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ORWELL'S RIGHT ON THE MONEY
"The coin's reverse features a large eye
with the words BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU encircling the iris.
Orwell's name is inscribed underneath.
On its edge is the quote
THERE WAS TRUTH AND THERE WAS UNTRUTH
The coin features Charles III on the obverse"
~ The Royal Mint
Greetings Orwell Today Readers,
It was big excitement in the Orwell world -- in my world -- when it was announced mid-January that England's Royal Mint was issuing a new coin honouring George Orwell on the 75th anniversary of his death. See also ORWELL & LENIN DIED & HISS JAILED
GEORGE ORWELL GETS HIS OWN 2-POUND COIN
FEATURING AN ALL-SEEING EYE
Smithsonian Magazine, January 15, 2025
...The 2-pound (roughly $2.45) piece pays homage to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell's famous dystopian novel exploring themes like totalitarianism, propaganda, surveillance and freedom. "He was a writer concerned with poverty, class and power. We will never know how George Orwell would feel about being commemorated on a coin. With phones and cameras being everywhere in your house, and being listened to by advertisers on your phone, you are really aware of how you're being surveyed -- and that's what Nineteen Eighty-Four is all about... The eye in the coin is like a camera lens staring at you all the time, unblinking".
The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, follows Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth, as he secretly rebels against a totalitarian government and its leader, Big Brother. Orwell died at age 46 on January 21, 1950 -- just a few months after Nineteen Eighty-Four's publication... "The works of George Orwell have influenced generations, and his most famous works are still being studied today -- decades on from their first publication. The Royal Mint is delighted to share this unique design with collectors and fans of Orwell's work, paying tribute to one of the most world-renowned authors of the 20th century".
As a birthday gift to myself (born 20 days after Orwell's death) I ordered this piece of Orwell memorabilia and excitedly awaited its arrival -- which happened amazingly fast by Royal Mail delivery.
I took the coin out of its package and snapped photos. On the head side is the official effigy of CHARLES III inscribed *D*G*REX*F*D* which, from Latin, means: "by the Grace of God, King, Defender of the Faith". On the tail side of the coin is a large eye with the most famous words from 1984 -- BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU -- encircling the iris with 2 tiny cameras placed inside the pupil and, inscribed beneath, the author's name -- GEORGE ORWELL.
I was thinking of the passage in 1984 where Winston pulls a coin out from inside his pocket and melancholically soliloquies on his aloneness and fear for the future. I pulled the book down from the shelf and looked it up. Godcidently, it's the way I'm feeling now.
1984, pages 30-31
...Down in the street the wind flapped the torn poster to and fro, and the word INGSOC fitfully appeared and vanished. Ingsoc. The sacred principles of Ingsoc. Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? And what way of knowing that the dominion of the Party would not endure for ever ? Like an answer, the three slogans on the white face of the Ministry of Truth came back to him: WAR IS PEACE -- FREEDOM IS SLAVERY -- IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
He took a twenty-five cent piece out of his pocket.
There in tiny clear lettering, the three slogans were inscribed,
and on the other face of the coin
the head of Big Brother.
Even from the coin the eyes pursued you.
On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet -- everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull...
He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary. For the future, for the past -- for an age that might be imaginary. And in front of him there lay not death but annihilation. The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour. Only the Thought Police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of existence and out of memory. How could you appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?... He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage...
Above is that passage in Orwell's own handwriting scanned from my copy of the 1984 manuscript found in Orwell's bedroom in the Barnhill house on Jura a few weeks after his death in London.
I love the design of the Royal Mint coin -- the All-Seeing-Eye -- because it symbolically encapsulates Orwell's hidden meaning in 1984. That's the reason I chose it for the logo of my website way back in the year 2000. Godcidently, ORWELL TODAY was born -- went live on the world-wide-web on June 8, 2000 -- exactly 51 years after Orwell's 1984 book was published on June 8, 1949. I placed the logo symbolically atop a recent political cartoon:
At the apex
of the pyramid
comes BIG BROTHER.
Below BIG BROTHER comes the Inner Party
(the High), its numbers limited to six millions
or something less than 2% of the population of Oceania (the brain).
Below the Inner Party
comes the Outer Party (the Middle) which may be justly likened to (the hands).
Below that come the Dumb Masses
(the Low), who are habitually referred to as
'the proles', numbering perhaps 85 percent of the population (the body).
