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Nov. 6, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2009, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, indeed.
America's anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein, sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
It's always an honor to be here.
Rush returns Monday, but even in his absence, the tradition continues.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday!
Yay, from Monday to Thursday, only Rush as a trained broadcast specialist is able to determine the subject matter of the program.
But on Friday, the EIB Network casts the format to the wind and allows any unskilled flibbity-jibbity listener to take the show in any direction he wants to, simply by calling 1-800-282-2882.
Now, obviously, it's a bit different when a guest host is here.
I barely qualify as a trained broadcast specialist, so we're restricting it just a bit.
When I was here a few weeks ago, you may recall that Australian bloke who called up and was talking about cricket with me just for a minute or two, but it was enough.
HR was tearing his hair out.
Affiliates were bailing on the show across the fruited plane.
We were, yeah, we did.
Did we bring up googlies?
Yeah, we were talking about Googlies.
I think England had just won the...
Oh, I'm doing it again already.
I want to reassure...
I want to reassure Philip because those program directors were going bananas.
They were saying, at this stage, we'll take anything else.
We'll sign Janine Garofilo to an exclusive 12-year contract.
Anything but this cricket talk.
So no cricket talk, but we will consider anything else on Open Line Friday.
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There are three big news stories today.
The 10.2% unemployment rate that was announced just a couple of hours ago.
We're into double-digit unemployment.
For most of the last 20 years, the French and the Germans have lived with double-digit unemployment as a more or less permanent feature of life.
I mean, the short version of the last quarter century is that the big European, continental European economies, missed out entirely on the 1980s Reagan-Thatcher boom, in part because they did the sort of stuff that Barack Obama wants to do here.
And one consequence of that is you get used to permanent double-digit unemployment.
So we'll talk about that later on and the consequences for the political landscape in the wake of what happened on Tuesday and the big Tea Party protests in Washington yesterday.
We'll also talk about government health care because on Wednesday morning, Barack Obama and his pals really had a choice.
They could have said, look, where Clinton was in 1994.
So are we going to triangulate?
Are we going to try and govern as an Eisenhower Republican, which is what Clinton always says he tried to govern as?
Or are we going to shove this thing down the throats of the American people and take the hit, whatever happens?
We'll accept we'll lose seats in the 2010 elections and we may even lose our majority.
But it will be worth it because the long-term political realignment in this country from turning citizens into dependents by shoving government health care down their throats, essentially making government the pusher with citizens as junkies.
The payoff for that, the long-term payoff for that in the permanent realignment of American politics in a left-wing direction will be worth it for us.
So we'll talk about that later.
And we will also talk about the shooting at Fort Hood.
Another person died overnight.
That brings the fatalities to 13.
There are dozens more who will live with the injuries they sustained for the rest of their lives.
And I think it's important here to understand what took place at Fort Hood.
It was not a tragedy, as far too many people called it, including President Obama, and I regret to say George W. Bush.
It was not a tragedy.
A tragedy would be if a hurricane sweeps in, totals Fort Hood and kills and injures a lot of people in their wake.
This was not a tragedy.
Instead, I think it exposed the potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we've called since September 11th the war on terror.
Here you have soldiers, brave soldiers, trained to hunt down and kill America's enemy abroad.
They return to this country and they're killed in the safety and security of home by, in essence, the same enemy.
That's to say, a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does.
This man is Nidal Malik Hassan.
He is a U.S. Army major.
As we learn more about him, we discover, for example, that he handed out Qurans yesterday morning before he left his apartment, that he was yelling, Allahu Akbar, God is great, as he gunned down his victims.
That although he was born in Virginia, at his mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland, when he was asked to list his nationality, he listed it as Palestinian.
He's not a Palestinian in the legal sense.
He is a U.S. citizen, born and bred.
But he chose to identify himself as Palestinian on the form that he left at his mosque in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Something has gone badly wrong here.
Something has gone very badly wrong in the way this man was fast-tracked through medical school at taxpayer expense, trained as a military psychiatrist, fast-tracked to major.
