Coronation farce deepens - These Companies gave Money for Bush's Innauguration
Citizen’s Oath
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488822/
CODEPINK crashes the inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488816/
The Inauguration of Royalty and the Sycophantic Media
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/484672/
REAL PEOPLE who went to the Inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483452/
Tens of thousands protest the Inauguration of George W. Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483568/
Inaugural Protests in Many Cities
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483959/
Big Companies' Inauguration Donations Raise Eyebrows
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0117-03.htm
Rev. Moon “funnels” $250,000 for Bush inaugural bash
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479092/
Impeachment and the inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/477827/
Turn Your Back on Bush in two days
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/turn_your_back_on_bush_in_two_days.htm
It's going to be very different from past inaugurals
http://www.unknownnews.org/05011811nosuddenmovements.html
Friends, Americans, countrymen, send me your cheers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480080/
America the beautiful ... America the ugly
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479037/
Homeless Services Adjust to Closings
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480084/
None so blind
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479048/
Protest Signs ALLOWED On Inaugural Parade Route
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479617/
Coronation of Corruption
http://207.44.245.159/article7761.htm
Coronation of Corruption: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartle
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74548;show_parent=1
AMERICA - THE FATHERLAND
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74552;show_parent=1
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74554;show_parent=1
http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html
Inauguration 2005, the Eve of Destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/481175/
World fears inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/481200/
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The coronation farce deepens
by Bob Smith
No Force, No Fraud
01/13/05
Not only is this going to be the most expensive inauguration in history, but the administration has refused, for the first time, to reimburse the District of Columbia for their extra costs, suggesting that they instead take $11.9 million away from their homeland security money. That money had been earmarked for minor things like increasing hospital capacity, equipping firefighters with protective gear and building transit system command centers. The better-late-than-never word from the administration is that they're not going to spend any more money. After spending everything they could get their hands on, or assign to the magical deficit, it's now time to stop? Not to stop SPENDING, be assured, but to rather just spend the money of other folks instead...
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2005/01/13
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Corporate donors line up for inaugural :
President Bush wants to lower barriers to building nuclear power plants, and the lobby that promotes nuclear energy could not be happier. To show its thanks, the group has given $100,000 to help pay for his inauguration.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/REPOSITORY/501130372/1013/NEWS03
http://snipurl.com/c0s0
From Information Clearing House
List of cash supporters of the coronation...
From tbrnews.org
Cash Supporters of the Imperial Bush Coronation Festivities
GMAC Horsham, PA $100,000
Exxon Mobil Corporation Washington, DC $250,000
Kojaian Ventures, LLC Bloomfield Hill, MI $250,000
Nuclear Energy Institute Washington, DC $100,000
Occidental Petroleum Corporation Los Angeles, CA $250,000
S. Davis Phillips High Point, NC $250,000
Al Hoffman, Jr. Fort Myers, FL $100,000
Rooney Holdings, Inc. Tulsa, OK $250,000
Altria Corporate Services, Inc. New York, NY $250,000
Tom Benson Metairie, LA $50,000
Bensco, Inc. Metairie, LA $100,000
Benson Football Metaire, LA $100,000
Sallie Mae, Inc. Reston, VA $250,000
Stephens Group, Inc. Little Rock, AR $250,000
United Technologies Hartford, CT $250,000
Elliott Broidy Los Angeles, CA $250,000
Dwight C. Schar McLean, VA $100,000
International Paper Memphis, TN $100,000
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Dallas, TX $100,000
JM Family Enterprises, Inc. Deerfield Beach, FL $25,000
Susan and Michael Dell Austin, TX $250,000
Southern Company Atlanta, GA $250,000
Boone Pickens Dallas, TX $250,000
Northrop Grumman Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Nancy and Rich Kinder Houston, TX $250,000
American Bankers Association Washington, DC $25,000
Bill G. Hartley Tyler, TX $25,000
Corporate Capital, LLC New Orleans, LA $250,000
Independent Community Bankers of America Washington, DC $100,000
Union Pacific Corporation Washington, DC $100,000
Argent Mortgage Company Orange, CA $250,000
Ameriquest Capital Corporation Orange, CA $250,000
Long Beach Acceptance Corp. Paramus, NJ $250,000
Town and Country Credit Irvine, CA $250,000
Waite, Schneider, Bayless et al, LPA Cincinnati, OH $10,000
Andrew C. Taylor St. Louis, MO $100,000
Ilene L. Flaum and David M. Flaum Rochester, NY $100,000
John W. Childs Boston, MA $100,000
Thomas F. Petway, III Jacksonville, FL $100,000
Pilot Corporation Knoxville, TN $50,000
James A. Haslam, II Knoxville, TN $50,000
CheveronTexaco Concord, CA $250,000
Golden Eagle Industries, Inc. Charlotte, NC $250,000
