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Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison by a federal judge

Michael Casey
Associated Press
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:58 UTC
leaker
© Stefani Reynolds/AFPSuspected leaker Jack Teixeira • The Pentagon
A federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison Tuesday for leaking classified military documents about the war in Ukraine, actions prosecutors said put the country's national security at risk, endangered other military members and damaged U.S. relationships with its allies.

Jack Teixeira had pleaded guilty in March to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act, nearly a year after his arrest in the most consequential national security breach in years. Wearing an orange jumpsuit in court, he showed no reaction as he was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani.

"Today, Mr. Teixeira has paid a very heavy price for laws he broke, for the incredible damage that he caused," Acting Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Josh Levy said afterward. "This significant sentence sends a powerful message to every individual who holds a top secret clearance. Anyone who willfully threatens our national security by illegally disseminating classified information will face very serious repercussions."


Comment: It's very likely Teixeria was a patsy, thrown to the wolves by the intelligence agencies. This is what Kash Patel, one of Donald Trump's top national security aides, said last year:
"It's just not possible" for Teixeira to have had access to such a highly sensitive trove, Kash Patel, Trump's former deputy director of national intelligence, told Breitbart News.

"You can be the biggest IT person in [the Department of Defense], and you are still compartmented off of the actual information," Patel explained.

Patel said he does not believe "for a single second" that "this guy — a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman — ran his operation alone."

Instead, he said, the explosive revelations are likely part of "an Assange-style operation" — referring to the WikiLeaks founder who faces espionage charges for helping U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files.

"The way it was produced, the way it was put out there — pages, printed photographs taken, published online — that is a methodical way of releasing classified information illegally," Patel said — calling Teixiera's arrest "an extensive cover-up."

Comment: Previously:

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Best of the Web: Force Evacuation and Smash the Camps - The Israeli Genocide Continues Unabated

Seymour Hersh
Substack
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:15 UTC
gaza
© Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images.Displaced people use animal-drawn carts for transportation in Deir al-Balah on the central Gaza Strip on November 20
A report from inside Gaza

Israel, fortified by bombs and funding from the Biden administration, is escalating the forced evacuation of hundreds of thousands from the north of Gaza to the south, amid fierce bombing and the deprivation of food and water for those who stay behind. This is continuing amid marches and other demonstrations sponsored by the religious right in Israel whose leadership also is calling for north Gaza to be turned over to Israeli settlers. What was a worrisome rumor in Gaza more and more seems like a reality.

Control over all of Gaza and the West Bank is the core demand of the religious right in Israel that now dominates the government. I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future — perhaps in two weeks — in the hope that the decisive step will end, once and for all, any talk of a two-state solution and will convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned reconstruction of Gaza. Arab communities in the West Bank have been under increasingly violent pressure from Israeli police and armed settler attacks have become a sad staple of life.
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Attention

Keeeeeeeeevvvvv (One More Time)

Eric Peters
EricPetersAuto.com
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:27 UTC
Chwala Dictator
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Maybe now we know why the senile old grifter who was humiliated on national TV back in June was seen on TV beaming with bonhomie at last week's sit-down with incoming president Trump, who humiliated him on national TV. Maybe he - the senile old grifter, that is - knows that Trump will not be incoming. On account of what may be incoming any day now.

Idi Amin
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From Russia.

The people wanting a real war with Russia are doing everything they can to start it. They have provided weapons - missiles - to the dictator of Ukraine (accuracy is important; Zelensky cancelled elections and so is a "president" in the same way that Idi Amin was one) and have all-but-actually fired those missiles themselves, leaving the actual button-pushing to token Ukrainians for appearances sake.

Those missiles have now been fired into Russia, which by definition constitutes an act of war. Russia now has every legal (under international law) and moral right to defend itself against these attacks, just the same as the United States
Robot and Putin
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would if it were subjected to missile barrages fired by Russian proxies that everyone knows are Russian proxies. The fig leaf that it isn't Russians- or Ukrainians - actually pushing the button is just that.

No one's buying it.

The question at hand now is whether the Russians will respond to it.

More finely, will he?
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Attention

Transhumanism the Death of God, and Eternal War

Todd Hayen
Off-Guardian
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:19 UTC
Transhumanism
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It seems that the idea of transhumanism as a major force in this current global debacle is often put on the back burner and is considered a bit too extreme to really be taken seriously.

