THE NUKE HOAX

Global War deceptions & mass manipulation, fear-mongering terror schemes and propaganda in the Age of the Bomb
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Ah-tom Akbar!


Obscure Particle Could Keep Iran Honest on Its Nuclear Deal - Sophia Chen (July 23, 2015)
Last week, Iran made a deal with five other world powers about the future of its nuclear programs. But as President Obama made clear in his announcement of the deal, this agreement isn’t based on trust: It’ll be based on cold, hard evidence.

-Cold, hard nuclear evidence? Ok I’m hooked.

In order to hold Iran accountable, the International Atomic Energy Agency—the global nuclear weapons watchdog—has to be able to accurately monitor Iranian nuclear power reactors to track how much nuclear weapon-grade uranium and plutonium they have. But current techniques are far from foolproof. Right now, IAEA inspectors literally seal up equipment with tape and tag it with some sort of label. The idea is, anyone who tries to illicitly remove plutonium will disrupt the seal. Also, they might sample dust from near the reactor and take it to a lab to process.

So naturally, the inspectors would rather do all this remotely. But that’s a science-trick no one quite knows how to pull off just yet….But scientists are working on another possibility: hunting for antineutrinos, a subatomic particle released during fission.


-So how does one go about ‘hunting for antineutrinos’?

Because antineutrinos can go right through reactor walls—they’re almost massless and travel nearly the speed of light—an antineutrino detector could do the job “right in the parking lot next to the reactor,” says Patrick Huber, a Virginia Tech physicist who is leading development of a detector.


Sadly, detecting antineutrinos isn’t easy. If you shot antineutrinos—or their counterparts, neutrinos (made of matter as opposed to antimatter)1—through 6 trillion miles of lead shielding [ :wacko: ], half of them would pass right through, like ghosts. “Antineutrinos really are very bashful particles and almost never interact,” says Thomas Shea…

-Enrico Fermi and Wolfgang Pauli’s prediction of the existence of the "neutrino" at the 1933 Solvay Conference was subsequently ‘verified’ in 1956, 1962 and 2000. In fact, Quantum theorists have had a miraculous track record for ‘discovering/detecting’ previously theorized sub-atomic particles. Anyhow, we know antineutrinos must exist because for every neutrino there’s an equal & opposite antineutrino (or something like that) so detecting them is only a matter of time (and money of course).

Luckily, the average nuclear reactor emits more than 1 hundred million million million million (10^26) antineutrinos a day. So a detector near a reactor can still pick them up. It’s portability that’s the real trick. “Normally, antineutrino detectors weigh thousands of tons,” Huber says. “They’re usually size of a house.” His detector, by comparison, is small enough to fit on the back of a truck—20 feet long, and weighing about 20 tons. “Antineutrino detectors can’t get much smaller than that,” Huber says.

-I’m sure some wiz(ard) will eventually develop an Apple Antineutrino App.

Now, here’s the annoying part: The team is still testing its detector on small, research-sized reactors. And the signal’s still noisy–cosmic rays set off the detector, too. It’ll be years before they can deliver a working version to the IAEA.

-Of course, we should expect many cost overruns & character building setbacks.

For sure, some physicists aren’t convinced that antineutrino detectors will ever be useful beyond the lab. “I’m never that optimistic about antineutrino detection, because I know how hard it is,” says Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, a physicist at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. But that doesn’t mean trying to build one wouldn’t have benefits. “I see it as a way of building collaboration between different countries,” says Dalnoki-Veress. “For Iran, collaborating on antineutrino technology could link them back into the world. It’s an opportunity to learn from European and US scientists’ experimental techniques.”

-Ah, yes! The perception of building scientific bridges across national/religious divides in order to save humanity from (perceived) grave danger(s) is all that really matters.

Indeed, Tehran hosted an international conference on neutrinos and antineutrinos in 2012. So maybe they’re open to collaboration. “I don’t think the technology is there yet, but maybe Iranians and other scientists can come up with solutions together,” says Dalnoki-Veress. Antineutrino nerds of the world, unite.

