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October 30 - Nov. 1, 2009
Jeffrey St. Clair /
Joshua Frank
Facing Down the Machine: Mike Roselle Draws a Line
October 29, 2009
Michael Neumann
Criticism of Israel: a Wonderful Hiding Place
Mike Whitney
Housing Rebound? Not So Fast
Gary Leupp
Matthew Hoh Speaks Truth to Power
Conn Hallinan
Roman Roads and Modern Emperors
Marshall Auerback
Obama's Bogus Populism: Pay Curbs and Bank Loans
Laura Flanders
Palin's Pet Doug Hoffman Has Taliban Ties
Eamonn McCann
The War Criminal Vote: Blair or Karadzic for EU President?
David Macaray
Strange Invaders:
Can Ignorance and Arrogance Win Hearts and Minds?
Mark Weisbrot
When Small Countries Lead the Way
Stephen Soldz
Psychologist Complicity in Torture Challenged
Christopher Brauchli
Will the Pope Bring the Taliban Into His Flock?
Website of the Day
The USS Liberty Affair and the Problem of Truth in History
October 28, 2009
Moshe Adler
How to Reduce Unemployment, Rebuild the Middle Class and Free Ourselves From Wall Street
Dave Lindorff
America's Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA
Frank Joseph Smecker
Agaisnt Prometheus: an Interview with Derrick Jensen on Science and Technology
Alexandra Early
What a "Jobless" Recovery Means for Young Workers
M. Shahid Alam
Israeli Exceptionalism
Vijay Prashad
Sahelian Blowback:
What's Happening in Mali?
John Ross
Three Years Later, Brad Will is Still Dead
Franklin Lamb
A
Rare Victory for Lebanon's Palestinians
Gregory Travis
The Dismal Science: Elinor Ostrom's Nobel
Susan Galleymore
Peace Cycle to Palestine
Website of the Day
Newspaper Decline, a Graphic Display
October 27, 2009
Mike Whitney
Black Tuesday and How We Got Out of It
Patrick Cockburn
Bombs Will Go Off in Baghdad, Whether the US is There or Not
Stewart J. Lawrence
Honduran Coup Myths Dispelled
Alan Farago
Power Plays in Florida: Rate Increases, Nukes and Deception
Ralph Nader
Obama: Form Letters and Business as Usual
Dave Lindorff
Pentagon Dirty Bombers: DU in America
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Danger of Towing the Line Behind Israel
Brian M. Downing Elections in Afghanistan, the Second Time Around
Iain Boal
How You Can Save Pacifica
Carl Finamore
Hotel Workers and the Law of Momentum
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Here Comes That Third Party: Palin and the Constitutionalists
Website of the Day
How Bank of America Charges for Perfect Credit
October 26, 2009
Bill Quigley /
Deborah Popowski
When Gitmo and Abu Ghraib Come Home
Paul Craig Roberts
Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?
Uri Avnery
A Tsunami Called Goldstone
Mike Whitney
Will the Dollar Remain the World's Reserve Currency in Five Years?
Michael Snedeker
The Execution of Cameron Willingham
Shamus Cooke
Obama's Dirty War on Immigrants
David Michael Green
Paranoia for Breakfast
Martha Rosenberg
Gagging Michael Pollan
Patrick Bond
Gridlock on the Way to Copenhagen
Binoy Kampmark
Heading for the Tiber
Website of the Day
Goldman Sachs Abandons Kittens
October 23-25, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
All the Populism Money Can Buy
Christopher Ketcham
Unlearning the CIA: the Education of Bob Baer
Jeff Gore
Palestine in Pieces: an Interview with Bill and Kathleen Christison
Gareth Porter
What Really Prompted Iran to Build the Qom Enrichment Facility?
Jayne Lyn Stahl
The Power Behind the Drone
Saul Landau
Fidel on Obama and Consumerism
Mike Whitney
The Great Dollar Collapse Debate
Nikolas Kozloff
Challenging the Dollar Dictatorship: an Interview with Economist Ethan Kaplan
Ron Jacobs
The Vatican's Takeover Bid
Russell Mokhiber
The Weiner Charade
Missy Beattie
Gainful Employment
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Posada and the Cuban 5: Without Any Exception Whatsoever?
