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The 1964 presidential campaign ad linking Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater and the Ku Klux Klan that was commissioned for President Lyndon Johnson made hay out of his opponent's endorsement by the white supremacist group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUHH8tjYg2A
The New "Racist" Charges Attacking Dr. Paul
By Ry Dawson of Rys2Sense
"The latest attacks on Ron Paul are so pathetic. It's so lame this is the same shit as in 2008 when Don Black (of Stormfront) sent Ron Paul money and then bragged about it. CNN instantly had a story about it. Odd how they would even be reading an obscure website like Stormfront. Its a way of getting the media to jump on Ron Paul and at the same time get mass media exposure for a racist group's web site. No one had ever heard of ATP until they started trying to attach themselves to Ron Paul. The mass media did nothing but make a bunch of racist groups nationally famous. Bravo, morons.
I made this video before this junk came out anticipating something like it. Lynodn B. Johnson did this guilt by association junk when he ran against Goldwater. The video also shows Paul being questioned because Don Black made it very public that he sent a donation to Ron Paul (as did tens of thousands of of other people in the money bomb)
Think back to that bogus Huntsman attack ad that came from Huntsman supporters themselves. It was aYoutube account created that day with no other videos and the duo were bragging about it on Jon's forum. Do you know how many Ron Paul videos are uploaded on a day or exist on youtube? Yet CNN found this brand new Youtube account's single video the day it was made and put it on the news as a surprise attack on Paul. That is what they did with Stormfront in 2008 as well and that wasn't even a video is was a guy's post in a forum of a tiny extremist's website.
Bill White, and I forgot the other losers name but they all worked together with a communist group on Myspace (which was the Facebook back in 2007) One People's Party (OPP) and was approached by James Kirchick the originator of the racist news letters stories back in 2007 he was all over myspace asking communist groups and neonazis for any dirt on Ron Paul when they had nothing he said to make it up. So Don Black donated $500 dollars to Paul and then boasted about it and CNN had Paul on later saying you got money from a neonazi! Paul was like so what Im not in charge of who donates me money and they said are you going to give it back, he said no way why should i give money to a neonazi he gave it to me he lost it, it's not going to change my views at all.
I got all the dirt on Kirchick because a guy I know hacked his whole data base. I have this all recorded too in a Skype conversation. And I sent a letter to Michael Rivero (of What Really Happened) about it months ago so he can verify that. A mod from overthrow also spilled all the beans to me as well as a former National Alliance member. These groups are crawling with FBI and plants. They exist to snow useful idiots into violent acts and to use guilt by association of political enemies. For the "news" media to pick up so quickly on these bottom feeders shows a set up from start to finish. James Kirchick also intentionally removed the last page of the News letters showing who actually wrote them just so he could try to imply it was Paul. The author was James B. Powell which was finally revealed by Ben Swann on "Reality Check" in 2011. Kirchink the guy who really does hang out with neo-nazis and communists knew that the whole time. He didn't care because he is a die hard Israeli firster and Paul will not continue to send America's youth to go die in Israel's desired wars.
For some loser to run up behind Paul walking and get his picture taken or to ask for a picture with him obviously without saying by the way I'm a White separatist, is so low and for the press to act like its a story is even lower. Paul as a libertarian doesn't view people as groups and has never advocated national socialism or any kind of separatist movement as it is the direct opposite of his philosophy. And you can know that by everything he has ever said or done in a 30 year career.
This attack will fail, it already has really, but I thought it was also important to point out the media's freakishly close role on promoting filth sites and pretending like they randomly discovered dirt stories rather than helping to create them start to finish."The 1964 presidential campaign ad linking Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater and the Ku... more
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Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth passes away
Updated: Oct 05, 2011 11:27 AM PDT
By Dennis Washington
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Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks with FOX6 WBRC-TV during an interview in 2003. (WBRC video) Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks with FOX6 WBRC-TV during an interview in 2003. (WBRC video)
Shuttlesworth is in the center, Martin Luther King, Jr. on the left, Abernathy on the right. They were at the AG Gaston Hotel announcing the Birmingham Truce. (WBRC video)
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The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a leader of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the 1950's, passed away Wednesday morning after a long illness. He was 89.
Sources tell FOX6 News Shuttlesworth died at 10:28 a.m.
"We have lost a true American hero," Dr. Lawrence Pijeaux, President and CEO of the BCRI, said. Pijeaux described Shuttlesworth as a mentor and "a man whose efforts during the 50's and 60's still have a positive impact on human relations around the world."
