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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

Links

Deeper than Atlantis
Thursday
Sep202012

Study: Bailed Out Banks Kept Making Risky Loans After Receiving Taxpayer Dollars

ThinkProgress

According to a new report from the Bank of International Settlements — which provides research to the world’s central bankers — bailed out banks in both the U.S. and around the world continued to be riskier than non-bailed out banks, even after they received taxpayer dollars during the financial crisis of 2008:

We find no evidence that rescued banks reduced the riskiness of their new lending more than non-rescued banks in response to the crisis and the public rescues. Even as lending volumes decreased across the board in 2009, rescued banks continued to write riskier syndicated loans, as reflected by their involvement in the leveraged loan segment and in the spreads charged on the facilities that they originated. We also find, unsurprisingly, that the syndicated lending of banks that later received a bailout was riskier before the crisis than that of non-rescued institutions. [...]

During the crisis, rescued banks did not reduce the riskiness of their new syndicated lending compared to their non-rescued peers. In fact, our results suggest that the relative riskiness of their lending increased.

As Reuters columnist James Saft noted, “This is both astounding and totally predictable. Astounding because it was so clear that those risks were not just foolish but destructive. Predictable because of course the banks realized that they had not been just lucky but had been given a special exemption from death which will be very hard to revoke.”

Despite this and other clear evidence that the banks are totally uninterested in learning any lessons from the financial crisis, Republicans are attempting to bog down or repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. But several prominent banking executives have said that the size and complexity of today’s mega-banks makes them unmanageable. A recent report found that the financial crisis cost the U.S. economy $12.8

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Thursday
Sep202012

SPLC testifies to U.S. Senate about rising White extremist threat, urges vigilance

Southern Poverty Law Center

In testimony submitted to the U.S Senate today, the SPLC urged the federal government to place a high priority on fighting domestic extremism in the wake of last month’s massacre of Sikh worshippers and a series of other attacks and plots in recent months.

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Thursday
Sep202012

Latino Poverty Falls Slighty -- Millions of Children Remain

HuffPost

Little in the nation’s annual tabulation of disadvantage released by the Census Bureau last week can be described as encouraging. But, there was one sliver of good news for a population very hard hit by the Great Recession.

Latinos were the only ethnic or racial group in the United States that saw the share of people living in poverty decline. Latino poverty slid to 25.3 percent in 2011 from 26.5 percent in 2010. The difference, while statistically slight, means that 278,000 fewer Latinos were living in poverty in 2011 than in the prior year.

But nearly all of that progress was concentrated in one group, childless Latino adults, according to a National Council of La Raza analysis. Of the 13 million Hispanics living in poverty, 6 million or 46 percent of these people were under the age of 18.

"We have more work to do to reduce poverty in the Latino community, especially among children and families,” said Leticia Miranda, Senior Policy Advisor at NCLR said in a statement.

The mixed picture of Latino economic well being complicates not just the lives of ordinary families but the pursuit of Latino voters by an incumbent President and his Republican challenger. Both campaigns have openly courted Latino voters this year as Latinos make up the nation's largest minority group and the fastest-growing segment of the electorate.

One of the primary reasons so many adults escaped poverty in 2012: a modest decline in Latino unemployment. The annual average Latino unemployment rate in 2011 fell to a disturbingly elevated 11.5 percent from an alarmingly high 13.1 percent in 2010. The share of Latinos looking for work but unable to find it has remained well above the overall unemployment rate this year.

But shrinking the ranks of the Latino jobless did not translate to income gains. In fact, Latino median household income remained below $40,000 at 38,624 in 2011, down from $38,818 one year earlier. The figures highlight the net result of an economic recovery that has produced far fewer medium and high-wage jobs than those offering modest to low pay, a National Employment Law Project analysis found.

Still, Latinos managed to register the smallest income drop of any racial or ethnic group.

In 2010, Latinos experienced the second sharpest increase in poverty of any ethnic or racial group in the country. Only more black Americans slid into poverty than Latinos. The twin culprits: job losses and the foreclosure crisis continued to rob families of color of income and what is most often an American family’s chief asset, their homes. The median Latino household income fell slightly and household wealth –- the vaule of assets and savings after accounting for debt –- dropped by what The Minnesota Post called a “whopping” 66 percent.

