Despite the dismal record of gun control, expect the media and “experts” to use a repertoire of self-justifications rather than modify their beliefs—regardless of what the evidence shows.
Sunday, December 09, 2018
California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds | Intellectual Takeout
California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds | Intellectual Takeout:
California’s failed gun control law appears to be yet another example of experts, to paraphrase the great Milton Friedman, judging “policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
Despite the dismal record of gun control, expect the media and “experts” to use a repertoire of self-justifications rather than modify their beliefs—regardless of what the evidence shows.
Despite the dismal record of gun control, expect the media and “experts” to use a repertoire of self-justifications rather than modify their beliefs—regardless of what the evidence shows.
New catalyst produces cheap hydrogen | Watts Up With That?
New catalyst produces cheap hydrogen | Watts Up With That?
"Queensland University of Technology
"Queensland University of Technology
Caption A new water-splitting catalyst material produce hydrogen cheaply without fossil fuels Credit QUT: Ummul Sultana Usage Restrictions Media use only.
...“In principle, hydrogen offers a way to store clean energy at a scale that is required to make the rollout of large-scale solar and wind farms as well as the export of green energy viable.
...“Electrochemical water splitting driven by electricity sourced from renewable energy technology has been identified as one of the most sustainable methods of producing high-purity hydrogen.”
Professor O’Mullane said the new composite material he and PhD student Ummul Sultana had developed enabled electrochemical water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen using cheap and readily available elements as catalysts..."
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Occam’s Razor: Michael Flynn… | The Last Refuge
Occam’s Razor: Michael Flynn… | The Last Refuge
"There is a great deal of suspicion and analysis surrounding the latest developments in the Mueller case, or lack thereof, against Michael Flynn.
...This is the Occam’s Razor that explains some contradictions.
...This is the Occam’s Razor that explains some contradictions.
We cannot view these actions through the transactional prism of modern judicial proceedings as they relate to you and me.
These are political struggles taking place inside the venue of the legal system.
The players use the legal system to game out the optics and narrative of political battles for ideological wins and losses.
After the November 8th, 2016, election everyone within the Obama network who was associated with the surveillance operation against the Trump campaign was at risk.
This is the impetus for the “Muh Russia” conspiracy narrative that was used as a mitigating shield.
Within a few weeks ODNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan began pushing the Russia election interference narrative in the media.
...By mid-December the Obama administration was deploying a full-court-press using their media allies to promote the Russia conspiracy.
However, despite their public proclamations Clapper and Brennan were refusing to give any specifics to congress..."
Important read.
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Comey transcript of closed-door interview with House committee released | Fox News
Comey transcript of closed-door interview with House committee released | Fox News:
House Lawmakers on Saturday released the transcript of former FBI Director James Comey’s closed-door testimony, just one day after being questioned about the FBI’s decisions related to Hillary Clinton's email server and the 2016 presidential election.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, published the 235-page transcript as a part of an agreement with Comey.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, published the 235-page transcript as a part of an agreement with Comey.
Arguably The Most Earth-Shattering Text Message Of All Time Was Sent 77 Years Ago Today - The Drive
Arguably The Most Earth-Shattering Text Message Of All Time Was Sent 77 Years Ago Today - The Drive:
"The message above was sent by the office of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet just minutes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began.
It went out to ships and naval stations throughout the Pacific region and word of it quickly spread beyond.
It was the first official correspondence acknowledging an event that would change the course of history in so many ways—one that still hangs over strategic decision making and national security policy to this very day.
The telegram was sent at 7:58am on December 7th, 1941 by Lieutenant Commander Logan Ramsey who had just witnessed first-hand low-flying airplanes with big red meatballs on their sides attacking Ford Island.
The message informed Navy vessels of the attack, including the carriers that, by a stroke of sheer luck, were out at sea that fateful day and were spared from the onslaught of Yamamoto's planned waves of aerial bombardment on the strategic American outpost in the Pacific."
"The message above was sent by the office of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet just minutes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began.
It went out to ships and naval stations throughout the Pacific region and word of it quickly spread beyond.
It was the first official correspondence acknowledging an event that would change the course of history in so many ways—one that still hangs over strategic decision making and national security policy to this very day.
The telegram was sent at 7:58am on December 7th, 1941 by Lieutenant Commander Logan Ramsey who had just witnessed first-hand low-flying airplanes with big red meatballs on their sides attacking Ford Island.
