- The connection between the Bush family and the Nazi's
just so happens to be well-documented in the National Archives and the
U.S. Congressional Record.
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- And this treasonous connection, one that should have
been dealt with a long time ago, was finally brought to light in 2003 by
investigative reporter, Jonathan Buchanan, in an article first appearing
in the New Hampshire Gazette.
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- Finally, after 60 years of treasonous silence by politicians
and the media, the truth about how the Bush family came forward and how
they were nothing more that two-bit traitors and war profiteers.
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- But instead of praise, Buchanan was shunned and then
discredited by the mainstream media, his story ridiculed and then placed
in the black hole of conspiracy propaganda read by extremists on the internet.
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- Instead of the treasonous information ending the Bush
family reign of terror, it demonstrated just how treasonous, diabolical
and devious the government ad media had become.
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- Instead of using this information to once and for corral
the Bush family and its murderous past, the Nazi-like stranglehold on America
surfaced instead, rearing its ugly head as Daddy Bush called out the attack
dogs to once and for all silence Buchanan.
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- "I found out the hard way how the Bush family tries
to silence people trying to tell the truth, especially when you cross the
line," said Buchanan Thursday while appearing on Greg Szymanski's
radio show, The Investigative Journal. "I was so naïve.
I never thought what happened to me could happen in America, especially
for a person like me who believes in freedom of speech. But I found out
quickly freedom of speech doesn't exist in America when you begin uncovering
the truth about the Bush family."
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- What Buchanan meant by "finding out the hard way"
was that the Bush attack dogs, like true Nazis, on two separate occasions
hauled him into custody, accusing him of plotting to kill the President,
accusations that were of course unfounded but used as a scare tactic.
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- "I have to admit I was frightened to death because
I thought at any time for no reason they could haul me away," said
Buchanan, adding that his story led to him running for President of the
United States in 2004, leading to more than respectable showing in the
New Hampshire primaries.
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- "When I flew into Washington D.C. to give
a speech at the press club after the New Hampshire primaries, turned out
to be the first time I was apprehended by agents and held against my will
for two hours," recalled Buchanan, adding that after he was released
and gave his speech, he decided to take a train home to Florida instead
of flying.
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- "I have to admit I was worried about what was going
to happen when I returned home to the state controlled by Jeb, the brother
of the President."
- And Buchanan's worries quickly turned into a nightmare
of serious legal proportions, being arrested on a bogus14-count felony
complaint for aggravated stalking against a victim the state failed to
produce.
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- A story appearing on August 14, 2004 had this to say
about the Buchanan arrest:
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- Republican "9/11 Truth Candidate" John Buchanan
has been arrested in Florida on extremely suspicious charges. Buchanan,
an investigative reporter whose revelations have caused acute embarrassment
to the Bush family, is being held in most flagrant violation of US law.
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- Buchanan now faces an accelerated kangaroo court that,
within days, could send him to prison for up to five years for "stalking"
an unidentified "victim."
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- Buchanan's arrest happened in Dade County -- Jeb-Bush
country. He has been framed and placed in jail, which will prevent him
from attending the GOP convention where he hoped to challenge the nomination
of George W. Bush. This way-laying of a legitimate political challenger
shows the raw power of the criminal ruling elite that is now in power in
Washington.
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- Buchanan needs to be Issue Number One throughout the
convention. Demand his release and the end of suppression of his message.
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- Members of the web communities www.911sharethetruth.com
and www.911truth.org have been in touch over the last few hours with John
Buchanan, who ran against George W. Bush in the New Hampshire Republican
primary as the "9/11 Truth Candidate." Buchanan was featured
at the end of David Ray Griffin's book, The New Pearl Harbor and was interviewed
in the film, 9/11: The Greatest Lie Ever Sold.
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- Has Campaigning Against Bush Now Become 'Stalking'
- On February 4, while on his way to speak at an evening
meeting of the National Press Club, John was kidnapped by unidentified
federal agents who claimed to be Secret Service officers but apparently
were not.
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- Four days later, upon his return home, John was arrested
again. This time, on phony criminal charges contained in a 14-count felony
complaint for aggravated stalking against a victim the state has failed
to produce.
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- One is left to conclude that the "victim" is
one George W. Bush. If so, that means that Buchanan's Constitutionally
protected right to politically challenge a fellow Republican has been deemed
"stalking."
