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		<title>By: Ed</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The Jewish Neocon/Neolib predilection seems to be towards blatant Israel-first agitprop in the younger years to establish ones Zionist bona-fides, followed by more covert and opaque maneuverings on behalf of Israel as one enters and advances into US mainstream positions of power, all in order to maintain plausible deniability. Rahm Emanuel also followed this pattern, blatantly signing up with ISRAEL instead of America during Gulf War I, but later, as a Clinton administration figure and Congressman, playing his Israeli loyalties closer to the vest, and instead doing his plotting and string pulling behind the scenes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;All anyone ever needs to know about committed US Jewish Zionists is that they are agents of Israel, and always will be. There is no conflict of interests -- their loyalties are to Zionism. All that changes is the sophistication of their cover stories.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Jewish Neocon/Neolib predilection seems to be towards blatant Israel-first agitprop in the younger years to establish ones Zionist bona-fides, followed by more covert and opaque maneuverings on behalf of Israel as one enters and advances into US mainstream positions of power, all in order to maintain plausible deniability. Rahm Emanuel also followed this pattern, blatantly signing up with ISRAEL instead of America during Gulf War I, but later, as a Clinton administration figure and Congressman, playing his Israeli loyalties closer to the vest, and instead doing his plotting and string pulling behind the scenes.</p>
<p>All anyone ever needs to know about committed US Jewish Zionists is that they are agents of Israel, and always will be. There is no conflict of interests &#8212; their loyalties are to Zionism. All that changes is the sophistication of their cover stories.</p>
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		<title>By: sword of gideon</title>
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		<dc:creator>sword of gideon</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I just saw that a Moslem father strangled his daughter in Georgia, &quot;honor killing&quot;. You have to love the religion of peace&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just saw that a Moslem father strangled his daughter in Georgia, &quot;honor killing&quot;. You have to love the religion of peace</p>
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		<title>By: ej</title>
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		<dc:creator>ej</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m with Ed. The brief quote from Feith highlights that he is either a blackguard or a cretin or both, almost definitely both.&lt;br /&gt;
The authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are all an integral part of a US-Israeli nexus. Egypt plays the satrap for Israel on the Gaza opening.  You could go on for pages about the illogical and unempirical claims of Feith but there is no point. The man is a functionary pure and simple. That he is alive and free to earn a living and sprout his absurdities while the victims of his madness are in the grave is a travesty.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m with Ed. The brief quote from Feith highlights that he is either a blackguard or a cretin or both, almost definitely both.<br />
The authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are all an integral part of a US-Israeli nexus. Egypt plays the satrap for Israel on the Gaza opening.  You could go on for pages about the illogical and unempirical claims of Feith but there is no point. The man is a functionary pure and simple. That he is alive and free to earn a living and sprout his absurdities while the victims of his madness are in the grave is a travesty.</p>
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		<title>By: samuel burke</title>
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		<dc:creator>samuel burke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;A successful war on terrorism could mean a lasting peace between Israel and a new Palestinian leadership. This, combined with the possibility of a democracy in Iraq having a domino effect in the Arab world, may create conditions in which Israel need not deter its neighbors&#039; would-be aggression with military might.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;what a crock of shit this is...the overeducated ignoramuses that come out of our elite schools are educated beyond their ability to reason.....men with empty chests, heartless cretins.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;what people in this green planet wish to have to make peace facing the barrel of a gun....what kind of peace will israel bequeath upon the palestinians when the palestinians have no leverage in a negotiation because the dreamed up war on terror has caused them to have to surrender their sovereign will to their israeli overlords....&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;its a sick joke which is coming to an end only because the economies of the lead nation can no longer support the financial house of cards they have built on quicksand.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;pass along my thanks to the feith clan and the rest of the cretin overlords who have destabilized the middle east beyond their wildest nightmare.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;pakistan is coming apart at the seams and represents a greater danger to the peace of the entire middle east than just iraq and iran.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;A successful war on terrorism could mean a lasting peace between Israel and a new Palestinian leadership. This, combined with the possibility of a democracy in Iraq having a domino effect in the Arab world, may create conditions in which Israel need not deter its neighbors&#39; would-be aggression with military might.&quot;</p>
