The Whoredom of the Left, by Chris Hedges

The thing I appreciate most about Chris Hedges is that he is like a
giant hammer always hitting the nail on the head.
The following article reminds me that over my lifetime I have changed
positions about as often as I change my sox. But in later life I
began to realize that prostitution is the most base form of
Capitalism. Prostitution forces women, and many young boys, to
attempt to profit from the only thing they believe they have to sell.
Their bodies. To legalize Prostitution is to embrace the cruelest
form of Capitalism. Legalization does not free up the prostitute to
earn a living. Legalization opens the door to legal exploitation of
desperate people. I suppose there are some who would feel that
legalization would allow the prostitutes to have access to better
medical care, as well as placing some controls on those who are
exploiting them. But this only makes their jail cell a bit more
tolerable, while continuing to keep them in prison.

Carl Jarvis


On 3/9/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> The Whoredom of the Left
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_whoredom_of_the_left_20150308/
> Posted on Mar 8, 2015
> By Chris Hedges
>
> A scene from the Artemis brothel in Berlin in 2009. (AP / Franka Bruns)
> VANCOUVER, British Columbia--Prostitution is the quintessential expression
> of
> global capitalism. Our corporate masters are pimps. We are all being
> debased
> and degraded, rendered impoverished and powerless, to service the cruel and
> lascivious demands of the corporate elite. And when they tire of us, or
> when
> we are no longer of use, we are discarded as human refuse. If we accept
> prostitution as legal, as Germany has done, as permissible in a civil
> society, we will take one more collective step toward the global plantation
> being built by the powerful. The fight against prostitution is the fight
> against a dehumanizing neoliberalism that begins, but will not end, with
> the
> subjugation of impoverished girls and women.
> Poverty is not an aphrodisiac. Those who sell their bodies for sex do so
> out
> of desperation. They often end up physically injured, with a variety of
> diseases and medical conditions, and suffering from severe emotional
> trauma.
> The left is made morally bankrupt by its failure to grasp that legal
> prostitution is another face of neoliberalism. Selling your body for sex is
> not a choice. It is not about freedom. It is an act of economic slavery.
> On a rainy night recently I walked past the desperate street prostitutes in
> the 15 square blocks that make up the Downtown Eastside ghetto in
> Vancouver--most of them impoverished aboriginal women. I saw on the desolate
> street corners where women wait for customers the cruelty and despair that
> will characterize most of our lives if the architects of neoliberalism
> remain in power. Downtown Eastside has the highest HIV infection rate in
> North America. It is filled with addicts, the broken, the homeless, the old
> and the mentally ill, all callously tossed onto the street.
> Lee Lakeman, one of Canada's most important radicals, and several members
> of
> the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter, met with me one morning in
> their storefront office in Vancouver. Lakeman in the 1970s opened her home
> in Ontario to abused women and their children. By 1977 she was in Vancouver
> working with the Rape Relief & Women's Shelter, founded in 1973 and now the
> oldest rape crisis center in Canada. She has been at the forefront of the
> fight in Canada against the abuse of women, building alliances with groups
> such as the Aboriginal Women's Action Network and the Asian Women Coalition
> Ending Prostitution.
> Lakeman and the shelter refused to give the provincial government access to
> victims' files in order to protect the anonymity of the women. They also
> denied this information to the courts, in which, Lakeman said, "defense
> attorneys try to discredit or bully women complainants in criminal cases of
> male violence against women." This defiance saw the shelter lose government
> funding. "It is still impossible to work effectively in a rape crisis
> center
> or a transition house and not be breaking the Canadian law on a regular
> basis," said Lakeman, who describes herself as being increasingly radical.
> Lakeman, along with the radical feminists allied with the shelter, is the
> bête noire not only of the state but of feckless liberals who think
> physical
> abuse of a woman is abhorrent if it occurs in a sweatshop but somehow is
> acceptable in a rented room, an alley, a brothel, a massage parlor or a
> car.
> Lakeman is fighting a world that has gone numb, a world that has banished
> empathy, a world where solidarity with the oppressed is a foreign concept.
> And, with upheavals ahead caused by climate change and the breakdown of
> global capitalism, she fears that if mechanisms are not in place to protect
> poor women the exploitation and abuse will increase.