The message informed Navy vessels of the attack, including the carriers that, by a stroke of sheer luck, were out at sea that fateful day and were spared from the onslaught of Yamamoto's planned waves of aerial bombardment on the strategic American outpost in the Pacific."
WHY PEOPLE HATE THE PRESS: Because the press is awful. …
Instapundit Blog Archive WHY PEOPLE HATE THE PRESS: Because the press is awful. …
WHY PEOPLE HATE THE PRESS: Because the press is awful.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds"
WHY PEOPLE HATE THE PRESS: Because the press is awful.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds"
Nunes Adds Key DOJ Emails to List of FISA Abuse Docs to be Declassifed
Nunes Adds Key DOJ Emails to List of FISA Abuse Docs to be Declassifed:
A long classified email chain from October 2016 reveals that a large group of Obama Justice Department officials -- including James Comey -- was aware that there was highly misleading information in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign, John Solomon of The Hill reported Wednesday.
According to Solomon's sources, the documents "may provide the most damning evidence to date" of potential FISA abuses.
A long classified email chain from October 2016 reveals that a large group of Obama Justice Department officials -- including James Comey -- was aware that there was highly misleading information in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign, John Solomon of The Hill reported Wednesday.According to Solomon's sources, the documents "may provide the most damning evidence to date" of potential FISA abuses.
Michigan State student gov: Let non-citizens vote
Michigan State student gov: Let non-citizens vote
"The Michigan State University student government passed a resolution calling on state and local governments to allow non-citizens to vote.
The Illegal Immigration and Reform Responsibility Act of 1996 prevents non-citizens from voting in federal elections but does not apply to state and local elections.
The Michigan State University student government passed two resolutions, 55-23 and 55-24, on Thursday, calling on state and local government to allow both non-citizens and 17-year-olds to vote.
...the explicit non-application to state elections allows for Michigan or East Lansing to change their voting laws, Grindling argued.
The noncitizen voting bill passed the policy committee unopposed..."
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The Illegal Immigration and Reform Responsibility Act of 1996 prevents non-citizens from voting in federal elections but does not apply to state and local elections.
The Michigan State University student government passed two resolutions, 55-23 and 55-24, on Thursday, calling on state and local government to allow both non-citizens and 17-year-olds to vote.
...the explicit non-application to state elections allows for Michigan or East Lansing to change their voting laws, Grindling argued.
The noncitizen voting bill passed the policy committee unopposed..."
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Virginia high school teacher fired for refusing to use transgender student's preferred pronoun - NY Daily News
Virginia high school teacher fired for refusing to use transgender student's preferred pronoun - NY Daily News
West Point High School teacher Peter Vlaming was fired Thursday night after a five hour school board hearing because he refused to use a transgender student’s preferred pronoun.
The West Point Public Schools school board voted unanimously, 5-0, to support division superintendent Laura Abel’s recommendation to terminate Vlaming’s employment, saying his actions harassed and discriminated against the student and were insubordinate.
Vlaming had been on administrative leave since Oct. 31 for refusing to use the ninth grade student’s preferred male pronoun, citing his own religious beliefs. Vlaming, 47, taught French at the division for seven years and was active in the community..."
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West Point High School teacher Peter Vlaming was fired Thursday night after a five hour school board hearing because he refused to use a transgender student’s preferred pronoun.
Vlaming had been on administrative leave since Oct. 31 for refusing to use the ninth grade student’s preferred male pronoun, citing his own religious beliefs. Vlaming, 47, taught French at the division for seven years and was active in the community..."
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'Orgy Island' creep, Clinton pal Epstein, settles before 'sex slaves' testify - WND
'Orgy Island' creep, Clinton pal Epstein, settles before 'sex slaves' testify - WND
"The Bill Clinton-linked financier accused of sexually abusing women on his “Orgy Island” getaway agreed to a last-minute settlement that likely means none of his accusers will testify in court.
Jeffrey Epstein, 65, allegedly operated a sex ring at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, a residence in New York City, and his private-island estate in the Virgin Islands, dubbed by some “Orgy Island.”
...Fox News said court documents it obtained in 2016 showed former President Bill Clinton took at least 26 trips on Epstein’s private jet, known as the “Lolita Express.”
The former president apparently ditched his Secret Service detail on some of the excursions, Fox News said.
Epstein’s jet was said to be outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.
...Epstein served a year in jail and registered as a sex offender after pleading guilty in 2008 to state sex charges.
He avoided a possible life term, Fox News reported, in a secret deal with federal prosecutors.
