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Date Sent: 2012-08-31
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 31, 2012 |
Texas Students Revolt Against Mandatory RFID Tracking Chips
South African miners charged with slaying 34 colleagues who were killed by police -- Five Australian troops killed in Afghanistan as insider attacks continue -- Apple rejects Drones+, app to track U.S. drone strikes -- Justice For Brad Cooper -- US "Justice" Dept decides not to bring charges in CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects -- The Navy SEAL Who Saw Bin Laden Killed Appears On 60 Minutes -- JONATHAN MILLER: Don't Buy The Hype About A Housing Recovery -- Paul Ryan's Speech Proves The New Political Truth: It's Fine To Lie -- Public Schools Order Deaf Child To Change His Name -- ...Louisiana Ordered To Evacuate As Parish Spokesman Warns Of
'Imminent Failure' Of A Dam -- John Boehner admits "No One Reads the
Platform" -- Video: The Teleprompter Had the Results of the Vote Before the Vote was Taken! -- Video Shows Cop Kicking Defenseless Man in the Throat -- The U.S. Air Force is Officially Seeking Cyber Weapons -- Former Israeli commandos dominate politics -- Iran doubles underground nuclear capacity: U.N. agency -- Mississippi Dam Failure Feared After Tropical Storm Isaac -- Priorities: Arizona election chief in Florida on our primary election day -- LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club meets tomorrow!
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
Powell Gammill
Ernie has taken an active passion in building his own modern battery storage technology on the cheap to store electricity using carbon nanotubes that he is making himself :) / Marc Victor Libertarian for Az U.S. Senate shares 'the plan'
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News Link • World News
South African miners charged with slaying 34 colleagues who were killed by police
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
About 270 miners were charged with the murders of 34 striking colleagues who were shot by South African police officers, authorities said, a development that could further infuriate South Africans already shocked and angered by the police action.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Five Australian troops killed in Afghanistan as insider attacks continue
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
Five Australian troops were killed in 2 separate incidents in Afghanistan making it the bloodiest 24-hour period for Canberra in the war and adding to growing concern about attacks on foreign troops by rogue Afghan soldiers.
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News Link • Communications
Apple rejects Drones+, app to track U.S. drone strikes
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
Apple confirmed Thursday that it has rejected Drones+ from its App Store. The app is designed to alert users whenever someone has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
Wired’s Danger Room reported that the app, developed by New York-based developer
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice For Brad Cooper
08-30-2012
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Justice For Brad Cooper
Man convicted of murdering his wife. Police frame up? Police neglected to record any of the interviews with Brad, although they did record many of the interviews with other witnesses. It is probably obvious where this is going.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
US "Justice" Dept decides not to bring charges in CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects
08-30-2012
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Washington Post
The Justice Department said Thursday that it would not file charges in connection with the deaths of two prisoners held in CIA custody a decade ago, closing the last active criminal investigation into the agency’s treatment of prisoners after the Sep
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News Link • Housing
JONATHAN MILLER: Don't Buy The Hype About A Housing Recovery
08-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Jill Krasny
Much of the housing recovery you've been hearing about is still just hype, says Jonathan Miller of Manhattan-based real estate appraisal company Miller-Samuel.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Paul Ryan's Speech Proves The New Political Truth: It's Fine To Lie
08-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Henry Blodget
There was once a time when lying in a political speech--and getting called out on it by the media--was shameful or embarrassing.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Public Schools Order Deaf Child To Change His Name
08-30-2012
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here in Nebraska, in Grand Island, a deaf child is being told to change the sign he uses for his name--because it looks too much like he's pointing a gun.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
...Louisiana Ordered To Evacuate As Parish Spokesman Warns Of 'Imminent Failure' Of A Dam
08-30-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
More than 50,000 people in Louisiana's Tangipahoa Parish have been ordered to immediately evacuate as water from Tropical Storm Isaac is threatening to overwhelm a dam nearby in Mississippi, NBC News reports.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
John Boehner admits "No One Reads the Platform"
08-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by TN4RonPaul
Amid all the cheers and jeers for the 2012 Republican Party platform, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) let slip the truth about that document: He hasn’t read it, and he doesn’t know anyone who’s ever read it or any other platform.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
RNC Sham 2012 Video: "Assault on America's Last Statesman"
08-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by BarracudaTrader
The Convention is where delegates are meant to cast votes for the nominee, yet the Tampa Bay Times Forum was already plastered with embedded Romney banners, and additional signs for people to hold were also smuggled in to make it appear that many are
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Video: The Teleprompter Had the Results of the Vote Before the Vote was Taken!