> "We have never stopped having to deal with misogyny among activists," she
> said. "It is a serious problem. How do we talk to each other as movements?
> We want to talk about coalition building. But we want new formations to
> take
> women's leadership seriously, to use what has been learned in the last 40
> or
> 50 years. We deal with the most dispossessed among women. And it is clear
> to
> us that every sloppy uprising, or every unplanned, chaotic uprising,
> devastates poor women. We need to have thoughtfulness built into our
> practices of revolt. We do not want the traditional right-wing version of
> law and order. We work against it. We do not call for a reduction in men's
> rights. But, without an organized community, without state responsibility,
> every woman is on her own against a man with more power."
> "We are seeing a range of violence against women that generations before us
> never saw--incest, wife abuse, prostitution, trafficking and violence
> against
> lesbians," she went on. "It has become normal. But in periods of chaos it
> gets worse. We are trying to hang on to what we know about how to care for
> people, what we know about working democratically, about nonviolence, yet
> not be subsumed by the state. Yet we have to insist on a woman's right not
> to face every man alone. We have to demand the rule of law."
> "Globalization and neoliberalism have accelerated a process in which women
> are being sold wholesale, as if it is OK to prostitute Asian women in
> brothels because they are sending money home to poor families," she said.
> "This is the neoliberal model proposed to us. It is an industry. It is
> [considered] OK ... just a job like any other job. This model says people
> are allowed to own factories where prostitution is done. They can own
> distribution systems [for prostitution]. They can use public relations to
> promote it. They can make profits. Men who pay for prostitution support
> this
> machinery. The state that permits prostitution supports this machinery. The
> only way to fight capitalism, racism and protect women is to stop men from
> buying prostitutes. And once that happens we can mobilize against the
> industry and the state to benefit the whole anti-racist and anti-capitalist
> struggle. But men will have to accept feminist leadership. They will have
> to
> listen to us. And they will have to give up the self-indulgence of
> prostitution."
> "The left broke apart in the 1970s over the failure to contend with racism,
> imperialism and women's freedom," she said. "These are still the fault
> lines. We have to build alliances across these gaps. But there are deal
> breakers. You can't buy women. You can't beat women. You can't expect us to
> coalesce on the 'wider' issues unless you accept this. The problem with the
> left is it is afraid of words like 'morality.' The left does not know how
> to
> distinguish between right and wrong. It does not understand what
> constitutes
> unethical behavior."
> Even though many radical feminists are deeply hostile to the neoliberal
> policies of the state, they nevertheless are calling for laws to protect
> women and demanding that the police intervene to halt the exploitation of
> women. The shelter in Vancouver filed an amicus curiae in a case before the
> Canadian Supreme Court arguing for the decriminalization of those who are
> prostituted, mostly women and children, and the criminalization of those,
> mostly men, who exploit them as pimps, johns and brothel owners. Lakeman
> and
> the other women have endured fierce criticism, especially from the left,
> for
> this advocacy.
> "In the progressive left it is popular to be anti-state," she said. "It is
> not popular to say we have to press the state to carry out particular
> policies. But all resistance has to be precise. It has to reshape society
> step by step. We can't abandon people. This is hard for the left to get. It
> is not, for us, a rhetorical position. It comes from our answering the
> crisis line every day. There is cheap, thin rhetoric from the left about
> compassion for the prostituted, without ever doing anything concrete for
> the
> prostituted."
> This stance, one I support, turns Lakeman and the collective's other women
> into outsiders among those who should be their allies.
> "We have been denounced. We have had our funding attacked. Our members have
> been attacked. We have been boycotted," she said. "We are shamed in public
> events. We are called homophobes, transphobes, hypermoralistic, pro-state,
> hateful of men and anti-sex."
> The legalization of prostitution in Germany and the Netherlands has
> expanded
> trafficking and led to an explosion in child prostitution in those two
> countries. Poor girls and women from Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa have
> been shipped to legal brothels there. The wretched of the earth, part of
> the
> neoliberal model, are imported to serve the desires and fetishes of those
> in
> the industrialized world.
> Forced labor in the global private economy generates illegal profits of
> $150
> billion, according to a report by the International Labour Organization.
