If dictatorships need gulags, where defendants barred from posting bond are held in pre-trial solitary and brutalized, they also need secret courts, where police shootings of unarmed civilians disappear. But they also need a Cheka-style secret police to raid the...

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If dictatorships need gulags, where defendants barred from posting bond are held in pre-trial solitary and brutalized, they also depend on secret courts.

Writing at Richard Viguerie's Conservative HQ George Rasley makes the unprecedented horror of the star chamber evident in a sharp discussion in "The Murder of Ashli Babbit."

Rasley writes:

In an act truly unprecedented in American law and history, after a secret process in which no public testimony was taken and no media were allowed in to report on the proceedings, the U.S....

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Via Gateway Pundit:

Canadian Police Bring SWAT Team to Church Where Polish Pastor Went Viral for Shaming ‘Nazi’ Police on Easter

A SWAT team went back to Pawlowski's church again. Sure, there was a small masked woman with health department missives, who called Pastor Pawlowski "Artur" and just wanted to "explain" but there was also the uniformed threat of force, black-clad and armed. At a church. In Canada.

Pastor Pawlowski drove them away again.  

“I do not cooperate with the Gestapo. I do not talk to the Nazis. You came in your uniforms like thugs, that’s what you are. Brown shirts of Adolf Hitler. You are Nazi Gestapo. Communist. Fascists. I do not cooperate with Nazis. Talk to my lawyer. You are not allowed here,” Pawlowski told the officers. 

I hope Pastor Artur Pawlowski...

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A proper dictatorship must have political prisoners. And so the Biden-Harris regime, whose November 3, 2020 coup de fraude was certified by all three corrupt branches of power by January 6, 2021, has exactly that: a burgeoning Gulag in the militarized nation's capital.

Politico reports: 

Most of the 300-plus people charged with participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have been released while they await trial, but dozens of those deemed to be dangerous, flight risks or at high risk of obstructing justice were ordered held without bond. D.C. jail officials...

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Join me at my Patreon channel to find out about a Very Big Story no one is talking about (psst, it has to do with the Bushes, the Bidens & Chinese influence operations). 

The only way to debunk or confirm this horrific claim that microscopic worms occur in disposable face masks is for professionals with access to microscopes to study disposable face masks. Now.  

 

This shining face is John Francis Foley, 21, who died in his sleep within 24 hours of being injected with the Johnson & Johnson brand of the experimental drug known as the "covid" "vaccine."

Update, April 18, 2021. The coronor, Laskshmi Sammarco, has spoken, her cock and bull story -- "the preliminary findings do not indicate any direct connection between his receiving a covid vaccine on Saturday and his death on Sunday" -- wreathed in concern about the drive to vaccinate "as a community, as a nation, as a world" which translates to "other things we are looking at for a primary cause of death." 

Read the tragic details here at the CovidBlog.

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Paul Joseph Watson reports:

UK: Police Break Down Door, Arrest Man For Violating COVID Quarantine Rules

I have posted Watson's story in full below. Kudos to him for bringing this act of police state terrorism to light. 

But then what? We watch, we recoil, we blow our tops. The surrealism of the charge -- failing to quarantine in a hotel -- is as destablizing as its enforcers: young, soft, masked. They have  just shattered the glass pane of a door, broken it down, terrified a little dog, invaded an Englishman's-home-is-his-castle, trampled the sovereign rights of the man and woman inside. But only a faint smugness escapes their masks. They convey the humanity of a motherboard as they make their arrest.  

But then what?

Paul Joseph Watson writes: 

A video shows police in the UK smashing down a man’s door and arresting him for...

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President Trump just doesn't stop pushing the injection of experimental gene therapies into Americans (imaginatively known as the "covid vaccine"), not even as the CDC counts 2,342 vaccine deaths between December 14, 2020 and April 1, 2021, along with nearly 8,000 "serious" injuries. In his pre-presidential life, however, Trump was more in line with vaccine skeptics. Shortly before entering the White House in 2017, he even tapped Robert Kennedy Jr., one of the nation's leading and most eloquent vaccine skeptics, to chair a vaccine safety commission.

That was then. Today. the 45th president in Mar-a-Lago exile is crowing about the (gag) "Trumpcine." -- aka the covid...

