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  1. A Jesuit’s Reflection on Islam
    In ten days, on Friday, April 28, Pope Francis will land in an Egypt still shaken by the massacres of Palm Sunday, carried out by Muslims in two Christian churches packed with faithful.

    But the mantra of the Vatican authorities, starting with the pope, continues to be that “Islam is a religion of peace.” Absolutely forbidden to speak of a “war of religion” or “Islamic terrorism.”

    “La Civiltà Cattolica” had tried once, in a 2014 editorial signed by Fr. Luciano Larivera, to let itself be overtaken by the reality and to write concerning the most warlike wing of the Muslim world:

    “Its is a war of religion and of annihilation. It exploits power for the sake of religion, and not the other way around.”

    But Fr. Antonio Spadaro stepped in immediately to disown this simple truth that had inadvertently appeared in the magazine he edits.

    But in the run-up to Francis’s journey to Cairo it has emerged once again, developed in depth, this time in “L’Osservatore Romano” and once again by a Jesuit.

    His name is Henri Boulad. He is 86 years old and was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a Syrian family of the Melkite rite that escaped the anti-Christian massacres of 1860. He lives in Cairo, and the following is part of the interview that he gave to the newspaper of the Holy See dated April 13, Holy Thursday.

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/66065/A%2DJesuits%2DReflection%2Don%2DIslam

  2. Richard’s predictions are better than Nostradamus
    There Will Be Blood: Left Prepares For War After Berkeley Beat Down: “Combat Training, Better Equipment, Guns…”

    Last week Trump supporters and leftist social justice warriors met on the political field of battle in Berkeley, California. Words were exchanged, as were punches. And while the alt-right leader was punched in the face, by all accounts even the social justice warriors admit that they got a major beat-down.

    This prompted a reddit discussion among the left’s tolerant resistance movement, with many asking how they can more effectively go to war anyone who disagrees with their social, political, and economic views.

    The anti-Trump protesters at the rally were ill-prepared for what they came to Berkeley to confront and now they are trying to figure out ways to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

    In short, as predicted, they are turning to militancy and mob action by mobilizing individuals and groups to attend combat training seminars, acquiring better equipment like baseball bats and helmets, and of course, if things really go bad… guns.

    http://freedomoutpost.com/there-will-be-blood-left-prepares-for-war-after-berkeley-beat-down-combat-training-better-equipment-guns/

    • The next riot will be with clubs and knives, the ones after that will see a growing use of guns. The left both ideologically driven and the Soros paid mercs have too much invested to walk off, if they lose this fight they are in the political wilderness for many decades, possibly as long as a Century. The millennials on our side know that if they/we lose freedom dies, easy to predict violence.

  3. Another week, another war. Welcome to 1984. Again.

    With the insanity of North Korea upon us, we are well served to at least pause long enough to notice that no matter the President, no matter the Congress, we are and have been for some time now an Orwellian Super State hell-bent on perpetual war…for the sake of peace, of course. The Pagan Political Right and Pagan Political Left are indeed two wings of the same dragon.

    As we noted a few weeks back in Turkey is our friend, Russia is our enemy, and we’ve always been at war with Eastasia:

    http://freedomoutpost.com/the-neo-con-goes-on-and-on/

    • He is right and he is wrong, for some a perpetual Cold War that at times go hot in a limited fashion is necessary for their political future. The fact that this is true doesn’t mean that Islam isn’t out to conquer the world and that we will have to fight to preserve our freedom. The world has become less black and white since the USSR fell and we now face the problem of knowing which is the worst danger and who is the enemy we can temporally ally with?

      • You sound Israeli.
        They keep bouncing these ideas back & forth. Allies, scenarios, tactics.
        Maybe it’s a function of having served in the military.
        Clears the sinuses.

        • Maybe it’s a function of having served in the military.

          You got it in one, the military always works out what if situations especially when a crisis seems to be building to a war. It keeps our minds active and makes us semi prepared for the next war.

  4. Trump Mulls U.S. Military Options for North Korea, All Grim

    Three weeks before becoming president, Donald Trump weighed in on the threat of North Korea developing a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the U.S.: “It won’t happen,” he vowed on Twitter.

    Now planners are contemplating what a U.S. strike to prevent that development might look like, and the options are grim.

    Analysts estimate North Korea may now possess between 10 and 25 nuclear weapons, with launch vehicles, air force jets, troops and artillery scattered across the country, hidden in caves and massed along the border with South Korea. That’s on top of what the U.S. estimates to be one of the world’s largest chemical weapons stockpiles, a biological weapons research program and an active cyberwarfare capability.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-19/trump-mulls-military-options-for-north-korea-they-re-all-grim

  5. ‘Kim WILL push the nuclear button’: North Korean defector forced to watch her first public execution aged SEVEN claims mad dictator will stop at nothing to nuke US as a ‘last stand’

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4421034/North-Korean-defector.html#ixzz4ehZzdasL
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    A North Korean defector who witnessed her first public execution aged just seven is convinced despot Kim Jong-Un would launch nuclear weapons against its enemies as a ‘last stand’.

    Hyeonseo Lee, who escaped in a daring mission through China, says the despotic leader would ‘certainly’ launch his deadly arsenal if he faced defeat at the hands of the US.

    ‘At the very last minute, when he finds out that he’s going to lose all his power he’s definitely going to use it,’ she told MailOnline in a fascinating interview highlighting what life is really like inside the secretive state.

    ‘There’s a slogan in North Korea which goes: ‘America dies, we die, we all die together’.

    ‘He would launch missiles at South Korea, Japan and America. He’s a dictator who’d have nowhere to go and there would be no way to stop him.

