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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>To be honest I really can&#039;t see China just sitting back and allowing the US to go ahead with an attack on Iran.&nbsp; China is no longer a backwater country.&nbsp; Give it just a few more years and I suspect China will probably be a competing Super Power.</p><p>A funny thing about this.&nbsp; Look at how all the European and US corporations are all rushing head first to give China business at the moment - China has such a rapidly growing ecconomey that this companies are making a large amount of money.&nbsp; Thing is, they are helping China grow, and in a few years they won&#039;t need Western companies any longer - as China will be the leading eccominic force in the world.&nbsp; This whole shift is what I reckon has the US in such a rattle...</p>]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Now China stirs the pot!</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021701117_pf.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co … 17_pf.html</a></p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-02-17T22:59:00Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Wow!</p>]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Here&#039;s something I wrote about this. Inspired by a true story.</p><p>===<br />Walked into a store today,<br />there, I heard a man say:<br />The bombs have been unleashed,<br />upon the capital Ns in Iran.</p><p>My heart jumped into my throat,<br />as i thought:.. already?<br />And that dark gloom of apocalyptic despair<br />fell upon me once more.</p><p>I rushed to the man, and asked:<br />Is what you say is true?<br />He pointed to the page,<br />and said, there it is.</p><p>My eyes scanned the lines,<br />and to my relief, it was still only in the plans.<br />To my disrelief, it was still in the plans.<br />Oh woe, tragedy, malcontent!</p><p>I then told the man of all that I thought:</p><p>Terror and tragedy.</p><p>The crusading empires of the west<br />are willing to plunge the world into apocalyptic war<br />in order to fulfill their quest<br />to conquer the entire world.</p><p>Woe betide her children,<br />blind and deaf by their illness ignorance.<br />Lemmings in the herd, &#039;bout to plunge off a cliff.<br />Or will they be assimilated by the machine?</p><p>How to believe the entire world is supporting this malefic action by the stars and stripes empire?<br />But then, we know who own the UN.<br />Iran would be a fool to give in to their demands. Just look at the example set by Iraq,<br />which had no nuclear weapons with which to defend itself.<br />We heap destruction upon our own backs by sponsoring these wars.<br />That means: stop paying taxes to an illegal government!<br />Sure, one might get in trouble, but that kind of chickenshit behaviour is what got Germany into the Nazi nightmare.<br />The time is now, to escape the shackles of enslavement.<br />The future is too late.</p><p>As for Iran, all indications show that it is planned for the next few months.<br />Perhaps even before summer.<br />Expect a staged attack by Iran against, say, Israeli or Iraqi targets,<br />which the US will, by mandate, be obliged to step in and protect.<br />Do we understand what that means?<br />Read the news, people! Listen to the signs!<br />How can we allow ourselves to wander through the streets so blindly,<br />giving our lifeblood freely to the demons who engineer such dastardly deeds?<br />Once the iranian powderkeg blows...<br />the whole world is in for the apocalypse!</p><p>Habit box teaches us: &quot;apocalypse&quot; = this guy is crazy.<br />The whole world looks at me and thinks I&#039;m crazy.<br />I look at the whole world and think they are crazy.</p><p>But look, can you not see the signs of global conflict between the Islam and the West?<br />They have been around for centuries, as have the plans.<br />[How foolish to confuse the puppet bush for the demons who pull his strings!]<br />Both sides are being manipulated by their extremist factions,<br />which is causing the entire spectacle to become much larger than otherwise.<br />Once Iran is penetrated, the entire muslim world will unite<br />Fortress America will move into global battlemode.<br />Expect the army of mexican mercenaries then.</p><p>Not so long thereafter, expect the armies of hybrid<br />bio-techno multibots, armed with exoskeletons, frequency weapons,<br />and all kinds of other dastardly devices.<br />connected wirelessly, incom with the overarching AI that controls the entire operation.</p><p>Thus, we will build the collosal Frankenstein that will be the shell<br />for the Lord of Demons to incarnate once more upon this world.<br />This is the false Christ that will come before the true.&nbsp; &nbsp; i.e.<br />This is the false unity that will come before the true.<br />The machine borg, in which all are considered equal.<br />Only the machine is important.<br />(Sounds a lot like the current day prototype: the corporation, eh?)</p><p>[Yes Alex, you were right about your apprehension. Sorry to discount it so quickly.]</p><p>What will come of the world?<br />After this phase of the war, almost certainly China will emerge as the world&#039;s superpower.<br />I&#039;m sure China is happy that the Arabs are going to take out their major world rival.<br />Of course, China will not be the same, nor will anything else.