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Date Sent: 2013-01-28
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, January 28, 2013 PM edition |
Mystery over explosion at Iran's nuclear site -- Ecuador takes legal action over Assange extradition
Everyone who voted for Obama voted for more free stuff - by Frosty Wooldridge -- America's 2nd Revolutionary War -- Obama: Military 'Limitations' Reason America Can't Intervene in Syria -- Mamet on Guns and the State -- In reversal, Spain woos investment from Latin America -- Once More
Immigration Reform on the US Federal Agenda, Like a Bad Penny -- Egypt
clashes continue after Morsi’s ‘emergency’ announcement -- Israel uses deadly weapons on unarmed Palestinian protesters - watchdog -- Iran responds to EU oil and gas sanctions with… oil and gas sanctions -- 'Vaccine court' awards millions to two autistic children damaged by vaccines -- Sandy Hook Actors - Disappearing Nose Conspiracy Anderson Cooper CNN -- The ‘military designed’ weapon - by Vin Suprynowicz -- Catholic Schools in Iowa working with Dept. of Homeland Security -- UPDATED: Reince Priebus Reads the Daily Paul Quite Often and Knows Jesse Benton -- Project Amendment 28 to follow Switzerland’s lead -- ABC, CBS, NBC Admit No Assault Rifle Used at Sandy Hook -- The Resistance Begins: New York Gun Owners Refuse to Register -- Tim Geithner's Legacy of Shame - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Iran
Mystery over 'explosion' at Iran's Fordow nuclear site
01-28-2013
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telegraph.co.uk
Israeli and Iranian officials have both failed to explain the mystery of a reported explosion said to have rocked the notoriously impregnable Fordow nuclear site in Iran.
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News Link • Iran
Iran denies blast at Fordow site
01-28-2013
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upi.com
Iran Monday denied western reports of an explosion that damaged the Fordow uranium enrichment installation last week, calling them "sheer lies."
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ecuador to take legal action over Assange extradition
01-28-2013
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euronews.com
Ecuador will seek judicial help to ensure the safe passage from Britain of WiliLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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News Link • Syria
Obama: Military 'Limitations' Reason America Can't Intervene in Syria
01-28-2013
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weeklystandard.com
In an interview with the New Republic, President Barack Obama explained that military "limitations" are a reason America can't intervene in Syria.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mamet on Guns and the State
01-28-2013
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weeklystandard.com
Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture......
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Stronghold Haywire Klamper Review
01-28-2013
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arclein
I received the Haywire Klamper in the mail and excitedly pulled it out of the plastic bag and all I could do was gaze at it. I then said out loud, “What in the world is this thing?” As I moved it between my hands turning it over and over trying to f
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News Link • Agriculture
European Agency Declares Pesticide Too Dangerous for Bees
01-28-2013
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arclein
For the first time, Europe’s food safety agency this week officially labeled the world’s most popular insecticide, imidacloprid, as so dangerous as to be unacceptable for use on crops pollinated by bees, though the body lacks the power to ban the che
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Trees and Human Health Linked
01-28-2013
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arclein
he researchers analyzed demographic, human mortality, and forest health data at the county level between 1990 and 2007. The data came from counties in states with at least one confirmed case of the emerald ash borer in 2010. The findings-which hold t
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News Link • Science
DNA Data Storage Mastered
01-28-2013
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arclein
DNA could be useful for keeping huge amounts of information that must be kept for a long time but not retrieved very often, the researchers said. Storing the DNA would be relatively simple, they said: Just put it in a cold, dry and dark place and lea
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News Link • Iran
Iran sees growing interest in P5+1 talks
01-28-2013
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upi.com
There's growing interest from the international community for a resumption of multilateral nuclear talks with Iran, said Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Red Cross offices attacked in CAR
01-28-2013
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upi.com
Offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross were attacked in the Central African Republic during a prisoner transfer, the aid group said.
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Obama scolds press on 2016 speculation
01-28-2013
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politico.com
President Obama had plenty of kind words for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during their joint interview airing Sunday night on "60 Minutes," but wouldn't speculate on the 2016 presidential race.
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News Link • World News
Arrests made in Brazil fire, funerals begin
01-28-2013
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Associated Press
Brazilian police say they've made three arrests and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people.
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News Link • Economy - International
In reversal, Spain woos investment from Latin America
01-28-2013
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Christian Science Monitor
European leaders spent the weekend in Chile meeting their Latin American counterparts - and talking up possibilities for investment on the old continent.
