 9/11 is the “New World Order” — a coalition of rich and powerful ‘globalists’ hell-bent on transforming the world into a tyrannical prison society. This popular idea represents only a portion of the truth. This “New World Order” that is so often talked about these days is in reality a “Jew World Order” that is spearheaded by a contingent of psychopathic Jewish supremacists who aim to establish some form of world dominion, as ancient Jewish religious texts had prophesied"The Greek historian Dio Cassius described in detail how the Jews in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, in the year 116 A.D., during a rebellion began to murder various races they lived among. Judaists killed both women and children, at times using terrible torture. The most infamous bloodbaths were committed in the city of Cyrene and the province Cyrenaica (in the eastern part of present-day Libya) and on Cyprus and above all in its capital Salamis. The Greek historian Eusebius confirmed this. Mass murders were also perpetrated in Mesopotamia and Palestine. In Cyrenaica alone, the Jews killed 220 000 Romans and Greeks. On in Cyprus, their victims were estimated at 240 000. The Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus (53-117 A.D.) sent troops to stop the killing. It took Rome a year to rein in the bloodlust of the Jews. Dio Cassius tells us how the Jews even ate their victims and smeared themselves with their blood. (William Douglas Morrison, “The Jews Under Roman Rule”, London and New York, 1890, pp. 191-193.) The most brutal murders were committed in Egypt. Dio Cassius describes how the Jews even attacked the ships in which fear-stricken people tried to escape.""During and just after World War I, the Young Turks — an organization comprised of crypto-Jews and Freemasons who had seized power in Ottoman Turkey — led and facilitated the butchery of nearly two million Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Christians in a brutal campaign of mass murder in the Ottoman Empire. This largely unknown attempted genocide is brought under a microscope in a book titled The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians by Christopher Jon Bjerknes."On July 22, 1946, a group of Jewish terrorists from the Irgun — commanded and led by Menachem Begin who would later become the Prime Minister of Israel — disguised themselves as Arabs and bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which was serving as the headquarters for the British Military and Administrative Command at the time. The Information Clearing House website provided this brief but potent synopsis of the attack:"The King David Hotel explosion of July 22, 1946 (Palestine), which resulted in the deaths of 92 Britons, Arabs and Jews, and in the wounding of 58, was not just an act of “Jewish extremists,” but a premeditated massacre conducted by the Irgun in agreement with the highest Jewish political authorities in Palestine — the Jewish Agency and its head David-Ben-Gurion. According to Yitshaq Ben-Ami, a Palestinian Jew who spent 30 years in exile after the establishment of Israel investigating the crimes of the “ruthless clique heading the internal Zionist movement,” the Irgun had conceived a plan for the King David attack early in 1946, but the green light was given only on July first. According to Dr. Sneh, the operation was personally approved by Ben-Gurion, from his self-exile in Europe. … The Jewish Agency’s motive was to destroy all evidence the British had gathered proving that the terrorist crime waves in Palestine were not merely the actions of “fringe” groups such as the Irgun and Stern Gang, but were committed in collusion with the Haganah and Palmach groups and under the direction of the highest political body of the Zionist establishment itself, namely the Jewish Agency.""On June 8, 1967, while patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, an American surveillance ship called the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was heinously attacked by the air and naval forces of Israel. Using unmarked fighter jets and torpedo boats, the Israelis pummelled the Liberty with machine-gun fire, napalm, torpedoes and rockets for over an hour. To ensure that no American aboard the ship escaped alive, the Israeli pilots fired on the life-rafts. The Israelis failed to sink the ship, as they had intended, but managed to cause a considerable amount of damage and harm. When the Israeli terror forces finally ceased attacking the vessel, 34 American sailors were dead and 174 other crewmen were seriously wounded."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ZavzbeaFEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tg_BCyGTwIhttp://www.jewishracism.com/http://ehpg.wordpress.com/israel-did-911/http://ehpg.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/israel_did_911.pdfhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_vwzjdTi4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O7LwySqtr4http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/jfk_assassination_and_911.htmhttp://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/clearing_the_baffles_for_911.htmhttp://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/September-11-Commission-Report-Revised-December-2008.pdfhttp://www.bollyn.com/solving-9-11-the-bookhttp://zioncrimefactory.com/masters-of-deception/http://www.sharpprintinginc.com/911/index.phphttp://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/key_players_of_911___who_is_Jerome_Hauer.htmhttp://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/911_the_unraveling__of_the_official%20story.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRg_MDzhPYhttp://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/how_911_was_done.htmlhttp://www.zioncrimefactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Under-The-Sign-of-the-Scorpion.pdfhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC4nFpWEzNghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98jxoUUrzg------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JEW WORLD ORDER------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THE RULE OF the Talmudic Jew in modern times is nearly one of an absolute monarch of a country. The Jews, through their complete domination of world finance and banking — through their malignant monopoly of the mass media of America, Britain, France, Canada and other Western powers — through their influential and vast network of subversive “lobby groups” — through their dominion over the courts and law profession in general — not to mention their pernicious presence inside the highest levels of government of the most powerful countries — have thus taken full control of the entire planet, as was foretold in ancient Jewish religious texts.As the former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, explained: “The Jews rule this world by proxy, they get others to fight and die for them… They have now gained control of the most powerful countries … This tiny community have become a