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“Lenin said that capitalists would sell the Communists the rope to hang them. But as matters turned out, capitalists let China sell them the labor that served to hang American capitalism.” - Michael Hudson

When the Soviet Union unexpectedly and suddenly collapsed, China and India gave up on socialism and opened their economies to Western capital. The Soviet Union did not collapse because Reagan won the cold war, a goal that Reagan disavowed, but because hardline elements in the Communist Party leadership were concerned that Gorbachev was careless in trusting the Americans....

The conclusion reached by India and China, the countries with the largest populations, was that socialism leads to collapse, but capitalism leads to riches. For the first time the vast under-employed labor resources of the world’s two most populous countries were available for foreign exploitation....

...China worked to make offshored production a lucrative adventure, and manufacturing jobs left the US by the droves. The consequence was that the US Middle Class shrunk, and with it the tax base of states and cities. America ceased to prosper....

In other words the “Chinese import problem” was in fact the offshored production of US firms brought back to sell to Americans who no longer were involved in the production of the goods and services and, therefore, did not have any income from the production of what they purchased....

The offshoring era wasn’t a six-month economic recession. It was years when skilled and experienced labor aged and died, and no new entrants learned the skills and work discipline....

For the US corporations to come back home, they have to leave a developed economy in China for a semi-developed or undeveloped one in the US. If they are compelled to do this all at once, they will lose their production in China before they can recreate the plant and equipment, work force, supply chains, and transportation systems essential to renew the US as a manufacturing and industrial power....

Trump can make the argument that the offshoring deal only worked for the corporations, not for the American people. “Free market” economists gave assurances that better jobs would take the place of the manufacturing jobs moved offshore and that offshore production would pay back to the US consumer in lower prices more than the loss of wages from the offshored jobs. This was not the case....

.....today after the extraordinary accumulation of powers in the presidency from the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes, and the powers given by Congress to the executive branch to fight “the war on terror,” the president today can rule by executive order.

Based on the powers created by Republicans during the George W. Bush Regime and Democrats during the Obama Regime, President Trump has the power to arrest CEOs and boards of directors that have offshored production on the grounds that they are conspiring with China to steal American jobs and to drive the United States down into the ranks of Third World Countries....

To insure that he has the deep state’s support, all Trump has to do is to remind the US military/security complex that the United States cannot continue to produce the weapon systems necessary to remain as the world’s hegemon unless it can reestablish its manufacturing and industrial capability....

....If the deep state is on Trump’s side, he becomes a dictator who can dispense with elections and dispense with his opposition. To be clear, not only can Trump do this, but any future president can....

Complete article:
Can The American Economy Be Resurrected?
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/08/26/can-the-american-economy-be-resurrected/
Trump is going after the Federal Reserve. If you listen to the X22Report Spotlight and X22Report economic news the guy talks about it every day. The central banks are part of the Deep State and they are no friend of Trump’s.
 

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The future of the Planet....this blue/green ball that has been floating in space for billions of years and has suffered everything you can name inflicted upon it and has gone through ice ages when 500 meter thick glaciers covered ALL of the world at one point.What is your concern?The Planet is doing fine.It kills us when it wants to with say a hurricane or an earthquake here or there.Perhaps a few droughts and for irony flooding in other parts.The Planet does not descriminate it just hits back how it chooses.Right now is how
the Bahamas got smacked down.....Earth 1...Bahamas 0.

The story that the "planet" will be dead in 12 years is to me nothing but fear mongering.....some computer model predicted this whilst being fed the preferred information because some government worker/climate expert wanted to keep his funding.Same goes
for all of the "Climate Change" Prophets like Gore/Suzuki who do not have any type of actual EARNED degree.The Planet is going to DIE as well as ALL life on it in exactly 12 fucking years.If you dont have your house paid off or your credit cards wont be paid off in 12 years and you will die and ALL life on this Planet will DIE.....good luck getting a 5 year mortgage from a Bank.

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The future of the Planet....this blue/green ball that has been floating in space for billions of years and has suffered everything you can name inflicted upon it and has gone through ice ages when 500 meter thick glaciers covered ALL of the world at one point.What is your concern?The Planet is doing fine.It kills us when it wants to with say a hurricane or an earthquake here or there.Perhaps a few droughts and for irony flooding in other parts.The Planet does not descriminate it just hits back how it chooses.Right now is how
the Bahamas got smacked down.....Earth 1...Bahamas 0.

