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Date Sent: 2013-07-23
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue
MIT Moves to Block the Release of the Aaron Swartz Files -- The Best Introduction to Austro Libertarianism Ever Given (Video) -- But For Video: Cops Terrorize Mom Upset With Postal Service -- To Those on Social Security -- American Express agrees to Cuba travel shakedown -- Florida Gators Linebacker Antonio Morrison Arrested For Barking At Police Dog -- Chicago Blues: Tenured Teachers Laid Off --
Seeing Justice Through Tokyo Rose Colored Glasses -- Irish Politician
Calls Obama A War Criminal And Hypocrite In Parliament -- BREAKING NEWS - Adam Kokesh from Jail Monday July 22nd 2013 3:05pm Eastern Time -- Why GMOs Can Never be Safe -- 07-23-13 -- Drew Phillips (In Studio) - Ben Swann - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F-9-Noon (EDT) -- Bob Lady Arrested in Panama -- A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold -by DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
AZ: The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the
corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona
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News Link • Gun Rights
George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue
07-22-2013
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ABC News (video)
George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is right around the corner! Aug 2-4, 2013 in northeast Arizona
07-19-2013
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The Jackalpe Freedom Festival
The Jackalope Freedom Festival is where liberty loving individuals come to be left alone to connect with each other. (BTW - $300 fine for not having both a License Registration for Off Road Vehicle (ORV) AND a new ORV from the State of Arizona.)
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
MIT Moves to Block the Release of the Aaron Swartz Files
07-22-2013
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Unfortunately, this is just further proof that most of our celebrated institutions, including prestigious palaces of “higher learning,” are nothing more than apologists and gatekeepers for plutocratic power. Apparently, MIT isn’t comfortable
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economics: Austrian
The Best Introduction to Austro Libertarianism Ever Given (Video)
07-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Video Information: Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture was presented by Tom Woods at the 2013 Mises University, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2013.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
But For Video: Mission Accomplished
07-22-2013
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Simple Justice
Going postal used to mean spraying one’s co-workers from a semi-automatic. Postal workers have figured out that the police are more useful as their cohorts than the guys putting an end to their shooting spree with a well-placed bullet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Social Security
To Those on Social Security
07-22-2013
Many people on Socialist Security (I can hardly think of it as "Social" any more) have come to the realization, or at least the uncomfortable suspicion, that they are on the dole. I guess this is kinda hard to miss these days,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Cuba
American Express agrees to Cuba travel settlement
07-22-2013
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AP
The Treasury Department found that foreign branch offices and subsidiaries of American Express issued about 14,487 tickets for travel to and from the island between December 2005 and November 2011.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Florida Gators Linebacker Antonio Morrison Arrested For Barking At Police Dog
07-22-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Florida starting linebacker Antonio Morrison has been suspended from the team after he was arrested for barking at a police dog. That’s right, the 19-year-old was arrested for walking up to a police dog and barking at him.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chicago Blues: Tenured Teachers Laid Off
07-22-2013
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Having closed 11 percent of the city’s public schools in May, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has now been forced to fire 2,000 employees, including 1,000 teachers"half of whom were tenured.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Seeing Justice Through Tokyo Rose Colored Glasses
07-22-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Does the US Government have rose colored glasses when it looks at itself administering justice for an individual after the demands of the public to instigate a prosecution are satisfied by an individual going to prison?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
Irish Politician Calls Obama A War Criminal And Hypocrite In Parliament
07-22-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Many civil libertarians around the world have rallied to support Clare Daly, Irish Parliament member of the United Left Alliance representing Dublin, after she challenged the prime minister and the reception given to President Barack Obama who she ca
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Why GMOs Can Never be Safe
07-22-2013
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Farm Wars
We must ban further environmental releases while we recall and destroy existing ones. We can’t wait for our governments, the EU, or the UN to do it. Ban them from your home, local community, fields, villages, towns, cities, and provinces.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Bob Lady Arrested in Panama
07-22-2013
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http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/bob-lady-arrested
According to NBC, “Bob Lady was the only CIA official (of the 26) the Italian Ministry of Justice sought for arrest.” When we researched this film it was quite clear that Lady’s counterparts in Italy were seriously angry with him for lying to their f
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Mike Brosnahan
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
07-22-2013
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuff
Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs c
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Reference Link • Corruption
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: Hastings Was Murdered
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
Today, the President can “legally” kill a whistleblower, force local officials to conduct a shoddy autopsy, cremate the body of the victim against the wishes of the family, then send the ashes to the grieving relatives in an urn.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • Chemtrails
CIA Is Funding Government Led Chemtrailing Project
07-20-2013
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Prison Planet
Spy agency to help study “security impacts” of geo-engineering
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
No more GMO: Monsanto drops bid to approve new crops in Europe
07-20-2013
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Prison Planet
No more GMO: Monsanto drops bid to approve new crops in Europe
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Ben Swann Interviews Jordan Page (Video)
07-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Jordan Page, liberty rockstar, talks with Ben Swann one on one about why he supports the Truth in Media project.
