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“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
-- William Shakespeare
News and Opinion
Contrary to Obama's promises, the US military still permits torture
The United States Army Field Manual (AFM) on interrogation (pdf) has been sold to the American public and the world as a replacement for the brutal torture tactics used by the CIA and the Department of Defense during the Bush/Cheney administration.
On 22 January 2009, President Obama released an executive order stating that any individual held by any US government agency "shall not be subjected to any interrogation technique or approach, or any treatment related to interrogation, that is not authorized by and listed in Army Field Manual 2 22.3."
But a close reading of Department of Defense documents and investigations by numerous human rights agencies have shown that the current Army Field Manual itself uses techniques that are abusive and can even amount to torture.
Disturbingly, the latest version of the AFM mimicked the Bush administration in separating out "war on terror" prisoners as not subject to the same protections and rights as regular prisoners of war. Military authorities then added an appendix to the AFM that included techniques that could only be used on such "detainees", ie, prisoners without POW status.
Labeled Appendix M, and propounding an additional, special "technique" called "Separation", human rights and legal group have recognized that Appendix M includes numerous abusive techniques, including use of solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation. ...
What has been lacking is a widespread public discourse that recognizes that swapping waterboarding and the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" torture with the Army Field Manual as an instrument of humane interrogation only replaced the use of brutal torture techniques with those that emphasize psychological torture.
Obama Scrambles To Continue Drone Murders In Pakistan If US Kicked Out Of Afghanistan
The risk that President Obama may be forced to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year has set off concerns inside the American intelligence agencies that they could lose their air bases used for drone strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan and for responding to a nuclear crisis in the region. ...
The concern has become serious enough that the Obama administration has organized a team of intelligence, military and policy specialists to devise alternatives to mitigate the damage if a final security deal cannot be struck with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, who has declined to enact an agreement that American officials thought was completed last year.
If Mr. Obama ultimately withdrew all American troops from Afghanistan, the C.I.A.’s drone bases in the country would have to be closed, according to administration officials, because it could no longer be protected. ...
The official added that the administration was determined to find alternatives, if necessary. “We will be forced to adapt,” the official said, “and while perhaps less than most efficient, the United States will find ways necessary to protect our interests.”
Endless, Global War Continues as US Bombs Somalia
Drone attack in southern Somalia on Sunday shows no end in sight for borderless 'war on terror'
A suspected U.S. drone bombed an area in southern Somalia on Sunday, reportedly killing five people, at least two of whom are said to be members of the al-Shabab militia.
Though the number was not confirmed, it remains unclear who the other three people killed in the attack may have been. Reports from the scene indicate that a car or envoy was targeted.
The latest apparent drone attack in Somalia follows on several recent U.S. bombings in Yemen, including one earlier this month in which a farmer was killed and another in December that hit a wedding convoy that left at least a dozen civilians dead.
All part of the U.S. global war on terror that began in 2001, attacks like Sunday's in Somalia—a country with which we are not at war—have now become remarkably common. And, so long as alleged "terrorists" are said to be the targets, almost no objection to the ongoing aerial assassination campaign is raised.
Court Bombshell: UK blocks sharing US drone intel
Snowden docs reveal British spies snooped on YouTube and Facebook
Documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News detail how British cyber spies demonstrated a pilot program to their U.S. partners in 2012 in which they were able to monitor YouTube in real time and collect addresses from the billions of videos watched daily, as well as some user information, for analysis. At the time the documents were printed, they were also able to spy on Facebook and Twitter.
Called “Psychology A New Kind of SIGDEV" (Signals Development), the presentation includes a section that spells out “Broad real-time monitoring of online activity” of YouTube videos, URLs “liked” on Facebook, and Blogspot/Blogger visits. The monitoring program is called “Squeaky Dolphin.” ...
According to a source knowledgeable about the agency’s operations, the NSA does analysis of social media similar to that in the GCHQ demonstration. ...