-Yes antineutrino nerds, unite with your Trekkie, Trekker & Star Wars brethren at the next Comic-Con convention. May the mystery force always be with you!
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/obscure-pa ... lear-deal/
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Seneca wrote:Your position "nuclear energy is real" is just as absolutist and not a skeptical position. Because your evidence is not conclusive.
That depends on how you define "nuclear energy is real". If you refer to:
1 - the technology to produce nuclear energy is real - I'd say "probably yes"
2 - all nuclear energy is real - it is indeed an abolutist claim which would be foolish without knowing the details of each reactor
What's your evidence that power is produced there? There are other hypotheses, like the dumpload theory, that they use excess electricity produced elsewhere.
I don't have first-hand evidence, unfortunately. All we rely on are people who work there and publish about it. Can that be rigged? Of course. Is the probability that all is rigged and all are liars substantial enough to think it is all faked? I don't know, but I have my doubts about that.
So your eerie feeling and the numbers you watched on somebodies Geiger counter are your evidence?
No, they are my description of an experience. For evidence I need more, of course.
There are other explanations for your observations.
There are.
And even if there was radioactivity all over the place, this doesn't prove that nuclear energy is real.
True.
No it is not a logical step. You would have to assume some kind of chain reaction.
Yup. Do they exist? I haven't seen them with my own eyes, no.
The ultimate motive for nuclear weapons is to scare the population imho. Nuclear power could have the same motive. Do you think the 500.000 people living in Antwerp, our 2nd biggest city worry about nuclear bombs? Or about the nuclear reactor 16 km from the center of the city, that was possibly sabotaged by terrorists?
Scary indeed, but not only scary, yet also beneficial for our energy needs. For weaponry I don't see that combination; it's scaring only.
So here is my logic
A ) A nuclear reactor is shut down because of a hoax
B ) This nuclear reactor reactor produces lots of cheap electricity
C ) The cost of shutting down a nuclear reactor with the assumed production extremely outweighs the benefits
D ) Hoaxes are never that expensive
The conclusion from A, B and C opposes D. So at least one of the premises must be wrong.

Maybe B is wrong and there are at least some nuclear reactors that are fake.
Efficient logic, I don't know if it is enough.

And it comes back to the first point mentioned; if the technology is real, you could have 99 out of 100 fake reactors, but that still doesn't make that one real (working with the real technology) reactor also fake.

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simonshack wrote:*

Everyone should print out these two pages ...

Isn't it kind of comforting to know that 'Nukes' were "Made in Hollywood"? <_<

SECRET FILM STUDIOS: LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
http://septclues.com/NUKE%20HOAX/LookOu ... tudios.pdf
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AIR FORCE STATION - Atomic Bomb Movie Studio for the US Air Force in Hollywood


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=289QhrU9Xow
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ProperGander wrote:
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AIR FORCE STATION - Atomic Bomb Movie Studio for the US Air Force in Hollywood
Thanks for posting this old, priceless military propaganda reel, ProperGander.

This is an absolute MUST WATCH...
... for everyone who wishes to understand how deeply fooled we ( the people ) have been fooled by American FILM propaganda:


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=289QhrU9Xow

Sorry to sound rude - but if you (TODAY , in 2015) can't see how silly this military film is - you are brain dead.
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The following article reaffirms (IMO) that the nuke & space hoaxes are fundamental pillars of scientism which the Aryan Nation is fully committed to upholding!


Iran ayatollah's new missile: Lawmakers demanding action
By Charles Hoskinson (@cehoskinson) • 10/14/15 7:10 PM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/iran- ... le/2574152

Lawmakers Wednesday pushed the Obama administration to act against Iran's test of a new-generation missile that has fueled fears it may be able to defeat Israel's anti-missile defenses.
-Holy Prometheus, Batman!
The missile, dubbed "Emad," or "Pillar," has an estimated range of 900 milles [sic] to 1,100 miles, which is enough to reach Israel, and a maneuverable warhead to improve accuracy and complicate anti-missile defenses. Officials and experts are concerned that any breach by Iran of its obligations under the nuclear agreement, combined with further development of its missile program, would give the theocracy in Tehran a nuclear strike capability against the Jewish state, which it has vowed to destroy.
From theocracy to scientocracy via sci-fi shall be the method of choice!

Taking a page out of the 'Austin Powers' global dominion playbook,' the Iranian Defense Ministry:
… on Wednesday unveiled a deep underground bunker packed with missiles at an unknown location and told state television they would soon be replaced by more advanced long-range missiles.
A ‘photo’ of the latest Persian ‘pillar’ published on the 11th symbolizes the gravity of the situation.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/1 ... Hajizadeh-
"As of next year, a new and advanced generation of long-range liquid and solid fuel missiles will replace the current products," Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Aerospace Division, was quoted as saying.
What a job title! :rolleyes:
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I’m posting this article to demonstrate the absurdity of the perpetual Israel-Iran fear porn.

