-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 71 - October, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTE: "... the establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..." --Edward Herman, economist and media analyst ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --------------- --Radio Wars --A World Banker's Account of Prague --Anarchists Still Held in Prague --Hunters and the Hunted at US-Mexico Border --Seoul braces for protests at Asia-Europe summit Linked stories: *U.S. elections need international observers *Hacker targets Antiwar.com *Congress passes bill to punish those who leak classified information *USDOJ anoounces $38.9 million grant for COPS program *Chicago to Sue Vote Auctioneers *Drug Use Booming Among High-Tech Workers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin stories: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radio Wars [This article was supposed to run in the Illinois Times, but got scratched at the last minute.] RADIO WARS: The United States of America Versus Mbanna Kantako by Sheila Nopper A preliminary injunction was issued to Mbanna Kantako at a Federal Court hearing on October 4th ordering him to "cease and desist" the micropower station, Human Rights Radio; whether a permanent injunction will be granted will depend on it being proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the source of the interference with air traffic communications at the Springfield Airport between September 22-25 was attributable to Kantako's 106.5 FM broadcasts. So far, no date has been set for the upcoming trial. Yet related issues that were raised--and absent---during the court proceedings, reveal certain ambiguities and irregularities about the case. Williford Gray, an electronics engineer from the FCC's Chicago office, testified that he had issued Kantako orders to stop broadcasting on several occasions during the 12 years that Human Rights Radio has been on the air. No planes have ever fallen out of the sky during that time. However, the FCC alleges that they monitored four days of potentially dangerous interference beginning this year on September 22 during which time Human Rights Radio was deemed by Gray to pose a "safety of life issue" that required an "immediate response." This latest FCC action came exactly one week after the FCC announced the names of Springfield area applicants for legalized Low Power FM licenses. In building her case, prosecuting attorney, Elizabeth Collins, used the FCC proposal for legalized LPFM to attempt to discredit Kantako's right to communicate via his radio station. Yet Kantako himself would not qualify for such a license given the lack of amnesty provisions for formerly illegal broadcasters in the FCC rules even if he wanted to, which he emphatically does not. Kantako, who is blind, said he "does not recognize the authority of the FCC or the authority of the United States government." He described himself as "an African P.O.W." with the "human responsibility to share information with my people and to defend ourselves against genocide." Ironically, it was Mbanna Kantako, who pioneered the micropower radio movement on whose coattails current LPFM applicants have ridden. Having grown into a nationwide grassroots civil disobedience campaign against corporate control of the airwaves, micropower broadcasting is arguably the catalyst which forced the FCC to develop the LPFM initiative in the first place in order to re-establish their regulatory control of the airwaves and, in so doing, create a Trojan Horse to divide the movement. Nevertheless, because of his prominence in the movement, Kantako's case sparked a successful international email campaign on his behalf aimed at getting the State Journal Register (SJR) to cover the story. The campaign was orchestrated by the IndyMediaCenter (a global network of activists who utilize media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice), which originated with the Seattle protests against the WTO in 1999. The SJR finally did publish a story on Kantako's case the morning of his court hearing---five days after the multi-jurisdictional police raid of his station led by Federal Marshals who surrounded his home and confiscated his transmitter, broadcast equipment and computer. However, none of the 13 local organizations who recently applied for these LPFM licenses sent in emails to support Kantako. Nor were these prospective licensees among the ten people--which did include some members of the Springfield-based Media Activist Coalition---present at the court hearing to support Kantako. If their silence was predictably due to their fear of jeopardizing their chances of being granted an LPFM license because of challenging the FCC, then the agency's claim that the LPFM proposal was designed to "give a voice to the previously voiceless" on the radio spectrum rings rather hollow. Moreover, neither in the court proceedings nor in the SJR's coverage was there any mention of Senate bill 3020, the Radio Preservation Act of 2000, and the increasingly successful lobbying efforts on its behalf by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and National Public Radio (NPR) to essentially prevent even legalized micropower broadcasts from ever happening or, if