Forty-three years ago this week, Ernesto “Che” Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial, he was declared a murderer, stood up against a wall and shot. Historically speaking, justice has rarely been better served. There was never an occasion better suited to the expression: “What goes around comes around.”
“When you saw the beaming look on Che’s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,” said former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez, “you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara.” As commander of the La Cabana execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter from afar. Che’s second-story office in Havana’s La Cabana prison had a section of wall torn out so he could watch his darling firing-squads at work.
Today is a glorious day for those who love freedom and hate tyranny. 40 years ago today, the murderous thug known as Che Guevara was executed on October 9, 2009!!! (I would support the addition of this day as a national holiday). In honor of this wonderful anniversary, I am linking to a couple of articles, the first from American Thinker, and the second to The Freedom Fighter's Journal. I hope you enjoy them and have a hearty laugh at the expense of Lefties every where.
Forty two years ago today, Ernesto "Che" Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. Historically speaking, justice has rarely been better served. If the saying "What goes around comes around" ever fit, it's here.
"When you saw the beaming look on Che's face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad," said a former Cuban political prisoner, to your humble servant, "you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara." As commander of the La Cabana execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che's second-story office in La Cabana had a section of wall torn out so he could watch his darling firing-squads at work.
A Rumanian journalist named Stefan Bacie visited Cuba in early 1959 and was fortunate enough to get an audience with the already quasi-famous Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Upon entering Castro's chief executioner's office, Bacie noticed Che motioning him over to the office's newly constructed window. Bacie got there just in time to hear the command of FUEGO!, hear the blast from the firing squad and see a condemned prisoner crumple and convulse
The stricken journalist immediately left and composed a poem, titled, "I No Longer Sing of Che." ("I no longer sing of Che any more than I would of Stalin," go the first lines.)
Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara's writings revealed a serious mental illness. "My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!" This passage is from Ernesto Guevara's famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie.
This is the fourth article in our "Leftwing Monsters" series, the first of which featured Humberto Fontova's profile of Fidel Castro. "Leftwing Monsters" is a feature of www.discoverthenetworks.org where the entire series will be archived -- The Editors.
In August of 1960, a year and a half after Che Guevara entered Havana ahead of his "column" of "guerrillas," Time magazine featured the revolutionary comandante on its cover and crowned him the "Brains of the Cuban Revolution." (Fidel Castro was "the heart" and Raul Castro "the fist.")
"Wearing a smile of melancholy sweetness that many women find devastating," read the Time article, "Che guides Cuba with icy calculation, vast competence, high intelligence and a perceptive sense of humor."
"This is not a Communist Revolution in any sense of the term," The New York Times had declared a year earlier. "Fidel Castro is not only not a Communist, he is decidedly anti-Communist."
"It would be a great mistake," Walter Lippmann wrote in the Washington Post that same month, "even to intimate that Castro's Cuba has any real prospect of becoming a Soviet satellite."
A few months earlier the London Observer had observed: "Mr. Castro's bearded youthful figure has become a symbol of Latin America's rejection of brutality and lying. Every sign is that he will reject personal rule and violence."
Time magazine was in perfect sync with her major-media peers -- utterly wrong. Guevara was no more the brains of the Cuban Revolution than Cheka-head Felix Drezhinsky had been the brains of the Bolshevik Revolution, or Gestapo chief Himmler the brains of the National Socialist Revolution, or KGB head Beria the brains behind Stalinism. In fact Che performed the same role for Fidel Castro as Drezhinsky performed for Lenin, Himmler for Hitler and Beria for Stalin. Che Guevara was the Castro regime's chief executioner.
Source: Freedom Fighter's Journal The Life And Death Of Che Guevara Commentary When you see someone wearing a piece of clothing celebrating Che Guevara, you can know that that person (most likely a college student or a Lefty professor) is honoring a murderer who gloried in killing people. An odd thing I have noticed is that many Ron Paul Supporters also seem to love Che Guevara, or at least they have promoted Ron Paul as a Che Guevara type of hero. These types of people are as clueless about the world as their Lefty Cousins who celebrate Che's murders.
One of the pillars of my effort in communicating the danger that Progressives pose to America has been by showing you the degree to which their agenda matches the agenda by avowed Socialist and Communists, which are one and the same when it comes to their desire to destroy American Capitalism and replace it with a command and control economy.
There is a Socialist Conference going on in San Fransisco (no surprise there) next Saturday that can shed some light for us regarding the Socialist Agenda for America. Here is the schedule of speakers:
9:30 to 11:00am - Plenary: Capitalism as Organized Crime
Tamara Khoury, PSL activist, Students Fight Back!