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Looking back, we see times when it looks as if the truth has outed and will set us free.

But then they always manage to pave it over again. How do they do it?

Some thoughts over at my Patreon channel.

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Photos by @2021 Peter Duke, used with kind permission

You probably never heard of Tinhorn Flats. I had not, not until photographer Peter Duke alerted me to a protest there this week, where he shot these photos. But all Americans should know about Tinhorn Flats, a Western-themed restaurant in the middle of Burbank, California, where Angelenos yearning to breathe free (maskless) of the corona hoax tyranny and peacefully assemble for beer and burgers according to their constitutional rights and good taste have rallied, and continue to rally, yes, for freedom.

Local media coverage sketches in only the outline of this small business's epic struggle against dictatorial Big Government and Big Tech, not to mention Big Fear and Big Apathy. The most recent account of...

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A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay calling for the release of Thomas Caldwell, a retired naval officer who is one of hundreds of American patriots undergoing Soviet show-trial-style persecution by the US Justice Department for coming out to support the re-election of President Trump on Capitol Hill on January 6. 

Like so many of these cases, a careful reading of the court documents reveals the case to be especially egregious. It is apparent that the government has "mounted a deeply flawed case based on reckless and numerous errors about the accused. These errors alone should lead to the case's dismissal," as I wrote last month.

Now. Sharon Caldwell, retired Lt Commander Caldwell's wife, writes in:

Dear Ms. West,

A friend of mine just forwarded...

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Keeping the airwaves free of election fraud

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Sanity check: Biden wasn't "elected." He was installed in a complex, all-government, both parties, media-wide coup. He and his fake vice president are puppets of forces that remain unknown to us.

However, now it is Victor Davis Hanson, who, never mind the garden-variety critique (Biden suffers from "meglomania), dispenses with 2020 election fraud and declares Biden the winner:

Biden got elected by unleashing others to insist that he was a healer, not a boisterous Trump-style divider, and by enlisting special interests to redefine how we vote.

"By enlisting special interests to redefine how we vote"? 

My hat is off to Hanson for the remarkable phraseology by which he is able to make every kind...

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From the Washington Examiner, an op-ed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL-1). 

"The swamp is out to drown me with false charges, but I'm not giving up"

Washington scandal cycles are predictable, and sex is especially potent in politics. Let me first remind everyone that I am a representative in Congress, not a monk, and certainly not a criminal.

Nancy Pelosi once defended President Bill Clinton after he got an intern to fellate him in the Oval Office. But when it comes to the allegation that I, a grown man, paid for an adult girlfriend’s expenses? Well, consider that a bridge too far for the power-hungry hypocrites.

I want to be clear about something as we process the leaks and lies from...

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This a picture of Vladimir Bukovsky and Robert Conquest in the early 1980s. Bukovsky emailed it to me in January 2018. 

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I have been thinking about moments when it appeared the truth would not only out but triumph and thought back to a blistering "told you so" phrase attributed to Robert Conquest and wondered when it was he was moved to say it.

It turns out he he didn't say it -- a relief, I must say since, however justified, it always made me wince. In a 2007 letter to the editor of the New York Review of Books, Conquest informs the public that it was "the ever-inventive" Kingsley Amis, not he, who coined the phrase.

The record, though, plays on.

In response to

"Executioner Songs" from the March 1, 2007 issue

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Horses, dogs, water cannon and tear gas: Tyrants terrorize spring revelers in the heart of Europe for their health.

Watch here, here.

Last week, I wrote a story about the extraordinary, weaselly language Mike Pence used on January 6, as President of the Senate, to avoid counting the alternate slates of Trump electors from seven states.

The story was based on the findings of Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, who, in a tweet around 3 am on January 7, compared what Pence had said to introduce electors with what his vice presidential predecessors had said in the same role in 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017.

Conservate HQ published the piece here.

Until today, I had no coroboration of the information in Cheney's tweet. Given the blanket censorship enforced by the media of all news relating to the stolen 2020 re-election of Donald Trump, this did not unduly concern...

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Radio Pacifica may not be my ordinary beat but I would listen to Rosa Koire anywhere.

