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NNA Breaking News Update 11/26/98
1. A racial scam
2. Black woman faces prison for sending fake hate mail
3. Teacher in `Nappy Hair' book flap can return to classroom
4. Legal rules have changed, allowing federal agents, prosecutors
to bypass basic rights
5. Study says blacks get high mortgages
World News
6. Jewish Politician's home sprayed with machine-gun fire
7. Russian writer applaudes Anti-Semitic comments
8. France to Expel Illegal Immigrants
9. Neo-nazi groups call for Argentina to be cleansed of illegal
immigrants
10. Schlierer remains as leader of German Republicans
11. Australian PM rejects memorial for Aborigines
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This Week on American Dissident Voices
Why War?
by Dr. William Pierce
National Alliance Chairman
Dr. Pierce discusses the situation in the Middle East.
War has been averted, but for how long? The United States
devotion to Israel is endangering our national security,
not helping it.
http://www.natall.com/internet-radio/
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[I somehow missed this story from a few days ago. This Black woman
is my old "friend," whose accusations against me the Palm Beach
Post was so eager to print last year. Needless to say, they didn't
mention her conviction. I am, of course, the "Ku Klux Klan leader
in Florida" and the "leader of a racist group" whom she called and
claimed called her with harassing messages. - Don Black]
A racial scam
Ken Hamblin
11/24/98
Denver Post
There was a note in the National News Briefing section of my
hometown newspaper last week about a black woman who had been
convicted of trying to defraud United Parcel Service by writing
racial epithets on packages and forwarding them to herself and
selected black leaders.
Sadly, reading about the unethical action of Angela Jackson , 28,
of St. Paul Minn., was not completely surprising to me. I
discovered long ago that some African Americans who have been
indoctrinated with the philosophy of omnipresent white racism
will stop at nothing to develop scenarios to match that fear when
it suits their needs. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press,
Minnesota authorities had accused Jackson of nine counts of
trying to collect $150,000 from UPS by asserting that its
employees were white racists who allegedly belonged to racist
organizations and thus had deliberately damaged four packages
containing art works shipped to her by defacing them on the
outside with racial epithets and smearing a substance akin to
feces on the contents inside.
The federal grand jury that indicted Jackson concluded that to
make her plight seem real, Jackson shipped 28 packages containing
racially offensive materials - one to herself and the others to
prominent blacks including the Revs. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton
and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume.
Set aside any illusion that Jackson was an ignorant child of the
ghetto. When she developed her case of fraud against UPS, Jackson
had already been a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and
was then enrolled in William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul.
She also was the co-owner of Afro-Centric Arts of Michigan Avenue
Inc., a company she reportedly formed prior to launching her
scheme to defraud UPS.
The Pioneer Press reported that the Jackson caper began when she
claimed four packages containing art works shipped to her in
December 1996 were damaged and defaced with racially offensive
scrawls. She tried to retrieve the $150,000 insurance she claimed
from UPS, asserting damaged goods.
After investigation UPS denied her claim, whereupon she said she
planned to sue for $500,000 in damages and emotional distress.
The Pioneer Press reported that: "Jackson also said she received
dozens of harassing calls on her home and business phone lines
for four or five days after delivery. The caller would either
mutter a brief slur or hang up without speaking.
"She said some of those calls had been traced to a Ku Klux Klan
leader in Florida."
When Jackson's big lie began to fall apart, authorities threw the
book at her. She was also charged with mail fraud in what
prosecutors said was an effort to discredit a Chicago police
sergeant who arrested her.
The indictment said Jackson bought mail-order items with her
credit card and had them delivered to the officer's home in an
effort to make it appear the officer had stolen her credit card.
What makes Angela Jackson tick? As far as I am concerned, she is
just another dusky hustler trying to turn a quick buck, relying
on America's gullibility and guilt concerning white racism. I
suppose I should comment with wonder on what ill-fated ghetto
doctrine of black victimization put Jackson up to her scheme. But
that's no big deal. Today it has become common knowledge - at
least in Jackson's African- American community - that if you make
the accusation loud enough and bold enough white corporate
America usually cuts and runs to make a deal.