I gather it takes something like nine to ten years usually to make major in the U.S. military.
He got there, I think, in something like six or seven.
All the while, people knew about his beliefs.
His superior officer apparently had a conversation with him in which he expressed his admiration for domestic jihadists.
That's to say, people who kill Americans, not just in theaters of war like Iraq and Afghanistan, but kill American civilians here in the United States, expressed admiration on websites, supposedly, for suicide bombers whom he considered noble and heroic and equivalent to the man who in a military, in a U.S. Army unit who throws himself on a grenade to save his comrades.
By the way, that's not what a suicide bomber does.
A suicide bomber straps on the Semtex belt and gets on a bus or goes into a pizza parlor or goes into a nightclub and blows himself up and takes tons of civilians with him.
So he's not saving lives like the guy throwing himself on the grenade to save his comrades.
He's taking innocent lives.
And yet a U.S. Army major posts on a website that these suicide bombers are noble and heroic, and he's apparently investigated for it, but the bureaucracy seems to think this just adds to the general vibrant multicultural diversity of life at the base.
That this is that being in effect objectively on the side of the enemy at a time of war is really just like a kind of alternative lifestyle choice, and there's no reason to make a big deal about it.
This speaks to something very disturbing at the heart of a generally politically correct culture and how it responds not just to the military challenges posed in Afghanistan and Iraq, but to the broader ideological challenge.
13 people are dead and they should not be dead.
They should not have been killed in these circumstances.
And as happened on 9-11, it is not just a tragedy.
It is also a failure.
It is a failure properly to understand what we are up against and to produce eight years after 9-11 a strategy for the ideological challenge that people who believe, as Major Hassan believes, he's still alive, by the way, he wasn't killed.
He's in a hospital getting the best military medical treatment available.
And at some point, I suppose he will wind up in a courtroom trying to explain and to justify what he does.
But at the moment, the only people who are trying to explain and justify what he does are the American media, whose behavior pattern in these things is always exactly the same.
And it doesn't matter whether you go back to, for example, the shooter at Los Angeles airport six months to the day after September 11th.
If you go back to the Washington Sniper just a few weeks after September 11th, then we had reams of experts on CNN coming up night after night saying, well, this has all the patterns of an angry white male loner, probably some kind of vigilante hunter.
We were picturing guys in plaid, guys in plaid, some crazy psycho-right-wing nut, angry white male.
Of course, it turns out not to be.
It turns out to be a man called John Alan Mohamed and a sidekick who drew elaborate drawings showing the planes going into the Twin Towers and again with Alahu Akbar.
But by the time all that came out, the media had moved on.
They didn't care.
The minute it turned out they were completely wrong, that it wasn't the lone male white wacko, then everything else was sort of airbrushed out and the story went away.
Same thing here.
The new story now is post-traumatic stress disorder.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now, if you're not familiar with this phrase, this normally refers to guys who are in war zones and come back and they've seen horrible things and they're haunted by these horrible things.
This guy was not in a war zone.
He hadn't been deployed anywhere yet.
He was apparently objecting to being deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq in the weeks ahead.
So right there, in talking about post-traumatic stress disorder, the media have, in effect, changed the definition of that phrase.
This guy, Major Hassan, is the first victim of pre-post-traumatic stress disorder.
He hasn't been anywhere near a combat zone.
He hasn't been anywhere near a war zone.
He's been in Texas and he's been in Washington and he's been in Maryland.
He's managed to pick up the first cited case of pre-post-traumatic stress disorder from Maryland and Texas.
So right there, in order to make this fit their preconceptions, the media have changed beyond any useful meaning the definition of this phrase, post-traumatic stress disorder.
This was posted this morning by Newsweek, Newsweek magazine.
Is Fort Hood a harbinger?
Nidal Malik Hassan may be a symptom of a military on the brink.
This is by Andrew Bast of Newsweek, and he knew everything about Major Hassan's background this morning when this went up.
What if Thursday's atrocious slaughter only signals that the worst is yet to come?
