German left-wing party equates evangelical Christians with Islamic jihadists

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A leftist German political party has equated evangelical Christians with Islamic jihadists.

In their official election platform, The Left Party in Saxony-Anhalt states: “The Left is committed to resolutely combating religious fundamentalism – whether of a Christian evangelical or jihadist nature – through intervention, educational efforts, prevention, and civil society initiatives.”

The Left is the legal successor to the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany), which ruled communist East Germany from 1946 until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989.

“Equating so-called ‘evangelical’ Christianity with the inhuman and anti-Semitic terror of Islamist jihadism is an outrageous defamation of this branch of the Christian faith – which remains so diverse and vibrant to this day – in our country,” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentarian Thomas Rachel said in response to The Left’s program.

Rachel said that Pietism is characterized by “the Jesus-based commandment of absolute peacefulness, serious examination of conscience, and the spirit of consistent personal discipleship of Jesus Christ.”

Rachel is a member of the German Bundestag, the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), and the Federal Government Commissioner for Freedom of Religion and Belief.

“It is outrageous to accuse evangelical Christians and church congregations – precisely in Germany, where, historically speaking, Pietism and the Enlightenment flourished side by side – of espousing a violent and anti-democratic fundamentalism that must be ‘resolutely combated,’” Rachel continued.

He argued that the Left is downplaying the danger of Islamism and seeks to divert attention from its “extremely problematic ties to Islamist individuals and circles, both within its own ranks and among its own electorate.”

As the successor to the SED, which, during its rule in East Germany, “discriminated against, spied on, and persecuted” Christians, dissidents, and civil rights activists, the party “obviously still has a great deal to come to terms with,” according to a CDU politician.

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London council moves Islamic school with ‘compulsory’ hijab rule into State sector

Barnet Council has approved the transfer of an independent Islamic primary school into England’s State-funded education system, giving the north London borough its first council-maintained Muslim faith school.

Barnet Hill Academy, in West Hendon, is due to switch from fee-paying to “voluntary aided” status on September 1. The school, which has operated in Montagu Road for the past 20 years, teaches pupils aged four to 11.

The decision was signed off this month by John Anthony, the council’s executive director of children’s services. Voluntary aided schools are almost entirely funded by the taxpayer while remaining under the control of a religious governing body.

The National Secular Society has written to the council objecting to the school’s uniform policy, which makes the hijab compulsory for girls in Year 3 and above. NSS chief executive Stephen Evans said “women should be free to choose religious dress”.

Under voluntary aided rules the school may select all of its pupils and staff on religious grounds. Its proposed admissions arrangements place Muslim applicants ahead of children from other backgrounds.

The council said the school would operate inclusive arrangements because it accepts applications “from children of all faiths and none”. It argued that Islam was not represented in Barnet’s State-funded sector, which already includes Church of England, Roman Catholic and Jewish schools.

Barnet recorded 47,700 Muslim residents at the 2021 census, just over 12 per cent of its population. A four-week consultation held from May 8 to June 5 drew support from every respondent, the council said.

Audited accounts show the school ran in-year deficits and held net liabilities for three consecutive years. The council has sought an indemnity covering liabilities incurred before the handover.

Pupil numbers are projected to roughly double to about 400 by the early 2030s once fees disappear, a forecast the council itself described as ambitious.

The NSS said little evidence had been produced that the effect on integration and community cohesion had been weighed, as council guidance requires. It also questioned how a school likely to draw its pupils from one religious background could be called inclusive.

Islamia Primary School in Brent, west London, became Britain’s first State-funded Muslim school in 1998 after a campaign lasting more than a decade. Faith schools now account for roughly a third of State schools in England, most of them Anglican or Roman Catholic.

Comparable arguments have surfaced elsewhere in Europe, where Muslim pupils make up 42 per cent of enrolments in Vienna’s State schools, according to figures from the Austrian capital’s education authority.

