Govt. Nuke Program Brainwashed White Male Employees at Tax-Funded Retreat

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Govt. Nuke Program Brainwashed White Male Employees at Tax-Funded Retreat

One of the federal government’s nuclear research programs reportedly hosted a taxypayer-funded, three-day retreat last year to deconstruct “white male culture” and force white, male employees to confront their “privilege.”

Sandia National Laboratories, which is in charge of designing some of the U.S.’s nuclear weaponry, sent its white male employees to a luxury resort in Santa Fe, New Mexico last year, according to a report by Christopher Rufo, director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty at the Discovery Institute.

According to documents uncovered by Rufo, they were required to attend a workshop titled “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Organizations.”

In the training, led by a company called “White Men as Full Diversity Partners,” male employees were told that symbols such as the “MAGA hat” represent white supremacy, and that they are intrinsically associated with “white male culture.”

Among the other toxic “white male” qualities they were told to rid themselves of: “rugged individualism,” a “can-do attitude,” “hard work” and “striving towards success.”

These traits are “devastating” to the workforce because they inherently lead to “lowered quality of life at work and home, reduced life expectancy, unproductive relationships, and high stress” in women and in ethnic minorities.

To combat this inequality, the employees were directed to write letters to women and minorities about their experience at the retreat, and to apologize for participating in a toxic culture created to sustain white male privilege.

In at least one session, the employees were forced to repeat affirmations against white privilege so as to “accept their complicity” in the “white male system,” according to Rufo.

A spokesperson for Sandia National Laboratories refused to confirm or deny whether its employees attended the event, but said in a statement that the program has always prioritized “inclusion and diversity,” and that it seeks to welcome “multiple perspectives” and “different working styles.”

Ex-FBI Lawyer to Plead Guilty in Durham Look at Russia Probe

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Ex-FBI Lawyer to Plead Guilty in Durham Look at Russia Probe

(Headline USA) A former FBI lawyer plans to plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham‘s investigation into the probe of ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign that were found to be non-existent.

Kevin Clinesmith is being charged in federal court in Washington and is expected to plead guilty to one count of making a false statement, his attorney Justin Shur told The Associated Press.

The plea marks a full-circle reversal of fortune for the notoriously biased line attorney, a relatively low-ranking official who, nonetheless, appeared to have taken a lead role in some of the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” interrogations.

Those included the perjury trap against George Papadopoulos, a Trump adviser who served a brief prison sentence as part of a plea deal for making a false statement to the FBI about his interactions with foreign intelligence sources.

Clinesmith’s indictment was widely anticipated after it came to light last year that he had altered an official email to suggest, falsely, that another former Trump adviser, Carter Page, was not working with the CIA.

That cast Page’s meetings with Russian officials in a different light amid accusations that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia, and it enabled the FBI to proceed with its FISA warrant applications to spy on Page and other Trump officials.

“Kevin deeply regrets having altered the email,” Shur said.

“It was never his intent to mislead the court or his colleagues, as he believed the information he relayed was accurate, but Kevin understands what he did was wrong and accepts responsibility,” he added.

His declared intent aside, subsequent investigations in Congress and the Justice Department inspector general’s office nonetheless revealed Clinesmith’s outrageous anti-Trump bias, including a post to a group-messaging platform that declared, “Viva le Resistance!”

After Trump won the election, Clinesmith subsequently complained in emails revealed by the IG report, “My g** d***ed name is all over the legal documents investigating his staff… So, who knows if that breaks to him what he is going to do.”

The case against Clinesmith is one element of the wrongdoing by the FBI, when it opened an investigation — with scant evidence or justification — into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin to sway the outcome of the 2016 election.

The investigation has proceeded alongside a parallel effort by Senate Republicans to examine the Russia probe and as Attorney General William Barr has escalated his own criticism of the FBI’s probe.

Barr foreshadowed the legal action in a Fox News Channel interview on Thursday night in which he said there would be a development Friday that was “not earth shattering” but would be an indication that the investigation was moving along.

It remained unclear whether Clinesmith’s guilty plea was part of a negotiation to drop the more serious charges, or whether he was cooperating with the Durham probe as part of a potential plea deal.

Clinesmith was referred for potential prosecution by the department’s inspector general’s office last December following its internal review of the FBI’s role in the Russia hoax.

That review concluded that the FBI made significant errors and omissions as it applied for secret national security warrants to eavesdrop on Page.

Clinesmith told the inspector general that from his conversations he did not understand Page to be a source, or a “recruited asset,” or to have a direct relationship with another government agency.

