She says she was hypnotized by Joe Biden lol, I mean by Dark Brandon, just like the 49ers were on February 11, 2024 at 10:46pm ET.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Musk rigged the X algorithm to boost his posts above all others, just as he's rigged it to boost those who pay and suppress those who do not
It is in no way the free speech paradise that he claims it is.
You have to be a fool to pay for the blue checkmark.
'I have 100 million followers, and only getting thousands of impressions'...
... “Thanks to the middle-of-the-night participation of 80 company engineers, the ‘high urgency’ issue was quickly solved,” Silverman writes, detailing the changes made that ensured “Twitter’s systems to privilege Musk’s posts above all others.” ...
Trump is not the president of all the states and has turned the office into a partisan political weapon which a future Democrat president will happily wield against Red States
... Vought said the projects affected by the decision are in California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New
York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.
In the 2024 election, President Donald Trump lost those states to then-Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee whom he defeated in the Electoral College. ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Gold makes 39th record high of 2025
... “Gold’s status as a safe haven is well publicized, but the inexorable rise in the gold price over the last few years has been truly astounding, with the metal hitting fresh highs today,” Michael Field, chief equity strategist at Morningstar, told CNBC in an email on Wednesday. ...
“Still, we are still very early in the game as gold, and gold related investments are barely 2% of an average investment portfolio worldwide,” [Philippe] Gijsels [chief strategy officer at BNP Paribas Fortis] added. “To say it in baseball terms, we are only in the second or third inning. $4,000 [will not be] the endpoint — just the start of the strongest bull market in precious metals the world has ever seen.” ...
In a note to clients on Wednesday morning, UBS Strategist Joni Teves also argued that gold remains under-owned.
“We expect gold’s bull run to continue over the coming quarters, driven by rising investor positions and a continued broadening in gold’s investor base. With the Fed easing cycle under way, dollar weakness and declining real rates should be bullish for the gold price,” she said. ... we expect ... prices to stabilise at historically higher levels over the long run,” she added.
More.
ADP private payrolls fell 23k in June, 3k in August, and now 32k in September
The net gain since January now stands at 366k, or slightly fewer than 46k per month.
The net gain per month since May has been 46k.
The trend is clearly lower since October 2024 when 221k were added.
How the U.S. Army got woke under Obama
This was published just over ten years ago. It's still up there, for all the world to see.
Way back in January, long before the first women attended the Army’s elite Ranger School – one of the most grueling military courses in the world – officials at the highest levels of the Army had already decided failure was not an option, sources tell PEOPLE.
“A woman will graduate Ranger School,” a general told shocked subordinates this year while preparing for the first females to attend a “gender integrated assessment” of the grueling combat leadership course starting April 20, sources tell PEOPLE. “At least one will get through.”
That directive set the tone for what was to follow, sources say.
“It had a ripple effect” at Fort Benning, where Ranger School is based, says a source with knowledge of events at the sprawling Georgia Army post. “Even though this was supposed to be just an assessment, everyone knew. The results were planned in advance.”
On Tuesday, PEOPLE revealed that Oklahoma Republican Rep. Steve Russell had asked the Department of Defense for documents about the women who attended Ranger School after becoming concerned that “the women got special treatment and played by different rules,” sources say.
Ranger School consists of three phases: Benning, which lasts 21 days and includes water survival, land navigation, a 12-mile march, patrols, and an obstacle course; Mountain Phase, which lasts 20 days, and includes assaults, ambushes, mountaineering and patrols; and Swamp Phase, which lasts 17 days and covers waterborne operations.
But whereas men consistently were held to the strict standards outlined in the Ranger School’s Standing Operating Procedures handbook sources say, the women were allowed lighter duties and exceptions to policy.
Multiple sources told PEOPLE:
• Women were first sent to a special two-week training in January to get them ready for the school, which didn’t start until April 20. Once there they were allowed to repeat the program until they passed – while men were held to a strict pass/fail standard.
• Afterward they spent months in a special platoon at Fort Benning getting, among other things, nutritional counseling and full-time training with a Ranger.
