By Nicholas Stix
“The incidents, whether in Staten Island, Cleveland or Ferguson, were spontaneous protests — we don't have the ability to control or dictate what others say or choose to say.”
Kenneth Zimmerman, director of George Soros' Open Society Foundations' U.S. programs, which have $3 billion, which can fund an awful lot of “spontaneous protests,” and control and dictate what the “protestors” “choose” to say.
For months, inquiring minds have wanted to know who was behind the orchestrated riots, starting in Ferguson and then all over the country since racist black thug Mike Brown’s failed attempt to murder white policeman Darren Wilson.
Earlier reports going back to August contended that the Revolutionary Communist Party was behind the riots, called “demonstrations” by their mainstream media shills. However, when my VDARE Editor Peter Brimelow asked me to look into the RCP connection, I came up empty.
As the blogger Countenance, a native of St. Louis County who lives near Ferguson, and who has driven through the riot sites countless times, observed at the onset of the riots, these things usually burn themselves out after 72 hours.
The Revolutionary Communist Party, so far as I could determine, is an impotent little personality cult surrounding its long-time guru, Bob Avakian (yes, he’s Armenian, as the name implies). Although Avakian’s people were clever in printing up professional-quality signs with their name at the bottom, and getting a few of themselves photographed by the MSM at riots, led by black RCP co-founder, Carl Dix, he lacked the money, organization, and troops to stage a nationwide movement.
The RCP called for violence via the euphemism “Energetic civil disobedience.”
Ms. Frederique works with Opal Tometi, co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter — a hashtag that was developed after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida — and helped promote it on DPA's news feeds. Ms. Tometi runs the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a group to which Mr. Soros gave $100,000 in 2011, according to the most recent of his foundation's tax filings.
"I think #BlackLivesMatter's success is because of organizing. This was created after Trayvon Martin, and there has been sustained organizing and conversations about police violence since then," said Ms. Frederique. "Its explosion into the mainstream recently is because it connects all the dots at a time when everyone was lost for words. 'Black Lives Matter' is liberating, unapologetic and leaves no room for confusion."
Note that the Soros’-funded Black Alliance for Just Immigration is agitating for a mass Third World amnesty of predominantly Hispanic illegal aliens that can only harm American blacks.
As for the “organizing” line, her hash tag was successful only because of mainstream media support.
In the early 2000s, hundreds of thousands of Americans peacefully assembled in our nation’s capitol in a peaceful grassroots demonstration in support of Second Amendment rights; the MSM refused to cover them. Later, a handful of rich, well-connected Democratic Party “astroturfers” organized a demonstration in opposition to Second Amendment rights. No one but the activists showed up. Nevertheless, the media gave them saturation coverage, tightly framing the tiny group in interviews, in a desperate attempt to make it seem bigger than it was, and dishonestly referring to it as a “grassroots” group.
Statements like those by George Soros top apparatchik, Kenneth Zimmerman,
Referring to “spontaneous protests,” and claiming “we don't have the ability to control or dictate what others say or choose to say,” have to be read with an Orwellian b.s. detector.
Soros paid rioters $2.7 million in Ferguson alone for “spontaneous protests,” and if rioters and their “non-violent” human shield accomplices protecting them refused to say and do as George Soros controls and dictates, he would cut them off without a nickel. Zimmerman has to deny that Soros s the puppet master behind the riots because to admit otherwise would be to admit to a massive criminal conspiracy.
The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant, Missouri, which is part of the Gamaliel network, said in one of the group's webinars that clergy involved with Gamaliel must be "protectors of the narrative" of what happened in Ferguson.
"Protectors of the narrative" translates as “protectors of the lies of the Mike Brown hoax.”
As Kelly Riddell reports below for The Washington Times, Soros controls almost $3 billion just in his political organizations (not counting his “personal” wealth), over nine times what the Koch Brothers control. And yet, the MSM focus on Koch, rather than Soros, because as fellow Marxists, they support Soros.
If Riddell’s otherwise splendid investigative report has any flaws, it is that it does not show how reliant the riot campaign was on supportive, leftwing media. But that might require a whole investigative report of its own.
