World-News

Chris Hedges, Truthdig: ''This is why the Occupy movement frightens the corporate elite. What fosters revolution is not misery, but the gap between what people expect from their lives and what is offered. This is especially acute among the educated and the talented. They feel, with much justification, that they have been denied what they deserve. They set out to rectify this injustice. And the longer the injustice festers, the more radical they become.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9112-why-the-occupy-movement-frightens-the-corporate-elite



New Documents Confirm Koch Was on NRA-Led Crime Task Force

Lisa Graves, Center for Media and Democracy: ''It turns out that Koch was a member of that ALEC task force in recent years, and that it was on the task force when the NRA was the private sector co-chair. Moreover, Koch Industries had not one but two employees who were listed as 'members' present for ALECs 'Public Safety and Elections' Task Force at the last annual task force summit.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9126-new-documents-confirm-koch-was-on-nra-led-alec-crime-task-force



Uncovering the Other ALECs

Sarah Blaskey and Steve Horn, Truthout: ''ALEC has been described as a 'corporate bill mill.' ALEC, though, is not the only 'corporate bill mill' playing this game. 'Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists' have upped the ante and skillfully advanced their agendas through bipartisan 'trade associations' for state government officials - in particular, the Council of State Governments (CSG) whose multimillion-dollar budget is mostly funded by taxpayers. Through CSG and Friends, lobbyists exploit a well-tethered network of nonprofits representing state-level officials to advance the agenda of their corporate clientele.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9033-subverting-the-statehouse-uncovering-the-other-alecs



The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: ''We live at a time when the crisis of politics is inextricably connected to the crisis of education and agency.... Against such hard times for the promise of democracy, the Occupy movement offers an incisive language of analysis and hope, a renewed sense of political commitment, different democratic visions and a politics of possibility.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9237-the-occupy-movement-and-the-politics-of-educated-hope



Occupy Wall Street Librarians Strike Back

Melissa Gira Grant, Truthout: ''Thursday, members of Occupy Wall Street ... filed a federal lawsuit against the city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, seeking to hold them accountable for violations of their constitutional rights, as well as subsequent smaller raids that targeted the People s Library. In the course of the suit, the city may have to admit who called the shots during the eviction on November 15, 2011.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9369-occupy-wall-street-librarians-strike-back



What Fires Young Progressives' Activism? A New Study Asks Them

Rinku Sen, Colorlines.com: ''The Applied Research Center released 'Millennials, Activism and Race,' a report on the motivations of young people who are active in progressive politics. Following up on last year s research, Don t Call Them Post-Racial, this report gives us more information about what draws 18 to 30 year olds to social justice work, and how people with progressive politics deal with race as part of a larger political worldview.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9367-what-fires-young-progressives-activism-a-new-study-asks-them



Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?

Arun Gupta, AlterNet: ''With the high-profile arrest of activists on terrorism charges in Cleveland on May Day and in Chicago during the NATO summit there, evidence is mounting that the FBI is unleashing the same methods of entrapment against the Occupy Wall Street movement that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans for the last decade. Will Potter, who analyzes FBI entrapment plots in his book Green is the New Red, says ? 'There have been many other cases like these in which the FBI had a role in manufacturing the plot itself.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9403-has-the-fbi-launched-a-war-of-entrapment-against-the-occupy-movement

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Wall Street Waging 'Guerrilla War' on Financial Regulations
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/14-2

Pompous Prevaricators of Power
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/16-11

Why a Growing Movement of Young People Could Ignite a Workers' Revolution
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/25-2

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Homeland Security Files Show Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown

The new documents, only scratch the surface of a mass intelligence network including Fusion Centers, saturated with 'anti-terrorism' funding, that mobilizes thousands of local and federal officers and agents to investigate and monitor the social justice movement."

http://bit.ly/JCtOe9



Occupy Directory: Trying to find a local occupation?

The Occupation Directory is a public listing of all known Occupation sites built by and for the #Occupy movement.

http://directory.occupy.net/



Cleveland Occupy Arrests Are the Latest in FBI s Pattern of Manipulation

By Arun Gupta

The FBI fishes for dupes it can manipulate with informants and agents who stroke their marks, plant ideas, suggest the plans, provide money, weapons, vehicles and then heroically foil a terrorist act of the FBI s own design.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31455.htm



Occupy Movement Being Labeled As ''A Domestic Terror Organization'' By FBI

Video

From disorganised slackers to terrorists: Protesters now even face accusations that they pose a threat not just to Corporate America, but to the country as a whole. But activists say it s all just scaremongering to stifle the movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feNsw8r196M


From Information Clearing House

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Interventionism and the elites

