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Date Sent: 2013-02-06
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, February 6, 2013 AM edition |
With US Approval, Israel Plans Syria Escalation -- GOP Open to Residency for Illegal Immigrants
House Republicans signal openness to some gun measures -- Brennan nomination exposes criticism on targeted killings and secret Saudi base -- A Debt Ceiling Lesson from Europe -- Israeli Strike Into Syria Said to Damage Research Site -- Judge Napolitano on Guns -- California Man Taken Down at Gunpoint for Photographing Airplanes -- Welfare, food stamp recipients could soon be required to get microchipped with RFID tags -- Judge Napolitano: Second Amendment Was Written To Protect Right To Shoot Tyrants, Not Skeet Shooting -- FHP announces daytime driver license, vehicle inspection checkpoints -- Florida Poised to Become First State to Regulate Surveillance Drones -- Even The Savviest Finance Folk Have Never Heard Of This $17 Trillion Credit Market -- CITI: Cracks Are Starting To Appear In Europe, And One Market Is Particularly Concerning -- “We Buy Gold” -- Nowhere to hide: New Facebook app to track offline users -- Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell -- How Obama Transformed an Old Military Concept So He Can Drone Americans -- How To Design A Drone-Proof City -- John Stossel talks with Katherine Mangu-Ward about Bitcoin -- The World is Heading into World War III - Gerald Celente (Video) -- Lampoon the System: Cop Block -- Karl Rove Starts New RINOPAC: Specifically aimed at ousting Liberty and Tea Party candidates -- Peter Schiff: Retirement Will One Day Soon Be As Rare As Single Income Households -- Severe Disaffection: Seventy-five Percent of US Citizens Don't Trust Government -- Real Reason for Fracking Boom Is to Build North American Union? -- Miami-Dade Police Officers Caught on Camera Allegedly Ignoring Emergency Calls -- Consumers Taking Financial Hit From Rising Fuel Prices -- Chicago Police Changing Response Plan For Some 911 Calls -- Argentina freezes prices to break inflation spiral
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News Link • Syria
With US Approval, Israel Plans Syria Escalation
02-05-2013
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Antiwar.com
New Plan Calls for Ground Invasion, Occupation of 'Buffer Zone'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Immigration
House G.O.P. Open to Residency for Illegal Immigrants
02-05-2013
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New York Times
House Republicans staked out what they cast as a middle-ground option in the debate over immigration, pushing an approach that could include legal residency but not a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country.
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News Link • Gun Rights
House Republicans signal openness to some gun measures
02-05-2013
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Washington Post
The second-ranking House Republican said Tuesday that he supports improving the federal background-check system for gun buyers but stopped short of endorsing universal checks on all weapon purchases.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Brennan nomination exposes criticism on targeted killings and secret Saudi base
02-05-2013
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Washington Post
President Obama’s plan to install his counterterrorism adviser as director of the CIA has opened the administration to new scrutiny over the targeted-killing policies and the existence of a previously secret drone base in Saudi Arabia.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
A Debt Ceiling Lesson from Europe
02-05-2013
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Reason magazine
American progressives are fond of gazing across the pond at Europe and wishing the U.S. would emulate it. So as soon as President Obama started announcing from all reaches of the country that Congress "must" eliminate the debt ceiling, progressive ch
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News Link • Syria
Israeli Strike Into Syria Said to Damage Research Site
02-05-2013
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New York Times
The Israeli attack last week on a Syrian convoy of antiaircraft weapons appears to have damaged the country’s main research center for work on biological and chemical weapons, according to American officials who are sorting through intelligence repor
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judge Napolitano on Guns
02-05-2013
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Judge Napolitano talks about the administration destroying our First and Second Amendment Rights
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News Link • Homeland Security
California Man Taken Down at Gunpoint for Photographing Airplanes
02-05-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Larry C. was two weeks into his new job at a software security company in Northern California when he was confronted by six armed police officers pointing guns at him within seconds after entering work Monday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Tsunami warning issued after major quake in South Pacific
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the South Pacific has generated a tsunami that may be destructive near the epicentre.
