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How Do Liberals Get That Way?
Burt Prelutsky
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Where Was Bergdahl Going?
Retired Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who once worked in intelligence, told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that he heard from two senior sources that Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl was trying to contact people to take him out of Afghanistan. "He was going to go off to Uzbekistan," Shaffer said. "He had made contact with local Afghans and wanted to be moved to Uzbekistan and then made contact with the Russians because he wanted to talk to Russian organized crime." According to Shaffer, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service discovered this after it examined Bergdahl's computer. Shaffer continued, "I think we're going to see more and more as this report is made public that there were a number of disconcerting things within Bergdahl." According to the Military Times, the Army has to follow an obscure regulation. It either had to grant Bergdahl an honorable discharge and $200,000 back pay, or bring charges against him. There's wiggle room for the nObama administration to bestow benevolence on its favorite soldier. Meanwhile, six soldiers died looking for Bergdahl, and not one of their parents got a White House Rose Garden reception. More... -The Patriot Post 
Profit Margins, Public Perception and Progressive Causes
The stigma plaguing today's Republican Party on matters of economic policy is the result of a craftily orchestrated attack on capitalism. By associating the entrepreneurial free market with "corporate greed," the Left frames conservatives as being against middle class America. It's a strategy that has a long record of success. Recall that in 2009, Democrats approved another massive entitlement program -- nObamaCare -- in part by rallying behind a false narrative: that millions of Americans were uninsured because "selfish" insurers were swimming in massive profits. In truth, insurers were operating on a 2% profit margin. Democrats knew their PR stunt was a lie, but they successfully swayed public perception at a pivotal moment. Indeed, every progressive cause has traces of gross distortion, and, similar to how leftists overhauled the health care industry, they're fabricating the war on corporate America. The American Enterprise Institute's Mark J. Perry writes, "When a random sample of American adults were asked the question 'Just a rough guess, what percent profit on each dollar of sales do you think the average company makes after taxes?' for the Reason-Rupe poll in May 2013, the average response was 36%!" The reality? Memo to Occupy Wall Street: "Not surprisingly they are off by a huge margin," Perry notes. "According to [a] Yahoo! Finance database for 212 different industries, the average profit margin for the most recent quarter was 7.5% and the median profit margin was 6.5%." If this teaches us anything, it's that Republicans must dismantle the Left's big lies. The propaganda machine is not conquered by twiddling thumbs. More... -The Patriot Post
Al-Qaida Decimates Yemen
It's getting harder for Barack nObama to use Yemen as a model of successful U.S. foreign policy as al-Qaida and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels made significant military gains in the beleaguered state in recent days. Last week, al-Qaida militants claimed the key Yemeni port city of Mukalla, freeing nearly 300 prisoners and delivering a setback to the 10-nation coalition led by Saudi Arabia that has been engaged in an air and land campaign there. Among those freed were Khaled Batarfi, a senior leader of al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP). So much for al-Qaida being "on the run."
The Saudi-led coalition, which began operations in late March, has been aided by U.S. intelligence, but America is still standing on the sidelines. Even as the civilian casualties mount and U.S. diplomats and military personnel have fled the country, the White House continues to insist Yemen is a success story in its deeply flawed foreign policy strategy.
According to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, nObama's strategy is to “try to mitigate the threat that is posed by extremists and to prevent them from establishing a safe haven.” Too late. -The Patriot Post
UGLY EARLY: PAUL’S ENTRY SETS OFF FIRST ROUND OF ATTACKS
There is a whole subculture in the Republican establishment devoted to hating Rand Paul, and this is the day its adherents have been waiting for. As Paul gets ready to kick off his official campaign in Louisville today, the effort to kill it intensifies. Paul has moderated his stances, recently calling for a 16 percent raise in Pentagon spending, but that has done nothing to cool the antipathy from the most hawkish members of his party who deem Paul an isolationist. When presidential hopeful Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested Sunday that presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton might be preferable to Paul, he was speaking aloud what many in the GOP establishment have long said in private. It’s a sign of Paul’s clout that he would be taken so seriously despite consistently trailing the frontrunners. But if he allows his foes to define him as the peacenik Republican, Paul is done for. -Fox News
There is a whole subculture in the Republican establishment devoted to hating Rand Paul, and this is the day its adherents have been waiting for. As Paul gets ready to kick off his official campaign in Louisville today, the effort to kill it intensifies. Paul has moderated his stances, recently calling for a 16 percent raise in Pentagon spending, but that has done nothing to cool the antipathy from the most hawkish members of his party who deem Paul an isolationist. When presidential hopeful Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested Sunday that presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton might be preferable to Paul, he was speaking aloud what many in the GOP establishment have long said in private. It’s a sign of Paul’s clout that he would be taken so seriously despite consistently trailing the frontrunners. But if he allows his foes to define him as the peacenik Republican, Paul is done for. -Fox News