Unfortunately there are a lot of Angela Jacksons in America.
They pursue their sick schemes in many scenarios in the
work-a-day world.
I still have to wonder about the characters of the so-called
black civil rights leaders like Jackson, Sharpton and Mfume
though.
Wouldn't honorable men want to speak out to discredit such misuse
of their true causes? To the best of my knowledge, even after
Jackson has been convicted and is awaiting sentencing of up to
five years and $250,000 on each of the nine fraud counts, not a
single word has been uttered from any of them about the unfounded
damage Angela Jackson sought to inflict on UPS.
I guess, when you think about it, it's unlikely they'll talk. The
last thing the African American professional victim society
wishes to do is cue corporate America to the fact that cashing in
on the "I'm a minority victim" scheme has become so lucrative as
to be ludicrous. Ken Hamblin (B...@CIS.COM; Web page:
http://www.hamblin.com) writes Tuesdays and Sundays in The Post
and hosts a syndicated radio talk show.
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Black woman faces prison for sending fake hate mail
CHICAGO, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A former law student faces more than five
years in prison for sending hate mail to herself and several prominent
African Americans, including Illinois congressmen Jesse Jackson Jr.
and
Bobby Rush.
Prosecutors say Angela Jackson, who is also black, tried to extort
money from the United Parcel Service by making it look like the mail
was
being sent by white supremacist elements at the shipping company.
Jackson, 28, was convicted Friday of nine counts of mail and wire
fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. She will be sentenced
Feb. 17.
Prosecutors say Jackson tried to extort thousands of dollars in
damages from UPS because of lost, damaged and racially offensive
packages.
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[After racial epithets are yelled at a white teacher, she may refuse
to return to class. Democracy and tolerance at their best.]
Teacher in `Nappy Hair' book flap can return to classroom
NEW YORK (AP) - A white teacher accused of racial insensitivity for
using a children's book entitled ``Nappy Hair'' with her mostly
black and Hispanic third-graders will be allowed to return the
classroom, school officials said Wednesday.
Ruth Sherman, 27, was temporarily transferred out of Public School
75 in Bushwick, N.Y., after being confronted by parents and other
residents at a meeting Monday.
Board of Education spokesman J.D. LaRock said Wednesday that
school officials believe Miss Sherman ``may have used poor
judgment'' in choosing a book whose title may offend some people.
But he said there would be no disciplinary action.
``Nappy Hair,'' which has received rave reviews, including one
from the New York Times, is about a little girl with the
``nappiest, fuzziest, the most screwed up, squeezed up, knotted
up'' hair.
Its author, Carolivia Herron, who is a black, said the book is
based on a story her elderly uncle tells about her at family
gatherings.
``The idea that it is a racist book is ridiculous,'' said Ms. Herron,
an assistant professor at California State University at Chico.
Meanwhile, Miss Sherman said she was disturbed by racial epithets
yelled at her during Monday's meeting, and that she might choose
not return to the classroom
``I don't want to teach in an area where people in the community
think they can come out and threaten a teacher,'' she said.
She said she will make her decision on whether to return prior to
a Monday meeting. Under union rules, teachers can request a transfer
if they have been threatened.
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Legal rules have changed, allowing federal agents, prosecutors to
bypass basic rights
Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Loren Pogue had never been involved with drugs until a government
informant tied him to a phony real estate deal after lying about a
drug
cartel link. The informant got cash for the information. Pogue, 65,
got
22 years in prison, even though he’s still not sure why he was the
target of an investigation to begin with.
Loren Pogue has served eight years of a 22-year federal prison
sentence on drug conspiracy and money laundering charges.
Pogue, a Missouri native, never bought drugs, never sold them, never
held them, never used them, never smuggled them, never even saw them.
