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Before this world today is highly materialistic, with many and the pursuit of ma..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0074", "segment_id": "seg-0074", "start": 4722.33, "end": 4726.24, "time_label": "1:18:42", "speaker": "UNKNOWN", "excerpt": "Because this will occur through like war or suffering." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0075", "segment_id": "seg-0075", "start": 4726.46, "end": 4742.16, "time_label": "1:18:46", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Then in history, we go through like World War I and World War II. Many people die. Many tragedies happen. But it seems that this value, this materialistic value doesn't change because that's what we have today. 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Learn, read, ask questions, develop yourself spiritually, intellectually, and emotionally. Then the final answer applies the same rule to Chinese students: globalization is over, the American-degree path is over, and degree-seeking has to give way to passion and love of learning for itself.", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0080", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0082", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0083", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0084" ], "marks": [ { "text": "focus on your own personal transformation", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081", "segment_id": "seg-0081", "start": 4837.76, "end": 4875.8, "time_label": "1:20:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yeah. It's absolutely pointless to worry about secret societies. It's absolutely pointless to worry about others. What you can do is live your life to the best of your ability. You can be focused on learning, on develop..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "text": "love learning for itself", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0084" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0084", "segment_id": "seg-0084", "start": 4954.6, "end": 4985.71, "time_label": "1:22:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They care about the grades. They care about the degree. Once you take that away from Chinese students, Chinese students don't even know what to do. They play video games every day. They just sit around and do nothing. O..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0080", "segment_id": "seg-0080", "start": 4808.26, "end": 4837.28, "time_label": "1:20:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah. The first is like, he had some questions about ours as individuals in this world. He said that efforts are defined based on the consequentialism of secret society and other definitions. Okay. What is the significa..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081", "segment_id": "seg-0081", "start": 4837.76, "end": 4875.8, "time_label": "1:20:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yeah. It's absolutely pointless to worry about secret societies. It's absolutely pointless to worry about others. What you can do is live your life to the best of your ability. 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So all this inequality, this generational inequality that we're seeing in..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0060", "segment_id": "seg-0060", "start": 3998.92, "end": 4073.55, "time_label": "1:06:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "is that the old, not all the old, but a minority of the old, the old hierarchy have all the capital and the young have nothing. Okay? So it's the young who will give up all their money to the old, and it's the young who..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0061", "segment_id": "seg-0061", "start": 4074.69, "end": 4139.01, "time_label": "1:07:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? So if Iran wants the U.S. to leave, how can Israel still achieve its plan? Okay, first question. Is America trying to slowly weaken the global economy by letting the war drag on? 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I know it's supposed to use math, but I'll b..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0064", "segment_id": "seg-0064", "start": 4262.36, "end": 4337.65, "time_label": "1:11:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Hmm. They created all these wars in Europe. They enslaved the Indian population and destroyed their economy and stole trillions of dollars from them. They addicted Chinese to opium. Do we ever talk about this? I mean li..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0065", "segment_id": "seg-0065", "start": 4337.93, "end": 4343.63, "time_label": "1:12:17", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So any questions? Yeah. Okay." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0066", "segment_id": "seg-0066", "start": 4345.74, "end": 4418.36, "time_label": "1:12:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So I have like... So my first question is about the global economy. Like in one previous discussion, you argued that the U.S.-centric global economy system would collapse after the Iran war, leading to the re -militariz..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0067", "segment_id": "seg-0067", "start": 4418.36, "end": 4425.5, "time_label": "1:13:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The American became the empire that replaced the British. Like, so why won't this happen again?" }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0068", "segment_id": "seg-0068", "start": 4425.8, "end": 4512.38, "time_label": "1:13:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. Okay. So the basis of the global economy is the U.S. dollar. Okay. So what is the U.S. dollar? The U.S. dollar is basically a contract system. Okay. So when I use U.S. dollar, basically it's a contract that our tr..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0069", "segment_id": "seg-0069", "start": 4513.05, "end": 4585.68, "time_label": "1:15:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. Because this leads to financialization, which is just risk and speculation. Okay. So all this excess money is being created around the world, and you have to absorb it into your economy, which causes inflation, wh..