Stephen Lendman
Cashing In, Selling Out:
AARP's Tradition of Betrayal
David Ker Thomson
Natural History: Make Some Today
Rannie Amiri
Saada Under Siege
Ronnie Cummins
The Organic Revolution
Norm Kent
Bring It On:
Fox News vs. Team Obama
Charles R. Larson
Zimbabwe's Unravelling
David Yearsley
Damn Near Dead at Yale
Lorenzo Wolff
A Fistful of Your Own Teeth
Ben Sonnenberg
Costa-Gavras's "Z": an Excellent Thriller
Kim Nicolini
Where the Wild Things Are: Max's Hollow Utopia
Poets' Basement
Three Poems by Leonard J. Cirino
Website of the Weekend
Truth Squading Timberland: Join the Fray!
October 22, 2009
Dan Pearson /
Kathy Kelly
The Rotten Fruits of War
Jonathan Cook
Israeli Police Don Arab Disguises
Paul Craig Roberts The US as Failed State
Mark Engler
Pranksters Fixing the World: and Interview with the Yes Men
Johann Hari
Three Myths Driving the Afghan War
Brian M. Downing
Losing the War
Eric Toussaint
Small Oversights and Big Lies About Latin America
Tom Mountain
Busting the Darfur Myth
Israel Shamir
Russia's Daring Vote
Charles Thomson
What is Damien Hirst Playing At?
Website of the Day
Hitler Upset At Balloon Boy Hoax
October 21, 2009
Pam Martens
The Next Financial Crisis Hits Wall Street: Judges Start Nixing Foreclosures
Linn Washington, Jr.
A Kafkaesque Deportation
Liaquat Ali Khan
Now Pakistan: Sequential Destruction of Muslim Nations
D. K. Wilson
Rush Limbaugh and the NFL
Franklin Lamb
Syria's Golan Heights
Norman Solomon
Uncle Sam in Afghanistan
Stephen Fleischman
Hypocrisy Unbridled
Patrice Higonnet
On Harvard's Financial Crisis
Binoy Kampmark
Herta Müller's Nobel
Kevin Coval /
Josh Healey
Searching for a Minyan
Website of the Day
How Wall Street is Making Its Bilions
October 20, 2009
Sharon Smith
Et Tu, Codepink?
Tariq Ali
Farce in Kabul, Tragedy in Pakistan
Mark Brenner
Pensions: the Next Casualty of Wall Street
Bouthaina Shaaban
The Adoption of the Goldstone Report: What Does It Mean?
Michael D. Yates
Down in the Valley With Cesar: Power, Paranoia and Purges in the UFW
Dean Baker
Does Citibank Need China?
Dave Lindorff
Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan are No Joke
John Ross
Chronicle of a Tormenta Electrica, II
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Cuban Five:
a Very Important Liar
Kevin Zeese
Can the Democrats Avoid a Populist Health Care Rebellion?
Gilad Atzmon
Autumn in Shanghai
Website of the Day
A Message From the Gyre
October 19, 2009
Mike Whitney
The Dollar Will Not Crash
Greg Moses
The Cash Cops of Tenaha
John Ross
Chronicle of a Tormenta Electrica
Michael Donnelly
Outside Agitator
Jayne Lyn Stahl
Dick's Fringe Army:
Tea Baggers and Birchers?
Eric Walberg
The Battle in Canada
Russell Mokhiber
Pennsylvania, First in the Nation for Single Payer?
Barbara Rose Johnston
War, Peace and the Obamajority
John V. Whitbeck
Zionism: an Anti-Semite's Dream?
Christopher Ketcham
Swine Fools
Website of the Day
Greenspan: Break Up the Big Banks?