Hear why Jordan is so passionate about Truth in Media and check out his upcoming album at www.jordanpagemusic.com
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Surveillance
Fatal Consequences of Living in the NSA Surveillance State " Marcy Wheeler (Video)
07-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
When Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the consequences of living in the NSA Surveillance State, Marcy Wheeler, known to civil libertarians by the cyber-nickname “Emptywheel,” had something to say about it. She has been a full-time commentator on in
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Everything Is Fine, But…
07-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Everything is going to be just great. Haven’t you heard? The stock market is at an all-time high, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that inflation is incredibly low, and the official unemployment rate has been steadily declining since earl
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Detroit bankruptcy: Is it a warning sign of things to come?
07-20-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The fact is, long after Detroit’s decline had become obvious, the city’s government kept borrowing and lenders kept lending.
Some of the municipal debt against the future was hidden in the city’s own books in the form of off-balance-sheet pension
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Getting Egypt Wrong
07-20-2013
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arclein
The Egyptian people’s defiance of Brotherhood rule is a serious popular challenge to the most significant strategic reordering of the region perhaps since the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. Still, there was a clear conservatism when it came to projec
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Reference Link • Criminal Justice System
Striking Back at Police State Amerika
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
It is time people for the spirit of civil disobedience to rear its head. Short of not complying with any form of gun confiscation. The type of peaceful revolution that I am proposing can be effective without ever firing a shot.
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Dave Hodges
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News Link • HAARP
HAARP Silenced (for now)
07-20-2013
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Fairbanks News-Miner
The military-run High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP facility near Glennallen, Alaska, has shut down. No one's saying how long the closure will last. Considered by some to be a "weather-weapon", and suggested as capable of caus
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Gene Kernan
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News Link • Government
US: Marty The Magician Must Submit Disaster Plan for Casey The Rabbit
07-19-2013
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Jonathan Turley
Hahne does magic shows for kids and performs the classic rabbit trick. The US government insists he needs a license for the rabbit. And he needs a rabbit disaster plan to handle fire, floods, air conditioning outages etc.
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News Link • Surveillance
NSA surveillance program extended by court, intelligence officials say
07-19-2013
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Washington Post
A secret court on Friday extended the National Security Agency’s authority to collect and store the phone records of tens of millions of American cellphone customers, the top U.S. intelligence official confirmed.
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News Link • Death
Helen Thomas, pioneer journalist, dies at 92
07-20-2013
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AP
On a videotape circulated on the Internet, she said Israelis should “get out of Palestine” and “go home” to Germany, Poland or the United States. The remark brought down widespread condemnation and she ended her career.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Why is US Ambassador McFaul Sticking His Nose Into the Navalny Trial?
