Because God

Adding to the ongoing competition as to who loves America more and who has the most flags, in the Red states we now have the competition to come up with the most draconian anti-abortion laws with some even ruling out exceptions for rape and incest, with some thinking a woman who has born her child for most of the gestation period but opts for a late term abortion for a reasons only she and her doctor have any reason to discuss, has a cavalier attitude toward the pregnancy and the child/fetus.

A late term abortion would, to me anyway, imply the woman actually wanted the child, but had to make a traumatic decision.

And as far as no exemption for rape or incest, that would mean a 12 year old child would have to carry the result of a rape full term, and, as had been ruled in some courts, share custody of the child with the rapist forever being shackled to him.

By a predominantly male legislature,  Alabama just passed an abortion bill  and has become the benchmark against which future anti-abortion bills will be measured.

The law makes performing an abortion illegal after a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected, something that happens long before women know it is a pregnancy and not a late period, and has no exemptions for rape or incest.

The sponsor of the bill, State Senator Clyde Chambliss, said that because

“When God creates the miracle of life inside a woman’s womb, it is not our place as human beings to extinguish that life”,

it is necessary for government intervention to protect human rights.

To Republican males, rape is not only not all that big or bad a thing, but is also a Nlessing.

Lawrence Lockman, a Maine Republican once opined,

“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”

Colorado conservative Darryl Glenn believes knows that God’s special gift to women

“If you want an abortion, don’t ask me to pay for it. That’s not something I’m gonna agree with. That’s a gift from God. There are no exceptions with that. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to pray for you…. That’s a life, regardless of how it got there, and I’m going to pray for you.”

Remember, God is all powerful, so if He let’s a woman get raped, it part of some plan of His.

Conservative religious women also share some bizarre attitudes about rape as Michigan state Republican Senator Kim LaSata believes,

“Of course it should be hard! And the procedure should be painful! And you should allow God to take over!! And you should deliver that baby!”

Republican Representative Todd Akin of  Missouri once explained,

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

And who can forget that when discussing a bill in Texas to ban abortions, Republican Texas House of Representatives member Jodi Laubenberg, who served until January 2019, once compared rape kits to abortion procedures because

“In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out.”

Rape kits are used by medical and law enforcement professionals to collect evidence when a rape is reported.

When Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the new abortion bill, House Bill 314, “Human Life Protection Act”, that makes abortion a Class A felony, punishable by up to 99 years in prison for doctors, keeping attempted abortions as a Class C penalty, she stated,

“Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act. To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious & that every life is a sacred gift from God.”

God loves rape, or at least has no problem with it as He apparently employs it to make babies, and also seems to have no problem with incest if you consider where Adam and Eve’s grandchildren came from, or, after He destroyed the world with the flood, the world was repopulated starting with Noah, his wife, his sons, and his sons’ wives.

A contender in the being toughest on abortion is Georgia whose governor, Brian Kemp, signed the state’s “fetal heartbeat” bill that will prohibit abortions after a heartbeat is detected in an embryo, making it the sixth state to pass such a law, and the fourth this year.

Vying for first place is Missouri’s Republican-led Senate that passed a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy not long after Alabama. It, too, has ho exemptions for rape or incest, and has Doctors facing 5 to 15 years in prison for violating the eight-week cutoff.

Missouri’s previous law required women seeking an abortion to wait 72 hours and go to the state’s single abortion clinic.

Of the bill, St. Louis-area Democratic Senator Jill Schupp said,

“So much of this bill is just shaming women into some kind of complacency that says we are vessels of pregnancy rather than understanding that women’s lives all hold different stories.”

and

“It is outrageous that it has no exemptions for victims of human trafficking, rape or incest.”

The Supreme Court has a new ideological makeup now that it has Gorsuch  and Kavanaugh, so anti-abortion activists are hoping challenges to these bills will get before the Court and Roe v Wade will be no more and the legality of abortion will be up to states, not the federal law.

This is not mere speculation since the Alabama bill’s sponsor, representative Terri Collins, said the bill is a “direct attack” on Roe v. Wade if the bill is contested by abortion rights advocates, like the ACLU, it will get to the Supreme Court.

“The heart of this bill is to confront a decision that was made by the courts in 1973 that said the baby in the womb is not a person. This bill addresses that one issue. Is that baby in the womb a person? I believe our law says it is.”

But according to Republican Senator Clyde Chambliss, the Alabama bill is still fair to victims of rape and incest because those women would still be allowed to get an abortion “until she knows she’s  pregnant.”

Yes, it’s people like this that rely more on what they want to believe is God’s will and God’s plan than medicine and science.