Nuclear option - How serious is the GOP establishment about smothering Paul’s bid? The Foundation for a Security and Prosperous America, a new outside group led by GOP insider Rick Reed is dumping $1 million on an ad campaign slamming Paul for past statements about Iran. The 30-second ad, scheduled to begin Wednesday in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, accuses Paul of supporting negotiations with Iran and not supporting sanctions against the Islamic regime. The Kentucky senator is heard on the ad saying, “You know, it’s ridiculous to think, they are a threat to our national security.” A narrator concludes the ad stating, “Tell Rand Paul to stop siding with [President nObama], because even one Iranian bomb would be a disaster.” -Fox News
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Successful Russian Cyber Attack Against WH and State Depart (theconservativetreehouse.com) - On October 25th of last year we noted something was odd. In the evening the White House was totally unaware of what happened in the news regarding the Islamist Hatchet attack in New York against two cops a few hours earlier...Our suspicions grew the next day when the NSC meeting was moved from the White House to the State Department building; something was not passing the sniff test. We suspected a communication network breach, possibly a hack. On October 28th our suspicions were confirmed when the White House admitted a security breach into the Executive Office of The President. The breach had taken place three days prior according to an official release to Reuters: “The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would not say who might have been responsible for the activity on what was described as an unclassified computer network used by employees of the Executive Office of the President”. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/07/successful-russian-cyber-attack-against-white-house-and-state-department-details-now-surfacing/
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Echoes of Clinton in nObama’s awful Iran deal
(Marc A. Thiessen) - In announcing his nuclear framework, the president declared : “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.”...He said the deal requires them to “freeze [their] existing nuclear program and to accept international inspection of all existing facilities.” He said the agreement “does not rely on trust. Compliance will be certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency.” The president who spoke those words was not Barack nObama. It was Bill Clinton, on Oct 18, 1994, announcing that his administration had reached agreement on a nuclear framework with North Korea. Twelve years later, North Korea exploded a nuclear bomb. And today, Pyongyang is reportedly a few years away from having as many as 100 nuclear weapons. Repeating history... http://www.aei.org/publication/echoes-of-clinton-in-obamas-awful-iran-deal/
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Sheriff Deputies Beat Pregnant Woman As They Seize Her Child
(rickwells.us) - The State of Texas prides itself on its constitutional protections of its citizens and in many cases those claims may in fact be true. When it comes to their Child Protective Services and the legitimacy of their practices...a mountain of evidence exists which indicates that they are abusive and that the most important of all human rights, that between a parental and a child are regularly being violated. Texas has earned a reputation as an authoritarian police state in their vigorous assault on the sanctity of the bond between a parent and child. The case of Deanna Robinson is evidence that the reputation is well deserved. An alleged pushing exchange between Robinson and her husband was the apparent spark which led to a visit by the Hunt County Sheriff’s department and a physical assault upon the 38-week pregnant woman by Sheriffs Deputies. Portions of the incident, including a violent beating by at least one deputy were recorded by a home surveillance system. http://www.rickwells.us/notorious-cps-police-state-sheriff-deputies-beat-pregnant-woman-as-they-seize-her-child-into-state-custody/
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nObama’s Executive Orders, Lies For Brainwashing The Useful Idiots
(rickwells.us) - nObama is increasing the pressure on the American people to accept his fairy tale of man-made climate change and to his alarmist rants...He’s so convinced in the soundness of his “science” that he’s embarked upon propaganda and intimidation campaign intended to fill in the credibility gaps which are increasingly being exposed in his fabricated hype. Since most of the people aren’t quite as ignorant as his devotees, he’s once again resorting to his favored mob intimidation tactics to force people to at least pretend to have become converts to his Earth worship. In the statement made in the video, nObama first makes a blatantly false and unsubstantiated assertion that the temperature of the planet is rising and infers that man is the culprit. Upon that foundation, he uses familiar deceptive language, saying “We know that in addition to the adverse impacts that may have when it comes to more frequent hurricanes, or more powerful storms, or increased flooding, we also know that it has an impact on public health.” http://www.rickwells.us/global-warming-propaganda-for-dummies-obamas-new-executive-orders-lies-for-brainwashing-the-useful-idiots/
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Texas Judge Strikes Down DOJ Request To Lift Hold On nObama EO
