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Date Sent: 2013-05-13
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Monday, May 13, 2013 |
Police say 18 victims in New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting included 2 children
Rand Paul: Obama is working with ‘anti-American globalists plot[ting] against our Constitution.’ -- IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says -- Anarcho-Police -- Glenn Greenwald Takes Down Bill Maher -- Two divisive candidates enter Iran's presidential race -- FBI surrounds house of Saudi student with pressure cooker pot -- Another Syrian Insurgent Provocation? -- Two Videos Emerge Showing
San Antonio Cops Abusing Their Authority -- Arizona Man Winds Up
Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing Courthouse -- GOVERNMENT MANDATES UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH CODES AT COLLEGES --
Did the Queen Just Resurrect the Snooper’s Charter? -- Obamacare:
Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS -- Comet
of the Century': Comet ISON Stars in Mother's Day Webcast Today -- Boston
Cop Wounded by Bombing Suspects in Shootout Was Actually Shot by
Fellow Cops -- In the Gun Grabbers' Faces: Counter-Protesting
the Morrisville, PA Anti-Gun Rally
Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May 25th
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News Link • Homeland Security
Police say 18 victims in New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting included 2 children
05-12-2013
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AP
Police say that two of the 18 people shot in New Orleans during a neighborhood Mother’s Day parade were children.
The wounded included 10 men, six women, a boy and a girl. The children were both 10 years old.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Rand Paul: Obama is working with ‘anti-American globalists plot[ting] against our Constitution.’
05-12-2013
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Washington Post
It’s one thing for no-name pols to work on the fringes. But Paul, at this point, has a lot to lose. Yet here he is, suggesting the current president of the United States is working with “anti-American globalists plot[ting] against our Constitution.”
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says
05-12-2013
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Washington Post
At various points over the past 2 years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Media: Television
Glenn Greenwald Takes Down Bill Maher
05-12-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Bill Maher is taken apart by Glenn Greenwald for trying to absolve the US from any responsibility for the mass slaughter and destruction in Muslim countries, blaming it on Islamic fundamentalism, as if the Afghanistan and Iraq wars never happened,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iran
Two divisive candidates enter Iran's presidential race
05-12-2013
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New York Times
Iran's presidential campaign took an unexpected turn Saturday, when two game-changing politicians, both opposed to many of the government's leaders, entered the race in the final minutes of a five-day registration period.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
FBI surrounds house of Saudi student with pressure cooker pot
05-12-2013
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dailymail.co.uk
People everywhere are getting raided by the FBI when their neighbors call the police after they spot the dangerous criminals... cooking rice.
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Michael Baysek
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News Link • Syria
Another Syrian Insurgent Provocation?
05-12-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
2 powerful car bombs have gone off in a Turkish town. It is a dangerous turn of events particularly as Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has dug a deep hole for himself through support for the Syrian insurgents and as his strategy has collapsed,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Two Videos Emerge Showing San Antonio Cops Abusing Their Authority
05-12-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Both clips show that Jason Al-Barati and his cousin were not interfering when police moved in to arrest them. Although neither clip shows police slamming Christina Oliver’s face into a window, we can hear that is what mostly likely took place
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Man Winds Up Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing Courthouse
05-12-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Raymond Michael Rodden was bored, so he drove to downtown Phoenix and began walking around, snapping photos of the federal courthouse and the state capitol with his iPhone. The 33-year-old man ended up jailed, unemployed and homeless
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News Link • Free Speech
GOVERNMENT MANDATES UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH CODES AT COLLEGES
05-12-2013
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A letter explicitly states it is intended as "a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country," the Departments of Justice AND Education have mandated a breathtakingly broad definition of sexual harassment
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Did the Queen Just Resurrect the Snooper’s Charter?
05-12-2013
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IBT
At the moment, police can monitor phone calls and text messages and are able to pinpoint who, where and when the call was made. However the same cannot be said for communications over the internet.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS
05-12-2013
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When Obamacare’s individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form. The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer’s personal identifying health information in order to det
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
'Comet of the Century': Comet ISON Stars in Mother's Day Webcast Today
05-12-2013
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space.com
An incoming comet that some scientists say could potentially become the "comet of the century" later this year has captivated skywatchers around the world, and you can see live views of the comet today (May 12) in a Mother's Day webcast.