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UK: Media can’t decide if ‘transgender’ kidnapper is a ‘he’ or ‘she’

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On March 6, a headline in the Andover Advertiser announced: “Man arrested after attempting to kidnap woman in Andover.” At 5:32 p.m. on March 2, a man drove a large white van into a woman in her 50s, jumped out, and tried to drag her into the vehicle. The woman was struck from behind.

The woman managed to fend off her attacker, who was named by police as 28-year-old Sean Haverty of Newquay, England. Haverty was charged with kidnapping with intent to commit sexual assault, assault causing bodily harm, and non-fatal strangulation. The woman was taken to the hospital with injuries to her face, knee, and wrist.

On August 26, however, the Telegraph published an update to the story. “A transgender woman drove a van into a lone woman during a ‘chilling’ attempt to kidnap her, a court heard.” Haverty was identified as Safiya Anna Haverty, and the press outlet used “she/her” pronouns to describe the would-be rapist.

At the beginning of the trial, Judge Rufus Taylor informed the jury that Haverty had changed his name and is “biologically male and presenting as a woman in court.” Natalie Cheesman of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described Haverty’s crime: “This was a chilling attack on a complete stranger. Haverty drove to Hampshire before striking a lone woman with a van, dragging her towards the vehicle and strangling her.”

Once again, the press seemed confused as to whether to present Haverty as a man or a woman. Was he Sean, or Safiya? Was the crime an incident of woman-on-woman violence, or a male crime of violence and attempted sexual assault? (The BBC chose a middle route, noting the name change but avoiding pronouns altogether.)

Reduxx, which also posted a 2023 photo of Haverty as a bearded man who is clearly not attempting to “present” as female, noted that “public records and archived online profiles show that Haverty had previously presented exclusively as a man” and that a “Backstage acting profile for Haverty lists him as a male model from Newquay, Cornwall, and photographs on the page appear to match images he had previously used across his social media accounts.” Haverty appears to have begun identifying as a woman after his arrest.

The jury at the Winchester Crown Court found Haverty guilty of kidnapping, intentional strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, perverting the course of justice, and dangerous driving.

“Working closely with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, CPS prosecutors built a strong case using forensic and [automatic number plate recognition] evidence, mobile phone data and eyewitnesses to prove Haverty was responsible,” stated Cheesman. “We hope these convictions provide some reassurance to the victim that Haverty has been brought to justice.”

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‘They did not speak French’ – French teen Constant finally speaks out after being kidnapped, robbed, and beaten into a 6-day coma

A French youth, 19-year-old Constant, was kidnapped, robbed, and beaten so badly by three suspects that he was left in a six-day coma in the hospital in 2025. Now, the case has come once more to the public’s attention after Constant described the attack on French television, including that his assailants were not speaking French when they nearly killed him.

Near dawn on April 12, 2025, 19-year-old Constant was on his way to work when three men changed his life forever. To this day, only one suspect has ever been arrested and convicted.

Constant was a hard-working French teenager, who had been an apprentice butcher since he was 15. Around 5:30 a.m., he left on his electric scooter for a 6:30 a.m. shift, traveling along Boulevard Jean-Jaurès in Petit-Quevilly, near Rouen. A car began following him, then cut him off and blocked the road. Occupants called for him to stop, appearing to need help or simply demanding that he approach. When a truck driver witnessed the scene and tried to intervene, the men threatened him. They forced Constant into the vehicle.

The suspects took him to Grand-Quevilly. Under threat of a knife, they demanded the PIN codes for his phone and bank card. After obtaining them, they beat him almost exclusively on his head. Family members later said the attackers “went after his head,” leaving a shoe tread mark across his face.

Once he was barely conscious, they abandoned him. In a state of shock, Constant managed to walk roughly two kilometers toward home before collapsing. His parents took him to the hospital, where he was also photographed with shoe tread marks across his face.

Constant was admitted to intensive care at CHU Rouen with a skull fracture and a subdural hematoma, then transferred to neurosurgery. Relatives described his head as massively swollen. Later accounts indicate he spent approximately six days in a coma. The attackers stole his e-scooter and phone and withdrew €1,170 from his account.