The slave populaton of the equatorial lands,
who pass constantly from conqueror to conqueror, are not a permanent or necessary part of the structure.
My webmaster scanned the All-Seeing-Eye directly off the capstone of the pyramid on the back of the American One Dollar Bill then enlarged and coloured it in.
Godcidently, the eye on the Royal Mint coin fits exactly over the eye on the pyramid of an enlargement of the ORWELL TODAY logo -- which I've now made into a display -- and 4 other coin creations -- to prop on shelves of Orwell books.
As previously mentioned, the symbolism of the All-Seeing-Eye on the Orwell coin brilliantly encapsulates the meaning of 1984 -- with its terrifying theme of nowhere-to-hide surveillance. Also on the coin -- surrounding the pupil containing the cameras -- are the words BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU -- literally symbolizing the essence of 1984. Orwell writes those very words on the very first page:
...The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features... On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.
Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures... The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely....
Reading Orwell's description of the face of BIG BROTHER there can be no doubt it's the face of Stalin -- front man after the Communist take-over of Russia by Marx, Lenin and Trotsky in 1917. But, as in ANIMAL FARM, Orwell had to write 1984 in code when exposing life in the Soviet Union under "boot stamping on human face" tyranny. See GOLDSTEIN'S THEORY & PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
The creator at the Royal Mint said, "We will never know how George Orwell would feel about being commemorated on a coin". But I think I know that Orwell would be monumentally amazed and pleased and happy that his 1984 message got through. Orwell did not spend his life in vain. Orwell was -- and forever will be -- "right on the money".
Orwell being "right on the money" has more than one meaning beyond being a colloquial expression for "exact or correct" which is why the Royal Mint put Orwell on the coin. The powers-that-be are acknowledging that Orwell was right about an all-seeing evil government -- BIG BROTHER -- in 1984.
The other meaning is that Orwell is "on the right money". In the display I created of Winston's coin spread across the American one dollar bill, it's the one made by the USA Government Treasury -- backed by silver -- not by the private Federal Reserve bank.
Above left is a one-dollar SILVER CERTIFICATE and on the right a FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE. Five months before he died JFK signed an Executive Order which explains the difference:
"On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. President Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the treasury. Go to JFK DOLLAR VS FED RESERVE BANK & JFK'S REAL AMERICAN DOLLARS & JFK DEFENDED DOLLAR FROM IMF
"Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to all future presidents not to interfere with the private Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money".
The issuance of the new Orwell coin has symbolically and literally increased the value of Orwell's contribution to the truth about the BIG BROTHER BROTHERHOOD behind the money.
All the best,
Jackie Jura, January 2025
PS -- King Charles III ascended the British Throne in September 2022 following the death of his 96-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years. On the occasion of Charles' 75th birthday in November 2022 the Royal Canadian Mint issued coins with the new monarch's effigy.
Ultra-rich super-billionaires are changing wealth as we know it, WSJ, February 26, 2025
...Most of the names on the list are from the tech industry. Elon Musk is on top. He has a net worth of about $419 billion. Also on the list is Jeff Bezos, who is worth $264 billion; Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth $221 billion and Google's Sergey Brin, who is worth $160 billion... The ultra-rich in the 19th and 20th centuries were industrialists -- the Carnegies and the Rockefellers: people who built railroads, steel plants and oil wells... The rise of the super-billionaire has coincided with a significant leap in luxury markets across the world, including real estate, as these individuals cobble together massive portfolios of luxury homes around the globe... Go to 10.Rulers & RICH RUSSIANS LIKE LENIN
Musk empire built on gov't funding with taxpayer billions, News, February 26, 2025
Elon Musk and his cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service team have been on a mission to trim government largesse. Yet Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers' coffers. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the world's richest person... The total amount is probably larger: This analysis includes only publicly available contracts, omitting classified defense and intelligence work for the federal government. SpaceX has been developing spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office, the Pentagon's spy satellite division, according to the Reuters news agency... Government contracts to SpaceX from NASA and the Defense Department make up the majority of funds. Tesla has earned $11.4 billion in regulatory credits from federal and state programs aimed at boosting the electric-car industry, and experts say its sales have been bolstered by a federal $7,500 electric-vehicle tax credit for consumers. Musk has called for an end to that consumer credit, arguing his competitors need the incentive more than Tesla... Go to 3.Surveillance & 20.Thought Police & Snitches
Satanic Temple unveiled statue of Goat God outside USA government building, August 2018
Satan worshippers in Little Rock, Arkansas turned out to cheer the unveiling of an eight-and-a-half foot demonic statue dedicated to Baphomet, an occult goat-man hybrid. The winged monster sits on a throne emblazoned with a pentagram. Alongside a child gazes adoringly up at the man with the goat head...
