Pac-Plate Dance, Running Out of Terror,? Wobbly Markts

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The Pacific Plate is dancing again.  As many of our readers have been experiencing the “earthquake tireds” over the past week, or two, along comes a 7.1 quake in Japan to fill expectations:

Source: USGS This event originally showed as two events in our event list. This error has been fixed. There was one event”
US West coast back to sleep mode. for how long?

We have mentioned that recent activity off the West Coast, in particular off the coast of Washington/British Columbia has fall back into sleep mode. But while the pressures are always changing, we might think of this morning’s Japan shaker as just making a bit more room for the Pacific Plate to move west.

The subduction zone off Washington typically sends off a major (9+) quake every 250-years, or so.  As we are now well past that from the last one, which happened in 1700 and washed over Vashon Island in Puget Sound, we keep an eye on seismometers and wonder how a 9+ quake would impact $6 trillion worth of Adobe, Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, Google, and more. Not to mention military readiness at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, Bangor Boomer town, and the shipyards at Bremerton…. We wonder if anyone has trading code written to trigger index shorts based on Tsunami alerts?

Terror in the Stands?

You may have seen the news item if you read VARIETY:  Taylor Swift Eras Tour Canceled in Vienna After Terrorist Plot Thwarted.   There were some additional details (at IS supporters are said to have planned attack on Taylor Swift concert in Vienna (kurier.at)) but the most significant part of this additional report tell us two things.

First is the age of the (alleged) perps.  They were 19 and 17 per the report.  And second, the first word of this came from a “foreign military service.”

Why It Matters

My consigliere’s call Wednesday with words to the effect “It ain’t the Olympics, maybe…”  was a clear reference to the Nostradamus predictions, covered extensive in G.A. Stewarts work, that had visions of bloody Games.

To me, the way this played out was suspect.  First, with the age of the alleged perps – and no mention of the specific means.  But, based on the few photos about, we have a relatively small “shopping list” to consider.  The word “nuclear” doesn’t seem to have been used.  And the size of any WMD is not clear but very small seems likely. We will leave a biological on the table, but ith 19 and 17 – and a lack of Nobel prizes in this age group, flash-bang and viruses (supplied by others is all we seem to come up with.

Still, we have until Sunday and the Games wrap-up and our fear that this may be a “distraction play” has to be considered.  We seem to remember the role of “foreign intelligence” reports in other terrorism events (including 9.11) and wonder i the term false flag might have been planned here.

Or, worse than even that, whether the Olympics are still in someone’s sights?

Up-Scaling Terror

We don’t know who this (alleged) terror plot was supposed to “terrorize” nor to what end. But by consigliere raises the point that in order for it to be Big League Terror, it would have to be scaled to be bigger than 9/11, for example.  This would imply a body count of more than 4,000 and his thinking is many times that in order to bust through the media noise these days.

Don’t forget, immigrant-driven riots are ongoing in the UK UK riots live: Riot suspects raided after thousands attend peaceful anti-racism protests (yahoo.com).  Still, we are not sure the riots are as “far right” as they are portrayed in corporate-controlled and agendized media: UK riots used as a ‘good excuse’ to attack Nigel Farage | Sky News Australia may be closer to the mark.

To be bigger than 9/11 would assure punching through the already high stress and media hyperbole, but what’s it going to be?  Cruising websites that do predictive posts, there’s a rumored nuclear attack on Phoenix made a year, or two back.  The Olympics of course, or something else like this Taylor Swift “event.”

Not anything we little people can do, except to keep the coaching from A.I. in mind when it instructs us:

“”Some goals of terrorism include:
  • Intimidating the population
    Terrorists may target densely populated areas, such as transportation hubs, airports, and shopping centers, to create a sense of insecurity and undermine confidence in security measures.
  • Influencing government policy
    Terrorists may hope to pressure political leaders into making specific policy changes.
  • Gaining media attention
    Terrorists may use acts of terrorism to get immediate publicity for their causes.
  • Exacting revenge

    Terrorists may target enemies or people they hold grudges against. 