George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil action
Liberal billionaire gave at least $33 million in one year to groups that emboldened activists
By Kelly Riddell
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
The Washington Times
There's a solitary man at the financial center of the Ferguson protest movement. No, it's not victim Michael Brown or Officer Darren Wilson. It's not even the Rev. Al Sharpton, despite his ubiquitous campaign on TV and the streets.
Rather, it's liberal billionaire George Soros, who has built a business empire that dominates across the ocean in Europe while forging a political machine powered by nonprofit foundations that impacts American politics and policy, not unlike what he did with MoveOn.org.
Mr. Soros spurred the Ferguson protest movement through years of funding and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to interviews with key players and financial records reviewed by The Washington Times.
In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.
The financial tether from Mr. Soros to the activist groups gave rise to a combustible protest movement that transformed a one-day criminal event in Missouri into a 24-hour-a-day national cause celebre.
"Our DNA includes a belief that having people participate in government is indispensable to living in a more just, inclusive, democratic society," said Kenneth Zimmerman, director of Mr. Soros' Open Society Foundations' U.S. programs, in an interview with The Washington Times. "Helping groups combine policy, research [and] data collection with community organizing feels very much the way our society becomes more accountable."
No strings attached
Mr. Zimmerman said OSF has been giving to these types of groups since its inception in the early '90s, and that, although groups involved in the protests have been recipients of Mr. Soros' grants, they were in no way directed to protest at the behest of Open Society.
"The incidents, whether in Staten Island, Cleveland or Ferguson, were spontaneous protests — we don't have the ability to control or dictate what others say or choose to say," Mr. Zimmerman said. "But these circumstances focused people's attention — and it became increasingly evident to the social justice groups involved that what a particular incident like Ferguson represents is a lack of accountability and a lack of democratic participation."
Soros-sponsored organizations helped mobilize protests in Ferguson, building grass-roots coalitions on the ground backed by a nationwide online and social media campaign.
Other Soros-funded groups made it their job to remotely monitor and exploit anything related to the incident that they could portray as a conservative misstep, and to develop academic research and editorials to disseminate to the news media to keep the story alive.
The plethora of organizations involved not only shared Mr. Soros' funding, but they also fed off each other, using content and buzzwords developed by one organization on another's website, referencing each other's news columns and by creating a social media echo chamber of Facebook "likes" and Twitter hashtags that dominated the mainstream media and personal online newsfeeds.
Buses of activists from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference in Chicago; from the Drug Policy Alliance, Make the Road New York and Equal Justice USA from New York; from Sojourners, the Advancement Project and Center for Community Change in Washington; and networks from the Gamaliel Foundation — all funded in part by Mr. Soros — descended on Ferguson starting in August and later organized protests and gatherings in the city until late last month.
Broaden issue focus
All were aimed at keeping the media's attention on the city and to widen the scope of the incident to focus on interrelated causes — not just the overpolicing and racial discrimination narratives that were highlighted by the news media in August.
"I went to Ferguson in a quest to be in solidarity and stand with the young organizers and affirm their leadership," said Kassandra Frederique, policy manager at the Drug Policy Alliance, which was founded by Mr. Soros, and which receives $4 million annually from his foundation. She traveled to Ferguson in October.
"We recognized this movement is similar to the work we're doing at DPA," said Ms. Frederique. "The war on drugs has always been to operationalize, institutionalize and criminalize people of color. Protecting personal sovereignty is a cornerstone of the work we do and what this movement is all about."
Ms. Frederique works with Opal Tometi, co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter — a hashtag that was developed after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida — and helped promote it on DPA's news feeds. Ms. Tometi runs the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, a group to which Mr. Soros gave $100,000 in 2011, according to the most recent of his foundation's tax filings.
"I think #BlackLivesMatter's success is because of organizing. This was created after Trayvon Martin, and there has been sustained organizing and conversations about police violence since then," said Ms. Frederique. "Its explosion into the mainstream recently is because it connects all the dots at a time when everyone was lost for words. 'Black Lives Matter' is liberating, unapologetic and leaves no room for confusion."
