Nobody likes George's war anymore.

UK General seeks UK Iraq withdrawal

The presence of UK armed forces in Iraq "exacerbates the security problems" and they should "get out some time soon", the head of the British Army has said.

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Why it is so important to Get Out The Vote (GOTV)?

Letters on Voter ID Confuse Ga. Voters

ATLANTA — Tens of thousands of Georgia voters recently received letters telling them they must show a photo ID to cast a ballot Nov. 7 — a message some fear will create confusion on Election Day, since a judge recently struck down the requirement.

The State Board of Elections mailed more than 300,000 of the letters — about 20,000 of them after the judge issued his ruling Sept. 19.
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For months, lawyers have been battling over the new photo ID law in state and federal court. Supporters of the law — primarily Republicans — have said it is needed to prevent voter fraud.

Opponent claim it is intended to discourage minorities, the poor and the elderly — who are less likely to have a driver's license or other photo ID — from casting ballots.

Last month, a state judge declared the law unconstitutional because it establishes a voting requirement not contained in the Georgia Constitution. After that ruling, state officials said voters will be able to cast a ballot merely by presenting something such as a utility bill or a Social Security card. [emphasis mine]

Because the GOP is working hard to Take Out The Voters (TOTV).

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Do not take this election for granted.

The Get Out The Vote (GOTV) is essential this year - so check out:

Democracy for America - Stick it to the Republicans

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What a handy checklist

The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress

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I don't have anything witty or even lamely snarky to say.

Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

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Crooks and Liars kindly features transcripts and video of Olbermann's latest excellent Bush report.

Crooks and Liars - Olbermann Exclusive: Dissecting new Book: Tempting Faith

Kuo, citing one example after another of a White House that repeatedly uses evangelical Christians for their votes — while consistently giving them nothing in return;

A White House which routinely speaks of the nation's most famous evangelical leaders behind their backs, with contempt and derision.

Furthermore, Faith-Based Initiatives were not only stiffed on one public promise after another by Mr. Bush — the office itself was eventually forced to answer a higher calling: Electing Republican politicians.

Kuo's bottom line: the Bush White House is playing millions of American Christians for suckers.

According to Kuo, Karl Rove's office referred to evangelical leaders as 'the nuts.'

Kuo says, 'National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as 'ridiculous,' 'out of control,' and just plain 'goofy.' "
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Kuo relates one faith-based promise after another — billions of dollars in funding and tax credits — that goes unfulfilled year after promise after year.

He recounts one specific funding exchange with Mr. Bush:

Bush: "Eight billion in new dollars?"

Kuo: "No sir. Eight billion in existing dollars for which groups will find it technically easier to apply. But faith-based groups have been getting that money for years."

Bush: "Eight billion. That's what we'll tell them. Eight billion in new funds for faith-based groups."

The Office was also, literally, a taxpayer-funded part of the Republican campaign machinery.

In 2002, Kuo says the office decided to "hold roundtable events for threatened incumbents with faith and community leaders … using the aura of our White House power to get a diverse group of faith and community leaders to a 'nonpartisan' event discussing how best to help poor people in their area."

White House Political Affairs director Ken Mehlman "loved the idea and gave us our marching orders. There were twenty targets." Including Saxby Chambliss in Georgia and John Shimkus in Illinois.

Mehlman devised a cover-up for the operation. He told Kuo, "It can't come from the campaigns. That would make it look too political. It needs to come from the congressional offices. We'll take care of that by having our guys call the office to request the visit."

Kuo explains, "this approach inoculated us against accusations that we were using religion and religious leaders to promote specific candidates."

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The Bush Administration Clown Show

THE PRESIDENT: This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th.* [sic] These numbers show that the budget deficit has been reduced to $248 billion and is down to just 1.9 percent of the economy...

Should we say that the 2004 budget deficit was $412.7 billion, and that half of that would be $206.3 billion--not $248 billion? Should we say that the fiscal year ends in September, not February? Should we say that February never has 30 days?

