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Proof: Lucia saw the soldiers coming through night, she didn’t know they were there for Gina Rinehart

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T23:00:58Z","headline":"Lucia saw the soldiers coming through night, she didn’t know they were there for Gina Rinehart","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/world/south-america/mountains-of-trouble-bumpy-road-for-rinehart-s-offshore-mining-push-20261010-p60r4x.html","v":1}

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f93db8f8aed404fad663dc31a0e0840e1b64d29191fbb6392e320a2b688873fc

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f93db8f8aed4.json prints f93db8f8aed404fad663dc31a0e0840e1b64d29191fbb6392e320a2b688873fc. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-f93db8f8aed4.json and headline-f93db8f8aed4.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-f93db8f8aed4.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
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