WITH THE FALL OF THE SECOND BANK OF NORTH AMERICA, THE RISE OF THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS POWER HOLD ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Beginning with the End of the 2nd Bank of America in January of 1836, very mysterious, but sinister events began to occur shortly after. 

First, The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages dropped, westward expansion was stalled, unemployment rose, and pessimism abounded. The panic had both domestic and foreign origins. This event led to the Presidential Election of 1840, which began to trigger 'Assassinations" of U.S Presidents Every Twenty Years. 

Beginning with the 1840 Election, this led to William Harrison being killed shortly after the election. Harrison presented a painstakingly detailed critique of the Constitution, and how his presidency would tread lightly on what he saw as its flaws. He criticized what he perceived to be a trend towards an excess of power seized by the executive branch and pledged, "Under no circumstances will I consent to serve a second term."  While his presidency only lasted thirty days, he pledged to sacrifice no inalienable rights of the people. "Long the defender of my country's rights in the field, I trust that my fellow-citizens will not see in my earnest desire to preserve peace with foreign powers any indication that their rights will ever be sacrificed or the honor of the nation tarnished by any admission on the part of their Chief Magistrate unworthy of their former glory." Before long, the President succumbed to his misfortune. 

Second, between the years, 1850 to 1860, the United States was experiencing much upheaval, mostly related to a divided country, greatly divided among "State Rights" - taxing authority, economics, and personal obligations became front center during this period. Beginning with the establishment of the Wells, Fargo, and Company, a company meant to direct banking activity to ensure the American People, they would continue to move their funds from place to place, during the Gold Rush years in the west, this was an attempt by banks to ensure the people could best manage, control, and obtain their money. This would then become the first attempt by private bankers to organize, and control the monetary affairs of the country itself. 

By 1860, upon Abraham Lincoln becoming president, America was fast becoming a divided country, based on two drastly economic systems. One where the Federal Government was attempting to regulate, and manage the nation's monetary policy, and the second, the people residing in the sovereign states were attempting to maintain control of their private affairs, economic principles as they rightfully could. 

Abraham Lincoln saw this split approaching, and decided to control it by raising tariff rates, while at the same time, establishing the I.R.S with the goal to create regional tax forts all throughout the union with an attempt to collect the taxes, while controlling the economy thereafter. This therefore triggers the Civil War, leading to four years of division, and upheaval, of which leads to the assassination of President Lincoln when the Federal Government seemingly won the war, creating the plan to reconstruct America in his image, with the goal of a more powerful, and federalistic Central Government, leading to the rise of the Private Bankers, of whom began to cause panics, which led to the next chapter. 
WIth Lincoln out of the way, and a weakened Presidency under Andrew Johnson, the Congress was able to do as it wanted, reconstructing, and putting back together the Union, while President Johnson was to ensure the South they too would be protected from persecution, while President Grant, ruled with an iron fist, to block Confederate Americans from attempting to gain power within the District of Columbia, and of which had signed Coinage Act of 1873 - which became known as the "Crime of '73" due to its goal of removing all forms of currency from the states, in favor of gold. 

The Act had recommended moving the United States off of bimetallism (a system of allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (e.g. gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other) in favor of the gold standard. In 1867, foreign counterparts in Paris had discussed turning away from silver toward a gold standard based on the weight of 25 francs. The move would help standardize currency across international borders, hence the relevancy to the bill. And since1853, silver bullion could be taken to the Mint and be coined into the standard silver dollar. Just like its gold counterpart, silver had unlimited legal tender. In other words, the value of the coin that could be minted from silver bullion was unlimited. Since the country was on bimetallism, the same principle held true for gold. The only noticeable difference (prior to 1873) was that silver coins had become quite rare Greenbacks and National Bank notes were much more common and obtainable, especially to the working class. The bankers were now attempting to manipulate, and control the currency, of which it would now be harder, and tougher, to obtain silver, let alone use it as a form currency, which made it much tougher for lower classes to conduct business. 