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/orgy-island-creep-clinton-pal-epstein-settles-before-sex-slaves-testify/#2jROZDveuTS8yef9.99
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"The Bill Clinton-linked financier accused of sexually abusing women on his “Orgy Island” getaway agreed to a last-minute settlement that likely means none of his accusers will testify in court.
...Fox News said court documents it obtained in 2016 showed former President Bill Clinton took at least 26 trips on Epstein’s private jet, known as the “Lolita Express.”
The former president apparently ditched his Secret Service detail on some of the excursions, Fox News said.
Epstein’s jet was said to be outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.
...Epstein served a year in jail and registered as a sex offender after pleading guilty in 2008 to state sex charges.
He avoided a possible life term, Fox News reported, in a secret deal with federal prosecutors.
Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/orgy-island-creep-clinton-pal-epstein-settles-before-sex-slaves-testify/#2jROZDveuTS8yef9.99
Read all...if you can stomach it.
Judge orders new review of Clinton email scandal - WND
Judge orders new review of Clinton email scandal - WND:
A federal judge has issued a scathing decision that orders a new review of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private and unsecure email system for classified information while she was secretary of state.
The ruling from Judge Royce Lamberth comes in a case brought by Washington Watchdog Judicial Watch to obtain information regarding the terror attack on an U.S. outpost in Benghazi that left four Americans dead.
The ruling from Judge Royce Lamberth comes in a case brought by Washington Watchdog Judicial Watch to obtain information regarding the terror attack on an U.S. outpost in Benghazi that left four Americans dead.
History for December 9
History for December 9 - On-This-Day.com
John Milton 1608 - Poet, Clarence Birdseye 1886, Emmett Kelly 1898
Kirk Douglas 1916 - Actor, Beau Bridges 1941 - Actor, Dick Butkus 1942 - Football player
1803 - The 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
1975 - U.S. President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan authorization to prevent New York City from having to default.
Saturday, December 08, 2018
What the New Socialists in Congress Need to Know About Poverty
What the New Socialists in Congress Need to Know About Poverty:
The danger with popularizing socialism is that it sounds reasonable, but it never works. It often comes with the best of intentions: to reduce poverty. But there are simply no examples of it working to reduce poverty long term.
Baby boomers are far more skeptical of socialism. They have lived long enough to see attempts at socialism fail, while capitalism has opened doors of opportunity.
The danger with popularizing socialism is that it sounds reasonable, but it never works. It often comes with the best of intentions: to reduce poverty. But there are simply no examples of it working to reduce poverty long term.Baby boomers are far more skeptical of socialism. They have lived long enough to see attempts at socialism fail, while capitalism has opened doors of opportunity.
What I Learned Over Lunch With the Real Jamal KhashoggiThe American Spectator
What I Learned Over Lunch With the Real Jamal KhashoggiThe American Spectator
"Like all murders, Jamal Khashoggi’s was an evil deed.
Should the United States respond to it with a major disruption in relations with Saudi Arabia?
No — emphatically no.
...I also remember who and what he really was.
He was the scion of one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia and a tremendously privileged member of the Saudi power structure.
In Saudi Arabia he was well known as a sometime writer and editor for newspapers and a television news presenter.
In the rest of the world, it was no secret that he was from time to time one of the closest advisers to the head of the Saudi state intelligence and secret police apparatus.
...When his patron Alwaleed was incarcerated, Jamal Khashoggi left the country.
He made his way to Washington, D.C., where he had cultivated relationships with mainstream media mandarins.
He arranged to write columns for the Washington Post, criticizing the same harsh and anti-democratic conditions in his home country that he had spent his whole previous career artfully covering up. Khashoggi completely changed his tune, but the only thing that had changed in Saudi Arabia was that Khashoggi’s faction in the Saudi power structure was no longer on top..."
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"Like all murders, Jamal Khashoggi’s was an evil deed.
Should the United States respond to it with a major disruption in relations with Saudi Arabia?
No — emphatically no.
...I also remember who and what he really was.
In Saudi Arabia he was well known as a sometime writer and editor for newspapers and a television news presenter.
In the rest of the world, it was no secret that he was from time to time one of the closest advisers to the head of the Saudi state intelligence and secret police apparatus.
...When his patron Alwaleed was incarcerated, Jamal Khashoggi left the country.
He made his way to Washington, D.C., where he had cultivated relationships with mainstream media mandarins.
He arranged to write columns for the Washington Post, criticizing the same harsh and anti-democratic conditions in his home country that he had spent his whole previous career artfully covering up. Khashoggi completely changed his tune, but the only thing that had changed in Saudi Arabia was that Khashoggi’s faction in the Saudi power structure was no longer on top..."