    Hyeonseo, now 37, went on to reveal how most North Koreans are ‘brainwashed’ into believing the regime’s propaganda and how the thousands who are forced to attend military parades ‘pee their pants’ because they are forbidden from leaving.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4421034/North-Korean-defector.html#ixzz4ehaDlhgH
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  6. This one is important, the tests are a warning to the US not NORK

    war footing China tests missiles on deadly new destroyer ship near North Korea as it warns it’s getting troops ‘battle ready’

    The Xining battleship’s war systems are being trialled in the Yellow Sea – which separates China from the Korean peninsular
    by Jon Lockett

    CHINESE military leaders have revealed they are testing their latest missile-laden destroyer in waters close to North Korea.

    Footage released by state media shows navy crew launching weapons off the state-of-the-art Xining warship to help get sailors ‘battle ready’.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3361419/china-tests-xining-warship-near-north-korea/

    video at site

  7. Richard: Another warning to the US, in this case I doubt if Putin really plans on fighting the US (I am not so sure about China) Putin would love to see the US tied up in the Orient leaving the Mid East to his tender care.

    shock tactics Russia claims it can wipe out entire US Navy with a single ‘electronic bomb’ in bizarre propaganda report

    Russian news report claims electronic signal jamming weapon can render planes, ships and missiles useless
    By Tom Michael

    RUSSIA has claimed it can disable the entire US Navy in one fell swoop using powerful electronic signal jamming.

    A news report from the country – where the media is essentially controlled by the state – said the technology could render planes, ships and missiles useless.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3360129/russia-wipe-out-us-navy-electronic-bomb/

    • China needs to kill off young men.

      “Workers in Beijing complete construction of the Zhang Laffitte Chateau hotel, a replica of France’s 17th century Château de Maisons-Laffitte, in 2005. The project displaced hundreds of peasant farmers to make way for what will be the centerpiece of a large real estate development. They can apply for low-wage jobs maintaining the estate”.

      https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iDERq4j586Ek/v0/1400x-1.jpg

      • Yes they do, a war will reduce their surplus population and bring in sexual ratio closer to normal. The problem with using this method is that wars can spin out of control and if China is seen to be losing other nations may decide to jump into the fray. China has controlled a large amount of land they stole from India in 1960s when they conquered Tibet. As a what if situation what if India decides they can take back that land and also take Tibet from China? What If China is losing and Russia decides to seize a large chunk of land bordering Russia?

        China has to keep these and other what if scenarios in mind before they start a war in Korea. It is unlikely either India or Russia would make that move but you never know.

  8. Venezuela braces for ‘mother of all protests’

    Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela braced for rival demonstrations Wednesday for and against President Nicolas Maduro, whose push to tighten his grip on power has triggered waves of deadly unrest that have escalated the country’s political and economic crisis.

    Maduro’s opponents are vowing to stage the “mother of all protests” calling for his ouster, after two weeks of violent demonstrations that have left five people dead and dozens wounded.

    Sowing fears of more violence, Maduro has in turn urged his supporters, along with the military and civilian militias, to defend the leftist “revolution” launched by his predecessor Hugo Chavez in 1999.

    It is set to be the biggest day of protests since Maduro’s allies tried to strip the power of the opposition-controlled legislature — the only lever of government Maduro’s camp does not hold — and banned opposition leader Henrique Capriles from politics.

    The streets of Caracas have seen running battles pitting masked protesters hurling stones and Molotov cocktails against riot police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons.

    The protests have been relatively small so far, with turnout in the thousands.

    But the opposition is now hoping to flood the streets with protesters, whom they are urging to remain peaceful.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/latin-america-powers-warn-against-venezuela-violence-151954443.html

    • Sadly, many won’t have the energy.
      I’ve seen pictures that make me sick. People are becoming exceedingly frail, having lost too much weight in the last year. We’re not getting enough accurate information for a country on our doorstep.

  9. U.S. intelligence agencies fear rogue insiders as much as spies these days

    By Tim Johnson

    Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article145256784.html#storylink=cpy

    WASHINGTON

    Forget about spies. It’s rogue insiders that cause heartburn at U.S. intelligence agencies these days.

    Few spy cases have broken in the past decade and a half. In contrast, a proliferation of U.S. intelligence and military insiders have gone rogue and spilled secrets to journalists or WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group.

    The leaks are as damaging as any major spy case, perhaps more so. And they have underscored the ease of stealing secrets in the modern age, sometimes with a single stroke of a keyboard.

    Since early March, WikiLeaks has published part of a trove of documents purportedly created by cyber units of the Central Intelligence Agency. WikiLeaks continues to upload the documents and hacking tools, dubbed Vault 7, to the internet for all to see.

    For its part, a mysterious group that calls itself the Shadow Brokers has re-emerged and dumped a large catalog of stolen National Security Agency hacking tools on the internet, including evidence the agency had penetrated Middle Eastern banking networks.

    Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article145256784.html#storylink=cpy

  10. CA congressman’s townhall audience worse-behaved than high school kids – says student
    By J.E. Dyer April 19, 2017

    California Representative Doug LaMalfa ?
    61%
    (R-Richvale) endured a noisy, unproductive townhall on Monday night, as attendees shouted over him and prevented him from answering questions for more than two hours at the event in Oroville.

    The townhall “bust” wasn’t about the tottering dam nearby, or at least not much. It wasn’t because of the dam that people at the townhall were worked up.

    From all appearances, it was because a group of attendees was simply determined to keep LaMalfa from connecting with his constituents and getting anything done. Answer questions? They wouldn’t let him finish sentences. They just shouted slogans and rhetorical questions at him. Eventually, after trying for a couple of hours to actually give answers and engage in dialogue, LaMalfa gave up and left.

    Judging by their tactics and little pre-printed signs – red signs reading “DISAGREE” and green signs reading “AGREE” – the unruly shouters were activists with the area’s “Indivisible” group, Indivisible Women.

