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Regular readers of yours know your heart Z, so disclaimers and stating obvious not necessary, but like you said, old habits die hard. I haven’t added to the discussion in last few days but loved following the comments. Glad you kept the smart people in the new digs. Mustang was right on with comment that obama has been reaching out in this crisis, only it seems to be to the iSIS terrorist killers.
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I’m sure that we don’t want to know the killing methods — and the torture that preceded and followed those killings.
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And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. — Qur’an 9:5
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The religion of Islam above all others was founded upon the sword … Moreover it provides incentives to slaughter, and in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men – filled with a wild and merciless fanaticism. – Winston Churchill
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Someone from Syria the other day reported that tens of thousands of Christians have been murdered by ISIS in the past two years. The same people John McCain wanted to funnel weapons to … murdering the innocent. US foreign policy almost can’t get worse than this, can it?
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There seems to be a pattern here with this administration supplying thugs with weapons,Fast and Furious and that non issue of Benghazi.
The inmates are definitely running the asylum and it’s on fire
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I disagree…I think we all should be aware of the barbarity that these so called “primates” are capable of and see just how far they’re willing to go and what methods they use to further it. It’s simply another holocaust. This time, just like in 1941, it’s of Christians. There’s no way anyone could call this a “religion of peace” if they see with their own eyes what this scum is capable of. With the exception of people like Rob Reiner, Obama, Reid, Pelosi and their loony pals.
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Well said, Mustang….no US foreign policy cannot EVER get worse than THAT. MY GOSH. The Navy’s taking the Bibles out of their lodgings for guests, chaplains are asked not to mention JESUS, and we’re supplying terrorists with the instruments to kill Christians. wow
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Lisa! GOOD POINT! How can we forget F&F? Remember when Bush started it; ONLY as a method to supply cartels and then WATCH where they go, arrest them,. GET THE ARMS BACK? I will never forget when one of those F&F agents who’d worked successfully with that plan under Bush and said he called whoever they’re supposed to call to say “OK, we got the guns to them….” and, under Obama, was told “Now you can leave.” “Leave? But we have to watch and keep track, that’s why we DO THIS?” “No, you can leave.”
LEAVE? Lisa, this administration is destroying our country. I have tried to stay away from what I thought was extreme right-wing hyperbole, though I CAN’T STAND THE MAN, as you know….but I’m starting to think there is nothing the extreme Rightwing has said that isn’t correct.
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AOW…you must read SEEKING ALLAH FINDING JESUS. Tomorrow at church, a missionary from FRONTIERS, which is apparently a group that is there for muslims seeking Christianity (all over the world; I’m not sure where he actually is and I’m not sure he can say since I just read this book and have such a heart for muslims to find Jesus myself!…but we’re invited to the pastor’s house after church to talk with this man and I cannot wait.) This book is about a young very strong muslim boy in America who meets a very strong Christian guy at Old Dominion…they have classes together, etc…get to be very close and argue Islam v Christianity constantly. I am not spoiling the story because it’s said all over the cover, etc., but this muslim kid REALLY REALLY fights Christianity, REALLY FIGHTS for the islam he LOVES SO MUCH and which is parents are HUGE adherents to, and he becomes a Christian…
BECAUSE he said most muslims DO NOT KNOW THOSE REALLY NASTY PARTS OF THEIR QURAN … AND THEIR IMAMS DO NOT TEACH IT. This kid delved into books in his father’s library which stunned him, hurt him, …. amazing story. Most muslims do not know, they practice their faith like most folks in other religions… only getting what their leaders tell them. In Islam, the truth HURT, in Christianity, the LOVE he found there and the historical facts, convinced him. VERY FAITH BUILDING BOOK.
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@Z: “the extreme Rightwing has said that isn’t correct.”
