One of the best parts about my job as a program consultant at Leading Authorities is that I am constantly learning new things. I work with a diverse set of speakers covering a variety of industries and a broad array of business and motivational topics–which means that every day is different and that I'm always learning and being challenged with new information and ideas. It's a lot of fun to help clients build their meetings and solve their organization's challenges along the way.
I was recently inspired by one of my clients who put together a program with the theme "Diversity Leads to Innovation." This client wanted to focus on the many reasons that working with a diverse group of leaders, thinkers, and coworkers ultimately leads to better and more effective ideas.
I receive many topic requests around innovation, and a good amount around diversity. This was the first time I received a request for a speaker to address how diversity can lead to innovation, and I immediately took to and loved the theme. I was so impressed that my client had dedicated an entire internal conference around this theme that the challenge of finding them the perfect speaker led to my inspiration. It was truly motivating to see how much importance a company placed on this topic and how much they cared about their employees.
Diversity leads to innovation touches on so many different sub topics: inclusion, communication, leadership, and growth to name a few. I put together a list of 20 speakers who touch upon this overarching idea as well as these smaller themes. Here is a list of speakers who talk about why diversity is so essential to innovation.
Read more about each of these dynamic keynote speakers on how to embrace diversity to drive innovation below and click on the links in each speaker's description to navigate to their individual speaker profile pages to learn more about their experience, expertise, and speaking topics.
Deborah Shaw is an expert in navigating uncertainty, as well as the reasons why unlikely people can often be the source of our greatest new ideas. She discovered strategies for success that formed a bridge from tough inner-city beginnings to award-winning entrepreneur and Fortune 50 senior executive and consultant. In 2004, Deborah founded the Rosado Shaw Group, LLC., a consulting and advisory firm focused on intervening in today's complex challenges around culture, performance, talent engagement, and diversity. Since 1996, Deborah has delivered custom executive briefings, seminars, keynotes, and consulting to organizations that include Accenture, American Express, The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, IBM, Microsoft, New York Life, PepsiCo, Sam's Club, Walmart, and many more. | See more on Deborah Shaw here.
H. Lee Scott served as Walmart's president and CEO from 2000 to 2009, the company's third, following Sam Walton and David Glass. He is widely credited with reinvigorating Walmart's mission and transforming it into a respected corporate leader on many of the major issues facing today's increasingly complex world. In eye-opening presentations, H. Lee Scott discusses why diversity is essentially to a successful and happy workforce. | See more on H.Lee Scott here.
Whether serving as CEO, Chief Marketing Officer, or Chairman of the Board, Dawn Hudson has led an impressive career spanning high-level posts in media, retail, consumer goods, consulting, and healthcare at some of the biggest corporations in the world including the NFL, PepsiCo, Lowe's Home Improvement, Allergan, PF Chang's, the LPGA, and NVIDIA. Hudson's track record of success is packed with groundbreaking ideas born of an ability to see what's around the corner and an expertise in crafting revenue-boosting competitive advantages, and she is able to relate these themes to the importance of diversity. Hudson has been recognized as the "Most Vital Leader in Tech, Media, and Marketing" by AdWeek—topping a list of 50 industry titans—and twice as one of Fortune magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business." | See more on Dawn Hudson here.
The son of Cuban immigrants who began his career selling cereal to small grocers in Mexico City, Carlos Guiterrez rose to become the youngest CEO in Kellogg's 100-year history. Named one of the most powerful Hispanic-Americans in business by Fortune magazine, he was an ardent voice for business in the government as well as why new voices from various backgrounds can often contribute to forging new partnerships that may not have been possible. As secretary of commerce, Gutierrez was a core member of President Bush's economic team.During his tenure, Gutierrez made it a top priority to open global markets for U.S. companies, and he played a key role in the passage of CAFTA-DR, a landmark trade agreement that expanded opportunities for US exports throughout Latin America. | See more on Carlos Gutierrez here.
Under Shellye Archambeau's 14 years of leadership, MetricStream has grown from a newly-formed company in 2004 into a recognized global market leader with nearly 1,500 employees globally, as of 2018. The company has been recognized for growth, product innovation, and customer success, and has been consistently named a leader in GRC by leading independent analyst firms. In April 2013, Archambeau was named the "#2 Most Influential African American in Technology" by Business Insider. She previously held senior positions with IBM during a 15-year-long career there, and was the first African American female to be sent on international assignment by IBM. She talks about her personal journey and why she believes diversity is essential to success. | See more on Shellye Archambeau here.
In her current role at Morgan Stanley, Carla Harris is responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. She has extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. The recipient of numerous awards, including being named to Fortune magazine's list of "The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America," Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women's Business Council in 2013. She helps groups tap into their unique potential and understand why our individual gifts are at the core of our success equations. She is the author of two best-selling books, Strategize To Win and Expect To Win, and the creator of "Carla's Pearls," the centerpiece of her speeches and television appearances. | See more on Carla Harris here.
Born in Israel and raised in Texas, Ori Brafman specializes in unique approaches to problem solving, and imparts the lessons he has learned about approaching problems in new ways to diverse audiences globally. His ideas have been implemented by the US government, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, the Chicago Bulls, the San Francisco 49ers, Amazon, Facebook, Family Business Network, and PWC. Brafman is a multiple New York Times best-selling author. His new best-selling book, Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership, examines today's leadership landscape and argues that inclusion is no longer a "nice-to-have" but a strategic imperative in the digital world. | See more on Ori Brafman here.
Ana Navarro is a top Republican strategist and political contributor for CNN and ABC who served as the national Hispanic co-chair for Governor Huntsman's 2012 Presidential campaign, national co-chair of Senator John McCain's Hispanic Advisory Council, national surrogate for Senator John McCain's 2008 Presidential campaign, as well as an ambassador for the United Nations' Human Rights Commission. Ana is an advocate for changes in immigration policies and sustained political outreach efforts for the Hispanic community. Respected on both sides of the political aisle for her straight shooting and candor, Navarro frequently appears on top media outlets, such as Meet the Press, Anderson Cooper 360, and The View, to name a few, where she shares her insights, as well as her personal journey to success. | See more on Ana Navarro here.
Dr. Sondra Thiederman is one of the nation's leading experts on unconscious bias and workplace inclusion issues. As President of Cross-Cultural Communications, a San Diego based training firm, Sondra has more than 25 years' experience as a speaker, trainer, and author. She helps professionals in Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, and dozens of associations find ways to successfully navigate and succeed in our increasingly diverse workplaces. Sondra's client list spans industries and associations ranging from aerospace (The Boeing Company) to Finance (Ernst and Young) to health care (The Mayo Clinic) to communications (AT&T) and beyond. | See more on Dr. Sondra Thiederman here.
Kristin Beck is a retired United States Navy SEAL, who served for more than 20 years in the Special Operations Forces, as well as a civil rights advocate. Over the course of 13 deployments and seven combat deployments, she conducted special operations with small UAVs, HUMINT, and Direct Action missions. Now a civil rights activist, she gives speeches and lectures at various events around the country. Kristin was a key voice in the Congressional Bill to end discrimination toward the LGBT community. She continues her "new mission" fighting for equality for all Americans and a documentary story of her life, Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, aired on CNN in 2014. She encourages audiences to focus on their similarities, rather than their differences, and to unlock new ideas by exploring various perspectives. | See more on Kristin Beck here.
Veteran political strategist, Donna Brazile, is the former interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the author of the New York Times bestseller Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House and the 2004 best-selling memoir Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics. She is a co-author of the forthcoming book For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. Ms. Brazile has devoted her life to working for progressive change, responsible governance, and the advancement of all people in a society that is fair and equitable, as well as why great ideas often come from unlikely places. Ms. Brazile loves working with young people, encouraging them to vote, to run for office, and to work within the system to strengthen it. | See more on Donna Brazile here.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is a member of The Washington Post editorial board, writes about politics and social issues for the PostPartisan blog, and hosts the Post's "Cape Up" podcast. He is also an MSNBC contributor who regularly serves as a substitute anchor. He is also revered for his abilities as an expert panelist and moderator, who is particularly skilled at directing and navigating honest, meaningful conversations with high-level personalities. In addition to his work with the Post, Capehart is a regular moderator of panels at the Aspen Ideas Festival and for the Aspen Institute, the Center for American Progress and at the Atlantic Dialogues conference and the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund. In moving speeches, he shares his personal story and encourages audiences to not discount people who may seem different. | See more on Jonathan Capehart here.
The Democrat to partner Joe Scarborough's Republican, Mika Brzezinski spends each weekday morning debating the headlines of the day with a roundtable of political insiders, journalists, and newsmakers. Morning Joe has been called "revolutionary" by TIME magazine and ranked a top news show by The New York Times, who noted the stellar impact of Brzezinski's natural repartee with co-host Scarborough as well as her off-the cuff commentary. Most recently, Brzezinski and her co-host were both inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. In addition to her daily television presence, Mika Brzezinski is a best-selling author. Her second book, Knowing Your Value, looks at perceptions of value and how successful women today have achieved their deserved recognition and financial worth in the workplace. Knowing Your Value reached #1 on the New York Times best-seller list for business books in 2011 and is currently in its second edition. | See more on Mika Brzezinski here.