• While in the special platoon they were taken out to the land navigation course – a very tough part of the course that is timed – on a regular basis. The men had to see it for the first time when they went to the school.
• Once in the school they were allowed to repeat key parts – like patrols – while special consideration was not given to the men.
• A two-star general made personal appearances to cheer them along during one of the most challenging parts of the school, multiple sources tell PEOPLE.
The end result? Two women – First Lts. Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver – graduated August 21 (along with 381 men) and are wearing the prestigious Ranger Tab. Griest was surprised they made it.
“I thought we were going to be dropped after we failed Darby [part of Benning] the second time,” Griest said at a press conference before graduation. “We were offered a Day One Recycle.”
At their graduation, Maj Gen. Scott Miller, who oversees Ranger School, denied the Army eased its standards or was pressured to ensure at least one woman graduated.
“Standards remain the same, Miller said, according to The Army Times. “The five-mile run is still five miles. The 12-mile march is still 12 miles.
“There was no pressure from anyone above me to change standards,” said Miller, who declined to speak to PEOPLE.
Instructors say otherwise.
“We were under huge pressure to comply,” one Ranger instructor says. “It was very much politicized.”
The women didn’t want or ask for special treatment, says one who attempted the program.
“All of us wanted the same standards for males and females,” Billi Blaschke, who badly injured her ankle only six days into a required pre-assessment program, tells PEOPLE. “We wanted to do it on our own.”
On September 2, the Army announced that Ranger School is now open both to men and women.
Women are not currently allowed to perform Ranger duties, even Lts. Griest and Haver who passed the course. However, the Army will be forced to open Ranger positions to females on January 1, unless the Secretary of Defense grants an exception.
If the exemption isn’t granted, the Army may send women into combat – which is why so many former and current Rangers are concerned about women being held to the same standards as men.
“Combat is brutal and unforgiving,” says Jim Lechner, a retired Army officer and Ranger who was wounded in combat in Mogadishu, Somalia, during the famed “Black Hawk Down” incident. “Fighters must be prepared and capable. If they are not, people will die.”
Ranger School teaches students how to overcome fatigue, hunger and stress to lead soldiers in small-unit combat operations.
“I remain unconvinced that the recent graduation of two female soldiers was a proper test of females’ ability to perform in combat,” Lechner tells PEOPLE.
While Griest and Haver could not be reached for comment, the Army insists the two women who graduated August 21 did so under their own steam.
“In order to successfully graduate Ranger School, all students, male and female, are required to meet all course standards,” Army spokesman LTC Jennifer Johnson tells PEOPLE.
“The course standards for Ranger Class 08-15 are the exact same standards that have been used for all other Ranger classes,” she says.
Claims of Special Treatment
The women got special treatment from the start, sources tell PEOPLE.
Though the course didn’t begin until April 20, the first female Ranger candidates arrived at Fort Benning in January to attend the National Guard’s rigorous Ranger Training and Assessment Course (RTAC), a two-week program designed to assess whether a student could attempt the 62-day Ranger School.
Previously, only the National Guard’s Ranger hopefuls were required to attend RTAC, while non-Guard candidates had the elective option to attend. Now, all females – no matter whether they were Guard, Reserve or Regular Army – were required to attend.
There they were given another edge, sources say: While men were held to a stark pass-fail standard, women were allowed to redo the special training repeatedly.
“That was the first special concession,” says an Army source with knowledge of what transpired. “Males do not recycle RTAC. They either cut it or not.”
Neither Gen. Miller nor Fort Benning responded to questions asking about allegations of altered standards.
Approximately 140 women went through various cycles of the 14-day long RTAC. Many left of their own volition. Others dropped out, sources say.
By the end of January, many were slated to begin Ranger school.
Then came the second round of special treatment, sources tell PEOPLE.
The males proceeded to Ranger School without further ado. The women got special training. They were placed into their own platoon and spent the next several weeks preparing for Ranger School, sources say.
