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【America is an imperialistic nation】

『Column, the conscription system has been abolished』

The military force in America developing in the world is made up with the volunteer system.

At the time of the World War Ⅰ and Ⅱ, the conscription system was put a law into the force, and it was done at the time of the Vietnamese War as well, but then lots of young people hated to be sent to the battlefield and ran away from the armed force, so it was problematic.

The armed force in America withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, after that the conscription system has been abolished in 1973.

Fahrenheit 911 …

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『Column, the conscription system has been abolished』

Fahrenheit 911 is the movie produced by Michael Moore who is a film director, and it was depicted in the film that the military force is the best job for young people in poor family who don’t have academic qualification and can’t find a good job.

『Column, Michael Moore』

Flint in the Michigan state is the place where Michael Moore was born, and it’s well known as the base on the production for General Motors. His debut as the film director is Rojer & me, the document of which subject matter was his…

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《Column, Michael Moore》

…the document of which subject matter was his homeland.

The situation that a company on automobile was closed, and the town was filled with unemployed people was depicted in the film.

In this work of his, he ventured into the interview with the chairman on the General Morton’s without having appointment and other people were surprised at him. His way of interviewing by making a charge in the movie of Bowling for Columbine shot then.

His ancestry is Ireland, and his humor is dynamic. After graduating from high school, he stood…

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…he stood for the election on the board of education, asking for dismissal on the principal and the vice principal, driving them to resign. He has no lack of his heroic saga.

Bowling for Columbine in which challenging the problem on the fire arm boldly received the special prize at the cinematic festival in Cannes of the fifty fifth anniversary. He is one of the film directors who is paid attention so much.

《Deploying six unified command in the world》

Those four of the military force like the army, navy, the Air Force, and Marines are divided in areas.

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《Deploying the unified command all over the world》

And they formed six unified commands, but the concept is hard to understand.

As to the function on the military force, they are divided into army, navy and so on, but there is the command center each of areas, and there are the army, navy, Air Force and Maines under the command center.

The six unified commands are like the next.

The Northern Command of which on range of defense is the main land on America.

The Southern Command which is in charge of Southern America.

IndoーPacific Command which is in…

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《Deploying the unified command all over the world》

Indo-Pacific command which is in charge of the area of Asia and the Pacific Ocean, including Japan.

European Commands which is in charge of Europe.

Central Command which is in charge of from the Central Asia, the Middle East to Egypt.

Africa Command which is in charge of Africa, except for Egypt.

For example, as to the Indo- Pacific Command, its military headquarters is in Hawai, and the infantry division belonged to the army stations there permanently.

There has been the military force belonged to…

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There has been the armed force belonged to America of which range of defense is each of place far off from America in the world. How curious it is! The imperialism in America aims at ruling over the whole world, so spreading over its military force all over the world, and it’s worthy of its reputation.

《The Central Command keeps a close eye on the Middle East》

The Central Command of which range of defense appears the characteristics on the armed force belonged to the empire strong. Soviet invaded Afghanistan, and it caused to organize the Central Command

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《The Central Command keeps a close eye on the Middle East》

When Soviet invaded Afghanistan December in 1979, then the President Carter announced what is called Carter Doctrine in the next year like the next.

We regard any trial of controlling the area of the Persian Gulf by the influence of the outside as the attack on the important interests, dead or alive ,belonged to America.

The area of the Persian Gulf, in short, declaring the Middle East was the place which is in relation to the interests in America.

The Middle East is an important place for us.

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《The Central Command keeps a close eye on the Middle East》

So we can’t tolerate selfish behavior by other nation. America far from the Persian Gulf declared like that, but considering it carefully, the declaration is selfish as well, for the declaration is employing armed force so as to defend the important petroleum.

Being based on the Carter Doctrine, organizing Rapid Deployment Force so as that the armed force in America take the field to the Middle East in emergency.

After that Reagan who succeeded to the government organized as the Central Command

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《The Central Command keeps an eye on the Middle East》

Then the military focce which is in charge of the Middle East is completed.

It was at the time of the Gulf War when the military force demonstrated its power.

