Archived Shows - November 2007

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Friday, November 30, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

01:00 Introduction
Miguel, Nora and Evelina

03:00 Barrio Unido Activist
Reports back from Palestine
Cristina Lopez, Barrio Unido

12:00  Venezuela:
Revolution from the Inside Out
Clifton Ross, filmmaker and activist

22:00 Poetry with California Poet Laureate
Al Young, award-winning poet and California's Poet Laureate

28:00 AIM and the Re-establishment of West Coast Office
Bill Means, co-founder, AIM and International Indian Treaty Council
Tony Gonzales, communications director, AIM coordinator

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
TAPED - Chelis Lopez, Encuentro del Canto Popular

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Thursday, November 29, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: George W. Bush and puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki racketeer in occupied Iraq, trading security for American corporate investments, we'll speak with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail about the latest corporate plundering of Iraq; also, Kristen Ess reports from the ground in the occupied West Bank on the unfolding reaction in the streets and at the checkpoints to Annapolis; plus, father and son Frank and Martin Espada discuss Puerto Rican diasporic art, poetry and culture as a movement to resist colonialism and celebrate tradition; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Bush & Maliki Sign Racketeering Documents for Permanent US Presence in Iraq
Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints' Special Correspondent, www.dahr.org
Read Dahr Jamail's article How to Control the Story, Pentagon-style on TomDispatch.com

21:00 News headlines from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org

25:00 Report from Occupied Palestine: Continued Reaction at Annapolis
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

31:00 On the Puerto Rican Diaspora: Art, Culture and Resistance
Martin Espada, poet
Frank Espada, photographer

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

01:00 The Knight Report

05:00  Report from Palestine: PA attacks journalists and Protesters
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

17:00  Reflections from Occupied Gaza                                                                                                           ANSWER Coalition - Answersf.org
Rami Al-Meghari, Freelance journalist

26:00  Reports from Palestine Streets
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

39:00  Music Break

41:00 Sixty Years of Partition in Palestine
Dick Becker, ANSWER Coalition- www.answersf.org
Michele Shehadeh, LA 8

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Pacifica Archives Fund Drive
From poetry to protest, from studio to the streets, Pacifica Radio Archives documents the last half of the 20th century in sound. From WBAI in New York

The Big Bang: 1968 Rewound
Today we'll get just a taste of PRA's 40th anniversary 1968 retrospective. We'll rewind the tape to rediscover Dale Minor's reports on the Vietnamese Tet offensive, author Julius Lester's interview with poet June Jordan, Ossie Davis calming a Central Park crowd the day following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, one of Robert F. Kennedy's last speeches, students reporting direct from Paris, Ayn Rand's commentary on the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, and countless other moments. 

Broadcast across the nation all day from WBAI in New York to raise funds to protect and preserve the archives treasures of audio history

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Monday, November 26, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Empty promises and loaded missiles: We take a hard look at the Mideast peace summit in Annapolis, as US-made Israeli F16s kill three more Palestinians in occupied Gaza; we'll speak to Ali Abunimah about the sham conferences; also, we'll have a report from on the ground in Gaza about the unraveling humanitarian disaster, as Israel prepares to once again inflict collective punishment against the 1.5 million people trapped inside; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on the internal politics and the state of journalism; and the Knight Report.

06:00 On the Sham Summit in Annapolis  
Ali Abunimah, ElectronicIntifada.net                                                                                                                                                                    Naomi Shihab Nye

20:00 Report from Occupied Gaza: Empty Promises, Loaded Missiles
Mohammed Omer, RafahToday.org, photojournalist and reporter

33:00 Perspectives from the Occupied West Bank:
Tensions Run High, Journalists Under Fire
Kristen Ess, FP Palestine Bureau Chair


55:00 Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

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Friday, November 23, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Revolutionary activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs, at 92 years old, talks about social evolution and radical change from the community roots; also, Internal Exile: From Palestine to the USA to Mexico, an art exhibition in San Francisco that takes a deep look at the experiences of indigenous people in colonized nations; and The War Comes Home, a segment by KPFA producer Aaron Glantz, speaks with Iraq war resister Augustin Aguayo.

01:00  Internal Exile: From Palestine to the USA to Mexico
Uda Walker, Tal Adler and Rawia Aburabia –
At the SOMArts gallery in SF, thru Nov. 30th                                                                                                                                                Augustin Aguayo at Conscientious Objectors
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20:00  Augustin Aguayo: The War Comes Home
Augustin Aguayo and Aaron Glantz 
Transcript Link.