They were given nutritional counseling and a soldier to train them full time. The soldier, Sergeant First Class Robert Hoffnagle, previously had competed in Fort Benning’s annual Best Ranger competition, touted as the “ultimate test of fitness, endurance and grit for the Army’s most elite soldiers.
The women “lived and breathed nothing but Ranger School 24/7,” a source tells PEOPLE. “He taught [them] everything, including how to do patrols.”
There they were also allowed to train and rehearse on Land Navigation.
“That right there was a special consideration that only was given to the women,” says a source with knowledge of events. “It’s not fair, on a lot of levels.”
In a response to questions that included a request for confirmation that the women were placed in the special platoon, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Ben Garrett said “the allegations are not true.”
However, other sources confirmed its existence to PEOPLE.
“Hoffnagle got us ready for Ranger School,” says a woman who attended the special platoon.
And other sources at Fort Benning tell PEOPLE they were present at meetings to discuss the platoon’s budget and how it would operate.
By April 20, 19 women and 381 men reported for Ranger School.
Within days, 11 women were dropped from the course because they failed either the physical training, land navigation, or road march portions, sources say.
“They were decimated on road march,” an instructor tells PEOPLE.
On May 7, less than three weeks into the course, a highly placed Army source told PEOPLE that no women remained in Ranger School.
Then something changed.
“The women were called in to see the general,” said the source, referencing Miller, who oversees Ranger School.
“He told them they could not quit – too much time and money had been devoted to bringing them here,” the source said.
Miller himself acknowledged he’d met with the women in a statement to The Washington Post, though he did not say what he told them, just that he was “impressed” that they wanted to continue, according to the newspaper.
On May 8, eight women were allowed to repeat the first phase.
Once again, the women failed, sources said. They stumbled on patrols.
“They were not aggressive enough,” a source with knowledge of events tells PEOPLE. “They made poor combat decisions.”
Patrols are a crucial element in Ranger School.
“If you fail patrols, it’s significant, because you don’t have what it takes,” says Bubba Moore, a former Ranger Instructor with close ties to the Ranger and Fort Benning communities. “People will get killed.”
In late May, with more failed events, commanders reassessed what to do with the women. Five women were sent back to their home units. Three were offered the chance to start Ranger School all over again, from the first day. They accepted the offer.
The three women again failed patrols during the first phase, sources say.
That’s when Gen. Miller himself arrived on the course, according to sources.
Fort Benning later acknowledged to PEOPLE that Miller had gone to the training grounds while the women were on the course. A Fort Benning spokesman said Miller went there to commemorate his 30th anniversary of attending Ranger School, and did not go to pressure instructors into passing the women.
Nevertheless, with Miller on scene, the women passed and progressed to the next phase.
“Was it undue command influence?” a source with knowledge of events tells PEOPLE. “No matter what the general intended to convey, the instructors had no choice but to take this to mean, ‘Play along.’ ”
“The instructors knew what they were expected to do,” the source says. “They did it.”
After the women continue to struggle, Miller showed up again, sources say. Two women passed and ultimately graduated on August 21.
Meanwhile, one woman from that same class, who has redone other phases repeatedly, just failed the Swamp Phase and is going to try it again, sources say.
Another group of women is set to begin Ranger School in November.
Late on the evening of Sept. 25, the Army released a statement from Brig. Gen. Malcom B. Frost, who is chief of the Army’s public affairs office, about the PEOPLE story and the allegations uncovered by PEOPLE reporter Susan Keating.
[Ms. Keating] claimed that women were allowed to repeat a Ranger training class until they passed, while men were held to a strict pass/fail standard,” the statement said. “That is false.
“She charged that women regularly practiced on Ranger School’s land navigation course while men saw it for the first time when they went to the school,” the statement said. “Again, false.
“She accused an Army general of calling female candidates together to tell them they could not quit the course. Yet again, false.
https://people.com/celebrity/female-rangers-were-given-special-treatment-sources-say/
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Gold tonight hits record high $3,872.87, silver rises to $47.39
Gold hits record high on US shutdown risks, rate-cut bets
By Anmol Choubey
Spot gold rose 0.4% to $3,872.87 per ounce by 0206 GMT. U.S. gold futures for December delivery gained 0.7% to $3,901.40. ... spot silver gained 1.5% to $47.39 per ounce, hitting a more than 14-year high. ...
