There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
President-elect Donald J. Trump has weighed in for the first time regarding the drones invading America and our military bases.
Trump called BS on the Biden regime’s claims that they have no knowledge of who is responsible for the drones and demanded the Regime tell the truth immediately.
He then called for the drones to be shot down if the government was unwilling to provide answers (they won’t).
“Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge? I don’t think so!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Let the public know, and now.
“Otherwise, shoot them down!!!,” he added.
Credit Trump Truth Social Account
As Jim Hoft previously reported, several mysterious drones were spotted flying over New Jersey last week. The drones were spotted over at least 12 counties, prompting mayors to contact the governor and demand answers.
Following the news, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also restricted all drone flights over the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
This has raised alarm bells across America, with suspicion a foreign adversary is responsible. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) claimed on Wednesday that he had sources that Iran is responsible.
“I learned from very high sources, from very qualified sources, Iran launched a mothership a month ago that contains these drones, Van Drew said. “It’s off the east coast of the United States.”
It’s not just New Jersey, either. Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan revealed on Friday that he had personally witnessed several drones over his residence in recent days.
There have also been drone sightings over U.S. Military bases.
Trump’s fiery response is precisely the type of leadership we are missing in the White House right now, and his return cannot be soon enough.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby during White House press briefing
Biden’s White House is downplaying reports of unauthorized drone activity over military installations in New Jersey. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby categorically denied any confirmed incursions, dismissing over 3,000 reports of “car-sized drones” as mistaken sightings of helicopters or airplanes.
Kirby’s assurances, however, directly contradict statements from military officials at New Jersey’s Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle, both of which have confirmed unauthorized drone breaches in recent weeks.
During a press briefing on Thursday, Kirby claimed:
“We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI are investigating these sightings, and they’re working closely with state and local law enforcement to provide resources using numerous detection methods to better understand their origin.”
Using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities, we have not been able to, and neither have state or local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings.
To the contrary, upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully.
The United States Coast Guard is providing support to the state of New Jersey, and has confirmed that there is no evidence of any foreign-based involvement from coastal vessels. And importantly, there are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace.”
Yet, in stark contrast, Picatinny Arsenal has confirmed at least 11 drone incursions, and Naval Weapons Station Earle reported two separate incidents of drones entering their airspace, according to NJ.com.
“We are aware and monitoring the reports of unauthorized drone flights in the vicinity of military installations in New Jersey to include Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle, and we refer you to those installations for information on any efforts they are may be conducting to ensure the safety and security of their personnel and operations,” the spokesperson said.
“Local law enforcement and the FBI are currently investigating,” the spokesperson added. “U.S. Northern Command conducted a deliberate analysis of the events, in consultation with other military organizations and interagency partners, and at this time we have not been requested to assist with these events.”
Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart wrote on X, “This statement from White House National Security Spokesman Adm Kirby is in direct contradiction to a statement issued by the NJ Picatinny Arsenal base commander. Adm. Kirby says there’s been NO reported or confirmed ‘drone’ incursions in restricted airspace. Yet, the base says there’s been 11 confirmed. Why would a White House spokesman recklessly issue such a misleading and false claim?”
The conflicting narratives have sparked outrage among lawmakers from New York and New Jersey, with demands for a federal briefing on the incidents. Concerns are mounting that the administration is either dismissing or deliberately downplaying potential security breaches at critical military installations.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is blasting the Pentagon over the lack of transparency about the drones being spotted flying over New Jersey.
“I’m going to call it total bullsh-t that no one knows what these are,” Greene said in the video. “They can track down a guy that just killed a CEO, but they can’t identify what nightly drones are and where they’re coming from.”
Greene said the government was “lying” about not knowing who these drones belong to or where they are coming from.
The lecture hall in Sydney University was packed with staff, lecturers, and administrators. There was a sense of anticipation as the American social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, stood up to speak. What followed was one of the most riveting, stimulating, and challenging talks I have ever heard.
Fast forward four years and we now have the main thesis of that lecture in book form. The Anxious Generation is a tour de force of psychology, biology, philosophy, politics, religion, and culture. Occasionally you will hear of a book being “life changing,” but rarely of one that is “society changing.” However, I suspect that Haidt’s book will find a place in that latter category. For example, the work of Haidt and others has recently led the Australian government to announce that it is going to ban social media for children and younger teenagers.
Haidt’s thesis is straightforward. In 1994–1995 the Internet arrives. It is one of the biggest changes ever in human society and seems overwhelmingly positive. You can now know everything. (Remember Google’s mantra, “you won’t need memory” and motto, “do no evil”?) In 2007 we have the arrival of the smartphone and the thousands of apps. By 2012 there is a noticeable decrease in the mental health of teenagers, especially girls. Haidt links these directly.
There has been significant pushback. For example, Candice L. Odgers has argued that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness” (“The Great Rewiring: Is Social Media Really Behind an Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness?,” Nature, 29 March 2024). Yet Haidt, while acknowledging that there were 64 correlational studies, lists a further 22 experimental studies, of which 16 found significant harm. Furthermore, although Haidt accepts that correlation is not necessarily causation, he also argues that there is no other explanation: “Social media use is a cause of anxiety, depression, and other ailments, not just a correlate” (p. 148).
He lists and discusses four significant harms: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction. The average child/teenager spends 7–9 hours a day on the internet—5 hours a day on social media alone. The consequences of this are enormous. Imagine taking seven hours out of your day. What would you have to give up? For teenagers, that includes talking to friends, losing sleep, losing attention (by developing a habit of continuous partial attention), and no real quality human connection.
