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The president annihilated a cocaine speedboat operated by the cartel last night. They never saw it coming. America's been getting poisoned by drugs and gangs for decades. The old way of doing business didn't work, so Trump flipped the script. The United States has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drugboats. We did that. And it doesn't work. Interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they're going to lose, you know, 2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them. America never really fought the war on drugs until now. Now, I'm not predicting victory. America loves to get high. But if they're going to kill our people with narcotics, we're going to kill their people with missiles. We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented. You're not going to allow this kind of activity. You're poisoning our people. We've got incredible assets, and they are gathering in the region. And so you want to try to traffic drugs? It's a new day. It's a different day. Under Biden, the cartels earned, turned into a Fortune 500 company. Trump's already caused them a billion in losses when he shut the border down and killed their smuggling profits. And now he's attacking their product, manpower, and transportation. These are not stockbrokers. These are not real estate agents who, on the side, deal a few drugs. These are organized, corporate-structured organizations who specialize in the trafficking of deadly drugs into the United States of America. We're not going to sit back anymore and watch these people sail up and down the Caribbean like a cruise ship. The cartel cruise line was headed toward our shore with a cargo of death. Trump had no choice but to take him out. These aren't your grandmother's drug dealers. These cartels are now in possession not just of landmines and grenades. We're now seeing the deployment of drone technology by narco-terrorist groups. Now the cartel snuff films spreading across the world. Every bad hombre in Latin America is on notice. And they know we can hit them whenever and wherever. What was found in that boat, and why were the men killed instead of taking it? On the boat, you had massive amounts of drugs. We have tapes of them speaking. It was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people. They were hit, obviously. They won't be doing it again. And I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again when they watch that tape. But Democrats aren't happy. They're calling Trump a murderous bully and a war criminal for taking out terrorists. Obama drones an American citizen. No comment. Biden wiped out seven innocent kids in Afghanistan. Crickets. But Trump sinks a boat full of narcos with enough fentanyl to kill a small city. And they want to bring him to the Hague. Whatever happened to no new wars doesn't seem like we're not getting into no new wars. No new wars with stuff like that. I wouldn't even be surprised if the people that he unalived on that boat were just a bunch of fishermen. They shot the vessel right out of the water. Oh, so powerful. It was a speedboat. That speedboat was full of killers heading to our coast. That's an enemy attack. Trump neutralized it. Are Democrats going to be pro cartel now because Trump's killing them? The icebreakers are still going loco in Portland. They erected a guillotine outside an ice building. Trentifa wants off with ice's heads. And no one in the media cares. When the liberals resist, Trump doesn't slow down. He steps on the gas. Ice busted a drug warehouse in Texas where illegals were found hiding in the ceilings. The Coast Guard just pulled off its biggest Boston history. 75,000 pounds of coke and in Texas, Judge Pirra, she just intercepted over 1,000 barrels of Chinese meth. These 1,300 barrels were shipped from Shanghai, China to Mexico. We intercepted these precursors on the high seas and now the Sinaloa cartel will not be able to use them to make methamphetamines. That's what we're doing in D.C., but we're doing it in Houston today and you never know where we're going to be tomorrow. This is what America voted for. Anyone with their eye on 28, take note. Copy Trump, not Gav, who thinks ice is going to steal the election. You think ice is not going to show up around voting and polling booths to chill participation? You know that. The National Guard. You know that. Everybody knows what's at stake.

