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You've Been Warned: Calls For Mandatory "National Service" For Americans Aged 18-28 Have Begun

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

 

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

 

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

 

– From Major General Smedly Butler’s War is a Racket

This is one of the most important articles I will write all year. The statists are coming for your kids, and the conditioning has already begun.

Last night, I came across one of the most horrifying articles I have ever read, which is saying a lot. Before I get into it, take a look at the title and the tagline:

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If you think the title is bad, wait until you read the article. What becomes evident is that this grotesque concept of forced “national service” is being actively discussed at the highest levels of government. What Ron Fournier is doing in his National Journal article is conditioning the public to accept something that is completely unacceptable.

Before we get to that, who is Ron Fournier? National Journal provides a bio:

Ron Fournier is the Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director of National Journal. Prior to joining NJ, he worked at the Associated Press for 20 years, most recently as Washington Bureau Chief. A Detroit native, Fournier began his career in Arkansas, first with the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record and then with the Arkansas Democrat and the AP, where he covered the state legislature and Gov. Bill Clinton. In January 1993, Fournier moved to Washington, where he covered the White House and presidential campaigns for the AP. 

So basically, this guy covered Bill Clinton in Arkansas, moved to the District of Criminals after he was elected President, and now wants to convince you to subject your innocent children into mandatory service to a nation provably run by corrupt criminals and oligarchs.

It sure is some twisted notion of “shared sacrifice,” when those who had nothing to do with the disastrous choices made by the oligarchy are the ones who have to suffer the consequences.

Let’s now take this piece of Nazi-esque propaganda apart piece by piece. From the National Journal:

I know a better way to fight ISIS. It starts with an idea that should appeal the better angels of both hawks and doves: National service for all 18- to 28-year-olds.

 

Require virtually every young American—the civic-minded millennial generation—to complete a year of service through programs such as Teach for America, AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, or the U.S. military, and two things will happen:

First of all, he confidently proclaims that this scheme will appeal to both hawks and doves. Based on what evidence? Let me provide some evidence against his argument based on a recent Rasmussen poll that 45% of U.S. Voters Concerned Government Will Use Military Training Exercises for Power Grab. Here’s an excerpt from the findings:

Just 20% of voters now consider the federal government a protector of individual liberty. Sixty percent (60%) see the government as a threat to individual liberty instead.  Only 19% trust the federal government to do the right thing all or most of the time.

So the American public has no confidence in government, but somehow they are going to gladly line up to serve the corrupt oligarchy? Of course not, which is why people like Ron Fornier want to make it mandatory. Now back to the piece…

1. Virtually every American family will become intimately invested in the nation’s biggest challenges, including poverty, education, income inequality, and America’s place in a world afire.

 

2. Military recruiting will rise to meet threats posed by ISIS and other terrorist networks, giving more people skin in a very dangerous game.

 

This may seem like a radical plan until you compare it with two alternatives: the status quo, which clearly isn’t working, or a military draft, which might be the boldest and fairest way to wage the long war against Islamic extremists.

Notice how he offers us only three options, as if that is all the imaginative well of humanity is capable of coming up with. Forced national service, the status quo or a draft. Nowhere does he offer the logical alternative of say: stop preemptively invading and destroying countries for no reason (Iraq, Libya to name a few). Perhaps then idiotic foreign policy decisions won’t create ISIS in the first place.

This is an important lesson in how statists operate. They only offer you statist choices. Kind of like being forced to choose between a Clinton and a Bush for President.

The Draft Act is highly unlikely to be law, given the nation’s post-Vietnam resistance to the mandatory military service and the relative success of an all-volunteer armed forces. Which leads me to the year-of-service plan: It stops far short of a draft while drawing on the ethos of communal sacrifice.

Notice how he cleverly started the piece by mentioning the Peace Corps, Teach for America, etc, and only listed the military at the end? Pure smoke and mirrors. His entire point is to push for mandatory military service. No one wants to fight any more unnecessary wars to boost corporate profits, and any statist worth his or her salt knows full well mandatory conscription will be necessary in order to maintain the power position and wealth of the status quo going forward.

Finally, just in case you think this is merely some hack journalist mouthing off, Mr. Fournier makes it clear that this is being discussed at the highest levels of government.

I spoke about the concept with retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who commanded forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and now chairs the Franklin Project, part of the Aspen Institute that is trying to position a year of full-time national service—a service year—as a “cultural expectation, a common opportunity, and a civic rite of passage for every young American.” His logic tracks with mine.

 

Second, if this president or his successor gets serious about ISIS, McChrystal said the effort would require an international coalition and more U.S. troops. “Even if we didn’t need a draft” to drum up the required troops, McChrystal said, “I would argue we need a draft, because it forces national commitment.”

Forced national commitment to a government nobody believes in. Can’t wait to see how that works out.

