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New paradigm economics, mortgage relief and jobs for the 21st Century
1. 1
Jobs, shelter, food and clothes for all
New Paradigm Economics
Beyond GDP
Mortgage relief and jobs in a post fossil fuel economy
2. 2
New Economics Party
proposal
This slideshow has been created by Deirdre Kent
with members of the New Economics Party of
New Zealand. Deirdre is the author of Healthy
Money Healthy Planet –Developing
Sustainability through New Money Systems
Contact her deirdre.kent@gmail.com or on
twitter @deirdrekent
3. 3
Six Sections to the slideshow
1. Symptoms, the presenting problems.
2. The Role of Government
3. Diagnosis
4. A New Approach Needed
5. The Cure. Proposal in ten steps, with its results
6. Actions to take
4. Section One
The symptoms of a separate worldview – global
hyperconnectedness, energy cliff, climate change, tax
havens, habitat destruction
7. 7
Issues – economic, social and
environmental
Water security, food shortages, debt, youth
unemployment, derivatives fraud, terrorism,
cybersecurity, rising greenhouse gas emissions,
energy crisis, land mismanagement, storms,
floods, droughts, demonstrations, riots, war,
refugees, tax avoidance, austerity measures,
currency crises, banking crises etc.
8. 8
A world in crisis
Have we stretched things to the limit?
9. 9
Risks are hyperconnected
“A crisis in one area will quickly lead to a crisis in
another. Attempts at managing them are
fragmented and simplistic and are not up to the
challenge.” – David Sherman, Business
Strategist, Northeastern University, Boston after
World Economic Forum Global Risks, 2013
11. 11
We are a single closed system
“Human society is becoming so integrated that it
is like a single closed system that encompasses
the entire globe. The crisis we are facing now is
actually very unique. We are all close together in
the same system and we can no longer do
whatever we want.”
Dr Michael Laitman, biocybernetics, ontology, Israel in
the movie Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New World
View. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1p9P5ee3c
).
12. 12
Global Warming
There is little time left to reverse climate change
and life on Earth will become more unbearable
with frequent storms, droughts and floods.
Severe weather events damage the New Zealand
economy and raise food prices for all.
14. 14
Tax havens are a result of
poor tax policies
Governments lose a great deal of their tax
revenue because they don’t tax land. Unlike other
assets, land can’t be hidden in offshore tax
havens. A 2012 report from the Tax Justice
Network estimated that between USD $21 trillion
and $32 trillion is sheltered from taxes in
unreported tax havens worldwide. That is over a
third of the global GDP. In New Zealand between
$1b and $5b is lost in tax evasion.(1)
1. Dr Lisa Marriot, Victoria University on Mind the Gap documentary, TV1, 29
Aug, 2013)
16. 16
People need sufficient food, clothing, housing
and satisfying work for human dignity. They also
need loving relationships and enough leisure.
We MUST reverse environmental damage like
climate change, loss of species, depleted soils,
deforestation etc.
The economics of happiness
17. 17
Why should I care?
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, whether
rich or poor. Both the tax system and the money
system contribute to growing inequality.
New Zealand is now in the top four in the world
for income disparity with USA, Portugal and UK
(R Wilkinson and K Pickett, The Spirit Level. See also
Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and
Endangered Maia Szalavitz and Bruce Perry)
18. 18
After a certain level of wealth, people don’t get any
happier. The widening gap between rich and the
rest hurts all.
(Inequality A New Zealand Crisis ed Max Rashbrooke)
20. 20
As energy returns decline,
governments get desperate
It used to take one barrel of oil
to get 100 barrels of oil.
Now you get less oil for your one barrel
of oil.
(EROEI is Energy Returned
on Energy Invested)
21. 21
The economy needs energy
We can’t continually have economic growth as measured
by GDP because it is dependent on energy and energy
returns are falling. So GDP growth is falling.
22. The result is that
• Governments smile favourably on fossil fuel
exploration.
• Banks lend on fossil fuel exploration and
extraction. They also lend on mergers and
acquisitions so that corporates can influence
governments.
• The post fossil fuel economy will need many new
inventions, new businesses and the liquidity to
allow them to succeed.
22
24. 24
economysecurity
A tax system
to suit the banks
banks
government
the people
houses and other
improvements
land
tax labour, sales,
and enterprise
no land tax you tax labour
loans
value
expressed
in interest
bearing debt
laws
less
purchasingpower
tax
payments
25. 25
All Levels of Government are
important
Why is central government important?
