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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 06/08/2026
Professional Wrestling has been around for a long time. archive.org/details/prof... (1912) thats it. just that.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 28/07/2026
Thank you Canada! A moment of Gratitude. A new Canada-US bridge opened that will be less congested and less expensive. Canadians paid for building it ($6.4B) and endured getting jerked around right before opening. Thank you, Canada! Gordie Howe Bridge! www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Gordie Howe bridge opens to traffic after months of delays
Namesake’s family was the first to cross the bridge, whose opening was held up over financial details of the Canada-U.S. project
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 08/07/2026
DWeb camp in on near Berlin. Let’s build a web with many winners. Let’s lock the web open. Dwebcamp.org
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DWeb Camp: Root Systems
We invite you to join us at DWeb Camp!
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 28/05/2026
The Internet Archive working with the NOAA Library to bring it much of it digital and as accessible as possible is wonderful, and a wonderful model: lets flip more libraries digital. archive.org/details/noaa blog.archive.org/2026/05/27/t...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 19/05/2026
Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-good pick to endorse for your seat. Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and recieved Internet Archive Hero award in 2023! 1/3
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 15/05/2026
The Daily Weather Report, 1938 International and Upper Air Sections by Air Ministry Meteorological Office, London W.C.2. Check out the first pages at link below. Someone (& all AI's) need to know! I love my job. pls post photos of why your job is awesome. archive.org/details/dail...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/04/2026
🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️
Infographic titled “URLs Preserved in the Wayback Machine” based on a dataset of 5.4 million URLs. It shows 26% of web pages are dead and 74% are still alive. Of the total, 10% have vanished completely, 18% are endangered (not yet preserved), 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine, and 56% are preserved. The visual uses a flow-style diagram to show how preservation reduces permanent loss.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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carlmalamud @yeswescan.org · 11/04/2026
Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at archive.org/details/Publ... and YouTube at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ht @holovaty.com @brewster.kahle.org
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/04/2026
Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️ Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_... #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 17/03/2026
Claude Code is more fun than Netflix. Bravo.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 21/01/2026
Public Domain Day short film contest by @archive.org on NPR! www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n... 2-3 minutes long films Winners are announced: blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2... A fav entry for me did not win, but is heart bending: archive.org/details/geor...
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Public domain contest challenges filmmakers to remix Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and more
Nearly 280 filmmakers entered the Internet Archive's annual contest celebrating creative freedom without copyright restrictions.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/01/2026
ride hailing trips in San Francisco (helped by chatgpt) Uber: ~54% Lyft: ~26% Waymo: ~8% Taxis: ~11% waymo's seem to be everyhere but are only 10% of lyft/uber total/day ~150k Uber (ride-hail)~82k-90k/day Lyft (ride-hail) ~38k–45k Waymo. ~13k Taxis (trad) ~15k–20k
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️ 👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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DWeb @getdweb.net · 19/12/2025
Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18/12/2025
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 16/12/2025
Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @archive.org Thank you crypto folks! www.blockchain.com/explorer/tra... to: archive.org/donate/crypt...
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Transaction: ae4800e03c1b55324deec6d6a7630e803eef321d6aba257b733c17b83585cc41 | Blockchain.com
The easiest and most trusted transaction search engine and block explorer.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 16/12/2025
"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. " Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?" really fun, worth reading. archive.org/details/sim_...
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American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Vol 47 Iss 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
American Library Association. ALA Bulletin 1953-01: Volume 47, Issue 1.Digitized from IA1514523-07.Previous issue:...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 06/12/2025
$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow! lower than I imagined. can be as low as $0.12 w lower rates "...the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling...75,000 pounds...over a 390-mile long-haul route." tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile. www.electrive.com/2025/12/05/c...
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 30/11/2025
One of humanity’s most important cultural resources
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PersonPerson @per9736.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Just donated to the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine. You?
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 29/11/2025
Why SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles) 25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco. Can drive on almost all roads in the city. This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types. 1/2
zeromax carzeromax car
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 28/11/2025
Minor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency" IMLS funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. but everyone is gone and grants cancelled so who now gets employed? www.libraryjournal.com/story/a-vict...
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A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency
In a summary judgment on November 21 in Rhode Island v. Trump, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled that the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS...
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 01/11/2025
So nice to see *support* for libraries by the US government! Go California and thank you Senator Padilla! "Senator Alex Padilla Honors Internet Archive’s 1 Trillion Milestone in Congressional Record" blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/s... @archive.org
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 30/10/2025
"The two biggest barriers to progress are bitterness and nostalgia". -- Andrew Pace, Exec Dir of ARL Most important sentence I have heard in a long time. Does it work for you?
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 26/10/2025
Celebration of 1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome. over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world. @archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 25/10/2025
Bezos Earth Fund helping convert all US school buses to from diesel to electric by 2030 (480,000 of them!) www.bezosearthfund.org/grants/equit... this is the program: electricschoolbusinitiative.org Sounds bold, the right direction, and generally good to me. $37.5m grant in 2020, fingers crossed.