This then led to the Presidential Election of 1880, and the rise of President James Garfield pledged not to allow foreign interests to control the currency. Of which in 1880, the first Foreign bank branch had come to American soil, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, of which today, is known as the HSBC, licensed by New York State. of which, the newly elected president was quoted as saying upon his acceptance speech: 

"Confusion has recently been created by variations in the relative value of the two metals, but I confidently believe that arrangements can be made between the leading commercial nations which will secure the general use of both metals...The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.  The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept." - James Garfield 

And with that speech, President Garfield had met his maker, killed the very next day, and to that, a new president easily controlled, took his place, of whom spoke silent against the bankers, allowing them to control Congress, and the national monetary system. This brings us to the next twenty years, and the 1900 Presidential Election...

After Garfield was assassinated, the private banks began to incorporate, partner together, to grab a stronger foothold on the gold, and after a period of banking panics, triggered the Panic of 1893 - it had caused an economic depression in the United States that lasted four years.  It deeply affected every sector of the economy, and produced political upheaval that led to the political alignment of 1896 and the Presidency of William McKinely. 

During the gilded age, a period that transpired between 1870 and through the 1880's, the United States had experienced economic growth and expansion, but much of this expansion depended on high international commodity prices.
 
Exacerbating the problems with international investments, leading to wheat prices crashing in 1893, and in particular, the opening of numerous mines in the western United States led to an oversupply of silver, leading to significant debate as to how much of the silver should be coined in money, the bankers were attempting to control the quantity of silver by this point. 
 
The Federal Government signs an agreement which came to be known as The Morgan-Belmont Syndicate, a group of private bankers who had agreed to all the U.S Treasury Bonds, allowing the Federal Government to restock the treasury, with bank notes. The members of this syndicate became known by the contract as the following - Drexel, Morgan Co,  the J.S Morgan Co, and N.M Rothschilds and Sons, the syndicate achieved its goals through a combination of purchasing gold from smelters, convincing its members to purchase Treasury bonds with gold, inspiring confidence in bond and railroad securities investors, and unofficial capital controls by convincing members, and gold-exporting houses to ship "no gold" overseas. A new, privately owned centralized bank was being formed during this period, and would it grow stronger? That was dependent on the next presidency following the 1900 Election. 

At first, the McKinley Administration remained committed to bimetallism, while tariff legislation loomed large in America related to domestic policy.  The McKinley administration pursued an international agreement to include silver, along with gold, as an acceptable backing for the major European currencies. McKinley indicated his support for bimetallism if England, France, Russia, and Italy would go along. And only when negotiations with these nations over bimetallism failed in late 1897, McKinley began advocating a gold-based currency, and in 1900, he signed the Gold Standard Act placing all U.S Currency, on the gold standard, meaning all American currencies shall be backed by gold. And while McKinley originally protected protectionism, of using tariffs to protect American jobs, a day before his death, he announced his support for reciprocal trade treaties, a considerable shift in his thinking about trade policy.

What, or who caused this great shift in the president's trade policy, to best answer that, we must look into the definition of what a reciprocal trade treaty is...

Reciprocal trade agreement is an agreement between two countries which provides for the exchange of goods between them at lower tariffs and better terms than that exist between one of the countries and other countries. Such agreements usually refer to treaties that deal with tariffs. This agreement is an international commercial treaty that grants two or more nations equally advantageous trade concessions to each other.  And while initially, reciprocity agreements involved bilateral tariff reductions that were not to be extended to third countries, the agreements soon transitioned to deal with matters relating to the rights of foreigners and consular relations.
 
And with that fateful decision, his fate was sealed when he came into contact with a young man named Leon F. Czolgosz (28 year old), a Detroit resident of Polish heritage and an unemployed mill worker of anarchist sentiments, of whom later professed his reasoning for killing the president: 

I had taken aim at the President because he believed him to have been the "enemy of the people, the good working people. - Leon F. Czolgosz
 
So, following the1900 Presidential Election, William Mckinely had promised the people that he would protect them, defend our borders, maintaining our ability to mass produce, and provide our own American Labor to the rest of the world, McKinley has since been seen as caving to foreign powers, in an attempt to barter, surrender our American sovereignty to world leaders for political gain. The foreign bankers had won another battle, setting the stage for the next twenty years, of which included the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank itself. 

