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Democrats and the Death of Keynesian Economics
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Democrats and the Death of Keynesian Economics
http://www.truth-out.org/democrats-and-death-keynesian-economics/1318864268
Michael Corcoran, Truthout: "Obama's dead-on-arrival jobs bill, which followed trillions in spending cuts that were made during the debt ceiling controversy, remind us that politicians have stopped seriously trying to save the economy through job creation and government spending. The protests on Wall Street show that the public recognizes that change will only come when the people take matters into their own hands."
Occupy Chicago Grows, Looks for a Permanent Home
http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-chicago-grows-looks-permanent-home/1318964043
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase all have their own slice of downtown Chicago, but the grassroots occupation movement Occupy Chicago has yet to find a permanent home. Since Occupy Chicago's attempt to take start an encampment at a swathe of prominent Grant Park on Saturday ended with a mass civil disobedience in which 200 activists were arrested, the movement has been offered a meeting with Emanuel."
Rebecca Solnit | Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope
http://www.truth-out.org/letter-dead-man-about-occupation-hope/1318949571
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: "Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an astonishing year - with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about the power of despair and the margins of hope and the bonds of civil society. I wish you could see the way that your small life and large death became a catalyst for the fall of so many dictators in what is known as the Arab Spring. We are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has suddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned yourself to death to protest your impoverished and humiliated state."
Walking Like an Egyptian: Food, Farming and Foreign Policy
http://www.truth-out.org/WalkingLikeanEgyptianFoodFarmingandForeignPolicy/1318951270
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then '#occupy' protesters around the world this weekend just gave the Arab Spring an Academy Award. Of course, the chain of inspiration of freedom and justice seekers is unending in history, but there's no question that the Arab Spring opened a new chapter which is inspiring people to protest for justice worldwide."
Wall Street's Moneymen Shower Cash on Candidates
http://www.truth-out.org/rage-wall-street-rises-its-moneymen-shower-cash-candidates/1318945201
David Goldstein, McClatchy: "Even as protests over its political influence grow louder, Wall Street is one of the leading sources of money so far in the 2012 race for the White House. Not surprisingly, the biggest beneficiary has been Republican hopeful Mitt Romney, according to a new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign-finance watchdog group."
Rediscovering Civil Disobedience
http://www.truth-out.org/rediscovering-civil-disobedience/1318944426
George Goehl, The Nation: "'There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal,' proclaimed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he took a risk and spoke out forcefully against the War in Vietnam. As more Americans debate whether to leave the sidelines and join the Occupy Wall Street movement, we should heed Dr. King's words. Our individual silence is a form of acquiescence, and we speak volumes not only through our action but also through our lack of it. Silence signals that we are okay with what's happening, or that we have simply given up. While Occupy Wall Street has inspired a new level of consciousness in America, we have only just scratched the surface of what will be needed to shift the political economy of our country."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: International Monetary Fund Calls on Governments Around the World to Ditch Their Austerity Agendas, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-international-monetary-fund-calls-governments-around-world-ditch-their-austerit-0
In today's On the News segment: Occupy Wall Street movement begins its second month, third quarter profit numbers show Wall Street is making a killing while Main Street is drowning, Republicans in the House refuse to vote on President Obama's American Jobs Act - so he's decided to break it up and try to pass it piece by piece, the International Monetary Fund is calling on governments around the world to ditch their austerity agendas of spending cuts, anti-Latino hate crimes have risen dramatically in recent years, and more.
As Scandal Engulfs American Legislative Exchange Council's UK Affiliate, a Closer Look at Its US Operation
http://www.truth-out.org/scandal-engulfs-american-legislative-exchange-councils-uk-affiliate-closer-look-its-us-operation/13
Lee Fang and Scott Keyes, ThinkProgress: "The Atlantic Bridge, the British affiliate organization to the American Legislative Exchange Council, is quickly erupting into a scandal that may force the public to scrutinize the practices of both right-wing groups. Earlier this month, the U.K.'s Charity Commission shut down Atlantic Bridge after an investigation revealed that the nonprofit has operated as little more than a front for various corporate lobbying and Tory party interests. The scandal has already forced the resignation of David Cameron's Defense Secretary Liam Fox after the revelation that the Atlantic Bridge's London-based director, Adam Werritty, had improperly acted as a high level advisor to Fox while employed by a number of military industry and lobbying clients."
Paul Krugman | Sounds of Outrage Heard on Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/sounds-outrage-heard-wall-street/1318958460
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Harvard's Nieman Watchdog Web site recently featured a very good piece by John Hanrahan, a former reporter at The Washington Post, about press coverage of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. 'There has been an outpouring of well-informed criticism of the mainstream news media's initial coverage and non-coverage of the Wall Street protests,' Mr. Hanrahan wrote. Coverage was initially dismissive and minimal - and mea culpa, I wasn't paying attention myself. But it's becoming clear that there's something important happening: finally, after three years in which the Very Serious People refused to hold the financial industry accountable, there's a real grass-roots uprising against the Masters of the Universe."