Linger Longer Development Co. Greensboro, GA $100,000
Qualcomm Incorporated San Diego, CA $100,000
The Boeing Company Arlington, VA $100,000
Bradford M. Freeman Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Frank Baxter Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Lawrence Auriana Greenwich, CT $100,000
Cherie and Robin Arkley Eureka, CA $100,000
Valhi, Inc. Dallas, TX $100,000
National Association of Home Builders Washington, DC $250,000
AFLAC, Incorporated Columbus, GA $100,000
Marc S. Goldman Hoboken, NJ $100,000
Robert Frank Pence McLean, VA $100,000
Matthew R. Simmons Houston, TX $100,000
Alexander F. Treadwell Westport, NY $100,000
The Coca Cola Company Washington, DC $100,000
Marriott International, Inc. Washington, DC $250,000
Marriott Vacation Club International Washington, DC $250,000
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC Chevy Chase, MD $250,000
ServiceMaster Memphis, TN $25,000
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. New York, NY $100,000
Duane Acklie Lincoln, NE $100,000
Hunt Consolidated, Inc. Dallas, TX $250,000
Ned L. Siegel Boca Raton, FL $100,000
UST Inc. Greenwich, CT $250,000
Well Care Health Plans, Inc. Tampa, FL $100,000
SBC Communications, Inc. Washington, DC $100,000
Cove Partners, LLC Santa Monica, CA $100,000
KB Home Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Peabody Holding Company, Inc. St. Louis, MO $100,000
TC Management Partners IV, LLC Washington, DC $100,000
HSBC USA Inc. Mt. Prospect, IL $25,000
Office of the Commissioner of Baseball New York, NY $100,000
Michael W. Murphy El Dorado, AR $25,000
Sam & Marilyn Fox St. Louis, MO $100,000
The Home Depot Washington, DC $250,000
TRT Holdings Inc. Irving, TX $100,000
Benson Mineral Group, Inc. Denver, CO $100,000
BlueCross BlueShield of Florida, Inc. Jacksonville, FL $100,000
First Data Corporation Greenwood Village, CO $250,000
Waste Management Service Center Houston, TX $100,000
Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI $250,000
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA $100,000
Kenneth J. Kies McLean, VA $25,000
National Association of Realtors Chicago, IL $50,000
J. Ronald Terwilliger Key Largo, FL $100,000
Sheldon G. Adelson Las Vegas, NV $250,000
Dr. Miriam Ochshorn Adelson Las Vegas, NV $250,000
Direct Supply, Inc. Milwaukee, WI $25,000
Time Warner New York, NY $250,000
New Century Mortgage Corporation Irvine, CA $100,000
Cinergy Corporation Cincinnati, OH $250,000
Carl H. Lindner Cincinnati, OH $250,000
Titus Electrical Contracting, Inc. Austin, TX $100,000
Retzer Resources, Inc. Greenville, MS $25,000
American Financial Cincinnati, OH $250,000
American Health Care Association Washington, DC $50,000
American Chemistry Council Arlington, VA $25,000
Frederick R. Meyer Dallas, TX $25,000
Hunter Engineering Company Bridgeton, MO $100,000
New Energy Corp. South Bend, IN $250,000
Intervest Construction, Inc. Daytona Beach, FL $100,000
William Earl Riggs Pleasantton, CA $100,000
Broadcast Music, Inc. Nashville, TN $25,000
Robert W. Johnson, IV New York, NY $100,000
William O. DeWitt, Jr. Cincinnati, OH $100,000
John L. Kemmerer, III Morristown, NJ $100,000
A.G. Spanos Stockton, CA $250,000
Beverly Enterprises, Inc. Fort Smith, AR $50,000
Computer Associates International, Inc. Islandia, NY $100,000
AT&T Washington, DC $250,000
MCI Ashburn ,VA $25,000
Pepsi-Cola Company Purchase, NY $100,000
Tyson Springdale AR $100,000
United Parcel Service Roswell, GA $250,000
Bank of America Corporation Charlotte, NC $250,000
Cove Partners, LLC Santa Monica, CA $25,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Washington, DC $250,000
Lydian Asset Management $25,000
California Farm Bureau Federation Sacramento, CA $100,000
New Breed Corporate Services, Inc. Greensboro, NC $25,000
Rick J. Caruso $100,000
Oracle Corporation Rocklin, CA $225,000
Thomas F. Stephenson Atherton, CA $250,000
Strongbow Technologies, Corp. Burtonsville, MD $250,000
Informant: Marsha V. Hammond, PhD
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$ $ $ $ -- Please Forward Widely -- $ $ $ $
All dressed up, but don't want to go to a typical Inaugural Ball with George W. Bush and his "haves and have mores"?
The Billionaires For Bush Inaugural Committee invites you to their Re-Coronation Inaugural Ball!
Bigger, Larger, More Unchecked!
All the Excess, Twice the Greed!
Four More Years; Four More Wars!
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
8:30 PM - 2 AM
Platinum Nightclub, 915 F St. NW, Washington DC
Live Entertainment and DJs (details below)
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
As long as there are politicians to buy, jobs to outsource, golden parachutes to wear, workers to exploit, countries to invade, corporate welfare to collect, foreign oil to tap, and ice sculptures urinating Stoli... the Billionaires for Bush will be there, lobbying for the corporate elite.
The Billionaires for Bush have big plans for 2005 to energize, entertain, and work within the progressive coalition that developed during the election campaign.
So dry your tears, put on your tuxes and ballgowns and join us!
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
LOCATION:
Platinum Nightclub, 915 F St. NW, Washington DC
(at 10 th St., near Metro Center subway stop)
WHEN:
Thursday, January 20, From 8:30 PM until very, very late
ENTERTAINMENT:
The main floor will have performances by
* The Bobwhites -- Swinging Neo-Lounge
http://homepage.mac.com/birdhousestudios/thebobwhites.htm
* Chopteeth -- Afro-funk big band http://www.chopteeth.com
* Billionaires for Bush Follies
* The Real Dick Cheney -- http://TheRealDickCheney.com/
The downstairs lounge will have DJ Bassam -- http://www.djbassam.com/
and DJ Askari of NYC -- http://www.groooovy.com/djs/askari/
spinning contemporary and classic dance music.