Eugene Puryear, PSL 2008 Vice Presidential Candidate
Brian Becker, National Coordinator ANSWER Coalition, member - PSL National Committee
Discussion period
11:10am to 12:40pm - Workshop Session I
Workshop 1: Revolution in Latin America
Presenters:
Gloria La Riva, PSL 2008 Presidential Candidate, Coordinator-National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
Carlos Alvarez, PSL 2010 Candidate for Governor of California
Discussion of the anti-imperialist struggles in Latin America, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, the role of socialist Cuba and the role of revolutionaries in the U.S.
Workshop 2: Socialism: What it really is, Why we need it
Nathalie Hrizi, PSL 2008 Candidate for Congress
Peta Lindsay, Students Fight Back, Los Angeles
Discussion of the differences between capitalism and socialism, is socialism possible in the U.S., and why only socialism can solve the growing crisis in society.
12:40 to 1:30pm - Lunch
1:30 to 3:00pm - Workshop Session II
Workshop 1: Organizing against racism and bigotry
Cristina Gutierrez, Coordinator - Barrio Unido for Full and Unconditional Amnesty
Stewart Stout, Organizer - Equal Rights Initiative
Peta Lindsay, Students Fight Back
Discussion of the struggle against racist oppression, for LGBT equality and immigrant rights.
Workshop 2: The struggle against U.S. imperialism
Eugene Puryear, PSL National Committee
Sarah Carlson, ANSWER Coalition activist - San Francisco
Carlito Rovira, Puerto Rican community activist and PSL National Committee
Discussion of U.S. imperialist aims and the people’s struggle for liberation.
3:10 to 4:00pm - Closing Plenary: Capitalist Crisis and the Need for Revolutionary Change
Frank Lara, PSL San Francisco organizer
Brian Becker
Peta Lindsay
Discussion period
What kind of people are those speaking at this event? What have they said in public before? Here is your chance to hear it and read it for yourself. And while you do so, remind yourself at how very close the talking points these people use are to what you hear out of your typical Progressive Democrat. Most of the time, all that separates these Socialists/Communists from Progressives is what they chose to call themselves. Also, consider how closely their talking points about our battle against radical Islam is to what you hear out of the typical Ron Paul Supporter...food for thought, eh?
First, the speakers who are listed as speaking in a plenary entitled: Capitalism as Organized Crime.
Speaker: Tamara Khoury
An article of hers defending Palestinian Terrorist Groups:
Who are the al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades?
All modern states maintain armed bodies for the purpose of both domestic policing and national security, but the Palestinians have long been denied the right to formal statehood. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent acceptance of a Palestinian “state” came with the important condition that it be demilitarized (and thus not a “state” at all).
The Palestinian political-military organizations play a dual role: fighting the Israeli occupation as a basic tenet of self-determination and self-defense and functioning as the state apparatus long denied to the Palestinian people. Even now that Fatah’s current leader and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has steered the party into an alliance with Israel and the United States, the al-Aqsa brigades still exist as a resistance force.
Eugene Puryear was the 2008 vice-presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, despite being 22 years old and ineligible for the office. He was born February 28, 1986.
Puryear is an active anti-war and social justice organizer in Washington, D.C. He is a volunteer organizer in the anti-war coalition ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).
Puryear is an organizer in the movement to Free the Jena 6. Puryear spoke at the 1,500-strong rally for the Jena 6 at Howard University, the first major national protest to bring attention to the case.
Born in Charlottesville, Va., Puryear has been an organizer in the anti-war movement since high school, when he led a walkout of over 800 students. He has chaired and participated in numerous rallies and marches—including the Sept. 24, 2005, anti-war march of 350,000 people, the 2005 counter-inaugural protest, and the Sept. 15, 2007, mass die-in and anti-war protest at the White House.
Puryear has been profiled by the Washington Post, and interviewed by outlets such as WPFW, WOL-AM, WBAI, the Final Call newspaper, Blackamericaweb.com, WTOP and the Associated Press. He is a regular contributor to Socialism and Liberation magazine and Liberation, the newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He is a member of the National Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Here is an article written by Puryear after the election of Barack Obama as our 44th President:
While the capitalists, the mass media and many in the progressive movement hope for a lengthy honeymoon period for President-elect Obama, the deteriorating economic situation on the ground floor of society is likely to lead to an increase in independent political organizing in communities across America, especially in the most oppressed communities, where the pain is being felt the most.
What does Obama have in store
for the workers who turned to him
hoping for change?
Since the Nov. 4 election of Barack Obama, the question has been raised repeatedly: "How will he govern?" With right-wing elements raising the bogeyman of an "ultra-liberal" agenda, Obama has responded with appointments and rumored appointments that point more towards continuity than change.