Dex Torricke-Barton, son of refugees from Burma, has managed communications for some of the most-influential and admired Silicon Valley leaders and corporations of our day. From 2012 to 2016, he led the executive communications team at Facebook and served as personal speechwriter for Mark Zuckerberg. On stage, Dex expertly combines his experience working for some of the world's most innovative and technology-driven brands with his passion for social innovation to help companies shift towards a 21st century business methodology. Dex takes audiences into Facebook's boardroom, Musk's open-concept cubicle, the famed Googleplex, and finally to the UN itself to share lessons on what it takes in today's environment to build highly-effective internal teams, how to use storytelling in modern communications, and what to make of the steady transition from local to global that's unfolded over the past decade. | See more on Dex Torricke-Barton here.
Erik Weihenmayer is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world. Despite losing his vision at age 14, he is an accomplished climber, paraglider, skier, and kayaker who never allows blindness interfere with his passion for pursuing an exhilarating and fulfilling life. Erik brings audiences a powerful message about harnessing the power of adversity and different life experiences as fuel for greatness, emphasizing the importance of building a strong "Rope Team," and illuminating how to develop a "No Barriers Mindset." Erik's talks resonate with diverse audiences from graduating college students to large sales teams to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Erik's speaking career has taken him around the globe from the 2005 APEC Summit in Chile to the 2009 Presidential Inaugural celebration in Washington, DC. | See more on Erik Weihenmayer here.
Anthony Foxx is the Chief Policy Officer at Lyft who formerly served as the 17th United States Secretary of Transportation and as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. As Secretary of Transportation, he led an agency with more than 55,000 employees and a budget of $70 billion. Secretary Foxx energized DOT's embrace of innovation to help solve these problems by launching the Smart City Challenge, a national competition to implement bold, data-driven ideas that make transportation safer, easier, and more reliable in that city. In fast-paced presentations, Foxx encourages audiences to rethink what they know about "how things should be done." He also worked to accelerate the Department's efforts to incorporate vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology into new vehicles. As Chief Policy Officer at ride-sharing powerhouse Lyft, he works to develop government partnerships and serves as adviser to Lyft's president and CEO. | See more on Anthony Foxx here.
In 2011, Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls CODE, a non-profit organization dedicated to "changing the face of technology" by introducing girls of color (ages seven to seventeen) to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts. As Oprah describes, Black Girls CODE is "the first organization of its kind." Kimberly has helped Black Girls CODE grow from a local grassroots initiative serving only the Bay Area, to an international organization with fourteen chapters across the US and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Black Girls CODE has currently reached over 7,000 students and continues to grow and thrive. She speaks to audiences about why greatness often comes from the most unexpected places. | See more on Kimberly Bryant here.
Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour propelled herself from beat cop to combat pilot in a record-breaking three years and became America's First African American female combat pilot. FlyGirl's first signature book, Zero to Breakthrough: The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals that Matter, which was released by Penguin in 2011, chronicles the process she utilized to transition from beat cop to America's First African American Female Combat Pilot. She is an internationally-recognized inspirational leadership keynote speaker for premier leadership conferences and Fortune 500 companies, who helps groups develop a breakthrough mentality that prizes talent of all shapes and sizes. | See more on Vernice Armour here.
Originally from Israel and having previously spent 14 years as a vice president in marketing at Microsoft, Lior Zoref is currently a researcher and advisor whose work has been featured in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, NPR, The Huffington Post, and more. In his fascinating and highly-engaging talks, Dr. Zoref looks at the ways organizations and individuals can draw on wisdom of crowds to create a greater output with less effort. He shares techniques major corporations are using now to innovate and problem-solve in record time—all by using the power of "we." Zoref used stories of crowdsourcing in action—including a poll of the audience—to illustrate its power. | See more on Lior Zoref here.
A schoolteacher turned actor, recording artist, two-time national poetry slam champion, entrepreneur, and award-winning poetic voice, Sekou is a multi-talented entertainer with over 2 decades of experience rocking diverse audiences. It is no surprise that Forbes Magazine has called Sekou "the de facto poet laureate of corporate America." His "wow-factor" is in high demand with the world's most successful organizations, including Google, Viacom, Toyota, Nike, Cisco, LinkedIn, Global Green, Paypal, ASAE, The Gap, General Mills, TEDx, and the NBA, to name but a few. Sekou's talks on disruption are in such demand because they literally embody disruption on stage, charging audiences to disrupt themselves to access their individual innovation. His keynotes on dynamic communication and storytelling show leaders how to deliver dense data through beautifully human presentations. | See more on Sekou Andrews here.
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The Nazis Are Already At It AGAIN: In These Last Days Before The Beast, Democrats are Sons And Daughters Of Hell, Pure And Simple
"I ask of you that that which I say to you in this circle be really only heard and not ever discussed. We were faced with the question: what about the women and children? – I decided to find a clear solution to this problem too. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men – in other words, to kill them or have them killed and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to grow up. The difficult decision had to be made to have this people disappear from the earth. For the organisation which had to execute this task, it was the most difficult which we had ever had. […] I felt obliged to you, as the most superior dignitary, as the most superior dignitary of the party, this political order, this political instrument of the Führer, to also speak about this question quite openly and to say how it has been. The Jewish question in the countries that we occupy will be solved by the end of this year. Only remainders of odd Jews that managed to find hiding places will be left over." — Heinrich Himmler, regarding the Jewish question
Thus I have basically given the order to also kill the wives and children of these partisans, and commissars. I would be a weakling and a criminal to our descendants if I allowed the hate-filled sons of the sub-humans we have liquidated in this struggle of humanity against subhumanity to grow up. — Heinrich Himmler
It was a difficult thing, the murder of six million Jews, but it had to be done because the Jewish race was evil and had to be exterminated for the good of the Reich. It would require very strong, dedicated men who could endure the necessary tasks that had to be undertaken toward this end. But clearly the ends justify the means. We cannot be weaklings, we must be strong, we must be willing to endure whatever it requires. That was Himmler's message to his SS guards who were heroically murdering Jewish men, women and children first by the thousands, then the tens of thousands, ultimately the millions. That is what it required to be a member of the Nazi Party.
Why do I point that history out? Because ugly history repeats itself whenever moral idiots and fools are involved. And Democrats are moral idiots and fools.
What does it require to be a member of the Democrat Party in regards to a Donald Trump or to ANY conservative who wants a voice at a university where they routinely get shouted down or suffer threats of horrible violence? The identical same attitude and willingness to set all higher principles, all democracy, all freedom, all of our Constitutional guarantees, aside. Because they have defined Donald Trump as evil, just as the Nazis defined the Jews as evil, in accordance with their own principles and values, and both party organizations therefore took on the wicked and godless mindset that there are no moral limits to what they are entitled to do to stamp out their "evil." They will do ANYTHING and congratulate themselves as heroes for their undertaking.
And of course if a Jew were to respond violence for violence and attack the Nazis, Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda would seize upon it and declare, "Look at these terrible Jews! Look what they are doing to us! We must STOP them!"
Which is to say that nothing is different today in what used to be the United States of America. Same ends-justifies-means mentality, same declaration that the other side must be evil and there are no sacred principles that prevent us from doing whatever is necessary to stop them, etcetera etcetera.
I think of the Joseph Goebbels' mainstream American media and how they kept holding Donald Trump responsible for what people who supported him did. That might be fine, as long as they did the same to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. But how many "journalists" have drawn that moral connection between Trump supporters who have punched protestors and Democrat supporters who have violated every principle of free speech and violently forced their way into events for the sole purpose of preventing that speech???
Oh, that Goebbels' Ministry media machine excoriated Donald Trump when a racist nobody had heard about for thirty years came out and endorsed Donald Trump. But how many "reporters" are reporting that Hillary Clinton was just endorsed by the Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan? How many "journalists" are in her face citing her own criticism of Trump's alleged connection to David Duke and demanding that she explain what kind of hater she is that the KKK supports her???
The crickets are chirping.
What I keep hearing from the left is that the violence that surrounds Trump events (because the left keeps trucking its Brownshirt thugs into them to break them up) is Trump's fault because he says things that incite rage. Okay, damn near everything that Obama, Clinton and Sanders say incites my rage. So I now have a moral right to stop them from saying what incites me, right?
Wrong, of course. Because the violence machine only works one way: it only works for Democrats who have the right of roaches to brutally suppress Republican speech. You must not ever believe it can possibly work the exact same way with the teams switched around.