Latinos suffered larger declines in household wealth -- the resources that often help a family weather a job loss or other crises -- than any of the nation's racial or ethnic groups, The New York Times reported.

In 2011, the federal government considered a single individual living on less than $10,890 poor and classified families of three living on less than $18,530 the same way.

Federal poverty measures include before tax income but do not measure wealth such as the value of a home or other property or the value of non cash public benefits such as food stamps or tax credits, Fox News Latino reported.

The census bureau will release a second measure of economic well being that accounts for pre-tax income, tax credits and rebates as well as expenses associated with work such as childcare and transportation and basic necessities such as food and shelter in November.

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Thursday
Sep202012

Who Financed That Anti-Mohammed Flick?

LewRockwell

Public records show a filming permit was taken out by “Media for Christ,” an outfit run by one Joseph Nasrallah Abdelmasih. His group sponsors Christian programming in Arabic, including “The Way,” a production that has featured such prominent Islamophobes as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. The Geller-Spencer collaboration goes back to the protests against the New York City “Ground Zero” mosque in which the duo achieved national notoriety: Nasrallah was one of the speakers at their rally. The idea for just such a movie as Innocence showed up on Geller’s blog in February, in a post entitled “A Movie About Muhammad: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.” Ali Sina, an ex-Muslim and board member of Geller and Spencer’s “Stop the Islamization of Nations,” exhorted Geller’s readers to support his movie project:

The movie shows Muhammad’s raids, plunders, massacres, rapes, assassinations and other crimes. A small subtitle in the lower right corner of each scene will give reference to the source of the story. This movie is entirely factual. Wherever possible, I copied the Quran, the Sira and the Hadith verbatim. It is a riveting story. Truth about Muhammad is more shocking than fiction.

The world does not know Islam. What is known is a watered down and euphemized version of it that has no bases [sic] in reality. The truth is that Muhammad was a cult leader, much like Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara and Charles Manson. Unlike them he succeeded because there was no central power in the seventh century Arabia to stop him.

The other good news is that I have been promised a substantial angel financing. I have been daydreaming about this movie for ten years. It was this promise that prompted me into action. I put everything aside for five months, read everything I could about my protagonist, selected the most salient episodes and wrote the script.

The seed is now sown. Now it’s time to nurture it. What I need is an experienced executive producer, someone who shares my values, to make it happen with professionalism and missionary zeal.

I am not thinking of a high budget movie, but given the subject matter, it can become one of the most seen motion pictures ever. (Recall Danish cartoons?)”

This may or may not be the same movie as Innocence, but what’s important here is that the idea of such a provocation – “recall Danish cartoons?” – was percolating in these circles when the movie was in production. [MORE

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Thursday
Sep202012

Fox News Polls: Dems Lead Key Senate Races

Hotline

New polls released late Wednesday show Democrats ahead in Senate races in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, the latest sign that Republicans face an increasingly uphill path on their quest to regain control of the Senate in the November elections. The polls, conducted for Fox News, show Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., with a comfortable, double-digit lead, while Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine hold narrower advantages.

Nelson leads Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., 49 percent to 35 percent, with 12 percent undecided. Nelson's vote share is identical to that of President Obama, but Mack lags behind his party's standardbearer, Mitt Romney, who captures 44 percent of the vote at the top of the ticket. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll last week also gave Nelson a 14-point lead.

In Ohio, Brown leads Republican state Treasurer Josh Mandel, 47 percent to 40 percent, with 9 percent undecided. Brown's 7-point lead mirrors Obama's advantage in the state, and his margin also matches an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll last week.

The Virginia race is closer, with Kaine leading former Sen. George Allen, 47 percent to 43 percent, within the poll's margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points. Kaine runs slightly behind Obama, who leads Romney by 7 points in the commonwealth.

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Thursday
Sep202012

Mittens' Words

Citizens for Legit Gov

The video of a Mitt Romney campaign fundraiser posted Monday on the Mother Jones web site has provided a revealing glimpse of what the financial magnates think and what they say to one another in the privacy of their board rooms and mansions...Romney's words, secretly filmed and leaked to the liberal magazine, were addressed to attendees at a $50,000-a-plate dinner held last May at the Boca Raton, Florida home of a fellow private equity multi-millionaire, Marc Leder. They express the arrogant and misanthropic outlook of the financial parasites who dominate economic life and control both big business parties.

