Posted on 08/30/2014 12:29:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
Once again, our Chicago-style Attorney General has proven that corruption is the basic foundation upon which the modern Democrat Party is built. Eric Holder, the nation’s top extortionist officer, has been running around the financial sector suing banks for anything (and everything) he can get away with. Ally Bank paid millions for alleged racist lending practices (an allegation the DOJ made without ever looking at loan portfolios), JP Morgan has shelled out billions for various anti-Obama comments regulatory infractions, and Bank of America just paid a $16.6 billion fine for their government-mandated role in the financial crises of 2008.
Aside from the fact that these onerous fines have not been coupled with any sort of actual criminal charges against any bank executives (I guess evidence of wrong doing is required for those pesky criminal cases), the DOJ’s handling of the fines is now raising even more serious questions. Apparently, Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder has been using the record breaking settlements to shore up the war chests of Progressive, Liberal, and Democrat non-profit organizations.
Social Justice, to our Department of Justice, means using the power of America’s top enforcement agency to bankroll the groups that help put Democrats in power. According to Judicial Watch, Holder’s so-called “Justice” Department has been “redistributing” these record breaking settlements to groups like La Raza, ACORN (remember that cute group that was ousted as a Democrat voter fraud machine?), and Operation Hope… Oh, and not that it really matters, but none of these groups were connected to the lawsuits that led to the record-breaking settlements. Heck, I was shocked to see that Obama’s Organizing for America wasn’t on the list.
Eric Holder’s penchant for extorting billions from banks would make Al Capone rethink his career as a bootlegger. It turns out, being an “activist” AG is far more profitable than selling prohibited substances, trafficking arms (although there’s apparently no reason not to do both), or orchestrating St Valentine’s Day “parties”.
Threatening everything from lengthy investigations to criminal charges, Holder has managed to squeeze over $16.6 billion dollars from Bank of America. But, really, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In recent years, Holder has been accelerating his feverish attempt to hold faceless corporations “responsible” for allegations that may, or may not, have any roots to reality. So, why do banks pay? Well, for Bank of America, HSBC, JP Morgan, or Ally, it’s a whole lot easier to agree to a fine than fight the world’s most deep-pocketed plaintiff (the DOJ).
A portion of all those funds were supposed to be redistributed to groups that had been adversely impacted by whatever vague actions were allegedly taken by those evil (read: wealthy) corporations. So… Did you get a check from the DOJ for your under-water mortgage from Bank of America? Yeah, most people didn’t. You better go check with your local Democrat-friendly non-profit; because it’s pretty likely a check was sent to them for your suffering. (You can recognize the Democrat friendly non-profits pretty easily: They’re the ones that aren’t getting audited by the IRS.)
Of course, this is probably a godsend to those Liberal advocacy groups that would otherwise have to depend on donations from the general public. I mean, who needs to actually prove your worth to a community, when you have your very own Attorney General redistributing protection money to your cause?
Eric Holder, the self-admitted “activist” Attorney General, has repeatedly proven that there is no depths to which he will not slouch, if given a pass by the main stream media. Refusing to investigate the IRS scandal, running guns to Mexico (while simultaneously fighting for stronger American gun laws), “choking out” certain industries, and specifically targeting politically-dissenting journalists, was apparently just the beginning of Holder’s venture into government-sanctioned corruption. Now acting as a supplemental slush fund for progressive causes (with the cash of questionably targeted financial institutions), our Extortionist AG is proving that it pays to be in bed with the guys who call the shots.
In Al Capone’s time, we called those guys a part of La Cosa Nostra. Today, we call it Obama’s Democrat Party.
Mafioso!
Judicial Watch (JW) or that other group (Freedom something) will pursue this vigorously, but the courts are stacked..
What a Country...
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE FERGUSON RIOTS ?
All this inflamatory reporting of confrontations between black youths and authority is ruthlessly designed to keeping the black segment of Obama’s political support riled up so that any thought of instituting a richly deserved impeachment proceeding goes nowhere.