> The
> ILO estimated that almost two-thirds of the profits, $99 billion, came from
> commercial sexual exploitation. More than half of the 21 million people the
> ILO estimates as having been coerced into forced labor and modern-day
> slavery are girls and women trafficked for sex. They are moved from poor
> countries to rich countries as if they were livestock. The report does not
> cover internal trafficking in which women are transported from rural to
> urban areas or from neighborhood to neighborhood. Traffickers hold out
> promises of legitimate, well-paying jobs to poor women, but when the
> victims
> show up, the traffickers or the pimps strip them of their documents and
> throw them into a crippling debt peonage, a burden that stems from
> trumped-up fees or having to borrow money to obtain the drugs used to
> addict
> them. The average age at which a woman enters prostitution is 16. In one
> study the average age at which prostitutes died was 34. Women forced into
> sexual slavery in Europe, the ILO estimated, can each generate a profit of
> $34,800 a year for those who hold them in bondage.
> Lakeman called what has happened in countries such as Germany and the
> Netherlands "the industrialization of prostitution."
> Sweden in 1999 criminalized the purchasing of sex. Norway and Iceland have
> done the same. The two responses--the German model and the so-called Nordic
> model--have had dramatically different effects. The German and Dutch
> approach
> normalizes and expands human trafficking and prostitution. The Nordic
> approach contains it. Sweden has cut street prostitution by half and freed
> many women from sexual slavery. Lakeman, citing the Nordic model, calls for
> criminalizing the buying, rather than the offering, of sexual services.
> Those whose bodies are being sold should not be punished, she said.
> Since December the purchase of sex has been illegal in Canada. The
> Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, or Bill C-36,
> criminalizes the purchase of sexual services and decriminalizes the sale of
> those services. It restricts the advertisement of sexual services and
> communication in public for the purpose of prostitution. But the law has
> triggered fierce opposition, and it faces threats of a legal challenge. The
> Ontario premier, the Vancouver Police Board, law enforcement officials and
> some other political bodies and politicians have announced they will not
> implement it. The New Democratic Party, Canada's second-largest party, and
> the Liberal Party have said they will work for the legalization of
> prostitution. There is no guarantee that the law will hold as economic and
> sexual inequality widens across the globe.
> "The global trade, particularly of Asian women, has been steadily worsened
> by the neoliberal policies of First World countries," said Alice Lee, part
> of the Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution. "These policies are
> grounded in social disparities of race, class and gender. They create
> conditions that force poor women to migrate. Those who support legalizing
> prostitution often argue that trafficking is bad, but prostitution is
> acceptable. But trafficking and prostitution are inseparable."
> "Asian women are trafficked primarily to earn money in prostitution to
> support their families," she said. "And we are developing generations of
> women who are prostituted and are abandoned to exploitation. When we were
> in
> Cambodia we went to a neighborhood where women aged out as prostitutes in
> the 20s and where 90 percent of the women became prostitutes. Communism in
> China stamped out prostitution, at least visible prostitution. But with
> Chinese capitalism, prostitution is everywhere."
> "Women in China work for a dollar a day in factories," Lee said.
> "Traffickers trick these women into prostitution by offering an escape from
> their despair with a promise of better jobs and improved working
> conditions.
> In mining towns and centers of resource extraction women are recruited and
> brought in as prostitutes to service the men. They are brought into
> military
> bases and to tourist sites. Where there is economic exploitation,
> militarism
> and ecological destruction, women are being prostituted and exploited."
> "For women of color, prostitution is an extension of imperialism," Lee
> said.
> "It is sexualized racism. Prostitution is built on the social power
> disparities of race and color. Women of color are disproportionately
> exploited through prostitution. This racism is not acknowledged by those in
> First World countries, including the left. Sexualized racism renders us
> invisible and irrelevant. It makes it impossible for us to be considered
> human."
> "Third World women are used in the developed world for domestic labor, the
> care of the old and the undisciplined sexuality of the men," Lakeman said.
> "Our liberty as women cannot rest on this deal."