so, only in the most restrictive and token of fashions. To buttress their case, they claimed that LPFM would cause interference with not only their big megawatt stations, but air traffic signals, thus endangering human life. Yet, elsewhere in the country, a prominent national activist on behalf of LPFM, Stephen Proviser, who founded Allston-Brighton Free Radio and Citizens' Media Corps in the Boston area, did not hesitate to come to the defense of Kantako. He has referred to him publicly as "someone in the forefront of the struggle for direct citizen participation in media." Proviser, who has become increasingly dismayed at the NAB/NPR onslaught on LPFM, also pointed out, "There are thousands of translator stations across the country which are technically identical to the proposed LPFMs." Translators are, in effect, low power stations that are approved by the FCC in order to extend the coverage of full power radio licensees. "The actual transmitters that translators and LPFMs will use are the same," he explained, "and low power translators are acknowledged by the radio industry to cause minimal interference." The NAB's hypocritical double standard in relation to LPFM is something that really galls LPFM activists like Proviser. He explained, "When NAB-affiliated stations were being re-evaluated [in 1996], the NAB considered their [i.e. translators] potential for causing interference acceptable--even when far less stringent protection requirements were being discussed. They now say that the FCC's proposed LPFM licensing policy, which has even more strict protection requirements against interference, would throw the FM band into chaos." In this regard, the FCC recently attempted to appease NAB/NPR's opposition to its proposal with their "Reconsideration Order for Low Power FM Service" in which they stated, among other revisions, that the FCC was "committed to protect translator service in a manner compatible with the LPFM service." Yet even non-profit NPR has flatly refused to compromise and continues to support the Radio Preservation Act. Consequently, in an October 2nd press release, FCC Chairman William Kennard stated: "I had hoped that NPR would see that their overriding mission to bring noncommercial radio service to the public is furthered by the establishment of new LPFM radio service that would serve small communities and niche markets. It is a sad day when National Public Radio advocates a policy that would deny the public new radio service." Williford Gray suggested in court that the air traffic interference alleged to have been caused by Human Rights Radio may have resulted from a defective transmitter. When questioned by Kantako, who was acting as his own attorney, Gray confessed that he hadn't done a bench examination of Kantako's transmitter because it was still in the possession of the U.S. Marshall. Meanwhile, Kantako claimed that he used a professional, government-certified transmitter that does not "spur" or cause "harmonics" that could create such interference. Bret Thomas, a federal airway transportation specialist, who amazingly claimed in court that during his investigation, he heard radio interference coming from the long demolished Hay Homes, also testified that interference with air traffic communications is a "common" occurrence that is frequently attributed to atmospheric conditions, and has even been known to be caused by the airport's own frequencies. Upon learning of Gray's testimony at the hearing, the founder of Free Radio Berkeley, Stephen Dunifer, who has an engineering background, countered FCC accusations when he claimed that "the ground to air transceivers (transmitters/receivers) used at airports function on the AM band and Human Rights Radio is a low watt FM broadcast. So," he concluded, "even if Mbanna's transmitter was defective, it would still not interfere." Undaunted and unbowed, Kantako insisted, "I have a human right to communicate with my people by any means necessary." He has repeatedly stated that he will resume broadcasting as soon as possible. Given the national attention this case has already garnered, the upcoming trial will no doubt place Springfield's dirty laundry once again into the unwelcome glare of the media spotlight just recently vacated by Peter Fitzgerald. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A World Banker's Account of Prague <http://www.focusweb.org/focus/pd/apec/fot/fot55.html#world> A World Bank Staffer's Odyssey in Kafka's Prague (The following is an insider's blow-by-blow account of the World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting in Prague on Oct. 26-28, 2000. The author, a senior World Bank staff member who is a long-time contact of Focus on the Global South, requested anonymity for obvious reasons.) Coming into Prague was impressive because they had the system all set up. Right at the airport you were accredited. As soon as you stepped out of the plane, you were fast- tracked out of customs. Everything was so systematic. Everybody got into fast track. And you got escorts. As you know, they closed all universities that week. And one reason was to get students to act as escorts and guides to delegates. For the whole week. Very good looking escorts. Extremely good looking. In fact, I dated one of them