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Articles Communication With Our Members Calendars of Events Opportunities and Petitions Commentaries from Our Members Rich Austin: Criticizing Israeli is Not Anti-Semitic Don
Smith: Some Ways We Need Government Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef Immigration: A forgotten Issue? Blue Dog Democrats Emphasize Fiscal Responsibility State and Local Links
to the Beef Economic Opportunity Council: Helping Families Trying to Understand Affordable Housing Some Reactions to Democratic Party PCO Training* Dow Constantine Runs for King County
Executive Two Bellevue Councilmen Support BNSF Transit Route Nation and World Links to the Beef Lots of Blame for Our Financial Crisis How Much Credit and Consumption Do We Need? David Korten Calls for Changing Our Economy* A Black President Isn’t Enough.
Blacks Need More. Our Stimulus-Investment Package Helps Seniors Our Liberal Spirit Caretaking and Personal Growth Our
Political Priorities ·
Fair Clean
Elections and Open Government ·
Fair Taxes and
Competent Spending ·
Investment for
Productivity ·
Quality
Health, Education, Jobs, Income ·
Environmental
Protection and Energy Independence ·
Security and
Equal Rights ·
Justice and
Peace Everywhere ·
International
Cooperation and Leadership Conservatives oppose all of these Let’s
End Our National Nightmare
Let’s
Restore Our American Dream More on Conservative opposition to our
American Dream Washington State’s 5 Major Needs ·
Federal
Funding for Health and Education · Substitute
a Progressive Income Tax · Replacing
Conservative Legislators Quote of the Week You can't
help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
H. Norman
Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
Communication with Our Members
My
favorite advocacy groups are ones which best address our major issues. These include: Economic Opportunity
Institute (EOI), Washington
Public Campaigns, Washington
CAN (Community Action Network), Statewide Poverty Action Network),
Sightline, Futurewise, and Environmental
Priorities Coalition (and its members.
This issue contains a second commentary concerning EOI’s concerns.
Calendar of Events
Thursday, February 26 at 7 PM at Sammamish Library (825 – 228th
NE, Sammamish) – Issues in American Democracy Discussion Group,
featuring five 5th Legislative District Democrats discussing their
participation in President Obama’s Inauguration. Dinner and appetizers at 6:30 PM.
Saturday, March 7 at 7 PM at
Saturday, March 14 at 6 PM at Seattle Center Fisher Pavilion – Futurewise Carnaval
Dinner and Fundraiser, including live and silent auctions. $85.
RSVP by March 6th.
Opportunities
and Petitions
Opportunities
Useful
Websites: contacts, maps, community organizing tools, and more.
Access
to jillions of political cartoons.
Download
Sightline Institute’s climate policy primer ‘Cap and Trade 101’. About
Sightline.
Learn
more about the Obama-Biden policy agenda and share your ideas.
For updates from Obama-Biden Transition Project, including
video of Obama’s weekly address.
Ask Democratic national
committee Chair Tim Kaine about future of Democratic Party.
Obtain Progressive
States Networks resources for improving many state government services.
Petitions and Donations
Commentaries
From Our Members
Rich Austin: Criticism of Israeli Foreign
Policy is not Anti-Semitic
Here in the land of freedom we all get to express our
points of view on various issues.
Sometimes when we do express ourselves, others with different points of
view will from time to time resort to ridiculous assertions to try to bolster
their arguments.
Personally, I find it offensive for anyone to suggest
that those of us who object to
People can’t have it both ways. Opposing the decisions and actions of leaders
in government – any government – is not synonymous with opposing the
governed. We can object to the actions
of dictators, like
Sorry, but the cry “anti-Semite” rings hollow. It is akin to Samuel Johnson’s
warning that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”.
Johnson, of course, was not indicting patriotism in general, only false
patriotism. Rich Austin
Liberals
and Democrats
Obama Watch – Month 1
Transition and Appointments
·
A large diverse
transition team rapidly investigated government agencies and departments to
begin determining priorities for reforming and strengthening them.
·
Key Whitehouse staff
were appointed. See
who’s who.
·
All top Cabinet
offices but two and many sub-cabinet offices have been filled.
·
Other agency
posts were filled.
President Obama’s inaugural address Read or View it.