This extremely well-done one-hour interview by "Guns and Butter" is an excellent primer as to who Rosa Koire is and how she came to be a critic, pre-eminent de-mystifier and Paul Revere of "Agenda 21" the plan for our global servitude drawn up at the United Nations under the "green mask," as Rosa calls it, of environmentalism.

Agenda 21 is also executed against us in the guise of "The Great Reset," the globalist highway to subjugated humanity on which President Donald J. Trump was a roadblock and thus had to be thrown to the curb by the coup of November 3 to January 6. It is overwhelming to imagine the black-hole-immensity of the conspiracy that was required to nullify Trump's landlslide re-election of 2020.

This has all been a long time coming but the past year of government/media-manufactured...

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To hear the eminent counter intelligence professional Jack Dziak, author of the classic work Chekisty, lecture on the eminent counter intelligence scholar Natalie Grant, author of the new book Disinformation, is a unique opportunity to be guided through the lightless depths of disinformation and provocation. These widely misunderstood, ignored or lied about weapons have created the force field, which, more than anything else, paralyzes...

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True story. Yesterday, as stories disparaging Sidney Powell's motion to dismiss Dominion's $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit began mounting up, all of them seizing on a few words from her lawyers' brief to the  point that "no reasonable person" would conclude that her publicly discussed findings against Dominion were "statements of fact," I knew something was wrong with this narrative, obviously. The idea that Sidney Powell would put forward a Dumb Blonde argument to discredit herself in defense of herself was and is ludicrous.

I wasted a few minutes yesterday looking for a piece of journalism that colored outside these crudely drawn party lines and found not a one. Not a one! No surprise but the absence of basic expository journalism clarifies one of the crises we face as a post-democratic society. There is no functioning Fourth Estate, there are only propaganda organs...

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From the Twitter account of Politico's Congress reporter, Kyle Cheney, January 7, 2021:

It's 2:55 a.m. and I just figured out how Pence massaged the rules of the Electoral College counting session to avoid introducing the "rival" slates of Trump electors.

These are the instructions VPs have given out at the start in each of the last 5. Note the difference? 

Cheney's tweet included the following screenshot:



Cheney follows up in more tweets: 

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From Military.com:

"Some Troops See Capitol Riot, BLM Protests as Similar Threats, Top Enlisted Leader Says"

Some troops have drawn equivalencies between the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and last year's protests for racial justice during recent stand-downs to address extremism, worrying the military's top enlisted leader.

"Equivalencies" strikes me as an odd reach of a word to describe what are better understood comparisons. In any case, the Pentagon is upset about them.  

In a Thursday briefing with reporters at the Pentagon, Ramón "CZ" Colón-López, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that some troops have asked, when the Jan. 6 riot is...

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Saw an amazing report, the next best thing to man bites dog: Federal judge raps sloppy, run-amuck US attorneys. Even according to Politico of the precious Left, this was a "setback" to the Justice Department's "widest ranging conspiracy case" related to the January 6 Capitol protest.

What happened is this: Judge Amit Mehta ordered the pre-trial release of Lt. Commander (USN, ret.) Thomas Caldwell (above), 66, to home confinement pending trial on numerous charges spun out of the DOJ fever dream that a handful of Oath Keepers militia (of which Caldwell is not even a member) conspired to lead a pre-planned attack on the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the fraudulent 2020 election.

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I just recorded a new Patreon discussion on "Grovelling" -- when, why, how did society decide grovelling was "normal"? -- and was put in mind of two men who did NOT grovel. Who said no. Who said you can  take your Party line ... or words to that effect.

As a result of my earliest signed op-eds in 1999, the first about Elia Kazan, the second discussing Edward Dmytryk, I received an invitation to tea with Kazan in New York City and had a terribly nice phone conversation with Dmytryk, who even claimed to have remembered my actress-mother's unsuccessful audtion for him and producer Adrian Scott circa late 1940s -- and maybe he did because how many struggling...

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After a couple of days in Trump Tower, President Trump departed for Mar-a-Lago today.

The coup d'etat continues. 

Over at my Patreon channel, I am featuring an occasional series looking into questions of inevitablity and "what might have been" had the Powers That Be paid attention, or, probably more pertinent, stopped sabotaging the Good and been strung up as befits Evil.

This weekend's focus is Sir Jimmy Goldsmith (1933-1997), whom I had the fascinating occasion to interview in the mid 1980s when I was a cub reporter in the early years of The Washington Times.