world power.” Dr. Mahathir spoke the truth, and the reality of his words couldn’t be clearer; all one has to do is look around you and observe the terrible power of the treacherous Jews.The Jewish-Zionist terrorist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky (founder of the Jewish terror group Irgun Zevai Leumi) proudly proclaimed: “There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it.” (Jewish Daily Bulletin, July 27, 1935) The fact that the vicious crimes of this disgusting criminal’s insidious terrorist organization — such as the King David Hotel bombing and Deir Yassin Massacre — are not mentioned in Western history texts or at all covered in High School and University history classes, is a testament to the veracity of his exultant statement.Jewish power is supremely epitomized by the fact that criticism of Christianity, Islam, or any other major religion or ethnic group is fully permissible in our societies, but criticism of Jews and Judaism, on the other hand, is taboo, off-limits as well as socially and politically dangerous. As the saying goes, if you want to know where the power lies ask whom you cannot criticize.It’s quite interesting to note that the researchers of the “New World Order” who endeavor to deflect attention away from the Jews — such as Alex Jones, Jim Marrs, Alan Watt, Mark Dice, etc — are not silenced or suppressed, but in fact promoted by the Jewish controlled press. These purported critics of the New World Order and Illuminati who employ vague terms like “elites”/”globalists”/”the establishment”/”the military industrial complex”, and who regularly invoke a confusing deluge of elusive entities and kosher poltergeists (everything from Satanists, Occultists, Freemasons, Jesuits, Nazis, Fascists, Knights Templar, WASPs, British Royalists, Reptilians, Space Aliens, etc) are free to promote their theories and ideas on radio, television, the internet and in books, uninhibited. Their radio shows are not being cancelled, their books are not being taken off the shelves or blocked from publication, their videos are not being censored or expunged from video sharing websites, their websites and blogs are not being shut down on a whim, they are not being fined or thrown in prison for “hate speech.” On the contrary, we can find these kosher clowns being highlighted on mainstream Jewish propaganda television networks, like the History Channel, and making appearances on MSM talk shows, like The View. Critics of Jewish power, Zionism and the Jewish criminal network couldn’t even dream of achieving that level of notoriety. I wonder why?"We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is…We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.""Jews totally run Hollywood. … As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. … I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.""We killed them out of a certain naive hubris. Believing with absolute certitude that now, with the White House, the Senate, and much of the American media in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own….""I've never seen a President — I don’t care who he is — stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn't writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our citizens certainly don’t have any idea what goes on.""…Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government. They [the Jews] control both members of the House, and the Senate. They have us involved in wars in which we have little or no interest. Our children are coming back in body bags. Our nation is bankrupt over these wars. And if you open your mouth, you get targeted. And if they don’t beat you at the poll, they’ll put you in prison. They’re controlling much of our foreign policy. They’re influencing much of our domestic policy. Wolfowitz as under-secretary of defence manipulated President Bush number two back into Iraq. They've pushed definitely, definitely to try to get Bush before he left to move into Iran. We’re conducting the expansionist policy of Israel and everybody’s afraid to say it. They control much of the media, they control much of the commerce of the country, and they control powerfully both bodies of the Congress. They own the Congress.""The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this new world order the Children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.""It is not an accident that Judaism gave birth to Marxism, and it is not an accident that the Jews readily took up Marxism; all this was in perfect accord with the progress of Judaism and the Jews. The Jews should realize that Jehovah no longer dwells in heaven, but he dwells in us right here on earth; we must no longer look up to Jehovah as above us and outside of us, but we must see him right within us""Since the Jews are the highest and most cultured people on earth, the Jews have a right to subordinate to themselves the rest of mankind and to be the masters over the whole earth. Now, indeed, this is the historic destiny of the Jews""Judaism is communism, internationalism, the universal brotherhood of man, the emancipation of the working class and the human society. It is with these spiritual weapons that the Jews will conquer the world and the human race."http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k176204.zoom.f574.langFRhttp://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/04/Wayne-State-ends-Helen-Thomas-Award/UPI-69151291511834/http://zioncrimefactory.com/jew-world-order/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19http://www.sobran.com/columns/2005/050414.shtmlhttp://zioncrimefactory.com/jew-world-order/http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/usa/traficant-vs-Jewish-lobby.htm------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------JEWS AND THEIR CONTROL OF OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"In the new organization of mankind, the children of Israel [the Jews] will spread over the whole surface of the earth and will become everywhere, without opposition, the leading element, especially if they can impose upon workings classes the firm control of some of the them. The governments of the nations forming the Universal Republic will pass without effort into the hands of the Jews under the cover of the victory of the proletariat, private property will then be suppressed by the rulers of Jewish race, who will everywhere control public funds. Thus will be realized the Talmudic promise that, when come the times of the Messiah, Jews will possess the wealth of all peoples of the world"http://www.saveyourheritage.com/jewish_control_of_finances.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG31qvdAYEwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ykq8h30dhQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWWmXrbJAYwhttp://trutube.tv/video/1016/Why-The-Jews-Are-Hated…
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ok Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online. Whitehead can be contacted atjohnw@rutherford.org.
"Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people.
Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system... a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state...
The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization…
It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government... This group... is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable."
Senator William Jenner
1954 speech
Unaffected by elections. Unaltered by populist movements. Beyond the reach of the law...
Say hello to America's Shadow Government.
A corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country, this shadow government represents the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedom of its citizenry.
No matter which candidate wins the presidential election, this shadow government is here to stay...
Indeed, as recent documents by the FBI reveal, this shadow government - also referred to as "The 7th Floor Group" - may well have played a part in who will win the White House this year.
To be precise, however, the future president will actually inherit not one but two shadow governments.
The first shadow government, referred to as COG or Continuity of Government, is made up of unelected individuals who have been appointed to run the government in the event of a "catastrophe."
COG is a phantom menace waiting for the right circumstances - a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, an economic meltdown - to bring it out of the shadows, where it operates even now. When and if COG takes over, the police state will transition to martial law.
Yet it is the second shadow government - also referred to as the Deep State - that poses the greater threat to freedom right now.
Comprised of unelected government bureaucrats, corporations, contractors, paper-pushers, and button-pushers who are actually calling the shots behind the scenes, this government within a government is the real reason "we the people" have no real control over our government.
The Deep State, which,
"operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power,"
...makes a mockery of elections and the entire concept of a representative government.
So who or what is the Deep State?
It's the militarized police, which have joined forces with state and federal law enforcement agencies in order to establish themselves as a standing army.
It's the fusion centers and spy agencies that have created a surveillance state and turned all of us into suspects.
It's the courthouses and prisons that have allowed corporate profits to take precedence over due process and justice.
It's the military empire with its private contractors and defense industry that is bankrupting the nation.
It's the private sector with its 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances,
"a number greater than that of top-secret-cleared civilian employees of the government."
It's what former congressional staffer Mike Lofgren refers to as "a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies":
the Department of Defense
the State Department
Homeland Security
the CIA
the Justice Department
the Treasury
the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
a handful of vital federal trial courts
members of the defense and intelligence committees
It's every facet of a government that is no longer friendly to freedom and is working overtime to trample the Constitution underfoot and render the citizenry powerless in the face of the government's power grabs, corruption and abusive tactics.
These are the key players that drive the shadow government.
This is the hidden face of the American police state that will continue long past Election Day.
Just consider some of the key programs and policies advanced by the shadow government that will continue no matter who occupies the Oval Office.
Domestic surveillance
No matter who wins the presidential popularity contest, the National Security Agency (NSA), with its $10.8 billion black ops annual budget, will continue to spy on every person in the United States who uses a computer or phone.
Thus, on any given day, whether you're walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior.
Local police have been outfitted with a litany of surveillance gear, from license plate readers and cell phone tracking devices to biometric data recorders. Technology now makes it possible for the police to scan passersby in order to detect the contents of their pockets, purses, briefcases, etc.
Full-body scanners, which perform virtual strip-searches of Americans traveling by plane, have gone mobile, with roving police vans that peer into vehicles and buildings alike - including homes.
Coupled with the nation's growing network of real-time surveillance cameras and facial recognition software, soon there really will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Global spying
The NSA's massive surveillance network, what the Washington Post refers to as a $500 billion "espionage empire," will continue to span the globe and target every single person on the planet who uses a phone or a computer.
The NSA's Echelon program intercepts and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax and email message sent anywhere in the world. In addition to carrying out domestic surveillance on peaceful political groups such as Amnesty International,Greenpeace and several religious groups, Echelon has also been a keystone in the government's attempts at political andcorporate espionage.
Roving TSA searches
The American taxpayer will continue to get ripped off by government agencies in the dubious name of national security.
One of the greatest culprits when it comes to swindling taxpayers has been the Transportation Security Administration(TSA), with its questionable deployment of and complete mismanagement of millions of dollars' worth of airport full-body X-ray scanners, punitive patdowns by TSA agents and thefts of travelers' valuables.
Considered essential to national security, TSA programs will continue in airports and at transportation hubs around the country.
