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On the Web | EnCHANTing |Glimpses of Counter-Protest

12 Sunday Aug 2018

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Also in Media, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Extreme Brown vs Red-Green, Politics

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#HateTheHate, 2018, August 12, counter-protest, D.C., DC United Against Hate, Washington

At the moment, the distribution of the feed appears blocked, so watch it on YouTube or on C-SPAN at https://www.c-span.org/video/?449694-1/dc-united-hate-holds-counterprotest-washington-dc.


Chop chop chop chop
This Racist Crap Has Got To Stop!

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“Chop, chop, chop, chop, this racism crap has got to stop.” #ShutItDownDC pic.twitter.com/IEnsmu0PfL

— Caroline Simon (@carolinesimon66) August 12, 2018


We still here, we still strong
Fightin’ White Supremacy until it’s gone!


The Lafayette Square counter-protest rally is set to get going around 1pm, with reports of a coordinated march from a secondary location descending around 3pm. Stay safe. #AllOutDC #ShutItDownDC pic.twitter.com/Bi7ZIP6BxA

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) August 12, 2018


Sup Twitter fam: I’ll be covering the faith-based response/counter-protests to the white supremacist Unite the Right 2 in DC rally today.

Starting with the United To Love rally on the National Mall, primarily organized by United Methodists.

Lots of hymns at the moment. pic.twitter.com/6MrxDZIApu

— Jack Jenkins (@jackmjenkins) August 12, 2018

Charlottesville – Live at Posting


Prayer service by “United for Love” is held now in front of the US Congress with signs against racism and hatred, promoting love and inclusion. Washington gets ready for the second “Unite the Right” rally outside the White House, one year after the first rally in Charlottesville. pic.twitter.com/mlkOkVIh5c

— Negar (@NegarMortazavi) August 12, 2018


Also on BackChannels: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/02/02/united-states-of-america-basic-training/


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Erdogan’s Security Assaults American Protesters and Involves Local and Federal Officers

18 Thursday May 2017

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, American Domestic Affairs

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President @realDonaldTrump can you please speak up for freedom of expression and right of peaceful demonstration. #FreedomOfSpeech pic.twitter.com/vNQAmXReN0

— Ceren Borazan (@CerenBorazan) May 17, 2017


VOA – 5/17/2017


VOA – 5/17/2017

Turkish President Erdogan lies to his loyal subjects in Turkey — why should his subalterns not do the same here?

CNN’s coverage of Tuesday’s melee notes Turkish embassy claims that groups affiliated with the PKK, a once militant organization much changed from its Soviet communist aligned heyday in the late 1970s, provoked Turkish Americans eager to greet President Erdogan, but then it goes on to state, ” . . . that account differs greatly from the sequence of events described by protesters and video captured by the Voice of America Turkish service . . . .”

Among those assaulted were two American Secret Service agents and a Washington, D.C. Metropolitan police officers, who was injured.

From Mother Jones‘s coverage:

As the violence broke out, videos from the confrontation quickly emerged on social media appearing to show Erdogan’s security detail using force on protesters, even kicking multiple people in the face, while DC police officials attempted to intervene. NBC confirmed on Wednesday that Erdogan’s bodyguards were the ones beating protesters.

The Turkish embassy did not respond to requests for comment.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/bodyguards-turkish-president-violently-clash-protesters-dc

The thugs in suits retreated to Turkish Embassy grounds, which by convention and law is treated as sovereign and therefore safe from invasive pursuit.


A State Department official said the Turkish security that was involved appears to be a mix of Embassy and President Erdogan’s security.

vvvvhttp://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/turkey-erdogan-incident/



http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/bodyguards-turkish-president-violently-clash-protesters-dc – 5/17/2017


Casting aside his predecessor’s concerns about human rights abuses and the suppression of free speech in another nation, Donald Trump lavished praise on another autocratic foreign leader on Tuesday, calling it “a great honor to welcome the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to the White House.”

