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Postby KUAN » Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:43 pm

If this is the sad situation in just one part of the world it's impossible to imagine that there is not a worldwide industry around exploiting these children

Salon.com
In week, Mexico finds 370 abandoned child migrants

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say that in one week they found 370 migrant children who had apparently been abandoned by the traffickers they paid to take them to the United States.

The National Migration Institute says the children were rescued in 14 Mexican states between March 17 and 24, and the youngest was 9 years old. It said 163 of the children under 18 were found traveling alone. Most migrants heading through Mexico to the United States come from Central America.

The institute said in a statement Saturday that the children told officials the traffickers abandoned them after being paid between $3,000 and $5,000.

It said most of the children showed signs of extreme fatigue, dehydration and foot injuries, along with disorientation at being abandoned at unknown, often dangerous, locations.
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Re: Jimmy Savile: I'd like to comment but I can't...

Postby semper occultus » Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:04 am

guruilla » 30 Mar 2014 00:34 wrote:While keeping up researches over at the Occult Yorkshire thread....

The series of articles we have run on Jimmy Savile has identified that Savile appears to have operated in Scarborough and Whitby in a paedophile-ring comprising himself, Mr Peter Jaconelli (Councillor and a Mayor of Scarborough, local business man who owned a string of ice cream parlours in Scarborough and along with Savile visited Whitby,) and Mr Jimmy Corrigan (local businessman who owned arcades in Scarborough).


..another Yorkshire connection was the Humberside / Hull connection to the supposed satanic-paedophile cult Scorpio which was identifed by Diane Core of the Childwatch charity - also based in Hull in her book Chasing Satan - she became a controversial figure in terms of the whole 1990's satanic-panic back-lash

I posted about it on the Icke Forum & there were some follow-up by other posters - didn't particularly get anywhere conclusive :

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1061276402#post1061276402

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When sex abuse can lead to murder

Dutch police estimated there were 250 paedophiles involved in the production of child pornography in Amsterdam with an unknown floating population of child sex tourists from all over the world - and it was the British who formed the hard core consumers: Stephen Smith, who had helped to found the Paedophile Information Exchange, fled there when police in England prosecuted the organisation; Russell Tricker, now 58, a former private school teacher who was convicted of child sex offences in the UK, used his job as a coach driver to ferry suitable boys from London; John Broomhall opened a porn shop on Spuistraat and was caught with more than 1,000 copies of videos of under-aged boys; Mark Enfield, now 41, sold a video of himself abusing a drugged boy.



Ex-Tory minister 'pictured in child sex abuse video' confiscated by customs at Dover in 1982

Mar 29, 2014 20:30 By Keir Mudie, Mark Conrad

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ex-tory-minister-pictured-child-sex-3300248

A probe by the Sunday People and investigative website Exaro uncovered evidence the tape is believed to be among a batch of films seized and handed to MI5

A former Tory cabinet minister was pictured in a video allegedly featuring child sex abuse, it has been claimed.

The tape is believed to be among a batch of films seized by customs officials and handed over to MI5, reports the Sunday People.

No details about it have ever been made public.

But the customs officer who seized the haul is said to have identified the ex-minister in the footage.

However, he declined to say whether or not the politician was participating in the alleged child abuse.

A probe by the Sunday People and investigative website Exaro has ­uncovered evidence that the cassette was ­confiscated at Dover in 1982.

A seizure notice shows a customs ­officer took custody of three 8mm films, three video cassettes and an order form.

The notice said the items were “seized as liable to forfeiture upon the grounds that the said goods are indecent or ­obscene articles”.

Friends of the customs officer, now retired, have confirmed he told them this week that he recognised the minister in the film – but would not say anything else after his former bosses reminded him he had signed the Official Secrets Act.

This week the officer was too frightened even to open his front door, and said he was unwilling and unable to comment.

He said: “I am bound by all these regulations until I die.”

The existence of the video is likely to be seized upon by Operation Fernbridge cops investigating claims of a historical VIP sex abuse ring.

They are understood to have already spoken to the ex-minister about another video that places him at a sex party involving teenage boys three decades ago.

Now they are expected to speak to the customs officer.

The video was seized at Dover’s Eastern Car Terminal along with other child pornography.

It was being brought into Britain from Amsterdam by Russell Tricker, a British-born businessman based in the Dutch capital. He was held for two hours and officials confiscated the tape.

The customs officer then passed the case over to senior managers at Customs and Excise – since reorganised as part of HM Revenue and Customs.