    Back in February, we at LU had some of the first reporting on Indivisible, a heavily Soros-funded network promoting anti-Trump activism – a “resistance” – through everything from “direct action” tactics to new media, social media, and public broadcast programming. Their methods haven’t changed in the two months since. What I wrote about their appearance at townhall meetings in February could have been written about the LaMalfa townhall Monday night:

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/04/19/ca-congressmans-townhall-audience-worse-behaved-high-school-kids-says-student/

  11. Defund PBS. Stop hiding a radical, pro-jihad agenda behind Big Bird
    By J.E. Dyer April 18, 2017

    Predictably, when President Trump came out in March with a budget proposal that would eliminate federal funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, defenders of the CPB manned the barricades for Big Bird, the beloved Sesame Street character.

    Sesame Street, of course, is one of the longest-running shows on PBS, a subsidiary of the CPB. Whenever defunding the CPB comes up for discussion, Big Bird is rolled out and depicted as being on the chopping block. Politico noted in March that the same thing happened in 2012, when Mitt Romney spoke publicly of eliminating funds for the CPB.

    Politico was pretty complacent about Big Bird’s future, however:

    Wealthy metropolitan areas would likely be able to continue to support their public stations, while poorer rural areas — places that lack access to quality news programming to begin with — would lose out. That could give pause to a number of Republican representatives.

    […]

    The universality of public broadcasting that supporters argue make it so crucial also make it tougher to eliminate for purely political reasons. There are many federal programs with far fewer fans — and far smaller budgets — whose elimination would be more politically palatable.

    Big Bird can likely rest easy — he survived Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and both Presidents Bush. He will probably endure Trump, too.

    Maybe so. I think Big Bird would probably survive a withdrawal of public funding just fine, for what that’s worth.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/04/18/defund-pbs-stop-hiding-radical-pro-jihad-agenda-behind-big-bird/

    • PBS – Amid Trump crackdown, U.S. immigrants head to Canada

      Following President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration and recent roundups of undocumented immigrants, a wave of people has crossed the border into Canada, where they believe there is less risk of detention and deportation. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Lisa Desai went to the province of Manitoba along the U.S.-Canada border to meet the people seeking asylum.

    • PBS – On America’s racial terrorism, ‘our silence has condemned us’

      “I don’t think we’re free in America,” says attorney Bryan Stevenson, who sees an unwillingness to talk about the terrors of slavery and other racial-based violence as a continuing burden. But he also sees strength — in the descendants of those who endured slavery. Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, offers his Brief but Spectacular take on race and justice in America.

      • Slavery in America ended over 150 years ago. Get over it. No one alive today had anything to do with it. If you’re really concerned about slavery, try examining the Islamic nations. After all, they enslaved more African Blacks than Europe and the America combined.

        So, please take your SJW attitude, give a light sheen of oil, and stick it where the sun don’t shine. There’s no guilt trip to be played here anymore.

    • PBS – What will Erdogan’s new power mean for Turkey?

      Citizens of Turkey voted Sunday by a thin margin to overhaul the country’s political system, which could lead to a major consolidation of power for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Jeffrey Brown talks to Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations and Kadir Ustun of the SETA Foundation about the ramifications of the controversial referendum.

      • A man who makes no attempt to hide his ambition to be the new Caliph is now able to legally seize power, how is that overly simplistic?

    • PBS – How war and years of lost education have devastated Syrian children — and what can be done to help

      More than a third of schools in Syria have closed since the war began six years ago; a recent report found more than 1.7 million children and youth are not attending classes. David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the devastating effects of trauma and the long-term consequences of a generation of children missing out on quality education.

      • Thank-you, Martin.
        Perfect illustrations of why we should kick the fat PBS snout away from the trough. Too bad they’ve indoctrinated so many for so long. Despite bouts of culture shock, I’m grateful to have missed the Sesame Street catechism.

    • Pay attention to the statement that we need to understand that the NORK and Iranian nuclear programs are really one program, by extension this means that the two missile programs are one program.

      Using this idea, Iran already has nuclear weapons and NORK has missiles that work but aren’t showing them until China and Iran are ready for the war to start. When we consider these ideas a very different picture forms, one where the world is in a lot more danger and one where Putin is in a position of setting back and watching the war while getting ready to step in and join the side he decides will win.

      • We know. Those of us who worked to block the Iran Deal were briefed fairly extensively. I bleated my heart out at so many groups of polite Evangelicals, you’d think I was selling InfoWars nutritional supplements.

        [See the gist of Caroline Glick’s pep-talk after our defeat: “A glorious defeat,” http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-A-glorious-defeat-415204 .]

        What really burns is to read a filthy kapo like Dershowitz spewing this all over the place now. One of 0’s pet Jews – suddenly sees the light? He was shocked – shocked!! – when 0 pushed UN Resolution 2334, a last spiteful act.

        • Sometimes you have to fight battles you cannot win because fighting – regardless of the outcome – advances a larger cause.

          We all have to keep this in mind, every defeat we have, every live destroyed by the Moslem invaders brings more attention to the cause of preserving freedom. We have to remember that but God forbid that we start celebrating the atrocities that help our cause.

          • Both Caroline and Dan Greenfield turned themselves inside-out so we’d not be so disheartened.

            We’re blessed to have a few outstanding fighters. “Junior Division” would include people like Caroline and Dan. “Senior Division” has Natan Sharansky and Ron Lauder.

            The leadership of the American Jewish community – like the French and British – largely sucks. They won’t have Jewish grandchildren. Their personal exposure is as limited as their commitment.


  12. Fresno killer yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ during shooting

    ««….this is solely based on race….and it has nothing to do with terrorism….»»