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- On June 14, after the "victim" failed a second
time to appear for a deposition, the judge informed the Florida state attorney
that he would dismiss the charges if the victim failed a third time to
appear. The victim failed to appear last Thursday.
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- Today, however, the judge changed his mind -- and the
state attorney refused even to let John plead guilty to a misdemeanor so
that he could return to Maine and his 9/11 outreach activities prior to
going to the Republican Convention in NY later this month.
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- The state of Florida now plans to put John on trial next
week. He is facing five years in prison. His new public defender has reportedly
"lost" his evidence binder, which he prepared to rebut the original
allegations with more than a dozen witnesses and other evidence.
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- Targeted for Exposing Bush Family Ties to Nazi Leaders?
- The fact is, John is being persecuted by the Bush regime
for his courage in reporting the "Bush-Nazi story" in the New
Hampshire Gazette last fall and then taking Bush on earlier this year based
on the ugly truth about 9/11. We the people of the 9/11 and anti-war/anti-corporatism
movements can not sit by and watch this happen. We must all help John in
any way we can -- NOW.
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- Given his dire situation, John needs a lot of help and
moral support. Specifically, he needs some short-term financial support
and legal assistance, as well as media exposure to call attention to his
persecution by the state.
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- John has emerged as a courageous member of the 9/11 community
and has made a firm commitment to continue on with the fight until the
Bush administration has been held accountable. For that reason, he deserves
your full and aggressive support.
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- Two years after the arrest, Buchanan had this to say
on his radio interview:
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- "I remember going to court and the public defender
saying he lost my file, I had no defense and I better plead guilty as I
was going to jail," recalled Buchanan, adding that he broke down in
tears. "I then called a 9/11 activist, Gabriel Day, who quickly helped
me retain a lawyer. The lawyer then obtained a continuance and was able
to persuade the judge the government had concocted the story, having no
victim or evidence. The case was finally dropped but after considerable
time and expense.
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- "Even after that experience, I was harassed by agents
one more time, again accusing me of plotting to kill the President but
releasing me after they said I was only in their custody for wanting to
impeach the President. What a joke, I remember telling them before being
released, saying if you hauled in everybody who wanted to impeach the President
you would have to build another Guatanamo Bay right here in the states.
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- "Since then, I have lived in five states in
the last year and half, now settling in a rural part of Georgia. I have
written a screenplay about war profiteering, my book Fixing America has
been selling and I am planning again to run for President.
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- What happened to me should prove to Americans without
question that we are living in a fascist country and that Nazi-like tactics
are being used against Americans."
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- The following story, written by Buchanan in 2003, appeared
in the New Hampshire Gazette, a story still ignored by all the treasonous
politicians and members of the media, as America still remains captive
by the murderous and Nazi-like ways of the treasonous Bush family.
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- By John Buchanan
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- Exclusive to The New Hampshire Gazette
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- WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial
by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National
Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather
of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking
operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926
until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy
national" partners.
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- The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues,
according to reports from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FBI,
tried to conceal their financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz
Thyssen, a steel and coal baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s, personally
funded Adolf Hitler's rise to power by the subversion of democratic principle
and German law.
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- Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate that
Bush and his associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger brother
of American icon W. Averell Harriman, and George Herbert Walker, President
Bush's maternal great-grandfather, continued their dealings with the German
industrial baron for nearly eight months after the U.S. entered the war.
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- No Story?
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- For six decades these historical facts have gone unreported
by the mainstream U.S. media. The essential facts have appeared on the
Internet and in relatively obscure books, but were dismissed by the media
and Bush family as undocumented diatribes. This story has also escaped
the attention of "official" Bush biographers, Presidential historians
and publishers of U.S. history books covering World War II and its aftermath.
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- The White House did not respond to phone calls seeking
comment.
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- The Summer of '42
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- The unraveling of the web of Bush-Harriman-Thyssen U.S.
enterprises, all of which operated out of the same suite of offices at
39 Broadway under the supervision of Prescott Bush, began with a story
that ran in the New York Herald-Tribune on July 30, 1942. By then, the
U.S. had been at war with Germany for nearly eight months.
