The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Guilt By Association
Burt Prelutsky
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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nOBAMA FAVORITE KAMALA HARRIS LAUNCHES SENATE BID
LA Times: “Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Tuesday morning that she plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer [D-Calif.,] and immediately began raising money for what is expected to be a costly political campaign. ‘I’m excited to share with you that I’m launching my campaign to represent the People of California in the United States Senate,’ Harris wrote in an email to supporters. ‘Your support has been crucial to me every step of the way, and I’m asking you to help me build a grassroots campaign that reaches every community of California.’ Harris immediately started fundraising for a 2016 bid on Tuesday, soliciting contributions of $2,600 for her run. Harris has cultivated a national profile among liberals, a popularity that her supporters hope she can tap to raise the tens of millions of dollars raised by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts or unsuccessful Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis.” -Fox News
LA Times: “Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Tuesday morning that she plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer [D-Calif.,] and immediately began raising money for what is expected to be a costly political campaign. ‘I’m excited to share with you that I’m launching my campaign to represent the People of California in the United States Senate,’ Harris wrote in an email to supporters. ‘Your support has been crucial to me every step of the way, and I’m asking you to help me build a grassroots campaign that reaches every community of California.’ Harris immediately started fundraising for a 2016 bid on Tuesday, soliciting contributions of $2,600 for her run. Harris has cultivated a national profile among liberals, a popularity that her supporters hope she can tap to raise the tens of millions of dollars raised by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts or unsuccessful Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis.” -Fox News
'LIKE MY GRANDMA OFFERING ME DRUGS'
Business Week reports White Castle has begun offering a veggie version of the venerable chain’s beef belly bombers. Still an anomaly among other fast food chains, Burger King offers one, Wendy’s does not and McDonalds has tried to launch them over the years with little success. White Castle Vice President Jamie Richardson expects the limited-time offering to attract new customers to the chain. Veggie sliders were among the top suggestions by consumers. A team of sandwich enthusiasts reviewed the vegetable patties for NPR and found them, well... weird, but “not bad.” Said one: “White Castle offering a veggie burger is like my grandma offering me drugs. Doesn’t seem right, but I’m not gonna say no.” -Fox News
Business Week reports White Castle has begun offering a veggie version of the venerable chain’s beef belly bombers. Still an anomaly among other fast food chains, Burger King offers one, Wendy’s does not and McDonalds has tried to launch them over the years with little success. White Castle Vice President Jamie Richardson expects the limited-time offering to attract new customers to the chain. Veggie sliders were among the top suggestions by consumers. A team of sandwich enthusiasts reviewed the vegetable patties for NPR and found them, well... weird, but “not bad.” Said one: “White Castle offering a veggie burger is like my grandma offering me drugs. Doesn’t seem right, but I’m not gonna say no.” -Fox News
White House Admits Goof in Snubbing Paris Rally
What, the president spending the day watching football or Hanoi John Kerry trying to proselytize climate skeptics in India while other world leaders showed their support for terrorist-hit France was expected to go over well with constituents? "In a rare admission, the White House [Monday] said it made a mistake in not sending a higher-level official to represent the U.S. at the unity rally in Paris on Sunday, in the wake of last week's terror attacks," reports ABC News. Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, "I think it's fair to say that we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there." He also explained the security issues that arise with a presidential visit, but the Secret Service says they weren't even asked about it -- not to mention other world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (a Jew), seemed to manage just fine. Memo to the White House: Leading from behind is not leading. The fact it took an uproar to get that through nObama's thick skull is quite telling. More... -The Patriot Post
What Terrorism? Hanoi Kerry Still Obsessing Over 'Climate Change'
It wasn't enough for State Secretary Hanoi John Kerry to miss a gathering of world leaders in Paris, France, over the weekend following last week's jihadi attacks. Instead, Hanoi Kerry wasted his breath spewing more nonsense on a phenomena that demands far less attention. "I am convinced ... there is one enormous cloud hanging over all of us which requires responsibility from leaders," Hanoi Kerry bemoaned during a speech in Gujarat, India. And what is that cloud? Not Islamic terrorism, according to Hanoi Kerry: "Global climate change is already violently affecting communities not just across India but around the world. It is disrupting commerce, development and economic growth. It's costing farmers crops. It's costing insurance companies unbelievable payouts. It's raising the cost of doing business, and believe me, if it continues down the current trend-line, we will see climate refugees fighting each other for water and seeking food and new opportunity." Let's assume for argument's sake climate change demands immediate attention. Muslim extremists are interested only in eradicating "infidels," and frankly don't care if the globe is warming or cooling. The fight for Liberty's very existence apparently doesn't warrant more concern from apologists like Hanoi Kerry and his ilk. More... -The Patriot Post