later. Deceptive Calm I have to say that my impression was there was no inkling at least among the people I was in touch with of what was going to come. In fact, the dominant reaction from IMF-WB delegates was that the police were overreacting. I got there Saturday the 23rd,. On the 24th and 25th, nothing was happening. Lots of activities but everybody still felt nothing would happen. I think among the delegates and among the private bankers no one was really expecting anything to happen that coming Tuesday. The debate between [James] Wolfensohn, [Horst] Koehler, and the NGO's that President [Vaclav] Havel organized on the 23rd was not well publicized. People I was with had not heard about it. There was a daily schedule called "Emerging Markets," and it was listed there, but it wasn't played up. Only those like me, who had been tipped off before coming to Prague, understood its significance. I told my boss I wanted to attend, but he said there were more urgent things to pay attention to. Anyway, Saturday and Sunday were so uneventful that everybody felt it would stay this way throughout. Really calm. A Kafkaesque Tuesday Then all of a sudden you had this very dramatic turn of events on Tuesday. Tuesday was the opening day. On Monday, the security system warned that something might happen the following day. But even when the security system started issuing flyers to the delegation rooms, no one believed it. We were warned by the flyers that if we were going to the Congress Center on Tuesday, we would have to be prepared to stay there for a while because a protest could lock in delegates at the Center. But even then I had the sense that no one took that seriously. And I believe that because everybody came to the opening ceremonies the next day. Had it been taken seriously, some people would probably not have shown up. I saw ex-World Bank presidents there coming in with their spouses and big time private bankers, and nobody it seems had taken these warnings seriously. Then close to noon, all of a sudden you had this announcement that the transport system was shutting down. Usually you had these shuttle services between the Congress Center to the hotels every 15 minutes, but all of a sudden these services were shut down. The bridge leading to the main entrance was blocked, and the two other entrances to the Congress Center were also blocked by riot police, who were now very visibly at the center. But the action was still taking place at quite a distance from the Center. In any case, we couldn't leave. One incident was reported. A young delegate from the Japanese government wanted to go out and he just stepped out and tried to go through one of the side openings. They said he was beaten up and sent to the hospital. All of us were warned not to transit in and out, not to even attempt to walk out. There was no clear sign or indication of what would happen next. I saw ex-World Bank presidents walking around not knowing what to do. I asked one former president how he was doing, and he told me that his wife had managed to skip coming to the Center by joining the Prague tour but he was left behind. He didn't know what was happening. When I told him about the protests, he became totally disoriented. In any event what was happening was everyone was waiting to get out. They had long run out of numbers in the program. At around 7:30 p.m., there was a sudden oral announcement. Everybody should go straight to the metro. The metro had been stopped all day. Now, they told us that the metro had been opened and we all had to go, quickly. What happened was they got this special train to get the delegates to the very last station on the line, where buses were waiting to take the delegates to the reception at the exhibition hall. We were brought in to this big exhibition hall--I don't know what you call it. But when we got there, we were surprised to see that the protesters were already there. This big exhibition hall was supposed to be secure but to our great surprise the protesters had beaten us to the place. And the authorities had not planned for this. When the reception was over, they just wanted to disperse all the delegates, so they ended up bussing us to different parts of Prague, where we were left to our own devices. Many of the people with me were really, really worried, but I was having fun. We finally got to our hotels around 12 midnight. But we still had not known the extent of the protests, and of course once everyone got to the hotel, everyone tuned into CNN and that's when we learned about McDonald's being trashed. Pleasure or Pain? I was staying at the Renaissance near the Old Town. I had this friend who was staying at the Hilton about 10 minutes away who was still with me, and I just wanted to make sure he got to his hotel safely. So I took off my suit and got into my jeans and more comfortable wear. But he was still in this suit and had this bag with a big IMF logo. While we were walking to his hotel which was 10 minutes away, we met a group of French protesters who started harassing us. Actually if I was actually threatened with physical harm, I would have called out your name and screamed I'm a friend of one of your leaders. I was ready to do that.. The guy I was with comes from a Third World