#BlackLivesMatter
With the backing of national civil rights organizations and Mr. Soros' funding, "Black Lives Matter" grew from a hashtag into a social media phenomenon, including a #BlackLivesMatter bus tour and march in September.
"More than 500 of us have traveled from Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, Portland, Tucson, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and other cities to support the people of Ferguson and help turn a local moment into a national movement," wrote Akiba Solomon, a journalist at Colorlines, describing the event.
Colorlines is an online news site that focuses on race issues and is published by Race Forward, a group that received $200,000 from Mr. Soros's foundation in 2011. Colorlines has published tirelessly on the activities in Ferguson and heavily promoted the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag and activities.
At the end of the #BlackLivesMatter march, organizers met with civil rights groups like the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment to strategize their operations moving forward, Ms. Solomon wrote. OBS and MORE are also funded by Mr. Soros.
Mr. Soros gave $5.4 million to Ferguson and Staten Island grass-roots efforts last year to help "further police reform, accountability and public transparency," the Open Society Foundations said in a blog post in December. About half of those funds were earmarked to Ferguson, with the money primarily going to OBS and MORE, the foundation said.
OBS and MORE, along with the Dream Defenders, established the "Hands Up Coalition" — another so-called "grass-roots" organization in Missouri, whose name was based on now-known-to-be-false claims that Brown had his hands up before being shot. The Defenders were built to rally support and awareness for the Trayvon Martin case and were funded by the Tides Foundation, another recipient of Soros cash.
Hands Up Coalition has made it its mission to recruit and organize youth nationwide to start local events in their communities — trying to take Ferguson nationwide.
Years and weekends of 'resistance'
Hands Up Coalition has dubbed 2015 as "The Year of Resistance," and its outreach program strongly resembles how President Obama's political action committee — Organizing for Action — rallies youth for its causes, complete with a similarly designed Web page and call to action.
Mr. Soros, who made his fortune betting against the British pound during the currency crisis in the early '90s, is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal causes and is a political donor to Mr. Obama's campaigns. He committed $1 million to Mr. Obama's super PAC in 2012.
Mr. Soros' two largest foundations manage almost $3 billion in assets per year, according to their most recent respective tax returns. The Foundation to Promote Open Society managed $2.2 billion in assets in 2011, and his Open Society Institute managed $685.9 million in 2012.
In comparison, David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers whom liberals often call a threat to democracy — and worse — for their conservative influence, had $308 million tied up in their foundation and institute in 2011.
One of the organizations that Mr. Soros funds, and which fueled the demonstrations in Ferguson, is the Gamaliel Foundation, a network of grass-roots, interreligious and interracial organizations. Mr. Obama started his career as a community organizer at a Gamaliel affiliate in Chicago.
The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant, Missouri, which is part of the Gamaliel network, said in one of the group's webinars that clergy involved with Gamaliel must be "protectors of the narrative" of what happened in Ferguson.
The Gamaliel affiliate in St. Louis — Metropolitan Congregations United — organized the "Weekend of Resistance" in October, in which clergy members from around the nation were called to come to Ferguson to protest.
Clergy involvement
Representatives of Sojourners, a national evangelical Christian organization committed "to faith in action for social justice," attended the weekend. The group received $150,000 from Mr. Soros in 2011.
Clergy representatives from the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright serves as a trustee, also showed up. Mr. Wright was Mr. Obama's pastor in Chicago before some of his racially charged sermons, including the phrase "God damn America," forced Mr. Obama to distance himself. SDPC received $250,000 from Mr. Soros in 2011.
During Gamaliel's weekend protest event, Sunday was deemed "Hands Up Sabbath," where clergy were asked to speak out about racial issues, using packets and talking points prepared for them by another religion-based community organizing group, PICO.
PICO is also supported by the Open Society Foundations, according to its website.
The weekend concluded Monday, when clergy members were asked to lead in acts of civil disobedience, prompting many of them to go to jail in the hopes of gaining media attention.
It worked, as imagery of clergy members down on their hands and knees in front of police dominated the mainstream news cycle that day — two months after Brown's shooting.