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- "Hitler's Angel Has $3 Million in U.S. Bank,"
declared the headline. The lead paragraph characterized Fritz Thyssen as
"Adolf Hitler's original patron a decade ago." In fact, the steel
and coal magnate had aggressively supported and funded Hitler since October
1923, according to Thyssen's autobiography, I Paid Hitler. In that book,
Thyssen also acknowledges his direct personal relationships with Adolf
Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess.
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- The Herald-Tribune also cited unnamed sources who suggested
Thyssen's U.S. "nest egg" in fact belonged to "Nazi bigwigs"
including Goebbels, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, or even Hitler himself.
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- Business is Business
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- The "bank," founded in 1924 by W. Averell Harriman
on behalf of Thyssen and his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. of Holland,
was Union Banking Corporation (UBC) of New York City. According to government
documents, it was in reality a clearing house for a number of Thyssen-controlled
enterprises and assets, including as many as a dozen individual businesses.
UBC also bought and shipped overseas gold, steel, coal, and U.S. Treasury
and war bonds. The company's activities were administered for Thyssen by
a Netherlands-born, naturalized U.S. citizen named Cornelis Lievense, who
served as president of UBC. Roland Harriman was chairman and Prescott Bush
a managing director.
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- The Herald-Tribune article did not identify Bush or Harriman
as executives of UBC, or Brown Brothers Harriman, in which they were partners,
as UBC's private banker. A confidential FBI memo from that period suggested,
without naming the Bush and Harriman families, that politically prominent
individuals were about to come under official U.S. government scrutiny
as Hitler's plunder of Europe continued unabated.
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- After the "Hitler's Angel" article was published
Bush and Harriman made no attempts to divest themselves of the controversial
Thyssen financial alliance, nor did they challenge the newspaper report
that UBC was, in fact, a de facto Nazi front organization in the U.S.
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- Instead, the government documents show, Bush and his
partners increased their subterfuge to try to conceal the true nature and
ownership of their various businesses, particularly after the U.S. entered
the war. The documents also disclose that Cornelis Lievense, Thyssen's
personal appointee to oversee U.S. matters for his Rotterdam-based Bank
voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V., via UBC for nearly two decades, repeatedly
denied to U.S. government investigators any knowledge of the ownership
of the Netherlands bank or the role of Thyssen in it.
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- UBC's original group of business associates included
George Herbert Walker, who had a relationship with the Harriman family
that began in 1919. In 1922, Walker and W. Averell Harriman traveled to
Berlin to set up the German branch of their banking and investment operations,
which were largely based on critical war resources such as steel and coal.
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- The Walker-Harriman-created German industrial alliance
also included partnership with another German titan who supported Hitler's
rise, Friedrich Flick, who partnered with Thyssen in the German Steel Trust
that forged the Nazi war machine. For his role in using slave labor and
his own steel, coal and arms resources to build Hitler's war effort, Flick
was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to seven years in prison.
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- The Family Business
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- In 1926, after Prescott Bush had married Walker's daughter,
Dorothy, Walker brought Bush in as a vice president of the private banking
and investment firm of W.A. Harriman & Co., also located in New York.
Bush became a partner in the firm that later became Brown Brothers Harriman
and the largest private investment bank in the world. Eventually, Bush
became a director of and stockholder in UBC.
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- However, the government documents note that Bush, Harriman,
Lievense and the other UBC stockholders were in fact "nominees,"
or phantom shareholders, for Thyssen and his Holland bank, meaning that
they acted at the direct behest of their German client.
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- Seized
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- On October 20, 1942, under authority of the Trading with
the Enemy Act, the U.S. Congress seized UBC and liquidated its assets after
the war. The seizure is confirmed by Vesting Order No. 248 in the U.S.
Office of the Alien Property Custodian and signed by U.S. Alien Property
Custodian Leo T. Crowley.
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- In August, under the same authority, Congress had seized
the first of the Bush-Harriman-managed Thyssen entities, Hamburg-American
Line, under Vesting Order No. 126, also signed by Crowley. Eight days after
the seizure of UBC, Congress invoked the Trading with the Enemy Act again
to take control of two more Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses - Holland-American
Trading Corp. (Vesting Order No. 261) and Seamless Steel Equipment Corp
(Vesting Order No. 259). In November, Congress seized the Nazi interests
in Silesian-American Corporation, which allegedly profited from slave labor
at Auschwitz via a partnership with I.G. Farben, Hitler's third major industrial
patron and partner in the infrastructure of the Third Reich.