COST and TICKETS:
Varying Donor Levels from $20 to $1,000,000,000 are available.
For $100 or more, attend our exclusive catered VIP Reception.
Your support is crucial to the Billionaires for Bush goal of reframing Bush initiatives such as Brokerizing Social Security,
Repealing the Dynasty Tax, and our "Drain America First!"
Energy Policy. Please be as generous as possible.
GET ADVANCE TICKETS AT:
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
( Note: Volunteer opportunities and a limited number of scholarship tickets are available for the disowned billionaire; inquire care of: J20@BillionairesForBush.com )
DRESS:
Formal attire requested. Please come looking like a billion bucks with your own bling -- real and faux. Or we can billionairize you; at the door will be available top hats, tiaras, money-print ties, wads of bills, pearl necklaces, cigarette holders, and elbow length gloves (for a moderate price). (Exceptions for Texas oil barons, or those coming straight from office, yacht or country club. Please tie polo ponies out back.)
See photos from past balls:
http://billionairesforbush.com/dc/ballsold.htm & http://www.billionairesforbush.com/photos.php and
read about our ball during the Republican Convention:
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0436,flylife,56560,15.html
Advice on billionaire attire and adopting a Billionaire name.
http://billionairesforbush.com/diy_v2_ch1.php
OTHER BILLIONAIRE INAUGURAL ACTIVITIES:
Being a Billionaire is more than just going to balls, we also plan a variety of inaugural actions, including auctioning off Social Security: http://billionairesforbush.com/dc/inaugural.htm
For additional information contact the Inaugural Committee at: J20@BillionairesForBush.com
Billionaires for Bush is a grassroots group that advocates for the rights and interests of people of absolutely fabulous wealth. The group was a finalist in MoveOn's Bush In 30 Seconds ad contest. With headquarters in New York City and 100 chapters nationwide, the tactical street actions of the Billionaires for Bush have generated earned media in more than 250 local, national, and international outlets in the past twelve months.
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
Ivan Tital ivan.tital@billionairesforbush.com
D.C. Coordinator Billionaires for Bush
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/
A.K.A. Dr. Kenneth Mayer Ken_Mayer@comcast.net
The Billionaires Inaugural Ball: Thursday Jan. 20th
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
Please visit http://www.counter-inaugural.org for up-to-date counter-inauguration planning.
Informant: ItalysBadBoy
Protesters Plan to Mark Bush Inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473229/
ImpeachBush movement at Jan. 20 inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473227/
Tamer Protests Expected for Second Inauguration
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0114-03.htm
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On January 20th, 2005, Millions of People around the World will protest the Inauguration of George W. Bush in one form or another. How will you make your voice heard? BushBlackOut.com is suggesting that you be heard through your silence by blacking out your website or blog for the day and displaying a short message of protest.
We have made some suggested images available that you can display in place of the normal content on your website Thursday, January 20th. Feel free to use any image or statement you find suitable for your protest, we just suggest that you make the background of your website Black and display a message of protest to show solidarity with other BushBlackOut protesters. Examples and more info at: http://www.bushblackout.com/
"We must address the root causes of terrorism -- poverty, ignorance and injustice -- rather than responding to violence with violence." - from the Statement of the 5th Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, 11/12/2004
Informant: Lourdes Leger
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Police State Inaguration for King Bush
Unprecedented Security & Cost for Bush's Second Inauguration
The secret service has banned poles supporting placards, the coffins some demonstrators had wanted to bring to symbolise the Iraqi war dead, and the crosses and American flags that the faithful had intended to wave.
A few square miles of central Washington will be transformed into an armed camp next week as the biggest security operation in the city's history is mounted for President Bush's inauguration. To protect them, 6,000 police officers, 2,500 soldiers and hundreds of secret service officers will flood the area around Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue, the route of the inaugural parade, scanning the expected 750,000-strong crowd of supporters and protesters. Air traffic into the city will be restricted, replaced by fighter jets and Black Hawk helicopters. The outgoing homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, overseeing the last grand event of his career, promised it would be the most secure ceremony in history. "We're as prepared as possible to thwart any attempts at terrorism," he said. Troop carrying helicopters have been flying over Washington for days, but the security operation will begin in earnest on Tuesday when fireworks, parades and parties - costing a total of $40m (about
£21m) - begin. The government has not yet put a price on the security, but it will cost tens of millions more. There have been complaints from both ends of the political spectrum about civil liberty.
The secret service has banned anything that could conceal, or be used as, a weapon. That includes poles supporting placards, the coffins some demonstrators had wanted to bring to symbolise the Iraqi war dead, and the crosses and American flags that the faithful had intended to wave.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/inauguration_unprecidented_security.htm
In feudal societies, the serfs must always bow their heads and avoid eye contact with the royal family and their entourage as they pass by. This is exactly what is being implemented in America today with a heady Hegelian synthesis of fascism and communism. Bush is a "Communazi" puppet crown prince of the European/Babylonian Empire come to claim his throne.