"After the initial shooting, we were all hit in the face with how blatant racism really is," said the Rev. Susan Sneed, a Gamaliel organizer who helped stage the October weekend event. "We began quickly hearing from our other affiliates offering support."
At the end of August, Gamaliel had a large organizational meeting to discuss its Ferguson strategy, Ms. Sneed said.
It had its affiliates in New York and California handling the St. Louis Twitter feed and Facebook page, helped in correcting any inaccurate stories in the press and promoted their events, she said.
"When we started marching down the street, saying, 'hands up, don't shoot,' those images reached all over the world," said Ms. Sneed, referring to the moment she realized Ferguson was going to become a movement. "The Twitter images, Facebook posts of burning buildings — it's everywhere, and the imagery is powerful. And the youth — the youth is so engaged. They've found a voice in Ferguson."
National activists descend
Larry Fellows III, 29, a Missouri native, did find his voice in the chaos of Ferguson with the help of outside assistance backed by Mr. Soros.
Mr. Fellows is co-founder of the Millennial Activists United, a key source of video and stories developed in Ferguson by youth activists used to inspire other groups nationally.
Mr. Fellows explained how he started his organization in an interview with the American Civil Liberties Union (another Soros-backed entity that sent national representatives to Missouri) in November.
"Initially, it would just be that we would show up for protests, and the next day we'd clean up the streets. A lot of the same people were out at the protests and going out to lunch and talking about what was happening. That became a cycle until a lot of us figured out we needed to have a strategy," Mr. Fellows explained to the ACLU, which posted the interview in its blog.
"Then a lot of organizers from across the country started to come in to help us do the planning and do the strategizing. That helped us start doing it on our own and planning out actions and what our narratives were going to be," he said.
MAU has listed on its website that it has partnered with Gamaliel network churches. They've also received training on civil disobedience from the Advancement Project — which was given a $500,000 grant from Mr. Soros in 2013 "to build a fair and just, multi-racial democracy in America through litigation, community organizing support, public policy reform, and strategic communications," according to the Foundation's website.
The Advancement Project, based in Washington, also arranged the meeting between community organizers in Ferguson and Mr. Obama last month to brief him on the situation in Ferguson and to set up a task force that examines trust between police and minority communities.
In addition, the Advancement Project has also dedicated some of its staff to lead organizations in Ferguson, like the Don't Shoot Coalition, another grass-roots group that preaches the same message, links to the same Facebook posts and "likes" the same articles as DPA, ACLU, Hands Up Coalition, OBS, MORE and others.
23 comments:
Soros too and it should be spoken about over and over was a NAZI collaborator during WW2. Was fourteen years old and to survive collected the left behind baggage of the Jews put on the trains headed for Auschwitz.
Soros uses front groups much as the communist did [and is doing] to funnel money to dissident and bad parties.
Why a man who has benefited so much from American society would want to destroy same [not make better] is beyond comprehension.
There was a time around the year 2000 or so when Soros was buying and selling enormous tracts of land in Patagonia to American celebrities.
It was almost if he was anticipating a total break down of society where the elites would need a place to flee to.
Soros not only "bet against" the British pound but the Malaysian ringgit too. And not only "bet against" those currencies but took active measures to make sure the value would fall. Nearly caused major disaster for those nations.
For persons that want to create a more just and multi-cultural society these folks sure go about things in a funny way.
It has often been noted that most of these riots, the preponderance of them, last for about three days max.
And this is often seen as a sign of some sort of planning.
Rather I might suggest this is a result of the participants after three days being so full of booze and pills that even they have to lay down and sleep for a while.
Anonymous said...
Soros not only "bet against" the British pound but the Malaysian ringgit too. And not only "bet against" those currencies but took active measures to make sure the value would fall. Nearly caused major disaster for those nations.
The Thai Baht as well. Soros is among the most destructive men to have ever walked the planet.
One would think the SPLC and the ACLU would be up-in-arms against the Jew Soros, but nothing but silence.
When eventually a Jew or Jews get attacked by blacks, of course us White Christians will get blamed. It was our White Christian "racism" which somehow provoked the blacks to attack the Jews. The Jew race hustlers will figure out the "somehow" using every mendacious device they can conjure-up.