October 16-18, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
White House v. Fox News: a War Obama Can Win
Saul Landau
Autumn of the Patriarch
Paul Craig Roberts
The Rich Have Stolen the Economy
Carl Ginsburg
Where $18 an Hour is Too Much
Ralph Nader
Barney Frank the Bankers' Consort
Nikolas Kozloff
Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain's War on Vegetarians
Carlo Galli
Berlusconi: Still Doing Nothing, Still There
Dave Lindorff
Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes
Catherine Rottenberg
/ Neve Gordon
Educating Children in War Zones
Marshall Auerback
Dollar Spasms
Nicola Nasser
The Realistic Way Out of Iraq
Windy Cooler
The Ghost of John Brown
James L. Secor
Why I Miss China
Ron Jacobs
Escalation Unopposed
Wes Jackson
A Way of Knowing
Jesse Lerner-Kinglake
Global Food Fight
David Ker Thomson Against Leaders
Missy Beattie
Dinner With the President
Emily Ratner
Taping Our Mouths Shut to Scream Out Our Dissent
Stephen Martin
The Scorched Earth Mindset of the International Banker
Michael Snedeker
"A Place of Greater Safety"
Charles R. Larson
Cheeta: the Last of the Hollywood High-Rollers
David Yearsley
Judith Leyster's Sensuous Passions
Peter Stone Brown
It's a Bob Christmas for Halloween
Poets' Basement
Keeler, Beatty and Anderson
Website of the Weekend
Elements of Nature
October 15, 2009
Andrew Cockburn
Our Cheap Politicians
Brian M. Downing
Rethinking the Afghan Insurgency
Ramzy Baroud
Abbas and the Goldstone Report: Our Shame is Complete
Danny Weil
A Neo-Liberal Arts Education: Diploma Mills and Debt Peonage
M. Idrees Ahmad
Return to Peshawar: a Journey Home
Margaret Kimberley
Michelle's Family Tree
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Cuban Five:
Which Side Are You On?
Harvey Wasserman
Nuking the Climate Bill
Nirmal Ghosh
A Tale of Two Protocols: How Montreal Could Save Us From the Mire of Kyoto
Charles R. Larson
Sarah Palin Bears It All
Website of the Day
Tortured Law
October 14, 2009
Michael Neumann
Fearsome Words? a Suppressed Talk on the Israel/Palestine Conflict
M. Reza Pirbhai
Fighting the Taliban: What, Exactly, is Being Fought in Afghanistan?
Gareth Porter
Hawks Play Up the Taliban's Ties to Al Qaeda
Paul Craig Roberts
War Criminals Are Becoming Arbiters of the Law
John Strausbaugh Fortress Moon
Ralph Nader
The CBO's Flawed Report on Medical Malpractice
Dean Baker
Won't You Please Come to Chicago to Greet the Bankers?
Charles Modiano
White Silence: Where Does Brett Favre Stand on Rush Limbaugh?
Nadia Hijab
Abandoning "Women and Children"
Walter Brasch
An Extension of Her Motherhood: Sherry Carpenter, Journalist and Animal Care Provider
Website of the Day
Nader: Obama Has a "Concessionary Personality"
October 13, 2009
Peter Linebaugh
Putting the Spine Back in the Commonwealth
Shamus Cooke
What Obama Isn't Telling American Workers
John Ross
War on Mexican Women
Brendan Cooney
Ask Awal Khan About Obama's Prize
Frida Berrigan
Operation Enduring Detentions:
Losing the Moral High Ground
Yves Engler
Is Canada More Pro-Israel Than the US?
David Macaray
Why the Government Fears Unions
Dave Lindorff
Democrats:
Selling Out, But Still Getting Screwed
Mark Weisbrot
Occupying Afghanistan is Making Things Worse
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
History Repeats Itself
Binoy Kampmark
That Dirty Colonial War
Website of the Day
The Health Insurance Industry's Latest Doublecross
October 12, 2009
Pam Martens
Secret Deal Between Wall Street and Washington Shines a Harsh Light on Federal Housing Agency
Mike Whitney
A Dollar Rout or More Bernanke Trickery?
Martha Rosenberg
Yale Lab Tech Causes Two Problems for Animal Researchers
Jessica Arents
The Price of Peace: Our Arrest at the White House
Eamonn McCann
Massacre in Ireland, Massacre in Iraq
Bill Hatch
Dairy Industry Goes Down the Tubes
Sen. Russell Feingold
Time for a Timetable in Afghanistan
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
The Siren Song of World Praise
Gideon Levy
Obama's Betrayed Mission in the Middle East
Iyad Burnat
Why Does Obama Get a Prize and Bush Got Shoes?