> Many indigenous women on the streets in the Downtown Eastside have been
> severely beaten, tortured or murdered or have disappeared. The Royal
> Canadian Mounted Police in May 2014 issued a report that said that 1,017
> indigenous women and girls in Canada were murdered between 1980 and 2012, a
> figure aboriginal women's groups contend is too conservative. As
> prostitution and pornography become normalized, so does male violence
> against women.
> "When some women are bought and sold," said Hilla Kerner, an Israeli who
> has
> worked at the shelter for 10 years, "all women can be bought and sold. When
> some women are objectified, all women are objectified."
>
>
>
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>
> The Whoredom of the Left
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_whoredom_of_the_left_20150308/
> Posted on Mar 8, 2015
> By Chris Hedges
>
> A scene from the Artemis brothel in Berlin in 2009. (AP / Franka Bruns)
> VANCOUVER, British Columbia--Prostitution is the quintessential expression
> of
> global capitalism. Our corporate masters are pimps. We are all being
> debased
> and degraded, rendered impoverished and powerless, to service the cruel and
> lascivious demands of the corporate elite. And when they tire of us, or
> when
> we are no longer of use, we are discarded as human refuse. If we accept
> prostitution as legal, as Germany has done, as permissible in a civil
> society, we will take one more collective step toward the global plantation
> being built by the powerful. The fight against prostitution is the fight
> against a dehumanizing neoliberalism that begins, but will not end, with
> the
> subjugation of impoverished girls and women.
> Poverty is not an aphrodisiac. Those who sell their bodies for sex do so
> out
> of desperation. They often end up physically injured, with a variety of
> diseases and medical conditions, and suffering from severe emotional
> trauma.
> The left is made morally bankrupt by its failure to grasp that legal
> prostitution is another face of neoliberalism. Selling your body for sex is
> not a choice. It is not about freedom. It is an act of economic slavery.
> On a rainy night recently I walked past the desperate street prostitutes in
> the 15 square blocks that make up the Downtown Eastside ghetto in
> Vancouver--most of them impoverished aboriginal women. I saw on the desolate
> street corners where women wait for customers the cruelty and despair that
> will characterize most of our lives if the architects of neoliberalism
> remain in power. Downtown Eastside has the highest HIV infection rate in
> North America. It is filled with addicts, the broken, the homeless, the old
> and the mentally ill, all callously tossed onto the street.
> Lee Lakeman, one of Canada's most important radicals, and several members
> of
> the Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter, met with me one morning in
> their storefront office in Vancouver. Lakeman in the 1970s opened her home
> in Ontario to abused women and their children. By 1977 she was in Vancouver
> working with the Rape Relief & Women's Shelter, founded in 1973 and now the
> oldest rape crisis center in Canada. She has been at the forefront of the
> fight in Canada against the abuse of women, building alliances with groups
> such as the Aboriginal Women's Action Network and the Asian Women Coalition
> Ending Prostitution.
> Lakeman and the shelter refused to give the provincial government access to
> victims' files in order to protect the anonymity of the women. They also
> denied this information to the courts, in which, Lakeman said, "defense
> attorneys try to discredit or bully women complainants in criminal cases of
> male violence against women." This defiance saw the shelter lose government
> funding. "It is still impossible to work effectively in a rape crisis
> center
> or a transition house and not be breaking the Canadian law on a regular
> basis," said Lakeman, who describes herself as being increasingly radical.
> Lakeman, along with the radical feminists allied with the shelter, is the
> bête noire not only of the state but of feckless liberals who think
> physical
> abuse of a woman is abhorrent if it occurs in a sweatshop but somehow is
> acceptable in a rented room, an alley, a brothel, a massage parlor or a
> car.
> Lakeman is fighting a world that has gone numb, a world that has banished
> empathy, a world where solidarity with the oppressed is a foreign concept.
> And, with upheavals ahead caused by climate change and the breakdown of
> global capitalism, she fears that if mechanisms are not in place to protect
> poor women the exploitation and abuse will increase.
> "We have never stopped having to deal with misogyny among activists," she
> said. "It is a serious problem. How do we talk to each other as movements?