USA Patriot Act, NDAA
America's so-called war on terror, which it has relentlessly pursued since 9/11, will continue to chip away at our freedoms, unravel our Constitution and transform our nation into a battlefield, thanks in large part to such subversive legislation as,
the USA Patriot Act
the National Defense Authorization Act
These laws completely circumvent the rule of law and the rights of American citizens.
In so doing, they re-orient our legal landscape in such a way as to ensure that martial law, rather than the U.S. Constitution, is the map by which we navigate life in the United States.
These laws will continue to be enforced no matter who gets elected.
Militarized police state
Thanks to federal grant programs allowing the Pentagon to transfer surplus military supplies and weapons to local law enforcement agencies without charge, police forces will continue to be transformed from peace officers into heavily armed extensions of the military, complete with,
jackboots
helmets
shields
batons
pepper-spray
stun guns
assault rifles
body armor
miniature tanks
weaponized drones
Having been given the green light to,
probe
poke
pinch
taser
search
seize
strip,
...and generally manhandle anyone they see fit in almost any circumstance, all with the general blessing of the courts, America's law enforcement officials, no longer mere servants of the people entrusted with keeping the peace, will continue to keep the masses corralled, controlled, and treated like suspects and enemies rather than citizens.
SWAT team raids
With more than 80,000 SWAT team raids carried out every year on unsuspecting Americans by local police for relatively routine police matters and federal agencies laying claim to their own law enforcement divisions, the incidence of botched raids and related casualties will continue to rise.
Nationwide, SWAT teams will continue to be employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of criminal activity or mere community nuisances including angry dogs, domestic disputes, improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer, and misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Domestic drones
The domestic use of drones will continue unabated.
As mandated by Congress, there will be 30,000 drones crisscrossing the skies of America by 2020, all part of an industry that could be worth as much as $30 billion per year.
These machines, which will be equipped with weapons, will be able to record all activities, using video feeds, heat sensors and radar.
An Inspector General report revealed that the Dept. of Justice has already spent nearly $4 million on drones domestically,largely for use by the FBI, with grants for another $1.26 million so police departments and nonprofits can acquire their own drones.
School-to-prison pipeline
The paradigm of abject compliance to the state will continue to be taught by example in the schools, through school lockdowns where police and drug-sniffing dogs enter the classroom, and zero tolerance policies that punish all offenses equally and result in young people being expelled for childish behavior.
School districts will continue to team up with law enforcement to create a "schoolhouse to jailhouse track" by imposing a "double dose" of punishment:
suspension or expulsion from school, accompanied by an arrest by the police and a trip to juvenile court.
Overcriminalization
The government bureaucracy will continue to churn out laws, statutes, codes and regulations that reinforce its powers and value systems and those of the police state and its corporate allies, rendering the rest of us petty criminals.
The average American now unknowingly commits three felonies a day, thanks to this overabundance of vague laws that render otherwise innocent activity illegal.
Consequently, small farmers who dare to make unpasteurized goat cheese and share it with members of their communitywill continue to have their farms raided.
Privatized Prisons
States will continue to outsource prisons to private corporations, resulting in a cash cow whereby mega-corporations imprison Americans in private prisons in order to make a profit.
In exchange for corporations buying and managing public prisons across the country at a supposed savings to the states,the states have to agree to maintain a 90% occupancy rate in the privately run prisons for at least 20 years.
Endless wars
America's expanding military empire will continue to bleed the country dry at a rate of more than $15 billion a month (or $20 million an hour).
The Pentagon spends more on war than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. Yet what most Americans fail to recognize is that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with enriching the military industrial complex at taxpayer expense.
Are you getting the message yet?
***
The next president, much like the current president and his predecessors, will be little more than a figurehead, a puppet to entertain and distract the populace from what's really going on.
As Lofgren reveals, this state within a state,
"concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue," is a "hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose."
The Deep State not only holds the nation's capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street ("which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater") and Silicon Valley.
This is fascism in its most covert form, hiding behind public agencies and private companies to carry out its dirty deeds.
It is a marriage between government bureaucrats and corporate fat cats.
As Lofgren concludes:
[T]he Deep State is so heavily entrenched, so well protected by surveillance, firepower, money and its ability to co-opt resistance that it is almost impervious to change…
If there is anything the Deep State requires it is silent, uninterrupted cash flow and the confidence that things will go on as they have in the past.
It is even willing to tolerate a degree of gridlock: Partisan mud wrestling over cultural issues may be a useful distraction from its agenda.
In other words, as I point out in Battlefield America - The War on the American People, as long as government officials - elected and unelected alike - are allowed to operate beyond the reach of the Constitution, the courts and the citizenry, the threat to our freedoms remains undiminished.
So the next time you find yourselves despondent over the 2016 presidential candidates, remember that it's just a puppet show intended to distract you from the silent coup being carried out by America's shadow government.
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