Inauguration Performers Ordered NOT to look directly at Bush
The nation's 55th presidential inauguration, the first to be held since 9/11, will take place this month under perhaps the heaviest security of any in U.S. history. Dozens of federal and local law enforcement agencies and military commands are planning what they describe as the heaviest possible security. Virtually everyone who gets within eyesight of the president either during the Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol or the inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue later in the day will first go through a metal detector or receive a body pat-down. Thousands of police officers and military personnel are being brought to Washington from around the country for the four-day event. Sharpshooters will be deployed on roofs, while bomb-sniffing dogs will work the streets. Electronic sensors will be used to detect chemical or biological weapons. Anti-abortion protesters have been warned to leave their crosses at home. Parade performers will have security escorts to the
bathroom, and they've been ordered not to look directly at President Bush or make any sudden movements while passing the reviewing stand. "It's going to be very different from past inaugurals," said Contricia Sellers-Ford, spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police, which is responsible for the Capitol and grounds.
"A lot of the security differences will not be detected by the public - there will be a lot of behind the scenes implementation - but the public will definitely see more of a police presence."
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/inauguration_performers_ordered_no_look_bush.htm
Ring of steel as Bush sworn in
A few square miles of central Washington will be transformed into an armed camp next week as the biggest security operation in the city's history is mounted for President Bush's inauguration. When Mr Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, are sworn in for the second time on the steps of the Capitol building at midday on Thursday, the US government will be at its most vulnerable. Just about every member of the executive, Congress and the supreme court will be in the same place. To protect them, 6,000 police officers, 2,500 soldiers and hundreds of secret service officers will flood the area around Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue, the route of the inaugural parade, scanning the expected 750,000-strong crowd of supporters and protesters. Air traffic into the city will be restricted, replaced by fighter jets and Black Hawk helicopters. The outgoing homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, overseeing the last grand event of his career, promised it would be the most secure ceremony in history.
"We're as prepared as possible to thwart any attempts at terrorism," he said. Troop carrying helicopters have been flying over Washington for days, but the security operation will begin in earnest on Tuesday when fireworks, parades and parties - costing a total of $40m (about £21m) - begin. The government has not yet put a price on the security, but it will cost tens of millions more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1390087,00.html
Inaugural security draws on latest technologies
The nerve center for the most heavily guarded presidential inauguration in history will not be in Washington, where President Bush will take the oath of office, but 25 miles away in a futuristic command post in Northern Virginia. Inside a gleaming steel-and-marble complex, the Secret Service and 50 federal, state and local agencies will monitor action in the sky, on the ground and in the subway system. Giant plasma screens will beam in live video from helicopters and cameras at the U.S. Capitol, along the parade route and at other potential trouble spots. Officials will be able to track fighter jets patrolling the skies, call up three-dimensional maps of downtown, even project the plume of any chemical release.
One top police official likened the new facility to a set from the “Star Wars” movies. It is one of many signs that Bush’s second inauguration Jan. 20 will take security in Washington to a new level, using expertise and equipment developed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/inauguration_high_tech_command_center.htm
Security at the inaugural will include 6,000 law enforcement personnel, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Tuesday.
Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP
Inaugural security will stretch from sky to underground
When President Bush raises his right hand to be sworn in to a second term at noon Jan. 20, he will be standing at the center of the most elaborate, expensive, visible — and invisible — security shroud ever put in place for a presidential inauguration. Fighter jets will be protecting the airspace over his head. Chemical, biological and radiological sensors will be set up in the subway system and in other, secret locations. Coast Guard boats will be running up and down the rivers. And at least 6,000 police officers — some of them heavily and conspicuously armed — will be patrolling the streets, searching ticket holders and onlookers and looking out for trouble from perches high and low.
Washington won't look like "downtown Baghdad" on Jan. 20, but security for the first presidential inauguration since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will certainly be "noticeable," said Don Manuszewski of the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region, the military organization responsible for protecting the city and surrounding counties.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-11-inaugural-security_x.htm
From:
Aftermath News Top Stories -
January 16th, 2005
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Bush protesters rethink tactics
San Francisco Chronicle
01/16/05
To show their disgust with George W. Bush's re-election, on Inauguration Day, his opponents will turn their back on his motorcade, 'refuse to spend one dime,' black out their Web sites, stage mock jazz funerals, wear black armbands and stage demonstrations from Palo Alto to Atlanta. But four years of such Bush-bashing theatrics didn't produce a change in November. And with Republicans controlling Congress and the White House, some of the president's most vocal critics have spent the past two post-election months making plans on how to begin preaching beyond the choir box, starting Thursday. Bottom line: less emphasis on mass demonstrations -- which Bush famously dismissed as 'focus groups' -- and more on reaching out to Americans who oppose the war but haven't publicly shown it...