26:00  Music break - Invincible - "Sledgehammer"


28:00 Resistance, Rebellion and Community Evolution
Grace Lee Boggs, activist, philosopher, visionary

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Thursday, November 22, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Today on a special Thanks-Taking edition of Flashpoints, We spend the hour with Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover, talking about war, empire, indigenous resistance and global justice at an event called the Gathering for Justice last week in Oakland.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Harry Belafonte                Danny Glover


01:00 Danny Glover
Danny Glover at the The Gathering
for Justice with Evelina Molina

12:00 Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte at the Gathering for Justice

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We feature an in-depth interview with legendary author, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky; also, our correspondent Joe Tougas submits to being waterboarded, a key instrument of torture used by the US government, he describes in detail what it's like to be nearly drowned; plus, activists with Code Pink continue to take on Marine recruitment in Berkeley; and the Knight Report.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Noam Chomsky, linguist, author


01:00 Noam Chomsky on Pakistan, the War and Occupation
in Iraq and the Possible War in Iran.
Noam Chomsky, legendary linguist, scholar, author and historian

                                     

42:00  Waterboarding Demonstration at UC Berkeley                                                                                                                                     Protestors face off in Berkeley
Joe Tougas, FP Correspondent
Rafael, World Can't Wait


54:00  Code Pink Takes on the Marine Recruitment
Center in Berkeley
Zanne Joi, Code Pink

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Well-known author and anti-nuclear activist, Jonathan Schell talks about the dangers of a nuclear Pakistan; Also, a new report documents the making of crucifixes under horrific sweatshop conditions in China; and news headlines from Occupied Palestine.

01:00 The Dangers of Nuclear Pakistan
Jonathan Schell, author, professor, Harold Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute
New book: The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

Read Are You With Us...Or Against Us? The Road from Washington to Karachi to Nuclear Anarchy By Jonathan Schell on the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website www.wagingpeace.org

25:00 Sweatshop Conditions for Crucifix Laborers
Charles Keringan- National Labor Committee based in NYC
www.nlcnet.org

Young women on the assembly line, some appearing to be just 15 or 16 years  old.
Workers sit on hard wooden benches without backrests. www.nlcnet.org

Read the National Labor Committee report on Chinese Crucifix makers,
Today Workers Bear the Cross

47:00 Music Break

49:00 Reports from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center – www.imemc.org
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief

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Monday, November 19, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We continue our drumbeat coverage of the San Francisco oil spill; We'll feature an interview with a leading ecologist whose been in the middle of the bird rescue; Also, we begin our multi-part series on the sub-prime meltdown and its particular impact on the poor, working class and people of color; Our Palestine bureau chief Kristen Ess reports on the various economic, political, and social impacts of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
More military misadventures in Iraq and more
confusion in Pakistan.

06:00 Environmental Update:
Wildlife Impact from Oil Spill
Josiah Clark, ecologist with specialty in SF's native ecosystems

26:00 Reports from Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

44:00 Latino Community Hardest Hit by Shaky Sub-Prime Mortgage Deals
Ellen Schlomer, research director at Center for Responsible Lending

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Friday, November 16, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Cleanup workers in the longshoreman's union blow the whistle on the lack of oil companies preparedness for oil spills. Also a hip hop performance that explores the history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the history and legacy of US colonialism and genocide against Native Americans. Plus indigenous activitsts continue their protest against UC Berkeley and their refusal to release the remains tens of thousands of native people.  Flashpoints in Espanol presents a mini documentary on the recent border patrol attack on Immigration Rights protestors. .

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Thursday, November 15, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A noted naturalist and artist talks about the devastating impact that the recent oil spill has had on the pristine beaches at Stinson and Bolinas, where dozens of species of birds have been affected as well as other wildlife; also, we'll hear about the impact of the spill on the people of color in the Bay View-Hunter's Point neighborhood of San Francisco; Kristen Ess provides a primer on the upcoming so-called peace talks and background on the Hamas-Fatah split; we'll also have an update on the situation in Pakistan and its impact on the war in Iraq and possibly war with Iran; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight
07:00 The Bay Area Oil Spill – Continued Reports and Eyewitness Response

• Keith Hansen, artist from the Wildlife Gallery in Bolinas
• John Glavis, shaman and healer, Bolinas Mystery School
• Marie Harrison, Green Action, SF Bayview-Hunters Point

Do not handle oiled wildlife. To report birds and animals in distress call (877) 823-6926 or the Marin Humane Society (415) 883-4621 or Wild Care in San Rafael (415) 456-SAVE. Also visit www.ibrrc.org to report an oiled bird sighting online

29:00 Report from the Occupied West Bank: On Hamas, Fatah and Annapolis
International Middle East Media Center – www.imemc.org
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints' Palestine Bureau Chief

48:00 On the Looming US-Led Attack on Iran
Larry Everest, historian, author

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Longtime Mexico correspondent and award-winning author John Ross talks about Blackwater's invasion at the Southern US border, corn and the impacts of free trade in Mexico; also, we'll have an update on the devestating environmental impacts of the recent oil spill in the Bay Area; and a special edition of the Knight Report into recent revelations regarding Rudy Giuliani and the former police chief, Bernard Kerik of New York City.

