Why You Shouldn't Trust Mainsteam Media - An Explainer

Not a lot of point blogging today, everyone else is as busy as I've been with real life things. but with FAKE NEWS continuing to make headlines and the Obama Administration, in the dying days of their failed attempt to change America from a republic to a fascist tyranny passing new anti - free - speech laws while in Germany, politicians defend their refusal several months ago to deport the guy who drove a truck into a Christmas market because 'deporting terrorists is racist' (they didn't actually put it quite so bluntly)here's an example of how mainstream media and particularly those broadcasters with 'left - wing' sympathies (i.e. about a billion light years to the right of Hitler) manufacture Fake News in order to try to manipulate public opinion. This Fake New item from The Guardian follows a report that actor Michael Sheen was quitting Hollywood to return to the UK and work to overturn the Brexit vote, keeping us in the European Union. Sheen himself has denounced the story as a complete fabrication.

Great work by Paul Staines of Guido Fawkes blog again:

reposted from Guido Fawkes blog

Sheen Comes off Guardian’s Brexit Luvvie Scoop

The Guardian breathlessly reported the conversion of Michael Sheen from luvvie-land board-treading to hardcore political activism this weekend:

“Michael Sheen plans to abandon his acting career to fight what he calls the rise of the “hard populist right” in Britain and beyond.”

The piece boasted:

“Although he has been based in Los Angeles for the past 14 years, home remains the South Wales steel town of Port Talbot, which voted overwhelmingly for Brexit in the June referendum – a result that initially left the actor “sad and frustrated” but then determined to fight back.”

Unfortunately, by Sheen’s own admission, none of this is true. The actor – whose agent must have had a fit – posted a blog on his personal Tumblr feed later the same day completely denying the story:

“I did one interview with The Times of London a few weeks ago, parts of which (including a headline that is not a quote) have been picked up by a lot of other outlets. I DID NOT declare that I’m ‘quitting acting and leaving Hollywood’ to go into politics.”

He continued:

“I certainly did NOT equate people who voted for Brexit or Trump with a fascistic ‘hard right’ that must be stopped. The majority of people in the U.K., including my hometown of Port Talbot, voted for Brexit. That is the will of the people and is to be respected. That is democracy.”

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Fake News is a phrase that is never far from the lips or fingertips of journalists and television pundits who are supposed to keep us informed about what is happening in the world. But how reliable are those who have appointed themselves the guardians of journalistic integrity. Not very reliable it seems, if The Guardian, a highbrow UK newspaper is anything to go by.

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As the UK Labour Party crumbles into complete disarray with it’s leader, the sixty – eight year old perpetual student protestor Jeremy Corbyn proving a more divisive figure than any of his predecessors, as he sacrifices more and more votes on the altar of fashionable causes, and the EU, natural successor to Hitler’s European unification project falls apart in the face of resurgent cultural nationalism, it is quite satisfying to see ...

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NATO Escalates Ukraine Civil War after Defeat In Syria

If you thought Brarack Hussein Obama was the only world leader to clench his fists, stamp his feet and "scweam and scewam until he's sick" when he does not get what he wants, you'd be wrong. This week leaders on the USA's NATO allies have shown they too care capable of throwing hissy fits and behaving like spoiled five year olds as the completely failed to accept defeat of NATO backed terrorists in Syria by the combined forces of the Syrian government, Iranian ground troops and Russian air support. Immediately following the liberation of Aleppo and the rout of western backed terrorists, a surge in military attacks by NATO-backed Kiev regime forces on the breakaway eastern Ukraine regions has been reported.

This is the mature and statesmanlike reaction of western leaders to events in Syria.

Although a fragile ceasefire between the Kiev government and Donbass separatists has held for several months, since the collapse of ISIS resistance in and around Aleppo hundreds of ceasefire breaches by troops belonging to the Ukraine Armed Forces (UAF) are being reported in the separatist self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Over the past few days, several towns and villages have come under intense shelling from artillery, rockets and mortars in stark violation of the Minsk agreement.

That agreement brokered by Russia, Germany and France during 2014 and 2015, was intended to lead to a diplomatic settlement to end the conflict between the Western-backed Kiev regime, which came to power in 2014 when a CIA engineered coup in February 2014 overthrew the democratically elected government which favoured closer ties with Russia. The breakaway provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, have consistently refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Kiev regime.

Houses, schools and water treatment plants have been hit as the UAF and Neo-Nazi militias move heavy weapons close to the front line. Reports suggest the Kiev regime is preparing for a renewed attack on the ethnic Russian region. As expected Russia's response has been swift and missile defence systems have been installed to protect Russian interests.