Of course, and the nonprofits are composed of members of the same race.
I’m sure John Boner will get right on this.
Just like all the other gang banger scams Holder has run in the last 6 years.
Why don’t you run for office and see if you can do any better against the rats, big mouth!!!
Why don't you run for Rep or Senator of your state or district and see if you can do any better against the rats!!!
That’s irony,friends.
Criminal AG. We don’t need “hearings”, we need justice.
Impeach Holder NOW!
That’s simple. I don’t live in Ohio.
And it’s perfectly reasonable to criticize a man who is clearly a venal coward, unwilling to exercise the power he got through the efforts of others - the Tea Party movement.
You’re free to be an unthinking partisan, but the rest of us believe in results, not just “my gang won”.
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The Banks are laundering drug money. They have been caught because of investigations into 9/11, then Madoff lawsuits etc. The SEC was forced to feign concern.
Holder, the good thug that he is, saw an opportunity. The banisters gave us Obama. He was installed by the Wall Street banks that launder $Billions in drug money. The individuals making decisions that are against the law need to be held accountable, and go to jail.
Bank owners and Executives went to jail in the good ol’ days when there really was a war on drugs, and when we weren’t Narco Nation.
I didn’t check to see if any FINOs stopped by yet to carry water for Obama and Holder by claiming that it’s Bush’s fault.
Thanks Kaslin.
I’m sure the banker criminals don’t care. It beats prison.
Where do the banks get that money to give to Holder? That’s right.
2009 The Emerging access of Iran and Venezuela
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203440104574400792835972018
The 2009 “coup d’état in Honduras was carried out with the acquiescence of the U.S. government at the time. In fact, the Millennium Challenge Corp., an independent U.S. foreign-aid agency chaired by the Secretary of State — Hillary Clinton at the time — continued to provide funding to the coup regime in the immediate aftermath of the putsch, even as the U.S. State Department indicated publicly that it had suspended assistance programs in Honduras.”
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/07/us-military-more-counter-narcotics-funding-will-help-stem-exodus-childr
2010 WikiLeaks, Obama meddling in Honduras Politics
Obama supported A known Narco Candidate in Honduras. Released cables make it clear that the U.S. knew Manuel Zelaya was a threat to democracy in Honduras.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703395204576023843828913256?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748703395204576023843828913256.html&fpid=2,7,121,122,201,401,641,1009
2009 - Mexican Cartels are Recruiting Children. In is inhumane to consider that even criminals could take advantage of children because of their poverty and lack of Education, to groom them as drug mules an even assassins.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110203492.html
“Mexican drug cartels increasingly recruit the young”
Honduras 2012: With Mexican criminal groups like the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel both believed to be active in the country, Honduras has become one of the principal drug transit routes in the region. Some estimate that as much as 87 percent of cocaine moving north to the US passes through Honduras.
June 4, 2014: Honduras is a Narco Nation
http://www.elheraldo.hn/pais/715861-214/honduras-ha-sido-invadido-por-el-narcotráfico
Colombian Cartel Members Caught in Honduras, Sent back to Colombia
http://www.wbir.com/video/1742445529001/43961430001/Colombian-Cartel-Kingpin-Captured-in-Honduras
2011 Al-Qaeda reported in Honduras
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2145/al-qaeda-honduras
US. Government Warns Honduras of Possible Al-Qaeda Infiltration
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/us.-government-warns-honduras-of-possible-al-qaeda-infiltration/7906/
Obama Revealed in Guatemala Policy
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dr-armando-de-la-torre-and-steve-hecht/obama-revealed-in-guatemala-policy/
March 2014 Globalists and Gangs Back Marxist Mass-murderer in El Salvador
As The New American magazine has documented extensively, the region (Central America) is already dominated by a closely knit network of foreign-backed socialist tyrants.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/17799-globalists-and-gangs-back-marxist-mass-murderer-in-el-salvador
Chavez used Venezuelan Military to turn Venezuela into the Biggest drug Distributor in the World 2013
How Venezuela’s Military Tried to Fly A Ton of Cocaine to France
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/details-revealed-about-venezuela-militarys-massive-drug-smuggle
State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/
“There has indeed been a “marked resurgence” of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism over the past 18 months. But as the new Nisman report drives hom, here’s an even more disturbing fact — Iran has run intelligence networks in the United States’ backyard to “sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks” for decades.”