Details remain murky, but at least 13 are dead and 30 wounded in a killing spree that may momentarily remind us of a reality that most Americans can readily forget.
Soldiers and their families are living and bending under a harrowing and unrelenting stress that will not let up anytime soon.
And the U.S. military could well be reaching a breaking point as the president decides to send more troops to Afghanistan.
It's hard to draw too many conclusions right now, but we do know this.
Thursday night, authorities shot and then apprehended the lone suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hassan.
It makes one wonder, though, how much any kind of lockdown will either get at the root causes of soldier stresses or better prepare them for more battle.
And on it goes.
On it goes.
As if this guy, he's been out there in the Hindu Kush.
He's been in Kandahar.
He's been up against the Taliban.
He's seen horrible things and it has driven him off the rails.
That is not who this.
Do you know, this piece in Newsweek is actually sick.
This guy is demonstrating levels of mental illness that are actually getting up there with some of the guys that Major Hassan as an army psychiatrist was treating.
When you're so determined not to look into the eye of what happened here, when you're so determined not to address the reality of who Major Hassan is and what he believes, that you're prepared to write this drivel positing the man as a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder, then you, I'm afraid, are getting danger.
It's not that the U.S. Army is at breaking point.
The American media are at breaking point.
This is a sign of mass insanity.
The coverage of this story has been not only dishonest, but actually profoundly disturbing in what it says about how American citizens can trust their media to tell them the truth about what is going on at this time.
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Mark Stein in for Rush on Open Line Friday.
Lots more straight ahead.
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Talking about these shootings at Fort Hood, we owe it to the dead.
This would have been a great day for the Taliban or al-Qaeda if it had happened in Afghanistan or Iraq.
13 Americans dead and dozens more wounded.
And the least we can do when it happens not in Afghanistan or Iraq, but at home is address honestly the motivations and the impulses that underpin the attack.
The FBI, very curious statement, this.
The FBI announced almost within the first hour that this was not terrorism, that there was no terrorism angle.
What is it?
What is it then?
I suppose they mean by that that this man is not a registered member of a known terrorist group.
They went through his pockets and they didn't find his membership card for the Texas branch of al-Qaeda.
That's a preposterous and reductive definition of terrorism.
No, he wasn't a member of al-Qaeda.
He was a member of the United States Army.
But the same anger and the same pathologies that drive the members of al-Qaeda also happen to drive this U.S. Army major in what he did.
And that should be of huge concern, huge concern to us.
When you listen to the way he conducted his affairs, the way he was cheerfully quite open about his opposition, not just his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also his support for domestic jihadists and suicide bombers.
People say, well, why didn't he set off any red flags?
Yes, of course, he raised all kinds of red flags, but at the same time, a broad culture of political correctness is conditioned reflexively to lower those red flags.
To say, oh, well, yes, you know, yes, he maybe looks about this a little differently than I do, but don't worry, it's nothing to worry about.
13 people are dead because it was decided all the way along the line that this was nothing to worry about.
And that actually is something to worry about.
The way we take the multicultural airbrush to blur and obfuscate what should be what is actually the critical, the critical front line of the ideological battle against the pathologies driving our enemies.
Mark Stein sitting in for Rush.
We'll talk about that and we'll talk about lots more straight ahead on Open Line Friday from the EIB Network.
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Over at National Public Radio earlier, apparently, they were saying, we know he took his faith seriously, but we can't say that that was the issue.
This is what it's going to be now on Major Hassan.
It will just be one of those things.
Crazy, could happen to anyone.
Pre-post-traumatic stress disorder.
The guy just suddenly snaps.
He was worried about being sent into a war zone because after all, he's not really a soldier.
He's a doctor and he was stressed out about it.
So, even though he's not really a soldier, he seems to know his way around two handguns pretty good, well enough to go in and get off 45 shots and take down the best part of four dozen people.
But we can't say, we can't say that this was about anything other than just some freakish combination of circumstances entirely unconnected to Islam or to his support for the enemy's in America's wars.
This is the way it's been now.