That’s us you know. That’s the Tea Party, returning vets, Christians, fundamentalists anyone voting conservative or Republican. Ask Lois Lerner….she approves of this as does the IRS, all Dems too. We are…THE ENEMY and the TERRORISTS
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MEANWHILE, we have this: (CNN) — A fragile peace shattered in Ferguson early Saturday, as looters again robbed neighborhood business while law enforcement officers — who returned to the streets with riot gear, tactical rifles and armored vehicles — looked on but largely didn’t intervene. –
Z: I guess police don’t have to arrest anymore because they’re scared of the mobs. Is this what happens in America when thugs rob others? The thugs are Black so they can get the cops to back off because they’re humiliated the cops for one guy’s terrible action?
This is like Munich or Hamburg, where muslims commit crimes and the cops are so PC they just watch … believe me.
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AND by the way…where are MORE like Johnathan Gentry? YOU ALL KNOW there are MILLIONS of Black Americans who don’t approve of looting! WHY DO THEY NOT SPEAK UP!??
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Have no fear…ISIS scum are driving Ford F350’s to mount their guns on. Guess they don’t need Toyota’s any longer now that they can afford Fords.
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Because they get excited by the influence of mob mentality. Because they don’t really want to peacefully protest as witnessed again last evening. As Gentry said…planet of the Apes III. Because it’s not about the 6′, 295 pound ‘kid” and that only lasted for 5 minutes. It’s all about hatred of cops…white cops especially…then all whites. It’s very clear. Every riot is always the same…and always about achieving the same things with the same goals.
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Z they call those who point out the incompetence of this admin extreme to delegitimize them in order to not make Obama look bad because the left has too much invested in getting him elected. What irks me is listening to people who actually say he is a good president. I never……
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Imp, all Black Americans do not get excited by mob mentality or stealing, you know that. You have Black friends. I have Black friends and Black relatives through marriage. They would no sooner loot than I would. You KNOW that.
You don’t think there are MANY who feel like Johnathan Gentry does?
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I KNOW, Lisa….can you IMAGINE ANYTHING he’s done that you think is GOOD!!?
But, ARGH! I will say ONE THING that’s good about the ACA, believe it or not. My COBRA plan from my employer is changing to another insurance company AND I learned that all plans are pretty much the same now so, for this pea brain with little acumen in this field~!, I didn’t have to look at one, then compare, then look into another, compare plans (which are SO hard to understand anyway)…Nope. “You have a silver plan, the other company’s silver plan is the same” HURRRAH! That helped.
So, one tiny thing I am pleased about. And THAT IS IT!!
And you are SO RIGHT about the Left calling us extreme to delegitimize our points….I couldn’t agree with you more. SAUL ALINSKY is alive and well, isn’t he. DAMN him!!
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pardon me, but ISN’T THAT A PISSER, Imp? And they’re using OUR AMMO (heck,l’m hearing our own Marines at bases around Los ANgeles don’t have enough ammo to practice with because they government’s bought most of it up and isn’t supplying it to the bases, have you heard THAT?!!) , too. Our tanks, our guns, our ammo….aren’t we a great country? How generous! We are IDIOTS! Didn’t our military KNOW how to cope with getting our STUFF OUT once they kicked US OUT with Obama’s complicity!? Or did this gov’t purposefully leave things behind. Now THAT could be something to research, couldn’t it. yikes
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No, Imp, I do not believe the very extreme Right is all Vets, Christians, Tea Party. NO. The extreme right is those who revere FreeRepublic and WND and just jump to ANY bit of anti-Left information and believe it before THINKING.
No, I don’t agree with you on that. I can’t even recount here some of the things I’ve heard the extreme Right say….It makes my skin crawl.
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@Z: “Imp, all Black Americans do not get excited by mob mentality or stealing..”