“Governments have no business knowing which YouTube videos everyone in the world is watching,” said Chris Soghoian, chief technologist for the ACLU. “It’s one thing to spy on a particular person who has done something to warrant a government investigation but governments have no business monitoring the Facebook likes or YouTube views of hundreds of millions of people.” ...
[C]yber-security experts told NBC News that once the information has been collected, intelligence agencies have the ability to extract some user information as well. In 2010, according to other Snowden documents obtained by NBC News, GCHQ exploited unencrypted data from Twitter to identify specific users around the world and target them with propaganda.
German TV: Edward Snowden says NSA is involved in industrial sabotage
The National Security Agency is involved in industrial espionage and will take intelligence regardless of its value to national security, the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has told a German television network.
In text released ahead of a lengthy interview to be broadcast on Sunday, the public broadcaster ARD TV quoted Snowden saying the NSA does not limit its espionage to issues of national security and citing the German engineering firm Siemens as one target. ...
Snowden's claim the NSA is engaged in industrial espionage follows a New York Times report earlier this month that the NSA put software in almost 100,000 computers around the world, allowing it to carry out surveillance on those devices and could provide a digital highway for cyberattacks.
Our Almost Orwellian State & NSA Surveillance Forum
Cut Off the NSA’s Juice
Grassroots activists have begun to realize the potential to put the NSA on the defensive in nearly a dozen states where the agency is known to be running surveillance facilities, integral to its worldwide snoop operations.
Organizers have begun to push for action by state legislatures to impede the electric, water and other services that sustain the NSA’s secretive outposts.
Those efforts are farthest along in the state of Washington, where a new bill in the legislature— the Fourth Amendment Protection Act —is a statutory nightmare for the NSA. The agency has a listening post in Yakima, in the south-central part of the state.
The bill throws down a challenge to the NSA, seeking to block all state support for NSA activities violating the Fourth Amendment. For instance, that could mean a cutoff of electricity or water or other state-government services to the NSA site. And the measure also provides for withholding other forms of support, such as research and partnerships with state universities.
Here’s the crux of the bill: “It is the policy of this state to refuse material support, participation, or assistance to any federal agency which claims the power, or with any federal law, rule, regulation, or order which purports to authorize, the collection of electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to any action not based on a warrant that particularly describes the person, place, and thing to be searched or seized.”
If the windup of that long sentence has a familiar ring, it should. The final dozen words are almost identical to key phrases in the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Why There’s No Outcry
People ask me all the time why we don’t have a revolution in America, or at least a major wave of reform similar to that of the Progressive Era or the New Deal or the Great Society.
Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of the poor are swelling, almost all the economic gains are going to the top, and big money is corrupting our democracy. So why isn’t there more of a ruckus?
The answer is complex, but three reasons stand out.
First, the working class is paralyzed with fear it will lose the jobs and wages it already has. ... Second, students don’t dare rock the boat. ... Third and finally, the American public has become so cynical about government that many no longer think reform is possible.
When asked if they believe government will do the right thing most of the time, fewer than 20 percent of Americans agree. Fifty years ago, when that question was first asked on standard surveys, more than 75 percent agreed.
It’s hard to get people worked up to change society or even to change a few laws when they don’t believe government can possibly work.
San Francisco's guerrilla protest at Google buses swells into revolt
Campaign against tech giant pricing ordinary citizens out of the housing market becomes increasingly disruptive and forces city to act
Corporate buses that Google and other tech companies lay on to ferry their workers from the city to Silicon Valley, 30 or 40 miles to the south, are being targeted by an increasingly assertive guerrilla campaign of disruption. ... Well organised protesters have blocked buses, unfurled banners and distributed flyers to tech commuters who have seemed either nonplussed, embarrassed or downright terrified. ...
Just before Christmas, a window was smashed on a Google bus in Oakland, across the San Francisco Bay. Last week, protesters doorstepped a Google engineer who they claimed was involved in working with the government to develop eavesdropping techniques and "war robots" for the military. "Anthony Levandowski is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control and automation," they wrote on flyers left near his house. "He is also your neighbour." ... "You are not innocent victims," one flyer directed at tech workers said. "You live your comfortable lives surrounded by poverty, homelessness and death, seemingly oblivious to everything around you, lost in the big bucks and success."