You do not develop social skills. Your childhood has been transformed by technology from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood. There is no time for play, hobbies, face to face contact, and books. In fact, as regards reading, there is some evidence that excessive use of the Internet is rewiring our brains and making it far harder for us to concentrate on, and think, about books. (See, for example, Martin Korte, “The Impact of the Digital Revolution on Human Brain and Behavior: Where Do We Stand?” Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 22 [2020]: 101–11).
The overall effect of this, according to Haidt, is that people are not connecting, they are performing. When you play, there are lots of mistakes, but they are low-cost mistakes. But one false move online and your whole life could literally be ruined. Little wonder that this has become the anxious generation!
Chapter 6, on why social media harms girls more than boys, is particularly fascinating. As Haidt explains, girls are more affected by visual social comparison and perfectionism; girls’ aggression is more relational; girls more easily share emotions and disorders. In this regard, he points out, as does Abigail Shrier in her Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2020), that the growth in diagnoses of gender dysphoria, especially among teenage girls, may at least be partially due to social contagion through social media.
Given these disturbing realities, you might expect that this is yet another doom and gloom book, with little hope. And yet Haidt has become more optimistic. More than that, he offers practical solutions—for government, the tech corporations, schools, and parents. He cites what he hopes will become the four norms: (1) no smart phone until 14; (2) no social media until 16; (3) phone-free schools; and (4) more independence and free play. He believes that collective action by schools and parents is more important than government laws and action by the tech corporations. Given that the latter are still deliberately recruiting underage children, it is unlikely that any change will be anything other than cosmetic.
In terms of schools, the real test is to get the whole school to act. FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is a real problem. But it ceases to be one if no one is missing out. Perhaps churches also need to think in terms of collective action? Perhaps as part of our discipleship we could encourage Christians to read Tony Reinke’s brilliant and practical, 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017). At a personal level, I have found the arguments of both Haidt and Reinke to be so persuasive that I have taken all social media off my phone and just use them from my laptop.
One of the ironies of modern society is that the technology which was supposed to free us has ended up imprisoning us. As we have become more “aware,” we have become more anxious. At the Sydney University lecture, Haidt conducted an experiment—he asked members of the audience to shout out when we were first allowed to walk six blocks by ourselves. Most of us were of a generation which said ages 6 and 7. Haidt told us that the norm in the US today was 13 and 14. In order to protect our children from the world, we have imprisoned them and brought the world, in all its harmful forms, into their bedrooms. When I was a child, my mother sent me out to play on old disused fortifications on top of 100 metre cliffs. As a 16-year-old, I hitchhiked round Europe for six weeks. Today any parent permitting such activities would be in danger of being charged with neglect! However, Haidt insists that risk-free play and risk-averse parenting (ironically) lead to greater risk of harm, especially when parents/society do not recognise the harm that is being done when children’s minds are handed over to internet “influencers.”
One of the most challenging parts in the book is chapter 8: “Spiritual Elevation and Degradation.” Haidt’s verdict is confronting: “The phone-based life produces spiritual degradation, not just in adolescents but in all of us” (p. 199). As a pastor, if I had my way, I would ban smartphones from the pew as well as the dinner table, the bedroom, and the classroom!
Haidt argues that the best way to get rid of anxiety is by exposing yourself to what is causing it. In one sense he is right. But in another he misses the greatest antidote to anxiety—the certainty and security that comes from knowing Christ. Every child (and indeed every adult, too) needs to hear and take to heart the words of Jesus: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? (Matt 6:25).
The Anxious Generation is a much-needed book, and Christians (especially parents and pastors) will be served well and will serve the emerging generations better by reading, marking, and learning from it. But let us never lose sight of the fact that what this anxious generation needs most of all is the peace of God which passes all understanding (Phil 4:6–7)—even the understanding of a psychologist as insightful as Haidt.
Enormous “mystery drones” are buzzing rooftops and flying freely through the skies in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and our government is powerless to stop it. As I discussed yesterday, these drones have been spotted over military facilities, water reservoirs, transportation hubs, police departments and other sensitive installations. But even though some of these drones are the size of cars, and even though they are buzzing us at rooftop level in some cases, we can’t seem to track them effectively and when our aircraft do approach they “go dark” and disappear.
What in the world is going on?
These drones have been appearing just about every night since mid-November, and there are countless eyewitnesses.
In fact, New Jersey State Senator Doug Steinhardt says that he saw them from his own front porch…
And State Senator Doug Steinhardt says that’s simply not good enough.
“I’d be happy with an explanation that we’ve looked at it, and we don’t have information, or for law enforcement to say it’s an ongoing something or other, you know, and that’s as much as we can tell you, but we’re not even getting that which is unfortunate,” said Steinhardt.
And Steinhardt says he’s not just speaking as a lawmaker, he’s speaking as a witness.
“I walked out of my front porch last night and saw it would look like drone activity to me. I mean, I’ve seen airplanes cross the sky before and this wasn’t that,” he says.
We have never seen anything quite like this before, and people are really starting to freak out.
Many can’t seem to understand why nothing is being done to stop these unidentified drones from doing whatever they want in our airspace.
The mayors of 21 different towns in New Jersey got together and wrote a letter to Governor Phil Murphy demanding action…
The mayors of 21 towns in New Jersey are demanding action in a letter sent to Gov. Phil Murphy over the mysterious drones that have been spotted flying overhead in recent weeks.
Since mid-November, large drones of uncertain origin have been repeatedly spotted in the sky at night over central and northern New Jersey.
The drones, which are larger than the type typically used by hobbyists, have raised concerns due to their proximity to both a military installation and President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course.
Of course Murphy is quite concerned as well.
At a press conference on Monday, he explained that these drones are “very sophisticated”…
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy commented on the situation on Monday, saying that while authorities have not identified any immediate threats, they are treating the sightings with seriousness.