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - Two judicial rulings yesterday, one in nObama’s favor and one against. However, the ruling released late last night shows a crafty piece of judicial chess...The first ruling yesterday was a 5th District Court of Appeals decision in Mississippi VS DHS. The 5th circuit ruled against the State of Mississippi, and in favor of the nObama DOJ, by essentially ruling the State failed to prove a burden of harm. However, in the second case, the ruling late last night, Texas vs DHS, under the authority of Judge Andrew Hanen, the expanded nObama Executive Action was blocked from implementation in February. Since the initial ruling the DOJ was now arguing for a lifting of that injunction, and Judge Hanen was having none of it. BOOM ! By using nObama’s own words Judge Hanen deconstructs the previous 5th DCA assertion of “no possibility for punitive harm” in the Mississippi ruling; and simultaneously puts an affirmative consideration into his own ruling – which proves the “possibility for punitive harm” in the Texas case before him which he is deciding. Brilliant Judicial Chess Move. By waiting to see the outcome of the Mississippi case (5th DCA) Judge Hanen has essentially removed one weapons which the DOJ attorneys could use against his own ruling when it enters the same appellate court. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/08/judicial-chess-texas-judge-strikes-down-doj-request-to-lift-hold-on-president-obama-executive-action-on-immigration-enforcement/
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Iran will start using fastest centrifuges on day deal takes effect
(Robert Spencer) - Iran will begin using its latest generation IR-8 centrifuges as soon as its nuclear deal with the world powers goes into effect, Iran’s foreign minister and nuclear chief told members of parliament on Tuesday, according to Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency...If accurate, the report makes a mockery of the world powers’ much-hailed framework agreement with Iran, since such a move clearly breaches the US-published terms of the deal, and would dramatically accelerate Iran’s potential progress to the bomb. Iran has said that its IR-8 centrifuges enrich uranium 20 times faster than the IR-1 centrifuges it currently uses. nObama is a liar and is misleading America. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/04/iran-will-start-using-fastest-centrifuges-on-day-deal-takes-effect-2?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=a4cb6b4124-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-a4cb6b4124-123451509
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Afghanistan: Rape victim forced to marry attacker
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - An Afghan woman who was forced to marry her rapist and have his baby has revealed how she gave up all of her hopes and dreams to ‘buy’ her daughter’s future...Known only by the name Gulnaz, the Kabul-based woman was only 16-years-old when she fell pregnant with the child of her depraved attacker Asadullah – who is also married to her cousin. Even though a rape led to her pregnancy, Gulnaz’s brothers insisted she would not be allowed to return to her ‘shamed’ family as she was unmarried and a Kabul court sentenced her to two years in prison for ‘adultery by force’, later increased to 12 years following an appeal. The only hope of a reduced sentence was to marry Asadullah, which she did in early 2013. Now she is pregnant with his third child but insists she only agreed to marry her rapist so that her first daughter – named Smile – could live a shame-free life in the Afghan capital’s ‘traditional’ society. The gifts of Sharia Law. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/afghanistan-rape-victim-forced-to-marry-attacker-gave-up-all-her-wishes-in-life-to-buy-daughters-future/
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Iran Deal Leaves Security Fears
(Peter Brookes) - Let’s be honest, the joint comprehensive plan of action announced last week in Lausanne, Switzerland, between the P5+1 (U.S., France, Britain, Russia, China and Germany) and Iran is essentially a Rorschach inkblot test...People will see what they want to see. Some people, like Team nObama, see the deal as a flurry of white doves released into the air, cooing “peace in our time.” Others see the preliminary pact as a dark field filled with mushroom cloud-shaped weeds. In my opinion, it’s not a good deal. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/iran-deal-leaves-security-fears/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email040815&utm_medium=email
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Comparing the Trustworthiness of Fox News and MSNBC
(Fred Gielow) - In the previous article, I compared the trustworthiness of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Alan Colmes, and Leslie Marshall according to AIM supporters. These trustworthiness ratings resulted from a recent survey conducted by Accuracy in Media...Survey takers rated news sources on a scale of 1 to 10. 1 represented 0 percent trust. 10 represented 100 percent trust. A total of 988 surveys were tabulated and analyzed. Although this was not a scientific survey, the results provide some useful insights. Of the 988 individuals responding, 868 rated Fox News. Only 696 rated MSNBC. The average rating for Fox was 8.88, while the average rating for MSNBC was 1.63, a remarkable difference. On some survey sheets, individuals wrote in negative ratings (less than 0!) for MSNBC, but no negative numbers were factored into the results. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/comparing-the-trustworthiness-of-fox-news-and-msnbc/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email040815&utm_medium=email
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ISIS Hackers Warn Turkey to Release All Caliphate-Bound Detainees
(Bridget Johnson) - A document claiming to be from a southeast Asian chapter of the Islamic State Hacking Division states that ISIS is ready for cyberwar with Turkey if the republic does not free jihadists caught trying to cross into the caliphate...A handbook released by ISIS earlier this year detailed a web of sympathizers utilized on the Turkish side of the 500-mile border with Syria to smuggle in recruits from around the world. This includes special safehouses for women wanting to go to the Islamic State. “Lately things have got harder at the Turkish border, so Islamic State members often meet new people in Turkey hotels and smuggle them across the border,” the guide said, stressing safehouses can only be accessed with “a paper signed by an existing member to show he is trustworthy.” It added that “the only reason members live in Turkey in some peace is because Turkey fears revenge attacks.” http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/07/isis-hackers-warn-turkey-to-release-all-caliphate-bound-detainees-or-face-attack/
How Do Liberals Get That Way?