·
Repeated his
campaign commitments to our constitutional rights and to cooperating with other
nations.
·
Reminded us that
our struggles are many and will not be easy or quickly resolved.
·
Informed us that
resolving these struggles would require not only government action, but action
by all of us collectively and individually.
·
Called for an
ethic of service. His message was one
that both Liberals and Conservatives could approve. For more. More.
Many Changes Begin
·
President Obama
proclaimed a new transparency and accountability in government, established
rules to separate his staff from lobbyists (for
more), and placed a lid on their salaries, all oriented to gaining our
trust.
·
President Obama’s
transition website, change.gov has been closed.
Three new websites have been created:
·
Whitehouse.gov
to promote transparency and america.gov to tell
·
Organizing for America has been
created to allow our grassnet people to continue their support for Liberal
reforms. For more. For
more.
·
Recovery.gov has been created to provide
transparency for the spending of our Stimulus and Recovery funds.
·
He blocked
further implementation of Bush’s final regulations to assist his cronies.
·
He prohibited
torture, stopped military trials of accused terrorists and promised to close our
Guantanamo prison within a year.
Environmental, Health and Labor Actions
·
President Obama
indicated that his administration will move quickly to allow
states to set strict automobile emissions and fuel-efficiency standards. For
more. For more. And
to limit global warming.
·
He reversed Bush’s
ban on aid to family planning agencies. For more. For more.
·
With union leaders present,
President Obama signed orders, which union officials say will undo Bush
administration policies that tilted toward employers, would require federal
contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change, and would
make it more difficult for federal contractors to discourage union activities.
·
President Obama signed
the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act (video). For more.
·
President
Obama signed a children’s health bill, which adds 4 million children to the
9 million who were previously eligible for free health coverage. For
more.
·
President Obama
prepared to carefully expand cooperation with faith based programs.
Major Concern #1: Reviving Our American
Economy
Only 24 days after Obama’s inauguration, congress
passed a stimulus-investment package, which largely reflects President Obama’s initial
proposals. He has fulfilled his promise
to cut taxes for 90% of Americans. See more below.
He reached out to gain sufficient Republican
support. But only three Republican
senators and no Republican representatives voted for the package. Offering no comprehensive alternative,
Republicans are now on record as opponents of stimulating and investing in our
economy. For more. For more. Note that only 1 Republican voted for the
original Social Security bill.
Major Concern #2: Foreign Policy
·
President Obama’s
inaugural speech assured the world that we will no longer take a unilateral
approach.
·
Together with
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, a strong
foreign policy team is in place to strongly address foreign issues.
·
President and
Hillary Clinton have asserted that our foreign policy will rest on three legs:
diplomacy, development and military.
·
Obama gave his
national security team the mission to end our war in Iraq. For more.
·
As he has done
with other issues, Obama has reframed the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. In an interview on Arab
television, he said, “I think anybody who has studied the region recognizes
that the situation for the ordinary Palestinian in many cases has not improved.
And the bottom line in all these talks
and all these conversations is, is a child in the
·
Richard Holbrook was
named to address Afghanistan-Pakistan issues.
Perhaps another envoy will be named to address
·
Less noticed, President
is reorganizing the National Security Council to allow flexible
participation by relevant agencies in national security issues.
Whew!
What a start.
Notice
that President Obama is focusing upon improving our future. Not on the past. There is no thermometer of the extent to
which the damage done by President Bush is being undone. There are many issues which have not been
addressed such as: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ , promoting unionization, regulation
of corporate abuse, eliminating wasted subsidies and other spending, reforming
immigration policies, altering free trade to fair trade,
Immigration: A forgotten Issue?
President
Obama has indicated that his administration will deal with many of the issues
cited above as his political support and agenda allows. But no attention has recently been given to
reforming our immigration policies.
Until reform occurs, millions of our first generation immigrants are
being abused by employers and enforcement of unconstructive immigration
laws. For more.
Blue Dog Democrats Emphasize Fiscal
Responsibility
My
understanding is that Liberals believe both in fiscal responsibility and in
spending government money for cost beneficial investments in our infrastructure
and for cost beneficial safety net programs which support our less advantaged
people, including people who are only temporarily disadvantaged.