Sir Jimmy belongs in such a restrospective for many reasons, but what drew my eye recently was his 1993 book The Trap, an eloquent and crystal-prescient warning against the global nightmare then  intensifying with the entrance in "the market" of billions of people from impoverished regions...

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... with the indomitable Audrey Russo here.

Audrey's full show here.

“Forty-two days into the administration and still no solo press conference from Joe Biden. That is the longest stretch of silence from any new president in at least a century.”

--Tucker Carlson, March 3, 2021

Some called this a "blistering" attack; a "brutal" message. I call it complicity, and I will have no part of it. By comparing Joe Biden to "any new president," Tucker Carlson is normalizing the fraudulent elections across the contested states and elsewhere, and thus perpetuating the Big Lie that Biden is legitimate. 

But it gets worse:

So by refusing to speak directly to the media, Joe Biden is attacking our most cherished democratic norms. Even CNN is complaining about it.

Let me get this straight. Biden's failure to speak to the media that enabled the Biden-Harris gang's usurpation of power is "attacking" "our most cherished democratic...

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When you were a kid (or a mom) and saw "Lady and the Tramp," did you ever dream you would wake up and read this in the paper?

From the Daily Mail:

The Walt Disney Company holds monthly meetings with advocates from women and minority groups who comb through hundreds of hours of Disney-streamed content looking for potentially offensive material to flag.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the monthly zoom meetings are held between Disney officials and a so-called ‘third-party advisory council.’

The council includes representatives from the African American Film Critics Association; CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment); Define American; the Geena Davis Institute on Gender...

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More discussion of Trump's speech at my Patreon channel here.

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On the matter of whether President Trump's speech at CPAC uplifted or depressed:

I could not have been more depressed while listening to Part 1. It was a stump speech without a stump. Every reference to the terrible things "the Biden administration" is doing to our country without first and foremost establishing the regime's illegitimacy has the effect of normalizing that regime. It wasn't enough for Trump to flick at maybe having to win the presidency for a "third" time, either. I felt as though we were watching the debut of Trump's capitulation to the Narrative. C-PAC, after all, has a long tradition of enforcing capitulations when it comes to the existential threats of the moment, including immigration,...

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As the President of the United States finished his speech at CPAC tonight, poof, a new movement was born.

Save America.

Came the dawn: But how?

Trying to explain what went wrong in these United States to friends in the UK via American Betrayal, Islam, deception, subversion, November 3 and January 6 .... 

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This investigation is a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of our Country, whether it was the never ending $32 million Mueller hoax, which already investigated everything that could possibly be investigated, “Russia Russia Russia,” where there was a finding of “No Collusion,” or two ridiculous “Crazy Nancy” inspired impeachment attempts where I was found NOT GUILTY. It just never ends!

So now, for more than two years, New York City has been looking at almost every transaction I’ve ever done, including seeking tax returns which were done by among the biggest and most prestigious law and accounting firms in the U.S. The Tea Party was treated far better by the IRS than Donald Trump. The Supreme Court never should have let this “fishing expedition” happen, but they did. This is something which has never happened to a President before, it is all...

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Perfidy. Justice Thomas should resign. This is not a legitimate court. 

Story here.

I just heard the wrenching news we knew was coming.

Mourning Rush, mourning America -- now the two go together. Such an emptiness, no matter how prepared we were for his release from earthly pain.

That voice. That optimism. Never to be forgotten. RIP, great patriot. 

Taking my title from that of Ivan Bunin's Cursed Days, an anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution's aftermath (take that, John Reed!), I have posted a new discussion of our own post-Revolution "cursed days" at my Patreon channel, available to subscribers.

Do consider joining. The monthly fee is up to the subscriber, starting at $1 (of course, the sky's the limit). 

Liberation! Follow me on Gab at @realDianaWest

Update, February 10: Watch this via Bitchute (above). Vimeo (below) canceled it.

Now that I am locked out of Twitter, I pop back in from time to time to search for odds and ends on news and commentary from remnant accounts of interest. This morning, I decided to see if Rosa Koire, author of Behind the Green Mask: U.N.Agenda 21,  was still there, and, if so, what, she was thinking about.

