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US Holds Massive Nuclear Weapons Exercise "To Deter And Detect Strategic Attacks" Days After Russian Drill
Late last week, in what should not have been a surprise to anyone (because supposedly it was announced "far in advance") but was a major shock due to its intensity and expansiveness, Russia held a massive "simulated massive nuclear attack" drill, coming at a time just ahead of the Donetsk referendum, which may have been pre-scheduled and for foreign policy reasons was hailed as a "non-event", but judging by the amount of production that went into the accompanying video clip, this particular drill was dripping with symbolism aimed squarely at NATO and the US.
So now it is America's turn to retaliate. As the U.S. Strategic Command reported earlier, the US will conduct Exercise Global Lightning 14 from May 12-16 in coordination with other combatant commands, services, and appropriate U.S. government agencies "to deter and detect strategic attacks against the U.S. and its allies."
Stratcom was quick to point out that Exercise Global Lightning 14 has been planned for more than a year and is based on a notional scenario. It also added that the "timing of the exercise is unrelated to real-world events" but only those who believed that Russia massive nuclear drill was also unrelated to world will fall for this particular embellishment. As Defense One observes, according to Mark Schneider, a former U.S. Defense Department nuclear strategy official, told the Washington Free Beacon that Russia’s drill last week seemed aimed at sending a message of “nuclear intimidation” to the United States and NATO over Ukraine. He noted that Moscow typically stages its atomic exercises in the fall.
Meanwhile, Romania on Saturday sought clarification from Russia on its official policy following a tweet from a high-profile Russian minister that warned he might try to enter Romanian air space in a heavy bomber, Reuters reported.
After a plane he was a traveling in was blocked from entering Romanian air space, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin sent out a tweet that stated, “Upon U.S. request, Romania has closed its air space for my plane. Ukraine doesn’t allow me to pass through again. Next time I’ll fly on board Tu-160.” Rogozin, who supervises his country’s large weapons industry, is under U.S. and European Union sanctions.
The Romanian foreign ministry requested that Russia specify whether the deputy prime minister’s tweet represented “the Russian Federation’s official position.”
Romania “believes the threat of using a Russian strategic bomber plane by a Russian deputy prime minister is a very grave statement under the current regional context,” the ministry said
However, Russia was last week - now it's America's turn: the units included in the US exercise are bomber wings that will fly approximately 10 B-52 Stratofortresses and up to six B-2 Spirit bombers "to demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness in the training scenarios throughout the continental U.S."
So if you see a massive nuclear bomber flying overhead with a full nuclear armament, don't panic - tis but a drill.
“This exercise provides unique training opportunities to incorporate the most current technology and techniques in support of our mission. Continued focus and investment in our strategic capabilities allow USSTRATCOM to deter, dissuade, and defeat current and future threats to the U.S. and our allies,” said Adm. Cecil Haney, commander, U.S. Strategic Command.
Those curious can find more information at USSTRATCOM Public Affairs, (402) 294-4130, or via email: pa@stratcom.mil.
We, on the other hand, will await the YouTube clip that goes with Global Lightning 14 and grade it on content, difficulty, and artistic creativity. After all we already have the Russians as a benchmark.
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To be fair, Russia wasn't at war when it tested it's nuke.
Germany had surrendered to Russia 4 months prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war was over. Japanese naval fleet was completely decimated. The country was done. Conventional bombing had leveled them to the point where there were no strategic targets left, hence the atomic bombings targeting civilian population - the areas where people concentrated to be safe from all the deadly action. There was nothing else left to bomb. But don't tell that to Manhattan project team, who had just finished 2 bombs few months behind schedule. Don't tell it to scientiests curious to compare effects of Uranium and refined Plutonium detonation at different altitudes. Don't tell it to the Navy who had been practicing runs since Nov 1943 and had B-series bombers modified exclusively for the task.
The war ain't done until we say so!
indeed, the "wars" are always active, as long as Science has experiments to perform on Humanity.
to this day. . . and tomorrow. . .