“A problem in America is we’ve let the concept of citizenship diminish into a series of gripes,” McChrystal told me. “One of the ways we can rebuild that sense of ownership, sense of shared ownership, is through experience, and so I believe that every young person deserves—I don’t think this is an onerous thing—deserves the experience of being part of something bigger than themselves.”

No General McChrystal, we have let the concept of democracy diminish into a corrupt, thieving oligarchy. In case you need proof: New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy.

Furthermore, you don’t “rebuild ownership” by forcing citizens to serve an oligarchy they hate, you “rebuild ownership” by dismantling the oligarchy.

Bowing to political realities in risk-averse Washington, the Franklin Project aims to make a service year a social expectation rather than a legal requirement.

 

I would mandate it. So would McChrystal—if he had his way.

Statists gonna state.

While ISIS and other terrorist groups are having no trouble recruiting suicide bombers, McChrystal said, Americans are struggling to redefine their national identity for the 21st century. “A year of service for young Americans would be a step,” he said. “Not a panacea, a step.”

This paragraph unintentionally says a lot. You want to fight an army of radical volunteers created by your own foreign policy crimes by forcing people who have no trust in their government to join the military? It’s an idea so stupid and destructive, only a rabid statist could conceive it.

Before concluding, I want to emphasize how dangerous this line of thinking is. It is precisely because I see these sorts of things coming down the road, that I do what I do with this website. The only way to stop statist plans like these is to win the war of ideas before they have a chance to dazzle you with their next bit of propaganda.

Stay vigilant and keep fighting.

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For related articles, see:

Accusations Emerge That the U.S. Is Aiding ISIS – The Latest “Conspiracy Theory” Circulating in Iraq

Jeb Bush Exposed Part 1 – His Top Advisors Will Be the Architects of His Brother’s Iraq War

Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Has Died – Here’s His Final Letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

Leon Panetta, Head of Pentagon and C.I.A. Under Obama, Says Brace for 30 Year War with ISIS

The American Public: A Tough Soldier or a Chicken Hawk Cowering in a Cubicle? Some Thoughts on ISIS Intervention

 

 

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Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:20 | 6208579 gmak
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I agree. You want to legislate conscription: Show us the good example and put youir kids first. While we're at it, all those who want to tax us because they REALLY believe that .03% of the atmosphere is armageddon just stop breathing and emitting CO2. Probelm solved all around, no?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:53 | 6208604 teutonicate
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You know if we ever had a military cause that our people (young and old) could identify with based on our values and interests, like running the cabal out of the country and tightening up our boarders, we wouldn't need conscription.

Hell, even old duffers like me would be volunteering!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:42 | 6208614 escapeefromOZ
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do not let your sons and daughter enlist to an army that makes war for the benefit of the  criminal banksters and the International Zionist Crime Syndicate . Demand that the children of the politicians and the zionist elite  elnlist first and lose their life for a Greater Israel . 

No more war for the evil empire . Fu...k.. the USA administration 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:46 | 6208623 roadhazard
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Sounds good to me. THAT will get people protesting back in the streets again.  I guess they forgot the Viet Nam protests. Who knows how long we would have been there without protesters in the streets DAILY.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:29 | 6208827 brushhog
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They didnt protest when they were forced to bail out criminal bankers, they didnt protest when they were forced to buy a product from an insurance salesman, they didnt protest when their 2nd, 1st, and 4th amendment constitutional rights were taken away...what makes you think they will protest forced conscription?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:41 | 6208871 roadhazard
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Americans DID protest financial crime. That was OWS that Zero Hedge hates because they didn't protest at the White House. ZH hates everyone but Pootin.

I'm FOR ACA so no protest from me there.  I have always said that the internet has destroyed street protesting. Everyone thinks they can bitch and moan from there living room in their underwear and it make a difference. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:48 | 6208634 Bone Nower
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Bad enough that they are a bunch of low life fuck ups. 

 

Now this band of low life fuck ups wants your kids to fuck up too. 

 

To fight a CIA/Mossad created terrorist organization. 

 

Yea, sure. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:49 | 6208638 DuneCreature
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WW III will put everyone in front line trenches no conscription necessary.

~ DC

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:51 | 6208649 MickV
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Molon Labe

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 07:52 | 6208655 European on my ...
European on my shoe Jimmy's picture

The statist you quote fully appreciate mans desire to kill others, simply because 'we are still tribal warriors ' technology is available re tactical nukes but it's not the same unless you have that 'grunt at the front'.
We humans just like killing for the fun of it, so there isn't a moral question involved.

The fighting mans psychology on the battle field is 'my pal has My back' ,.
With the now serious option of using tactical nukes on the battle field
That psychology is seriously undermined. I imagine most soldiers realising that, whether America, Russian, Chinese etc. wishing for a fighting chance, not instant vaporisation.

