Friday, September 26, 2008

The Audacity of Lies - The Obama Chronicle

The links from That “Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood”: Behind the Ayers-Obama Relationship
from http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/06/that-guy-who-lives-in-my-neighborhood.html

It's not just a lie, it's a MATTER OF CHARACTER
Why is Barack Obama and his campaign lying about his relationship and association with William "Bill" Ayers? Consider what Obama said on April 16, 2008 when asked about Ayers at the ABC Primary Debate in Philadelphia: ...
Posted bycher at7:22 AM
Obama is GREAT (with other people's money)
When Senator Obama talks about how he would be so much better handling the economy it is very surprising that he doesn't talk about his experience. When one looks at his political contributions, earmarks to his wife's hospital, ...
Posted byYid With Lid at4:40 PM
Obama Dollars
Obama Dollars. By Mac Fuller. Watch the money flow. Obama dollars can tell us a lot. 1. $120349. Other People’s Money. Senator Obama received more political contribution money from now-collapsed mortgage banks Fannie Mae [Federal ...
Posted bybudsimmons at7:56 AM
Can Obama Survive the Annenberg Cover-up?
Everything I can find about the Obama-Ayers relationship indicates this relationship was much, much closer than Obama has stated. That together they blew through somewhere between $100000000 and $160000000 on dubious projects that ...
Posted bynoreply@blogger.com (History Chasers) at8:19 AM
The Hidden Sinisterisms of the O Campaign
As news is breaking in the blogosphere (the MSM are keeping mum) of the potential time bomb under Obama’s carefully cultivated personality cult, evidence of yet another sinister ploy is emerging. First the explosives. ...
Posted byfriendofpalin at1:44 PM
Another Communist/Terrorist Friend of Obama
Introducing Mike Klonsky: Another Communist/Terrorist Friend of Obama Mike Klonsky is one of the founders of Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (USA) and the Students for a Democratic Society a fervent Obama supporter, friend and former ...
Posted byPhil at2:02 PM
Batchelor: Obama’s Plumbers
The following was posted yesterday morning, then pulled in lieu of events outlined in RBO’s Annenberg-Gate Update: Obama’s “Plumbers”?. It is being reposted with permission of the author. John Batchelor, known to RBO/RW readers from ...
Posted byProcrustes at8:00 AM
Batchelor: Obama’s Plumbers
John Batchelor, known to RBO/RW readers from both earlier articles and his Sunday night radio show (RBO posts each week’s program schedule), writes September 12, 2008, at Human Events:. There is a secret group in the Obama-Biden ...
Posted byProcrustes at10:00 PM
Obama and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge
During the 2008 Democratic Primary presidential primaries, George Stephanopolous asked Barack Obama to explain his relationship with William (Bill) Ayers. Obama’s reply. At the debate, Obama said of Ayers: “This is a guy who lives in my ...
Posted byVelvet Hammer at3:06 PM
Barack, Michelle, and Bill Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn—Not Just a ...
When asked about William “Bill” Ayers on April 16, 2008 at the ABC Primary Debate in Philadelphia, Obama answered. “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’sa professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not ...
Posted byMatthew at8:30 AM
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?
The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed ...
Posted by at1:58 PM
Chicago Annenberg Challenge and Barack Obama
Read about:Obama, Ayers, and the CAC (Chicago Annenberg Challenge) here:. By the time the CAC’s operations were wound down in 2001 it had doled out more than $100 million in grants but had failed to achieve any improvement in the ...
Posted byHeadmistress, zookeeper at8:00 AM
A closer look at the history making acceptance speech of Barack ...
Highlights from The Speech and commentary “Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn't know… It's not because John McCain doesn't care. ...
Posted byC. Van Carter at10:19 PM
Release the Annenberg Documents!
Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. ...
Posted byClaire@e-Biscuit.com at12:39 AM
The Ayers-Obama Connection
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? A cover-up in the making? By Stanley Kurtz Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 ARTICLE National Review Online Publication Date: August 18, 2008. The problem of Barack Obama's relationship with Bill ...
Posted bydean at7:20 PM
Diamond Points: Obama/Ayers Update: Obama Campaign Harasses WGN ...