Alan Cabal
Why Obama Deserves the Nobel
Dan Bacher
The Astroturf Method
Website of the Day
The Palestine Chronicle Needs Your Help
October 9-11, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
War and Peace
James Bovard
Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan
Kathleen and Bill Christison
New Crisis Developing in Palestine
Andy Worthington
Congressional Depravity on Gitmo
Marc Levy
Talking Dirty to the Kids
Tariq Ali
Ahmed Rashid's War
Mike Whitney
The Securitization Boondoggle
Paul Craig Roberts
Warmonger Wins Peace Prize
Alan Nasser
Cockeyed Economics
Jack Z. Bratich
The Twitterest Pill: Policing Dissent in the Information Age
Steve Breyman
Time for a War Tax
David Michael Green
A Hapless Presidency
Dave Lindorff
The WTF Prize
Paul Buchheit
Fear of the Rich
Jim Goodman
Feedlots and E. Coli
Missy Beattie
Theater of the Absurd
Michael Leonardi
Ships of Poison
Nadia Hijab
The Plight of the Right of Return
Mel Packer
The Crackdown on Pittsburgh
David Macaray
The Raiding Game
James T. Phillips
Getting Burned
Charles R. Larson
One Man's Walk Through Hell
Michael Donnelly
Behind the Capitalist Curtain
David Yearsley
The Biggest Blot on Mel Gibson's Rap Sheet
Lorenzo Wolff
Rap That Threatens ... and Endures
Poets' Basement
Heyen, Ames and Buknatski
Website of the Weekend
Jobs Conference
October 8, 2009
Saul Landau
A Late September Morning With Fidel
Paul Fitzgerald /
Elizabeth Gould
Dark Omens for the US in Afghanistan
Linn Washington, Jr.
Pot and Perversion: Judicial Antics Expose Drug War Insanity
Marshall Auerback
Neo-Classical Economics Misses What Matters
Dave Lindorff
A Nation of Snoops
David Rosen
Bankrupt Morality: the Staying Power of Republican Sinners
Chris Darimont / Misty MacDuffee
The Bear Essentials: New Thinking Needed to Save BC's Salmon and Grizzlies
John V. Walsh
Remembering Hinton's Fanshen
Stewart Lawrence
The Edwards / Hunter Affair Reconsidered
Charles R. Larson
Conservatives in the Sandbox
Website of the Day
Et Tu, Code Pink?
October 7, 2009
Brendan Cooney
Are Republicans Breaking US Law in Honduras?
Paul Craig Roberts
Dead Labor: Marx and Lenin Reconsidered
Dean Baker
Bernanke's Recovery: Unemployment Up, Wages Down (But the Banks Have Been Saved ... Sort Of)
Jonathan Cook
A Third Intifada?
John Stanton
HTS:
Congress Rewards Failure, Puts Personnel in Harms Way
Joanne Mariner
Tortured Language
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Cherry Blossoms
Stephen Lendman
The Gaza War's Effect on Women
Sen. Russell Feingold
Time to Draw Down in Afghanistan
Mary Lynn Cramer
Doublespeak on Health Care
Website of the Day
How to Bag a Wolf by Aerial Assault
October 6, 2009
Mike Whitney
Dollar Hysteria: Is the Sky Really Falling?
Gareth Porter
The Iranian Rift in the IAEA: Leaked Paper Based on Disputed Intel
Jonathan Cook
How Israel Buried the UN's War Crime Probe
Boris Kagarlitsky
My Hour as Talking Head in Moscow
Iain Boal
The New Crisis at Pacifica
Ron Jacobs
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
John Ross
Wave of Anarchist Bombings Strikes Mexico
Michael Dickinson
Panic in Istanbul: Smoke, Mayhem and the World Bank
Stephen Fleischman
Beware the Predator
Ira Glunts
The Audacity of Nope
Missy Beattie
Outside Looking In
Website of the Day
Round Up the Usual Suspects
October 5, 2009
Pam Martens
Wall Street Titans Use Aliases to Foreclose on Families While Partnering with a Federal Agency
Mike Whitney
Dead Man Walking: Welcome to the US Economy
Paul Craig Roberts
How the Feds Imprison the Innocent
Harry Browne
Ireland Says, "Yes, Please"
Sara Mann
My Little Town: Nothin' But the Dead and Dyin'
Omar Barghouti
Dissolve the Palestinian Authority
Shamus Cooke
A Jobless Recovery?