http://tinyurl.com/5d9zc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Lavish Bush Inaugural Stirs Debate and Protests
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011705K.shtml
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Gauging the Worth of US Troops in Neocon Eyes
by Kim Petersen
Kim Petersen ruminates on American spending priorities and the "opulent outburst of vainglory" of the War administration: Bush's upcoming inauguration party is slated to cost $40 million, while American troops in Iraq lack adequate armor, and a new Census Bureau report finds more Americans slipping into poverty. Many die so a few can party?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Petersen0117.htm
From Axis of Evil to Exit Door for Weasels
by Ahmed Amr
In making the case for the war against Iraq, the Bush administration insisted that Iraq had WMDs and intimate relationships with Bin Laden. Two years and a billion dollars later -- the search is over and the president will stage his inauguration party with yet another dry hole on his hands. Bush can handle dry holes as well as any man. He already has a long history of losing other people’s money as a wildcatter in the Texas oil patch. . . .In any case, things have obviously turned out worse than the bleakest initial projections. We are now witnessing the end game. Which brings us to Iran -- a former founding member of the axis of evil -- now elevated to a partner in designing an exit strategy with the neocon weasels who orchestrated this war of choice....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Amr0117.htm
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488822/
CODEPINK crashes the inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/488816/
The Inauguration of Royalty and the Sycophantic Media
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/484672/
REAL PEOPLE who went to the Inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483452/
Tens of thousands protest the Inauguration of George W. Bush
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483568/
Inaugural Protests in Many Cities
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/483959/
Big Companies' Inauguration Donations Raise Eyebrows
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0117-03.htm
Rev. Moon “funnels” $250,000 for Bush inaugural bash
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479092/
Impeachment and the inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/477827/
Turn Your Back on Bush in two days
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/turn_your_back_on_bush_in_two_days.htm
It's going to be very different from past inaugurals
http://www.unknownnews.org/05011811nosuddenmovements.html
Friends, Americans, countrymen, send me your cheers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480080/
America the beautiful ... America the ugly
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479037/
Homeless Services Adjust to Closings
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480084/
None so blind
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479048/
Protest Signs ALLOWED On Inaugural Parade Route
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/479617/
Coronation of Corruption
http://207.44.245.159/article7761.htm
Coronation of Corruption: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartle
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74548;show_parent=1
AMERICA - THE FATHERLAND
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74552;show_parent=1
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=74554;show_parent=1
http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html
Inauguration 2005, the Eve of Destruction
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/481175/
World fears inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/481200/
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The coronation farce deepens
by Bob Smith
No Force, No Fraud
01/13/05
Not only is this going to be the most expensive inauguration in history, but the administration has refused, for the first time, to reimburse the District of Columbia for their extra costs, suggesting that they instead take $11.9 million away from their homeland security money. That money had been earmarked for minor things like increasing hospital capacity, equipping firefighters with protective gear and building transit system command centers. The better-late-than-never word from the administration is that they're not going to spend any more money. After spending everything they could get their hands on, or assign to the magical deficit, it's now time to stop? Not to stop SPENDING, be assured, but to rather just spend the money of other folks instead...
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2005/01/13
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Corporate donors line up for inaugural :
President Bush wants to lower barriers to building nuclear power plants, and the lobby that promotes nuclear energy could not be happier. To show its thanks, the group has given $100,000 to help pay for his inauguration.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/REPOSITORY/501130372/1013/NEWS03
http://snipurl.com/c0s0
From Information Clearing House
List of cash supporters of the coronation...
From tbrnews.org
Cash Supporters of the Imperial Bush Coronation Festivities
GMAC Horsham, PA $100,000
Exxon Mobil Corporation Washington, DC $250,000
Kojaian Ventures, LLC Bloomfield Hill, MI $250,000
Nuclear Energy Institute Washington, DC $100,000
Occidental Petroleum Corporation Los Angeles, CA $250,000
S. Davis Phillips High Point, NC $250,000
Al Hoffman, Jr. Fort Myers, FL $100,000
Rooney Holdings, Inc. Tulsa, OK $250,000
Altria Corporate Services, Inc. New York, NY $250,000
Tom Benson Metairie, LA $50,000
Bensco, Inc. Metairie, LA $100,000
Benson Football Metaire, LA $100,000
Sallie Mae, Inc. Reston, VA $250,000
Stephens Group, Inc. Little Rock, AR $250,000
United Technologies Hartford, CT $250,000
Elliott Broidy Los Angeles, CA $250,000
Dwight C. Schar McLean, VA $100,000
International Paper Memphis, TN $100,000
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Dallas, TX $100,000
JM Family Enterprises, Inc. Deerfield Beach, FL $25,000
Susan and Michael Dell Austin, TX $250,000
Southern Company Atlanta, GA $250,000
Boone Pickens Dallas, TX $250,000
Northrop Grumman Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Nancy and Rich Kinder Houston, TX $250,000
American Bankers Association Washington, DC $25,000
Bill G. Hartley Tyler, TX $25,000