Just hours after Trump focused his remarks on “the exemplary valor of the Turkish soldier,” however, Erdogan’s presidential bodyguards were caught on video punching and kicking protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/17/trump-praises-erdogan-whose-bodyguards-assault-protesters-washington/ – 5/17/2017.


The footage shows local police shoving not only demonstrators but several men in suits. One of the men in suits can be seen kicking a woman who had already been knocked to the ground. Witnesses reportedly said that the protesters were demanding that a pro-Kurdish lawmaker, Selahattin Demirtas, be released from prison in Turkey.

http://www.snopes.com/2017/05/17/protesters-attacked-erdogan/ – 5/17/2017.  Link added by BackChannels.


Posted to YouTube 5/16/2017


U.S. officials strongly criticized the Turkish government Wednesday as video appeared to show its president’s security forces pushing past police and violently breaking up a protest outside their diplomatic residence in Washington.

Attacking the small group of protesters with their fists and feet, men in dark suits and others were recorded repeatedly kicking one woman as she lay curled on a sidewalk. Another wrenches a woman’s neck and throws her to the ground. A man with a bullhorn is repeatedly kicked in the face. In all, nine people were hurt.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hurt-arrested-altercation-turkish-embassy-dc-47460260 – 5/17/2017.


The jihadist dictator Erdoğan is bent on expanding his powers both inside and outside Turkey. Erdoğan’s temper recently flared against Europe when several European governments refused “to allow his ministers to rally Turkish expatriates.” He also declared that “Europe is collapsing…Europe will pay for what they have done in humiliating and oppressing Turks”; and in response to a European headscarf ban in the workplace, he accused Europe of starting “a clash between the cross and the crescent.”

Now he is so bold as to allow his thugs to behave violently on American soil.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/nine-injured-as-erdogans-bodyguards-violently-attack-kurdish-protesters-in-dc – 5/18/2017.

Updates: Related Links

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/20170803/calling-erdogan-to-account – 8/3/2017

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/14/breaking-us-marshals-arrest-two-in-turkish-embassy-brawl/ – 6/14/2017.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-39979879/erdogan-watches-as-turkish-security-guards-attack-protesters – 5/19/2017.

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/39979879/erdogan-watches-as-turkish-security-guards-attack-protesters – 5/19/2017.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/on-air/Protester-Says-Turkish-President_s-Bodyguard-Choked-Her_Washington-DC-423266384.html – 5/19-20/2017.

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Also in Media: “Ukraine Freedom March set for May 20 in Washington” | The Ukrainian Weekly | May 14, 2017

14 Sunday May 2017

Posted by commart in Also in Media, American Domestic Affairs, Politics, Ukraine

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The march – with a full police escort – is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. at the Washington Monument and conclude at the Holodomor Memorial, near Union Station, where a vigil is to be held, concluding at approximately 5:30 p.m.

Among the invited guest speakers are analyst Paul Goble, Peter Borisow, president of the Hollywood Trident Foundation; other noted Ukraine advocates are expected and, at the time of writing, were still being confirmed, among them Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly. Clergy from the Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic Churches, as well as leaders of the Jewish and Muslim faiths in Ukraine have been invited to properly represent the people of Ukraine.

As stated by Mr. Skibicki: “We demand that the Russian-backed terrorists immediately vacate the Donbas region and that Crimea be returned to Ukraine. If these demands are not met, we insist on the American government to stick to its promise made in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which is to provide the full and immediate defense of Ukraine by providing modern defensive weapons in order to help the Ukrainian people restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine. We are NOT calling for American troops to be deployed to Ukraine.”

Read More: Ukraine Freedom March set for May 20 in Washington | The Ukrainian Weekly

Notice on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukrainianfreedommarch/

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Also in Media – PSA – “NORTH AMERICANS SUPPORT UKRAINE – ONCE IN A GENERATION FREEDOM MARCH” – May 20, 2017 – Link to Sign-Up

25 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, American Domestic Affairs, Ukraine

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1 million people around the world in support of Ukraine’s fight for freedom

Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans come together from all corners of the continent to show their support for one common cause – support of the good people of Ukraine in their struggle for true independence and freedom from Russia’s all-too-long shadowy grasp.