“This is something we’re taking deadly seriously,” Murphy said during a press conference Monday, adding, “These are apparently very, as I understand it, very sophisticated. The minute you get eyes on them, they go dark.”
Murphy said state and federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, are actively investigating. He noted that 49 sightings were reported on Sunday.
This confirms what we have been hearing from other sources.
Apparently we have been trying to confront these drones, but the moment they see our aircraft coming they “go dark” and disappear.
If one of our enemies has giant drones that we can’t track and that can elude us with ease, that is a major problem.
Of course it would probably be even worse news if these drones do not belong to any of the usual suspects.
At this point, authorities are openly admitting that they do not know who these drones belong to or where they are coming from.
When Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson, this is what he was told…
Pergram: It seems as though Members from both sides are not getting answers about these drones or whatever they’re seeing in New Jersey and Staten Island. There’s a hearing focusing on this today. What is the level of concern? Do you think the government is being straight? And Members can’t even get answers on this.
Johnson: We’re working on that. We need straight answers of course. We are concerned about drones and all of these new technologies and what it might mean for national security and the safety of the American citizen. I’m looking forward to the outcome of that hearing. And if we don’t get the necessary answers there, we’ll dig deeper and go to the classified level.
Pergram: Any thought that these might be “dark” programs?
Johnson: I hope not. I do not believe so. But there’s a lot of investigation going on. So we’ll find out.
Yes, I do hope that we get some “straight answers” soon.
The FBI is deeply involved in the investigation, and they just released a statement that tells us absolutely nothing…
“We understand the concern, and we are doing all we can to figure out what’s going on,” a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Newark Field Office, which is leading the investigation, told PIX11 News. “We truly don’t have much information to provide at the moment.”
If these drones actually belong to our military as some are suggesting, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security wouldn’t be expending resources looking into this.
The fact that they are trying to solve this “mystery” tells us a lot.
And obviously Congress doesn’t know what is going on either, because they are actively searching for answers.
So that leaves us with two main theories.
Either Russia, China or another one of our enemies has drone technology that we cannot defend against, or these drones originate from a source that is not human. As I have discussed extensively, there has been a dramatic increase in sightings of unidentified aircraft all over the world in recent years. At this point, it is becoming very clear that something truly unusual is happening.
As for the enormous drones that are invading our airspace night after night, hopefully it will turn out that there is a simple explanation.
But for now, mystery drones continue to brazenly buzz the east coast during their nightly visits, and people are really getting scared.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been relentless in its cyberattacks, trade manipulation, and war threats against the U.S.. Yet, many Americans still hesitate to recognize China as the enemy it truly is. While the majority of Americans hold a negative opinion of China, only 40% identify it as an enemy. This perspective needs to change.
Unlike allies such as the UK and Canada, which neither cyberattack nor threaten the U.S., China consistently engages in aggressive and harmful actions. It is time for Americans to realign their understanding of China’s intentions and push the administration to adopt policies that reflect this reality. Failure to act decisively will allow China to win.
The PRC has been linked to one of the largest cyber espionage incidents in history. According to a recent report by the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), actors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have conducted a widespread espionage campaign targeting U.S. telecommunications networks.
The breaches infiltrated eight U.S. telecom companies and impacted dozens of other countries over a period of at least two years. This operation, labeled “Salt Typhoon,” compromised private communications and customer call records, primarily targeting government and political figures, including President Trump. Additionally, the hackers copied information that had been requested by U.S. law enforcement through court orders, and the breach may have also accessed the communications of everyday Americans. Despite ongoing efforts to address the attack, the breaches remain active in U.S. telecom networks.
Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger emphasized the need for U.S. companies to address cybersecurity gaps to prevent further Chinese access. The administration has formed a unified coordination group to respond to the hack and has been working closely with telecom CEOs and cybersecurity experts to strengthen defenses. Although classified communications appear to be unaffected, the risk of additional breaches remains high.
The incident highlights China’s continued cyberespionage efforts, with similar campaigns previously targeting Europe and the Indo-Pacific. In response, agencies, including CISA, the NSA, and international partners, have released guidance to bolster communication infrastructure security.
Chinese hackers have been implicated in a long history of cyberattacks targeting U.S. government entities, critical infrastructure, and private companies. Recent breaches in U.S. telecommunications providers underscore China’s evolving cyber strategy, which has shifted from espionage to preparing for potentially disruptive or destructive attacks, particularly in the event of a crisis over Taiwan.
CISA Director Jen Easterly highlighted that Chinese cyber campaigns initially focused on stealing intellectual property and spying on government agencies, have intensified over the decades. Notable attacks include the 2009 breach of Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter Program and Operation Aurora, which targeted major U.S. companies like Google and Morgan Stanley.
More recently, China has been found embedding itself in critical infrastructure, such as pipelines, water systems, and transportation networks, with the capability to launch attacks designed to incite societal panic and disrupt U.S. military operations.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed new cybersecurity regulations for U.S. telecommunications companies in response to the “Salt Typhoon” attacks. Under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) the FCC has the authority to mandate annual cybersecurity risk management certifications from telecom providers. Companies failing to meet cybersecurity standards could face fines or criminal penalties.
The plan has enjoyed bipartisan support at the FCC, including from incoming Chairman Brendan Carr, a vocal critic of China’s influence. The proposed measures aim to address gaps in voluntary cybersecurity efforts, which have proven insufficient against increasing threats from Chinese hackers.
One of the main reasons the U.S. has been unable to stop Chinese hacking is that it does not officially regard China as an enemy. Instead of cutting off China’s access to U.S. markets and technology, the Biden administration has repeatedly pursued a variety of failed Band-Aid solutions. It shouldn’t take more than one of the major breaches mentioned in this article for the U.S. to wake up to the reality that China is an enemy and that friendly relations with a country that wishes you harm are impossible.