Unequal Influence: There Are Politicians Who Work on Behalf of Corporations and Those Who Work on Behalf of Humans
http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-influence/1318963129
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "Increasingly, citizens of democratic nations are setting aside labels like Republican, Democrat, Tory, and Labour when considering their politicians. Instead the labels in people's minds are: working in the interests of corporations and working in the interests of individual citizens."
Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas Discuses Occupy Times Square and the Role of Veterans' Rights Within the Economic Justice Movement (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/keith-olbermann-marine-corps-veteran-sgt-shamar-thomas-occupy-times-square-veterans-rights/13189488
Keith Olbermann, Countdown: Made famous by his poignant message to police while protesting at New York's Occupy Time Square, Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas speaks with Keith Olbermann about the role of veterans' rights within the occupy movement.
Robert Reich | The Meagerness of the Republican Debates, the Smallness of the President's Solutions and the Need for a Progressive Alternative
http://www.truth-out.org/meagerness-republican-debates-smallness-presidents-solutions-and-need-progressive-alternative/13189
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Republicans are debating again tomorrow night. And once again, Americans will hear the standard regressive litany: government is bad, Medicare and Medicaid should be cut, 'Obamacare' is killing the economy, undocumented immigrants are taking our jobs, the military should get more money, taxes should be lowered on corporations and the rich, and regulations should be gutted."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Maybe there's more to Mayor Bloomberg of New York backing down from having the New York Police Department (NYPD) eradicate Occupy Wall Street than his incestuous and profitable relationship with Wall Street (given his $19.5 billion in wealth from the financial industry and his "personal" link [http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13076] with the owners of Liberty Park).
Bloomberg has used the NYPD as a militarized occupation force in southern Manhattan to contain and suppress a group of Americans intent on outing the financial mismanagement of Wall Street. But he's in a fix.
Apparently, New Yorkers don't agree with the baronial mayor, who likes to give the appearance of being a "common man" from time to time.
The fifth paragraph of a New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/nyregion/bloomberg-says-tent-city-at-wall-street-protest-exceeds-free-speech.html?_r=1&hp) updating the mayor's continued thinly veiled disdain for the growing movement for accountability from the financial titans - and for a just society (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13082) - reveals that the multibillionaire defender of oligarchical rule (after all, he is a role model in this area) is facing overwhelming opposition to his position:
"A Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday found broad support for Occupy Wall Street; 72 percent of New York City voters, including 52 percent of Republicans, said the protesters should be able to stay as long as they wanted if they continued to obey the laws. The telephone survey, of 1,068 registered voters, was conducted from Thursday to Sunday."
Those are landslide numbers of New York City residents who support Occupy Wall Street protesters exercising their rights in a democracy.
In New York State, Bloomberg's use of a public police force to defend the entrenched, gluttonous and counterproductive-to-the-national-interest leadership and practices of much of the financial industry is also facing a stiff pushback, according to The Associated Press: (http://news.yahoo.com/demonstrations-poll-fuel-ny-millionaire-tax-push-193921555.html?mid=506)
"The push for a higher tax on New Yorkers making more than $1 million a year is getting fresh life with a new poll showing overwhelming support, a high-profile rally on Monday and the strengthening Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City.
The Siena College poll found 72 percent of New York voters support the tax to avoid further budget cuts. Just 26 percent oppose the proposal by powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver."
Mayor Bloomberg is using taxpayer money on deploying an occupying police force to try to close down a demonstration of taxpayers guaranteed in the Constitution.
He sounds a bit like King George just before the American Revolution.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
US Government Supports Protesters Abroad and Jails Them at Home
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13083
Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right
Read the Article at Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-occupy-wall-street-is-bigger-than-left-vs-right-20111017
Anti-Wall Street Demonstrations Start Second Month
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/18/politics/occupy-wall-street/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
New York Times Editorial: Republican Candidates Don't Get Foreign Policy
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/opinion/republicans-and-foreign-policy.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
Bank of Canada Head Calls Occupy Protests "Entirely Constructive"
Read the Article at Crooks and Liars
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/bank-canada-head-calls-occupy-protests-enti
Can Obama Hold on to African-American Voters in 2012?
