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Saturday, 6 February 2010
US in Latin America - History by Noam Chomsky
Mood:  blueNow Playing: Noam Chomsky - Haiti & Honduras -History of US Rule Topic: USA IMPERIALISM . Noam Chomsky . - Haiti, Honduras - . History of US Rule in Latin America .
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Saturday, 6 February 2010 8:13 AM
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Police in Venezuela pictured with SICK chain - CLAW weapon
Mood:  accident proneNow Playing: What is this all about - Right wingers are going NUTS! about this? Topic: Venezuela Solidarity I don't speak Spanish so this is hard for me to grasp, as to what is going on. Chavez 2 min video
That Video link above......... I found on this page http://babalublog.com/2010/01/medieval-repression-in-venezuela-exposed-via-twitter/ Which says this: El mandatario venezolano Hugo Chávez dijo este viernes que es falso que la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana utiliza el garrampiño, también llamado ‘garra de hierro’, en contra de manifestantes. Chávez criticó estos señalamientos, pues dice que se repiten en el mundo y él termina siendo para mucha gente “un tirano sanguinario”. Criticó que “un periódico de estos de la oligarquía” y una televisora, presentaran una foto de un Guardia portando un instrumento y dijeran “fíjense lo que está usando Chávez, un instrumento para la tortura, tiene ganchos”, indicó. El mandatario explicó que “es un aparatico que tienen los Guardias para halar con una cadena, desde lejos, los cauchos que queman en las calles”. “Ah no, pero estos dicen que es para torturar”, criticó el mandatario. Chávez destacó que el garrampiño “no es para golpear a nadie, pero entonces viene toda la infamia, toda la prensa de los ricos, la televisión, la radio”. Criticó que esta ‘infamia’ se transmita en el mundo pues afecta su imagen, aunque al final dijo que esto no le importa. “Entonces, eso lo repiten en el mundo y mucha gente cree que es verdad, que nosotros usamos ganchos para clavárselos en la espalda a personas indefensas. Termino siendo, para mucha gente en este planeta, un tirano sanguinario”, dijo al tiempo que señaló: “¿qué importa? No me importa nada, lo que me importa es la patria de Bolívar”. That has this picture - which is suppose to be a Venezuelan police with a sick *** weapon ...looking at protesters
I used the above text in my web translater I get the follow (Translation is printed in Blue Text) The Venezuelan Hugo Chavez said Friday that it is untrue that the National Guard Bolivariana uses the garrampiño, also called claw iron , against demonstrators. Chavez criticized these accusations, says that are repeated in the world, and he ends up being for many people a tyrant bloodthirsty . Criticized the fact that a newspaper of these oligarchy and a television, submit a photo of a Guard wearing an instrument and say look what you are using Chavez, an instrument for torture, has hooks , said. The agent explained that it is a aparatico that have the guards to pull with a chain, from afar, rubbers to burn in the streets . Ah no, but they say it is for torturing , criticized the trustee. Chavez stressed that the garrampiño is not to beat anybody, but then comes all the infamy, all the press of the rich, television, radio . Criticized the fact that this shame is transmitted in the world because it affects your image, while at the end said that this does not care. Then, that was repeated in the world and many people believe that it is true, that we use hooks for clavárselos on the back to defenseless people. Finish remains, for many people in this planet, a tyrant bloodthirsty , said at the time that stated: So what? I don't care nothing, what i care is the homeland of Bolivar .
WTF I stand to learn and understand before I judge, I need more facts & information ...as I stand in solidarity with my Latin Brothers & Sisters. ~joe anybody
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Saturday, 6 February 2010 8:13 AM
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Latin America Paper ....And Its in English!
Mood:  brightNow Playing: Venezuela English Newspaper is out Topic: Venezuela News http://centrodealerta.org/documentos_desclasificados/correo_del_orinoco_internat_2.pdf
OPINION PIECES WELCOME! Please send all submissions to: editor.correoenglish@gmail.com
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Friday, 29 January 2010
Close the SOA School - HR 2567
Mood:  on fireNow Playing: Latin America Military Training Review Act, also known as HR 2567 Topic: Latin America Solidarity
New information indicates that WHINSEC has allowed known human rights abusers to instruct and receive training at the school. Argentina and Uruguay are two more countries that have made public announcements they will no longer send students to the school, citing the negative image and history of this institution. Despite demands by Congress to have oversight over the curriculum and promote human rights, the Pentagon is now denying all requests to provide information to human rights organizations and the public about students and graduates of the school. I urge you to contact Cindy Buhl in Representative McGovern's office and ask that your boss be added as a cosponsor of HR 2567. I hope you will represent my views and support this bill. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/t/3823/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27318
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
2 shot durring Venezuela protests
Mood:  downNow Playing: Not sure who shot who or what protester did what to the other yet Topic: Venezuela News Two Venezuelan students shot dead in protests 1/26/10 over closure of opposition RCTV . . A medical student, 28, died Tuesday in Mérida state (Western Venezuela) in a a demonstration held after RCTV was removed from the air, AFP reports. Hours earlier, a 15-year-old boy was killed in Mérida during a clash between student groups that support and oppose the government, AFP says.The demonstrations in Mérida left 33 people wounded, and local media said marchers had burned buildings and cars. See more stories in English and Spanish.