Durham—the U.S. attorney for Connecticut and a veteran prosecutor with a history of special assignments from Washington—is expected to conclude his criminal investigation sometime before Labor Day.

Already, Democrats are clamoring that the potential criminal indictments of top Obama-era intelligence officials could taint the upcoming November election.

Others insist that the conspiracy to frame the Trump campaign and undermine the Republican administration is simply ‘old news.’

However, none of the intelligence officials linked to the scandal via now-declassified documents have yet faced any serious accountability beyond intra-department discipline.

Barr appointed Durham just weeks after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his nearly two-year investigation.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Pro Soccer Player Calls Fans ‘Disgusting’ for Booing at Their Anthem-Kneeling

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Pro Soccer Player Calls Fans ‘Disgusting’ for Booing at Their Anthem-Kneeling

Fans at a Major League Soccer game on Wednesday booed players when they knelt for the nation anthem.

The game was the first since the league suspended matches in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 5,000 fans attended the match between FC Dallas and Nashville SC, but they were immediately turned off when players decided to follow several other professional sports teams and take a knee during the national anthem.

FC Dallas defender Reggie Cannon called the displeased fans “absolutely disgusting” for opposing players “taking a stand for what they believe in.”

“You can’t even have support from your own fans in your own stadium. It’s baffling to me,” Cannon complained, according to Yahoo Sports.

“As a team, we try to give the best possible product on the field, and these last six months have been absolute hell for us — absolute hell,” he whined.

Cannon said the crowd began chanting “U.S.A.” during the anthem, but argued that kneeling does not mean he’s any less patriotic.

“They don’t understand what kneeling means. They don’t understand why we’re kneeling. They can’t see the reason. They think we’re the ignorant ones,” Cannon said.

“And it’s incredibly frustrating,” he continued. “I’m sorry to have this tone, but you have to call it for what it is.”

At least half of the country disagrees with Cannon.

In a 2018 poll, only 35% of Americans said they agree with kneeling as a form of protest.

Even a few professional players, such as the NFL’s New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, have spoken out against the practice, calling it disrespectful to the country they play for.

“I love and respect my teammates, and I stand right there with them in regard to fighting for racial equality and justice,” Brees said. “But I also stand with my grandfathers, who risked their lives for this country, and countless other military men and women who do it on a daily basis.”

Obama Alumni Mock Media For Calling Kamala Harris a ‘Moderate’

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Obama Alumni Mock Media For Calling Kamala Harris a ‘Moderate’

Alumni of the Obama administration mocked the media this week for suggesting that Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., whom presidential candidate Joe Biden recently chose as his running mate, is a “moderate.”

“It was hilarious to me that she’s being called, in all this coverage, a ‘moderate,’ like Joe Biden has found a fellow moderate or centrist,” said Jon Favreau, one of former President Barack Obama’s speechwriters, himself promoting the false leftist trope that Biden is a moderate.

“She supports something extremely close to ‘Medicare for All,’ which Bernie Sanders acknowledged in his statement supporting her,” Favreau continued. “She’s for the Green New Deal. She has one of the most liberal records in the U.S. Senate.”

Favreau said that if Harris is a “moderate,” progressives have shifted “the Overton window” so successfully that “supporting the Green New Deal and basically ‘Medicare for all’ is now moderate and centrist,” he explained in an episode of Pod Save America with fellow former Obama staffers Daniel Pfeiffer and Alyssa Mastromonaco.

The term refers to a window of opportunity in which political ideologies might capitalize on current events or crises to push a previously unpopular agenda.

However, despite recent race riots and other catalyzing events that the Left has sought to exploit, there is no evidence that widespread public sentiment has shifted substantially  alongside that of the media and radical activists.

National polls show a negligible difference between Biden’s current standing and that of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election at the same time.

In the bid to unseat the incumbent Trump, several mainstream media outlets have wildly insisted that Harris is the “pragmatic moderate” running-mate Biden has been looking for.

“In adding Harris to the ticket,” the Associated Press claimed, Biden “can point to her relatively centrist record on issues such as health care and her background in law enforcement in the nation’s largest state.”

The Los Angeles Times said in a headline, “Picking Harris, Biden puts centrist stamp on Democrats’ future.”

“Kamala Harris is a natural centrist who combines the authority of a prosecutor with the enthusiasm of a skillful retail politician,” the Economist claimed.

The New York Times similarly declared, “A pragmatic moderate who spent most of her career as a prosecutor, Ms. Harris was seen throughout the vice-presidential search as among the safest choices available to Mr. Biden.”