This coming war will be similar to the 1914-1918 war, when tactical machine guns and mustard gas were then in use. The stories of rebellion amongst those troops, knowing their fate was and still is badly documented. The tactical nuke is the new machine gun. In my opinion it should be used and I will stand well back and laugh at them 'this is not a moral issue' it's just a realisation

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:12 | 6208739 BoPeople
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I am not sure what planet you are living on. However, on the one that I am living on, the people do not desire to kill each other.

On the other hand, people do enjoy competition and some may argue that warfare can be extreme competition. If that is so, then everyone who wants to fight, should get naked, strap on a sword and go out and hack at each other on some battlefield.

However, forcing people to do so, is utter lunacy. It only speaks of another agenda (more likely several).

Maybe you should see a shrink.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:07 | 6208713 BoPeople
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“Even if we didn’t need a draft” to drum up the required troops, McChrystal said, “I would argue we need a draft, because it forces national commitment.”

I can understand why an unconstitutional, criminal government would like the opportunity to both corrupt and brainwash the young and dumb. Create gangs and give them shiny things to make them think that what they are doing is prestigious and honorable. Unfortunately it is not.

National commitment is NOT something that should be forced. The national government, if there is one at all, should be worthy of commitment and people should welcome it because of that worthiness. Our government is currently anything but worthy.

Commit to the nation of people, but not to the corrupt government. Defend the nation of people, but not the corrupt government.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:07 | 6208716 skipjack
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I double dare them to do this. I guess they don't remember the Vietnam War protests. This time it wouldn't be only the lefties in the streets. This might wake up a lot more fence sitters who don't want their cushy lives disturbed if their kids are being eyed.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:20 | 6208786 Bone Nower
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Scandals, false flags, over taxation...they don't do shit to the average murkin. 

 

Cut off the food, power, water...and come after the kids.  These are the only things that will get asses off of the couch and out of the bars and wake the general population up. 

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:13 | 6208748 red1chief
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Regardless of what the article says, there will not be forced military service. That would start substantial opposition to these wars.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:32 | 6208835 Realname
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I guess youve never heard of Executive Order 13603, signed by Obola? Sec. 502. Consultants. The head of each agency otherwise delegated functions under this order is delegated the authority of the President under sections 710(b) and (c) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2160(b), (c), to employ persons of outstanding experience and ability without compensation and to employ experts, consultants, or organizations. The authority delegated by this section may not be redelegated.
Sec. 601. Secretary of Labor. (a) The Secretary of Labor, in coordination

with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of other agencies, as deemed

appropriate by the Secretary of Labor, shall:

(1) collect and maintain data necessary to make a continuing appraisal

of the Nation’s workforce needs for purposes of national defense;

(2) upon request by the Director of Selective Service, and in coordination

with the Secretary of Defense, assist the Director of Selective Service

in development of policies regulating the induction and deferment of

persons for duty in the armed services;

(3) upon request from the head of an agency with authority under this

order, consult with that agency with respect to: (i) the effect of contemplated

actions on labor demand and utilization; (ii) the relation of

labor demand to materials and facilities requirements; and (iii) such other

matters as will assist in making the exercise of priority and allocations

functions consistent with effective utilization and distribution of labor;

(4) upon request from the head of an agency with authority under this

order: (i) formulate plans, programs, and policies for meeting the labor

requirements of actions to be taken for national defense purposes; and

(ii) estimate training needs to help address national defense requirements

and promote necessary and appropriate training programs

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:15 | 6208762 European on my ...
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Can you kill the 'tribal warrior in his head' his thinking so to speak.
I despair when I realise that our 'thinking' whether on the battle field or in the boardrooms. Are what we are. The sociopath statist knows this. only when the serfs realise this, as they will. Will there be reconnings.
I have said before that the west are the "New Communists" only we, the serfs, haven't yet had our Russian revolution ,

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:15 | 6208763 Bill of Rights
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All your children are belong to us.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:24 | 6208803 d edwards
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now that almost all student loans are held by govt you might be forced to "volunteer".

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:19 | 6208780 Government need...
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This is a great idea.  Let's start with the 50 million Americans on the EBT/SNAP/housing voucher doles, I mean rolls.  They'd make terrific cannon fodder.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:34 | 6208843 Bagbalm
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This is what drove a great deal of the European immigration to the US. The parents didn't want to send their children to endless cycles of war. Where to go now?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 10:34 | 6209355 libertysghost
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While the world is getting smaller in communicative terms, it's as big as it ever was in geographical terms.  There's places to go...maybe not to permenatly stay depending on where you land...but to go for sure.  Also remember that Empires that chase everyone around the world trying to get them to conform don't last.  It's largely a math and resource production/distribution problem for them in my opinion.  