Here are some Alabama fun facts that would make you think they have more things to deal with than abortion and controlling a woman’s body, things that Jesus pointed out as being part of the plan, not those things the Alabama legislature claims are when it comes to children’s lives:

  • More than a quarter of children live in poverty with 30% being under the age of five.
  • Only 33 out of Alabama’s 67 counties have an obstetrician.
  • 11% of a family’s income goes to infant care for a single child with the cost for families with two children being 28% more than the average rent.
  • Single mothers in Alabama spend 29% of their income on childcare costs.
  • Alabama has the second highest infant mortality rate in the country.
  • More children are living in poverty in Alabama now than they were 20 years ago, and the state has the fifth highest child poverty rate in the country.
  • There are no maternity leave or family leave laws in the state of Alabama.

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Somehow these would seem to go along with feeding. clothing, and taking care of “the least of my bretherin”.

But God wants babies no matter how He gets them.

 

 

 

not her job

Her job as Secretary of Education is to ensure public schools are effective, but since she has never had anything to do with public schools, Betsy DeVos is doing what needs to be done to promote charter and private schools at the expense of public ones.

For about twenty years, charters spread with few rules and little oversight which is not right since they use taxpayer money but have private operators. And they have come to be just a little too political as anything that involves money has winners and losers as politicians are needed to support charter school and people gave the money to buy their support.

There are mixed results when it comes to charter schools as many do no better educating kids than public schools in spite of their promises, and many fall far short. They pledge to succeed where other schools failed, particularly in urban centers, and were designed to foster innovation and to offer parents more options beyond public schools.

But DeVos believes,

“Charter schools are great options for thousands of students, and the demand for more of them remains very high. We need more of them, not fewer.”

However many school districts do not agree with some calling for a statewide moratorium on new charter schools
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Since Charter schools are privately managed by nonprofit companies using public money, the schools are given freedom from some state rules in exchange for meeting performance targets in their contract, or charter which usually include operating longer school days and having stricter rules around student behavior and academics.

But whereas in a number of urban cities, charters have outperformed their public school counterparts, in other instances they open, fail, and close quickly, removing the stability students need.

The original idea of charter schools was to allow citizens, teachers, or parents to design a school, develop it, and have the flexibility to make it work, and stricter rules applied to charter schools would interfere with that.

With the failing charters some districts had begun taking steps to close chronically underperforming charters.

To help with the cost of running schools charters managed to get politicians to allow them the freedom to hire their own staff, to lock out teacher unions, and pay the faculty low wages, while at the same time pocketing big sums for those who run them as the siphon taxpayer money away from traditional schools, hurting those students.

The 2020 budget for the Department of Education proposes boosting federal money for charter schools by $60 million.

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It’s bigotry, plain and simple

His championing (ironically) family values and being the best friend of the Gays shines through again in Trumps latest immigration policy.

According to U.S. law, a child born outside of the U.S. is granted citizenship at birth if their parents are married and at least one is a U.S. citizen.

Last summer, the State Department issued new rules changing the department’s interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act the 1952  that codifies eligibility for U.S. birthright citizenship and that ignore the Constitution.

“The U.S. Department of State interprets the INA to mean that a child born abroad must be biologically related to a U.S. citizen parent. Even if local law recognizes a surrogacy agreement and finds that U.S. parents are the legal parents of a child conceived and born abroad… if the child does not have a biological connection to a U.S. citizen parent, the child will not be a U.S. citizen at birth.”

To be considered a US citizen a child’s father “must be the genetic parent of the child and meet all other statutory requirements in order to transmit US citizenship to the child at birth.”

“Even if local law recognizes a surrogacy agreement and finds that US parents are the legal parents of a child conceived and born abroad through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), if the child does not have a biological connection to a US citizen parent, the child will not be a US citizen at birth.”

A child may be considered “born out of wedlock” by the state department if the parents are legally married, children carried by gestational surrogates or conceived through other methods of ART.

There has already been a case of a child born in Canada being denied citizenship because the parents were a married Gay couple, but the child is considered born out of wedlock.

The child is legally theirs, with one father being biological the parents, but as one parent explained,

 “They basically take our marriage, and they say ‘It doesn’t mean anything. Your child was born out of wedlock. We were there when she was born, she took her first breaths in our arms. Make no mistake: We are her parents—we are her only parents on her only birth certificate.”

“We are now in a very, very strange scenario. We are both American citizens; we live in the US; I have a business here, Roee has his job here; we file our taxes as a married couple here… and the State Department is saying that our daughter isn’t entitled to US citizenship because she was born ‘out of wedlock.’”

The couple’s request to obtain a Consular Report of Birth Abroad for their child was refused.

