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Taxis are the lifeblood of the economy

Taxis are the lifeblood of the economy

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In 1954, the United States overthrew the democratically elected, socialist government of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala🇬🇹. Árbenz had instituted land reforms that nationalised unused land, heavily impacting the American-owned United Fruit Company. In 1964, the United States backed a military coup that ousted democratic social-democrat President João Goulart in Brazil🇧🇷 in 1964. Goulart had proposed progressive tax and land reforms, which Washington feared would lead to a “second Cuba”. In 1965, the US and UK actively supported the anti-communist military faction in Indonesia🇮🇩 as they marginalised the socialist President Sukarno. The transition was accompanied by the mass slaughter of 1 million members of the Indonesian Communist Party, utilising intelligence lists provided by US officials. Before Guyana🇬🇾 gained independence in 1966, the CIA and British intelligence covertly funded disruptive general strikes and destabilised the democratically elected, Marxist-oriented Premier Cheddi Jagan, successfully forcing him out of power before independence. In 1971, the US supported the military coup in Bolivia🇧🇴 to overthrow General Juan José Torres, a leftist leader who had nationalised American mining properties and established a “People's Assembly”. In Chile🇨🇱, Marxist President Salvador Allende was democratically elected. So, the Unites States actively worked to destabilise the Chilean economy. “Make the economy scream”, they said, before backing a 1973 violent military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, during which President Allende was killed. In 1983, the US launched a full-scale military invasion called Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada🇬🇩 in 1983 to depose the military council and halt Cuban influence on the island. There’s the 1953 coup in Iran🇮🇷. The 66-year long embargo on Cuba🇨🇺. The Cold War on the Soviet Union & the Eastern Bloc. The 76-year long sanctions on North Korea🇰🇵. The 1975 - 1994 embargo on Communist Vietnam🇻🇳. The funding of Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua🇳🇮 in 1985 - 1990. The sanctions on the Chávista government in Venezuela🇻🇪, culminating in the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.

In 1954, the United States overthrew the democratically elected, socialist government of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala🇬🇹. Árbenz had instituted land reforms that nationalised unused land, heavily impacting the American-owned United Fruit Company. In 1964, the United States backed a military coup that ousted democratic social-democrat President João Goulart in Brazil🇧🇷 in 1964. Goulart had proposed progressive tax and land reforms, which Washington feared would lead to a “second Cuba”. In 1965, the US and UK actively supported the anti-communist military faction in Indonesia🇮🇩 as they marginalised the socialist President Sukarno. The transition was accompanied by the mass slaughter of 1 million members of the Indonesian Communist Party, utilising intelligence lists provided by US officials. Before Guyana🇬🇾 gained independence in 1966, the CIA and British intelligence covertly funded disruptive general strikes and destabilised the democratically elected, Marxist-oriented Premier Cheddi Jagan, successfully forcing him out of power before independence. In 1971, the US supported the military coup in Bolivia🇧🇴 to overthrow General Juan José Torres, a leftist leader who had nationalised American mining properties and established a “People's Assembly”. In Chile🇨🇱, Marxist President Salvador Allende was democratically elected. So, the Unites States actively worked to destabilise the Chilean economy. “Make the economy scream”, they said, before backing a 1973 violent military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, during which President Allende was killed. In 1983, the US launched a full-scale military invasion called Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada🇬🇩 in 1983 to depose the military council and halt Cuban influence on the island. There’s the 1953 coup in Iran🇮🇷. The 66-year long embargo on Cuba🇨🇺. The Cold War on the Soviet Union & the Eastern Bloc. The 76-year long sanctions on North Korea🇰🇵. The 1975 - 1994 embargo on Communist Vietnam🇻🇳. The funding of Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua🇳🇮 in 1985 - 1990. The sanctions on the Chávista government in Venezuela🇻🇪, culminating in the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.