Liberals
vary concerning the extent to which we are willing to borrow to create and
maintain such investments and safety net programs.
The
difference between Blue Dog and other Democrats is minor compared to the
differences between Democrats and Republicans who oppose public investments and
safety nets and are fiscally irresponsible in order to serve their cronies. President Obama and Democrats who support
fiscal stimulation, regard it as temporary, with a return toward a balanced
budget when the stimulus is no longer needed.
For
more.
Here’s the Beef
Is our Liberal
movement created by Obama too beholden to him to provide critical analysis?
I love Rachel
Maddow’s cheerful joyous sarcastic attacks on Conservative hypocrisy.
I disagree that Howard
Dean should be a cabinet secretary, but he should have a political role.
Senator
Arlen Specter obtained 34% increase in National Institutes of Health budget.
Our
treaty commitments require us to punish Bush administration transgressions.
Activists ask
President Obama to ban weapons which indiscriminately kill and maim civilians.
Paul
Krugman: Republicans hypocritical, stimulus too small, bailout too vague.
Republicans
stand on principle. Wanting to get
things done, Democrats are more bi-partisan.
State
and Local
Economic
Our
Economic Opportunity
Institute (EOI) is a progressive public policy center, working on economic
security issues in
Our
EOI recognizes the importance of our family lives and that more than a sustainable
income is required. EOI addresses the
importance of and promotes quality early childhood education, both at
home and at
school. For
more. For
more. EOI praises
I strongly recommend that you
join, learn from and support our Thinking and Fighting EOI. Sign
up for EOI’s policy briefs. I would
like to see EOI also address increasing affordable housing near jobs, which
would reduce urban sprawl, commuting, congestion and pollution. By reducing commuting, it would greatly
increase the time that working family members have to enjoy and support each
other.
Trying to Understand Affordable Housing
I
have been unable to find an affordable book which describes the various
approaches to creating affordable housing.
The
following are excerpts from a wikipedia article on
affordable housing.
·
In the United
States and
·
Where the supply of available housing is less than the
demand, low- and moderate-income households often struggle to obtain housing
that is affordable. In these housing markets, rising land values often outpace
rising incomes. Such housing markets often have a limited supply of residential
land, or a number of regulations that make it difficult or costly to increase
housing supply at rents affordable to consumers at income ranges below the
local average. In the
·
In addition to the distress it causes families who cannot
easily find a place to live, lack of affordable housing is considered by many urban
planners to have negative effects on a community's overall health. For
example, lack of affordable housing can make low-cost labor more scarce, and
increase demands on transportation systems (as workers travel longer distances
between jobs and affordable housing).
·
Numerous policies in the
·
Affordable housing is a controversial reality of
contemporary life, for gains in affordability often result from expanding land
available for housing or increasing the density of housing units in a given area.
Ensuring a steady supply of affordable housing means ensuring that communities
weigh real and perceived livability impacts against the sheer necessity of
affordability. The process of weighing the impacts of locating affordable
housing is quite contentious, and is laden with
race and class implications.
What’s
Going On in
The Washington State Housing Finance Commission is a volunteer
board appointed by the governor to represent various geographic, business, and
public interests. It is a publicly
accountable, self-supporting team, dedicated to increasing housing access and
affordability and to expanding the availability of quality community services
for the people of
Seattle's Office of
Housing funds affordable workforce housing, both rental and ownership, as
well as supportive housing that helps vulnerable people achieve stability and
move along a path toward self-sufficiency. Office of Housing initiatives also
help stimulate housing development, allowing families to thrive and
neighborhoods to provide a full range of housing choice and opportunity. The
mission of the Seattle Office of Housing is to build strong healthy communities
and increase opportunities for people of all income levels to live in our city. Read a report
about Seattle’s needs. Among other
services, assistance
to people facing foreclosure has recently been announced.
The King County Housing Authority provides an array of affordable housing options. Subsidized housing communities are managed and maintained by KCHA, while people who receive Housing Choice vouchers receive subsidies that help them pay rent for apartments and other kinds of homes on the private market. People can also find subsidized units on the private market through the Private Housing program.
