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Wednesday Open Comments

Well, it just gets scarier.  The FBI seems to have no limits.

How deeply is law enforcement interfering in the daily lives of American citizens?

For example, it was recently reported that the FBI labeled Americans who “support the biological basis for sex and gender distinction as potential domestic terrorists.”

Then what? What does the FBI, and those who cooperate with the FBI, do to such Americans?

The FBI and local police keep their specific actions, methods, and technologies mostly secret; thus, one cannot say with certainty what occurs after the FBI labels a person as a potential domestic terrorist.

Americans might study the history of the FBI and local police cooperating with the FBI for hints about what might occur after being labeled as a potential domestic terrorist. One might closely study the “Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, 1975-76.” …

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There is the phenomenon of government officials, particularly those in fear of losing their ability to control others, creating a government entity or technology initially described as being good – say, to protect the citizens from terrorists, communists, gangsters, etc.

The government entity employs millions of people, again attempting to convince the citizens that the secret policing entity or technology is a great thing.

After the technology or government entity is fully operational and widespread, and after millions of people are fully dependent on government welfare disguised as government employment in the secret policing entity, then those few people (who could be in another country) in charge of the government then are able to control the masses.

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Additionally, the guidelines mention that the FBI is apparently allowed to secretly own and operate businesses and corporations, make “untrue representations” of other peoples’ actions, and engage “in activity having a significant effect on or constituting a significant intrusion into the legitimate operation of a Federal, state, or local governmental entity.”

Does the FBI “engage in activity having a significant effect on” juries, U.S. Congress, the presidency, or the Supreme Court? Does the FBI engage “in activity having a significant effect on or constituting a significant intrusion into the legitimate” national and local elections?

The FBI guidelines apparently also suggest employees and cooperators might “supply falsely sworn testimony or false documentation in any legal or administrative proceeding” and the FBI and others might commit “otherwise illegal activity,” apparently including “violence or physical injury to individuals or a significant risk of financial loss.”

Those guidelines on FBI operations seem to imply that there are many people in cities throughout America employed as secret government operatives who present themselves as everyday citizens but might actually be participating in schemes or “mitigating opportunities.”

I guess this means we can’t trust anyone any more.

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62 responses to “Wednesday Open Comments”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    REMEMBER GOLIAD
    MARCH 27, 1836

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Let’s start the day with a beautiful Cessna 195. One of the few Cessna’s with a radial engine. Also when you think of a radial engine Cessna you usually think of the Bamboo Bomber built for the war effort in WW II.

    Oh and what he said; Remember Goliad

    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    NASA Remembers Former NASA Johnson Director George W. S. Abbey

    George W. S. Abbey, former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, died Sunday, March 24, in Houston after an illness. The Seattle native was 91. 

    “A true visionary, Mr. Abbey demonstrated transformational leadership as Johnson’s seventh center director. During his tenure, the space shuttle flew more than 25 successful missions; the joint U.S. and Russian Shuttle-Mir Program was completed, providing important information for long-duration spaceflight,” said Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA Johnson. “He was instrumental in the Johnson team’s involvement in developing and launching the first elements of the International Space Station, which marked the beginning of a new era in space exploration. On behalf of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, we send our condolences to Mr. Abbey’s loved ones during this difficult time.”

    He was the last of the true NASA pioneers and was the Director @ NASA/JSC for a good portion of the time that I was there. I ran into him in Kroger’s about 2012 or so and told him that we really missed him at JSC.

  4. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m seeing headlines that “the polls are tightening” and that Biden actually leads in some areas. To that I ask: are there THAT many never Trumpers and blind libs in the country? I look at the rallies and its hard to believe that the polls are true. It makes me think that the pollsters are trying to create a narrative, to bolster hopes and inspire their voters. At least get them within cheating distance.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    LBJ driving his Amphicar 1965. 😉

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam’s comment and reference to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) yesterday aroused my curiosity and I started looking around.

    The IMO is a 100% owned and operated United Nations industrial trade group whose members constitute 90% of all global trade.

    The leftist nations, the incorrigible EU and countries, 3rd and 4th world, are all for this tax on ocean shippers.

    There are all these grand schemes to tax and fine various fundamental parts of our economy, but nobody ever asks what is going to happen with that money.