Previously, in 2016, when their first son as born by surrogacy in Canada that child was granted what the second child was denied.

“This is a very clear attack on families, on American families. Denying American married couples their rights to pass their citizenship, that is flat-out discrimination, and everyone should be concerned about this.”

The policy also impacts bi-national couples who have children outside the US where one parent is a US citizen and the other is not, .
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In another case, one parent is an American citizen while his husband an Israeli citizen. To be genetically connected to their children they both fertilized an embryo, and the resulting twins’ DNA test revealed that while the American was, indeed, genetically tied to one of the twins and the Israeli parent to the other, it was decided to deny US citizenship to the latter child claiming he was “born out of wedlock.”

A judge eventually ruled in favor of both children being citizens because

“the basis for the State Department’s imposition of a biological requirement is its strained interpretation”,

But the State Department has moved to appeal the court’s decision because it just refuses to recognize the validity of the marriage.

Until the case is fully adjudicated and until there is a favorable decision, one child in the family is American while the other is Canadian.

As far as the blood test, the law requiring blood-tests was originally created so that unwed fathers would have to prove their blood relationships to their kids, but it was applied to a wedded couple because they were Gay, implying an unequal marriage.

Passport applications do not ask if a child was conceived with the help of a sperm or egg donor, something that could mean that in some cases there is no biological tie between the child and either American parent, so in practice this policy changes nothing for heterosexual married couples since it is just assumed that having carried a child to term there is a DNA connection.

DNA-testing from heterosexual couples in cases where the father is the American citizen but the mother is not is not required even though there is the possibility that the child was conceived through an extramarital dalliance which would mean that there’s no “biological connection” between the father the child.

So why check in one instance and not the other?

As it is now, the parents had to get their son a temporary visa and then a green card so that he can live in the U.S. permanently. But while the green card is being processed the visa has expired making the Canadian son an undocumented citizen who could be deported.

And in a third case the child of another same-sex bi-national married couple, born while his legally married Lesbian parents were in London and not home in the United States, was denied citizenship because the biological parent is Italian.

As a result of timing, this kid is also in need of a visa and green card or it is an undocumented person facing deportation.

If the child had been born on American soil, things would be different

If this were a straight couple, there would be no problem.

This is obviously the Trump administration not viewing the marriages of same-sex couples as equal to the marriages of heterosexual.

gaslighting

Gas lighting is a form of intimidation  where false information is presented to the victims so they doubt their own memory, perception and ,often, their sanity. It involves withholding factual information from the victims while providing false information so as the victims becomes anxious, confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception so their thinking can be molded and their decisions controlled.

The term comes from the 1944 movie “Gaslight” about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane by secretly and repeatedly dimming and brightening the gaslights in the house while accusing his wife of imagining the lights are flickering to instill self-doubt in order to distract her from his criminal activities.

Donald Trump is the husband and we, the American people are, in his case, his fourth wife.

Although only congress can declare war, and to do so must be made aware of the intelligence that would justify it, Trump claims Iran has committed certain actions that warrant ships and troops be sent there, while producing no proof of this other than his own words.

Even though he says things publicly and on tape, Trump continually tells us he never did, and, by telling lies at every opportunity, it becomes confusing as to what is true and what isn’t.

His lies and misdirection are his go to tactic to support his policies and actions.

He supports his wall idea by making up immigration figures that are provably wrong.

He promotes his popularity with inflated crowd figure.

He panders to the Evangelicals by coming up with horror stories about abortion, like parents and doctors deciding after birth if a child should live.

He said he didn’t fire James Comey because of the Russia investigation, but he bragged to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job…I faced great pressure because of Russia.

He then told Lester Holt in a televised interview that he fired Comey because of “this Russia thing.”

He is wearing us down and getting us to the point where he hopes we give up on fact checking, and will just let him to do what he wants.

While farmers are suffering under the tariff war they continue to support him because, because, why?

People buy Trump’s claim that he is against socialism while he asks for billions of dollars to subsidize the farmers whose suffering he has caused.

And he assures us that China will be paying the cost of the tariffs, not the American consumer, even as we know that to be false.

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He has this obsession with that country and declaring the Iran Deal was the worst deal ever made, and, upon cancelling it, gave that country the go-ahead to develop nuclear weapons, something they were verifiably not doing under the deal.

When Barack Obama was facing re-election Trump claimed that:

 “In order to get elected, Barack Obama will start a war with Iran.”

“Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.”

“I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!”

“Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!”

“Obama’s nuclear deal with the Iranians will lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. It has to be stopped.”