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If you let them in they will discover your land and colonise you😒

If you let them in they will discover your land and colonise you😒

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Congolese immigrant: The South African government is very weak

Congolese immigrant: The South African government is very weak

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The United States🇺🇸 had a list of people they lined up to succeed Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran🇮🇷...but they accidentally bombed them🥲

The United States🇺🇸 had a list of people they lined up to succeed Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran🇮🇷...but they accidentally bombed them🥲

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The Islamic Republic of Iran since 28 February:

The Islamic Republic of Iran since 28 February:

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When Europeans civilised the entire world

When Europeans civilised the entire world

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If this happened in 2024, General Mkhwanazi The Assassin would have cut them down on the spot and solved the Black man problem right there🤭

If this happened in 2024, General Mkhwanazi The Assassin would have cut them down on the spot and solved the Black man problem right there🤭

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Oliver Tambo: “The worst of all horrors in the world is to live forever as a slave—as a hated, despised subhuman. And this we reject”

Oliver Tambo: “The worst of all horrors in the world is to live forever as a slave—as a hated, despised subhuman. And this we reject”

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This man is demanding an explanation

This man is demanding an explanation

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This is what you’re faced with as a 🇿🇦South African

This is what you’re faced with as a 🇿🇦South African

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Prof William Gumede laments how the ANC shut down technical and vocational colleges. This is true, the ANC did do that. What Prof Gumede doesn’t say is that the ANC did all of that because of neoliberals like him who wanted a small government and for the markets to lead the economy. How else was the ANC going to implement GEAR and its fiscal discipline policies without cutting public spending somewhere? Decade after decade, the expert analysts insisted the government was broke demanded that it meet the deficit targets required by global financial markets. So the ANC had to streamline the public sector, and closing or merging vocational colleges was an easy way to slash the budget🤷🏾‍♂️ Then there was the part about “the knowledge economy” trend which pushed university education and “white-collar” services. Again, the idea was that the market, not state-run colleges, should dictate skills training. By the time the government realised that a developing economy cannot survive without large numbers of plumbers, teachers, nurses and welders, the infrastructure for training them had already been gutted. Many intellectuals and advisors who now cry wolf about the “skills gap” or the “failure of the state” were the same architects and cheerleaders of the policies that dismantled the state’s capacity to train artisans.

Prof William Gumede laments how the ANC shut down technical and vocational colleges. This is true, the ANC did do that. What Prof Gumede doesn’t say is that the ANC did all of that because of neoliberals like him who wanted a small government and for the markets to lead the economy. How else was the ANC going to implement GEAR and its fiscal discipline policies without cutting public spending somewhere? Decade after decade, the expert analysts insisted the government was broke demanded that it meet the deficit targets required by global financial markets. So the ANC had to streamline the public sector, and closing or merging vocational colleges was an easy way to slash the budget🤷🏾‍♂️ Then there was the part about “the knowledge economy” trend which pushed university education and “white-collar” services. Again, the idea was that the market, not state-run colleges, should dictate skills training. By the time the government realised that a developing economy cannot survive without large numbers of plumbers, teachers, nurses and welders, the infrastructure for training them had already been gutted. Many intellectuals and advisors who now cry wolf about the “skills gap” or the “failure of the state” were the same architects and cheerleaders of the policies that dismantled the state’s capacity to train artisans.

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Emmanuel Macron to African leaders: We are not like the others, allow us to colonise you.

Emmanuel Macron to African leaders: We are not like the others, allow us to colonise you.

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Her: Babe, I think I’m pregnant Him:

Her: Babe, I think I’m pregnant Him:

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Julius Malema has been on the attack path since before

Julius Malema has been on the attack path since before

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Good morning, Black people

Good morning, Black people

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Chad Thomas: Hijacked buildings are controlled by South Africans

Chad Thomas: Hijacked buildings are controlled by South Africans

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Here Klaus Schwab says in ze late ‘80s and early ‘90s zey searched for ANC officials in exile and integrated them into zeir “community”

Here Klaus Schwab says in ze late ‘80s and early ‘90s zey searched for ANC officials in exile and integrated them into zeir “community”

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Nah! This fighter😭😭

Nah! This fighter😭😭

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Matt Walsh: Everyone would have been in the worst spot if slavery never existed.

Matt Walsh: Everyone would have been in the worst spot if slavery never existed.

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They kept getting angrier with each Grok reply💀💀

They kept getting angrier with each Grok reply💀💀

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Phakelumthakathi: South Africa can pay South Africans 1 million every year for the rest of their lives. We don’t even need to work. We can have legal immigrants work for us like in Dubai. I would transform SA to the 2nd-most beautiful country in the world. Better than America.