Experts warn that China’s hacking activities are part of a broader geopolitical strategy aimed at undermining U.S. resilience in the event of conflict, particularly in the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan, as the world’s largest semiconductor producer, is a key target for Chinese cyber espionage.
Xi Jinping has set milestones for China in 2027, 2035, and 2049, by which he aims to position China as the world’s dominant political, military, and economic power, with the capture of Taiwan as a critical goal. Hacking allows China to accelerate its timeline by stealing U.S. technology, gaining technological and economic advantages over the United States.
The promises of AI are indeed amazing. The labor- and time-saving potential will save humanity hours of mindless tasks, and we’ve not even begun to realize the potential for medicine, among other things. However, potentials are not actuals, and history is full of unintended (and intended) applications and consequences of technology. The only way forward is to be clear on human exceptionalism and human fallenness.
As we near the end of the year, Breakpoint will look at the most important issues Christians faced in 2024. Every generation faces challenges. We may have hoped for different ones, but God chose to put us in this time and this place. These are the “You Are Here” arrows for the Church that help us better understand the moment we’re in.
One of the “You Are Here” stories of 2024 is the rise of Artificial Intelligence. This isn’t merely a story about new and more powerful technologies. It’s a story about how society thinks of itself—how it understands what it means to be human.
The “mad scientist” rarely begins as a villain. From Dr. Frankenstein to Spiderman’s Doc Ock, villains are often the victims of a combination of good intentions, unstoppable curiosity, and way too much arrogance. Their plights on screen mirror real life, as evidenced by artificial intelligence.
In his book, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, Oxford professor and Christian apologist Dr. John Lennox argued that the promise of AI outpaces the reality of it. AI may be great at specific, repetitive tasks, like playing chess, constructing sentences, or identifying precancerous tissue on a CAT scan. It isn’t as capable of other things, like navigating an unfamiliar room or detecting sarcasm.
This is because, at least so far, AI lacks the kind of generalized intelligence that allows us to move from task to task, to think in the abstract, to apply background knowledge, to use common sense, and to understand cause and effect. For all the hype around “machine learning,” AI systems continue to be, at a fundamental level, programs that do what their creators tell them to do.
Photo courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security.
Earlier this month, the FBI and CISA issued a joint statement detailing a significant cyber espionage campaign by actors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
The investigation revealed that PRC-linked operatives compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies, enabling the theft of customer call data, breaches of private communications—primarily of individuals involved in government or political activities—and the unauthorized copying of sensitive information subject to U.S. law enforcement requests.
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security released a detailed assessment on October 17, highlighting significant national security threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including espionage and acts of transnational repression.
Titled the “China Threat Snapshot,” the report documents recent legislative efforts to counter these threats and provides alarming statistics on CCP-related activities in the United States.
According to the report, there have been over 55 documented cases of CCP espionage across 20 states between February 2021 and August 2024.
These cases involve trade secret theft, obstruction of justice, transnational repression schemes, and the transmission of sensitive military information.
The FBI estimates that 80% of economic espionage prosecutions are linked to activities benefiting China, and about 60% of trade-secret theft cases have ties to the CCP.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that the agency opens a new case targeting CCP intelligence operations every 12 hours.
Committee Chairman Mark Green emphasized that the threat lies not with the Chinese people but with the CCP’s authoritarian regime, which spies on defectors, intimidates American citizens, censors dissent, and undermines democratic governance.
The report underscores the urgent need for robust measures to protect U.S. sovereignty and counter the CCP’s escalating aggression.
In the week of September 9, 2024, House Republicans are focusing on several key issues, particularly targeting Chinese espionage, the protection of U.S. intellectual property, and national security.
The Chinese Communist Party has long been involved in stealing U.S. intellectual property, resulting in losses of up to $500 billion annually for American taxpayers.
As the vast majority of economic espionage cases involve China, and House Republicans are taking steps to counter this by introducing the Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act.
This legislation reinstates and renames the “China Initiative” as the CCP Initiative, aiming to combat espionage and protect U.S. trade secrets and academic institutions.
House Republicans are also focused on protecting U.S. institutions from Chinese influence. The Chinese government has used Confucius Institutes to infiltrate American universities and spread propaganda.
Although many of these institutes have closed, some schools still maintain ties with Chinese entities.
The DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act aims to restrict funding to institutions that maintain relationships with Chinese entities, thereby safeguarding academic integrity.
Additionally, Republicans are addressing concerns over Chinese dominance in the electric vehicle (EV) market. The current lenient rules allow Chinese entities to benefit from U.S. tax credits for EVs.
To counter this, the End Chinese Dominance of Electric Vehicles in America Act seeks to close loopholes that allow Chinese manufacturers to exploit U.S. subsidies, ensuring that American tax dollars are not supporting foreign adversaries.
Another pressing issue is the growing foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, particularly by Chinese companies. Over the past decade, Chinese ownership of American farmland has increased significantly, raising concerns about food and national security.
The Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act proposes adding agricultural transactions to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review process, ensuring that foreign adversaries cannot acquire land near military installations or threaten the U.S. food supply.
These initiatives reflect the Republican commitment to safeguarding U.S. intellectual property, and national sovereignty, while ensuring responsible use of taxpayer funds and bolstering national security.
They align with President Trump’s hawkish cabinet picks, signaling a tough stance on China. Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the architect of the U.S.-China trade war, is poised to lead trade policy with a continued focus on countering China’s economic practices.
Sen. Marco Rubio, nominated for Secretary of State, has been a vocal critic of the CCP, co-authoring legislation to revoke China’s PNTR status.
National Security Advisor pick Michael Pillsbury, another staunch China hawk, has championed strategic decoupling and increased pressure on Beijing.
Together, these appointments underscore Trump’s intent to confront China aggressively on trade, security, and human rights.