Community champions have been advocating
strong, vibrant local economies for decades. But
central Government policy has never yet
provided the right conditions. Governments
should make the rules, then get out of the way.
27. 27
Won’t local currencies be
enough?
Community currencies are great, but they need
capable and dedicated administrators and often
depend on grants from government and other
sources.
Community currencies, however, can’t generally
provide finance for housing, farms or other
business investment.
28. 28
What we need
An economic recipe to feed the hungry, reverse
climate change and build good houses. Jobs need
to return to the provinces. We have to remove
the growth imperative yet have a thriving
economy. So let’s find a way to provide liquidity
for all the many businesses necessary in a post
fossil fuel economy.
29. 29
What other outcomes do we
want?
People need to get out of debt and worry less
about money. Families need enough to feed their
children and our youth need training and jobs.
NOTE: What this slide show will not mention is
how to “get on the property ladder” as nobody
should make money from the “ownership” of
land. Life is not a competition and we need to
rediscover the economics of co-operation.
30. Section 3 Diagnosis
• An illogical tax system, a destructive money
system, an out of date welfare system and a
precarious shadow economy
31. 31
It is an illogical tax system
We currently tax labour, sales (GST) and
enterprise (company tax). This is illogical if we
want to encourage work, trade and initiative. In
New Zealand these taxes comprise 79% of our
revenue. The tax system has grown in a rather
unconscious way and it is time to rethink it.
32. 32
Banks reign
Banks get the best security – land. They benefit
from rising house prices.
Government has to be content with revenue
coming from less secure sources like labour.
We need to weaken the link between banks and
land and strengthen the link between
Government and land.
33. 33
What should we tax?
“We should tax the things we hold or take, not
what we do or make.”
Bob Keall in Resource Rentals for Revenue paper
34. Each site is given value by...
Site
Government
Local
Businesses
Local
Government Social
Organisations
Nature
35. 34
What are resource taxes?
Property owners hold a monopoly on ‘their’ land.
Since some land is more valuable than others,
those landholders should compensate others for
this privilege. Those who have the monopoly use
of resources supplied by nature like water,
minerals, radio spectrums should compensate
others. And those whose products cause harm
others should pay up too e.g. tobacco, alcohol,
gambling, pollution.
36. 35
As landowners gain from rising land prices,
wealth is concentrated with landowners and
banks.
37. 36
The tax system should encourage
long term investments
When you don’t tax land or resources, money
goes into bidding up the price of assets not into
real production. When you tax labour and sales
and enterprise everyone’s purchasing power is
diminished. We need to ‘clear the path’ for job
creation by untaxing labour and taxing land.
38. 37
A destructive money system
Our money system results in widening of the gap
between rich and poor, growing debt, habitat
destruction from the growth imperative and
instability. And because everyone is competing to
pay their debt with interest, it also shapes our
behaviour towards being competitive rather than
cooperative.
39. 38
A money system to suit the
banks
When banks create money as interest bearing debt
Competitiveness
Growing debt
Wealth concentration
Instability
Growth imperative
which leads to habitat
destruction
40. 39
The parable of the eleventh
round
Once there was an island where ten families swapped
goods, chickens, pigs etc
A stranger came and said they should improve the
system. He cut up a hide and gave each family ten
rounds of leather.
He asked them to pay it back next year with 10%
interest.
41. 40
Where does the eleventh
round come from?
After a year of competitive trading, many families
manage to get their 11 rounds.
But some don’t manage it, so have to go back to the
stranger to ask for another loan. They go further into
debt.
This is what is happening now. For more information
on the money system see http://positivemoney.org.nz
42. 41
When banks create the
principal but not the interest
There is never enough money in the system for
everyone to pay back their debt so someone has
to go further into debt to pay the interest.
This means the total money supply has to keep
increasing.
This means economic growth must continue –
the growth imperative!
43. 42
Growth imperative
When climate change talks fail because nations
prefer economic growth and when this growth
imperative is caused by the currency system, why
do we keep it?
A no brainer
44. 43
Widening the gap
If the money system and the tax system keep
widening the gap between rich and the rest, why
do we keep it?
A no brainer!
45. 44
A welfare mess
Means tested benefits are costly to administer
and result in the benefit trap where you can only
earn so much or your benefit is cut. A plethora of
government income support programmes result
in a complicated and expensive welfare system
quite unsuited to the 21st century.