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

05/23/12

"The great gulf between the American public and the elites when it comes to foreign policy is a constant source of irritation for the latter. The mandarins of the foreign policy establishment have long bemoaned the 'isolationism' of the American people. It s the natural inclination of a free people to leave others alone, and the Founders exemplified this sentiment when they decried the impulse to 'go abroad in search of monsters to destroy'...

http://bit.ly/LD1qMp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Tom Engelhardt

We have turned much of the rest of the planet into what can only be considered an American free-fire zone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31312.htm



The dumbing down of America will accelerate

By Linh Dinh

The dumbing down of America will only accelerate as this cornered and bankrupt country becomes ever more vicious to its citizens and foreigners alike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31318.htm



Colonized by Corporations

By Chris Hedges

In Robert E. Gamer s book ''The Developing Nations'' is a chapter called ''Why Men Do Not Revolt.'' In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, a despised racial or ethnic group or an apostate within their own political class.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31320.htm



Five Facts That Put America to Shame

By Paul Buchheit

The golden door on the Statue of Liberty seems to have an invisible hand holding it shut.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31321.htm



The National Security State Wins (Again)

By William J. Astore

That candidate is guaranteed to be the one clear winner of election 2012: the US military and our ever-surging national security state.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31329.htm



Desperate Times Demand Revolutionary Measures

By Peter Phillips

Do we understand that habeas corpus is no longer a legal protection in the US or that the US president can torture and kill American citizens, let along anyone in the world?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31335.htm

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Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/15-1

Can one do good by doing bad?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/16-1

Top Obama Officials, Secretive Process Create 'Assassination List'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/22-2

Obama Personally Oversees 'Secret Kill List'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/29

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Krauthammer On Drones Flying In US: ''Stop It Here, Stop It Now''
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/10599.html

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Torture and the innocent

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/17/12

One of the main arguments made by pro-torture Americans is that the information acquired by torture can lead to important information that can save the lives of innocent people. Their argument is a classic example of the old maxim, 'The end justifies the means.' But even if we were to accept that utilitarian argument for torture, doesn t it necessarily involve an important assumption?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-05-17.asp



An oracle of tyranny

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Bruce Fein

02/22/13

Krauthammer is unable to cite any provision in the Constitution or laws of the United States that crowns the president with the authority to decide unilaterally who is an 'enemy' to be exterminated. Proffering no definition of that term, Krauthammer champions authority in the president to designate any person he wishes as an 'enemy' with no review by Congress, the judiciary, or the American people...

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/an-oracle-of-tyranny/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Secret Kill List
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano56.1.html



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More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program.

http://yhoo.it/M3kiTN



Amid mass unemployment, corporate profits surge

Fortune magazine released its ranking of the 500 biggest US corporations Monday, which showed that they received a record-breaking $824 billion in combined profits in 2011, up 16 percent from 2010.ck lost more than 8% of its value Friday after the bank, the largest in the United States, revealed a monster $2 billion loss in a trading group that manages the risks the bank takes with its own money.

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/pers-m11.shtml



''Money for Jobs Not for War''

American Chauvinism and Reformist Illusions

By Larry Everest

Why should antiwar demands focus first and foremost on the war s impact on Americans and their lives-and not on the victims of U.S. aggression.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31414.htm



Half Of America's Unemployed Workers Are Collecting No Unemployment Benefits

Unless Congress steps up, by 2013 more than two-thirds of the unemployed will collect no benefits.

http://is.gd/o2oiIC


From Information Clearing House

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The Real Unemployment Rate: 22%, Not 8.1%
http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/john-williams-real-unemployment-rate.html

US Unemployment and the Ubiquitous 'Zombie Job' Market
http://lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner548.html



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Compared to the Pentagon s current budget, Romney s plan would lead to $2.1 trillion in additional spending over the next ten years.

http://bit.ly/K2eQhX



Kristol: Lieberman will be Secretary of State in Romney Administration

By Maidhc Ó Cathail

If Kristol s latest prediction comes true, a Romney presidency would put U.S. foreign policy even more firmly under the control of a foreign power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31380.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Romney the Bully

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: ''Last week, I was invited to speak to 40 high school freshman about human rights. When we discussed the right to be free from torture, I asked the students if they could think of an example of torture. They said, 'bullying.' A major problem among teens, bullying can lead to depression and even suicide. When most people list the qualities they want to see in their president, 'bully' is not one of them.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9111-romney-the-bully



Romney s Disastrous Education Agenda: Reward His Donors, Make Sure Money Dominates Politics

David Halperin, Republic Report: ''Mitt Romney has just released his plan for educating America s young people, and it s wholly consistent with his overall philosophy: Allow money to dominate politics, and everything will work out great. Except that, when it comes to policies on college education, we tried that approach under George W. Bush, and it was a disaster for students and taxpayers.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9354-romneys-disastrous-education-agenda-reward-his-donors-make-sure-money-dominates-politics