Top Gun is one of those movies that doesn't have a gay prody because the original movie is unbelievably gay.
two things:
+1
and
I almost looked this up..almost..
Teenage beachgoing tough guys revving their pickups and flexing their muscles...
Grow up...
Just keep them out of Los Angeles airspace or we'll fire.
Accidentally.
Bullish, employment LA GangBangers. Or should I say LA Gangbanksters?
Paging Mr. Banzai 7.
Mr. Banzai 7, you're needed in the GangBanksters visuals develpment meeting.
Thank you.
This could just be saber rattling, however, it may be a good time to get your bug-out bag ready to go and be ready to leave home at a moment's notice because you won't have time to prepare if this thing goes hot..
Keep your gas tank full plus extra gas in cans.
400 miles to where? Away from the plume?
Obama Doo Rag Intervention
BFD; 12 bombers; smirking.
That's 17% of our B-52 force.
Acknowledged; derisively sneering...
Hang on to your hats folks. Get the welding goggles out, you know what happens every time FEDGOV holds an "exersize"
LOL
Don't look now but the Chinese are also hosting drills. Must be that coincidence of us an Philippines kicking off drills while a China fishing ship is detained at the opening so as ran meet up.
Ugh.
is this really necessary?
Sticks and stones bitchez, next time 'round.
Party like it's 19 eighty something.
More like it's party like it's 1614.
Or 1491.
Remember those missing nukes?
False Flag on deck.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of fucking morons.
BORING. Russian military 'exercise'. American Military 'exercise', it's so played out. It's all a great show put on to scare the people and drum up a little nationalistic support. Russia isn't going to launch a first strike and neither are we. There will be no nukes, and no hot war either.
Instead, Russia will get a large swath of Ukraine and the West will get a large swath of Syria. The west will build a pipeline through Syria to get oil and gas into Europe, Russia will sell to China. Everyone wins.
Follow the money and power play here. Russia wins with a pipeline to China because China pays it's bills. Russia won't have to subsidize oil/gas sales to them like it does to Ukraine and several other eastern block nations. They also get a better warm water port, one that's attached to Russia. Russia wins in these areas.
The West and the Saudi's get Syria. Iran is weakened if Syria falls. The west gets a pipeline of cheap Arab oil and gas pumped straight into the EU. And the petro dollar lives another another day. The west wins in these areas.
Don't think for a second that the people in charge (the people making the deals/money) are stupid enough to let a hot war get started over something as silly as ideals....
Unless they WANT a hot war.... Or perhaps OTHER men is higher places want a hot war. Some times the left hand does not know what the right is up to...
True, but I honestly think there's no money to be made in a hot war between Russia and the West. Pretty tough to rule the world when it's a radioactive dust pile...
Unless the nuclear saber rattling is each sides way of saying... Lets shoot each other but establish a no nukes rule... Which I doubt.
That might be the plan.Trouble is you just can't find good help these days, so it will fuck up.
The actual history of the Cold War records several times when war almost got started by an "accidental" series of events. Twice in the history of the Cold War, only the decision of one Russian officer stopped that war from going hot. There are a couple thousand atomic bombs kept ready to use within a moment's notice, and tens of thousands more held in reserve. The problem of "use it before you lose it" constantly haunts the military strategies.
I wish that I could believe your view, InvalidID. However, I think you are naive about the degree to which the ruling classes have become criminally insane, and the degree to which the basic background problems are getting worse, faster.
OF COURSE, starting a world war using weapons of mass destruction would be utterly irrational and insane. However, in my view, that is a correct description of how our "civilization" actually behaves!
P.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEL45ffs2x4
Thirteen Days (2000)A dramatization of President Kennedy's administration's struggle to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962.
In order to appreciate my point of view, it is necessary to seriously consider that the assassination of Kennedy was then deliberately covered up. I am not sure who actually did what, nor why. However, I have no doubt that the official story was absurd, and, for sure, there was a deliberate official layer of lies which stopped more truth from being discovered. Therefore, today we are looking at a situation where there is NO Kennedy, nor anybody else like him, but rather a Quisling political puppet as President.