Phakelumthakathi: South Africa can pay South Africans 1 million every year for the rest of their lives. We don’t even need to work. We can have legal immigrants work for us like in Dubai. I would transform SA to the 2nd-most beautiful country in the world. Better than America.

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Dr Naledi Pandor: We’ve allowed the US to be more powerful than it should It’s surprising that Africans have voted in favour of Israel Africans could present a different moral voice, but if you are bought off and persuaded by projects or money, you are a client, not a force

Dr Naledi Pandor: We’ve allowed the US to be more powerful than it should It’s surprising that Africans have voted in favour of Israel Africans could present a different moral voice, but if you are bought off and persuaded by projects or money, you are a client, not a force

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Rhodesia 1973, a farmworker was made to search for landmines using a pitchfork so the White man could drive safely

Rhodesia 1973, a farmworker was made to search for landmines using a pitchfork so the White man could drive safely

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The US put a $50 million reward for Maduro. His chauffeur and one of his bodyguards collaborated. The US has not paid them.

The US put a $50 million reward for Maduro. His chauffeur and one of his bodyguards collaborated. The US has not paid them.

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By the way, France dropped 17 nuclear bombs on Algeria

By the way, France dropped 17 nuclear bombs on Algeria

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It appears “Phakelumthakathi” knows something the former Statistician-General of South Africa doesn’t. Nkepile Mabuse: What will the economy look like if, hypothetically, undocumented migrants would leave? Dr Pali Lehohla: It’s not going to change. Business is White, it will continue to dominate, and Blacks will wake up to a disillusion—as disillusioned people—that “we thought they are gone, we will survive”. We have to deal with the economic policies that will make South Africa the engine.

It appears “Phakelumthakathi” knows something the former Statistician-General of South Africa doesn’t. Nkepile Mabuse: What will the economy look like if, hypothetically, undocumented migrants would leave? Dr Pali Lehohla: It’s not going to change. Business is White, it will continue to dominate, and Blacks will wake up to a disillusion—as disillusioned people—that “we thought they are gone, we will survive”. We have to deal with the economic policies that will make South Africa the engine.

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When the Nigerian economy fell into hard times in the early 1980s, the government issued a “Quit order” expelling undocumented immigrants. In the video below, Nigeria’s president, “Minister” Shehu Shagari fielded questions about the scale and the death of people during the mass exodus. Interestingly, there was not much improvement in Nigeria’s economy after the order was carried out. According to Dr Hashim Gibrill of Clark Atlanta University, “The economic impact was acute, notably in sectors like hospitality and construction, where many skilled workers were lost”. Many foreign manual labourers and skilled tradesmen vanished overnight, stalling building projects, while small businesses, hotels, and agricultural sectors lost a massive pool of cheap, reliable labour. At the same time, the policy failed to save the government economically as the economy continued to freefall. On 31 December, 1983, less than a year after the expulsion order, military Major General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the government in a military coup, citing a completely ruined economy. Ultimately, historians agree that the 1983 expulsion was a severe humanitarian tragedy that caused massive regional disruption and provided absolutely zero economic relief to Nigeria. Now, to be fair, it makes total intuitive sense on the surface for people to believe that expelling migrants will improve their economic situation. That is precisely why political leaders throughout history have used this tactic because it relies on logic that feels like common sense, even though economic reality repeatedly proves it wrong. This is because from a purely intuitive standpoint, people tend to look at the economy as a zero-sum game, with jobs, housing, and government resources as a fixed pie. It sense that if there are 100 jobs and 20 immigrants occupy some of them, expelling those immigrants means 20 citizens get those jobs. Similarly, when unemployment and inequality are high, finding complex macroeconomic solutions takes years. But blaming a visible, distinct group of outsiders offers an instant, simple explanation for a complex mess, which makes it attractive to a frustrated public. But the thing is that in any economy, jobs are not a fixed pie, and when you suddenly remove millions of consumers from a country, as Nigeria did in 1983, the demand for bread, clothes, transport, and rent plummets. Businesses lose customers, revenues drop, and many end up retrenching more workers. Again, it’s common sense to assume a citizen will just step into an undocumented worker’s shoes. But in reality, citizens often refuse to work the same low-wage, backbreaking labour like seasonal agriculture. South African farmers routinely report struggling to recruit and retain local South African workers for these short-term, backbreaking harvesting seasons as farm work is highly intensive, temporary, and often located in remote areas. South African citizens, who have constitutional rights, families to support locally, and expectations of fair labor standards, rightfully refuse to work for these illegal, sub-poverty wages. So, this is less about citizens being “lazy” and more about the distortion of the labour market because undocumented workers lack legal protections, unscrupulous employers exploit them by paying well below the legal minimum wage and ignoring labour laws. Still, if those undocumented workers disappear overnight, many exploitative small businesses and farms face sudden operational collapse rather than a seamless transition to local labour. Needless to say, for South Africa, a sudden exit of regional labour, much like Nigeria experienced in 1983, would not solve South Africa’s unemployment catastrophe. Instead, it would instead cause immediate labour shortages in agriculture, spike food prices and shrink the overall size of the economic pie available to everyone.

