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On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Amy Gallagher of Stand Up To Woke discuss; * Sadiq Khan’s blatantly lies about the economic benefits of migration * Is Kier Starmer now a “right wing” politician on immigration? * Southport: Kier Starmer lied to the public and slurred decent people as extremists * Is Woke Dead?

Award-winning jigsaw artist Mike Jupp has declared he has “no regrets” about ending his relationship with Gibsons Games after a dispute over changes to his artwork.

Speaking to GB News, the 77-year-old cartoonist said: “I’m English and I’m very proud of my country. I don’t care what anyone does. I don’t want to join their club.”

Jupp questioned the company’s decision-making, describing it as “professional suicide” that upset loyal customers who appreciated his distinctive humour.

“I don’t understand a professional suicide that this company appeared to do by upsetting all the regulars that loved my humour,” he told the broadcaster.

The artist had worked with the 100-year-old family business before the relationship soured over requested changes to his puzzle designs.

The dispute centres around Jupp’s 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle titled “I Love Spring”, which depicts a chaotic village life scene including a parade, village fete and various humorous elements.

Jupp alleges that Gibsons Games asked him to remove the St George’s flag from the puzzle as part of what he describes as a “diversity and inclusion drive”.

“I was asked to change a whole bunch of things, to this day I don’t know why,” Jupp told GB News.

The artist claims the changes were requested despite the puzzle selling “very, very well”.

“All of a sudden, the skids hit. I was told to remove a whole host of things and God knows why,” he said.

Jupp expressed frustration at the requested alterations, adding: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

The artist revealed he spent considerable time revising the artwork without compensation.

“I revisited the picture and it took me over three months to make it ‘correct’, I never got paid,” Jupp told GB News.

While he initially agreed to make the requested changes, Jupp eventually decided to end his professional relationship with Gibsons Games.

He said he felt “disrespected” by the demands placed on his creative work.

“Telling a cartoonist how to depict humour is as disrespectful as it is infuriating,” Jupp told the Sun.

The 77-year-old added: “This is a reflection of a tiny minority of society that has a problem.”

Jupp was particularly direct when asked if he regretted telling the company to “shove it”, responding: “Not at all.”

According to the Daily Mail, Gibsons Games requested several specific elements be removed from Jupp’s “I Love Spring” puzzle.

Beyond the St George’s flag, the company allegedly asked for the removal of “a busty woman in a bath tub” and “a bull drooling over a cow in lingerie”.

The firm also requested the removal of a group of Morris dancers, which Jupp claims they had mistakenly identified as Northern Ireland’s Orange Order.

The puzzle itself depicts a lively village scene featuring a parade, a village fete, and numerous characters including a man fixing a roof and various animals.

Despite the commercial success of his designs, Jupp felt the requested changes undermined his artistic vision.

Gibsons Games, a 100-year-old family business, has been approached for comment regarding the dispute.

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The president of this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Juliette Binoche, a splendid actress but also an incorrigible left-wing bobo militant of beat environmentalism. She showed up with a strange veil on her head at Cannes. Perhaps a glamorous hijab? A winking half-veil? A chic white chador? In any case, she looked like a sort of Islamically correct Madonna.

It’s easy to be a leftist when you’re swimming in millions and risk nothing on the Rive Gauche (Left Bank of the Seine, Paris,ed.). But courage is taking off your veil in Kabul (where the Taliban whip women in public) and Tehran (where the Mullahs whip women in prison), not putting one on in front of an assembly of artists and billionaires who gorge themselves on caviar while talking about “sustainability”.

Two years ago, an actress first showed up veiled at Cannes and the feminists applauded in the name of “inclusion” and the usual banal political correctness. Certainly no one expected to hear words spoken from the stage by Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, the Iranian actress who won the award for best actress at Cannes for her role in the film Holy Spider by director Ali Abbasi. Ebrahimi said that “women are oppressed in Afghanistan, Iran, Mali and…. in the Parisian suburbs”.

Parisian suburbs?