Tonight was a surreal experience. Chicago is home to a retired conservative University of Chicago professor named Milt Rosenberg who hosts an evening talk show on WGN radio. WGN stands for “World’s Greatest Newspaper” because it is ...
Posted byProcrustes at1:07 AM
Obama, Ayers and the Media
The Barack Obama campaign’s strategy to minimize the damage being caused by the candidate’s association with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers is truly a study in political floundering. Instead of ignoring the story (no doubt thanks to ...
Posted byfeedback@qando.net (MichaelW) at3:30 PM
NO Radical Left Behind- the Obama friendships
When John McCain's ad "The One" first came out a few weeks ago, I was totally sick in my spirit thinking about the things that are happening at a rapid pace in our world- the New Age infiltrating the Christian churches, ...
Posted byYoung Grasshopper at1:15 PM
Obama and Bill Ayers
Stay tuned - the University of Illinois released the documents as of yesterday, August 26, and Mr. Kurtz will be examining them thoroughly. August 18, 2008, 7:45 am Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? A cover-up in the making? ...
Posted byLisa at7:44 AM
Breaking - Why the Obama-Ayers Connection Matters
Breaking News: Documents are released today on Obama's connection to William Ayers, a 1960's-70's terrorist and current college professor. Is there reason for concern about the Obama-Ayers friendship? Here's some background detail: ...
Posted bymaggiesnotebook@cox.net (Maggie M. Thornton) at8:06 AM
Bullying You Can Believe In: Obama threatens TV stations airing ...
Isn’t the First Amendment wonderful? Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced ...
Posted byPam at9:37 PM
Obama-Ayers Expedition into Education
William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed ...
Posted byAlice C. Linsley at7:00 AM
Connection of Obama, William Ayers and the CAC
William Ayers in t-shirt saying Cuba. Obama’s role in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Extra Sources: The Annenberg Challenge. Clarice Feldman lays out the reasons why the William Ayers/Annenberg Challenge story will seriously ...
Posted byWild Thing at2:47 AM
Annenberg-Gate headlines
Bloggers of all stripes are all over the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Coverup. Here are a couple articles first from Global Labor and Politics, who are NOT conservative, but ARE looking for the truth. ...
Posted byreformedville at5:17 PM
Obama, Ayers, and terrorists ' victims
Correction: As originally posted I reported the University of Chicago would be releasing the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. In fact, the University of Illinois at Chicago will be releasing the archives, something an alert ...
Posted byJWM at10:31 AM
From American Thinker: Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure By ...
From American Thinker: Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure By Thomas Lifson August 22, 2008. William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. ...
Posted byPhil at5:37 AM
Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure
Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure. By Thomas Lifson. William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of ...
Posted byrockdog at5:07 PM
Trying to Unravel Barack Obama's Chicago History...
seems to be every bit as confusing as trying to understand the Balkans, or at least it seems so to my rock-filled brain. So I will leave it to professionals, such as Stanley Kurtz, Tom Maguire, Dan Riehl (and here also), Thomas Lifson, ...
Posted byon-the-rocks at8:25 AM
Obama Annenberg Exposé
UPDATES: See below. Last address of the Annenberg Challenge was in north-suburban Northfield. Link to final list of grant recipients below.)***Free the Obama-Ayers Annenberg Documents! It is not news to anyone in Illinois that Chicago ...
Posted byAnne at10:06 AM
Obama’s Education Track record in Chicago
Obama’s Education Track record in Chicago. Ed Lasky Barack Obama’s record as leader of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) has come under scrutiny by, among others Steve Diamond, Tom Maguire, Stanley Kurtz and our own Tom Lifson . ...
Posted bybudsimmons at8:06 AM
Bill & Barack’s Excellent Adventure
Bill & Barack’s Excellent Adventure. By Thomas Lifson. William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of ...
Posted bybudsimmons at7:59 AM
Response to Anonymous re: Ayers/Obama
ABC called them "Friends" One of the anonymous commentors on my site asked me to prove that Bill Ayers was a friend and mentor to Obama Everyone but Obama calls him a friend. Obama just acted like a friend to Ayers/Dohrn. ...
Posted byPhil at7:30 AM
Obama's Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light
The American Thinker By Thomas Lifson The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama's most important administrative leadership experience, helming an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that ...