Considering the Soros family were Nazis during WW2 and the Soros family sent quite a few of their fellow Jews to the concentration camps, why EXACTLY is the Jew Soros one of the main leaders of the Jews in the USA? One would think the Jews would not want a Nazi as a leader. But yet they do it seems.
The Jews will do everything they can to put any low-level German involved in the concentration camp in prison, yet they have a Nazi Jew as one of their main and one of their most influential leaders, and they don't seem to have any problem with that. Quite the opposite, the Jews as a whole seem to like having a Nazi as one of their main leaders : As the Jews cry their crocodile tears about Nazism, their main Jew leader in the USA is a Nazi himself.
I bet Soros loves that Bella Abzug to no-end, lights votive candles to her honor. Even her name "Abzug" sounds like a name of one of the devils from hell.
From : Salvatore
Salvatore,
Although your name didn't show up on my end--long posts get truncated, so I have to approve them, to see what's inside, as Nancy Pelosi would say--but I knew it was you. You have a distinctive way of writing, and I don't mean that as a compliment.
Aside from your being an obsessive Jew-baiter, your repetitiousness alone is a dead giveaway.
Here's the deal. If you want to post comments here anymore, you have to back them up, starting with your comments about Soros being a "Nazi." And don't give me something from David Duke, my good friend Alex Linder, or similar nonsense.
If you don't like my terms, that's fine, because you've been dragging down the level of commentary here long enough.
I don't particularly care for Alex Linder and would it make you happy to know Linder has banned me from VNN? You're perturbed, but it wasn't my intention to perturb you, it really wasn't -- if that helps any. Still the truth is The Truth.
Ask Henry Makow about Soros. He'll tell you the same thing I'm saying : If only a Jew source reference will do to make you happy. And then there's always Rabbi Antelman.
Funny how both Antelman and David Duke get pushed to the far corners of the "alternative" media ; Ooops, that probably perturbs you, for me to say that.
I'm hardly being repetitive. I only once mentioned here at your website the underground black market in weaponry in the USA is owned by the Jew mafia. Today was my first mention of Bella Abzug. Never mentioned her before. Today was my first mention of Soros, and you're the one who brought the Soros subject to-the-fore, I didn't.
From : Salvatore
Jewish people appear to be hyper sensitive to almost any form of criticism. Most Jews I've come in contact with are atheist and anti Christian. Perhaps they have suffered so much in the past, making them rather paranoid and cynical. At the same time I admire their intelligence, education family values and humor. Too bad they can dish it out but can't take it.
Lauren Bacall was a Jew. Robert Osborne of TCM interviewed her. He asked her -- it was his first question [he's such a WASP] -- "Did you experience Anti-Semitism in Hollywood?" LOL.
Background : She was discovered and brought to Hollywood and given her first break in Hollywood by a well known show business couple in Hollywood. I forgot their names. Anyway, the couple who discovered Bacall and brought her to Hollywood were NON Jews. NOT Jewish.
Bacall went on and on about how she suffered in Hollywood because every once in a while people said she didn't look Jewish. She heard that in Hollywood about two or three times during her career. [Never mind that she herself fully well knew she didn't look Jewish, and never mind she was very happy not to have the typical Jewish look.]
The man who discovered her and brought her to Hollywood and gave her first role in a movie, he was NOT Jewish, also once told Bacall she doesn't look Jewish.
The WHOLE interview revolved around how much suffering Lauren Bacall went through in Hollywood because she didn't look Jewish. LOL! She was Holocausted in Hollywood!
Bacall didn't have one good word to say about the couple who brought her to Hollywood and gave her first big break by giving her a leading role in a Hollywood movie. Not one good word. All she did was complain about how she suffered in Hollywood because of the NON Jewish couple who discovered her and launched her career.
Of course, Robert Osborne took it all so seriously. LOL.
The comment by Anonymous January 16, 2015 at 10:44:00 PM EST reminds me of Osborne's interview of Lauren Bacall and the account of her great suffering in Hollywood at the hands of the horrible NON Jew "Nazi" couple who launched her career. LOL.
Pleure moi une riviere, Anonymous.