(burtprelutsky.com) - There are so many things wrong with liberals, it’s difficult to know where to begin. For instance, how is it they think so highly of themselves while at the same time thinking so little of America?
Liberals like to boast that they care about blacks, illegal aliens and the poor, here at home, and about Palestinians in the Middle East. But why? By and large, blacks despise whites. Moreover, it’s blacks who commit an overabundance of violent crime in this country, so why coddle them? For their part, illegal aliens have no business even being here. The only reason we have to concern ourselves with them is because they broke our law and took cuts in front of all the other people around the world trying to get here in accordance with the rules.
When it comes to the poor in this country, they are nearly always those who spurned education in favor of drugs, crime, welfare and having babies out of wedlock. For their part, the Palestinians, who have given nothing to the world, and have actually chosen to be governed by terrorists don’t believe in any of the things that liberals claim to cherish, such as free speech, religious tolerance and women’s rights. In addition, in their constant war with Israel -- a western style democracy that not only extends equal rights to women and gays, but to its own Arab population – the Palestinians intentionally fire missiles at Jewish civilians while using their own women and children as hostages.
I might understand it if liberals merely conned themselves into believing they are nicer and more compassionate than conservatives, if only because they’ve claimed it for so long, it would be a miracle if by this time they didn’t accept it on faith. But studies have shown that they contribute less time and money to charity than those they demean as cruel and heartless.
What I don’t get is how they’ve managed to convince themselves they’re more intelligent than the rest of us. These people are so dumb they actually fall for every hoax that comes down the pike. The first of these was global warming. But when Mother Nature refused to play along, they renamed it climate change, to explain why the weather was different today than it was yesterday and how, if left unchecked, it would inevitably lead to the end of the world.
Another hoax was the one that purported to provide proof that Bill Clinton was the most intelligent president ever, and his wife was the smartest woman in the universe. Based on the fact that Bill couldn’t even conceal a tawdry little affair with a staffer and that the missus can’t say three words without putting her foot in her mouth four times, it’s rather preposterous to insist they have IQs in the 180s. Cartoonist Steve Kelley recently summed up their disgusting combination of stupidity and arrogance by showing them seated in a restaurant, with her complaining, “I don’t get it…we’ve been here half an hour and haven’t even seen a waiter yet.” The tuxedoed manager replies: “Sorry, Mrs. Clinton. We assumed you brought your own server.”
But, then, how does a party that includes the moronic likes of Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, Patty Murray, Nancy Pulosi, Jim McDermott, Sheila Jackson Lee, Bernie Sanders, Elijah Cummings, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Alan Grayson, Luis Gutierrez and Hank Johnson, get off claiming to have a monopoly on brains?
♦ Speaking of ignorant, Barack nObama has such a limited and naïve take on Israeli politics that he apparently believed that if the Likud Party had been defeated by the Zionist Union Party, Isaac Herzog would have been any more willing than Bibi Netanyahu to make a suicidal two-state deal with those sworn to exterminate the Jews. Just because nObama is dying to cut a deal, no matter how rotten, with Iran, it doesn’t mean that other world leaders are as dangerously gullible.
nObama sees Iran joining with Iraq to fight ISIS and seems to think that makes the mullahs our allies, ignoring the fact that if a nation can be said to have a mantra, Iran’s is “Death to America.”
♦ But, then, there is presidential precedence for such foolishness. Roosevelt apparently mistook the Soviet Union’s joining with us to fight Nazi Germany as proof of Stalin’s good intentions, ignoring the fact that Hitler had broken his mutual defense pact with Stalin by invading the Soviet Union. But then, FDR also turned a deaf ear to Winston Churchill’s warning, not unlike the one Netanyahu delivered to Congress, that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
♦ When I recently read that blacks have 74 cases of diabetes per 1,000, as opposed to just 36 cases per 1,000 for whites, I pictured nObama, Holder and Sharpton, absorbing those statistics and agreeing it proved that that in America even the diseases are racist.
