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U.S. Patriots to Deploy to Augment Turkish Air Defenses
June 2016

Ankara - With advance elements of two U.S. Patriot missile batteries already on the ground in Turkey, additional defenders are prepared to deploy in the next few months in support of NATO’s missile defense mission there.

Roughly 400 U.S. personnel and equipment from the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Air Defense Artillery, based at Fort Sill, Okla., will begin flowing into Turkey next week to man the equipment, U.S. European Command officials said. Additional equipment will arrive by sea later this month.

The U.S. agreed to provide support to Turkey in light of the escalating situation in Syria. The request came after shells from Syria’s political unrest -– which a new United Nations report estimated has claimed 60,000 lives -- spilled into Turkey.

“The U.S. has decided to augment Turkey's air defense capabilities in order to defend the population and territory of Turkey and contribute to the de-escalation of the crisis along the alliance's border,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement.

“Turkey is an important NATO ally, and we welcome the opportunity to support the Turkish government’s request in accordance with the NATO standing defense plan,” said Navy Vice Adm. Charles Martoglio, Eucom’s deputy commander.

Martoglio said the Patriot batteries will fall under NATO command once the systems become operational within the next several weeks.

He emphasized that the deployment will be defensive only, and won’t support a no-fly zone or any offensive operation.

Army Lt. Col. Robert Ozanich, intelligence and security officer for the Kaiserslautern-based 10th AAMDC, said the command-and-control element his command is deploying will interact with the Turkish government and NATO forces to ensure they are providing the protections Turkey has requested.

With experience throughout the European theater under their belts -- including recent deployments to Poland and to Israel during the Austere Challenge 2012 exercise -- the deploying soldiers have the experience and hands-on time with their equipment to carry out the mission, Ozanich said. “One of the biggest pieces is making sure that our soldiers are ready,” he said.

Equally important, he said, they have had the opportunity to work side by side with partner militaries and to develop an awareness of cultural customs, courtesies and sensitivities.

“The people going forward look forward to doing the mission they have trained for,” Ozanich said. “Our expectations are that we will be able to successfully complete this mission and provide the necessary protections to Turkey.”

“It’s good to be in Turkey,” said Army Maj. Brian Carlin, who deployed to Turkey with the advance elements. “We believe the measure of deterrence that we can add makes our soldiers’ time away from friends and families back home worthwhile. Protecting our allies is what this alliance is all about.”

At this point, it’s unclear how long the deployment will last. That, officials said, will be determined by senior leaders in coordination with Turkey and NATO.
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Clinton wins big in first presidential debate
August 2016

The eyes of the world were on Washington University today as it hosted one of the most anticipated presidential debates in U.S. history. Millions in the United States and around the world watched as Senator Ted Cruz and former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton squared off on stage at the Field House in the University’s Athletic Complex.

The presidential debate was Washington University's fourth. The University previously hosted the presidential debates in 1992, 2000 and 2004.

Fifty percent of uncommitted voters who tuned into last night's presidential debate said they see Clinton as the winner over Ted Cruz, according to an instant poll taken by CBS News.

Of the 431 polled immediately following the debate, 21 percent deemed Cruz the winner, and 19 percent said they felt it was a tie.

Both Clinton and Cruz gained ground on relatability and knowledge. The percentage of voters who say they believe they can relate to Clinton spiked from 34 percent before the debate to 65 percent; 38 percent think Cruz is relatable, up from 31 percent before the debate. Meanwhile, after watching the two candidates debate, 85 percent of those polled think Clinton is knowledgeable about the issues; 55 percent say that about Cruz.

Cruz, though, faced a loss among voters' opinions of which candidate would be an effective president, if necessary. Before the debate, he led Clinton 45 percent to 39 percent; after the debate, 56 percent of those polled said Clinton would be an effective president, with fewer - 39 percent--saying the same about Cruz.