There is necessarily in any free society the right of the speaker to speak, the right of the listeners to hear, along with the right of the protestor to protest. The protestors should have the right to write articles, the right to hold protest events – but not the right to violate the right of the speaker to speak or the listeners to hear. Stay the hell outside, and in fact keep a respectable distance from the rival event so that protest won't turn into a riot.
And so I simply state a tried and true principle: whichever side strays into the other side's territory IS THE NAZI.
And the Democrats have now been the Nazis over and over and over again.
Let me just point something out: I've been writing about this for YEARS no. I started in a scholarly way by describing postmodernism and its explicit connection to fascism. Allow me to point out that DEMOCRATS ARE POSTMODERNISTS:
How Postmodernism Leads To Fascism (part 1)
I wrote those articles back in May of 2008. I saw this day coming. I spake as a prophet.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is precisely, without any equivocation, what we are seeing from the left, from the Democrat Party of today, in pursuit of their goal to destroy Donald Trump whatever the cost, whatever the difficulty, whatever questionable moral conduct they must heroically endure. Himmler and his boss would be so proud of them, so proud that the spirit of the Brownshirt lives on.
We're to the point where every single Democrat in America is as vicious as Cynthia Soto's Daughter of Hell. These people are just in your face fascist Nazi thug EVIL.
As we speak, Democrats have hacked Donald Trump, they have literally threatened to murder his family with terrorist chemicals (they used a white powder this time, basically said it would be anthrax next time). They have now threatened to murder Donald Trump's sister – A FEDERAL JUDGE – unless Donald Trump drop out of the race.
I want you to think about that: Donald Trump has a nine-year-old kid. I just want you to contemplate the HELL you liberals would have unleashed if right-wing haters had threatened the lives of Sasha and Malia Obama. Or Chelsea Clinton.
Note: here is a case where a GOP staffer was forced to RESIGN because she criticized classless behavior on the part of the daughters of the first family. That's the vicious way the left protects their spawn but refuses to do for anyone else's kids. Also note that nowhere and at no time did that GOP staffer threaten to murder the daughters with anthrax. THAT is something apparently reserved exclusively for pathologically Democrats to do.
And STILL YET AGAIN a rabid mob of Democrats were as determined as the hell they are from and will surely go to suppress free speech Nazi thug style, this time in Utah.
Quote from ABC:
Hundreds of people chanted "Dump Trump" and "Mr. Hate Out of Our State" as police in riot gear blocked the entrance to the Salt Lake City building, after protesters tried to rush the door and got into dozens of screaming matches with Trump supporters who didn't make into the venue.
And the very next day (Saturday) in Arizona they were without any moral or legal restraint as they blocked roads, shut down traffic – literally chained themselves to their vehicles and endangering anyone who required emergency medical assistance – to usurp and destroy the free speech rights of every single American who wanted to hear what Donald Trump had to say.
And then look how the Goebbels-owned-and-operated AP (which stands for the anal orifice more it stands anything else today) characterizes what happened in its headline: "Trump kicks out protesters at Arizona rally." In the course of the article you learn that there were about two dozen Democrats who righteously believed that they had the holy and sacred duty to destroy all free speech and political freedoms of THOUSANDS of Americans.
And where is the Democrat Party on this? Solidly with the protesters just like the Nazis they truly are.
Democrats can do ANYTHING that they feel is necessary to stop Donald Trump whatever the cost. Sieg Hillary! Sieg Hillary!!! SIEG HILLARY!!!!
You vicious Nazis. The Democrat Party is to free speech what Adolf Hitler was to Jews.
You sit there and equivocate – those few of you who are willing to pretend that you don't condone these fascist suppressions of the 1st Amendment free speech guarantee – because, after all, Donald Trump is bringing this hated on himself, right?
Wrong. There was once a time – I think it was 1977 – when liberals said that even the ugliest speech had to be protected and in fact protected MOST because you don't HAVE to protect speech that everyone wants to hear. And so they demanded that the American Nazi Party be allowed to march – in deliberate provocation – through a town that was composed primarily of Jewish Holocaust survivors.
But that same Democrat Party has degenerated into roaches who will simply crawl over ANYTHING.
Donald Trump isn't instigating violence against ANYONE. He's not calling on his followers to go outside his event and hurt people. No, that's all being done by YOU, liberal, in your fascist determination to oppose him using any means necessary the same way Himmler was determined to use any means necessary to stop HIS enemies the Jews. YOU'RE the ones who go outside your events into others' events and try to forcibly take them over. The Trump campaign is legally renting facilities to hold 1st Amendment protected free political assemblies and these NAZIS are determined to prevent democracy regardless of how much violence it takes.
I have not been a Trump guy, and there was a time when I questioned in my heart whether I could pull the level for him and actually vote Trump. But one thing that makes me different from now every single Democrat Party member in America: I support free speech, and therefore I support his right to speak to any audience that will listen to him without interruption, without fascists trying to use Nazi tactics to shout him down, without Nazi Brownshirt tactics to go into his events and disrupt them with violent tactics.
You can go back over all the articles I've written since Obama first horrified me: I never ONCE called for violence against his ability to campaign, or for people to show up to shout him down. That's the kind of thing only fascists – by which I mean DEMOCRATS – seem to do.
And because you Democrats have no such respect for freedom, liberty, our Constitution, you have resolved my issues with Trump. I will GLADLY cast a ballot for him (just not in the primary, where I'm voting for Ted Cruz). Because you are the far greater evil, Democrat. You are literally on the wrong side of democracy, the wrong side of free speech, the wrong side of basic liberty and human dignity.
YOU DEMOCRATS who gave rise to Trump because you allowed Obama to enrage tens of millions to the tune of half the nation, YOU are the ones who gave me the resolve to vote for Trump with your hatred of the 1st Amendment.
You rabid fools need to understand something: TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS like myself despise Hillary Clinton every scintilla as much as you hate Donald Trump; in fact we've despised her far longer because she has been an incompetent and destructive fascist in our nation's government FAR longer than Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton literally has blood on her fangs.
That said, we are AMERICANS and you are fascists. So we respect the freedom of speech of others – even those others we disagree with and frankly despise – whereas YOU are rabid Nazis and you therefore hate freedom and the free speech that is quintessential TO freedom. To be a Democrat means to be entirely without any kind of personal honor.
Which is frankly why you love Hillary Clinton – who is the EMBODIMENT of dishonor and standing for NOTHING but the raw pursuit of power – to begin with. If you people HAD any honor, you would be out in the streets screaming for Hillary Clinton to turn over transcripts of her speeches that she got paid millions of dollars to give to the crony capitalist financial institutions she now claims she's going to oppose. But nope, even the most vocal Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren are now COMPLETELY IN FAVOR of a corrupt insider who is OWNED by the big banks not being accountable for what she said to them behind closed doors. Because again, to be a Democrat is to be nothing but a complete abject moral hypocrite as well as a Nazi.
You people would be ashamed of yourselves, but shame is a virtue and you have no virtues of any kind.
We've seen this behavior over and over again from the left: we've seen Harvard liberals literally calling for the outright destruction of any speech they disagree with. I mean holy hell, THIS is what the leftist intellectual elite is actually SAYING:
"Let's give up on academic freedom in favor of justice," states the subtitle of her Feb. 18 column, in which she insists Harvard stop guaranteeing students and professors the right to hold controversial views and conduct research putting liberalism in a negative light.
"If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals?"
"It is tempting to decry frustrating restrictions on academic research as violations of academic freedom. Yet I would encourage student and worker organizers to instead use a framework of justice. After all, if we give up our obsessive reliance on the doctrine of academic freedom, we can consider more thoughtfully what is just."
Just imagine conservative Republicans doing that to YOU. But again, you're the Nazis and conservatives are the Jews, and there's this arrogant superiority in your knowledge that you alone are truly evil and the other side would NEVER do to you what you do to them on a regular basis.
We've got leftist professors – and not just that but JOURNALISM professors – calling for some "muscle" to violently eject reporters from covering vile leftist activist protests.
The Democrat organizer like any terrorist offered a terrorist statement: "Our resolution is that Trump should be afraid." Because they are the worst Nazis since people who loved freedom finally rose up against them in the 1940s, and Trump ought to be afraid.
Black Lives Matter – and I'm literally talking about THE guy who organized the vicious race-hate event in which the mob changed "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" – you know, in honor of the police officers who had just been ASSASSINATED – said that his mob was just being "playful" and that his group hadn't suppressed Trump's free speech because, after all, Trump could have gone ahead with the event.
I am a little brother. So I know the game this "Black Lives DON'T Matter To Black Lives Matter" thug is playing. See, you get on top of your little brother, then you grab his hands and start hitting him with his own hands. And the little brother is shouting, "Stop hitting me!" And the big brother is saying, "What are you talking about? I'm not even touching you! You're hitting YOURSELF!"