01:00 The Knight Report Robert Knight



09:00 The Bay Area Oil Spill
Sejal Chikso, Attorney, BayKeeper.org



24:00 Update on Mexico
John Ross, author, poet, historian

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: How oil companies and their lawyers insulate themselves after toxic oil spills, we'll take a look at the continuing trauma faced by victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill 18 years ago; also, Public Citizen weighs in on oil addiction and the lack of Congressional action to protect people from spills; the US Border Patrol beat peaceful protesters at a rally on the culminating day of a five-day No Borders Camp at the US-Mexico border; our Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank, on the anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death, as seven Palestinians are killed in fomented factional violence in Gaza; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Pervez Musharraf protects Pakistani constitutional rights by hiding them under martial law
• Amnesty and the Archbishop condemn US torture transfers in Afghanistan
• Skirmishes continue between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan
• Congress prices the war at $1.5 trillion
• The Boston Globe has some ideas how that war money could have been spent

Robert Knight

05:00 The Bay Area Oil Spill: Lessons from Alaska
Riki Ott, Author, Sound Truth and Corporate Myth: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and forthcoming Not One Drop

Not One Drop is scheduled for release January 31, 2008 from Chelsea Green Publishing

23:00 Oil Addiction and the Spill
Tyson Slocum, director, Public Citizen's Energy Program
Visit Public Citizen at www.citizen.org

Visit Cheney's CAFE, where you can download the emails and calendars that expose Cheney's involvement, and get more information. www.citizen.org/cheneyscafe

33:00 Attacks on No Borders Camp
Alejandro Reyes, FP Correspondent, describes the week-long bi-national No Borders Camp protests at the Calexico/Mexicali border. During closing ceremonies Border Patrol officers attacked a rally at the Mexicali/Calexico port of entry. Around 100 Border Patrol officers assaulted a group of about 30 demonstrators on the U.S. side with pepper gas pellets, tazers, and batons. Several people were beaten and arrested; more suffered from the use of chemical weapons.

Visit www.noborderscamp.org learn more and to to watch the alarming video of border patrol agents' unprovoked attacks on peaceful demonstrators. Read the press release.

40:00 News Headlines from the International Middle East Media Center
IMEMC report for Tuesday November 13, 2007 by Ghassan Bannoura

45:00 Report from Occupied Palestine: 7 Palestinians Killed at Arafat Rally
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief, reports on memorial services, gatherings and speeches on the third anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death.

Fatah supporters commemorate Arafat's death.  Photo by Ghassan Bannoura - 2007

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Monday, November 12, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:
Today on a special Veterans Day edition of Flashpoints, author and Middle East scholar Phyllis Bennis gives an in-depth analysis from Pakistan to Iraq as well as the possibilities of war against Iran; also, an update in the case of Lieutenant Ehren Watada, an active duty resister who continues his anti-war fight from inside the military; poetry by Aurora Levins-Morales; and Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank.

01:00 On US Foreign Policy and Regional Hegemony: From Pakistan to Palestine to Iran
Phyllis Bennis, fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

Read at http://www.ips-dc.org/projects/newinternat.htm

31:00 Update in the Case of Lt. Ehren Watada, GI resister
Sarah Olsen, Independent Journalist

Lt. Ehren Watada with his parents

40:00 Music Break: When Johnny Comes Marching Home – Jim Page

42:00 Poetry: Gravesong For Immigrant Soldiers
Aurora Levins-Morales

51:00 Report from Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

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Friday, November 9, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Pre-empted by FCC hearings in Seattle
FCC: The Battle In Seattle (Part 1)

Seattle is ready for the FCC, but is the FCC ready for Seattle? The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled its final public hearing on media ownership in one of the strongholds of the media democracy movement. The hearing will clear the way for the FCC to make dramatic increases in the amount of broadcast and print media one company can own. The hearing has been called on five business days' notice, prompting a sharp critique from the Commission's Democratic minority, who wrote: "Clearly, the rush is on to push media consolidation to a quick and ill-considered vote. It shows there is a preordained outcome." Larry Bensky hosts live coverage of the protests in the streets and the hearing chamber, with expert guests and listener call-ins.