    Where is it going ? Who will control it ? Who directly benefits from it ? (All of humanity and similar answers are rejected out of hand)

    Do all of these people believe carbon emissions disappear because a tax is imposed on it ?

    It will redound to the personal balance sheet at the very bottom line…the individual citizen.

  7. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Tedtam 8:37,

    Agree with your post.

  8. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Texpat 9:33,

    Agree with your post.

  9. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh boy here we go.
    Sudden turn says Cyberattack, DEI, or something worse?

    Okay my turn. We did not see what we saw. A ship did not hit the bridge. Ships cannot bring down bridges. The workers on the bridge were planting explosive and someone touched off the explosives. The bridge was supposed to be brought down next 4th of July and blamed on MAGA. That is what happened to the bridge.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      It’s bound to be a stressful existence when you see a boogieman behind every tree.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Shannon
        Didja watch the vidiot? My comment was lampooning the 911 denyers that try to tell me I did not see what I saw.

        1. Shannon Avatar
          Shannon

          Yes. Agreeing with you.

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      The ship hit the bridge dead center on the upright. How does the ship get that far out of the channel? I heard someone speculating about contaminated fuel and that could be a factor, however, the fuel that those ships burn is #6 fuel oil and it is some thick, nasty stuff. The fuel has to be pre-heated to make it through the injectors and sometimes it has to be preheated just to make it able to pump at all. I think it would take quite a bit of contamination to cause the engine shutdown issue. I heard other reports that the ship was having engine trouble as it was being discharged and reloaded.
      Maersk, the operator, is in a lot of trouble, as is the owner group.

  10. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I, for one, welcome the benefits our FBI overlords provide us.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Oh yes, I welcome the FBI overlords like I welcome a 3 week bout of projectile vomiting and explosive diarreah.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m going to read the C&C and then head out for a little bit. Gonna drop off some rosaries and customized coffee cups to my old parish for their fundraiser auction. Then off to our unit be renovated to see how it’s going. I may swing by the nearby hardware store to see if they still have seeds and plants – my banana pepper seeds look like they have zero germination this year, and I’d like to have at least one of those in my garden. I found some ginger and turmeric roots at the grocery store yesterday, and I scrubbed them good last night to try to rid them of the chemical used to keep them from sprouting in the store. That means I may need to set up a tub today, and it needs to be today because it’s looking overcast already.

    Then I might try to get some treadmill time in…

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C. reports on a study that shows the jab juice CAN integrate inside human DNA:

    More tests are needed, and justified, and Kevin says they are coming. If you’re interested in reading more, I also relied on Rebekah Barnett’s more accessible Substack takedown of Kevin’s post, titled “DNA contamination in Covid vaccines DOES get into human cells, new evidence shows.”

    I think this is the most promising line of research going in terms of helping establish covid liability. If genetic integration is proven, it will bring the entire odious pharma crack house right down on their heads.

    One more reason I’m so glad I said no.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A couple of paragraphs from C&C’s commentary on the bridge collapse:

    Believe it or not, the Francis Scott Key bridge is a critical part of the entire nation’s supply chain. Its catastrophic collapse cannot possibly be repaired for years. Officials are already talking about significant damage to our country’s supply chain, increased costs for consumer goods and energy, and so forth. It is not just an inconvenience. For a cascade of interrelated reasons, the destruction of this particular bridge was incalculably injurious to our economy.

    One wild, random fact reported in CNN’s article was that thirteen vaguely-described shipping containers marked as unidentified CDC bio-hazmat were somehow damaged in the collision and are being “secured.” I’ll just leave that one right there.

  14. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    We see smoke come from the ship’s stack shortly after the lights went out the first time. Could it have been nefarious acts carried out by someone on board shifting control from the bridge, then accelerating the ship toward the bridge? Then the lights went out again as someone else attempted to regain control to no avail?

    We need a thorough investigation of the bridge and engine room crew by the FBI to get to the bottom of this.

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I got the title to my Kubota RTV X1120 in the mail and I noticed that the dude bought it new in May of 2020, made his last payment in March 2023 and immediately traded it for a new one?!?! So could he just not stand being without a payment? These younger folks amaze me.I always tried to NOT have any payments and haven’t had any in about 25 years. Yes I paid cash for the Kubota.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I am calling BS on the CNN report quoted by Jeff Childers about supply chain collapse from the incident in Baltimore.