A witness had already called the police. Officers arrived at the initial scene and found no one. When family members tried to file a complaint the same day, they were told the adult victim would have to do it himself; police later opened an investigation and took his statement at the hospital.

Bank withdrawals allowed police to identify one of the three men. This suspect, who has not been named, was tried in court on Nov. 14, 2025, at the Rouen criminal court and sentenced to four years in prison with immediate detention. He was banned from contacting Constant and ordered to pay damages. He refused to name his two accomplices, who have not been arrested.

Months later, Constant appeared on France 2’s “Ça commence aujourd’hui” with Faustine Bollaert. In the clip that circulated widely in August 2026, he recounted being in the back of the car, being told not to look at the man on his right, and realizing the attackers were not speaking French.

As a result, it is clear that the attackers are not native French citizens, further highlighting the deteriorating security situation in the country due to mass immigration. Countless French youths have been the victim of foreigners over the last years, include Louis, Mégan, Thomas, Lola, and Théo, just to name a few of the victims.

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More Violence In Ceuta: Clashes With Residents, Ambush On Soldiers

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Ceuta has endured another night of violence, but this time the crisis has crossed a new threshold.

Tensions that have been building for almost a month have now resulted in physical clashes between groups of residents and invaders camped on the beaches and, hours later, in an attack on soldiers deployed to monitor the city.

More than 2,000 Ceuta residents took to the streets again on Wednesday to demand a solution to the crisis that began with the mass entry at the end of July. Some of the demonstrators later broke away from the march and headed towards El Trampolín, the beach where dozens of invaders remain despite previous evictions and the opening of temporary reception facilities.

Once there, they attempted to dismantle part of the encampments themselves. The Police Intervention Unit deployed a large number of officers and riot-control equipment to prevent a direct confrontation between the two groups.

The police intervention against residents has added another source of irritation in a city where a growing part of the population accuses the state of enforcing public order only when Ceuta residents themselves decide to take matters into their own hands.

The problem is not a complete absence of police action, but an increasingly reactive response to a crisis that continues to generate new outbreaks of violence.

The most serious incident came at around 5:30 a.m. in Benzú.

According to police sources, a group of between 30 and 40 immigrants surrounded a vehicle carrying four soldiers from the 54th Regulares Group towards a surveillance post and began attacking it with large stones. The soldiers were forced to abandon the vehicle and flee on foot towards Calamocarro while being chased and continuing to come under a barrage of stones. All four were injured.

The National Police and Civil Guard subsequently launched an operation that resulted in the arrest of twelve Moroccan nationals. Some of those involved fled towards the sea. The investigation remains underway to locate the others involved.

The Union of Rank-and-File Military Personnel has denounced what it described as the “operational and legal helplessness” of the deployed troops and said it had previously warned of the existing risks.

Almost a month after an entry that the Interior Ministry estimates involved around 80,000 people on July 30 and 31, Ceuta is no longer facing a migration emergency only. It is simultaneously confronting a problem of security, social coexistence, and state authority.

Every night that passes without a solution narrows the room for restoring control without violence once again deciding who controls the streets.

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Piddington turns protest against asylum accommodation into ‘Battle for Britain’ anthem as village prepares for referendum

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Piddington’s protest against plans to house 1,250 asylum seekers at a military base has resulted in the release of an anthem as the village prepares to hold its second independence referendum.

The Oxfordshire village, which is home to just 314, held its first independence vote on July 4 in an attempt to prompt a response from the Labour Government.

An overwhelming majority of residents – 98 per cent – voted in favour of leaving the United Kingdom.

However, a second poll will now be held on September 15, with supporters of Piddington’s independence hoping Donald Trump will formally recognise the village’s vote.

The anthem, dubbed “Battle for Britain”, was created by one of the village’s supporters on social media.

In a two-and-a-half-minute music video, the village continuously switches from the 1940s to the modern day.

