Next Sunday will mark 21 years since the event designed to permanently terrorize Americans and to a lesser extent the whole world. In the essay beginning below, two members of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth write of the importance of getting to the bottom (to the extent possible) of what happened, how, and why; and of de-anesthesizing millions still under the spell of official accounts of the terror attacks. NOTE: For those who missed it, HERE is a link to an interview that focuses on TV networks’ critical role from the outset in perpetuating near-universal zombielike numbness. — MCM

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Why 9/11 still matters — according to 900 activists who wrote to us

By Andy Steele and Susan Clay

Twenty-one years have passed since what seemed like a mundane Tuesday morning exploded violently into the world-changing event known as 9/11.

With the destruction of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers that morning and Building 7 in the late afternoon, the daily life of Americans all at once darkened. Their feelings of invincibility were suddenly snuffed out.

Right after the cataclysmic event that took the lives of nearly 3,000 victims and devastated their families, Americans were dominated by the desire to avenge the crime they had witnessed either in person and on television. Fired up by 24/7 propaganda, they were gung-ho to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, where still more innocent lives would be lost.

Eventually that desire to retaliate faded and life normalized into what is now referred to as “the post-9/11 world,” in which the freedoms enjoyed in the pre-9/11 world are a thing of the past.

Over the years, official explanations for why the three towers came down have been propped up by politicians, bureaucrats, the military brass, defense contractors, and the controlled news media. Together, these “leaders” and their lackeys have waged an ongoing campaign to convince a trusting public that arguments challenging the official explanation of 9/11 are heretical, that the laws of physics and common sense are conspiracy theories, and that anyone who raises questions about why three steel-framed high-rises fell — when all evidence indicates they shouldn’t have — should be shunned and censored.

Early on, a large portion of the world moved on with their lives and accepted the storyline shaped by TV talking heads and their officially sanctioned guests. These “experts” informed us that jet fuel and fire were the obvious causes of the Twin Towers’ collapse — and that flying debris led to the small fires that brought down Building 7.

But a few of us didn’t buy those nonsensical, scientifically impossible claims. Over the years, building professionals and scientists began their own investigations of the evidence and arrived, both individually and collectively, at the irrefutable conclusion that all three towers had to have been brought down by explosives and incendiaries planted in the WTC towers days before 9/11.

But how would this evidence of controlled demolition, which has been gradually amassed by these truth-seeking architects, engineers, and scientists, ever be made known to the world?

That’s where . . . READ MORE

Presented below are links to reports on Chile’s vote Sunday on a new constitution, from the Associated Press, Reuters, and National Public Radio. NOTE: Readers can find two recent entries HERE and HERE, one on Ukraine and the other on how TV networks have treated the destruction of three World Trade Center skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001, beginning within minutes after the terror attacks began. — MCM

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Chile looks for way forward after rejecting new constitution, by Daniel Politi | AP  SANTIAGO — Chileans overwhelmingly rejected a progressive new constitution to replace its dictatorship-era charter, dealing a blow to youthful President Gabriel Boric, who must now hammer out deals to create another proposal or change the current one. Although rejection had been expected in Sunday’s plebiscite, the almost 24-point margin . . . READ MORE . . .

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Chile overwhelmingly rejects progressive new constitution. From Reuters. SANTIAGO — Chileans overwhelmingly voted against a proposed new constitution on Sunday, rejecting what would have been one of the world’s most progressive charters. While nearly 80% of Chileans voted to draft a new constitution in 2020, nearly 62% of voters rejected the new text with 99.74 percent of ballot boxes . . . READ MORE . . .

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Chile rejects its new constitution. Reported by John Otis | NPR  Chile has voted a resounding NO to a proposed constitution that would have put a focus on social issues and gender parity, enshrine rights for the indigenous population, and address climate change. Click HERE to listen and, tomorrow, read.

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First, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, Agenzia ANSA, Agence France-Presse, Tass, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, via Popular Resistance and Global Research, links to reports that the Ukrainian government tried to hinder international inspectors from arriving at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. — MCM

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Kyiv claims battlefield gains as Russian gas shutdown hits European markets, by Tom Balmforth | Reuters * Ukraine releases picture of flag over Kherson province town * European markets hit hard by closure of Russian pipeline | KYIV — Ukraine made its boldest claim yet of success on the battlefield in its week-old counter-offensive against Russian forces in the south, while European markets reopened today in free-fall after Russia kept its main gas pipeline to Germany shut. After days of declining to give details about their new offensive, Ukrainian officials posted an image online of three soldiers raising a flag over a town in Kherson province, a southern region occupied by Russia since the war’s early days. The image . . . READ MORE . . .