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Saturday, 6 February 2010 8:16 AM
Rally in Solidarity for Honduras & Haiti in Portland Oregon 1.27.10
Mood:  loudNow Playing: PCASC stands before the Federal Building Demading Justice Topic: Honduras Solidarity Filmed in Portland Oregon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4DSSt5wuxo
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010
A history of GENOCIDE in South America ever since 1492
Mood: blueNow Playing: 12 OCTOBER 1492 GENOCIDE in Latin America Topic: South America Added by: Yakelin Rodríguez 12 OCTOBER 1492 GENOCIDE Sergio Sosa In this beloved Patria Grande, were punished (and we're still) of all forms of genocide listed in the dictionary and would also add the more modern, such as the cultural, commercial genocide... etc. But go early, because like all event has a beginning, but unfortunately we do not know if you end... The first genocide which recognizes history is the Spanish conquest. And indeed was very violent, perverse and the after-effects still remain today. Not only by the cold statistics that say that at least 150 years disappeared from the face of the earth around 130 million human beings... What were the reasons more recognized by the invading forces to similar atrocity?... It can be synthesized as well: wealth, power, and domination. Let us remember that Spain, back in the 13th century was one of the world's richest nations. And their eagerness to growth had no limits. To achieve "seduce" mariners, the subsidiaries of navigation (Royal Court) as for example: "The ocean sea", used the cheating more strangers and tempting...: Which reach the "new world" were told that they would be owners of half of what picture bring there and were given carte blanche including to transport to Spain native place which in turn would be purchased as slaves by "the motherland".... The only condition that colonists should meet, was the conversion to Catholicism of the native found. This should fulfil to the letter, even coast of death of those who oppose.... the hand of God would be his "ally". With these "facilities" postulated for hikers, all kinds of people, even those who did not have a minor idea than they were 3 month navigation. Such is the case of Pizarro, an entrepreneur, the pig farming and that of ships, he only knew that they floated. Only harboring the hope, year after year that someday it would be, but wasn't. The bad "Indian" competitions that were culturally centuries developed in scientific and strategic knowledge to see irremediably lost their territories were concealing greater wealth in places completely inhospitable and away from the small mink invaders. There are even cities like Machu Picchu that is virtually intact today.
Even surpassing in quantity to the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.... but do that then spent in our continent? From the North to southern South America were countless acts of barbarism almost without apparent reason... But the reasons were returning to be the same... the desire of wealth and power greatly. .Tal is the case of JOSE TOMAS BOVES in Venezuela: On 18 September 1782 was born in Oviedo, province of Asturias, the royalist Chief José Tomás Boves, infamous for his cruelty during the independence war. Indeed Boves enjoyed with the grief, recreated in the cruellest orders and presenciaba Patriots, who was dancing 'Piquirico' dying executions. Boves died in the battle of Urica, in 1814, and with him died the second Republic. Truly was a messianic killer responded (according to him) under the orders of the King of Spain. Although never, no Spanish diplomat and much less the same King, gave real information that ésto was real. Their massacres were excessive and directed against anyone who knew "read or write". Finally, and after not only have been proclaimed "King of Venezuela" was defeated and killed in 1814... The number of deaths caused his denostable attitude amounts to 178,000 individuals... No doubt it was one of the larger "mini-genocidios" that have records. As my intention is not overwhelmed with information, will go through in each installment, each of these attacks that it could almost brand them fundamentalist and covered in the madness that in the aforementioned desire for wealth and power. In a paragraph from one of the main newspapers of the "first world", to be more precise of "NATIONAL TIMES" (Montreal-Canadá), extraje this note synthesized says: ".. .the disembarkation of Columbus in 1492, was the first attack the environment suffered the current American territory"... I was surprised a lot this writing because it comes from a country framing within select elite "developed" countries. Scratching in other media, took me surprise that almost any Latin country celebrated on October 12, giving holiday fringes. I deeply believe that this should be a day of reflection, or mourning. We must not forget the savage massacre pergeñada by the 14th century Spanish Empire. The more than 130 million human beings who died deserve remember forever. From his quiet silence are asking us to never let another invasion of such magnitude. To be quite clear that I do not intend with these writings do a reactionary pamphlet that nothing would serve 513 years later. I feel well if what I write so that our youth take clear notion of what became really, but not read the history of the "discovery", as a mere done more. Because even in our days are being bullied by others and subtle genocide... Perhaps less bloody but aberrant and denigrables such as those of 1492. Such is the case of the criminal blockade exercised by us. We look not only back to see the truth, also must look at the present and future. In the distant future great Latin American country, perhaps as many of its brightest visionaries saw: A free world.