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Romney Has Public and Private Morality Upside Down
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/05/15-0

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Money for war, no money for you
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket-1/money-for-war-no-money-for-you.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/wile/wile53.1.html



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Michael A. Peters, Truthout: ''The history of equality from antiquity onward reveals that the notion of equality has been considered a constitutive feature of justice whether in its formal, proportional or moral sense.... Inequality damages social relationships. Measures of trust and social cohesion are higher and violence is lower in more equal societies. And similarly, studies show the reason that rates of imprisonment have increased in more unequal countries.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8985-why-equality-matters

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The Price of Inequality and the Myth of Opportunity
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/06-6



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By Naomi Wolf

The news stories, which quickly surface, long enough to cause scary headlines, then vanish before people can learn how often the cases are thrown out.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31299.htm



The Human Cost of the ''War on Terror''

Body Counts

By M. Reza Pirbhai

To consider the staggering human cost of the 'War on Terror' would mean admitting that 'terrorism' is a two-way street and states, not militias, drive the heaviest weapons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31542.htm

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It s The Culture Stupid: Why We Are in the Mess We Are In
http://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-The-Culture-Stupid-W-by-David-Model-120512-494.html

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Unleashed: Globalizing the Global War on Terror
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/29-2



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/11-2

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Radicalization Within the Armed Forces: DoD Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees

Mikey Weinstein, AlterNet: ''Peering inward, the top brass of the United States Armed Forces have dangerously lost sight of the forest for the trees. Invoking myopic, misleading drivel marinated in the 'bath salts' of fundamentalist Christian predation, it has become all too clear that the Pentagon is incapable of making truly sober assessments of the profound internal threats and weaknesses it faces.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9664-radicalization-within-the-armed-forces-dod-losing-sight-of-the-forest-for-the-trees



Fund Our Communities, Not War

Joseph Gerson, Truthout: ''Nationally, Lockheed-Martin and other weapons manufacturers have threatened to put an election year political gun to Congress' head. They have announced that they will have to send layoff notices to all of their employees unless Congress reneges on the Budget Control Act of 2011, which would cut roughly 12 percent of the Pentagon s gargantuan budget over the next decade. They haven t expressed similar concern over the act s $600 billion to be slashed from essential and already underfunded social services.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10240-kick-the-habit-fund-our-communities-not-war



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Chicago Police Ready for NATO Summit Protesters With 'Sound Cannon'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/11-8

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Occupy Chicago Takes on the War at Home

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''In a week of action before the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit hits Chicago, activists are connecting the war abroad waged by NATO and its associates with the war at home, waged by some of the 1 percent that are welcoming and profiting from bringing the summit to Chicago. 'What we have is a war in our communities and that war is done by the global 1 percent,' said Brian Bean, an activist with Occupy Chicago. 'The same people that will be meeting in McCormick Place [for the summit] in a couple of days drop bomb in Afghanistan and destroy our homes here in America. That is why we are here to fight back. Today we take back our homes, tomorrow we take back our world.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9205-occupy-chicago-takes-on-the-war-at-home



NATO Protesters Held Without Charge After Raid as Chicago Steps Up Police Activities

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: ''A pre-emptive raid by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) on the home of two Occupy Chicago activists may have happened without a search warrant, said the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and led to the disappearance of nine activists into police custody without charge for almost 24 hours. According to witnesses, the raid was conducted by the Organized Crime Division of the CPD and a warrant produced at the site didn t have the signature of a judge. The use of pre-emptive arrests is troublesome, said lawyers following the proceedings.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9235-nato-protesters-held-without-charge-after-raid-as-chicago-steps-up-police-activities



Nurses Gather at NATO Summit to Demand Government Fund Health, Not Death

Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: ''Around a thousand individuals gathered at Chicago s Daley Plaza Friday afternoon to demand the US government start properly funding health and stop funding death with an ever-expanding military budget. Casey Hobbs, a registered nurse for 37 years, traveled to Chicago in order to protest for the creation of a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street?. '[It's] less than half a penny tax on financial transactions. With the billions of dollars we d get from that, we re gonna heal America..'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9242-nurses-gather-at-nato-to-demand-government-funds-health-not-death



Why Protest NATO?