“Some examples of terrorist acts include:
  • Assassinations
  • Kidnappings
  • Bombings
  • Cyber attacks
  • Use of chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons…

We have a lot of recent events to analyze from a counter-terrorism perspective.  Like what were those cell phone pings from Pennsylvania back to near government buildings in DC all about before the Trump shooting?  Seems like that attack fits the terrorism template.  And that biggest Internet outage in history last month. Indeed, another fit and a “test run”?

The consigliere’s point is haunting though:  What will be BIGGER and more impactful? That questions will linger until the Games are safely put to bed and returning athletes are all healthy in two weeks. Remember, we seem to remember a lesser “Games” was tied into the spread of Covid early on. 2019 was it?

Wobbly Markets

What makes a Stampede suddenly change direction?  Surely, you’ve seen enough cattle stampeding in Westerns to at least have wandered by the question before?

SOMETHING tells a head of steaks to change direction. but which beef and how does the message propagate?  For possible answers, we will direct you to a 2018 summary Human Stampedes: An Updated Review of Current Literature – PubMed (nih.gov).

Except those stampedes and “human crowd collapse crushing’s” are physical in nature.  This is not:

Although your personal savings may also be crushed if you step into one of these stampedes at the inopportune moment.

Unemployment Filings

Almost as interesting is the weekly read on raw (and jiggled) numbers:

…is the where the Action was summary:

In the end it doesn’t drive markets directly. For that kind of cue, we need to use data. Like next week’s PPI (Tuesday), CPI (Wednesday), and Retail Sales figures (a week from now).

If It Looks Like War, Talks Like…

Political dirt is flying everywhere. Minnesota National Guard confirms VP nominee Tim Walz demoted, calling into question official bio | Just The News. fortunately there are only 89-days left of all the political crap.  Not counting the disputed return’s part to follow.

War this weekend, by the look of things.  Two versions of the same story here, but each with a different tone:  UK, Egypt ask their airlines to avoid Iran, Lebanon airspace (news.am) while Egypt’s Civil Aviation Authority issues official statement prohibiting flights over Iranian airspace.

Not sure if you see the subtleties to it, but one could (wild-eyed speculation) infer that the UK has gotten the word on US  and Israeli air operations that are pending in Lebanon. While the Egyptian CAA is more worried about Iran.  Take it for what it’s worth.

The underlying reason for Wars (Middle East oil in general, development ownership of the Leviathan and Gaza offshore reserves, and that Dnieper-Donets Basin in Ukraine and the reserves off China) is that we are in the Manufacturer’s Resource Wars period I first discussed back when Peoplenomics was the “Inside Report” in 2001.

Two points on the MRW are worth mentioning.  The first is that if you know where to look (and understand what you are looking at) there are obvious “tells” about the resource picture.  Take SecState Blinken’s press availability at State: Here’s Blinken sucking up to Australia at mineral exploitation to come:

“Through our Critical Minerals Task Force, we’re strengthening supply chains for components that are essential to electrical vehicles, to batteries, to solar panels – many of the things that will be at the heart of the 21st century economy and that are also critical to combatting climate change.  Over the past just two and a half years, the U.S. has invested more than $5 billion in Australia for critical minerals.  Yesterday, we also announced a partnership using satellite imagery to better manage natural resources and to help us tackle climate change. “

The second deep thinking point is that None of the major Western nations, nor the pseudo Communists, have been able to “go first” and step back from the resource depletion pit.  How many times did OilMan2 tell our readers “Depletion Never Sleeps!”  And yet, here we are – unable to downscale (that would dry up political contributions from greedy Corps). So while the failure to dial-back Future expectations toddles along, the “compound interest-like pressure” on strategic resources increases.

Countries (at the policy wonk) level know that.  Such that when the feeble Joe effort to dial-back energy fails (looking at gas appliances, for example) then it increases discovery and bringing on new energy resources five, 10, even 20-years out.

Now – following the dots back – the 20-year picture has a feedback loop to present which is one reason the U.S. and Russia have shied from nukes or nuclear power plant attacks, yet: In order to develop the Dnieper-Donets Basin, for example, you need “good title” and that means something that doesn’t glow in the dark, following?

The role of modern militaries is to ensure “good title” to resources countries think they have.

Which, in a very limited way, gets to mentioning how poor most books are, beinbg written in a stop-action way, without sufficient regard to the long-term strategies and goals of adversaries that are in play.  I know, you don’t need a literary critic, hut I do volunteer now and then when narrow (timebound views) lead to misinterpretation of the motions underway.

