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It is of note here, that not one state level legislator in any state, not one governor has stood up to defend their states from this unlawful forfeiture to a foreign government or entity such as the United Nations; of the property rights of the individuals in their state, or to move to nullify any such forfeiture to the United Nations or the Federal government. Not one.
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The issue of water, your rights to it as a human necessity for life, are on the verge of being crippled critically and of course our own government and congress are leading the charge; The CLEAR Act (HR 3534) and the SPILL Act (H.R, 5503) are the theft and seizure of all sources of water from the states and from individuals. Property rights with associated water rights are about to become a thing of the past as our own elected officials, both Democrat and Republican, move ahead with the plans to claim water from any source whatsoever, as owned by the Federal government and controlled for “global revenue” purposes by the United Nations.
I find it not coincidental that as these two bills come forward, the United Nations declared water a human right in July 10 of 2010. This declaration and the notion of the United nations that they have the right to seize the assets of one country and hand them over to another…for profit of course…..comes just in time for the Gulf gusher and these bills; This after multiple refusals to make a clear declaration of water as a “human right” over many years.
Then just ten days later:
And just in time for the gusher in the Gulf, these rights robbing bills and the forfeiture of natural resources and water to the UN…..Obama signs EO 13547 Establishing the National Oceans Council on July 20, 2010. See how that all works?
The Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic resources Act forfeits the right to own and control the water resources in any form, including our coastal waters, Great Lakes and inland rivers and streams. The rights to ownership and control will be handed to the United Nations (sect 106) as the minerals management agency is abolished and three new agencies created. Along with this theft will be the revenues from leasing and drilling permits, royalties from drilling for gas and oil as all permits would now be issued solely by the federal government, depriving states of their natural resources and their rights to them and diverting the revenue from those resources to the United Nations for a “global purpose”. The devastation of the economies in thirty states as a result of this theft seems not to be of concern.
While these bills have been promoted with as much fluff and hype as could be generated for public consumption, and while they make them sound as if the only way they can protect us, the environment and our water is to pass these massive land, water and rights grabs, the truth is, this is simply the divvying up of resources and assets owned by the states and their people. Just as with the Patriot Acts and other rights robbing legislation, a crisis is being used to advance an already planned agenda meant to deprive us not only of our individual rights, but also, to deprive us of our property.
The US will be divided up into nine regions to be controlled by the United Nations: this forfeiture of land and associated rights; a clear act of treason against the people of these United States; perpetrated by our own congress.
The US Coast Guard, once a civil service organization, was converted into a military branch in 2007 and put under control of Homeland Security in advance of this planned theft of water rights, and will now act as “national police” able to perform their newly acquired duties not only on the water, but also on land. They may now act as some perverse form of law enforcement and issues tickets and citations not only on the waters they patrol, but also on land. At their sole discretion they may now haul you into a military tribunal or into an administrative court should you violate what is now an infraction of the newly devised corporate code & statute created for just this purpose.
It is of note here, that not one state level legislator in any state, not one governor has stood up to defend their states from this unlawful forfeiture to a foreign government or entity such as the United Nations; of the property rights of the individuals in their state, or to move to nullify any such forfeiture to the United Nations or the Federal government. Not one
Both the CLEAR Act and The SPILL Act will formalize the “Law of the Sea Treaty” (LOST); a treaty which has been hanging in limbo for many years, probably as a result of government knowing that as a legitimate Constitutional style treaty, it would require a 2/3 vote of the states for ratification to become law; a vote most unlikely to ever see the treaty ratified. So, we move to plan B, wait (or create) for a big huge disaster like say…the BP oil gusher in the Gulf, and claim that unless we pass these Acts the government can’t keep us safe from these things ever happening again. And it is simply amazing the number of people out there who think passing a law, consigning our water rights and ownership to the UN will somehow prevent environmental disasters like the BP Gulf Oil Gusher from happening. (This is the same irrational method used to pass the Patriot Acts and many other rights robbing Acts claiming passage of these bills would somehow prevent another attack)
A note from one of our readers regarding the CLEAR/SPILL Acts:
“This means Congress will no longer be needed to vote on any treaty;
- the U.N. will take care of everything.