But because federal prosecutors allowed a paid government informant to
lie about Pogue’s involvement in the sale of a parcel of land to
supposed drug smugglers, he was convicted. Under tough federal
sentencing guidelines, a judge had no choice but to give the Air Force
veteran what might effectively be a death sentence.
Pogue father of 27 children, 15 of them adopted is 65. He doesn’t
expect to leave prison alive, and as details later in this story will
show, he is baffled that the government he served for more than 30
years worked so hard to betray him.
In another case, hundreds of miles away, federal agents interrogated
businessman Dale Brown for four hours at a Houston, Texas, warehouse.
When he tried to leave, they stopped him. When he asked for a lawyer,
they refused to get him one.
After Brown finally was charged in a government sting called Operation
Lightning Strike, federal prosecutors denied that the warehouse
interrogation had even happened. They said the dozen others who
reported the same coercive tactics in the sting were making it up,
too.
Federal sting operations are supposed to snare criminals, but in
Operation Lightning Strike, federal agents spent millions of dollars
entrapping innocent people who worked on the periphery of the U.S.
space program.
The evidence against them was contrived. The guilty pleas were
coerced. Those who fought the charges won.
Brown said all it cost him was his business, his savings, his family
and his health.
In Florida, prisoners call the scam "jumping on the bus," and it is as
tantalizing as it is perverse. Inmates in federal prisons barter or
buy
information that only an insider to a crime could know often from
informants with access to confidential federal crime files.
The prisoners memorize it and get others to do the same. Then, to win
sentence reductions, they testify about crimes that might have been
committed while they were in prison, by people they’ve never met, in
places they’ve never been. The scam succeeds only because of the tacit
approval of federal law enforcement officers.
Cocaine smuggler Jose Goyriena used "jump on the bus" testimony to
help
federal prosecutors put three men in prison for life, and he was set
to
do it again for prosecutors who promised to cut his 27 year sentence
by
10 years or more.
Prosecutors knew Goyriena had bragged about his lies to cellmates, but
the prosecutors didn’t reveal what they’d heard to any of the men
Goyriena had helped condemn violating one of the fundamental tenets of
American justice. It was defense attorneys who finally caught Goyriena
in the scam.
Loren Pogue, above, was caught in a government sting driven by a
paid informant. When the sting failed to snare big-time drug dealers,
the informant trapped someone he knew: Pogue.
In this nation’s war on crime, something has gone terribly wrong.
A two-year investigation by the Post-Gazette found that powerful new
federal laws designed to snare terrorists, drug smugglers and
pornographers are being aimed at business owners, engineers and petty
criminals.
Whether suspects are guilty has come to matter less than making sure
they are indicted or convicted or, more likely, coerced into pleading
guilty.
Promises of lenient sentences and huge government checks encourage
criminals to lie on the witness stand. Prosecutors routinely withhold
evidence that might help prove a defendant innocent. Some federal
agents work so closely with their undercover informants that they
become lawbreakers themselves.
Those who practice this misconduct are almost never penalized or
disciplined. "It’s a result-oriented process today, fairness be
damned," said Robert Merkle, whom President Ronald Reagan appointed
U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, serving from 1982
to 1988.
"The philosophy of the past 10 to 15 years [is] that whatever works
is what’s right."
The Justice Department did not respond to questions the newspaper
posed in writing about concerns raised in this series. Nor would
it return phone calls requesting comment.
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[The real reason that blacks can't get mortgages, or have to pay a
higher rate to secure a loan, is that they are considered high risk
for
loans. Irresponsible, prone to impulse buying, and astonishing stupid
about money matters, these blacks have only themselves to blame.]
Study says blacks get high mortgages
WASHINGTON - While fairness in mortgage lending has improved in recent
years, much new lending to blacks appears to come from
''subprime'' home loans with higher interest rates, a private group
says.
Officials of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, in
releasing a study Tuesday, said they were concerned that after a
few years of progress starting in 1994, the gap between minorities
and whites being denied home mortgages widened again in 1996-97.