But if I was cornered and asked what I thought the three most significant, and horrifying, elements of this present human challenge were, I would say transhumanism (the destruction of humanity as a group of naturally-made humans), the attempt to kill God, and the waging of eternal war in the world. The primary method used to accomplish all of this is global collectivism.

The assault that all three of these things illustrate essentially boils down to the same basic fundamental endeavour — good vs evil. Good is defined as God's creation (and if you don't believe in God, just say "nature's creation") and evil is defined as the annihilation of God's creation (or nature's creation).

All three of these things stated in the title of this article are activities, profoundly human activities, and are all disguised as some necessary element in sustaining the "good" life. Which is about as ironic as you can get.

Transhumanism is disguised as technological progress in the spirit of maintaining a suffer-less life and extending that life as long as possible — improving on a fundamentally faulty creation. The death of God (of course no one or thing can "kill" God, but you know what I mean) is necessary for self-preservation (physical life).

God restricts us, or so they say, and it is inhuman to be beholding to any sort of powerful entity (assuming that God actually fits that limited definition). So clearly God (or the concept of God) must be destroyed if man is to take His place creating medical advancement to avoid the single thing a material human fears the most — death.

Destroying God creates at the same time the notion that physical life is the end-all of existence and that without God we are free to be God and create technology that knows how to sustain life better than God ever did, or ever will.

Never-ending war is more of a current technicality than a philosophical necessity. War is presently necessary to keep the fear of death alive, which is necessary to keep the techno-medical wheels turning, which is necessary to keep the desperation for never-ending life and physical "safety" alive.

War can be a variety of things, it can be the old-fashioned sort of war where men and women run around in open fields and get shot at or blown up in a variety of ways, or it can be the war of disease through pandemics, cancers, poisons a person eats, drinks, is jabbed with, or breathes. War of these sorts creates fears, which creates efforts to stay alive and safe, which creates compliance to the World Order which is calling the shots — no pun intended.

See how smoothly all of this works?

Let me present a bit of detail on each of these three concepts.
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Explosion

SOTT Focus: High-Precision, Long-Range NATO Missiles Against Russia: Why Now?

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:53 UTC
Ukraine map buffer zone
Russia announced a change to its nuclear doctrine several months ago, where it can now respond with nuclear weapons to a non-nuclear attack on Russia by an enemy, either directly from enemy territory or from the territory of a third party. A notable caveat however is that such a response would only occur in the event that the attack "threatened the very existence of the Russian state."
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Ukrainian attacks could merit nuclear response against NATO - Medvedev


RT
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:15 UTC
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
© Sputnik / Grigory SysoevDeputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
US President Joe Biden has reportedly granted Kiev permission to conduct long-range strikes deep inside Russia.

Moscow's revised nuclear doctrine permits retaliatory strikes against NATO for the kind of attacks that US President Joe Biden reportedly authorized last week, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned.

Washington has reportedly granted Kiev permission to use ATACMS ballistic missiles deep inside Russian territory. Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, warned on Tuesday that such actions would qualify as a threat warranting a nuclear response under the new doctrine, which President Vladimir Putin enacted earlier in the day.

In response to such an attack, "Russia reserves the right to retaliate with weapons of mass destruction against Kiev and key NATO facilities, wherever they may be located," Medvedev said.
"This would amount to World War III," he added.

Comment: See also:

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USA

What do Trump, Black Rock and the Wall Street giants have in common?

Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:12 UTC
Trump
© SCF
Trump or Harris, to American finance not much changes

Larry Fink. One name, one guarantee. The billionaire CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, was already clear in October at a conference hosted by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association: "I'm tired of hearing that this is the biggest election of your lifetime. The reality is that over time it doesn't matter." Because the important fact is that both Dems and Reps have ongoing investments with the financial giant, as Fink explained, "we work with both administrations and we're having conversations with both candidates."

BlackRock has, therefore, a revolving door with the U.S. government. Veterans of the asset manager held senior positions in Treasury in the Joe Biden administration. A BlackRock executive was also a key economic adviser to Kamala Harris. Trump's Treasury, on the other hand, was run by former Goldman Sachs IT director Steven Mnuchin, who made his fortune as a hedge fund manager and ended up with political offices.

The challenge of the 2024 U.S. election was a race to see who could get the most support from Wall Street.