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Chairman Krapo, Ranking Member Brown, members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Peter Van Valkenburg and I'm the Director of Research at Coin Center, an independent nonprofit focused on the public policy issues affecting cryptocurrency and public blockchain networks. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency and it works because of the world's first public blockchain network. What does Bitcoin do? It's simple. It lets you send and receive value to and from anyone in the world using nothing more than a computer and an internet connection. Now why is it revolutionary? Because unlike every other tool for sending money over the internet, it works without the need to trust a middleman. The lack of any corporation in between means that Bitcoin is the world's first public digital payments infrastructure. And by public I simply mean available to all and not owned by any single entity. Now we have public infrastructure for information, for websites, for email. It's called the internet. But the only public payments infrastructure that we have is cash, as in paper money. And it only works in face-to-face transactions. Before Bitcoin, if you wanted to pay someone remotely over the phone or the internet, then you could not use public infrastructure. You would rely on a private bank to open their books and add a ledger entry that debits you and credits the person you're paying. And if you both don't use the same bank, well then there'll be multiple banks and multiple ledger entries in between. With Bitcoin, the ledger is the public blockchain. And anyone can add an entry to that ledger, transferring their bitcoins to someone else. And anyone, regardless of their nationality, race, religion, gender, sex, or credit worthiness, can for absolutely no cost create a Bitcoin address in order to receive payments digitally. Bitcoin is the world's first globally accessible public money. Is it perfect? No. Neither was email when it was invented in 1972. Bitcoin's not the best money on every margin. It's not yet accepted everywhere. It's not used often to quote prices, and it's not always a stable store of value. But it is working, and the mere fact that it works without trusted intermediaries is amazing. It's a computer science breakthrough, and it will be as significant for freedom, prosperity, and human flourishing as the birth of the internet. And Bitcoin is just the beginning. If we can replace private payments infrastructure, then we can replace other private choke points to human interaction as well. Now, why should we want to build more public infrastructure? Why should we embrace blockchains over corporate intermediaries? Why should we tolerate their inefficiencies and work to make them better? Why should we want the pioneers of this technology here in the United States and not fleeing overseas? A simple reason, because the corporate intermediaries providing today's critical but privately owned infrastructure are becoming fewer, larger, and more powerful, and their failures are increasingly grave. So roughly half of all Americans, 143 million people, had their social security numbers exposed to hackers because of a breach at Equifax. The Swift network has relayed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions because of hacked member banks in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ecuador, and Russia. The FBI suspects now that the largest of these hacks was perpetrated by North Korea. Corrupt, low-level employees at an Indian bank, Punjab National, were able to fraudulently certify Swift messages stealing 1.8 billion dollars. It's the largest electronic bank robbery in history. In fact, it's the largest bank robbery in history. In October 2016, an estimated 1.2 million internet connected devices were hacked and turned into a botnet that for several hours made prominent websites unavailable across Europe and North America, including CNN and Fox News, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Increasingly, physical machines are being connected to the internet to augment their capabilities. They're wired through servers that are owned and maintained by private and trusted intermediaries, the so-called Internet of Things. Pacemakers from St. Jude's Hospital have been hacked, baby monitors from TrendNet have been hacked, and Jeeps from Jeep have been hacked to the point where they can be remotely commandeered and driven off the road. Now those vulnerabilities are inescapable in systems that have single points of failure. It doesn't matter if the point of failure is a corporation or if it's a government. There shouldn't be a single point of failure. Similar choke points existed before the internet. If you wanted to deliver a message, you'd have to go through one of three television broadcasters or a handful of newspapers. Private corporations are essential, but no critical infrastructure should rely on one or two. The internet removed single points of failure in communications infrastructure and ushered in a wave of competition among new media corporations building on top of its public rails. Blockchains can similarly disintermediate critical payments and IoT infrastructure. The technology is not yet ready to answer all of those questions today, but it is our best hope. And as with the internet in the 1990s, we need a light touch pro-innovation policy to ensure that these innovations flourish in America for the benefit and security of all Americans.

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And we'll have maybe before we're gone to, as you know, the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. We're going to UAE in Qatar, and that'll be, I guess, Monday night. Some of you are coming with us. I think before then we're going to have a very, very big announcement to make, like as big as it gets, and I won't tell you on what, but it's going to, and it's very positive. I'd also, I'd tell you if it was negative or positive, I can't keep that up. It is really, really positive. And that announcement will be made either Thursday or Friday or Monday before we leave. But it'll be one of the most important announcements that have been made in many years about a certain subject, a very important subject. So you'll all be here.