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News Link • Syria
Syria's chemical weapons concern Israel
01-28-2013
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upi.com
Amid growing fears that Syria's stockpile of unconventional weapons may fall into terrorists' hands, Hezbollah set up bases in Syria, an Israeli news site said.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Not Even the Pentagon Bomb Squad Knows How Fast Insurgent IEDs Degrade
01-28-2013
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Wired.com
Like all wars, the war in Afghanistan must someday end. But the end of its signature weapon may not arrive on the same schedule.
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News Link • Immigration
Once More Immigration Reform on the US Federal Agenda, Like a Bad Penny
01-28-2013
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The Daily Bell
Senators agree on immigration overhaul plan ... A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a plan to grant legal status to most of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.,
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt clashes continue after Morsi’s ‘emergency’ announcement
01-28-2013
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RT.com
Police tear-gassed protesters Cairo on Monday as clashes still gripped Egypt despite a state of emergency being declared. Some 50 people have died in five days of unrest, and there are reports of yet another death near Tahrir Square
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Israel uses deadly weapons on unarmed Palestinian protesters - watchdog
01-28-2013
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RT.com
Israel is using lethal force on unarmed Palestinian protesters in the West Bank, according to the latest report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. It says 56 people were killed in the clashes, with an average age of 18.
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News Link • Iran
Iran responds to EU oil and gas sanctions with… oil and gas sanctions
01-28-2013
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RT.com
Iran has slapped a ban on oil and gas exports to the European Union, even though the EU has already forbidden Iranian petrochemicals from entering its territory.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
'Vaccine court' awards millions to two autistic children damaged by vaccines
01-28-2013
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naturalnews.com
Quietly and without much fanfare, the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program , has essentially admitted that vaccines cause autism.
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News Link • Conspiracies
Sandy Hook Actors - Disappearing Nose Conspiracy Anderson Cooper CNN
01-28-2013
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youtube
This was probably filmed at CNN's studio with a green screen, not at the Noah Pozner funeral.
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News Link • Vin Suprynowicz's Columns Archive
The ‘military designed’ weapon
01-28-2013
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vinsuprynowicz.com
“I support the Second Amendment and the right of individuals to bear arms for recreation, hunting or self-defense,” Mr. Horsford told the Stephens Press Washington Bureau, last week.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Pool Party
01-28-2013
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vimeo.com
UrbanDaddy challenged us to create a memorable interactive experience in water. Our desire was to create animations that party-goers could swim through. Initially we had no idea how to make this a reality.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body first-ever flight
01-28-2013
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youtube
The Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body unmanned research aircraft took to the skies on its first-ever flight at 7:56 a.m. Pacific Time on Aug. 7 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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News Link • Books
Hitler Home Movies: How Eva Braun Documented The Dictator's Life
01-28-2013
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Business Insider
Lutz Becker was born in Berlin, he says, "during the anno diabolo, 1941.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Catholic Schools in Iowa working with Dept. of Homeland Security
01-28-2013
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libertyfight.com
Why would a federal government which continuously refers to pro-lifers as terrorists be invited into private parochial schools by Catholic administrators?
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News Link • Political Theory
UPDATED: Reince Priebus Reads the Daily Paul Quite Often and Knows Jesse Benton
01-28-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, RobHino
So, as we were getting ready to go to the strategy session, we couldn't help but notice signs on easels advertising a Reince Priebus for Chair party for tonight, after the Bobby Jindal dinner.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Project Amendment 28 to follow Switzerland’s lead
01-28-2013
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Prison Planet
The most appropriate response to gun violence in America is to simply mandate that all able bodied, responsible citizens own guns and be formally trained in their proper use.
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News Link • Gun Rights
ABC, CBS, NBC Admit No Assault Rifle Used at Sandy Hook
01-28-2013
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Prison Planet
ABC, CBS and NBC positively reported that the Bushmaster rifle was in the car and not used at Sandy Hook.
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Video Update: Ron Paul's Speech 'The Libertarian Future' At The Mises Circle, Houston, 1
01-28-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, sailingaway
Here is a youtube of Ron's speech, but when the others come out you may want to check out some of them as well.
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News Link • Gun Rights
The Resistance Begins: New York Gun Owners Refuse to Register
01-28-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Mac Slavo
With emotions running high in the aftermath of the Newtown Sandy Hook shooting, politicians on the State and Federal level have begun introducing legislative actions to curtail access to firearms protected by the Second Amendment.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Earth's Moon Phases, Monthly Lunar Cycles (Infographic)
01-28-2013
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http://www.space.com, by Karl Tate
See how the phases of Earth's moon work, from the full moon to the new moon and everything in between in this SPACE.com infographic.