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Thursday
Sep202012

If Mittens Wins he will be 4th Oldest President 

NewsOne

How old is Mitt Romney? Mitt Romney is 65 years old. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee was born March 12, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan. Should Romney defeat President Barack Obama in the November 2012 election, the former Massachusetts governor would become the fourth-oldest president-elect in U.S. history, after Ronald Regan, William Henry Harrison, and James Buchanan, who were 69, 68, and 65, respectively. (On inauguration day—Jan. 20, 2013—Romney will be 65 years and 314 days old; Buchanan was 65 years and 315 days old when he became president in 1857.)

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Thursday
Sep202012

Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Up More Than 50 Percent

NewsOne

Americans are feeling markedly better about the country’s future and about Barack Obama‘s job performance, but the president’s re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney remains a neck-and-neck proposition as Election Day creeps ever closer, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Wednesday
Sep192012

Restore Voting Rights

Sentencing Project

An Inquirer editorial decries the fact that that 225 years after the Constitution was written, millions of Americans are denied the fundamental right to vote, even though more than four million “"live, work, and pay taxes in their communities."

For these people- including the one million African Americans who represent a disproportionate share – having a felony conviction means that their voting rights have been revoked.

There has been a five-fold increase in the overall numbers-- to 5.85 million over the last few decades, according to a report, State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010, by the Sentencing Project.

The editorial concludes: “Beyond barring felons from voting as a punitive measure, there's no civic rationale for denying them their political voice. On the contrary, the nation's disenfranchisement laws should be eased as a way to encourage more ex-offenders to be good citizens and get their lives fully back on track.”

Wednesday
Sep192012

Ryan Criticizes Romney Comments At Private Fundraiser: ‘Obviously Inarticulate’

ThinkProgress

In an interview this evening with NBC Reno, Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan was critical of comments Romney made at a private fundraiser in May, dismissing 47% of American as people who can will never “take personal resonsibility and care for their lives.”

Ryan said Romney’s remarks were “obviously inarticulate.” Asked if he thought Mitt Romney regreted his comments, Ryan responded “I think he would have said it differently, that’s for sure.” Watch it: [HERE

At a press conference last night, Romney called his comments at the May fundraiser “inelegant” but largely defended his remarks.

In a separate interview with a New Hampshire station Ryan was asked if he agree with Romney’s remarks at the fundraiser. He responded, “no.”

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Wednesday
Sep192012

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws

ProPublica

Voter IDs laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be another close election year. Supporters say the laws — which 30 states have now enacted in some form — are needed to combat voter fraud, while critics see them as a tactic to disenfranchise voters.

We've taken a step back to look at the facts behind the laws and break down the issues at the heart of the debate.

So what are these laws?

They are measures intended to ensure that a registered voter is who he says he is and not an impersonator trying to cast a ballot in someone else's name. The laws, most of which have been passed in the last several years, require that registered voters show ID before they're allowed to vote. Exactly what they need to show varies. Some states require a government-issued photo, while in others a current utility bill or bank statement is sufficient.

As a registered voter, I thought I always had to supply some form of ID during an election.

Not quite. Per federal law, first-time voters who registered by mail must present a photo ID or copy of a current bill or bank statement. Some states generally advise voters bring some form of photo ID. But prior to the 2006 election, no state ever required a voter to produce a government-issued photo ID as a condition to voting. Indiana in 2006 became the first state to enact a strict photo ID law, a law that was upheld two years later by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Why are these voter ID laws so strongly opposed?

Voting law opponents contend these laws disproportionately affect elderly, minority and low-income groups that tend to vote Democratic. Obtaining photo ID can be costly and burdensome, with even free state ID requiring documents like a birth certificate that can cost up to $25 in some places. According to a study from NYU's Brennan Center, 11 percent of voting-age citizens lack necessary photo ID while many people in rural areas have trouble accessing ID offices. During closing arguments in a recent case over Texas's voter ID law, a lawyer for the state brushed aside these obstacles as the "reality to life of choosing to live in that part of Texas."