Trump is very sympathetic to international finance: as president he significantly reduced taxes on the wealthy, leading billionaires to pay less than the working class. In 2018, the 400 richest U.S. households paid an average effective tax rate of 23 percent, lower than the average 24.2 percent paid by the bottom 50 percent of households. Calculations in hand, the richest 5 percent of Americans would see a tax cut of at least 1.2 percent, while the bottom 95 percent of people will have to pay more, including a 4.8 percent tax increase for the poorest 20 percent of the country. One of the main funders of Trump's presidential campaigns, in 2024 and 2020, is the billionaire CEO of Blackstone, Stephen Schwarzman (coincidentally Zionist), considered Wall Street's largest political donor, who in 2022 was proclaimed the highest paid CEO in the U.S. financial services industry. Consistent with turbo-capitalist logic, Blackstone, which owns the largest number of rental housing units in the U.S., has been evicting tenants en masse, contributing to the homelessness crisis, which grew by 12 percent in 2023.

Although BlackRock and Blackstone are two different companies, they have common histories, and BlackRock owns 6.56 percent of Blackstone, making it the second largest shareholder. Case in point? Blackstone's largest shareholder is Vanguard, which holds a 9.05 percent stake. The fourth largest shareholder is State Street, which holds 4.12 percent.

BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are known as the "big three" U.S. index fund managers. In a 2017 paper, it was noted that the Big Three are the largest shareholders of 438 companies in the S&P 500, an index composed of the 500 largest companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges. These 438 companies made up 88 percent of the total number of companies in the S&P 500 and accounted for 82 percent of the index's market capitalization at the time.

Oligarchy is the factual political form of the United States of America.

Let's come to the just concluded elections: they were the second most expensive in American history, after the 2020 election. It may be a coincidence, but in the last 20 years, the most Wall Street-funded candidates are the ones who won the House and Senate elections. No correlation?
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Monkey Wrench

US and UK considering new Nord Stream-style attacks - Putin aide


RT
Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:17 UTC
Nord Stream sabotage
© Getty Images / Swedish Coast Guard
Such incidents are needed by the West to sow chaos and to advance its interests, Nikolay Patrushev says

The US and the UK are considering staging new attacks on critical undersea infrastructure reminiscent of the Nord Stream pipelines bombing, Nikolay Patrushev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has said.

Patrushev, who led Russia's Security Council for over a decade before assuming his new role this year, made the remarks in an interview with the Kommersant daily published on Monday.

"According to available information, the Americans and the British are viewing the sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines as one of many methods to advance their economic interests. They could attack other infrastructure facilities, including undersea fiber optic cables that provide communications throughout the world," Patrushev stated.

Comment:
Comment 1)
A week later there is this related article:
Undersea data cable between Germany and Finland broken 18 Nov 2024 16:18
Authorities in Finland are investigating the cause of a broken underwater cable in the Baltic Sea which runs southwest to Germany.

State-owned data service provider Cinia reported on Monday that a fault had been detected in the C-Lion1 cable.
Comment 2)
The damaged cable runs to Germany. Incidentally, the German Chancellor has been dragging his feet on an important issue for quite some time, and possibly more serious, continues to do so.
Just before the rupture of the cable was reported, there was:
18 Nov, 2024 13:24
Germany rules out U-turn on Ukraine missiles
Chancellor Olaf Scholz continues to oppose donating long-range Taurus weapons, despite US president Joe Biden reportedly allowing Kiev to use ATACMS

The German government has no intention of approving the supply of long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine for strikes deep into Russia, despite a reported shift on the issue in the US, according to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.

US President Joe Biden has granted Ukraine limited permission for long-range strikes against targets deep inside Russia with American-donated ATACMS missiles, multiple news outlets reported on Sunday. Moscow has said any such attacks would cross a red line and would constitute a direct act of war with a NATO country. The US, UK, and France previously provided long-range weapons to Ukraine, but Germany has refused to do so.

The decision by Washington "doesn't change our assessment at the moment," Pistorius told reporters on Monday, when asked if Chancellor Olaf Scholz would lift his ban on sending Taurus air-launched missiles to Kiev. Currently there is "no reason to make a different decision," Pistorius added, speaking during a visit to a helicopter plant in Bavaria. Instead, the German military intends to provide 4,000 drones that use AI-assisted piloting, he said.