Posted byPUMAinWA_admin at9:30 PM
Obama's Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light
By Thomas Lifson http://www.americanthinker.com/ August 21, 2008 Marc PoKempner LAW SCHOOL FACULTY- Barack Obama in 1995 in his office at the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught part time. On the wall is a portrait of the ...
Posted byjtf at6:12 PM
Ayers, Obama and CAC
August 21, 2008. Ayers, Obama and CAC. The good news is that the press is FINALLY showing anemic interest in Obamas early years when he worked with Bill Ayers. The bad news, the UIC Library is denying access to the records, ...
Posted bypecanpii at4:44 PM
Behind the Ayers-Obama Relationship
This is something that is being ignored. I am reposting a post by Steve Diamond called, "Guy Who Lives In My Neighborhood". This is one of those things that goes down in history... The key points of this (long!) blog post: ...
Posted byMarine at2:34 PM
The skeltons are rattling in UC’s closet
The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama’s most important administrative leadership experience, helming an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that failed to produce any measurable ...
Posted byreformedville at1:33 PM
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?
A cover-up in the making? National Review Online. The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the ...
Posted byrochester_veteran at8:30 AM
Obama’s Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light
Obama’s Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light. By Thomas Lifson. The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama’s most important administrative leadership experience, helming an expensive educational reform ...
Posted bybudsimmons at7:42 AM
No, He Can’t
Barack Obama is campaigning on the slogan: Yes, We Can. But, as Thomas Lifson points out, in his role as head of the Annenberg educational foundation in Chicago, Obama had a chance to prove that he could effectuate change in a failing ...
Posted byJDZ at5:36 AM
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge files still under lock and key,
but now the McCain campaign is asking for their contents to be made public:. “…if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William ...
Posted byFausta at5:27 AM
Annenberg-Gate headlines
Bill Ayers, Barack Obama. Following articles by NRO’s Stanley Kurtz and blog posts by Steve Diamond, it appears that some in MSM are starting to pay attention to the Barack Obama-Bill Ayers connection through the Chicago Annenberg ...
Posted byProcrustes at1:28 AM
YID With LID
Its The ISLAMISTS, STUPID ! Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:55 AM CDT. Yesterday I looked over the "notes" jotted down during Saturday evening's Saddleback "debate." At the top of the one of the pages I wrote, "ITS THE ISLAMISTS STUPID. ...
Posted byRivkah at4:50 AM
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?
A cover-up in the making? By Stanley Kurtz. The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent ...
Posted byT2M at1:11 AM
Breaking News! Obama Has a Code in Hiz Annenberg Dnoze.
The One has a cold. This is important news. Poor baby. If this were McCain they would be yelling that he is too old to be president. But the widdle boy has a code in his gnose. As on commenter wrote, “Two hundred thousand Germans say ...
Posted byUppity Woman at12:15 AM
What is UIC hiding on Ayers and Obama?
What is the University of Chicago hiding for Ayers and Obama? A WALL is raised. We heard a lot about unity and tearing down walls especially when Obama was in Berlin, but Chicago University has put up a wall to hide the records of Ayers ...
Posted bypecanpii at12:56 PM
Bill Ayers Continues To Be The Political IED In Hussein’s Road To ...
Kurtz With Bell Bennett On Radio Show To Discuss Obama Ties To Bill Ayers. Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?A cover-up in the making? By Stanley Kurtz - (NRO). The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go ...
Posted bydrillanwr at9:38 AM
Top Secret
According to Wikipedia's entry on Bill Ayers. The groups Ayers headed in Detroit and Michigan became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Between the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the June ...
Posted byFrank LoPinto at9:08 AM
Alert: The Chicago Annenberg Challenge/Obama/Ayers/ Daley Records ...
ayersflagstomp.jpg. A cover-up in the making? The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent ...
Posted byPam at7:45 AM
In One Ear
When I was a young boy, I can recall my father warning me, “Be careful about who you pick for your friends.” He wanted me to understand that people are often judged not only by their own words and deeds, but also by the words and deeds ...
Posted bysoflauthor at6:56 AM
COVER-UP OF OBAMA/AYERS RECORDS by University of Illinois
According to Senator Barack Obama, the American terrorist Bill Ayers is just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship ...