Pokes, Tokes, and Jokes

From the people who b(r)ought you Biden: Hunter Biden Received ‘Millions’ Of Dollars From Romania To Influence US Gov’t – Court

A reasonable court decision in our view: Judge dismisses $10 billion Mexico lawsuit against six U.S. gunmakers.

How to end your lawn-watering worries for a while: Tropical Storm Debby makes second landfall in South Carolina, heavy rain expected up the East Coast. (more on this in a sec)

Wait! You Schizophrenia is a growth industry? Global Schizophrenia Drugs Market Report 2024-2032 by Distribution Channel, Treatment, Therapeutic Class, Countries and Company Analysis.

Problems with non-MRNA Covid vaccines appear: Unexpected T-cell reactions to adenoviral COVID-19 vaccines discovered (news-medical.net)

At the Ranch: How Dry We Are

Good weather – not quite 100F mainly. But with no rain in the forecast, we are waiting for the 2+ acre yard to put on the summer brown.

Which is fine with me. Park the mower and sleep in.

This usually happens, summer dormancy, along much of the Eas coast, as well. But hey, thanks Debby the dribbler.  (bitch)

Futures are now turning up – we don’t play in the street when the drivers aren’t predictable. That’d be a fool’s game.

Write when you get rich,’

George@Ure.net

37 thoughts on “Pac-Plate Dance, Running Out of Terror,? Wobbly Markts”

  2. Maybe the games losing ceremony will see a replay of Black Sunday – that was using the super bowl as the template – but it just came to mind – so if Sunday blows up then perhaps we would see TEF’s crash

  3. re: Run Out, Look Up
    feat: place bets

    Folks,

    Guerilla artist Banksy has had a busy past week depicting the Animal Kingdom. His most recent work appeared on a rooftop in the Saxon-named Peckham, and is more recently known as Little Lagos in a warzone-like Black slum of south London.

    The pop up art piece on a satellite dish atop a closed-up betting shop appeared to depict a wolf howling at the moon. Msm notes that the installation has since been “stolen”.
    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/08/08/13/88306473-0-image-a-6_1723118788875.jpg

    All bets are off when the bookie has left the high street? The Betfred company, founded after a successful windfall from England’s 1966 World Cup victory, shows no satellite dish on the roof of 182 Rye Lane on its website when the Rye Lane outlet was open. Nor is there one in the Google streetscape images captured from the sidewalk opposite of the now boarded up building.

    • I love the video of the Banksy’s Painting “Girl with Balloon” self destucting just after the gavel came down at Sotheby’s Aution House (London) which had just sold the the painting for $1.4 million dollars!!

      Talk about “Artist Creativity”!! That amount of “creativity” may never be topped!!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyQMJ-RmYcQ

      Banksy later revealed he built the shredder into the painting’s frame in case the painting was ever sold at auction … and when it was sold at auction within seconds of the gavel coming down the painting began it’s self shredding destruction.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKE0nAMmg4

      • re: Swifties’ “Willow” Orbs
        feat: Stadium Secrets

        Folks,

        The venue of Ms. Swift’s cancelled trio of concerts today through Saturday in Vienna was originally constructed as the Praterstadion in 1931. A prater of the English language babbles secrets. The stadium was apparently purpose-built for the third socialist 1931 Workers’ Olympiad meant to counter the then Whites-only, aristocrat-driven, nazi sympathizing(?), smaller 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. The Workers’ Olympiad opening ceremony featured a 4000 person strong “Grand Pageant” written by Austrian Jewish socialist journalist Robert Lucas, MBE who went on to found the BBC German service. His satirical character Corporal Adolf Hirnschal began broadcasting from London to the Third Reich on April 1, 1940. It seems he also penned a biography of D.H. Lawrence’s wife of German noble ancestry, Frieda Lawrence née von Richthofen. She was supposedly the inspiration for her husband’s tome “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”.