Original Spanish Version Is Copied & Posted Below Agregado por: Yakelin Rodríguez GENOCIDIO DEL 12 DE OCTUBRE DE 1492 Sergio Sosa En esta querida Patria Grande, fuimos castigados (y lo somos aún) de todas las formas de genocidio citadas en el diccionario y también habría que agregar las mas modernas, como el genocidio cultural, comercial...etc. Pero vayamos a los comienzos, porque como todo evento, tiene un principio, pero lamentablemente no sabemos si tendrá final... El primer genocidio que reconoce la historia es el de la conquista española. Y en verdad fue muy violento, perverso y las secuelas aún permanecen hoy en día. No sólo por las frías estadísticas que dicen que en menos de 150 años desaparecieron de la faz de la tierra cerca de 130 millones de seres humanos... ¿Cuáles fueron los motivos mas reconocidos por las fuerzas invasoras para semejante atrocidad?... Se los puede sintetizar así: Riqueza, poder, y dominación. Recordemos que España, allá por el siglo XIII era una de las más ricas naciones del mundo. Y su afán de crecimiento no tenía límites. Para lograr "seducir" a los marinos, las empresas de navegación (dependientes de la corte real) como por ejemplo: “LA MAR OCEANO”, utilizaron los engaños mas extraños y tentadores...: A los que llegaran al "nuevo mundo" se les dijo que serían dueños de la mitad de lo que lograsen traer de allí y se les dio carta blanca inclusive para transportar a España nativos del lugar que a su vez serían comprados como esclavos por "la madre patria".... La única condición que los colonizadores deberían cumplir, era la conversión al catolicismo de cuanto nativo encontrasen. Esto debía cumplirse al pie de la letra, incluso a costa de muerte de los que se opusieran....La mano de Dios sería su "aliada". Con esas "facilidades " se postularon para las travesías, todo tipo de personas, incluso los que no tenían la menor idea de lo que eran 3 meses de navegación. Tal es el caso de Pizarro, un empresario dedicado a la cria de cerdos y que de barcos, sólo sabía que flotaban. Sólo abrigaban la esperanza, año tras año de que algún día la encontrarían, pero no fue así. Los mal llamados "indios" que culturalmente estaban siglos adelantados en conocimiento científico y estratégico, al ver que irremediablemente perderían sus territorios, fueron ocultando las mayores riquezas en lugares completamente inhóspitos y alejados de la pequeña visón de los invasores. Incluso hay ciudades como Macchu Pichu que prácticamente está intacta hoy en día.