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Locals appear to walk around the leafy village, with Spitfires flying over the Oxfordshire skies.

Union Jacks also adorn the streets along with red, white and blue bunting.

The AI-generated video includes numerous polling stations across the village, with the ballot paper reading: “Should Piddington remain an independent village?”

The lyrics are dominated by the phrase “Piddington Roars” and frequent reminders that the vote will take place on September 15.

“September 15, Piddington rise,” the song opens.

The lyrics add: “When the sky was full of Spitfires and brave young men, a few against the many, and they turned the tide that day.

“Now every village and town has got something to say. From Bicester to Barnham to the fields of Crowborough Town. Linton lit the torch and word is travelling round.”

Tim McNally, Chairman of Piddington Parish Council, said: “This is not just a song. It is a rallying cry.

“It is the sound of neighbours standing shoulder to shoulder. The sound of a community refusing to be ignored.

“The sound of people demanding transparency, accountability and the right to have their voices heard.”

He added: “The track is dedicated to Piddington’s residents, campaign supporters and every community that has ever felt overlooked, controlled or silenced.

“It belongs to everyone who believes that ordinary people can make an extraordinary noise when they stand together.

“Now Piddington is calling on supporters across the country: listen, share, add it to your playlists and help make ‘Battle for Britain’ the song Britain cannot ignore.”

Residents in Piddington have attempted to catch Labour’s attention in several ways since the Home Office earmarked MoD Bicester to house 1,250 asylum seekers.

Children across the village penned a series of heartbreaking letters to Andy Burnham.

However, the Prime Minister has remained reluctant to consult residents in Piddington about Labour’s plan to place 1,250 asylum seekers at MoD Bicester.

Speaking to GB News, the Prime Minister said: “I do have to say we cannot have a situation where it’s only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers.

“We’re working at it, we understand people’s concerns, and I will look into the issues raised by the good people of Piddington.”

The song is now available to download on Spotify and other major music streaming services.

All proceeds generated will go towards Piddington’s campaign, legal advice, and community action against the proposed site.

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Crime Up 1000% in Ceuta After Invasion

And soon Muslim migrants from Ceuta will enter Europe.

When 80,000 Muslim migrants invaded the Spanish territory of Ceuta through Morocco, the Sanchez government refused to declare an emergency because mass migration wasn’t classified as an emergency. Three weeks later, PM Pedro Sanchez came back from vacation and announced that he will declare a national security crisis under a single command.

And by then it will be too late.

Despite initial promises from the prime minister that all the migrants would be returned, many thousands of the invaders have remained behind. Some sources estimated the number of remaining invaders who have occupied beaches and overrun entire areas at only 8,000, but Spain’s Ministry of Health is sending 45,000 doses of vaccines to deal with the migrant outbreaks including 10,000 polio, chickenpox, and diphtheria-tetanus vaccines and 15,000 MMR vaccines suggesting that the true number may be between 10,000 and 15,000.

What the vaccine regime reveals even more than the numbers is the fact that they’re staying.

The fiction that the migrants will soon go back is falling apart. There would be no need for over 10,000 vaccine doses for the migrants if they were on the verge of being deported back home.

MMR vaccines with the second booster shot operate on a 4-week schedule. The chickenpox vaccine is spread out over 2 months, and the polio and diphtheria-tetanus vaccines operate across 6-12 months. The Spanish government expects thousands, and perhaps even a full ten thousand migrants, to stay for at least a year which means that they will probably never leave.

The new unified command is preparing to seize housing for the migrants for the rest of the year which means that the government expects the occupation to continue until at least then.

Meanwhile crime in the formerly quiet territory has soared. According to a police union spokesman, the number of calls regarding crimes being committed increased 1,000%.

“Normally, we get 20 or 30 calls a day to report crimes, and that number increases on weekends. But we’re registering more than 200 calls every day. What we’re experiencing is overwhelming.”