Corporate Capital, LLC New Orleans, LA $250,000
Independent Community Bankers of America Washington, DC $100,000
Union Pacific Corporation Washington, DC $100,000
Argent Mortgage Company Orange, CA $250,000
Ameriquest Capital Corporation Orange, CA $250,000
Long Beach Acceptance Corp. Paramus, NJ $250,000
Town and Country Credit Irvine, CA $250,000
Waite, Schneider, Bayless et al, LPA Cincinnati, OH $10,000
Andrew C. Taylor St. Louis, MO $100,000
Ilene L. Flaum and David M. Flaum Rochester, NY $100,000
John W. Childs Boston, MA $100,000
Thomas F. Petway, III Jacksonville, FL $100,000
Pilot Corporation Knoxville, TN $50,000
James A. Haslam, II Knoxville, TN $50,000
CheveronTexaco Concord, CA $250,000
Golden Eagle Industries, Inc. Charlotte, NC $250,000
Linger Longer Development Co. Greensboro, GA $100,000
Qualcomm Incorporated San Diego, CA $100,000
The Boeing Company Arlington, VA $100,000
Bradford M. Freeman Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Frank Baxter Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Lawrence Auriana Greenwich, CT $100,000
Cherie and Robin Arkley Eureka, CA $100,000
Valhi, Inc. Dallas, TX $100,000
National Association of Home Builders Washington, DC $250,000
AFLAC, Incorporated Columbus, GA $100,000
Marc S. Goldman Hoboken, NJ $100,000
Robert Frank Pence McLean, VA $100,000
Matthew R. Simmons Houston, TX $100,000
Alexander F. Treadwell Westport, NY $100,000
The Coca Cola Company Washington, DC $100,000
Marriott International, Inc. Washington, DC $250,000
Marriott Vacation Club International Washington, DC $250,000
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC Chevy Chase, MD $250,000
ServiceMaster Memphis, TN $25,000
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. New York, NY $100,000
Duane Acklie Lincoln, NE $100,000
Hunt Consolidated, Inc. Dallas, TX $250,000
Ned L. Siegel Boca Raton, FL $100,000
UST Inc. Greenwich, CT $250,000
Well Care Health Plans, Inc. Tampa, FL $100,000
SBC Communications, Inc. Washington, DC $100,000
Cove Partners, LLC Santa Monica, CA $100,000
KB Home Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Peabody Holding Company, Inc. St. Louis, MO $100,000
TC Management Partners IV, LLC Washington, DC $100,000
HSBC USA Inc. Mt. Prospect, IL $25,000
Office of the Commissioner of Baseball New York, NY $100,000
Michael W. Murphy El Dorado, AR $25,000
Sam & Marilyn Fox St. Louis, MO $100,000
The Home Depot Washington, DC $250,000
TRT Holdings Inc. Irving, TX $100,000
Benson Mineral Group, Inc. Denver, CO $100,000
BlueCross BlueShield of Florida, Inc. Jacksonville, FL $100,000
First Data Corporation Greenwood Village, CO $250,000
Waste Management Service Center Houston, TX $100,000
Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI $250,000
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA $100,000
Kenneth J. Kies McLean, VA $25,000
National Association of Realtors Chicago, IL $50,000
J. Ronald Terwilliger Key Largo, FL $100,000
Sheldon G. Adelson Las Vegas, NV $250,000
Dr. Miriam Ochshorn Adelson Las Vegas, NV $250,000
Direct Supply, Inc. Milwaukee, WI $25,000
Time Warner New York, NY $250,000
New Century Mortgage Corporation Irvine, CA $100,000
Cinergy Corporation Cincinnati, OH $250,000
Carl H. Lindner Cincinnati, OH $250,000
Titus Electrical Contracting, Inc. Austin, TX $100,000
Retzer Resources, Inc. Greenville, MS $25,000
American Financial Cincinnati, OH $250,000
American Health Care Association Washington, DC $50,000
American Chemistry Council Arlington, VA $25,000
Frederick R. Meyer Dallas, TX $25,000
Hunter Engineering Company Bridgeton, MO $100,000
New Energy Corp. South Bend, IN $250,000
Intervest Construction, Inc. Daytona Beach, FL $100,000
William Earl Riggs Pleasantton, CA $100,000
Broadcast Music, Inc. Nashville, TN $25,000
Robert W. Johnson, IV New York, NY $100,000
William O. DeWitt, Jr. Cincinnati, OH $100,000
John L. Kemmerer, III Morristown, NJ $100,000
A.G. Spanos Stockton, CA $250,000
Beverly Enterprises, Inc. Fort Smith, AR $50,000
Computer Associates International, Inc. Islandia, NY $100,000
AT&T Washington, DC $250,000
MCI Ashburn ,VA $25,000
Pepsi-Cola Company Purchase, NY $100,000
Tyson Springdale AR $100,000
United Parcel Service Roswell, GA $250,000
Bank of America Corporation Charlotte, NC $250,000
Cove Partners, LLC Santa Monica, CA $25,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Washington, DC $250,000
Lydian Asset Management $25,000
California Farm Bureau Federation Sacramento, CA $100,000
New Breed Corporate Services, Inc. Greensboro, NC $25,000
Rick J. Caruso $100,000
Oracle Corporation Rocklin, CA $225,000
Thomas F. Stephenson Atherton, CA $250,000
Strongbow Technologies, Corp. Burtonsville, MD $250,000
Informant: Marsha V. Hammond, PhD
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$ $ $ $ -- Please Forward Widely -- $ $ $ $
All dressed up, but don't want to go to a typical Inaugural Ball with George W. Bush and his "haves and have mores"?
The Billionaires For Bush Inaugural Committee invites you to their Re-Coronation Inaugural Ball!
Bigger, Larger, More Unchecked!
All the Excess, Twice the Greed!
Four More Years; Four More Wars!
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
8:30 PM - 2 AM
Platinum Nightclub, 915 F St. NW, Washington DC
Live Entertainment and DJs (details below)
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
As long as there are politicians to buy, jobs to outsource, golden parachutes to wear, workers to exploit, countries to invade, corporate welfare to collect, foreign oil to tap, and ice sculptures urinating Stoli... the Billionaires for Bush will be there, lobbying for the corporate elite.
The Billionaires for Bush have big plans for 2005 to energize, entertain, and work within the progressive coalition that developed during the election campaign.
So dry your tears, put on your tuxes and ballgowns and join us!
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
LOCATION:
Platinum Nightclub, 915 F St. NW, Washington DC
(at 10 th St., near Metro Center subway stop)
WHEN:
Thursday, January 20, From 8:30 PM until very, very late
ENTERTAINMENT:
The main floor will have performances by
* The Bobwhites -- Swinging Neo-Lounge
http://homepage.mac.com/birdhousestudios/thebobwhites.htm
* Chopteeth -- Afro-funk big band http://www.chopteeth.com
* Billionaires for Bush Follies
* The Real Dick Cheney -- http://TheRealDickCheney.com/
The downstairs lounge will have DJ Bassam -- http://www.djbassam.com/
and DJ Askari of NYC -- http://www.groooovy.com/djs/askari/
spinning contemporary and classic dance music.