Posted byYid With Lid at8:21 AM
Shielding The Facts About Obama’s Relationship With Terrorists
Just a coincidence I’m sure:. The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, ...
Posted byCurt at5:56 PM
Obama wants a return to ‘open’ and ‘transparent’ government
… but only if you’ll forgive him for his lack of willingness to discuss at length, and have records released of, activities he was involved in during the time he served as a State Senator in Illinois. Jim Geraghty writes: ...
Posted bySister Toldjah at4:09 PM
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? - A cover-up in the making?
By Stanley Kurtz, NRO. The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive ...
Posted byobamarxist at5:17 PM
Obama, Ayers, Highlights of the 20 year Obama-Ayers Connection ...
Another great post on Larry Johnson’s NoQuarter:. The Obama-Ayers Top Ten: Highlights of the 20. year Obama-Ayers Connection. By Steve Diamond closeAuthor: Steve Diamond Name: Steve Diamond Email: susanunpc@gmail.com ...
Posted byzachjonesishome at6:52 AM
The Obama-Ayers Top Ten: Highlights of the 20 year Obama-Ayers ...
01blog-obama-letterman.jpg If you take the Obama campaign at its word, the contention that there is a relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama is “phony,” “tenuous,” a “stretch.” In Obama’s own words, Ayers was “just a guy who ...
Posted bySteve Diamond at6:00 AM
Iran cools out; Hating on Obama's Chi town days, etc.
Fisa vote? America Gets to Know Obama, and Vice Versa. Remarks of US Senator Russ Feingold in Opposition to the FISA Amendments Act. Bob Ostertag: A Powerful, Easy Way to Tell Obama to Get FISA Right. Shorter: Give money to Feingold ...
Posted byHongPong at11:54 PM
The Three Blind Men and the Elephant: The New Yorker on Obama
elephant-men.jpg The New Yorker magazine made a fundamental mistake when it decided to answer the question, Who Sent Obama? They sent a 30-something New Yorker named Ryan Lizza to Chicago. And Chicago ate him for breakfast and never ...
Posted bySteve Diamond at8:15 AM
Diamond Points: The Three Blind Men and the Elephant: The New ...
The New Yorker magazine made a fundamental mistake when it decided to answer the question, Who Sent Obama? They sent a 30-something New Yorker named Ryan Lizza to Chicago. And Chicago ate him for breakfast and never looked back. ...
Posted bybmerry7 at2:38 AM
The Obama bus goes bump-bump again...
Thanks for the tip from The Dread Pundit. This is beginning to sound like a repeated recording from "2001 A Space Odyssey" - "My God It is full of stars". In the case of Obama, he is once again in heavy "ass covering" mode. ...
Posted by at9:44 PM
Another one under the bus
Obama throws another close friend under the bus. [Link]. Oops!... There goes another one! Wright- Pfleger- His white grandmother- Trinity Church- Muslim girls at a rally... Now it's the Maoist hardliner's turn to be airbrushed. ...
Posted byJeff at9:53 PM
The Conservative Blog Network Feed
The NYT, the Supreme Court and Heller [Right Wing News]. Posted: 27 Jun 2008 02:07 PM CDT. The NY Times, unsurprisingly, is aghast at the Supreme Court's ruling on Heller. Some excerpts: In a radical break from 70 years of Supreme Court ...
Posted byDavis at12:03 PM
Mike Klonsky Joins the Crowd under Obama's Bus
Another militant kook has joined the crowd under Obama's bus. Gateway Pundit reports:. Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former best friend of the Weatherman terrorist group founders William Ayers and Bernadine ...
Posted byVan Helsing at8:14 AM
Who IS Barack Obama
(Pass this on. Scroll down.) http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/ Mainstream Media: We Demand Barack Obama Be Vetted. Who is Barack Obama? Mainstream media has failed the United States of America. ...
Posted byinvestigatebarackobama at2:37 AM
Throw mama under the bus
Gateway Pundit with the latest Obamanite to bite the dust. Oops!... There goes another one! Wright- Pfleger- His white grandmother- Trinity Church- Muslim girls at a rally... Now it's the Maoist hardliner's turn to be airbrushed. ...
Posted bygordon gekko at5:19 PM
Obama's Neo-Moaist Hardliner: It's Not Fair!.. It's The Freakin ...