So far, the militia of the DPR and LPR have repelled the offensive, with dozens of casualties reportedly suffered by the Kiev regime’s military.

It is no coincidence that the new attacks on Donbass come just as the US and its NATO allies suffer a major setback in their covert war for regime change in Syria and ultimately control of the middle east. The liberation of the battleground city of Aleppo suggests the end of the nearly six-year conflict in Syria is close and the regime-change project in Syria to oust the government of President Bashar al-Assad has ended up as another foreign policy failure for the catastrophic presidency of Barack Obama.

Turkey, which until recently was a key player in Obama's regime-change ambitions seems to be aligning with Russia and Iran to bring an end to the war in neighboring Syria. Earlier this week however, we reported foreign and defense ministers from Russia, Iran and Turkey met in Moscow to declare their commitment to end the Syrian conflict. The exclusion of the US” from this initiative is intended as an insult to President Obama and Secretary of state Kerry. The New York times commented: "The new alignment and absence of any Western powers at the table all but guarantee that President Bashar al-Assad will continue to rule Syria under any resulting agreement."

In other words, it’s "game over" for Washington, the delusions of 'President Of the Entire Universe And Everything Else besides' Obama and the Clinton led Democrat Crime Syndicate and their criminal enterprise to subvert Syria.


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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

A smile for readers of this blog who are familiar with British or Australian colloquialism. To anyone who looks in over the next few days, we Boggart Blogger hope you and your families have a really good holilday and the very best of good fortune throughout 2017. It looks like being another interesting year so stick with us for regular (we can't promise daily, we're all getting old) reports that bring you news of what is really going on in the world.

Now here's a last word from Santa Claus.

Saddam Hussein’s CIA Interrogator: He Tried to Warn Us, but We Didn’t Listen

by Alice Salles for The Anti Media


 After coalition forces captured Saddam Hussein in December 2003, John Nixon, a senior leadership analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1998 to 2011, interrogated the former Iraqi dictator. The detailed account of this interrogation is now available to the public in the form of a book, Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein.
 
In the publication, Nixon explains that Hussein was out of touch with the military reality of his own country in his final years. “When I interrogated Saddam,” Nixon told Time magazine, “he told me: ‘You are going to fail. You are going to find that it is not so easy to govern Iraq.’”

As Nixon pressed Saddam to explain why, the captured dictator said Americans would soon learn they “are going to fail in Iraq because [Americans] do not know the language, the history, and [they] do not understand the Arab mind.” To the former CIA agent, Saddam’s warning had a point.

In order to “maintain Iraq’s multi-ethnic state,” Nixon told reporters, the presence of a strongman like Saddam in Iraq was necessary. He added:

“Saddam’s leadership style and penchant for brutality were among the many faults of his regime, but he could be ruthlessly decisive when he felt his power base was threatened, and it is far from certain that his regime would have been overthrown by a movement of popular discontent.”

Reflecting on what he learned, Nixon told Time it was unlikely that “a group like ISIS would have been able to enjoy the kind of success under his repressive regime that they have had under the Shia-led Baghdad government.” He made the case against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which led to Saddam’s ultimate fall.

According to Nixon, Saddam added that before his ascension to power, “there was only bickering and arguing [in Iraq]. I ended all that and made people agree!‘” Nixon eventually found he had developed “a grudging respect for how [Saddam] was able to maintain the Iraqi nation as a whole for as long as he did,” despite the CIA officer’s lack of sympathy for the fallen dictator.

To Nixon, Saddam Hussein was certainly a brutal dictator, but he wasn’t “on a mission to blow up the world, as George W. Bush’s administration had claimed to justify the invasion.”

While many may argue Nixon’s explanation is rather “simplistic,” it undoubtedly reveals that there’s much more to the stories of how the U.S. government justifies invasions and military involvement abroad than meets the eye. In the specific case of Iraq, anti-intervention activists have been on record for years saying the invasion created a power vacuum, making the rise of ISIS more likely to occur.

As countless Iraq war enablers and supporters in the United States continue to defend their actions and claim Saddam had the will and the means to threaten the world, how this war came to be reality is still often ignored. As the former CIA agent Nixon publishes Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, Americans are witnessing a fight between competing narratives as they shape the news the country consumes. These narratives could even impact our foreign and domestic policies. And even now, as we hear yet another account of an insider claiming the U.S. invasion of Iraq was unjustified and damaging, it’s incredible to see much of the media still ignoring what non-interventionists have been saying all along.