Thanks to Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal

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Censored Stories
The 10 stories the nation's mainstream news media ignored, neglected or missed last year

Click to read more about:

1. The feds and the media muddy the debate over Internet freedom
2. Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran
3. World oceans in extreme danger
4. Hunger and homelessness increasing in the United States
5. High-tech genocide in Congo
6. Federal whistleblower protection in jeopardy
7. U.S. Operatives torture detainees to death in Afghanistan and Iraq
8. Pentagon exempt from Freedom of Information Act
9. World Bank funds Israel-Palestine wall
10. Expanded air war in Iraq kills more civilians

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Off topic, but how is this for a headline: Death-row prisoner gets pregnant in solitary

Money quote from the article:

The report said it was the first time that a death-row prisoner had become pregnant in Vietnam and that police were investigating how it had happened.

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It has come to this

Criticizing Cheney to His Face Is Assault?

Howards says he was taking two of his kids to their Suzuki piano camp in Beaver Creek, Colorado. They were walking across the outdoor public mall area when all of a sudden he saw Cheney there.

"I didn't even know he was in town," Howards says. "He was walking through the area shaking hands. Initially, I walked past him. Then I said to myself, 'I can't in good conscience let this opportunity pass by.' So I approached him, I got about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, 'Your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.' And then I walked away."
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"About ten minutes later, I came back through the mall with my eight-year-old son in tow," Howards recalls, "and this Secret Service man came out of the shadows, and his exact words were, 'Did you assault the Vice President?'"

Here's how Howards says he responded: "No, but I did tell Mr. Cheney the way I felt about the war in Iraq, and if Mr. Cheney wants to be shielded from public criticism, he should avoid public places. If exercising my constitutional rights to free speech is against the law, then you should arrest me."

Which is just what the agent, Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr, proceeded to do.

"He grabbed me and cuffed my hands behind my back in the presence of my eight-year-old son and told me I was being charged with assault of the Vice President," Howards recalls.

He says he told the agent, "I can't abandon my eight-year-old son in a public mall."

According to Howards, Reichle responded: "We'll call Social Services." Before that could happen, however, "my son ran away and found my wife," who was nearby, Howards says.

Now assault is the threat of violence, not the actual act.

Now Howards had confronted Cheney with a an opinionated statement that could make one draw the conclusion that Howards wasn't one of the typical devoted followers he usually allows himself to see. Howards could therefore be potentially aware of all the abuse Cheney has perpetrated upon our country's ideals and beliefs, much less directly upon its citizens. Now anyone so informed and aware would also be logically so disgusted and angered by Cheney that slapping him and spitting on him would almost be a guaranteed action upon meeting him.

Therefore the act of an intelligent informed citizen meeting Cheney is so obviously a threat of violence that any intelligent and informed citizen who actually views Cheney in person can legitimately be arrested for assault.

Really QED for the secret service.

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I don't take it personally, but I have noticed that traffic goes up on this site on the days when no one posts (or posts very little)

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Brilliant

Olbermann: "Why does habeas corpus hate America"

Congress passed The Military Commissions Act to give Mr. Bush the power to deal effectively with America's enemies — those who seek to harm this country.

And he has been very clear about who that is:

"…for people to leak that program, and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America."

So the president said it was urgent that Congress send him this bill as quickly as possible, not for the politics of next month's elections, but for America.

"The fact that we're discussing this program is helping the enemy."

Because time was of the essence–and to ensure that the 9/11 families would wait no longer–as soon as he got the bill, President Bush whipped out his pen and immediately signed a statement saying he looks forward to signing the actual law…eventually.

He hasn't signed it yet, almost two weeks later, because he has been swamped by a series of campaign swings at which he has made up quotes from unnamed Democratic leaders, and because when he is actually at work, he's been signing so many other important bills, such as:

The Credit Rating Agency Reform Act;

the Third Higher Education Extension Act;

ratification requests for extradition treaties with Malta, Estonia and Latvia;

his proclamation of German-American Day;

the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act;

and his proclamation of Leif Erikson Day.

Still, getting the Military Commissions Act to the President so he could immediately mull it over for two weeks was so important, some members of Congress didn't even read the bill before voting on it. Thus, has some of its minutiae, escaped scrutiny.