Washington informed Berlin about the policy change in advance, a German government spokesman said. The Foreign Ministry stressed that none of the German weapons donated to Ukraine is considered long-range.

Scholz has justified his refusal to give Taurus missiles to the Ukrainian military by saying that the move would make Germany a direct party to the conflict. The chancellor has been criticized for his position by some of his partners in the now-failed ruling coalition as well as some senior opposition figures.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock welcomed the reports about Biden's decision. Her party, the Greens, "sees this issue in the same way as our Eastern European partner, the British, the French and the Americans," the official said in an interview with RBB Inforadio on Monday.

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, an MP from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who chairs the Bundestag Defense Committee, has called the reported American move long overdue. Speaking on Deutschlandfunk radio, she urged Scholz to change his mind on Taurus donations.

The Greens and the FDP were junior partners in the coalition led by Scholz's Social Democrats, which collapsed earlier this month. The Christian Democrats, the leading German opposition party, supports sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine. Other politicians who have been critical of the entire Western approach to the conflict have enjoyed a surge in popularity this year.

Germany is widely expected to hold a snap federal election in early 2025.
See also this article: 12 Nov, 2024 Germany: Comatose and Without Sovereignty

Comment 3)
Apart from not officially authorizing long range missiles, Scholz has from the perspective of Kiev, and probably the UK, other issues:
15 Nov: Putin and Scholz hold first phone call in two years - Berlin
15 Nov: Kremlin confirms call with Germany's Scholz
15 Nov: Zelensky says he opposed Putin-Scholz call
Kiev is against Western leaders talking to Moscow about negotiating an end to the conflict
16 Nov: Lavrov questions Scholz's stance on Ukraine
In a phone call with Vladimir Putin, the German chancellor said Berlin will support Kiev "for as long as necessary"
17 Nov: Kremlin comments on Putin-Scholz call
17 Nov: Trudeau backs Scholz's call to Putin over Ukraine
The Canadian PM says Kiev can only hope to end the conflict on its own terms if it is supported by the incoming US administration
17 Nov: Germany's Scholz reveals details of Putin call
The Russian president's stance on Ukraine has not changed, the chancellor told reporters
18 Nov: UK PM reacts to Putin-Scholz call
Keir Starmer says he does not plan to follow the German chancellor's example and speak with the Russian leader
Comment 4)
The leaders of the EU alliance as a whole do not share the hesitation of the German Chancellor on the issue of missiles. At least there is:
19 Nov, 2024 14:51
EU's Borrell backs US ATACMS missiles U-turn
The bloc should follow the American lead and allow Kiev to use long-range missiles for strikes deep into Russia, the top diplomat has said
Regarding a common stance among EU nations, the bloc's foreign policy chief said this was an individual decision for each country. "Some member states are already doing that, openly, and others, they are doing it without saying it," he added.
And Nov 19: Kiev fires ATACMS missiles at Russia's Bryansk Region - MOD

Comment 5)
From the same source as the main article, there is more on the recently ruptured cables:
19 Nov, 2024 16:23
Germany suspects sabotage after damage to undersea cables
Infrastructure operators have reported two incidents, affecting several NATO states

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday that the rupture of two internet cables under the Baltic Sea, connecting NATO member states, appears to be a coordinated act of sabotage.

Infrastructure operators reported the severing of two separate lines on Sunday and Monday. Over the past year, several similar incidents have occurred in the area. In one such case, Finland and Estonia were quick to point the finger at Russia - only to discover later that a Chinese cargo ship's anchor had caused the breakage.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, Pistorius referred to the latest incidents, saying: "No one believes that these cables were severed by accident."

According to Pistorius, "with this in mind, we have to state - not knowing exactly who is behind it - that we're talking about a hybrid" attack. The German defense minister added that there was a "clear indication that something is going on here."

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, along with her Finnish colleague Elina Valtonen, stated that "the fact that such an incident immediately raises the suspicion of deliberate damage speaks volumes about the instability of our time."

Cinia, a Finnish state-owned data services provider, reported the breakage of its C-Lion1 on Monday evening. The line spans some 1,173-kilometers (729 miles), connecting the Finnish capital, Helsinki, to the German city of Rostock. According to the infrastructure operator, the damaged section is situated in Swedish waters, away from the main maritime routes in the area. Cinia's representatives said they suspected anchor-related damage. A spokesperson told reporters: "at the moment, there isn't a possibility to assess the reason for the cable break."