They took no further action against Mr Tricker, and are understood to have passed the tape to MI5 .

The seizure notice gave brief details of some of the material, showing one of the videos was titled “GB10”.

A child abuse victim has told Exaro that this video showed boys, some of them “runaways”, who could be ­“ordered” by paedophile clients.

Another video was called “Amsterdam Tramway Museum” and featured images of boys from elsewhere in Europe who could be procured by perverts.

The video started with a few minutes of train footage before turning to ­pornographic images of boys.

Mr Tricker confirmed he was stopped by customs officials when travelling through Dover as a passenger in 1982.

But he claimed he did not know what was inside the sealed packages.

He said: “I have nothing to hide. I was asked to take some brown envelopes to England. They were seized by Customs. I did not know what was inside them.”

Mr Tricker said a business associate had asked him to take the packages into the country and then post them to an address in the UK.

Asked whether he was aware of claims that an ex-minister and child sex abuse featured on one of the videos, Tricker denied any knowledge of the content.

“They were just confiscated, and I was allowed to continue my journey. They detained me for two hours,” he said.

Mr Tricker confirmed he was convicted of a child sex offence in the Netherlands in 1992 and jailed for two-and-a-half years, but said he was cleared on appeal and released after five months.

His lawyers were able to show that the boy concerned had carried a false ­identity card and had pretended to be above age, Mr Tricker said.

The boy was later shot dead in Amsterdam, he said.

“It is a sad story,” he added.

Tricker denies being a paedophile but confirmed he was a personal friend of Peter Glencross, who was commercial manager of Spartacus International.

At the time, Spartacus International was used to attract new members to the Spartacus Club, an underground network for paedophiles.
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Re: Jimmy Savile: I'd like to comment but I can't...

Postby semper occultus » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:10 am

guruilla » 30 Mar 2014 00:34 wrote:but the growing realization that Savile's Armies of Darkness had somehow trampled over my own childhood/psyche with their steel-toed winkle-pickers, glam-rock flares and child-catching top hats.


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Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:55 pm

guruilla » Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:34 pm wrote:
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Green Beret Jimmy "I hate to fly" Savile


Indeed; the book references a plane trip to Moscow in the 1950's and...well, let's just starting transcribbling, shall we?

pg. 94

I decided to go to Moscow. For no other reason than that I had never been there before. For instance, sitting in a cinema in London, well disguised, it occurred to me that I had never been to the Isles of Scilly. Jumping up before the film had finished I rushed back to my small hotel, grabbed a few things and caught the night sleeper to Penzance...

The Moscow trip was hysterical. Quite a long battle it was for me to get a visa. It was in the late 1950s and the cold war was really cold. A Britisher to go to Moscow on his own, for no reason, was definitely suspect.

pg. 98

Some years later I was in East Berlin. There is an enormous mass grave there built by the Russians ...

pg. 151

I have a friend in Tangier who lives in a palace. Seventy-five candles burn in his entrance hall. Guest arrive by jet and yacht and when I'm there my thoughts, some of the time, stray back to the Morning Star Hostel for Destitute Men in Manchester. It's a strange world all right, and seeing as we'll never quite straighten it out in our lifetime, there's not much harm in enjoying it. As long as it's not at the expense of others.

pg. 167

Most autobiographies are written at the end of someone's life. This one is not like that because long after the date of publication I have lots of big new things planned. Like a special in-depth tour of Black Sea ports and the far end of the Mediterranean basin. Like also for years all sorts of American interests have wanted me to go there for TV work and lecture tours of the American colleges. I have a permanent open offer to wrestle in Japan, Australia and other antipodean paradises send messages with visiting TV chiefs.


Overall, none of that squares with this curious passage from a Baffler essay on Savile:

Wombaticus Rex » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:02 pm wrote:
[b]Edit: Also, this long-form Baffler piece is excellent, probably posted before but bears repeating: http://thebaffler.com/past/predator_drone

Especially for this:

After a hairy incident involving a stunt with the Royal Air Force, Savile hated to fly, so with the exception of one early trip to America to meet Elvis Presley, he never spent much time in the States, settling for Blighty ubiquity rather than the transatlantic fame of Tina Brown, Christopher Hitchens, Piers Morgan, and all the many rock acts Savile put before the British public on Top of the Pops. And though he was a national celebrity from around 1964 until his death, he was always a doggedly provincial one, never letting go of a foothold in his native Leeds, and at the same time running around the country staging talk shows like Savile’s Travels, ingratiating himself with the local authorities and grandees, and bringing out crowds to make hospital donations.After the revelations of his predations, it’s hard not to think he was casting his net wide. He often traveled in a van with a mattress in the rear.
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Postby semper occultus » Sun Mar 30, 2014 3:35 pm

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He left before 10pm to walk the half a mile or so to the local railway station, whereupon he laid down across the tracks and waited for the next express train to arrive.