Yes, you should ask the Algerian poet and writer Kamel Bencheikh, who reports what happened to her daughter in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. “Around 11 p.m., my daughter Élise was waiting for the bus line 60 with a friend, at the Botzaris stop near the Buttes-Chaumont park. When it arrived, the driver stopped, looked at them and drove off without opening the doors.” The driver told Bencheikh’s daughter, who was wearing a miniskirt: “Think about dressing properly.”

I have no idea what films are competing at Cannes and I don’t want to know (for me, Cannes is the seafront and where Alexis de Tocqueville died), but I have a few suggestions: “The Awakening of Pronouns”, “Shattering the White Patriarchy,” “The Inclusive Odyssey,” “Salam,” “Decolonize Zionism” and “Allah-La-Land”.

As president of the jury, Binoche delivered a solemn message. She spoke of global conflicts, human suffering and the responsibility of artists. The actress then got lost in her own words. “Humidity… humility and the humidity of hummus, which is humility,” she told a somewhat perplexed audience. The actress paid tribute to Palestinian Arab photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, killed in Gaza last month.

“Fatima should have been with us tonight,” she mourned. The little murdered Bibas brothers were also not in Cannes, but Juliette couldn’t find any words for them. Not very fashionable.

And while Saint Juliette was educating us about the humidity of hummus, another pregnant Israeli woman was killed by terrorists who are going strong on the treadmill.

The artists present at Cannes have launched a manifesto in Libération against the “genocide underway in Gaza”. It is legitimate to be concerned about Gaza, but in this text the Hamas narrative is adopted, which is a bit more problematic.

For the tapis rouge (red carpet, ed.), resistance is a great moment. There have never been so many bad guys around, even if for these privileged people, Putin, Xi, Hamas and the rest can never be as bad as Israel and Trump (and the West in general).

Former hostage Dafna Elaykim has just shared publicly for the first time the abuse she suffered while imprisoned by Hamas. Dafna revealed that one of her captors molested her. “One of the terrorists was constantly touching me. He said they were going to free everyone except me because he wanted to marry me. He insisted on taking me to the shower.”

But which feminist cares? MeToo! “The Revolution Begins on the Croisette” could be a great title for a film.

The veil may be in fashion, but Binoche’s Western-style neckline would not be welcome in Gaza, Tehran and Kabul. Once she improves that, the beautiful Juliette has no choice but to announce her conversion to Islam.

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By Olivia Murray

Ramin F., an Afghan national currently on trial for allegedly knifing a jogger (a French software developed named Fabrice) to death in a random attack in Germany requires the use of a taxpayer-funded interpreter—considering he’s a “newcomer” and has only been in the country for around three years—and naturally, the court provided him with one. But…there was one problem: the interpreter was a female. The defendant, being a third world Muslim, “does not feel comfortable sitting next to a woman” and so he demanded that the court replace her with a man. In Islam, but especially in notoriously backwards Muslim nations like Afghanistan, women are inferior and subhuman creatures, only necessary for procreation and domestic servitude/slavery.

The German court saw no issue with Ramin’s demands, and catered to the accused killer. “Cultural differences” you see.

A little backstory, from an article at Remix News: Ramin has a history of aggression and violence, and he’s been a taxpayer parasite since the moment he arrived.

Ramin F. entered Germany in 2022 and was placed in an asylum accommodation in Hochdorf, but he was reportedly constantly fighting with other residents of the center. He was transferred to Wernau right before the stabbing attack.

On the same day as the crime, he returned to Hochdorf, where he fought with a caretaker, saying: ‘I’ll kill you.’

The prosecutor indicates that the Afghan man targeted Fabrice D. ‘out of general frustration.’ The murder was intended to release ‘pent-up aggression.’

Pent-up aggression is apparently justification for cold-blooded murder. Don’t you just love leftists and the “progress” they bring to society?

How are “values” like Ramin’s supposed to integrate into Western values? Westernism was built upon Christian principles, which fostered an environment where women experienced the most respect, the most freedom, and the most security in the history of the world. How does that blend with the most anti-woman culture in the history of the world?

Germany continues with its slow suicide.