♦ Meanwhile, In Japan, Burger King’s customers can now buy hamburger-scented cologne for $40 a bottle. You might think that’s pretty pricey for a side order, but if you think about it, it’s actually a bargain if you’re looking to have every dog in Tokyo follow you home.
Liberals like to boast that they care about blacks, illegal aliens and the poor, here at home, and about Palestinians in the Middle East. But why? By and large, blacks despise whites. Moreover, it’s blacks who commit an overabundance of violent crime in this country, so why coddle them? For their part, illegal aliens have no business even being here. The only reason we have to concern ourselves with them is because they broke our law and took cuts in front of all the other people around the world trying to get here in accordance with the rules.
When it comes to the poor in this country, they are nearly always those who spurned education in favor of drugs, crime, welfare and having babies out of wedlock. For their part, the Palestinians, who have given nothing to the world, and have actually chosen to be governed by terrorists don’t believe in any of the things that liberals claim to cherish, such as free speech, religious tolerance and women’s rights. In addition, in their constant war with Israel -- a western style democracy that not only extends equal rights to women and gays, but to its own Arab population – the Palestinians intentionally fire missiles at Jewish civilians while using their own women and children as hostages.
I might understand it if liberals merely conned themselves into believing they are nicer and more compassionate than conservatives, if only because they’ve claimed it for so long, it would be a miracle if by this time they didn’t accept it on faith. But studies have shown that they contribute less time and money to charity than those they demean as cruel and heartless.
What I don’t get is how they’ve managed to convince themselves they’re more intelligent than the rest of us. These people are so dumb they actually fall for every hoax that comes down the pike. The first of these was global warming. But when Mother Nature refused to play along, they renamed it climate change, to explain why the weather was different today than it was yesterday and how, if left unchecked, it would inevitably lead to the end of the world.
Another hoax was the one that purported to provide proof that Bill Clinton was the most intelligent president ever, and his wife was the smartest woman in the universe. Based on the fact that Bill couldn’t even conceal a tawdry little affair with a staffer and that the missus can’t say three words without putting her foot in her mouth four times, it’s rather preposterous to insist they have IQs in the 180s. Cartoonist Steve Kelley recently summed up their disgusting combination of stupidity and arrogance by showing them seated in a restaurant, with her complaining, “I don’t get it…we’ve been here half an hour and haven’t even seen a waiter yet.” The tuxedoed manager replies: “Sorry, Mrs. Clinton. We assumed you brought your own server.”
But, then, how does a party that includes the moronic likes of Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, Patty Murray, Nancy Pulosi, Jim McDermott, Sheila Jackson Lee, Bernie Sanders, Elijah Cummings, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Alan Grayson, Luis Gutierrez and Hank Johnson, get off claiming to have a monopoly on brains?
♦ Speaking of ignorant, Barack nObama has such a limited and naïve take on Israeli politics that he apparently believed that if the Likud Party had been defeated by the Zionist Union Party, Isaac Herzog would have been any more willing than Bibi Netanyahu to make a suicidal two-state deal with those sworn to exterminate the Jews. Just because nObama is dying to cut a deal, no matter how rotten, with Iran, it doesn’t mean that other world leaders are as dangerously gullible.
nObama sees Iran joining with Iraq to fight ISIS and seems to think that makes the mullahs our allies, ignoring the fact that if a nation can be said to have a mantra, Iran’s is “Death to America.”
♦ But, then, there is presidential precedence for such foolishness. Roosevelt apparently mistook the Soviet Union’s joining with us to fight Nazi Germany as proof of Stalin’s good intentions, ignoring the fact that Hitler had broken his mutual defense pact with Stalin by invading the Soviet Union. But then, FDR also turned a deaf ear to Winston Churchill’s warning, not unlike the one Netanyahu delivered to Congress, that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
♦ When I recently read that blacks have 74 cases of diabetes per 1,000, as opposed to just 36 cases per 1,000 for whites, I pictured nObama, Holder and Sharpton, absorbing those statistics and agreeing it proved that that in America even the diseases are racist.
♦ Meanwhile, In Japan, Burger King’s customers can now buy hamburger-scented cologne for $40 a bottle. You might think that’s pretty pricey for a side order, but if you think about it, it’s actually a bargain if you’re looking to have every dog in Tokyo follow you home.
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