Then they should do something about it rather than stand by and allow the violence and looting to continue. If they don’t want the cops ( cause they claim they’ve always had a problem with racism in the PD…and in the same breath claim that they all get along in Ferguson, black and white and it’s a peaceful town ). What’s wrong with them guarding the stores and businesses that are being burned and then looted and confronting the mobsters that are embedded among them? It’s their town…and it’s those businesses and owners that provide services and goods for them. And my statement about succumbing to the mob mentality comes straight from a black commentator on Fox. And yes, there’s many more like Gentry. Google David Carroll for a taste of his vision.
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“Thankfully, I have no more liberals here at my blog”
OUTSTANDING! How do you do it?
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Z – “Or did this gov’t purposefully leave things behind. Now THAT could be something to research, couldn’t it. yikes”
I’ll take a stab at this one. Generally speaking, when our military forces withdrew from Iraq, per the 2008 SOFA, they took all weaponry and ammunition with them. That’s because these items were part of each unit’s Table of Organization and Equipment [TO&E]. Leaving serial numbered and sensitive items to the Iraqi’s, that had been on a TO&E, would have been a nightmare of routing the chain of custody through the Defense Logistics Agency, through the DoD Foreign Military Sales Office, and then to the Iraqi MoD. Now we did leave numerous items behind, but these were of the nature of office furniture, maintanence and sundry supplies…..and items purchased locally [220v TV’s, printers, etc]
The US military hardware that the compliant media is labeling, ‘stuff we left behind’ came from massive defense appropriations for foreign military aid to Iraq, since CY 2004. In that year, in order to cement our sugar-daddy status, the US government embarked upon a horrendously expensive quest, to replace the Iraqi military’s TO&E of Soviet sphere equipment [everything from rifles to tanks to fixed wing fighter and utility aircraft], with US.
Additionally, US forces [the Army at least] has enough ammunition with which to train. Ammunition forecasting and acquisition works in such a way, that another entity [DHS or otherwise] cannot usurp orders already allocated for the military. With the footprint reduction in Afghanistan, the demand has also reduced. Additionally, “go-to-war” stocks, are generally unaffected by fiscal year forecasting and supply/demand of commercial manufacturers.
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WORDPRESS, my dear friend…Word Press….BLOGGER doesn’t allow a blog owner to block anybody; WordPress is by acceptance only.
I fought it long and VERY HARD when true friends like Mustang advised me to switch (it was honestly making me uptight when I opened my Comments pages because of the ugliness and belittling comments the Left was leaving. Plus, I didn’t build GeeeZ as a forum for leftwing ROT!
Mustang helped me SO MUCH and, as I said about “Elmer’s Brother” (a blogger you won’t be familiar with because he quit a while back), I owe Mustang for WordPress like I owed my amazing friend Ray (Elmer…) for having got me blogging at ALL!
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CI, I heard first-hand that they do NOT have the ammo at a base very near me. I’ve honestly forgotten which one, but it was either Pendleton or another fairly nearby. I hope you’re right. And I appreciate your input.
Your input on the ‘left behind’ tanks, guns, etc., in Iraq is very valuable, thank you so much.
BUT, you say 2008 was when we apparently took the majority of the ‘stuff’ out…but, heck, we’ve been fighting hard and with big guns since then……what happened to the last 6 years worth? Or did we not have to actually bring IN any of that stuff, we had enough left after sending things back (I assume?..but where?) in 2008 to uphold us till Obama pulled us out?
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CI, I feel like we’re all blessed to get your military input since you’re still ‘there’…I thank you very much for that.
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I don’t mean ‘there’ IN the ME but ‘there’, more involved than we are, certainly!
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@CI: I’m aware of that too. I did some VO’s for the DOD on contractors / military purchases.
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Z – “…….what happened to the last 6 years worth?”
I should have clarified; the defense appropriations beginning o/a 2004, have continued to this fiscal year. I don’t have all the numbers at my fingertips, but in 2003, the US set aside $56.3 Billion dollars for aid to Iraq, of which around half was military aid. Astonishingly little of that made it’s way to the Kurds unfortunately. Though the siphon has slowed, it’s still in the hundreds of Millions of dollars for FY15.