Yet Another Estimate of When Iran Will Have the Bomb
January 28th, 2013
Kevin Jon Heller

McClatchy reports that Israel now believes Iran will not be able to produce a nuclear weapon until 2015 or 2016. That is progress of a sort; Netanyahu had previously been claiming that Iran would have the bomb no later than late summer 2013 — around six months from now. But Israel is still insisting that Iran is only two or three years away from nuclear capability, so I think it is useful to recall and update the timeline I mentioned early last year of breathless Israeli and Western claims about Iran’s nuclear program:

1984: West German intelligence sources claim that Iran’s production of a bomb “is entering its final stages.” US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.

1992: Israeli parliamentarian Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Knesset that Iran is 3 to 5 years from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

1995: The New York Times reports that US and Israeli officials fear “Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought” – less than five years away. Netanyahu claims the time frame is three to five years.

1996: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres claims Iran will have nuclear weapons in four years.

1998: Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claims Iran could build an ICBM capable of reaching the US within five years.

1999: An Israeli military official claims that Iran will have a nuclear weapon within five years.

2001: The Israeli Minister of Defence claims that Iran will be ready to launch a nuclear weapon in less than four years.

2002: The CIA warns that the danger of nuclear weapons from Iran is higher than during the Cold War, because its missile capability has grown more quickly than expected since 2000 – putting it on par with North Korea.

2003: A high-ranking Israeli military officer tells the Knesset that Iran will have the bomb by 2005 — 17 months away.

2006: A State Department official claims that Iran may be capable of building a nuclear weapon in 16 days.

2008: An Israeli general tells the Cabinet that Iran is “half-way” to enriching enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon and will have a working weapon no later than the end of 2010.

2009: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak estimates that Iran is 6-18 months away from building an operative nuclear weapon.

2010: Israeli decision-makers believe that Iran is at most 1-3 years away from being able to assemble a nuclear weapon.

2011: An IAEA report indicates that Iran could build a nuclear weapon within months.

2013: Israeli intelligence officials claim that Iran could have the bomb by 2015 or 2016.

The McClatchy articles quotes an Israeli intelligence officer as asking “Did we cry wolf too early?” That’s amusing: Israel (and the West) have been crying wolf over Iran’s nuclear capability for nearly three decades.
http://opiniojuris.org/2013/01/28/yet-a ... -the-bomb/
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Is the Onion pulling back the curtain a millimeter or two in order to give those of us pay attention a tip of the hat?


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXPPTCo-9c

(At 1:48 are the filmmakers "taking the piss" as the Brits would say, or is my mind just in the gutter?)
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Very interesting post, Farce!

I see the Onion published it on Sep 8, 2015. Even if it isn't, I'm going to take it as a hat tip to CluesForum. Too many clues... ;)
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I don't know if anyone else picked the following up. I Googled whether the Korean 'hydrogen' bomb was a fake and came up with this little gem.

It's from U.S. News. and in the MSN (main sewer news).

It seems pretty certain that the 'powers who shouldn't be', know exactly how these tests are created.

Here is a quote from the article:


Quote: North Korea simply patched together pieces of video from all the failed tests, pretended the launch actually worked, spliced in some old SCUD missile footage to cover over the catastrophic failures, created one composite video purporting to show that the test worked, and then released it to global media who all covered it somewhat breathlessly during the slow holiday news period. End quote.

The original article may be found here:

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the ... s-how-high
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sharpstuff wrote:I don't know if anyone else picked the following up. I Googled whether the Korean 'hydrogen' bomb was a fake and came up with this little gem.

It's from U.S. News. and in the MSN (main sewer news).

It seems pretty certain that the 'powers who shouldn't be', know exactly how these tests are created.

Here is a quote from the article:


Quote: North Korea simply patched together pieces of video from all the failed tests, pretended the launch actually worked, spliced in some old SCUD missile footage to cover over the catastrophic failures, created one composite video purporting to show that the test worked, and then released it to global media who all covered it somewhat breathlessly during the slow holiday news period. End quote.

The original article may be found here:

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the ... s-how-high
This adds another dimension to the purpose of North Korea that had not occurred to me until now.

When I was much younger I was taught in school about Pravda and Tass, the then media of the Soviet Union and how they printed the most outrageous propaganda. Things such as how the US had been involved in over a hundred wars, when we all knew for a fact it was only WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Of course, it was true that the US had been involved in every skirmish imaginable, but the takeaway was that only the commies would stoop to such tactics as propagandizing its citizens with exaggerations of western imperialism.