It’s a dark time to be a progressive. But it’s the Thanksgiving season, which means it’s time to be thankful to whatever non-specific deity or power you believe in. Let’s try to keep up that spirit of gratitude by reminding ourselves of these ten things libs can still be thankful for:
Trump will probably only be in office for another 30 years. — Max.
You can run Kamala again against J.D. Vance next time. — In fact, we encourage it.
We still get Biden as president for another two months. — 60 more days of utopia.
There’s still time to move to a foreign, socialist country like Canada or California. — Better hurry.
You can still watch your DVD copies of The West Wing. — President Bartlet’s shoulder is always available for you to cry on.
Although we’ll be under a fascist dictatorship, avocado toast will be cheaper. — A small comfort to live during the Fourth Reich, but hey, it’s something.
You’ll only have to wear your handmaid outfit while you’re outside. — It won’t be mandatory indoors for another six months.
Be thankful for all the good memories we’ve made, like when Lizzo campaigned for Kamala, or when she was all “brat” and stuff. That was cool. — Or remember Beyonce? Or when Kamala went on that sex podcast? Man. That was fun.
PowerWash Simulator. — This fun game is available on most major video game platforms for a reasonable price. You just power wash stuff. Very relaxing. Gets your mind off the fact that Hitler is in office. Let’s be thankful for the little things.
When Trump reveals himself as the Antichrist and kicks off seven years of tribulation, you’ll be able to smugly tell your Republican friends, “I told you so.” — Their tears will be delicious.
We hope these ten things will get you through the next four years. What else can libs be thankful for? Scream them at the sky now.
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Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick for FCC Chair, is seeking answers from big tech companies, alleging they participated in a “censorship cartel.”
From The Daily Wire. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is taking on four major Big Tech companies for their involvement in an alleged “censorship cartel” that he says targeted Americans for promoting narratives that the companies did not agree with.
Carr sent letters to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Apple CEO Tim Cook requesting that they provide the FCC with information …
“Over the past few years, Americans have lived through an unprecedented surge in censorship,” Carr said in his letter. “Your companies played significant roles in this improper conduct. Big Tech companies silenced Americans for doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.”
Carr said that the companies worked with so-called “media monitors” to censor speech involving politics, science, and religion. …
Carr said that various congressional investigations and news reports showed the companies operated this “censorship cartel” with the help of Biden-Harris administration. …
He requested information about their work with NewsGuard, a for-profit company that bills itself as the Internet’s arbiter of truth by “rat[ing] the credibility of news and information outlets and tell[ing] readers and advertisers which outlets they can trust.” …
The letter said that NewsGuard’s own track record was a serious problem, for example rating “official propaganda from the Communist Party of China as more credible than American publications.” …
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr will be the new Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
After the news of his new role, Carr addressed the woke DEI agenda infiltrating the agency and promised it would end under his leadership.
Carr shared on X, “The FCC’s most recent budget request said that promoting DEI was the agency’s second highest strategic goal. Starting next year, the FCC will end its promotion of DEI.”
He then shared the viral video of Argentinian President Javier Milei slashing governmental departments in his country to describe his approach to the FCC’s promotion of DEI, saying, “Afuera! (Out!)”
Carr, the senior Republican at the FCC, has also been a strong advocate for protecting Free Speech and fighting regulatory overreach. He has promised to dismantle the ‘censorship cartel’ and restore Free Speech rights for everyday Americans.
He wrote on X, “Broadcast media have had the privilege of using a scarce and valuable public resource—our airwaves. In turn, they are required by law to operate in the public interest. When the transition is complete, the FCC will enforce this public interest obligation.”
Signaling his intentions, on Friday, Carr sent a letter to the tech giants – Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple and called out the companies on the central roles their companies have played in the censorship cartel.
The four-page letter calls out the tech giants Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for participating in what he describes as “improper conduct.”
Carr wrote, “Big Tech companies silenced Americans for doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.” Carr accused the tech giants of “working in concert with so-called media monitors and others – to defund, demonetize and otherwise put out of business news outlets and organizations that dared to deviate from an approved narrative.”
Carr also pointed out how the tech giants were “participating in a censorship cartel that included not only technology and social media companies but advertising, marketing, and so-called “fact-checking” organizations as well as the Biden-Harris administration itself.”
The ladies of ‘The View’ as portrayed by Elon Musk
Twitter owner Elon Musk posted a hilarious roast of the unsufferable women on ABC’s ‘The View,’ likely in response to their commentary surrounding the 2024 election and Trump mopping the floor with Kamala Harris.
Musk posted an image, which he says was generated by X/Twitter’s AI bot, Grok, showing an animation of crazed, demonic women sitting on a panel on a TV set.
While the women in the image clearly do not have the same features as the actual hosts of the show, it accurately portrays the ladies of the view as the toxic Trump Derangement Syndrom-infected individuals they are.
It can be recalled that Whoopie Goldberg trashed Elon Musk and announced she was leaving X in 2022 after he took over the platform.
Musk has previously criticized The View before he came out as a Trump supporter, joking that “They should flash a warning at the start of The View that even watching small excerpts can put you to sleep.” Worse yet, watching the view can make you mentally ill and maybe even possessed.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the poor, sick women on The View had a complete mental breakdown after Trump won the 2024 election in a landslide taking 312 electoral votes and the popular vote.
The Gateway Pundit also reported that Sunny Hostin went on a racist tirade after the election, attacking “uneducated white women” and claiming, “black women tried to save this country.” The “uneducated White women” she’s referring to are more fittingly unindoctrinated by liberal universities, but what she really means is that they’re stupid.
Hostin also took out her anger on Latinos, attacking saying they voted for “someone that says he’s going to deport the majority of [their] community” and accused them of “misogyny and sexism.”
