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Date Sent: 2014-01-30
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, January 30, 2014 |
Detroit Police Assault Reporter for Questioning City Council Member
Seventh Circuit Rules Prosecutor Can Be Sued For Abusive Investigation
and Misconduct -- Germany’s Central Bank Proposes "Wealth Tax" On
Depositors -- Norway lawmakers nominate Snowden for Nobel -- Terror suspect challenges NSA surveillance program -- Judge: Defense in terror case can see secret docs -- U.S. readies financial sanctions against Ukraine: congressional aides -- Rise Of The Insect Drones -- Plunder-Lusting Quislings Seek to Repeal Posse Comitatus -- If 3 Inches Of Snow Can Cause This Much Chaos In Atlanta, What Will Economic Collapse Look Like? -- Dow Jones Industrial Average -- Alpha Centauri B may have "superhabitable" worlds -- It’s Always World War II -- Stunning Panoramas Put China's Moon Rover and Lander in Lunar Spotlight (Photos) -- 01-29-14 -- Andrea Garcia - Bill Buppert - Bonus w/ Gregg Tivnan (VIDEO & MP3 LOADED) -- Songs of Peace and Protest: 6 Essential
Cuts From Pete Seeger -- What Pete Seeger could teach America's left and
right today -- Authorities Want Remote Access To Californians’ Home
CCTV Footage “For The Greater Good” -- The Police Will Soon Be Able To Test DNA In The Field In Just 90 Minutes -- Agenda 21 Is Increasing the Scope of Its Enslavement of America
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club Saturday Feb
1st, 2014, 8-10 a.m. @ Coco's (Paradise Valley Mall) with Patrick Wood speaking; Freedom Tech Workshop #1 - Saturday February 1st 2014; Memorial for Jack McLamb Saturday February
22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ; Freedom Summit 2014
Meetup
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News Link • Police State
Detroit Police Assault Reporter for Questioning City Council Member
01-29-2014
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mikael Thalen
Attemping to confront city councilman George Cushingberry Jr. regarding a recent scandal, Fox 2′s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter M.L. Elrick was shoved and manhandled by two Detriot police officers assigned to council security.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
I’m Jazzed; How ‘Bout You?
01-29-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Comrade Obummer finally kept a promise"not that there was any doubt he would on this one: the NSA is appointing its first “privacy officer” (yes, the spooks got to choose their own alleged overseer).
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Seventh Circuit Rules Prosecutor Can Be Sued For Abusive Investigation and Misconduct
01-29-2014
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Jonathan Turley
A prosecutor is not protected by immunity for allegedly coercing false testimony that sent a man to death row 17 years ago. Two prosecutors were accused of egregious misconduct: Lawrence Wharrie and David Kelley. The new opinion from the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
World’s first magma-enhanced geothermal energy system operates in Iceland
01-29-2014
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In 2009 a borehole drilled at Krafla, northeast Iceland, as part of the Icelandic Deep Drilling Project (IDDP), unexpectedly penetrated into magma (molten rock) at only 2,100 meters depth, with a temperature of 900-1,000 C.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
It isn't over until the fat lady farts
01-29-2014
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A singer with the Nashville Opera Company is suing the federal government saying a botched childbirth operation at a military post has caused flatulence and incontinence and threatened her career.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Germany’s Central Bank Proposes "Wealth Tax" On Depositors
01-29-2014
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The German central bank raised the idea of an emergency “capital levy” which would have to be a one-off “imposed in conditions of extraordinary national crisis”, in order to limit negative consequences for investment, and potential capital outflows.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Norway lawmakers nominate Snowden for Nobel
01-29-2014
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AP
Two Norwegian politicians have jointly nominated former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, saying his disclosures of secret U.S. documents have contributed to making the world more peaceful.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Terror suspect challenges NSA surveillance program
01-29-2014
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AP
Using evidence obtained under the NSA's warrantless surveillance program violates a suspect's constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the suspect argued in a court document filed with help from the ACLU.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge: Defense in terror case can see secret docs
01-29-2014
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Reuters
The government can't keep secret its request to conduct clandestine surveillance of an accused attempted terrorist, a federal judge ruled that gives defense attorneys unprecedented access to records filed with a secret intelligence court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • NeoCons