Hasta superando en cantidad al horror de Hiroshima y Nagasaki....Pero ¿que pasó luego en nuestro continente? Desde el norte hasta el sur de Sudamérica fueron incontables los hechos de barbarie casi sin razón aparente... Pero los motivos volvían a ser los mismos...El afán de riqueza y de poder en grado sumo. .Tal es el caso de JOSE TOMAS BOVES en Venezuela: El 18 de septiembre de 1782 nace en Oviedo, provincia de Asturias, el jefe realista José Tomás Boves, tristemente célebre por sus crueldades durante la guerra independentista. Lo cierto es que Boves gozaba con el dolor ajeno, se recreaba en las órdenes más crueles y presenciaba las ejecuciones de patriotas, a quienes hacía bailar el «Piquirico» antes de morir. Boves murió en la batalla de Urica, en 1814, y con él murió la Segunda República. En verdad era un asesino mesiánico que respondía (según él) a las órdenes del Rey de España. Aunque nunca, ningún diplomático español y mucho menos el Rey mismo, dieron información verdadera de que ésto fuera real. Sus matanzas fueron desmedidas y dirigidas contra todo aquel que supiera "leer o escribir". Por fin, y después de no sólo haberse proclamado "Rey de Venezuela" fue derrotado y muerto en 1814... La cantidad de muertos que provocó su denostable actitud asciende a 178.000 personas... Sin lugar a dudas fue éste uno de los más grandes "mini-genocidios" del que se tienen registros. Como mi intención no es abrumar con información, iré recorriendo en cada entrega, cada uno de estos atentados que casi podría tildarlos de fundamentalistas y amparados más en la locura que en el citado afán de riqueza y poder. En un párrafo extraído de uno de los principales periódicos del "primer mundo", para ser mas preciso del "NATIONAL TIMES" (Montreal-Canadá), extraje esta nota, que sintetizada dice: ”...El desembarco de Colón en 1492, fue el primer atentado al medio ambiente que sufrió el actual territorio americano"... Me sorprendió mucho este escrito ya que procede de un país enmarcado dentro de la selecta élite de los países "desarrollados". Hurgando en otros medios de prensa, me llevo la sorpresa que casi en ningún país latino se festeja el 12 de octubre, dándole ribetes de día feriado. Creo profundamente, que éste debiera ser un día de reflexión, o de luto. No debemos olvidar la salvaje matanza pergeñada por el imperio de español del siglo XIV. Los más de 130 millones de seres humanos que murieron merecen que se los recuerde por siempre. Ellos desde su callado silencio nos piden que nunca permitamos otro avasallamiento de tal magnitud. Que quede bien claro que no pretendo con estos escritos hacer un panfleto reaccionario que de nada serviría 513 años después. Me sentiría bien si lo que escribo sirve para que nuestra juventud tome noción clara de lo que pasó en verdad, y no lean la historia del "descubrimiento", como un mero hecho más. Porque aun en nuestros días estamos siendo avasallados por otros y muy sutiles genocidios... Quizá menos sangrientos pero aberrantes y denigrables como aquéllos de 1492. Tal es el caso del criminal bloqueo a Cuba ejercido por EEUU. No miremos sólo atrás para ver la verdad, también debemos mirar el presente y el futuro. Y tal vez, en ese futuro lejano este gran país latinoamericano, sea como muchos de sus más brillantes visionarios lo vieron: Un mundo LIBRE.
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Monday, 25 January 2010
Haiti Quake - Chavez - says it was man made ...hmmmm?
Mood:  quizzicalNow Playing: What really happened - was it a weapon or was it a quake? Topic: Venezuela News
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Fox News Should Learn From This
Mood:  happyNow Playing: Fox News report on RCTV going off air Topic: Venezuela News Anti-Chavez TV ChannelRemoved From CableSunday, January 24, 2010  AP/Miraflores Press Office Nov. 8: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters in Acarigua, Venezuela. CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan cable television providers stopped transmitting a channel critical of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, after the government cited incompliance with new regulations requiring the socialist leader's speeches be televised on cable. Radio Caracas Television, an anti-Chavez channel known as RCTV that switched to cable in 2007 after the government refused to renew its over-the-air license, disappeared from the airwaves shortly after midnight. RCTV was dropped just hours after Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela's state-run telecommunications agency, said several local channels carried by cable television have breached broadcasting laws and should be removed from the airwaves. Cabello warned cable operations on Saturday evening that they could find themselves in jeopardy if they keep showing those channels. "They must comply with the law, and they cannot have a single channel that violates Venezuelan laws as part of their programming," he said. Several channels have not shown Chavez's televised speeches — a requirement under new regulations approved last month by the telecommunications agency, Cabello said. RCTV did not broadcast a speech by the president to his political supporters during a rally early on Saturday. The station's removal from cable and satellite television prompted a cacophony of protests in Caracas neighborhoods as Chavez opponents leaned out apartment windows to bang on pots and pans. Cabello's agency notified RCTV and 23 other local cable television channels on Thursday that they must carry mandatory government programming, including Chavez's frequent and long speeches. Cabello said Saturday that other violations include failing to warn viewers of sexual and violent content as well as broadcasting more than two hours of soap operas during the afternoon, which should be mostly dedicated to children programming. He did not specify which TV channels have purportedly violated the law, but RCTV said it was the target. It accused the agency of pressuring cable providers to drop channels that are critical of the government. The agency "doesn't have any authority to give the cable service providers this order," RCTV said in a statement. "The government is inappropriately pressuring them to make decisions beyond their responsibilities." In denying RCTV a renewal of its over-the-air broadcast license, Chavez accused the station of plotting against his government and supporting a failed 2002 coup. In August, Chavez's government forced 32 radio stations and two small TV stations off the air, saying some owners had failed to renew their broadcast licenses while other licenses were no longer valid because they had been granted long ago to owners who are now dead. Officials said they planned to take more stations off the air. Government figures say that as of 2008 about 37 percent of Venezuelan homes received cable television. But some private companies say that according to their research, about six out of every 10 households have subscription television service.
