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Dec 30, 2009

The following blog post by Jane Hamsher (Founder & Publisher - firedoglake.com) appeared today, December 30, 2009:

If the White House thought they could slip the bailout of Fannie and Freddie through by announcing it in a Christmas Eve news dump, think again. Dennis Kucinich just released this statement:

"As Chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I'm announcing that the Subcommittee will launch an investigation into the Treasury Department's recent decision to lift the current $400-billion cap on combined federal assistance to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, opening the way for additional, unlimited funds through the end of 2012. This investigation will include the role played by Fannie Mae chief executive Michael J. Williams and Freddie Mac chief executive Charles E. Haldeman in the decision, if any, and will seek to ensure that the additional assistance is used for homeowners and not Wall Street."

"As Chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I'm announcing that the Subcommittee will launch an investigation into the Treasury Department's recent decision to lift the current $400-billion cap on combined federal assistance to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, opening the way for additional, unlimited funds through the end of 2012. This investigation will include the role played by Fannie Mae chief executive Michael J. Williams and Freddie Mac chief executive Charles E. Haldeman in the decision, if any, and will seek to ensure that the additional assistance is used for homeowners and not Wall Street."

"Many questions remain unanswered regarding this move by the Treasury. Why suddenly remove the cap? Indications are that Freddie and Fannie, even as millions of Americans lose their homes, have used just $111 billion of the $400 billion previously available to them. Is lifting the cap on assistance a back-door TARP?"

"Additionally, I want to determine whether Fannie and Freddie have a cohesive plan to buy up the under-performing mortgages that remain on the books of the big banks, at appropriate prices, and undertake a massive reworking of the terms of the mortgages so as to stem the foreclosure crisis that continues to plague our country. This new authority must be used responsibly and for the benefit of American families. This cannot be used simply to purchase toxic assets at inflated prices, thus transferring the losses to the U. S. taxpayers and acting as a back-door TARP."

On Christmas Eve, they also announced $4-$6 million compensation packages for their top executives. But they'll start foreclosing on homeowners again in January.

Fannie and Freddie have been corrupt cesspools for years, a place where presidents of both parties parked friends like Dennis DeConcini and Rahm Emanuel, giving them lucrative spots on the board of directors as political payoff. As government sponsored entities (GSEs) selling shares to the public, they operate like hedge funds that socialize losses and privatize profits. From the LA Times last year:

"This week ... news broke that until August, the lobbying firm owned by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac, one of the mortgage giants implicated in the current crisis (now taken over by the government and under investigation by the FBI). Apparently, Freddie Mac's plan was to gain influence with McCain's campaign in hopes that he would help shield it from pesky government regulations."

It appears they kept looking. The Democrats have been too intimidated by leadership to start looking into the utter corruption at these entities, but Kucinich just doesn't care.

 

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Dec 30, 2009
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Feeding America
(Because hunger happens here.)

"I'm sure we're going to run out of food today, before we serve all the people that are in line."

That's Mary-Sharon Howland, director of a food bank near New Orleans.1 But the same problem is plaguing food banks and soup kitchens across America. This winter, a record 49 million Americans are going hungry because of the economy.2

Our country needs change that gets to the root of the problem, but we also need to help people survive the immediate crisis.

Here's a way to help: Feeding America is the nation's leading network of food banks—including one near you, Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee. For every $1 you donate, Feeding America can help provide 7 meals to men, women, and children facing hunger in our country.

Please contribute to Feeding America as generously as you can. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation before the end of the year:

http://help.feedingamerica.org/moveon

As progressives, we share a core belief that we're all in this together. We'll continue to fight for lasting change—and help each other weather this economic downturn.

Thanks for all you do, and happy New Year!

–Justin, Adam, Amy, Anna, Annie, Carrie, Christopher, Daniel, Danielle, Eli, Emily, Gail, Ian, Ilya, Ilyse, Joan, Jodeen, Kat, Keauna, Laura, Lenore, Marika, Matt, Matthew, Melanie, Michael, Nita, Noah, Peter, Scott, Stephen, Steven, Susannah, Tim, and Wes

Sources:
1. "Kenner Food Bank may have to turn away needy," WWLTV Eyewitness News (Louisiana), December 23, 2009
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Kenner-Food-Bank-80023467.html

2. "Hunger in U.S. at a 14-Year High," The New York Times, November 16, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/us/17hunger.html

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Posted: Dec 30, 2009 9:06am
Dec 29, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
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It’s Déjà Vu with Another Media Blackout


The International Coalition to End the Illegal Siege of Gaza is marking the anniversary of Israel’s 220-day siege of Gaza, but you might not know this if you rely wholly on the US media for your news. Leading up to the Gaza Freedom March on December 31, peace and social justice activists from around the world have gathered in Cairo to march to the Israeli border in nonviolent protest against the ongoing occupation and oppression of Gazans.