The "uncommitted voters" who participated in this poll are either undecided or have chosen a candidate but say they could still change their minds. They are less likely than voters overall to identify with either of the two major political parties: 58 percent call themselves independents, 17 percent identify as Republicans, and 25 percent say they are Democrats.
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Early voting begins in Iowa for Presidential elections
September 2016

Starting this morning in Iowa, just about every day for the next 40 is Election Day.

Today Iowa becomes the first swing state to begin early voting, meaning that voters can walk into any of the 99 county auditors' offices or satellite polling places and cast their absentee ballots. They can also mail them.

Iowa's strategic importance has made it the focus of intense attention from both the Clinton and Cruz campaigns. On the surface, at least, it would appear that Clinton has a significant jump on the early balloting. At close of business Tuesday, 114,585 Democrats had requested absentee ballots from election officials; compared to 22,364 Republicans, according to the office of Secretary of State. That's a better than 5-to-1 margin.

On Tuesday, Clinton got on the phone with The Des Moines Register to throw some more love to those with ballots, prodding voters to walk or mail them in.

“There isn’t a state that is better informed about politics,” Clinton said.

The Register asked if she regarded early votes as her hedge against a teetering global economy or international crises before Election Day. “That’s really not how we think about it,” she said. Democrats emphasize early voting, she added, because “once someone votes, we can reassess resources in our get-out-the vote efforts so that we can target more sporadic or independent voters that could make a difference.”

Republicans say the huge partisan spread in the absentee ballot requests is misleading, and will start to narrow quickly as its organizing efforts -- which include a mailing to 1 million Iowans in the next few days -- accelerate.
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OP-ED: Let North Korea collapse
October 2016

NEW YORK - North Korea is a threat that keeps on threatening. It remains a serious nuclear proliferation threat as well as a destabilizing feature of the East Asian national security environment.

So far, the United States, South Korea, Japan and China — the main countries with a stake in stability on the Korean Peninsula — have responded by adopting a policy of soft containment. Even as they have tried to curb Pyongyang’s excesses, they have allowed the regime to stay in place: They fear that its demise would be too destabilizing and that the peninsula’s reunification would mean crippling economic and social costs for South Korea.

But this is a blinkered view, because the long-term benefits of North Korea’s collapse, both strategic and economic, far outweigh the short-term costs.

The fall of the Kim government would generate significant problems at first, most immediately how to secure North Korea’s nuclear weapons, demobilize its vast army, provide basic public services to its people and manage refugee flows. But the advantages would emerge very soon, especially in terms of security.

Some 25 million North Koreans, including 80,000 to 120,000 prisoners in slave-labor camps, would be released from the grip of one of the world’s most repressive regimes. The states that Pyongyang threatens would also be relieved: South Korea, which today is at risk of commando or conventional military operations from the North; Japan, which is within range of missile strikes; the United States, which worries that it will get dragged into a conventional war on the peninsula, or that Pyongyang may sell off nuclear material.

Even China, a putative ally of the Kim regime, would benefit from its fall: Beijing would no longer have to supply the North with fuel, food and other goods, and pay the diplomatic cost of supporting a pariah state.

Even more significant would be the economic opportunities for South Korea. The total bill for rebuilding North Korea and integrating it with the South could reach $2 trillion — more even than the cost of Germany’s reunification after the Cold War, estimated at $1.9 trillion. But some of that expense would be offset by immediate savings on South Korea’s defense budget, some $32 billion this year alone.

Reunification would bring a demographic jolt. South Korea’s population is aging fast, thanks to an average life expectancy of 81 years and a birth rate of only 1.2 children per woman. If current trends continue, the number of South Koreans aged between 15 and 64 will start to decline in 2017, and by 2030, so will the population overall.

The population of North Korea is younger and more fertile. The median age in the North is 33.4 years, compared with 40.2 years in the South. With unification, North Korea would bring more than 17 million potential workers to the 36 million in the South.