Birmingham Mayor William Bell issued a statement expressing condolences after hearing about Shuttlesworth's death.
"We are saddened at the passing of Dr. Shuttlesworth and extend our deepest condolences to his family. Dr. Shuttlesworth means so much to this City and his legacy will continue for generations to come," Bell said.
Mayor Bell ordered all flags on city buildings in Birmingham be lowered to half mast in Shuttlesworth's honor. The flags will remain at half mast until after his funeral.
Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell sent a statement of response to Shuttlesworth's death as well.
"Today we mourn the loss of a true soldier for equality. Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was a fearless freedom fighter and tenacious Civil Rights leader. I am deeply saddened by his passing today," the congresswoman said.
"I know that I stand on the shoulders of Civil Rights icons like Reverend Shuttlesworth. It was the sacrifices and courage of Reverend Shuttlesworth and so many others that forged the path for me to be elected Alabama's first African American Congresswoman, and for that I am eternally grateful," Sewell said.
Shuttlesworth, born in Mount Meigs, AL, in 1922, was very active as a preacher of the gospel and civil rights in Birmingham during the 1950's. He served as pastor of Birmingham's Bethel Baptist Church. He was beaten and arrested numerous times for his activism and was the target of several acts of violence, including the bombing of his house on Christmas Day in 1956 and a beating in front of the old Phillips High School in 1957.
Shuttlesworth formed the Alabama Christian Rights Movement and helped create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which he was secretary for many years.
Shuttlesworth left Alabama in 1961 and moved to Cincinatti to become pastor of Revelation Baptist Church and, later, Greater Light Baptist Church, where he continued to work against racism. However, he frequently returned to Alabama to continue efforts to end racism. Shuttlesworth organized numerous lunch counter sit-ins and bus boycotts during the 1960's. He also helped organize the Freedom Rides and Project C.
In 2000, Shuttlesworth was awarded the President's Citizens Medal by President Clinton. He returned to Birmingham after his retirement in 2007.
In October 2008, the Birmingham Airport Authority changed the name of the Birmingham International Airport to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
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Not everything about our past is pretty.
But even though we went through a lot of hardships and we still struggle, we stand proud in our heritage. I still love Mississippi.
I stand for everything Mississippi went through; Mississippians should stand up too.
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I'm overjoyed religious people are so protective of my soul that they insist upon preaching to me at every chance, attempting to nail the 10 Commandments to every flat surface, and being just generally pesky with their anti-sharia laws and Defense of Marriage hogswallop. I couldn't live without your annoying gnat buzzing.I'm overjoyed religious people are so protective of my soul that they insist upon... more
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Remembering the Freedom Rides
In 1961, riders black and white headed South to test the region's segregation laws. Things turned violent in Alabama. Fifty years later, cities along the route are marking the rides with exhibit, murals and a new museum.
PHOTO: A Greyhound bus that carried Freedom Riders burns after being set ablaze by Ku Klux Klan members in 1961. (Joseph Postiglione / Birmingham)
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By Larry Bleiberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times
April 24, 2011
Reporting from Montgomery, Ala.—
As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask.
Fifty years ago next month, a group of 15 passengers travels the same route. Like us, they were blacks and whites sitting together on buses, then a violation of segregation laws. Climpson, 48, says he hasn't heard of the protests, but he's intrigued. As Interstate 20 passes by, he turns to his smartphone to check Wikipedia.
In 1961, Charles Person was 18 and the youngest of the Freedom Riders, who were traveling on two buses to New Orleans from Washington, D.C. The Georgia native still remembers crossing into Alabama that Mother's Day. "There was tension. It was kind of eerie."
Person expected to be harassed and roughed up as the group tested compliance with federal integration laws, but he didn't imagine much worse. "This was broad daylight," he says.
Later that day, members of the Ku Klux Klan would set fire to one bus and beat riders on the other with pipes, chains and bats. Over the next week, the world would watch as the Kennedy administration struggled to protect the protesters.
The racial violence shocked — and changed — America.
Today you can retrace the Freedom Rides easily by car or bus. The Alabama cities on the route are marking the anniversary with murals, exhibits and a new museum. It's a leisurely tour of the Deep South, where you'll find gracious hosts, good food and stark reminders of a not-so-distant past.
Climpson, who is bound for Jackson, Miss., to start a new truck-driving job, can't believe what he's reading on his phone.