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0070", "segment_id": "seg-0070", "start": 4585.68, "end": 4628.82, "time_label": "1:16:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And the answer is no, hell no. Okay. This system is retarded. It is unbelievable that America agreed to the system in the first place. And most Americans would say, well, we just got stuck. We're stuck with this system...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0071", "segment_id": "seg-0071", "start": 4634.99, "end": 4644.61, "time_label": "1:17:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So you're talking about a country like Japan and Germany as you mentioned before, or America, like they fall into a group that, well, together built a global economic system." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0072", "segment_id": "seg-0072", "start": 4647.64, "end": 4689.19, "time_label": "1:17:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Because ultimately you have to resolve the issue of benefit. Okay. Okay. Like we have to negotiate who benefits. Okay. It doesn't make sense. And it's hard for nation states to figure that out. It's much easier to have..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0073", "segment_id": "seg-0073", "start": 4692.07, "end": 4721.56, "time_label": "1:18:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, my second question is about the value of the culture of the world. As we discussed before, the culture of the world is very important. Before this world today is highly materialistic, with many and the pursuit of ma..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0074", "segment_id": "seg-0074", "start": 4722.33, "end": 4726.24, "time_label": "1:18:42", "speaker": "UNKNOWN", "excerpt": "Because this will occur through like war or suffering." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0075", "segment_id": "seg-0075", "start": 4726.46, "end": 4742.16, "time_label": "1:18:46", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Then in history, we go through like World War I and World War II. Many people die. Many tragedies happen. But it seems that this value, this materialistic value doesn't change because that's what we have today. Okay." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0076", "segment_id": "seg-0076", "start": 4742.22, "end": 4797.345, "time_label": "1:19:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, I didn't say everyone will experience this transformation. What I'm saying is that those who undergo the transformation will most likely survive the coming world collapse. Okay. So, you can choose to say like, I wan..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0077", "segment_id": "seg-0077", "start": 4797.345, "end": 4801.36, "time_label": "1:19:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. They refuse to change their minds. Okay. Any more questions?" }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0080", "segment_id": "seg-0080", "start": 4808.26, "end": 4837.28, "time_label": "1:20:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah. The first is like, he had some questions about ours as individuals in this world. He said that efforts are defined based on the consequentialism of secret society and other definitions. Okay. What is the significa..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081", "segment_id": "seg-0081", "start": 4837.76, "end": 4875.8, "time_label": "1:20:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yeah. It's absolutely pointless to worry about secret societies. It's absolutely pointless to worry about others. What you can do is live your life to the best of your ability. You can be focused on learning, on develop..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0082", "segment_id": "seg-0082", "start": 4875.92, "end": 4894, "time_label": "1:21:15", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Question is related to the Chinese students. He said that, how do you think Chinese students who are currently studying in the United States, will be perceived in the future while Chinese people discriminate against us,..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0083", "segment_id": "seg-0083", "start": 4895.22, "end": 4954.32, "time_label": "1:21:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Look, the reality is that the age of globalization is over. The idea that Chinese students learn English, hop in a plane, go to America to study for four years and come back and get a good job, that era is over. 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The practical work is personal transformation: learning, spiritual development, emotional and intellectual growth, reading, and asking questions.", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0080", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0080", "segment_id": "seg-0080", "start": 4808.26, "end": 4837.28, "time_label": "1:20:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah. The first is like, he had some questions about ours as individuals in this world. He said that efforts are defined based on the consequentialism of secret society and other definitions. Okay. What is the significa..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081", "segment_id": "seg-0081", "start": 4837.76, "end": 4875.8, "time_label": "1:20:37", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Yeah. It's absolutely pointless to worry about secret societies. 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This is a great question. And it's something that I think a lot about. So, I make these predictions in order to validate my prediction model. But just because these predictions don't work. Turn out to be correct. Does not validate my prediction model. Hundred percent. Okay. And that's why it's important to keep an open mind and to continue to make predictions. Now, what I will say is this. When I first started making predictions two years ago, I was just looking at patterns and then trying to figure out what patterns were the most salient or the most obvious. And then I made those predictions and I was very confident about these predictions. Now that I'm famous, now that people are demanding I make predictions every day. 