Gov. Says NJ Will Vote Mostly by Mail in Nov. Despite Fraud During Primary

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(Headline USA) Saying it won’t be a “regular election year” because of the coronavirus outbreak, New Jersey will move to a nearly all-mail election this November following the model the state used in its July primary, Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday.

Murphy, a Democrat, said during a news conference that he will sign an executive order calling for all registered voters to get a ballot beginning Oct. 5 along with a prepaid return envelope.

The state Republican Party voiced strong concerns over going to a nearly all-mail election in July.

It petitioned the U.S. attorney in New Jersey to install election monitors over concerns of “disenfranchisement.”

Some Democrats have also voiced concerns. Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh has said he wants there to be traditional in-person voting, saying that he was a “purist” and there was a sense of accomplishment after voting in person.

Paterson is at the center of criminal election fraud charges brought by Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. The charges stem from the May municipal primary there. Grewal charged a Paterson city councilman, a councilman-elect and two other men with voting fraud, after an investigation found that one in five mail-in ballots were fraudulent.

He cast the charges as a warning ahead of last month’s first-ever nearly all-mail election statewide.

Grewal’s investigation began when the U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm told the attorney general’s office about hundreds of mail-in ballots located in a mailbox in Paterson, along with more found in nearby Haledon.

Three of the four defendants’ attorneys said last month that their clients disputed the charges.

Meanwhile the governor criticized President Trump and Republicans for refusing to appropriate billions of dollars more for the ineffective, money-bleeding U.S. Postal Service.

The postal service, the Murphy said, was “being turned into a political football” by people who don’t believe in getting people to turn out to vote.

To address concerns over the service’s reliability, Murphy said voters will have several options to return their ballots: They can mail them, as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3, or take them to at least 10 official drop boxes throughout each county, Murphy said.

There will be a new option for the fall, Murphy said: Voters can bring their mail-in ballots in person to a polling place and hand deliver it to a poll worker.

Ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 will be accepted up to a week later, Murphy said.

New Jersey moved its primary from June 2 because of the coronavirus outbreak. On Friday, the governor cited the outbreak as the reason for overhauling how the state runs its election.

“We must recognize that this is not a regular election year,” he said.

In-person voting won’t look like it usually does.

Voters can either hand deliver their ballots, or vote by provisional ballot, which means the vote will be counted only after officials determined a mail-in ballot wasn’t already cast.

Murphy indicated there will be fewer polling places open, with each county required to have at least 50% of its polling places open. Each town must have at least one polling place open, the governor said.

“I know all of this may be new foe people but I am confident that New Jersey voters, that all of us can do this,” Secretary of State Tahesha Way said.

Adapted from reporting by Associated Press.

9th Circuit Overturns Calif. Ban on High-Capacity Magazines; Violates 2nd Amendment

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9th Circuit Overturns Calif. Ban on High-Capacity Magazines; Violates 2nd Amendment

(Headline USA) A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday threw out California‘s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, saying the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear firearms.

“Even well-intentioned laws must pass constitutional muster,” Appellate Judge Kenneth Lee wrote for the panel’s majority.

California’s ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets “strikes at the core of the Second Amendment — the right to armed self-defense.”

He noted that California passed the law “in the wake of heart-wrenching and highly publicized mass shootings,” but said that isn’t enough to justify a ban whose scope “is so sweeping that half of all magazines in America are now unlawful to own in California.”

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra did not immediately say if he would ask the full appellate court to reconsider the ruling by the three judges, or if he would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He also did not immediately say if the state would seek a delay of the ruling to prevent an immediate buying spree.

Sales are currently on hold based on a stay by the lower court and cannot immediately resume.

California Rifle & Pistol Association attorney Chuck Michel called it “a huge victory” for gun owners “and the right to choose to own a firearm to defend your family.”

The ruling has national implications because other states have similar restrictions, though it immediately applies only to Western states under the appeals court’s jurisdiction.

It was a fractured decision: Two of the three judges voted to toss out the state’s ban, while the third judge dissented.

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Lynn of Texas, who had been named the third judge on the appellate panel, said the majority’s ruling conflicts with decisions in six other district courts across the nation.

Gun rights groups have been trying to get such cases before the nation’s high court now that it has a more conservative majority.

Friday’s decision upholds a 2017 ruling by San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who blocked a new law that would have barred gun owners from possessing magazines holding more than 10 bullets.

But he and the appeals court went further by declaring unconstitutional a state law that had prohibited buying or selling such magazines since 2000.

That law had let those who had the magazines before then keep them, but barred new sales or imports.

Adapted from reporting by Associated Press.