  13. CBC – Nephew of Quebec City mosque shooting victim charged with threatening alleged gunman and family

    Radio-Canada says Mohamed-Amine Ben-Faras, 33, arrived in Quebec last week on flight from London

    He is accused of threatening to kill or injure Alexandre Bissonnette and members of his family.

    […]The threats were reported to police by witnesses who allegedly heard Ben-Faras utter them last Thursday, according to court documents.

    Ben-Faras was arrested Saturday.

    No address was provided for him, but Radio-Canada is reporting that Ben-Faras arrived in Quebec Wednesday on a flight that originated in London, U.K.

    […]Ben-Faras is being held in the same detention centre as Bissonnette, and Ouellet said steps were being taken to ensure Bissonnette’s safety.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/nephew-of-quebec-city-mosque-shooting-victim-charged-with-threatening-alleged-gunman-and-family-1.4074655

  14. BREITBART – 14 Wounded After Illegal Migrants Storm Town Hall to Protest France’s Immigration Laws

    A crowd of around 200 illegal migrants from Africa stormed Alfortville town hall on Tuesday morning, demanding the government relax criteria for regularisation and give them residence papers.

    Illegal migrants occupied the town hall for about an hour, frightening members of the public in the building as well as staff who had to retreat to their offices.

    The migrants, who work at Rungis International Market, the world’s largest wholesale food market, began piling into the town hall at around 8.30 am, but staff didn’t notice their arrival until it was “too late”, according to Le Parisien.[…]

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/19/france-illegal-migrants-storm-town-hall/

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    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5iqwt9

  15. Russia: Brother of suspected St. Petersburg attack organiser detained

    Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained the elder brother of a suspected organiser of the St Petersburg metro attack in Moscow on Wednesday.

    FSB detained the Abror Azimov’s brother, Akram Azimov, at a bus stop in Moscow. At the time of the arrest, he appeared to be carrying a hand grenade RGD-5, the FSB reported.

    • Kyrgyzstan: ‘I don’t believe it’ – Mother of suspected St. Peter attack organisers speaks out

      Vazira Mirzakhmedova, the mother of two of the detained alleged St. Petersburg attack organisers – the brothers Abror and Akram Azimov – said that she couldn’t believe her sons were responsible for the attack, speaking from her home in Jalal-Abad on Wednesday.

      Mirzakhmedova said that her children had always been “very polite to each other,” and added: “I’m a mother, any mother probably wouldn’t believe such things, and I don’t believe it.”

      Abror Azimov, 27, was detained by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on April 17; his elder brother Akram was detained in Moscow the next day. Both of them are suspected of communicating with international militant organisations and of assisting the attackers through providing money transfers.

      In total, ten people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

      SOT, Vazira Mirzakhmedova, Mother of Akram and Abror Azizov (Kyrgyz): “You have probably been told that I brought up my children by myself, only my brother was the one who helped me. My children never quarreled among themselves, not to mention with others, they were very polite to each other. I’m a mother, any mother probably wouldn’t believe such things, and I don’t believe it.

      “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcPIuZEiqLU

    • Something tells me that the next several days will be very unpleasant for Akram Azimov.

  16. euronews – “Trump has chosen the path of war” – Ahmadinejad

    Speaking exclusively to Euronews, he described the 2015 nuclear deal Tehran signed with world powers as “not clear”:

    “In my opinion, the way information was given was incorrect. The nation was not given the correct information. And then we saw what was said did not materialise. Sanctions continued, new sanctions were imposed,

  17. reuters – U.S. says Iran complies with nuke deal but orders review on lifting sanctions

    The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was launching an inter-agency review of whether the lifting of sanctions against Iran was in the United States’ national security interests, while acknowledging that Tehran was complying with a deal to rein in its nuclear program.

    In a letter to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, on Tuesday U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Iran remained compliant with the 2015 deal, but said there were concerns about its role as a state sponsor of terrorism.

    Under the deal, the State Department must notify Congress every 90 days on Iran’s compliance under the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). It is the first such notification under U.S. President Donald Trump.

    “The U.S. Department of State certified to U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan today that Iran is compliant through April 18 with its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” Tillerson said in a statement.

    “President Donald J. Trump has directed a National Security Council-led interagency review of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that will evaluate whether suspension of sanctions related to Iran pursuant to the JCPOA is vital to the national security interests of the United States,” Tillerson added.

    He did not say how long the review would take but said in the letter to Ryan that the administration looked forward to working with Congress on the issue.

    During his presidential campaign, Trump called the agreement “the worst deal ever negotiated,” raising questions over whether he would rip up the agreement once he took office.

    The historic deal between Iran and six major powers restricts Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international oil and financial sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

    Iran denies ever having considered developing atomic weapons although nuclear experts have warned that any U.S. violation of the nuclear deal would allow Iran also to pull back from its commitments to curb nuclear development.

    Those commitments include reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000 kg to 300 kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.

    Last month Trump’s Defense Secretary James Mattis said Iran continued to behave as an exporter of terrorism and still sponsors militant activity.

    The United States has long accused Iran of being the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, saying Tehran supported conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, and backed groups such as Hezbollah, its Lebanon-based ally.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-tillerson-idUSKBN17L08I

    NBCNEWS – Trump Administration Orders Review of Iran Nuclear Deal Sanctions: Tillerson

    The Trump administration is weighing whether to effectively break the terms of a landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said late Tuesday.

    While campaigning for president, Donald Trump repeatedly called the agreement “the worst deal ever negotiated.” Contradictory statements as to whether Trump would scrap it entirely or simply vigilantly enforce it raised questions about how he would proceed once in office.

    Tillerson notified Congress that despite finding that Iran is in compliance with the agreement, the White House is looking at whether the U.S. should break with the deal because of Iran’s continued support of terrorism.