COST and TICKETS:
Varying Donor Levels from $20 to $1,000,000,000 are available.
For $100 or more, attend our exclusive catered VIP Reception.
Your support is crucial to the Billionaires for Bush goal of reframing Bush initiatives such as Brokerizing Social Security,
Repealing the Dynasty Tax, and our "Drain America First!"
Energy Policy. Please be as generous as possible.
GET ADVANCE TICKETS AT:
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
( Note: Volunteer opportunities and a limited number of scholarship tickets are available for the disowned billionaire; inquire care of: J20@BillionairesForBush.com )
DRESS:
Formal attire requested. Please come looking like a billion bucks with your own bling -- real and faux. Or we can billionairize you; at the door will be available top hats, tiaras, money-print ties, wads of bills, pearl necklaces, cigarette holders, and elbow length gloves (for a moderate price). (Exceptions for Texas oil barons, or those coming straight from office, yacht or country club. Please tie polo ponies out back.)
See photos from past balls:
http://billionairesforbush.com/dc/ballsold.htm & http://www.billionairesforbush.com/photos.php and
read about our ball during the Republican Convention:
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0436,flylife,56560,15.html
Advice on billionaire attire and adopting a Billionaire name.
http://billionairesforbush.com/diy_v2_ch1.php
OTHER BILLIONAIRE INAUGURAL ACTIVITIES:
Being a Billionaire is more than just going to balls, we also plan a variety of inaugural actions, including auctioning off Social Security: http://billionairesforbush.com/dc/inaugural.htm
For additional information contact the Inaugural Committee at: J20@BillionairesForBush.com
Billionaires for Bush is a grassroots group that advocates for the rights and interests of people of absolutely fabulous wealth. The group was a finalist in MoveOn's Bush In 30 Seconds ad contest. With headquarters in New York City and 100 chapters nationwide, the tactical street actions of the Billionaires for Bush have generated earned media in more than 250 local, national, and international outlets in the past twelve months.
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
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Ivan Tital ivan.tital@billionairesforbush.com
D.C. Coordinator Billionaires for Bush
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/
A.K.A. Dr. Kenneth Mayer Ken_Mayer@comcast.net
The Billionaires Inaugural Ball: Thursday Jan. 20th
http://www.billionairesforbush.com/dc/ball.htm
Please visit http://www.counter-inaugural.org for up-to-date counter-inauguration planning.
Informant: ItalysBadBoy
Protesters Plan to Mark Bush Inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473229/
ImpeachBush movement at Jan. 20 inauguration
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473227/
Tamer Protests Expected for Second Inauguration
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0114-03.htm
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On January 20th, 2005, Millions of People around the World will protest the Inauguration of George W. Bush in one form or another. How will you make your voice heard? BushBlackOut.com is suggesting that you be heard through your silence by blacking out your website or blog for the day and displaying a short message of protest.
We have made some suggested images available that you can display in place of the normal content on your website Thursday, January 20th. Feel free to use any image or statement you find suitable for your protest, we just suggest that you make the background of your website Black and display a message of protest to show solidarity with other BushBlackOut protesters. Examples and more info at: http://www.bushblackout.com/
"We must address the root causes of terrorism -- poverty, ignorance and injustice -- rather than responding to violence with violence." - from the Statement of the 5th Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, 11/12/2004
Informant: Lourdes Leger
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Police State Inaguration for King Bush
Unprecedented Security & Cost for Bush's Second Inauguration
The secret service has banned poles supporting placards, the coffins some demonstrators had wanted to bring to symbolise the Iraqi war dead, and the crosses and American flags that the faithful had intended to wave.
A few square miles of central Washington will be transformed into an armed camp next week as the biggest security operation in the city's history is mounted for President Bush's inauguration. To protect them, 6,000 police officers, 2,500 soldiers and hundreds of secret service officers will flood the area around Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue, the route of the inaugural parade, scanning the expected 750,000-strong crowd of supporters and protesters. Air traffic into the city will be restricted, replaced by fighter jets and Black Hawk helicopters. The outgoing homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, overseeing the last grand event of his career, promised it would be the most secure ceremony in history. "We're as prepared as possible to thwart any attempts at terrorism," he said. Troop carrying helicopters have been flying over Washington for days, but the security operation will begin in earnest on Tuesday when fireworks, parades and parties - costing a total of $40m (about
£21m) - begin. The government has not yet put a price on the security, but it will cost tens of millions more. There have been complaints from both ends of the political spectrum about civil liberty.
The secret service has banned anything that could conceal, or be used as, a weapon. That includes poles supporting placards, the coffins some demonstrators had wanted to bring to symbolise the Iraqi war dead, and the crosses and American flags that the faithful had intended to wave.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/inauguration_unprecidented_security.htm
In feudal societies, the serfs must always bow their heads and avoid eye contact with the royal family and their entourage as they pass by. This is exactly what is being implemented in America today with a heady Hegelian synthesis of fascism and communism. Bush is a "Communazi" puppet crown prince of the European/Babylonian Empire come to claim his throne.