The Associated Press wrote about on December 26 that activists have appealed to the Egyptian Government to reverse denying the march participants access to the Gaza border, but The New York Times and The Washington Post gave this story scant space on their pages.

The Egyptian police walled off a peaceful protest in Cairo at UN offices from view, the Egyptian government blocked an aid convoy for Gaza from entering Egypt, and members of the Gaza Freedom March—including American Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein—have begun a hunger strike to protest these actions.

Press around the world—in France, the UK, Canada, and even Brunei—has carried comprehensive stories about these events. But the major print news sources in the US are treating this story as if it were, well, single-payer healthcare.

We know what happened when the US media marginalized or altogether ignored single payer. What should have been central to the US debate about healthcare reform wasn’t even on many Americans’ radar.

Join PDA, Just Foreign Policy, CODEPINK, Free Gaza, and many others in asking the editors of the NYT and WaPo why they’re ignoring the Gaza Freedom March. Go to JFP’s page to send an email to those editors.

It’s up to us once again to counter corporate notions of what is and isn’t news that should reach the American people.

In solidarity,

Tim Carpenter, National Director

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Posted: Dec 29, 2009 9:30am
Dec 27, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
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"It all begins with a story..."

That's how actor, Morgan Freeman described the powerful effect of a leader who puts everything on the line to stand up for human rights. He joined us in spotlighting December as Human Rights Month on YouTube.

Today, we're premiering our video homage to you – the supporters who help spread human rights stories far and wide. You use your words to make real change happen and in our new video, you can see the incredible effect that your actions have.

Watch our new video "The Power of Words" and tell a friend (or five) about it.



We're aiming to get the whole YouTube community talking about justice, fairness and human rights. But we need your help to kick off the conversation.

Please join us in celebrating the words that make our fight to protect human rights stronger.

Best wishes,

All of us at Amnesty International USA
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Posted: Dec 27, 2009 8:16am
Dec 22, 2009
"A mouse in a cookie jar . . . doesn't make him a cookie." ~ Barbara Duval
And, I guess, an internet-bestowed title is similarly meaningless, without actions to prove its worth.

In my lowest hours, two people -- yes, linked to me by you -- reached out their hands and rescued me.

Although it was a hard transition, my other prospects were few.  But, I learned much from dwelling in the house of two people who, although they still believe in a religion I've abandoned, personified its strengths.  They have been kind, loving, and forgiving.  Unbelievably, they feel that my presence in their lives is a Godsend.  (And I, surely, do not deserve that much commendation.)

But, I love and honor them -- and would, willingly, lay down my life for these two people, who reached out a hand to me when others withdrew theirs.

The disrespect you've shown them is beyond reproach.  You took a roof they provided over your head; expenses they paid for you and your pet; chauffeuring and paying for doctors; footing the bill for untold other expenses (including drugs); assisting with groceries; giving you access to their home, while providing you with the privacy of your own.  You did NOTHING to contribute to caring for the household, yet, they accepted your excuses.  [Worse?  These two people are -- as you are well aware -- challenged by their own health problems.]

How did you repay them?  By leaving them with an unimaginable pig sty that the Health Dept. would condemn.  Grown men from a farming community (who've, no doubt, seen the worst), who we had to contact to remove the appliances, were reduced to retching, and forced to use gloves and bandanas over their mouths/noses before they would enter.   The stench of human/animal feces and urine is still trying to be eliminated. 

For weeks, I labored to remove your filth (insect larvae/mildew imbedded on both refrigerators, oatmeal clogging the kitchen drain, with standing water; animal fat from the microwave and toaster oven, that you allowed to flow over the counters and floors, urine-saturated mattress, carpeting, shower, and furniture).   We even had to put the pots and pans you'd left on the counters (for  months) and in the refrigerator in a wheelbarrow overnight, filled with bleach and water, and scour them with steel wool before bringing them into the household to run (twice) through an extra hot dishwasher cycle.

WHY did I do it?  To convince them that their efforts were not in vain -- although your callous, selfish, slovenly ways spoke otherwise.

YEARS of filth, so inconceivable that even Stephen King would be challenged to describe the stench and lack of hygiene, you left.  And, even with days back here, before your return to your "new life," you did NOTHING to clean it.  (You, in fact, were so self-obsessed that you asked them to even pack your personal belongings for you . . . which, as Christians, they did.)