country, but I told him that saying that you're Third World wouldn't work, not with your IMF badge. Fortunately, there was a restaurant nearby and I shoved him inside. We had a couple of beers and waited till the French protesters went away and we snuck out. On the way back from his hotel, I ran into another problem. Two prostitutes sidled up to me, and the one to the right of me started rubbing my buttocks. I guess they knew I was a delegate. I don't think they were Czechs. They looked like Italians. Maybe they came in with the Italian protesters, since we heard that the Czech security had driven most of the regular prostitutes out of the city. So that evening, it was a question of who got to the delegates first, the prostitutes or the protesters. If you were lucky, you got pleasure. If you were unlucky, you got pain. In any case, we never got to the price. I ran away: who knows, they might have been protesters in disguise! Whose Side Are You on? The following day, very few people went to the Congress Center. Most stayed away. They just stayed in their hotel rooms. They didn't even want to go out. But those who did still went out in their suits. I couldn't figure that out. Those of us who were brave enough to go to the Center had to go by a completely different route. Our bus stayed at the back of a tram and it followed this all the way. This was fine with me because I hadn't seen the sites of Prague, and the city was beautiful. At the conference center, I got to talking to the student guides. They really didn't know what was happening. These kids actually didn't know who to side with - the protesters or the delegates? They just wished the whole thing would end. By the way, I noted this attitude even with the police. Whenever I asked the police for directions, they very seldom answered me. I had a sense that they were just as wary of the delegates as they were of the protesters. I think one personal dilemma that both the students and the police had was that they were too young to have experienced the protests of late eighties and didn't know what to do about it. As you know, the meeting got cut by a day. During the press conference the next day, they denied that the protests were the reason. They actually said the reason was that things had run so efficiently that they were able to compress everything into two days. The press laughed at this. End of the Affair The real conclusion was the press conference the following day, the 28th. At this press conference, both Wolfensohn and Koehler were there to field questions and answers. There was a corps of press reporters keen to pounce on them. The questions from the first were quite pointed. Ranging from very specific to very basic. For instance one reporter from India asked Wolfensohn and Koehler that they had been accused of causing so much misery in the Third World and what did they have to say about that. Wolfensohn said, I don't think I am responsible for all that, and if you think so, you're misinformed. But the whole conference was dominated by questions about the protest and not issues. Which means, at least from my perspective, that the objective of the protests had been achieved. They had really distracted the proceedings. A number of the press people said the annual meeting was obsolete and out of control and what did the IMF and WB want to do about this. Wolfensohn responded that although they could have virtual meetings, the personal interaction was still quite important. So that the Bank would actually continue to have annual meetings. Wolfensohn and Koehler insisted that they had "gotten through" to the NGO's and pictured the Saturday debate at Prague Castle as a big success for them. On the other hand, from my experience watching Wolfensohn for several years, he appeared to be very tired. It seems he had run out of things to say and even his statements to the press were very uninspired. He didn't look like the "Elvis" Bono described him to be. He appeared to be much less enthusiastic. He was repeating many of the old formulas. Maybe the futility of it all had finally gotten to him. As for Koehler, he was upbeat and very light. No, light is not the word. He appeared to be very na?ve, that's what I want to say. I don't think it's just his lack of mastery of English. He was talking like a college student about the issues, repeating the same line about him not being a banker but somebody with a heart. Both of them said that the violence had come from a very, very small minority, and that the majority of the protesters were really there because they had something to say. And there were a lot of legitimate arguments being made by them. And that the WB and the IMF would now pay greater focus to their concerns. It was very difficult for me to distinguish between reality and rhetoric because all the time Wolfensohn was playing with his watch. From my vantage point, in the end, the agenda had been taken over by the protesters. I think Prague created quite an impression with the World Bank-IMF bureaucracy, although this is a much more entrenched bureaucracy than the WTO. I sensed that after Prague, the words of civil society will be taken much more seriously, but whether this will mean real dialogue we still have to find out. The Desert Beckons The