We demand that Crimea be returned to Ukraine and that the Russian army immediately vacate the Donbas region.

If these demands are not met, we insist on the Canadian and American governments sticking to their promises made in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which is to provide for the full and immediate defense of Ukraine by all means necessary, in order to restore the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian nation.

Appeasement is not the answer.

Now Ukraine is fighting for itself and for Europe, in the future this breach of international law may come even closer to our doorstep if not resolved.

Date: Sat., 05/20/2017
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm EST
Location: Washington, DC

Slava Ukraine!

Please sign up below we are looking for 10,000 plus marchers!

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Diplomatic Harassment – Short Compilation

29 Thursday Dec 2016

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Political Psychology, Political Spychology

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diplomatic harassment, expulsion of diplomats, Moscow, political spychology, Russia, United States, Washington

Start with the rules.

The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 is an international treaty that defines a framework for diplomatic relations between independent countries. It specifies the privileges of a diplomatic mission that enable diplomats to perform their function without fear of coercion or harassment by the host country. This forms the legal basis for diplomatic immunity. Its articles are considered a cornerstone of modern international relations. As of April 2014, it has been ratified by 190 states.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations

Then proceed (bolds, colors, and italics added):

STATEMENT BY MARK TONER, DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON

December 29, 2016

Department of State Actions in Response to Russian Harassment

The State Department today declared persona non grata 35 Russian officials operating in the United States who were acting in a manner inconsistent with their diplomatic or consular status. The Department also informed the Russian Government that it would deny Russian personnel access to two recreational compounds in the United States owned by the Russian Government.

The Department took these actions as part of a comprehensive response to Russia’s interference in the U.S. election and to a pattern of harassment of our diplomats overseas that has increased over the last four years, including a significant increase in the last 12 months. This harassment has involved arbitrary police stops, physical assault, and the broadcast on State TV of personal details about our personnel that put them at risk. In addition, the Russian Government has impeded our diplomatic operations by, among other actions: forcing the closure of 28 American corners which hosted cultural programs and English-language teaching; blocking our efforts to begin the construction of a new, safer facility for our Consulate General in St. Petersburg; and rejecting requests to improve perimeter security at the current, outdated facility in St. Petersburg.

Today’s actions send a clear message that such behavior is unacceptable and will have consequences.

From Out of the Past (Moscow Has Played Rough)

“Family members have been the victims of psychologically terrifying assertions that their USG (U.S. government) employee spouses had met accidental deaths,” the embassy reported. “Home intrusions have become far more commonplace and bold, and activity against our locally engaged Russian staff continues at a record pace.

“We have no doubt that this activity originates in the FSB. Counterintelligence challenges remain a hallmark of service at Embassy Moscow.”

http://www.jpost.com/International/The-curious-case-of-a-diplomat-Wikileaks-reveals-all – 12/8/2010.

The British and American governments are acutely aware of the FSB’s campaign of intimidation. But neither has publicly complained about these demonstrative “counter-intelligence” measures, for fear of further straining already difficult relations with Vladmir Putin’s resurgent regime. Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, was head of the FSB.

British sources admit they have files “five or six inches thick” detailing FSB break-ins and other incidents of harassment against Moscow embassy staff. “Generally we don’t make a fuss about it,” one said. So pervasive is the FSB’s campaign that the British government is unable to staff fully its Moscow embassy. The intrusions are designed to “short-tour” diplomats so they leave their posts early, the source said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/23/russia-targeting-western-diplomats – 9/23/2011.