The president-elect’s first appointment was Rahm Emmanuel, a former Clinton White House staffer. Emmanuel has been a central strategist of the pro-war and pro-capitalist policies pursued by Democrats in the post-2006 election Congress.
In the face of the spiraling economic crisis, the president-elect faces a unique contradiction. On the one hand, he has been entrusted by the most powerful people in the country with the duty of managing the capitalist state. On the other hand, Obama rose in the political establishment in part by promising the people that he would bring about change. In the past few months, "change" has come to mean—in the minds of workers and many others in the country—relief from the economic crisis.
At the same time the corporations intensify their attacks on working people to hold onto and maximize their profits during the recession, working people will be suffering from unemployment, lower wages, attacks on benefits, lack of health care, education cuts and a broad assault meant to force workers to bear the brunt of the crisis. The ruling class will expect Obama, as president, to lead this assault and at the same time defuse mass resistance to it.
The video below is from a show called Conversations" with Harold Hudson Channer that is almost an hour long, and is very informative about his history and positions...
Brian Becker is a Marxist to the core, and here are just a few tidbits of his evil ideology of anti-Capitalism and anti-Americanism...
Becker is a member of the Secretariat of the WWP of the United States, which is a staunch supporter of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. As Chairman of the "U.S. Troops out of Korea Committee," Becker has accused the United States of conducting a campaign of genocide against North Korea.
This article below is in opposition to the liberation of Communist East Europe...
Much more is at stake than the fate of one leader, or even of the Serbian Socialist Party and the Party of the United Left.
The consequences of capitalist counter-revolution are unambiguous. In Russia between 1989 and 1996, the report says, wages fell 48 percent. Income derived from rent, meaning landlords' profits, jumped to 23 percent.
During the days of the Soviet Union, rent was restricted to no more than 5 percent of a worker's wage. The money went into social funds administered by the state. There was no such thing as landlords.
The report goes on: “There are [other] serious human deprivations. Between 1989 and 1996 male life expectancy [in Russia] declined by more than four years, to 60.”
Throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union “the transition from centrally planned to market economies was accompanied by large changes in the distribution of national wealth and income. Data on income inequality indicate that these changes were the fastest ever recorded.”
Next, the speakers who are listed as speaking in a workshop entitled: Revolution in Latin America. Speaker: Gloria La Riva Here is a video of her speaking at an anti-American war protest sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition...
Gloria La Riva's political positions are delineated in detail on the On The Issues webpage.
She supports:
Rational social & economic planning, rather than "market"
Pay reparations, with interest, for slavery.
Capitalist system creates war, poverty and racism
Free trade enriches capitalists and displaces humans
Create a universal healthcare system
Full rights and equality for all undocumented immigrants
Another Communist who ran for Mayor of Los Angeles and for Governor of California, and is on record as supporting a minimum wage of $15 an hour, full rights for all illegal immigrants, free abortion on demand and other issues near and dear to the heart of every progressive.
Listen to him speak at a panel during the recent election below...
I'll leave you with this socialist/progressive laundry list from his recent campaign for Governor of California:
FIGHTING CALIFORNIA'S CORPORATE BOSSES
Full employment—no layoffs. Create good, high paying jobs for all. Job training for youth & unemployed.
No cutbacks for social services. No layoffs for city workers.
Housing is a right for all—Immediate moratorium on all foreclosures & evictions. Stop gentrification & build affordable housing now.
Free, high quality education from pre-school through college for everyone.
Free, quality healthcare for all California residents.
Raise California's minimum wage to $15/hour.
Stop union-busting, expand the right to organize & card-check recognition.
Stop environmental destruction—Make the polluters pay.
Steep taxes on all big banks, corporations and developers.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL: NO TO RACISM & BIGOTRY
Stop racist police brutality and mass incarceration.
Community control over the police.
Full rights for all immigrants.
Repeal all anti-gang injunctions that criminalize young people of color.
Defend women’s reproductive rights. Free abortion on demand for all.
Invalidate Prop. 8. Legalize same-sex marriage & LGBT equality now.
Full equality for disabled people.
Lower the voting age to 16-year-olds.
SOCIALISM—NOT EXPLOITATION
End the rule of billionaires & militarists—fight for workers democracy.
We need an economy based on people’s needs, not making the rich richer.
Here is the second workshop, entitled, "What Socialism Really is, and Why we need it"
Speaker: Christina Gutierrez
As you can see from the video above, those who support amnesty for illegal aliens are often in support of the terrorist groups fighting against Israel. She ends her speech above by calling for the end of Israel, and the establishment of one state, Palestine.