''We see some disturbing things happening along racial lines,'' said
John Taylor, the group's president and chief executive officer. The
NCRC, a liberal group, advocates federal community-lending laws that
would require banks to set aside some loans for low-income and
minority communities where they do business.
The study was based on data submitted to the federal government by
banks, thrifts and mortgage companies. It is consistent with a
government survey issued last summer showing that financial
institutions are turning down blacks, Hispanics and American Indians
for home mortgage loans more often than whites, no matter what their
income.
The banking industry maintains that lenders continue to seek qualified
borrowers in minority communities.
''Lenders have made a very consistent push in serving minorities,''
said Judith Knight, director of the American Bankers Association's
Center for Community Development.
The recent increases in loan denial rates are likely due to a wider
range of people applying for mortgages, including many who are not
creditworthy, she suggested.
The new NCRC study also examined fast-growing subprime home loans,
designed for borrowers with weaker credit records who are considered
higher risks.
It found that 19% of all single-family home loans to blacks -
including mortgages, refinancing and home improvement - were subprime,
compared with 6.9% of such loans to whites and 8.6% to Hispanics.
''Blacks are the best customers of subprime lenders,'' said Maurice
Jourdain-Earl, a consultant who helped conduct the study.
He and Taylor questioned whether black consumers, who they said are
more likely than whites to be offered subprime loans, are being
unfairly targeted for the higher-rate loans.
However, they acknowledged it is impossible to prove racial
discrimination by subprime lenders, since the black applicants'
creditworthiness isn't included in the data and it isn't known whether
they would have qualified for a standard loan.
Compared with the standard home mortgage rate of around 6.5% to 7
percent, subprime loans can run from over 8% to as high as 15 percent,
and they often are loaded with extra fees.
With commercial banks tightening consumer credit standards for
standard loans in recent years, the subprime business has become the
only option for some. The subprime lending market is estimated at $200
billion nationwide and has been growing by as much as 50% a year.
As the industry has grown, critics say, so has the rise in unethical
opportunists who take advantage of people ready to jump at the first
offer of a home loan.
''They're preying on the ignorance of poor people,'' Taylor said.
The banking industry says subprime loans offer an opportunity for
people who are high credit risks to own a home.
The Justice Department started investigating subprime lenders this
year, trying to determine if they have discriminated or used deceptive
marketing practices. The inquiries are being pursued with the Federal
Trade Commission, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and
some state attorneys general.
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World News
Jewish Politician's home sprayed with machine-gun fire
ST. PETERSBURG RUSSIA (NNA Staff) Last night at 23:00 Moscow time, the
apartment of Legislative Council of St. Petersburg Serov, a Jew, was
sprayed with machine-gun fire. An investigation is in progress.
This is the second incident directed against the New World Order
pundits trying to grab power in economically depressed Russia.
Galina Starovoitova, 52, a Judeophile politician slated to be Russia's
next President and her bodyguard, Rusian Linkov, 27, were gunfire
victims last week. It is reported that last night's gunfire erupted at
the same exact time as the Starovoitova incident. Starovoitova died
from her wounds, while Linkov is expected to recover. Presently,
Linkov is under heavy guard.
Only 200 people bothered to publicly mourn the passing of Starovoitova
in a country that has long suffered under Jewish social engineering.
Starovoitova had recently spoken out on behalf of the Jews after a
Russian patriot, General Albert Makashov, made less than complimentary
remarks about Jews.
Jews had a heavy involvement in the Bolshevik revolution that claimed
the lives of over 20 million Russians and Ukrainians. Today, the Jews
pose as "capitalists" and comprise two-thirds of Russia's billionaires
while ethnic Russians are near starvation.
Jews make up only one half a per cent of the population of Russia.
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Russian writer applaudes Anti-Semitic comments
MOSCOW, Nov 22 (AFP) - Russian writer Valentin Rasputin said at
a congress of the Patriotic People's Union movement here on
Saturday, that those who denounced anti-semitism in Russia were
being anti-Russian, Interfax reported.