<br />Asia will become the new power control centre of the world.<br />Eventually the principle hub of the machine.<br />The denaturalization is overly evident<br />in the wasteland of modern india.<br />North America will probably be devastated, and, if it&#039;s not overwhelmed by a billion new immigrants,<br />will probably become a nice place. Simple, organic, holistic, and spiritual.<br />Ah.. perhaps we are overreaching ourselves here.<br />If the outcome is decisive, it is likely that the migrants will come.<br />By then, technology should be approaching asymtopic,<br />and we will witness bizarre wonders that we have never even dreamed of.<br />Haha, people look at me strange when I walk barefoot.<br />Perhaps they won&#039;t notice such trivial differences<br />when the new species walk upon our same earth.</p><p>[To illustrate:<br />Computers have come quite a way in the last 50 years, eh?<br />Next year, a gathering of corporations are hoping to develop<br />&quot;one laptop for every child&quot; over the entire world.<br />But if we track current rates of development in biotics and nanotics,<br />the curve is proceeding exponentially faster,<br />and it is only a matter of several years before<br />children are able to make incredible toys,<br />like, dragons and giants, elves and hobbits.<br />I&#039;d like to see a few faeries as well.</p><p>Moreover, interface between organic and technotic is likewise accelerating exponentially.<br />It is only a matter of time before direct brain-to-computer inferfaces are available.<br />They will, of course, take some accustomization, until one learns to interface efficiently.<br />Imagein being able to manifest all your internal visions in an instant?<br />Just image&#039;in : i mage am.<br />Of course, for efficient neuronal development, it is best to implant the chips as soon as possible,<br />early in life.<br />Your child will have a far better chance that way<br />at success in later life, or so they will say.<br />When such time comes, I suggest you head for the hills.<br />Would you rather sell your children&#039;s souls to the devil?<br />Or perhaps train them as psyber hackers for the rebel armies?<br />No need to fear governments by then, for they will be long past.<br />The beast will be here, for all to bear.<br />O, Despair, for it seems nothing can be done:<br />The best knows all. The beast controls all. The beast is all.<br />Should we fear him? Should we fight him?<br />O, let know, what are we to do?<br />If we call him our enemy,<br />then we should follow an according strategy.<br />Good Intelligence is the first line of all efficient combat.<br />Thus must we understand the beast.<br />Who is it? Whence has it come? How does it perceive itself? What does it want?<br />We must understand it.</p><p>There is a very simple formula for doing this,<br />although actually carrying it out can be exceedingly difficult.<br />Calm your environment, outer and inner,<br />withdraw from your senses and look into your heart.<br />Those who cannot find the beast lurking within,<br />have not looked long and hard enough, or<br />are avatars incarnate, guide the rest of us from travail.</p><p>The beast lurks within.<br />The beast is our creation.<br />That it has manifested in external form,<br />is, in a sense, a great benediction,<br />for it means that the energy is being purged from our collective unconscious.<br />That will, however, be of little respite for those who are consumed by its voracity.</p><br /><br /><p>The good news:<br />The true &quot;christ&quot; will emerge after the ordeals have passed.<br />Christ is not a long-haired hippy.<br />Christ is the true nature of our being.<br />Choose whichever name you prefer.<br />Don&#039;t confuse Jesus and his teachings<br />with the satanic indoctrination of church pulpits.<br />To do so is to disparage and stain the true nature of your hearts.</p><p>Before every one of us lies two paths,<br />forecast by the great seers who have walked this earth in days past, present and future.<br />One road leads to a precipice of great destruction and endless sorrow.<br />The other leads ever upward into celestial realms of love, bliss, and pure consciousness.</p><p>Thus, there is only one thing that can save us in such times of great trouble:<br />love and compassion, harmony and friendship, concern for others,<br />forgiveness and humility, tolerance and other-concern,<br />all supported by insightful understanding.<br />Looks like many but it&#039;s only one.</p><p>Start preparing! Now! Next year it may be too late.<br />Don&#039;t rely your hopes on your promised pensions.<br />They are only valid until the institutions transform.<br />Did Clinton care too much about robbing social security?<br />Neither will the corporations.</p><p>In essence, love and the rest are the only things that will be of any real value.<br />But superficially, land might be the best possession you might have,<br />as long as it is not somewhere likely to be appropriated.<br />Distance away from the cities is best,<br />for once the food supplies run scarce,<br />bandits will fan out into the countryside,<br />and the military will seek to control everything.</p><p>Not be tempted by conflict. There will already be enough of that.<br />Firing on others will only bring fire to your back.</p><br /><p>Don&#039;t you see it happening?</p><p>Thus, return to the mother earth.