Liberals play their word games all the time. Being politically correct is not just an attempt to make people feel better. It's a large, coordinated effort to change Western culture as we know it by redefining it. Early Marxists designed their game plan long ago and continue to execute it today — and now liberals are picking up the same tactic: to control the argument by controlling the "acceptable" language. Those with radical agendas understand the game plan and are taking advantage of an oversensitive and frankly overly gullible public. Politically correct speech came from the Marxists who were determined to literally impose ideology by shaping the allowed speech of the surrounding culture. For example, I proudly declare my status as a "Native American." I was born in America. Both my parents were born in America. All four of my grandparents were born in America. And all but one of my great grandparents were born in America. If I'm not a "native American," well, where the hell am I a native of??? Where do I get to go to claim I'M a native??? That status was seized from me by leftist ideologues employing the communist-fascist tactic to use speech to shape the narrative. How dare I deny this status to American Indians? But on the other hand, wasn't that status seized and stolen from ME and every single American like me???
And when they get their words in, well, THEN they have the right to act in riotous, violent manner to ensure that their PC words and phrases get imposed.
And so we get gay marriage, when "gay" and "marriage" are literally a contradiction in terms, a self-refuting phrase. Because marriage is the union between one MAN and one WOMAN. That's what "marriage" has always been in every culture throughout all recorded history. And so now thanks to Marxist PC thug tactics, I'm depicted as the one trying to seize something away, when THEY were the ones who stripped it away from ME. But my rights – and this is a FACT now that Christian wedding photographers, Christian bakers, etc. have been destroyed because they tried to exercise their religious liberty – have been trampled on in favor of "rights" that were literally fabricated.
Donald Trump, in cancelling that event in Chicago, proved that he is THE most peaceful man in America. At least compared to ANY Democrat in this country. Because at event after event, Democrats are doing everything they can to provoke violence. We'll either going to let them take away our rights or there's going to be violence. And either way, fascist thug Democrats believe they win. Because evil knows evil, and Democrat fascist thugs know exactly how THE most dishonest media that ever existed bar none will cover any violence they start once they get inside the event.
These are professional Democrat Nazi thugs paid by Democrat Nazi organizations to suppress free speech of anyone they disagree with.
One of the interesting things is the bookend of Nazi Democrat TERRORISTS: Bill Ayers – the same Bill Ayers who gave birth to Barack Obama's political career – was spotted crawling around one of the To Hell With The First Amendment "protests."
And that takes us right to Obama. And again, if I and other conservatives were anywhere NEAR as Nazi as you liberals, we would be doing everything we could to kill him, to murder his family, to forcibly barge into every speaking event he gave and create havoc hoping for violence just so we could falsely depict ourselves as victims of violence while we peddled lies to the world through endless propaganda.
There is absolutely no question our culture has become so much more rabid and so much more toxic thanks to Obama. It started with the Occupy Movement and just got more toxic as Obama felt more free to be more and more wicked. It went to Black Lives Matter and literally the assassinations of numerous police officers who are now terrified to do their jobs and enforce laws because you people are LAWLESS fascist thugs. Obama has been utterly lawless. He told us over and over and over again that if he took certain actions it would constitute an anti-democratic act of a king, an emperor – and then he did it anyway. He literally actually makes jokes about his lawlessness. Hillary Clinton is revealing an even more viciously hateful lawless heart and a determination to do whatever the hell – and I mean HELL – she wants to do:
Hillary Clinton shouted "Call off your fucking dogs!" to Obama demanding that he call off the FBI from investigating her now blatant crimes now documented more than 2,ooo times over in which far greater people like war hero General Petraeus and far lesser individuals have not only been destroyed but gone to prison for committing tiny fractions of what we already know Clinton committed. And mind you, we now have DOCUMENTED that she was REPEATEDLY TOLD THE RISKS TO NATIONAL SECURITY OF WHAT SHE WAS DOING BUT DID IT ANYWAY. Which is to say that she not only committed numerous federal crimes but knew in advance that she was committing them.
An indictment very clearly looms, but it's up to Obama whether to allow a Democrat to be prosecuted and be just or be a traitor to our entire way of life and be political and ideological and unjust and criminal himself. Obama LIED and claimed that he knew nothing about Hillary Clinton's secret fascist private server, but now we have the FACT that he knew and so he is declaring his emails to the site he claims he didn't know anything about secret. And oh, for the record, there is a long, documented history of the most non-transparent and corrupt administration in human history conveniently "losing" anything that would embarrass it or any evidence of crimes it has committed. And so Obama thugs simply won't release the evidence of her obvious treasonous crimes against the security of the American people.
Just look at the timeline of Clinton's treasonous emails compiled by one of the few reporters who actually is NOT a propagandist today and it is so obvious that Hillary Clinton is a liar and a criminal and that Obama is a liar and a criminal co-conspirator it is beyond unreal.
We're a banana republic now thanks to these lawless, immoral roaches.
It used to be that the FBI and the Justice Department represented "dogs" of JUSTICE who would pursue crime and corruption; now whether JUSTICE is done is literally up entirely to Obama who is the most corrupt and pathologically dishonest man who ever contaminated the White House with his evil.
So let's zero in on Barack Hussein Obama and the virulent cancer this wicked man has been on the presidency and on the nation. How HE gave birth to the rage that created Donald Trump.
This is a man who never ONCE in his entire cockroach presidency EVER tried to unify America or transcend the political divide as he dishonestly and wickedly promised the American people. The entire Democrat Party machine is based on dividing people by race, by income, by gender, by sexual preference, by you name it. The Democrat Party took God out of their platform in 2012 – and then cynically and cravenly put Him back in in obvious and blatant violation of their own rules and against their own delegates because they are the most cynically wicked group of people on earth today – and they are nothing but wicked and corrupt when God looks down at the Democrat Party this happens:
Now the [Democrat Party] was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence [against babies and against literally EVERY Donald Trump campaign rally]. — see Genesis 6:11
Now the [political party] of Sodom was wicked and was sinning greatly against the LORD. – see Genesis 13:13
Okay, okay. I added a couple of words. But in this case I didn't change the meaning one iota. I made it applicable to America today.
You think I'm going too far? Obama and his Democrat filth have made all of America "Sodom". There is no question that we are now officially "the United States of Sodomy." That is a fact that every single Democrat who defiantly lusts for the wrath of God according to Romans 1:18-32 desire as much as they lust for perverted sodomy. There is a rabid hate on the part of the Democrat Party for God, for His ways, and for the United Stateshttp://stonethepreacher.com/60-million-dead-and-unwanted/ of America that was once "One Nation Under God."
And let me close with the words of Obama's own spiritual leader Jeremiah Wright that it is a good thing America burn to the ground, because – and I quote Obama's reverend – "NOT God bless America! God DAMN America!"
I find it amazing. Jeremiah Wright said "God damn America for killing innocent people!"
Now, Obama's reverend, like Obama himself, is a wicked man. But he stands in the same role as Obama's priest as Caiaphas stood in as the High Priest at the time of Jesus. There's an amazing passage in John 11:49-52:
Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish." He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.
In other words, Caiaphas – as cynical and self-serving and wicked as he was with his self-serving logic – was nevertheless speaking prophetically as he tried to murder Jesus – the Lamb of God who gave His life for the sins of the world.
And in the exact same manner, Jeremiah Wright – America's high priest by virtue of the cancerous Obama presidency – prophetically invoked God's damnation on America because this incredibly wicked nation has now murdered ten innocent human beings for every single ONE Jew the Nazis brutally murdered. And God DAMN us for it.
Every single Democrat on earth will one day stand before a just and holy God as flames of wrath billow from His chariot throne and each one will be tried and convicted of the murder of now SIXTY MILLION babies. And I tell you the truth, you will scream in hell for a trillion times a trillion millennia for every single NANOSECOND that you viciously and callously and inhumanly STOLE from every single one of the lifetimes those precious souls should have lived and would have lived if it were not for the evil YOU VOTED FOR AND KEPT VOTING FOR.
To be a "Democrat" is to be the worst mass murderer in the entire history of planet earth. And hell cannot last long enough for you to pay for your moral crimes against life itself.
And I state for the historic record that it was THE DEMOCRAT PARTY that turned away thousands of Jews who were thus consigned to the death camps when they had literally reached the very shores of freedom.
Every wicked sin of the Democrat Party – from the genocidal Trail of Tears to the Civil War Democrats started over their determination to impose slavery to that awful moment when Democrat President FDR sent Jews to be murdered in the Holocaust to all of the wickedness of your Cockroach-in-Chief Obama will be laid on your heads, Democrat.