"Anniston, Ala.?" he asks, pointing to the screen. "I thought that was a quiet town."
Half a century ago, when the Greyhound bus carrying some of the Freedom Riders pulled into Anniston, in the foothills of the Appalachians, a crowd awaited. Klan members pummeled the vehicle and slashed its tires. It limped away 20 minutes later, and a convoy of cars followed. Six miles later, the bus stopped with a flat.
Bernard Emerson still lives on a hill overlooking the spot, which now bears a historic marker. Someone had tossed burning rags through a smashed bus window. "The smoke was getting pretty thick," he recalls. "One lady was coming out of the window. She got her foot caught, and she was kind of hanging there."
Anniston, a town of 23,000, has only recently acknowledged the incident, commissioning murals and detailed exhibit signs at its former bus stations, two blocks from the current stop. I took a layover for a few hours to look around and eventually found my way to a converted Woolworth's, now a restaurant called Classic on Noble. Its Sunday brunch recalls a Southern country club buffet: more than 100 offerings, including fried green tomatoes, grits, shrimp salad, beef tenderloin and a dessert counter with 26 pies, cobblers and cakes. The after-church crowd is predominately white, but a few black guests feast too.
"We're a nice town," the hostess tells me. "We have a dark past, but we've overcome it."
When the second bus reached Anniston in 1961, a pair of Klansmen boarded and beat the riders, causing permanent brain damage to one. The Klansmen warned them that worse awaited 60 miles down the road in Birmingham.
"They taunted us all the way," Person says. Still, the wounded protesters stuck to their plan; when they arrived, they headed to the white waiting room in the Trailways bus station.
"The walls were surrounded by a group of men," Person recalls. "As we got toward the center, they started coming toward us."
Person, who had been trained to practice Gandhian nonviolence, was immediately set upon. "Everyone had a chance to punch me," he says. His head was bashed with a pipe. Then a news photographer snapped a picture, distracting Person's attackers. "I just walked out of my jacket," he recalls. "I did not run. I was still under control."
He stepped outside and boarded a city bus. The first Freedom Rides had ended, and Person had escaped with his life.
CONTINUED...Remembering the Freedom Rides
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The Ku Klux Klan does not want to be associated with the whackos at the Westboro Baptist ChuchThe Ku Klux Klan does not want to be associated with the whackos at the Westboro... more
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This video explains the historical and intimate relationship between guns, freedom and racism in America.This video explains the historical and intimate relationship between guns, freedom and... more
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"Welcome AKC Members," read a banner hanging from the table — with AKC crossed out and KKK written above it. Two PETA protesters dressed as Ku Klux Klan members, while other volunteers handed out brochures that read: "The KKK and the AKC: BFF?""Welcome AKC Members," read a banner hanging from the table — with AKC... more
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Johnny Lee Clary, a former KKK leader who now opposes the group has said that the KKK may be recruiting in New Zealand.Johnny Lee Clary, a former KKK leader who now opposes the group has said that the KKK... more
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KKK-main motive is to hate Jewish, black, and mixed races. KKK was founded as violent white supremacist movement by confederate officers after Civil War, in USA, lasted until 1870. Klan began again in 1915, still active today. There were about 4 million members in KKK in 1920s and most surge of activity came during civil rights movement of 1960s. Now in 2008 there are approximately few thousands members in splinter groups who are caring out the hate to kill black, Jewish and other races and their headquarters are in Kentucky. A16 year’s old Jordan Gruver and American citizen Native American descent was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the southern poverty Law Center said. Gruver, backed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed the personal injury lawsuit last year seeking up to $6 million in damages from the Imperial Klans of America and two of its leaders Edwards and Grant Titan Jarred R. Hensley. The verdict included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages against Ron Edwards. Jury awarded 2.5 million dollars to Gruver today. I think U.S.A. is a melting pot there’s no real American there all are immigrants whose running this country and making it worlds’ top nation. They should not have ethnic violence in their place nor their society even those who promote hate and violence. Government should spend plenty of time and money to sweep out these kinds of activist from this nation especially imperial Klans of American should be out of business by now. Right now there are 34 named Klan organizations across the country, with 155 separate chapters and there are more than 40 different Klan groups, with as many as 5,000 members in more than 100 chapters across the country. America has more hate in the country than any nation worldwide. American should stop concentrating on terrorist issues they need to fix their inside problems first. The biggest terror is developing inside its nation and American government is being blind.