ROFLMAO he was DOA in the GOP Senate
... The Senate committee overseeing the Labor Department never scheduled a confirmation hearing ...
So Pete Hegseth's whole point of bringing in all the Generals and Admirals was to fat shame them all in one place
No more Milleys.
OK man, but it would have cost a lot less just to fire them all when they failed their next fitness tests.
Gee, I hope all those Generals and Admirals Pete Hegseth required to be in Quantico to hear his speech don't have any trouble returning to their duty stations when the government shuts down tonight
The round trip tickets must have cost a fortune, paid by the taxpayers.
Monday, September 29, 2025
Spot gold to new high $3,833.37, silver to $46.85
... Spot gold was up 1.9% at $3,829.63 per ounce, after hitting a record high of $3,833.37 earlier in the session. ... spot silver climbed 1.9% to $46.85 per ounce, hitting a more than 14-year high. ...
The assailant couldn't have been a leftist because he was white lol
The anti-white racism is amazing.
The purity of the left must be defended at all costs.
The objective is the marginalization into irrelevance of all whites, the shooter, the victim, and their entire kind.
Allahu Akbar.
Flashback September 12, 2001: Ann Coulter wanted anyone anywhere in the world who so much as smiled over Americans murdered on 911 bombed to kingdom come
That basically encapsulates the initial emotional reaction of the Trump administration to the murder of Charlie Kirk in 2025.
... That evening, CNN reported that bombs were dropping in Afghanistan — and then updated the report to say they weren't our bombs.
They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.
This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson. ...
You probably remember the column more for the closing however:
We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Speaking of crazy, Mad King Ludwig oddly posted fictional content on Truth Social about medbeds on the 27th, which is a QANON-like hoax about the existence of a special technology hoarded by elites to keep themselves healthy and in charge
Here is an archived copy of the post with fictional video since taken down at Truth Social.
Here is a news story about the hoax published in July 2024.
The COVID-19 hysteria notwithstanding, the share of the world that's crazy is quite low and stable over time
That you can hear about the crazy things crazy people do almost instantaneously now is what contributes to our perception that there's been a drastic change in behavior, but the share of the world that is crazy has been quite low and stable until the pandemic.
The craziest place in the world in 2021 appears to have been Portugal at 21%, followed by Iran at 20.7%, Lebanon at 19.9%, Greenland at 19.5%, Brazil at 19.4%, Greece at 19.1%, and Australia and Tunisia tied at 19%. No country scored below 9.2% in 2021. The world averaged 13.9%.
In 2011 the top eight list was Portugal at 19.8%, Iran, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Spain, Greenland, and Greece at 17.7%. The rear was brought up by Mali at 8.7%, and Mauritania at 9.1%. The world averaged 12.8%.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
AI thinks Oliver Kornetzke is from Wisconsin, possibly a Democrat from Calumet County, who thinks America is from its inception arrogant, stupid, cruel, greedy, and corrupt
I'm guessing it's an alias, but for some communist from Dane County who works for the law firm Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short.
Calumet County voted for Trump over Harris 59-39, and spends most of its time milking cows and making cheese, and on a winter Sunday drinking beer and playing Sheepshead. They have never hurt a flea.
Some of my folk come from there.
The top 10% wealthiest Americans are 47% richer after five years, up $36.25 trillion
Current U.S. Debt to the Penny is $37.46 trillion, he he.
They say we could never pay it back.
Friday, September 26, 2025
Spot silver hits $46.41 per ounce, gold ends the week just under the Tuesday high
... Spot gold rose 0.8% to $3,778.62 per ounce as of 01:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT), after hitting a record $3,790.82 earlier in the week. ...
More.
Boeing and FAA both to issue airworthiness certificates on Maxes, produced at a rate of about 38 per month, on alternating weeks
What could go wrong, right?