Women and girls in particular have become targets, but even law enforcement isn’t safe with an off-duty Civil Guard officer beaten and robbed by 5 Moroccans at a gas station. Officers are working 16-hour shifts, sleeping on base, and then going back to work, and it still isn’t enough.

“Ceuta cannot normalize robberies, brawls, sexual assaults, and attacks on members of the State Security Forces,” a police union spokesman complained. Unfortunately, it already has.

Prime Minister Sanchez, who famously wrote a New York Times op-ed titled, “I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants” to promote his policy of legalizing 500,000 illegal migrants, helping spur the invasion, has been running out the clock by offering meaningless reassurances and delaying any emergency intervention until now.

As Spain’s former head of immigration, Ramón Caudevila from Ceuta, pointed out, under the law “after 31 days from the application date, undocumented immigrants have the right to go to the Spanish mainland.” What that means is that in around a week, thousands of invading Ceuta migrants will enter Spain proper and then all of Europe will lie open before them.

No wonder they’re getting vaccinated.

And that is only the beginning. As the former official pointed out, “they’ll be granted residency and a work permit. And they can apply for family reunification: five people on average. But it doesn’t end there. His older sister, who is married, brings her family over too… from one minor, you can legalize 25 or 30 people in four or five years.”

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s reassurances that this will never happen and the defamation campaign against Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were all based on lies. His claim that critics warning about an invasion of Europe out of Ceuta were “driven by prejudice, fake news, ignorance, or political interest” has turned around to show that his lies were the real fake news.

“No one will stay in Ceuta, no one will go to the mainland, no one will be granted legal status,” Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska had promised a few weeks ago. Now the Sanchez government has begun testing the waters by proposing to bring at least 500 female migrant minors from Ceuta to the Spanish mainland. (Migrants routinely claim to be minors. There is often no way to know whether that is true and fake migrant minors have been caught before.)

Sanchez’s Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, blasted calls to return the migrants back home, claiming that it was “racist.” Disregarding her warnings, a large Ceuta protest rallied with calls to expel all the migrant invaders back to Morocco, chanting, “I don’t want invaders, I want my freedom” and calling for the resignation of the pro-migrant open borders Sanchez regime.

Elma Saiz, Spain’s Minister of Inclusion and Migration, insisted that migrant minors would not be deported. “That is not the kind of country we are; we have commitments to international law, and it is also a matter of values,” she protested, and, dismissing warnings about disease outbreaks, claimed that the problem isn’t sickness because “what is contagious is xenophobia.”

Meanwhile, the Sanchez government has continued insisting that the campaign that led 200,000 migrants to plan to invade Spain had nothing to do with the Moroccan government while appearing to blame Israel and Russia. A Spanish paper reprinted a bizarre claim from an Egyptian political scientist who said that China had told her that Israel was behind it all.

And as for Morocco? Minister Saiz claimed that Morocco was a “reliable partner” and insisted, “they didn’t know, just as we didn’t.”

The one thing that everyone has avoided discussing is the Islamic motive for the invasion.

Then the Moroccan Minister of Islamic Affairs cited the “sacred struggle to liberate the occupied cities along the Atlantic Ocean” while referencing the Islamic history of Ceuta and its connections to Mohammed. This was never simply about migration: it was about jihad.

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Polish bishops fight back as gov’t cuts religion classes, pushes contraception

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Poland’s Catholic bishops have criticized the government for restricting religious education in schools while introducing a “Health Education” subject that promotes contraception to children.

In a statement published on August 24 by the Polish Episcopal Conference, the Catholic bishops expressed their discontent with the current government’s decision to cut religious education classes to one hour per week in public schools.

“We wish to make it clear that religion classes are not a privilege of the Church,” the statement reads. “They are a constitutional right of students and parents, stemming from the principle of freedom of conscience and religion, as well as the right of parents to raise their children in accordance with their own beliefs. Religious education classes help shape one’s conscience, teach responsibility, and build a hierarchy of values. They do not serve solely the personal formation of believers. They allow students to gain a deeper understanding of the history of Poland and Europe, literature, art, social ethics, and many other areas of culture. They also help students better understand themselves, find meaning in life, and deepen their understanding of their faith. They bring something unique to school education: an answer to the deepest questions about the meaning, value, and purpose of human life.”