Furthermore, the official story about what happened on 9/11/2001 is absurd, and there has obviously been an official effort to prevent proper investigations of that inside job, false flag attack, from ever happening, so that we may never be able to discover the truth regarding 9/11.
The problematic conclusion is that the people controlling the government of the USA now are far worse than President Kennedy was. That the real world is now controlled by much more severe criminal insanities than during the Cold War era is the conclusion that necessarily follows from believing that President Kennedy's assassination was never properly investigated, and that the events on 9/11/2001 were never properly investigated, because in both cases the criminals were able to control the investigations of their crimes, and therefore, were able to get away with committing those crimes, and all of the consequences which followed from having been able to get away with doing that.
On the basis of that belief, the real world today is far more criminally insane than it was during the Cold War era between the USA and the USSR. Any optimism based on still presuming that the people that control the people that control the governments of NATO are rationally sane does not appear to me to be justified.
P.P.S
Only on Web sites like Zero Hedge do I find that the majority of people say things that make sense to me. When I look at the mass media "news" in the North America, that appears to me to be NUTS! Of course, that also supports my view that we are actually living in a criminally insane civilization. The ruling classes and those they rule over are components of one social system. They are like bookends, or mirror images that reflect back at each other. That is why I find the mass media "news" being NUTS is another strong indication that an utterly irrational and insane world war could start, and go out of control. I do not think that there is anything I could do to prevent that, nor anything that I could really do to prepare for that either. I assume that I would not survive long ... Writing useless comments about it seems to be nothing more than a kind of psychological therapy, to try to cope with what actually can not be coped with!
Can't they just paint their waggons and sing I was born under a wandering star?
Oh Gee....a dick swinging contest....what total Kabuki douchebag theater between two of the biggest pricks on the planet.
Not literally, as I think Pootin is OK, but Fuckbama has a boy-dick.
Bullish, the Dow will sure hit 30,000 in few weeks. back that truck up now!
Hockey anyone? How about golf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSQAZEp3PA
One false move and we'll have a long harsh winter to blame our dire state of affairs on for quite some time.
Great, more economic index misses
War is a consumer whose necessities are so imperative that they become superior to all questions of legal and
financial restriction.legalists and financiers, although their existing systems tend inevitably to produce wars,
are so afraid of them, and why war, terrible in itself, has so often released humanity from
bonds which threaten to strangle it. As a result of this situation, the bounds which are
placed upon production for war purposes are defined by intrinsic forces and not by
artificial limitations. That is to say, in order to maintain a connection between finance and
production, finance has to follow production instead of, as in the normal case, production
having to follow finance. The extension of production to its utmost intrinsic limits,
therefore, involves an extension of finance at a rate out of all proportion to that which
obtains in the normal course of events, and this extension at once reveals the artificial
character of normal finance. It has been pointed out at some length, and probably
sufficiently, that the Gold Standard, on which British finance was supposed to be based,
broke down within a few hours of the outbreak of war. That is important; but it is only
the first step, just as the Gold Standard itself is only one aspect of a system of finance in
which currency is the basis of credit. What is more fundamentally important, is to
observe that immediately production is expanded at
anything like its possible rate,
the idea that the financial costs of that expansion can be recovered in prices is seen in itsfull absurdity
CH Douglas writing in pre nuke 1933 foretold the bankers perfect war - a long cold war.
False Flag - Coming Soon!
What worries Obama: President admits he is more scared of a rogue nuke going off in Manhattan
He's a fucking fear mongering imbecile.
The de-escalation continues.
All together now:
"I'm lovin' it"
great handle, The guys call me MrTouchdown I use to play a little ball for Notre Dame...
Notre Dame ruined MSU's season in football.
Time to head for the caverns. Money changers got hold of the printing presses, weapons manufacurers got hold of the budget and Russia and China gained control of the oil. Global colling big time right around the corner. There is a good chance you won't have to worry about it.
Did you know that 10 feet below ground surface the temperature stays a constant 55 degrees all year round. Probably have to go a little deeper if it freezes for several years in a row.
I couldn't find last weeks Russian drills on Youtube.