During the first few years under the newly created Federal Reserve Economic System, a private group of capitalists began to centralize, and dominate the national economy, by investing in and establishing themselves on the global spectrum, creating multi-national corporations, where American businessmen launched anti-union drives by offering workers something known as "Welfare Capitalism" with a plan that provided workers with benefit programs such as insurance, pensions, cheap lunches in company cafeterias, paid vacations, and stock purchase options in return for leaving or not joining labor unions.
 
A national economy, not bound to unions, meant that workers were now bound by the contracts to which they signed, allowing the capitalists to control all aspects of the economy, from wages, to benefits, to taxation, with the goal to profit from the means of controlling the labor, with the intent to capitalize, or gain from the labor, let alone the capital of which is created from that labor. 

Warren Harding, despite all of his vigorous qualities, encouraged the Federal Trade Commission, the Justice Department, and the Interstate Commerce Commission to cooperate with corporations rather than to regulate them or to instigate antimonopoly actions against them, while at the same time, he reversed the downward movement in tariff rates initiated by Wilson, by supporting the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act delivering a campaign promise. This move later was seen as a detriment to the federal reserve capitalistic process of profiting from cheaper labor overseas, which may have led to his death.

Soon after, in 1923, Warren Harding had left for a political trip to the west coast, a trip that many had saw as a precursor to laying the groundwork for his reelection in 1924, of which Harding a popular president who died halfway through his third year in office, just as scandals involving his administration were becoming public, had died from a presumed heart attack, despite published reports made by doctors of dying from severe effects of a stroke. Doctors huddled over the president for several days. Harding appeared to rally on August 2, but he slumped over in his bed sometime after 7 p.m. and died almost instantly. The initial official cause of death was a stroke, but that has been discounted in recent years, when reports suffused that Harding s preferred doctor, Charles Sawyer, gave the president  purgatives  to hasten his recovery. He believes the remedies issued by Sawyer, who wasn t a trained physician, may have aggravated Harding s heart condition, accidentally provoking the death of the president with a final, fatal overdose of his mysterious purgatives, There was no autopsy, thanks to the presidents wife declining to consent to one, thus ordering to embalm the president within hours of his death. Therefore, twenty years after William McKinley's death, another president had lost his life upon being elected during the 1920 Presidential Election keeping the curse alive. 

And with that, we lead into the next chapter of American History, the 1940 Presidential Election, and the re-election of Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, another popular president, who had seemingly rescued America form the Great Depression, but while at the same time, expanding the Federal Government during perhaps the greatest expansion of federal power since the Civil War. 

The decade of the 1930's, today seen as a rapidly progressive growth of the Federal Reserve Capitalist System, The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in modern history, lasting from 1929 until the beginning of World War II in 1939. The causes of the Great Depression included slowing consumer demand, mounting consumer debt, decreased industrial production and the rapid and reckless expansion of the U.S. stock market, of which may have been caused by the continued commitment to multi-nationalism, allowing foreign companies to run rampant over all aspects of the economy.  

In 2002, Ben Bernanke, then a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, acknowledged publicly what economists have long believed. The Federal Reserve s mistakes contributed to the  worst economic disaster in American history , and when the economic expansion of the Roaring Twenties came to an end. A series of financial crises punctuated the contraction. These crises included a stock market crash in 1929, a series of regional banking panics in 1930 and 1931, and a series of national and international financial crises from 1931 through 1933. The downturn hit bottom in March 1933, when the commercial banking system collapsed and President Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday.  
 
And nearly one-hundred years after the 2nd Bank of North America was canceled, the newest centralized bank had gained a stronger foothold of the American Economy with newly adopted reforms that only contracted the federal government even more closely to the central bank, with the adoption of the Federal Emergency Banking Act, an act of which seemingly, allowed the federal government to go become insolvent to the bank itself. 
 
The reforms of the 1930s,  40s, and  50s turned the Federal Reserve into a modern central bank.
 
The creation of the modern intellectual framework underlying economic policy took longer and continues today.
 
The Fed s combination of a well-designed central bank and an effective conceptual framework enabled Bernanke to state confidently that  we won t do it again." While the bank now has the power to create, and to control the national currency today. 
 
