Showing posts with label Tony Abbott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Abbott. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 February 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL 12/2/22; Tony Abbott Role Model; Grumpy Geezer; The Incredibly uncredible Credlin; The Shovel; Unemployment

 

 

 

Stefan Eracleous on the campaign trail with former prime minister Tony Abbott in 2013.

Who said that the New Young Liberals aren’t the New Neo-Nazis? Tony A was a thug too, and it took him all the way and back again maybe. He's been a role model and a career path to follow

These clues led to an Australian mobile phone number and an approximate home address in outer suburban Melbourne. Further data mining fully lifted John Dixon’s black mask: he is a Victorian man and former Melbourne University Young Liberals office holder named Stefan Eracleous.

Source: Former Young Liberal Stefan Eracleous unmasked as neo-Nazi

Spud pulling the wings off butterflies – “I think I will, I think I won’t…”. You’ve got to feel for der Gruppenfritter. Well, no you don’t – the bloke’s what an arsehole would be if arseholes had an arsehole, or in kinder parlance he’s a fully cooked unit, so rather let’s just have a chuckle at his dilemma – will he deploy an IED or will he hold off hoping Scooter goes full Campbell Newman. Spud can smell the blood in the water. Herr Shickletuber is no doubt delighted at Scooter’s travails; according to Bob Carr going so far as chucking a grenade down the hallway in the form of a public airing of a scathing text assessment of Scooter’s character as a “fraud” and “complete psycho”. The potato wedge (someone had to say it).

Source: Is it possible to feel sympathy for Smirko? Yeah, nah! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Third ally turns on Morrison

 Problem with Credlin is she like all Liberals live with myths of the past. The fact is the LNP has been the highest taxing Government not the lowest. The greatest to go back on its promises. Increased Government debt like no other and refuses to admit to the worst leadership we've ever experienced for three terms. Credlin is a reflection and amplification of the chaos in the L-NP

News Corp columnist David Penberthy says he thinks many Australians regard the Prime Minister as “expendable”. Sky News host Peta Credlin has lashed Prime Minister Scott Morrison, pleading with him to “do better” or abandon his chances at the next election. 

In an opinion piece for The Australian, Credlin said Mr Morrison needed to give voters “a reason to vote for you” and said the performance of the Liberal party was leaving people “politically homeless”. “The government that’s going into this election is almost unrecognisable from the one elected in 2013,” Credlin wrote. The former Liberal staffer said the actions of Mr Morrison had led to a lot of “disillusionment among many Liberal supporters”, especially on policy related to lowered taxes and more support for big businesses. “There’s no big political party that’s rock-solid for lower taxes, smaller government and greater freedom, plus support for the family, small business and the institutions that have made this country what it is,” she wrote.

Source: Peta Credlin joins Andrew Bolt, Janet Albrechtsen, calls out Prime Minister Scott Morrison | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

 

Residents from the NSW regional town of Wagga Wagga have been told they won’t need to pay for their broadband

Wagga Wagga households mysteriously receive two years free internet from Optus 
 

So for several decades, the bureau has supplemented the official unemployment figures by also publishing the number of people underemployed – those part-timers who’d prefer working work more hours. The latest figures show an unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent, plus an underemployment rate of 6.6 per cent. Thus it is true the official unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent isn’t as good as it looks. It does understate the proportion of people who aren’t able to find as much work as they want.

 We’ve had great success in creating extra jobs in the past year – most of which have been full-time – mainly because the government has responded to the pandemic with massively increased government spending. But the economy may slow if, as all that “fiscal stimulus” runs out, the private sector doesn’t take up the running.

 The jobs market has also had a lot of help from an unprecedented (and temporary) source: for two years our borders have been closed to incoming workers. Skilled workers on temporary visas, and overseas students and backpackers doing unskilled and casual jobs.

The workforce has shrunk

Source: Can we believe the great news on unemployment? Yes and no


Tuesday, 14 September 2021

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 14/9/21; Livable Income, Frydenberg and Gucci,Tony Abbott's Back;

 

 Australia welfare

 Look what we can do for Gucci, Prada and Harvey Norman

The shift of wealth to the wealthier is driving interest in Universal Basic Income and Job Guarantee proposals as millions...