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Updated: Monday, 25 January 2010 8:51 PM
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Cascadia to Caracas Report Back at Red n Black
Mood:  energeticNow Playing: Sunday evening with pdxVenezuela at he Red n Black Cafe at 7 PM Topic: Venezuela Solidarity Hi Folks Check this out, its a first hand Report Back from Caracas 1.24.10
See You there more information is on
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Updated: Saturday, 23 January 2010 1:54 PM
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Cindy Sheehan interviews Eva Golinger on Jan 10 2010
Now Playing: Year of Resistance - Eva Golinger & Cindy Sheehan
http://cindysheehanssoapbox.com/archivesPage.html - January 10, 2010 (SOAPBOX #46) - Cindy issues it in, welcoming renowned Attorney and Writer Eva Golinger. Eva is a Venezuelan-American attorney from New York, living in Caracas, Venezuela. If you can spare the time, you might want to take a look at her blog: "Postcards from the Revolution." Wow! Does she have a spotlight to throw on the secret scurrying of the CIA in Venezuela, or what? (Sort of like cockroaches, they desperately want to escape that light!) This is yet another great Soapbox!
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Cindy Sheehan interviews Eva Golinger
Mood:  amorousNow Playing: Found this on Cindy Sheehans soapbox blog Topic: Venezuela Solidarity Sunday, January 10, 2010Happy First Anniversary to Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox!Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox at:
Against all odds and many obstacles we have been able to stay on the air and deliver high quality shows! With Twenty-Ten being the YEAR OF RESISTANCE, the Soapbox will become an integral part of true change to benefit WE THE PEOPLE for once! Thank you for listening and supporting your Soapbox! _________________________ TODAY'S SHOW There has been disturbing news coming out of South America: The apparent U.S. support of the Honduran coup; Colombia signing a pact with the U.S. that will enable the U.S. to construct military bases there and the U.S. drone flights and fighter-plane flights over Venezuelan airspace. We all know that Vz sits on some of the largest oil reserves in the world and President Chavez has refused to privatize the industry and hand over his people's natural resources to Standard Oil or Exxon--so that has made him a marked man in the eyes of the U.S. Robber Class. Today on the Soapbox, Venezuelan attorney and bestselling author (The Chavez Code), Eva Golinger dispels the Myths that surround President Chavez that have been instigated by our government and media. Eva's blog is: Postcards from the Revolution Please tune-in, it is a fascinating interview! To further foster understanding between our countries, The Soapbox is arranging an interview in Venezuela with President Chavez and a mini-documentary about the successes and challenges of Venezuela's "Bolivaran Revolution." We are VERY excited about this important evolution in The Soapbox's relevance and influence! The 2nd part of today's show is an interview that Cindy did with Scott Horton of Anti-War Radio where she talks about Peace of the Action and the dire need for direct action. If you like the Soapbox, please DONATE TO KEEP US ON THE AIR! Submit listener rants and "ASK CINDY" questions to: Cindy at CindysSoapbox@gmail.com if you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, please send an email to: CindysSoapbox@Gmail.com with UNSUBSCRIBE in the SUBJECT LINE  
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Sunday, 17 January 2010 6:11 PM
My new FaceBook friend is Hugo Chavez
Mood: happyNow Playing: FB friendships across the borders Topic: Venezuela Solidarity I have anew Face Book Friend
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Saturday, 16 January 2010
PCASC Newsletter is out for January 2010
Mood: brightNow Playing: Portland Oregon - Solidarity Group PCASC Newsletter 1-2010 Topic: Organizing-Activism-Info
Posted by Joe Anybody
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Updated: Saturday, 16 January 2010 4:10 PM
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
"Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots"
Mood:  caffeinatedNow Playing: A new book and links to the FB group Topic: Venezuela Solidarity
"Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots" is a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela’s social movements. "Venezuela Speaks!: Voices from the Grassroots" is a collection of interviews with activists and participants from across Venezuela’s social movements. From community media to land reform; cooperatives to communal councils, from the labor movement to the Afro-Venezuelan network, "Venezuela Speaks!" sheds light on the complex realities within the Bolivarian Revolution. These interviews offer a compelling oral history of Venezuela's democratic revolution, from the bottom up. By co-authors Carlos Martinez, Michael Fox, and JoJo Farrell. For more information, please visit www.venezuelaspeaks.com or the PM Press website: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=169 FaceBook Link: http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com&init=pr#/group.php?gid=243253003620
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