<br />Allow her fertile soils to nurture you.<br />Breathe in the fresh air, far from factories<br />Receive the glorious rays of father sun.</p><p>Thus will come the evolutionary bifurcation.<br />One line is destined to self-abort, as it is completely unsustainable.<br />The other line will emerge as the neo adam in the neo eden.</p><p>As all the prophecies say,<br />it is the beast, the machine, that, after reaping much lifeblood in the harvest at the end of the aeon,<br />will perish in destruction, as it vortexes half the earth into realms infernal.<br />Where there is creation there is certain to be destruction.<br />Where there is prolonged, unmitigated (pro-)creation,<br />there is certain to be equally widespread devastating destruction.</p><p>The pure lineage will also evolve,<br />although it will have no need for ugly machines to do so.<br />Cosmic rays, meditation, and a good heart,<br />nurtured by mother earth and her gifts,<br />will be all that is needed.<br />Behold, the spectacular display of cosmic evolution,<br />and witness the birds soar forth from the ashes of dinosaurs.</p><p>See you there, hopefully!</p><p>If you need me, I&#039;ll be up on the mountain,<br />barefoot and naked in the forest.</p><p>o.be.one.</p><br /><p>[*Details may vary, but the overall forecast is by consensus reliable.]</p>]]></content>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>That&#039;s old news here in Turkey. We have bird flu now! </p><p>Anyway, this will be exactly very interesting for Turkey. There are lots of people who don&#039;t like Iran and a lot of who don&#039;t like U.S. </p><p>Me? I dont care about both side. There&#039;s more important issues as I said - the news says nearly 17.000 birds are executed in Eastern Turkey because of bird flu thread and I really wonder if this is a way of these birds expressing their unwillingness to stay around here in 3D. Don&#039;t remember which one but I read in a channeling source that birds decided to leave - and was there a thread like that too here in NR?</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-01-07T20:41:11Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Don&#039;t give in to your fear.&nbsp; Think like Han Solo: &quot;Never tell me the odds!&quot;&nbsp; Their plans are like houses of cards.&nbsp; Blow them over.&nbsp; Visualize the cards falling.&nbsp; Intend them to fall with all of your being.&nbsp; Do what you can on all fronts, physical and non-physical.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-01-07T19:20:50Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m afraid that WorldWar3 in just around a corner <img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/yikes.png" width="15" height="15" alt="yikes" /></p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-01-06T22:09:38Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t know - we have been hearing this sort of thing for years now.&nbsp; I am not saying that an attack on Iran won&#039;t happen, rather that it won&#039;t lead to global conflict.&nbsp; But that said - the recpie with Iran, Russia and China is kinda unique this time around...</p><p>Either way - I suspect that eventually the US Gov. will overstep their bounds way too far and fall flat on their face.&nbsp; We will see what we see.&nbsp; This is just one of a number of aspects in our world and reality which seem to be esculating (sp) faster and faster...</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-01-03T21:42:29Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>If this happens, it could be the start of global war.</p><p><img src="https://forum.noblerealms.org/img/smilies/sad.png" width="15" height="15" alt="sad" /></p><p>Intelligence Indications and Warnings Abound as Bush Admin Finalizes Military Attack on Iran.</p><p>WayneMadsenReport.com<br />2006-01-03</p><p>Intelligence and military sources in the United States and abroad are reporting on various factors that indicate a U.S. military hit on Iranian nuclear and military installations, that may involve tactical nuclear weapons, is in the final stages of preparation. Likely targets for saturation bombing are the Bushehr nuclear power plant (where Russian and other foreign national technicians are present), a uranium mining site in Saghand near the city of Yazd, the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, a heavy water plant and radioisotope facility in Arak, the Ardekan Nuclear Fuel Unit, the Uranium Conversion Facility and Nuclear Technology Center in Isfahan, the Tehran Nuclear Research Center, the Tehran Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility, the Tehran Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories, the Kalaye Electric Company in the Tehran suburbs, a reportedly dismantled uranium enrichment plant in Lashkar Abad, and the Radioactive Waste Storage Units in Karaj and Anarak.</p><br /><br /><p>Primary target: Bushehr nuclear reactor and hundreds of Russian technicians</p><p>Other first targets would be Shahab-I, II, and III missile launch sites, air bases (including the large Mehrabad air base/international airport near Tehran), naval installations on the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea, command, control, communications and intelligence facilities. Secondary targets would include civilian airports, radio and TV installations, telecommunications centers, government buildings, conventional power plants, highways and bridges, and rail lines. Oil installations and commercial port facilities would likely be relatively untouched by U.S. forces in order to preserve them for U.S. oil and business interests.