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A Kentucky teenager was awarded $2.5 million in damages after he was beaten by member of the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK targeted Jorden Gruver when he was sixteen because they thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant. Gruver is an American citizen of Native-American and Panamanian descent. According to the testimony, three members of the KKK approached Gruver in 2006. They taunted him with ethnic slurs, spat on him, doused him with alcohol, and then two of the men proceeded to knock him to the ground and beat him. Gruver survived with a broken jaw, a broken arm, two cracked ribs and numerous cuts and bruises.A Kentucky teenager was awarded $2.5 million in damages after he was beaten by member... more
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After Jordan Gruver, an American citizen of Panamanian descent, was beaten in July 2006 by two reputed Klansmen, he was left with serious injuries that included a broken jaw, broken arm, cracked ribs, and various cuts and bruises.
Now Gruver is fighting back in court against the Imperial Klans of America, hoping to win damages large enough to put the group out of business.
My personal hope is that such an event could occur, but my unfortunate guess is that even if the KKK were to go bankrupt, there would be other hate-filled people ready to take their place. Am I being too pessimistic? Weigh in your thoughts.After Jordan Gruver, an American citizen of Panamanian descent, was beaten in July... more
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8 arrested in connection with shooting at remote Louisiana campsite
An Oklahoma woman recruited to come to a rural Louisiana Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot to death after she asked to leave, authorities said. Eight people were arrested.
The woman, whose identity has not been released, lived near Tulsa, Okla., and was recruited via the Internet to come to Louisiana for a KKK initiation, according to a news release Tuesday from St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain.
Strain said the woman arrived in Slidell, La., last week, and was met by two people connected with the white-supremacist group. She was taken to a remote campsite near Pearl River in southeast Louisiana.
On Sunday, the woman asked to be brought back to town. A fight broke out and she was fatally shot by the group's leader, the sheriff said.
Several people in the group tried to cover up the crime by burning items at the campsite, including all of the woman's belongings, Strain said.
The woman's body was found Monday along the side of a road in the small St. Tammany community of Sun, about 60 miles north of New Orleans, the sheriff said. The campsite was later discovered several miles north on the bank of the Pearl River. Deputies retrieved several items, including weapons, several flags, and six Klan uniforms.8 arrested in connection with shooting at remote Louisiana campsite
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Lawyers for a reputed Klansman argued Monday that prosecutors are citing an irrelevant civil case in their efforts to reverse his acquittal in the abductions of two black teenagers slain in 1964.
James Ford Seale, 73, was convicted in June 2007 on kidnapping and conspiracy charges related to the abduction of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. He had served just over a year of his three life sentences when his conviction was overturned by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in September.
Soon after, federal prosecutors asked that the panel to reconsider its ruling or that the full court hear the case. The panel's ruling said the statute of limitations for kidnapping had expired in the four decades between Seale's alleged crime and the federal charges.
In a highly technical legal argument, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights division claims the panel overlooked an important court precedent and erroneously applied a statute of limitation.
In a response filed Monday with the court, Seale's lawyers said prosecutors have incorrectly used a ruling in a civil case to underpin their argument. Kathy Nester, Seale's federal public defender, said federal prosecutors can't prove the court ignored a precedent by citing the case that's completely unrelated to the crime of kidnapping.
"My argument is, that case is totally different from the case that is before the court now. It's not even a criminal case," Nester said. "That case does not meet the requirements under the law to merit a rehearing."
Federal prosecutors didn't immediately respond to phone and e-mail messages seeking comment Monday night.
Moore and Dee, both 19, were hitchhiking in southwest Mississippi when they were abducted, beaten, weighted down and thrown, possibly still alive, into a Mississippi River backwater.
Prosecutors say the Klan beat and killed the teens over rumors that black residents were arming themselves for an uprising during the violent struggle for racial equality.
The government has already asked that Seale remain behind bars until the appeals are resolved, while authorities in Mississippi are trying to determine if there's enough evidence to charge him with murder under state law if his acquittal is upheld in the federal case.
There's no statute of limitations on state murder charges.Lawyers for a reputed Klansman argued Monday that prosecutors are citing an irrelevant... more
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White supremacists hope Obama win spurs upheaval
Groups expect a racial backlash, think they'll benefit
PEARL, Miss. — They're not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes the first black president. His election, they say, would trigger a backlash — white people rising up, a revolution of sorts — that they think is long overdue.