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European Finance crisis: As Italian banks beg for bailout the infection spreads to Spain.

by Phil T Looker

Italy teeters on the brink again (Image source: Still from The Italian Job, Daily Mail)

Total chaos reigns in European banking stocks this morning as Italian bank Monte Paschi became insolvent when a private sector bailout plan failed. Monte Paschi shates and bonds crashed in European stock markets, the Italian Stock Market was in turmoil and the Italian crisis spread to Spanish banks are also being hit following a European Court ruling on mortgage fraud went against them.

On Monday night, Italy’s finance minister Pier Carlo Padoan confirmed Italy is preparing a €20bn rescue fund for MPS and other weak lenders as the chances of a successful €5bn private recapitalisation of the Siena-based bank recede.

By the evening of Thursday at the latest, it should be clear whether MPS, which was founded in 1472, will have been rescued by the private sector via a €4.5bn debt-for-equity swap and funds from anchor investors including the Qatar Investment Authority. As of Monday only €200m had been committed to the swap, suggesting the chances of pulling off the rescue are slim, said people close to the deal.

MPS’s debt-for-equity swap will close at 2pm Italian time on Wednesday. If it goes badly MPS could already ask the government to step in, said one Italian official.

According to an Italian official only about €2bn of the €20bn will be used for liquidity guarantees, and the rest for recapitalisations and for compensating some retail bondholders. Other banks will be rescued on a case-by-case basis over the coming months now that Italy has a precedent with which to defend against EU bullying. The €20bn rescue fund will abide by EU rules on so-called burden-sharing, which force losses on junior bondholders (small investors, in other words the neo - Fascist EU is protecting the big players again. Benito Mussolini would have been proud.

Italy’s banks currently have one of the highest toxic debt ratios in Europe at 16.4 per cent of total credit outstanding, more than three times the European average of 5.4 per cent, according to Moody’s.

The nationalization, of Italy's three largest banks seems imminent following a Reuters report that the ongoing, JP Morgan-led attempt to put together a private sector bailout of Monte Paschi had failed.

According to Reuters, Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, long considered as the most likely anchor investor with a €1 billion allocation in any rescue plan cash call, decided it is unwilling to invest in the Italian bank, meanwhile Monte Paschi has been unable to find a replacement investor willing to put money in its privately funded rescue plan, less than 24 hours before the offer ends.

As a result, the bank's share issue, which closes at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Thursday, has drawn very little interest from investors.

The bank now needs to raise €5 billion by the end of this month to avert being wound up. The Italian government, which earlier today was given permission by the European Central Bank to issue €20 billion in public debt to use for bank bailout purposes, is expected to step in this week and nationalize the bank.

The approval came after the ECB first refused to extend the deadline for a €5bn recapitalisation of Monte Paschi before the end of the year and fears mounted the bank’s liquidity levels were becoming critical. MPS has lost €14bn, or 11 per cent of its total deposits, from January to September 2016 and warned its liquid reserves would fall under the required level should it suffer another €10bn of deposit outflows under a “stress” scenario calculated by the ECB. That news triggered another rush to withdraw deposits and sent the stock plunging to record lows, shortly before the government agreed that taxpayers would shoulder the burden of the insolvent bank's debts.

Other banks expected to benefit from Italy's state aid in addition to Monte Paschi include Veneto Banca, Popolare Vicenza, Cassa di Cesena, Cassa di Rimini and Cassa di San Miniato.

While economic confidence in the USA is at record levels following the election of Donald Trump, and in the UK, post Brexit, the economy is booming (the pound is still looking weak against the dollar because both have surged against other currencies, particularly the Euro) but elsewhere https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/spanish-banks-lose-eu-case-over-mortgage-interest-repayments-iwyp8kih Bloomberg reports Spanish banking stocks falling after the European Court of Justice ruled that the May 2013 cut-off point for unfair home mortgage payment reimbursements is illegal.

Borrowers who paid too much interest on home loans pre-dating a May 2013 Spanish ruling on so-called mortgage floors are entitled to a refund from their banks, judges at the EU Court of Justice ruled in Luxembourg Wednesday. The court said that a proposed time limit on the refunds is illegal and customers shouldn’t be bound by such unfair terms. Banco Sabadell SA fell as much as 7.5 percent, while Banco Popular slipped as much as 10.5 percent, the largest decliner in Spain’s Ibex 35 benchmark.

"This comes as a surprise and in a bad moment for Spanish banks as most of them would have to make extra provisions to pay for this,” Daragh Quinn, an analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods, said by phone. "It will mean pressure on capital generation and profits in the fourth quarter."

The EU court case comes as Spanish banks are under pressure from low interest rates and weak demand for credit, affecting their traditional business of lending. With 521 billion euros, home loans are one of the largest parts of Spanish bank lending business as they grew their real estate exposure during a construction boom in the country that burst at the end of the last decade. Some banks are still making provisions for bad loans, which also adds pressure to profit.