There would be other economic gains, too. South Korea currently imports nearly all of its energy and mineral needs. North Korea has vast deposits of coal, uranium, magnesite and rare-earth metals — together reportedly valued at $6 trillion — which it cannot currently exploit. Technology from the South could unlock these resources, boosting the economy of the entire peninsula.

Over time, a unified Korea could emerge as a regional consumer and industrial powerhouse — much like Germany, which today is the strongest economy in Europe despite having had to manage the costs and upheaval of merging West and East a quarter century ago. Goldman Sachs predicted in 2009 that if the Korean Peninsula were reunified, within 30 to 40 years it could overtake France, Germany and even Japan in terms of G.D.P., and become “the Germany of Asia.”

Considering all these benefits, the United States and its allies must revise their approach to North Korea. Rather than continue to prop up a government they worry might topple over on its own, they should pursue a tougher version of containment, knowing that that may accelerate the collapse of the Kim regime.

This harder policy would entail trying to cut off all the regime’s illicit sources of revenues, including drug smuggling, currency counterfeiting and exports of military equipment, while expanding sanctions to freeze all of Pyongyang’s overseas bank accounts. The United States government should also do more to undermine Pyongyang’s hold on its population by increasing broadcasting by Radio Free Asia and Voice of America and providing long-range wireless internet access.

All this may seem like a hard sell with the other states that are strategically invested in the region, especially China. But Washington could give assurances to Beijing that following unification, no American troops would be stationed north of the current demilitarized zone — or anywhere on the peninsula, if that’s what it takes to win China’s support. Nationalistic South Koreans, once relieved of the threat from the North, might insist on this anyway.

The fall of the Kim government may be an unnerving prospect, but it is a necessary step toward the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, a very worthy goal. Thus the United States, South Korea, Japan and China must abandon their soft-containment policy, which has artificially prolonged the regime’s existence. They should not be careful what they wish for.
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Clinton sweeps to victory in historic election
Democrats capture White House, Congress
November 2016

NEW YORK - Former Secretary of State and Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton has been elected the first female president of the United States, prompting celebrations across the country.

"It's been a long time coming, but tonight we can move America forward," the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a victory rally in New York City.

Her rival Senator Ted Cruz accepted defeat in a short and dispirited speech to supporters.

Analysts state that the result will have a profound impact on the US, from economic policy to foreign affairs.

They say the American people have made two fundamental statements about themselves: that they are profoundly unhappy with Congressional gridlock, and that they are opening the door to a new American future.

Mrs Clinton appeared with her family, and her running mate Elizabeth Warren, before a crowd of tens of thousands in Central Park,

Many people in the vast crowd, which stretched back far into the New York night, wept as Mrs Clinton spoke.

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," she said.

But she added: "Even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - war, a planet in peril, and a still sluggish economy."

"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. But America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there."

Hours after Mrs Clinton's victory was announced, crowds were still celebrating on the streets of Washington DC and New York City.

Mrs Clinton captured the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, before breaking through the winning threshold of 270 electoral college votes at 0400 GMT, when projections showed she had also taken California and a slew of other states.

Many people said they felt they had voted in a historic election - and for many women the moment was especially poignant.

Joan Lewis, a long time women's rights activist, stated: "This is a great night. It is an unbelievable night. It is a night of thanksgiving."

Besides winning the presidency, the Democrats tightened their grip on Congress by capturing 246 of the House's seats and reaching a total of 58 seats in the Senate.

Analysts contributed Clinton's victory to a combination of factors: the large surge in minority, female, and young voters; the failure of the Cruz campaign to capture the attention of swing voters; and the largely stable economic conditions due to President Obama's policies.
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Article used for WWN article, please note that Republicans have retained majority in the Senate.
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U.S. Troops may leave Poland in early 2017
Insiders cite growing rift between Poland, NATO
November 2016

WARSAW - Amidst what seems to be a rapid break down in relations between Poland and its NATO allies, including the United States, an anonymous Defense Department source has stated that the incoming White House team has indicated that it is considering withdrawing the American military contingent in Poland in early 2017 and redeploying them to the Baltic States. Several hundred U.S. soldiers were deployed to Poland in 2014 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and at the request of the Polish government.