> We want to talk about coalition building. But we want new formations to
> take
> women's leadership seriously, to use what has been learned in the last 40
> or
> 50 years. We deal with the most dispossessed among women. And it is clear
> to
> us that every sloppy uprising, or every unplanned, chaotic uprising,
> devastates poor women. We need to have thoughtfulness built into our
> practices of revolt. We do not want the traditional right-wing version of
> law and order. We work against it. We do not call for a reduction in men's
> rights. But, without an organized community, without state responsibility,
> every woman is on her own against a man with more power."
> "We are seeing a range of violence against women that generations before us
> never saw--incest, wife abuse, prostitution, trafficking and violence
> against
> lesbians," she went on. "It has become normal. But in periods of chaos it
> gets worse. We are trying to hang on to what we know about how to care for
> people, what we know about working democratically, about nonviolence, yet
> not be subsumed by the state. Yet we have to insist on a woman's right not
> to face every man alone. We have to demand the rule of law."
> "Globalization and neoliberalism have accelerated a process in which women
> are being sold wholesale, as if it is OK to prostitute Asian women in
> brothels because they are sending money home to poor families," she said.
> "This is the neoliberal model proposed to us. It is an industry. It is
> [considered] OK ... just a job like any other job. This model says people
> are allowed to own factories where prostitution is done. They can own
> distribution systems [for prostitution]. They can use public relations to
> promote it. They can make profits. Men who pay for prostitution support
> this
> machinery. The state that permits prostitution supports this machinery. The
> only way to fight capitalism, racism and protect women is to stop men from
> buying prostitutes. And once that happens we can mobilize against the
> industry and the state to benefit the whole anti-racist and anti-capitalist
> struggle. But men will have to accept feminist leadership. They will have
> to
> listen to us. And they will have to give up the self-indulgence of
> prostitution."
> "The left broke apart in the 1970s over the failure to contend with racism,
> imperialism and women's freedom," she said. "These are still the fault
> lines. We have to build alliances across these gaps. But there are deal
> breakers. You can't buy women. You can't beat women. You can't expect us to
> coalesce on the 'wider' issues unless you accept this. The problem with the
> left is it is afraid of words like 'morality.' The left does not know how
> to
> distinguish between right and wrong. It does not understand what
> constitutes
> unethical behavior."
> Even though many radical feminists are deeply hostile to the neoliberal
> policies of the state, they nevertheless are calling for laws to protect
> women and demanding that the police intervene to halt the exploitation of
> women. The shelter in Vancouver filed an amicus curiae in a case before the
> Canadian Supreme Court arguing for the decriminalization of those who are
> prostituted, mostly women and children, and the criminalization of those,
> mostly men, who exploit them as pimps, johns and brothel owners. Lakeman
> and
> the other women have endured fierce criticism, especially from the left,
> for
> this advocacy.
> "In the progressive left it is popular to be anti-state," she said. "It is
> not popular to say we have to press the state to carry out particular
> policies. But all resistance has to be precise. It has to reshape society
> step by step. We can't abandon people. This is hard for the left to get. It
> is not, for us, a rhetorical position. It comes from our answering the
> crisis line every day. There is cheap, thin rhetoric from the left about
> compassion for the prostituted, without ever doing anything concrete for
> the
> prostituted."
> This stance, one I support, turns Lakeman and the collective's other women
> into outsiders among those who should be their allies.
> "We have been denounced. We have had our funding attacked. Our members have
> been attacked. We have been boycotted," she said. "We are shamed in public
> events. We are called homophobes, transphobes, hypermoralistic, pro-state,
> hateful of men and anti-sex."
> The legalization of prostitution in Germany and the Netherlands has
> expanded
> trafficking and led to an explosion in child prostitution in those two
> countries. Poor girls and women from Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa have
> been shipped to legal brothels there. The wretched of the earth, part of
> the
> neoliberal model, are imported to serve the desires and fetishes of those
> in
> the industrialized world.
> Forced labor in the global private economy generates illegal profits of
> $150
> billion, according to a report by the International Labour Organization.