The core grievance is one keenly felt by almost everyone in San Francisco: the way the tech sector has pushed up housing prices in the city and made it all but unaffordable for anyone without a six-figure salary. ... The activists claim that the so-called "Google buses" are exacerbating the problem, because they are making it easier for tech workers who might otherwise live closer to their offices to live in San Francisco instead. ...
Google argues that the protesters are gunning for the wrong target, because the buses alleviated traffic and pollution and because most of the employees who take the bus would live in San Francisco anyway.
Those claims were challenged by a study published last week by researchers at Berkeley, across the Bay from San Francisco. They found that rents around the stops used by the Google buses were up to 20% higher than in otherwise comparable areas. They also found that 30-40% of tech workers would in fact move closer to their jobs if the bus service did not exist.
Is It Time For Peter King To Become A Democrat?
Rep. Peter King on Saturday blasted a new resolution from the Republican National Committee concerning the National Security Agency, charging that the “hysterical” measure could be a “death warrant” for the GOP.
The RNC on Friday called the NSA surveillance program “unconstitutional” in a resolution, urging a “halt” of the efforts and “a full public accounting” of the data collection initiatives. In an interview with POLITICO, King, a hawkish New York Republican, said the move pushed the party in an “isolationist” direction.
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“We’re going to make the Democrats and Barack Obama the party of national security,” he said. “It’s signing our own death warrant as a party.”
Obama is looking more and more like an ideal Republican president with every passing day.
Another Obama Corporate Gimmie: Broadens Corporate R&D Tax Credits
Obama is looking more and more like an ideal Republican president with every passing day. The Washington Post reports that the Administration is on the verge of giving companies like Dow Chemical, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin hundreds of millions in tax breaks, which drops directly to their bottom line.
The concession involves research and development tax credits. They were launched under President Reagan in 1981, intended to be a temporary program, out of concern that the US was falling behind Japan in innovation. The problem with this scheme is that it frequently winds up subsidizing activities that companies would have engaged in anyhow. And notice how it did nothing to stop the dismemberment of great corporate research efforts like Bell Labs. ...
One has to wonder how many giveaways Obama will engineer before he leaves office. Presidential libraries are expensive, after all, so you gotta keep those donors happy.
Greece faces new black hole in finances amid rising tensions with creditors
European finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday are due to express disquiet over the resistance Athens is displaying to adopting reforms, as the Greek government weighs up the cost of a court ruling reversing wage cuts for security forces agreed under the country's bailout. ...
The EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, which have already postponed completing their latest review of the economy, signalled that rescue funds will not be forthcoming if Greece fails to implement improved competition rules. Prime minister Antonis Samaras's increasingly beleaguered administration has indicated it will be unable to enforce all of the reforms, going so far as to propose alternatives at the weekend.
The stand-off comes as Greece's highest legal body, the court of state, challenged the country's fragile economic recovery by demanding that the military and police be reimbursed for cuts dictated when Athens signed up to a second EU-IMF rescue programme in 2012.
The ruling, which was leaked before being officially announced, described the austerity measures as unconstitutional. ...
On Sunday night, as officials scrambled to locate the extra monies, the court signalled it was considering appeals from social security funds and other civil servants on similar salary regimes to the armed forces, including university professors.
"If that is the case and it is extended to other public sector employees it will be hugely significant," Giorgos Stathakis, shadow development minister with the main opposition radical left Syriza party told the Guardian.
Ukraine crisis: Yanukovych offers jobs to opposition
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych has offered the post of prime minister to opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
He also offered former boxer Vitali Klitschko the position of deputy PM.
In response, the opposition leaders did not explicitly say whether they accepted the offer, but repeated their demands for new presidential elections.
The offer came after talks on Saturday with the opposition in a new effort to end the deadly unrest that has spread across the country. ...