<p>what a crock of shit this is&#8230;the overeducated ignoramuses that come out of our elite schools are educated beyond their ability to reason&#8230;..men with empty chests, heartless cretins.</p>
<p>what people in this green planet wish to have to make peace facing the barrel of a gun&#8230;.what kind of peace will israel bequeath upon the palestinians when the palestinians have no leverage in a negotiation because the dreamed up war on terror has caused them to have to surrender their sovereign will to their israeli overlords&#8230;.</p>
<p>its a sick joke which is coming to an end only because the economies of the lead nation can no longer support the financial house of cards they have built on quicksand.</p>
<p>pass along my thanks to the feith clan and the rest of the cretin overlords who have destabilized the middle east beyond their wildest nightmare.</p>
<p>pakistan is coming apart at the seams and represents a greater danger to the peace of the entire middle east than just iraq and iran.</p>
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		<title>By: samuel burke</title>
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		<dc:creator>samuel burke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;sword do you think your talmudic religion preaches love or something?&lt;br /&gt;
those who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&quot;I just saw that a Moslem father strangled his daughter in Georgia, &quot;honor killing&quot;. You have to love the religion of peace&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;here is a quote or two from Talmud, Yebamoth 55b, &lt;br /&gt;
Permissible Adultery and Intercourse with the Dead&lt;br /&gt;
&quot;None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord,&quot; says the Book (Lev. 18:6). Scripture references are also cited which denounce a married woman who lies &quot;carnally&quot; with a man not her husband.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt; But say the sages: &quot;That in connection with a married woman excludes intercourse with a relaxed membrum since no fertilization can possibly result. This is a satisfactory interpretation in accordance with the view of him who maintains that if one cohabited with forbidden relatives with relaxed membrum he is exonerated.&quot; And other Talmud sources are cited. &quot;The exclusion is rather that of intercourse with a dead woman [Footnote 15] even though she died as a married woman.&quot; Thus one is &quot;exonerated&quot; for, or permitted, intercourse with dead relatives or with relatives, married or single, &quot;with a relaxed membrum,&quot; because &quot;no fertilization can possibly result.&quot; (Talmud, Yebamoth 55b, See Exhibit 163)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Intercourse with dead bodies was an old pagan practice. The above is echoed with some variation in &quot;the chief repository of the criminal law of the Talmud,&quot; the book of Sanhedrin. (See Exhibit 89)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There the act of sodomy with one suffering with an incurable disease, hence regarded as already dead, or a &quot;terefah,&quot; is held to be merely &quot;as one who abuses a dead person, and hence exempt.&quot; The explanation, which continues on the next page (not reproduced) is: &quot;Punishment is generally imposed because of the forbidden pleasure derived — [footnote] Whereas there is no sexual gratification in abusing the dead.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;there is lots more there for you to get en education on if you wish to peel the onion.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sword do you think your talmudic religion preaches love or something?<br />
those who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones.</p>
<p>&quot;I just saw that a Moslem father strangled his daughter in Georgia, &quot;honor killing&quot;. You have to love the religion of peace&quot;</p>
<p>here is a quote or two from Talmud, Yebamoth 55b, <br />
Permissible Adultery and Intercourse with the Dead<br />
&quot;None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord,&quot; says the Book (Lev. 18:6). Scripture references are also cited which denounce a married woman who lies &quot;carnally&quot; with a man not her husband.</p>
<p> But say the sages: &quot;That in connection with a married woman excludes intercourse with a relaxed membrum since no fertilization can possibly result. This is a satisfactory interpretation in accordance with the view of him who maintains that if one cohabited with forbidden relatives with relaxed membrum he is exonerated.&quot; And other Talmud sources are cited. &quot;The exclusion is rather that of intercourse with a dead woman [Footnote 15] even though she died as a married woman.&quot; Thus one is &quot;exonerated&quot; for, or permitted, intercourse with dead relatives or with relatives, married or single, &quot;with a relaxed membrum,&quot; because &quot;no fertilization can possibly result.&quot; (Talmud, Yebamoth 55b, See Exhibit 163)</p>
<p>Intercourse with dead bodies was an old pagan practice. The above is echoed with some variation in &quot;the chief repository of the criminal law of the Talmud,&quot; the book of Sanhedrin. (See Exhibit 89)</p>
<p>There the act of sodomy with one suffering with an incurable disease, hence regarded as already dead, or a &quot;terefah,&quot; is held to be merely &quot;as one who abuses a dead person, and hence exempt.&quot; The explanation, which continues on the next page (not reproduced) is: &quot;Punishment is generally imposed because of the forbidden pleasure derived — [footnote] Whereas there is no sexual gratification in abusing the dead.&quot;</p>
<p>there is lots more there for you to get en education on if you wish to peel the onion.</p>