As for an ammunition shortage, I mean no disrespect to your source, but any assessment has to be taken in the context of FY forecasting. Its possible that your sources unit [or even the larger command at Pendleton, I MEF perhaps] failed to allocate enough to be in accordance with the submitted unit training plans….or possibly the USMC is experiencing a shortfall or diversion of supply unlike the other services. It’s hard to say…..I served through the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget Act in the mid-80’s…and haven’t seen anything close to that ammunition shortage.
Remember how little boys played army, making the verbal machine gun sounds? Yep, that was us.
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A-ha! It was you that lost my order! 🙂
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@CI: Yea…cause you were double dipping again… 🙂
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Governor Nixon of Missouri has just declared a state of emergency for Ferguson! Is it a hurricane coming, a tornado, flooding or a nuclear attack? Nope…you guessed it…after 6 days…and nights…it’s a black mob threatening more violence of their “victimhood”! How they conflate this thug with themselves, I think is open for discussion. But it must be because they see themselves doing the same? I dunno…but I’m not aware of other groups taking violence to the streets over a similar situation. Except for the illegal’s that have other illegals confront cops, ICE and BP agents in a lawful arrest? How can it be wrong to return illegals to the country they came from?
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Z and Imp. Referring back a number of comments. I see scores of black low lifes on tv. I know many black friends an relatives who are conservative. And work with many more that are decent folks, just not polically correct, as I see the meaning of the words.
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CI. Let’s cut to the quick!! Are you surprised or upset at the amount of equipment, etc., that ISIS is using that was OURS?
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Ed, thanks. I hope you do understand that I’m of the same mind you are. I absolutely don’t believe most Black Americans are like these looting thugs. NO WAY.
I am delighted to know your black friends and relatives are conservatives.
I have a black nephew now and have literally been afraid to ask him! Thankfully, I rarely see him because they don’t live in California! I don’t want to know if he’s an Obama fan, I really don’t!
Good to hear you feel the same way. I wish more Blacks like Johnathan Gentry would SPEAK OUT. They DESERVE to have the truth of MOST Blacks heard, don’t you think?
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Hey, Imp…. who are “THEY” in this phrase of yours “How they conflate this thug with themselves” What do you mean?
I’m pretty surprised about the State of Emergency but it got really bad again last night.
The very IDEA that they’re SO UPSET that the cop’s name hadn’t been given, or that we see the truth about their hero Mr. Brown is disconcerting and just plain low. Here we have people rioting and looting and angry as hell at the cop and we’re supposed to tell them who he is so they can go after him and his family? Is there NOBODY who’s THINKING??
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@ED: OK ED. I have several too. But just today I’m talking to one of my black friends, my mechanic and the best there is. No one works on my car except Robert. Alas…to my surprise…he says” To hell with this constitution crap”! Short and sweet….totally against the cops…and in total agreement and understanding and sympathetic to the…mobs. I was gobsmacked ED. I don’t get it. I don’t weep over white guys that get shot, or a thugs or commit crimes.
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* Or thugs that commit crimes*
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I’m not sure I can attach an emotional reaction the issue. The captured equipment was only ‘ours’ in the sense that we gave it to the Iraqi’s. After seeing how said equipment was abandoned and discarded in defeat, it was inevitable.
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Oh, man, Imp. I am so sorry to hear that.
Although if the truth IS what these folks think, that Brown DID have his arms up and was shot to death, then I’m on your mechanic’s side. Except for the Constitution part, OF COURSE!
The point has to be that the theft in the store hasn’t anything to do with this killing. It just doesn’t. It makes all of US feel like Brown was a thug, and the video shows he was a very tough man, a thief, etc., but the cop didn’t know about that.
And, of course, even impeding traffic shouldn’t be something to get SHOT for.
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The “They” are the street mobs.
