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Date Sent: 2012-09-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, September 8, 2012 |
Canada cuts ties with Iran, closes embassy, orders Iranian diplomats home
Venezuela Holds U.S. Vessel And Crew On Suspicion Of Arms Trafficking -- Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd? -- Owners Lose Possessions After Home Near Twentynine Palms Is Mistakenly Foreclosed -- Photographers Can be Detained as Potential Terrorists Under Official LAPD Policy -- How Quantum Teleportation Can Bring Us Secure Communications -- After High Note for Euro Plan, Discord Emerges -- Haqqani network to be designated a terrorist group -- White House drafting standards to guard U.S. against cyberattack, officials say -- Police: Man shot by District Heights officer was handcuffed, attempting to flee -- Washington refuses to extradite former Bolivian leader -- Did Bush's CIA waterboard anti-Gadhafi Islamists? -- US Manufacturing Growth Slows In August, Remains Near 34 Month Low -- US Auto Lenders Get Back Into The Subprime Business -- Nomura Has The Best Line To Describe How Difficult The Situation Is In Europe -- September Is The Worst Month For Stocks — But Do You Realize HOW Bad It Really Is? -- Kleptocrats Are Fleeing China With Loot In Tow -- Baltic Exchange Dry Index (BDI) & Freight Rates
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News Link • Iran
Canada cuts ties with Iran, closes embassy, orders Iranian diplomats home
09-07-2012
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Canada has severed all ties with Iran over its sponsorship of terrorism and amid fears about the safety of diplomats in the country. The Canadian embassy in Tehran will close immediately and Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given 5 days to leave
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Venezuela Holds U.S. Vessel And Crew On Suspicion Of Arms Trafficking
09-07-2012
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Forbes
Since August 29 the ship Ocean Atlas has been at port in Venezuela, where it docked to unload a cargo of equipment. The ship was boarded and searched by armed security personnel, and the captain was detained on suspicion of trafficking in arms or dru
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd?
09-07-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Communications expert Greta Stahl reveals the five keys to a great political speech
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News Link • Housing
Owners Lose Possessions After Home Near Twentynine Palms Is Mistakenly Foreclosed
09-07-2012
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CBS News
The owners of a modest home near Twentynine Palms lost their cherished possessions after a bank mistakenly foreclosed their residence. The couple, however, didn’t have a mortgage on the home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Photographers Can be Detained as Potential Terrorists Under Official LAPD Policy
09-07-2012
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Even as America has remained fairly free of foreign terrorism in recent years, the LAPD this week moved ahead with an official policy that considers taking photos and videotaping of some buildings suspicious activity.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
After High Note for Euro Plan, Discord Emerges
09-07-2012
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New York Times
Greeted with initial fanfare by investors and economic officials, the unlimited bond-buying plan that the European Central Bank announced ran into immediate political problems in the crucial countries of Germany, Spain and Italy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Afghanistan
Haqqani network to be designated a terrorist group
09-07-2012
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Washington Post
The Obama administration struck a largely symbolic blow against what it considers the most violent and intransigent enemy of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, declaring that it will add the Pakistan-based Haqqani network to its list of terrorist organizati
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News Link • Internet
White House drafting standards to guard U.S. against cyberattack, officials say
09-07-2012
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Washington Post
The White House has drafted a preliminary executive order aimed at strengthening the nation’s computer systems against attack, an effort to begin to accomplish through fiat what could not be achieved through Congress.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police: Man shot by District Heights officer was handcuffed, attempting to flee
09-07-2012
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Washington Post
A police sergeant shot a handcuffed suspect in the back inflicting a serious wound as the man tried to flee. Calvin Kyle, 26, had been pulled over, handcuffed and put in a police cruiser after he was seen riding a stolen motorcycle
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Washington refuses to extradite former Bolivian leader
09-07-2012
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Reuters
The United States has refused to extradite a former president of Bolivia to the South American country to stand trial over political violence and corruption, President Evo Morales said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Did Bush's CIA waterboard anti-Gadhafi Islamists?
09-07-2012
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The U.S. insists that only three terrorism suspects were subjected to waterboarding. Human Rights Watch claims the harsh practice was more widespread.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
You're ALL Right! Keep On Posting!