    The whole shipping world has changed since the extended drought in Panama has choked down that key Pacific to Gulf to Atlantic passage. I watched an interview with a Maersk executive early this morning in which he described their strategy to avoid the Panama Canal if at all possible.

    Pacific Rim business now stays in that region and Europe/USACanada stays in the Atlantic. This is what most shippers are doing. It means they are loading all the containers on trains eastbound for American destinations rather than offloading those containers in Houston, New Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile or Tampa.

    This is not good news for the USA’s Gulf ports. It also means Warren Buffett will make billions more since he owns Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.

    Pacific container tonnage was already expected to increase significantly because of the Panama problems and a looming longshoremen’s strike in Gulf and East Coast ports later this year.

    Port of Baltimore doesn’t even make the top five East Coast container port list. New York, New Jersey, Savannah, Virginia, Charleston ports will be able to pick up the slack for Baltimore, especially with diminished shipping from the Pacific Rim.

    The least of the top five East Coast ports, Charleston, does about 2 million TEUs of container business each year. Baltimore handles about 850,000 TEUs per annum.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      I agree that a wholesale supply chain collapse is unlikely.
      The industry is pretty adaptable. The main impacts will be inflationary, as these goods are re-routed to ports farther away, thereby requiring longer truck routes and longer train routes.
      Baltimore port was #1 in handling coal exports and sugar imports. And consistently in the top two ports for auto/light truck imports & exports.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Also, Jeff Childers needs to educate himself about how port traffic operates. He doesn’t seem to understand local harbor pilots take over driving the ships from outside the ports to their assigned dock and back out again. Harbor pilots are local and assigned by the Harbor Master. This is standard procedure in every port in the world.

    Pilots are actually ferried out to the ships at anchor by special Port Authority boats and then picked after the ships are out to sea again.

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9YwK9fbS-wo/Vq5ATLquKBI/AAAAAAAAOHM/u4R5cpLlV9E/s1600-rw/gonna-die.jpg

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Comparison of Port Container Traffic:

    Baltimore – 850,000 TEUs / Houston 4,000,000 TEUs plus

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I found out the local hardware store has good sized seedlings for less than $2.00. Compare that to $5-$7 at some other locations. It does, however, have a very limited selection, but they had what I wanted, so it’s all good.

    I also dropped off my donations to Mr. Carmel for the Knights’ upcoming auction fundraiser. A handful of rosaries and chaplets, and some customized coffee cups. I left them at the door since it was their lunch hour.

    I like doing good deeds anonymously.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Another shipping note:

    Much of the South Asian seaborne traffic that would normally transit the Red Sea/Mediterranean/Atlantic route to the USA, Canada and South America is rerouting to Pacific routes.

  22. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Defining Allision

    An allision refers to a maritime incident where a moving vessel, such as a ship, boat, or barge, collides with a stationary object or structure. Crucially, in an allision, the object being struck is immobile, and it is the vessel itself that is in motion. This distinction sets allisions apart from collisions, where two or more moving vessels collide with each other.

    Types of Allisions

    Allisions can encompass a wide range of scenarios, depending on the type of stationary object involved. Common types of allisions include:

    • Dock Allision: When a vessel strikes a dock or pier.
    • Wharf Impact: Involves contact with a wharf or quay.
    • Bridge Allision: Occurs when a vessel collides with a bridge, often leading to damage to both the vessel and the structure.
    • Buoy or Beacon Allision: Involves striking navigational aids such as buoys or beacons.

    Each type of allision comes with its own set of challenges, implications, and potential consequences

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    However, Pilots do not necessarily always take the helm.

    According to an official statement adopted by the Trustees of the American Pilots’ Association in 1997: Navigation of a vessel in U.S. pilotage waters is considered to be a shared responsibility between the pilot and the master/bridge crew. The compulsory state pilot directs the navigation of the vessel subject to the master’s overall command of the vessel and the ultimate responsibility for its safety. The master has the right, and in fact the duty, to intervene or to displace the pilot in circumstances where the pilot is manifestly incompetent or incapacitated or the vessel is in immediate danger due to the pilot’s actions. With that limited exception, U.S. law (as well as international law) requires the master and/or the officer in charge of the watch to “cooperate closely with the pilot and maintain an accurate check on the ship’s position and movement.”