46. 45
The Shadow Economy
Off the balance sheets of banks is a huge and
dangerously precarious shadow economy.
Derivatives are bets on the value of something else,
usually a stock or bond, a security or an interest
rate. The notional value is the size of the thing that
you are betting on and that is now over $700
trillion* or 10 times the size of the global economy.
A default could lead to an even greater crisis than
the 2008 global financial crisis. In this game of
musical chairs there is only one seat for every 100
or more players. *Bank of International Settlements 2013
49. 48
Starve the banks!
The gigantic and growing shadow economy is
very weakly regulated, even after the Global
Financial Crisis. Derivatives were at the heart of
the Global Financial Crisis. Banks are now both
too big to fail and too big to jail. The wealthiest
top 1% can now easily influence Governments.
So if we can’t control them, let’s just starve them
by starting up a second national currency. Yes,
we are advocating the unthinkable!
50. 49
The big four Australian banks
use them too
Westpac, BNZ, ANZ and ASB, which hold 92% of NZ
mortgages, are all Australian owned. But they are really global
companies. Major shareholders include HSBC Custody
Nominees, JP Morgan Nominees Australia, National
Nominees, Citicorp Nominee .
They are all hugely exposed to toxic derivatives. “Even if 1% of
these contracts default because third parties get into trouble,
the whole shareholder wealth would be wiped out and the
banks could be broke” Adele Ferguson, senior business writer
and columnist for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
51. Section 4
A New Way of Thinking
• Why we need a systems approach and a
completely new model.
52. 51
Time to think differently?
We can’t solve our problems with the same level
of thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
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New type of thinking?
“You can’t change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller (engineer, designer and
inventor)
e.g. Wikipedia replaces Encyclopedia Britannica,
Model T Ford in 1908 changed the transportation
system, email is replacing postal mail
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We plan a second currency
designed to flow like blood
This currency will flow freely to all parts of the
country unimpeded by taxes on work, sales or
enterprise. It won’t pool in any city or coagulate
in anyone’s bank account. It will incentivise its
users to invest long term. It will nourish each
local economy and reward enterprise and work.
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Designing a currency
A well designed currency system is a powerful
agent for change. It can build in incentives for
import substitution. It can shape behaviour
towards co-operation and generosity. In the
event of a financial crisis it can be the deciding
factor between resilience or collapse.
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Currency creation is a
country’s sovereign right
New Zealand should have tino rangitiratanga (or
absolute sovereignty) over its right to design its
own currency system and not let privately owned
banks take charge of this. We want an ecosystem
of currencies, not a monoculture.
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So the challenge is...
We have to bring about major reforms to the
currency system, the tax system and the welfare
system but do it in a way that doesn’t shock the
economy.
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It really is a living system
We must treat all the above problems as a whole
system containing patterns which mustn’t be
broken. We must keep the relationships. This
means we have to choose where to intervene to
get the most leverage. Treating one thing in
isolation won’t work.
A family is a system. Family therapists presented
with a troubled child treat the family as a whole
system, choosing the most effective intervention.
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Intervention Level in order of
effectiveness
Paradigm – deepest held beliefs driving the system
Goals –what the system is trying to achieve
Structure – as a whole, e.g. enhancing connections
Feedback and delays – self-regulation, self-
reinforcement, adaptation
Structural elements – subsystems, actors and the physical
structure of a system
(Source: http://www.donellameadows.org/)
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Which intervention gives us the
biggest bang for our buck?
Systems theory says change major paradigms
(the common assumptions and beliefs) about the
currency system and the basis of taxation.
And we need to change the goals. The true aim of
a vibrant economy is not growth. Growth of GDP
is what is killing the planet. People can thrive
without economic growth. The economists
assumption that we can keep going as we are is
wrong.
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UBI would shock economy
Universal Basic Income or a full Citizens
Dividend, if suddenly introduced, would shock
the economy with inflation. These three reforms
of tax, currency and welfare reform if done
separately would all shock the economy. But
when done together and introduced gradually as
a small but growing Citizens Dividend, they won’t
disrupt it.
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The new thinking is..
We aim to create a new parallel national currency
and link it to a very different tax and welfare
system. This currency will grow slowly. We must
introduce it gradually and monitor its effects
closely to avoid inflation.