Now of course, we can rest assured that only some backwater regressive state like North Korea would stoop to faking nuclear tests.

There always has to be at least one target of projection.
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Selene on September 23rd, 2015, 1:31 pm; "The guide showed us with a geiger counter that the grass and plants gave off much more radiation than the concrete we were allowed to walk on"
You are describing a hand held gas sniffer, have used one, there is one in 9/11 Naudet's film, the firefighter checking "gas leak". This one in Pripyat was probably set to detect oxygen by the sounds of it (the stuff plants exhale). Here's one that detects oxygen at .1% min. To make one "go off" you simply calibrate it to ambient air, oxygen and carbon dioxide, maybe ozone and methane too....why not...then when you go near plants, animals or even rotting plants it will beep whenever it finds any concentration of potentially any gas(ozone for electronics, arcing creates ozone). A clever person would send it off to the shop for a refit; mold, print or machine a new casing and repaint it to make it look authentic. A breathalyzer is a sniffer (insert Russian joke here), and a fart can set one off if you want it to. Can also detect volatile organic compounds (voc's), the main source being plants, the lesser being animals, mold, fungi. When you smell offensive plant smells, it is usually voc's. Put titanium dioxide on anything and throw in sunlight and you got ozone. Get it?
Here are two examples, you can get whatever sniffer for whatever gas you require.
https://www.indsci.com/products/multi-g ... /ventisLS/
http://www.rkiinstruments.com/pages/gx6000.htm
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U.S-Trained Pakistani Scientist Pervez Hoodbhoy On The Root of Muslim Backwardness: Scientific Education Is Not Valued In Islamic Culture


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFiua15IHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFiua15IHY&feature

"I will not claim that this science phobia that we see is entirely due to textbooks, because there's a lot more to education than just textbooks. It's part of a national culture. And certainly we do not have a national culture that values science. We do not have science programs on television [i.e. Neil deAss & Bill Nye type Ψ-fotainment]. We have a lot of political entertainment, to be sure, but not very much on science at all. We cannot differentiate, for the most part, between the path-breaking work done by Abdus Salam and the copy cat, reverse engineering done by the bomb makers [That’s right! The Pakistani psy-god never got the credit he deserved for his 'path-breaking' invisi-ball discoveries. What an outrage.]. And, frankly, science is not considered either by students or their parents. So one should not be surprised, therefore, that most textbooks written in Pakistan by Pakistani authors are just not worth reading, and that they have seriously impacted upon students' understanding of the subject." - Pervez Hoodbhoy
http://disquietreservations.blogspot.co ... ervez.html

I feel so bad for those poor backward Pakistani kids. They should burn those books written in Pakistan by Pakistani authors. We need to raise awareness (and donations of course). It’s time to speak truth to power. Those kids are in desperate need of western/modern science books. How else are we going to civilize those barbarians and end the war of terrorism?


Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy continued his research in doctoral studies in physics at the MIT, and was awarded PhD in Nuclear physics in 1978.[23] In the United States, his collaboration took place with the scientists who participated in well known Manhattan Project in the 1940s, who subsequently influenced in his philosophy.[23] Hoodbhoy remained a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Washington, for a short time.[22] In 1973, Hoodbhoy joined the Institute of Physics of the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervez_Hoodbhoy
Abdus Salam
Salam was responsible not only for contributing to major developments in theoretical and particle physics, but also for promoting the broadening and deepening of high calibre scientific research in his country.[7] He was the founding director of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), and responsible for the establishment of the Theoretical Physics Group (TPG) in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).[8] As Science Advisor, Salam played an integral role in Pakistan's development of the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and may have contributed as well to development of atomic bomb project of Pakistan in 1972;[9] for this, he is viewed as the "scientific father"[3][10] of this programme.[11][12][13] In 1974, Abdus Salam departed from his country, in protest, after the Pakistan Parliament passed a controversial parliamentary bill declaring the Ahmadiyya Community as not-Islamic. In 1998, following the country's nuclear tests, the Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative stamp, as a part of "Scientists of Pakistan", to honour the services of Salam.

Even until shortly before his death, Salam continued to contribute to physics and tirelessly to advocate for the development of science in Third-World countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam
And the moral of the story is: Pakistani mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be space cowboys!
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RIPPLE ROCK-an addendum to the 'Nuclear Hoax'
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Please excuse me if this post seems a little disjointed. I found it difficult to put together (although I tried hard!)