They found his body later that night. But his suicide all those years ago — or, rather, his motive for it — is still having repercussions today.

Alan Doggett was a close friend of both Tim Rice and his songwriting partner Andrew Lloyd Webber.

They chose the former teacher to conduct a recording of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at EMI’s Abbey Road studio, and also collaborated with him on several high‑profile projects. One of the letters written in the Towers Arms was for Tim Rice.

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‘Remember me, please, for the good things, the happy times,’ Doggett implored. ‘The meals, the drink, the conversation, the good companionship. Remember the best bits in my character; there were, I hope, more pluses than minuses in the mixture.’

Only hours earlier, Doggett had appeared at West London Magistrates Court, charged with two indecent assaults on a ten-year-old boy. Detectives were planning to interview all 1,000 schoolchildren who had been rehearsing with him for a forthcoming rock opera at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of charity.
Doggett, it transpired, was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), the pressure group linked to senior Labour Party figures, which campaigned in the 1970s to lower the age of consent to four.
Why, 36 years on, are you reading about him now? It is because a decade before he committed suicide, he taught at one of Britain’s most famous and successful educational establishments.

Doggett was on the teaching staff of St Paul’s — or, to be more precise, the school’s preparatory division, Colet Court, which shares the same campus in Barnes, south-west London. Chancellor George Osborne attended both the junior and senior schools.

( ….note : Barnes is also the location of Elm Guest House… )

This week, a string of former pupils came forward to reveal how they were molested by the teacher. There was open gossip among the boys, apparently, that ‘half a crown’ was the ‘going rate for a session with Doggett’.

Their year group even coined a new verb: to be ‘Doggoed’ was to be groped and fondled. They said that when they reported Doggett to the headmaster, he dismissed them as liars and punished their ‘wickedness’ by giving them detentions.’

Doggett did eventually resign in 1968. But St Paul’s allegedly ‘hushed’ up the allegations by failing to report the teacher to the police or education officials, which was required by law.
As a result, scores — possibly hundreds — of other youngsters were exposed to the risk of abuse.
In fact, Alan Doggett went on to teach boys at a second London independent school before working as a choirmaster with boys from more than 30 London schools.

We will never know how many young lives he may have ruined.
Yet Doggett, it has now emerged, was just one of six teachers at St Paul’s — that we know of — suspected of sexually abusing boys as young as ten between the 1960s and 1980s.
They include a housemaster accused of fondling pupils in the dormitory, a colleague who is said to have beaten ‘naughty’ boys, a maths tutor who allegedly kept a register of pupils he punished in private spanking sessions, an unidentified member of staff accused of indecent assault and the geography teacher Patrick Marshall.
Only last month, Marshall, 65, who was also a rowing coach at St Paul’s, was arrested over the suspected molestation of a 15-year-old boy in the 1970s. Marshall, who denies any wrongdoing, has been released on bail. Police hope to speak to more former pupils as the inquiry continues.

A seventh teacher, Keith Perry, 70, St Paul’s ‘inspirational’ head of history who taught at the school for 38 years, received a two-year suspended prison sentence at Southwark Crown Court last month for possessing hundreds of extreme images of naked boys. In internet chatrooms, he wrote of being ‘obsessed’ with boys as young as eight.
For an institution with such a gilded reputation as St Paul’s (motto: ‘Fide et Literis’ — ‘By faith and by learning’) the revelations are especially damaging. Situated near Hammersmith Bridge, both St Paul’s, which celebrated its 500th anniversary in 2009, and its junior school, have traditionally catered for the ambitious West London middle classes.

Down the years, many who have been educated here have gone on to occupy important positions in public life. Dominic Grieve QC, the Attorney General, was a Colet Court pupil when Alan Doggett was asked to leave in 1968, although there is no suggestion that he was abused.
Chancellor George Osborne was a pupil in the 1980s. Mr Osborne, we have learned, was at the school when an allegation of sexual abuse was made against an unnamed teacher. The member of staff was later arrested and questioned, but there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.