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Election Fraud Doesn't Exist Until Liberals Want It to Exist
Election Fraud Doesn't Exist Until Liberals Want It to Exist
"Something amazing is happening: Liberals have suddenly begun to believe in voter fraud.
Almost overnight, years of constant denial and disbelief have melted away amid allegations that a congressional election in North Carolina may have been tainted by absentee ballot fraud.
In North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, Republican Mark Harris beat his Democratic opponent, Dan McCready, by 905 votes out of almost 300,000 cast.
McCready conceded defeat, but irregularities in absentee balloting in Bladen and Robeson counties prompted the North Carolina State Board of Elections to refuse to certify the results and instead move to hold an evidentiary hearing to examine evidence of fraud.
...If true, this would hardly be the first time that fraudsters have targeted absentee ballots.
In fact, absentee voting is particularly vulnerable to fraud.
...according to one recent Pew Research Center poll, 76 percent of Americans think that voter identification requirements should be mandatory—a remarkably high figure in our hyper-polarized age.
But the left has spent years fighting against virtually every reasonable, commonsense election integrity measure—not only voter ID laws (for both in-person and absentee voting), but even efforts to clean up state voter rolls that are riddled with errors..."
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"Something amazing is happening: Liberals have suddenly begun to believe in voter fraud.
Almost overnight, years of constant denial and disbelief have melted away amid allegations that a congressional election in North Carolina may have been tainted by absentee ballot fraud.In North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, Republican Mark Harris beat his Democratic opponent, Dan McCready, by 905 votes out of almost 300,000 cast.
McCready conceded defeat, but irregularities in absentee balloting in Bladen and Robeson counties prompted the North Carolina State Board of Elections to refuse to certify the results and instead move to hold an evidentiary hearing to examine evidence of fraud.
...If true, this would hardly be the first time that fraudsters have targeted absentee ballots.
In fact, absentee voting is particularly vulnerable to fraud.
...according to one recent Pew Research Center poll, 76 percent of Americans think that voter identification requirements should be mandatory—a remarkably high figure in our hyper-polarized age.
But the left has spent years fighting against virtually every reasonable, commonsense election integrity measure—not only voter ID laws (for both in-person and absentee voting), but even efforts to clean up state voter rolls that are riddled with errors..."
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Judicial Watch Sues for Records of FBI Meetings with Clinton-DNC Law Firm, Perkins Coie in 2016 - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch Sues for Records of FBI Meetings with Clinton-DNC Law Firm, Perkins Coie in 2016 - Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking records of all meetings in 2016 between former FBI General Counsel James Baker and the Perkins Coie law firm. The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reportedly paid Fusion GPS to create the “salacious and unverified” Clinton-DNC anti-Trump dossier.
The lawsuit cites a specific media report that FBI top lawyer Baker met with Perkins Coie lawyers to discuss allegations of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. The meeting reportedly took place weeks before the 2016 election and before the FBI secured a controversial FISA spy warrant targeting then-candidate Trump’s campaign.
The lawsuit cites a specific media report that FBI top lawyer Baker met with Perkins Coie lawyers to discuss allegations of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. The meeting reportedly took place weeks before the 2016 election and before the FBI secured a controversial FISA spy warrant targeting then-candidate Trump’s campaign.
Why WOULDN’T That Pious Muslim Ali Kill Mr. Dowling? – Da Tech Guy Blog
Why WOULDN’T That Pious Muslim Ali Kill Mr. Dowling? – Da Tech Guy Blog
"Another day, another westerner killed in the west for insulting Islam:
The western media has made it clear that while it’s perfectly acceptable to insult Christianity and Christians that there is nothing more beyond the pale than an insult to Islam.
Furthermore we’ve seen supposed “free speech” groups quake at the thought of defending those who might exercise free speech or academic rights contrary to the desires of those of the Muslim faith.
Furthermore there are section of France where the police have been neglecting to enforce French law and have allowed the Islamic community to enforce their own, and that law states that those who defame Islam must die..."
"Another day, another westerner killed in the west for insulting Islam:
An Irish university lecturer stabbed to death by one of his former students had allegedly ‘insulted the Prophet Mohammed’, his killer has told French police.The 66-year-old academic, named locally as John Dowling, was attacked and stabbed 13 times outside the Paris university where he worked on Wednesday.Ali R., a 37-year-old Pakistani national, has confessed to the killing and told police he held a personal grudge against the teacher after failing his exams last year.