Must be serious. Now I found them here on RT
May 12 - 16??? False Flag anyone?
Sure, why not?
Thats as good a time as any.
Is it a full moon or some kinda planetary alignment?
I guess I'm getting a bit jaded, but who (on ZH) thought any of the shit that has been happening in the last 50 years would end well?
full moon 24dg Scorpio, 3:16pm eastern time.
for those who take note.
I usually pay more attention to the New Moon phase.. That's when the night time airstrikes are more likely..
understood.
happy birthday 24dg Taurus Sun country.
we all have our ways of watching. . .
We are witnessing the defeat of the Neocons and the Central Bankers in Ukraine. Victoria Nuland and her crowd thought they could use the old tricks and skullduggery to grab power in the Ukraine, undermine Putin, install their Central Banks, and then grab all the resources (or put them out of commision). But it's rapidly turning into a giant clusterfuck for them. They don't have the manpower to invade and take over eastern Ukraine, where millions of pissed off Russian Ukrainians are just waiting to sever some Nazi/Kiev heads and put them on pike poles.
dont count the tribesmen out this easily...... They have the ability to get the party started all on their own with a strike on Iran....
Putin should be pretty impressed when a US general comes dressed in a dress and makeup on.
Obama's freak show spreading to the US military.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/05/12/transgender_military_servi...
When asked by the Washington Blade whether the president would direct the Pentagon to end the trans ban, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney punted, saying, “I don’t have anything on that.
Meet our next candidate for General:
http://www.france24.com/en/20140511-eurovision-austria-bearded-drag-quee...
First Strike
"The US bomber force is destroyed on the ground and the Minuteman missiles in their silos in this highly realistic dramatization filmed with the unprecedented cooperation of the US Air Force. The people shown are the actual men and women of the US Air Force and Navy who would have been targeted.
This is a short version of the scenaio used in the 1979 documentary film, FIRST STRIKE, which examined how the Soviet SS-18 missile force together with submarine launched missiles might be used to destroy our strategic forces in a surprise, preemptive attack."
This segement was also featured in the 1983 movie, "The Day After."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPEBROvR9w
A message to the Air Force crews manning these bombers - you are serving a tyrannical government that has abrogated the US constitution. If you have any honor you will turn your planes around and drop on Washington DC.
Just kidding. I love our government. I love Obama. I love the NSA. God bless America.
There - that ought to do it. But I'll be watching for those black Suburbans at my front gate.
Message to the guys in the Suburbans - better come VERY well equipped.
Can we please bring back the hockey game with the plastic bubble dome? USA vs Russia. That was a *real* war.
The current "pissing match" is not nearly as entertaining.
Picture:
http://i.ushipcdn.com/resize.php?path=%2Fstatic%2F49bac636-ee07-4a5d-b.j...
Its the rope a dope. We have stuff in the sky that will vaporize those morons.
A war for the high orbitals could get uuuugly.
U S misleaders thrill to bathing the entire world's citizenry in terror, while those very misleaders feel immune to the very effects they cause.
Those great misleaders operate on the basis that [being able to cause] any effect is better than no effect at all.
Let's get this nuke war started. I'm ready for the 12 women to 1 man in every bunker. That's how I love the bomb.
http://scgnews.com/the-odessa-massacre-what-really-happened
da I was about to post that...good work
The "madmen theory of war" has been fully realized by the development of weapons of mass destruction, which have resulted in precariously balanced ways to barely cope with their existence, being appropriately called MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. That MAD militarism operates in conjunction with the MAD monetary system. The combined money/murder systems that exist today are two kinds of MADness, that everyone has no other choice but to be stuck inside. The first is the MADness of weapons of mass destruction, and the second is the MADness of Money As Debt.
The MADness of Money As Debt automatically gets worse, faster, driving numbers which have become debt insanities. That debt slavery system is based on enforced frauds, which finally depend upon the military powers of governments (that are actually dominated by the banksters), which is again another form of MADness, that of Mutual Assured Destruction, which constantly threatens to cause death insanities.