- It also means that the American shipping and fishing industries will have to pay royalties to the United Nations in order to conduct business in their own country!
- All air space above the oceans, what operates in, through, on or is derived from underneath the water, will be subject to taxes as a world resource to the United Nations (Agenda 21).
- These areas will no longer be owned and managed solely by the United States, as they are newly defined as a global revenue, “social justice” source per the Law of the Sea Treaty.
- The true intent of the CLEAR Act and its associated documents and amendments will,
- change the way America does business with regard to its’ land, oceans, coastal areas,
- adjacent land masses and Great Lakes.
- The bill possesses a cap and trade/climate change component, as well.
- The CLEAR Act repeals the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by removing royalty incentives for natural gas production from deep wells in shallow Gulf waters
- Removes royalty relief for deep-water production and directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish fees for leases with less than commercial quantities,
- resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs (repcloakroom.house.gov).
- This globalist bill is designed to give away America’s sovereignty to an international body,
- and makes the tax payers and private businesses pay $900 million per year until 2040 in order to create three new bureaucracies:
- The Bureau of Energy and Resource Management,
- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and
- the Office of Natural Resources Revenue,
- plus all the inspectors and accountants that accompany them.
While our congress moves ahead with clearly treasonous legislation it has simultaneously and unlawfully empowered the Bureau of Land Management, a privately owned corporation operating under fraud as a “public service” agency, to seize an additional 13 million acres of land from the Western states. This land theft also includes the theft of water from aquifers, lakes, streams and natural pond collections from not only the states themselves, but also from property owners. Vested water rights associated with land and senior water rights are being struck down, just as grazing permits are being rescinded as the BLM issues huge numbers of mining permits requiring massive amounts of water to operate, and contracts out the available water to corporations who then pipe it into other areas for profit, and away from the areas already known to be in short supply of clean, potable water. This is some of the “industrialization of public lands” Ken Salazar crowed about; a plan which has seen most available water contaminated in almost every Western state as the result of mining and gas and oil drilling.
Now lest some of you think this is those “lefties” and that somehow those on the fictional “right” are against any of this…think again. The framework for every bit of this was laid during the Bush Administrations just as the framework for the national healthcare debacle was planned far in advance and facilitated by executive orders, and little known or publicized changes to code and statute on the Federal Register by the agencies now ceded control of our healthcare. Think back to the Patriot Act……landing on the floor of the House and Senate simultaneously just days after 9/11; already written, ready to go and the agencies and agents already in place, the code & statute already altered, redefined and changed and operative……. before the vote was ever taken.
I can view the BP OIL Gusher as only the 9/11 event for water; precipitating and supposedly justifying the theft of our water and rights to it.
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National Ocean Council–Obama’s Executive Order
http://www.morphcity.com/home/79-national-ocean-council
The CLEAR Act HR 3534
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03534:
What is in each section:
http://cantwell.senate.gov/issues/Section_by_section.pdf
The SPILL Act H.R. 5503
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5503/show
UN Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)
http://www.unlawoftheseatreaty.org/
Coast Guard under HSD
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/72451.pdf
Meet the National Ocean Council
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/19/meet-national-ocean-council
Executive order establishing Ocean Council
http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/2010stewardship-eo.pdf
If you are pretending worry, shock, horror or disapproval of a new US treaty, don’t bother as everyone knows full well after 8 years of Bush hell that America’s word isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
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Sorry, inadvertantly left off response to the beginning of your email:
>1. We are not told any of this through news media or schooling.
2. We (as far as i’ve seen and even myself) don’t care to find these things out. and
3. When we do we dismiss it thinking only that it’s older people coming up with conspiracies.<
In sum: Mainstream media is superficial lies designed to suck you into the black hole of belief in the 2 party/single agenda lie and betrayal, and support for one of the 2 which is support for the system THEY created that is screwing you. As you pointed out, it NEVER goes into matters where both parties are murdering, pillaging and/or raping you, in concert, one at a time. Stick with the net—tho Obama & Democrats are doing their usual Republican Fascist thing by wanting to control content. If/when that happens, we in troubler. Have to subscribe to foreign media. An excellent currently uncensored news site i highly recommend: http://www.legitgov.org. ALMOST everthing newsworthy you need to know.