The story that the "planet" will be dead in 12 years is to me nothing but fear mongering.....some computer model predicted this whilst being fed the preferred information because some government worker/climate expert wanted to keep his funding.Same goes
for all of the "Climate Change" Prophets like Gore/Suzuki who do not have any type of actual EARNED degree.The Planet is going to DIE as well as ALL life on it in exactly 12 fucking years.If you dont have your house paid off or your credit cards wont be paid off in 12 years and you will die and ALL life on this Planet will DIE.....good luck getting a 5 year mortgage from a Bank.

SR
Actually David Suzuki has a Ph. D in Zoology from the University of Chicago. What's next, " evolution is just a theory ".
 

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You are correct and it was easily searchable.

City of Calgary Manager compensation range $265 to $390 K as approved by City Council.

2019 Data

https://www.calgary.ca/CA/cmo/Pages/Compensationdisclosure.aspx
Ok then what about the ex CEO of Enmax Gary Holden.He got fired with just cause for taking a bribe.The bribe being a trip to the Monaco Grand Prix.After he was fired he got a severance package of 4.5 MILLION....when he was fired for taking a bribe.

When it comes down to brass tacks NO bureaucrat be they Federal/Provincial/Civic should be getting paid more than the Prime Minister/Premier/Mayor in any instance.That is not the case.The governmental leeches suck at the vein of tax payers money
and it needs to be changed.Good example was the former head of AHS who when faced with a tough press scrum actually ran away whilst saying "I cant talk as I am eating my breakfast cookie" and that POS pencil pusher was making over
1 MILLION a year......and yeah after he was fired he got a severance package.

Our governments at all levels dont have a funding problem.....they have a spending problem.

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1: too many people fighting over too few resources. Canadians have no fucking clue how good they have it. None. Canada will be invaded eventually, probably by China once they have filled up Africa.

2: billions of people will become surplus as their jobs are automated. Truck drivers, no need for them. Warehouse workers, no need. Medicine will be mostly automated. Law enforcement will not be needed except for the security of the ruling class. Hookers will be replaced a la Cherry 2000.

3: A tiny elite will own most of the world and benefit, the rest will live in squalour and fight or kill to survive. Think " In the Name of the Rose".
 

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Ok then what about the ex CEO of Enmax Gary Holden.He got fired with just cause for taking a bribe.The bribe being a trip to the Monaco Grand Prix.After he was fired he got a severance package of 4.5 MILLION....when he was fired for taking a bribe.

When it comes down to brass tacks NO bureaucrat be they Federal/Provincial/Civic should be getting paid more than the Prime Minister/Premier/Mayor in any instance.That is not the case.The governmental leeches suck at the vein of tax payers money
and it needs to be changed.Good example was the former head of AHS who when faced with a tough press scrum actually ran away whilst saying "I cant talk as I am eating my breakfast cookie" and that POS pencil pusher was making over
1 MILLION a year......and yeah after he was fired he got a severance package.

Our governments at all levels dont have a funding problem.....they have a spending problem.

SR
This retort has zero to do with the “City of Calgary City Manager” making $1M a year as you claimed.

When in doubt, you just babble to divert attention to the fact that posted Bullshit.

Pivot, spin and Babble. :crazy:
 

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This retort has zero to do with the “City of Calgary City Manager” making $1M a year as you claimed.

When in doubt, you just babble to divert attention to the fact that posted Bullshit.

Pivot, spin and Babble. :crazy:
What I posted info wise is FACT....Gary Holden the ex CEO of Enmax was FIRED for taking a bribe....he then got a 4.5 MILIION severance package.Every City Manager for the City of Calgary gets paid MORE than our socialist Mayor Naheed Spendshi and this is also a FACT.
 

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Actually David Suzuki has a Ph. D in Zoology from the University of Chicago. What's next, " evolution is just a theory ".
Any degree David Suzuki holds is a conferred honorary degree.When Suzuki went to University it was at UBC and he never got a degree.Patrick Moore who was one of the founders of Greenpeace whose goal at the time was to stop Hydrogen bomb testing off the coast of Alaska did get a Doctorate in Ecology.Patrick Moore's opinion of "climate change" is that it is junk science when a select few people who are all on the take skew the numbers and input incorrect data to get the results they want so as to maintain the funding that the pigs at the trough are feeding from is a breath of fresh air.