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U.S. ambassador to Russia leaves post as Ukraine war drags on, by Matthew Lee | AP  WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan,* ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career in government service. His departure, which comes . . . READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine plant’s last-working reactor switched off from grid due to shelling. From ANSA/AFP  KYIV — Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant’s last working reactor has been switched off from the grid after the facility was disconnected from its last remaining power line due to shelling, Ukraine’s power plants operator said today. “Power unit [reactor] No. 6 was shut down and disconnected from the grid” because of a fire that was “triggered because of shelling” according to an Energoatom statement.

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Russia’s duty is to help Donbass, says Putin. From Tass. PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia Russia’s duty is to help people living in Donbass, all attempts to peacefully resolve the situation ended in failure due to Kiev’s position, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday at a meeting with participants of an environmental forum taking place in Kamchatka. “It is our duty . . . READ MORE . . .

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Seeing parallels, doctors apply lessons from Syria to their work in Ukraine. Reported by Tim Mak | NPR  Doctors who have worked in two modern war zones — Syria and Ukraine — are seeing the same gruesome tactics and injuries brought about by Russian military action. Click HERE to listen and read.

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Ukraine tried to prevent IAEA inspection of nuclear power plant, by Moon of Alabama | Educate! Over night the Ukrainian military, from positions in Vyshetarasovka, Nikopol and Marganets, again shelled the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on the south side of the Kakhovka Dnieper reservoir. This was fallowed by an early morning attempt by Ukrainian forces to land a sabotage group near the village north east of the ZNPP. Some seven boats, two self-motorized barges and some 60 soldiers were involved in the suicidal . . . READ MORE . . .

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Why was Kiev so scared of the IAEA visiting the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant? by Andrew Korybko | Global Research The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that its forces successfully thwarted Kiev’s attempted seizure of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) ahead of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s representatives’ visit to that facility. The ministry concluded that “the provocation of the Kiev regime is aimed at derailing the arrival of the IAEA mission to the . . . READ MORE . . .

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* A biography of Ambassador John Sullivan is HERE.

How the TV networks hid the Twin Towers’ explosive demolition

In an interview on 9/11 Free Fall, Graeme MacQueen* and Andy Steele** discuss a new paper MacQueen has co-authored, “The Triumph of the Official Narrative: How the TV Networks Hid the Twin Towers’ Explosive Demolition on 9/11,” due out this week. Click HERE to listen.

“The Triumph of the Official Narrative” documents the key role TV news managers played in establishing the perception worldwide that Islamic hijackers destroyed the Towers by crashing two planes into them, igniting deadly office fires with their fuel.

The new paper, researched and written by MacQueen and Ted Walter,*** follows their first, “How 36 Reporters Brought Us the Twin Towers’ Explosive Demolition on 9/11,” published in 2020. Click HERE to read it.

For that, the co-authors reviewed 70 hours of news coverage and found the “explosion hypothesis” to be dominant among reporters at the scene when the Twin Towers collapsed. (A third WTC skyscraper, Building 7, collapsed in late afternoon.

In their new paper, using the same 70 hours of news coverage, MacQueen and Walter examine how the official narrative — that two planes crashing into the Twin Towers commandeered by al Qaeda terrorists led by Osama bin Laden — quickly supplanted what journalists at the scene had been reporting.

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* MacQueen is the author of The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy (Clarity Press.) He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from Harvard University and taught in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University for 30 years. Founding director of the Centre for Peace Studies at the university, he helped develop the university’s B.A. program in Peace Studies, and oversaw the development of peace-building projects in Sri Lanka, Gaza, Croatia and Afghanistan. He was on the committee that organized the Toronto Hearings held in September 2011. He is co-editor of The Journal of 9/11 Studies.

** Steele hosts the weekly podcast program 9/11 Free Fall on No Lies Radio every Thursday at 7 p.m. PST. Click HERE for more on his background.

***  In his capacity as director of strategy at Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Walter has appeared numerous times on 9/11 Free Fall. He is author of Beyond Misinformation: What Science Says About the Destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2 and 7, published by AE911Truth. Click HERE for more.

First, links to reports from Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM

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Thousands take to streets in Prague, build pressure on Czech govt to control soaring energy prices. From Reuters. An estimated 70,000 people protested in Prague against the Czech government on Saturday, calling on the ruling coalition to do more to control soaring energy prices and voicing opposition to the European Union and NATO. Organisers of the demonstration from a number of far-right and fringe political groups, including the Communist party, said the central European nation should be neutral militarily and ensure direct contracts with gas suppliers, including Russia. Police estimates . . . READ MORE . . .

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IAEA says Ukraine nuclear plant cut from main power line. From AFP. VIENNA — The global atomic energy watchdog said on Saturday that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had been disconnected from its last remaining main power line to the grid and is now relying on a reserve line. “Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has once again . . . READ MORE . . .