Brenda Norrell
A Dirty New Low for Peabody Coal
Fred Gardner
Situation NORML:
Reconciling Medical Pot Use and Legalization
Binoy Kampmark Copenhagen Blues: McChrystal and the Afghan Trap
Website of the Day
In Goldman Sachs We Trust?
October 2-4, 2009
Alexander Cockburn
Geezer Renditions
Saul Landau
News From Raul Castro
Diana Johnstone
After the German Elections:
Is Socialism Really Dead in Europe?
Greg Moses
Cramming for the Downside
William Blum
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
Brian Cloughley
Iran's Nuclear Program: Where's the Proof?
Russell Mokhiber
Welcome Back, Michael Moore
John Ross
Chomsky in Mexico
Ellen Brown
IMF Catapults From Shunned Agency to Global Central Bank
David Ker Thomson
Cop Shocks
David Macaray
The Audacity of Toyota
Gary Engler
Unions in a Rut
Robert Fantina
Meet the New Boss (Same as the Old Boss)
Lisa Stolarski / Naomi Archer
Pittsburgh: Still a (Coal) Company Town
Anthony Papa
Here is Your Chance to Help End the Failed War on Drugs
Joe Allen
The Good Wife:
Bad View of a Corrupt System
Harry Browne
Tarantino Scalps His Audience
Ron Jacobs
Collective Fiction
Charles R. Larson
Cultural Warriors: Austrialian Aboriginal Art Triennial
David Yearsley
Hanns Eisler's Great National Anthem for East Germany is Available: Make It America's
Poets' Basement
Taylor, Gardner and Landau
Website of the Weekend
Wrongful Convictions of Youth
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October 30 - Nov. 1, 2009
Not Just Zig-Zag Any More
Medical Marijuana Goes Mainstream
By NORM KENT
A whopping 63% of Fox News viewers have endorsed the Obama Administration’s decision to stop targeting medical dispensaries in California. The disclosure was made by Geraldo Rivera last week on his popular show, ‘Geraldo at Large.’ For once, Fox is catching up with the rest of the nation.
Geraldo presented more than just a fair and balanced report. The news item clearly distinguished the marked differences between the casual user of marijuana for recreational or personal medical use and traffickers operating illegal Mexican drug cartels, which everyone acknowledged should be targeted for enhanced enforcement. Rivera even applauded Attorney General Eric Holder for his new and rededicated efforts to stop that illegality, inserting into his news report the AG’s announcement of a raid last week, which netted 300 suspects nationwide.
Ann Coulter, of course, came on to criticize Obama, but she is a howler monkey who stands on the end of the branch and shrieks at anything Barack and Friends do or do not do. Even she had a hard time coming down too hard on smokers, preferring to just attack President Obama. Surprise. When Geraldo then turned to conservative Mike Huckabee for a countervailing viewpoint, he tempered his criticism of the new policy by recognizing that every governor has to set its priorities. The best objection he came up with was that if the Obama administration wanted to “change the law, go ahead and change it, but don’t keep a law you are not going to enforce.” That is a far cry from stating this was bad policy, a poor change, and counter -productive to our nation.
What viewers eventually saw on the piece Geraldo did was a presentation that medical marijuana is a wave sweeping over our land, and the 15 states which already provide for it are a precursor to a national future. You could almost sense that was the direction Geraldo was headed when he opened with a segue featuring Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin at a recent ‘Smoke Out’ rally in LA.