ISIL Hijacks CENTCOM's Social Media
A group by the name of CyberCaliphate, a hacking group waging cyber jihad against the West and says it's aligned with ISIL, claimed responsibility for taking control of the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Monday. For the 40 minutes they had control, CyberCaliphate posted the flag of ISIL, threatened U.S. soldiers and posted non-classified documents containing the names and addresses of senior military leaders. "CENTCOM's operation military networks were not compromised and there was no operational impact to U.S. Central Command," the military said in a statement. "CENTCOM will restore service to its Twitter and YouTube accounts as quickly as possible. We are viewing this purely as a case of cybervandalism." Compared to hacking military servers, gaining control of a social media account is child's play. But this hack is not just a prank. The lifeblood of ISIL's social media strategy is spectacle. While this isn't as shocking as a beheading, this is a victory for ISIL in the propaganda war. More... -The Patriot Post
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We are charlie, indeed! 22 terror camps in U.S.
(Leo Hohmann) - The FBI is aware of at least 22 paramilitary Islamic communes in the U.S., operated by the shadowy Pakistan-based group Jamaat al-Fuqra and its main U.S. front group, Muslims of the Americas...With U.S. headquarters in Islamberg, New York, the group headed by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani operates communes in mostly remote areas of California, Georgia, South Carolina, New York, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Tennessee and other states. The FBI describes the MOA compound in Texas, called Mahmoudberg, as an enclave and “communal living site.” Located in Brazoria County along County Road 3 near Sweeny, Texas, it was discovered more than 10 years ago by the FBI through a tip from an informant in New York. If the FBI know these camps are terrorist camps what are they doing about them? http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/22-terror-camps-verified-inside-u-s/
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American Consulate Established 'Armed Arab Militia'
(Arutz Sheva Staff) - Three Israeli security guards who worked at the US consulate resigned in the wake of a plan to hire 35 Palestinians from East Jerusalem as armed security guards...who are currently undergoing training in Yericho (Jericho). One of them has gone so far as to accuse the consulate of creating "an armed Palestinian militia." According to the report in Yediot Aharonot, the plan is to employ the Palestinians mainly to escort convoys of American diplomats in Judea-Samaria. This is a breach of an agreement between the Consulate and the Israeli government, signed in 2011, whereby only guards who served in combat units in the IDF who are employed by the consulate will be allowed to carry arms. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189924#.VLajHp
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WH floats first-ever methane rules for oil and gas industry
(Zack Colman) - The nObama administration said it would propose the first-ever regulations on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector Wednesday with an aim of slashing emissions at least 40 percent compared with 2012 levels by 2025...The regulations would affect new and modified oil and gas hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — wells, though administration officials said they ultimately will need to address emissions from existing wells to hit the emissions reduction target. The Environmental Protection Agency will formally propose the regulations this summer and finalize them in 2016. "In the goal that we're setting we are making clear that we need to get reductions from existing sources," Dan Utech, nObama's top climate and energy adviser, said in a media call. He said it was too early to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on the plan. This will raise the cost of energy and gas for sure. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-floats-first-ever-methane-rules/article/2558629
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Victims' Attorney: PA Supported Terror Attacks in Policy, Deeds
(investigativeproject.org) - Killing civilians was "standard operating procedure" for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority during Yasser Arafat's reign during the early 2000s...an attorney representing American victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks told a jury Tuesday. Kent Yalowitz began his opening statement by describing a cold, rainy day in Jerusalem in March 2002 when Alan and Yonni Bauer were struck by shrapnel sent flying by a suicide bomber. "The scene was chaotic," Yalowitz said, "filled with smoke and fog." The bomber was a former Palestinian police officer who was helped by other Palestinian Authority officials in plotting the attack, Yalowitz said. The PA continues to pay his family for his martyrdom. Those convicted of helping plot the attack also stayed on the government payroll. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4733/victims-attorney-pa-supported-terror-attacks-in