09-07-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by paceme
The current phase of the r3VOLution, the one led by Dr. Ron Paul, is over. It is moving into a new phase, and I'd like to describe what that is.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Manufacturing Growth Slows In August, Remains Near 34 Month Low
09-07-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Eric Platt
Manufacturing in the United States continued at a tepid growth rate in August, new data out of Markit Economics shows.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
US Auto Lenders Get Back Into The Subprime Business
09-07-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, David Henry
U.S. lenders are giving as large a portion of new car loans to subprime borrowers as they did just before the start of the financial crisis, according to a new study.
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News Link • Future Predictions
Tokyo Population To Halve In The Next 90 Years
09-07-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Julian Ryall
The population of Tokyo - at present one of the most densely inhabited cities in the world - will fall by half by 2100, with nearly 46 percent of those residents past retirement age.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
September Is The Worst Month For Stocks " But Do You Realize HOW Bad It Really Is?
09-07-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
Summer's over. Welcome to September. Something you should know: It's the worst month for stocks.
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News Link • China
Kleptocrats Are Fleeing China With Loot In Tow
09-07-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Bruce Krasting
There was another chapter in the China Kleotocracy story the past week. Western press reported on a fellow by the name of Wang Guoqiang. Wang fled China with $30Mn in his pocket back in April. The problem is that the loot was stolen from the treasur
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News Link • How To
Heart-Focused Breathing
09-07-2012
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http://www.heartmath.org
When the Institute of HeartMath recommends that I do heart-focused breathing, what exactly is that? You can’t actually breathe with your heart. Right?
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Opinion • Criminal Justice System
Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama Ruling Shields Torturers
09-07-2012
Ray McGovern
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision not to prosecute CIA torturers in two high-profile homicides bows to the political difficulty of going after field agents while sparing superiors, including ex-President George W. Bush. But the all-clear on tor
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Marc J. Victor - AZ Libertarian Senate Candidate - 2012
09-07-2012
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www.youtube.com
Marc J. Victor opens his campaign for U.S. Senate at the Arizona Breakfast Club on September 1st, 2012. He gave his opening speech on freedom.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraqi leader to Obama: ‘Why did you leave Iraq to Iran?’
09-06-2012
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The Daily Caller
President Obama is expected to tout the end of American military involvement in Iraq, but a prominent tribal leader who helped end the Iraq War is now asking Obama, “Why did you leave Iraq to Iran?”
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge orders Fort Hood suspect be clean-shaven
09-06-2012
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AP
The Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage must be clean-shaven or will be forcibly shaved before his murder trial, a military judge ordered after a hearing to determine whether a federal religious freedom law applied
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News Link • Police State
Living in Amerika
09-06-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Judge Head was asked to explain his support for a proposed county tax increase. The money would be spent to hire additional deputies and to provide pay increases for the District Attorney and his staff " which is to say that it would help fortify the
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Police face legal minefield when they implement most contentious part of AZ immigration law
09-06-2012
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Washington Post
The US Supreme Court laid a legal minefield that Arizona now must navigate requires all Arizona police officers to check the immigration status of people they stop while enforcing other laws and suspect are in the country illegally.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Judge Maintains Gitmo Detainees' Access to Lawyers
09-06-2012
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New York Times
A federal judge has rejected the government's efforts to restrict lawyers' access to detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington says the detainees have the right to meet with their lawyers and
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News Link • Economy - International
ECB loads the ‘big bazooka,’ agrees to buy government bonds to save Euro
09-06-2012
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Washington Post
The European Central Bank moved forcefully to ensure the survival of the euro, agreeing to unlimited purchases of government bonds and a series of other steps meant to restore the world’s confidence in the struggling currency union.
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News Link • Internet
RAP NEWS 15: Big Brother is WWWatching You
09-06-2012
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youtube (h/t The Agitator)
September 2012 rocks around with some crucial developments in the ongoing struggle over the future of the internet. Will it remain the one open frequency where humanity can bypass filters and barriers; or become the greatest spying machine ever imagi
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News Link • Economy - International
Euro zone's economy heads towards recession
09-06-2012
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Reuters
Strong exports limited the euro zone's economic contraction in the second quarter of this year despite falling investment, inventories and private consumption that point to output shrinking overall in 2012.