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News Link • Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Cop Wounded by Bombing Suspects in Shootout Was Actually Shot by Fellow Cops
05-12-2013
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www.bostonglobe.com
So far, I have heard nothing about what kind of gun Tsarnaev used, where he got it, or how he got it. I'm starting to suspect that neither brother had a gun, and that the cops did one of those LA Sheriff's Dept. "contagious fire" things.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gun Rights
In the Gun Grabbers' Faces: Counter-Protesting the Morrisville, PA Anti-Gun Rally
05-11-2013
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The International Libertarian
The weather was as changeable as the gun haters' rhetoric. It started cloudy, then the sun came out, then it rained. First, they said they want to ban so-called assault weapons, then they said they don't want to take our guns. Not once did they exp
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • European Union
Europe bans bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides: When will America take action?
05-12-2013
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naturalnews.com
A major victory for the world's bee populations has been achieved in Europe, where a majority of European Union (EU) member states voted recently to ban the use of bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides across the entire continent.........
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Consumer group urges Trader Joe's to stop selling meat from animals raised on antibiotics
05-12-2013
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naturalnews.com
There is a very real public health crisis looming on the horizon, and its origins stem from the common food industry practice of force-feeding antibiotic drugs to cattle in order to bulk them up and rush their meat to market as quickly as possible.
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News Link • Activism
GMOs hiding in almost all food in this country, what are you doing about it?
05-11-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
GMOs are in more than 75% of foods in the US now, and the number continues to increase year after year. Not only are they in almost everything, but since labeling isn’t required they remain hidden and you have to research all the potential ingredien
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News Link • Activism
Worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ Protests Planned for May 25th
05-11-2013
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Prison Planet
Countless individuals will soon assemble in small and large groups around the nation and the globe alike in protest against Monsanto’s genetic manipulation of the food supply.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, May 12, 2013 Edition
05-10-2013
John Semmens
President Tells Grads that Fear of Tyranny a “Mental Illness”
In a commencement address to graduates of Ohio State University, President Obama urged them to eschew “the deranged rantings of those who see growth of government as antithetical to hum
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News Link • TERRORISM
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup
05-10-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Is Gov’t Response to Terror, Terror? " Prof. Beau Grosscup (Video Interview)
Next News Network interviews Prof. Beau Grosscup regarding the governments response to terror threats and terror attacks.
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Currencies
Yen Falls Beyond 101 per Dollar on Bond Purchases; Franc Slides
05-10-2013
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www.businessweek.com, Lucy Meakin and Kevin Buckla
The yen weakened beyond 101 per dollar for the first time since April 2009 after a government report showed Japanese investors boosted holdings of overseas bonds, ending the longest streak of sales since January 2010.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
House passes 'Pay China First' Act
05-10-2013
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http://rt.com
The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that would require the government to begin paying back foreign nations before spending funds on domestic items.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Academic Cesspools - by Walter E. Williams
05-09-2013
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Lew Rockwell
Because Klingenstein wouldn't help finance the college's diversity craze, Mills insinuated, in remarks to the student body, that Klingenstein is a racist. Mills also told students: "We must be willing to entertain diverse perspectives throughout our
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
12-Year-Old Boy Who Questioned Cop on Camera Posts Follow-Up Video
05-09-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
His name is Jeremy Drew and he looks like any shaggy haired kid his age but his message in his second video shows he is wise beyond his years.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Gyft Opens Bitcoin Acceptance to 50,000 Merchant Locations
05-09-2013
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Through a partnership with Bitcoin payment processor BitPay Inc., Gyft now accepts bitcoins for its mobile gift card product. This extends the virtual currency's reach to more than 50,000 retail locations.