I have found no writings by her posted on the Internet, nor even a website that has been established by her website. The activities I have found listed for the group almost always coincide with events where the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are invloved, so I surmise that her group is just another front for the PSL.
Speaker Stewart Stout
I can find no videos of him speaking, but his facebook page lists him as a fan of Fidel Castro and Frances Villar, both socialists. He is active in the homosexual rights community.
Speaker: Peta Lindsay
Below is a video of the Howard University student at an anti-Israel rally in 2006...
I can find no writings by her on the Internet, beyond her facebook page, which lists the usual socialists as heroes and a support for Palestine.
The next workshop is entitled: "The struggle against U.S. imperialism" and I can imagine this is one workshop that her cousins in the struggle against the USA, the supporters of Ron paul, would feel comfortable attending.
Speaker: Sarah Carlson
I could find no videos of her speaking, just few anti-America and anti-Israel articles written in various newspapers. Here is a typical snippet of one...
In June, the Obama Administration expressed its lukewarm sentiment for the Palestinian struggle when Obama himself addressed America’s relationship with Muslim communities around the world in a carefully crafted speech in Cairo, Egypt. After addressing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama raised the “second major source of tension”—Israel/Palestine.
Boiling the conflict down to two bickering sides, he appealed to the Palestinians to “abandon violence” and described the December/January U.S.-funded massacre of nearly 1,500 people in Gaza as simply “the humanitarian crisis.” He added, “It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.”
Israeli attacks on UN schools, hospitals and homes, as well as Israel's use of illegal weapons including white phosphorus on civilians went unmentioned. Instead, Obama delivered a slim ray of hope through his objections to some settlements in the West Bank: “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.”
For the many people who have engaged in the struggle for Puerto Rico’s independence, July 25 has a special significance. On that date in 1898, U.S. troops invaded Puerto Rico, beginning a period of U.S. colonial domination on the island that continues to this day.
The United States invaded Puerto Rico, along with the Philippines, Guam and Cuba, in the setting of the Spanish-American War. That war was the opening of what would be the menacing role and predatory nature of the U.S. capitalist class in the Caribbean, Latin America and the entire world.
The seizure of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam and the Philippines by the United States signaled the quest of the U.S. capitalist class to become a world power. European powers had pursued a policy of colonial acquisitions since the end of the 15th century.
But only in the late 19th century had the mature and developed capitalist powers virtually colonized the entire planet. The projection of U.S. power outside of the North American mainland signified a rush not to be left behind in this global division of markets.
Imperialism was transforming from a policy into a global system. No capitalist power could stand on the sidelines. Eventually this scramble and competition for colonies led to the first “world war” in human history, from 1914 to 1918, involving all the major capitalist powers.
V.I. Lenin noted this trend in the very first sentence of his classic 1916 work “Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism.” “During the last 15 to 20 years, especially since the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), the economic and also the political literature of the two hemispheres has more and more adopted the term ‘imperialism’ to describe the present era.”
Carlito seems to specialize in race-based agitation for socialism and anti-Americanism.
Speaker: Frank Lara
This guy is another one who hasn't an extant video on You Tube and very little published on the Internet.
Here is an article by him regarding the drought in Mexico and his opposition to a free market solution...
The government has cut water services by 30 percent and imposed large fines for hosing down sidewalks and watering lawns during daytime hours.
The most needy and impoverished citizens are the most heavily impacted by the water emergency. Upper-class areas have much more access to water than those in poorer "barrios." For example, the wealthy who live in the western hills of Chapultepec and Lomas in Mexico City receive 1,000 liters per day while working-class neighborhoods, such as Iztapalapa to the east, receive only 200.
Ruling-class politicians have proposed false "solutions" to the water crisis that generally focus on privatization and reducing subsidies. Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, representing these voices, is pushing for privatization of water services in Mexico City. Such action has already been taken in other Mexico cities like Cancun, Saltillo and Aguascalientes, where the switch has led to a steep rise in the cost of water services. Other politicians have proposed the elimination of water subsidies, raising water prices for all but disproportionately affecting the poor and working-class neighborhoods. They falsely claim that raising prices would encourage water conservation and punish those who waste it.
Privatization and increased fees will only increase the plight of impoverished workers and farmers in Mexico while benefiting the capitalist owners.
I hope that it has become evident to you that Socialists, Progressives and Communists are all working for the same thing, a fundamental reorganization of American Society and an end to Capitalism. Progressives want the same thing as the Socialists and the Communists, but have couched their desires in language and an approach that they hope will get them more votes as they promise us "Hope and Change".