Firstly, I would like to present this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_Rock


Originally, my interest was in the fact that the notion of so-called nuclear detonations are invariably measured in megatons of TNT(Trinitrotoluene).

Question: Why is this?

However, this recent event took place, which I thought was interesting.

My cousin on my mother's side, is my senior by 14 years. He was always interested in radio (the valve kind) and always an enigmatic person since I rarely saw him. However, he graduated in science and eventually worked for A.W.R.E at Foulness Island near Southend-on-Sea, Essex, U.K..

Here we are talking about the 1950's.

A.W.R.E was the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and they had many sites around the U.K.

As far as I knew in my childhood, my cousin had gone to Canada and Australia a couple of times, where he was 'involved' in the various nuclear tests performed there.

It was only recently, also, that my cousin (who is now in his 80's) happened to mention Ripple Rock since he had been writing a paper about his experiences.

So being a researcher, I looked up Ripple Rock, hence the link at the top of the page. Please view at least some of it before continuing.

I have to say that my cousin would have had to sign the U.K. Official Secrets Act which precludes one (on pain of some considerable suffering) of divulging 'secrets' from a presumably 'democratic' 'government', so he really can’t say too much.

As an aside, I myself have had to sign the above document O.S.A.) when I worked for the Science Research Council in 1967.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_Act


Cousin G. was present at the Ripple Rock explosion ( apparently the largest non-nulear explosion in history). I was able to determine that the A.W.R.E.'s involvement was mainly (purely?) of a seismological nature. In fact, so far as I can determine, the site at Foulness U.K. (where cousin G. was based) was of a seismological nature making hyper-sensitive equipment. They could/can (apparently) monitor the footsteps of a cat from some distance.

Why would they be interested in measuring blasts of conventional explosives?

Apparently, to be able to detect atomic explosions from naughty persons from countries they don’t like. That would be the ‘official’ story.

When, in another very recent call from my cousin, I tried to glean a few more details regarding his two trips to Woomera (in Southern Australia) in the 1950's, it was similarly to record details of the blast size of the 'atomic' explosions.

Obviously not privvy to the elements of the programme, such as those of my cousin's disposition would not have known the real purpose of their visit to the 'test' grounds.

Another introduction to the event at Ripple Rock can be found here:

http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=fdf ... 4f2d3b1f80

and a video of the event here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=getmLam9H80

The explosive used was Nitramex 2H

I am unable to find out who 'invented' this explosive at present.

The quantity of explosive is interesting. It was supposed to have been (one) of the largest explosions in history.

It was (depending on sources and presumably without a scale-balance) between 1270 and 1375 tonnes, or approximately 1400 - 1515 tons in old money.

The nature of the explosion led me to ask what an underwater 'nuclear' explosion was supposed to look like.

The YouTube result was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvOnAMdr_s

Compare and contrast.

I also have asked myself why they measure 'nuclear' blasts in terms of TNT tonnage (of whatever flavour). They 'know' the effect of TNT blasts but not those of a 'nuclear' blast but need to sound impressive?

I rather liked this explanation as to why they measure explosion in tons of TNT.

http://gizmodo.com/why-do-we-use-a-dumb ... 1723814817

Given the strange nature of measuring anything, and I am so mathematically challenged with notions of tons/tonnes/jewels and their conversions I am still unable to equate the what = what and why.

Would anyone like to comment?
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Interesting stuff! I am puzzled as to why they went down the 'explosives' route when there are methods of dredging that could have been used especially with the depths relatively small.
I would think the use of 'TNT' as a unit of measurement is no different [in concept] to the use of BHP for cars/engines etc.
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sharpstuff wrote:RIPPLE ROCK-an addendum to the 'Nuclear Hoax'
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...

I also have asked myself why they measure 'nuclear' blasts in terms of TNT tonnage (of whatever flavour). They 'know' the effect of TNT blasts but not those of a 'nuclear' blast but need to sound impressive?

I rather liked this explanation as to why they measure explosion in tons of TNT.

http://gizmodo.com/why-do-we-use-a-dumb ... 1723814817

Given the strange nature of measuring anything, and I am so mathematically challenged with notions of tons/tonnes/jewels and their conversions I am still unable to equate the what = what and why.

Would anyone like to comment?
Cool research. I will have to take more time to do my own supercilious "checking" but at first glance, it's a great point and something we should definitely think about. I hope you don't mind I corrected one typo in your post (removed a duplicate chunk of text). You gave me pause to thought; simplicity can be moving.
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