During his time at St Paul’s another teacher, Stephen Hale, was forced to resign after sado-masochistic pornography and a spanking register of pupils he had punished were found in his room by a school cleaner.
Hale left the school a day after the discovery in June 1987. However, St Paul’s told the Department of Education that he had agreed to resign for breaking the school’s rules on corporal punishment. They didn’t mention the disturbing discovery in his room.
This meant that Hale was not placed on the national list of teachers barred from working with children. Today, his whereabouts are unknown.

Again, it should be stressed that there is no suggestion that the future Chancellor was subjected to abuse.
Nevertheless, both he and Dominic Grieve before him attended public school at a time when, to quote a recent leading article in The Times, ‘licentious and disgraceful behaviour by men was considered to be just part of the culture. Not especially attractive perhaps, but best ignored.’

It was a culture which certainly seemed to have prevailed at St Paul’s.
One former pupil who spoke out wished to be known only as Stephen. He was 11 when Doggett began abusing him and his friend. ‘It was the Manchester United v Benfica European Cup final [in 1968],’ he said. ‘We were sitting on the floor and Doggett’s hands were groping inside our pyjama bottoms. He wouldn’t leave us alone.
‘When I next went home, the school had telephoned my father to complain that I’d made up some terrible stories about Doggett. Dad asked me what had been going on.
‘When I told him, he said he believed me and I’d done the right thing in speaking out. But when I got back to school, the two of us were summoned to the headmaster’s study.
‘He was furious. He said we were wicked for making up such awful lies. Doggett was so appalled and embarrassed by the disgraceful things we said that he’d decided to leave the school. We should be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves.’
Another former pupil, Luke, now 59 and married with adult children, says he was abused by Doggett and two of his colleagues.
One of them, he alleged, was Paul Topham who, when duty master, would invariably switch off the lights in his dormitory, then sit on his bed and reach under the covers with his hand in the dark.
Luke told no one and nor, he said, was there any discussion of Topham’s more brazen public assaults in the swimming pool at weekends when bathing naked was compulsory.

‘If Topham was supervising, he’d be in the water in his turquoise shorts,’ said the alleged victim, now in his 50s. ‘If you rested against the side of the pool, he’d swim up from behind and rub himself against you.’
In 2000, after years of blocking out these memories, he did finally report Paul Topham to the police.
By then, Topham was an Anglican clergyman with a wife and three children. Ordained in 1986, he took up a chaplaincy in the Diocese of Europe, a network of Christian communities serving Anglicans abroad.
For a number of years, he was based in the Toulouse region of South-Western France.
Rev Mr Topham denied any impropriety and was not prosecuted. He died in 2012, aged 80. His obituary was published in a church magazine under a photograph of him, his late wife and their baby granddaughter.
At the time of his death he was living in Hampton, Middlesex. A neighbour said: ‘I never knew Rev Mr Topham as I moved here shortly after he died, but everyone said what a lovely, kind man he was and I’m shocked to hear about these allegations.’
Luke’s former housemaster also evaded justice; he, too, is believed to dead. Naughty boys would find themselves bending over a chair in his study with their pyjama bottoms pulled down. A beating with a slipper, hairbrush or plimsoll would then ensue.
Afterwards, Luke (and other pupils who had got into ‘trouble’) would have to sit on the housemaster’s lap.

‘At the time, I didn’t realise what was happening,’ he recalled. ‘I just remember being cuddled and feeling puzzled because he’d always end up going very red in the face.’
The allegations, at least against Alan Doggett, are reinforced by several biographies of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
One referred to Doggett having been ‘let go at Colet Court because he had sexually molested one of the choirboys’. Another used a similar phrase, saying Doggett ‘had been let go, with rumours of homosexual predilections swirling about him’.
Doggett’s association with Lord Lloyd-Webber began when he previously taught his brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, at another London school. Later, he invited Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to compose a pop cantata for an end of term concert at Colet Court. They came up with a 20-minute piece called Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.
A musical publisher attended the performance, liked what he heard and Joseph was extended, recorded, and finally staged commercially.
Not long after that first performance at Colet Court, Alan Doggett left the school.

Rice would later speak at Doggett’s funeral. In his own 1999 autobiography, he wrote: ‘I cannot believe that Alan was truly a danger, or even a minor menace, to the many boys he worked with over the years. It has been known for young boys  . . .  to manufacture or exaggerate incidents when they know and disapprove of a teacher’s inclinations.’
In a statement, St Paul’s stressed that none of the alleged abuse concerned staff or pupils currently at the school, but called for ‘living suspects to be investigated and subjected to the proper processes of justice ... the school deals quickly, sensitively and resolutely with any concerns or allegations of abuse.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2592068/How-paedophile-scandal-hushed-George-Osbournes-old-school.html
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Postby guruilla » Sun Mar 30, 2014 5:08 pm

Some pertinent stuff here, thanks. I will respond over at the Yorkshire thread as it's not directly Savile-related.
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Postby guruilla » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:00 pm

Wombaticus Rex » Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:55 pm wrote:I decided to go to Moscow. For no other reason than that I had never been there before.