    In a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, the secretary of state said that “Iran remains a leading state sponsor of terror through many platforms and methods.”

    The six powers that negotiated the deal which went into effect in January 2016 — the U.S., China, Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, with involvement from the European Union — set aside Iran’s alleged support for terrorism in order to get a deal guaranteeing that Iran would not be able to build a nuclear weapon for a decade and would remain under the eye of U.N. inspectors.

    Although billions of dollars of Iran’s assets were unfrozen as a result of the negotiations, U.S. sanctions against Iran because of their support of terrorism were not considered to be part of the agreement.

    The certification of Iran’s compliance, which must be sent to Congress every 90 days, is the first issued by the Trump administration. The deadline for the certification was midnight.

    The review specifically looks at whether sanctions relief granted Iran through the deal is in the U.S. national interest. Trump would work with Congress once the inter-agency review is complete, Tillerson said.

    At the time the deal was reached, Trump called the Iran deal “terrible” and said it would “lead to nuclear Holocaust.”

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized the deal. He said in July of 2015 that “Iran is going to receive a sure path to nuclear weapons.”

    Former president Obama has said the deal will make the world safer and more secure.

    “Iran will not get its hands on a nuclear bomb,” he said in January of 2016 after the deal was implemented.

    At the time, Obama said that Iran’s current uranium stockpile is 2 percent of what it was before the agreement, and the country has removed two-thirds of its centrifuges.

    After the International Atomic Energy Agency verified in January of 2016 that Iran was in compliance with terms to scale back its nuclear program, some international sanctions were lifted.

    The sanctions drastically reduced crude oil exports from Iran. Since the sanctions have been lifted, oil exports from Iran to India have surged, Reuters reported in February.

    Iran was exempted from an OPEC deal to reduce output by 1.2 million barrels per day starting Jan. 1, a victory for Tehran which argued it needs to regain the market share it lost during sanctions.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-orders-review-iran-nuclear-deal-sanctions-tillerson-n748116

  18. Gorka talks North Korea tensions

    Deputy Assistant to President Trump Sebastian Gorka on North Korea aggression and the shooting in Fresno, California.

  19. ‘Tired of racism’: Moroccan sets himself ablaze at Belgian courthouse (GRAPHIC VIDEO) (RT, Apr 19, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/news/385322-belgium-man-ablaze-courthouse/

    “Footage has emerged online showing a man setting himself on fire outside a courthouse in the Belgian town of Kortrijk. The man earlier reportedly left a social media post saying he was “tired of racism,” while police have called the incident an “act of despair.”

    The man, identified as a 38-year-old of Moroccan descent, left the courthouse on Tuesday and moments later returned with a canister of gasoline to a square right in front of the building, some 15 meters from the entrance, a police statement said.

    As seen in the video, he then spilled some gasoline and lit it, before pouring some more on his jacket and setting it on fire. He then instantly ran towards police officers and firefighters who were already at the scene.

    Local media reported that the man was taken to hospital in critical condition after receiving severe burns over 35 percent of his body.

    Although police didn’t disclose the man’s name, Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad referred to him as Chafik H.

    Posts on social media from locals expressing their sympathy also suggested the man’s name is Chafik Hanchi.

    Police said they are still looking into the motive behind the desperate move, although the man had reportedly been facing difficulties in his personal life.

    Jamal Qnioun, the head of the People Help People organization and a member of Council for Intercultural Coexistence in Kortrijk, shared a video on Facebook purportedly featuring Chafik in a car.

    He apparently sent the video to Qnioun some hours before the incident, texting him in a separate message about his intentions, saying he could not carry on living.

    Chafik reportedly had been going through a difficult patch, seeing his father recently pass away and experiencing financial troubles, as Qnioun described in the post.

    In addition, one of the two Facebook accounts which allegedly belong to Chafik has a video posted on Monday, the day before the self-immolation.

    The video title on Kapsalon Chafik’s (Hairdresser Chafik) profile says he faced a problem with the national social security office, adding that he was “tired with racism.”

    After the local media broke the story, Qnioun, replying to multiple comments left under the respective post, wrote that Chafik had opened a hair salon that was later closed, as an inspection found an unregistered worker. Having paid the fines, Chafik again started his business and opened a new salon in the same street. However, days later he faced another inspection.

    Qnioun went on to express his concern over the “harsh conditions” migrants endure in Kortrijk.”

  20. Turkey electoral board rejects request to annul referendum (abcnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkeys-premier-warns-opposition-street-protests-46881434

    “Turkey’s electoral board on Wednesday rejected petitions by opposition parties to annul the outcome of the weekend’s referendum on expanding presidential powers because of voting irregularities. The decision led protesters in Istanbul to call for the resignation of board members while the main opposition party said it would take the decision to Turkey’s top court.

    The High Electoral Board announced in a written statement its decision by a 10-1 vote to reject three requests by the opposition…”

  21. US weighs giving Saudis more military aid for Yemen efforts (abcnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-weighs-giving-saudis-military-aid-yemen-efforts-46888323

    “The United States is considering ways to boost military support for the Saudi-led fight against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, believing military pressure is needed to prod the militants into a negotiated end to the conflict, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

    The U.S. already is helping the Saudis by providing intelligence and aerial refueling of their combat aircraft. But the coalition, which also includes the United Arab Emirates, has failed to defeat the rebels known as the Houthis. The rebels seized the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen in 2014.

    International calls for an end to the conflict are intensifying amid rising civilian casualties. Health groups warn the Arab world’s poorest country is on the brink of famine.