I find that last month, Koire participated in an online conference, The Greater Reset, which looks well worth viewing across the board. Quite handily, though, Rosa has posted a transcript of her speech at...

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If America had a free press, this story would be front-page-news across the fruited plain:

"Newly Discovered Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Tens of Thousands of Illegal Ballots to Michigan Arena" 

At least we have Gateway Pundit. Kudos to Cassandra Fairbanks and Jim Hoft, who have found video-proof of The Big Steal in Michigan, confirming the sworn affidavits of at least three witnesses.

Read and watch it all here, if you can bear to. It is sickening to behold -- the improbable white van driving our country into dictatorship, and the failure of any persons endowed with authority to take action to stop it. 

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This case, details here, is utterly sickening. 

Here's the latest, as regime apparatchiks grind America into constitutional dust. 

40/29 News in Arkanasa reports

A federal grand jury has indicted an Arkansas man implicated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Richard Morris Barnett of Gravette was photographed with his feet up on a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He also took an envelope from her office. 

The grand jury indicted Barnett on eight charges:

1. Obstruction of an official proceeding

2. Aiding and abetting

3. Entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon

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From The National File:

Capitol Riot Investigators Struggling to Find Homicide Evidence in Death of Officer Brian Sicknick 

The circumstances of Brian Sicknick’s death are unclear.

The Capitol Police officer who died following the raucous protest on January 6th may ultimately have died as the result of a preexisting medical condition, as opposed to a homicide.

CNN reported that federal investigators probing for evidence of a homicide in the death of Officer Brian Sicknick have “struggled” to find camera or photography evidence suggesting that Sicknick died as a result of his interactions with raucous protestors at the Capitol that day. Sicknick is reported to have collapsed at a Capitol Police facility following the repulsion of riotous protestors from the scene.

Read the rest here. More...

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This engraving depicts the 1793 trial of Citizen Louis Capet. He had been stripped of his title, King Louis XVI, by those who presumed to judge him. The image, the event, seems relevant on contemplating the looming impeachment trial of Citizen Trump. After the failure of Congress to pause the counting of Electoral votes to permit due process in the contested states, we may see that President Trump was also stripped of his title by those who now presume to judge him.

Louis' trial ended infamously in regicide by guillotine. However much baying there is for Trump's head, such a remedy lies beyond Senate recourse. On conviction of impeachment, the sentence is removal from office. Donald Trump may have won re-election, but he has no office. Such a sentence, then, would seem to be an exercise in futility, only revolutionaries don't have time for futlity. 

There...

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"Crashing the White House," Chapter 3 in Patrick Byrne's account "How DJT Lost the White House," describes what may well have been the most extraordinary, frustrating, elating and heart-breaking night of the Trump presidency.

... After a few minutes, through a private door on the far side, Donald Trump walked into the Oval Office. He was dressed in a sharply creased blue suit and tie, still, at 7:30 PM. He came through and glanced out the doorway to where Sidney Powell and I were already walking towards him, greeting him like he should be expecting us. President Trump’s eyebrows knitted in puzzlement but his face showed he recognized us, and after a moment he beckoned us in.

Within seconds General Flynn, Sydney Powell, and I were all sitting in the Oval Office with President Donald J. Trump,...

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1. Investigators have made a preliminary determination that the still-unnamed police officer (above) who shot and killed unarmed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol  shouldn’t be charged with any crimes in connection with her death. 

2. Federal Judge James E. Boasberg, who also presides over the secret Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC), sentenced former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith to probation instead of prison as he had [been] requested at his sentencing hearing this morning. ... The government requested three-to-six month prison sentence.

Instead, the judge who also presides over the secret Foreign Surveillance...

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No, Richard Barnett took an empty envelope, but more on that later.

For now, the following excerpt from the charging documents has caught my eye and fancy both. It describes the scene of the federal crimes Barnett has been charged with --   

Video surveillance from a camera positioned outside of the Speaker’s main office door captures individuals entering and exiting the office. At approximately 2:30 p.m., several unidentified individuals appear to try the door to the office however the door is locked.

At approximately 2:33 p.m. an unidentified individual pushes in the door to the office.

Got that? At around 2:30 p.m., several people tried the door to the Speaker's main office and it was locked, according to the complaint. At 2:33 p.m., someone...

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