"It is evident that the Polish government does not want a U.S. presence in the country," the source said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because an official decision has not been made yet.

The source also stated that Polish officials have communicated to the United States that it is negotiating with Moscow for a return of Crimea to Ukraine in exchange for foregoing U.S. missile defense systems in Poland. The Polish proposal met with concern among senior U.S. military officials because Poland would be unilaterally undermining North Atlantic security. "The basic principle of the strength of NATO is collective security," the source stated.

The Defense Department insider also confirmed that Polish diplomatic activities in Ukraine have significantly increased in recent months, including encouraging Kiev to start a new military offensive to establish government control in Donbas. "This raised many red flags in NATO circles," stated the official. "The Alliance is committed to stabilizing Ukraine and to pursuing a peaceful resolution to the situation there, but Poland's activities threaten to unravel that." Recent reports by Ukraine followers have noted that Russian forces shot down a Polish unmanned aerial vehicle in Crimea, and that Poland has recently sold large amounts of heavy weapons to Ukraine.

Another official in the Department of State independently confirmed that a U.S. redeployment of forces to the Baltic States is under consideration. "The U.S. will remain committed to Alliance and European security in the face of Russian threats," she stated. She concluded, "How Poland fits into that plan is open to question."

The rift between Poland and its allies became publicly apparent when senior Polish officials lambasted American and French policies in Europe and the Middle East. One senior Polish official in the Foreign Ministry called U.S. foreign policy "idiotic" and agreed with the Russian position on a sensitive issue, much to the surprise of the American embassy team. The Polish foreign minister also breached confidences by revealing internal EU discussions to Russia.

The State official said that "there is a growing consensus within the North Atlantic that Poland's recent activities are becoming a liability" to the security of the NATO alliance. "Although the U.S. would like to see these relations repaired, we are also concerned of a 5th column" in the Alliance.
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Hillary Clinton slams inequality in populist speech
First major post-election speech focuses on the middle class, economy
November 2016

President-elect Hillary Clinton has clearly been reading her Thomas Piketty.

The newly elected president sounded a populist note throughout a policy speech at the New America Foundation, rattling off an array of statistics describing rising inequality and falling economic mobility in America.

“The dream of upward mobility that made this country a model for the world feels further and further out of reach and many Americans understandably feel frustrated, even angry,” Clinton said.

Clinton told the audience that middle class incomes had stagnated over the last decade even as the average worker’s productivity had increased significantly in the same period. She pointed to studies that showed 4 out of 10 children born into the lowest rung on the economic ladder remained there as adults.

She cited troubling statistics indicating that many younger African-American workers were falling out of the middle class. She noted that life expectancies for lower income women were dropping. She warned that news that middle class Canadians now enjoyed better wages, hours, and government benefits than their American counterparts was a “wake-up call.”

“And where is it all going?” Clinton asked. “Economists have documented how the share of income and wealth going to those at the very top, not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent, the 0.01 percent of the population, has risen sharply over the last generation,” she said. “Some are calling it a throwback to the Gilded Age of the robber barons.”

With Senator Elizabeth Warren as Vice President, building a middle class economy will likely be a major focus in the Clinton White House. Even with a Republican-controlled Senate, analysts expect significant breakthroughs in American economic policy.

Today’s speech suggested Clinton is working on offering her own variation on the theme, one that mixes her work representing the country abroad into a tough critique of the economy at home.

“As Secretary of State I saw the way extreme inequality has corrupted other societies, hobbled growth and left entire generations alienated and unmoored,” she said.

She also explicitly contrasted her husband’s record on inequality as president with President George W. Bush.