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And that's true to a certain extent, but we have to remember that if you commit to a long war if you commit to any war you need to have a long -term strategy because you need so many different organizations institutions parties involved in a war okay a war means a fundamental restructuring of society and therefore you need a grand strategy you need a eschatology okay because this is what allows for political will and that's the issue that the Americans are facing in Iran where they don't really have an eschatology or grand strategy that's articulated okay", "word_count": 154, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0029-chunk-001", "start": 1896.12, "end": 1898.26, "text": "So, you have to challenge Russia to trade with Africa.", "word_count": 10 }, { "id": "seg-0029-chunk-002", "start": 1898.82, "end": 1901.54, "text": "Okay. 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If mass organization are the primary cause of imperial decay, why are unlimited population, unlimited land, so there's reasons that US TechNet will succeed? Okay. All right. Look, I said the US TechNet is the plan. I didn't say it would succeed. Yes, I understand. America can take over all of North America. It can occupy Canada. It can occupy Mexico, Cuba, but when it does that, it's going to create a lot of insurgencies. It's going to create a lot of conflict, so it will be a dumpster fire, okay? Just because you are able to accomplish it doesn't mean you should accomplish it. It doesn't mean it'll be successful. Immigration trap. Why is conforming to rules and working hard considered playing the game wrong if high competence requires resilience in the coming era of resource scarcity? 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You have to find people who are willing to die for what they believe in, and then you'll win this war. And that's why I believe that, ultimately, America will lose this war. America will lose this war in Iran because American people don't have the political will to fight this war. I don't care how much money you put in this war, you're going to spend $100 trillion. I don't care. I don't care how much technology you have, you're still going to lose this war unless you're able to galvanize the patriotism and political will of your people, okay? Alright. Israel will be humbled. Doesn't that change Pax Judaica? Okay. Alright. Okay. So Pax Judaica and Israel are not the same thing. Okay. So Pax Judaica is a project of transnational capital. 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Alright.", "word_count": 2 }, { "id": "seg-0057-chunk-015", "start": 3845.96, "end": 3846.96, "text": "Israel will be humbled.", "word_count": 4 }, { "id": "seg-0057-chunk-016", "start": 3849.06, "end": 3850.52, "text": "Doesn't that change Pax Judaica?", "word_count": 5 }, { "id": "seg-0057-chunk-017", "start": 3850.78, "end": 3851.72, "text": "Okay. Alright.", "word_count": 2 }, { "id": "seg-0057-chunk-018", "start": 3851.92, "end": 3856.88, "text": "Okay. So Pax Judaica and Israel are not the same thing.", "word_count": 11 }, { "id": "seg-0057-chunk-019", "start": 3857.64, "end": 3862.74, "text": "Okay. 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They were able to control America through the Federal Reserve, okay? So transnational capital is the parasite. America is the host. So in this situation, Israel is the host and Pax Judaica will be the parasite or transnational capital. Okay. So it doesn't matter what happens to Israel. They can bomb Israel through smithereens. It doesn't matter. Who cares? Because transnational capital can come into the region, hire Chinese, Filipinos, Indians to rebuild Israel, okay? Is the war going to transfer? The transfer? Is the transfer going to transfer wealth from the old to the young in the US or worsen it? Okay. Yeah. This is an excellent question. This is really a key question if you really understand geopolitics.", "word_count": 152, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0058-chunk-001", "start": 3869.14, "end": 3870.26, "text": "And the same thing happened in America,", "word_count": 7 }, { "id": "seg-0058-chunk-002", "start": 3870.56, "end": 3872.88, "text": "where at the end of the 19th century,", "word_count": 8 }, { "id": "seg-0058-chunk-003", "start": 3872.98, "end": 3877.42, "text": "you have all this transnational capital coming into America through Wall Street", "word_count": 12 }, { "id": "seg-0058-chunk-004", "start": 3877.42, "end": 3881.14, "text": "and through manufacturing, the economy.", "word_count": 5 }, { "id": "seg-0058-chunk-005", "start": 3881.44, "end": 3884.54, "text": "They were able to control America through the Federal Reserve,", "word_count": 10 }, { "id": "seg-0058-chunk-006", "start": 3884.72, "end": 3886.88, "text": "okay? 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So my first question is about the global economy. Like in one previous discussion, you argued that the U.S.-centric global economy system would collapse after the Iran war, leading to the re -militariz..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0067", "segment_id": "seg-0067", "start": 4418.36, "end": 4425.5, "time_label": "1:13:38", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The American became the empire that replaced the British. 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Okay." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0080", "segment_id": "seg-0080", "start": 4808.26, "end": 4837.28, "time_label": "1:20:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Yeah. The first is like, he had some questions about ours as individuals in this world. He said that efforts are defined based on the consequentialism of secret society and other definitions. Okay. 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How can Israel sustain a global empire when their religious leaders view the physical dest..