GAO: Homeland Security Officials Were Wrongly Appointed; DHS Says Findings ‘Baseless’

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GAO: Homeland Security Officials Were Wrongly Appointed; DHS Says Findings ‘Baseless’

(Associated Press) The two most senior officials in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were improperly appointed to the posts under federal law by the Trump administration, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog said Friday.

The Government Accountability Office says acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and his acting deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, are ineligible to run the agency under the Vacancy Reform Act.

It was not immediately clear what effects the determination would have on DHS, an agency that has acting officials in a number of prominent roles and is at the forefront of key administration initiatives on immigration and law enforcement.

The report does not carry the force of law, though it could be a factor in lawsuits challenging administration policies or influence members of Congress.

For its part, DHS rejected the finding.

“We wholeheartedly disagree with the GAO’s baseless report and plan to issue a formal response to this shortly,” the agency said in a written response to The Associated Press.

The Government Accountability Office said it has asked the DHS inspector general, a Trump appointee, to review the situation and determine if the violation affects decisions they have taken.

Both Wolf and Cuccinelli should resign, according to Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

“GAO’s damning opinion paints a disturbing picture of the Trump Administration playing fast and loose by bypassing the Senate confirmation process to install ideologues,” the two Democrats said in a joint statement.

The GAO analysis traces the violation back to a tumultuous period at DHS in 2019 when then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned. It found that she was improperly replaced by Kevin McAleenan under the rules governing succession in federal agencies.

McAleenan altered the rules of succession after he was subsequently removed, but GAO’s legal analysis concluded that the later appointments of Wolf and Cuccinelli were invalid.

Opponents of administration policies have already sought to use their uncertain status in legal challenges. In March, a federal judge in Washington said Cuccinelli’s appointment violated the 1998 Vacancy Reform Act and set aside a directive he issued that granted people seeking asylum less time to consult with an attorney before a screening interview.

DHS is the third-largest Cabinet agency, with about 240,000 employees.

Legacy Media SILENT After Black Man’s Execution of White 5-Year-Old

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Legacy Media SILENT After Black Man’s Execution of White 5-Year-Old

The left-wing media is maintaining it silence after a 5-year-old, white North Carolina boy was killed in cold blood by a black neighbor.

Conservatives on social media are now responding in full force, demanding that the same standards of outrage apply as did in recent killings where the races were reversed, the Daily Wire reported.

Darius Sessoms, 25, of Wilson has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing, which occurred late Sunday afternoon. He was apprehended on Monday by US Marshals after fleeing the scene.

It has been reported that the boy’s family had dined on Friday with the “alleged” killer, who publicly executed Cannon Hinnant after the boy rode a bike in his yard.

“[You] can’t imagine what it’s like to hold your son in your arms with a gunshot wound to the head, and his blood is running down your arms,” said the boy’s father, Austin Hinnant, on Thursday prior to Cannon’s funeral, WRAL reported.

There is no evidence that the killing was racially motivated, and there is limited indication, thus far, as to what the motives were.

“I just don’t understand why he did it,” one neighbor told ABC11. “How can you walk up to a little boy point-blank and put a gun to his head, and just shoot him? How can anyone do that?”

Some reports suggest that Sessoms already was facing multiple felony charges prior to the killing.

But in the wake of recent race riots to protest social injustice under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement, the level of rhetoric, paired with the partisan neglect of most media outlets, has turned the tragic case into another hyper-politicized tinder-box.

A tweet from social-media influencer Jason Howerton starkly laid out the media blackout at four of the leading broadcast news outlets.

Meanwhile, Cannon supporters sought to make the hashtag #SayHisName trend on social media, appropriating a similar call in cases like the police killing of 26-year-old black Kentucky resident Breonna Taylor.

The cause was embraced by conservative celebrities like James Woods and Antonio Sabáto Jr., both of whom retweeted the hashtag.

Black conservatives such as Twitter user Leonydus Johnson, host of the recently launched “Informed Dissent” podcast, also were among those who noted the double-standard.

ICE Uses Reinforcements to Extract Violent Illegals Shielded by Protesters in Ore.

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(Headline USA) U.S. Border Patrol officers late Wednesday used pepper spray on demonstrators in Bend, Oregon, as they pushed their way through a crowd to get to two men detained by immigration agents inside a bus that could not move for about 12 hours because of the protesters.

The next day, people again gathered in the central Oregon city to decry the actions by federal agents, question the role of local law enforcement the night before and to listen to a message from the two families whose husbands and fathers were detained.

“Up until today, at 1:45 p.m., we have no news about our husbands. We don’t know if they have been fed. We don’t know if they have slept. We don’t have any information,” said Janet Llerandi-Gonzalez, the director of Director of Mecca Bend, who delivered the families’ messages in Spanish to a crowd Thursday.