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@Z: “the cop didn’t know about that.” And I’d say at this point there’s no info one way or the other that this cop didn’t know him, or was aware of him, or had run ins with him before. My take is that this guy wasn’t a saint and probably had done this before. Let’s see if he had a record. Quite frankly, I’d be surprised if he hadn’t a record….it’s clear that he could get violent. It’s the same as with little Trayvon, isn’t it? All the saintly pics of him when he was 11 or 12…then the truth came out, didn’t it? He was a thug, a thief, a drug user, into violence, kicked out of school and MMA. And just shy of 18 too. This guy is neither a boy or a kid either. Ask Mustang what he thinks of the 18 yo’s he served with or commanded? Or the 18 yo’s that flew in bombers in WW2. Or the 18 yo’s that went into Iraq. Like I said before..it’s Deja vu again. And the theme hasn’t changed since 1968.
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What bothers me is that one punk shot by police generates a riot.
I could see if it was an epidemic, or three.
But why does Imp’s mechanic feel this way about one shooting nationwide?
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And by “Imp’s mechanic”, I mean by extension, all non-local upset blacks.
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Yes, Ed…. Sometimes it feels like they look for a CAUSE, as if getting their kids an education and speak proper English and stay off drugs isn’t a good enough one.
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Ed: As I wrote on another thread, yesterday, I am not surprised at the reaction of the black community. I believe it is an attitude blacks have grown up with for generations, and today’s black youth are not separated by more than one or two generations from the civil rights marchers in the 1960’s. Plus. I believe this attitude is reinforced in the school system, in the media, and by race baiters such as Jesse and Al.
I would be surprised if my black neighbors were not of the same mind. Victimhood is pervasive in the black community, and for good historical reason. Although things are vastly different, now, their victimhood is close to mind.
With all that said, I believe that Michael Brown’s earlier “victory” at the convenience store probably influenced his actions later. None of the events justify burning and looting,
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Z: Since you have banished all the liberals from your site, I was thinking that I might try to fill that role. The problem is that I don’t have my heart in it.
BTW – I really like the WordPress site, and am surprised that Blogger was lacking in such a common sense feature.
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Yeah, Bob. I read a few comments of yours along those lines and it’s a good perspective to see.
I view it as more a southern thing, but I’m probably wrong.
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Wow, What’s goin on? You mean we’re not really on a path to World Peace. What Up Dog !?
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Johnathon Gentry’s video rant can’t be just because he’s not Southern…or maybe from Southern California! Bob and Ed, you think he’s the lone standout!? NO!!
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Ya, on the path of broken glass, right!?
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There’s always AlfonZo Rachel:
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Isn’t he fantastic!? Thanks, Ed. If you ever see him get a video done on the Ferguson, Missouri situation, please let me know. THAT, I have to SEE!
This one is so important, but will liberals see it? Nooooooooooooo
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And I’ll raise and see you one! We could rewind this one for the next 50 years. Cause with “Jasmyne’s” attitude at 2:20 or so into the video, you’ll see the contempt that keeps things the same. (O’Reilly Panel Erupts Over Race: ‘White People Don’t Get To Tell Us Who Our Civil Rights Leaders Are )
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And then there’s David Carrol who doesn’t hold back at all. It’s pretty raw too….but 6 minutes in he stabs at the heart of the the black culture.
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One smart guy, isn’t he? I’ve subscribed to his channel for a long time. I wish there was a fertilizer he’d sell for more consumption. But..he’s a “sell out” right?
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I see that he’s mentioned the money issue of the government….like a close to $1,000,000,000,000 website for ACA? Or just recently $895,000 for a smartphone app?
Must be one hell of an app? How do I get to write an app on how much $$$ the feds waste every second and get a contract for $500K to write it?
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Imp: That Chris Metzler surprised me. Georgetown Prof and he thinks that clearly?
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He’s a keeper. Didn’t know about him.
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WOW…very articulate and very compelling. I wish he was on mainstream television from time to time! And I’d sure like to see a video by him on the Ferguson, MO situation! YIKES~!
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