But many of the recent acts of intimidation by Russian security services have crossed the line into apparent criminality. In a series of secret memos sent back to Washington, described to me by several current and former U.S. officials who have written or read them, diplomats reported that Russian intruders had broken into their homes late at night, only to rearrange the furniture or turn on all the lights and televisions, and then leave. One diplomat reported that an intruder had defecated on his living room carpet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/russia-is-harassing-us-diplomats-all-over-europe/2016/06/26/968d1a5a-3bdf-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html – 6/27/2016

In Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_manipulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Diplomatic_Relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung (East German Psy-Ops)

From the Russian Section

Harding, Luke. Expelled: A Journalist’s Descent Into the Russian Mafia State. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Related Reference

Duncan, Ian and John Fritze.  “Obama administration shutters Russian retreat on Eastern Shore in Maryland.”  The Baltimore Sun, December 29, 2016.

Price, Ned.  “The Administration’s Response to Russia: What you Need to Know.”  The White House, December 29, 2016.

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FNS – Erdogan in Washington

17 Friday May 2013

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Fast News Share

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The fact is that Turkey has not faced a threat on the scale of the Syrian crisis since Stalin demanded territory from the Turks in 1945. In 2011, hoping to oust the al-Assad regime, Turkey began to support the Syrian opposition. But, thus far, this policy has failed, and exposed Turkey to growing risks.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/syria-to-top-erdogans-washington-agenda

As posts go, this amounts to “carrying water” for well prepared and decently funded Washington think-tankers.  I would love to join them or assist with some online or library-bound portion of their research — I’m available! — but from 90 minutes northwest of downtown, the best I’m going to do is pass some immediately relevant political analysis, background, and news on to a few BackChannels followers.

“Gonna get somethin'” plays a strong part in motivating or driving each contributor to the Islamic Small Wars, which seem to me to be about control, influence, and power over the attitudes, beliefs, and self-concepts contained in the minds of others.

Young men conflate themselves with God (“God’s will”) in the dismal episodes of the Islamic Small Wars while old ones leverage related fears and uncertainties to enrich themselves: if only it were games — set out a pot of tea, go out to a pub afterward — the teams would be fighting over an empty drum.

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Conflicts within the systems of “President-Kings” like that of Bashar Assad may have greater legitimacy and historic validity: tyrants get an even hand from God, sometimes living into old age like Robert Mugabe, sometimes, as with Muammar Qaddafi, they are not so lucky.

In Syria, the behavior of Maher al-Assad tells why: the depth of the absence of consideration for others sours everyone, and it gets so bad that either the more righteous opposition will persist or the more conscionable of the military will desist and turn.

Mugabe’s long run — he’s a lonely old bastard these days — may have been facilitated by his keeping Zimbabwe’s woes within the boundaries of Zimbabwe.  While there have been across time a steady trickle of refugees and their economic impositions in other states, “trickle” is the right word compared to the obscene numbers involved in displacement and flight in Syria.

Mugabe’s Zimbabwe has also not mouthed itself into the role of a belligerent with which neighbors must reckon.

All in all, Mugabe has sustained on his early military reputation (a story similar to Qaddafi’s as a junior officer who makes his mark in battle) a pretty good kingdom for himself, however degrading and impoverishing it has been for the greater portion of Zimbabweans.*

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By comparison, the ghosts of the 20th Century — World War II, Communist Russia, the Cold War — haunt Syria, and they have come to life (“as if Hafez al-Assad was still running the country from his grave” said a Druze resident of the Golan last year [1].).

News of the collapse of the Soviet Union perhaps failed to reach the Assad family by way of business and military associates in Russia: why change a thing?

This published today in Al-Ahram Weekly:

We need to understand that the conflict in Syria is not essentially one between Shias and Sunnis. That is pulling the wool over people’s eyes. There is no division between Shias and Sunnis were communism exists — only one between believers and atheists. [2]

Again, I say, lol, it’s not “Charlie Wilson’s War” this time!

Obama and Putin have realigned (more on that later and in some other post), but Syria stresses an old architecture that isn’t really there to save it.

Such ghosts could summon the dead rivalry back to life as they are threatening to do today, and this notion may be reinforced by the concerns noted around President Erdogan’s visit.  