Why is a giant sculpture of Elon Musk on a goat's body being driven around Texas?, USA News, November 22, 2022
It can seem hard to avoid Elon Musk these days, especially if you live in Central Texas near Tesla and other companies led by the billionaire. And if that weren't enough, self-described "massive Elon fans" are driving a giant sculpture of Musk's face -- on the body of a goat, riding on a rocket -- around the Austin area. The owners of the sculpture run a cryptocurrency firm called Elon Goat Token -- EGT -- and say it is meant to pay homage to Musk's contributions to crypto-currency. The sculpture is intended to symbolize that Musk is the GOAT -- an acronym for Greatest Of All Time -- which is why the billionaire's head is on the body of a goat. It sits on the back of a semi-trailer and is more than 30 feet long, 20 feet tall, and Musk's head, which is wearing a Dogecoin necklace, is about 6 feet tall. The sculpture also includes such features as simulated rocket fire, smoke, lasers, and lighting. The monument is a $600,00 dollar project to honor Elon Musk and his contributions to crypto-currency and a marketing strategy to promote $EGT. As a way to market and promote the crypto-currency platform, Elon Goat Token owners hope to give Musk the statue in person. The billionaire first gave his support to bitcoin in 2021 when he bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin through Tesla, though the company sold off most of it early this year. Musk has since been more into Dogecoin, which is based on the Shiba Inu meme, and occasionally tweets about crypto-currency...
Spastic, twitching Musk compares "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to "getting shot with a dart containing methamphetamine & rabies", White House, February 18, 2025 (...In Sean Hannity interview the 47th president and billionaire Tesla/SpaceX CEO sat together and spoke about the work of DOGe...)
What is the spell that Musk has cast over Trump?, Presidents Day, News, February 18, 2025
Protesters in cities across America slammed President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to mark Presidents Day Monday in the wake of the DOGE dismantling of federal agencies. Activists were honoring NOT MY PRESIDENTS DAY. Demonstrators chanted NO KINGS ON PRESIDENTS DAY to protest the power grab by Trump and his billionaire hatchet man Musk, who's dismantling the federal government as head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Protesters gathered at various city halls, state capitols and outside Tesla showrooms packed with Musk-made cars. A sign in an office window above a Tesla dealership in San Francisco informed protesters about Musk: WE HATE HIM TOO. One of the signs amid hundreds of protesters in Washington, D.C urged: DEPORT MUSK -- DETHRONE TRUMP. More than 1,000 people gathered in the snow in frigid temperatures at the Massachusetts State House at the Boston Commons before marching to City Hall, chanting: ELON MUSK HAS TO GO. Boston protesters, some dressed in Revolutionary War-style clothing, carried signs railing: THIS IS A COUP and COWARDS BOW TO TRUMP -- PATRIOTS STAND UP. One banner featured Uncle Sam saying: I WANT YOU TO RESIST. American values are not the values of the plutocracy or the limited few rich people...