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/can-obama-hold-on-to-african-american-voters-in-2012/2011/09/30/gIQA1IeisL_story.html?hpid=z2
Occupy Wall Street: Progressives Must Renew Demands for a Just Society
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13082
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Michael Corcoran, Truthout: "Obama's dead-on-arrival jobs bill, which follo=
wed trillions in spending cuts that were made during the debt ceiling contr=
oversy, remind us that politicians have stopped seriously trying to save th=
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l Street show that the public recognizes that change will only come when th=
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nt><br />
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Bank of America and JPMorgan=
Chase all have their own slice of downtown Chicago, but the grassroots occ=
upation movement Occupy Chicago has yet to find a permanent home. Since Occ=
upy Chicago's attempt to take start an encampment at a swathe of prominent =
Grant Park on Saturday ended with a mass civil disobedience in which 200 ac=
tivists were arrested, the movement has been offered a meeting with Emanuel=
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Hope</strong></font><br />
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: "Dear young man who died on the fourth day of =
this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi, I want to write you about an a=
stonishing year - with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about th=
e power of despair and the margins of hope and the bonds of civil society. =
I wish you could see the way that your small life and large death became a =
catalyst for the fall of so many dictators in what is known as the Arab Spr=
ing. We are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has su=
ddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one=
imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so =
much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned yourself to death to p=
rotest your impoverished and humiliated state." <br />
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Robert Naiman, Truthout: "If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, t=
hen '#occupy' protesters around the world this weekend just gave the Arab S=
pring an Academy Award. Of course, the chain of inspiration of freedom and =
justice seekers is unending in history, but there's no question that the Ar=
ab Spring opened a new chapter which is inspiring people to protest for jus=
tice worldwide."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DH%2BsV=
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<font><strong>Wall Street's Moneymen Shower Cash on Candidates </strong></f=
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grow louder, Wall Street is one of the leading sources of money so far in t=
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l,' proclaimed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as he took a risk and spoke =
out forcefully against the War in Vietnam. As more Americans debate whether=
to leave the sidelines and join the Occupy Wall Street movement, we should=
heed Dr. King's words. Our individual silence is a form of acquiescence, a=
nd we speak volumes not only through our action but also through our lack o=
f it. Silence signals that we are okay with what's happening, or that we ha=
ve simply given up. While Occupy Wall Street has inspired a new level of co=
nsciousness in America, we have only just scratched the surface of what wil=
l be needed to shift the political economy of our country."<br />
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In today's On the News segment: Occupy Wall Street movement begins its seco=
nd month, third quarter profit numbers show Wall Street is making a killing=
while Main Street is drowning, Republicans in the House refuse to vote on =
President Obama's American Jobs Act - so he's decided to break it up and tr=
y to pass it piece by piece, the International Monetary Fund is calling on =
governments around the world to ditch their austerity agendas of spending c=
uts, anti-Latino hate crimes have risen dramatically in recent years, and m=
ore.<br />
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ommission shut down Atlantic Bridge after an investigation revealed that th=
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nation of David Cameron's Defense Secretary Liam Fox after the revelation t=
hat the Atlantic Bridge's London-based director, Adam Werritty, had imprope=
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tary industry and lobbying clients."<br />
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Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Harvard's Nieman Watchdog Web site recent=
ly featured a very good piece by John Hanrahan, a former reporter at The Wa=
shington Post, about press coverage of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration=
s. 'There has been an outpouring of well-informed criticism of the mainstre=
am news media's initial coverage and non-coverage of the Wall Street protes=
ts,' Mr. Hanrahan wrote. Coverage was initially dismissive and minimal - an=
d mea culpa, I wasn't paying attention myself. But it's becoming clear that=
there's something important happening: finally, after three years in which=
the Very Serious People refused to hold the financial industry accountable=
, there's a real grass-roots uprising against the Masters of the Universe."=
<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DYJUK6i=
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</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Unequal Influence: There Are Politicians Who Work on Behalf o=
f Corporations and Those Who Work on Behalf of Humans</strong></font><br />
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "Increasingly, citizens of democ=
ratic nations are setting aside labels like Republican, Democrat, Tory, and=
Labour when considering their politicians. Instead the labels in people's =
minds are: working in the interests of corporations and working in the inte=
rests of individual citizens."<br />
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<font><strong>Marine Corps Veteran Sgt. Shamar Thomas Discuses Occupy Times=
Square and the Role of Veterans' Rights Within the Economic Justice Moveme=