I've already pointed out that when REPUBLICAN President Abraham Lincoln was elected president, EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT STATE SECEDED AND STARTED THE VICIOUS CIVIL WAR in which 750,000 Americans were killed. But let's keep going: because it just so happens that World War One was waged under Democrat Woodrow Wilson – who worshiped the State and government power – which resulted in the deaths of 116,516 Americans. World War Two was waged under Democrat Socialist New Dealer FDR, which resulted in the deaths of 405,399. The Korean War was waged due to the negligence of the only leader who has ever used atomic bombs, as 36,516 Americans perished. Then we come to the Vietnam War, waged under LBJ which ultimately claimed the lives of another 58,209 Americans. And in that war the Democrat Party became the first traitors in the history of the republic as they ultimately turned on their own soldiers whom they themselves had consigned to war beginning a trend of traitorous betrayal that has continued unabated ever since.
Let's see, I add that Democrat hell total up, sixty million murdered babies plus all their wars, and I get, let me see here, carry the one… 61,366,,640 dead Americans thanks to the Democrat Party. Now, I added up all the wars Republicans have started and I ended up with 5,817. That includes all the dead from Iraq – given the despicable fact that Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and John Kerry and Harry Reid treacherously and traitorously turned on that war after VOTING for it – but only includes the deaths from Afghanistan up to 2008 given Obama's utterly insanely stupid handling of the war which caused the US death toll to skyrocket (from 630 under Bush to 1751 and counting under Obama).
Let me push this connection between abortion deaths and war deaths a little further. There's an interesting comparison I came across between how the communist/socialist Soviet Union viewed their soldiers' lives versus the United States:
General Eisenhower, in his conversations with Marshal Zhukov, was struck by the different value that Soviet and American leaders placed on their soldiers' lives. In one instance, Zhukov explained that minefields were best cleared by marching soldiers through them, reasoning that a few losses to mines were acceptable to maintain the momentum of an attack. Eisenhower noted in his memoirs that such methods, regardless of their tactical utility, had no place in the armies under his command. "Americans assess the cost of war in terms of human lives," he wrote, "the Russians on the overall drain on the nation." Throughout American history, from Antietam to Hamburger Hill, a victory won with too many lives was not a victory at all. — Firepower in Limited War, pg. 4, by Robert H. Scales, Jr.
I'm simply going to state for the record that both Antietam and Hamburger Hill occurred before Roe v. Wade. That event in 1973 and the sixty million babies murdered under its horror since leads me to conclude one fact: that Democrats are like the communists in many, MANY ways, least of which is their horrific doctrine of their own people. Because don't TELL me you value the lives of the American people, Democrat: YOU CAN'T EVEN VALUE YOUR VERY OWN CHILDREN'S LIVES. And the closer you get to "Democrat" the closer you get to HELL: to wit, black people are THE most faithful constituents of the Democrat Party, and they murder six out of every ten of their own children in the abortion mills.
It's no wonder that Democrats build well over three out of every four of their abortion clinics in black neighborhoods, because to quote Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood fame, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Because to quote Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "Frankly I had thought that at the time [that abortion was legalised], there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
Liberalism is the pursuit of hell. And the closer you are to the Democrat Party, the closer you are to hell on earth. It is as if you yearn for what you will one day receive the same way devout Christians yearn for heaven. And just as Jesus taught His disciples to pray, "Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven," Democrats pray for their kingdom to come on earth as it is in HELL. And they are hard at work trying to actualize hell right here on earth.
You want to blame the Republican Party? You go ahead. But you add up the 60 million babies you've murdered plus the death tolls of all your wars, and I wouldn't want to be you trying to say anything other than the fact that the Democrat Party always HAS been the party of death and always WILL BE the party of death.
But oh, I could go on. According to Democrat sources, as many as 2.4 million black slaves from Africa were killed being transported to America. We could add that to the Democrat Party hell total given their utter devotion to slavery leading up to and causing the Civil War. And we could likewise add up the six million Jews FDR never bothered to lift a damn finger to save during the Holocaust of his World War Two. I think that's only fair, given how he turned away Jews to be murdered in the death camps when they were RIGHT HERE. We could certainly add the horror of Rwanda when Bill Clinton's cowardly refusal to use the simple word "genocide" resulted in the ghastly murder of 800,000 people. It wasn't just that Bill Clinton morally wickedly refused to use the word "genocide" even as hundreds of thousands of Africans were being viciously murdered in a GENOCIDE. But Clinton also did everything in his power to prevent paid professional soldiers such as those at Executive Outcomes to prevent that slaughter which that organizations documented history proves they could have prevented. Because while Bill Clinton said the words, "The era of big government is over," he always loved his precious big government, and he didn't want private military organizations to be allowed to prevent genocides just because his precious big government refused to do the damn job. And we likewise ought to add up the slaughter toll due to Obama's terrifyingly failed foreign policy. Because you ought to be held accountable for your omissions as well as your commissions. And MILLIONS have been killed in Syria and the rest of the Middle East since Obama became our Roach-in-Chief and refused to do more than blather useless idiocy while people perished by the thousands. As we speak, Obama – like Bill Clinton before him – is an abject COWARD for refusing to use the word "genocide" to apply to the shocking nightmare that is being inflicted by Islamic State (which itself Obama gave birth to).
Because of Obama's uselessness, because of the abject FAILURE of his foreign policy, because all this cynical, wicked coward cares about is political posturing and political shenanigans, we now witness the worst refugee crisis in the entire documented history of the planet. We can bookend the horror of Democrat's abortion toll of 60 million with 60 million human beings with nowhere to go thanks to Obama's fail. And that number has skyrocketed since thanks to your wicked president who arrogantly, steadfastly and defiantly refuses to do what is right.
And Democrats are responsible for ALL of it.
I tell you the truth, Democrat, Obama's wicked sins will be laid upon your head. You will SCREAM IN HELL for what your false messiah did.
I would literally not vote Democrat for all the money in the world. I would not vote Democrat if someone were to put a loaded gun to my head and tell me he would shoot me unless I voted Democrat. Because "What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" (Matthew 16:26).
I would rather be a roach than a Democrat, with the caveat that it is frankly nearly impossible to tell one apart from the other.
"[Democrats] are of their father, the devil, and they want to carry out their fathers desires. He was a [baby] murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for their is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." — See John 8:44
There is a saying, "Better to starve free than be a fat slave." But I submit to you that in Hillary Clinton's very words Obama has already proven that to be not quite true: because fat slaves under socialism don't get to remain fat for very long.
We live in a time where the very worst of history repeats itself because Democrats have now repeatedly and routinely proven that they will stop at absolutely NOTHING to impose their will on other people, just as the Nazis did before them, even using the same damn thug tactics to do it. We live in the time just before the Antichrist, the beast, comes.
And we can now easily see why every single Democrat will worship the beast and take his mark on their right hands, or on their foreheads.
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Remember Watching Islamic State Destroy Monuments And People Were Horrified? But Now LIBERALS Are Doing It So It's OK
It wasn't very long ago that the universal consensus of journalists and news reporters was that it was a terrible, evil, tragic thing that Islamic State thugs were destroying ancient monuments:
Video: Islamic State group destroys ancient ruins of Nimrud
Islamic State takes sledgehammer to 'irreplaceable' ancient Palmyra ruins
Islamic State 'demolishes' ancient Hatra site in Iraq
I felt sick to my stomach when I first heard the callous disregard – the hatred – for history, for where we've come from. I love history and archeology, and these sites were absolutely irreplaceable. And they were destroyed by rabid people who are absolutely vicious toward anyone or anything that doesn't agree with their ideology.
Just like their American brethren, Democrats and liberal progressives, it turns out.
'Black Lives Matter' Vandalism Wave Strikes Confederate Memorials Around the Country
by Warner Todd Huston24 Jun 2015
AP Photo/WCSC-TV, Philip Weiss
A rash of instances of property destruction, vandalism, and petty crimes have cascaded across the country unleashed by the "Black Lives Matter" movement as families grieve those killed by a lone gunman in a South Carolina church.
The mood was set on Sunday as "Black Lives Matter" protesters gathered to burn the US flag and hoist a black nationalist flag in Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday. A photo of the flag burning was posted to Twitter by professional race agitator DeRay McKesson.
By Tuesday statues and monuments from Maryland and the Carolina Coast down to Texas had been defaced by criminals leaving "Black Lives Matter" messages spray painted upon them.
Charleston, South Carolina itself had at least two monuments defaced. In the first case, Saturday night the Confederate Defenders of Charleston monument in White Point Garden park was defaced with a "Black Lives Matter" message.
In a second incident, on Tuesday a statue dedicated to famed legislator and seventh Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun was defaced in Charleston's Marion Square.
The vandalism continued elsewhere. On Monday a statue dedicated to fallen Confederate soldiers was vandalized in Baltimore, Maryland's Bolton Hill neighborhood.
Another statue, this one in Asheville, North Carolina, was defaced on Tuesday. A monument dedicated to Civil War governor Zebulon Vance, built in 1896, was also desecrated with the "Black Lives Matter" message.
The destruction continued westward where a statue dedicated to former Confederate president Jefferson Davis was vandalized at the University of Texas at Austin.