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0053" ], "moment": "When the game is unfair, hard work becomes energy transferred to a parasitic elite.", "source_phrase": "transferring your energy to the elite", "why_it_matters": "It gives the immigration-trap answer its bite.", "tone": "provocation", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0053", "segment_id": "seg-0053", "start": 3508.41, "end": 3581.07, "time_label": "58:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "want to work hard, but if there's an elite that is parasitic, that is rent -seeking, then by working hard, you're just transferring your energy to the elite. Okay. 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I know it's supposed to use math, but I'll b..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0064", "segment_id": "seg-0064", "start": 4262.36, "end": 4337.65, "time_label": "1:11:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Hmm. They created all these wars in Europe. They enslaved the Indian population and destroyed their economy and stole trillions of dollars from them. They addicted Chinese to opium. Do we ever talk about this? I mean li..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0068", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0069" ], "moment": "The dollar is a contract backed by someone who can beat you up if you break it.", "source_phrase": "someone has to come beat you up", "why_it_matters": "It gives a brutal, simple model of money as enforcement.", "tone": "definition", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0068", "segment_id": "seg-0068", "start": 4425.8, "end": 4512.38, "time_label": "1:13:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. Okay. So the basis of the global economy is the U.S. dollar. Okay. So what is the U.S. dollar? The U.S. dollar is basically a contract system. Okay. 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So all this excess money is being created around the world, and you have to absorb it into your economy, which causes inflation, wh..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0070" ], "moment": "No one will replace America because no one wants the cost of being America.", "source_phrase": "no one's willing to accept the cost", "why_it_matters": "It is the core answer to the student's replacement-empire question.", "tone": "reversal", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0070", "segment_id": "seg-0070", "start": 4585.68, "end": 4628.82, "time_label": "1:16:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And the answer is no, hell no. Okay. This system is retarded. It is unbelievable that America agreed to the system in the first place. And most Americans would say, well, we just got stuck. 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And these agents of course include Donald Trump and Vladimir Put..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0014", "segment_id": "seg-0014", "start": 919.42, "end": 983.98, "time_label": "15:19", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "last problem is that these agents like Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin, they seem like puppets, but they themselves believe they are using these secret societies to achieve their own vision, which is given to them by G..." } ] }, { "term": "American Technate", "usages": [ "Projected American continental fortress centered on Greater North America." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1702.12, "end": 1767.56, "time_label": "28:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They can only be agents. But at the same time, the agents have agency. The agents have free will. So, think of Napoleon and Julius Caesar. And they were obviously supported by secret societies. But they reach a certain..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1767.72, "end": 1836.13, "time_label": "29:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "It's not sustainable. And it will not last. So, the idea of competing empires, it's much more common in human history. 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That's just the nature of American society, where America is so vast and people are so energetic and ambitious that..." } ] }, { "term": "continental fortress", "usages": [ "Trump/American Technate vision where America abandons the world, fortifies North America, and trades with the world." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0036" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2367.5, "end": 2420.96, "time_label": "39:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, it paralyzes enemies. It distracts his enemies. And he's able to maintain maximum flexibility in his actions. Okay? And that's why he's so successful. All right. The people around him just do whatever he tells him t..." } ] }, { "term": "contract system", "usages": [ "Jiang's model of the U.S. dollar order as a promise-and-enforcement regime backed by U.S. military power." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0068", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0069" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0068", "segment_id": "seg-0068", "start": 4425.8, "end": 4512.38, "time_label": "1:13:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. Okay. So the basis of the global economy is the U.S. dollar. Okay. So what is the U.S. dollar? The U.S. dollar is basically a contract system. Okay. So when I use U.S. dollar, basically it's a contract that our tr..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0069", "segment_id": "seg-0069", "start": 4513.05, "end": 4585.68, "time_label": "1:15:13", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. Because this leads to financialization, which is just risk and speculation. Okay. So all this excess money is being created around the world, and you have to absorb it into your economy, which causes inflation, wh..." } ] }, { "term": "doubt, debate, imagination", "usages": [ "Jiang's three-part method for seeking truth and testing predictions." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0042" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 2700.3, "end": 2759.67, "time_label": "45:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "All right. Okay. So, things that I do that I think are very important is, first of all, doubt. You always want to question yourself. You always want to ask yourself, am I correct? That's why making predictions is import..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0042", "segment_id": "seg-0042", "start": 2760.03, "end": 2830.58, "time_label": "46:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Now, the last piece, and this is actually something that I do, but most people don't do, is I use my imagination. And all this means is I will go places, I will make certain assumptions that other people don't do. 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So that's the idea. Okay. But this is all very chaotic. So what happens is that there's certain individuals, we can call them occultists, who try to read the river or try to read historical patterns in histor..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 759.927, "end": 841.64, "time_label": "12:39", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They try to turn the chaotic movement of history into a story that comes to an end in which you can participate in. All right. Okay. Then from these occultists are formed secret societies in order to understand this esc..." } ] }, { "term": "fortress America", "usages": [ "Self-sufficient America can retreat from global collapse into its own resource base." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0061" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0061", "segment_id": "seg-0061", "start": 4074.69, "end": 4139.01, "time_label": "1:07:54", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? So if Iran wants the U.S. to leave, how can Israel still achieve its plan? Okay, first question. Is America trying to slowly weaken the global economy by letting the war drag on? And the answer is, it's not intent..." } ] }, { "term": "Hollywood Pentagon complex", "usages": [ "A cultural-military-media bubble in which participants think they control policy while actually living inside system fantasy." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0019" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0018", "segment_id": "seg-0018", "start": 1207.2, "end": 1281.39, "time_label": "20:07", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "that China is competitor to the system, we need to appreciate that China is really an extension of the system. So if this system comes under strain, China itself comes under strain. 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And that's why we don't have control a..." } ] }, { "term": "host and parasite", "usages": [ "Model where transnational capital/Pax Judaica attaches to a state host such as America or Israel." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0062" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "segment_id": "seg-0057", "start": 3808.69, "end": 3869.14, "time_label": "1:03:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "You have to commit your people to total war. You have to find people who are willing to die for what they believe in, and then you'll win this war. And that's why I believe that, ultimately, America will lose this war...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0058", "segment_id": "seg-0058", "start": 3869.14, "end": 3927.62, "time_label": "1:04:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And the same thing happened in America, where at the end of the 19th century, you have all this transnational capital coming into America through Wall Street and through manufacturing, the economy. They were able to con..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0062", "segment_id": "seg-0062", "start": 4139.01, "end": 4203.57, "time_label": "1:08:59", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "is the host. Once the U.S. leaves, Israel becomes a host, Pax Judica, transnational capital, becomes a parasite. Okay? So there's no way the U.S. is going to leave the GCC region. Will the two weeks ceasefire hold? No...." } ] }, { "term": "immigration trap", "usages": [ "A fair-game work ethic becomes a trap when oligarchic elites extract the worker's energy." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0052", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0053" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0052", "segment_id": "seg-0052", "start": 3446.86, "end": 3508.41, "time_label": "57:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "All right. If mass organization are the primary cause of imperial decay, why are unlimited population, unlimited land, so there's reasons that US TechNet will succeed? Okay. All right. 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So the Mosaic Defense will on..." } ] }, { "term": "new world adaptation", "usages": [ "Survival depends on believing a new world is coming and changing one's mind before collapse forces it." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0076", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0077" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0076", "segment_id": "seg-0076", "start": 4742.22, "end": 4797.345, "time_label": "1:19:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, I didn't say everyone will experience this transformation. What I'm saying is that those who undergo the transformation will most likely survive the coming world collapse. Okay. So, you can choose to say like, I wan..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0077", "segment_id": "seg-0077", "start": 4797.345, "end": 4801.36, "time_label": "1:19:57", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. They refuse to change their minds. Okay. Any more questions?" } ] }, { "term": "occultists", "usages": [ "Religious or imaginative pattern-readers who create historical eschatologies." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0012" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 694.07, "end": 759.927, "time_label": "11:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "All right. So that's the idea. Okay. But this is all very chaotic. 