The election of Donald Trump showed a clear direction as to where media consumers are headed, and it isn’t CNN.
Mainstream media is once again running to the hills following a second presidential election victory for Donald Trump, leaving audiences to wonder how and why network anchors seemingly didn’t shoot straight with them in their coverage.
With networks seemingly (and nonsensically) taking forever to call the election for Trump, a feeling of distrust in mainstream media seemed ever-present as votes rolled in on election night. Case in point: CNN didn’t call the election for Trump until well after 5 a.m. Eastern Time.
The reality of a Trump victory seemed like it was never going to set in for network anchors on election night, and despite an obvious shift in priorities among the American public, broadcasters went steadfast past midnight as if Kamala Harris still might become president.
CNN’s Jake Tapper was shocked to learn how much Vice President Harris underperformed, despite the Harris campaign’s platitudes and non-answers.
According to “The View,” Harris even ran a “flawless” campaign despite falling millions of votes short of Trump.
Over on MSNBC, blame for the loss quickly shifted to “white women” and “racism” on the part of Latino voters, even though they came out in record numbers for the Republicans.
At the same time, cable news’ blatant disregard for public sentiment has been painfully obvious to one man in particular: Elon Musk.
“You are the media now,” Musk posted on X just after 1 a.m.
Musk later noted, “the future is gonna be fantastic,” as he continues to drive traffic to X, citing record usage of the platform on election night.
“News should come from the people. From those actually on the scene and those who actually are subject-matter experts!” Musk said, echoing what has become one of the most popular forms of modern journalism.
Musk has pushed a free-speech mantra on his platform, leading to a steady flow of content creators and journalists jumping ship with the assurance that the vast majority of content on the X will not be de-ranked in any way.
‘The mainstream media has always been a hub of misinformation.’
Social media coordinator and on-the-ground journalist Yaakov Pollak told Blaze News that if it weren’t for Musk, it would be “a lot harder to get the truth to people.”
He added, “Trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low and has been super low for a while now. I do think that the [mainstream media] will continue to play a roll in calling elections; however, I do think more and more people are turning to X and other alternative media.”
“Some independent journalists and will play a bigger role in the future,” Pollak added.
This sentiment was shared by Oren Levy, whose viral news videos have broken dozens of stories around migrant hotels and the mayor’s office in New York City.
“The mainstream media has always been a hub of misinformation,” he said. “It’s always had a political agenda with some of them. Some stories they won’t touch, even when it’s big issues. They’re losing a lot of trust.”
Levy added that he believes mainstream media are forced to turn a blind eye to some stories due to their donors, who “don’t want you to see everything that actually happens.”
Musk agreed in another statement, saying that the reality of the election was “plain to see” on his platform, despite what mainstream media said.
Musk continued, saying “legacy media lied” while repeating his new tagline, “You are the media now.”
At the same time, though, Levy warned that misinformation is everywhere on social media platforms, even X.
“Some people are turning into the mainstream media themselves. More and more people are showing up to these [protests], but they have a clear agenda. Independent media has definitely been infiltrated,” he concluded.
For now, Musk pushing for further video integration and even news articles seems to be making his platform look more and more like a replacement for networks, especially given that it comes with and offers recurring payments.
Guest post by Leo Hohmann – republished with permission.
Surveillance cameras – Wikicommons image
Cities across the United States are installing hidden surviellance cameras that track everyone, everywhere, and nobody, not even Donald Trump, is talking about this. What are the Top 10 most surveilled cities in the U.S.? We’ve got the list!
My old colleagues at World Net Daily have an interesting story up today about the city of Norfolk, Virginia. City officials have transformed Norfolk into a virtual lock-down surveillance society with more than 172 high-resolution, internet-connected cameras monitoring practically all human movement.
Of course Norfolk is not terribly unique in this regard and we have a full report below, including a Top 10 list of most surveilled American cities.
Multitudes of cities of all sizes across the U.S. are jumping on the technocracy bandwagon and setting up hidden surveillance cameras on every corner. They’re on light poles, bridges and overpasses, stoplights, buildings, you name it. Some are equipped with speakers so they can also listen in on what’s being said.
They claim it’s for our “safety.”
What makes Norfolk unique is a group of citizens is fighting back. They’ve filed a lawsuit against the city, which is something that needs to happen in every city that implements this technology.
A lawsuit has been filed that accuses elected officials in Norfolk, Virginia, of using a network of 170 cameras to impose a warrantless surveillance scheme on residents and visitors.
The Institute for Justice has filed the suit on behalf of several plaintiffs, charging that the actions violate Fourth Amendment rights protecting U.S. citizens against unwarranted searches and seizures.
The system allows police “to monitor the comings and goings of all drivers in the city,” the legal team said.
Lee Schmidt, one of the plaintiffs, said, “I don’t like the government following my every movement and treating me like a criminal suspect, when they have no reason to believe I’ve done anything wrong.”
Another plaintiff, Crystal Arrington, stated, “My work requires me to drive around Norfolk very often, and it’s incredibly disturbing to know the city can track my every move during that time.”
The Institute for Justice explained that in 2023, Norfolk police partnered with a private company called Flock Safety Inc. to install 172 automatic license-plate reading cameras all across town.
The locations were chosen to provide a so-called “curtain of technology,” which would allow police to watch anyone drive anywhere without knowing they’re being watched.
The Institute noted:
“Unlike traditional traffic cameras, which capture an image only when they sense speeding or someone running a red light, Flock’s cameras capture images of every car driving by, which it retains for at least 30 days. Artificial intelligence then uses those images to create a ‘Vehicle Fingerprint’ that enables any Flock subscriber to both track where that vehicle has gone and identify what other vehicles it has been seen nearby.”