Liveable Income Guarantee: a rich country can do better

 

Gucci, JobKeeper

Gucci and Prada owe Josh Frydenberg a debt of gratitude. Louis Vuitton is not alone. The Italian high fashion houses got JobKeeper too. Michael West and Callum Foote report as evidence emerges the Treasurer opted to ignore advice regarding a claw-back mechanism to get the money back from profitable companies. 

 Gucci Handbag: Josh Frydenberg’s JobKeeper gifts to Gucci and Prada – Michael West Media'Dobber King' Tony Abbott doesn't care for being dobbed upon

 Former PM Tony Abbott has criticised people for dobbing him in for not wearing a mask in public, which is hypocritical considering his past.

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Friday, 6 August 2021

Fighting Fake News with REAL 6/8/21; The shadow remains; "On the Water Matters"- Morrison; Dutton and our Allies; The West's Wheel of Racism;

 

 

 

 

Abbott "was sworn in as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia on 18 September 2013. He was, in my opinion (at the time), the most unqualified man politically and psychologically ever to be elected to the position."

Leaders on the extreme right of politics seem to have the same human characteristics of nastiness, offensiveness, spite, resentment, malice, contempt and bad manners. Abbott, like others on the conservative right, seemed to fit into a slot in history. One that was utterly rejected by his colleagues who, in due course, sacked him. He was subsequently replaced by Malcolm Turnbull, who was not right-leaning enough. He, in turn, was replaced by Scott Morrison, who had planned his ascension in precise detail where he continues the work of Abbott.

 The Abbott years – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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 Prime Minister Scott Morrison has refused to answer questions over his role in the use of a list of marginal seats to allocate car park funding.

"On the Water Matter"

Morrison mum on if he saw list of marginal seats to get funding

 

 Australia's Shame is even more extreme

For loyalty to U.S. troops, translators and others shouldn’t pay with their lives.

Right now, at least 30,000 Afghans are fleeing the country each week because of the ever-growing Taliban violence. Fortunately, though we may never know exactly “why now,” it seems the State Department has finally woken up and realized that the people doing some of the most dangerous jobs for and with Americans have a bright red-white-and-blue target on their back.

The sad part is that in Afghanistan, they’ve worn that target for two decades. And now, as they remain behind while U.S. troops leave and the country disintegrates, the target has only gotten bigger and easier to hit.

The Afghan Friends We Leave Behind

 

News Corp Australia journalist Sharri Markson on Fox News attacking YouTube’s suspension of Sky News Australia. Sky News Australia is to face a Senate inquiry as Kevin Rudd calls for media watchdog to take tougher line on broadcaster.

Tucker Carlson and Sharri Markson on Fox News Sharri Markson says YouTube suspension of Sky News Australia is ‘cancellation of free speech’  Markson and Carlson are both paid Murdochians. Well paid, millionaires in fact but nevertheless still simply workers working for the billionaire and claiming they’re “fair and balanced” Let's face it, it wasn't that long ago when Andrew Bolt was promoting unorthodox treatments as "safe" while railing about vaccines and he has been vaccinated. (ODT)

Rudd told Acma that claims broadcast on Sky included: “Covid-19 is not a pandemic; the vaccinated are more likely to die than the unvaccinated; hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are proven, safe treatments for Covid-19; the medical profession are concealing these treatments from the public for political purposes and face masks do not inhibit the spread of Covid-19.” “While it is unrealistic to believe that we can ever stamp out misinformation, especially in the age of social media, it is especially alarming that so much of this content has been crafted and distributed by the country’s largest media company, News Corporation, principally through Murdoch’s Sky News,” Rudd wrote.“Freedom of expression is essential to the functioning of our democracy, but Australians expect that opinions will have a reasonable basis in fact.” The Guardian has approached Sky News Australia for comment. Hanson-Young said she wanted to ask the media watchdog why the spread of misinformation wasn’t allowed on the internet but appeared to be OK on TV. “G

 Sky News Australia to face Senate inquiry after week-long YouTube suspension | Kevin Rudd | The Guardian

 

Fox & Friends host don't understand the difference between climate change and weather

Sky News Australia is much the same the last comment by Andrew Bolt on climate was "what warming" looking out his window one assumes.