Take a look on youtube with regards to david suzuki's record.How about the videos of him ranting that humans are "maggots" back in the 1960's when he was a hippie student who amounted to nothing educational wise.These days he lives his life
as the master of his foundation and living the life of riley with 3 homes in Vancouver with his principal residence over looking the Vancouver yacht club.His mantra now is "do as I say not as I do"

He is just a hypocrite like Gore who only shows up to speak with his altered/preferred data when he gets his speaking fees of $50,000 per and the asshole flies to the location on a private jet...with the same mantra of "do as I say not as I do"

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Any degree David Suzuki holds is a conferred honorary degree.When Suzuki went to University it was at UBC and he never got a degree.Patrick Moore who was one of the founders of Greenpeace whose goal at the time was to stop Hydrogen bomb testing off the coast of Alaska did get a Doctorate in Ecology.Patrick Moore's opinion of "climate change" is that it is junk science when a select few people who are all on the take skew the numbers and input incorrect data to get the results they want so as to maintain the funding that the pigs at the trough are feeding from is a breath of fresh air.

Take a look on youtube with regards to david suzuki's record.How about the videos of him ranting that humans are "maggots" back in the 1960's when he was a hippie student who amounted to nothing educational wise.These days he lives his life
as the master of his foundation and living the life of riley with 3 homes in Vancouver with his principal residence over looking the Vancouver yacht club.His mantra now is "do as I say not as I do"

He is just a hypocrite like Gore who only shows up to speak with his altered/preferred data when he gets his speaking fees of $50,000 per and the asshole flies to the location on a private jet...with the same mantra of "do as I say not as I do"

SR

While David Suzuki has many honourary degrees, he also has a Ph. D in Zoology. Where are you getting your information from?

After high school, Suzuki attended Amherst College, in Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1958. He went on to study at the University of Chicago and in 1961 graduated with a PhD in zoology, becoming a geneticist. Suzuki was a professor at the University of Alberta in 1962–63 before joining the University of British Columbia, where he would remain for the rest of his academic career. In 1969, he won a Steacie Memorial Fellowship as the best young Canadian scientist. He specialized in meiosis, the early division of living cells where differentiation begins (e.g., between reproductive and other cells), and the study of mutations caused by changes in temperature.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/david-suzuki

I never said I was a fan a David Suzuki. I am pointing out that you are just plain wrong about his education. Are you unable to differentiate between correction of facts and support of opinions?
 

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What I posted info wise is FACT....Gary Holden the ex CEO of Enmax was FIRED for taking a bribe....he then got a 4.5 MILIION severance package.Every City Manager for the City of Calgary gets paid MORE than our socialist Mayor Naheed Spendshi and this is also a FACT.
City of Vancouver Manager makes twice as much as the mayor. $350K vs $175K.

It’s not unusual since the Manager has a budget of $1.4B and 7000 employees to manage. Considering the scope of the job, size of budget and number of direct employees; one could argue he is underpaid vs equivalent responsibilities of managers in the corporate world.

Do you have a point somewhere in amongst all your issues with Enbridge and the wages of City Managers?
 

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Manager has very detailed knowledge of the city administration and infrastructure.
Will likely also have MBA/MCA, some finance or engineering credentials, and years of relevant management experience.

Mayors come and go, and can be elected without any qualification for the job.
Mr Peanut used to get lots of votes IIRC
 

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City of Vancouver Manager makes twice as much as the mayor. $350K vs $175K.

It’s not unusual since the Manager has a budget of $1.4B and 7000 employees to manage. Considering the scope of the job, size of budget and number of direct employees; one could argue he is underpaid vs equivalent responsibilities of managers in the corporate world.

Do you have a point somewhere in amongst all your issues with Enbridge and the wages of City Managers?
I never said Enbridge which is a publicly traded Private Sector Company I said Enmax which is a City of Calgary owned Public Sector Company that is supposedly owned by tax payers.

My point being was that the CEO of Enmax was fired with just cause for taking a bribe and he walked away with a 4.5 MILLION severance package.

In comparison that is if I were to be caught de-frauding clients by double charging them and when it was discovered I lose my job and then get a huge payout after I was fired with just cause.

As for Government spending/budgets Governments are inefficient and wastefull of tax payer money at all levels be it Federal/Provincial/Civic....anytime any of them need more money they just raise taxes one way or another.To the they have a funding problem where in reality they have a spending problem.

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While David Suzuki has many honourary degrees, he also has a Ph. D in Zoology. Where are you getting your information from?

After high school, Suzuki attended Amherst College, in Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1958. He went on to study at the University of Chicago and in 1961 graduated with a PhD in zoology, becoming a geneticist. Suzuki was a professor at the University of Alberta in 1962–63 before joining the University of British Columbia, where he would remain for the rest of his academic career. In 1969, he won a Steacie Memorial Fellowship as the best young Canadian scientist. He specialized in meiosis, the early division of living cells where differentiation begins (e.g., between reproductive and other cells), and the study of mutations caused by changes in temperature.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/david-suzuki

I never said I was a fan a David Suzuki. I am pointing out that you are just plain wrong about his education. Are you unable to differentiate between correction of facts and support of opinions?
People who deny basic facts about the world (in this case, denial of anthropogenic climate change) don’t “hear” or “see” or acknowledge facts. They live in an “echo chamber”; one feature on an echo chamber is that “other voices are actively undermined”.

