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Henry A Giroux | Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism
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t r u t h o u t | 12.02
Henry A Giroux | Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20307-hope-in-the-age-of-looming-authoritarianism
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: Increasingly, young people and others concerned about a substantive democracy are taking political stands; they are becoming more willing to cross boundaries, join questions of understanding and power, and bring into being new ways of engaging with the world.
Everyday Low Wages at Walmart: Brought to You by Government Policy
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20362-everyday-low-wages-at-walmart-brought-to-you-by-government-policy
Dean Baker, Truthout: As a growing number of underpaid Walmart employees use government assistance to make ends meet, we must take a look at our economic system and how it perpetually widens the gap of inequality in this country.
The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20372-the-googlization-of-the-far-right-why-is-google-funding-grover-norquist-heritage-action-and-alec
Nick Surgey, PR Watch: Google has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers including Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society and the American Conservative Union.
Melissa Troutman | New Aerial Video of Alabama Oil Spill Questions Cleanup
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20375-new-aerial-video-of-alabama-oil-spill-questions-cleanup
Melissa Troutman, Public Harald: Ongoing efforts to clean up an Alabama oil spill are under scrutiny after a train carrying 2.7 million gallons of North Dakota Bakken crude oil exploded, spilling into wetlands just outside the town of Aliceville.
The Banksters Are Now Setting Up the Crash of 2016
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20378-the-banksters-are-now-setting-up-the-crash-of-2016
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: In the past year and a half, banksters in Wall Street hedge funds, big banks and private equity firms have purchased hundreds of thousands of mostly-foreclosed houses across the country to bundle up rental payments and sell them to investors the same way they used to bundle mortgage payments.
Anti-Bullying as a Civil Right
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20364-anti-bullying-as-a-civil-right
Joseph Schroer and Laura Finley, Consortium News: Even as more Americans accept gay marriage and reject discrimination against people over sexual orientation, bullying remains a serious problem in the nation's schools, where teachers do not do enough to protect LGBT students.
Unlikely Allies: Immigration, LGBT Groups Seek Equality
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20366-unlikely-allies-immigration-lgbt-groups-seek-equality
Maureen O'Hagan, Equal Voice News: A controversial funding issue in Illinois involving the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and organizations affiliated with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights sheds light on the growing partnership of immigration and LGBT groups on the issue of equality.
Should First-Graders Take a Test? Teachers Say No
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20365-should-first-graders-take-a-test-teachers-say-no
Andrea Fonseca, Labor Notes: Instead of complying with the corporatized mindset that values high-stakes testing over the education of our children, we need to "reclaim teaching" and find alternative methods of checking students' progress.
First Nation Clan Blocks Path of Northern Pipelines in British Columbia
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20363-first-nation-clan-blocks-path-of-northern-pipelines-in-british-columbia
Joseph Jones, Occupy.com: The Unist'ot'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en now defiantly occupies territory, whose location is critical to a proposed new pipeline route, to give a voice to silenced Indigenous peoples who lived across northern North America for thousands of years before settlers showed up.
Chris Hedges | The Saboteurs
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20371-the-saboteurs
Chris Hedges, TruthDig: The man who waged North America's first significant war against hydraulic fracturing was an eccentric, messianic Christian preacher named Wiebo Ludwig, who, despite his patriarchal beliefs, grasped the "moral decadence of the consumer society" perpetuated by Big Oil.
Down the Up Escalator
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20361-down-the-up-escalator
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes: Barbara Garson's new text takes a look at those affected by the 2008 economic recession, from the working class to the rich, to see how they coped with one of the greatest economic crises in history.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Single-Payer Healthcare for Vermont on Track for 2017
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18344-single-payer-healthcare-for-vermont-on-track-for-2017
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Vermont showed that a movement can begin with one state when it became the first state to legislatively pass marriage equality. Now it is getting ready to lead the way on universal, nonprofit healthcare coverage.