One bit of trivia that caught our eye was the elimination of habeas corpus. which apparently used to be the right of anyone who's tossed in prison, to appear in court and say, "Hey, why am I in prison?"
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The reality is, without habeas corpus, a lot of other rights lose their meaning.

But if you look at the actual Bill of Rights — the first ten amendments to that pesky Constitution — you'll see just how many remain.

Well, ok, Number One's gone.

If you're detained without trial, you lose your freedom of religion, speech, the press and assembly. And you can't petition the government for anything.

Number Two? While you're in prison, your right to keep and bear arms just may be infringed upon.

Even if you're in the NRA.

Three?

No forced sleepovers by soldiers at your house. OK. Three is unchanged.

Four?

You're definitely not secure against searches and seizures, with or without probable cause - and this isn't even limited to the guards.

Five… Grand juries and due process are obviously out.

Six. So are trials, let alone the right to counsel. Speedy trials? You want it when?

Seven. Hmmmm. I thought we covered "trials" and "juries" earlier.

Eight — So bail's kind of a moot point…

Nine: "Other" rights retained by the people. Well, if you can name them during your water-boarding, we'll consider them.

And Ten — powers not delegated to the United States federal government seem to have ended up there, anyway.

So as you can see, even without habeas corpus, at least one tenth of the Bill of Rights, I guess that's the Bill of "Right" now… remains virtually intact.

Crooks and Liars has more of the transcript and a video of the piece.

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I think the ultimate example of a JAG officer taking his role as a defense attorney seriously would be that he argued his case all the way up to the Supreme Court - and WON.

It means that he is an excellent attorney.

It means he was making sure a wrong was righted.

It means he isn't wanted in Rumsfeld's DOD.

Think Progress - "Hero Of Guantanamo" Passed Up For Promotion, Sending Chilling Message Through Pentagon

National Law Journal had listed Swift among the nation's top 100 lawyers. Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, argued Swift was "a no-brainer for promotion," given his devotion to the Navy, the law, and his client. The New York Times writes, "T]here is no denying the chilling message it sends to remaining military lawyers."

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Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don't
The House of Reps gots nut
though they pretend they don't

TPMmuckraker: Hastert "Duped" By PR-Hungry Evangelist

House Speaker Dennis Hastert was "duped" into meeting with an eccentric globetrotting evangelist and his associate, according to today's Chicago Sun-Times.

According to the paper's account, a "massive coincidence" is how the evangelist, K.A. Paul, finagled a meeting with Hastert, who's currently facing one of the biggest crises of his career, that also threatens the power of the GOP.

This is in follow up to:

In Hour of Need, Hastert Turns to -- Nut-Job Evangelist?

You're House Speaker Dennis Hastert. You're up to your wattle in the recriminations and repercussions of the Foley page scandal. You probably lost whatever chance you had of keeping your party in the majority. You're trying to save your own skin, much less the skins of your loyal staff, while multiple investigations are digging into your side about who knew what, when, and what they did or didn't do about it.

So you decide to take a meeting with a globe-hopping, PR-happy evangelist who (if accounts can be believed) faked his own leper colony?

After the 30-minute meeting between Hastert and Indian-by-way-of-Houston Christian evangelist K.A. Paul today, Hastert had no comment for the press. Paul, however, was downright chatty.

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You are over 10 times more likely to choose a human at random across the planet that speaks Arabic then you are to find an Arabic speaker in the FBI.

FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills
33 of 12,000 Have Some Proficiency

Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics.

Counting agents who know only a handful of Arabic words -- including those who scored zero on a standard proficiency test -- just 1 percent of the FBI's 12,000 agents have any familiarity with the language, the statistics show.

Yes, I think this sums up the war on terror.

To fight this war we need to remove the right of habeas corpus, we need to destroy our moral standing and allow torture, we need to allow warrantless wire tapping - but hire more Arabic speakers - you freaking kidding me?!!??!!

Look there are 160 million speakers in the world - assuming the world is at 5 billion now that's over 3% of the world's population.

The FBI though has a 10th of that ration - .28% that speak even some Arabic. And none of them are even working "in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism."