SHAME ON YOU!


Do I now believe you are sick?  ABSOLUTELY!  (But not physically.  No sane person could continue to willingly live in that self-perpetuated "Haz-Mat" level squalor.)

Do NOT ever address me publicly or privately.  I am a witness (with proof) to your true nature.


Hypocritical, self-serving, so-called "adherents" to a religion (who do not understand that the Word was intended as a guide to living -- not a weapon, to be meted out by reciting selective Scripture verses), have done the most damage, and caused more people to turn away in disgust, than anything.

[Ya know, several times, you tried convincing me that your postulating was for my "own good," because you were afraid I would go to Hell.  If I were to truly believe that, the scariest part would be that I'd have to see you there.]


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Posted: Dec 21, 2009 8:45am
Dec 21, 2009

By Sara Flounders


Global Research, December 19, 2009

In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen -- with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets -- it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or proposed restrictions?

 

By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements.

 

The Pentagon wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; its secret operations in Pakistan; its equipment on more than 1,000 U.S. bases around the world; its 6,000 facilities in the U.S.; all NATO operations; its aircraft carriers, jet aircraft, weapons testing, training and sales will not be counted against U.S. greenhouse gas limits or included in any count.

 

The Feb. 17, 2007, Energy Bulletin detailed the oil consumption just for the Pentagon's aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities that made it the single-largest oil consumer in the world. At the time, the U.S. Navy had 285 combat and support ships and around 4,000 operational aircraft. The U.S. Army had 28,000 armored vehicles, 140,000 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, more than 4,000 combat helicopters, several hundred fixed-wing aircraft and 187,493 fleet vehicles. Except for 80 nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, which spread radioactive pollution, all their other vehicles run on oil.

 

Even according to rankings in the 2006 CIA World Factbook, only 35 countries (out of 210 in the world) consume more oil per day than the Pentagon.

 

The U.S. military officially uses 320,000 barrels of oil a day. However, this total does not include fuel consumed by contractors or fuel consumed in leased and privatized facilities. Nor does it include the enormous energy and resources used to produce and maintain their death-dealing equipment or the bombs, grenades or missiles they fire.

 

Steve Kretzmann, director of Oil Change International, reports: "The Iraq war was responsible for at least 141 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) from March 2003 through December 2007. ... The war emits more than 60 percent of all countries. ... This information is not readily available ... because military emissions abroad are exempt from national reporting requirements under U.S. law and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change." (www.naomiklein.org, Dec. 10) Most scientists blame carbon dioxide emissions for greenhouse gases and climate change.

 

Bryan Farrell in his new book, "The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism," says that "the greatest single assault on the environment, on all of us around the globe, comes from one agency ... the Armed Forces of the United States."

 

Just how did the Pentagon come to be exempt from climate agreements? At the time of the Kyoto Accords negotiations, the U.S. demanded as a provision of signing that all of its military operations worldwide and all operations it participates in with the U.N. and/or NATO be completely exempted from measurement or reductions.

 

After securing this gigantic concession, the Bush administration then refused to sign the accords.

 

In a May 18, 1998, article entitled "National security and military policy issues involved in the Kyoto treaty," Dr. Jeffrey Salmon described the Pentagon's position. He quotes then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen's 1997 annual report to Congress: "DoD strongly recommends that the United States insist on a national security provision in the climate change Protocol now being negotiated." (www.marshall.org)

 

According to Salmon, this national security provision was put forth in a draft calling for "complete military exemption from greenhouse gas emissions limits. The draft includes multilateral operations such as NATO- and U.N.-sanctioned activities, but it also includes actions related very broadly to national security, which would appear to comprehend all forms of unilateral military actions and training for such actions."

 

Salmon also quoted Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat, who headed the U.S. delegation in Kyoto . Eizenstat reported that "every requirement the Defense Department and uniformed military who were at Kyoto by my side said they wanted, they got. This is self-defense, peacekeeping, humanitarian relief."

 

Although the U.S. had already received these assurances in the negotiations, the U.S. Congress passed an explicit provision guaranteeing U.S. military exemption. Inter Press Service reported on May 21, 1998: "U.S. law makers, in the latest blow to international efforts to halt global warming, today exempted U.S. military operations from the Kyoto agreement which lays out binding commitments to reduce 'greenhouse gas' emissions. The House of Representatives passed an amendment to next year's military authorization bill that 'prohibits the restriction of armed forces under the Kyoto Protocol.'"