I'm guessing some people will now fly only on the FAA-issued certificate aircraft lol.
Speaking of serving Mammon, the price of Trump's Golden Visa has just been cut by 80%, but the workaround scheme to let rich people cut in line may backfire
And you thought only National Popular Vote liberals were capable of end-runs.
... “The Gold Card is almost too cheap,” said Reaz Jafri of international
law firm Withers. “You get access to the U.S. education system,
health-care system, banking system and financial markets, all for $1
million. It’s a pittance for many of these families. I think they should
have kept it at $5 million to make it special.” ...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the government plans to issue
80,000 Gold Cards. Together with potential Platinum Card and the new
H-1B fees, which were raised to $100,000, he said the programs are
expected to raise $100 billion in federal revenue. ...
The program is also likely to be challenged in the courts and
potentially by Congress. Because immigration law is set by Congress, the
president created the Gold Card through several legal workarounds,
including using the existing EB-1 and EB-2 programs as the
infrastructure or basis for the Gold Card. The $1 million fee is
officially labeled an “unrestricted gift” to the government rather than
an official fee change. ...
The EB-1 and EB-2 programs (which form the basis for the Gold Card)
already have large backlogs of applicants from China and India,
stretching for years. If Gold Card buyers are allowed to skip to the
front of the line because of their $1 million donation, the applicants
who have been waiting could file lawsuits. At the same time, Gold Card
buyers won’t be willing to spend $1 million if they’re forced to wait
years for approval. ...
Core pce inflation year over year in August 2025 rose again for the fourth consecutive month to 2.90% from 2.85% in July
CoRe InFlAtIoN rAtE hElD aT 2.9% In AuGuSt, aS eXpEcTeD, FeD’s GaUgE sHoWs
The damn thing's elevated 74% above the average 1.67 for the twenty-five years 1996-2020 and we're supposed to be OK with it because it's "as expected".
Jai Ya.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Real GDP since the Trump tax reform in 2017 still lags the post-war rate by 27.5%
Today's third estimate for 2Q2025 real GDP came in 0.5 points hotter at 3.8% on increased consumer spending:
Real GDP was revised up 0.5 percentage point from the second estimate, primarily reflecting an upward revision to consumer spending.
The big picture, however, indicates that the compound annual growth rate of real GDP from this report comes in at only 2.50% per annum for the eight years since 2Q2017. The corresponding figure for the sixty years 1947-2007 is 3.45% per annum. Economic growth since the year of the Trump Tax Reform late in 2017 therefore undershoots that post-war rate by 27.5%.
And measured from 2007 instead of 2017, real GDP growth has been even worse. Over the eighteen years since 2Q2007, real GDP has grown at a compound annual rate of just 1.97%, almost 43% worse than the pre-2007 rate of 3.45%.
Lower economic growth since the Great Financial Crisis remains the great unsolved economic problem of our time.
People who say "Just wait for the Trump tax cuts of 2025 to kick in" don't get it. There's nothing broadly, fundamentally, permanently different coming down the pike from that legislation. It's a continuation of the 2017 legislation, plus some temporary sweeteners.
A serious country would care about all this, but that would not be us.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel's opening riposte is so old it goes back to at least 1577 in the mouth of Luis de León, whose followers established The School of Salamanca
Unamuno was removed from his two university chairs by the dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1924, over the protests of other Spanish intellectuals. ... Unamuno returned to Spain after the fall of General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship in 1930 and took up his rectorship again. It is said in Salamanca that the day he returned to the university, Unamuno began his lecture by saying, as Fray Luis de León had done after four years of imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition, "As we were saying yesterday..." (Decíamos ayer...).
More.
Charlie Gasparino for The New York Post admits Kimmel is profitable for Disney, but the Nexstar and Sinclair stations which banned Kimmel stupidly took the hit last night
... But Disney, the parent of ABC, where “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs, squeezes a lot of juice out of Kimmel, people there tell me. There are affiliate fees for networks that pick up Kimmel’s programming, online ads and sponsorship deals. He hosts the Oscars, which helps with brand building.