With ships being sent to the waters near Iran, and with rumors that troops might also be sent, Trump first dismissed the idea claiming,

 “I think it’s fake news, OK?”

But then saying of the rumored number of 20,000 troops,

 “Now would I do that? Absolutely. But I have not planned for that. If we did that, we’d send a hell of a lot more troops than that.”

And as time goes on and his gaslighting intensifies  we will be screaming “U.S.A! U.S.A.!”, waving flags in patriotic frenzy, renaming common food items, and competing with who is more American than anyone.

And maybe Trump will get re-elected.

 

 

 

a trope is a trope

 

Remember the outcry when people so easily accepted that Representative Ilham Omar was being Anti-semitic when she decried the influence of AIPAC on Congress. A political organization with a small membership compared to the total ethnicity, religion  and the population of a country  of which some members belong has become, apparently, the representative of the same whether or not there is support or membership.

Pointing out that referring to the “Benjamins” promised to legislators was somehow an appeal to an anti-Jewish trope instead of it being seen as exposing that some Congress members are too easily bought. In this instance, there had been a recent event that made this unpleasant revelation relevant at the time, but, distraction being a powerful tactic, those to whom it applied went with the anti-semitic trope claim to misdirect away from their guilt. She wears a Hijab, so, of course, she hates Jews.

No trope there.

But all tropes are bad and the wailing and gnashing of teeth was deafening.

A spokesperson for the White House said that Donald Thump opposes the Equality Act because,

“The Trump administration absolutely opposes discrimination of any kind and supports the equal treatment of all; however, this bill in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights.”

The Equality Act would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other civil rights legislation banning job, housing, credit, and other forms of discrimination against GLBT people at the federal level.

The “poison pills that threaten to undermine parental and conscience rights,” obviously calls to mind that GLBT people are against families and are against the realistic use of conscience, and being treated like all other citizens is somehow special and threatening.

How does this threaten “parental and conscience rights” unless conscience rights means discrimination based on religion?

And what about Gay parents whose spouses and children rely on  jobs, housing, credit, and health care that someone can take away and prevent?

Trump has already issued guidelines that allow health care workers to refuse to provide medical care if they have personal or religious objections to it.

Wouldn’t this be a parental threat as there are already cases of pediatricians refusing to deal with infants who have same sex parents?

In a 2000 Trump said,

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We don’t need to rewrite the laws currently on the books, although I do think we need to address hate-crimes legislation. But amending the Civil Rights Act would grant the same protection to Gay people that we give to other Americans — it’s only fair.”

In a theocracy some tropes are acceptable.

Evangelicals have blamed GLBT people for earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, and terrorism. They said marriage equality would make straight people’s marriages dissolve and bring about a global financial crisis.

One of their loudest voices and the promoter of anti-GLBT misinformation, Pat Robertson opposes the Equality Act because,

“This is a devastating blow to religious freedom and to the sanctity of America. If you want to bring the judgment of God on this nation, you just keep this stuff up. You know, I was reading in Leviticus where it said, ‘Because of these things, the land will vomit you out.’ Vomit you out. I think God will say, ‘I’ve had it with America, if you do this kind of stuff, I’m going to get rid of you as a nation’.”

He went on to say this would happen because of “the potential of atomic war” and the possible attack on the nation’s electric grid.

This is the guy who made the claims that:

In 1994 we caused severe earthquake that hit Los Angeles.

In 1998 flying the Pride flags for Gay Days at Disney World in Orlando would bring God’s wrath in the form of a hurricane, which, by the way, the next hurricane missed Florida and hit Virginia where his HQ is.

September 11, 2001, was caused by the pagans, the abortionists, the feminists, and the Gays and the lesbians..”

In 2015 “Roberson predicted Gay people would cause the world’s financial system to collapse.

This is an example of who Trump wants to keep happy at the expense of U.S. citizens.

 

 

face palm moment

Growing up Catholic in the 1950s and attending an elementary school run by nuns, Brides of Christ in the old habit where only their faces showed, I was exposed to the negative attitudes directed towad all things not Catholic.

At Christmas, we were not allowed to sing “Away in the Manger” because Martin Luther wrote it.

Regardless of the reason for doing so, weddings, and funerals for example, we were told entering a Protestant church would bring us close to damnation, especially if it was an Episcopal one- that whole Henry VIII thing.

And when it came to Muhammadans” (Muslim today), they hot what they deserved during the Crusades being as they were the anti-Christ/

Oddly, however, when it came to history class and the Crusade business, in order to know the mind of the enemies of Christ, the nuns taught us all about Islam and the Pillars of that faith- adherence to the faith, prayer, concern for the needy, self-purification, and the pilgrimage- all somehow bad things because, well, it wasn’t Catholic.