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:39 | 6208862 apocalypticbrother
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Notice how he offers us only three options, as if that is all the imaginative well of humanity is capable of coming up with. Forced national service, the status quo or a draft. Nowhere does he offer the logical alternative of say: stop preemptively invading and destroying countries for no reason (Iraq, Libya to name a few). Perhaps then idiotic foreign policy decisions won’t create ISIS in the first place. (bold italics mine)

 

Notice how the author blames foreign policy decisions and not the direct funding by USGov Agencies?

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 10:10 | 6209285 large_wooden_badger
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You can be sure that my children will be learning more about this Smedley Butler. Nothing like an honest Marine to tell it like it is.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:42 | 6208877 Bolesov
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Today's kids can't even tie their pants, let alone go to war.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:54 | 6208926 PleasedToMeatYou
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I think re-instating the Draft, or its watered down version of a "Year(+) of Service", could be the best thing to happen to the USA in a long time. 

Maybe that'll get our kids off of Facebook, etc., and out of mind and soul degenerating hard and soft porn and violence games, and into the streets for some real action. 

Maybe that'll get us parents of those millennials away from our own bread and circus distractions in sufficient critical mass so as to remove the toxic pustules from positions of power in gov, media, academia,...

Unfortunately, that is why the Draft (or its baby sister) will not happen until another 911 event is brought to fruition, and everybody starts waving their friggin' flags of freedumb. 

Evil bastards are cumming for your children. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:56 | 6208941 Government need...
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.Gov is THE problem.  It most certainly does NOT qualify as the agent of salvation.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 09:02 | 6208975 PleasedToMeatYou
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".Gov is THE problemA problem, not just THE problem. 

Other political and cultural institutions mold and placate the hearts and minds of our people.  In the end, that is really where most of the power is.  Our country was taken over from the inside, and our political institutions followed. 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 10:30 | 6209335 libertysghost
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But .Gov..."the state" as it is more traditionally thought of...has the monopoly on legitimzed violence (or 99% of it at least...I could explain but it's somewhat tedious and pedantic for purposes here).  No matter how much influence or power any other institution might claim to have, or we might want to think they have, the people heading them up could always be forcibly arrested or killed in the process (or claim of process) of that arrest.  They do their work with permission from the state.  SO ".Gov" does always hold a trump card...and ".Gov" (or what is included as part of "the state") does not have to be elected positions.  In fact, most of it in any state is not as history shows.  

 

Just teasing this out so everyone is clear of the distinctions.  The media manipulators are allowed to do so by "the state".  If "the state" didn't want that, or didn't think they were performing as desired for the >Gov's purposes, there would be recourse in a myriad of ways but always with the understanding that force could ultimately be used and those doing it would not go to jail for using that force...because they are "the state".  

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 09:13 | 6209019 Mike Honcho
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Another statist sharing his warped sense of "patriotism". 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 09:19 | 6209050 Chris Rofot
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Typical Hobson's choice modus operandi

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 09:22 | 6209066 swass
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They can kiss my hairy ass.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 10:07 | 6209273 large_wooden_badger
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After they kiss mine

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 09:38 | 6209143 Koolcatt
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hmmmm

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 10:07 | 6209269 large_wooden_badger
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It is my sincerest hope for humanity that when shit starts getting real that "professional journalists" like this are stacked like cordwood.

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 10:29 | 6209341 large_wooden_badger
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The American Legion Halls and VFWs would rejoice at the notion that their membership rolls could finally start to increase after years of shrinkage. Gotta nurse that combat induced PTSD somewhere since you can be sure that the VA won't be of any help. They just claim any soldier's PTSD was induced by their mother catching them in the act of jacking it when they were 15, all pre-existing you know? So you give them $2 bud bottles, some tattoos, and an occasional motorcycle charity ride instead. FREEDOM!

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 12:21 | 6209876 esum
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right after bill clintoon signs up....

right after obumbler sends his daughters now that fems can be in combat...

better idea.... use the money sent to create and fund isis here in the ussa in the first place...

every member of congress shoudl be rotated thru the front lines of any war they declare... get your fucking asses off the ergonomically correct chairs and out and smell the death you create.. useless motherfuckers 

 

 

Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:54 | 6211097 Hope Copy
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maybe a great idea, but there is no money to pay for it and don't we have something like this anyway?  'Almost free' college....     [College loans >> Student debt ]

Now if you are talking depopulation.. na, is hasn't worked in the past....

 

What are they going to do with all the druggies?

Fri, 06/19/2015 - 21:50 | 6216233 headless blogger
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All these fuckers who want to force the youth to suit up for American Empire, need to suit up FIRST themselves and put themselves on the front lines like the men of old used to do. They never forced their youth to go out and war for them, but would be out there themselves. The men of today are using the Youth in the most heinous and sick ways, but what can you expect, most of them are PEDOPHILES, and feed off the young in every way.

These men are dispicable cowards.

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