Fox & Friends hosts don't understand the difference between climate change and weather

 

Wheel of Racism

Sunday, 15 November 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL 14/11/20; Trump's Lawyers; Humour; Tony Abbott;

 

 

 Trump&#39;s stunning abdication of leadership comes as pandemic worsens

(CNN)A law firm representing the President's campaign in a controversial and long-shot attempt to block Pennsylvania's popular vote for Joe Biden is leaving the case.

The firm, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, had two Pittsburgh-based lawyers leading the effort for the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania. Both told a judge in an overnight filing they were withdrawing, and the Trump campaign may bring in new counsel.
 

Law firm attempting to block Biden's win in Pennsylvania leaves controversial Trump campaign case

 

Saturday, 5 September 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL 5/9/20; British Government defies Reality; Vic Police defy Reality; Trump Decoupling America;



Two men their bikes and authority
1) searching for a knighthood
2) hoping for a safe night
 Will Prime Minister Tony Abbott be a cycling champion?

British government defies backlash to approve Tony Abbott as new trade adviser



The former Australian prime minister will serve as one of 12 advisers to the United Kingdom's new-look Board of Trade, an appointment that has set off a major political dispute in Westminster.


Korey Penny, an Aboriginal man from Western Australia working on Melbourne's Metro Tunnel project, says he was violently attacked by police while riding to work on his bike.

Aboriginal man accuses police of violent assault and racist abuse





An Aboriginal man says officers threw him off his bicycle, pinned him to the ground and called him a 'black c---' for riding his bike on the footpath at dawn without a light.

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL 2/9/20; What the Fact?! Robert Reich Reacts to the RNC, Humour, The mad monk proves that title is his alone; Trump is a super spreader of ficticious fear spread on Murdoch Media






 

IT'S LABOUR DAY

 
Screengrab of Tony Abbott speaking at the Policy Exchange thinktank in central London on Tuesday, September 1, 2020.

Tony Abbott attacks Andrews in call for end to restrictions

The former PM took a swipe over stage four restrictions, saying the Premier was conducting a health dictatorship.
Of course, god will take care of the rest. Individual decisions weren't given to HIV sufferers. We have hospitals isolating people with infectious diseases but Abbott is quite happy to allow super spreaders the freedom to share.
" Abbott said it was not clear that draconian measures were effective in health terms and were destroying the economy and people's wellbeing under one-size-fits-all orders from "unaccountable experts".
It's as if China hasn't proved to the world the most effective means of stopping the spread of the virus and turning the economy around at the same time. It's up 3-5%. Sweden certainly hasn't demonstrated that at -7% and 6000 deaths. Which is a greater fall to their economy than either Norway or Denmark with only 600 and 250 deaths. 
How is it these people with big mouths freely advocate opinions without a grip on the facts? Was Abbott given voice by Murdoch media? We should drop the bans because "I Tony Abbott don't know and it seems a better political option" is hardly a rational risk for the common good of the wider community. Besides, the polls indicate they don't support Abbott at all who prefers to remain in opposition from a distance.
The reality is that the workforce is more productive than Abbott lets on. That NSW hasn't won anything to date and Victoria's problem was one foisted on it by an LNP government that failed to regulate or fund a but prefered a self-regulated aged-care system. The virus the deaths and the spread didn't occur in state-managed centres. So comparatively Andrews ran a better operation than Abbott's Government did and is still doing so.
Appearing later before the Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee, Stewart McDonald, an MP with the Scottish National Party questioned Mr Abbott about his use of the phrase "health dictatorship", a term also used by the QAnon, far-right online conspiracy group.
Mr Abbott said he was not aware of QAnon and used the reference to describe the "very draconian restrictions" imposed in Victoria.
"To save lives presumably?" McDonald said. "For our own good in the judgement of Victorian Premier and the Victorian government."