    But the Trump administration is considering how to help the Saudis advance their campaign, according to officials, who briefed reporters on condition they not be quoted by name. The assistance could involve more intelligence support but won’t include a commitment of U.S. ground troops, they said, adding that any moves would reflect the administration’s effort to aggressively counter what it sees as Iran’s malign influence across the region…”

  22. Yemeni officials say suspected US drone kills al-Qaida men (abcnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemeni-officials-suspected-us-drone-kills-al-qaida-46890706

    “Yemeni security officials say a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed four alleged al-Qaida fighters in the country’s central Marib province.

    The officials say the men were killed on Wednesday and have yet to be identified but the area is a known al-Qaida hotbed.

    They say that a day earlier, five other suspected al-Qaida operatives were also killed in a similar drone attack in the neighboring Shabwa province.

    Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is considered by Washington to be the group’s most dangerous branch. It has expanded its territory in the chaos of Yemen’s civil war.

    The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to release the information.”

  23. Egypt police: Militant involved in monastery attack killed (abcnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-police-militant-involved-monastery-attack-killed-46890604

    “Egypt’s Interior Ministry says police have tracked and killed one of the militants involved in an attack on a checkpoint near the famed Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai the previous night.

    The late Tuesday attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State group, killed one policeman and wounded at least three. It was a rare IS assault so far south in the peninsula, close to popular tourist destinations along the Red Sea coast.

    The ministry said on Wednesday that Bedouin tribesmen helped track several militants who fled the scene after the attack. It says security forces then located and killed one of the militants, without providing details about what happened to the others.

    The ministry says an investigation is underway to identify the slain militant”

  24. The Latest: Macron meets Muslim leader, hails common ground (abcnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-french-socialist-candidate-holding-paris-rally-46888661

    “French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron says the French state and the Muslim community are fighting on a “common front” against Islamic extremism.

    Independent centrist Macron met Wednesday with the head of leading French Muslim group CFCM, Anouar Kbibech, just ahead of Sunday’s presidential election first round.

    In a statement, Macron insisted on the importance of respecting France’s secular traditions but said they shouldn’t be used to target Muslims. Some Muslims feel unfairly targeted by French laws banning headscarves in schools and full-face veils in public.

    Polls suggest Macron has a good chance of coming out on top of Sunday’s first round and reaching the May 7 runoff.

    Also Wednesday, the Grand Mosque of Lyon issued an appeal urging Muslims to cast ballots instead of isolating themselves, “so that all the children of France, regardless of their skin color, their origins or their religion, are fully involved in the future of their country.””

  25. Nigeria’s meningitis outbreak kills 745 so far: Officials (abcnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigerias-meningitis-outbreak-kills-745-officials-46890202

    “Health officials say Nigeria’s meningitis outbreak has killed at least 745 people as of Monday.

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says 8,057 suspected meningitis cases have been reported. Most have been located in the northern states of Zamfara, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger and Sokoto since the disease surfaced in December.

    The federal government has kicked off a nationwide vaccination campaign for millions of people, though there is a worldwide shortage for the strain, which inflames the spinal cord and brain.

    Most of the victims have been children.

    A meningitis epidemic killed 1,100 people and infected more than 10,000 in Nigeria and neighboring Niger in 2015. There are fears that this outbreak could again spread across the border.”

  26. Emirates trims US flights after Trump administration curbs (abcnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/emirates-trims-us-flights-trump-administration-curbs-46885723

    “Emirates, the Middle East’s biggest airline, said on Wednesday it is cutting flights to the United States because of a drop in demand caused by tougher U.S. security measures and Trump administration attempts to ban travelers from Muslim-majority nations.

    The decision by the Dubai government-owned carrier is the strongest sign yet that the new measures imposed on U.S.-bound travelers from the Mideast are taking a financial toll on fast-growing Gulf carriers that have expanded rapidly in the United States.

    Dubai was one of 10 cities in Muslim-majority countries affected by a ban on laptops and other personal electronics in carry-on luggage aboard U.S.-bound flights.

    Emirates’ hub at Dubai International Airport, the world’s third busiest, is a major transit point for travelers who were affected by President Donald Trump’s executive orders temporarily halting entry to citizens of six countries.

    The latest travel ban suspended new visas for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and froze the nation’s refugee program. Like an earlier ban that also included Iraqi citizens, it has been blocked from taking effect by the courts.

    Emirates said the reductions will affect five of its 12 U.S. destinations, starting next month. It called the move “a commercial decision in response to weakened travel demand” in the three months since Trump took office.

    “The recent actions taken by the U.S. government relating to the issuance of entry visas, heightened security vetting, and restrictions on electronic devices in aircraft cabins, have had a direct impact on consumer interest and demand for air travel into the U.S.,” the carrier said in a statement.

    Emirates did not provide financial data for its U.S. operations but said it had seen “healthy growth and performance” there until the start of the year…”

    • Sounds like a win-win to me. Emirates loses money and we get fewer Muslims. What’s not to like?

  27. Treason: MSNBC Pundit Begs ISIS to Do This To Trump
    Read more at http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/treason-msnbc-pundit-begs-isis-to-do-this-to-trump#DTMEgEMCTqEvHhZb.99

    An MSNBC pundit invited ISIS to bomb Trump Tower Istanbul, a skyscraper owned by President Donald Trump in Turkey.

    Malcolm Nance, who serves as a “counterterrorism analyst” on a variety of MSNBC shows, retweeted a picture of the seven-year-old Trump Tower Istanbul—adding his own caption: “This is my nominee for first ISIS suicide bombing of a Trump property.”
    Another Twitter user soon responded, quite prophetically, with a warning for Nance: “Be careful. It sounds like you’re encouraging it. [The media will] jump all over that.”

    After receiving immediate blowback, Nance deleted the idiotic tweet—but not before it was screenshotted and spread across the internet.
    Ironically, during the 2016 election, Nance was one of the loudest voices on the left calling President Trump out for inflammatory rhetoric about Middle Eastern refugees Islamic radicalism, which Nance claimed helped ISIS.