nt (Video)</strong></font><br />
Keith Olbermann, Countdown: Made famous by his poignant message to police w=
hile protesting at New York's Occupy Time Square, Marine Corps Veteran Sgt.=
Shamar Thomas speaks with Keith Olbermann about the role of veterans' righ=
ts within the occupy movement.<br />
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<font><strong>Robert Reich | The Meagerness of the Republican Debates, the =
Smallness of the President's Solutions and the Need for a Progressive Alter=
native</strong></font><br />
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Republicans are debating again tomorrow=
night. And once again, Americans will hear the standard regressive litany:=
government is bad, Medicare and Medicaid should be cut, 'Obamacare' is kil=
ling the economy, undocumented immigrants are taking our jobs, the military=
should get more money, taxes should be lowered on corporations and the ric=
h, and regulations should be gutted."<br />
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<p>Maybe there's more to Mayor Bloomberg of New York backing down from havi=
ng the New York Police Department (NYPD) eradicate Occupy Wall Street than =
his incestuous and profitable relationship with Wall Street (given his $19.=
5 billion in wealth from the financial industry and <a href=3D"http://org2.=
democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DydU8V4t45lOoAovBiHkffMZMoSDbU=
2X5"><font color=3D"#cc0000">his "personal" link</font></a> with the owners=
of Liberty Park).</p>
<p>Bloomberg has used the NYPD as a militarized occupation force in souther=
n Manhattan to contain and suppress a group of Americans intent on outing t=
he financial mismanagement of Wall Street. But he's in a fix.</p>
<p>Apparently, New Yorkers don't agree with the baronial mayor, who likes t=
o give the appearance of being a "common man" from time to time.</p>
<p>The fifth paragraph of a <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/di=
a/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DIYMPvQbR7qDuLj2EsrRWJ3zyP%2BYtWDhi"><font color=3D"#c=
c0000">New York Times article</font></a> updating the mayor's continued thi=
nly veiled disdain for the growing movement for accountability from the fin=
ancial titans - and for <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/tr=
ack.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DxMZ5mjOhfsz9zQM%2FXit7TMZMoSDbU2X5"><font color=3D"#cc000=
0">a just society</font></a> - reveals that the multibillionaire defender o=
f oligarchical rule (after all, he is a role model in this area) is facing =
overwhelming opposition to his position:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A Quinnipiac University poll released on Monday found broad support for =
Occupy Wall Street; 72 percent of New York City voters, including 52 percen=
t of Republicans, said the protesters should be able to stay as long as the=
y wanted if they continued to obey the laws. The telephone survey, of 1,068=
registered voters, was conducted from Thursday to Sunday.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Those are landslide numbers of New York City residents who support Occup=
y Wall Street protesters exercising their rights in a democracy.</p>
<p>In New York State, Bloomberg's use of a public police force to defend th=
e entrenched, gluttonous and counterproductive-to-the-national-interest lea=
dership and practices of much of the financial industry is also facing a st=
iff pushback, <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=
=3D2&c=3DyGUWOISmdJlCUUS11vKzgcZMoSDbU2X5"><font color=3D"#cc0000">accordin=
g to The Associated Press</font></a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The push for a higher tax on New Yorkers making more than $1 million a y=
ear is getting fresh life with a new poll showing overwhelming support, a h=
igh-profile rally on Monday and the strengthening Occupy Wall Street protes=
t in New York City.</p>
<p>The Siena College poll found 72 percent of New York voters support the t=
ax to avoid further budget cuts. Just 26 percent oppose the proposal by pow=
erful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Mayor Bloomberg is using taxpayer money on deploying an occupying police=
force to try to close down a demonstration of taxpayers guaranteed in the =
Constitution.</p>
<p>He sounds a bit like King George just before the American Revolution.</p=
>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
</em></p>
<p><strong>US Government Supports Protesters Abroad and Jails Them at Home<=
br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3D%2BNTdmsL%2BPqmhJk%2Fvxuo11sZMoSDbU2X5" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D=
"#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DstX54m7B%2F6x9IxVJ6RXarMZMoSDbU2X5" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at Rolling Stone</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Anti-Wall Street Demonstrations Start Second Month<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DhsIZvYw1G7JUhCK9XLHB%2FcZMoSDbU2X5" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at CNN</font></a></p>
<p><strong>New York Times Editorial: Republican Candidates Don't Get Foreig=
n Policy<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DyqY7AXW4X2%2FAd8YSBZSWDcZMoSDbU2X5" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at The New York Times</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Bank of Canada Head Calls Occupy Protests "Entirely Constructive=
"<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3Du8DhZJXJRc9L0pv%2FZMpIzMZMoSDbU2X5" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at Crooks and Liars</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Can Obama Hold on to African-American Voters in 2012?<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DtYI3S%2B1I9NSYkjLNoVFlH8ZMoSDbU2X5" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Occupy Wall Street: Progressives Must Renew Demands for a Just S=
ociety<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3D1m5mGfHN%2BwC6DTkYaS%2BLNcZMoSDbU2X5" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#=
cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
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rOv93uVR8OYwuM48EvMZMoSDbU2X5"><b><font color=3D"#cc0000"><em>Click here fo=
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