U.S. readies financial sanctions against Ukraine: congressional aides
01-29-2014
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Reuters
The Obama administration is preparing financial sanctions that could be imposed on Ukrainian officials and protest leaders if violence escalates in the political crisis gripping Ukraine, congressional aides said on Wednesday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Badass Dive Suit Will Make Even Astronauts Jealous
01-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Erin Biba
After eight hours underwater at a depth of 1,000 feet, a diver must spend 10 days in a decompression chamber. Now there’s a better solution: Nuytco’s Exosuit.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drones
Rise Of The Insect Drones
01-29-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Adam Piore
Nature spent millions of years perfecting flapping-wing flight. Now engineers can reproduce it with machines.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
Plunder-Lusting Quislings Seek to Repeal Posse Comitatus
01-29-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, William Norman Grigg
While visiting the elite Battle Command Training Program at Fort Leavenworth, “I head discussion of the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids the National Guard to act as a local police force,” reported Robert D. Kaplan in his 1996 book An Empire Wilder
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Prepping
If 3 Inches Of Snow Can Cause This Much Chaos In Atlanta, What Will Economic Collapse Look Like?
01-29-2014
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
This week, three inches of snow “paralyzed” the ninth-largest city in the United States, and the highways of Atlanta “resembled a scene in a post-apocalyptic world” according to national news reports. Hundreds of cars were abandoned on the side of t
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
First pictures of Fuel3D scanner released
01-29-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Stuart Robarts
Fuel3D has release the first images of its 3D scanner.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
Vespa's lethal 150 TAP: A scooter with serious attitude
01-29-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Mike Hanlon
Many motorcyclists over the years have wished for more "presence" with which to balance the inequities of the road-going pecking order, but until I wandered into the newly opened Vespa Museum near the Australian Albert Park Formula One Circuit this w
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Alpha Centauri B may have "superhabitable" worlds
01-29-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By David Szondy
Since Earth is the only known inhabited planet and we happen to live here, it’s only natural to regard it as the ideal place for life to exist, and to assume that another life-bearing planet would be fairly similar.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Powertraveller's modular charger powers up by crank, sun, wind and water
01-29-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By C.C. Weiss
Powertraveller adds an ultra-versatile portable charger to its gadget charger line.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • How To
10 Household Products You Never Have To Buy Again {With Shopping List}
01-29-2014
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http://readynutrition.com, Tess Pennington
After taking steps to live a more conscious existence, I have found that shopping is overrated.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Military
A Holodeck Videogame Designed to Train Soldiers
01-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Allen McDuffee
If the Army is going to keep up with military readiness pressures while also seeing a reduction in troop size and stagnant budgets, then it’s going to need more cutting-edge videogames.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Watch an Epic Light Installation That Dangles From the Ceiling
01-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Liz Stinson
Last December, at the Hotel de Region of Rhone-Alpes in Lyon, France, 150 LED rods dangled from the ceiling.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It’s the Future of Movies
01-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com, Angela Watercutter
I never thought I’d ever say this, but I’m onstage with Beck.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
This Amazing Camera Prints Images Onto Handblown Glass
01-29-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Joseph Flaherty
How do you take a photo of a mountain or coastline that doesn’t feel like a hackneyed homage to Ansel Adams?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
Stunning Panoramas Put China's Moon Rover and Lander in Lunar Spotlight (Photos)
01-29-2014
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http://www.space.com, by Nina Sen
China's first moon rover and lander are revealed in amazing detail in stunning new panoramic images stitched together from recent photos from the country's Chang'e 3 lunar mission.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Amagi Metals is offering serious discounts through February to celebrate 4-year Anniversary!