I guess unlike those other ancient sites all of our Civil War monuments are easily replaceable. After all, what did the Civil War really cost us? It only cost America as many dead Americans as all of our other wars COMBINED.
Democrats figure they murder that many American babies in their abortion mills in less than a year, so what's the big deal?
I particularly find fitting the comparison to the number of soldiers killed in the Civil War with abortion given the unholy outrage of the "racism" of the Confederate cause when Democrats stand for THIS:
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." — Margaret Sanger (Hillary Clinton's hero), in Woman, Morality, and Birth Control (New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12)
Yeah, "colored ministers" such as the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright, and Oh, yes: how about a a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect" community organizer?
And oh, yes, let's not forget Hillary Rodham Clinton's participation in this liberal progressive holy war against blacks:
Hillary Clinton's hero's vision – and the political ideology that BOTH these women have championed – are BOTH stage 5 cancers to black babies to this very day:
Black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion
Here's a little fact about the modern Confederate Party:
"Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los, Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black." — Erma Clardy Craven, Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader
Hillary Clinton's hero spoke to a Ku Klux Klan rally. Which ought to be no surprise, given that history reveals that the Democrat Party has been so deep in bed with the Klan that the 1924 Democrat National Convention was called "The Klanbake."
We can celebrate with Margaret and Hillary because as this headline points out:
Margaret Sanger's Dream Come True: Eugenics by Abortion
The racist dream came true! I mean, yay! Right, liberal hypocrite pervert? The Democrat Party is EVERY BIT as treasonous and as racist as they ever were; they just found a different form of plantation and a different form of slavery for – well, let's just call them what Barack Obama called them, NIGGERS – to enjoy. I guess if Bill Clinton can make blowjobs okay, there's no reason Barack Obama can't make the N-word okay for decent society. Oral sex isn't sex when a Democrat president gets it in the Oval Office from a young female intern and the N-word isn't racist when a Democrat president uses it, so there you go.
What is amazing is that as Democrats shrilly demand the Confederate flag – THEIR flag that THEY fought for after THEY attacked the United States of America because Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated THEIR Democrat candidate for president – are today demanding that Margaret Sanger be on the damned $20 bill. Apparently because she's even MORE racist than Democrat Andrew Jackson who used to be on it.
I think of the recent case where a liberal progressive white woman masqueraded as a black activist to suck up benefits that were supposed to go to actual black people. But what did the black so-called "civil rights" leaders say? They said:
But on the other hand, those of us who talk about race as a social construct, that's it's more complicated. Bill Clinton is the first black president though he didn't claim he was black. It means that she may not be African-American, but she certainly could be black in a cultural sense. She's taking on the ideas, the identities, the struggles. She's identified with them. I bet a lot more black people would support Rachel Dolezal than would support say Clarence Thomas. So the point is, how do we talk about useful blackness, the utility of blackness and the service of justice, and I think here we haven't answered that question yet.
Which is another way of saying "'Black' equals 'leftist ideologue.' And if you don't think the way we TELL you to think, well, we DENY what science says your DNA is." And then we see the REAL ATTITUDE liberals have toward a black man who doesn't want to live on their plantation: liberals say he should be put to work in the fields, or strung up. You know, because the "high-tech lynching" when the Democrat Party tried to falsely depict him as a black man – who is therefore an out-of-control sexual beast – didn't work.
If Democrats truly want to ban racist symbols, THEY NEED TO START WITH THEIR OWN DAMNED PARTY. BECAUSE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS THE MOST RACIST MACHINE IN THE HISTORY OF PLANET EARTH. And it always has been.
Wouldn't it be nice if the mainstream media – who love punching Republicans in the face at absolutely EVERY interview with gotcha questions framed to make them look evil – actually just presented these facts and demanded that Hillary Clinton respond to why she's such a pathological racist??? As we speak, the mainstream media is hounding every Republican presidential candidate to take a position on crap that Donald Trump said when what the hell does that have to do with them? But hold Hillary Clinton responsible for her publicly expressed support for the intentionally genocidal murder of black babies by abortion? NEVER.
One of those amazing things about Democrats is that they STILL view themselves as the people and party of tolerance and broad inclusiveness when they are THE most rabidly intolerant people on the face of the earth. They used free speech and declared that they had a right to say and believe things even though they were unpopular and held those positions as sacrosanct right until the moment that they gained enough power to slam the door of freedom and free speech right in the faces of anyone who disagreed with them.
If you're a Democrat, you're not only WORSE than Islamic State, you're worse than a damn NAZI. And you're worse than these other monsters because a) you've murdered far, FAR more human beings than both of them put together and b) you are such cockroach hypocrites it is beyond unreal and it is a miracle performed by the devil that your damned heads don't simply explode from all the rabid contradictions in your demon-possessed skulls.
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Secular Humanist Liberals Who Try To Hijack Christmas Are Like Klu Klux Klansmen Who'd Like To Hijack Martin Luther King Day
Let me just point out an obvious historical fact: Christmas is a federal holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Democrats – who despise God, despise the Bible, despise Judeo-Christianity, despise Western Civilization itself and whose favorite "art" is "Piss Christ" – most despise the nativity scene that depicts the birth of Jesus when they rain their hell on Christmas.
That said, Democrats hate Santa Claus, too. Because Santa Claus was based on an actual historical white Christian male named Saint Nicholas, after all. And truth is just something these people WILL NOT tolerate.
But they hate Jesus far more. Because Jesus put it best when He pointed out, "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first" — John 15:18.
What is it about allowing a nativity scene that forces people to bow down and pray against their wills? I have no freaking clue. Apparently Democrats believe more in the power of the Christmas spirit than conservative evangelical Christians do.
Demanding that other religions or other people be honored as much as Jesus is honored on Christmas is no different than demanding that we give equal honor to the equivalent day for the Soviet Union when we honor the day our Declaration of Independence (which is filled with references to God, fwiw) was adopted in America on Independence Day. It's like demanding that we give equal time to Nathan Bedford Forrest (the founder of the Ku Klux Klan) on Martin Luther King Day. In other words, it is a frankly insane and evil thing to do.
So stop and think about the liberals who come unglued over a holiday that honors the birth of Christ. Tell me precisely how they're different from Ku Klux Klansmen (the Ku Klux Klan being the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party, for the factual record) wanting to bring their agenda into a holiday that honors the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a look at the KKK's history:
As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freedmen and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans. In 1870 and 1871, the federal government passed the Force Acts, which were used to prosecute Klan crimes.[20] Prosecution of Klan crimes and enforcement of the Force Acts suppressed Klan activity. In 1874 and later, however, newly organized and openly active paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and the Red Shirts, started a fresh round of violence aimed at suppressing blacks' voting and running Republicans out of office. These contributed to segregationist white Democrats regaining political power in all the Southern states by 1877.
It is a historical fact that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican who publicly campaigned for Dwight D. Eisenhower. Democrats responded by whitewashing – literally white washing – history to turn truths into lies and lies into truths. Such as that Democrats should get the credit for voting for the Civil Rights Act when history documents that Republicans deserve overwhelmingly MORE credit.
But what should one expect from the Party of lies and liars??? What should one expect from the Party of homosexual sodomy worship and baby murder???
The beast, the Antichrist of the end times who will be the ultimate big government bureaucrat and who will promise a liberal Utopia but instead create hell on earth, will be cheered by every Democrat. Count on it.
I feel I need to point it out again: Christmas is a federal holiday honoring the birth of Jesus. You don't have to honor Him as the Son of God adding a human nature to His deity by being born of a virgin, as I do; you just have to recognize that the Man who had the greatest impact on all of human history was BORN. Just like Martin Luther King day is a federal holiday that honors the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If Democrat judges need to impose "Festivus" or whatever the hell else the demons in them itch to push to undermine Christmas, they should just as vigorously support the right of white power groups to impose their agenda on MLK day. The fact that they don't merely supports the thesis I have argued hundreds of times: that the quintessential ingredient to liberalism is abject hypocrisy.
It is simply a FACT that our founding fathers were Christians and very much intended to forge a nation upon the foundation of Judeo-Christian morality:
If You Think Founding Fathers Didn't Want This Country To Be A Christian One, Put This In Your Pipe And Smoke It
Whose Country Do We Want: Our Founding Fathers' Or Our Secular Contemporaries'?