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Imaginal cells
When a
caterpillar has
eaten enough,
a new type of
cell (called
imaginal)
emerges with
a new type of
thinking. They
start to build a
butterfly.
70. 69
If we do monetary reform
only
If interest rates drop a surge of money goes into
housing – a housing bubble. There has to be
something to stop it. A capital gains tax is not
good enough. If all money is created by
Government at zero interest, it doesn’t create
jobs because you haven’t swapped income tax for
land fees. Besides, wealth still pools with
landowners especially those whose land benefits
from new infrastructure. You need to unblock the
riverbed so that money flows into production.
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Introducing land tax alone is
political suicide
You can’t just add a land fee because it is an extra
tax. People already pay for their mortgage and
they pay rates or local taxes. Why should they pay
a third? So it is not politically feasible. The point
of a land fee is that you must untax labour and
sales at the same time. Despite many tax reviews
recommending land tax in New Zealand, no
government has implemented those
recommendations.
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Land and Money the Siamese Twins
If we had monetary reform without tax reform,
then we would have a housing bubble. And if we
had land reform without addressing the money
system as in Hong Kong, the banks get up to all
sorts of mischief.
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Step One
Allow Treasury to create Tax Credits. Make them
dated. That means they are acceptable for the
payment of tax until that date. They turn into a
pumpkin at a certain date so naturally people
want to spend them and keep them in the
country. Like Flybuys loyalty points they drop off
if you don’t use them.
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Step Two
Treasury offers to buy the land of anyone who
volunteers. Treasury uses Tax Credits to pay for
the land. From then on a land fee is payable for
that land but the title remains with the property
owner .
78. Use contract law to set land
fee
• Each property owner negotiates with government
to set the land fee.
• They will negotiate with government and sign a
contract to pay a regular land fee in exchange for
having their land paid for. They make sure they
have a financial incentive before they opt in, so
the final sum agreed will be less than they paid
before in mortgage and rates.
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Step Three
Link the new currency to a completely new tax
system. Trades in the new currency will not incur
income tax, sales tax or company tax.
..new currrency,
new rules..Currency No income tax, GST
or company tax, only
resource taxes
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Step Four
The land fees would be shared by central
Government and the relevant local Government
(in New Zealand we have only central and local
Government). No further rates (local taxes)
would be payable.
Central
Government
Local
Government
share revenue
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Step Five
Land fees would not be linked to inflation but to
the site rental value of the land. A Land Fee
Index would be established for each area by
taking a sample. Land fees would only rise if
new public infrastructure was built and would
only fall if there was an earthquake or
subsidence or, say, a rail link was discontinued.
They vary very little over time otherwise and are
not subject to reviews, only to the index. So
there will be no sudden rises!
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Step Six
Tax Credits and New Zealand dollars could be
freely traded. Tax Credits are issued at par and
redeemed at par. In between the value will
depend on market sentiment. However, because
Tax Credits are dated, they would need to be in
New Zealand at the time of the expiry date.
Importers will need the trading currency NZD
and employers will favour the new Tax Credits.
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Step Seven
• Treasury will refresh and redate the Tax Credits
they receive, and from time to time will issue all
men, women and children with a Citizens Dividend
in Tax Credits. Thus the land fees are shared with
the people. It will be digital only. It will be on a dual
currency debit card like Kiwibank’s Loaded card.
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Step Eight
• Resource taxes are imposed at source on
the monopoly use of any part of the
commons e.g. Coal, oil and other mining,
fisheries, water, radio spectrum etc.
Revenue to be shared by central and the
relevant local government.
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Step Nine
• The homeowner who has been paid in Tax
Credits uses them to repay their mortgage or to
make a long term investment. They will also pay
land fees in advance. As they must be used for
New Zealand-sourced goods or services, Tax
Credits cannot be spent on overseas travel or on
imported goods. This encourages import
substitution manufacturing e.g. wool insulation
of homes, food products, clothing, furniture,
fuels, natural paints and other NZ-sourced
building materials.
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Step Ten
• As people spend their Tax Credits on labour
intensive industries, production will flow to the
regions. Organic farming, smaller farms,
improvement of land will result from more
labour input and less fossil fuel input. Businesses
with a low carbon footprint will thrive because of
this new capital injection. And the price of houses
on land paid for by Government will halve.
88. But what about Maori land?
• Communal ownership of land is not a new
concept to any indigenous people.
• This scheme is voluntary with the exception of
foreign owned land where conversion will be
compulsory.