“Criminal plans” by Iran could be under way in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/americas/iran-latin-america/
Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin
http://www.banderasnews.com/1101/nr-afghanheroin.htm
In 2011, DEA was laundering drug money from Mexican cartels, “Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&;
2014 -Mexican Journalist Faces Death for Claiming War On Drugs is a Farce and Governments Are Complicit.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/mexico/140716/mexican-journalist-anabel-hernandez-drug-cartels-presidents
Rockefeller is Outed as a Soros Ally in the Drug Legalization Scheme in Latin America (Uruguay)
Illuminati Billionaires Love Marxists & Marijuana
Http://henrymakow.com/2013/09/Illuminati-Billionaires-Love-Marxists-Marijuana.html#sthash.UZwooUp2.dpuf
Soros spent at least $80 MILLION USD for drug legalization in US and Uruguay
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596471/George-Soros-spent-80million-pot-legalized-US-Uruguay.html
2008-Barack Obama appointed eleven members of the Trilateral Commission to top-level and key positions in his administration within his first ten days in office. There was a media Blackout.
http://www.projectcensored.org/22-obamas-trilateral-commission-team/
2008-Roster of Member Prior to Obama’s Selections
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/cfr-members.htm
2009-Henry Kissinger at the White House to coordinate with Obama the work of the Trilateral; George Shultz is sitting on the left. The White House, 20 May 2009.
http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/jpg/tri3901-f9f9d.jpg
2009 -The last published report from the NDIC (National,Drug Intelligence Center) showed a marked increase in heroin trafficking from 2008 to 2009, and a strong trend towards drug trafficking along “Southwest Border” land. http://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs38/38661/movement.htm
2010: The US illicit drug market alone, was estimated to be at least $109 BILLION USD
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-10/more-pot-less-cocaine-sizing-up-americas-illicit-drug-market
Real Illicit Drug Money for Cartels Should be Much Higher Since Wachovia admitted to Laundering $378 BILLION for Mexican Cartels from 2004-2007.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
2011- Study Shows Legalization Won’t Inhibit Drug Cartels
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39637888/ns/world_news-americas/#.U96TGcu9KSM
2011 Obama DOJ Gave Cartel Enough Guns to Arm a Marine Regiment
http://townhall.com/columnists/katiepavlich/2011/07/26/obama_doj_gave_cartel_enough_guns_to_arm_a_marine_regiment/page/full
2011: SEC Ignores Rampant Money Laundering
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
“How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs.”
2011-BERNANKE and The Fed’s $29 Trillion Secret Bail-out of Wall Street
http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2011/12/09/bernanke%E2%80%99s-obfuscation-continues-the-fed%E2%80%99s-29-trillion-bail-out-of-wall-street/#sthash.wkVUtsJM.dpuf
2011-The Fed Attacks Media for Reporting Secret Bail Out
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-06/bloomberg-news-responds-to-bernanke-criticism.html
2012 - Hugo Chavez, Soros, and the anti-fracking movement
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/hugo_chavez_and_the_anti-fracking_movement.html
2012-”More than 660,000 Americans used heroin in 2012, the federal government says, double the number of five years earlier.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/us/a-mother-lifts-her-son-slowly-from-heroins-abyss.html?src=recg
Heroin Becomes Cheaper and More Available July 2014
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/longform/news/crime/2014/07/20/heroin-becomes-cheaper-available/12906981/
“The horrific toll of America’s heroin ‘epidemic”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26672422
America’s Heroin Epidemic -BBC 2014
In 2012, it was reported that 6 corporations, owned 90% of American media. Which helps explain why NOTHING Obama did was EVER questioned.