1/29/2014
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Amagi Metals Blog
“We’re excited to offer some great deals during our 4th anniversary. We have such awesome customers...we want to keep our them happy! What better way than celebrating our success with giveaways and some fun!?” - Stephen Macaskill, CEO
Here’s a bre
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
What Pete Seeger could teach America's left and right today
01-29-2014
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http://www.foxnews.com, By Dan Gainor
Many people have a song in their hearts. Pete Seeger had so many that he shared them with each and every one of us. Now it’s time for him to hear our voices one last time singing his praises.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Investors: Yesterday's Arrest Shows The Laws On The Books Work Fine
01-29-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
It is no longer a question of if but how New York plans to regulate virtual currencies.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
The Police Will Soon Be Able To Test DNA In The Field In Just 90 Minutes
01-29-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Douglas Main
Current human DNA tests take two to three weeks to be completed, and must be sent into an accredited laboratory. But a new rapid test, which could analyze human DNA in 90 minutes in the field, is nearly complete, Pentagon and industry officials told
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News Link • Surveillance
If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox
01-28-2014
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Wired.com
While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Ukraine Is The Center Of The Most Serious Crisis Since The Fall Of The Soviet Union
01-28-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, John Schindler
As I write this, Ukraine’s crisis continues to worsen, with the threat of serious violence rising, and today the justice minister hinted that martial law may be imminent.
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News Link • Libya
The Secret War in Libya
01-28-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Eric Draitser
The Truth of the Green Resistance
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Police State
We Win the NY Times Prize
01-28-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The New York Times, whistling past the financial graveyard, paused over the weekend to smear the Mises Institute, Ron Paul, our other scholars, hardcore libertarianism, and me.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Contrary to Obama's promises, the US military still permits torture
01-28-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, Jeffrey Kaye
The Obama administration has replaced the use of brutal torture techniques with those that emphasize psychological torture
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Whistleblowers
How whistleblowers are barred from defending themselves in court
01-28-2014
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http://pando.com, By David Sirota
As President Obama publicly dithers about whether to grant whistleblower Edward Snowden clemency, the political class that Snowden’s disclosures so humiliated has coalesced around a single talking point:
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
HSBC Imposes Restrictions on Large Cash Withdrawals
01-28-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
Some HSBC customers have been prevented from withdrawing large amounts of cash because they could not provide evidence of why they wanted it, the BBC has learnt.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Silicon Valley billionaire compares treatment of America's rich to Nazi persecution of Jews
01-28-2014
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk, By Nick Allen
Venture capitalist Tom Perkins sparks outrage after suggesting America is facing a 'progressive Kristallnacht'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Angry Birds and 'leaky' phone apps targeted by NSA and GCHQ for user data
01-28-2014
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http://www.theguardian.com, James Ball
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users' private information across the internet, accord
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Paid $15 Million to Poland to Host Secret Prison, Warsaw Refuses to Comment
01-28-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The Polish authorities refuse to comment on reports saying that Warsaw received 15 million dollars to host CIA secret prisons used to interrogate al-Qaeda suspects, allegedly operating in the country from 2002-2003, the Washington Post reports.
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News Link • Marriage
Homewrecker Website Lets Victims of Affairs Shame The Mistress
01-28-2014
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http://sacramento.cbslocal.com
Thrown into the spotlight and labeled a homewrecker, California women are finding themselves shamed online.
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News Link • Transportation
A ban on autos? Major cities consider going carless
01-28-2014
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http://www.cnbc.com, Paul A. Eisenstein
Germany, home of the high-speed autobahn, is perhaps one of the few countries that has had as intense a love affair with the automobile as the U.S.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Here's The Critical Part Of The Charge Against The CEO Of A Bitcoin Exchange
01-28-2014
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem has been charged with money laundering.
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