World

President Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that “people in dark shadows” wereare behind violent protests.

Trump blames those in 'dark shadows' for protest violence

The US President also launched into a tale of a plane that allegedly flew to Washington loaded with 'thugs'. 

Another virus let loose on the world allowed to spread on Murdoch media

 


FAKE NEWS

MEDIA ATTACK ON TRUMP MEANS THEY KNOW BIDEN IS GOING GA GA

There is only one reason that CNN and the Drudge Report (which these days looks it's been bought by Trump-deranged MSNBC) are hyperventilating about a Trump visit to hospital last November. It's that they are trying to deflect from a story they know is more real: that Joe Biden looks like he's going senile.
3m ago 
Talking deflection no mention by Bolt of that plane full of men dressed in black that Trump was ranting about on Fox News.
in a Fox News interview that "people that are in the dark shadows" are "controlling the streets" and manipulating his Democratic opponent Joe Biden to sow chaos.When host Laura Ingraham suggested the claim "sounds like conspiracy theory," Trump doubled down, launching into a tale of a plane that allegedly flew from an unnamed city to Washington DC this weekend loaded with "thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear".The President declined to elaborate to Ingraham in the interview on Monday night (Tuesday AEST), saying the case was "under investigation," and the White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.






PETER FITZSIMONS IS A LIAR OR GROSSLY IGNORANT

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Peter Fitzsimons writes a blatant and obvious falsehood: "When the likes of columnist Andrew Bolt, for example, suggested that the way forward was to move on from lockdown and simply accept that we will lose some older Australians along the way, the PM cut loose." Has he no shame?
39m ago 
Kerry O'Brien called Bolt out as well on Q&A and challenged him. Because Bolt's reply of why is everybody picking on me I didn't say that doesn't seem to ring true. He did raise the question knowing he'd be quoted and that's what Bolt's about being quoted about himself and not the issue. There must be a lot of reputable people who are " liars or grossly ignorant" simply because Andrew Bolt says he's not. Sue them Bolt sue them for damaging your reputation!
Tony Abbott seems to be siding with Bolt and both have taken up the QAnon position.  It's what's currently being run in Victoria a Health Dictatorship with Dan Andrews wanting to extend the State of Emergency to prevent the spread of the virus by good god-fearing individually responsible Australians. They didn't think that when HIV was out of control and was spreadable to other than the gay community. In fact laws were put in place to jail spreaders unfortunately after the fact. Remember Bolt's cry when we sent medical help to fight Ebola his cry was a complete lockdown nobody should be allowed in or out of the country and no help given. 
If people are being arrested for incitement why is Andrew Bolt not been charged along with others at Sky and News Corp?

MURDOCH MEDIA
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HOW VICTORIA POLICE COVERED UP ITS GOBBO SCANDAL

Senior Victoria Police bosses are accused of "noble cause corruption" for hiring lawyer Nicola Gobbo to inform on her clients. But for years police used the courts to cover up the greatest legal scandal in Australian history. Read Damon Johnston's chilling account, and see how they nearly got away with it in the Suppression State. 
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 Bolt's blog is little more than having to be a paperboy for News Corp. He really gives paper boys a bad reputation. Advertising but not selling. Above is the work News Corp does and why it lost $1.5 billion this financial year. Didn't stop Lachlan buying America's most expensive house did it USD$150 mill. We however only remember him for is One Tel debacle here in Australia.
Should we be surprised to see Bolt call for those left alive but in prison to be released because they aren't after all Muslims or Africans some are Lebanese but Christian Lebanese. He was more concerned about the violence ISIS didn't commit in Australia than he was about good old Aussie street battles. After all it wasn't happening in Dandenong where it was newsworthy. Bolt was living it up in Malvern and his kids were at the schools that were noted for booze, weed, coke and channelling their corporate brats to private rehab. If you looked in the bathroom cabinets of Malvern houses and did blood tests you'd know who really were the big spenders on drugs legal and illegal.