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All right, it happened, after decades and decades of Republicans promising to intend or get around to sooner or later, President Trump, an executive order that will abolish the Department of Education and doing well, it never should have been done in the first place. We did not need that Department of Education. It was a big bloated mess. It was extraneous, superfluous, unnecessary, unneeded, unwarranted, very, very verbatious. That big, silly building sucking up so much money and not helping the children across the country. I did not realize though, when it was first established, did you actually know it was established right after the Civil War for a little while and they had the smarts to get rid of it all the way back then after like two minutes, but it was established by Jimmy Carter and the support that it had and did not have. There was nobody on the left who liked this thing either. When President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times editorial board and the famed Democrat, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. History has proven them right, absolutely right. And we looked it up. It's true. They were afraid of the federal government and it would not be diversity in education that Washington would become too powerful. And Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the unions, the New York Times, they all lined up against the Department of Education. Of course, they're all crying about it being abolished now, except for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late great senator, no longer with us. More from President Trump today at a truly historic event with his executive order that will abolish the DOE. After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education by far than any other country and spends likewise, by far, more money per pupil than any country and it's not even close. But yet, we ranked near the bottom of the list in terms of success. It's an amazing stat. Those are two stats you don't want. The most money spent per pupil and you're at the bottom of the list. And that's where we are, like it or not. Like it or not. That's interesting. The Department of Education, they don't provide education. They study it. They put out a lot of studies. They monitor. They say things you can't do and say things you can and should do and must do, like the women playing in the girls' sports. That was coming from them. They were the filter. So Jimmy Carter was the guy initially. And like a lot of Democrats, it sounds good, right? It's a beautiful label. What could be wrong with it? Department of Education. But it was a power and money grab. It was sniffed out all the way back in the 1860s. The guy in the middle there, I think, is Andrew Johnson. He was the president. And for a short time, they had the Department of Education. There was a guy named Barnard, who was the superintendent of the Department of Education. And they got rid of it after about four months because it was highly dysfunctional and highly unnecessary. So fast forward to today. And they're acting like we just deprived students of their notebooks and pencils. Happening any minute now, Donald Trump will sign an order to eliminate the Department of Education, a dramatic and unprecedented overreach of his authority as president. And here you have an administration that says they care about children, but through their actions has made it crystal clear they do not. It will disrupt the educational services and delivery of those services to our kids overnight. When we're gutting these funds, we're taking all of this money away from our kids, we're depriving them of opportunity and we're depriving them of freedom. All right. We're taking all the money away from bureaucrats and giving it literally to the kids, to the states. And it's a lot of money, $268 billion a year. Can it be that high? Is that right? Not unnecessary. Some of the greatest education in our country took place in places like this, the one room schoolhouse. I don't think we ever did education as well since or the two room schoolhouses or on and on and on. No, forget those guys. Yeah. Remember? This is legendary. Abe Lincoln learned how to read in one of these things. Keep going through the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 2000s, school was direct. It was local. It was, well, the people, the communities know how to educate their children. Interesting that, well, once we had a department of education, it seemed like things started to, I don't know, go downhill a little bit. Where are we lately? Okay. Distracted kids. And now we have psychedelic kids. Right? I mean, take a look at this next one. All right. We got one with a fish head. Yeah. Kids are as goofy as ever. And the department of education, unnecessary. Just, it doesn't matter. Look, when we went to the moon, the engineers who took us to the moon, they didn't have a department of education either. Could we see that beautiful Apollo rocket launching with those engineers who managed to figure out math without a federal department of education? How about the brave souls who saved the world back in WW2? They call them the greatest generation. Right? Smart, tough, and they became that way without a federal department of education. How much was that budget again? Could it