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Violent crime is surging across the Canary Islands, with intentional homicides, attempted murders, and sexual assaults all rising significantly in the first quarter of 2025, even as overall crime has fallen.

According to the latest crime statistics published by Spain’s Ministry of the Interior and cited by La Rázon, the islands recorded a 3.8 percent decrease in total offenses compared to the same period last year — but this masks troubling increases in the most serious categories.

Homicides on the Spanish archipelago rose by a staggering 400 percent, jumping from two cases in early 2024 to ten so far this year. Attempted homicides also nearly doubled, rising by 87.5 percent to 15 registered offenses. Sexual assaults involving penetration increased by 11.1 percent, reaching 60 cases in the first three months of 2025.

🇪🇸🚨Newly-arrived migrants are sending Spain's Canary Islands into crisis.

"Spain’s establishment parties have abandoned the Canary Islands to mass immigration," said Canary Islands President Fernando Clavijo.

Last year, a record 46,843 arrived. pic.twitter.com/wQngtiQI4a

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 11, 2025

Drug trafficking also showed a steep rise, up 21.4 percent with 210 cases reported. These trends suggest a deteriorating security situation in specific areas, even as conventional crimes such as vehicle theft (down 14.6 percent) and robberies with force in homes and businesses (down 11.1 percent) continue to decline. Cybercrime likewise decreased by 10.9 percent, with 4,047 digital offenses recorded. Nationally, Spain experienced a 2.8 percent drop in overall crime in the first quarter of the year. Homicides declined by 11.6 percent, though attempted murders rose by nearly 20 percent — mirroring the increase seen in the Canary Islands. Crimes against property fell by 5.3 percent and remain the most common type of conventional offense, accounting for two out of every five crimes in the country.

🇪🇸🚨 Terrifying moment a Spanish woman is attacked by two men, with one overpowering her and the other raiding the house for goods to steal.

According to Spanish media, the two suspects are Moroccans.

The incident happened on the Spanish Canary Islands in Tenerife. pic.twitter.com/YnBaivBV6O

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 25, 2025

However, the trend of increasing sexual violence is evident across Spain. Crimes against sexual freedom rose by 3.8 percent nationwide, with rapes up 7.6 percent compared to the first quarter of 2024. The interior ministry suggested that increased public awareness and reduced social stigma around reporting may be contributing factors.

It failed, however, to address the issue of mass immigration and the fact that foreign nationals are disproportionately represented in serious crime data across Western Europe, a pattern evident in recent crime stats published in Catalonia.

Although immigrants make up 17 percent of the population there, they account for 91 percent of rape convictions. More broadly, over half (50.48 percent) of the prison population in Catalonia comprises foreign nationals.

In February, Remix News reported how the number of homicides committed by immigrants has grown sharply across Spain. Ministry of the Interior data obtained by La Gaceta showed that foreign nationals were arrested or investigated for 137 homicides in 2023, up from 81 in 2013 — a 69 percent increase. In comparison, the total number of homicide cases nationwide rose from 311 to 399 in the same period, a 28 percent increase.

Despite these developments, the Spanish interior ministry insists the country reports one of the lowest conventional crime rates in the world, with 40.6 offenses per thousand inhabitants.

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One of the few pollsters to correctly predict US president Donald Trump’s election victory in 2024 is tipping Conservative (PiS) candidate Karol Nawrocki for a surprise first round victory in Poland’s presidential election beginning May 18. 

The polling agency Atlas Intel suggests Nawrocki holds a one percentage-point lead over Warsaw’s mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who had formerly led in the race.

The election comes as outgoing president Andrzej Duda, aligned with the opposition PiS, was completing his second and final term of office. 

So far, the apparent favourite to replace him has been Trzaskowski, the candidate from prime minister Donald Tusk’s centre-left Civic Coalition (KO), Poland’s main ruling party.

Trzaskowski, who was runner up in 2020’s presidential election, has had between 29 and 34 per cent support in polls–but the race has recently tightened, with the PiS closing the gap.