Attorney General Eric Holder and others have compared the laws to a poll tax, in which Southern states during the Jim Crow era imposed voting fees, which discouraged the working class and poor, many of whom were minorities, from voting.

Given the sometimes costly steps required to obtain needed documents today, legal scholars argue that photo ID laws create a new "financial barrier to the ballot box."

Just how well-founded are fears of voter fraud?

There have been only a small number of fraud cases resulting in a conviction. A New York Times analysis from 2007 identified 120 cases filed by the Justice Department over five years. These cases, many of which stemmed from mistakenly filled registration forms or misunderstanding over voter eligibility, resulted in 86 convictions.

There are "very few documented cases," said UC-Irvine professor and election law specialist Rick Hasen. "When you do see election fraud, it invariably involves election officials taking steps to change election results or it involves absentee ballots which voter ID laws can't prevent," he said.

An analysis by News21, a national investigative reporting project, identified 10 voter impersonation cases out of 2,068 alleged election fraud cases since 2000 – or one out of every 15 million prospective voters.

One of the most vocal supporters of strict voter ID laws, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, told the Houston Chronicle earlier this month that his office has prosecuted about 50 cases of voter fraud in recent years. "I know for a fact that voter fraud is real, that it must be stopped, and that voter id is one way to prevent cheating at the ballot box and ensure integrity in the electoral system," he told the paper. Abbott's office did not immediately respond to ProPublica's request for comment.

How many voters might be turned away or dissuaded by the laws, and could they really affect the election?

It's not clear.

According to the Brennan Center, about 11 percent of U.S. citizens, or roughly 21 million citizens, don't have government-issued photo ID. This figure doesn't represent all voters likely to vote, just those eligible to vote.

State figures also can be hard to nail down. In Pennsylvania, nearly 760,000 registered voters, or 9.2 percent of the state's 8.2 million voter base, don't own state-issued ID cards, according to an analysis of state records by the Philadelphia Inquirer. State officials, on the other hand, place this number at between 80,000 and 90,000.

In Indiana and Georgia, states with the earliest versions of photo ID laws, about 1,300 provisional votes were discarded in the 2008 general election, later analysis has revealed.

As for the potential effect on the election, one analysis by Nate Silver at the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog estimates they could decrease voter turnout anywhere between 0.8 and 2.4 percent. It doesn't sound like a very wide margin, but it all depends on the electoral landscape.

"We don't know exactly how much these news laws will affect turnout or skew turnout in favor of Republicans," said Hasen, author of the recently released The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. "But there's no question that in a very close election, they could be enough to make a difference in the outcome."

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Wednesday
Sep192012

Striking South African miners to return to work

Striking platinum miners in South Africa have reached an agreement with their employer and plan to return to work on Tuesday, mediators say. The deal with Lonmin includes a 22 percent salary increase and a once-off...

Read Full Article at RT.com

Wednesday
Sep192012

Ford CEO Tells Fox's Cavuto: Without Auto Bailout, Entire Industry "Would Have Been In Real Trouble"

Media Matters

From the September 18 edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto:

Wednesday
Sep192012

Getting Desperate - Pat Buchanan: If Welfare Is Like "A Narcotic," "Obama Is A Drug Dealer Of Welfare"

Media Matters

From the September 18 edition of Fox News' On the Record with Greta van Susteren:

Wednesday
Sep192012

Mitt has 47 problems but the rich ain't one.

Field Negro

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.” 

~George Barnard Shaw~

You know things are going bad for you when Joe Biden of all people is letting your words speak for themselves to his advantage. Poor Mitt, he made a great effort to keep cameras and microphones out of those fund raisers with the wealthy few, but then he fooled around and pissed off Jimmy Carter's grandson by talking about his grandpa. (Always keep an eye on the help, Mitt)

In that now infamous video, Mitt wrote off forty seven percent of the people in America by saying that they are all basically freeloaders with a victimhood mentality. They are people who do not contribute their fair share of taxes. (Forty seven percent?!) Now we know why Mitt's idea of where the middles class starts and ends in this country is so out of touch.) Mitt, of course, is wrong. The truth of the matter is that ninety percent of entitlements in this country will go to seniors, people who are disabled, and working households. In other words, some of the very people Mitt might just need to beat Obama this November. Mitt and those other fat cats in the room were all thinking Reagan welfare Queen. They were thinking that a sizable amount of that forty seven percent belonged to *clearing throat* certain groups of people who tend to congregate in urban areas. Sadly for them, that forty seven percent includes a whole lot of people and not only urban folks.