Here’s an essay about epistemic bubbles and echo chambers. It’s well-written and very relevant to our times.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

Presentation of facts is ineffective when it comes to escaping an echo chamber.
 

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People who deny basic facts about the world (in this case, denial of anthropogenic climate change) don’t “hear” or “see” or acknowledge facts. They live in an “echo chamber”; one feature on an echo chamber is that “other voices are actively undermined”.

Here’s an essay about epistemic bubbles and echo chambers. It’s well-written and very relevant to our times.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

Presentation of facts is ineffective when it comes to escaping an echo chamber.
Oh so you want to talk about HARD actual facts?Canada as a country that encompases ALL activity from oil/natural gas extraction/forestry/mining/transportation/manufacturing and so on and so forth as well as Canadians foolishly heating their homes so they dont freeze to death in the winter in one of the harshest cliimates on the face of this planet.....well Canadians from all of that produce 2% of GHG....thats Green House Gas emissions for the dumb folk and at the same time Canada as a country through the northern boreal forrest cleans up 50% of GHG emissions for the entire PLANET.Those are HARD actual FACTS.

I dont deny Climate Change.....it has been happening for BILLIONS of years....at one point ALL of North and South America were covered in Glaciers 400 feet thick.Do I believe the United Nations endorsed/pushed AGENDA of "man made" Climate Change which is nothing but a wealth transfer from developed western society to undeveloped countries.....no I dont.I object to a panel of unelected people who wish to TAX the shit out of me and to transfer that wealth to the poorer countries of the world.

FOLLOW THE MONEY....and follow the Climate Charlatans who are enriching themselves.

What controls the temperature on this planet?It is the Sun.....you would have to be an idiot to think otherwise.The very idea that mankind can control the temperature of this Planet is fucking ridiculous....pretty pathetic when developed Western Countries cant even take care of their own Veterans or the homeless and are ravaged by drug epidemics such as the latest one now via Fentanly.


Oh we can SAVE the Planet.....BUT.....we cant look after our OWN Society first.....fucking WEAK to say the least.Tax the shit out of the working population who are just getting by and IGNORE those of our Society that need the real HELP.

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Trump is going after the Federal Reserve. If you listen to the X22Report Spotlight and X22Report economic news the guy talks about it every day. The central banks are part of the Deep State and they are no friend of Trump’s.
Markets That Live By The Fed, Die By The Fed
Tue, 09/17/2019 - 17:05
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith, OfTwoMinds blog


The "everything bubble" is not permanent.

All eyes are again on the Federal Reserve, as everyone understands that the Fed is the market-- the stock market, the bond market, the art market, the housing market, etc. All markets have been driven higher by one force: central bank money creation and distribution to the financial sector of financiers and corporations, the richest of the rich.

What few seem to grasp (because they're paid not to?) is the Fed is powerless over what actually matters in a healthy economy:

1. The Fed is powerless to create productive, profitable ventures for capital to invest in. Productivity has gone nowhere in the Fed's reign while speculative profits leveraged by the Fed's free money for financiers have soared.

2. The Fed is powerless to raise wages. Despite ginned-up claims that wages are finally rising 3% a year after a decade of stagnation, wages are still losing purchasing power once real-world inflation is factored in.

3. The Fed cannot force creditworthy households and enterprises to borrow more money, nor can they stop banks from lending to the only people who want to borrow more money, those who are credit risks, i.e. borrowers who will default at the first spot of bother.

4. The Fed is powerless to stop the New Gilded Age consequences of their policies via The Cantillon Effect: it's not just how the money is created, but how it's distributed. Those who get the Fed's nearly free money can use it to buy productive assets and pursue speculations such as stock buy-backs, while everyone else who didn't get a single dollar of the Fed's trillions experiences a loss of purchasing power as the Fed's new money expands the money supply without actually expanding the real economy.

The only power the Fed has is to incentivize profiteering via stock buy-backs and speculations of the super-wealthy--the power, in other words, to create a New Gilded Age of obscene wealth inequality.

The Fed's New Gilded Age is generating political blowback, and eventually the masses will awaken to the fact that the Fed is the enemy of the people because it is the sole enabler of the unproductive, parasitic, predatory corporate/insider class that's skimmed something like 87% of all the "wealth" "created" by the Fed's policies.