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
Whistleblower claiming she forged Obama’s long and short birth certificate, also coincidentally claims she forged documents for the Mexican drug cartels.
“Now a whistle blower comes forward and claims she forged Obama’s birth certificate in 1985.”
http://thelibertydigest.com/2013/12/25/whistle-blower-claims-she-forged-obamas-birth-certificate-guess-who-it-is/
Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz36vAJbBpS
Obama shut down the NDIC in 2012, the itelligence agency dedicated to tracking terrorism funded by drug trafficking.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/
“Mexican cartel violence is at an all-time high along the increasingly porous southern border yet the Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.”
The last report from the NDIC in 2012 had dire warnings about growing problems on the border that were “tantamount to living in a war zone”.
Obama closed NDIC in 2012, and said Holder’s DEA was going to be taking over the NDIC work. The DEA has no reports since 2012.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/14/doj-shuts-down-national-drug-intelligence-center-no-2012-reports-released-video/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
Obama Is Filling DHS with Amnesty Revolutionaries Backed by Soros
December 6, 2013
http://www.independentsentinel.com/obama-is-filling-dhs-with-amnesty-revolutionaries-backed-by-soros/
Obama’s DHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYvIiS9Mj_Q
2013-Citi Caught Laundering Money Again
http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/03/26/fed-hits-citi-over-money-laundering-problems/
2014-CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel (They claimed feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago)
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl
U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners
Written by Alex Newman Jan. 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/17396-u-s-government-and-top-mexican-drug-cartel-exposed-as-partners
Carlos Slim, Mexican billionaire, NY Times owner, Univision US Latin Television owner, and Obama supporter “making millions from American government program that gives poor free cell phones”
By October 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215966/Mexican-billionaire-making-millions-American-government-program-gives-poor-free-cell-phones.html
Rumors of Slim and drugs are rampant in Mexico, few dare to say this.
http://www.madcowprod.com/02032009.html
“Slim and his family are the largest shareholders, after members of the company’s founding family, in what’s arguably the most influential news organization in the United States.” Slims reputation for corruption is also well known in Mexico, and even the US media wonders why Slim has never been questioned for his profits from government concession monopolies that hurt mostly the poor.
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/03/12/for_155m_did_carlos_slim_buy_silence_from_the_times_100195.html
Every legitimate business in Mexico has been a victim of criminal extortion, many have been driven out of the country, and despite the fact the it is estimated that at least 45,000 Mexicans have died from the drug cartels, Carlos Slim, advocates “drug legalization”. Despite recessions Slim’s wealth increases. Neither major trafficking, or selective success, happens in Mexico without corruption.
Few media had the courage to question dubious alliances of US media purchased by Powerfull Foreigners.
http://seattletimes.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008673366_editb27slim.html
Shocker: Obama In Bed With Mexican Drug Cartels
Forget about impeachment. This man, Barack Hussein Obama, should resign immediately and be put away for a very long time.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/shocker-obama-bed-mexican-drug-cartels/#uFYhv3irpW8ysYKT.99
Carlos Slim, Mexican National, with most of his connections in US.