    “We have already seen ISIS use Donald Trump in their propaganda, directly,” Nance said, in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” in July 2016. “I mean, I will go so far as to say Donald Trump is the ISIS candidate… They want someone to go off into space, and inflame the other 1.6 billion Muslims, so that they can come off the fence and join ISIS and other groups. He is really, really speaking off the hip.”

    Read more at http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/treason-msnbc-pundit-begs-isis-to-do-this-to-trump#DTMEgEMCTqEvHhZb.99

  28. Lib Lawmaker Wants Former Presidents to Decide Fitness of Current President

    By Wilmot Proviso
    on April 19, 2017 at 4:45am

    An Oregon Democrat has introduced a bill to the House that would allow former presidents and vice presidents to help decide whether to remove a president because of mental incapacity, The Hill reported.

    The bill, introduced by Rep. Earl Blumenauer during the lower chamber’s two-week April recess, was rather unsubtly aimed at President Donald Trump.

    “It is hard to imagine a better group to work with the vice president to examine whether the president is able to discharge the duties of the office,” Blumenauer said in a statement. “When there are questions about the president’s ability to fulfill his or her constitutional responsibilities, it is in the country’s best interest to have a mechanism in place that works effectively.”….

    ….“Because the cabinet can be fired by the president, there is a natural bias that would make them reluctant to acknowledge the president’s inability to serve. It’s time to revisit and strengthen the Amendment and make sure there is a reliable mechanism in place if the president becomes unable to discharge the powers and duties of office,” Blumenauer said.

    In other words, Blumenauer would rather have Donald Trump’s ability to remain in office decided by a panel that includes Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale, and two members of the Bush family (a clan not known for its warm relations with the Trump team), instead of the constitutionally mandated process by which the cabinet and vice president make that decision, even though the current process has never caused even a hint of a problem for the nation.

    http://conservativetribune.com/chilling-plan-trump-presidency/?utm_source=Email#038;utm_medium=libertyhub&utm_campaign=patriottribunedaily&utm_content=libertyalliance&newsletter_uid=2756&newsletter_date=04%2F19%2F17

  29. Campus Fascism Rising
    What can be done?
    April 19, 2017
    Matthew Vadum

    Acts of violence and physical intimidation aimed at conservatives on American campuses are growing – and college administrators, who sympathize with the progressive fascist lynch mobs doing the misdeeds, are generally fine with the mayhem.

    Although universities and colleges are supposed to be places where ideas are exchanged and challenged, they are easily the most reactionary institutions in modern American society. Confronting the established wisdom there is a career-ender. Free speech exists in theory but only within the narrowest of prescribed limits. Speakers who violate the politically correct canon are shouted down, demonized, and assaulted. Truly new ideas are anathema in the academy, at least in the humanities and social sciences.

    Question identity politics, the cult of multiculturalism, or the evil inherent in white people and America, and your life in academia will be over before it begins.

    “The cultural Marxism ideology that created identity politics in the first place now permeates the university far beyond the classroom,” opines Bruce Thornton, “and enables an intolerance for competing ideas, not to mention shutting down the ‘free play of the mind on all subjects’ that [English cultural critic] Matthew Arnold identified as the core mission of liberal education.”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266443/campus-fascism-rising-matthew-vadum

  30. College Protest: Truth and Free Speech are Tools of Imperialists and Bigots

    While we’re trying to fight North Korea abroad, little North Koreas are growing on campuses all over America.

    There’s a North Korea growing in Wellesley.

    “The founding fathers put free speech in the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised and to protect individual citizens from the power of the government. The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable…

    “Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266453/college-protest-truth-and-free-speech-are-tools-daniel-greenfield

  31. The Democrats’ Special Elections Snake Oil
    April 19, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    The new Dem leadership is rushing to deliver quick results to a maddened base that wants something now. Special elections have become their tool for getting it. Their gimmick, after rigging town halls with furious pro-ObamaCare activists, is to treat special election results as a referendum on Trump and ObamaCare.

    There are only two problems.

    1. They have yet to win a special election. So far instead they’re celebrating their losses because they performed above expectations. But they only performed above expectations because they plunged $8 million into one local race from Hollywood celebrities, along with a whole lot of volunteers, and still have yet to actually win. And also because…

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266452/democrats-special-elections-snake-oil-daniel-greenfield

  32. After the Latest Black Nationalist Terror Attack, It’s Time for the Media to Take Responsibility for Pushing Black Nationalism

    Usually a mass murderer shouting Allahu Akbar has a familiar point of origin. But Kori Ali Muhammad owes at least as much to Black Nationalism as he does to Islam.

    Kori Ali Muhammad’s murder of three white men in Fresno, picked at random by a violent black bigot, was another act of Black Nationalist terror. It wasn’t the first or the last. But the media is in the business of promoting Black Nationalists where it’s the race riots and racist harassment of Black Lives Matter or the deranged ravings of Ta-Nehisi Coates or Black Nationalist shows like Guerilla.

    It’s time for the media to take some responsibility for these atrocities.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266449/after-latest-black-nationalist-terror-attack-its-daniel-greenfield

  33. Uncertainty in Turkey
    What will be Erdogan’s next move?
    April 19, 2017
    Robert Ellis

    The 51.4 percent of the Turkish voters that voted ‘yes’ for the proposed constitutional amendments in Sunday’s referendum have changed Turkey from a secular democracy to a quasi-dictatorship dominated by one man, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

    The 18 amendments confer wide-sweeping powers on the president, and include the right to appoint ministers and high-ranking state officials, to issue decrees and also to dissolve parliament and call elections. He is also empowered to declare a state of emergency, which has enabled Erdo?an to govern by decree since the abortive coup last July. The state of emergency will be extended again for another three months on Thursday.