Sunday, 30 August 2020

Fighting Fake News with Real 30/8/20 Wade Davis America Today; Scott Morrison ahead of the game; Sir Tony Abbott's own reward Australia's own goal






3 days ago - Wade Davis says his. ... Watch the full inteview, during which he also heaped praise on New Zealand's Covid-19 response, in the video above.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/anthropologist-discusses-hard-hitting-essay-fall-us-dominance-they-dont-see-theyve-become


  
 

Morrison Granted Exemption To Travel To Hawaii To Prepare For Upcoming Bushfire Season

 Brexit ho: Tony Abbott’s trade deal role


Tony Abbott |
Australia’s controversial ex-Prime Minister and vocal Brexit supporter Tony Abbott is set to take on a new role for Boris Johnson.
 Assange's detention violates international law: Australia must intervene


Julian Assange |
 

On the 7th of September, Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in a British court for several weeks of hearings regarding the U.S. attempt to extradite him.

 Radio Host Urges 'Patriots' To Use Guns Against Kenosha Protesters

Radio Host Urges 'Patriots' To Use Guns Against Kenosha Protesters

Fox News is doing the same crowdfunding the murderers defence and declaring him a well-intentioned kid. Murdoch media is skirting the same edges he in Australia as well.

Wisconsin conservative radio host Vicki McKenna praises Kyle Rittenhouse and urges listeners to bring guns to fight Kenosha protesters.

Thursday, 23 January 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL,23/1/20; Forrest it doing a Tony Abbott with his $50 mill; Murdoch is bus running over everyone; Truth in Humour;




Andrew Forrest wants donors around the world to contribute to his private Fire Fund.

Andrew Forrest says fuel loads, not climate change, are primary cause of bushfires





 So the warming of the planet record-breaking temperatures this century haven't increased the fuel loads and therefore warming wasn't the cause. The increased load just coincidently miraculously, in fact, appeared simply because of poor management by the States. Those extraordinary fires in Indonesia Siberia, Brazil weren't caused by warming either I guess. As for the Rain forests of QLD where crown fires occurred never seen before well they too were due to fuel loads. Money doesn't make Forrest a Scientist or more intelligent than the average Australian only he can pay to be noticed. (ODT)
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Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest has repeated his claim that the bushfires are primarily caused by fuel loads and arson during an international television appearance in which he called for donors to fund new climate research, saying "the science has so far to go."

Forrest is doing a Tony Abbott for $$

Spruiking for money and fame is always a good image if what you say connects with an audience and his audience does have the money to look good yet play dumb in the service of their own interests fossil fuel and emissions. Tobacco Companies were the largest single funders of lung cancer and smoking research and we know how that went. Tony Abbott made a huge effort to sell us Dr Bjorn Lomborg who the Danes and the Koch Bros dumped. Here is Forrest suggesting the world of science has been left to hobbyists the past 40 + years and there is not enough evidence on our planet warming. He now wants to control that science. Well, Tony Abbott wanted to do the same thing with his appointment of the "world renown" Dr Bjorn Lomborg didn't he? It was going to bring him the holy grail too. (ODT)

"Twiggy, as he is commonly known in Australia, wants donors around the world to contribute to his private Fire Fund to which he and his wife Nicola have contributed $50 million to build resilience to natural disasters."

The Australian mining magnate repeated his claim that the bushfires are primarily caused by fuel loads and arson, during an international television appearance.
 News Corp's coverage of the Australian bushfire crisis has received attention from around the world.