I guess I should be happy that they are doing better than the State Department.

Of the 34,000 State Department employees only 10 are fully fluent in Arabic - that's a whopping .03% of the employees - a whopping one hundredth the ratio of humans that speak Arabic on the planet. And this is the group that is all about "talking" with others on this planet! Besides its not like Arabic isn't one of the sixth official languages of the UN (oh. it is?)

Now to be fair - the State Department figure is about fluent speakers and the FBI figure seems to include all of those that could get what they want at an Arabic restaurant.

Meanwhile the Defense Department is still kicking out any of the Arabic translators that are gay.

Here's a little thing to note - probably one of the few ways to guarantee that an Arabic translator that is working for you isn't an militant Islamic extremist? Make sure he or she is a brazenly out of the closet practicing homosexual.

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Geography is hard

I don't want to do my homework

wha wha

Think Progress - "Why should I care about North Korea?"

In State of Denial, Bob Woodward recounts a conversation between then-Gov. George W. Bush and then-Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, in which Bush wonders why he should care about North Korea. “I get these briefings on all parts of the world,” Bush said, “and everybody is talking to me about North Korea.”

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Teaching children to think and reason is difficult.

Having children that can think and reason is also dangerous (folks who think for themselves isn't really what today's leaders want for citizens).

So what better then simply teach to tests - leave actual education to them foreigners. (and leave future employment opportunites to them same foreigners, don't cha know).

No Bush Left Behind

Across the country, some teachers complain that President George W. Bush's makeover of public education promotes "teaching to the test." The President's younger brother Neil takes a different tack: He's selling to the test.
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Now, after five years of development and backing by investors like Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and onetime junk-bond king Michael R. Milken, Neil Bush aims to roll his high-tech teacher's helpers into classrooms nationwide.

We've covered Neil's edumacation software here at TCS before:

On 8/29/03 we noted that "Ignite" missed its second payroll in a row, and showed some examples of its fine educational materials.

And on 3/23/06 we noted that Barbara Bush's generous donations to Katrina Funds were earmarked for having schools buy Ignite! software.

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When is a terrorist not a terrorist?

For Bush and Gonzales the answer seems to be when you kill innocent Cubans.

Castro Foe Puts U.S. in an Awkward Spot

Yes, whether to let a person go who may have aided a terrorist act is an "awkward spot."

Cubana Airlines Flight 455 crashed off the coast of Barbados on Oct. 6, 1976, killing all 73 people aboard. Plastic explosives stuffed into a toothpaste tube ignited the plane, according to recently declassified police records.

Implicated in the attack, but never convicted, was Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile who has long sought to topple the government of Fidel Castro.
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Intensifying the problem is that Mr. Posada, who was arrested last year in Miami after sneaking into the country, may soon go free because the United States has been reluctant to press the terrorism charges that could keep him in jail.
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The Bush administration has stopped short of prosecuting him as a terrorist, however, even though the Justice Department called him as much this week. In papers filed in federal court in El Paso on Thursday, it described him as “an unrepentant criminal and admitted mastermind of terrorist plots and attacks on tourist sites.”

Instead, Mr. Posada faces immigration charges, as the Bush administration tries its best to deport him somewhere else, where he would walk free.

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And yet Rove stays

Rove aide resigns in fallout over Abramoff report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An aide to top White House political adviser Karl Rove resigned on Friday in the fallout over a congressional report showing many White House contacts with ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the aide, Susan Ralston, submitted her resignation after recognizing that "a protracted discussion of these matters would be a distraction to the White House."

Poot Ms. Ralston, but Rove still is unharmed, showing there is such a thing as a free lunch:

NJ: Rove Threw Bash at Signatures, Not Charged

Whoops. Karl Rove threw a party for dozens of White House staffers at Jack Abramoff's restaurant in January 2004, but was not charged, according to a new story in the National Journal (not available online).

The senior White House adviser only paid his tab at Abramoff's Signatures restaurant this May, the magazine reports -- after Abramoff had pled guilty to multiple felonies, including conspiracy to defraud the United States.