When the Nigerian economy fell into hard times in the early 1980s, the government issued a “Quit order” expelling undocumented immigrants. In the video below, Nigeria’s president, “Minister” Shehu Shagari fielded questions about the scale and the death of people during the mass exodus. Interestingly, there was not much improvement in Nigeria’s economy after the order was carried out. According to Dr Hashim Gibrill of Clark Atlanta University, “The economic impact was acute, notably in sectors like hospitality and construction, where many skilled workers were lost”. Many foreign manual labourers and skilled tradesmen vanished overnight, stalling building projects, while small businesses, hotels, and agricultural sectors lost a massive pool of cheap, reliable labour. At the same time, the policy failed to save the government economically as the economy continued to freefall. On 31 December, 1983, less than a year after the expulsion order, military Major General Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the government in a military coup, citing a completely ruined economy. Ultimately, historians agree that the 1983 expulsion was a severe humanitarian tragedy that caused massive regional disruption and provided absolutely zero economic relief to Nigeria. Now, to be fair, it makes total intuitive sense on the surface for people to believe that expelling migrants will improve their economic situation. That is precisely why political leaders throughout history have used this tactic because it relies on logic that feels like common sense, even though economic reality repeatedly proves it wrong. This is because from a purely intuitive standpoint, people tend to look at the economy as a zero-sum game, with jobs, housing, and government resources as a fixed pie. It sense that if there are 100 jobs and 20 immigrants occupy some of them, expelling those immigrants means 20 citizens get those jobs. Similarly, when unemployment and inequality are high, finding complex macroeconomic solutions takes years. But blaming a visible, distinct group of outsiders offers an instant, simple explanation for a complex mess, which makes it attractive to a frustrated public. But the thing is that in any economy, jobs are not a fixed pie, and when you suddenly remove millions of consumers from a country, as Nigeria did in 1983, the demand for bread, clothes, transport, and rent plummets. Businesses lose customers, revenues drop, and many end up retrenching more workers. Again, it’s common sense to assume a citizen will just step into an undocumented worker’s shoes. But in reality, citizens often refuse to work the same low-wage, backbreaking labour like seasonal agriculture. South African farmers routinely report struggling to recruit and retain local South African workers for these short-term, backbreaking harvesting seasons as farm work is highly intensive, temporary, and often located in remote areas. South African citizens, who have constitutional rights, families to support locally, and expectations of fair labor standards, rightfully refuse to work for these illegal, sub-poverty wages. So, this is less about citizens being “lazy” and more about the distortion of the labour market because undocumented workers lack legal protections, unscrupulous employers exploit them by paying well below the legal minimum wage and ignoring labour laws. Still, if those undocumented workers disappear overnight, many exploitative small businesses and farms face sudden operational collapse rather than a seamless transition to local labour. Needless to say, for South Africa, a sudden exit of regional labour, much like Nigeria experienced in 1983, would not solve South Africa’s unemployment catastrophe. Instead, it would instead cause immediate labour shortages in agriculture, spike food prices and shrink the overall size of the economic pie available to everyone.