I think the first one was July the 4th, 2002, and that's when this guy went crazy, supposedly.
Again, a Muslim male fired up the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles airport, killed people.
All in the run-up to it, the suspicion was that, again, it was the lone white male.
Even though it's like the 4th of July, he was shooting up the El Al ticket counter, and people professed themselves mystified as to, I think it was the famous New York Times headline where it was something like, Officials puzzled about the motive of airport gunmen.
He was an Egyptian Muslim who killed Jews on America's national holiday.
And we must be very careful not to jump to any conclusions.
I remember saying at the time, how quick do you think people would be jumping to conclusions if a white male on Martin Luther King Day went down to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and shot it up?
How many nanoseconds do you think it would take before the media would be connecting the dots on that one?
Suppose it was Judy Garland's birthday and I went down and shot up my local gay bathhouse.
How long do you think it would take Frank Rich in the New York Times to be connecting the dots on American right-wing homophobia on that one?
Well, now here we are, seven years later, and we have a U.S. Army major who was giving presentations, giving presentations at Walter Reed on how infidels should convert to Islam, and nobody,
and everyone professes themselves to be mystified as to why he would then suddenly shoot up 13 of his comrades fatally and injure dozens more.
This is not a tragedy.
This is, like 9-11, a failure, a failure of key systems and institutions to identify something central to the war that America is waging.
And you can't think of it just as a question of military operations, about sending planes, sending in tanks.
It's not like that.
You win every war by throttling the ideology that is behind that war.
Americans didn't have to have this pointed out 65 years ago.
They knew that it wasn't just a question of an American plane taking out a German plane or an American tank blowing up a Japanese tank.
They knew that in the end, that at the end of the day, Japanese militarism itself and that culture, that imperial militarist culture, had to be throttled.
They knew that Nazism itself could not survive in the post-war order.
And something has gone badly wrong when you have a U.S. Army major essentially saying the same kind of things that the enemy says, but he's saying it to his comrades, he's saying it to his superiors, and people are thinking, well, you know, it's a free country, that's his right.
What's the big deal about it?
Let us go to Jeff in Richmond, Virginia.
Jeff, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show with Mark Stein.
Good to have you with us.
Thank you for taking my call.
As a veteran, this whole situation just pisses me off on every level there is, possibly.
I mean, if this isn't a case of domestic terrorism, then what the hell fits the definition?
I mean, if it was, let's say, a twisted, sick individual, a white supremacist, or something along those lines that did it, it would be playing on loop on CNN probably for the next week at least.
But, you know, as a veteran, and also things like we can't call it the war on terror, we can't say terrorism, it's man-made disaster.
But the same people that dig and dig to come to this individual's defense that did this in Fort Hood, they're the same people that paint with the biggest damn brush they can the words white right-wing extremism.
Yep.
Every chance they get, just for a different opinion.
So, you know, for other Americans, we can go ahead and paint that evil description.
Oh, well, that's just a possible right-wing extremist.
But you get something like this, and, oh, no, no, that's an exception.
That's different.
He's the victim.
He was picked on.
Yeah, imagine if, as this guy did yesterday morning, handing out the Koran to his neighbors.
Imagine if a fella had been handing out Bibles to his neighbors on the morning before he goes and kills a bunch of people.
Do you think the media would be regarding that as some peripheral detail of no relevance to his motivation?
It's all agenda-driven, their agenda.
I mean, how about we do this?
Just call it what it is.
You know, right or wrong, I don't care, but America's got to wake up because, I mean, sooner or later, you've got to understand that it is what it is.
And it's just getting phenomenal in my mind, you know, especially as a veteran.
I mean, it don't just affect the military.
This affects us as a nation.
And people still just, I don't know, just fumble around with the whole, this is a dangerous ideology.
Yeah, and as you say, this is actually the very definition of terrorism.
That this is someone who is, it's actually a much more advantageous structure than, for example, Soviet agents had in the Cold War.
In the Cold War, if you had some guy in Texas, he'd have to report to a control officer in Dallas or somewhere who would have some guy connected with the Soviet embassy in Washington who would be plugged into what the KGB was saying in Moscow.
