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what it means to live a happy life, and it can be summed up in the popular symbol of the smiley face. Now, I like to smile. I love feeling that kind of glowing, delighted state of emotional bliss. It's wonderful to be full of joy and love and laughter. But feeling those things doesn't in and of itself make for a happy life; and just because we don't happen to feel them in the moment doesn't mean we are unhappy. In fact, if simply feeling those emotions all the time was what constituted happiness, and if Aristotle was correct in saying that, "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence," then it would be a simple matter to find the right combination of drugs that would perpetually bathe our neurons with joyful chemicals, and we could all be perpetually happy and fulfill the aim and end of our existence. But this smiley face view of happiness is a mistake. Here's why. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-illusion-of-perfect-happiness/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7935" class="art-post art-article post-7935 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-ayatollah-spits-on-obama/" rel="bookmark" title="THE AYATOLLAH SPITS ON OBAMA">THE AYATOLLAH SPITS ON OBAMA</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="9:05 am">November 25, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Michael Ledeen">Michael Ledeen</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> The New York Times headline yesterday (11/24):<span> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/world/middleeast/nuclear-deal-again-eludes-us-and-iran-.html?_r=0">A Nuclear Deal for US and Iran Slips Away Again</a>. He did it again, as we should have expected. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei walked us right up to the finish line, spat on Obama, and walked away. Months and months of secret and public talks, letters, back channels, and gestures produced nothing of the sort the president, assorted foreign ministers, pundits, and politicians had been predicting. Instead we are to keep talking, and keep paying the Islamic Republic for the pleasure and privilege. It's not Barack Obama's unique failure; the same thing happened to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Both of them came to believe they had a deal with Khamenei, and both of them were rudely disabused of their error when the Iranians walked away. No sensible person doubts Obama's willingness to be generous to the Iranians. Any lingering skepticism should be definitively eliminated by the latest "extension," which reportedly bestows $700 million on Khamenei every month for continuing to talk. You read that right:<span> </span>British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond announced that "Iran will receive about $700 million per month in frozen assets."<span> </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iranian-assets-unfrozen-nuclear-talks-are-extended-until-july-n254731">Iranian Assets Unfrozen</a> ran the headline. Khamenei could certainly have had a very good deal if he wanted it. If he didn't take one, it's because he doesn't want it. Why? </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-ayatollah-spits-on-obama/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7934" class="art-post art-article post-7934 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/lets-abolish-workplace-violence-as-pc-euphemism-for-moslem-terrorism/" rel="bookmark" title="LET’S ABOLISH WORKPLACE VIOLENCE AS PC EUPHEMISM FOR MOSLEM TERRORISM">LET’S ABOLISH WORKPLACE VIOLENCE AS PC EUPHEMISM FOR MOSLEM TERRORISM</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="9:00 am">November 25, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> In Moore, Oklahoma Sept. 26, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/27/woman-beheaded-at-oklahoma-food-distribution-center-police-say/">Alten Nolen</a>, 30, beheaded Colleen Hufford, 54. He was trying to behead a second woman when he was shot. A convert to Islam, Mr. Nolen had posted a grisly photo of a beheading on his Facebook page. "Kill the disbeliever, whether he is civilian or military," an <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-we-will-conquer-your-rome-break-your-crosses-and-enslave-your-women-by-the-permission-of-allah">Islamic State leader</a> urged supporters in the West five days before Mr. Nolen cut off Ms. Hufford's head. Her murder was "workplace violence," said the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2014/09/29/scarborough-scalds-fbi-labelling-ok-beheading-workplace-violence">FBI</a>. Which is how the Obama administration characterized the 2009 murders of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood by Nidal Malik Hasan, who was shouting "Allahu Akbar" as he gunned them down. In the report of the 911 Commission, the word "Islam" appears 322 times, "Muslim" 145 times, "jihad" 126 times. But in the national intelligence strategy the Obama administration issued in 2009, those words don't appear at all, noted <a href="http://councilonglobalsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Flawed-Science-Behind-US-CT-Strategy.pdf">Katherine Gorka</a> of the Council on Global Security. To know your enemy is the key to victory, said <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1771.Sun_Tzu?page=1">Sun Tzu</a> (544-496 BC). We're losing a war all but won when President Obama took the oath of office because of his bizarre refusal to recognize our enemy. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/lets-abolish-workplace-violence-as-pc-euphemism-for-moslem-terrorism/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7932" class="art-post art-article post-7932 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-112114/" rel="bookmark" title="HALF-FULL REPORT 11/21/14">HALF-FULL REPORT 11/21/14</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="4:06 pm">November 21, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Dr. Jack Wheeler">Dr. Jack Wheeler</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> I just got back from what you know by now was <a href="content/view/6013/44/">The Mystery Adventure</a> I couldn't name last September - for I am on the Mullah Regime's blacklist. I was able to secretly scribe <a href="content/view/6095/2/">Hope for Iran</a> then post it in Istanbul yesterday, and now have to play catch up with what's been going on in the world. Yet again, I can't thank Jack Kelly enough for penning two marvelous HFRs in my absence. Let's start by taking a break to read the best description I've seen of Zero's almost impossibly mendacious demagoguery last night (11/20): Ben Shapiro's <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/20/Obama-announces-amnesty">Kneel Before Zod</a>. His opening line: "It was historic, both in its scope and its dishonesty: the speech represented a closely-woven and incredible tapestry of falsehood, exposited with a straight face by the greatest liar in modern American history... (It was) like watching a madman describe, with preternaturally perfect sincerity, how the moon was constructed of cheese." The bottom line for me was how much this drama is a truly Reaganesque moment. It's a lesson of history for the GOP -- and wait 'till you see the pictures of how it might happen. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-112114/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7925" class="art-post art-article post-7925 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-behind-the-lines category-c104-free-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/hope-for-iran/" rel="bookmark" title="HOPE FOR IRAN">HOPE FOR IRAN</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="6:27 pm">November 20, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Dr. Jack Wheeler">Dr. Jack Wheeler</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p><p> <i>Shiraz, Iran</i>. "Where are you from?" the Iranian man asked me. With a big smile, I happily answered, "America." He responded with a smile of his own. "Ah, America... America Number One!" He hooked his two index fingers together. "American people, Iranian people, good... friends." He unhooked his fingers and waved his hand in a gesture of contempt. "Governments, no good." We both belly-laughed. I and my friends with me repeatedly had the same experience, whether in Tehran, Sari, Mashad, Yazd, Isfahan, Shiraz or Tabriz. We lost count of the people - men and women - who approached us to ask where we were from, and upon being told we were Americans, without exception they would react with surprise, then a beaming smile and say "Welcome." We never once received a negative reaction or a frown. Collectively we've had encounters with hundreds of people over the past twelve days with people all over Iran who spoke some English, some well, some just a few words, and the one thing they wanted us to know was the abyss of difference between them - the people of Iran - and their government. The mullahs who ran their government and preached hate for America did not speak for them. One lady covered in a black hejab tightly grasped the hand of one of the women among us to plead, "Please tell your friends in America that we Iranians are not their enemy." As one shopkeeper in Isfahan's bazaar told us, "What I want is for more Americans to come to Iran, and for all the mullahs to leave." Here's how to do it -- and yes, there are my pictures.</p></p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/hope-for-iran/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7910" class="art-post art-article post-7910 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c89-free-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/obama-is-not-a-monarch/" rel="bookmark" title="OBAMA IS NOT A MONARCH">OBAMA IS NOT A MONARCH</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="11:07 am">November 20, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Senator Ted Cruz">Senator Ted Cruz</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> The Constitution designs a system of checks and balances for our nation, and executive amnesty for immigrants here illegally unilaterally decreed from the White House would seriously undermine the rule of law. Our founders repeatedly warned about the dangers of unlimited power within the executive branch; Congress should heed those words as the president threatens to grant amnesty to millions of people who have come to our country illegally. To be clear, the dispute over executive amnesty is not between President Obama and Republicans in Congress; it is a dispute between President Obama and the American people. The Democrats suffered historic losses in the midterm elections largely over the prospect of the president's executive amnesty. President Obama was correct: His policies were on the ballot across the nation in 2014. The elections were a referendum on amnesty, and the voters soundly rejected it. There was no ambiguity. Undeterred, President Obama appears to be going forward. It is lawless. It is unconstitutional. He is defiant and angry at the American people. If he acts by executive diktat, President Obama will not be acting as a president, he will be acting as a monarch. Congress, representing the voice of the people, should use every tool available to prevent the president from subverting the rule of law. Here are two of them. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/obama-is-not-a-monarch/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7908" class="art-post art-article post-7908 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-iranian-deal-fantasy/" rel="bookmark" title="THE IRANIAN DEAL FANTASY">THE IRANIAN DEAL FANTASY</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="2:14 pm">November 19, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Michael Ledeen">Michael Ledeen</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> What sort of deal is being concocted between Obama and the Iranian regime? <span> </span>Pundits, experts, reporters, and pols are weighing in on epiphenomena ranging from the number of Iranian centrifuges that will be allowed to how quickly or slowly the remaining sanctions will be lifted. Here in Washington the "inside story" that has been circulating for more than a week is: the deal is all done and it will be announced before the 24th, the nominal deadline for the negotiations on a "permanent" agreement. I've been here since 1977, approaching forty years, and "inside stories" have been wrong...almost always. Say 80-90 percent of the time. That's because the "information" is circulated to advance or sabotage policies or individuals, not to inform. So I don't pay much attention to such stories. Especially when it comes to Iran, there's always a considerable amount that we don't know and aren't going to know, so it's best to be tentative. But we do know some things, and there is an historical record that is pretty consistent, so let's go with that stuff. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-iranian-deal-fantasy/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7906" class="art-post art-article post-7906 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-best-way-to-change-our-lives/" rel="bookmark" title="THE BEST WAY TO CHANGE OUR LIVES">THE BEST WAY TO CHANGE OUR LIVES</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="2:09 pm">November 19, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/joelwade/" title="View all posts by Dr. Joel Wade">Dr. Joel Wade</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> There are lots of tricks and techniques for making changes in our lives: having goal-setting strategies, setting priorities, and structuring support for new and better habits, to name just a few. But one of the most important elements has less to do with what we do, and much more to do with how we do it. Think of the people who have had the greatest positive influence on you. Did they spend a lot of time nagging, berating, insulting, or shaming you? I suspect not. Shame has its place. But once that feedback is received, and we have taken the steps to correct what we feel ashamed of, that emotion has done its job. For example, researchers have found that among alcoholics who have become sober, those who continue to actively feel ashamed of themselves, to criticize and castigate themselves for their previous behavior, are the ones who go back to drinking. On the other hand, it turns out that the most effective way to change things for the better is... </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-best-way-to-change-our-lives/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7904" class="art-post art-article post-7904 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-stupidity-of-anti-freedom-experts/" rel="bookmark" title="THE STUPIDITY OF ANTI-FREEDOM EXPERTS">THE STUPIDITY OF ANTI-FREEDOM EXPERTS</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="1:41 pm">November 18, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/rrahn/" title="View all posts by Richard Rahn">Richard Rahn</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> <span style="font-size: 12pt">The only surprising thing about Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's revelations that the legislation was based on a series of lies and voter stupidity was that Mr. Gruber was so stupid to think no one would see the videos of him saying so.