“The 1990s taught us that even in the face of difficult long term economic trends it’s possible through smart policies and sound investments to enjoy broad based growth and shared prosperity,” she said.

She denounced the Bush administration for squandering those economic gains as well as a budget surplus in perhaps the toughest terms since she left politics for a non-partisan role as Secretary of State.

“That’s what happens when your only policy prescription is to cut taxes for the wealthy and then to deal with the aftermath of a terrible terrorist attack and two wars without paying for them,” she said. “Regulators neglected their oversight of the financial sector and allowed the evolution of an entire shadow banking system that operated without accountability.”

Although a full list of policies have not been unveiled yet, major projects that have been floated include free community college, a universal public healthcare option, universal broadband access, and an array of infrastructure investments. Another major policy issue that has been suggested is the establishment of state banks, similar to the State Bank of North Dakota.
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Al-Sisi administration struggles without U.S. military aid
Did Egyptian president bite the hand that feeds him?
November 2016

CAIRO - Recent losses by the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula have revealed deep vulnerabilities in the al-Sisi administration's ability to manage without U.S. military aid. The U.S. suspended its annual $1 billion aid package earlier this year when the al-Sisi administration moved to provide substantive military support to the Assad regime despite objections by Washington, senior Egyptian military officers, and the Egyptian public.

However, America’s best hope for democracy in Egypt and moving past the recent diplomatic row may not be al-Sisi or his administration. It could be mid-level officers in Egypt’s Army.

Thousands of them have received official training and education in the United States, where they were exposed to the values of a democratic society, such as human rights and civilian rule over the military.

As events unfold in Cairo, the Army may yet turn the tide. Much depends on how the rank and file see their role. As the military continues to struggle in the Sinai Peninsula absent U.S. support, it may turn its frustration against the political leadership.

An anonymous official within the State Department revealed that the al-Sisi administration recently rejected U.S. efforts to restore diplomatic relations and resume military aid. "Quite frankly, I was shocked when Egyptian political officials obstructed the Egyptian army's greatest source of financing and training."

Many eyes are on Lt. Gen. Sami Anan, the Egyptian Army’s chief of staff, to see if he now feels pressure from the officer ranks or common soldiers to turn against Mr. al-Sisi.

While he received training in France, he has had regular contact with the Pentagon. Egypt and the US have had close military ties since the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty – but especially because the US provides $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt, or about a third of its military budget. In addition, hundreds of Pentagon officials operate in the country.

But Egypt is one of many friendly but authoritarian-run countries that sends officers to the US for various types of education, usually at institutions such as the Army War College or the National Defense University. The officers come under a little-known program called International Military Education and Training (IMET).

Their informal contacts with Americans, it is hoped, will instill democratic values that might be useful later during a confrontation in their home country.

That was the case, for example, in the Philippines in 1986, when American-educated officers helped civilians oust a dictator there. Yet during pro-democracy uprisings in Burma, the US had few officers in that country’s military who had been trained in the US or who had the clout to push for democracy.

IMET’s record is quite mixed on its ability to spread democracy through foreign armies. In Egypt’s case, all that Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said of its Army in recent days is that it showed “professionalism.”

Little is known of the Pentagon’s efforts to reach US-trained Egyptian officers and advise them to show restraint in dealing with the protests.

The Egyptian armed forces has a strong desire to keep good relations with the US and Israel, and perhaps to prevent Islamic militants from gaining power.
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President Clinton delivers first inaugural address
Cabinet picks also released
January 2017

WASHINGTON D.C. - Before a jubilant crowd of more than a million, Hillary Rodham Clinton claimed her place in history as America's first female president, summoning a dispirited nation to unite in hope against the "gathering clouds and raging storms" of war and economic woe.

On an extraordinary day in the life of America, people of all colors and ages waited for hours Tuesday in frigid temperatures to witness a a dynamic woman assume the highest office in a country with a long history of patriarchy. It was a scene watched in fascination by many millions — perhaps billions — around the world.