Afterwards, Rivera followed with a short piece about a white-collared businessman, explaining to the audience that he ran a lawful, state-compliant dispensary which was busted by the feds. That gentleman, Phil Smith, then explained how he had just spent ten months in jail with hardened criminals and murderers. That too is a far cry from the day and time when marijuana growers were presented to American audiences as hardened criminals. Geraldo even scoffed at the way we once thought of marijuana, with a scene from 'Reefer Madness' dropped onto the set in the background.
As he waded through the piece on medical and legal pot, Geraldo even postured this was an issue that crossed ideological lines; that Americans across the board do not want pot law enforced harshly against our citizens. Coming from the barrios of New York City, having grown up in the 1960’s, and spending decades with celebrities in the media, Geraldo uniquely understands how pervasive and personal marijuana is in the American psyche. In fact, as he recovers from knee replacement surgery, I would not be surprised if instead of using Percocet daily he tried out some Purple Haze. (I don't know, I'm just saying...)
The bottom line is Geraldo is one of America's grittiest and most seasoned journalists, who has covered stories from mistreatment in mental institutions to mass murders. He knows where 'pot' fits into the scheme of things- enough so that he could joke and poke at this story, recognizing as he does our nation has greater issues, more pressing problems.
When NORML (www.norml.com) recently held its annual convention in San Francisco, former Mayor Willie Brown opined that “we should legalize pot because as many people are using it recreationally as are using it medically.” Prop 215 author, activist Denis Peron, once stated: “all use is medical.” Last year, NORML’s founder, Keith Stroup, and Rick Cusick, the Publisher of High Times, along with 50 students from local colleges, were foolishly arrested for smoking joints at a ‘MassCann(abis)’ convention in the Boston Commons. The next thing you know Mr. Stroup was testifying before Massachusetts legislative committees to change the laws in the Bay State. Those statutes have now been amended to provide for the medicinal use of marijuana.
One of my clients, Elvy Mussika, is amongst the last of those getting marijuana from the United States government on a now abandoned program entitled the ‘Compassionate Use Protocol.’ Under the plan, the DEA grows experimental marijuana at the University of Mississippi and freeze-dries it for distribution in a prescription can to Ms. Mussika, a grandmother fighting the intraocular pressures associated with Glaucoma, which constantly cause pain in her eyes. 'Smoke 3x daily, or as needed for pain' the jar reads. There are thousands and thousands of other Americans similarly situated, who only want to use pot to relieve pain. For them, marijuana is medicine.
Then there are the Michael Phelps of the world, using bongs and water pipes and rolling papers to get high and give themselves a buzz, for fun's sake. They too should not be criminalized or denied scholarships to school, should they? Some may not win gold medals in swimming pools, but they should not be posting bail in county jails, either. They may not find themselves as guests of the Jay Leno show, but they should not find themselves as guests of the local sheriff either, should they? It is becoming so normal to smoke, talk, and write about pot that NORML now represents the silent majority of Americans who just want to be left alone with their pot. It would seem that even Fox News agrees.
Google medical marijuana and you will find a cross section of articles in every mainstream newspaper and magazine. As a matter of fact, medical marijuana is becoming so ‘ordinary’ a story that it has found its way to cover stories in the past few months in magazines from Forbes to Harper’s Monthly, not to mention the New York Times. Last month, The Today Show, with Matt Lauer as the interviewer, ran a positive news feature featuring ‘Women and Pot in the Workplace.’ Think about it, one of America’s most popular shows presenting marijuana as medicine in a fair and unfrenzied light. Congressman Barney Frank has even postured that medical marijuana may soon become the law of the land.
In Colorado, a state which has opted for the opening of dispensaries, the Denver Westword, a popular newsweekly, has published a classified ad seeking to hire a random ‘marijuana critic,’ in order to ‘taste-test’ the product which its new dispensaries will be distributing. Lots of daily journalists are out of work. I am guessing there will be no shortage of applications for that job.
What is the outcome of all this to be?
Do not be surprised when a consumer affairs television reporter one day, in a neighborhood near you unveils a feature on the best marijuana dispensaries in your hometown. Medical marijuana is coming to Main Street. We are not just Zig-Zag anymore.
Norm Kent, a criminal defense attorney in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, publishes The Broward Law Blog, www.browardlawblog.com. He can be reached at norm@normkent.com
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