Institute for Justice lawyer Michael Soyfer stated:
“Norfolk has created a dragnet that allows the government to monitor everyone’s day-to-day movements without a warrant or probable cause. This type of mass surveillance is a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
Making the violation worse, the Institute noted, is that since Flock “pools its data in a centralized database, police across the entire country can access over 1 billion monthly datapoints. That means not just tracking drivers within a particular jurisdiction, but potentially across the entire nation.”
“Following someone’s every move can tell you some incredibly intimate details about them, such as where they work, who they associate with, whether or not they’re religious, what hobbies they have, and any medical conditions they may have,” said IJ lawyer Robert Frommer. “This type of intrusive, ongoing monitoring of someone’s life is not just creepy, it’s unconstitutional.”
The scheme gives police the ability to spy on people without any judicial oversight.
Imagine walking into court to challenge a ticket when the only evidence is from a machine powered by artificial intelligence. We already know that AI allows for deep fake videos. Think of the potential for abuse here.
The really sick part of this story is that the Agenda 2030 surveillance state is being implemented at the local level. And many cities are able to pay for the digital enslavement of their residents with federal dollars as the incentive. Why aren’t more Republican political figures talking about this?
Some abuses have already been documented, the Institute said, noting just a couple of examples:
In Kansas, the Institute reports that officials were caught using Flock to stalk their exes, including one police chief who used Flock 228 times over four months to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles.
In California, several police departments violated California law by sharing data from their license-plate reader database with other departments across the country. And as is the case with other databases, these can be susceptible to hacking, which can reveal private data.
Comparitech looked at a variety of camera types that have become ubiquitous in U.S. cities of all sizes.
Fixed CCTV cameras.
Cameras accessed through real-time crime centers.
Private cameras within the police force’s network.
Cameras on public transport facilities.
Traffic cameras.
Streetlight cameras.
Not to mention, FedEx and Amazon are also spying on you each time they make a delivery to your home.
Using Census.gov data, this is what the Comparitech study showed:
44.2 million people are being monitored by 270,000 cameras.
Atlanta was the most surveilled city, with a ratio of 48.93 cameras per 1,000 people.
Chicago had the highest number of cameras at 32,000.
28 of the police departments have access to Ring doorbell technology and have submitted a total of 728 requests for access to footage in the third quarter of 2020.
The top 10 most surveilled cities in the US as of October 2022
Based on the number of cameras per 1,000 people, these are the 10 most surveilled cities in the U.S.:
Atlanta, Georgia – 24,800 cameras for 506,811 people = 48.93 cameras per 1,000 people.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 28,064 cameras for 1,584,064 people = 17.72 cameras per 1,000 people.
Denver, Colorado – 12,273 cameras for 727,211 people = 16.88 cameras per 1,000 people.
Washington, District of Columbia – 11,441 cameras for 705,749 people = 16.21 cameras per 1,000 people.
San Francisco, California – 14,266 cameras for 881,549 people = 16.18 cameras per 1,000 people.
Las Vegas, Nevada – 10,208 cameras for 651,319 people = 15.67 cameras per 1,000 people.
Detroit, Michigan – 8,836 cameras for 670,031 people = 13.19 cameras per 1,000 people.
Chicago, Illinois – 32,000 cameras for 2,693,976 people = 11.88 cameras per 1,000 people.
Portland, Oregon – 6,411 cameras for 654,741 people = 9.79 cameras per 1,000 people.
Fresno, California – 4,706 cameras for 531,576 people = 8.85 cameras per 1,000 people.
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The songwriter, actor, country/western singer, musician, U.S. Army veteran, helicopter pilot, accomplished rugby player and boxer, Rhodes scholar, Pomona College and University of Oxford degreed, and summa cum laude literature graduate, Kris Kristofferson, recently died at 88.
Americans may have known him best for writing smash hits like “Me and Bobby McGee” and “For the Good Times,” his wide-ranging, star-acting roles in A Star is Born and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, his numerous solo albums, especially with then-spouse and singer Rita Coolidge, and the country group super-quartet he formed with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson.Read More
In other words, Kristofferson was a rare Renaissance man who could do it all in an age of increasingly narrow specialization and expertise.
At certain times throughout history at particular locales, we have seen such singular people from all walks of life.
Classical Athens produced polymaths like Aristotle—tutor to Alexander the Great, logician, student of music, art, and literature, educator, think-tank founder, biologist, philosopher, and scientist. Later Greeks like Archimedes and Ptolemy, as men of action, mastered six or seven disciplines and applied their abstract knowledge in ways that made life easier for those around them.
The late Roman Republic was another cauldron of multitalented geniuses. It produced the brilliant stylist, historian, politician, and consummate general Julius Caesar, as well as his republican archrival Cicero—politician, philosopher, orator, master stylist, lawyer, and provincial governor.
Turn-of-the-century Victorian Great Britain produced giants like Winston Churchill—prime minister, statesman, essayist, historian, orator, strategist, and wartime veteran. As Britain’s war leader, between May 10, 1940, and June 22, 1941, he, almost alone, resisted the Axis powers and prevented Adolf Hitler from winning the war.
But we associate the idea of a “Renaissance man” mostly with Florence, Italy, between the 15th and 16thcenturies. In that brief 100 years, the Florentine Republic hosted multi-talented geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci—master painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, engineer, and inventor—best known for the Mona Lisa and Last Supper.
The multifaceted talents of his younger contemporary Michelangelo were as astounding, whether defined by his iconic sculptures David and Pietà, his stunning painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, or as the master architect of the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica.
The American Revolution was a similar embryo of Renaissance men. Thomas Jefferson was perhaps the most famous example of unchecked abstract and pragmatic genius displayed in almost every facet of late 18th– and early 19th-century life—main author of the Declaration of Independence, third U.S. President, founder of the University of Virginia, inventor, agronomist, architect, and diplomat.