It is simply a historical fact that of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 54 were confessed Christians and members of Christian churches. And 29 of them had seminary degrees and were ordained ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They didn't throw their faith into the trash can and they didn't seek to have their faith – a faith that influenced them to defy the mightiest nation in the history of the world up to that time to found a nation – being banned from influencing the government they had founded. Only genuinely morally insane people would believe that. Rather, our founding fathers sought to provide a climate friendly to religion and in fact FOUNDED upon religion as George Washington famously expressed it:
"Of all the habits and dispositions which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars." — George Washington, Farewell Address
The central project of America was to create a moral and religious citizenry:
"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." — John Adams
Did our founding fathers intend to create a "theocracy"??? NO. When the founding fathers used the term "religion" (as in the question, "What is your religion?") they in fact understood "religion" to refer to a Christian sect. There simply weren't enough non-Christian religions in America, for one thing, while there were NUMEROUS Christian denominations. And the founding fathers – who did NOT want a "Church of England" situation arising in America – were wise enough to realize that they had to prevent one denomination from being allowed to use government power to overshadow any or all of the others. That was all they sought to do. The did NOT seek to ban religion or even Christianity in a general sense from influencing the government. Only a true fool believes otherwise.
Democrats are truly evil people who have sought to subvert and frankly to pervert the project of the founding fathers who gave us our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. That is why Democrats have sought to impose socialism that would make our founding fathers frankly puke; that is why they have sought to overturn the 2nd Amendment in a manner that makes our founding fathers spin in their graves; that is why Democrats have sought to create an all-powerful central government that is more of an enemy to America than the imperial England EVER was to the founding fathers; and that is frankly why Democrats have sought to impose godless Marxism which replaces "God" with "the State."
The Democrat Party is the Party of genuine, demon-possessed evil in America. It has ALWAYS been, since the day that Democrats wanted the "freedom" to own slaves:
The Democrat Party was the Party that waged a brutal Civil War to continue black slavery with a United States led by Republican President named Lincoln. The Democrat Party was the Party that spawned the Ku Klux Klan as its terrorist wing of the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party under Woodrow Wilson actually RE-segregated the US Military and government service (after Republicans had de-segregated them and allowed blacks to serve). The Democrat Party in 1924 was SO completely dominated by the Ku Klux Klan that the Democrat National Convention was called "Klanbake." The Democrat Party under FDR and their New Deal was rife with racism and unions and Democrats used it to prevent blacks from getting jobs. The Democrat Party continued to be THE Party of hard-core racism for the entire history of the republic. The racist horror story of "Mississippi Burning" was OWNED by Democrats from the Governor right on down. In fact, the state Democrat Party in Mississippi was limited to whites only. And the fact is that a FAR higher percentage of Republican Congressmen and Senators voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Democrats. Democrats were the Party of keeping the black man down until they cynically – incredibly cynically – saw that there was another way to keep exploiting black people to keep them on their plantation and keep them down.
Again, the evidence that the founding fathers clearly and overwhelmingly intended for Christianity and for religion to be the dominant form of morality in America is so crystal clear that it is beyond unreal.
The Democrat Party's war against Christ and Christianity has so many fronts no human mind can possibly keep track of all of them.
The attack on Christmas is merely one of them.
But I think it makes me roll my eyes more than any of the other demonic attacks by Democrats. Because if honoring the birth of Jesus somehow imposes "religion" against non-Christians' wills, then honoring the birth of Martin Luther King forces non-black people to become black people against their wills. It is simply such a stupid and asinine allegation that all the barf bags in the world aren't enough to contain the response of a rational thinking soul.
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Kevin Conroy Wants a Live-Action 'Batman Beyond' Series
Jai Howlett December 14, 2019, 5:46 pm
Kevin Conroy has had a taste of the Arrowverse and now wants a larger piece of the pie in the form of a live-action Batman Beyond series.
The voice actor, famous for portraying Batman in animated and video-game form for the past 27-years, finally made the leap to live-action in Crisis on Infinite Earths, portraying a notably darker version of the character from Earth-99.
This take on the caped crusader has not only killed many of his famous rogues including Joker, Riddler and Mister Freeze but he also is responsible for murdering superheroes such as Superman, as evident by the bloody and broken glasses of Clark Kent displayed in his trophy case.
Batman Beyond was certainly not as dark as Earth-99's incarnation of the Dark Knight but it did follow the more mature tone of Batman: The Animated Series as it is set in the future of the DCAU.
In the series, Bruce Wayne is the elderly and retired version of his former self and he is a mentor to the new Batman, Terry McGinnis.
Upon Conroy's casting in Crisis being described as "an elderly future version of Bruce Wayne", fans believed that the actor would be portraying the Batman Beyond version of Bruce Wayne. While this turned out to be more or less false, Conroy has stated that a Batman Beyond series would be "awesome".
The one stipulation that seems to be surrounding a Batman Beyond live-action series is the inclusion of Will Friedle, who voiced the show's main character, Terry McGinnis.
While the actor is too old to be portraying a late teens/early-20s vigilante just starting out in his career, there should hopefully be a role for the actor, who has not shied away from further voice-over work over the years. This has included notables roles such as Ron Stoppable in Kim Possible, various other DC characters including versions of Nightwing, Blue Beetle and Lex Luthor as well as Star-Lord in the most recent incarnation of Marvel's TV Animation Universe.
Also read: Telltale Reveals 'Batman Shadows Edition'
Batman Beyond ran from 1999 to 2001 and introduced Terry McGinnis as Batman to the mainstream DC Universe similar to how Batman: The Animated Series introduced Harley Quinn and Renee Montoya, and how Superman: The Animated Series introduced Livewire.
The first three episodes of Crisis on Infinite Earths are available now, for free, on The CW app and CW Seed. The crossover will conclude on January 14, 2020.
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Last week, together with my teammate Stefan, I took on the challenge Tour Transalp 2018 for the second time.
It was necessary to cope with 18 alpine passes, 7 stages, 817 km, 18.000 Altitude meters.
I took this opportunity to test the impact of the Vegetative Training® (VGT) on recovery in tough competitive conditions. I've practiced this method personally since the beginning of the year. And recently for some time also with my clients.
I noticed in real time how body systems reorganized during and after the sessions. Finally, I was able to not only maintain my physical performance level every day, but even expand it.
With regard to my emotional state, I always felt an inner joy and great motivation for the upcoming challenge during this time.
My conclusion from the endurance test of the Vegetative Training® at the Tour Transalp is therefore extremely positive. I can recommend this method especially for those athletes who know little about pure mental strength.
Vegetative Training® works on the body level even if you do not believe in it.


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Madagaskarnik jednobarwny (Mesitornis unicolor) – gatunek średniej wielkości ptaka z rodziny madagaskarników (Mesitornithidae). Występuje endemicznie we wschodnim Madagaskarze. Narażony na wyginięcie.

Taksonomia
Po raz pierwszy gatunek opisał Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs. Opis ukazał się w 1845 na łamach Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne. Był to drugi opisany gatunek z rodzaju. Holotyp pochodził z nieokreślonej lokalizacji z Madagaskaru. Autor nadał mu nazwę Mesites unicolor; nazwą stosowaną obecnie (2020) przez Międzynarodowy Komitet Ornitologiczny (IOC) jest Mesitornis unicolor. Dawniej niektórzy autorzy umieszczali tego ptaka w rodzaju Mesoenas. Jest to gatunek monotypowy.

Morfologia
Długość ciała wynosi około 29–30 cm. Masa ciała u jednej zbadanej samicy wyniosła 148 g. U holotypu dziób mierzył 20 mm długości, skok – 35 mm. W sylwetce tych ptaków wyróżnia się mała i nisko osadzona głowa. Wierzch ciała porastają pióra ciemnobrązowe, głowa jest nieco jaśniejsza i bardziej szara. Za okiem występuje biały pasek o zmiennym natężeniu koloru. Spód ciała jasny, różowawy. Dziób szarawy, krótki. U jednej zbadanej samicy tęczówka miała kolor brązowy, górna szczęka – ciemnobrązowy, zaś żuchwa żółtawy, u nasady brązowy.

Zasięg występowania
Zasięg występowania gatunku obejmuje wschodni Madagaskar, od okolic Tôlanaro po Park Narodowy Marojejy. Nie stwierdzono tych ptaków w północno-zachodnim Madagaskarze w okolicy Sambirano, której środowisko pokrywa się z tym preferowanym przez te madagaskarniki. Rozmieszczenie jest miejscowe, nigdzie przedstawiciele tego gatunku nie występują licznie.

Ekologia i lęgi
Środowisko życia przedstawicieli gatunku to wilgotne lasy wiecznie zielone. Madagaskarniki jednobarwne przebywają na ziemi. Odnotowywane były od poziomu morza do około 1200 m n.p.m., jednak poniżej 800 m n.p.m. można je spotkać najczęściej. Zdają się preferować zbocza i mocno zacienione miejsca o dużej ilości opadłych liści i niewielu roślinach zielnych w ściółce. Żerują na nasionach i niewielkich owadach, często w grupach rodzinnych 2–3 ptaków; zbierają owady również z liści i łodyg przy podłożu. Niewiele wiadomo o preferowanym pożywieniu. W żołądku pewnej samicy znaleziono pajęczaki, ślimaki, karaczany (Blattodea), chrząszcze – stonkowate (Chrysomelidae), ryjkowcowate (Curculionidae), sprężykowate (Elateridae), poświętnikowate (Scarabaeidae) – a także mrówkowate. Szczególnie chętnie madagaskarniki jednobarwne odzywają się nad ranem. Te ptaki rzadko śpiewają; ich pieśń brzmi jak (transkrypcja angielska) chwiejne chooi-woop, chooi-woop. Samce i samice mogą odzywać się w duecie trwającym od 30 do 60 sekund. Nigdy nie obserwowano tych ptaków w locie. Przeważnie chodzą, sporadycznie biegają.