Granted it was done to show Mohamed had ripped off Christianity, but here were conservative Catholic nuns having no problem teaching the Pillars and making them a question on quizzes

Today even saying you heard about them in school has people up in arms.

I remember when I lived in the Buckle of the Bible Belt legislation was passed to outlaw applying Sharia Law in the states courts because those laws applied to a specific religion while at the same time the same legislators were defending the erection of the “Protestant version” of the 10 Commandments on the State House lawn and spending taxpayer money to cover the cost of the legal fight. No one was trying to apply Sharia in the courts, but there were Christians fighting to force one version of the 10 Commandments on everyone, Protestant or not.

Unthinking and knee-jerk Islamophobia has gotten so insane that in a poll asking if students should be taught Arabic numerals in public school, more than half the respondents said “no”, with some preferring students learn American and/or Roman numbers like they always have.

A poll by The Brookings Register, a newspaper in South Dakota, polled its online readers with the question,
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The results had 29% saying yes, 14% holding no opinion, and 57% saying NO.

Obviously this is a result of the unreasonable Islamophobia sweeping the country as the numbers we use in the United States are Arabic numerals.

The preferred number of some of the respondents would seem to be those Xs, Ms, Cs, and Ls that Julius Caesar used in his day, and the Super Bowl, book publishers in their forwards, and movie maker when dating a film productions use today.

Sister Leoncius would have whacked our knuckles with a ruler had we been that stupid.

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Pence’s self-victimization

Having been raised Catholic, attending both a Catholic elementary and high school, having taught CCD (That’s Sunday school for non-Catholics), having entered a seminary for a while, and having many friends who are priests or who had also left the seminary like I did, I have  pretty good idea of what it meant to be Christian.

I said “meant” and not “means” because, having become the equivalent of a political party, those professing they are Christians have drastically changed what that means.

Besides holding certain beliefs, I.E. believing in the Holy Trinity who created heaven and earth, with Jesus having been born of the Virgin Mary, crucified, died, buried, rising on the third day, and ascending into heaven where He is seated at the right hand of the Father judginf the living and the dead, the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic (small C universal and united) Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting, there is also a requirement to perform works of mercy both corporal and spiritual in order to get into heaven.

Those works of mercy include, on the corporal list, feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, visiting the sick,  giving alms to the poor, ransoming the captives, and burying the dead.

On the spiritual list Christians are supposed to help our neighbors with their emotional and spiritual needs by instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtful, bearing wrongs patiently, forgiving offenses willingly, comforting the afflicted, and praying for the living and the dead.

Then there are the beatitudes that list who is blessed – the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek,  those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,  the merciful, the pure of heart, the peacemakers, and those persecuted for the sake of righteousness.

Loving one’s neighbor as oneself and not judging others also enter the picture

And, of course there is that pesky thing that separates religion from politics when Jesus said to render to Caesar what is his and God what’s God’s.

And you can tell the true Christians because by their fruits you shall know them.

Discrimination and judgment are missing from the lists. Refusing medical care for religious reasons would obviously go against the works of mercy as do refusing to be charitable, both in act and spirit, and forcing ones beliefs on others by influencing politicians to pass legislation because of the failure to attract adherents because the “good news” is presented with meanness, and brow beating people rather than though instruction, counseling or comforting.
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Mike Pence, when speaking to Liberty University’s graduating class, warned them that they are a part of America’s most marginalized group of people.

“Some of the loudest voices for tolerance today have little tolerance for traditional Christian beliefs. As you go about your daily life, just be ready because you’re going to be asked not just to tolerate things that violate your faith, you’re going to be asked to endorse them. You’re going to be asked to bow down to the idols of the popular culture.”

And he predicted that they will be “shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible.”

But no one actually has “little tolerance for traditional Christian beliefs”, but rather would like those who claim they are Christian to get back to them.

Although he said that “attacks on Christian education” are “un-American”, he seems to dismiss the idea that attacks on Americans in the name of religion are unchristian, and although he told the graduates,

“Decide here and now that you’re going to stand firm. You’ll always be prepared to give a reason for the hope that you have, and you’ll do so with gentleness and respect”,

somehow I do not see how discriminating against people and fighting for the special right to pick and choose which laws they will follow, which citizens they can let die through the denial of medical care, and which people are deserving of physical and mental harm is doing anything with “gentleness and respect.”

He is angry that he and those like him who have turned religion into a political weapon are expected to act like a Christian and that does not make others hateful.

Expecting the followers of Jesus to adhere to His teachings is not persecution, nor is it intolerant.

It’s over

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