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Germany eyes using energy firms’ windfall profits to lower prices. From AFP. BERLIN — Germany would seek to skim off windfall profits from energy companies to slash household bills, the government said today, with the finance minister estimating the measure could potentially bring “double-digit billions” of euros in relief. “The partial skimming off of windfall profits creates financial headroom that should be used specifically to relieve the burden for consumers in Europe,” said the government in a policy paper. It added that it would push for the move to be implemented across the EU, before going ahead with the measure on its own.

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Russia says U.S. poised to relocate bio programs from Ukraine to other post-Soviet states. From Tass. MOSCOW — The Pentagon has plans to transfer programs of biological research from Ukraine to post-Soviet republics, Eastern European and Baltic states at the shortest possible time to move close to Russian borders, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said on Saturday. “The Pentagon is poised to shortly relocate the programs unfinished in Ukraine to . . . READ MORE . . .

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First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. And last, via Consortium News, a link to Scott Ritter’s assessment of coverage of the war by Newsweek’s William Arkin (and by extension that of much Western media); the article itself links to three of Arkin’s pieces for Newsweek and to a regular podcast that features Ritter.  — MCM

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Ukraine’s nuclear plant goes offline amid fighting, by Yesica Fisch and Joanna Kozlowska | AP  ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Ukraine’s and Europe’s largest nuclear plant has stopped supplying Ukrainian-held territories with electricity, Kremlin-backed authorities said today, as a team of inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog continued their mission at the site. The Russian-appointed city administration in Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia plant is located, blamed an alleged Ukrainian shelling attack this morning, which they said had destroyed a key power line. “The provision . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia, West step up energy war; Moscow accuses Ukraine of attacking nuclear plant, by Tom Balmforth | Reuters * Russia delays pipeline reopening in blow to Europe * G7 finance chiefs agree on Russian oil price cap * Russia accuses Ukraine of trying to capture nuclear plant | KYIV — Stepping up an energy war between Russia and the West, Moscow has announced it will keep its main gas pipeline to Germany shut and G7 countries said they planned a price cap on Russian oil exports. The standoff over Russian gas and oil exports is a fallout from President Vladimir Putin’s six-month invasion of Ukraine, underscoring the deep rift it has caused between Moscow and Western nations. Russia’s defence ministry meanwhile accused Ukrainian forces today of mounting . . . READ MORE . . .

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U.N. nuclear inspectors visit Russian-occupied region. Reported by Elissa Nadworny and Scott Simon | NPR  U.N. nuclear inspectors were finally able to access a nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine this week. They say the plant faces grave risks, especially from shelling. Click HERE to listen and, sometime later, read.

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Erdogan praises Russia’s role in bringing IAEA team to Zaporozhye in phone talk with Putin. From Tass. MOSCOW — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin today highlighted Russia’s role in arranging a visit by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the Kremlin press service said. READ MORE . . .

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Getting it Wrong on Ukraine, by Scott Ritter | Consortium News Six months into Russia’s “Special Military Operation,” fact-challenged reporting that constitutes Western media’s approach to covering the conflict in Ukraine has become apparent to any discerning audience. Less understood is why anyone would sacrifice their integrity to participate in such a travesty. The story of Newsweek’s William Arkin is a case in point. . . . [He] seems determined to cement himself in the annals of the Russian-Ukraine conflict as an unabashed Ukraine partisan and vehicle for Pentagon information warriors. Arkin’s narrative . . . READ MORE . . .

Offered below are links to four views the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Aug. 31; they are from the Berkshire Eagle, Consortium News, and Open Democracy. — MCM

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Gorbachev was the anti-Putin, by James Brooke | The Berkshire Eagle Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday in Moscow at age 91, will be remembered  for his reluctance to use military force. Aside from a few skirmishes, he let the Soviet empire collapse with barely a shot fired. His legacy is that he freed 100 million Central Europeans from communist rule. By contrast, Putin has installed an absolute dictatorship at home and has embarked on a war of choice with Russia’s western neighbor Ukraine. As a child, Gorbachev listened to Ukrainian lullabies sung by his Ukrainian grandmother. Before Putin’s attack on Ukraine, Gorchev told . . . READ MORE . . .

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Mikhail Gorbachev, a vector of change, by Scott Ritter | Consortium News This is the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev. He presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union which was prompted — and accelerated — by his own arrogance, which blinded him to the need to change direction when it became clear that Perestroika, at least how it was originally envision, was not, and could not, succeed. But there is another legacy. From the ashes of failure, a new world order is arising some 30 years after Gorbachev and the Soviet Union entered the history books as has-beens. The multi-polar challenge to U.S. singularity that is being mounted . . . READ MORE . . .