        Swifties will have to wait one week until The Eras Tour begins a second stand of five nights at New Wembley Stadium, London. It’s predecessor was witness to England’s glorious 1966 World Cup soccer victory which further eased from memory the yet earlier tower of babel-like edifice which had preceded its 1923 construction. Indeed that planned larger than Eiffel Tower lookalike of 1200 feet reached 150 or so feet in height before foundation subsidence required its demolition with dynamite by 1907.

        Let’s join DJ George in studio whose powers over the airwaves should ban the magic and death lyrics of the “Evermore” album that young Swifties are being subjected to. Instead press “Presto” (Summer) for Vivaldi with Chloe Chua wielding a 1753 D.B. Guadagnini violin axe along with the Singapore Symphony –

        https://youtu.be/W44PFMXuy_Q

    • re: Shiva’s weapon
      feat: Trident

      Folks,

      Please remain calm and carry on. The London Met Police counter-terrorism Trident unit originally formed to quell Black-on-Black violence has been reported by msm to be investigating yesterday evening’s alleged shooting of three teenagers. The ruckus apparently originated in the Orpington suburb on Yalding Grove whose street entymology traces to a then-local 9th century tribe, Ealda.

      The nearby Anchor & Hope pub changed its shingle in 2007 to that of a Japanese noodle house with a name translating to “Before”. Four and a half centuries ago the pub allegedly stabled Queen Elizabeth I’s horses overnight as she visited Sisters at the nearby priory the grounds of which may remain accessible to minions. The area hosted a civil war clash in the 1640’s during The War of the Three Kingdoms between King Charles I and the Parliamentarians.

      More recently, Orpington of course was the former constituency of Baron Jo Johnson of Marylbone prior to his elevation to the House of Lords, and brother of past British PM Boris Johnson. Their great-grandfather and journalist from Istanbul, Bey (Chieftain) Ali Kemal, was martyred by Turkish nationalists at Izmit in 1922 while enroute to ongoing Paris peace talks following World War I.

  5. (“SOMETHING tells a head of steaks to change direction. but which beef and how does the message propagate?”)

    take January 6 …and how many people that were agency employees convincing the herd…
    BLM and Antics paying people to destroy or get violent..but where did tis happen..in their own neighborhoods.. not one of them got jail time..the destruction the theft and violence loss of life and infrastructure. and how fast it moved from city to city ..yet not one riot in the neighborhoods of those that make policy..only in the most crime filled and poverty stricken neighborhoods.
    those promoting these untouched..brings to mind the mountain of evidence of one family business and their criminal activities and congress went home..
    herd mebtality..how does that work one neighbor destroying his neighbors house raping his wife and daughter..it just doesn’t make sense. granted the accidental death of a criminal evading police was wrong the officer showing off to new recruits needed to be punished. instead all the good citizens of those neighborhoods are now victimized even more .

  6. So the doj is admitting that hunter boi did business for a foreign country and did not register as an agent for a foreign government?

  7. Perry, I’m not buying the tripe coming from MSM Channels until after the global reset. Until then peak distraction and Kabuki are being encouraged by the affected parties to the global $reset. (Big business owns the Tee Vee which owns the narrative for those that would subjugate themselves to watching without fact checking). Enjoy the show. It won’t be long now (over next 12 months) here’s what to expect.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8PeVShoKRs

    Got blockchain?

    https://insidebitcoins.com/news/xrp-etf-speculation-ramps-up-after-sec-lawsuit-is-settled

    • first rode “Mr. Toad” in July 1955.. (2 weeks after Dis opened).. Saw Walt giving Gov. Knight a tour outside of the Castle… man am I old,, yikes

    • The video is by Redacted about the British riots and attempted insurrection by migrants. The UN is pushing this, along with elements in the US govt. For those who care, check out UNHCR and its attempt to infiltrate foreigners into the USA without proper vetting.

  8. wrt yesterday’s column mention about the Congressional race between Cori Bush (incumbent) and Wesley Bell (challenger)

    Wesley Bell was basically funded by the AIPAC group of people. Somewhere north of $10 million went from Jewish interests directly into his campaign (some reports put it north of $15 million when counting money that didn’t go directly to her but were spent on behalf of Bell).

    On evrything other than Israel, who Cori Bush has been hammering in Congress, Wesley Bell is if anything MORE LIBERAL than Cori Bush is. The election was all about Jewish interests wanting to get out of Congress one of their most vocal opponents.