 

Today in Copenhagen the same agreements and guidelines on greenhouse gases still hold. Yet it is extremely difficult to find even a mention of this glaring omission.

 

According to environmental journalist Johanna Peace, military activities will continue to be exempt from an executive order signed by President Barack Obama that calls for federal agencies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Peace states, "The military accounts for a full 80 percent of the federal government's energy demand." (solveclimate.com, Sept. 1)

 

The blanket exclusion of the Pentagon's global operations makes U.S. carbon dioxide emissions appear far less than they in fact are. Yet even without counting the Pentagon, the U.S. still has the world's largest carbon dioxide emissions.

 

More than Emissions

 

Besides emitting carbon dioxide, U.S. military operations release other highly toxic and radioactive materials into the air, water and soil.

 

U.S. weapons made with depleted uranium have spread tens of thousands of pounds of microparticles of radioactive and highly toxic waste throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and the Balkans.

 

The U.S. sells land mines and cluster bombs that are a major cause of delayed explosives, maiming and disabling especially peasant farmers and rural peoples in Africa, Asia and Latin America . For example, Israel dropped more than 1 million U.S.-provided cluster bombs on Lebanon during its 2006 invasion.

 

The U.S. war in Vietnam left large areas so contaminated with the Agent Orange herbicide that today, more than 35 years later, dioxin contamination is 300 to 400 times higher than "safe" levels. Severe birth defects and high rates of cancer resulting from environmental contamination are continuing into a third generation.

 

The 1991 U.S. war in Iraq , followed by 13 years of starvation sanctions, the 2003 U.S. invasion and continuing occupation, has transformed the region -- which has a 5,000-year history as a Middle East breadbasket -- into an environmental catastrophe. Iraq 's arable and fertile land has become a desert wasteland where the slightest wind whips up a dust storm. A former food exporter, Iraq now imports 80 percent of its food. The Iraqi Agriculture Ministry estimates that 90 percent of the land has severe desertification.

 

Environmental War at Home

 

Moreover, the Defense Department has routinely resisted orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up contaminated U.S. bases. ( Washington Post, June 30, 2008) Pentagon military bases top the Superfund list of the most polluted places, as contaminants seep into drinking water aquifers and soil.

 

The Pentagon has also fought EPA efforts to set new pollution standards on two toxic chemicals widely found on military sites: perchlorate, found in propellant for rockets and missiles; and trichloroethylene, a degreaser for metal parts.

 

Trichloroethylene is the most widespread water contaminant in the country, seeping into aquifers across California , New York , Texas , Florida and elsewhere. More than 1,000 military sites in the U.S. are contaminated with the chemical. The poorest communities, especially communities of color, are the most severely impacted by this poisoning.

 

U.S. testing of nuclear weapons in the U.S. Southwest and on South Pacific islands has contaminated millions of areas of land and water with radiation. Mountains of radioactive and toxic uranium tailings have been left on Indigenous land in the Southwest. More than 1,000 uranium mines have been abandoned on Navajo reservations in Arizona and New Mexico .

 

Around the world, on past and still operating bases in Puerto Rico, the Philippines , South Korea , Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia , Japan , Nicaragua , Panama and the former Yugoslavia , rusting barrels of chemicals and solvents and millions of rounds of ammunition are criminally abandoned by the Pentagon.

 

The best way to dramatically clean up the environment is to shut down the Pentagon. What is needed to combat climate change is a thoroughgoing system change.

 

Sara Flounders is Co-Director of the International Action Center

 


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Dec 18, 2009

10 Good Things About 2009

By Medea Benjamin


My almost annual list of ten good things about the waning year has never before posed such a tremendous challenge. In the face of this challenge, I decided to try a minimalist thought experiment, blocking out the many baneful events that colored 2009, and instead seeking out the small, yet powerfully bright notes to inspire and give us hope for the year head.

1. Tens of thousands of people from around the world took to the streets of Copenhagen to call for meaningful action to address climate change, despite continuous attempts to squelch it. Inside Copenhagen’s meeting halls, indigenous peoples from small island nations and the Himalayas spoke powerfully about their rights and their needs. 

2. Michelle Obama planted the White House’s first organic vegetable garden, a garden that provided food for her own family’s table and helped to educate the nation’s children about healthy eating.

3. According to recent polls a majority of Americans now see the war in Afghanistan as not worth fighting, and seventy-five percent say no new troops should be sent to that country. Public opinion is on our side.