The Warsaw mayor has struggled in debates and was recently also hit by a scandal involving supporters who allegedly used foreign money to place Facebook ads attacking his opponents.

His PiS rival Karol Nawrocki has trailed in second place throughout most of the campaign, with between 25 and 31 per cent support. 

However after Trzaskowski’s recent troubles, Atlas Intel–who correctly predicted the outcome of the US presidential election–now gave Nawrocki a narrow one-point lead. 

Nawrocki, an historian and head of the state Institute of National Remembrance, has never previously stood for elected office.

He was selected as a compromise candidate by PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński after former PiS PM Mateusz Morawiecki was deemed to carry too much political baggage after his time in office.

Another PiS contender, former education minister Przemysław Czarnek, was viewed within the party as too conservative to attract centrist voters in the elections’s second round. 

However, Nawrocki has had his own troubles during the campaign.

It emerged he had purchased property from a senior citizen in return for taking care of him and failed to deliver his side of the bargain.

In a further twist, documentation of the affair apparently was leaked to Polish media from the security services. 

The campaign’s dark horse may yet be Sławomir Mentzen, the candidate of a different opposition party, the hard right Confederation (Konfederacja).

Mentzen saw his support surge to just under 20 per cent in March, and at one stage it appeared he may even catch up with Nawrocki.

However, he has been hindered by his views on abortion and tuition fees. His current support ranged between 11 and 15 percent.  

Among the remaining ten candidates, only four drew above 3 per cent in polling. One was Szymon Hołownia, the speaker of Parliament from centrist Poland 2050 party, part of Tusk’s ruling coalition. Another was Magdalena Biejat The Left, another of Tusk’s coalition partners. The third was Adrian Zandberg of the opposition left-wing “Together” party. Hard-right maverick Grzegorz Braun MEP, formerly a member of the Confederation party before leaving, was the last.

The PiS has attempted to make the election a referendum on Tusk’s government, arguing that Tusk has persecuted the opposition with politicised indictments, while failing to deliver promised tax cuts, and putting Poland’s alliance with the US in jeopardy.

The KO have fought the election on a platform of stopping the PiS returning to power, by reminding voters of alleged corruption and extremism in the PiS ranks. 

Attitudes towards the EU have been an undercurrent in the campaign. The PiS has said it wants to see Europe as a union of sovereign states, while Tusk’s KO is more open to increased integration. 

Otherwise the main parties, PiS and KO, have both made security and migration central to their campaigns. 

On security, the ruling KO argued Poland needed to concentrate on building strong alliances in Europe, given uncertainties around the role the US will play in future.

The PiS has argued Poland should concentrate on its alliance with the US.

But both have backed high levels of defence spending, to deter a perceived threat from Russia. 

On migration, Tusk’s KO has concentrated on tightening the country’s border with Belarus. The PiS have campaigned on stopping Germany from pushing back migrants into Poland.

Both parties have supported restricting rights to benefits for Ukrainian migrants and have resisted taking any migrants as part of the EU Migration Pact. 

Issues such as abortion and LGBT rights have played a less significant role in the campaign.

The KO has maintained its stance of arguing for abortion on demand and the legalisation of same sex unions, while the PiS, more in line with the wishes of the Catholic Church, opposed both. 

But the major question now hanging over the election was whether the result would be accepted by all parties, given the controversy over the legitimacy of the Supervisory Chamber of the Supreme Court.

The Supervisory Chamber was the body tasked with verifying election results and assessing any legal challenges relating to the elections.

It was created as part of PiS’s controversial judicial reforms when it was previously in power.

All of the body’s judges were appointed on recommendation of the National Judicial Council  (KRS), another body the PiS overhauled in a manner the present government and the European Court of Justice have questioned. 

The supervisory chamber did however validate the results of the 2023 parliamentary elections that brought the current government to power, as well as last year’s European and local polls.

In Poland, the president is not involved in the country’s day-to-day governance.

But he is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He also appoints judges and ambassadors, and most importantly, has the right to veto legislation passed by parliament.

This is a power which could frustrate a government’s agenda.