    This is the second Congressional Race where the AIPAC group of people has pulled out all the stops (as in spending over WAY OVER $10 million dollars) to defeat an otherwise very liberal Congress Critter who was NOT a knee jerk supporter of Israel, but a vocal opponent.

    The best Congress MONEY CAN BUY is the way it looks to me (and has now for many many years – if not Jewish interests then think Wall St. interests)

  9. Request.

    Would there be ANY chance at all of people giving a one or two sentence description of the link they are providing ?

    Think YouTube especially.

    This is a site where I value what all of the poster’s say but I dont have all day to watch YouTube videos or read links. So I skip over them.

    • An actual description of content, as opposed to an introductory one-liner would also be appreciated. While I have a sense of humor, I don’t have time to wade through 6 hours of off-the-wall Youtube links every day.

  10. I actually saw Nostradamus’ “Games of Slaughter” as related to war, but in 2020 we had COVID-19 and millions dead. In 2022, we had the Russian invasion of Ukraine. So, for 2024, I came to believe this is when the “Big One” would kick off.

    If Iran and Israel kick it off in the next few days, it would seem that would be it. The side note would be a possible terrorist attack at the Paris Olympics.

    Let’s hope I’m very wrong.

      • Hunter is not evil, he’s a pure psychopathic narcissist.

        Joe is evil. He got into politics because he was an elitist prick, and believed (without any substantiation whatsoever, in the real world) he should rule the world because the rest of us are subhuman proles, and too stupid and inept to rule ourselves. There may be a touch of psychopathic narcissism under his hood, also.

        They are both thieving, dishonorable, letches, with serious “truth issues,” but people who’re given their psychological makeup, don’t believe they do wrong — even when they schtup their daughters, granddaughters, nieces, sisters, babysitters, etc.

    • I just read something that mentioned the politicians in Israel heading into bunkers..and Russian President asking the Iranians to use restraint .. my thought is .. as much as they are taunting them to go crazy and give the world the image that they are the bad reason for the escalation.. don’t let Iran be the one to push the envelope.. instead let Israel and NATO and the USA be the ones to escalate the war.
      so far it totally appears that NATO and the USA are the ones escalating the violence and aggressively pushing a war that shouldn’t have ever been..
      I get the reason for it to..our economy on the brink of collapse the fiat currencies in jeopardy ..they wanted a new cash cow.. I forget which politician it was that came out and said that..
      https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/LGZ7gbCP88oDArGgfwQSrbWQeT2CuQb2/
      there were a couple that admitted why.. its always about the business model..

    • If Iran gets wiped out by Israel, I doubt other nations will kneel to Israel. Quite the opposite, in my humble opinion. Fear of being “next” to get wiped out can be quite the motivation to remove that type of threat. – and considering the new alliances in the area … I think it’s just getting started.

  11. Now in my opinion/view [no pun]: How long do we wait for the rest of the leftist 5th column media purveyers to admit they dont make any real money. LOL. Funny how this is the one facet of the economy that’s allowed to run amuck on earnings by the street and no one cares, until its time to pay…. And there are no more coporate bankster arranged megers [bailouts]. This is just getting started Home Gamers :)

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cnn-effectively-worthless-after-parent-warner-bros-takes-91-billion-writedown

    • I ’bout shit myself when I learned Rachel Mad Cow is paid a cool $30mln/yr for her m/l 1 night per week, conspiracy report on MSNBC. I had no idea “news network personalities” made that kind of buckage. I don’t know how Maddow’s salary stacks up to everybody else’s in the industry, or how Comcast salaries compare to those at TimeWarner, but CNN seems to have several hundred “personalities” who, I’m guessing, are significantly overpaid…

      Roughly 90% of them seem to have law degrees, too.

      ISTM they should be chasing ambulances in large cities, up and down the Eastern Seaboard, instead of bloviating and obfuscating all over what used to be a Left-leaning, but consistent source of actual news.

      Just sayin’.

  12. Regarding resources, the US is still trying their level best to overthrow the Venezuelan government. Really want to get their grubby fingers into their oil and all the other resources Venezuela has in plenty.

    • Its the business model….