DOUBLE WHAMMY MADNESS:
DEBT SLAVERY, BACKED BY WARS BASED ON DECEITS.
The REAL world operates through globalized electronic frauds, in the form of Money As Debt, while that is backed up by atomic bombs, by Mutual Assured Destruction. Those combined money/murder systems developed through thousands of years of history, while, within one human lifespan, the technologies which enable those systems have become trillions of times more capable and powerful, yet nothing else has happened than those systems have continued to grow their exponentially accelerating MADness. Both the ruling classes, and those they rule over, can be mostly counted on to continue to deliberate ignore their runaway MADness!
CIVILIZATION IS NOW CRIMINALLY INSANE!
appropriately titled.
another day on fucking crazy rock.
I remember when every other building was marked as a fall out shelter, the drills at school and the term MAD being the inevitable end of the world.
then the 90's hit and everything changed, we kind of breathed a sigh of relief, of course not long after we got aircraft being highjacked with box cutters and being flow into buildings by terrorists who apparently couldn't even pilot Cessna's. thus began the never ending "war on terror", but still at least it wasn't Russian nukes raining down on the WTC...
and there is the rub, we all forgot about the most important part,sure the cold war ended but everybody kept thier nukes. in fact, we never really stopped pointing them at each other, all that really changed in the last 25 years is that we can now deliver them in ways that were not possible back when MAD was first coined...now instead of land based silos and 30 minutes to get right with your maker, it's five minutes from a sub or a bomber and you won't even know it happened until after it's over.
there was maybe a brief but golden opportunity to eliminate the possibility of this ever occurring but the PTB's just waved as that moment passed by, and now here they are playing with fire again.
so long as the weapons exist somebody, sooner or later, is going to use them.
To those of us who would rather not have a nuclear was it is not all that reassuring to hear how busy we are practicing to get ready to destroy life as we know it. The idea of America getting involved or jumping into a war in Ukraine would have been hard to imagine a few years ago.
As I write this we are engaged in a war of words but the potential for this to escalate into a shooting war is real. Allowing events to deteriorate into a major war or possibly into what some see as World War III is becoming a reality. As insane as it appears this could become the final outcome.
The location of this as a military confrontation is right in Putin's backyard and this is a strong advantage for Russia. It is silly to think Putin and Russia will back down. This means poking the bear is not a smart move. It should be noted the military of Ukraine is divided and extremely weak. More about this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/04/war-in-ukraine-bad-idea_26.html
problem with nuclear war is that it will be all or nothing,.. no time to sit back and wait the result of a few exchanges -- your first shot maybe your only chance.
So there would go Berlin Paris London Washington NYC etc... Moscow... etc.
...Beijing just in case...don't want those Chinese remaining to have all the leftovers
If it goes nuclear, praying my area is ground zero...
I have often wondered why a Russian plumber would want to kill me an American plumber.
We are both busy with work and family, any spare time either of us have we go fishing, hunting or anything that ends in an “ing”,
It reminds me of a quote a French speaking Vietnam vet said about meeting an NVA prisoner who spoke French, “so your countries farmers are over here fighting our countries farmers”
“All wars are Bankers wars”
Michael Rivero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
Sabor Rattling and Military Exercises sure look an awful lot alike....
There won't be a nuke war this time but there will be someone crossing the line
or should I say trapped into crossing the line, mistakes will be made
irrigardless, Russia will take all of Ukraine and after that some more of the Eastern block
This may be the time that Russia embarrases the US, perhaps willing to go where the US won't
It seems like now Russia and China are ready to make their big move
Seems like there is no way out. I guess we fell into our own trap.
Hubris and karma,
Hubris and karma
Coming together to pooch Obama
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other
It always makes me laugh when I realize that the Psycho's that start a nuclear war will make sure that they and their families are safe deep underground first.
Well, I remember that the chow in SAC alert facilities was top notch - great omelets. The crews had to stay there when on alert rotation, so they had everything inside the wire. My last base was SAC KC-135 refuelers - always kept a couple on alert. Buffs had enough fuel to get aloft with a bomb bay full of goodies (less fuel = more goodies), then tankers top it off for the sortie.