This is why any defeat for Trzaskowski in the current election would damage Tusk’s chances of being returned to office in 2027.

Nawrocki has made clear he would oppose the Tusk government both on domestic and foreign policy. 

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Farmers in Poland will use their vote in the Sunday, May 18th presidential elections to vent their anger at the European Union, which has let them down with its debilitating green regulations and by allowing the import of cheap Ukrainian agricultural products.

At last year’s European elections, Polish farmers voted overwhelmingly for right-leaning parties that pledged to protect them: 61.9% of them for the opposition conservative Law and Justice (PiS) and 15.5% for the right-wing Konfederacja.

In the first round of Sunday’s presidential election, independent conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki—supported by PiS—can also count on the support of the farmers.

He has called EU climate policies an “existential and fundamental” threat to Poland’s economy and sovereignty, and has vowed to hold a national referendum on the European Green Deal,which he says jeopardises the livelihood of Polish farmers and urban residents alike.

Public discontent with the Green Deal has been evident, particularly following widespread protests by farmers last year.

But Polish farmers took to the streets earlier this year, too, to call out “the harmful policies of the European Union”—the Mercosur free trade agreement, the Green Deal, imports from Ukraine, the destruction of Polish forests and hunting, as well as “extinguishing the Polish economy.” They have been particularly angry about agricultural imports from Ukraine which they say unfairly undercut Polish producers.

Farmers as well as truck drivers had previously blockaded crossings at the Ukrainian border in a show of frustration, calling for the left-liberal government to take action.

They now place all their hopes in the conservatives and right-wing populists, and though the presidential office is mainly a ceremonial one with limited powers, a right-wing president would be more likely to veto bills he sees harmful to Polish agriculture.

“When I am president of Poland, I will not agree to Polish farmers, Polish agricultural holdings or Polish transport companies suffering as a result of unfair competition from Ukraine,” Karol Nawrocki declared during his election campaign.

The first round of the election will see thirteen candidates pitted against each other but the two main rivals, Karol Nawrocki and liberal Rafał Trzaskowski, will likely go through to the second round. According to opinion polls,Trzaskowski will get 29-32% of the votes, while Nawrocki is predicted to receive 25-27%.

Konfederacja’s candidate Sławomir Mentzen is polling at 12-13%.

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In a world where parental rights are increasingly under attack, one question looms large. Who truly owns your children?

I’m not talking about ownership like a refrigerator or a pet. I mean, who bears the responsibility, the authority, and the accountability for raising your child? Who teaches them morality? Who tells them what’s right and wrong? If you’re a parent of faith—particularly a Christian—the answer should be obvious. You do.

The Bible is clear on this point. The Old Testament book of Deuteronomy tells us to teach our children God’s laws. Proverbs reminds us to raise them up in the way they should go. The New Testament book of Ephesians commands us “not to provoke our children,” but to raise them with discipline and instruction. It’s assumed—it’s our job.

Yet increasingly, that’s not how it works anymore. Despite the clear biblical mandate for parents to guide and raise their children, a new cultural and legal wave is attempting to strip that authority away. There’s a growing voice that says the state—not parents—should decide what’s best for our kids. And what’s worse? Parents are letting it happen. Out of convenience, fear, or the lie that someone else knows better, we are abdicating our responsibility.

We are in a legal and spiritual crisis, and here are two stark examples that show just how far this has gone.

First, let’s examine the contradictory nature of recent laws in Colorado. The state recently passed HB25-1312, known as the Kelly Loving Act, which specifically targets parents who do not affirm a transgender-identifying child. Under the bill, “deadnaming”—referring to a transgender person by their birth name—is labeled as “coercive control” and can be used as evidence of emotional abuse in custody decisions. In other words, calling your child by the name you gave them at birth could mean losing custody.

Yet here’s the hypocrisy, while parents may be punished for deadnaming their own children, Colorado law still allows the state itself to deadname. For example, official documents like birth certificates and school records often retain the child’s legal name unless a formal legal name change occurs. This contradiction reveals the inconsistency of these policies. Why is it acceptable for state institutions to use a birth name, but not for parents?