Inauguration Performers Ordered NOT to look directly at Bush
The nation's 55th presidential inauguration, the first to be held since 9/11, will take place this month under perhaps the heaviest security of any in U.S. history. Dozens of federal and local law enforcement agencies and military commands are planning what they describe as the heaviest possible security. Virtually everyone who gets within eyesight of the president either during the Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol or the inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue later in the day will first go through a metal detector or receive a body pat-down. Thousands of police officers and military personnel are being brought to Washington from around the country for the four-day event. Sharpshooters will be deployed on roofs, while bomb-sniffing dogs will work the streets. Electronic sensors will be used to detect chemical or biological weapons. Anti-abortion protesters have been warned to leave their crosses at home. Parade performers will have security escorts to the
bathroom, and they've been ordered not to look directly at President Bush or make any sudden movements while passing the reviewing stand. "It's going to be very different from past inaugurals," said Contricia Sellers-Ford, spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police, which is responsible for the Capitol and grounds.
"A lot of the security differences will not be detected by the public - there will be a lot of behind the scenes implementation - but the public will definitely see more of a police presence."
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/inauguration_performers_ordered_no_look_bush.htm
Ring of steel as Bush sworn in
A few square miles of central Washington will be transformed into an armed camp next week as the biggest security operation in the city's history is mounted for President Bush's inauguration. When Mr Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, are sworn in for the second time on the steps of the Capitol building at midday on Thursday, the US government will be at its most vulnerable. Just about every member of the executive, Congress and the supreme court will be in the same place. To protect them, 6,000 police officers, 2,500 soldiers and hundreds of secret service officers will flood the area around Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue, the route of the inaugural parade, scanning the expected 750,000-strong crowd of supporters and protesters. Air traffic into the city will be restricted, replaced by fighter jets and Black Hawk helicopters. The outgoing homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, overseeing the last grand event of his career, promised it would be the most secure ceremony in history.
"We're as prepared as possible to thwart any attempts at terrorism," he said. Troop carrying helicopters have been flying over Washington for days, but the security operation will begin in earnest on Tuesday when fireworks, parades and parties - costing a total of $40m (about £21m) - begin. The government has not yet put a price on the security, but it will cost tens of millions more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1390087,00.html
Inaugural security draws on latest technologies
The nerve center for the most heavily guarded presidential inauguration in history will not be in Washington, where President Bush will take the oath of office, but 25 miles away in a futuristic command post in Northern Virginia. Inside a gleaming steel-and-marble complex, the Secret Service and 50 federal, state and local agencies will monitor action in the sky, on the ground and in the subway system. Giant plasma screens will beam in live video from helicopters and cameras at the U.S. Capitol, along the parade route and at other potential trouble spots. Officials will be able to track fighter jets patrolling the skies, call up three-dimensional maps of downtown, even project the plume of any chemical release.
One top police official likened the new facility to a set from the “Star Wars” movies. It is one of many signs that Bush’s second inauguration Jan. 20 will take security in Washington to a new level, using expertise and equipment developed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/inauguration_high_tech_command_center.htm
Security at the inaugural will include 6,000 law enforcement personnel, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Tuesday.
Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP
Inaugural security will stretch from sky to underground
When President Bush raises his right hand to be sworn in to a second term at noon Jan. 20, he will be standing at the center of the most elaborate, expensive, visible — and invisible — security shroud ever put in place for a presidential inauguration. Fighter jets will be protecting the airspace over his head. Chemical, biological and radiological sensors will be set up in the subway system and in other, secret locations. Coast Guard boats will be running up and down the rivers. And at least 6,000 police officers — some of them heavily and conspicuously armed — will be patrolling the streets, searching ticket holders and onlookers and looking out for trouble from perches high and low.
Washington won't look like "downtown Baghdad" on Jan. 20, but security for the first presidential inauguration since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will certainly be "noticeable," said Don Manuszewski of the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region, the military organization responsible for protecting the city and surrounding counties.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-11-inaugural-security_x.htm
From:
Aftermath News Top Stories -
January 16th, 2005
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Bush protesters rethink tactics
San Francisco Chronicle
01/16/05
To show their disgust with George W. Bush's re-election, on Inauguration Day, his opponents will turn their back on his motorcade, 'refuse to spend one dime,' black out their Web sites, stage mock jazz funerals, wear black armbands and stage demonstrations from Palo Alto to Atlanta. But four years of such Bush-bashing theatrics didn't produce a change in November. And with Republicans controlling Congress and the White House, some of the president's most vocal critics have spent the past two post-election months making plans on how to begin preaching beyond the choir box, starting Thursday. Bottom line: less emphasis on mass demonstrations -- which Bush famously dismissed as 'focus groups' -- and more on reaching out to Americans who oppose the war but haven't publicly shown it...
http://tinyurl.com/5d9zc
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Lavish Bush Inaugural Stirs Debate and Protests
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011705K.shtml
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Gauging the Worth of US Troops in Neocon Eyes
by Kim Petersen
Kim Petersen ruminates on American spending priorities and the "opulent outburst of vainglory" of the War administration: Bush's upcoming inauguration party is slated to cost $40 million, while American troops in Iraq lack adequate armor, and a new Census Bureau report finds more Americans slipping into poverty. Many die so a few can party?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Petersen0117.htm
From Axis of Evil to Exit Door for Weasels
by Ahmed Amr
In making the case for the war against Iraq, the Bush administration insisted that Iraq had WMDs and intimate relationships with Bin Laden. Two years and a billion dollars later -- the search is over and the president will stage his inauguration party with yet another dry hole on his hands. Bush can handle dry holes as well as any man. He already has a long history of losing other people’s money as a wildcatter in the Texas oil patch. . . .In any case, things have obviously turned out worse than the bleakest initial projections. We are now witnessing the end game. Which brings us to Iran -- a former founding member of the axis of evil -- now elevated to a partner in designing an exit strategy with the neocon weasels who orchestrated this war of choice....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Amr0117.htm
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