• A long process of negotiation hapu by hapu
and/or iwi by iwi will be required to clarify any
proposal for a new law.
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The plan in action
• Here are some examples of what might happen.
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Woman in Auckland
• A 42 year old solo mother (one child), full time
student owns her suburban house. Land is worth
$200,000. Land fees negotiated to be TC10,000
a year so she pays two years in advance leaving
TC180,000. She decides to build a second storey
so she can rent it out. No tax or sales tax on all
trades in Tax Credits. No more rates.
91. Young couple buying first
home
• The Government buys the land with Tax Credits
and the couple buy the house, using an ordinary
mortgage. So the young couple only has to pay
for the house, not the land.
• They negotiate to pay a land fee to government
which would be less than the sum of their land
mortgage plus rates.
• The vendor uses mixed currencies to buy their
next house.
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Couple on small lifestyle block
• In their early sixties. He commutes to the city.
Land worth $340,000. They want to develop the
block to produce an income. They pay land fees
in advance, then pay for labour and for buying
fruit and nut trees. They plant a cash crop (say
pumpkin or garlic) which they sell within New
Zealand. They pay a permaculturist for advice
and for labour to plant a food forest. They
insulate the house and build fences.
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Ground rent paid early
• By now you can see the trend. People use their
Tax Credits payout to pay taxes in advance. This
is why the Government, after sharing some of the
bounty with the relevant local bodies, is able to
distribute a Citizens Dividend quite early.
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We have a mortgage
• Our land value is worth $90,000 and we are in
our early thirties, a nurse and a mechanic in
Opotiki. We used to pay 5.5% fixed mortgage or
$4950 on our land, plus $2015 in rates a year,
total $6965. So we get the Government to pay for
our land and our contract settles at $5900 a
year, making a saving of $1065 a year.
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I am an absentee owner of
five Auckland homes
• The government decides to force me to sell my
land to them. I own five expensive homes in
Auckland and the total land fees are exhorbitant
so I decide to sell all properties. I can only spend
these Tax Credits in New Zealand and I don’t live
here so can’t spend them. I could cope with the
rates but these land fees are many times higher
and I have to sell. The houses are bought by New
Zealanders.
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When people receive a small
Citizens Dividend
• Remember that Citizens Dividend paid to all
citizens. Imagine finding you have 50 Tax Credits
in your bank account or on your multicurrency
debit card from Kiwibank. Spend it in a
mainstreet shop, Four Square store or
supermarket for NZ produced food. Spend it on
local entertainment. Use it to pay part of your
power bill (the company also needs NZD). The
Government has a role in persuading Fonterra,
power companies and others to accept it for part
payment. Buy New Zealand is now possible!
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A caregiver receives more
• I am the mother of five kids and I struggle
financially. My partner and I both have casual
work. We decide I will be designated the chief
carer so I receive six Citizens Dividends or six
lots of 50 Tax Credits. Because I know it will rise,
I can now plan to give up my cleaning job and
care for my children myself. Some school fees are
payable in Tax Credits. I give my 14 year old her
share so she can use it for clothes (without going
to the mall).
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I am an inventor
• But I make very little money as I love the
inventing side but not the promotion or
production side. I just want to invent more
things. The Citizens Dividend is now helping so
much that I am in heaven. I can invent to my
heart’s content and even sell my inventions to
production companies.
99. Section Six - Summary
and Action
• What we have done
• What you can do to further discussion on
this proposal
100. What we have done
• We have invited property owners to opt in to a
scheme whereby Treasury pays for the land in a
new specially designed currency called Tax
Credits.
• We have used contract law so we don’t have to
legislate. Negotiation discovers a land fee,
corrected annually by a land fee index.
• The circulation incentive and fact that they are
not burdened by taxes means Tax Credits nourish
small business and investment.
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What can you do to help?
• Ideas catch on if they are good. Nobody owns
them. This idea could be applied in all countries.
Do we have to wait for financial collapse before
we solve our political problems? Do we have to
wait till our planet is unliveable?
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Things you can do
• Visit and join the site of the New Economics Party
http://neweconomics.net.nz. Become a financial
member.
• Go to our Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/NewEconomicsParty.
• Discuss the issue with your friends and family and online.
• An article on this is on a blog at
http://neweconomics.net.nz/index.php/2013/06/how-to-build-a-
• Contact us info@neweconomics.net.nz.
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