08-30-2012
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http://www.dailypaul.com, by Ed Thinking
Here is what you did not see on the "mainstream" news media. The teleprompter had the results of the vote before the vote was taken.
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News Link • Seriously?
Video Shows Cop Kicking Defenseless Man in the Throat
08-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
A new police brutality video shows a St. Paul police officer kicking a defenseless man in the throat while he lay on the ground.
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News Link • Military
The U.S. Air Force is Officially Seeking Cyber Weapons
08-30-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Look, we all know the Pentagon is seeking cyber weapons. For defensive purposes only, of course, not for playing dirty cyber tricks on enemies of the state (Stuxnet, anyone?). But it's a bit strange when the military does it so openly.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
FYI: How Long Can a Brain Live in a Dish?
08-30-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Daniel Engber
Scientists have isolated the brains of dogs, cats and monkeys and kept them alive for short periods in one way or another. But the most successful “whole-brain preparation” of a mammal was developed in the mid-1980s.
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News Link • Israel
Former Israeli commandos dominate politics
08-30-2012
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http://news.yahoo.com, By ARON HELLER
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to fill a sensitive Cabinet post recently, he turned to an old army buddy from his days in an elite commando unit.
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News Link • Iran
Iran doubles underground nuclear capacity: U.N. agency
08-30-2012
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Reuters
Iran has doubled the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges it has in an underground bunker, a UN report said, showing Tehran has continued to expand its nuclear program despite Western pressure and the threat of an Israeli attack.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Mississippi Dam Failure Feared After Tropical Storm Isaac
08-30-2012
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ABC News
Mississippi emergency management officials notified the Tangipahoa Parish, La., government and Louisiana's Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness of an "imminent failure" of the dam at Lake Tangipahoa in Mississippi's
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Priorities: Arizona election chief in Florida on our primary election day
08-30-2012
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Arizona Republic
Arizona's Secretary of State Ken Bennett was hobnobbing with other politicians and delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa instead of overseeing AZ's primary election, in which Arizona voters will pick partisan contenders
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest
08-30-2012
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Yahoo News
A Los Angeles Police Department commanding officer has been removed amid an internal investigation into a videotaped beating in which officers tackled a handcuffed registered nurse to the ground, police Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday.
Beck sai
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News Link • History
Nazi Economics
08-30-2012
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http://lewrockwell.com, by Bill Bonner
Adam Tooze, a British historian, has written a marvelous book on the Nazi economy, The Wages of Destruction. He shows that, far from illustrating the success of intelligent central planning, the German economy of the Third Reich was a disaster.
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News Link • Homeland Security
VIDEO: TSA Takes Over Bus Station In Tampa, DHS Agents Threaten Journalists
08-30-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Steve Watson
Reporters forced to show papers or be “detained for 72 hours” by Homeland Security
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News Link • Activism
Rutherford Institute Attorneys to File Civil Lawsuit Over Wrongful Arrest
08-30-2012
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The Rutherford Institute
In challenging the government’s actions as unlawful and an egregious abuse of power, Institute attorneys hope to shed light on and put a stop to what appears to be a growing problem in terms of a governmental system seemingly targeting Americans"espe
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Intellectual Property
F-Droid: The Android Market That Respects Your Rights
08-30-2012
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Tom Nardi
"Android’s meteoric rise in popularity is due, in no small part, to the fact it is an open source project."
"F-Droid is an Android repository designed to respect the privacy and rights of its users."
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Andrew Strmic
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Opinion • Military
Deciphering Propaganda
08-29-2012
Larken Rose
Have you heard about the "anarchists" attempting to assassinate Obama and overthrow the government? Well, here's how to find the truth beneath the propaganda.
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
There’s no comeback for Russell Pearce " he’s done.
08-29-2012
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Nick R. Martin
Immigration hardliner Russell Pearce’s burning desire to return to office in Arizona got doused with cold water on Tuesday night when he lost the Republican primary for state Senate to a moderate businessman who took a softer tone on immigration.