"When people denounce anti-semitism (in Russia), this is
Russophobia of the worst kind," said Rasputin who is a
prominent member of the PPU which brings together most
communist and nationalist groups in the country.
Another delegate from Vorkuta in the far north subsequently
launched into a virulent anti-semitic diatribe which like
Rasputin's remarks, was warmly applauded by the participants.
Nobody protested.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov was reelected as head of
the PPU at the congress, Interfax added.
"The regime is heading for defeat and the nationalist patriotic
forces are ready to take charge of the country's destiny," Zuuganov
said.
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France to Expel Illegal Immigrants
PARIS, Nov 24 (AFP) - France will progressively expel 60,000
illegal immigrants, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said
Tuesday, in comments that triggered a political storm.
"Our intention is for these people to leave the country
progressively," Jospin said, but he ruled out a systematic hunt for
illegals.
Jospin's remarks countered proposals by Greens and Communists in
the governing coalition for illegal immigrants to be given permanent
residence.
"We have already given papers to 80,000 men and women. That is
an extremely generous gesture. We did exactly what we said we would
do," Jospin said a radio interview.
France, Italy and Germany are fighting a wave of poor migrants
from eastern Europe, Asia and North Africa. The influx, at a time of
high unemployment, has helped to exacerbate racial tensions and
encouraged support for far-right parties.
Jospin said: "If you want to have integration, you have to stop
the migratory flows."
Illegal migrants who had been allowed to stay were given
authorisation on the basis of two criteria, he said: "The right to
live with one's family, and the demonstration of their will to
integrate into French society."
He added, however, that foreigners who were still in France but
had had their application for residence rejected would not face a
witch-hunt.
"We are not going to launch a hunt for them. They have made an
act of trust (by filing the application)... but if they undergo an
identity check, they are liable to be escorted to the border in
honourable conditions," Jospin said.
He hoped that many illegal immigrants would "spontaneously"
leave the country, and that the incoming numbers crossing illegally
into the country would also fall.
Jospin's remarks triggered an outcry in some quarters, with the
neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR) of President Jacques
Chirac accusing him of double-talk.
Jospin "has demonstrated his impotence," said the RPR's
Jean-Louis Debre. "He sowed hope, he got everyone to believe that
the government was going to give (illegal immigrants) right of
residence."
"He can't give them that, and now he admits, 'I can't do
anything.' The illegal immigrants are going to stay in the country,
and they have to go. They must, they must, they must."
RPR spokesman Francois Fillon said Jospin's idea of sending back
illegal immigrants who had been uncovered in identity checks was
simply an invitation for them to go underground.
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Neo-nazi groups call for Argentina to be cleansed of illegal
immigrants
Agence France-Presse
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 21 (AFP) - Neo-Nazis have called for "a new
Argentina free from illegal immigrants," the Pagina/12 newspaper
reported Saturday.
At meeting earlier in the week, neo-Nazi organizers urged a "new
political, social, moral and economic order for a New Argentina
without illegal immigrants who take our jobs and the bread from our
children's mouths," the paper said.
Pamphlets distributed during the event on Thursday also urged "every
hardworking, honest, courageous Argentine to join this great project
to be the fathers of a New Argentina."
About 100 skinheads, wearing black shirts and giving Nazi salutes,
cheered speakers in the Catholic Marista library -- 200 meters from
the Argentine Parliament.
But the organisers, the so-called Party for the New Social and
Patriotic Order, avoided any mention of Jews and banned Swastikas
so as not to contravene anti-discrimination laws, according to the
daily.
Organisers of the meeting included the leader of the party, Alejandro
Franze and Ruben Gioanini, who has been linked to anti-government
elements in the army.
The hall was also decked with the flags of the National Restoration
Movement and the National Concentration Party.
Library manager Guillermo Bobrik insisted that the hall had been
booked for a religious conference, although he admitted that on
another occasion it had been hired to Marcus Ghio -- one of the
organisers of Thursday's event.