Banco Popular Espanol, Caixabank and Banco de Sabadell suffered most. Santander shares fell 1.25% and Bankinter by just 0.1%.



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Russia, Iran and Turkey To Negotiate Peace Deal For Syria Without US Involvement

Translated from Deutsche Wirstschafts Nachrichten by Google Translate

The Foreign Ministers of Russia, Turkey and Iran agreed on a "Moscow Declaration" on Tuesday, Haberturk reports. The declaration, which has already been signed, stipulates that all three countries will act as official guarantee powers in Syria in future to secure the cease-fire and to conclude further agreements.

Russia, Turkey and Iran want to start peace negotiations for Syria without the West. After talks between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with their colleagues from Ankara and Teheran in Moscow, the three states jointly announced a corresponding advance. They would stand as guarantor powers for an agreement between the Syrian government and the opposition. According to Lavrov, the three states agree that the fight against terrorism should take precedence over a government change in Syria. He also announced that the evacuation of the contested areas in Aleppo would be completed in two days.

The three states are to act as mediators between the Syrian government and the Syrian "opposition" to negotiate an agreement and then to act as guarantee powers of that agreement. A martial solution to the Syrian conflict reject Moscow, Ankara and Tehran, reports the Russian state news agency Sputnik.

"All the attempts made so far by the USA and its partners for a coordinated approach were doomed to failure. They have had no influence on the happenings on the ground, "The Daily Mail quoted Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The news agency Anadolu quotes the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: "We are talking about an armistice for the whole of Syria. However, this does not apply to the terrorist organizations ISIS and Al-Nusra. We will continue to fight these organizations (...). There are Hezbollah and other groups. The aid for all these groups must be cut off. "

The statement stated that all countries had been called to participate in the new initiative, which would have "an impact on the situation on the ground". Lavrov said Kazakhstan had offered itself as a host of new peace talks.

It is perhaps notable that the negotiated peace deal and armistice does not extend to terrorist organisations. One of the reasons the conflict in Syria has lasted so long and been so destructive is that the USA, supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, has been supporting ISIS and Al Nusra by supplying arms and ammunition and avoiding airstrikes on terrorist bases because as we have reported many times, the priority of US foreign policy under Barack Obama was to remove the legitimate government of Assad. Obama has always been a friend of terrorists as he promised he would be in 2008.

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Aluminium DOES cause Alzheimer's: Expert says new findings confirm the metal plays a role in the devastating brain disease

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Medical researchers studying the growing plague of Alzheimer's Disease in developed socireties have suspected a link between between aluminium and the disease has existed for many years. Lack of evidence prevented the scientific community and the alternative health lobby from recommending avoidance of aluminium in cooking utelsils and other activities as a means of significantly reducing chances of developing the disease. However, new research confirms the metal plays a role in the cognitive decline that is the most visible symptom of the disease.

Professor Chris Exley, of Keele University, UK,  says his latest research confirms the role of the metal in cognitive decline. Here, in a piece for medical-blogging website The Hippocratic Post, he reveals the findings from his latest study. 

 

There has been strong but not conclusive evidence of a link between human exposure to aluminium and the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease for half a century or more.  Without demonstrable proof however, there can be no consensus in the scientific community about the role of aluminium, a known neurotoxin in the development of the disease.

Exley's research, published in the medical science Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, makes a convincing case for the veracity of the link. Exley claims the findings are unequivocal in their confirmation of a role for aluminium in some if not all Alzheimer’s disease and his published research certainly seems to back that up. At the very least, these new results should encourage everyone and even those who have steadfastly maintained that aluminium has no role in the disease to think again.

Aluminium is probably not the only factor, so we are not looking at a way of totally eradicating the disease but we should all perhaps think more carefully about certain lifestyle choices in future. When the new results are put into the context of what is already known about aluminium and Alzheimer’s disease the significance of this research becomes too great to ignore as is clearly shown in the linked articles.

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It Wasn't Russia That Rigged The Election For Trump, It Was The Democrats That FAILED To Rig It For Crooked Hillary.

As the USA's electoral college goes through the formality of endorsing the election of Donald Trump's election as President of the USA, there seem to be no last minute surprises, the Democrats have failed to engineer a rebellion among the electors states appoint to cast their votes (according to population) for the candidate each state voted for.

Since election day (November 8) Clinton supporters, angry that voters had chosen anybody other than the candidate for political correctness and corporate crime had been trying to claim US electoral law should be ignored and the Presidency awarded to 'Crooked Hillary' because she had won the popular vote by a majority of three million votes.