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		<title>By: Joachim Martillo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joachim Martillo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The article that was written by Daniel J. Feith and to which Phil refers comes from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/%7Ehireview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spring 2004 Issue of Harvard Israel Review&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The Jabotinskians appear to do an excellent job of socializing and indoctrinating their children. It makes a generational effort possible.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; In contrast, Moshe Arens and Yigal Arens are political antipodes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This phenomenon is historically common in Imperial Systems like the Spanish and the British. The Imperial ideology is much stronger among those that never faced the reality in the imperial possessions.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;   There is probably another aspect to the Feith family war-mongering. The Feiths are not merely Jabontinskian Zionist intellectuals. The family appears to own a good chunk of Comcast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Individual family members appear to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and count as Zionist Jewish American oligarchs at least as much as Martin Peretz does.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; While the other Zionist American intelligentsia merely serve the Zionist Virtual Imperial System, the members of the Feith family are oligarchs, proprietors or members of the club so to speak, and as a US government official, Douglas Feith was just protecting or expanding his piece of the Zionist Virtual Empire -- at least one Feith family business receives a lot of US military contracts.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As for the Sword of Gideon&#039;s irrelevancies, the evil of honor killings tends to be a function of the reporting. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/05/honor-killing-in-iraq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Honor Killing in Iraq?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The article that was written by Daniel J. Feith and to which Phil refers comes from the <a href="http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/%7Ehireview/" rel="nofollow">Spring 2004 Issue of Harvard Israel Review</a>. </p>
<p> The Jabotinskians appear to do an excellent job of socializing and indoctrinating their children. It makes a generational effort possible.</p>
<p> In contrast, Moshe Arens and Yigal Arens are political antipodes.</p>
<p> This phenomenon is historically common in Imperial Systems like the Spanish and the British. The Imperial ideology is much stronger among those that never faced the reality in the imperial possessions.</p>
<p>   There is probably another aspect to the Feith family war-mongering. The Feiths are not merely Jabontinskian Zionist intellectuals. The family appears to own a good chunk of Comcast.</p>
<p>Individual family members appear to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and count as Zionist Jewish American oligarchs at least as much as Martin Peretz does.</p>
<p> While the other Zionist American intelligentsia merely serve the Zionist Virtual Imperial System, the members of the Feith family are oligarchs, proprietors or members of the club so to speak, and as a US government official, Douglas Feith was just protecting or expanding his piece of the Zionist Virtual Empire &#8211; at least one Feith family business receives a lot of US military contracts.</p>
<p> As for the Sword of Gideon&#39;s irrelevancies, the evil of honor killings tends to be a function of the reporting. See <a href="http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/05/honor-killing-in-iraq.html" rel="nofollow">Honor Killing in Iraq?</a></p>
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		<title>By: Todd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;The family appears to own a good chunk of Comcast.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I guess that explains why I have something called the Shalon Network on my Comcast menu. All Israel all the time! I guess it&#039;s time to ditch Comcast.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;The family appears to own a good chunk of Comcast.&quot;</p>
<p>I guess that explains why I have something called the Shalon Network on my Comcast menu. All Israel all the time! I guess it&#39;s time to ditch Comcast.</p>
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		<title>By: sword of gideon</title>
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		<dc:creator>sword of gideon</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Sam:&lt;br /&gt;
here is the thing. Jewish fathers don&#039;t strangle their daughters over arranged marriages. Only the camel jockeys. And the ragheads take the koran literally, which contains blood and fire on every page. &lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sam:<br />
here is the thing. Jewish fathers don&#39;t strangle their daughters over arranged marriages. Only the camel jockeys. And the ragheads take the koran literally, which contains blood and fire on every page. </p>
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		<title>By: samuel burke</title>
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		<dc:creator>samuel burke</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;lol....please dont demean your own intelligence....its all there for the learning if you so wish....&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;running for cover and hiding behind name calling doesnt change the truth...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;dont be ashamed of what your community believes...its no big deal really...it is what it is...even if you try hard to deny it.&lt;br /&gt;