While Franklin Roosevelt died of natural causes, it was during his presidency, that the federal reserve capitalistic system grew stronger, and grabbed hold of the federal government ever so tightly, enabling a private group of multi-nationalists to control the central government, and the monetary system for good. 

Thanks to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his concentrated effort, and effort of the private bankers of previous years, in March of 1945, the Federal Reserve Bank, a foreign corporation became a multinational state,  a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or states.
 
Together, the Federal Government acting in itself as the United States Corporation, has formed a multinational  union of which it is now obligated to the Federal Reserve Corporation, of which together, controls the capitalistic American Economy.  
 
This now sets up the course of the next sixty years, of which the American People will not elect three presidents - John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump, forming the goal of attempting to break away from this multi-national union.
 
A union so strong, and powerful, it now has the means to work behind the scenes, in a masterful, sinister manner, to maintain their control over the economy for years to come. 

Starting with the Presidential Election of 1960, and John F. Kennedy narrowly beating Richard Nixon - Kennedy would attempt to bring down this global political establishment, by attempting to end the Vietnam War, making peace with the Soviet Union, to abolishing the CIA, FBI, and adopting a policy to return America back to a Silver backed currency, and of which he may have delivered one of the greatest presidential speeches of all time: 

I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future--for reducing this threat or living with it--there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security--a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity...The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know...t requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match. - John F. Kennedy, April 27-1961 
 
With that speech, President John F. Kennedy may have cemented his fate, of which came on November 22, 1963 on a sunny, blue sky, dreary day, he was gunned down, in a coup-de-feat. The powers at-large are so powerful today, that they can act in darkness, to remove the most powerful man in the world. 

After Kennedy was so awfully removed from the Executive Office, America had spiraled out of control, through the Vietnam War it found the strength to fight off corruption, by means of the Watergate Scandal, America fought long and hard to find its heart, and through the Recessions of the 1970's - the American People persevered to long for better days, to right a new chapter, to adopt a new policy, one of which would put America First.
 
It led them to the Election of 1980, and the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, of whom would provide to the American People, a sense of  hope, pride, and courage with the following speech, given to them in January 1981 to nation trenched in fear, and dismay: 

 In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price...Well, this administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunities for all Americans with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work. Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs...It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government. The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. - Ronald Reagan, January 1981 

Within the first thirty days, of making that profound speech, the powers at-large had made another attempt to remove a popular president.  
 
They had tried, but failed, and for the first time in over 140 years, a president had survived an assassination attempt.
 
Did God work in a mysterious way? 
 
Well, Reagan responded the only way he knew speaking directly to his enemies, in a manner of which, appeared to be egging them on -
 
"I m sorry, honey, I forgot to duck," then put doctors at ease in the operating room by joking:  "I hope you re all Republicans."

Americans would fight through a tumultuous decade of the 1980's, the 90's and beyond, with the goal of restoring the Republic for Which it Stands.  

When during the 2000 Presidential Election, they would usher in George W. Bush, of which twenty years after the Assassination Attempt on Reagan, the powers at-large would this time, go after the American People, by killing more than 3,000 Americans in New York City on September 11, 2001. 
 
To which, George Bush would go on to proclaim the following message on September 24, 2001: 

The attack took place on American soil, but it was an attack on the heart and soul of the civilized world. And the world has come together to fight a new and different war, the first, and we hope the only one, of the 21st century. A war against all those who seek to export terror, and a war against those governments that support or shelter them. Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there.  It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated. We will continue to add more names to the list.  We will freeze the assets of others as we find that they aid and abet terrorist organizations around the world. - George W. Bush
 
Shortly after this attack upon the American People, they began to organize, regain their Faith, their Morals, their Ability to Speak Up, Rise Up, and Form their Coalition, while forming their Tea Party Movement between 2010 to 2012 of which led to replacing several members of Congress, forming the America First Policies, of which led to the Patriot Movement by 2016, to which they put in the Executive Office, their man, Donald Trump. Which sent a loud, powerful message to the Powers At-Large, one final time, and that message was heard very clear: 
 