Housing Development Consortium
(HDC) is a nonprofit
trade association dedicated to promoting and facilitating the visibility,
quality, sustainability and effectiveness of affordable housing by its
nonprofit members, primarily throughout
Some Reactions to Democratic Party PCO Training
Deputy
2008 Gregoire Campaign Manager Zach Silk informed 250 of us of the importance
and the effort of the grassroots campaign for re-electing Governor
Gregoire. Coordinated Campaign Field
Director Chelsea Waliser presented a preview of our new organization Organizing for America. For
more. The PCO handbook was
distributed, which contains information about the structure of our Democratic
Party, being a Precinct Committee Officer, Getting out the Vote, grassroots
groups and the Voterfile.
Voter Identification Canvassing
Our
experience in canvassing our Lake Hills Neighborhood (12 precincts) in
The
following script is recommended, “Hi, I’m Ben Fitch and I live on
I
recommend instead, “Hi, I’m
Notice
also that our objective is to elect Democrats.
We don’t care whether the likely Democratic voter is one of the 60% who
consider themselves Democrats or 40% who consider themselves independents. By focusing upon people who consider
themselves Democrats, many likely Democratic voters are ignored.
In
Lake Hills, we have identified 90% of the likely Democratic voters, compared
with 57% which have been identified statewide.
We also have email addresses for 30% of the identified likely Democratic
voters and send them this newsletter each week.
This includes recommending our candidates which may be as good as other
get-out-the-vote efforts. Our State
Democratic Party has 100,000 email addresses, but sends no regular newsletters
to them.
Lonely
PCOs often don’t canvass. I recommend
that each Legislative District Organization define about 15 clusters of
precincts, create cluster teams to canvass each cluster, and after people have
canvassed, encourage them to become PCOs.
Voter Databases
The
PCO handbook and presentation also described the Democratic Party Voterfile. Canvassing our cluster of 12 precincts as a
team, we have been unable to access the Voterfile for all of our
precincts. Instead we have easily
created our own MS Access file which began with all registered voters to which
we have added other dwellings with no registered voters.
It
has columns for last and first name, age, address, including community and zip
code, precinct and precinct cluster, phone number and email address. Concerning party identification, we have D =
Democrat, R = Republican, C = Cynic, U = Uncertain, X = can’t register or vote,
and V = vacant. We have columns for
whether they receive our newsletter, and for monitor (willing to help canvass
and get-out-the-vote, hold events, etc.).
Legislative
District Democratic Organization databases may also include participation
columns (leader, attends meetings, works with action teams and other task
groups); funding columns (pays dues, makes pledge, makes special
contributions); grassroots participation (grassroots precinct cluster team member,
canvassing experience, literature drop, phone bank); skills (computer, website,
writing, editing, publishing, public speaking, training, mentoring, organizing)
and more. You get the idea.
I can give you the program I
use which allows you to select people according to their characteristics in one
or more columns and send emails to the selected ones. For example,
leaders, Communication Action Team members, Maple Valley residents, dues paying
members, phone bankers, speakers, etc. You can send them mailings, each person
getting a separate email, as I do with this newsletter.
Our Recession and Stimulus-Investment Package
Seattle University Professor
Russell Lidman and 9th District Congressman Adam Smith addressed us
respectively about our recession and stimulus-investment package. Both gave the impression that we should
restore our credit so that we can continue to Borrow and Consume as we did before the recession. I asked Adam Smith whether we needed to
return to an Earn, Conserve and Invest
economy, instead of borrowing and consuming.
He replied that if people want to consume, we should make it possible.
I am not sure people want to
consume near as much as we have, except for the omnipresent commercial
advertising and the credit pushing (like drug pushing). And those who do want to consume a lot are
destroying our planet’s resources at a ferocious rate. I suspect that Congressman Adam Smith is
typical of other congress members who are eager to enable our habits, whether
good or bad. It is such thinking which
allows high credit card interest rates and paycheck lending, so that people can
borrow, who can’t even get buy on their incomes, much less pay back borrowed
money.
Two
I am pleased to notice that two
Bellevue Councilmen (Conrad Lee and Don Davidson support making light rail
travel along the BNSF (Dinner Train) right of way. Looking long run, this route would facilitate
extending it south to
This route avoids severely
impacting neighborhoods south of
Here’s the Beef
Central Puget
Sound’s population is 3.6 million, growing slightly slower the past several
years.