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Equitably Electrifying Every School Bus in the U.S.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/10/2025
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 21/10/2025
Wonderful piece about the Internet Archive's Web collections and the Wayback Machine. Timely too-- San Francisco and California are declaring Oct 22nd, 2025 Internet Archive Day! Thank you! cybercultural.com/p/wayback-ma...
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2001: The Internet Gets a Memory With the Wayback Machine
In October 2001, Brewster Kahle demonstrates a new time machine from the Internet Archive called the Wayback Machine. It will become a vital link between the Web's past and its present.
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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 04/10/2025
The Wayback Machine (November, 2001) web.archive.org/web/20011109...
Screenshot of a web 1.0-style version of the Wayback Machine, dated to 2001
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 26/09/2025
Internet Archive Europe progress: new network router is now installed in central switching point. Onward! www.internetarchive.eu (Will substitute for one supported by XS4ALL and KPN for 20+ years -- thank you!)
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 22/09/2025
We also encourage you to make sure all of the reports on this page are in wayback machine! www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...
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Food Security in the U.S. - History & Background | Economic Research Service
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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 04/09/2025
Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!
Three people going up an escalator in the Danish Public Library. They have turned around to face the camera and are smiling.Cityscape view with several church spires in the distance. The sky is a brilliant blue with a few wispy clouds.
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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Such a pleasure to tour Copenhagen libraries with @brewster.kahle.org, Mary and @internetarchive.eu to discuss libraries and archives as critical infrastructure, publishers as data cartels, digital sovereignty, data mirroring, public AI and - of course - the politics of data loss. @erc.europa.eu
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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Visiting public infrastructures and workers w @internetarchive.eu and @brewster.kahle.org: CPH public library, Danish National Radio (Prompt by @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social), @andersmyrvoll.bsky.social at the Danish Royal Library and @ucph.bsky.social + the University Library.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/09/2025
SAVING CAMPUS & COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY 🎙 At June's National Campus & Community Radio Association conference, #InternetArchive’s Jennifer Waits, Asst. Curator for the #collegeradio collection in DLARC, shared her work. ▶️ Watch her talk.
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NCRC43: Saving Campus and Community Radio History
Session Info: WEDNESDAY - June 18th, 3:00-4:00PM Saving Campus and Community Radio History - Presentation Jennifer Waits, Assistant Curator, Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications…
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 28/07/2025
Tom Lehrer, Musical Hero gave away his songs before he passed. Even more reasons to love this man. "All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. " tomlehrersongs.com
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Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
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James R Jacobs @freegovinfo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
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SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/07/2025
📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.” In a new interview‬, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system. @cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org vimeo.com/1103555091/8...
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CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience
This is "CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience" by EDUCAUSE on Vimeo, the home for high…
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 23/07/2025
Philip Bump of Washpo always anchored his articles with data, and data well presented. Sorry to see him leave that prominent organization.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/07/2025
Right now, federal courts are deciding what type of AI training is fair use. California’s A.B. 412 would have jumped the gun and decided that copyright owners should win. We’re glad to see it has stalled for this year.
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California A.B. 412 Stalls Out—A Win for Innovation and Fair Use
A.B. 412, the flawed California bill that threatened small developers in the name of AI “transparency,” has been delayed and turned into a two-year bill. That means it won’t move forward in 2025—a sig...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 18/07/2025
🗞️ Local journalism matters. Thanks to a $1M Press Forward grant, we’ll support 300+ newsrooms with training, tools & services in collaboration with Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) & The Poynter Institute. Details ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/16/
Five photos of people in various settings with the Press Forward logo centered between them. Description: Press Forward invests $22.7 million in local news infrastructure to meet the urgent challenges newsrooms face.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/07/2025
New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible. ⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social
Cover of Dark Fantasy No. 22 (1980), published by Shadow Press. The title is printed in bold, stylized yellow and black text at the top. The central illustration features a medieval knight in armor leaning against a large, leaf-covered tree, holding a bow and arrows. A castle is faintly visible in the background. A diagonal black-and-yellow banner across the bottom reads, “Nominated for 10 SPWAO Awards.” Price is listed as $1.50.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/07/2025
In the latest episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, historian IAN MILLIGAN discusses his book AVERTING THE DIGITAL DARK AGE with Internet Archive founder BREWSTER KAHLE. Moderated by TAKARA SMALL 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
Promotional poster for Episode #5 of the podcast “Future Knowledge,” titled “Averting the Digital Dark Age.” The design features a retro-futuristic aesthetic with grainy textures and a collage of images, including three speakers: Ian Milligan, Brewster Kahle, and Takara Small. Their photos appear above bold text reading “FUTURE KNOWLEDGE.” In the background are stylized digital and classical elements like a vintage computer labeled “NEW,” the Space Needle, a Roman statue, and abstract shapes.
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Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org · 10/07/2025
"In an age of informational chaos, the Wayback Machine feels like one of the few institutions that never lies to us." Nice comment from Current Affair editor www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-to-...
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