The Hawaii-based agency said sea level readings indicate a tsunami formed after the major
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News Link • Government
Starting a Business Is a Huge Pain
02-05-2013
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Slate
I’ve been to three offices, filed five forms, spent $200, lost a day of work"and I’m not even close to getting the simple license I need.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Welfare, food stamp recipients could soon be required to get microchipped with RFID tags
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
For at least the past 15 years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively trying to develop new ways to decrease fraud in the federal food stamp program, which currently covers nearly 50 million Americans and adds more than 10,000 n
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Propaganda
Illinois High School To Stage ‘Active Shooter Drills’ With Simulated Gunfire
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
At the intersection of paranoia and random violence lies high school. CBS Chicago reports:
A school shooting drill planned on Wednesday in Chicago’s northwestern suburbs has many parents upset.
According to a letter from Cary-Grove High School
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Judge Napolitano: Second Amendment Was Written To Protect Right To Shoot Tyrants, Not Skeet Shooting
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Judge Napolitano discusses the Second Amendment and President Obama’s push for gun control on Fox Business Network’s The Tom Sullivan Show.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Police State
FHP announces daytime driver license, vehicle inspection checkpoints
02-05-2013
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abc news
The Florida Highway Patrol will be setting up checkpoints in various countries in Florida. Our state reminds us that these checkpoints will keep us safe and are not intrusive at all.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Florida Poised to Become First State to Regulate Surveillance Drones
02-05-2013
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Jay Stanley/Free Future
As drones make their way into surveying the home land, some states are taking measures to push back against these intrusive devices. Florida is one of them.
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News Link • Imperialism
The 10 Greatest Empires In History
02-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com,Rebecca Baird-Remba
History's greatest empires covered a fifth of the world, ruled hundreds of millions of people, and lasted anywhere from 100 years to over a millennium.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Nigel Farage speaks to François Hollande (Feb 2013)
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Nigel Farage speaks at Strasbourg regarding the ongoing war policy and conflict involving the EU in Mali, Afghanistan and soon possibly Syria.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Reports Surface Of Monster Lurking In Russian Lake
02-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Marc Lallanilla
For centuries, strange reports of a large, underwater creature have come from people living near the remote Lake Labynkyr in Siberia.
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News Link • World News
Mathematicians Just Found A New Prime Number " With 17 Million Digits
02-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jennifer Welsh
An Internet search team looking for ever more prime numbers has broken their four-year dry spell and just announced that they found a new one " with 17 million digits. I can't write out those digits for you, but here's the short hand: 2 ^ 57,885,161
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Even The Savviest Finance Folk Have Never Heard Of This $17 Trillion Credit Market
02-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Walter Kurtz
It turns out that the biggest financing market is not in corporate bonds or even mortgages.
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News Link • Economy - International
CITI: Cracks Are Starting To Appear In Europe, And One Market Is Particularly Concerning
02-05-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
The big rally in European risk assets like stocks took a breather late last week.
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News Link • Healthcare
Chemotherapy orders may be error-prone, study finds
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Preparing chemotherapy for cancer patients at Canadian hospitals is potentially prone to errors, say researchers who embedded themselves in the system to see what improvements could be made.
Since a cancer patient in Edmonton died in 2006 after an
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
“We Buy Gold”
Dennis Miller
Florida Avenue is the main drag in our little town in central Florida. In less than a mile, you're likely to see three or four folks standing on the sidewalk wearing headphones, bopping to music, and waving big glittery signs or arrows with "We Buy G
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Nowhere to hide: New Facebook app to track offline users " report
02-05-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Those concerned about Facebook’s controversial privacy policies may have yet another reason to worry. The social network is reportedly developing a smartphone application which will track the location of its users " even when the app isn’t running.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
02-05-2013
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Wired.com
Before smartphones and iPads, before the internet or the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system.
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News Link • Military
How Obama Transformed an Old Military Concept So He Can Drone Americans
02-05-2013
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Wired.com
"mminence” used to mean something in military terms: namely, that an adversary had begun preparations for an assault. In order to justify his drone strikes on American citizens, President Obama redefined that concept to exclude any actual adversary a
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
The Next Global Smartphone Revolution: Made in Taiwan
02-05-2013
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Wired.com
There are almost 7 billion people on the planet, only 1 billion or so of whom have a smartphone. That means 6 billion people do not have one.
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News Link • Internet
FCC Proposes Free WiFi For Everyone In The U.S.
02-05-2013
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popsci.com
The grand plan would bring universal internet access to humans and robots alike.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
5 Companies Make A Crazy Amount Of Stuff In Your House [Infographic]
02-05-2013
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popsci.com
PepsiCo makes Quaker Oats, Nestle makes Hot Pockets, and 58 other company-brand relationships.