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Then from these occultists are formed secret societies in order to understand this esc..." } ] }, { "term": "Pax Judaica", "usages": [ "Projected Israel-centered/transnational-capital order in the Middle East." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1702.12, "end": 1767.56, "time_label": "28:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They can only be agents. But at the same time, the agents have agency. The agents have free will. So, think of Napoleon and Julius Caesar. And they were obviously supported by secret societies. 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But you're right in that other mon..." } ] } ], "chronology_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "note": "This source is dated 2026-04-09 and treats the reported two-week U.S.-Iran pause as already breaking through Lebanon and military deployments.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0001", "segment_id": "seg-0001", "start": 0.53, "end": 85.6, "time_label": "0:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Today is our midterm examination, a chance for you to question and examine me. 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But after this peace treaty was announced, Israel launched more than a hundred strike..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0016" ], "note": "The 2026-04-09 midterm explicitly applies the eschatology/secret-society model to China, the GCC, Trump, Putin, and the Iran war.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 561.03, "end": 632.5, "time_label": "9:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They've already found a loophole. All right. Okay. So let's now go on to the midterm examination. And, um, uh. As I said, YouTube can ask me questions and I will try my best to answer them. This Twitter account, Oris Ap..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0016", "segment_id": "seg-0016", "start": 1053.65, "end": 1144.66, "time_label": "17:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay. And then you have parasitic organizations, science, crime, intelligence, to control the system, but also to draw benefit, to extract value from the system. Now, what we understand is that the beauty of the system..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "note": "Jiang states on 2026-04-09 that fame has made prediction harder because he is no longer only an observer but also a player.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": true, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1521.73, "end": 1584.35, "time_label": "25:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, we just live in the world imagined by occultists. Who they are, what they want, how they work is something that we'll discuss after the break. Okay. After today, we're going on a one -week break for the midterms. Th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1585.11, "end": 1635.99, "time_label": "26:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "How do you differentiate between causation and correlation? Okay. This is a great question. And it's something that I think a lot about. So, I make these predictions in order to validate my prediction model. But just be..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "note": "On 2026-04-09 Jiang frames the coming order as multipolar rather than a continued unipolar American moment.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 1702.12, "end": 1767.56, "time_label": "28:22", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They can only be agents. But at the same time, the agents have agency. The agents have free will. So, think of Napoleon and Julius Caesar. And they were obviously supported by secret societies. But they reach a certain..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0027", "segment_id": "seg-0027", "start": 1767.72, "end": 1836.13, "time_label": "29:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "It's not sustainable. And it will not last. So, the idea of competing empires, it's much more common in human history. So, yes, you'll have the Technate where America retreats into greater North America, Russia exerts c..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0037" ], "note": "On 2026-04-09 Jiang explicitly links Trump's Iran-war behavior to a possible third-term/martial-law strategy.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0036", "segment_id": "seg-0036", "start": 2367.5, "end": 2420.96, "time_label": "39:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, it paralyzes enemies. It distracts his enemies. And he's able to maintain maximum flexibility in his actions. Okay? And that's why he's so successful. All right. The people around him just do whatever he tells him t..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2420.96, "end": 2490.44, "time_label": "40:20", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "is the best strategy because if this war continues and it goes badly for America, then Trump can declare martial law and have a lot of powers. Okay? And again, his enemies are too distracted to appreciate that this is s..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0048" ], "note": "This 2026-04-09 midterm gives concrete civil-war and Iran-nuclear answers inside the broader game theory framework.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "segment_id": "seg-0045", "start": 2964.71, "end": 3036.8, "time_label": "49:24", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "if you look at the history of the Roman Republic, once a civil war starts, it almost never ends, okay? That's just the nature of American society, where America is so vast and people are so energetic and ambitious that..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 3189.2, "end": 3248.7, "time_label": "53:09", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "America has a thousand. There's one way for Iran to lose this war really quickly, and it's to threaten America with a nuclear weapon because that gives America the justification to use its nuclear arsenal, okay? But the..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0054" ], "note": "On 2026-04-09 Jiang predicts nuclear weapons probably will not be used and Iran will grow more religious as the war deepens.