'Dangerous, misinformation': News Corp employee's fire coverage email

Analysis by the Queensland University of Technology detected a "co-ordinated" social media disinformation campaign promoting the theory that arsonists caused the fires, while seeking to discredit evidence suggesting climate change has helped increase the severity and length of bushfire seasons.
Almost 1500 tweets, published by more than 300 accounts, using the #ArsonEmergency hashtag were examined


 Murdoch’s Massive Media Australia-on-Fire Disinformation Crusade | The Smirking Chimp



Screenshot_2020-01-23 Our plan is to stop the fires by chopping down everything flammable BEFORE it burns Marketing genius [...].png 

 Our plan is to stop the fires by chopping down everything flammable BEFORE it burns. Marketing genius! | First Dog on the Moon | Opinion | The Guardian

FAKE NEWS- Andrew Bolt

 

SCENES FROM HOTEL AUSTRALIA, IN THE LAND OF ANYWHERE

I've said immigration is now more like colonisation. From last week: "More people from Nepal settled in Australia last year than from the United Kingdom...  Tara Gaire ... said he felt very at home in Melbourne’s multicultural environment. 'We catch up with community members, we go to the temple, it doesn’t feel like we’re overseas.'"  
1h ago
It would seem Andrew Bolt is against Colonisation and Multiculturalism but hardly seems to understand the difference. Multiculturalism it's been agreed by Indigenous Australians and most others in positive, not negative terms the way Bolt does. Colonisation was the theft of Australia by the British coupled by lies the export of the unwanted from Britain namely the Fineans for the purpose of establishing investment and profit for shareholders back in Britain it, in fact, has an Inglorious Past to be ashamed of. Multiculturalism, on the other hand, has had a glorious history. Bolt hates Australia dreams of the Netherlands and is an exception as an immigrant and unsuccessful one that wants to drag one and all down with him. (ODT)

HOW A SNEEZE CAN GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY

 Sure, it may not become a cataclysmic pandemic: "Seventeen people have died from coronavirus... Latest figures reveal 471 cases in China, with four in Thailand, two in Hong Kong and one each in the US, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan." But we're so vulnerable now: "2020 will set a new record... of scheduled [air] passengers with over 4.72 billion."
45m ago
  Alarmist Andrew Bolt will talk of pandemics, a sneeze can travel the world in a day but global warming and the emission of CO2 can't in the 200 years since Industrialisation. (ODT)
 

'RACIST' AUSTRALIA SENDS YASSMIN TO PARIS, WITH $20,000

Bureaucrats keep showering Abdel-Magied with our cash: "Outspoken Australian author Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been awarded a $20,000 grant and a six-month residency at a Paris artists’ studio from the Australia Council." This is for a woman who lives in London, denounces Australia as racist and is - in my opinion - a poor writer. Check for yourself.
2h ago 
Yassmin is firstly an Australian. She's an engineer that has done and produced more GDP for this country than Andrew Bolt has done in his lifetime. She was a Television personality an author of  2 books and named Young Australian of the Year in 210. Andrew Bolt is a convicted Racial vilifier whose won no awards hasn't achieved anything in education and hasn't written any books but only cobbled his columns together and marketed and resold them as if they were books. Largely he's achieved nothing of value or high repute in Australia and prefers living in the Netherlands dreaming he might one day write a book. The Australian Council's Grants are available to all Australians. Bolt should try and apply to test the Councils wisdom. (ODT)

Sunday, 15 December 2019

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 15/12/19; Australia your being Ripped Off; Little Britain; What will happen to the AUS flag Tony?









The Morrison Government have handed nearly $1 billion worth of government contracts to companies that paid zero tax.

 The latest figures by the Australian Tax Office show that the policy of "voluntary compliance" is failing to pull big corporations into line:

http://cpaml.org/posting1.php?id=1019

Boris Johnson waves outside 10 Downing Street earlier this year.Image result for The Union Jack

Aside from Tony Abbott, who will want to cling to 'Little Britain'?




Surely another vote on Scottish independence is on the cards (PF)
Along with a push for a united Ireland. What will happen to the Australian flag when the Union Jack is gone Tony? (ODT)

 

The Supreme Court Handed Trump Another Temporary Win In His Effort To Hide Financial Records

After Trump lost in lower courts, the Supreme Court is stepping in to hear his appeal in three major cases.
American courts are like the courts in India  1) Overworked 2) corrupt 3) Wealth can delay hearings for a life-time. 4) In thecase of the US GOP stacked. How much have lawyers earned just for delaying Trump's court cases all the way to the SCOTUS and how much time is wasted? (ODT)

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