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News Link • Energy
Battery Material Prevents Fires, Stores Five Times the Energy
01-28-2013
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin Bullis
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a solid electrolyte to replace flammable ones used in lithium-ion batteries.
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Reference Link • Conspiracies
The “Suiciding” of Pedophile Investigators
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
This article is written in the spirit of speaking up for those who cannot speak up for themselves. Specifically, I am referring to children who are the victims of the heinous crimes of kidnapping, the sex slave trade and even murder
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest
01-27-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By David Kravets
A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly cond
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News Link • Obama Administration
Drones, Beware: United Nations Investigates Obama’s Targeted Killings
01-24-2013
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Spencer Ackerman, Wired
After years of warning that President Obama’s targeted killing program flirted with lawlessness, the United Nations has announced it’s investigating the centerpiece of the U.S.’s shadow wars worldwide. The focus will be on an “applicable legal framew
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Russia's Vladimir Putin says West is fomenting jihadi 'blowback'
01-27-2013
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http://www.csmonitor.com, By Fred Weir
Moscow is criticized for weak support of the Arab Spring, and for actively backing Bashir al-Assad in Syria. But the Kremlin says its policies are consistent and the West is exporting revolt.
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News Link • Hacking, Cyber Security
FBI is increasing pressure on suspects in Stuxnet inquiry
01-27-2013
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Washington Post
Federal investigators looking into disclosures of classified information about a cyberoperation that targeted Iran’s nuclear program have increased pressure on current and former senior government officials suspected of involvement.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Mali is not another Afghanistan
01-27-2013
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blogs.spectator.co.uk
Why should we worry if jihadists control a poor, landlocked country thousands of miles away?
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News Link • Government
Government Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning
01-27-2013
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thenation.com
“Prosecutors destroy a life.” That could be a headline in every newspaper every day in a land where the answer to every problem (and many nonproblems) is police and prisons.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
NATO says 1st missile defense battery deployed to Turkey is operational
01-27-2013
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washingtonpost.com
The first of six Patriot missile batteries being deployed to Turkey to protect against attack from Syria was declared operational and placed under NATO command, the international organization said Saturday.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
U.S. expands aid to French mission in Mali
01-27-2013
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washingtonpost.com
The United States is significantly expanding its assistance to a French assault on Islamist militants in Mali by offering aerial refueling and planes to transport soldiers from other African nations, the Pentagon announced Saturday night.
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq Parliament Votes to Keep Maliki From Seeking New Term
01-27-2013
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nytimes.com
In the bloody aftermath of street protests that turned violent on Friday in Falluja, Iraq’s Parliament passed a law on Saturday intended to prevent Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki from seeking a third term.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Holder begins gun-control push
01-27-2013
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thehill.com
The Justice Department is taking the first steps toward carrying out President Obama’s executive actions on gun control.
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News Link • World News
Shock: Politician Tells Unadulterated Truth!
01-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Belgian MP LAURENT LOUIS stands against war in Mali and exposes the international neo-colonial plot at the Belgian Parliament.
On January the 17th, 32 years old Belgiam MP Laurent Louis, the most controversial and demonized national politi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Sheriff Mack to Obama: “you have NO AUTHORITY to tell me what kind of gun I can own!”
01-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Mack to Obama, “you have no authority to tell me what kind of gun I can own, how big of a clip I can own, or even that I have to go through your stupid background checks. I’ll own whatever kind of gun I want, and it’s NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSIN
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News Link • Anonymous
U.S. government site hacked to avenge internet activist
01-27-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The FBI has launched an investigation after hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an internet activist who committed suicide.
The website of the commissi
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News Link • Bailouts
Bank of America returns to the scene of the crime
01-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Home buyers beware: Bank of America is returning to the home loan market. According to the Wall Street Journal, BofA is “girding for a new run at the U.S. mortgage business.”
It apparently wants to reclaim a share of the fat profits that rivals su
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News Link • Gun Rights
Michael Badnarick Responds to Gun Grab Hysteria
01-26-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Former Presidential Candidate, Libertarian Author, and Constitutional Scholar, Michael Badnarick sits down with Gary Franchi to respond to the recent Gun Grab Hysteria.
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