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(Pete Kasperowicz) - “The Speaker made clear that the House would push forward in consideration of the Appropriations Committee’s 2015 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill...which takes a number of steps to bolster border security and law enforcement efforts,” backstabber Boehner’s office said after the meeting ended. “The bill will include amendments to stop the president’s unilateral actions on immigration, and the speaker reminded the president that he himself had stated publicly many times in the past that he did not have the power to rewrite immigration law through executive action.” House Republicans have teed up five GOP amendments to the bill, including one from Rep. Bob Aderholt (R-Ala.) that would defund nObama’s action to give legal protection to millions of illegal immigrants. Another from Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) would defund nObama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy is also scheduled, as are others aimed at treating sex offenders as priorities for deportation — the nObama administration has not put those immigrants on the highest level of priority for removal. Lets see if the Speaker will keep his word. http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/01/13/boehner-to-obama-at-white-house-meeting-the-house-will-defund-your-immigration-plan/
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Conversations With Bill Kristol
(The Weekly Standard) -If you haven't been watching the Conversations with Bill Kristol series, you're cheating yourself...Recent episodes have featured long, wide-ranging interviews with Brit Hume, Joe Lieberman, and Ruth Wisse (among others). But calling them "long and wide-ranging" doesn't really convey how interesting these conversations are: There is no other format where important figures from public and intellectual life will sit and talk, uninterrupted and unedited, for 90 minutes at a time, with no constraints or strictures. And the latest episode, featuring Newt Gingrich, might be the most fascinating one yet. http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/newt-gingrich/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+1_14_15
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Ex-FBI Agent Calls Eric Holder “Coward” and “Hypocrite”
(Selwyn Duke) - “There’s a common cause that bonds the black United States attorney with the black criminal.” These words, according to Department of Justice whistleblower J. Christian Adams, were uttered by none other than Attorney General Eric Holder...And now another former government official is blowing the whistle — and blowing off some righteous steam — in Holder’s direction. He is ex-FBI Special Agent K. Dee McCown, currently director of Global Security and Loss Prevention at W.W. Grainger, Inc. He has written a damning open letter to the attorney general, confirmed as authentic by Snopes. It’s a long missive, but worth the read. It follows: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/19905-ex-fbi-agent-calls-eric-holder-coward-and-hypocrite-in-stunning-letter?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=318ced9715-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-318ced9715-289778381
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House Votes to Defund DACA and Other nObama Actions
(Warren Mass) - The House of Representatives voted on January 14 to approve an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security’s funding bill that would deny funds for new or renewed applications for the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program...It was one of five amendments passed to limit the nObama administration’s grants of amnesty to illegal immigrants by executive actions. The Washington-based newspaper The Hill reported that the amendment was passed 218-209, largely along party lines. However, 26 Republicans, many of whom represent districts with large Hispanic populations, voted against the amendment. Don't those 26 Republicans realize they are illegals and have gone against our laws? My goodness. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/19906-house-votes-to-defund-daca-and-other-obama-actions?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=318ced9715-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-318ced9715-289778381
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Fracking Saved the nObama Economy
(Ben Shapiro) - Is nObama responsible for jobs? In a word, no. It turns out that nObama’s recovery hasn’t been his recovery at all: it’s been those evil oil and gas companies...As Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation points out, “From 2008 to 2013, the oil and gas industry created more jobs on net than all other industries combined.” There is a reason that the fastest growing jobs state over the past several years has been North Dakota, where the oil and gas boom is centered, thanks to the Bakken formation. And in Texas, the oil and gas industry growth has powered the state, thanks to the Eagle Ford and the Permian and Haynesville formations. http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/ben-shapiro-fracking-saved-obama-economy
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Australian PM Infuriates ISIS Terrorists Using A Different Name