    Erdo?an is now allowed to be leader of the governing political party, which in effect will give him dominance over parliament. Parliament’s role will, for the most part, be reduced to that of a rubber stamp. The post of prime minister will be abolished, members of the cabinet will be accountable to the president, not parliament, only written questions can be addressed to vice-presidents and ministers and a vote of confidence will not be allowed. The president will also be able to prepare the state budget.

    The judiciary will be under the president’s thumb. The president can appoint six of the 13 members of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), which regulates the legal profession, and parliament will appoint the other seven. Three judges from the Constitutional Court will be appointed by parliament and the remaining 12 by the president.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266439/uncertainty-turkey-robert-ellis

  34. Two Weeks of Great Clarity
    When America leads, the world is better.
    April 19, 2017
    Dennis Prager
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    If you prize clarity, then these past weeks were some of the best in memory.

    1. When America leads, the world is better.

    For the first time in eight years, the allies of America and the world’s decent people celebrated America’s return to leadership. Just about all of them understand that if the United States doesn’t exercise its power, the worst regimes on Earth will.

    The left claims to care about the downtrodden of the world, but this concern is a moral fraud. The downtrodden the left most care about are American blacks, women and gays. And Palestinians. But these groups aren’t downtrodden; they are merely a vehicle by which the left attacks America and Israel to gain power. The truly downtrodden — that is, the most oppressed people in the world, such as Christians living in the Middle East, and the victims of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s tyranny — know who really cares about them: Trump and America’s conservatives.

    2. The terrible presidency of Barack Obama is beginning to be acknowledged.

    Following President Trump’s order to attack Syria about 63 hours after the Syrian regime seemingly used chemical weapons, even many in the mainstream media couldn’t help but contrast his prompt response with Obama’s nonresponse to Assad’s use of chemical weapons in 2013. And almost every report further noted that Obama failed to do anything after having promised that he would regard the use of chemical weapons by Assad as crossing a “red line.”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266445/two-weeks-great-clarity-dennis-prager

  35. ‘Migrants, welcome’: Anti-Le Pen protesters clash with police in Marseille

    Demonstrators clashed with riot police on the streets of Marseille, Wednesday, to protest the candidacy of far-right leader and French Presidential candidate of the National Front party, Marine Le Pen. Protesters could be seen marching with banners and waving flares throughout the port city’s streets whilst armed police aimed at demonstrators. A dumpster on fire could be seen being put out by police.

  36. Forum contre Marine Le Pen et le parti de la haine / Paris – France 18 avril 2017

    Un soirée intitulée “Forum contre Marine Le Pen et le parti de la haine” était organisée à Paris par des intellectuels contre le Front National

  37. The ‘Islamic’ bar in Paris that became a French election scandal (thelocal, Apr 19, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.fr/20170419/the-islamic-bar-in-paris-that-prompted-an-election-scandal

    “France has been left divided after hidden cameras footage revealed men in an “Islamic” bar in Paris telling women they weren’t welcome.

    Amar Salhi is still amazed at how his scruffy bar north of Paris sparked an election scandal after it featured on national television in December during a report about Islam and women.

    In footage shot with hidden cameras and broadcast during prime-time by state media giant France 2, two women activists were seen facing a hostile welcome as they tried to go for a drink in the Jockey Club.

    “There’s no mixing in this bar,” one client was heard saying.

    “You’re not in Paris here… it’s a different mentality, it’s like the village back home (in north Africa),” said another.

    One of the women left disgusted, comparing the situation in the multi-ethnic suburb of Sevran to Saudi Arabia.

    In a matter of hours of the report airing, social media lit up with comments…”

  38. Moroccan Students’ Questions Leave Islamic Scholar Speechless (moroccoworldnews, Apr 19, 2017)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/04/214514/moroccan-students-questions-leave-islamic-scholar-speechless/

    “Moroccan students of both science and Islamic studies assailed Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar with questions and criticism during his appearance at the Forth World Conference of Scholars in the Holy Qur’an and its Sciences on April 13-15 in Fez, with the controversy continuing to echo in Moroccan media discussions.

    Al-Naggar, a founding member of the World Commission of Scientific Miracles in the Qur’an and Sunnah, has become well known for expounding theories of scientific bases for Islam and the Qur’an.

    Many Moroccan intellectuals refused to attend Al-Naggar’s conferences, such as Mohamed Abdel Wahab Rafiki, the head of the Al Mezan Center for Center for Mediation, Research and Media, who criticized the legitimacy given to Al-Naggar.

    “When the Faculty of Science and Technology Sheikh pretends that camel urine treat cancer, and this is a miracle of Islam and evidence of its authenticity, we can kiss our country’s universities and scientific research and awareness and culture goodbye.” said Rafiki.

    Participants, including students of the Faculty of Sharia in Fez, asked Al-Naggar questions attempting to debunk his “scientific theories,” to which he could provide no scientific answers.

    Following the lecture delivered in Fez three days ago, heated discussion and controversy is still ongoing on social networking sites. Al-Naggar has been heavily criticized for his inadequate answers to many of the students’ questions, who claimed that his answers were those of “a fanatic sheikh” more than a science professor.

    Many of the questions that left Al-Naggar speechless were from a young Moroccan scientific expert and podcaster named Najib Mokhtari, whose criticisms spread widely on Facebook:…”

  39. Army chief approves execution of 30 ‘terrorists’ (tribune, Apr 19, 2017)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1388166/army-chief-approves-execution-30-terrorists/

    “Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has endorsed death sentences for 30 terrorists including APS attack convicts Inter-Services Public Relations said on Wednesday.

    According to a statement issued by the military’s media wing, the men awarded capital punishment by military courts were involved in heinous offences related to terrorism including the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, 2014…”

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