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I seem to remember this being a dumb man when I was growing up🤔 2011:

I seem to remember this being a dumb man when I was growing up🤔 2011:

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Former American army soldier: Hey, Iran. Teach the United States and Israel a lesson

Former American army soldier: Hey, Iran. Teach the United States and Israel a lesson

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Junior buffoon: 🇮🇷Iran is not taking care of its people, instead it’s spending money on tunnels, missiles, launchers, UAVs. Senior buffoon: 🇺🇸America is a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Junior buffoon: 🇮🇷Iran is not taking care of its people, instead it’s spending money on tunnels, missiles, launchers, UAVs. Senior buffoon: 🇺🇸America is a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

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Israel sold Iran weapons in the 1980s under the Ayatollah Khomeini. Israel wasn’t afraid of Iran in the 1980s as they saw Iraq as the greater threat. It was only when Iraq became weaker that they turned to saying Iran is the existential threat.

Israel sold Iran weapons in the 1980s under the Ayatollah Khomeini. Israel wasn’t afraid of Iran in the 1980s as they saw Iraq as the greater threat. It was only when Iraq became weaker that they turned to saying Iran is the existential threat.

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Listen and weep

Listen and weep

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President Duma Boko: I’ve told South Africans that coalition politics is going to be the future of politics. The ANC and EFF are going to have to come together, strike compromises to prevent the rise of Hitler in our region. (Except, the ANC is already in bed with Hitler)

President Duma Boko: I’ve told South Africans that coalition politics is going to be the future of politics. The ANC and EFF are going to have to come together, strike compromises to prevent the rise of Hitler in our region. (Except, the ANC is already in bed with Hitler)

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In 1992, Sinead O’Connor performed an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s song “War” and ended it by tearing up a photograph of Pope John Paul II to protest against child abuse in the Catholic Church while telling the audience to “fight the real enemy.” Americans cancelled her.

In 1992, Sinead O’Connor performed an a cappella version of Bob Marley’s song “War” and ended it by tearing up a photograph of Pope John Paul II to protest against child abuse in the Catholic Church while telling the audience to “fight the real enemy.” Americans cancelled her.

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Iran is seizing the property of those who had been calling for Iran to be bombed and compensating victims

Iran is seizing the property of those who had been calling for Iran to be bombed and compensating victims

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For 20, 40, 60 years they preached free trade and globalisation because they wanted to penetrate poor countries. Now that it’s their turn to be penetrated, they suddenly “realise” it’s probably not the best way of doing things.

For 20, 40, 60 years they preached free trade and globalisation because they wanted to penetrate poor countries. Now that it’s their turn to be penetrated, they suddenly “realise” it’s probably not the best way of doing things.

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In 1977, Johannesburg was just Britain in Africa, with Sunday lunches, manicured lawns, charity drives, elite English institutions like Roedean School for girls and King Edward VII School for boys. Of course, this entire ecosystem of suburban peace was entirely sustained by the Black labour force of Soweto and Alexandra, which had just experienced the world’s most brutal wave of State repression since the start of Apartheid. While White residents held charity drives for distressed dogs, South African police officially admitted to killing 229 Black people in the townships, though United Nations estimates placed the true toll at over 1000 dead...

In 1977, Johannesburg was just Britain in Africa, with Sunday lunches, manicured lawns, charity drives, elite English institutions like Roedean School for girls and King Edward VII School for boys. Of course, this entire ecosystem of suburban peace was entirely sustained by the Black labour force of Soweto and Alexandra, which had just experienced the world’s most brutal wave of State repression since the start of Apartheid. While White residents held charity drives for distressed dogs, South African police officially admitted to killing 229 Black people in the townships, though United Nations estimates placed the true toll at over 1000 dead...

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Can those who know him please ask him what the difference is between the politics of Rebecca Oppenheimer, her mother and the other supposedly “diverse” Oppenheimer factions. He says his funder has “different politics”, which is really nice☺️ What’s that difference???

Can those who know him please ask him what the difference is between the politics of Rebecca Oppenheimer, her mother and the other supposedly “diverse” Oppenheimer factions. He says his funder has “different politics”, which is really nice☺️ What’s that difference???

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Martha Nussbaum: Indians know how to pass exams, not how to think critically. They are not taught to think for themselves.

Martha Nussbaum: Indians know how to pass exams, not how to think critically. They are not taught to think for themselves.

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