Musk Hypocritical 'Parasite' Who Sucked Government Dry Himself, Daily Beast, February 17, 2025
Guests of On With Kara Swisher tore into Elon Musk for his flagrant double standards on state-funded programs given the eye-watering amounts his own companies have sucked up over the years... "People like Elon Musk act like parasites because they want to destroy public investments that helped them build their companies. By 2015 Tesla alone had already received almost $5-billion from the state... The problem of hypocrisy over government support went far beyond the SpaceX founder in applying to any number of other tech billionaires... Over the past 10 years, Tesla and SpaceX are estimated to have benefited from upward of $20-billion worth of federal contracts -- a figure that's become even more keenly pronounced against Musk's ongoing crusade against "government waste" as head of the DOGE temporary advisory committee...". Go to 22.Doublethink
COVID MASK-VAX OF THE BEAST ...This new virus got its name from the fact that it's a COronaVIrusDisease (like what causes a cold or flu) and emerged in 2019 -- ergo COVID-19 (instead of naming it the WUHAN FLU after its alleged source of origin in that city in China) -- or, more aptly COVID-1984. Another reason it was named COVID-19 is more sinister and reveals its hidden agenda, ie CertificateOfVaccinationIDentification with its number, 19, being the first "A" and ninth "I" letters of the alphabet standing for "Artificial Intelligence". Symbolism and numerology are a way the powers-that-be communicate with their fellow evil-doers -- and is recognizable as a tell-tale sign, or a calling card, to we others who have eyes to see and minds to comprehend... Go to 14.Scientific Experimentation
CO2 SCAM PICS SAY THOUSAND WORDS
TAKEDOWN: One woman's mission to bring the world's largest porn site to its knees
MindGeek -- which owned Pornhub and many other porn sites -- was sold to the investor group ETHICAL CAPITAL PARTNERS in March 2023 and rebranded as AVLO... The company owns Pornhub and 3 other streaming porn production companies, and paid porn sites... TAKEDOWN tells the story of Laila Mickelwait's battle against Pornhub's billionaire executives and the credit card companies who helped them monetize the abuse of countless victims -- some as young as three years old. Readers will follow from her first horrifying discovery of criminal content on Pornhub to closed-door meetings with credit card executives, White House and Justice Department senior officials, a powerful hedge-fund manager and more. Through insider accounts from Pornhub moderators and executives, you'll meet the world's first online porn tycoon, aka "the Zuckerberg of porn" along with Pornhub's top brass (known internally as "The Bro Club" who operate in secrecy. The culmination of years of activism, TAKEDOWN is the true story of how Micklewait mobilized a movement of 2-million people and together they accomplished "the biggest takedown of content in Internet history..."
Porn is possibly Canada's greatest export, National Post, February 8, 2025
...Solomon Friedman, a crimal defence lawyer and ordained rabbi is the public face for Pornhub... Question: You being a rabbi, what has it been like as the owner of the largest porn site in the world? Answer: "Not a week goes by that I don't receive the most heinous and vile anti-semitic correspondence directed to me, with every anti-semitic trope under the sun, that I am personally the corrupter of society, and this proves everybody right about the cabal of evil Jews controlling not just Hollywood and news media and the banks, but porn as well. I'll point out that this is not a new trope. It was a favourite of Hitler's and the propagandists of the Third Reich -- the talk of the Jewish degenerate pornographers of Berlin. It's an old Fascist trope that Jews pervert the sexual power of white women away from the nation. It's obviously false and offensive and degrading on a number of levels, but that is a part of doing this work, unfortunately, anytime you live in the public space as a Jew. But it's not something that deters me... Go to 25.Prolefeed & 30.Love Instinct & Family & 35.Big Brother's Brotherhood & JEW ABORTIONIST CANADA'S PRIDE & EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN THEORY & PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
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...You can get access to thousands of adult videos and photos with Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies on dozens of websites... Banks regularly stop working with legal adult businesses, and credit card companies can dole out regulations that impact business decision-making. MindGeek assets adopted crypto as an alternative means of payment. Most sites allowing crypto allow for wallet-to-wallet payment, which is fully protected on the blockchain...
Musk is one of the world's most influential figures, best known as the co-founder and chief executive of electric vehicle carmaker Tesla. Musk has also founded a neurotechnology firm Neurolink, a tunnel construction service The Boring Company, a space exploration company SpaceX, and the artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI. Cryptocurrency is yet another industry that Musk is closely associated with... While there have been rumors about Musk holding various meme coins, he has only confirmed owning three cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Dogecoin (DOGE). Musk has been Dogecoin's biggest supporter...He said Dogecoin has become "the people's coin" as many workers without financial knowledge own it... Bitcoin works through the collaboration of computers... It's mostly seen as an investment and has been described by some scholars as an economic bubble. As bitcoin is pseudonymous [using a false name], its use by criminals* has attracted the attention of regulators, leading to its ban by several countries... Under Trump's presidency, Musk has reportedly initiated discussions on integrating blockchain technology within the newly established DOGE -- Department of Government Efficiency -- as part of the new administration's push to advance the digital asset industry... Musk, who leads the DOGE effort, has explored using blockchain for cost-cutting measures in government operations, including tracking federal spending, securing data, making payments, and managing buildings... Musk sent shockwaves through social media when he expressed his view that fiat currencies, such as the US dollar and euro are essentially "scams"...