next two annual meetings will be in Washington and the third one will be in Dubai. And the head of the Dubai organizing committee said that the temperature would be higher in Dubai than in Prague! He was saying basically that prior to the Prague proceedings, he didn't foresee problems in Dubai, but after this, there has to be some rethinking. So it's three years away but the impact is already there. I have a feeling that when the WB-IMF bureaucracy assesses Prague they will wind down the annual meetings. Because their only function is for governors to deliver their speeches, and more and more governors now simply submit written speeches. So I think more and more they will turn it into a virtual meeting. And they will probably try to separate the unofficial events from the official meeting. Because what is most significant about these meetings are the informal business parties. There were at least 15 lavish parties given by the commercial banks for the delegates. Very, very lavish. For many delegates, those were the prime events of the conference. The actual official functions were just pro forma. If I were a protester, by the way, I would have gone to these venues because they were not secured at all. These were the events that everyone went to in the evenings. These were very open venues. And they were listed in the schedule. Now, that would really have stopped the real business of the conference. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anarchists Still Held in Prague As we all should know by now, thanks to the spectacular recuperation made by the globalized mass-media, the S26 protests in Prague against the IMF and World Bank were a success. Our European comrades succeeded in seriously disturbing the meeting of the lackey of international capitalism. In the process, the Prague police force completely lost control of the situation and were totally humiliated in the face of millions of viewers world-wide. As a result, they arrested some 950+ protesters (or individuals who looked like protesters) in the downtown area, beating many in the process (up to 60% according to INPEG, the protest organizer, survey). Most of the arrested people lost all rights --such as a phone call, legal representation, food, water and even sleep, and many were reportedly tortured at the hands of the police. We won't repeat the whole story here, people can judge by themselves by reading available material at <www.prague.indymedia.org> and <www.ainfos.ca>. As of today (October 9th), thanks to a massive international campaign, all but 16 protesters were released. The fact that only 25 will be prosecuted shows in itself that all of the police repression and violence was baseless and that most people were arrested only because they dared to demonstrate their opposition to global capitalism. That said, even if the release of the vast majority of the prisoners is in itself a victory, there are still 16 comrades in jail. Among them are 8 anarchist-communists from Budapest, Hungary, who have been charged with 'an attack against a public official' (in this case policemen). According to unofficial information our Czech comrades gave us, the police have no evidence against them. All have a State-appointed lawyer, but because such lawyers have proved inadequate in representing activists in the past, the Czech anarchists have found a new lawyer for them. He will take this case and his work will cost less than is normal, however they will still need money for the defense costs. Since these comrades are anarchists, and so suspected of being dangerous trouble-makers (rioters!), we don't expect much support. That is why the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC) will collect funds to help free these comrades. If we anarchists do not show some basic solidarity, no one else will. In the USA, please send funds to: Sabate Anarchist Collective NEFAC International Secretariat PO Box 230685 Boston, MA 02123 [Check must be earmarked " S26 Solidarity "] In Canada, please send funds to : Secrétariat francophone de la NEFAC Groupe anarchiste Emile-Henry C.P. 55051, 138 St-Vallier Ouest Québec, Québec G1K 1J0 Canada [Check must be made to " Groupe Emile-Henry " and earmarked " S26 Solidarity "] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hunters and the Hunted at US-Mexico Border (10-13-00) From the High Country News Full story here: <http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Feature_The_hunter.html> Crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has always been a risky proposition. But these days, it can be deadly, as illegal immigrants are forced into the desert, where they face dehydration, gun-toting ranchers and lawless guides. Human rights activists are crying for change. See also: Border Lures the Young <http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Sidebar_Border_lur.html> A Sympathetic Landowner <http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Sidebar_A_sympathe.html> Sanctuary Movement Revived <http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Sidebar_Sanctuary.