be 200 and something, something, $68 billion? Well, for all that money, you know what they couldn't do? Provide a decent lunch. Through local budgets, this is what a school lunch looks like. Very, very beautiful. Big hunk of chicken, vegetables, bread, fruit, dessert, you name it. It's on that plate. There's like 2,000 calories right there on a locally funded and served menu. This is what a federal lunch plan looks like. Do you remember the whole debate about cake? Can we pass off ketchup as a vegetable, right? And they actually worked the system so you could for a while. This is fantastic news that the federal government is officially getting out of education and letting the states do it. President Trump making it happen. And I do think this kind of sets him apart from all Republican presidents and especially Ronald Reagan. As President Trump accomplishes more and more, and we all love Ronald Reagan, right? But he's a little bit reduced, I think, because of the Trump presidency somewhat. We must cut out more non-essential government spending and root out more waste. And we will continue our efforts to reduce the number of employees in the federal workforce by 75,000. The budget plan I submit to you on February 8th will realize major savings by dismantling the Departments of Energy and Education and by eliminating ineffective subsidies for business. Well, it was a great statement. And he did a lot of very good and great things with Ronald Reagan, but he didn't work that hard. He didn't fight that hard. It was a different time. And he has been outclassed by President Trump and outdone and outperformed. Every moment when President Trump is giving a tour to Laura and Laura Ingram, and through the Oval Office, he poses an interesting question to the visitors in the Oval Office. I believe we have that clip. Where did it go? Do we? Hit it. I've asked this question maybe 200 times people come in. I said, "So who would you put in the place of prominence, George Washington or Ronald Reagan? Who would you put?" Washington. So far, it's 219-0, and they like Reagan. They like Reagan, but Washington, the father of our country, he gets the place of primacy in the Oval Office. But President Trump, compared to Ronald Reagan, it's quite clear now who is the more consequential president, in my opinion, and he still has a ways to go. We'll stay tuned. So the Department of Education, it's not happening overnight, and Congress and the courts will fight it, the DOE, the big building, all that stuff. But it's a process that has been initiated finally, and I think the country is going to be better off. I actually remember being educated before the Department of Education, and it was no big deal. It was fine. There I am in the back row, first grade. And I was oblivious to when they established the Department of Education. When I got to around sixth or seventh grade, it was like nothing changed. Nothing may have changed, but nothing else did. So a major step in the right direction, giving the freedom, the control, and the money to the states.

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Welcome to Hannity and tonight Kamala Harris has a lot of explaining to do, but don't expect any tough questions from the state-run media mob. Now, the other networks, newspapers, they have zero interest in ever vetting the soon-to-be Democratic nominee. In fact, they really prefer that America forget Kamala's radical record, the most radical person by far to ever seek the presidency. So, as per usual, we will do the media mob, state-run media's job, and actually vet Kamala Harris. We have a lot of new information to share with you tonight, and to be honest, this is kind of a layup. I'd like to tell you it's hard. You just got to do the research and play her in her own words. It's not that difficult. Kamala is on tape giving her position on almost every single issue you can possibly think of. She's on tape, we played it for you, calling for an end to private health insurance. She's on tape calling for a single-payer socialist healthcare system. She's on tape calling for the federal government to confiscate your firearms through a mandatory gun buyback program. She's on tape supporting a 70 to 90 percent tax rate. She's on tape pushing for AOC's Green New Deal, introduced it in the Senate. Even if she has to get rid of the filibuster, she's on tape saying that too. She's on tape supporting the riots in the summer of 2020. She's on tape supporting defund, dismantle, no bail and sanity. She's on tape comparing ICE to the KKK and calling for ICE to be abolished. She's on tape advocating for illegal immigration to be decriminalized. She's on tape calling for you, the taxpayers in this country, to cover the bill for illegal immigrants' healthcare, housing and food. Take a look. The bill also says, quote, "Every individual who is a resident of the United States is entitled to benefits for healthcare services under this act." Not every individual who's a citizen, but every individual who's a resident. So you support giving universal healthcare, Medicare for all, to people who are in this country illegally? Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period. And that's not all new tonight. Kamala Harris, you're going to love this one. She's on tape calling for Americans to have the courage to reject the term radical Islamic terrorism and the term. You have to have the courage to do this, to reject the term illegal alien. Take a look. You must have the courage to object when they use that term, radical Islamic terrorism, which is more problematic overwhelmingly than the greatest victims of terror. And we must also have the courage to reject that term illegal alien. I have seen some of the worst of criminal behavior. I have seen the worst of crime. An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal. We must have the courage to reject her and her radicalism if we want to save the country. Is anyone going to ask her if radical Islamic terrorists killed 2,977 Americans on 9/11/01 or thousands of other Americans that had 9/11 related illnesses or the thousands that lost their lives and limbs fighting a war against radical Islamic terrorists? Are we really to believe that the over 11 million unvetted Biden Harris illegal immigrants that crossed our secure borders, as they call them, are not here illegally? Again, there has never been a major party candidate for president more radical than Kamala Harris. She is to the left of AOC. She's to the left of the squad. She's the squad on steroids. And it's not just words, you know, since taking over his borders are. And in spite of their denial, Joe said he did task her with the job of fixing the problem at the border. More than 11 million Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, unvetted illegal immigrants have entered our country. Now, this includes radical Islamic terrorists, people with terror ties. Take a look at your screen. When Donald Trump was president, terror watchlist encounters at the border, it ranged from zero per year to a high of six. Under Kamala's leadership, nearly 170 encountered at the border just last year. And so far this year, we're almost up to 100 new ones. And those are only the apprehensions. Remember, we have the quote Godaway number that likely makes that number much higher. We probably have terror cells in this country because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The DHS has identified over 400 illegal immigrants, illegal aliens who were brought to the United States by an ISIS affiliated human smuggling network. Radical Islamic terrorists, Kamala, as the FBI director pointed out on five separate occasions, the threat of a terrorist attack has not been this high since 9/11/01. Now, why the FBI director has allowed Joe and Kamala to allow the law breaking and even aid in a bet in the law breaking is, however, very unclear. But terrorism is not the only deadly threat coming across our unsecured southern border. Fentanyl deaths have peaked under the Biden Harris administration, taking a record number of American lives every year. Violent crimes and criminals. They have also poured in from around the world, including murderers, rapists. They're coming from Iran and Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan. They're coming from Russia. They're coming from China, Venezuela. Look at your screen. Let's look at the victims of Joe and Kamala's open borders. You know, Jocelyn Nungari, remember her, the 12 year old girl, brutalized for over two hours, fought back valiantly, those abducted, sexually assaulted, then brutally murdered. Kamala, when will you say her name? When will you call her family? When will you apologize? Any illegal immigrant from Venezuela charged with her murder? They came in under the Biden Harris open border policy. Rachel Morin, as you know, mother of five, raped, murdered on her favorite hiking trail. Kamala, when are you going to say her name? When are you going to call her family? When will you apologize for your failure? Her alleged killer, another Biden Harris, illegal immigrant, who was wanted for murder in his home country of El Salvador before entering the United States because of their open borders. Not Lincoln, Lake and Riley. Remember her, the 22 year old nursing student, kidnapped, murdered while she was out jogging? Kamala, when are you going to say her name? When are you going to call her family? When will you apologize for your failed policies that you still support? Her purported killer, a 26 year old, the illegal immigrant from Venezuela, came in because of Joe and Kamala's open borders. Elizabeth Medina, 16 year old high school cheerleader, stalked and murdered by a purported illegal immigrant from Mexico. A cop in Texas shot three times this weekend by another Biden Kamala Harris, unvetted, illegal immigrant. And sadly, we can go on and on and on. Take a look at your screen. These are the names of all the people that have been raped and murdered and all the victims of crime. Thanks to Joe and Kamala's wide open borders, none of these murders, none of these rapes, none of these crimes should ever have happened. All of these innocent fellow citizens should be alive right now. And all these other victims should never have had to endure what they have been through. Kamala Harris, are you ever going to say their names? Are you ever going to call their families? Will you ever apologize for your dereliction of duty at the border? Or is Biden's borders are just going to pretend that she had nothing to do with the border crisis, all while her supporters like Elizabeth Warren go on TV, brag about mass amnesty for all of their unvetted illegal immigrants. Take a