(B. Christopher Agee) - Already known as Islamic State, ISIS, and ISIL, it appears the terrorist network based in Iraq and Syria is experiencing an identity crisis...As Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently pointed out, there is at least one more term by which the extremist organization has been identified. Abbott explained that Daesh, or the acronym DAIISH, can accurately be used to describe ISIS, though he noted the organization itself bitterly despises the moniker. It is for that reason, he said, that he will continue to refer to the organization by that name. “Daesh hates being referred to by this term,” he said during recent remarks, “and what they don’t like has an instinctive appeal to me.” The name is a reference to the proper title ‘al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham,’ though the resulting acronym and its homophone are obviously unpopular among the group’s rank. http://www.westernjournalism.com/australian-prime-minister-infuriates-isis-terrorists-calling-different-name/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=featured-stories&utm_campaign=DailyEmail01.14.15#dr1bUVpP7JGmAftJ.97
(B. Christopher Agee) - Already known as Islamic State, ISIS, and ISIL, it appears the terrorist network based in Iraq and Syria is experiencing an identity crisis...As Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently pointed out, there is at least one more term by which the extremist organization has been identified. Abbott explained that Daesh, or the acronym DAIISH, can accurately be used to describe ISIS, though he noted the organization itself bitterly despises the moniker. It is for that reason, he said, that he will continue to refer to the organization by that name. “Daesh hates being referred to by this term,” he said during recent remarks, “and what they don’t like has an instinctive appeal to me.” The name is a reference to the proper title ‘al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham,’ though the resulting acronym and its homophone are obviously unpopular among the group’s rank. http://www.westernjournalism.com/australian-prime-minister-infuriates-isis-terrorists-calling-different-name/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=featured-stories&utm_campaign=DailyEmail01.14.15#dr1bUVpP7JGmAftJ.97
Guilt By Association
Burt Prelutsky
(burtprelutsky.com) - Lliberals are contemptuous of those who believe that associating with bad apples might be an indicator that you yourself are rotten to the core. In fact, if you dared point out that Robert Byrd, who wound up serving 51 years in the U.S. Senate and not only became the Senate majority leader, but the President pro tempore -- placing him third in line of presidential succession -- had jump-started his political career by forming a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia, they’d accuse you of McCarthyism.
Joe McCarthy, for the youngsters in the audience, was a junior senator from Wisconsin. He was a drunk and a boor, but that’s not why his name has come to be equated by liberals with the very worst elements in American politics. After all, Lyndon Johnson was a bigger drunk and a bigger bully, and if you look up “boor” in the dictionary, you’ll find his picture. In spite of that, LBJ is hailed as a shining star and a champion of civil rights by Democrats.
McCarthy’s sin is that he dared to point out that communists had infiltrated the federal government under FDR and had remained steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union under Harry Truman and, ultimately, under Dwight Eisenhower.
What liberals most detested about McCarthy isn’t that some of those he mistook for traitors were merely muddleheaded pacifists -- the sort of boneheads who thought it was a swell idea for America to share our atomic secrets with the Soviet Union, so that Joseph Stalin didn’t have to have American turncoats steal them for Mother Russia -- but that so many of those in the State Department, people like Alger Hiss, whom McCarthy claimed were communist agents actually happened to be communist agents.
Getting back to Sen. Byrd, in 1946, he wrote to segregationist Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D, Mississippi) to say: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” Is it any wonder that he rose to the KKK rank of Grand Cyclops?
But that didn’t prevent his Senate colleagues from granting him their greatest honors. And yet, we now see the Democrats baying for the blood of Rep. Steve Skalise (R, Louisiana) for no other reason than that 12 years ago, he gave a speech at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.
Never having heard of the group, I looked up the EAURO and found that I pretty much agreed with their eight principles: (1) Equal rights for white Americans through an end to affirmative action; (2) An end to desegregation busing, which is to blame for declining educational standards, rising racial tensions and the wasting of public money; (3) Welfare reforms that would see welfare recipients work for their money, and the encouragement of family planning; (4) Tougher sentencing for violent crimes, alongside the repealing of hate crime legislation; (5) Very strict limitations on immigration; (6) An end to media portrayal of whites as oppressors; (7) The preservation of white heritage; and (8) A demand for excellence in all things.
I confess that number eight is rather vague, but there’s no sin in hoping for the ideal.
This is not to say I’m sending away for my membership card and decoder ring. After all, the group was founded by David Duke, proud racist/convicted con man and tax evader/both a Holocaust and 9/11 denier/ and who, for good measure, spent a lot of time at LSU jack-booting around campus wearing a Nazi uniform.
Still, Skalise didn’t show up at the convention hoping to take part in a lynching. He gave a breakfast talk to a small group on the subject of taxes. Taxes, for God’s sake! And for that, because he has a leadership role in the Republican-controlled House, the Democrats want to see him lynched.