"We gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord," the nation's 45th president said.

The presidency passed to Democrat Clinton from Republican Barack Obama at the stroke of noon, marking one of democracy's greatest gifts: the peaceful transfer of power.

As Washington's historic day whirled into night, Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, attended the Neighborhood Ball, the first of 10 official balls of the evening.

At the Commander in Chief Ball, Clinton spoke by satellite television link to seven members of the Ohio National Guard in Afghanistan, thanking them for service and promising to give them the tools necessary to accomplish their mission there.

"Tonight, we celebrate. Tomorrow, the work begins," Clinton said.

On Wednesday, Clinton will plunge into her new job in earnest after capping inaugural festivities at a national prayer service in the morning, meeting with his economic team and Pentagon advisers, and welcoming a stream of public visitors into the White House while Congress gives her economic revival plan a going-over and takes up the nomination of Colin Powell to again be secretary of state.

The new president had been buoyant and relaxed through the three days of pre-inaugural festivities. But she seemed somber as she stood on the Capitol steps, placed her left hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln and repeated the inaugural oath "to preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. A deafening cheer went up.

"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly," Obama said. "This is the price and the promise of citizenship."

Who will be in the Clinton cabinet?

The White House released a statement identifying nominations and appointments to the top posts on the Clinton team:

Secretary of State: General Colin Powell (retired)
Secretary of Defense: General William McRaven (retired)
Department of Justice: Robert Mueller
Secretary of Homeland Security: Ray Kelly
Secretary of Treasury: Roger Altman
Secretary of Commerce: Barney Frank
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Claudia J. Kennedy
White House Chief of Staff: Maggie Williams
National Security Advisor: Stanley McCrystal
Ambassador to NATO: Wesley Clark
Ambassador to the UN: Rosemary DiCarlo
Ambassador to the UK: John Tefft
Ambassador to France: Donald Heflin
Ambassador to Russia: Victoria Nuland
Ambassador to China: Jamie Gorelick
OMB Director: Terry McAuliffe
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Clinton administration to focus on strengthening relationships with Europe
Secretary of State Powell to visit Poland in first official trip as part of Clinton cabinent
January 2017

WASHINGTON D.C. - The recent crisises affecting Europe and the Middle East the last three years have highlighted the importance of the U.S.-European relationship, stated returning Secretary of State Colin Powell. Mr. Powell continued, "From Ukaine to Turkey and beyond, the challenges to European and international security have brought the U.S. and Europe closer together".

When the situation in Ukraine escalating once again, resolving that conflict will be at the forefront of American foreign policy in Europe. "We all know that today, a Europe whole, free and at peace rises or falls with Ukraine. Ukraine’s front line for freedom is ours as well," Mr. Powell stated. Since the start of the conflict, the U.S. has maintained stringent sanctions on Russia and President Clinton has been a hawk on this issue for many years now. Reinforcing relationships in Eastern Europe will be fundamental to ensuring European security, Mr. Powell said.

Mr. Powell is expected to visit Poland in the near future where he will meet with his counter-part to discuss U.S.-Polish relations and other regional issues, including Ukraine. American relations with Poland were strained when Warsaw suddenly expelled U.S. diplomatic officials, and so part of Mr. Powell's trip will be focused on repairing that relationship.

The Clinton administration is also expected to make a renewed push for closing a deal on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Talks stalled last year due to objections from the Italian government, but the Clinton administration is firm in its belief that the agreement is essential to maintaining the West's economic competitive advantage in a rapidly globalizing world.

Lastly, the U.S. will be focused moving "beyond the politics of austerity" in response to economic challenges, stated Mr. Powell. "The U.S. is the leader of the free world," he continued, "because it makes investments into the future security and prosperity of the international community." The Clinton administration, with notable left-populist Elizabeth Warren as Vice President, is expected to pursue an "assertive economic foreign policy program" that will address the challenges of modernization and globalization.




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