Home-based person
trips per household increased since 1961; Commuting requires 50% more time.
By 2040, 1.1 million
(59%) jobs, 1.4 (56%) million people and 20 (41%) million trips will be added.
Pugetopolis’s
population increase has fueled suburban development.
Will
Washington attract lots of ‘Climate Refugees’?
Targeted
tax increases instead of budget cutting are needed to stimulate Washington’s
economy.
Oregon’s Work
Share Program enables companies to cut back without laying off employees.
During
recession, people support local stores.
Bellevue
plans Bel-Red Corridor based on light rail stations.
Washington's
new electronics recycling program is very successful.
Nation
and World
Lots of Blame for Our Financial Crisis
Time
Magazine reported, “It is tempting to blame the whole political-industrial
complex, starting with whoever first had the idea of lending $750,000 to
someone making $17,000 a year; the regulators who said that was O.K. and the
politicians who encouraged them; the financial geniuses who rolled up all those
mistakes into a big ball of bad loans, chopped them up and sold them; and above
all, the presiding executives who got performance bonuses whether they
performed or not, buying and selling things whose value they could not possibly
know, finding ways to reduce risk that instead greatly increased it, unleashing
on the markets what Warren Buffett called "financial weapons of mass
destruction.” Time Magazine picked 25 people to
blame for the financial crisis.
My list would include: Milton Friedman and others of
the
How Much Credit and Consumption Do We Need?
Comparing
our lifestyles with those in other countries, it is apparent that we could be
happy with much less consumption. If we
consume less and speculate less, we will use much less credit. Especially if our earnings are higher.
Having
lost much of our speculative stock and housing gains, we are now saving by
consuming less. Unfortunately, this
provides less demand to sustain our economy.
With less private consumption, we need to sustain the economy with
public investment. Realizing this, we
have passed our economic stimulus-investment package to begin increasing public
investment. For
more.
Needing
less credit, we can let some large insolvent financial companies fail. It will cost those of us who directly or
indirectly own shares in them. But as
taxpayers, we will benefit from not having to pay for bailing them out.
David Korten Calls for Changing Our Economy to
Reduce Consumption
He says, “Our economic system has failed
in every dimension: financial, environmental, and social. And the current
financial collapse provides an incontestable demonstration that it has failed
even on its own terms. Spending trillions of dollars in an effort to restore
this system to its previous condition is a reckless waste of time and resources
and may be the greatest misuse of federal government credit in history. The
more intelligent course is to acknowledge the failure and to set about
redesigning our economic system from the bottom up to align with the realities
and opportunities of the twenty-first century.”
“We do, in fact, have the means to create
an economy that fulfills six criteria of economic health. Such an economy
would:
1. Provide everyone with the opportunity for a healthy,
dignified, and fulfilling life.
2. Bring human consumption into balance with Earth's
natural systems.
3. Nurture relationships within strong, caring
communities.
4. Honor sound, rule-based market principles.
5. Support an equitable and socially efficient allocation
of resources.
6.
Fulfill the democratic
ideal of one-person, one-vote citizen sovereignty.” For more. For more.
David Korten’s thinking is in
agreement with my formulation that our mindset and economy must change from Borrow, Consume and Speculate to Earn, Conserve and Invest.
A Black President Isn’t Enough.
Blacks Need More.
It
isn’t enough when “you go home for the holidays and you gather with relatives
at Christmas and cousins are locked up; and the men can't find a job; and the
women are being paid too little at their jobs; and the kids' schools suck; and
you realize the race is really just beginning." For
more.
Our Stimulus-Investment Package Helps Seniors
·
Providing a $250 relief payment for older Americans not eligible for the work credit;
·
Extending health insurance and unemployment benefits for those without
jobs;
·
Sending assistance to states to protect health care for the most vulnerable;
·
Addressing the Social Security claims backlog;
·
Increasing food stamps and nutrition assistance; and
·
Improving health care through health information technology and comparative
effectiveness research.
Here’s the Beef
Youth Promise Act
will comprehensively prevent youth gangs and violence.
We should break up
businesses that are too big to fail.
Insolvent banks can
only recover if their mystery securities recover or are removed.