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He'd be a "visual aid," former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke said in trying to bring others around to their view that white people have lost control of America. Obama's election, says another, would jar white people into action, writing letters, handing out pamphlets rather than sitting around complaining.
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They're not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes the first black president. His election, they say, would trigger a backlash — whites rising up, a revolution of sorts — that they think is long overdue.
He'd be a "visual aid," says former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in trying to bring others around to their view that whites have lost control of America. Obama's election, says another, would jar whites into action, writing letters, handing out pamphlets rather than sitting around complaining ...They're not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but prominent white supremacists... more
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A former Ku Klux Klan member convicted in the killings of three Mississippi civil rights workers in the 1960s must be freed because the FBI used a Mafia enforcer to torture a key witness for information, his lawyers say.
Edgar Ray Killen, 84, was convicted in 2005 of ordering the Klan killings of the trio 41 years earlier, a crime that was dramatised in the film Mississippi Burning.
His lawyers have appealed against his life sentence for triple manslaughter, citing new evidence that the FBI used Gregory Scarpa - known as The Grim Reaper - to put pressure on Klan members to reveal where the bodies had been hidden.
The lawyers also say that his conviction was tainted by the fact that a defence lawyer in a previous trial over the killings in 1967 was an FBI informant who had been providing prosecutors with information about the defence case.
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A bit of interesting democratic primary history with Ed Muskie doing the crying at this link above - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck_Letter
fyi amies,
"Cannucks" - French Canadians, mostly descendants of the French Voyageurs and Northeast Indian women - Metis, Quebecois, and Bois Brulle and/or Acadians, the offspring of communally living French men from Brittany and Normandy in the early 1600s and Mik'mak women, were persecuted from Maine up through Canada on the eastern seaboard for over 200 years. When America was born, the border crossed over them from coast to coast. One contentious border was Maine, with Acadians having family on both sides and longing to be reunited. My Memere Louisia Aucoin Touchette was born in the late 1890s, but she yearned to return to Acadia and talked about the dispersal in 1755 as if it were yesterday.
Our people were major players in the French and Indian Wars, War of 1812 and others when we usually took the side of our Indian relatives, not usually the winning side. The Grand Derangement in September of 1755 of Acadians, when families were separated, their property confiscated and herded on ships and dispersed to the British colonies, is the first modern example of genocide in the West. Seeing Mormon children torn from their mothers reignites that tragic ancestral memory.
What most people don't know is that the Ku Klux Klan had it's biggest activity against "Cannucks" in Maine in the late 1800s and early 1900s with a membership in Maine of over a 150,000. Read this description of the times from "Performing family stories, forming cultural identity: Franco American mémère stories" by Kristin M. Langellier
First published in Communication Studies, 53(1) Spring 2002, 56-73.
"Arguably, the Roman Catholic church both held French Canada together culturally at the same time that it hindered the social progress of its people. In the U.S., the devotion to French language and Catholic faith made Franco Americans the targets of religious hostility and racist attacks. The Anglo imagination attacked the French refusal to assimilate by challenging their whiteness. The French were characterized in an 1880 Massachusetts labor report as "the Chinese of the Eastern States" (les chinois de Pest) (Doty, 1995, p. 87), a comparison not to other white groups but to another race. Using French Canadians to argue against a ten-hour work day, the report concludes, "Now, it is not strange that so sordid and low a people should awaken corresponding feelings in the managers, and that these should feel that, the longer hours for such people, the better, and that to work them to the uttermost is about the only good use they can be put to" (Wright, 1881). Class, linguistic, and religious conflict submitted Franco Americans to two hundred years of discrimination, oppression, and poverty. In the mid and late 1880's and again in the 1920s, French Catholics were the target of cross-burnings by the Ku Klux Klan. In Maine, for example, an active and flourishing Klan in Maine, numbering 150,141, waged campaigns against the Catholic Church and foreign-language schools (Doty, 1995). Anti-French and anti-Catholic attacks suggest how larger historical forces shaped language and religion within the specific cultural formation of Franco American identity. "
Unfortunately, the Muskie "Canuck Letter" didn't increase awareness about the history and unequal status of some of America's first inhabitants.
From TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog.
P.S. Our Mik'maq ancestors arrived on the northeast shores of the Atlantic 20,000 years ago.A bit of interesting democratic primary history with Ed Muskie doing the crying at... more
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