look. But recognize, and I know that Kamala Harris knows this, this is a problem that ultimately has to be solved by Congress. We need the tools in order to have more resources at the border, to have more resources in the states and cities that are supporting migrants. And I believe we need to create a pathway to citizenship. All of that is a part of what we need to do for comprehensive immigration reform. Kamala Harris will work with Congress and get that done. We need more of your money to pay for illegal immigrants that didn't respect our laws, borders, sovereignty to pay for their health care, their education, their housing and every other need that they may have. And then give them free citizenship. You don't have to be a genius to understand the root cause of illegal immigration. You just have to watch that clip. Why? Because illegal immigrations are coming to this country in mass because Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and their fellow Democrats, they're now promising something of immense value. U.S. citizenship and health care and housing and food and education. And you pay for it. And by the way, if Kamala Harris wins in November, it will only get worse. Kamala has no problem putting you and your families and other Americans families at risk in support of this radical far left political cause. Just look at the Minnesota bail fund, for example, remember the tweet from 2020? You know, the Summer of Love Harris enthusiastically promoting this fund. This was right during the height of the 2020 riots that they lied about and said were mostly peaceful. Like they said, that inflation was transitory. Like they said, the border was closed and secure for three years. Well, those 2020 riots, only four days after that Minnesota Minneapolis police precinct was burned to the ground, four days she sent out that tweet. And for the record, here's the former executive director of the bail fund explaining how the program works. Take a look. I often don't even look at a charge specifics when I bail someone out. I'll see it after I pay the bail because it's not the point. It's just that it's it is not the point. The point is the system that we're fighting. If you're a rapist charged with murder, it's not the point. We got to get you out of jail and you become a threat to the rest of society. Now, because of the support from Kamala Harris, other Democrats, that bail fund, they went from about a quarter of a million dollars a year to over 40 plus million dollars bailing out incredibly dangerous people. And letting them free among the American people. That includes. Let's take a look at some of the people, shall we? George Howard bailed out of jail during a domestic assault case while he was out on bond. Well, he didn't look at what the charges were. The guy shot and killed the man during a road rage incident. The Minnesota bail fund paid three hundred fifty thousand dollars in cash to bail out a twice convicted rapist after he was charged with kidnapping assault, sexual assault in two different cases. The fund also bailed out a career criminal named Sean Michael Tillman, who shot and killed a commuter in St. Paul after bail was posted. Darnica Floyd also bailed out hundred grand in cash from the Minnesota bail fund after allegedly stabbing someone to death. Why would Kamala Harris support any fund like this? Well, because she's a radical. Her views perfectly align with members of the radical socialist squad that now represents the new modern leftist Marxist Democratic Party. And frankly, Kamala is the leader of the new Green Deal movement. Here's Kamala in her own words. You decide. How's the state going to be better if you're the attorney general and not Mr. Cooley? Well, I know that I read that at the Republican Convention, he called me a radical. So I guess that's one difference between those. And yeah, I am radical. I do believe that we need to get radical about what we are doing and take it seriously. This giggling thing has gone on a long time. Need more evidence of Kamala's radical views? Get this. Kamala has repeatedly praised her own pastor who blamed America for 9/11/01. Gee, does that sound familiar? And here she is talking about climate anxiety in young people. Take a look. The young people said we're not leaving it to other people to decide how we're dealing with the climate crisis. You know, I've heard young leaders talk with me about a term they've coined called climate anxiety. Right. Which is fear of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children, whether it makes sense for you to think about aspiring to buy a home. Because what will this climate be? So my question tonight is anybody in the state media mob, are they ever going to ask Harris about her extreme views? I would predict the answer is no. Ninety eight days is election day. Early voting starts in about 48 days. Will she ever be held accountable? Don't hold your breath. We will hold her accountable. And hopefully you will share this information that the media will not give you with your friends and your family and your coworkers when the topic of how important this this moment is for our country. Because it's an inflection point. We've said many elections are tipping point elections. This is the inflection tipping point election of all time.

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