“For many students, especially in times of crisis, it is precisely what they learn in religion classes that serves as a guidepost, preventing them from losing their way,” the statement emphasized.

“In this context, with concern for future generations, we are closely monitoring the actions of the Ministry of National Education,” the bishops stated. “The mandate to schedule religion classes before or after other school classes, the reduction of instruction to one hour per week, the possibility of combining classes, and the exclusion of religion grades from the overall grade average are leading to the marginalization of religion in Polish schools.

“We therefore call for the immediate restoration of the proper place for these classes and for the initiation of a genuine dialogue with representatives of religious communities,” they wrote.

However, the Polish bishops also noted that they support the initiative allowing students to choose between religion and ethics classes.

Regarding the new subject of “Health Education” in schools, which will be mandatory starting on September 1, the bishops said they “recognize the need for health education in schools and acknowledge its importance for disease prevention, mental health, and responsible social attitudes.”

“However, our concerns relate to the vision of the human person, marriage, and the family that emerges from the curriculum guidelines and published textbooks,” the statement continues.

The subject is also meant to “educate” students about “methods of contraception, the mechanism of their action, and the criteria for choosing an appropriate method contraception” and “methods of treatment” for infertility, which could include IVF. Both IVF and contraception are immoral and sinful according to the teaching of the Catholic Church. The sexual education aspect of the course will be optional.

“Another cause for concern is the lack of a clear stance that marriage is a union between a man and a woman,” the bishops warned.

“Sexuality should be presented within the context of marital and family relationships, because it is in this context that it serves the authentic good of the human person.”

They noted that “keeping the module on sexuality optional does not solve the problem.”

“We also note that, in developing the curriculum guidelines, there was a lack of broad dialogue with communities responsible for children’s upbringing. The proposals and requests of the Roman Catholic Church were not taken into account.”

“We therefore ask parents to remain vigilant in overseeing their children’s education in this important and sensitive area of life,” the bishops stressed.

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AfD on Course for Historic Breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt

The German right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is heading into the final days of the Saxony-Anhalt election campaign with a commanding lead, as its candidate for prime minister Ulrich Siegmund seeks to form the party’s first ever state government.

new poll puts the AfD at 42%, while the centre-right governing CDU of Prime Minister Sven Schulze is at 22%. The far-left Die Linke stands at 11%, the Social Democrats (SPD) at 8%, and the Greens at 6%. Other parties would currently fail to clear the 5% threshold.

The election takes place next Sunday, September 6th.

The Saxony-Anhalt figures reflect a general disillusionment with establishment parties across eastern Germany.

According to a new survey, seen by Junge Freiheit, the AfD would receive 43% in the eastern states excluding Berlin if a federal election were held today. Die Linke follows with 16%, ahead of the CDU, polling at just 13%. The SPD and Greens are both at 9%.

Against this backdrop, Ulrich Siegmund used an MDR television debate on the evening of Wednesday, August 26th to present himself as the candidate of political change.

He said the AfD was “on the right track” and promised to “reorganise” migration if elected. He argued that reducing spending on asylum and non-governmental organisations could free up €300-500 million for schools and hospitals.

Siegmund accused the CDU of having an “out-of-touch perspective” after 24 years in government in Saxony-Anhalt.

Asked about his priorities, he said he wanted to do what was right for “our own country and our own people.”

Siegmund said he would not seek support from other parties and declared that an AfD victory would be “the beginning of a political change” across Germany.

Even with 42%, however, the AfD could fall short of an outright majority. This means the CDU would most likely team up with all the leftist parties just to avoid having to cooperate with the AfD.

This would mean disregarding the wishes of a significant proportion of voters who are calling for change, including stricter migration policies and a less radical approach to green policies.

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