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt">The good news is that, perhaps, many more Americans will wake up to the fact that Obamacare is not the only hoax they have been subjected to, and will be much more skeptical about policy experts' snake oil. Most of these schemes increase the power and money flowing to the political class and their "experts," while robbing the pocketbooks and liberties of the people.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt">The great economist F.A. Hayek (1899-1992) argued there was a limit to what any one person or even groups of people could know, which was one reason socialist planning always failed. His 1974 Nobel Prize lecture ended with the following sentence:</span> </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-stupidity-of-anti-freedom-experts/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-7902" class="art-post art-article post-7902 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/looks-like-the-democrats-are-the-stupid-party-now/" rel="bookmark" title="LOOKS LIKE THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE STUPID PARTY NOW">LOOKS LIKE THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE STUPID PARTY NOW</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="12:40 pm">November 18, 2014</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> <span style="font-size: 12pt">Only 36 percent of Americans expressed approval of Democrats in a </span><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/179345/democratic-party-favorable-rating-falls-record-low.aspx"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Gallup poll</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt"> Nov. 12, the lowest in the 22 years Gallup has been asking that question. Republicans were approved of by 42 percent. In Gallup's poll 13 months ago, 43 percent had approved of Democrats, just 28 percent of the GOP.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt">To understand how Democrats could fall so far so fast, consider MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, to whom the Obama administration paid $400,000 to help design Obamacare.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt">Prof. Gruber thinks he's very smart, and you aren't. </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt">"(Obamacare) was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies," he said during a health care conference at the University of Pennsylvania in October of last year.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage," </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/11/10/aca-architect-the-stupidity-of-the-american-voter-led-us-to-hide-obamacares-tax-hikes-and-subsidies-from-the-public/"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Mr. Gruber said</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">. </span> </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/looks-like-the-democrats-are-the-stupid-party-now/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <div class="art-pager"><a class="prev page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/612/?Itemid=44&id=1347">« Previous</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/1/?Itemid=44&id=1347">1</a> <span class="page-numbers dots more">…</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/611/?Itemid=44&id=1347">611</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/612/?Itemid=44&id=1347">612</a> <span aria-current active="page" class="page-numbers current active">613</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/614/?Itemid=44&id=1347">614</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/615/?Itemid=44&id=1347">615</a> <span class="page-numbers dots more">…</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/983/?Itemid=44&id=1347">983</a> <a class="next page-numbers" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/page/614/?Itemid=44&id=1347">Next »</a></div> </div> <div class="art-layout-cell art-sidebar2"><div id="nav_menu-2" class="art-block widget widget_nav_menu clearfix"> <div class="art-blockheader"> <h3 class="t">Dr. Jack’s Classics</h3> </div><div class="art-blockcontent"><div class="menu-classics-container"><ul id="menu-classics" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-8461" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8461"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/what-life-is-all-about/">What Life Is All About</a></li> <li id="menu-item-11927" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-11927"><a href="http://www.2thepointnews.com/2009/09/islam/">Religion</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8462" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8462"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/rejecting-the-evil-eye/">Rejecting The Evil Eye</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8463" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8463"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/infantilizomania/">Infantilizomania</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8464" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8464"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/mexican-nazis/">Mexico</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8466" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8466"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/pretending-to-be-happy/">Pretending To Be Happy</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8467" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8467"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/democratic-fascism/">Democratic Fascism</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8468" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8468"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-chinese-christian-crusades/">The Chinese Christian Crusades</a></li> <li id="menu-item-8470" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-post menu-item-8470"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/solar-warming/">Solar Warming</a></li> </ul></div></div> </div><div class="art-widget widget widget_text" id="text-3" ><div class="art-widget-content"> <div class="textwidget"></div> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="art-footer"> <div class="art-footer-inner"><div class="art-footer-text"> <p>Copyright © 2025. 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