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Yeah, thanks for the clarification. I knew this but I wasn’t clear in my comment at 1:11 PM. I’m trying to do three or four things at once right now.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When I was a young, 23 year old welder working on barges on the Houston Ship Channel, I really wanted to get licensed and train as a Harbor Pilot. When I asked my shipyard owner boss about it, he asked me if I had a brother, uncle or cousin in the Pilots’ Association. I said no and his reply was: That is about the only way you’ll be able to work as a pilot without waiting 12 or 15 years.

  25. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    One serious question arising from the bridge incident is why there were no bollards or other protective structures around the bridge support?

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Well when they built this bridge back in the 1970’s the Star Chamber Richard Nixon had already decided they were he was going to take this bridge down and how. Bollards would have gotten in the way. This crash was planned that far back

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      How are you going to build bollards large enough and stable enough to stop a vessel as large and heavy as the MV Dali ?

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ten ships — not including the Dali — are stuck inside the Port of Baltimore, according to a new update by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. They are comprised of: three bulk carriers, one vehicle carrier, three logistics naval vessels, two general cargo ships and one oil chemical tanker.
    An additional vehicle carrier is in the port but outside the site of the bridge collapse.
    This list does not include additional tugboats, sailboats and private yachts that are also in a holding pattern as the Port of Baltimore remains closed.
    — abc7chicago

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      The demurrage charges on those ships stranded in port and charges for those that were forced to reposition are racking up – quickly. The chemical tanker could cost in excess of $100 LARGE/day just by itself. Maersk, the operator of the ship, is liable because they caused the accident.
      Biden couldn’t obligate our children and grandchildren fast enough to pay for the new bridge – he has no problem spending other people’s money.

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Everybody should read this old newspaper clipping about the decision in Baltimore to build a bridge instead of the planned tunnel back in the early 1970s. Approaches for the new tunnel had already been built when some engineer said, “Hey, we could save money with a bridge.”

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Cher says she will leave the US if Trump is elected. I thought she was dead.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Plastic surgery is holding her together.

  29. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    The polls are all lies like everything else from the cia run, mr potato head propagandist mockingbird media.

    they had the wooden dummy up by 20 points in Wisconsin in 2020 and he actually lost Wisconsin until they stole it back.

    they lie all the time. Look no further than the recent past.
    I listed many yesterday.

    and as far as no foul play involved in the ship collision goes I still say hold my beer.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hot off the ticker tape——- NWS predicts 25 hurricanes possible this year.

    https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9YwK9fbS-wo/Vq5ATLquKBI/AAAAAAAAOHM/u4R5cpLlV9E/s1600-rw/gonna-die.jpg

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Interesting discussion on secondary cancers. Sure makes me think about treatment if I ever find myself in that situation.
    https://thehighwire.com/editorial/keeping-us-sick-what-are-second-cancers-and-why-the-silence/

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Tracey Beanz and Michelle Edwards are The Bomb. Best ever investigative reporters making the MSM look like the nasty, little, mean 8th graders they are.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I see on Newsmax that Sen. Lieberman has passed away at age 82. He was a lib, and I disagreed with him on a lot of things, but he was one of the few Democrats that I respected. I think he had integrity and was able to at least listen to his opposition.

    RIP, sir.

  33. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Ronna Delecto Romney proved the deep state swamp alligator will always end up eating you.

    she got fired from the rnc and gladly joined the mr potato head-propagandist-mockingbird msdnc media. Subsequently she was practically forced to kneel and proclaim the wooden dummy was legitimately elected but the gator feasted on her carcass anyway and she got fired.

    no crocodile tears will be shed for you Ronna Delecto.

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    OOOOOOO Ronna McDaniel Romney….. she’s hot.
    I have on good authority that she is a Van Roth and chili with beans fan. Drives a Ford too and hates Waffle House.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I ain’t buying it. None of it.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Buhwhahahahahahahahaha

  35. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Brought to you by house of cards speaker Peter Popoff Johnson, bible in one hand and a plane load of illegal aliens in the other and his merry band of 100+ groupofCons band of backstabbers.

    https://twitter.com/4Mischief/status/1773073663073394906

  36. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    It was a good and honorable way for Joe to go out.