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- The documents from the Archives also show that the Bushes
and Harrimans shipped valuable U.S. assets, including gold, coal, steel
and U.S. Treasury and war bonds, to their foreign clients overseas as Hitler
geared up for his 1939 invasion of Poland, the event that sparked World
War II.
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- That's One Way to Put It
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- Following the Congressional seizures of UBC and the other
four Bush-Harriman-Thyssen enterprises, The New York Times reported on
December 16, 1944, in a brief story on page 25, that UBC had "received
authority to change its principal place of business to 120 Broadway."
The Times story did not report that UBC had been seized by the U.S. government
or that the new address was the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian.
The story also neglected to mention that the other UBC-related businesses
had also been seized by Congress.
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- Still No Story?
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- Since then, the information has not appeared in any U.S.
news coverage of any Bush political campaign, nor has it been included
in any of the major Bush family biographies. It was, however, covered extensively
in George H.W. Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster Tarpley and
Anton Chaitkin. Chaitkin's father served as an attorney in the 1940s for
some of the victims of the Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.
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- The book gave a detailed, accurate accounting of the
Bush family's long Nazi affiliation, but no mainstream U.S. media entity
reported on or even investigated the allegations, despite careful documentation
by the authors. Major booksellers declined to distribute the book, which
was dismissed by Bush supporters as biased and untrue. Its authors struggled
even to be reviewed in reputable newspapers. That the book was published
by a Lyndon LaRouche's organization undoubtedly made it easier to dismiss,
but does not change the facts.
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- The essence of the story been posted for years on various
Internet sites, including BuzzFlash.com and TakeBackTheMedia.com , but
no online media seem to have independently confirmed it.
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- Likewise, the mainstream media have apparently made no
attempt since World War II to either verify or disprove the allegations
of Nazi collaboration against the Bush family. Instead, they have attempted
to dismiss or discredit such Internet sites or "unauthorized"
books without any journalistic inquiry or research into their veracity.
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- Loyal Defenders
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- The National Review ran an essay on September 1 by their
White House correspondent Byron York, entitled "Annals of Bush-Hating."
It begins mockingly: "Are you aware of the murderous history of George
W. Bush - indeed, of the entire Bush family? Are you aware of the president's
Nazi sympathies? His crimes against humanity? And do you know, by the way,
that George W. Bush is a certifiable moron?" York goes on to discredit
the "Bush is a moron" IQ hoax, but fails to disprove the Nazi
connection.
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- The more liberal Boston Globe ran a column September
29 by Reason magazine's Cathy Young in which she referred to "Bush-o-phobes
on the Internet" who "repeat preposterous claims about the Bush
family's alleged Nazi connections."
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- Poles Tackle the Topic
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- Newsweek Polska, the magazine's Polish edition, published
a short piece on the "Bush Nazi past" in its March 5, 2003 edition.
The item reported that "the Bush family reaped rewards from the forced-labor
prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp," according to a copyrighted
English-language translation from Scoop Media (www.scoop.co.nz). The story
also reported the seizure of the various Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.
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- Still Not Interested
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- Major U.S. media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News,
The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times
and Miami Herald, have repeatedly declined to investigate the story when
information regarding discovery of the documents was presented to them
beginning Friday, August 29. Newsweek U.S. correspondent Michael Isikoff,
famous for his reporting of big scoops during the Clinton-Lewinsky sexual
affair of the 1990s, declined twice to accept an exclusive story based
on the documents from the archives.
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- Aftermath
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- After the seizures of the various businesses they oversaw
with Cornelis Lievense and his German partners, the U.S. government quietly
settled with Bush, Harriman and others after the war. Bush and Harriman
each received $1.5 million in cash as compensation for their seized business
assets.
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- In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate,
with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past. There is no
record of any U.S. press coverage of the Bush-Nazi connection during any
political campaigns conducted by George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeb Bush,
or George W. Bush, with the exception of a brief mention in an unrelated
story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune in November 2000 and a brief but inaccurate
account in The Boston Globe in 2001.
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- John Buchanan is a journalist and investigative reporter
with 35 years of experience in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Miami.
His work has appeared in more than 100 newspapers, magazines and books.
He can be reached by e-mail at: jtwg@bellsouth.net
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