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News Link • Military
This Modified Transport Plane May Be The Deadliest Weapons Platform On The Planet
02-05-2013
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Business Insider
The AC-130 gunship is just a modified C-130 cargo plane, but there is no more devastating array of firepower supporting troops on the ground, anywhere in the world.
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News Link • Outdoor Survival
Dealing With Biting and Stinging Insects by K.F.
02-05-2013
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Survivalblog.com
Being “bugged” by insects is a problem we will likely face in TEOTWAWKI. Americans will spend more time outdoors in an effort to gather food and fuel as well as hunt and guard their retreat and resources.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The World is Heading into World War III - Gerald Celente (Video)
02-05-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Latest interview with Gerald Celente. I find he's a person who holds back nothing. He doesn't paint a pretty picture, so be warned.
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News Link • Humor
Lampoon the System: Cop Block
02-05-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Civilian Journalists like Cop Block turn the table on the Surveillance State. Eliminate police brutality, fraud, waste, and corruption by keeping your cameras ready. See the cartoon here:
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Karl Rove Starts New RINOPAC: Specifically aimed at ousting Liberty and Tea Party candidates
02-05-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Karl Rove, the great manipulator and the architect of the "we must vote for Romney" campaign has started a PAC designed to counter the Liberty and Tea Party movement and to protect the establishment candidates.
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News Link • Government
Severe Disaffection: Seventy-five Percent of US Citizens Don't Trust Government
02-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds the nation is increasingly distrustful of the federal government:
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News Link • Economy - International
The Biggest Loser
02-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
In Switzerland, it's not just the clocks that are cuckoo. Over the past four years Swiss politicians and central bankers have gone on an unprecedented buying spree of foreign exchange reserves
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News Link • Energy
Real Reason for Fracking Boom Is to Build North American Union?
02-05-2013
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The Daily Bell
Keystone pipeline decision to languish until mid-June-US source The Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will not be made until at least June, a U.S. official said, which would delay the project for months and frustrate bac
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News Link • Energy
Computer model indicates promising new catalyst for generating hydrogen from water
02-05-2013
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gizmag.com
Hydrogen is often hailed as a promising environmentally-friendly fuel source, but it is also relatively expensive to produce.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack Obama, Drone Ranger
02-05-2013
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truth-out.org/opinion/item/14304-barack
If you’ve seen the movie Zero Dark Thirty, you know why it has triggered a new debate over our government’s use of torture after 9/11.
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News Link • China
Suffocating smog from China reaches regions of Japan
02-05-2013
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taipeitimes.com
The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Japan, sparking warnings yesterday of health risks for the young and the sick.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Miami-Dade Police Officers Caught on Camera Allegedly Ignoring Emergency Calls
02-05-2013
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nbcmiami.com
Two officers and a sergeant have been fired by the Miami-Dade Police Department, according to an internal affairs report
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chicago Police Changing Response Plan For Some 911 Calls
02-05-2013
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chicago.cbslocal.com
Starting this week, Chicago police are changing their responses to 911 calls. They’ll no longer come right away to reports of things like criminal damage to property, vehicle thefts, garage burglaries, or other crimes in which the suspect is no longe
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Consumers Taking Financial Hit From Rising Fuel Prices
02-05-2013
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cnbc.com
Consumers have been spending more on gasoline than they have in nearly three decades.
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News Link • Economy - International
Argentina freezes prices to break inflation spiral
02-05-2013
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myfoxny.com
Argentina announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products Monday in an effort to break spiraling inflation.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Flash Mob Mayhem: Violent Groups Of Teens Leave NYC Businesses In Ruins
02-05-2013
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newyork.cbslocal.com
Thugs With No Regard For Anyone But Themselves Causing Chaos All Over
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Opinion • WAR: About that War
Ray McGovern: My Take
Colin Powell: Conned or Con-Man?
02-05-2013
Ray McGovern
Ten years ago, Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations in a speech which routed what was left of American resistance to the Bush/Cheney push for invading Iraq. The next day, the Washington Post’s editorial pages spoke for the con
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Reference Link • Gun Rights
Death By Doctor vs. Death By Firearms
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
The attacks on the Second Amendment, by government, has extended to persecuting a decorated war hero and charging him with five counts of third degree criminal possession of a weapon, for having completely empty 30 round AR-15 Magazines in his vehicl
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