Sam Jewler, Truthout: ''In many ways, Afghanistan is worse off under NATO s Groundhog Day-like reign of terror than it was before?. Civilian deaths have become a hallmark of NATO interventions, in which forces rely on so-called precise aerial campaigns so as not to risk their own soldiers' lives. Even in the Balkans, NATO s first and signature so-called 'humanitarian war,' it s estimated that there were thousands of civilian deaths and that tens of billions of dollars worth of damage was done.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9234-why-protest-nato



Occupying Different Worlds: NATO and Its Citizens

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''[Author] Michael Hastings [said]: 'We are spending $700 billion a year on defense ... We spent $120 billion in 2011 in Afghanistan. The takeaway I got from the protesters was that this money could be better spent at home than on these different foreign policy adventures. The adventures have turned out not to be very beneficial for most Americans or most Afghans either.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9257-occupying-different-worlds-nato-and-its-citizens



Whose Firebombs? Inside the Alleged ''Conspiracy''

Curtis Black, NewsTips.org: ''Chicago police have a long history of infiltrating peaceful protest groups and fomenting violence and infiltration of protest groups seems to be standard operating procedure for 'national security events.' That seems to have been the case, in just the past month ... Sometimes you wonder whether such efforts are directed at keeping us safe or 'putting points on the board' or, when big protests are planned, generating scare headlines.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9258-whose-firebombs-inside-the-alleged-conspiracy



Thousands March With Veterans for Peace in Chicago; Police Respond With Brute Force

Allison Kilkenny, Truthout: ''Thousands of protesters marched beside Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans Sunday to accompany the vets as they marched, hoping to return their service medals to NATO s generals.... 'These medals once made me feel good,' said [veteran Scott] Olsen, adding, 'I came back to reality. I don't like these anymore.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9269-thousands-march-with-veterans-for-peace-police-respond-with-brute-force



From Pride to Shame: Vets Return Their Medals

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: ''The transition from pride to shame was a common theme among the more than forty veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who publicly hurled their medals in the direction of the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday as part of a reconciliation ceremony. One by one, they explained their decision, many describing themselves as remaining proud to have served with what they considered courage, integrity and selflessness until a sense of unease about the missions' aims and tactics set in ...''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9284-from-pride-to-shame-vets-return-their-medals



Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Reflections on Chicago

Molly Knefel, Truthout: ''But while we may not be a totalitarian regime, the numerous incidents of police repression surrounding the NATO protests highlighted specific, tangible and important ways in which we do not resemble a truly free country.... It is the nonviolent protest that is condemned as violent; people leave the crowd covered in blood as the ones holding the batons are credited with keeping things peaceful. The question is not necessarily, 'Is this what a police state looks like?' but rather, 'Is this what a democracy looks like?'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9461-is-this-what-democracy-looks-like-reflections-on-chicago



Why I Returned My Medals

Graham Clumpner, Truthout: ''I could see things deteriorating every day. Our contact with the locals only isolated us and made things worse. Our treatment of the prisoners was what changed me. When they were blindfolded and handcuffed, it was easy to see them as less than human. So, we treated them that way. The medal I returned outside the NATO summit was the Global War on Terrorism Medal or GWOT. I refer to it as the Global War OF Terrorism. That s what we are, the purveyors of terror to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9545-why-i-returned-my-medals

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How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook

In all these law enforcement schemes the alleged terrorists masterminds end up seeming, when the full story comes out, unable to terrorize their way out of a paper bag without law enforcement tutelage.

http://bit.ly/J6MELX



The Nato Summit Template for Policing the 'Other Chicago'

Mayor Emanuel is spending millions entertaining Nato and millions more to stifle protest at Chicago s dire levels of poverty.

http://bit.ly/KvjSS0



Nato Talks Security and Peace, Chicago has Neither

By Gary Younge

The paradox of such a city hosting this summit lays bare the brutal way in which inequality is globally maintained and locally replicated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31383.htm



U.S. Veterans Return War Medals at NATO Summit

Daily Dispatch From The NATO Protests

Video

A collection of video reports by grassroots journalists who are covering the NATO Summit in Chicago.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31384.htm



Welcome, Nato, to Chicago s police state

The Nato summit will come and go, but Mayor Emanuel has authorised a 'new normal' of militarised social control in Chicago.

http://bit.ly/KxUwTd



Chicago police frame antiwar activists on ''terrorism'' charges

The bogus character of the charges is demonstrated by the fact that the five men are charged for three separate incidents, linked only by the involvement of two undercover police provocateurs, who instigated or concocted each of the supposed ''terrorist'' plots.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/terr-m21.shtml



Obama hails police state methods in Chicago

President Barack Obama on Monday praised the performance of Chicago city officials and the Chicago Police Department after a week of violence, repression and frame-ups directed against antiwar demonstrators in the city.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/pers-m22.shtml



NATO Summit A Show Of Force

By Paul Heise

The NATO summit put on display how we can and do conjure up foreign and domestic threats to justify government control of our society.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31415.htm


From Information Clearing House

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American war veterans renounce the wars and throw their medals at NATO Summit
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It s Time to Break Up the Big Banks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/15-13

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The Truth About JP Morgan's $2 Billion Loss

Before we can understand what s really going on with JP Morgan s loss, we need a little background.

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From Information Clearing House



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