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Gorbachev: A very Russian contradiction, by Jeremy Morris | Open Democracy / Consortium News Poor Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. Condemned to a thousand obituaries, some bleating about freedom and celebrating his part in the end of the Soviet Union and as a towering figure in international affairs, others condemning him for repression of secessionists at home. Imagine how he feels now, wherever he is – lauded by non-Russians for his greatest mistake: destroying a mighty state. Hated by his countrymen despite precipitating the emergence of the Russian nation itself after many centuries of Empire! Many ordinary Russians . . . READ MORE . . .

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Gorbachev’s legacy is lauded by the West. The reality is more complicated, by Thomas Rowley | Open Democracy It was in 1984, Mikhail Gorbachev recalled, that he met Margaret Thatcher at Chequers.  The relationship between the pair has since been romanticised, with Thatcher famously referring to Gorbachev as “a man one could do business with”. In his recollection of the trip, Gorbachev . . . READ MORE . . .

First,  links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, teleSUR, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM

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Chile’s constitution vote puts Andean country at historic crossroads, by Natalia A. Ramos Miranda and Alexander Villegas | Reuters SANTIAGO — Chileans are set for a historic decision on Sunday: stick with a market-friendly constitution dating back to military dictator Augusto Pinochet or approve a progressive new text that promises to shake up the Andean country’s political and social fabric. The copper-rich country is sharply divided, with polls indicating that the new text will get rejected, despite huge popular support for tearing up the Pinochet-era constitution two years ago in the wake of months of fiery protests against inequality. . . . “This is about settling a historical debt in Chile . . . READ MORE . . .

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Fleeing Nicaraguans strain Costa Rica’s asylum system, by Moises Castillo and Christopher Sherman | AP  Since the summer of 2021, when Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega locked up dozens of political opponents ahead of November’s presidential elections, Nicaraguans have been seeking asylum in Costa Rica at the highest levels since Nicaragua’s political crisis exploded in April 2018. The exodus of Nicaraguans fleeing political repression has neighboring Costa Rica’s asylum system teetering under the weight . . . READ MORE . . .

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Brazil: Deforestation encourages fires in the Amazon. From teleSUR. The Brazilian national space institute reports that more than 33,000 fires have been detected in the Amazon. The report issued by Brazil’s national space institute indicates that the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is suffering from more fires than at any point in nearly five years, with more than 33,000 fires detected by the satellites as a result of deforestation. The rainforest has entered the peak of fire season, mainly related to the area’s high levels of deforestation activity.  . . . “That means many fallen trees are ready to burn,” said Ane Alencar, coordinator of the Mapbiomas Fire project. “The fire season will be even more intense in September . . . READ MORE . . .

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Why Brazil’s Bolsonaro is courting evangelicals in the world’s biggest Catholic nation. Reported by John Otis | NPR  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is relying on Christian evangelicals’ support to pull off an upset in national elections to be held on Oct. 2. He trails his main opponent in the race, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in all of the polls, mainly due to Brazil’s stagnant economy. Click HERE to listen and read.

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First, links to two reports from Agence France-Presse; others are accessible by clicking on its initials below. — MCM

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UN experts’ arrival at Ukraine nuclear site ‘very positive’: Kremlin. From AFP. The Kremlin said today it viewed as “very positive” the arrival of inspectors from the UN atomic agency at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine. “In general, we are very positive about the fact that, despite all the difficulties and problems… the commission arrived and started to work,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. . . .”The main thing is that the mission is there,” he . . . READ MORE . . .

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G7 to implement Russian oil price cap ‘urgently.’ From AFP. BERLIN — G7 industrialized powers said today they would “urgently” move toward the implementation of a price cap on Russian oil imports, in order to stop Moscow from raking in huge profits from soaring energy prices. . . .“Russia is benefitting economically . . . READ MORE . . .

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First, links to reports from the Associated Press and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their initials below. — MCM

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CDC endorses updated COVID boosters, shots to begin soon, by Lauran Neergaard | AP  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters, opening the way for a fall vaccination campaign that could blunt a winter surge if enough Americans roll up their sleeves. The new boosters targeting today’s most common omicron strains should begin arriving in pharmacies and clinics within days. The decision by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky . . . READ MORE . . .

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CDC recommends new booster shots to fight omicron. Reported by Jane Greenhalgh and Rob Stein | NPR  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed the first updated COVID-19 booster shots. The decision came Thursday, just hours after advisers to the CDC voted to recommend reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. . . .”The updated COVID-19 boosters are formulated to better protect against the most recently circulating COVID-19 variant,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . . .  Click HERE to listen and read.

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CDC director answers questions about the new COVID boosters. Steve Inskeep of NPR speaks with Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about the CDC’s authorization of new omicron-specific booster shots. Click HERE to listen and, tomorrow, read.

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