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Schlierer remains as leader of German Republicans
Agence France-Presse
VILSBIBURG, Germany, Nov 21 (AFP) - Germany's far-right Republicans
re-elected Rolf Schlierer as their leader Saturday, closing the
door on a possible alliance with more extreme parties.
Schlierer, 43, a lawyer who took over the leadership from former
SS officer Franz Schoenhuber in 1994, received an overwhelming 318
votes from delegates at the party conference near the southern
German town of Vilsbiburg. Fifty-five deputies voted against him
and 11 abstained.
Schlierer is totally opposed to a possible coalition with the more
extreme Germany People's Union (DVU), which also performed poorly
in the country's September general elections.
After a spectacular electoral breakthrough in the 1996 regional
elections, gaining 9.1 percent of the vote in the southwestern
Baden-Wuerttemberg region, the Republicans have failed to make
progress in any other part of Germany.
The DVU also made a remarkable entry to the political stage by
winning 12.9 percent of the votes in April 1998 elections in the
eastern Saxony-Anhalt region, playing on anti-immigration sentiments
in an area where unemployment is high.
The Republicans, the DVU and another extremist group, the National
Democratic Party (NPD) each fell below the 5 percent barrier of
votes needed to gain seats in the general elections, prompting
speculation that the parties might form a coalition.
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Australian PM rejects memorial for Aborigines
Agence France-Presse
SYDNEY, Nov 22 (AFP) - The establishment of a memorial for Aborigines
killed during the white colonisation of Australia was inappropriate
because a "state of war" had never existed at the time, Australian
Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
Prominent historian Ken Inglis last week called for the building of
a memorial to honor the indigenous men and women slaughtered during
the settlement of Australia, and Governor General Sir William Deane,
the Queen's representative in Australia, noted the absence of such a
memorial.
But Howard, who has drawn the ire of Aboriginal activists in recent
years for his rejection of what he calls the "black armband" view of
history, said in an interview Sunday that there was no call for such
a memorial.
"I wouldn't think that would be appropriate because I don't see that
in the context of people who died in wars between Australia and
foreigners," he told Nine Network television.
"I mean you could have a very lengthy argument about the legal status
of the British settlement of Australia."
A landmark court decision on Aboriginal land rights "did not regard
the British as having conquered the then Australian land mass, but
rather settled it, and therefore if you want to be legalistic about
it the state of war didn't exist," he said.
Inglis, one of Australia's most prominent historians, made the call
Wednesday for a memorial to slain Aborigines to be included at the
Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
"Here, as we approach the centenary of federation, is a challenge and
an opportunity for the Australian War Memorial to make a distinctive
contribution to the task of reconciliation," Inglis said.
The call was backed by Deane and other historians, one of whom said:
"White Australians like to remember their own suffering in war but
not that of indigenous Australians."
Calls for reconciliation between white Australians and the Aboriginal
population have grown in recent years as the country has come to
terms with shameful elements of its history.
But Howard has refused to apologize for past governments' acts,
such as the removal of thousands of Aboriginal children from their
parents to be raised in church-run orphanages.
The situation for Aborigines continues to remain dire in many cases,
with high levels of unemployment and alcoholism in indigenous
communities, which sometimes lack basis modern conveniences such
as running water.
Aboriginal groups have warned they may protest at the 2000 Sydney
Olympics if the Australian government fails to improve their living
standards.
"We don't want people at the Games when there's a lot of poverty,
ill health and misery in a lot of Aboriginal communities," Aboriginal
activist Charles Perkins said last week.
"Everybody loves the games, they want the Olympic Games, but let's
do it in a spirit of cooperation knowing that a lot of our problems
have been rectified."
The settlement of Australia was at times bloody, with the white
administration often mounting punitive raids against Aborigines
following attacks on settlers.
In the state of Tasmania, Governor George Arthur ordered troops to
round up every Aborigine after he declared martial law in 1828, and
in 1834 in Western Australia up to 80 Aborigines were killed at what
came to be known as the Battle of Pinjarra.
As late as 1928 mounted police killed 21 Aborigines in central
Australia in what became known as the Conniston massacre.
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