</p><p>There has been a rapid increase in training and readiness at a number of U.S. military installations involved with the planned primarily aerial attack. These include a Pentagon order to Fort Rucker, Alabama, to be prepared to handle an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 trainees, including civilian contractors, who will be deployed for Iranian combat operations. Rucker is home to the US Army&#039;s aviation training command, including the helicopter training school.</p><p>In addition, there has been an increase in readiness at nearby Hurlburt Field in Florida, the home of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command. The U.S. attack on Iran will primarily involve aviation (Navy, Air Force, Navy-Marine Corps) and special operations assets.</p><p>There has also been a noticeable increase in activity at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California, a primary live fire training activity located in a desert and mountainous environment similar to target areas in Iran.</p><p>From European intelligence agencies comes word that the United States has told its NATO allies to be prepared for a military strike on Iranian nuclear development and military installations.</p><p>On November 17, 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin spent seven hours in secret discussions with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the the opening ceremonies in Samsun, Turkey for the Russian-Turkish underwater Blue Stream natural gas pipeline, festivities also attended by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.</p><p>According to sources knowledgeable about the meeting, Erdogan promised Putin, who has become a close friend, that Turkey would not support the use of its bases by the United States in a military attack on Iran. That brought a series of high level visits to Turkey by Bush administration officials, including CIA chief Porter Goss, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.</p><p>Although Erdogan listened to Goss&#039;s and Rice&#039;s pleas for Turkish logistical, political, and intelligence help for an attack on Iran and Turkish Army Chief Yasar Buyukanit heard much the same from Pentagon officials during his recent trip to Washington, the word is that Putin now has enough clout in Ankara to scuttle any use of Turkey by the U.S. for an attack on Iran. [Mueller delivered Ankara intelligence &quot;proof&quot; of Iranian backing for Kurdish Workers&#039; Party (PKK) guerrillas in Turkey. Intelligence agencies and business intelligence units around the world are now discounting any intelligence coming from the Bush administration as neocon propaganda invented by think tanks and discredited intelligence agencies in Washington, Tel Aviv-Herzliya, and Jerusalem].</p><p>A U.S. Attack on Iran: The Perfect Storm for wider nuclear conflict</p><p>U.S. political and military officials have also approached Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, Oman, and Azerbaijan seeking their support for a U.S. attack on Iran. Ina replay of the phony pre-war intelligence on Iraq, Washington is trying to convince various countries that a link exists between Iran and &quot;Al Qaeda.&quot;</p><p>Polish intelligence sources report that Poland&#039;s Defense Minister Radek Sikorski assured Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of Poland&#039;s support for any U.S. strike against Iran. Sikorski is a former American Enterprise Institute colleague of such neo-cons as Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and Lynne Cheney, the so-called &quot;Second Lady&quot; of the United States. Sikorski and Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller assured Rumsfeld and Rice, respectively, that Poland would stand by the United States during the split in NATO that will occur as a result of the American strike. Polish intelligence sources, who are unhappy with the arrangement of the new right-wing government in Warsaw with the Bush administration, leaked the information about the recent U.S. demarche to NATO in Brussels about preparation for the attack.</p><p>Similar intelligence &quot;leaks&quot; about the U.S. attack plans were also leaked to the German magazine Der Spiegel.</p><p>European intelligence sources also report that the recent decision by Putin and Russia&#039;s state-owned Gazprom natural gas company to cut supplied of natural gas to Ukraine was a clear warning by Putin to nations like Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Moldova, France, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Bosnia, Serbia, and Germany that it would do the same if they support the U.S. attack on Iran. Gazprom natural gas is supplied, via pipelines in Ukraine, from Russia and Turkmenistan to countries in Eastern and Western Europe. The Bush administration charged Russia with using gas supplies as a &quot;political tool.&quot;</p><p>Putin has additional leverage on Western Europe since former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder accepted an appointment to the board of a joint Russian-German North European Gas Pipeline Consortium that is controlled by Gazprom. The pipeline will bring Russian gas to Scandinavia, Germany, Netherlands, and Britain, giving Putin additional leverage over Washington in Europe.