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seoul braces for protests at Asia-Europe summit SEOUL, Oct 11 (AFP) - South Korean police on Wednesday announced massive security precautions in a bid to stop a summit of Asian and European leaders next week becoming the next battleground for anti-globalization protesters. The National Police Agency (NPA) said 29,500 officers, or 20 percent of the country's police force, would be put on alert from Saturday in Seoul, the venue for the third Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit on October 20-21. "Security is our prime concern as 25 leaders from Asia and Europe will take part in the summit," Lee Byong-Gon, an NPA director, said. The authorities are concerned that Seoul could see protests like those which erupted at the World Trade Organisation conference in Seattle last November and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings in Prague last month. Police are ready to stop any protests near the ASEM Convention Center in Seoul, which will be guarded by 180 heavily armed commandos, 15 helicopters and armored vehicles, Lee said. Thousands of riot police will be deployed round-the-clock next week within a two kilometer (1.2 mile) radius around the ASEM conference hall to stop protests by non-governmental organizations (NGOs). South Korean NGOs, unions, civic groups and students have formed an alliance led by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a militant union organization, to stage "anti-globalization" demonstrations. "The alliance, ASEM 2000 Seoul Action against Liberalism, was made up of 180 groups, which support the anti-globalization movement by international NGOs," KCTU spokesman Park Hwa-Soon, told AFP. "We cannot ensure there will be no violence as police rejected our request to allow peaceful rallies at designated places," he said. On Sunday, some 40,000 union activists held a rally near parliament, blasting what they called "neo-liberalist policies" being pushed by President Kim Dae-Jung. Kim has been hailed for his efforts to pull South Korea out of a severe economic crisis that hit Asia in 1997 and forced the country to get a 58-billion-dollar bailout arranged by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But his economic reform drive sparked violent labor protests and the anti-ASEM alliance has invited foreign activists who were involved in the street protests in Seattle and Prague. NGOs contend the lending policies of international financial institutions impoverish poor nations further with harsh repayment obligations. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linked stories: ******************** U.S. elections need international observers <http://www.motherjones.com/reality_check/observers.html> With third-party candidates barred from crucial media events, prevented by police from attending a debate, and discriminated against on ballots, not to mention the massive disenfranchisement of minority voters, this commentator says the U.S. clearly needs help with its democracy in this year's election (10/12/00) ******************** Hacker targets Antiwar.com <http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz1012d.htm> Eagle Network, a Nederland, Colorado-based ISP, was knocked offline for 11 days by a hacker who wanted to disable Antiwar.com, a Freedom Network partner that advocates a non-interventionist foreign policy. (10/13/00) ******************** Congress passes bill to punish those who leak classified information <http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64327-2000Oct12.html> Congress approved a measure that would make it easier to bring criminal charges against people who leak classified information to the press and public. Critics say the move threatens to choke off whistleblowers, and that it is dangerous to "give the executive branch a blank check in this important area." ******************** USDOJ anoounces $38.9 million grant for COPS program <http://www.friendsofliberty.com/October/pr6101300.htm> U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCES $38.9 MILLION IN GRANTS TO RE-DEPLOY 1,580 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS (FLI Newswire-October 13, 2000-Washington, D.C.) 623 Local Agencies to Receive Grants Nationwide WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) today announced grants totaling $38.9 million to hire civilians in order to re-deploy more police to the beat. ******************** Chicago to Sue Vote Auctioneers < http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39431,00.html?tw=wn20001013> Election officials in Chicago are expected to file suit after finding more than 1,000 Illinois residents have signed up to auction off their presidential votes. By Mark K. Anderson. ******************** Drug Use Booming Among High-Tech Workers <http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=264754> Illicit drug use has taken hold in the high-tech world. ******************** ====================================================== "Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control." -Jim Dodge ====================================================== "Communications without intelligence is noise; intelligence without communications is irrelevant." -Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ====================================================== "It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society." -J. 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