The segments featuring his sidekick, Guillermo Rodriguez, are also a draw for advertisers, these people say. Taken together, all this means Kimmel, despite his annual salary of $16 million (nearly as much as his ad-revenue losses), a massive staff (200 people working on the show) and falling ratings, is profitable, my sources at Disney say. ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Nexstar and Sinclair pleasing their masters at the FCC, which holds the fate of their merger plans in its hands, Disney not so much
Nexstar, Sinclair won’t air Jimmy Kimmel’s return on ABC affiliates
... ABC parent Disney announced Monday it would bring back “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” after pausing the show indefinitely last week following comments by host Kimmel ...
Nexstar is currently seeking FCC approval for its proposed $6.2 billion merger with fellow broadcast station owner Tegna. And while it has yet to ink a deal, Sinclair is also exploring merger options for its broadcast stations.
Disney, meanwhile, is seeking regulatory approval for a deal in which the NFL would acquire 10% of the company’s ESPN in exchange for NFL Media assets.
Monday, September 22, 2025
Wow: Gold to $3747.08, silver to $43.99
... Spot
gold rose 1.7% to a fresh record high of $3,747.08 per ounce, as of
02:06 p.m. ET (1806 GMT). U.S. gold futures for December delivery
settled 1.9% higher at $3,775.10. ...
Spot
silver rose 2.1% to $43.99 per ounce, a more than 14-year high. ...
I wonder if even she, for that fleeting moment, thought the whole thing was cringe, too
This video which she posted on the 12th, however, just two days after the assassination, was itself pretty cringe. The video appears to have been edited since then. The reporter quotes what she said in the unedited version, which I remember.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
It's pretty wild how they don't see that their guy is the leader of a heartless America
A president for all the people, the bi-partisanly hateful public!
So Trump's border czar took a bribe last fall in an FBI sting operation, a paper bag with $50k cash in it
The Trump Department of Injustice dropped the case.
So where's the money then? In Bob Menendez' closet?
Saturday, September 20, 2025
This is risible propaganda posing as news from The Hill, which is the same Nexstar which pulled Kimmel's show
Is DePauw University also a subsidiary of Nexstar?
And how much was this guy paid to write this?
Kimmel's Ratings in Steep Decline, ABC Looked for Way Out
Tyrant Trump and his FCC want to cancel comedic speech over the public airwaves which 75,019,682 people who didn't vote for him find funny
Don't the PUBLIC airwaves have to serve them, too?
... Through this public spectrum for radio and TV stations, the federal agency has the right to regulate broadcasting and requires each network “by law to operate its station in the ‘public interest, convenience and necessity.’ Generally, this means it must air programming that is responsive to the needs and problems of its local community of license,” according to the FCC website. ...
Typically, the discussion of whether a station violated the FCC’s guidelines centers around children’s programming, a cut to news content, or obscenity — such as Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl in 2004. ...
Friday, September 19, 2025
I keep hearing that gold is soaring because of continued dollar weakness lol
On the contrary, gold has risen despite continued dollar strength.
The enormous gains for gold in 2024 and 2025 are not explained by a round trip in the dollar index from 120 to 129 and back again. That's just a little side show in the bigger picture of dollar strength.
The dollar index has made steady progress out of the pit of despair at 85.46 in July 2011 under Barack Obama, the enemy of fossil fuels, to a place of relative strength today averaging above 120 in 2022 and 2023, 123 in 2024, and 125 in the first half of 2025.
Speaking of a weak dollar in this context is laughable.
Maybe the dollar is so strong again because the United States has become a net exporter of oil. The 1975 ban on oil exports was lifted in December 2015. Net imports of oil went negative for the first time since 1950 in 2020.
Gold is probably so strong in part because of increasing debt globally, which like rising prosperity helps drive demand for it as a hedge. Extreme poverty gripped half the world in 1950 but by 2020 it afflicts just 10%. Meanwhile gold production has nearly tripled over the period.
As a percentage of global GDP, global debt has gone from just above 100% of global GDP in 1980 to a whopping 235% of global GDP in 2024.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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