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0051", "segment_id": "seg-0051", "start": 3394.37, "end": 3446.58, "time_label": "56:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They think this world is fake, okay? But the problem is they don't care about nukes. The problem is that nuclear weapons, there are institutional constraints and restraints on the use of nuclear weapons, okay? So there'..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0054", "segment_id": "seg-0054", "start": 3581.07, "end": 3656.503, "time_label": "59:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "networks that connect Iran, Tehran to the countryside, and so Tehran might not have access to food. Okay. In which case, Tehran might disappear as a city. In that case, when people are in desperate need, they turn to re..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0064" ], "note": "The midterm restates the Iran-war prediction as an American political-will failure, while distinguishing Israel from Pax Judaica.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0057", "segment_id": "seg-0057", "start": 3808.69, "end": 3869.14, "time_label": "1:03:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "You have to commit your people to total war. You have to find people who are willing to die for what they believe in, and then you'll win this war. And that's why I believe that, ultimately, America will lose this war...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0064", "segment_id": "seg-0064", "start": 4262.36, "end": 4337.65, "time_label": "1:11:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Hmm. They created all these wars in Europe. They enslaved the Indian population and destroyed their economy and stole trillions of dollars from them. They addicted Chinese to opium. Do we ever talk about this? I mean li..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0066", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0072" ], "note": "This post-midterm exchange directly answers why Jiang expects fracture rather than a successor global economic order.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0066", "segment_id": "seg-0066", "start": 4345.74, "end": 4418.36, "time_label": "1:12:25", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So I have like... So my first question is about the global economy. Like in one previous discussion, you argued that the U.S.-centric global economy system would collapse after the Iran war, leading to the re -militariz..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0072", "segment_id": "seg-0072", "start": 4647.64, "end": 4689.19, "time_label": "1:17:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Because ultimately you have to resolve the issue of benefit. Okay. Okay. Like we have to negotiate who benefits. Okay. It doesn't make sense. And it's hard for nation states to figure that out. It's much easier to have..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0076" ], "note": "On 2026-04-09 Jiang attaches the religious-turn thesis to a concrete, severe 50-year collapse forecast.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0076", "segment_id": "seg-0076", "start": 4742.22, "end": 4797.345, "time_label": "1:19:02", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, I didn't say everyone will experience this transformation. What I'm saying is that those who undergo the transformation will most likely survive the coming world collapse. Okay. So, you can choose to say like, I wan..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0083", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0084" ], "note": "The 2026-04-09 closing ties the end of globalization directly to Chinese overseas education and degree-seeking.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0083", "segment_id": "seg-0083", "start": 4895.22, "end": 4954.32, "time_label": "1:21:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Look, the reality is that the age of globalization is over. The idea that Chinese students learn English, hop in a plane, go to America to study for four years and come back and get a good job, that era is over. And qui..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0084", "segment_id": "seg-0084", "start": 4954.6, "end": 4985.71, "time_label": "1:22:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They care about the grades. They care about the degree. Once you take that away from Chinese students, Chinese students don't even know what to do. They play video games every day. They just sit around and do nothing. O..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ], "uncertainty_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0073", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0074", "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0075" ], "note": "Student question about culture/materialism is ASR-rough, but the contrast between materialism, world wars, and spiritual transformation is clear enough from Jiang's answer.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0073", "segment_id": "seg-0073", "start": 4692.07, "end": 4721.56, "time_label": "1:18:12", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "So, my second question is about the value of the culture of the world. As we discussed before, the culture of the world is very important. Before this world today is highly materialistic, with many and the pursuit of ma..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0074", "segment_id": "seg-0074", "start": 4722.33, "end": 4726.24, "time_label": "1:18:42", "speaker": "UNKNOWN", "excerpt": "Because this will occur through like war or suffering." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0075", "segment_id": "seg-0075", "start": 4726.46, "end": 4742.16, "time_label": "1:18:46", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Then in history, we go through like World War I and World War II. Many people die. Many tragedies happen. But it seems that this value, this materialistic value doesn't change because that's what we have today. 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