Yeah, right.

Quite a long battle it was for me to get a visa. It was in the late 1950s and the cold war was really cold. A Britisher to go to Moscow on his own, for no reason, was definitely suspect.

Urm, try impossible? My grandfather went to USSR in the 50s too; his version was that he was invited to tour the churches. Did anyone but intell get into the USSR in the 50s, I wonder?

I have a friend in Tangier who lives in a palace.

Barbara Hutton?

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Seen and not seen? Someone in the know signalling? Eruptions from the collective unconscious? Savile was unable not to brag about what he was doing. The way an open secret works - it depends on the willing (unconscious) acquiescence of others not to see what is happening, or to believe what they see when they do see it...?
It is a lot easier to fool people than show them how they have been fooled.
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Postby Plutonia » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:45 pm

Tangier was a popular sex tourism destination for the ped gang. That Savile mentions it in his mid-life memoir, well, that's like broadcasting to the brotherhood what his tastes were. And the palace too for that matter. The specificity of the details about the candles, that could be code to announce his level of access, or just his membership in the club.
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Postby blankly » Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:02 pm

Lets recall that Virginia Bottomley paid Jean La Fontaine http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/dart/intervi ... taine.html to produce a report finding that there was no evidence of SRA in Britain.
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Postby slimmouse » Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:00 pm

Just a quick thanks to all for keeping this thread both updated and increasingly revealing.
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Postby cptmarginal » Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:39 pm

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26852406

2 April 2014 Last updated at 10:02 ET

First Yewtree suspect David Smith 'took own life'

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David Smith left a note by his bed

The first person to be charged as part of Operation Yewtree took his own life, a coroner has ruled.

David Smith, 67, from Lewisham, south-east London, was found dead in his flat last October after not attending court.

The coroner said Mr Smith, who has previously been described in court as a BBC driver, took a "fatal combination" of drugs and left a note by his bed.

Operation Yewtree was set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to investigate historical cases of abuse.

Mr Smith faced two counts of indecent assault, two of indecency and one of a serious sexual offence all relating to a 12-year-old boy, between 1 June and 21 July 1984.

Senior coroner Dr Andrew Harris told the inquest at Southwark Coroner's Court that the cause of death was due to a fatal combination of opiates, morphine and codeine.
Prolific offender

David Smith was a prolific sex offender whose first conviction was in 1966. He had 22 convictions for sexual offences against young boys.

He was described in court last year as a former BBC driver but the BBC has said it has no record of him having worked for the corporation.

Yewtree is an inquiry into allegations of historical sexual abuse linked to the entertainment industry.

The operation has three strands. One concerns Savile's crimes exclusively, while a second strand relates to allegations against Savile and others.

The third strand concentrates on accusations that emerged as a result of the publicity surrounding Savile but which are unconnected to him.

David Smith was investigated under the third strand.
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Postby smoking since 1879 » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:02 pm

it's pretty rare that i comment, but the bbc has become such a farce that i feel the need... (plus i had a beer or two...)

so, to dissemble...

from one side of the mouth:
"Operation Yewtree was set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to investigate historical cases of abuse."
from the other:
"Yewtree is an inquiry into allegations of historical sexual abuse linked to the entertainment industry."

I was not aware it was restricted to the entertainment industry, maybe i was misinformed...
anyhow, next:

"The third strand concentrates on accusations that emerged as a result of the publicity surrounding Savile but which are unconnected to him.

David Smith was investigated under the third strand."

Are they being intentionally obtuse? or is that a silly question?

Please, please stop posting bbc articles without comment, it gives this place a bad name :(
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Postby cptmarginal » Wed Apr 02, 2014 8:48 pm

smoking since 1879 » Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:02 pm wrote:Please, please stop posting bbc articles without comment, it gives this place a bad name :(


Sorry, but that version of the news was chosen for the laughs this line provided: "He was described in court last year as a former BBC driver but the BBC has said it has no record of him having worked for the corporation." Oh you don't say? Thanks, discarnate neutral observer writing without attribution.
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Postby smoking since 1879 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:21 am

sorry captain, my irony muscle is a little overused of late, didn't mean to be rude ;)

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