"Conspiracy theory" is the cry of the lazy aping the propaganda from the govt that says there're no conspiracies trying to fuck you, which amounts to people with power talking to each other, SHOCK, THAT COULDN'T HAPPEN, right? If interested when you hear of any, research till what you find makes sense (9/11, the govt orchestrated it) vs what doesn't ("men didn't walk on the moon"). Both available for further discussion, preferably over the phone. Saves typing.
Bon chance ~~~
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Alright, i’m a 20 year old college student. i’m an art major. and i have at least 4-5 years of school left. i’m not hugely knowledgable about politics nor of laws and bills passed but after reading this, it has my attention. now please, i have at least 70 years of life left in me, explain to me and to my generation; What do we live for with this being left in our laps for US (my generation) to deal with, when;
1. We are not told any of this through news media or schooling.
2. We (as far as i’ve seen and even myself) don’t care to find these things out. and
3. When we do we dismiss it thinking only that it’s older people coming up with conspiracies.
I personally feel there’s little point to my life and frankly I’m getting to the point where this scares the shit out of me.
So please, what am i living for? What’s the point?I personally feel there’s little point to my life and frankly I’m getting to the point where this scares the shit out of me.
So please, what am i living for? What’s the point?<
As a Buddhist, i say the point to your life is to enjoy it, best by loving yourself, all "flaws" included, and understanding you are the totality of your universe, including the kaka. Period end. Best way to fix your universe is to be repulsed by the fact you allow it (terrestrial politics) to behave in the way it does. If you want to realize understanding of who you really are, i recommend vinana yoga by way of the Kegon School. Also can be discussed. The shit that's scared out of you—just understand that the world is full of uncompassionate motherfuckers who lie to you to makle you believe they don't want to kill you or make you work for them in a salt mine, AND they run government, which is designed currently by corporations (the modern nobility of past monarchies whose goal is to make the peasants working for them at bare subsistence wages). Once you absorb that and see it as the norm it is, you can enjoy your life without being depressed. If depressed, the cure is action, first with a plan. You aren't living "for" anything, except making your immediate environment/universe (you) good/peaceful/happy for you, and i don't mean monetarily, which is THE dangerous drug.
Finally, The Point to it all is non-existent. Finding a "point" to life is like an Easter egg hunt: Childish. Such a "point" was created by people who believed, like children, there must be "points". See that, and then you see you don't NEED one, or any such nonsense. In fact you're better off living a life of nonsense then you are searching for some "sense" or "points". There isn't any outside your own needs, which are also the needs of your universe.
Personally, this is what i have learned and realized, and i'm generally ecstatic. Every morning i kiss the Earth.
Alright, i’m a 20 year old college student. i’m an art major. and i have at least 4-5 years of school left. i’m not hugely knowledgable about politics nor of laws and bills passed but after reading this, it has my attention. now please, i have at least 70 years of life left in me, explain to me and to my generation; What do we live for with this being left in our laps for US (my generation) to deal with, when;
1. We are not told any of this through news media or schooling.
2. We (as far as i’ve seen and even myself) don’t care to find these things out. and
3. When we do we dismiss it thinking only that it’s older people coming up with conspiracies.
I personally feel there’s little point to my life and frankly I’m getting to the point where this scares the shit out of me.
So please, what am i living for? What’s the point?
Marti wrote: …our water and states resources will be sold off to the highest bidder while the UN takes the heat for it and cashes in on the theft.
NO, MARTI, NO! This is not some kind of giveaway for the UN to “cash in” on. First of all, there is no UN “banker” or “speculator” TO cash in. At least not as part of the UN. Yes, as their own individual private operative, OUTSIDE of the UN. But the “UN” per se does not benefit one cent. They CAN’T. There is no mechanism for “them” to. Who are “they”? The UN upper class? Which i guess would be the diplomats assigned to the UN. It wouldn’t be them. The UN beaurocracy? The beaurocracy does not consist of speculaotrs who spend their days wheeling and dealing in commodity purchases. That takes some real BIG MONEY. That would be the corporate bigwigs who own, and direct, the US govt to DO this, and blame it on the UN. That’s what their scam is all about.