    I’m sorry I missed it. I listen to The Cats Roundtable almost everyday on WABC.

    No Labels founding Chair and former Sen.Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for a speech he made earlier this week in which he called for new elections in Israel.

    “For a U.S. Senator, let alone a majority leader, let alone the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in Washington, to tell Israelis that it’s time to get rid of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu], that’s outrageous,” Lieberman said in a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.

    The former Connecticut senator also referred to the speech as a “mistake” and said that he “can’t ever remember anything like it.”

    On Thursday, Schumer gave what he called a “major address” in which he said that Netanyahu’s “highest priority is the security of Israel,” but that he has “lost his way.”

    “However, I also believe Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel,” Schumer said.

    No Labels founding Chair and former Sen.Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for a speech he made earlier this week in which he called for new elections in Israel.“For a U.S. Senator, let alone a majority leader, let alone the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in Washington, to tell Israelis that it’s time to get rid of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu], that’s outrageous,” Lieberman said in a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.

    The former Connecticut senator also referred to the speech as a “mistake” and said that he “can’t ever remember anything like it.”

    On Thursday, Schumer gave what he called a “major address” in which he said that Netanyahu’s “highest priority is the security of Israel,” but that he has “lost his way.”

    “However, I also believe Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel,” Schumer said.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    We have a couple our age who are good friends. He’s a conservative and she has always been a hopeless, hardcore lefty.

    Her Highness had lunch with her today and she is so upset over the immigration insanity and inflation she almost admitted she was going to vote for Trump. I know her. If she goes into the voting booth and votes for Trump she will still claim to have voted for Biden.

    How many of those are out there ? Exit polling in November could be fun.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Wow. If it is who I think it is, that’s amazing.
      And a sign of hope.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        You didn’t get to meet this couple when you were here, unfortunately. Her son, about your niece’s age, lives now in San Antonio and is marrying a beautiful, very smart and successful psychologist there (Latina). They have been spending a lot of time in the Hill Country and I think it’s beginning to rub off on her.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been listening to the live NTSB press conference. I was watching Fox yesterday when a retired senior naval officer and former head of the NTSB was interviewed. He was obviously a conservative and said the NTSB is and may be the last federal agency to be un-politicized. He pointed out the Biden administration appointed the acting head of NTSB under Trump to officially run the agency. Apparently, it really is a hands-off, don’t touch outfit.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The NTSB spokeswoman (sorry El Gordo) was very impressive. She spoke for at least 30 or 45 minutes non-stop and was extremely thorough and detailed. She covered every question I would have about information her agency may logically have.

    I didn’t wait for the press questioning, but I am sure given this performance they must have been really stupid.

    I’ve done enough public speaking in my life to understand how hard her job is and to do it with confidence, without pause, hesitation or the slightest uhm. I’ve spent my life listening to male politicians and spokesmen stuttering, blabbering on like idiots to know the difference.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Prof. Mercogliano had another update today.
    Up until this event, his regular group of Commenters have been a thoughtful, intelligent group.
    But the “bridge disaster” has flushed out all of the conspiracy nut jobs, like a buncha roaches. What these idiots don’t know about ship operations would fill an ocean.

    Oh well. Just another great site where I refuse to read the comments.

  41. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    But the “bridge disaster” has flushed out all of the conspiracy nut jobs, like a buncha roaches.

    a result of a government and media that does nothing but lie 24.7.365 and is actively destroying the entire fabric of the country.

    so hold my beer.:)

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Sorta busy day, had one of the 16-y-o cats at the vet for annual checkup, and while he is in good shape for his age, it is time to transition him to more testing for organs like the kidneys that start showing their age sooner than the rest of him. He and his 2 brothers are also going to need to be phased into eating age-appropriate cat foods.I sure hope they like it when I start switching their diets this coming weekend.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA are turning out ballot chasers in Maricopa County. To start. Finally, someone on our side trying to play the Democrat turn-out-the-vote game.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Charlie Kirk. Conservative hero.
    Growing the base like no one else.
    God bless him.

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