Addressing a crowd of tens of thousands in Kiev's Independence Square on Saturday evening, along with other opposition leaders, Mr Yatsenyuk gave no clear answer to the president's offer, but did say the opposition was prepared to take on responsibility.
The politician is the parliamentary leader of the country's second biggest party, Fatherland, and an ally of the jailed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Mr Klitschko, the leader of the Udar (Punch) movement, told the crowd that the opposition would not yield in its demands for elections to be held this year. A vote is not due until 2015.
Ukraine protests: Police forced to abandon Kiev conference centre to opposition as protests spread further across the country
Thousands of demonstrators attempted to take over the regional government office in Dnipropetrovsk on Sunday, a major industrial hub in eastern Ukraine home to more than one million people and birthplace of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
Thousands more tried to seize the local government headquarters in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhia, local media reported. Further protests took place in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lutsk and Sumy over the weekend, raising fears that the previously peaceful movement is morphing into a national uprising. ...
Addressing protesters in Kiev's Maidan, or Independence Square, on Saturday night, opposition leaders said demonstrations would continue as they maintain demands for early elections and changes to the constitution to limit sweeping presidential powers.
"No deal... we're finishing what we started. The people decide our leaders, not you," Mr Yatsenyuk later tweeted, in a message to Mr Yanukovych. ...
Early on Sunday morning, demonstrators in the capital Kiev stormed the Ukrainian House convention centre, throwing fireworks and Molotov cocktails at police who had been stationed inside to monitor the mass protests that have engulfed the city centre. Protesters now occupy six buildings in the city, including the city hall and ministry of agriculture.
Ukraine eyes state of emergency as justice ministry is seized
A Ukrainian government minister on Monday warned protesters that a state of emergency could be imposed to deal with the country's deadly crisis, after radicals seized the justice ministry in Kiev.
The storming of the justice ministry threatened to derail talks between the opposition and President Viktor Yanukovych to find a peaceful outcome to a boiling standoff that according to officials has left three activists dead.
The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday was due to meet to discuss concessions proposed by Yanukovych to end the crisis, in a highly anticipated extraordinary session that could be a make-or-break moment to resolve the standoff.
With concern growing in the West that the situation in Ukraine is spiralling out of control, the crisis was also set to dominate an EU-Russia summit on Tuesday.
Reporter Kicked Out of Bill de Blasio’s Secret Pro-Israel Speech
Bill de Blasio wants you to know he shovels his own snow-encrusted sidewalk, arranging feel-good photo-ops to show off his civic pride. The New York mayor feels a bit differently, however, about wooing the powerful pro-Israeli lobbying group AIPAC, whose members he spoke to in a Manhattan hotel on Thursday night, for a speech omitted from his public itinerary.
The event’s security staff removed Azi Paybarah, a reporter for Capital New York, who managed to get past the secret event’s coat check. Paybarah later obtained several minutes of audio, where the mayor can be heard praising the United States’ strategic alliance with Israel as “elemental to being an American” because America has “no greater ally on earth.” According to Capital, de Blasio promised that “City Hall will always be open to AIPAC.”
Egypt calls early presidential election as violence spreads
Egypt will hold a presidential vote before parliamentary polls, President Adly Mansour said on Sunday, in a change to a political roadmap that could pave the way for the swift election of army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Parliamentary elections were supposed to be held first under the timetable drawn up after the army overthrew President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July following mass protests against his rule.
The decision to revise the order of elections is likely to deepen tensions in Egypt, which is struggling to cope with waves of political violence. ... Sisi is expected to announce his candidacy for the presidency within days and win by a landslide. His supporters see him as a strong, decisive figure able to stabilize Egypt.
The Brotherhood accuses him of masterminding a coup and holds him responsible for widespread human rights abuses in a crackdown against the movement which has killed up to 1,000 Islamists and put top leaders behind bars.
Bill Moyers on Dark Money, the Attack on Voting Rights & How Racism Stills Drives Our Politics
White House warns Obama ready to 'bypass' Congress on 2014 agenda
White House officials are setting the scene for a confrontational state of the union address on Tuesday night, claiming that President Barack Obama is preparing to “bypass” Congress with executive action on divisive issues such as economic inequality.