But Benjamin Franklin may best approximate the model of the Florentine Renaissance holistic brilliance—journalist, publisher, printer, author, politician, diplomat, inventor, scientist, and philosopher.
Franklin’s life was one of perpetual motion and achievement. In one lifetime, he helped to draft the Constitution, invented everything from the lightning rod to bifocals, founded the American postal service, and successfully won over European countries to the nascent American cause. Theodore Roosevelt—president, historian, essayist, conservationist, naturalist combat veteran, battle leader, explorer, and cowboy—exemplified the idea of an American president as the master at almost everything else.
The history of our own contemporary Renaissance people often suggests that they are not fully appreciated until after their deaths—especially in the post-World War II era.
Why?
We have created a sophisticated modern society that is so compartmentalized by “professionals” and the credentialed that those who excel simultaneously in several disciplines are often castigated for “amateurism,” “spreading themselves too thinly,” “not staying in their lanes,” or not being degreed with the proper prerequisite letters—BA, BS, MA, PhD, MD, JD, or MBA—in the various fields that they master.
But specialization is the enemy of genius, as is the tyranny of credentialism.
Because the Renaissance figure is not perfect in every discipline he masters, we damn him for too much breadth and not enough depth—a dabbler rather than an expert—failing to realize that his successes in most genres he masters and redefines is precisely because he brings a vast corpus of unique insights and experience to his work that narrower specialists lack. The Greek poet Archilochus first delineated the contrast between the fox who “knows many things” and the hedgehog who “knows one—one big thing.” We have become a nation of elite hedgehogs, whose narrow expertise is not enriched by awareness of or interest in the wider human experience.
Renaissance people often live controversial lives and receive 360-degree incoming criticism, not surprising given the many fields in which they upstage specialists and question experts—and the sometimes overweening nature of their personalities that feel no reason to place boundaries and lanes on their geniuses and behavior or to temper their exuberances.
The best American example of the current age is the controversial Elon Musk, a truly Renaissance figure who has revolutionized at least half a dozen entire fields.
No one prior had broken the Big Three auto monopoly of GM, Ford, and Chrysler.
Musk did just that. He exploded all three companies’ dominance with his successful creation of the first viable electric vehicle, Tesla, whose comfort, drivability, reliability, safety, and power rivaled or exceeded the models of all his competitors.
His spin-off battery storage and solar panel companies allowed thousands of families to go off the grid and stay self-sufficient in power usage.
Musk’s revolutionary Starlink internet system—a mere five years old—provides global online service to over 100 countries. Through its some 7,000 satellites, Starlink brings internet service to remote residents far more effectively and cheaply than do their own governments. When natural disasters overwhelm utilities or war disrupts the normality of peace, all look to Musk to restore online reconnections to the outside world.
Musk, almost singlehandedly, transformed the U.S. space program from a NASA 60-year-old government monopoly to an arena of fervent private-public competition. His Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) created a rocket and spacecraft program that has kept the U.S. preeminent in space exploration and reliable satellite launches. When NASA and old aerospace companies falter, the government looks to Musk to bail them out.
Musk, at great personal cost, radically transformed the old Twitter—poorly managed, censorious of ideas and expressions not deemed progressive, and mired in scandal for partnering with the FBI to silence news deemed possibly injurious to Democratic candidates and left-wing campaigns.
His new X replacement is an unfettered platform for free expression. And the more the left abhors their loss of the monopolistic old Twitter’s ideological clearing house, and vows to flee X and start their own new left-wing, censorious Twitters, the more they stay on X.
Musk’s newest companies have now entered the convoluted, little-understood, radically competitive, and dangerous field of artificial intelligence (OpenAI) and the emerging discipline of bonding the natural brain to the electronic online world (Neuralink). To the degree Musk is successful, America will lead these areas of intense international rivalry that involve the gravest issues of national security and survival.
Overspecialization has helped make vulnerable and sometimes doomed complex top-down societies from the Mycenaeans to the Aztecs to the Soviets. A tiny credentialed and often incestuous elite manages the lives of a vast underclass whose daily lives are scripted by top-down master planners—as an autonomous and skeptical middle class disappears.
America is increasingly becoming a bifurcated, two-tiered society of a specialized government-corporate-media-political-credentialed class of degreed overseers and managers who attempt to micromanage an increasingly less well-educated, dependent underclass.
The overclass cult lacks sufficient common sense and pragmatic expertise outside their narrow areas of specialization to direct society, and the masses are often without the education, money, and power to challenge them or the esoteric complexity of their modern society. And the result is often disastrous, as we see everywhere, from the trivial to the existential—from our currently paralyzed state space station program and inability to build a floating pier in Gaza, to ineffectual and insensitive state responses to natural disasters like Hurricane Helene and an increasingly dangerously incompetent Secret Service.
Renaissance people provide a link to the proverbial people, as they master almost anything they attempt while keeping themselves attuned to the practical effect of their achievement among the people.
The Renaissance physicist Richard Feynman once explained to the entire nation why the Space Shuttle 1986 Challenger catastrophically imploded shortly after launch. A polymath Albert Einstein explained to America why it had to begin the Manhattan Project and beat Nazi Germany to the acquisition of an atomic bomb. Theodore Roosevelt used his expertise as a politician, conservationist, outdoorsman, explorer, and writer to help establish and preserve 230 million acres of public lands.
So, we should occasionally pause and reflect on the Kristoffersons and Musks in our midst. They play a vital role in enriching culture and civilization for the many without becoming part of the narrow few. And we owe these people, who belong to a rare and hallowed caste of the ages, for making our lives richer, more enjoyable, easier, and safer.
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