Wednesday
Sep192012

From Guantánamo to NDAA: Obama Admin Bids to Preserve Indefinite Detention at Home and Abroad

DemocracyNow

The Obama administration has filed an emergency appeal of a federal judge’s decision to block a controversial statute that gave the government the power to carry out indefinite detention. Judge Katherine Forrest ruled against a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, authorizing the imprisonment of anyone deemed a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world without charge or trial. A group of journalists, scholars and political activists had brought the case, arguing the provision was so broad it could easily infringe on freedom of speech. In a court filing on Monday, the government argued Judge Forrest’s ruling could go beyond the statute itself to curb the indefinite provisions contained in the legislation authorizing the so-called post-9/11 "War on Terror," potentially jeopardizing the imprisonment of foreigners in Afghanistan without charge. We look at the Obama administration’s support for indefinite detention at home and abroad with Empty Wheel blogger Marcy Wheeler.

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Wednesday
Sep192012

Detropia: New Doc Takes Intimate Look at Detroit's Struggle with Manufacturing Collapse, Urban Decay

Democracy Now

Once known as the Motor City, where the middle class was born, Detroit’s auto industry and manufacturing sector have collapsed. Today the city is on the verge of bankruptcy, facing a thinning population and massive cuts to basic services. The new film "Detropia" takes an intimate look at at some of the city’s former members of the middle class as they struggle to make ends meet and refuse to abandon hope. We’re joined by the film’s co-director, Rachel Grady, a private investigator turned filmmaker who, along with her co-director Heidi Ewing, has made several films, including the Academy Award-nominated "Jesus Camp." 

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Wednesday
Sep192012

Mittens on a roll: 'Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace'

Citizens for Legit Gov

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney questioned the feasibility of the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, according to video footage published Tuesday by US magazine Mother Jones. "I'm torn by two perspectives in this regard," Romney said at a $50,000-per-plate fundraising dinner on May 17. "One is the one which I've had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish."

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Wednesday
Sep192012

Shell executive caught after accidentally printing child pornography at work

Citizens for Legit Gov

A former Shell executive was caught downloading child pornography at home when he accidentally printed off explicit images at work, a court heard. Anthony Sturman, 59, sent six pages containing indecent material to a printer at the UK headquarters of Shell UK, where he had worked for 15 years. Sturman, described as a 'senior manager' at the oil giant, was viewing child pornography at his country home in Kent when he pressed the print button. His PC was linked to his work system, so the images were produced at his office.

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Wednesday
Sep192012

Protesters Shut Down Oakland City Council Meeting Over police shooting death

FVTU

Shouted down by rowdy protesters furious over the May police shooting of Alan Blueford, the Oakland City Council adjourned its meeting early Tuesday night with little of its agenda completed.

Blueford, 18, was shot and killed in the 9200 block of Birch Street after police said he ran from police in the 1900 block of 90th Avenue just after midnight on May 6.

Police initially reported that Blueford had been killed in an exchange of gunfire that injured the officer. However, the following day police said that while a gun believed to be Blueford's had been recovered, it had not been fired, and the officer's injury to his foot was self-inflicted. Police said Blueford was transported to a hospital, where he died.

Several members of Blueford's family appeared before the City Council tonight, disputing the police account and pleading with council President Larry Reid to help them uncover more information about Blueford's death by releasing the police report.

"We still don't have a police report, Mr. Reid, I thought you were going to help us," Jeralynn Blueford, Alan's mother, said. "You don't know what it's like to bury your baby."

"The story has changed so many times, and we can't stand for it," she said, referring to the police retraction that an exchange of gunfire had injured an officer. She also disputed that her son had ever been transported to a hospital.

Other family members also demanded that the city produce the police report from the night of their son's death, and in response Reid said that Police Chief Howard Jordan was on his way to City Hall with the report.

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