The police have this to say about the killer:
French authorities have said there is no existing evidence that Ali, a native of Pakistan, was radicalized by a terrorist organization but rather that he was simply very “pious” and an “obsessive patriot.”“We don’t have proof of radicalization, but rather a feeling that we’re dealing with someone who is very religious, very pious, very practicing.”
So apparently it’s not radical, but “Patriotic” and “Pious” if you are a muslin in France and kill a westerner for ostensibly insulting Islam.
Of course the question isn’t why Ali killed the professor, we know this, but the question I would ask is why wouldn’t he?The western media has made it clear that while it’s perfectly acceptable to insult Christianity and Christians that there is nothing more beyond the pale than an insult to Islam.
Furthermore we’ve seen supposed “free speech” groups quake at the thought of defending those who might exercise free speech or academic rights contrary to the desires of those of the Muslim faith.
Furthermore there are section of France where the police have been neglecting to enforce French law and have allowed the Islamic community to enforce their own, and that law states that those who defame Islam must die..."
Read on and see the future.
The Green Climate Deal | Watts Up With That?
The Green Climate Deal | Watts Up With That?
"I see that Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mr. Bernie Sanders are pushing something called a “Green New Deal”, so I thought I’d take a look.
The Hill has a piece entitled “Progressives say dire climate reports point to need for ‘Green New Deal’“, and the Atlantic magazine has an article on it headlined “The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting“.
Make climate policy exciting? …
"I see that Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mr. Bernie Sanders are pushing something called a “Green New Deal”, so I thought I’d take a look.
The Hill has a piece entitled “Progressives say dire climate reports point to need for ‘Green New Deal’“, and the Atlantic magazine has an article on it headlined “The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting“.
Make climate policy exciting? …
Here are the details of the wonderful green climate deal, right from the horse’s mouth … oh, wait, vegans say we can’t use animal metaphors.
So here are the details of the deal, right from the orange’s navel … it has “Four Pillars”, and the first Pillar is their “Economic Bill of Rights”.
...Ready?
Hold your noses, put on your hip boots, we’re ready to wade in …
So here are the details of the deal, right from the orange’s navel … it has “Four Pillars”, and the first Pillar is their “Economic Bill of Rights”.
...Ready?
Hold your noses, put on your hip boots, we’re ready to wade in …
THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE GREEN NEW DEAL
I – THE ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTSThe Green New Deal begins with an Economic Bill of Rights that ensures all citizens:1. The right to employment through a Full Employment Program that will create 25 million jobs by implementing a nationally funded, but locally controlled direct employment initiative replacing unemployment offices with local employment offices offering public sector jobs which are “stored” in job banks in order to take up any slack in private sector employment.• Local communities will use a process of broad stakeholder input and democratic decisionmaking to fairly implement these programs.• Pay-to-play prohibitions will ensure that campaign contributions or lobbying favors do not impact decision-making.• We will end unemployment in America once and for all by guaranteeing a job at a living wage for every American willing and able to work.
End unemployment in America?
Create 25 million taxpayer-funded positions?
...median household income is $62,000, so on average, each household will have to pony up $12,000 to employ those 25 million people..."
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It get worse.
Waaay worse.
Create 25 million taxpayer-funded positions?
...median household income is $62,000, so on average, each household will have to pony up $12,000 to employ those 25 million people..."
Read all.
It get worse.
Waaay worse.
Ex-Reagan official exposes revisionist history books - WND
Ex-Reagan official exposes revisionist history books - WND:
In an interview with WND, Oliver recalled being in a White House meeting with Reagan in which the 39th president demonstrated his intellect and attention to detail.
But the false characterization of Reagan persists in popular culture, and now Oliver’s efforts are focused on preventing yet another generation from being educated in what he sees as revisionist history.
Oliver is president of the Education and Research Institute, ERI, which has launched “The American History Book Project,” a critique of the national best-selling, high-school history textbook, “The American Pageant.”
ERI’s project, which focuses on the latter part of the book, covering the 20th Century, has discovered hundreds of examples of “blatant liberal bias.”
But the false characterization of Reagan persists in popular culture, and now Oliver’s efforts are focused on preventing yet another generation from being educated in what he sees as revisionist history.
Oliver is president of the Education and Research Institute, ERI, which has launched “The American History Book Project,” a critique of the national best-selling, high-school history textbook, “The American Pageant.”
ERI’s project, which focuses on the latter part of the book, covering the 20th Century, has discovered hundreds of examples of “blatant liberal bias.”
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