This TV Special had a very profound affect on me when I was in school...and I saw very close parallels between it and both the Ron Paul and Barack Obama movements, and a disturbing tendency for Sarah Palin Supporters to follow that same path. Don't believe me? Then try pointing out a weakness in any of the above to one of their ardent supporters, or (if you are very brave) in a crowd of their supporters. I recently lost a friend over posting a link that led to an article that spoke to a Sarah Palin's support of amnesty for illegal aliens.
I'm just sayin'...
You can also place the Republican or Democrat Party in this category. I have had Republicans tell me that I should vote for the Republican regardless of what he or she does while in office because they are better than the Democrat.
I am a conservative before I am a Republican, and if that means voting for a Democrat in order to get rid of a bad Republican, then I will.
This "group think" mentality is wrong.
Part One
Part Two
We must never allow these types of movements to flourish...no matter if they are on the right, center or left, because we all loose when they are in power.
I for one am glad that effective control of the Asheville Water System has been transferred to authorities other than the City of Asheville. The children on the Asheville City Council have demonstrated that they cannot take care of it, nor should they be trusted with pricing authority because of their unfair plan to treat people outside the city limits differently than the people inside the city limits.
Here is the latest letter from City Councilman Carl Mumpower (spelling as is received):
Asheville Water System Compromise Proposal
Submitted to the Mayor and Council
April 3, 2009
What Are the Current Realities?
Asheville owns the Asheville City Water System. Control, and thus realistic ownership, has been legislatively taken by local representatives and the courts have validated the right of the state to seize the city system. The courts have validated they have the right, but not that this action is right. The Mayor and Asheville City Council majority are in the process of completing the surrender of a city water system currently valued at over 1 billion dollars. Why is a Compromise Plan Appropriate?
1) Senator Nesbitt, Senator Apodaca, Representative Goforth, and Representative Fisher have legislatively wrested control of Asheville's City water system through Sullivan Acts II & III.
2) These Acts are being uniquely applied to Asheville -- if they are fair, then they should be universally applied to Weaverville to our North and Hendersonville to our South as well as other cities across WNC and NC.
3) The only pieces of the water system in contention are a few of the lines outside of the city limits -- the remained of the system is clearly in the hands of city residents.
4) The city does not need to take action at present -- city leadership has the option of waiting until our legislators change their minds about treating Asheville unfairly or the people of Asheville change their minds and elect new legislative representation supportive of fairness.
5) City leadership is about to surrender our water assets for less than a penny on the dollar.
What is a Realistic Compromise Plan?
Plan One -- Treat Asheville like all other cities in North Carolina owing their water system and take 5, 10, or more years to implement that plan of fairness with consideration for city tax payers carrying a double taxation burden and county residents who cannot afford draconian water rates.
Plan Two -- Remove the resoviors from the system. Transfer ownership of the water lines and delivery system to a regional authority - encourage Weaverville, Hendersonville, Black Mountain, Waynesville, Canton and other cities to join this new regional water delivery system. The citizens of Asheville and other cities owning their resovioirs would then be free to use this resource to help compensate for their high urban tax rates.
There are no circumstances under which a one billion dollar asset should be stolen or surrendered without public and media watchdog outcry. The actions surrounding Asheville City owned water system are no exception.
Submitted:
Carl Mumpower Asheville City Council
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NC Representative Buruce Goforth has introduced amendments to the Sullivan Act as follows:
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
H 1
HOUSE BILL 702*
Short Title: Amendments to the Sullivan Act.
(Local)
Sponsors:
Representatives Goforth, Whilden, and Fisher (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:
Local Government I, if favorable, Water Resources and Infrastructure.
March 23, 2009
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER AMENDMENTS TO THE SULLIVAN ACT, AND TO ALLOW THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE TO USE REVENUES FOR STREET AND SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH WATERLINE IMPROVEMENTS.
Whereas, the General Assembly previously adopted Chapter 399 of the 1933 Public‑Local Laws (known as the "Sullivan Act") to address the particular circumstances of the supplying of water to certain residents of Buncombe County by the City of Asheville and the charges therefor; and
Whereas, the 2005 General Assembly made further amendments to the Sullivan Act with the enactment of S.L. 2005‑139 and S.L. 2005‑140; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. The City of Asheville may use up to five percent (5%) of utility revenues for street and sidewalk improvements associated with waterline improvements.
SECTION 2. This act makes further amendments to the Sullivan Act.
SECTION 3. This act applies to the City of Asheville only.
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.
If Asheville could be trusted not to use the moneys raised from the water system for pet projects unrelated to running the water system instead of maintaining and improving it, then it would be a different story altogether.
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