Today s ceremony, however, has very special meaning, because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people...For too long, a small group in our nation s capital has reaped the rewards of government, while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs, and while they celebrated in our nation s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land...What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again...The oath of office, I take today, is an oath of allegiance to all Americans. For many decades, we ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries, while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. We ve defended other nation s borders while refusing to defend our own. And spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas, while America s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay...But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future. We assembled here today to issue a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power, from this day forward: a new vision will govern our land, from this day forward, it s going to be only America first...We will make America proud again We will make America safe again, And yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And god bless America. - Donald J. Trump, January 2021
 
And later in January 2021, after the 2020 Election, President Donald J. Trump went on to say, after the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the Corrupted Presidential Election, where the Powers At-Large made one last chance to commit another coup-de-feat...

We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore...I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard...I'm honest. And I just, again, I want to thank you. It's just a great honor to have this kind of crowd and to be before you and hundreds of thousands of American patriots who are committed to the honesty of our elections and the integrity of our glorious republic...is not the end, it's just the beginning" and stated that he "will never give up, we will never concede.
 
So, knowing all this today, what can we do about this, and how can we ensure that this group of people do not gain any traction here in America?
 
First, Donald Trump, in what appears to be a period of time, of which all this agenda is being called out, the presidential term of 2017-2021 now appears to be eye-opening, see all, to wake Americans up from their deep sleep they had been in for the past 100 years, the period of which there was this  Great Dumbing Down of America  so to speak  

Second, President Trump had set several traps of which to catch these conspirators - he right off the bat, signed Executive Order 13848 which allowed Congress to audit and review each Federal Election for up to twenty-four months, allowing for the discussion to be heard inside the Capitol Building to determine whether there has been any election scheming, fraud, and abuse transpiring; he also signed into law, Executive Order 13959 which orders the Departments of the Treasury, State, Defense, and Energy to investigate ALL Americans of whom are invested in Chinese Businesses (any foreign country) where those transactions may pose a grave threat to the National Security and Defense of our Country, these departments have been verifying whether or not any such Americans are committing any such Unlawful Combinations which would allow for 10 U.S Code Section 253 to be invoked. For it is illegal for anyone found to be doing business with Chinese Businesses, the Communist Party, or the China Military; and finally, he signed into law Executive Order 13971 which allows the Departments of the State, Defense, and Treasury to investigate for any Foreign Interference of China in our Federal Elections, hoping to discover those Americans, or their companies intentionally committing any such Election Scheming.
 
Third, as Free, Independent, and Sovereign States we have agreed as per both the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution to come to the aid of all States of which need our help, in times of National Conflicts, Defense of their Borders, Economic Issues, with the goal to join coalitions to hold the Federal Government Accountable. By doing this, States, as led by their Governors and Legislatures can audit, review, their own state elections, they can work together to question the policies coming from Washington D.C, and they can work together to adopt Joint Resolutions instructing the National Government to stop doing, or to do something, let alone they can submit Class Action Lawsuits against the Federal Government in order to challenge any such policies, and laws coming from Washington D.C. 

Fourth, as Americans, we can stand up to the corruption in both our Federal Territory, our State Territories, and our Local Domestic Regions across the Country, working together to call out our elected officials, other Americans of whom act suspicious, or are engaged in unlawful activities that may pose a threat to the United States, it all starts with the People, and if we don't call out the fraud, nor challenge the government itself, then we have ourselves to blame if things happen to the country itself. 

Fifth, Be Alert to Your Surroundings, know your neighbors, engage with them, and always help come to each other's defense when someone attempts to harm your families, your friends, your co-workers, your properties. Keep an eye out for anything that looks out of the norm, and do what you can to be strong, honest, and outstanding activists in the community.
 
The enemy has been on our soil for a very long time, and they have become very active in our governing process, in shaping our future laws, our taxes, and our policies. Knowing our history, and the fact that we are deemed to repeat it, unless we change course, and attempt to change our ways. I beg to ask the question,

Are we involved in a Revolutionary Period just as we saw between the years 1763 and 1783 For we are attempting to Grab back control from the International Bankers of whom have hijacked, and stole the control of the central government from the American People more than 100 Years Ago.