From : Salvatore
I knew there was something phony about all the demonstrations. A lot of them seemed to me to be professional agitator types, way too polished to be merely spontaneous demonstrators. I've been seeing the RCP people in town for years and wonder how they support themselves, having plenty of time to blow on being full-time activists (or so they seem).
What's Soros' game plan for something like Ferguson?Seems strange for him to be involved in that and yet there it is.
Thank you!! It's great to hear the voice of sanity after the endless Jew-hate we have to wade through on certain other race-realist sites.
You, sir, are a loony.
I pointed out on one blog that the endless harping on THE JEWISH CONSPIRACY TO CONTROL THE WORLD — doubtlessly driven by jealous resentment toward the disproportionally large number of wealthy and successful Jews — was exactly the same cop-out that blacks use against whites. Blacks refuse to acknowledge that it is their low IQ, violence, impulsivity, and irresponsible behavior that causes them to lose the socioeconomic battle, so they invent chimeras like structural racism and white privelige to explain away their functioning at lower levels than whites.
Muslims do it too. Their general failure in the world isn't due to low IQ, a poor work ethic, and an unreasoning adherence to a psychopathic death cult, but is caused by THE JEWS.
If Jews outperform Gentiles, it is because Jews outperform Gentiles in being the things that create success, such as intelligent, industrious, organized, studious, family-oriented, and responsible, not because they receive secret wealth-building messages beamed into their TV cables by the Illuminati and their co-conspirators at the Federal Reserve. I don't think my comment was appreciated, as it wasn't published.
Fair enough, but I think Gentiles are better looking and more creative. The greatest artists in the world were not Jewish.
As a gentile from a Catholic/Protestant background, I must admit that no one has helped me more than Jewish people. With all the problems we face today we should have more respect for one another. Jews and Gentiles are not the problem.
"Just" and "multicultural" are bipolar opposites. The true meaning of multicultural is the social and economic disenfranchisment of whites.
I love Chagall and Modigliani. If you think Scarlett Johansen isn't a smoking hot babe then you are about as observant as Stevie Wonder in welding goggles.
I almost wish Jews did run the world. It would be a far better place than it is now.
Gee, thx god for all the Jew Communists and their Noahide Laws. And thx god for all the Jew Commies who were Martin Luther King Jr's handlers ; Thx god for the Jews who raised Martin Luther Jr. up only to turn-around and assassinate him -- to get the blacks to hate us White Christians and attack us with great violence and fury.
I'm White and everything, but I'm not a White from Iowa. I'm from the Bronx. You all are wasting your time trying to convince me the Jews are something wonderful. Wherever Jews go in large numbers, they bring with them NOTHING but war. Study the history of the Jew Soviet Union. Study the history of the NAACP and learn EXACTLY why the Jews started the NAACP. It had NOTHING to do with peace, love, and understanding, NOTHING to do with it, that's for sure.
When the shit hits the fan big-time in this country, I won't lift a finger to help any Jew, for any reason, for all the money in the world I will not lift a finger to help any Jew in distress.
The Jew mob used to pay blacks to go into Italian neighborhoods in NYC and attack us Italians. The Jews paid the blacks to burn down the South Bronx. The Truth is The Truth.
The Jew newspapers used to feature articles about how the Italians didn't want blacks in Italian neighborhoods, but the Jews NEVER told the readers that the Jews used to pay black street criminals to come into our neighborhoods and attack us, and burn down our homes and business and Catholic churches.
Keep your Lauren Bacall. She was beautiful when she was young, but she was real ugly on the inside from youth to the day the Jewess kicked-the-bucket. Just as ugly on the inside as Bella Abzug.
Don't like Nazis? Go tell it to the Jew Oakie in Skokie, Frank Collins [Cohn]. Go tell it to the Jew Soros. Go tell it to Bella Abzug. Nazi, by the way, is the other side of the coin to Jew Communist. Even Menachem Begin was a Nazi during WW2. He threw quite a few Jews into the camps-- and the Jews made him Prime Minister of their Israel, LOL.
From : Salvatore
Just because Jews gave us the bomb and communism and all other isms..doesn't mean they didn't contribute.
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