The Fed has created an economy in which capital has been stripped of low-risk yield. All capital must become gambling chips in the casino to earn a return, but gambling is intrinsically risky, and the asymmetry between the risk--rising--and the return--increasingly paltry--is setting the markets up for a fall the Fed is powerless to stop, and a political blowback to the Fed's New Gilded Age that is it equally powerless to stop.

Markets that live by the Fed also die by the Fed. The Fed's abject, pathetic powerlessness over what actually matters will be revealed in the years ahead, and everyone will look back on the decades in which the Fed was viewed as god-like as a form of mass delusion.

The "everything bubble" is not permanent. Gambling is risky, and the Fed has rigged the world's largest casino to benefit its banking / financier / corporate cronies. But bubbles burst for reasons outside the control of the Fed, a reality that's about to become undeniable.

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept19/market-Fed9-19.html

 

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Where can someone get a straight story on the item that is involved in virtually every economic transaction - money - and how its corruption has led to economic misery and injustice?

One excellent source is Joseph Salerno’s book "Money, Sound and Unsound". As Salerno writes in the Introduction:

The new millennium dawned with the Austrian [School of Economics] sound money paradigm thriving — but still ignored by the mainstream. The bursting of the housing bubble and the meltdown of financial markets changed all this. A small number of economists and participants in financial markets forecast these events using the Austrian theory of the business cycle, which gives the only coherent explanation of booms, bubbles, and depressions. Word spread quickly through the banking and financial sector and among the general public via the Internet. Soon several high-profile financial pundits and other members of the official media were publicly recognizing and embracing the Austrian analysis. Even a few mainstream financial economists were stimulated to give it a sympathetic hearing.

If a domestic money consists of a commodity, the principles of monetary policy are very simple. There aren’t any. The commodity money takes care of itself.

How about that? Under a true gold standard, monetary policymakers would join the unemployed.

The remainder of his book explains why only a sound money is compatible with sustainable prosperity, individual freedom, and world peace.

Complete article on the book:
Unsound Money, Unsound Economy
Mon, 09/16/2019 - 14:00
Authored by George Ford Smith, The Mises Institute
https://austrian.economicblogs.org/mises-us/2019/ford-smith-unsound-money-unsound-economy/
 

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90% Of Plastic Waste Polluting Earth's Oceans Comes From Asia and Africa
Sat, 09/18/2019
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News

Despite westerners being lectured by climate activists like Greta Thunberg, a study has found that around 90 per cent of plastic waste polluting earth’s oceans comes from Asia and Africa.



During her U.S. tour, Thunberg cited “horrifying pictures of plastic in the oceans,” as one of the primary reasons why Americans should listen to her.

However, researchers at Germany’s Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research discovered that a small number of rivers account for the vast majority of plastic pollution and none of them are located in western countries.

“The 10 top-ranked rivers transport 88-95 percent of the global load into the sea,” Dr. Christian Schmidt, a hydrogeologist who led the study, told the Daily Mail.

“The rivers with the highest estimated plastic loads are characterized by high population – for instance the Yangtze with over half a billion people.”

Out of the top ten rivers that produce the most pollution, eight are in Asia and two are in Africa. The Yangtze River in China and the Ganges River in India were responsible for the most plastic pollution.

While westerners are being told to alter their lifestyles and have fewer children to save the planet, virtually nothing is being said about or to the people in the countries responsible for the vast majority of pollution.

This is probably one of the main reasons why many in the west remain skeptical about the true motives of the environmentalist movement.

As we reported earlier, only 38 per cent of Americans believe global warming is man made.


Greta Thunberg/Irishtimes
 

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People who deny basic facts about the world (in this case, denial of anthropogenic climate change) don’t “hear” or “see” or acknowledge facts. They live in an “echo chamber”; one feature on an echo chamber is that “other voices are actively undermined”.

Here’s an essay about epistemic bubbles and echo chambers. It’s well-written and very relevant to our times.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

Presentation of facts is ineffective when it comes to escaping an echo chamber.
To me the issue is that the OP posted false statements. The question is why? It would have taken 15 seconds to verify David Suzuki's academic credentials but the OP chose not to bother.
 

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I don't think I can take man-made global climate change seriously when the people talkingthe most doom and gloom, and radical measures to address the so-called problem never seem to change their lifestyle.

When David Suzuki, Al Gore and Leonardo diCaprio sell a few of their houses, stop flying in jets all over the world and take public transport, or drive bicycles everywhere I might be more persuaded, but I think a lot of other people see the hypocrisy, and realize obviously they don't take climate change that seriously if they won''t cut back on the damage their elite lifestyle produces.
 
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