The multinational forces were organized so as to drive out Iraq which invaded into Kuwait, and attacked Iraq. Its center was the armed force in America which was organized, being based on the Central Command.

The command headquarters on the Central Command is at Tampa in Florida. Without having any combat troops under it usually, it’s the…

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…it’s the function on the command center alone, but in emergency the military units are gathered from all over the world, including inside the America, and getting ready for the battle then. At the time of the Iraqi War, the front command center was setup at Qatar in the Middle East.

《The National Guard complements the military force in the federation》

There are the National Guard on the army and the Air Force every state in the United States of America, the army is thirty hundred seven thousand, and the Air Force one hundred fifteen thousand. Two of…

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《The National Guard complements the military force in the federation》

Two of them are a half million two thousand six hundred in total. It’s the large scale of the number of soldiers.

The United States of America is made up with each of states, and the National Guard was born from the point that being able to resist against the government in the federation which infringes the right on the states by any chance.

Actually at the time of the discrimination toward the Black was serious in the south of America, the governor in the state took the field the…

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《The National Guard complements the military force in the federation》

…the governor in the state took the field the National Guard so as to prevent the black students from going to university, and the President sent the military force in the federation so as to stop the National Guard, and two of them were hostile for a while in the past.

But the National Guard and the military force in the federation couldn’t have been at war at present. The National Guard is in the position of complementing the military force in the federation.

The National Guard is …

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　The National Guard is usually under the governor in the state, and takes the field in the emergency like a disaster, but when the military force in the federation alone isn’t enough, the National Guard is organized into the military force in the federation by the order from the President.

Each of the National Guard in the state was done into the military force in the federation at the time of the Iraqi war and was sent to Iraq, but they aren’t trained so much as the military force in the federation, so there have been lots of victims in the battlefield.

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『Column, the internet has started from the military research』

The internet has taken root in the society enough at present. It was born from the research in the military force of America originally.

At the time of the Cold War between East and West, there was always fear in America that if the war between America and Soviet broke out and a nuclear missile was launched to the main land in America…

So various measures were considered then, and the computer system is one of the security precaution.

If the central computer in the command center is…

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If the central computer in the command center is destroyed, there will be fear the military force in America is damaged devastatingly, so it was contrived setting up computer each place in America, the network of computer in which there wasn’t main one. Even if one place is broken, using the network of other computer, and being able to contact each other. It’s the mother body on the internet.

After the Cold War between East and West was over, the technology on the military of this was open to the public, as a result, the internet has developed.

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『Column, America which eavesdropping the world』

Collecting information is indispensable so as to control the world, so there have been several intelligence agencies like the CIA in America, in particular, NSA taps the correspondence all over the world. We call it echelon.

Its original meaning the particular level or group of people within an organization such as an army or organization. When the large force in the military unit moved, they take into action separately.

The intelligence agency of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, being its…

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England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, being its center is America join the force and eavesdrop and analyze the information in cooperation. It is said they tap all the telephone, fax and mails in the internet.

There is a big antenna for eavesdropping at the military base in Misawa of Japan, and collects the information and communication in Japan. The collected information is sent to New Zealand and is decoded, and the important information is sent to America.

《America is a superpower on the nuclear weapon》

Not only the large scale of the military…

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《America is a super power on the nuclear weapon》

It’s the fact that not only the large scale of the military organization but a super power on the nuclear weapon has made America reign over the world.

At the end of the World War Ⅱ, dropping the atomic weapon both on Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefecture, America reached the first place on the competition of developing the nuclear weapon, with the Cold War between East and West, going on producing the nuclear weapon so as to defeat Soviet which was the arch-nemesis for America, and repeated the nuclear test.

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《America is a super power on the nuclear weapon》

As Soviet also competed against America and increased the atomic weapon, if adding the atomic weapon on both of the nations, thousands of them were produced, and the atomic weapon can destroy all the human being on the earth over and over again.

But the Cold War between East and West was over, the world tends to decrease the nuclear weapon. The Strategic Offensive Reduction on the treaty was concluded between America and Soviet was concluded in 2002. Then America possessed no less than seven thousand six…

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《America is a super power on the nuclear weapon》

Then America possessed no less than seven thousand six hundred of nuclear of warheads, Soviet did eight thousand three hundred, and both of the nations promised to decrease the strategic nuclear warhead from one thousand seven hundred to one thousand two hundred until the end of 2012.