Dark MAGA stutteringly overshadows Trump during rambling press conference, Oval Office, February 11, 2025
Musk spoke for a majority of the roughly 30-minute appearance... Reporters pressed Musk over his potential conflicts of interest as the AI owner of SpaceX, Tesla, and X and asking for his response to criticism from detractors who say he's orchestrating a hostile takeover of government and doing it in a non-transparent way... "For instance you've received billions of dollars in federal contracts. When it comes to the Pentagon -- which the president has directed you to look into -- are you policing yourself? Is there any sort of accountability check and balance in place that would provide any transparency for the American people?"
The DOGe head was adamant that this was a non-issue. Musk said, "We actually are trying to be as transparent as possible. We post our actions to the DOGe handle on X and to the DOGe website. So all of our actions are maximally transparent... And I fully expect to be scrutinized and get a daily proctology exam..."
Musk's 4-year-old son X tells Trump crowd "shut your mouth" as he interrupts the Oval Office press conference
The father of 12 paraded his son as the US president signed an executive order to bolster DOGe's powers in government. X was seen mimicking Musk's gestures and picking his nose before wiping boogers on the Resolute desk, gifted to President Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880 and used by nearly every president since... "You are not president, you need to go away", Musk's son said to Trump... While Musk continued his address, Trump ignored X's behaviour... According to ABC News, X, also known as "Lil X" is the youngest son of Musk with Canadian musician Grimes. He has accompanied Musk to every important occasion since Trump took over as the US president. He accompanied Musk on election night, where he was featured in the Trump family photo and was called "a gorgeous, perfect boy" by the president...
Musk (wearing I Luv ANAL t-shirt) wants control of Social Security/Bank/Treasury, News, February 7, 2025
Musk on cover of Time magazine, February 2025 edition (...An accompanying article titled "Inside Elon Musk's War on Washington" covers Musk's reshaping of America's government since his appointment as the head of President Donald Trump's DOGe...)
President Musk and his dog (...Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive and the world's richest person, is leading Trump's federal cost-cutting efforts under the so-called DOGe: Department of Government Efficiency...). Go to 11.Ministry of Plenty Starvation & 9.Keeping Masses Down
So cute! Trump thinks he's steering!
Elon Musk: "I'm dark MAGA" (Musk's unparalleled efforts to put Trump back in the White House), November 2024. Go to 35.Big Brother's Brotherhood
ELON MUSK, by Walter Isaacson (Ahead of its publication, the book topped Amazon's bestseller list. It debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending September 16, 2023... The New Yorker wrote that "Isaacson's new biography depicts a man who wields more power than almost any other person on the planet but seems estranged from humanity itself"...)
ORWELL'S RIGHT ON THE MONEY
JFK DOLLAR VS FED RESERVE BANK
~ coin honours 75th anniversary of Orwell's death ~
January 21, 1950-2025
EDWARD VIII STAMPS/POSTBOX/ABDICATION
ORWELL & LENIN DIED & HISS JAILED (...It turns out that Alger Hiss -- one of USA President Roosevelt's closest advisors and the first Secretary General of the United Nations -- was found guilty of being a Communist spy and thrown into prison on the same day Orwell died - January 21, 1950. Symbolically, this is also the day in 1924 that Vladimir Lenin -- leader of the Communist overthrow of Russia in 1917 -- died...
VISITING ORWELL'S HOSPITAL (...As we walked away from the hospital toward our next destination we passed a bookstore on the corner. There, on a pedestal in the front window, was a biography of Vladimir Lenin, with a picture of his face on the front cover. More symbolism. Where freedom dies, slavery thrives....I realized later that January 21, the day Orwell died in 1950, was the same day Lenin died in 1924.)
VISITING ORWELL'S BARNHILL (...I thought of Orwell's words about a window pane. In an essay written not long before he died he said that "prose should be as clear as a window pane" so that people would understand what the author was trying to tell them. He said he'd tried all his life to become as good a writer as he could be. The spotless Barnhill window above, with Orwell's typewriter reflected in its glass, is symbolic of him achieving that goal beyond even his imagination...)
ORWELL'S MANUSCRIPT OF 1984 & ORWELL DESCRIBED INTERNET IN 1984
CORPORATE-COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY IN 1984 (..."Big Brother Is Watching You" -- the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features....")
2.Big Brother & 3.Surveillance & 5.Big Brother Pyramidal New World Order & 10.The Rulers & 16.Ministry of Truth (Lies) & 20.Thought Police & Snitches
Jackie Jura
~ an independent researcher monitoring local, national and international events ~
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