However, in a flurry of last-minute appearances, advisers also hinted at a growing sense within the administration that the president's chances of securing more ambitious legislative reform before November's midterm elections may already have passed.
In an interview on Sunday and in an email to supporters on Saturday Dan Pfeiffer, Obama's senior adviser for strategy and communications, struck a defiant tone. “We need to show the American people that we can get something done; either through Congress or on our own,” Pfeiffer told CNN. “The president is not going to tell the American people he will wait for Congress.”
The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, spoke of a need to “bypass Congress where necessary”, telling ABC the State of the union would herald a “year of action” after the frustrations of 2013.
Working poor now majority of food stamp recipients — with college educated among fastest growing group of users
In the wake of recent cuts to the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program — or food stamps — the Associated Press reported Sunday that working-age people have now passed children and the elderly as the majority of recipients for households relying on food stamps.
The program now covers one in seven Americans, with the fastest growth in use among workers with some college training, the AP reported. ...
The AP report, a product of research with the University of Kentucky, comes ahead of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, which is expected to focus heavily on income inequality.
Meanwhile, Congress is debating further cuts to the food stamp program. In November, Congress allowed increases to the program enacted at the start of the recession to expire, reducing benefits by about $9 to $11 per person per month and bringing the value down to an average of less than $1.40 per person for each meal. The reduction left families scrambling to make up the difference. Food banks across the country ran out of supplies.
"They're not just criminals, they're our gravy train!"
U.S. attorneys build a case for themselves as moneymakers for federal government
California truck driver Mario Nambo Escutia may have been the luckiest man alive, until he reluctantly made a half-million-dollar contribution to fight the federal deficit.
Escutia’s odd case, litigated in western Missouri, recently became one of the highlights of an effort to position the Department of Justice and its 94 U.S. attorney’s offices as solid business investments for a government in need of cash. ...
Attorney General Eric Holder led the way recently with a statement highlighting more than $8 billion that the Justice Department collected nationwide in fiscal 2013 in criminal and civil actions during the year.
Sounding like a CEO on a conference call with financial analysts, Holder praised his department’s “return to the taxpayer.”
“As these figures show, supporting our federal prosecutors is a sound investment,” Holder said.
The nationwide collections were almost three times more than the appropriated budgets for all U.S. attorney’s offices and his department’s main litigation divisions, he said.
HSBC Bank on Verge of Collapse: Second Major Banking Crash Imminent
Concerns about an imminent bank crash were further fuelled today at news that HSBC are restricting the amount of cash that customers can withdraw from their own bank accounts. Customers were told that without proof of the intended use of their own money, HSBC would refuse to release it. This, and other worrying signs point to a possible financial crash in the near future.
HSBC imposes restrictions on large cash withdrawals
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.
Listeners have told Radio 4's Money Box they were stopped from withdrawing amounts ranging from £5,000 to £10,000.
HSBC admitted it has not informed customers of the change in policy, which was implemented in November. ...
HSBC has said that following customer feedback, it was changing its policy: "We ask our customers about the purpose of large cash withdrawals when they are unusual and out of keeping with the normal running of their account. Since last November, in some instances we may have also asked these customers to show us evidence of what the cash is required for."
"The reason being we have an obligation to protect our customers, and to minimise the opportunity for financial crime. However, following feedback, we are immediately updating guidance to our customer facing staff to reiterate that it is not mandatory for customers to provide documentary evidence for large cash withdrawals, and on its own, failure to show evidence is not a reason to refuse a withdrawal.
Capitalism in Long Term Stagnation and Decay - Gar Alperovitz
The Evening Greens
TransCanada Pipeline Explodes, Thousands Without Heat
ST. PIERRE-JOLYS, Man. – Several thousand people in southern Manitoba have been told that a pipeline explosion could mean they’ll be without natural gas service for up to several days as temperatures hover close to —20 C.