4. Last year, CODEPINK launched a campaign calling upon the FBI to add Luis Posada Carilles, a ruthless terrorist who was responsible for downing a Cuban airplane in 1976, to the Most Wanted List and arrest him. On April 8, he was indicted on 11 counts. 

5. The creative use of Twitter by protesters in Iran brought thousands of people into the streets of Teheran, including students, young people and thousands of young women.  Their courageous and innovative use of social media kept the rest of the world informed of events, slipping out from under the country’s blanket of censorship.

6. The Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian rights garnered the support of many groups around the world. The growing list of BDS successes is too long to enumerate here, but to choose only one: In February South African dockworkers, remembering the long history of Apartheid in their country, refused to offload an Israeli ZIM Lines ship in Durban.

7. One of Obama’s first acts in office was to lift the Global Gag Rule, which ended restrictions on U.S. funding for organizations that provide family planning services and that are often the first responders for women in the fight against HIV.

8. The Washington, DC City Council voted in mid-December to legalize same-sex marriage, making it the first jurisdiction south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so.  Same-sex marriage is now legal in Iowa, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut and will be legal in New Hampshire on January 1st. DC Mayor Fenty signed the bill on December 18, 2009.

9. 2009 may go down as the beginning of the end of the failed “War on Drugs”. The Obama administration announced that the federal government would no longer arrest and prosecute medical marijuana patients and caregivers as long as they were following their state’s medical marijuana laws.

10. Obama’s Nobel Prize victory sparked a global debate about what it takes to be a real peacemaker. Obama will donate the 1.4 million prize to charity (undisclosed as of yet which).There is no more “wait and see.” The election of Obama signaled a national thirst for fundamental change, and a great many pinned their hopes on just one man, one President. But big events seldom seed big change, and after nearly a year, it is clear that real change still comes over time, not overnight; from the many, not the one or the few; and through persistence and pushing from the bottom, not the top.

I looked around and saw the women of CODEPINK, the impassioned environmental activists in Copenhagen, the young Israeli refuseniks, Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, and all our friends and allies working for peace and social justice around this country and the world, and realized that WE are the hope and change we have been waiting for. 

Even after all the disappointments of this year, the items on this list and our own strength and persistence give me immense hope in the possibilities to come as we greet the New Year. 

So here's a toast to our power and our passion—we have our work cut out for us in 2010!

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Dec 4, 2009

Dear Friends,

Congressman Kucinich is making a major impact in his challenge to the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. See the following:

MSNBC, The Ed Show, December 1, 2009  
FOX News, The O'Reilly Factor December 1, 2009  
CNN, AC360 - Anderson Cooper December 1, 2009  
Democracy Now - Amy Goodman December 2, 2009   Read Dennis' Quote in the Washington Post:
"Obama's Afghanistan Speech and Strategy"
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Posted: Dec 4, 2009 11:06am
Dec 1, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
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Amnesty International USA: TAKE ACTION NOW!
Writing letters may not sound like the key to freeing prisoners and saving lives, but it works!
The Global Write-a-thon begins December 5th -- pledge to write letters on behalf of people who need your help.

The Global Write-a-thon is the biggest Amnesty International event all year. It also uses one of the oldest (and most powerful) weapons of the human rights movement -- writing letters. In other words, it's a BIG deal.

We've already shattered our original goal of gathering pledges for more than 250,000 letters. We're confident that with your help, we can challenge ourselves to hit more than 300,000 letters this year! Add your letters to our list -- pledge your support for this year's Global Write-a-thon.

Last year around this time, people from more than 70 countries stood together for human rights. That overwhelming solidarity and support were key reasons why Ma Khin Khin Leh, a school teacher in Myanmar and Hana Abdi, a women's rights advocate in Iran, were both released from prison soon after Write-a-thon letters overwhelmed their respective government offices.

This year, we want you to know that incredible feeling of pride in knowing that your letters helped save lives. Join us for this year's Global Write-a-thon -- help us send 300,000 letters for human rights.

It's so simple! We've got everything you'll need to make your letters effective and your letter-writing events memorable.
Help us meet our NEW goal of 300,000 letters.

  • Get your resources: Find out more about this year's Write-a-thon cases, read sample letters, and find tips for organizing a successful event.
  • Connect with others: Check out the Write-a-thon events happening in your community.
  • Spread the word: Share your support for Write-a-thon with your friends online.

In just 4 days, you can experience a tradition that connects generations of human rights activists -- sending messages of hope.

Please join us for this special event.

In Solidarity,

Michael O'Reilly
Program Director
Individuals at Risk Campaign
Amnesty International USA
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