But the Bush government in America started to develop the nuclear weapon of being able to use from 2003.

The nuclear weapon has such a tremendous power that none of the nation can use it in the battlefield actually.

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《America is a super power on the nuclear weapon》

So trying to develop the small scale of the nuclear weapon of being able to bomb on the base of the enemy with pinpoint.

For example, North Korea has constructed the main military architecture underground or at the mountainous area deep in the mountains. As being unable to destroy them with usual missile, so the Bush government tried to develop the nuclear weapon being able to destroy them.

After the World War Ⅱ, each nation in the world witnessed the dire calamity on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and…

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…and recognized if using the atomic weapon, it would cause an irreparable disaster, so the nuclear weapon was the one which no one could use actually, but trying to learn to be able to use it.

The effort on the abolishment or decrease on the nuclear weapon was piled up after the war, but it was about to be eradicated by the Bush government.

《America is the nation of the military-industrial complex》

The Bush government put more effort into not only the development on the nuclear missile of being able to but the defense plan by missile. If other nation…

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《America is the nation of military-industrial complex》

If other nation aims at America and launches the missile into the main land in America, shooting down it with other missile by America. It’s the plan like that, but its technical skill is very hard, and its experiment failed frequently.

But the large amount of fund was poured into the development on the technical skill, the technical skill on the missile has made progress and ammunition industry recorded the large amount of sales. Defending its own nation is useful for on defense on the war industry.

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《America is the nation of military-industrial complex》

DARPA which is the attached facilities on the Department of Defense in America researches the technical skill on the military in the next generation and outsources the development to the outside.

The DARPA is abbreviation on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Researchers have been employed from various companies all over America in the research institute, and returned to the workplace in which they used to belong soon. The budget a year is twenty billion dollars which is equivalent to…

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《America is the nation of military-industrial complex》

The budget a year is two billion dollars which is equivalent to two hundred ten billion yen in Japan. The high technology developed and researched there is moved to consumer appliance in private companies of America.

The large amount of budget was poured into the research like water and develops the new technology and it learns to be able to make use of it in private companies. It means the that the military budget has been useful in the form of it in America.

Whenever the President changes….

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《America is the nation of military-industrial complex》

…some five thousand of executives are exchanged in the government of America, and the people who were appointed politically are engaged in making policies. Then executives in the military industry are appointed to high officials in the Department of Defense. Or the high officers in the Department of Defense are invited to the military industry warmly.

The human exchange has been always done between the government and the military industry. As a result, the border line between two of them is vague…

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《America is the nation of military-industrial complex》

…the boundary between two of them becomes vague gradually.

If the managers in the military industry who are the top of the companies are in the position of planning the policy on the military force, they would end up wanting to start the policy which is advantageous to its companies to which they used to belong. They wouldn’t adopt disadvantageous policy at least absolutely.

Or deciding the policy on the military force and retiring from the military force and start working in the military industry…

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【What I've thought】

To my joy, this English thread of mine has returned, but the trouble is there are three unfinished responses, so I'm sure I have to finish them one by one, including this thread.

My first goal was to reach my score on e-typing to 300, though sometimes it did, but it limits to the time when doing it again the places where I made mistake alone, so it isn't satisfactory for me at all.

But this year is no more than three months are left, though the important thing is concentration, so when my surrounding for using the ipad at home, I'm going to do my best.

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【America is an imperialistic nation】

《America in the nation of the military-industrial complex》

…it’s possible, they can.

For example, the President of George Bush who is the son, lots of executives took office on the position of the Ministry of Defence from the military industry at his first period.

The former president in the Lockheed Martin was the Under Secretary of the Air Force, the vice president of the General Dynamics was the Secretary of the Navy, and the executive of the Northrop Grumman was the Secretary of the Air Force.

Moreover, the company of the Halliburton which was…

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《America is the nation of the military-industrial complex》

Moreover the company of the Halliburton which is the old haunt of the former vice President of Cheney has undertook the supplies on the various military materials for the American government.