Click here for the KPFA archive page for these hearings

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Thursday, November 8, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Local residents of eastern San Diego organize against Blackwater; also the US maneuvers at the United Nations to continue its illegal war in Iraq; a closer look at Israeli ethnic cleansing policies, as nearly 400 Palestinians are forced off their land by Israeli bulldozers and soldiers; JR and The Block Report give an update on the assassination of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey; and the Knight Report

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00 The Iraqi Refugee Crisis and UN Reauthorization of US Occupation
The situation on the ground belies upbeat reports of improving security as thousands of Iraqis flee each day. Also discussed is US maneuvering to silence the Iraqi parliament's decision not to support reauthorization of the UN mandate and to end the occupation.                                                                                                    Raed Jarrar 
Raed Jarrar, American Friends Service Committee speaker for the Iraqi Refugee Crisis tour, is an Iraqi political analyst and consultant to AFSC's Iraq Program currently based in Washington, D.C.  After the U.S.-led invasion, Jarrar became the country director for CIVIC Worldwide, the only door-to-door casualty survey group in post-war Iraq. He then established Emaar, (meaning "reconstruction" in Arabic), a grassroots organization that provided humanitarian and political aid to Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs).  Emaar delivers medicine and food as well as helped initiate micro-enterprise projects for IDPs, with specific concern directed towards women and children.  Additionally, Emaar has engaged in political advocacy on behalf of populations displaced due to ethnic discrimination.

Visit www.afsc.org for more information and to sign the letter to Congress to defund the wars

15:00 Blackwater Mercenary Camp in San Diego
Blackwater USA, one of the largest private military contractors in the world, has proposed "Blackwater West" to be built in a valley just north of the small town of Potrero, in East San Diego County. The proposed 824-acre facility includes a portion of the Cleveland National Forest.

Raymond Lutz, coordinator for Citizens' Oversight Projects, discusses Potrero residents' opposition to the Blackwater West training camp and other mercenary training facilities proposed near the US-Mexico border in SabDiego and Imperial counties. www.CitizensOversight.org

Visit StopBlackwater.net and the Blackwater Mercenary Camp page for more information. Click here for Raymond Lutz's video presentation on the rise of Blackwater and its connections to the Neocon agenda.

24:00 Reports from Palestine
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Special Correspondent in Palestine, reports on the arrest and imprisonment of a journalist and television director by Fatah party intelligence forces. Alsom FP Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman interviews Bekah Wolf an activist with the Palestine Solidarity Project in Beit Ommar in the West Bank who describes stepped up detentions, arrests, demolitions and forced relocations intended to terrorize Palestinians and expand Israeli territorial claims.

40:00 Update on the Murder of Chauncey Bailey in Oakland
JR of the Block Report interviews the owner of Oakland's Cafe Axe Cultural Center who describes efforts by City Hall and the Oakland PD to shut down the center, and links to the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey.

www.blockreportradio.com

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Feinstein and Schumer tip the balance despite Mukasey's refusal to call waterboarding torture; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess documents the release of a young Palestinian woman after four years of imprisonment and torture in an Israeli prison; plus, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail updates the situation in US-occupied Iraq, which now includes over 2,000 Iraqis fleeing their homes every day; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

05:00  Pro-Torture Attorney General and Impeachment of Cheney
Marjorie Cohn, President, National Lawyer's Guild

15:00  Special Report from Occupied Palestine:
Palestinian Prisoner Released
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

40:00 On Wars, Occupations and Journalism
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent – www.dahr.org

EVENT: Thursday, Nov. 8, 7pm
at First Congregational Church,
2501 Harrison in Oakland
www.mecaforpeace.org for more information

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints: Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail on his new book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq; and JR and the Block Report focuses in on the case of Aaron Patterson, political prisoner, speaking with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and a close supporter of Patterson.

01:00  Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent
and author of Beyond the Green Zone


31:00 Aaron Patterson and Political Prisoners' Rights
JR and the Block Report with Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr and Wallace Gator Bradley, supporter of Patterson's case

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Monday, November 5, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast  
01:00 Reports from Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints' Palestine Bureau Chief

27:00 Hip Hop, Palestine and Revolutionary Activism
Ilana Weaver, aka Invincible  and  www.detroitsummer.org

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Friday, November 2, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

01:00 On California's Political Response to the Fires and Deportations in San Diego
Gil Cedillo, California State Senator

08:00 Conference on Prisoners' Rights
Dorsey Nunn, co-director, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
(Images from Prisoners with Children's website)



18:00  The Anniversary of the Longest Walk
Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement

31:00  International Socialism Conference this Weekend
Toufic Haddad, author, Between the Lines
Todd Chretien, International Socialism Organization

43:00  Flashpoints En Espanol

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Thursday, November 1, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

01:00 After 20 Years, Federal Charges Against LA8 Dropped     
Michel Shehadeh, defendant in the “LA8”

13:00 Reports from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center
Kristen Ess, FP Palestine Bureau Chief

20:00 Occupation 101
Sound from the Documentary film

40:00 Pitch for KPFA Fund Drive

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

01:00  Update on Violence by Narco-Dictatorship in Burma

06:00  Project Censored: Media and Democracy
Frank Morales, PC Award-winner on US National Security



23:00  Media and Democracy continued
Bob Parry investigative reporter Consortium News.

40:00 Pitch for KPFA Fund Drive

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