Marti continued: I do have to disagree with you on one point: We aren’t even a contender on the global scale I don’t think. We are so far in debt.
Craig responds: Wrong. i’m sorry, people don’t like bluntness, but that’s completely wrong. When you are so much in debt you owe gigantic sums to everyone, THEY are at YOUR mercy. You could go under and they would lose their loans to you. The recent Wall St debacle proved this! Those jerks running those toxic funds in gigantic corporations were deemed “too big to fail”! And so were bailed out, as an emergency. The indebted PROFITED. The US is TOO BIGGER to “fail”. If we sneeze, everyone jumps.
FURTHER: What i wrote was much, much shorter than your original article. Yet, you didn’t read what i wrote. So here it is again:
“When China wants to buy oil from Indonesia, it has to first buy DOLLARS to pay for it with, due to US support of illegal cartel OPEC, which it uses to require all oil transactions on Earth.”
We have no power?! We control the world economy. The world currency is dollars. Does anyone here understand how immense it is to force every nation on Earth to buy DOLLARS to be able to buy an teaspoonful of OIL? Think about that. Imagine how many dollars the world is buying from the US Treasury right now. Everyone, including Cuba and North Korea if they want to buy oil on the world market, has to BUY DOLLARS from the US Treasury, CONSTANTLY, 24/7/365.
Why? 2 reasons. #1 is the dollar is still considered the most stable currency on Earth. Or the world wouldn’t be using it! They don’t want inflated money that’s worth less tomorrow, or they can’t trust it. You can argue correctly it’s really worthless. But the entire world, just like everyone in this entire country, is going along with the fiction dollars are worth real money. #2: The US long ago made a deal with the oil cartel OPEC. The deal was, We, the US, let you, the little oil exporting nations, mostly Muslim, keep your illegal cartel going. The US long ago designated how OPEC worked as an illegal cartel which could be crushed on the international market if the US got the rest of the non-OPEC world behind it. The deal they cut was that all OPEC oil, and therefore ALL oil markets, were to be traded in DOLLARS ONLY, FOREVER.
More of what i wrote about this: “Because we import as much oil from Africa as we do from the Saudis, we are going around Africa breaking up China’s oil contracts with African nations. China has no real power over us; the US is aiming nuclear weapons at Beijing from space this very second. The US is The power on Earth. No one comes close.”
THAT is real economic power, Marti, which reflects Stalin’s point to Churchill. The big guns call the shots, economically as well as militarily. As you put it:
“The only advatage we have is the mega military spending and our willingness to bomb the hell out of anyone who has something our government wants.”
And actually our military SPENDING per se is not an advantage over anyone; in fact it weakens the country. All that money goes to “defense” contractors, who BTW own all the touchscreen voting machines in the country, which means if you want to win you better be for “Defense” or your votes won’t materialize, certainly not to any degree you could form a block to kill defense spending.
But the ability “to bomb the hell out of anyone” does not exist in a vacuum. That ability is created BY the power of money, and the control of the world economy, to fund that military colossus.
In sum, the US has not only BECOME Stalin and his big battalions, the US runs the world economy JUST AS IT RUNS THE WORLD MILITARISTICALLY.
TO REPEAT: WHO ELSE has over 800 military bases in over 100 countries? Those bases aren’t housing Nat’l Guard troops “to help people in those countries in natural disasters”, the US presence IS the ‘NATURAL’ DISASTER. US corporations RUN THOSE NATIONS’ ECONOMIES. That’s what the World Bank and IMF DO. Those bases keep those countries IN LINE. Any one of them is one anti-US incident away from being considered TERRORISTS on the world stage, as designated by the US. US-based multi-national corporations, which consist of many foreign entities, base themselves in the US because the US is the only country capable of running the world militarily. At some point some country or group of countries may build up their offenses to rival ours. That’s why ours is so immense compared to anyone else’s. They can’t catch up to our “defense” spending. And that’s because no one in this country gives a shit, or even understands, what this country is really doing.