Thus the unification of the government and the military industry has advanced. It’s the concept of the military-industrial complex. It’s the Eisenhower who used the phrase for the first time at the inauguration speech of the President in 1961, pointed out like the next.

Three million and fifty hundred…

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《America is the nation of the military industrial complex》

Three million fifty hundred thousand people learned to be employed and the large amount of the military budget to be spent, as a result, the unification of the huge military organization and the large size of the military industry was born. It’s the military industrial complex. The military complex itself looks for a threat and produces a weapon which isn’t always necessary. He warned it’s dangerous for the democracy.

If the military industry develops, it takes on a life of its own. If….

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《America is the nation of the military-industrial complex》

If decreasing the demand on the weapon, it looks for a new threat, suggesting that the government should develop the new weapon, gaining its budget, and turning it into its own business.

The vice President predicted the terror that the military industry made the new threat. In spite of his warning, the military-industry complex went on growing in America.

The President of Bush who is the son made a speech in the middle of the war against Iraq in 2003 like the next.

America has combined the…

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《America is the nation of the military-industrial complex》

America has combined the creative strategy and the excellent technical skill and constructed the military power again. The strength on the America lies in its entrepreneurial spirit.

There is no insight on his speech like Eisenhower. Far from it. The Bush government received the large amount of the political funds from the military industry and won through the Presidential election. Lots of people who were from the military industry in his government, so the government was as if it had loooked…

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The government seemed to be as if it had been the puppet government for the military industry.

The military industry has taken over the democracy rather than it’s dangerous for the democracy. Unfortunately the prediction by Aisenhower comes true.

《It‘s the military industry which is the public work in America》

As the large amount of the military spending continued for a long time, the military has taken root over the politics and economy in America firmly. There is a military base belonging to America or the defense industry in the home town of the …

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《It’s the military industry which is the public work in America》

There is a military base belonging to America or the defense industry in the home town of almost all of the Diet member in America. Attraction on the military base or the defense industry is important for the Diet member so as to obtain the employment in its home town. There is the mood that criticizing the military is unthinkable.

As the economy in America has learned to be dependent on the military spending so much that if reducing the military spending, the economy in some areas …

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《It’s the military industry in America which is the public works 》

…the economy in some areas becomes slump, especially the military industry has concentrated on the South California, so its tendency is noticeable.

The local economy has been supported by the public work in Japan and lots of the member in the local assembly are managers in the construction company.

The military industry has supported the local economy in America. The official work is equivalent to the military industry in America.

Maintaining a good relationship with the statesman in…

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《It’s the public work which is the military industry in America》

If keeping a good relationship with the statesmen in the local place where there is the military base, they work on for the military advantageously, so the U.S, military has worked hard so as to win the influential people’s favors.

えひめまる which is the training ship in the fishery high school of Ehime prefecture was collapsed by the submarine belonged to the U.S. Military which surged on the surface and went to the bottom of the sea in 2001. Then the chaperone teacher and eight students died.

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There were influential people in the submarine and they were in the middle of the trial voyage. The accident has broken out during being on the cruise of making the civilians take the helm. It was the part of the promotional activity in the U.S. military.

《America is a big country exporting the weapon》

The development on the advanced weapon requires expense a lot. The large amount of the weapon has to be sold so as to collect the funds which they used for the development and to make a profit. As a result, selling the weapon in America alone isn’t enough

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《America is an nation exporting weapons》

America needs to export the large amount of weapons. Exporting weapons by America accounts for nearly 70% in the world. The war and dispute have broken out all over the world at present, and America has sold the weapons to both of the countries concerned the war or the dispute. America reminds us of the phrase of the merchant of death.

Exporting weapons not only making profit for America but works so as that America is closer relation with each nation in the world.

For example, Poland bought forty eight…

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《America is a big nation exporting weapons》

…Poland bought forty eight fighter aircrafts from America in 2003. After that Poland will procure the parts on its Air Force from America. If doing something which makes the government in America get angry, there is the fear that Poland won’t be able to procure the parts from America in the future. Then Poland is in trouble.