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Syrian Émigrés Seek Aid in U.S. to Arm Rebels
08-29-2012
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New York Times
From a one-room office in an unfinished glass tower three blocks from the White House, an amorphous network of activists is doing what the Obama administration will not: attempting to arm the rebels trying to overthrow Syria’s government.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Triumph of the Reich-Publican Party
08-29-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The tactics employed by the GOP establishment to isolate, intimidate, and ultimately to expel Ron Paul delegates were the natural product of the party’s totalitarian genetics. Using criminal means to impose a monolithic, top-down process
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Mexico: 2 CIA agents wounded in shooting go to US
08-29-2012
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AP
Mexican officials said Wednesday that two Americans wounded in a shooting attack by federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle are employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, and acknowledged they have returned to the United States.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court: Zimmerman judge should disqualify himself
08-29-2012
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AP
A three-judge panel in Florida has ruled that a former neighborhood watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin should be granted a new judge in his case.
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News Link • European Union
... The September 12 German Court Decision That Could Rock The Entire World
08-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Matthew Boesler
The eurozone is running out of bailout cash, and the German Constitutional Court now holds the fate of Europe in its hands.
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News Link • Military
Insider Attacks Are Nothing Compared To Military Suicides, Here's Why
08-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Tyrell Mayfield
As troubling as these attacks are, the US military is facing a larger and perhaps more menacing problem"one that in July was even more deadly than combat"and it’s one that does not appear to be going away.
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News Link • Internet
... Everything You Need To Know About E-Commerce
08-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Laura Stampler
The digital marketing world has gone gaga over LUMA Partner's collection of insanely intricate and visually complex infographics that aim to bring order to a confusing digital media landscape.
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News Link • Drug War
Marines vs. Zetas: U.S. Hunts Drug Cartels in Guatemala
08-29-2012
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Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.com
The war on drugs just got a whole lot more warlike. Two hundred U.S. Marines have entered Guatemala, on a mission to chase local operatives of the murderous Zeta drug cartel.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Libertarian Marc J. Victor Looks Forward to U.S. Senate Race
08-29-2012
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http://www.victorforsenate.com/
Chandler, Arizona (August 29, 2012) Libertarian candidate Marc J. Victor looks forward to debating the big issues with opponents Flake and Carmona for the U.S. Senate.
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News Link • Housing
Facit Homes claims to build world's first "digitally fabricated" house
08-29-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com
Facit Homes claims to be the first company in the world to digitally fabricate a bespoke home on-site.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Guest Post: In Defense Of Liberty Extremism
08-29-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It’s a safe statement to make that when Mitt Romney is finally crowned the GOP nominee for president during the Republican National Convention, any vestige of liberty will be firmly wiped away from the ballot box come this November.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Peter Schiff Confirms Jesse Benton Paul Festival Sabotage
08-29-2012
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YouTube.com
Peter Schiff reads a text message from Jesse Benton to Paul Festival Organizer Deborah Robinet. The text proves that Jesse Benton of the Ron Paul campaign intentionally sabotaged Paul Festival and the Ron Paul supporters who organized it.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
INFOGRAPHIC: See Who's In Prison In The U.S. And How They Got There
08-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Ashley Lutz
The U.S. Prison population has skyrocketed since 1980, and many of the prisoners are serving time for drug offenses.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
U.S. ‘withheld’ emails on WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning: defense
08-29-2012
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AFP
Manning’s civilian lawyer David Coombs told a pre-trial hearing that 84 emails were released to the defense team in July last year, before it emerged that 1,290 other messages had not been passed on to him.
The government “chose to let these email
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Letter Re: Personal Debt Implications of an Economic Collapse
08-29-2012
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http://www.survivalblog.com
Jim,
Just a pondering I hoped you might be able to give me some insight on, I'm either to young or didn't know it because we were too poor to notice, but I've never experienced a significant economic decline in my life.
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News Link • United Nations
Why Is the UN Installing Mutual Credit/Pure Fiat Systems Around the World?
08-29-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
To make serious commitments to restructure the global financial architecture based on principles of equity, transparency, accountability and democracy, and to balance, with the participation of civil society organizations, the monetary means to favou
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
VIDEO: Who's Counting the Votes?
08-29-2012
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http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
2012 US Presidential Election Fraud In Motion: Obama Sends "Voting Services" To George Soros Company In Spain!
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA: Boston bag screeners distracted by cellphones
08-29-2012
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AP
Some officers were not paying close attention to monitors that display the contents of each bag passing through an explosives-detection machine. Those screeners were distracted by their phones or other devices and are being recommended for
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News Link • Police State
Brandon Raub Interviewed by John Whitehead
08-28-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Brandon Raub, a decorated marine was arrested by federal agents and incarcerated in a psych ward for simply posting thoughts and song lyrics to his Facebook page, discusses his ordeal and his thoughts about the state of our freedoms
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