      The destruction of NordStream and the deep freeze of NATO countries and their failed attempt to get Nigerian’s oil
      Has me curiously thinking on whether or not the Gaza situation wasn’t some sort of black flag event just to allow Israel to destroy the Palestinians to get access to the Leviathan oil and gas field?. we will never know but isn’t curiously interesting … NATO and the USA are going to save the Nigerians.. then we get told by the Nigerians no your not.. all of a sudden there’s the horrific Palestinian attack on Israel..
      what has me curious.. didn’t they read any of their own reports.. or were they like the average and a thousand page report just skim over the cover letter then put them in the circular filing cabinet.. or the ones that require an autograph saying they were read just signed and off on the next gobermant day off..you know one of the many federal holditdays..
      you sure don’t have to be very smart to know that the people writing the official reports are not all boxes of rocks.. many of those analysts and researchers are pretty impressive resumes .. they actually did some pretty in depth considerations on the aspects of what they were commissioned to report on.. We will never know if they did or not there either.. if it was discovered that they didn’t read a word of it.. they will do like the rest of them and say why should we we have staff ( using the floor of congress as a recreational area) that is suppose to read them while we are out on important fact finding missions.. heres a great video of uncle jays explanation of …recess
      https://youtu.be/cIEu8LnuVKg?si=zg0D81XDZbCvqtUU

    • 30 years ago we HAD all those resources, and Venezuela was the 2nd wealthiest nation in the Americas. Virtually all its citizens had a comparatively high standard of living — the nation and its citizenry were healthy and prosperous.

      Now, Venezuela is desperately poor. Maduro has his oligarchical class — fellow billionaires, who rule the country while raping its citizenry and pillaging its resources. The remainder of its residents eat bugs, semen, and filth, to survive.

      9 million Venezuelans have fled since 1999. Most of them got tired of providing sex for a can or peas or a loaf of stale bread; some got tired of being shot for sport; a few even got tired of the PTB taking their children from them, to use as toys, then throw away.

      I guess this lifestyle is preferable to having grubby-fingered Americans come in and elevate that peasant class back into the middle class, though?

      The Biden Administration is not trying at all, to overthrow Maduro. They have too much in-common, and it is Venezuela’s elections the Leftists in the U.S. are using as a pattern for how to win elections in the United States. Maduro has stolen Venezuela’s last two elections, but he has so much power that the peasants who remain can do nothing. If we wanted to “overthrow” the Maduro regime, da Prez would find another William Casey.

      I suggest you find a blog from a Venezuelan refugee (ANY refugee) and read a little. As big a “pieces of shit” as many in our government are, and as broken as our system is right now, our system is still the best there is, and still provides the greatest opportunity for both freedom and advancement the world has ever seen. Other countries which provide paths to opportunity and advancement do so only because we exist, which is why communists and fascists everywhere have been targeting us for destruction for the past 120 years, or so.

  14. “The consigliere’s point is haunting though: What will be BIGGER and more impactful? That questions will linger until the Games are safely put to bed and returning athletes are all healthy in two weeks.”

    Or will they? The French OOC INSISTED that swimmers do so in the Seine, despite the fact it is a sewer and the swimmers were playing Caddyshack with the tons of human feces through which they were compelled to swim. Some of the swimmers are already being treated for e. coli. I don’t care enough to find out if there are other significant maladies, or if these athletes, and their libidos, have been sequestered from those who did not kiss the Baby Ruth. I’ll get interested in a couple months, when crotch, lung, and stomach rot have had an opportunity to properly incubate.

    However, I implore y’all to remember this post, should athletes or people who frequent their hangouts, begin to develop strange medical issues…

  15. “A reasonable court decision in our view: Judge dismisses $10 billion Mexico lawsuit against six U.S. gunmakers.”

    Misplaced suit. Mexico should’ve sued the U.S. Government, and Barack Obama and Eric Holder. It probably would’ve made it to trial before being dismissed, but it would also have impressed on a lot of ignorant voters that Mr. Obama is sometimes a bit of a dirtbag…

  16. company “assets”..

    ALL tested for compromisabilty prior to employment or “assignment” to create/startup new companies..just ask brin or musk

  17. Palantir..see thiel ..follow the bread crumbs – might eventually come upon one big rat outta hillbilly Ohio.

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