However, the Charming Colonel President King Putin is no longer secured in the way a Russian president would have been in 1990.  He and the Russian People — and today accompanied by the noise of such as Pussy Riot — have moved forward, onward, and westward, and there’s no dragging them back to all that came before.

Instead — and instead of either Obama or Putin stepping in it — Syria has been left to collapse, and that is what I think may be signaled by +92,000 dead today and +3.4 million displaced (combined IDP and refugee figures).

I also suspect what’s bothering the superpower leaders (and China’s not far from all of this either) is the content and shape of the next Syria, and because of the wildly varying character within the melange of loosely confederated social elements involved, they’re stuck on the engineering within the conflagration — the Powers may be in want of updated competitive stances or genuinely new relationships –and while they’re thinking about things and struggling to find or define a better Syrian culture aside the Assad legacy, the Syrian civil war and its effects expand.

Cited Reference

1. AFP.  “Golan Druze in bitter split over Syria bloodshed.”  Video.  July 28, 2012.  “Never in history have we heard of a national army or regime slaughtering its own people for nearly seventeen months . . . It’s as if Hafez al-Assad was still running the country from his grave” (says one interviewed Druze resident in the Golan).

2. Kocaman, Aylin.  “The power behind Al-Assad.”  Al-Ahram Weekly, May 17, 2013.

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*For example: “Zimbabwe’s statistical indicators for health and education were once among the best in Africa. But the political and economic crisis has brought rising poverty and social decline in its wake. The 2003 Poverty Assessment Study Survey II showed a substantial increase in poverty; between 1990 and 2003 the poverty rate rose from 25 per cent to 63 per cent.”

http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/home/tags/zimbabwe

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Hillel the Elder

"That which is distasteful to thee do not do to another. That is the whole of Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"

"Whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

Oriana Fallaci
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

Abraham Isaac Kook

"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.

Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).

Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."

Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

Douglas Adams
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.

Thucydides
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

Milan Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Malala Yousafzai
“The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

Tanit Nima Tinat
"Who could die of love?"

What I Have Said About the Jews

My people, not that I speak for them, I nonetheless describe as a "global ethnic commune with its heart in Jerusalem and soul in the Land of Israel."

We have never given up on God, nor have we ever given up on one another.

Many things we have given up, but no one misses, say, animal sacrifice, and as many things we have kept, so we have still to welcome our Sabbath on Friday at sunset and to rest all of Saturday until three stars appear in the sky.

Most of all, through 5,773 years, wherever life has taken us, through the greatest triumphs and the most awful tragedies, we have preserved our tribal identity and soul, and so shall we continue eternally.

Anti-Semitism / Anti-Zionism = Signal of Fascism

I may suggest that anti-Zionism / anti-Semitism are signal (a little bit) of fascist urges, and the Left -- I'm an old liberal: I know my heart -- has been vulnerable to manipulation by what appears to me as a "Red Brown Green Alliance" driven by a handful of powerful autocrats intent on sustaining a medieval worldview in service to their own glorification. (And there I will stop).
One hopes for knowledge to allay fear; one hopes for love to overmatch hate.

Too often, the security found in the parroting of a loyal lie outweighs the integrity to be earned in confronting and voicing an uncomfortable truth.

Those who make their followers believe absurdities may also make them commit atrocities.

Positively Orwellian: Comment Responding to Claim that the Arab Assault on Israel in 1948 Had Not Intended Annihilation

“Revisionism” is the most contemptible path that power takes to abet theft and hide shame by attempting to alter public perception of past events.

On Press Freedom, Commentary, and Journalism

In the free world, talent -- editors, graphic artists, researchers, writers -- gravitate toward the organizations that suit their interests and values. The result: high integrity and highly reliable reportage and both responsible and thoughtful reasoning.

This is not to suggest that partisan presses don't exist or that propaganda doesn't exist in the west, but any reader possessed of critical thinking ability and genuine independence -- not bought, not programmed -- is certainly free to evaluate the works of earnest reporters and scholars.

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