07-19-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
As Bradley Manning finds his escape routes from a life sentence for his whistle-blowing quickly shut down by judges who are closely tied to the prosecutors, and as whistle-blower Edward Snowden faces life on the run from the largest intelligence
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News Link • Death Penalty
They Blinded Us With Science
07-19-2013
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Simple Justice
No doubt they will feel pretty darned bad about the ones they wrongly executed. Who wouldn’t? Not that it’s going to do them much good, though their families may get some money for it and will feel some sort of cathartic release when their loved
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"I'm Going to Take Him Out"
07-19-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
“You’re dead, mother****r!” Those were the last words spoken to 41-year-old Kamas, Utah resident Wade Pennington as he bled to death from two gunshot wounds inflicted at point-blank range. The man who hurled that sadistic taunt at Pennington,
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News Link • Military
In General’s Court-Martial, Selection Begins for a Jury of High-Ranking Peers
07-19-2013
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New York Times
Two dozen United States Army generals converged here this week from their posts around the world, not for high-level discussions on the future of warfare, but to be considered as jurors in the court-martial of one of their peers.
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News Link • Police State
Judge “troubled” over drone killing powers
07-19-2013
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The Obama administration’s argument that federal judges should not “second-guess” the government policy of using unmanned aerial drones overseas to kill suspected terrorists, even if they are U.S. citizens, drew a strong and sustained negative respon
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US: Panama sent ex-CIA officer to US, not Italy
07-19-2013
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AP
A fugitive former CIA base chief detained in Panama this week was being sent to the United States instead of Italy, which wanted him to serve prison time in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, the Obama administration said Friday.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, July 21, 2013 Edition
07-19-2013
John Semmens
AG Assails Zimmerman Verdict
The acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin spurred an incensed Attorney General Eric Holder to vow to rein-in “the senseless concept of self-defense.” A Florida jury decided that Zimmerm
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News Link • MEDIA BLOG REFERENCES
Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement
By Mat
07-19-2013
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblo
Memo to colleagues on the White House pool: could someone please ask the president if Jamie Dimon is still his favorite banker?
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Five Months Away From the Biggest Depopulation Event in US History
07-19-2013
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Dave Hodges
At a time when many Americans have been angered by the abuses at the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Agency and the Justice Department, the introduction of a powerful and largely unaccountable board into health care merits special scr
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Union Push Back on Obamacare
07-19-2013
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arclein
But for the big unions to use these terms publicly gives you an idea just how bad an idea Obamcare is. That they would hand such language to their opponents is remarkable. Think about how bad they must think things are going to get for the Teamsters
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News Link • Free Trade
Commerce: The Permanent Rebellion
07-19-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
Commerce, by its very nature, is born free. And more than this, it forever fights to remain free. At almost every time and place, commerce evades regulations and controls; it serves its own will, not the wills of rulers.
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News Link • Police State
Are we in a police state yet??
07-19-2013
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www.jonathanturley.org
Portland: A Citizen Can Be Handcuffed, Locked Into Car, And Driven To A Different Location But Still Not Be “Under Arrest”
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News Link • Corruption
USDA Protection Racket Demands 47% of Raisin Crops " Destroys Small Farmers
07-19-2013
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Farm Wars
The difference between the mob demanding a portion of your profits for "protection" and the government demanding a portion of your crops for "protection?" NOTHING!!!
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Department places a 'hold' on George Zimmerman's gun
07-19-2013
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Daily Mail
The US Justice Dept, overseen by Attorney General Eric Holder, has ordered the Sanford, Florida police department to keep possession of all the evidence from George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial - including his gun.
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News Link • Activism
WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
07-19-2013
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WWOOF International
Linking volunteers with organic farms and growers
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
US Prepares For "Kinetic Strikes" Against Syria
07-19-2013
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zerohedge.com
The chart below will likely come as a surprise to most. It shows total nominal US defense spending, more importantly it shows that such spending has been rapidly declining since 2010.
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