Poor little Maoist hardliner, Obama supporter, and best buddy of the Weathermen terrorists Ayers and Dohrn, Mike Klonsky is having a rough day. Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Obama ...
Posted byGateway Pundit at2:19 PM
Obama Dumps Another Adviser (26Jun08)
Obama Throws Maoist Hardliner and Weatherman Pal Under the Bus Oops!... There goes another one! Wright- Pfleger- His white grandmother- Trinity Church- Muslim girls at a rally... Now it's the Maoist hardliner's turn to be airbrushed. ...
Posted byHFDean at1:15 PM
Obama Throws Maoist Hardliner Under the Bus
Via Gateway Pundit, it turns out another one of Barack Obama's community bloggers has been given the boot:. Obama Blogs. Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former best friend of the Weatherman terrorist group ...
Posted byDonald Douglas at1:05 PM
How is it under that bus, Comrade Klonsky?
stalin.jpg Easy come, easy go. No sooner than Global Labor blogged here and here — reprinted at No Quarter earlier in ““White Guilt” Politics of Obama Crowd Undermined” — about the role in the Obama campaign of Mike Klonsky, ...
Posted bySteve Diamond at4:30 PM
Obama’s Bus Runs Over Another “Friend”
hopeandchangeexpress.jpg. In the words of Gateway Pundit:. Oops!… There goes another one! Wright- Pfleger- His white grandmother- Trinity Church- Muslim girls at a rally… Now it’s the Maoist hardliner’s turn to be airbrushed. ...
Posted byPam at11:01 AM
Obama Throws Maoist Hardliner and Weatherman Pal Under the Bus
Oops!... There goes another one! Wright- Pfleger- His white grandmother- Trinity Church- Muslim girls at a rally... Now it's the Maoist hardliner's turn to be airbrushed. Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former ...
Posted byGateway Pundit at3:42 AM
Another Problem FOO: This one’sa Doozy
Another Problem FOO: This one’sa Doozy. The hits just keep on coming. Another problem “Friend of Obama (FOO)” has been exposed and, just from a personal perspective, this one’sa real headcase. His name is Martin Klonsky. ...
Posted bybudsimmons at11:24 AM
MAOIST AND FORMER "WEATHERMAN" BLOGS FOR OBAMA
Yet another rascal in the Obama circle. From Gateway Pundit:. Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing. ...
Posted bynoreply@blogger.com (CAPTAIN THURSTON) at6:43 AM
Maoist Hardliner And Former Weatherman Pal Blogs For Obama
More Hope and Change... Mike Klonsky, an Obama supporter and former associate of the radicals who formed the terrorist group the Weatherman, received a $175000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the ...
Posted byGateway Pundit at9:19 PM
No, We Won't
Unlike Bob the Builder's "Yes, We Can!" which is charmingly invigorating to children, Baby Barry's "Vero Possumus" is vaguely creepy to this adult. It goes with his promise of unspecified "Change!", his warning on Friday that his ...
Posted byDick Stanley at1:39 PM
Sundance Kid Obama and Butch Cassidy Ayers
Mr. Obama and Professor Ayers. Revealed today for the first time to my reading by Professor Steve Diamond on his careful blog from Santa Clara University Law School, Global Labor and the Global Economy, is that the modest young attorney ...
Posted by at7:09 PM
The Obama-Ayers Connection: The Big Lie
In the mail... Hi Jim, I'm having a problem with something and I'd like you take on it being your someone I consider a "national" blogger meaning your widely read and linked to. The connection between Obama and Ayers in relation to the ...
Posted byGateway Pundit at5:04 AM
Who IS Barack Obama?
(Pass this on. Scroll down.) http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/
See more here. Mainstream Media: We Demand Barack Obama Be Vetted. Who is Barack Obama? Mainstream media has failed the United States of America. ...
Posted bykat in your hat at11:03 PM

and our own . . .
Obama dollars can tell us a lot

As to WHY DOES AN ISLAM-RESISTING BLOG WARN AMERICANS AGAINST OBAMA?
There is an alliance between the enemies of our country--the USA. The enemies are those who would subjugate us to foreign ideologies: Marxism and Islam.
Read all about it--and what can happen here in the USA! at http://islamicdanger4u.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-does-islam-resisting-blog-warn.html

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