Buying the weapon made in the U.S.A.leads the structure of being unable to be against America.

Thus the structure of strengthening being ruled over by America is completed here.

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《And to the Middle East》

The ideal in America to the world! The United States of America was born at the eastern coast of the continent in the North America. Its control reached to the continent of the South and North America so as to spread its ideal, and soon developed each place in the world from the west coast in the America.

Expansion on the rights and interests in America is indispensable so as to spread the ideal.

Thus the American Imperial has sought for the petroleum and reached to the Middle East. The ally for America is Israel in the….

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《And to the Middle East》

The ally for the America is Israel in the Middle East, so the America has supported Israel. Even if having occupied the Palestine illegally and oppressed the town folks in Palestine and not allowed the liberty and democracy on the Palestine, America has placed importance on the rights and interests in the Middle East so turned a blind eye to the Israel.

Even if the government in the Saudi Arabia corrupts, as long as its Royal Family sells the petroleum to America, America turns blind eye to the corruption in the politics and…

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《And to the Middle East》

…and overlooks that the democracy doesn’t exist there, keeping the close relationship.

If there is the existence reaching threat to the Israel or to the Saudi Arabia, it’s bad for America as well. Thus America took aim at the Hussein government in Iraq, and the war against Iraq broke out.

The people who were released from the oppression by the President Hussein must have been delighted, but the longer the U.S.army stayed in Iraq, the more the people were hostile to the U.S.army.

Without considering the feeling and the way of…

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《And to the Middle East》

Without considering the feeling and the way of thinking on the Vietnamese, forcing the way of thinking on the Americans and America led to withdraw from Vietnam.

And without respecting the feeling and the way of thinking on the people in Arab, and sticking to the way of the American style, so the force of anti America has been fostered gradually not only in Iraq but in the whole Middle East.

Does the history repeat? Does Iraq become the second Vietnam for America? Whenever watching or listening to the news on the victims from….

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Whenever watching or listening to the news on the victims from Iraq as if it have been everyday, the nightmare on the Vietnamese war came back to me, the author said like that.

Burning with ambition, the America has been built, expanding its territory gradually, being imperialistic so much that it had the colony overseas as well. Its ambition reaches to the control on the world and its control has expanded in the size of the large scale.

But America got bogged down by the war against Iraq.

What’s happened in Iraq at present? I’m wondering.

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【America is the nation of liberty having a gun】

《A student in high school from Japan was killed》

The Halloween is a happy festival in line with the Christmas for the children in America. Joining in the Halloween is a good chance of touching the America itself for a youngster who learns to live in America.

The Halloween is equivalent to the Obon holidays in Japan. It is said taking the harvest festival in the Celt in the Christianity, and it is believed that the spirit of the dead visits its family members and the demon or the witch come at the night of the thirty first October every year.

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【America is a nation of liberty having a gun】

《A student in high school from Japan was killed》

It’s a happy festival for children and disguising themselves as demon and walking around houses, saying trick or treat, and obtaining sweets. It’s the custom in America.

When the Halloween approaches, the Jack-o’-lantern is decorated at the eaves of each home, and the whole America is filled with the mood of the festival then. It is said half of the family in the whole of America celebrate the Halloween.

But the happy festival in America turned into the tragedy by the side having one more America

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【America is a nation of liberty having a gun】

《A student in high school was murdered》

It was the state of Louisiana October in 1992. There was the party celebrating Halloween. It started two weeks earlier than the Halloween itself. The high school student who studied abroad from Japan mistook the other house for the one which was held the party and knocked on the door on the house with his friend.

As the door opened, the student in high school said, he came to the party, but the door was closed. The student in high school returned to the road once, and he wasn’t aware of mistaking the house

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【America is a nation of liberty having a gun】

《A student in high school was murdered》

But as the door opened no sooner had approached the house he was fired from the house, for the resident in the house fired at him, shooting him in the chest. He was dead on the way to the hospital. It was a big news in Japan then. It’s the case as if it were history in the past. Do you know what happened to the resident who murdered the student from Japan?

Neither of the news and on TV and the newspaper treated the case wildly, for the fatal incident by the gun fight often happened there, so it didn’t …

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