And the world goes along. Just as it is, knowing the UN becomes the scapegoat, for the US water scam you chronicled.
Hi Craig:
Apparently I was not clear enough in my writing. I agree that what is being done is being done by our own government…they just don’t want to be held responsible. They are intending to shift the revenues to the UN for globalization and supposedly to help third world countries compete in the global market. All that will happen is our water and states resources will be sold off to the highest bidder while the UN takes the heat for it and cashes in on the theft.
I do have to disagree with you on one point: We aren’t even a contender on the global scale I don’t think. We are so far in debt. The only advatage we have is the mega military spending and our willingness to bomb the hell out of anyone who has something our government wants.
I will try to be much clearer on this subject in the future. Thank you for your comments. Marti
Ed Wyers typed: While we might have been a super power and the string holder at the Un once upon a time, we have lost that position to china. Hell man, they had to increase the G-8 to the G-20 just to keep the US included in the global meetings. you need to find out a little more abut how the Un operates before blowing off your mouth.
Yes, right, Ed, the author did say this was a forfeiture of rights by the US. But you are sadly uninformed if you think (a) the US is not the Big Pig at the UN (b) or if you think the US does not run the global economy—it isn’t even close—see that when China wants to buy oil from Indonesia, it has to first buy DOLLARS to pay for it with, due to US support of illegal cartel OPEC, which it uses to require all oil transactions on Earth. You have no clue, Ed, that because we import as much oil from Africa as we do from the Saudis, we are going around Africa breaking up China’s oil contracts with African nations. China has no real power over us; the US is aiming nuclear weapons at Beijing from space this very second. The US is The power on Earth. No one comes close. The US would not give up its water to anyone. It would, tho, sell it out from under the American people, and make it seem a that a joke like the UN has ordered it to. The American people will believe anything US propaganda spreads to believe it’s always the furriners who take from the purr idda US. But it is ALWAYS the US who screws its own, and blames it on others.
The UN, Ed, is a very tiny tail wagged at the behest of the US. The UN does not even sneeze without asking the US first. The Reichtwing in this country would go apeshit if any of your UN fantaisies were true. None of them are, which is why you don’t see Teaparty candidates or Palin talking about this. They follow the lead of the Repubs, just like the Dems do—see Obama’s slavish following of the Bush agenda of war, bailouts, war, the Amerikan police state, and war neverending. If the US didn’t like what the UN was doing, they’d obliterate it. The UN does what the US tells it to do, and IS HIDING BEHIND THE UN AS IF THE UN IS DOING IT ON THEIR OWN.
This is how it works: When Churchill told Stalin the Pope didn’t like the Russian occupation of Catholic Eastern Europe, Stalin anwered him “And how many divisions does the Pope have?” Meaning, for those who think a peanut nothing like the UN has power over the US, it doesn’t OWN an offensive weapon let alone control the US with it. The UN has no power. The US is by far the military Godzilla, with over 800 bases in over 100 countries. Nobody messes with the US. They proved that on 9/11, when they showed the governments of the world “if you think we won’t do this to YOU, look what we did to our OWN.”
Any fantasy to the contrary is gross naivete, Ed. After 9/11, the govt told us it was the Muslims. Now they spread propaganda around it was all run by the Jews. It’s always someone else, never them. Unfortunately the article does not adequately spell out how the US is pulling this trillion-dollar water transfer off: As usual, by blaming someone else for it, in this case the UN, while Sucker Americanus once again swallows it whole.
‘scuse me Craig…..but I believe that was what the author was saying…..The Ocean council and the bills divide the country up….this will be under direct control of the Un. While we might have been a super power and the string holder at the Un once upon a time, we have lost that position to china. Hell man, they had to increase the G-8 to the G-20 just to keep the US included in the global meetings. you need to find out a little more abut how the Un operates before blowing off your mouth. You are close but jsut not there yet.