It's actually much more advantageous if you just have people in which you plant the seed, the seed, and they just kind of spontaneously combust, that you have potentially huge numbers of freelance jihadists just out there who suddenly get the jihad fever and decide that today's the day that they're going to go to paradise and see Allah and they're going to take a big bunch of infidels with them.
But this guy, this guy gave all the warning signs, and it's always the same way now.
The more warning signs you give off, the more the politically correct culture says, oh, I don't know about that.
It's like the flying Imams in Minneapolis.
Remember the flying Imams?
They were the ones who were objecting to the war, asking for the seatbelt extenders, even though they didn't require them, and were praying loudly on a U.S. Airways flight, having been at this thing in Minneapolis.
And after they were removed from the plane after Homeland Security had been called, the flying Imams then sued U.S. Airways and a whole bunch of people.
And although that case was eventually won, you think if you're a U.S. Airways stewardess now, whatever you call them, you can't call them stewardesses.
It's sexist.
Flight flight attendant.
That's the way.
I was going to say the cabin service crew, but there isn't really cabin service on U.S. Airways, is there?
No, no.
No, I like the British expression, trolley dollies, but I expect that might be a wee bit sexist too.
Anyway, the trolley dollies.
You imagine if you're like a U.S. Airways trolley dolly, and I'm not saying, or even one of those nice young men they have on U.S. Airways.
I don't want to be sexist about this.
But you think about the next time you see some behavior that's suspicious, guys praying, they're doing goofy things, they're talking about Saddam Hussein, all the things that the flying imams did.
And you think to yourself, do I call Homeland Security?
No, I'm going to be tied up in sensitivity training hell for the next six months.
Maybe it's better just to forget about it, to ignore it.
And that is becoming the problem now, that we're conditioned to ignore it.
And that was the same story on September 11th.
Everything those plotters did stood out.
They weren't geniuses.
They didn't assimilate and integrate and merge into the background.
They did a lot of strange things that should have raised red flags, except that we are now conditioned not to see the red flags because we don't want to be stuck in sensitivity training hell for the next six months.
And that is a problem.
That is an institutional problem that we have to solve or there are going to be more incidents like this and there are going to be more people killed, killed, because an obvious wacko, an obvious wacko, can get this far into the heart of a U.S. military base and everybody thinks, oh, well, what's the big deal about it?
One of the victims, one of the victims yesterday was a pregnant woman, was a pregnant woman.
You know, it's wrong that any of them died.
It's wrong that any of them died.
It would have been wrong.
It would have been a terrible thing if a guy had somehow shot up the gate, got past the gate, got in there and gunned these people down.
It would have been a terrible thing.
But it's worse when it's a man who is trained by U.S. taxpayers, advanced at U.S. military expense, fast-tracked to U.S. major, and planted in the heart of a U.S. Army post when he obviously, when he very obviously is not just anti-war, as many Americans are, but objectively on the side of the enemy.
That is a catastrophic failure.
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I like this quote from Martha Radatz at ABC in her story on Fort Hood last night.
As for the suspect, Nadal Hassan, as one officer's wife told me, I wish his name was Smith, unquote.
You know, there's something very bizarre about this kind of reaction because what this woman is saying is actually saying, I wish my nice multicultural illusions would not be disturbed by harsh reality.
And if they won't get disturbed by a body count like this, then in essence, our culture is doomed, is doomed, because nothing can penetrate the soft, fluffy marshmallow illusions.
Let's go to Sean in Yuma, Arizona.
Sean, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Good to have you with us.
This coverage is really irritating.
I'm 22 years retired Marine.
I got a son in the Army who's done two tours in Iraq.
And the media is claiming this kid got PTSD.
He doesn't spent one minute in combat.
No, he got PTSD from Maryland.
You know, it can do that to you.
Walter Reed Hospital, he has spent one minute in combat, has never employed.
It's just garbage.
You're taking away from what the people in Iraq and Afghanistan have been doing the last eight years and putting what he did was complete garbage.