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Just a little reminder, though Condi didn't find much of interest in Tenet's terror warnings, Ashcroft's folks found them of interest enough to have him fly only be private jet instead of commercial airlines.

Daily Kos: Ashcroft chartered plane after same warning Condi ignored

Let the eagle soar - on chartered flights.

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Freedom on the March!

Watch where you smile: Belarus - Smile flashmob leads to criminal charges

As you know, there were some tries to do some strictly non-political flash mobs in Minsk few months ago (e.g. Ice cream flash mob), but mobbers were attacked by the police like if they were on some political event.

Blogger anei_aka_kirian writes (in Russian) about Sunday’s “Smile” flash mob. It was very simple - people were to come to central square and wander around smiling. Information was spreaded in usual way. There were nearly one hundred of riot policemen near the square waiting for the mobbers. And… anei_aka_kirian visited the square with his girlfriend, both smiling. Policemen advanced to them, checked the passports, and then brutally took him to the bus, leaving his girlfriend behind.

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Old news

I was offline last week when this happened, but I have to share - just in case one of you all missed this: NRCC Uses Small Children As Human Shields

we now have the head of the NRCC, Tom Reynolds, using small prop children as set decoration in a press conference devoted to the topic of…yes, predatory online sexual solicitation of minors.

Reporter: Congressman, do you mind asking the children to leave the room so we can have a frank discussion of this, because it's an adult topic. It just doesn't seem appropriate to me.

Reynolds: I'll take your questions, but I'm not going to ask any of my supporters to leave.
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Reporter: Who are the children, Congressman? Who are these children?

Reynolds: Pardon me?

Reporter: Who are these children?

Reynolds: Well, a number of them are from the community. There are several of the "thirtysomething" set that are here and uh I've known them and I've known their children as they were born.

Reporter: Do you think it's appropriate for them to be listening to the subject matter though?

Reynolds: Sir, I'll be happy to answer your questions, I'm still, uh…

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Freedom on the March!

Outspoken Putin critic shot dead in Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Moscow, police said.

"According to initial information she was killed by two shots when leaving the lift. Neighbors found her body," a police source told Reuters. Police found a pistol and four rounds in the lift.

Politkovskaya, a 48-year-old mother of two, won international fame and numerous prizes for her dogged pursuit of rights abuses by Putin's government, particularly in the violent southern province of Chechnya.

Bush on Putin (June, 2001):

PRESIDENT BUSH: I will answer the question. I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country. And I appreciated so very much the frank dialogue.

There was no kind of diplomatic chit-chat, trying to throw each other off balance. There was a straightforward dialogue. And that's the beginning of a very constructive relationship. I wouldn't have invited him to my ranch if I didn't trust him. (Laughter.)

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Last week was banned book week, and at least one American celebrated the right way - by demanding a book ban.

Not only that - he wants to ban Fahrenheit 451.

Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'
A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book "Fahrenheit 451" as classroom reading material.

Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the book because of its language.

"The book had a bunch of very bad language in it," Diana Verm said. "It shouldn't be in there because it's offending people. ... If they can't find a book that uses clean words, they shouldn't have a book at all."
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"It's just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read "Fahrenheit 451." "The words don't need to be brought out in class. I want to get the book taken out of the class."

He looked through the book and found the following things wrong with the book: discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, "dirty talk," references to the Bible and using God's name in vain.

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Another George Bush success in making the world a safer place.

N. Korea Claims Nuclear Test

The Financial Times spells out Bush's Blunder:

In 1993, North Korea announced it would pull out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, leaving it free to divert nuclear material from its energy reactors to make a nuclear weapon and setting off a round of crisis diplomacy led by the Clinton administration. The result was the so-called agreed framework, which – in return for supplies of fuel oil to North Korea – froze most aspects of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme for the rest of the decade.

The agreed framework was in effect consigned to history when the Bush administration came to power in 2001. The new administration argued that although the road to a plutonium-based nuclear bomb had been frozen, the North Koreans were cheating by attempting to develop a uranium-based bomb that was not explicitly addressed by the agreement.

That five years later, North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon will be widely interpreted as a sign of the failure of the tougher approach favoured by the Bush team.

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