"The biggest issue with Bitcoin to date i
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News Link • Healthcare
Why Your Dog’s Knee Surgery Is So Much Cheaper than Yours
05-09-2013
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The only explanations I can come up with for why human knees cost so much more are (1) government regulations, (2) malpractice liability, and (3) the inefficiencies created by the third-party payment system. It looks like these three factors are doub
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News Link • Currencies
A Gold-Price Rule as a Middle-Ground Path to a Genuine Gold Standard
05-09-2013
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central banking and gold-based money are incompatible; in logic and history alike they don’t go together, at least not for long. “If you want the gold standard in durable form,” he writes, “you can’t have central banking,” and “if you want central ba
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News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
What Anarchists Should Learn From Chairman Mao
05-09-2013
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Dollar Vigilante
Beyond those frustrations lives an almost universal belief that one day an event, or a series of events, will occur setting into motion the elimination of government which will be replaced by a society based solely on voluntary connections.
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
In the Fight for Freedom, Technology Gives Individuals an Edge Over Governments
05-09-2013
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Reason Magazine
.... this growing divergence between what we can do and what our rulers want us to do may be a portent of an accelerating technology-fueled cold civil war....
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. citizens ditch passports in record numbers
05-09-2013
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CNN
Americans are ditching their U.S. passports in record numbers, a sign of growing frustration with a system that taxes U.S. citizens on their global wealth whether they live in Montana or Mongolia.
The latest bold-faced names to relinquish their U.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Kevyn Orr: Detroit Is In Worse Shape Than I Thought
05-09-2013
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CBS News
Detroit’s emergency manager says the city is bleeding much more red ink than originally thought. “The situation is severe,” Orr said. “It’s worse that we originally thought. It ain’t good.”
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach
05-09-2013
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AP
A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe and outmoded U.S. card technology may be partly to blame.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
California Sues JPMorgan Chase Over Credit Card Cases
05-09-2013
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New York Times
California’s top law enforcement official accused JPMorgan of flooding the state’s courts with questionable lawsuits to collect overdue credit card debt. JPMorgan “committed debt collection abuses against tens of thousands of California consumers.”
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News Link • Science
Dear Schools: Stop Treating Science-Curious Kids Like Criminals - 16 yr old Kiera Wilmot
05-07-2013
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popsci.com
On April 22, Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old public school student in Bartow, Florida did what any kid with an ounce of curiosity does: She performed an experiment. Like many acts of science, however, it didn’t go as planned.
Wilmot allegedly mixed a fe
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News Link • Police State
“Natural Rights vs The Patriot Act” by Judge Andrew Napolitano
05-09-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Judge Napolitano discusses Natural Rights and why The Patriot Act is exactly the type of legislation the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution to PREVENT!
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Drones
I Confronted A Drone Pilot
05-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Aaron Dykes
Who flies the drones America uses to take out military targets in foreign locales all over the globe?
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
FLASHBACK: CIA Heart Attack Gun (1975)
05-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info
(You Tube) CIA whistleblower talks about a gun that shoots a frozen dart of poison that mimicks a heart attack in the victim.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying
05-09-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
We recently discussed the 'dead-weight' problem of youth unemployment in developed economies.
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News Link • 3D Printing
A California State Senator Is Trying To Outlaw 3-D Printed Guns
05-09-2013
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popsci.com
How do you ban the coupling of a digital file and a legal technology?
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News Link • Gun Rights
Christian Pastor’s Home Raided " Guns Taken
05-09-2013
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freedomoutpost.com
I spoke with Tim Manning, a popular Southern Nationalist and Christian pastor from Greensboro, North Carolina, over the weekend. Mr. Manning’s home was raided late Wednesday evening into early Thursday morning.
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News Link • 3D Printing
Pentagon Demands Defense Distributed "Go Dark" Immediately,...DefDist claims to have compl
05-09-2013
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Forbes.com
The Defense Department is pioneering the idea that posting a file on the internet is "exporting" and subject to all government regulatory authority over "trade".
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Internet
LinkedIn Leveraged to Lend New Life to Old Scam
05-09-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Scammers are using LinkedIn to give their garden-variety cons an added air of legitimacy as they attempt to part gullible Internet users from their cash.
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News Link • Positive News
Once a Smelly Nuisance, Mexicali’s Wastewater Now Brings Life to the Colorado Delta
05-09-2013
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newswatch.nationalgeographic.com
If there is one place that transforms wastewater from trouble-maker to life-saver it’s the site of Las Arenitas sewage treatment plant in the Mexican state of Baja California.
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