</p><p>Southeast Asian intelligence sources report that Burma&#039;s (Myanmar&#039;s) recent abrupt decision to move its capital from Rangoon (Yangon) to remote Pyinmana, 200 miles to the north, is a result of Chinese intelligence warnings to its Burmese allies about the effects of radiation resulting from a U.S. conventional or tactical nuclear attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is concern that a series of attacks on Iranian nuclear installations will create a Chernobyl-like radioactive cloud that would be caught up in monsoon weather in the Indian Ocean.</p><br /><br /><p>Rangoon (Yangon) capital moved 200 miles north over fears of monsoon season Iran nuclear fallout?</p><p>Low-lying Rangoon lies in the path of monsoon rains that would continue to carry radioactive fallout from Iran over South and Southeast Asia between May and October. Coastal Indian Ocean cities like Rangoon, Dhaka, Calcutta, Mumbai, Chennai, and Colombo would be affected by the radioactive fallout more than higher elevation cities since humidity intensifies the effects of the fallout. Thousands of government workers were given only two days&#039; notice to pack up and leave Rangoon for the higher (and dryer) mountainous Pyinmana.</p><p>In neighboring West Bengal, the leftist government and its national leftist allies around the country are planning massive demonstrations during Bush&#039;s upcoming trip to India. They are protesting the war in Iraq as well as the threats against Iran.</p><p>Reports from Yemen indicate that western oil companies are concerned about U.S. intentions in Iran since the southern Arabian country catches the edge of the monsoon rains that could contain radioactive fallout from an attack, endangering their workers in the country.</p><p>The Bush administration aborted last minute plans to attack Iranian nuclear and political installations prior to the 2004 presidential election. On October 9, Rumsfeld met with defense minister colleagues on the now decommissioned USS John F. Kennedy in the Persian Gulf to seek support for the attack. That meeting has been confirmed by the Danish Defense Minister who was in attendance, however, the topic of the meeting was not discussed. According to U.S. naval personnel on board the Kennedy, a special &quot;war room&quot; was set up to coordinate the attack. Britain, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan did not attend the meeting because of their opposition to the attack plans.</p><p>Intelligence and military officials around the world are also bracing for the results of a U.S. attack on Iran. This includes the distinct possibility of a major Shia retaliatory attack in Iraq, the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Afghanistan against U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic targets in the region. Radioactive fallout from a conventional or tactical nuclear attack on Iran will result in major problems with Pakistan, India, China, Russia, Japan, and other downwind countries in Asia and the Pacific Rim, possibly including the fall of the Pervez Musharraf government in Pakistan and replacement by a radical Islamist regime having possession of nuclear weapons. That would provoke a military response from nuclear power India.</p><p>In a counter-attack, Iran would immediately launch its Shahab I and II missiles at the U.S. Green Zone in Baghdad, the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, the US Navy base in Bahrain, Camp Doha base in Kuwait, Al Seeb airbase in Oman, Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Iran would also launch its long-range Shahab III missiles on the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheba, Eilat, and the Israeli nuclear complex at Dimona. Iranian missiles would also be launched at US naval ships in the Persian Gulf and oil installations in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.</p><p>The virtual end of NATO as a viable defense organization may also result from an attack that will drive a final wedge between Washington and Europe. And China may elect to respond financially and militarily against the United States since Iran is China&#039;s second largest source of imported Middle East oil after Saudi Arabia and plans to use an Iranian terminal for the export of natural gas from Turkmenistan. [China now imports 60 percent of its oil needs, and Iran represents 17 percent of those imports].</p><p>Russia recently participated in, through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a three-way military exercise (code named &quot;Indira 2005&quot;) between Russia, China, and India to prepare for any new U.S. power projections in Asia, including an attack on Iran, a prospective SCO member. Last August, Russia and China held their first-ever joint land-sea-air military exercises.</p><p>Iran also held a large military exercise in early December in Bandar Abbas on the Gulf. An Iranian C-130 carrying Iranian journalists from Mehrabad airport to Bandar to cover the exercise crashed into a Tehran apartment building on December 6, killing at least 116 people, including 68 journalists.</p><p>Within the U.S. military and across the globe, there is heightened tension about the intentions of the neocon Bush administration and its allies in Israel.</p>]]></content>
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