People, please, do not for a moment longer assume the poor little United States is being forced to do something by the big old bad United Nations. The UN is under the complete fiduciary control of the US. There is nothing big the UN does that the US does not desire. The UN in this instance provides a fig leaf of a resolution, not even a law—the UN can pass no laws—for the US to hide behind. The UN “seizes” no land. The US is not broken up into districts to provide water for the world. The US is operating under corporate desires, specifically ownership of water as a commodity. If there is to be any transfer of water, it will be for immense private profit. The UN does not collect profits. The US sells its citizens down a dry riverbed to die of thirst if necessary to post those profits for its corporate masters. The UN is cover, to convince poor sad people the US cannot do anything about this trillion-dollar ripoff.
REALITY: The US is a sovereign nation. The UN is not. The UN cannot force any nation to do anything, nor does it try. It is an empty vessel, a vehicle political pirates use to loot nations and drive off. The US is run by international pirates, most of them domestic, who practice their piracy overseas, and occasionally here. THAT is what is going on here, despite the author’s textbook propaganda defense of the poor idda US and his attack on the Goliath UN. When the US sets up the UN to act as its corporate masters’ governing body, it needs that scapegoat to get it done, which it will protect to the UN’s dying breath, and finds it easier to go thru the UN than the Congress, which is subject to public disapproval that matters. Attacking the UN when it is being protected by the US for doing its dirty work for it is easy: “It’s out of our hands!”
Understand it was US-protected corporate giant Bechtel of San Francisco that temporarily usurped the formerly corrupt govt of Bolivia to get a law passed that prohibited the collection of rainwater by its poor, as it raked in the loot and controlled the cost of drinking water. Think it can’t happen here? Oddsmakers are betting that the US tactic of running it thru the UN may take longer to stop than it took the people of Bolivia to throw Bechtel out of their country.
The government of the United States is not your friend. The government is your enemy. The government hates you. The govenment is the terrorists.
I understand. But!
I found it hard to believe congress would pass the Patriot Acts…..a clear assault on our freedom….but they did.
I found it harder to believe that The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 contained the idea that the president could strip us of our citizenship, torture us, hold us with out charges and declare us domestic terrorists for attempting to change either political, social or religious beliefs…….but they did.
I found it equally as difficult to believe congress would pass a defacto law…prohibited by the Constitution…providing retro immunity to telecoms for illegally wiretapping US citizens. But they did.
I found it hard to believe most of what congress and successive presidents have done for years. Its far easier to attack those who try to warn you than to go to your representatives or senators, or even your governor, and demand an explanation.
This is not about the right wing or left wing…..it us against them and us is losing.
I find it impossible to believe that the U.S. would hand over control of its domestic water to the United Nations. I wonder: if I read the bill, will I find out that this is another case of people who don’t possess reading comprehension skills?
During the screaming over “death panels” in the health reform bill, I actually read the pertinent passages in the bill. They applied to people with a terminal illness, and their families, getting free medical advice. Not a word about a bunch of doctors deciding if you would live or die.
I already don’t trust the lying right wing, so this better not be another case of crying wolf.
Excellant piece Ms. Oakley. People won’t listen though. They will wait til they have no water and the UN Blue Hats are standing guard over water supplies because they have been sold to some corporation, and then wonder what happened. Keep writing. If you can get the attention of just one its worth it.
Yeah..that must be it. It couldn’t possibly be that they have been trying to get control of the water for years. this actually started in 2007 with that water restoration act they tried to shove thru. funny how the same language is used in these bills. Then …archie my friend……did you notice how it is no longer confined to the navigable waterways but now they call it america’s waterways…….big, big differnce archie. Now it isn’t jsut the rivers or lakes that spill outinto the oceans….its all of the rivers, lakes, streams, land bound or not. All this stuff jammed in these bills about the envirnment and going after those big nasty oil companies and al the fines and penalties how they were really going to crack down on those bad guys…..we already had 100s of laws in place to do just that they never utilized. accept none of them divided the coutry up into 9 regions for the UN to control. and none of them took control of the water from the states or took the natural resources from them. i have no idea why these writers include links to resources and locations of docs and stuff. Even if you read the stuff and see for yourself you get mad at the people who wrote about it instead of the people who wrote the bills. kind of hard to do though cause you know no one we elected to an office wrote any of that stuff. BP probably hired people to stay up all night to write these bills.
I think there is a little or maybe a lot of hyperbole being used in this article.