The C-Lion1 runs close to the now-defunct Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines, which were put out of operation by several underwater explosions in September 2022. While the Western media has claimed a group of Ukrainian desperados pulled off the act of sabotage, Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have pointed the finger at the US.

On Sunday, another underwater cable - the BCS East-West-Interlink, which connects Lithuania to Sweden - was also reported to have been seriously damaged. The cause has not been identified.

Last Monday, Nikolay Patrushev, who previously led Russia's Security Council and is currently an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, alleged that the US and UK were considering attacks on "infrastructure facilities, including undersea fiber optic cables."
Comment 6)
In the above article there was about the break that happened to the line between Helsinki and Rostock, [Rostock is in Germany, but notice the etymology: *ras-tokŭ, Slavic for "fork of a river"!]
Cinia, a Finnish state-owned data services provider, reported the breakage of its C-Lion1 on Monday evening.
[..]
According to the infrastructure operator, the damaged section is situated in Swedish waters, away from the main maritime routes in the area.
And on the same day as the above communication line rupture, there was this news from Sweden:
Nov 19: Millions of Swedes receive 'How To Survive War' booklet from government
On Monday the government of Sweden began issuing pamphlets advising its population on how to survive an unexpected disastrous war scenario, at a moment tensions are on edge with Russia, and after weekend reports saying the Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to conduct long-range missile strikes on Russian territory using US-supplied weapon systems.
In the report, Germany suspects sabotage after damage to undersea cables, there was also:
On Sunday, another underwater cable - the BCS East-West-Interlink, which connects Lithuania to Sweden - was also reported to have been seriously damaged.
Again Sweden and this time Lithuania, home for the German (again Germany)"NATO forward presence" battle group, while the UK is in Estonia, (with a border not far from Saint Petersburg), Canada in Latvia, and the US in Poland, (borders Kaliningrad).

Comment 7)
In view of what has happened in the last ten days, the claim that "US and UK considering new Nord Stream-style attacks" appears to have moved from a possibility to a reality. Besides, in another article Leaks have exposed secret British military cell plotting to 'keep Ukraine fighting' there was:
Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train "Gladio"-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.

Emails and internal documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war "at all costs." Convened under the direction of the British Ministry of Defense in the immediate aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the cell referred to itself as Project Alchemy. As British leadership sabotaged peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, the cell put forward an array of plans "to keep Ukraine fighting" by imposing "strategic dilemmas, costs and frictions upon Russia."

The leaks obtained by The Grayzone expose a hidden hand behind Britain's policy in Ukraine, showing in unusually granular detail how it aimed to engineer a long, grinding war through covert operations that stretched the bounds of legality.
Much of what goes on in our world we will probably never come to know. This also goes for the details of the recently ruptured cables in the Baltic Sea. Although there are headlines like West wants to escalate conflict - Moscow the "West" is not entirely united. Is part of the conflict against Russia aimed at damaging one or more areas of the EU? Or is it more general and global? Do we live in epic times, allowed to be witnesses as long as we are still alive?

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Kiev fires ATACMS missiles at Russia's Bryansk Region - MOD


RT
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:38 UTC
atacms
© Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Dickson/U.S. Army via AP
The Ukrainian military has launched multiple US-made ATACMS missiles at Russia's Bryansk Region, some of which have been intercepted, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

US President Joe Biden reportedly authorized the use of American-supplied weapons for strikes deep inside Russia last week. Moscow had previously said that long-range strikes with Western weapons would constitute a direct war between NATO and Russia.

According to the statement, Kiev fired six long-range ballistic missiles identified as ATACMS early on Tuesday morning. Five of them were intercepted with S-400 and Pantsir air defense systems, while another was damaged and hit the ground at a Russian military site in Bryansk Region, causing a fire that was quickly dealt with. The Russian military claimed that no damage was caused by the incident.
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Trump To Declare National Emergency To Conduct Mass Deportations

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:36 UTC
trump
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he will declare a national emergency to carry out mass deportations.

In response to Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton's post on Truth Social that Trump was "prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program," Trump replied "TRUE!!"

"On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program ... in the history of our country," Trump said at one of his final campaign events in Pittsburgh on Nov. 4, a day before the election. "I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded ... and we will put the vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail."
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