Five Ways We're Being Violated by Big Business
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18342-five-ways-we-re-being-violated-by-big-business
Snowden Files: Australia Spy Agency Offered to Share Metadata on Citizens With Foreign Intelligence Partners
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/revealed-australian-spy-agency-offered-to-share-data-about-ordinary-citizens
Report: 100,000 Signed Up for Obamacare as Website Was Revamped
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-100-000-signed-up-for-obamacare-as-website-was-revamped
Why Amazon's Drone Delivery Service Won't Fly Any Time Soon
Read the Article at Wired
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/12/amazon-drone-delivery/
Just 90 Companies Caused Two-Thirds of Man-Made Global Warming Emissions
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change
Fast-Food Wage Strikes Planned for 100 Cities Thursday
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/business/economy/wage-strikes-planned-at-fast-food-outlets-in-100-cities.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1386010814-xwrmIa3NXyz2k216L2+zzQ
Right-Wing Garbage Debunked: No, Regulation Doesn't Kill Jobs
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/02/right_wing_garbage_debunked_no_regulation_doesnt_kill_jobs/?source=newsletter
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Single-Payer Healthcare for Vermont on Track for 2017 </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>Vermont showed that a movement can begin with one state when it became the first state to legislatively pass marriage equality. Now it is getting ready to lead the way on universal, nonprofit healthcare coverage.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lfI5BLivTNJKvB04DYcno7%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Five Ways We're Being Violated by Big Business</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UZ1%2F0vAQC55HXgnVxbKGF7%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Snowden Files: Australia Spy Agency Offered to Share Metadata on Citizens With Foreign Intelligence Partners</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JP6r%2BGp8mnEwqO3AXqJwyr%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article at The Guardian</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Report: 100,000 Signed Up for Obamacare as Website Was Revamped</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Why Amazon's Drone Delivery Service Won't Fly Any Time Soon</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q5w0RTznOAswMqaO425%2BOb%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article at Wired</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Just 90 Companies Caused Two-Thirds of Man-Made Global Warming Emissions</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4%2FHWqphWuiRD9FiaAGlcc7%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article at The Guardian</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Fast-Food Wage Strikes Planned for 100 Cities Thursday</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f%2Ffz%2BFqAklmXhH5PUegz67%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Right-Wing Garbage Debunked: No, Regulation Doesn't Kill Jobs</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=V4iy6VRzsHivbEBNxDzqfr%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article at Salon</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7rXedu5cVqgLG3ZoBpBa6b%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Henry A Giroux | Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Henry A. Giroux, Truthout:</strong> Increasingly, young people and others concerned about a substantive democracy are taking political stands; they are becoming more willing to cross boundaries, join questions of understanding and power, and bring into being new ways of engaging with the world.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NK04%2FxqR8yHxo4j2ul8Thr%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fgcFdz3jcqDy86sJD1lp97%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Everyday Low Wages at Walmart: Brought to You by Government Policy</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> As a growing number of underpaid Walmart employees use government assistance to make ends meet, we must take a look at our economic system and how it perpetually widens the gap of inequality in this country.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m0Y5Q%2FSlDGjjeT09%2BhJOFb%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MkUEkgwSwn3ZMjdxIAatqb%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Nick Surgey, PR Watch:</strong> Google has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers including Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society and the American Conservative Union.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yD%2BMG5PTHgIbgdeb5Vliz7%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5YdSBMgM282NYxXT6J%2BQHL%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Melissa Troutman | New Aerial Video of Alabama Oil Spill Questions Cleanup</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Melissa Troutman, Public Harald:</strong> Ongoing efforts to clean up an Alabama oil spill are under scrutiny after a train carrying 2.7 million gallons of North Dakota Bakken crude oil exploded, spilling into wetlands just outside the town of Aliceville.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ut8EwBa2cagbOCot%2F280Dr%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iqD%2FidbhlzYxhr5fnZYG8jBj2V0ZHQFe"><strong>The Banksters Are Now Setting Up the Crash of 2016</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> In the past year and a half, banksters in Wall Street hedge funds, big banks and private equity firms have purchased hundreds of thousands of mostly-foreclosed houses across the country to bundle up rental payments and sell them to investors the same way they used to bundle mortgage payments.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jtoayQta0P4SYGdzcaoQ%2Bb%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sbBuOK4kFSvqwTCUUldtPL%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Anti-Bullying as a Civil Right</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Joseph Schroer and Laura Finley, Consortium News:</strong> Even as more Americans accept gay marriage and reject discrimination against people over sexual orientation, bullying remains a serious problem in the nation's schools, where teachers do not do enough to protect LGBT students.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mDsMAiTc4slMdFmaEIRax7%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=n9CFPyczakAyj%2FxmkXoiz7%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Unlikely Allies: Immigration, LGBT Groups Seek Equality</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Maureen O'Hagan, Equal Voice News:</strong> A controversial funding issue in Illinois involving the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and organizations affiliated with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights sheds light on the growing partnership of immigration and LGBT groups on the issue of equality.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jgfxaEh8q3XenvdMVWKDar%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pUINCl2uCX%2FzbXzRBJ4Lhb%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Should First-Graders Take a Test? Teachers Say No</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Andrea Fonseca, Labor Notes:</strong> Instead of complying with the corporatized mindset that values high-stakes testing over the education of our children, we need to "reclaim teaching" and find alternative methods of checking students' progress.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qcu9zHuC4EPT%2BFq%2BW%2BOfrL%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HOlx35%2BRefzmxPFQ2Hvsxb%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>First Nation Clan Blocks Path of Northern Pipelines in British Columbia</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Joseph Jones, Occupy.com:</strong> The Unist'ot'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en now defiantly occupies territory, whose location is critical to a proposed new pipeline route, to give a voice to silenced Indigenous peoples who lived across northern North America for thousands of years before settlers showed up.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uROBz1EI4LSpxwz5lnxV1L%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UZ4t2ZUI20I0pysjvW%2B5xL%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Chris Hedges | The Saboteurs</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Chris Hedges, TruthDig:</strong> The man who waged North America's first significant war against hydraulic fracturing was an eccentric, messianic Christian preacher named Wiebo Ludwig, who, despite his patriarchal beliefs, grasped the "moral decadence of the consumer society" perpetuated by Big Oil.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f%2Ffz%2BFqAklkSakJnh5%2FB2r%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yR577ARK0mkRSlURh0NyoL%2FlFq8665k7"><strong>Down the Up Escalator</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes:</strong> Barbara Garson's new text takes a look at those affected by the 2008 economic recession, from the working class to the rich, to see how they coped with one of the greatest economic crises in history.</p>
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