> The
> ILO estimated that almost two-thirds of the profits, $99 billion, came from
> commercial sexual exploitation. More than half of the 21 million people the
> ILO estimates as having been coerced into forced labor and modern-day
> slavery are girls and women trafficked for sex. They are moved from poor
> countries to rich countries as if they were livestock. The report does not
> cover internal trafficking in which women are transported from rural to
> urban areas or from neighborhood to neighborhood. Traffickers hold out
> promises of legitimate, well-paying jobs to poor women, but when the
> victims
> show up, the traffickers or the pimps strip them of their documents and
> throw them into a crippling debt peonage, a burden that stems from
> trumped-up fees or having to borrow money to obtain the drugs used to
> addict
> them. The average age at which a woman enters prostitution is 16. In one
> study the average age at which prostitutes died was 34. Women forced into
> sexual slavery in Europe, the ILO estimated, can each generate a profit of
> $34,800 a year for those who hold them in bondage.
> Lakeman called what has happened in countries such as Germany and the
> Netherlands "the industrialization of prostitution."
> Sweden in 1999 criminalized the purchasing of sex. Norway and Iceland have
> done the same. The two responses--the German model and the so-called Nordic
> model--have had dramatically different effects. The German and Dutch
> approach
> normalizes and expands human trafficking and prostitution. The Nordic
> approach contains it. Sweden has cut street prostitution by half and freed
> many women from sexual slavery. Lakeman, citing the Nordic model, calls for
> criminalizing the buying, rather than the offering, of sexual services.
> Those whose bodies are being sold should not be punished, she said.
> Since December the purchase of sex has been illegal in Canada. The
> Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, or Bill C-36,
> criminalizes the purchase of sexual services and decriminalizes the sale of
> those services. It restricts the advertisement of sexual services and
> communication in public for the purpose of prostitution. But the law has
> triggered fierce opposition, and it faces threats of a legal challenge. The
> Ontario premier, the Vancouver Police Board, law enforcement officials and
> some other political bodies and politicians have announced they will not
> implement it. The New Democratic Party, Canada's second-largest party, and
> the Liberal Party have said they will work for the legalization of
> prostitution. There is no guarantee that the law will hold as economic and
> sexual inequality widens across the globe.
> "The global trade, particularly of Asian women, has been steadily worsened
> by the neoliberal policies of First World countries," said Alice Lee, part
> of the Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution. "These policies are
> grounded in social disparities of race, class and gender. They create
> conditions that force poor women to migrate. Those who support legalizing
> prostitution often argue that trafficking is bad, but prostitution is
> acceptable. But trafficking and prostitution are inseparable."
> "Asian women are trafficked primarily to earn money in prostitution to
> support their families," she said. "And we are developing generations of
> women who are prostituted and are abandoned to exploitation. When we were
> in
> Cambodia we went to a neighborhood where women aged out as prostitutes in
> the 20s and where 90 percent of the women became prostitutes. Communism in
> China stamped out prostitution, at least visible prostitution. But with
> Chinese capitalism, prostitution is everywhere."
> "Women in China work for a dollar a day in factories," Lee said.
> "Traffickers trick these women into prostitution by offering an escape from
> their despair with a promise of better jobs and improved working
> conditions.
> In mining towns and centers of resource extraction women are recruited and
> brought in as prostitutes to service the men. They are brought into
> military
> bases and to tourist sites. Where there is economic exploitation,
> militarism
> and ecological destruction, women are being prostituted and exploited."
> "For women of color, prostitution is an extension of imperialism," Lee
> said.
> "It is sexualized racism. Prostitution is built on the social power
> disparities of race and color. Women of color are disproportionately
> exploited through prostitution. This racism is not acknowledged by those in
> First World countries, including the left. Sexualized racism renders us
> invisible and irrelevant. It makes it impossible for us to be considered
> human."
> "Third World women are used in the developed world for domestic labor, the
> care of the old and the undisciplined sexuality of the men," Lakeman said.
> "Our liberty as women cannot rest on this deal."
> Many indigenous women on the streets in the Downtown Eastside have been
> severely beaten, tortured or murdered or have disappeared. The Royal
> Canadian Mounted Police in May 2014 issued a report that said that 1,017
> indigenous women and girls in Canada were murdered between 1980 and 2012, a
> figure aboriginal women's groups contend is too conservative. As
> prostitution and pornography become normalized, so does male violence
> against women.
> "When some women are bought and sold," said Hilla Kerner, an Israeli who
> has
> worked at the shelter for 10 years, "all women can be bought and sold. When
> some women are objectified, all women are objectified."
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