here is a nice story about proffesor ariel toaf ..its from Haaretz.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Bar-Ilan prof. defiant on blood libel book &#039;even if crucified&#039; &lt;br /&gt;
By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent&lt;br /&gt;
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The author of a book on the use of blood by Jews in Ashkenazi communities in the Middle Ages said Sunday, in the face of the furor its publication aroused, &quot;I will not give up my devotion to the truth and academic freedom even if the world crucifies me.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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In an interview with Haaretz from Rome, Professor Ariel Toaff said he stood behind the contention of his book, &quot;Pasque di Sangue,&quot; just published in Italy, that there is a factual basis for some of the medieval blood libels against the Jews. However, he said he was sorry his arguments had been twisted.&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;I tried to show that the Jewish world at that time was also violent, among other things because it had been hurt by Christian violence,&quot; the Bar-Ilan history professor said. Of course I do not claim that Judaism condones murder. But within Ashkenazi Judaism there were extremist groups that could have committed such an act and justified it,&quot; he said.&lt;br /&gt;
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Toaff said he reached his conclusions after coming across testimony from the trial for the murder of a Christian child, Simon of Trento, in 1475, which in the past was believed to have been falsified. &quot;I found there were statements and parts of the testimony that were not part of the Christian culture of the judges, and they could not have been invented or added by them. They were components appearing in prayers known from the [Jewish] prayer book.&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;Over many dozens of pages I proved the centrality of blood on Passover,&quot; Toaff said. &quot;Based on many sermons, I concluded that blood was used, especially by Ashkenazi Jews, and that there was a belief in the special curative powers of children&#039;s blood. It turns out that among the remedies of Ashkenazi Jews were powders made of blood.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the use of blood is prohibited by Jewish law, Toaff says he found proof of rabbinic permission to use blood, even human blood. &quot;The rabbis permitted it both because the blood was already dried,&quot; and because in Ashkenazi communities it was an accepted custom that took on the force of law, Toaff said. There is no proof of acts of murder, Toaff said, but there were curses and hatred of Christians, and prayers inciting to cruel vengeance against Christians. &quot;There was always the possibility that some crazy person would do something.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lol&#8230;.please dont demean your own intelligence&#8230;.its all there for the learning if you so wish&#8230;.</p>
<p>running for cover and hiding behind name calling doesnt change the truth&#8230;</p>
<p>dont be ashamed of what your community believes&#8230;its no big deal really&#8230;it is what it is&#8230;even if you try hard to deny it.<br />
here is a nice story about proffesor ariel toaf ..its from Haaretz.</p>
<p>Bar-Ilan prof. defiant on blood libel book &#39;even if crucified&#39; <br />
By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent</p>
<p>The author of a book on the use of blood by Jews in Ashkenazi communities in the Middle Ages said Sunday, in the face of the furor its publication aroused, &quot;I will not give up my devotion to the truth and academic freedom even if the world crucifies me.&quot;</p>
<p>In an interview with Haaretz from Rome, Professor Ariel Toaff said he stood behind the contention of his book, &quot;Pasque di Sangue,&quot; just published in Italy, that there is a factual basis for some of the medieval blood libels against the Jews. However, he said he was sorry his arguments had been twisted.</p>
<p>&quot;I tried to show that the Jewish world at that time was also violent, among other things because it had been hurt by Christian violence,&quot; the Bar-Ilan history professor said. Of course I do not claim that Judaism condones murder. But within Ashkenazi Judaism there were extremist groups that could have committed such an act and justified it,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>Toaff said he reached his conclusions after coming across testimony from the trial for the murder of a Christian child, Simon of Trento, in 1475, which in the past was believed to have been falsified. &quot;I found there were statements and parts of the testimony that were not part of the Christian culture of the judges, and they could not have been invented or added by them. They were components appearing in prayers known from the [Jewish] prayer book.</p>
<p>&quot;Over many dozens of pages I proved the centrality of blood on Passover,&quot; Toaff said. &quot;Based on many sermons, I concluded that blood was used, especially by Ashkenazi Jews, and that there was a belief in the special curative powers of children&#39;s blood. It turns out that among the remedies of Ashkenazi Jews were powders made of blood.&quot;</p>
<p>Although the use of blood is prohibited by Jewish law, Toaff says he found proof of rabbinic permission to use blood, even human blood. &quot;The rabbis permitted it both because the blood was already dried,&quot; and because in Ashkenazi communities it was an accepted custom that took on the force of law, Toaff said. There is no proof of acts of murder, Toaff said, but there were curses and hatred of Christians, and prayers inciting to cruel vengeance against Christians. &quot;There was always the possibility that some crazy person would do something.&quot;</p>
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