He was a jihadist.
I don't care what anybody says.
I told my wife yesterday when I first saw this story on the news, I told her, I bet you $100 he's got a Muslim name.
I told her I didn't want to that way, but that's what I felt.
And as soon as it came up, I knew, and I knew what the reaction was going to be in the press.
That's what I did, actually, when the Washington sniper story started.
I bet my assistant, not my wife, but I bet her, I think it was just 50 bucks.
And my then colleague, Richard Roper of Ebert and Roper at the movies at the Chicago Sun-Times, mocked this and said, all these right-wing wackos like Stein and Ann Coulter and all the rest of it, they are so bitterly disappointed that this man is not a terrorist.
The Washington sniper was a terrorist.
He killed people in the name of his terrorist Islamic ideology.
And that is the same thing that this guy did too.
He gunned down his comrades at Fort Hood in the name of in support of a terrorist cause.
This is an act of domestic terrorism.
He did was a terrorist act, plain and simple.
That is the definition of terrorism.
Yeah, and you're right, though, that the minute it starts, as you said, he's a jihadist.
The trouble with these things is the jihadist is always the victim.
That's the way the media say, oh, now, oh, you know, he was worried about having to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan.
So now, so now, we have redefined post-traumatic stress disorder to mean something that it doesn't mean.
It doesn't mean.
This would justify anybody killing anybody, even if they'd just done 10 minutes worth of training.
Not to take away from what any of the other people support, personnel in combat zones.
He's a doctor.
He's going to be what we call in the rear with the gear.
He was not going to see combat.
Not an infantry man.
He was not an Australian man.
He was not a combat arms in the West.
No.
It's just total garbage.
And it really irritates me.
No, and I think most of us understand.
There was a story in the, I was in London a couple of days ago.
There's a story in the Daily Telegraph about a young man, I think a Scots fellow from Scotland, who found himself on some godless ridge out on the Hindu Kush a couple of weeks ago and had to fix his bayonet and run it through the bad guys coming straight at him.
You can understand why that would cause you problems when you get back to Glasgow or Edinburgh and you're just wandering around the neighborhood and everyone else just wants to go and have a hamburger or go and have a couple of pints of beer.
You might have a hard time adjusting.
But as you say, this guy was going to be, he wasn't going to be in a combat zone.
He was going to be a doctor.
He was going to be a doctor in Iraq or Afghanistan.
And whatever mental issues Major Hassan has pale compared to the mass insanity that is being peddled by CNN and ABC and these other people.
Who can't possibly say that Islam had anything to do with it?
This is a kind of mass mental illness that is afflicting the U.S. media.
Lots more on this.
Straight ahead.
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You know, one thing I've learned, by the way, is you should never make a joke that liberal progressives will adopt for real.
I remember I used to joke about calling illegal immigrants undocumented Americans.
And then Harry Reid, God bless him, actually used the phrase for real on the floor of the United States Senate.
It's the same thing.
I was joking earlier about pre-post-traumatic stress disorder.
An anchor on national public radio apparently used that phrase for real that said, oh, this almost seems to be a phenomenon you could call pre-traumatic stress disorder.
Pre-traumatic stress disorder.
That is, they would rather consider Major Hassan a victim of pre-traumatic stress disorder than confront the reality of what's going on here.
I don't know, will pre-traumatic stress disorder get covered by Obamacare?
Will that be the one thing?
I would imagine it will.
You won't be able to get it.
If you break your leg, you're on your own.
But if you go in there and you say, oh, I've got pre-traumatic stress disorder, they'll take that very seriously.
You'll be covered up to the hilt for that.
I have just one question, by the way, for the U.S. military bureaucracy.
All this stuff about Major Hassan was relatively well known when he was still Captain Hassan.
Why was he promoted to major in May in defiance of all this evidence, in defiance of his track record, in defiance of this behavior?
Who promoted him to major in May and why?
There are a lot of questions out there that it's going to be important to get the answers to, because real people are dead because of this screw-up.
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