Thanks Gen. LeMay, wherever you are.
Billions of dollars wasted on a dick swinging contest, lol, fortunately the money can just be printed and tossed on top of the US peoples debt to pay back sometime in the future so no worries there.
I never thought I'd see myself write this:
BELLICOSE OBAMA!
The Paper Tiger President!
Old John McCain is probably getting a stiffie over all of this nuclear dick-swinging. This is probaby the first one he's had since he was strafing children working in Vietnamese rice paddies. I just hope old Johnny's effeminate man crush, Lindsey Grahan, is there to service him if WW3 starts and he shoots a wad.
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault
I had the strangest experience on Saturday, at a ladies' tea I went to. A close friend of mine, a 66 y.o. grandmother who is an utter political ignoramus, beyond imagining in her ignorance, and also no sort of cynic at all, told me that she thought that the media was treating Putin badly. That she could see that he had arguably legitimate interests, but that the media were just making it all look one-sided. I told her that all the mainstream media pieces that I was reading, read just like propaganda - I mean like cheap, obvious propaganda - and she agreed. I nearly fell out of my chair.
I loathe Putin, but I don't appreciate being fed kiddy-level propaganda that even my friend can see though.
And why do you "loathe Putin" ?
Because the MSM had told you to.
Or maybe because he's a douche.
I am Chumbawamba.
Wow, what a bizarre assertion. Here I am reading and posting on ZH; I assert that the MSM is a veritable tissue of propaganda, and you infer that I must be a real MSM-lover and follower. I guess you didn't actually read my post.
Graham Nash 'Military Madness' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czUx2gvjdJk
Time to build the root cellar, damn it's an El Nino year!- Got pumps?
"...brings five decades of technological innovation to war..."
So, it's old.?...I feel ...better? ....."More secure".????
Wonder how much this dick waving is gonna cost us?
“Of course knowing the content of a call can be crucial to establishing a particular threat. But metadata alone can provide an extremely detailed picture of a person’s most intimate associations and interests, and it’s actually much easier as a technological matter to search huge amounts of metadata than to listen to millions of phone calls. As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, ‘metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.’
“When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment ‘absolutely correct,’ and raised him one, asserting,‘We kill people based on metadata.’”
‘We kill people based on Cellphone Metadata’ – Former CIA Director
Maybe identity theft would be a good way to fight this war !
The politicians and bankers are absolutely crazy to let things escalate to this extent. They must have some fantasy that they will be taken safely underground during a nuclear war. That ain't how it will work. The people really in charge of the military aren't going to be needing any politicians from societies that no longer exist. They are not going to need them breathing their air and eating their food and drinking their water. If I were a Washington D.C. politician I would presume that if the SHTF I would have a very short future. They are choosing their own fate by not enforcing the Constitution of the United States of America. How could judges and people that are not stupid people be such idiots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA
I love how all this shit is always "unrelated" and "scheduled months ago", as if any documents supporting those statements would ever be made public. It's called lying.
It's just a pissing contest, both sides can wipe each other off the map if it came down to it.
Dunno why they bother reminding each other.
re US Holds Massive Nuclear Weapons Exercise "To Deter And Detect Strategic Attacks"
Looking in the wrong direction. The enemy of the USA is within - not without.
These War Games are a set up for the real thing - with you on the receiving end - brought to you, it goes without saying, by the "Usual Suspects".
Latest Podcasts on Ukraine-Russia-NATO
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Also, don't miss the interview with Steve from Economic Undertow on Economics.
RE
Meanwhile the insanity goes on unabated as the Dow S&P, FTSE CAC DAX SMI SA Sensex & Others hit new ATH's
Seems like either the dog and the tail have changed places or the tail is wagging the dog.
We are there so Bidens son can sit on the board of directors of Ukraine largest privately owned gas producer
http://burisma.com/hunter-biden-joins-the-team-of-burisma-holdings/
Regime change in Ukraine: $30 billion
Sanctions in Russia: $300 billion
Defcon 4 for Military Industrial Complex: PRICELESS!!
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