This double standard exposes an agenda. It’s not truly about protecting children—it’s about controlling parents. Parents name their children, not the state. Yet now, using a birth name could result in a loss of custody.

Even more concerning, the bill integrates these behaviors into Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act. This means if I deadname my child three times a day for a month, I could face fines totaling over $300,000. While it’s not criminal—yet—the groundwork is laid. How long before disagreeing with your child’s identity becomes a prosecutable offense?

The second example comes from Maryland, where Montgomery County Public Schools introduced LGBTQ+ inclusive storybooks into elementary schools. Initially, parents had the choice to opt out. However, in March 2023, the school system reversed course, stating that allowing opt-outs created “administrative challenges” and could “stigmatize LGBT students.” In effect, parents lost the right to say, “No.”

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim parents joined forces and filed a lawsuit, arguing that the policy violated their religious freedom. Lower courts sided with the school system, but the case has now reached the Supreme Court. If the state wins, it will set a precedent that parents can no longer shield their children from ideologies they find harmful. That’s not inclusion—it’s coercion.

This isn’t theoretical. It’s happening. Look at Jeff Younger in Texas, who lost custody because he wouldn’t affirm his son’s gender change. The courts sided with the mother, and she moved to California. He’s been fighting for years just to protect his child.

So I ask again—who owns your children? Because if the answer is the state, we’ve lost something foundational. We’ve lost parental authority, religious freedom, and the ability to say, “This is wrong.”

Where is the Church? Many are silent, but a few are courageously speaking out. We need more to join them. Too many believers are silent, afraid of offending, or worse—affirming lies in the name of love. But silence isn’t love. It’s surrender.

We need parents—and pastors—who will stand firm and who will resist when the government demands we lie, commit evil, or remain passive when God calls us to act. That resistance may come with consequences—fines, loss of custody, or worse. But if we aren’t willing to suffer for God’s truth, we’ve made comfort our idol—and even our children.

The time to speak and act is now. If we remain silent, the question won’t be who owns your children—but why we gave them away.

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On today’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt & Connor Tomlinson speak with James Price, a former government Senior Special Adviser and Chief of Staff.

New research into the extent of billionaire George Soros’s funding activity has revealed the Hungarian-American pumped more than $700 million (€625 million) into progressive causes across Europe in recent years with millions of Euros gifted to Roma organisations.

US number crunchers found that major beneficiaries of Soros’s largesse via his Open Society Foundation in Europe have included the Roma Education Fund ($33.1 million/€29.5 million), the European Council on Foreign Relations ($29.2 million/€26 million), Roma Foundation for Europe ($20.2 million/€18 million) and the Central European University ($15.5 million/€13.8 million).

While many of the NGOs that received funding claim to promote human rights and democratic governance, critics argue that the donations are meant to influence political agendas, support organisations that advocate for open borders, Islamisation, and ever-broadening censorship against so-called hate speech.

Jennica Pounds, active under the handle DataRepublican on X, told Brussels Signal that the data came entirely from Open Society itself. “It was just difficult and slow to access this data,” she said.

Pounds said that the biggest European takeaway from the data was the number of recent grants for the Roma, with more than €40 million given to Roma-related foundations in 2023.

“However, I am not close enough to European politics to understand why that is or what is being accomplished for ‘democracy’ there,” the researcher said.

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A breakdown of Soros’s grant distribution reveals significant allocations to various regions, with the United States receiving the lion’s share at $2.1 billion (€1.87 billion), followed by Europe at $701 million (€625 million).

Regions and countries less democratic than the US and Europe received only a fraction of the funding, while countries overrepresented in the figures included Hungary and Poland.

Across Europe, substantial amounts went to so-called fact-checking and ‘independent’ journalism, which could be seen as an attempt to shape media narratives or promote certain viewpoints and raises concerns about media bias. Universities and educational institutions also received considerable support from the Open Society Foundation.

Highly politicised, sometimes even apparently conflicting causes, such as LGBTQ advocacy and advocacy of religious garnment also received substantial funding.

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