“As far as the temperature is concerned, the words ‘polar vortex’ is what they’re saying,” Myron Dyck, a spokesman for the Town of Niverville, said on Saturday.
The explosion and fire at a TransCanada Pipelines valve site near St. Pierre-Jolys happened early Saturday morning, sending a massive fireball into the dark sky.
The flames were out by Saturday afternoon and there were no reported injuries.
But Manitoba Hydro said that in order to repair the line, TransCanada shut off its supply of natural gas for several municipalities affecting approximately 4,000 people.
The utility said it had no estimate from TransCanada about when service would be restored and that customers should prepare for the outage to last at least one day.
Record Calif. Drought Forcing Cattle Sell-Off
Kenyan rhino slaughtered in horrific attack despite new prohibitions
Poachers have slaughtered a rhino in the Kenyan capital's national park, officials said Sunday, a brazen attack flouting tough new laws designed to stem a surge of such killings.
Amid a wave of rhino and elephant killings across the country, the shooting of the rhino in the heavily guarded Nairobi park -- the headquarters of the government's Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) -- illustrates how easily poachers are decimating the country's large animals.
"Nairobi National Park is one of the best-protected areas, so it is a really shocking thing for us," KWS spokesman Paul Udoto told AFP. ...
Last year Kenya started inserting microchips into rhino horns. Wildlife officials plan eventually to microchip all rhinos in the country, just over 1,000 animals altogether.
Hat tip Don midwest:
New, privatized African city heralds climate apartheid
It's a sight to behold. Just off Lagos, Nigeria's coast, an artificial island is emerging from the sea. A foundation, built of sand dredged from the ocean floor, stretches over ten kilometres. Promotional videos depict what is to come: a city of soaring buildings, housing for 250,000 people, and a central boulevard to match Paris' Champs-Élysées and New York's Fifth Avenue. ... Welcome to Eko Atlantic, a city whose "whole purpose", its developers say, is to "arrest the ocean's encroachment." ... Eko Atlantic will be a "sustainable city, clean and energy efficient with minimal carbon emissions," offer jobs, prosperity and new land for Nigerians, and serve as a bulwark in the fight against the impacts of climate change.
At least that's the official story. ... Sixty percent of Nigeria's population – almost 100 of 170 million people – live on less than a dollar a day. ... These are hardly the people who will scoop up square footage in Eko Atlantic's pricy new high-rises.
Those behind the project – a pair of politically connected Lebanese brothers who run a financial empire called the Chagoury Group, and a slew of African and international banks – give a picture of who will be catered to. Gilbert Chaougry was a close advisor to the notorious Nigerian dictatorship of the mid 1990s, helping the ultra-corrupt general Sani Abacha as he looted billions from public coffers. Abacha killed hundreds of demonstrators and executed environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who rose to fame protesting the despoiling of the country by Shell and other multinational oil corporations. Thus it's fitting for whom the first 15-story office tower in Eko Atlantic is being built: a British oil and gas trading company. The city proposing to head off environmental devastation will be populated by those most responsible for it in the first place. ...
Eko Atlantic is where you can begin to see a possible future – a vision of privatized green enclaves for the ultra rich ringed by slums lacking water or electricity, in which a surplus population scramble for depleting resources and shelter to fend off the coming floods and storms.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Anglers are our allies against unsustainable industrial fishing
Hat tip gulfgal98:
Revolt spreads rapidly through Ukraine after protesters killed in Kyiv
Police Infiltration and Dirty Tactics cause charges to dismissed against climate activists
Bailout Architect Runs For California Governor; World Laughs
Syria's heritage in ruins: before-and-after pictures
A Little Night Music
James "Son" Thomas - Highway 61 Blues
James Son Thomas - Crawlin Kingsnake
James Son Thomas - Leland, Mississippi
James Son Thomas - Catfish Blues
James 'Son' Thomas - Beefsteak blues
James Son Thomas - Rock Me Mama
James Son Thomas - Cairo Blues
James 'Son' Thomas - Roll And Tumble
James Son Thomas - Standing at the crossroads
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