1
in 9 U.S. dwellings are vacant. And
we have increasing numbers of homeless people.
Homeless are occupying
vacant houses.
Homeowners are
delaying foreclosure by demanding mortgage documents.
Recovery
of the world’s economy may stall.
We
need to create 19 million jobs to create full employment.
Our
stimulus package will help 37 our million poverty stricken people.
Our stimulus
package costs $80 billion for green projects, none for coal or nuclear.
Will green jobs be good
paying jobs?
5000 businesses now
belong to the Green America Green
Business Network
See where the stimulus
package will fund high speed rail.
Our
stimulus package provides $106 billion for education.
Massachusetts’
required private insurance health care plan isn’t working. It’s too expensive.
Increasing
productivity will offer opportunity to increased earnings.
Iranian
distribution of power is complicated. So
diplomacy will require sensitivity.
Global
climate change offers United States and China an opportunity to cooperate.
Intelligence official
says global economic collapse may spawn more terrorism.
Israel systematically
destroyed Gaza infrastructure. It was collective
punishment.
Our
Liberal Spirit
Caretaking and Personal Growth
Two
of my favorite movies are the Australian movie Tim and Rain Man, in
which one person cares for another and in doing so, improves their life. In Tim,
a professional woman who helps a younger retarded man ends up marrying
him. In Rain Man, a man helps his mentally ill brother and becomes a much
more sensitive and responsive person.
Like
my father, I have spent much of my life caring for humanity in the abstract,
but caring little for specific persons.
I have advocated for political, economic and social changes to help
people. But I have not helped people who
have immediate needs. I thought that
institutional changes would help more people.
But failed to recognize the suffering that people have when they don’t
quickly receive the care they need. Even
though I suffered and felt resentment when others didn’t give me the help I
thought I needed.
Personally
caring for other people is messy, often isn’t successful, requires responding
to intrusions in one’s agenda and is often personally painful. Advocating for people in general is abstract. You don’t have to deeply experience their
pain. You can’t so easily measure your
failure. You don’t put yourself at
personal risk.
In
recent years, my wife’s health has deteriorated. She has lost strength in her legs, needs to
go to the toilet frequently, and has lost much of her near term memory. She stubbornly resists having any one come in
to stay with her. So I only leave her
for a few hours. I maintain her
medicines. I ensure that she pays her
bills. I am doing more of the
cooking. I clean up after her. I continually look for things she has
misplaced.
I
enjoy doing these things because I love and respect her. I enjoy her company. When she is depressed, she sometimes says I
only help her as an obligation. I can
only respond that she finds it difficult to accept that I love her, because she
finds it difficult to love herself.
I
miss not being able to get away more.
But otherwise, I am enjoying my caring for her. Caring for her and publishing this newsletter
have become my favorite activities.
I am
more appreciative of others who are caring.
Who are caretakers. I appreciate
the importance of random acts of kindness.
Of paying it forward. Not because
I expect direct or indirect reciprocity.
Because I appreciate the pleasure or reduction of pain that
results. More abstractly, because I
believe our world is better when people help each other.
Recommended Books – See our list of books for liberals
Jason L. Riley, 2008, Let Them In. The Case for Open Borders.
Jason Riley supports
unregulated free markets and immigration, giving evidence that six arguments
against immigration are wrong. While I
agree that the arguments are wrong, I believe that regulations are necessary to
curb corporate abuse of immigrants and others.
The six arguments (which particularly apply to Hispanics, particularly
those from
Immigrants
cause too much population increase.
Immigrants
take American jobs.
Immigrants
come here because of and use our welfare, causing increases in welfare costs.
Immigrants
(especially those from
Immigrants
commit a disproportionate number of crimes.
Immigrants
(who may include terrorists) threaten our national security.
All of these arguments are
wrong. Immigrants come to work. They create jobs through making production
possible, spending money and paying taxes (For more.). They use less welfare and commit less crime
than natives. They are providing workers
helpful for supporting social security for the baby boom generation. They have included no terrorists. They and their descendents assimilate as rapidly
as did earlier immigrants. Birth rates
and population increase in
Immigration benefits us, but
should be made legal so that immigrants can be protected from abuse by
employers. Immigrants should have a path
to citizenship.
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