News just in via the excellent Milo Yiannopoulis however reveals that three million votes in the election tally were cast by illegal immigrants. Now we don't know how they broke down but we know that Barack Obama had overtepped the limits of his executive power and, in a blatant attempt to rig the election for the Democrats, instructed democrat run states to allow illegals to vote, and had also tried to push through an amnesty allowing illegal immigrants to become full US citizens without going through the appropriate legal process.

So we may assume those three million votes went, by a very large majority to the Democrat candidate.

Which destroys what little credibility the Democrats claims to have won the popular vote ever had.

Read the full story on Milo's page:

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You Heard About The Yahoo Hack But Mainstream Media did Not Tell Everything you Need To Know.

Can't give you a source for this, when I clicked through on the search results
it returned a '404', which means I guess, that the site is being blocked.
That seems very appropriate in the context of the article below.

Its very likely that if you use the Internet and are conscious, you know about the Yahoo hack1 BILLION (that’s BILLION with a “B”) Yahoo accounts were breached in 2013 but Yahoo kept the story quiet until now, and for very good reasons which we will get to. According to information released by Yahoo, stolen user data included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and passwords.

Not much of a problem you may think, if like us Boggart Bloggers you do not use email for conducting any sensitive or confidential business. If you have a Yahoo account and haven't changed your password since before 2013 do it. (I changed mine in 2015 , after getting locked out of my account because I tried to log on from Spain and they decided I was hacking myself,) but before that incident I had used the same password for ten years).

 If you do use your mail for stuff you'd rather keep private, get a new, secure emain account (not Gmail or Hotmail, see below,) services like, for example, StartMail, a Netherlands based company. More of this type of service are coming online. There's a small monthly fee, but as I long time IT pro, I have always said the 'everything's for free' business model would prove to be the internet's downfall.

For reasons not related to the hack, StartPage.com private search canceled its Yahoo contract stating they had lost confidence in the company on learing that Yahoo allegedly allowed a US government agency install a spy tool onto its system so agents could secretly read incoming email. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other US based web cprporations have done similar favours for the US Government, helping advance its agenda of spying on the whole world.

What this means is:

• The US government can read every incoming and outgoing email of Yahoo AND non-Yahoo customers, regardless of whether or not they were suspected of wrongdoing.
• The spy tool is actually more like a rootkit in that it exploits the greatest flaw in IBM/Wintel PC architecture to allow not just the government, but a hacker, unfettered access to user accounts through the DOS command line.
• The revelation follows news of a 2014 Yahoo breach, now the second largest in history, because Yahoo just broke its own record. The hacker in the 2014 breach also stole email addresses, birth dates, security questions, and even passwords, putting over 500 million customers at risk for identity theft.

The Yahoo hacks and scandals are just the tip of the iceberg because every US-based organization has to comply with government surveillance requests in accordance with the Patriot Act—and they can’t breathe a word about it legally without winning a court challenge.  If your email account uses Yahoo, Ymail, Gmail, Hotmail or another US-based email service, every US government agency has been able to read your email since 2015.  

For email privacy think in terms of organisations that charge a small fee (pay $£€2 per month and you'll get rid if a lot of spam too), look to European companies that offer Search services like StartPage, Good Gopher (American owned but hosted outside US jurisdiction) or the oddly named DuckDuckGo. The European Union has many faults and is an undemocratic organisation, but it does at least protect the privacy rights of citizens in member states.


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Wikileaks Operative Speaks Out - Russia Did Not Hack US Election, It Was A Disgusted Democrat

A few posts ago we reported that former UK Ambassador to Afghanistan, Craig Murray, had said that claims made by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that Obama's anointed successor Hillary Clinton lost November's presidential election to Donald Trump because the election process was influence by the publication of emails by Wikileaks that were obtained illegally by Wikileaks after being stolen from Democrat Party and private computers by Russian hackers.

If you missed that story you can read it here > Democrats Russian Hacking campaign claims are bullshit.

Now we have the full story of how Wikileaks obtained the emails that have been so damaging personally and politically to Obama, Clinton and the Democrats. And as usual it was left to alt - media and to British and European media to report this YUGE story, mainstream media in the USA, loyal to the traitor and liar Obama and the crook and liar Hillary, have hardly mentioned this story with concerns all Americans.

from The Daily Mail

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails - they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers

A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by 'disgusted' whisteblowers - and not hacked by Russia.

Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September.

'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' said Murray in an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. 'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.'

His account contradicts directly the version of how thousands of Democratic emails were published before the election being advanced by U.S. intelligence. 

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