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yes I sat in the British Parliament for

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almost 25 years and uh sat in the

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parliament when ofcom was created and of

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course none of this overtly political

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censorship was in the parliament's mind

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when these proposals were laid before

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them uh this is not about media

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regulation after all not only as your

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correspondent said are all sorts of

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foreign based television channels

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modeled exactly along the same lines as

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press tv still broadcasting on the sky

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platform but you have the most

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disgusting the most obscene sex channels

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by the Dozen operating under ofcom's

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nose uh and uh of course they're free to

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do so our crime at press tv was not only

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that we were telling the truth that some

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indeed most other broadcast cerss were

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deliberately concealing but we were

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becoming more and more popular which is

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why you're right to show the many

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different ways that it will still be

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possible to see press tv in the United

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Kingdom uh because uh we have built an

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audience for the station very quickly

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and very widely uh over the last couple

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of years precisely because of the

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shortcomings of other uh channels I've

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been seeing all along that this is uh a

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blow of course to press tv it means some

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of our viewers will find it more

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difficult to watch us but it's much more

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of a blow to the British government's uh

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hypocritical stance of being in favor of

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freedom of expression freedom of speech

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indeed we're often told here in Britain

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that we must actually go to war in other

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people's countries to bring such

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freedoms to their them or we're told we

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must sanction other countries in order

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to help bring such freedoms to them well

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now the whole world can see that flag

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that you're showing on the screen now uh

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is a flag of hypocrisy not

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democracy and uh if you can tell us a

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little bit uh uh George about uh the CEO

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of afcom and any other Personnel of

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afcom in terms of their past uh their

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relations if there are any to the UK

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government for

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example yes uh most of them in fact fit

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into one or other of those categories

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they are highly paid fact totems

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ultimately as your package showed

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Servants of the British state they're

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not independent at all as this action

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makes clear after all it was

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foreshadowed uh in the Wikileaks cables

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which revealed a discussion between

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British and American officials in which

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it was explicitly stated that uh steps

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were being taken to find a way to put

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press tv London off the air we saw the

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quotation in the Sunday Times one of Mr

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Murdock's uh gutter

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newspapers uh in which a highly placed

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foreign office official was quoted

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directly uh saying that yes efforts were

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being made to take press tv off the air

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this is long before any question of

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fines over 10c news Clips uh they were

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out to get us because we

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were achieving more and more of a share

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of the audience we were being discussed

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more and more in the country more and

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more people were queuing up to be

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interviewed by us because they could see

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that this press tv was a voice for the

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voiceless which I'm sure God willing it

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will continue to be so ofcom is not

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independent it has proved today that it

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is a servant of the British State and

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the British government and that means Mr

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Cameron who was kissing the nose of the

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Saudi dictatorship last week and kissing

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the nose uh of the bahini dictator uh in

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London at 10 Downing Street just a week

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or two before and uh you have shown the

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close relationship between Britain and

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these puppet dictatorships in the

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Persian Gulf and uh our unremitting

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determination to show the truth about

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what's happening in Saudi Arabia and

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Bahrain is definitely one of the reasons

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why we've suffered this fate but the

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biggest reason was not touched on in

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your package and it is our determination

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to tell the truth about the ongoing

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Israeli crimes against the Palestinian

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people that if you were drawing up a

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list of crimes on our charge sheet is

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definitely at the top ofcom has

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constantly harassed press tv throughout

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the four years that I've worked there on

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the issue of Israel and Palestine they

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think that they may have done Israel a

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favor uh today but truthfully Israel's

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in so much trouble his it will take much

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more than this to effectively do Israel

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a favor well as your package showed

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there's an inherent contradiction in

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their stand if press tv London does not

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control the editorial content why was

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press tv London find

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£100,000 and if press tv London does

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control the content why has its license

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being revoked truthfully this is all

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just window dressing it's throwing sand

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in the eyes uh of the undiscerning but

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it will not uh convince or persuade many

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people in Britain who know the real

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reason why we've been taken off air as

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my colleague Roshan made clear earlier

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in this bulletin we are controlled in

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exactly the same way as France 24 CNN

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Russia Today CCTV and any one of dozens

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of uh foreign owned television stations

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who happen to be on the sky platform for

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and the day will come I have no doubt

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when Britain's relations with one or

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other of these countries that are

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represented through their television

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stations on the Skye platform will fall

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foul of political relations with Britain

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and the same merrygoround the same

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constructions false constructions can be

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made against them and they should beware

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of that uh the British government uh

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likes to dress up in the clothes of of

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Liberty but in truth it is far from a

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friend of Liberty and they have

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demonstrated it in the course of their

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uh action against press tv throughout

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the last few months and again today the

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Great Britain Francis Bacon uh described

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self-censorship as the arrow that flies

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in the night because no one sees it but

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it achieves its deadly effect and this

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action today by ofcom Will undoubtedly

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cause

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self-censorship elsewhere in the media

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operating in Britain because people at

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the top of other media Outlets will know

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that if the they or the country to which

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they belong FSE foul of the British

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anglo-american foreign policy access

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that the same thing can happen to them

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so they will begin uh like The Arrow

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flying in the night to self-censor

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themselves before off

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has to do it for them and that will be a

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general leveling down of the level of

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truthfulness in the in the British media

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uh which is already in a pretty

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powerless condition I must tell you the

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uh the cat's chorus of Conformity uh

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within the prevailing Orthodoxy in the

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great majority of stations broadcasting

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in Britain is already uh becoming

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Infamous around the world the BBC which

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was once the pride of Britain became the

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bush and Blair Corporation and hasn't

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recovered from that period and is uh

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absolutely Craven in front of power

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because of course the British State

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controls the purse uh on which they all

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live and live very well just like the

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executives at ofcom live very well out

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of the public purse um of course

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stations like Russia today uh are much

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much better than that but they will

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undoubtedly be influenced by the uh

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actions of ofcom today against press tv

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and that will lead to a loss for the

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viewer uh watching on the sky platform

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but we must

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stress that the number of people

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watching us on the sky platform whilst

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growing and whilst significant PS into

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insignificance compared to the people

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watching us all over the world on a

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plethora of different platforms and that

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today has begun to be replicated I've

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had dozens already of emails in Britain

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from people telling me that they're

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still watching Press TV on one of the

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other satellites that you have mentioned

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or through the internet or through the

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downloadable app on their telephone this

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is a 21st century the era of the sensor

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has largely

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gone