The EU's statistics office Eurostat conf
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News Link • Corruption
U.S. pension fund buys European Shopping Center for $446 million
09-06-2012
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Reuters
A U.S. pension fund has paid 280 million pounds to buy a shopping centre 50 miles west of London from a property firm owned by the Duke of Westminister, one of Britain's richest men.
The deal for the one million square foot Festival Place mall bui
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News Link • European Union
Goldman Has The Most Devastating Description Of The ECB's New Bond Buying Scheme
09-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Joe Weisenthal
That's the term Goldman is going with to describe the new ECB bond buying scheme that will likely be announced tomorrow.
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News Link • Economy - International
MORGAN STANLEY: The Global Economy Continues To Sink Deeper Into The Twilight Zone
09-06-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
A few weeks ago, Morgan Stanley's head global economics Joachim Fels sent a note to clients entitled Into the Twilight Zone.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
FBI Agent's Laptop 'Hacked' To Grab 12 Million Apple IDs - UPDATED
09-06-2012
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http://www.forbes.com, Parmy Olson
The FBI has denied that it ever had the 12 million Apple IDs in question:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
The end of the euro: When will it happen?
09-06-2012
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http://www.sovereignman.com, Tim Staermose
My 2-year old nephew in Australia loves getting postcards.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
YouTube Flags Democrats’ Convention Video on Copyright Grounds
09-06-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Ryan Singel
While First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, those who got inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube found the video flagged by copyright claims shortly after it fin
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repr
09-06-2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk, Glenn Greenwald
A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network
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News Link • Economy - International
Robert Neuwirth: The power of the informal economy
09-06-2012
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http://www.ted.com, Robert Neuwirth
Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets
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News Link • Activism
Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence
09-06-2012
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http://www.ted.com, Scilla Elworthy
How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • European Union
18 Indications That Europe Has Become An Economic Black Hole
09-06-2012
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
Summer vacation is over and things are about to get very interesting in Europe.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
Breakdown: Three Tons of Food Looted From Grocery Stores In Spain As Millions Struggle
09-06-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mac Slavo
As the economic and financial systems of the world rapidly approach the real possibility of total collapse, signs of what we can expect on a mass scale in the near future are beginning to appear throughout Europe.
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News Link • Food
Analysis: U.S. bankers say, love or hate it, ethanol here to stay
09-05-2012
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Reuters
Before the U.S. biofuels boom took off in 2007, the food vs. fuel debate raged: can we afford to use corn for ethanol in a starving world?
Five years later, farm bankers ask: can we afford not to?
"Ethanol demand is the linchpin of the current
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
US Slips Down the Ranks of Global Competitiveness
09-05-2012
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CNBC
The United States has slipped further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released on Wednesday.
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News Link • TAXES: Local
Bankrupt San Bernardino fails to pass emergency budget
09-05-2012
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Reuters
The bankrupt California city of San Bernardino failed to pass an emergency budget plan in the early hours of Wednesday morning after an acrimonious fight over plans to sack firefighters.
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News Link • Activism
Canadian police criticized after forcing protest plane to land
09-05-2012
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AFP
One of Canada’s largest public sector unions on Tuesday alleged political interference after police ordered a small plane towing a banner reading “Stephen Harper hates us” to land.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghanistan arrests hundreds of its soldiers
09-05-2012
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Washington Post
As fatal attacks on U.S. and NATO troops by their Afghan partners kept up at an alarming rate this year, Afghan officials acknowledged hundreds of its soldiers have been expelled or arrested because of deficient vetting and links to insurgents.
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. to Retain Some Control as Afghans Take Over a Prison
09-05-2012
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New York Times
The US military will maintain control over dozens of foreign detainees in Afghanistan for the indefinite future, even as the 2 countries prepare to ceremonially mark the hand-over of detention operations to the Afghan government
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News Link • Syria
Egyptian President Warns Assad That ‘Your Time Won’t Be Long’
09-05-2012
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New York Times
Mr. Morsi, an Islamist and Egypt’s first democratically elected president, fired back at Mr. Assad days after the top Syrian government spokesman said the only change in Cairo since the ouster last year of Hosni Mubarak was Mr. Morsi’s beard.
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Reference Link • r3VOLution Continues
Ending Tyranny Without Violence
LewRockwell.com
The prime task of education, then, is not simply abstract insight into governmental "errors" in advancing the general welfare, but debamboozling the public on the entire nature and procedures of the despotic State.
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Glenn Jacobs
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