Lęgi
Podobnie do innych madagaskarników, ten również lęgnie się w porze deszczowej. Madagaskarniki jednobarwne tworzą pary monogamiczne, w przeciwieństwie do madagaskarnika krzywodziobego (Monias benschi), gniazdującego kooperatywnie. U jednej samicy odłowionej 7 listopada w jajowodzie znajdowało się jajo z uformowaną już skorupką. Gniazdo znajduje się 1–1,5 m nad ziemią. Jest to luźna platforma z gałązek wyściełana liśćmi i inną materią rośliną. W zniesieniu znajduje się od 1 do 3 jaj. Ich skorupka jest biała, matowa, pokryta na jednym z końców brązowymi plamkami. Młode niedługo po wykluciu opuszczają gniazdo.

Status i zagrożenia
IUCN uznaje ten gatunek za narażony na wyginięcie (VU, Vulnerable) nieprzerwanie od 1994. Zagrożeniem dla madagaskarników jednobarwnych jest wycinka lasów typu slash-and-burn (system żarowy), w niektórych obszarach również kłusownictwo. W okolicach wsi na te ptaki mogą polować psy, koty i szczury, szczególne zagrożenie wynika z niechęci tych ptaków do lotu. Malgaszokurka (Mentocrex kioloides) może konkurować z madagaskarnikami jednobarwnymi o pokarm. Przedstawicieli M. unicolor stwierdzono w 14 ostojach ptaków IBA, w tym 7 parkach narodowych.

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Complete with The Host, The Voice and The Body, with game show lighting and a 3m x 3m Inflatable Cube, contestants work in teams to face a series of nail-biting challenges.
There are head to head team Qube Challenges where teams can win entry to the Qube for nominated members of their team and win all important Aides; Swap a contestant, Pass, Simplify, or take a Trial Run, but use these wisely.
Do you have the nerve, determination and skill it takes to complete the tasks within the Qube?
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The OpenDNSSEC documentation gives information on how to install, configure, and run OpenDNSSEC. There might still remain some questions, so we try to reflect them in our a growing list of frequently asked questions.
Remember that you also need an HSM, which uses the PKCS#11 interface. We do provide the SoftHSM, a software-only implementation of an HSM. Read the HSM Buyer's Guide for more information and consult the list of HSM vendors.
The latest version of OpenDNSSEC is 1.4
See what is new in 1.4 - note that due to changes in the database schema a migration is required when upgrading to 1.4 from earlier versions of OpenDNSSEC.
The goal of OpenDNSSEC is to have a complete DNSSEC zone signing system which maintains stability and security of signed domains. DNSSEC adds many cryptographic concerns to DNS; OpenDNSSEC automates those to allow current DNS administrators to adopt DNSSEC. This document provides DNS administrators with the necessary information to get the system up and running with a basic configuration.
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Generation Serve
There's an organization in town helping the next generation of community members understand the importance of giving back. Marissa Vogel wanted to ensure her young daughters were community-focused. She says, "If [my] children were to grow into adults who cared about making a difference, they needed to learn a sense of responsibility for the world around them from a young age." When she was unable to find any opportunities where she could bring her elementary-aged daughters, she took action and created an organization where the entire family could volunteer. That organization is now known as Generation Serve.
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The mission of Generation Serve is to engage children in volunteerism and empower them to make a difference in their communities. Led by Executive Director Nicole Sarkar, children volunteer alongside their families at organizations throughout the Greater-Austin region, including Austin Animal Center, Texas Kids Read, Thinkery, and Zilker Botanical Gardens. By offering opportunities to volunteer, Generation Serve encourages kids to "develop compassion, empathy and a desire to help."
The Junior League of Austin members have been volunteering at Generation Serve this year and have taken on projects that will impact the organization for years to come. Most recently, League member Kim Wenger was highlighted as a "Stellar Volunteer" for spearheading a technology project to streamline and support the organization's operations. Generation Serve is a community partner with The Junior League of Austin, and the Community Impact Center was the organization's temporary office before it moved into its new space in the North Loop neighborhood.
If you and your family are interested in volunteering, learn more at Generation Serve's Family Volunteering.
About the Writer: Denise Del Aguila is in her third year with the Junior League of Austin, transferring from the Junior League of Albuquerque in 2018. Her favorite volunteer opportunities are Coats for Kids and FIT. In her spare time she can be found hiking, cross-stitching and spending time with her rescue dog.


I don't have much to blog about today because most of my knitting time last night was used dozing off and waking up until I finally gave up and went to bed. And my knitting time on my commute is taken up by a stealth project.
However, I can show you a close-up of the cast-on edge of the Chevron Stole.
I used a lace cast-on for the bottom edge so it would be nice and stretchy. The cast-on is one where you start with a slip knot on the left needle and then knit a stitch into it, transferring the new loop onto the left needle to make the second cast-on stitch. Then you continue on, knitting into the previous stitch on the left needle each time, and pulling the new loop up and placing it on the left needle.
The stole has garter stitch edgings — I started by working several rows of garter stitch before beginning the lace pattern. Once I started the lace, I worked the first and last 5 stitches in garter stitch to keep that edge going up the sides of the stole. To get a nice stretchy edge, on every row I slip the first stitch as if to purl with the yarn in back, then knit the next 4. Then onward to the lace section.
From time to time y'all ask me in the comments how the clean eating is going. It is going just fine, thank you. It's been almost 3 months since I made this lifestyle change and I don't miss my old ways one little bit. I would estimate that I eat 95% clean because as far as I know, nothing I eat is processed or has preservatives in it (and I work hard to make sure this is true). I eat no sugar or artificial sweeteners. I drink water all day (and one cup of coffee in the morning.) I've even started making my own yogurt (from organic fat-free milk) and let me tell you, that stuff is yummy. I do buy organic as much as possible.
I've noticed that I am much healthier. The respiratory and sinus issues that have plagued me forever are gone, as are any digestive issues. Unfortunately clean eating has not stopped my spine from disintegrating, but then, I guess that's a bit much to expect. I look on the bright side — while I am hobbling around and screeching in pain as my lumbar vertebrae viciously squeeze my nerves, at least I'm not sniffling and sneezing at the same time.
Another a nice side-effect of clean eating is that I've lost a bit of weight.
A girl and her tail-less mouse.
ETA: I appreciate all your good wishes and suggestions but truly, I am not looking for medical advice here (I've got a good doc I'm working with). Just wanted to let you know that I am less available than usual. Thanks!
There were some questions in the comments . . .
The definition in your picture seems excellent for being unblocked. Did you give it a little stretch, or is it a factor of the heavier yarn?
How's the clean eating going?
I didn't spread it out at all for this shot. It's just sitting where I left it!
The clean eating is going very well, thanks for asking. I guess I'm in my fourth week, and I estimate that I've been 90 – 95% "clean." No sugar, no white flour, no artificial sweeteners, and pretty close to no preservatives. I drink at least 4 liters of water a day. I've noticed results — I feel good, have lost 12 pounds, and my skin looks good enough that I've stopped wearing make-up.
Is that pink the same pink you used on your Wimple a little bit ago?
Today I braved the blustery day to spend some time at Fibrespace. The windchill outside was brutal, but it was warm and cozy in the shop. and there might have been some yarn fondling. Because I'm on a shawlette kick lately, I bought yarn for two more.
This is Dragonfly Fibers Dragonsock in the "Starry Night" colorway. I love it.
And that's Madeline Tosh Tosh Sock in the "Baltic" colorway. I love that too!
While I was out having fun with other knitters, Lucy was snug at home, contemplating the wonderment of existence.


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Ipsos Analysis of Donald Trump's Climb to 1,237 Delegates A Contested Convention?
The notion of a contested convention for the Republican presidential nomination has gained traction over the last several weeks. A contested convention (also known as a brokered convention) would occur in the event that none of the Republican nominees were able to reach the 1,237 delegate threshold needed in order to clinch the nomination.
Both political pundits and members of the Republican Party, disaffected with the idea of a Donald Trump led presidential ticket, have attempted to lend credence to this nomination scenario. A scenario, in fact, that hasn't happened in forty years when it last happened at the 1976 Republican National Convention. Regardless, if Tuesday's final Super Tuesday results were any indication of things to come, the path to a contested convention appears to be narrowing to the slimmest of margins.


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