Keep in mind these are the same hypocrites who turned a blind eye during the 1990s to the fact that Yasser Arafat, killer of Jewish babies, spent more time at the White House than Bill Clinton, and that today Barack nObama spends even more time playing footsies with America’s number one race hustler, Al Sharpton, than he does playing golf.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I wish to state that a few years ago, I was informed by a reader that something I had written – possibly an attack on nObama or on the 75% of Jewish voters who insist on voting for progressives every chance they get -- had been posted on a neo-Nazi website. My first reaction was shock: Don’t they know I’m Jewish?! Have the Nazis initiated an Adopt-a-Jew program I hadn’t heard about? But when the reader asked me if I wasn’t going to demand they take down my article, I thought about it and decided I wouldn’t.
After all, as I explained at the time, I have no problem with people agreeing with me just so long as I don’t have to agree with them.
Joe McCarthy, for the youngsters in the audience, was a junior senator from Wisconsin. He was a drunk and a boor, but that’s not why his name has come to be equated by liberals with the very worst elements in American politics. After all, Lyndon Johnson was a bigger drunk and a bigger bully, and if you look up “boor” in the dictionary, you’ll find his picture. In spite of that, LBJ is hailed as a shining star and a champion of civil rights by Democrats.
McCarthy’s sin is that he dared to point out that communists had infiltrated the federal government under FDR and had remained steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union under Harry Truman and, ultimately, under Dwight Eisenhower.
What liberals most detested about McCarthy isn’t that some of those he mistook for traitors were merely muddleheaded pacifists -- the sort of boneheads who thought it was a swell idea for America to share our atomic secrets with the Soviet Union, so that Joseph Stalin didn’t have to have American turncoats steal them for Mother Russia -- but that so many of those in the State Department, people like Alger Hiss, whom McCarthy claimed were communist agents actually happened to be communist agents.
Getting back to Sen. Byrd, in 1946, he wrote to segregationist Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D, Mississippi) to say: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” Is it any wonder that he rose to the KKK rank of Grand Cyclops?
But that didn’t prevent his Senate colleagues from granting him their greatest honors. And yet, we now see the Democrats baying for the blood of Rep. Steve Skalise (R, Louisiana) for no other reason than that 12 years ago, he gave a speech at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.
Never having heard of the group, I looked up the EAURO and found that I pretty much agreed with their eight principles: (1) Equal rights for white Americans through an end to affirmative action; (2) An end to desegregation busing, which is to blame for declining educational standards, rising racial tensions and the wasting of public money; (3) Welfare reforms that would see welfare recipients work for their money, and the encouragement of family planning; (4) Tougher sentencing for violent crimes, alongside the repealing of hate crime legislation; (5) Very strict limitations on immigration; (6) An end to media portrayal of whites as oppressors; (7) The preservation of white heritage; and (8) A demand for excellence in all things.
I confess that number eight is rather vague, but there’s no sin in hoping for the ideal.
This is not to say I’m sending away for my membership card and decoder ring. After all, the group was founded by David Duke, proud racist/convicted con man and tax evader/both a Holocaust and 9/11 denier/ and who, for good measure, spent a lot of time at LSU jack-booting around campus wearing a Nazi uniform.
Still, Skalise didn’t show up at the convention hoping to take part in a lynching. He gave a breakfast talk to a small group on the subject of taxes. Taxes, for God’s sake! And for that, because he has a leadership role in the Republican-controlled House, the Democrats want to see him lynched.
Keep in mind these are the same hypocrites who turned a blind eye during the 1990s to the fact that Yasser Arafat, killer of Jewish babies, spent more time at the White House than Bill Clinton, and that today Barack nObama spends even more time playing footsies with America’s number one race hustler, Al Sharpton, than he does playing golf.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I wish to state that a few years ago, I was informed by a reader that something I had written – possibly an attack on nObama or on the 75% of Jewish voters who insist on voting for progressives every chance they get -- had been posted on a neo-Nazi website. My first reaction was shock: Don’t they know I’m Jewish?! Have the Nazis initiated an Adopt-a-Jew program I hadn’t heard about? But when the reader asked me if I wasn’t going to demand they take down my article, I thought about it and decided I wouldn’t.
After all, as I explained at the time, I have no problem with people agreeing with me just so long as I don’t have to agree with them.
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