http://www.muckety.com/Carlos-Slim-Helu/145472.muckety
None of the MSM reported the Colombia Cartel Ties to the Marijuana Shops in Colorado
Feds Bust Colorado Pot Shop Allegedly Tied to Colombia Drug Cartel
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/05/12/Feds-Bust-Colorado-Pot-Shop-with-Ties-to-Colombian-Drug-Cartel
2014 The NY Times officially endorses marijuana legalization
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html?_r=0
The link between drugs and crime, including violent crime, would be hard to overstate in Chicago. Eighty-six percent of adult males arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for drug use. Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, had 506 murders in 2012, the highest per capita among the four most populous U.S. cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/heroin-pushed-on-chicago-by-cartel-fueling-gang-murders.html
The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates (cooking the books)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/
Dirty doctors, Russian mafia fueling “legal” Rx drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_state_commission_of_investigation_prescription_drug_heroin_abuse.html
Opiates are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, surpassing car crashes and alcohol. http://elitedaily.com/news/world/prescription-painkillers-overtake-car-crashes-leading-accidental-death-us/
2012: Obama and Holder Let Another Big Drug Money Laundering Bank off the Hook
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-holder-let-another-big-bank-the-ho
Banks Laundering Cartel Drug Money -Rampant
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205
2012: Outrageous Drug Money Laundering HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213#ixzz399RHYJ2s
BORDER CRISIS: CONGRESSMAN SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ‘CAUSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/05/Congressman-Illegls-Aliens-Rise-Obama-Advertises-If%20you-Come-You-Can-Stay
Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle More Drugs Across Border
By Frank Diez July 03, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/
2014- Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html
2014-Drug dealing, informant get border pass
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/informant-gets-free-border-pass-675432
7/2014-EXCLUSIVE: Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border as Agent Resources are Overwhelmed
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/07/08/exclusive-photos-show-drugs-pouring-over-southern-arizona-border-n1859982
2014-The Obama Administration’s Human Trafficking
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-obama-administrations-human-trafficking/
July 2014: The “Death Train” bringing Central Americans to US is called the most Treachurous Train in the World.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2695565/All-aboard-death-train-Extraordinary-images-hundreds-Central-Americans-climbing-aboard-La-Bestia-cargo-train-attempt-reach-Mexico-U-S-border.html
2014 The “Death Train” reported to be American owned.
“Death Train’ bringing in gangsters and drugs from Central America, was reported numerous times for rape, murder, extortion, and other human rights abuses of these “children”. The Train is owned by KCSM, a subsidiary of KCS, listed on Nasdaq and owned by a who is who of Political cronies such as the Clintons, and their Secretary of Transportation, Rodney E. Slater, who is listed as a Director of KCS. Additional investors are Bank of America, T Rowe Price, and GE.
http://www.transporte.mx/quienes-son-los-duenos-de-la-bestia/
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ksu/insiders?pid=42801458
http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/mexicans-blame-americans-for-death-train/
(That original “DeathTrain” investigation was done by Univision reporters, Univision is owned by Carlos Slim, the report goes nowhere.)
2014-Texas Border Patrol agent told TheBlaze there is “no doubt” that among the hordes of Central Americans are also crossers from Pakistan and Afghanistan, raising significant national security concerns.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/14/urdu-dictionary-found-on-texas-ranch-near-border-we-just-dont-know-whos-here-already/
Report 2014- Brazen attacks by gang members, criminals, and human traffickers on the border.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/30/exclusive-report-reveals-disturbing-trend-brazen-attacks-against-border/
2014 -Obama holds Africa Summit with “highly corrupt” African bankers convicted of money laundering.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/star-of-obama-africa-summit-tied-to-george-soros-clintons/
Wall Street Banks are illegally Laundering Drug Money with Impunity.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205
“Meanwhile, finance and real estate sectors in Mexico and the United States are awash with cartel profits, with one United Nations analyst arguing that drug money was the “only liquid investment capital” that kept the international economy from completely” imploding in 2008
http://m.thenation.com/article/180587-how-mexican-drug-trade-thrives-free-trade
6/2014 - 2 Tons of Cocaine seized off the coast of Central America.
http://www.narcoticnews.com/news/cocaine/2014/2-tons-of-cocaine-seized-off-the-coast-of-central-america/
House Votes to Allow Marijuana Related Banking 7/16/2014
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/house-supports-easier-marijuana-related-banking-24588337
Wall Street has given more to Obama’s Political Campaign than Any Other PoliticianIt’s all about the Benjamins.
July 2014 Guardian - The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that’s a ‘totalitarian mentality’
ISIS and the Mexican Drug Cartels Teaming Up
2014-http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2014/08/21/isis-mexican-drug-cartels-teaming-up-n1881302
2014- Eric Holder Using Funds From Bank Criminal Fines for Democrat Non Profits
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2014/08/30/eric-holders-doj-funding-proobama-groups-with-bank-settlements-n1884697
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