The men under detention were removed by 20 border control officers Wednesday.

The men’s whereabouts and identities were not clear Thursday morning.

Immigration attorney Micaela Guthrie claimed the detained men have lived in central Oregon for over a decade, Oregon Public Broadcast reported.

ICE spokesperson Tanya Roman said in a statement the two people arrested had histories of criminally violent behavior, though Roman didn’t offer specifics.

“While ICE respects the rights of people to voice their opinion peacefully, that does not include illegally interfering with their federal law enforcement duties. ICE will take all necessary measures to ensure the safety of its officers and detainees, and will vigorously pursue prosecution against anyone who puts them in harm’s way,” Roman said.

When the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrived in the central Oregon city, and took the men into custody mid-Wednesday, they were met by hundreds of protesters who prevented the bus they were on from leaving a parking lot, the Bend Bulletin reported.

Bend Mayor Sally Russell had asked people surrounding the bus to leave the area, saying on Twitter that the arrests were not an immigration sweep and that she had been informed the men had warrants for their arrest.

The hours long stand-off between protesters and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ended when Border Patrol officers used pepper spray, dispersing the crowds around 11 p.m.

“It is intolerable to have people taken from their families, from their job, from their friends from their children for the crime of coming and working hard for a better life,” Bend City Councilor Barb Campbell said before a crowd Thursday, ignoring the criminal charges against the pair.

As Campbell spoke, a few people in the crowd shouted, urging for Bend’s police chief to be fired.

“Absolutely will look into whether or not our police force was aiding federal agents,” Campbell said.

Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said, in a statement on Twitter, that police were “not involved with ICE operations.”

Oregon has a sanctuary state law that prohibits state and local resources from being used to assist federal immigration enforcement.

Krantz said Bend police had been made aware, on Tuesday and Wednesday, that federal agents were in Bend for an investigation, but local law enforcement were not informed of any detailed plans.

Democrat Gov. Kate Brown, in a statement on Twitter Thursday, said she was appalled by “the callous actions of the Trump Administration” in Bend.

Adapted from reporting by Associated Press.

Court Docs May Confirm Slain DNC Staffer Seth Rich’s Contact w/ Wikileaks

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Court Docs May Confirm Slain DNC Staffer Seth Rich’s Contact w/ Wikileaks

New documents may reveal that Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer murdered under suspicious circumstances in 2016, had been in contact with Wikileaks in the lead-up to his death.

According to the Gateway Pundit, the documents confirm prior reporting that a federal investigator who viewed the forensics report on Rich had acknowledged the WikiLeaks correspondence.

The original reporting came from London-based investigative documentary producer Gavin MacFayden, who died of lung cancer in October 2016.

In a piece for Fox News that was later scrubbed, an investigator in the case told MacFayden, “I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks.”

He said the FBI was in possession of the emails but that Washington, DC, police were overseeing the murder investigation.

The matter resurfaced last week as Rich’s family proceeded to wage a lawsuit in the United Kingdom against Fox News for implicating Rich in the leaks.

Rich, who had been a Bernie Sanders supporter, was shot in front of his northwest DC apartment on July 10, 2016. No personal effects of his were taken in the supposed robbery.

Wikileaks first published emails hacked from the DNC server on July 22 of that year.

The DNC leaks revealed, among many other shocking details, that high-level operatives at the committee had colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign to undermine Sanders, her only viable primary opponent.

But the FBI, led by biased agents including Peter Strzok, deferred its forensic analysis to the left-wing firm CrowdStrike, contracted by the DNC, which concluded that Russians were responsible for the hack.

That, in turn, resulted in the series of events that triggered allegations that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia, allowing the FBI to open its “Crossfire Hurricane” sting operation, which ultimately warped into Robert Mueller‘s two-year special counsel investigation.

Meanwhile, both the deep-state intelligence community and the leftist media embarked upon a concerted effort to suppress the growing reportage on Rich’s ties to Wikileaks, which fed into longstanding rumors about the Clintons’ tendency to dispense with those who crossed them politically.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange helped fuel speculation, later telling a Dutch reporter, “I am suggesting that our sources take risks and they—they become concerned to see things occurring like that.”

Assange’s mother made the connection more explicit in a now-deleted tweet from August 2018:

Its the duty of media to inform citizens about corruption

A #DNC#Bernie supporter disgruntled with rigging leaked docs proving corruption

What should Wikileaks should have done?

Hold on to them till after the election to advantage #Hillary?

You are shooting the messenger!

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