INTL US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups (Update Post #1306)

jward

passin' thru
Francisco Poleo
@FranciscoPoleoR

Things are moving fast in Venezuela.

Donald Trump sent an envoy to Caracas today — John McNamara — to meet with Delcy Rodríguez. Diplomatic relations are expected to be restored in the coming days.

Trump confirmed he has suspended the second wave of attacks after Venezuela began releasing political prisoners,
even if the process has moved more slowly than anticipated. The fact that a second wave was explicitly on the table helps explain the sudden urgency in Caracas and the interim regime’s willingness to comply. Trump also made clear that the U.S. fleet will remain stationed in the Caribbean.

Today, Trump is set to meet with seventeen oil companies to discuss future investments in Venezuela, with two envoys from the Venezuelan interim regime expected to attend.

In a notable shift, and a clear win for the opposition, Trump said he may receive Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado next week, after having said just days ago that she lacked the authority to lead a transition.


At the same time, Delcy Rodríguez is seeking an audience with Trump at the White House. The request is being conveyed through Richard Grenell, president of the Trump Kennedy Center, who is close to her brother Jorge, the head of the Venezuelan parliament.
 

jward

passin' thru
:hmm:
The SCIF
@TheSCIF

Former Nicolás Maduro security guard delivers a firsthand account of the advance technology used in the U.S. raid in Venezuela. State-of-the-art drones, massive firepower, but the Direct Energy Weapons were the most terrifying.

20 elite American soldiers, armed with cutting-edge technology, dismantled defenses and neutralized hundreds without a single casualty on their side. This isn't just a story of victory—it's a masterclass in modern warfare supremacy.

The Americans arrived undetected, Advanced electronic warfare systems completely disabled Venezuelan radars and other equipment.

Drones struck with lightning speed, obliterating bases and outpacing any counter-response. The guard notes Venezuela had "no technology to fight against drones," highlighting the asymmetric edge of U.S. unmanned aerial systems.

Most interesting, was the mention of Direct Energy Weapons, causing immediate incapacitation, with victims bleeding from ears, nose, and mouth.

This matches the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) or emerging directed-energy systems like the Active Denial System (ADS). and other electromagnetic and acoustic weaponry. If you follow me, this is nothing new and a taste of what we really have and are capable of.

The result? 20 operators vs. hundreds, equaling total domination.

"You think you can fight Americans? You don't even know what their weaponry is like." With President Trump eyeing Mexico's cartels next—"You're on the list too"

Don't FAFO with the USA!

rt 2m
View: https://twitter.com/TheSCIF/status/2009732400520077338?s=20
 

jward

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Joankelin Sánchez.
@joankelincuba
1h
Translated from Spanish

Once again..planes near Cuba.

For the second consecutive day;
Flightradar24 tracks the route of a plane (US Navy) BANDT72, training near the Cuban coasts. This time it was a route
heading toward the Cuban capital.
#Cuba heading toward its freedom... God bless America..
View: https://twitter.com/joankelincuba/status/2009792218869952529?s=20




George
@BehizyTweets
1h

BREAKING: President Trump has deployed drug enforcement agents to Bolivia to begin surveillance of major coca farms, the prime ingredient for cocaine.

U.S. officials and agents flew over Chapare, Bolivia’s main cocaine-producing area. The reconnaissance flight aimed to identify clandestine airstrips and drug labs.


Bolivia's Deputy Social Defense Minister Ernesto Justiniano said the mission could pave the way for a cooperation agreement, “We need it urgently... our resources are miserable.”

The DEA was previously expelled from Bolivia in 2008 by its then leftist president, Evo Morales, but the recently elected Trump-aligned president, Rodrigo Paz, has reversed course, seeking economic and security cooperation with the United States.

The cartels are well and truly COOKED. The Western Hemisphere is about to be safer than ever.
 

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
Ma'am, I hope you have retreated to your bed by now. Remember, we're in a marathon, not a sprint, and regular exposure to sleep is a REQUIREMENT for us who stand on the Wall and observe for the rest.


(Lest you consider my comment as one of a Pot--->Kettle thing, this is my second shift, having crashed around 8, and crawled out to get my meds)

(Ta Ta for now)
 

jward

passin' thru
aww I thankee for the concern- but I got most of my almost month long vaca w/o interruption, and tween that, n coming home after dinner instead of going out to dance, I'm actually very well rested and remarkably unrushed, for once.
..and yes, I was dreaming of sugar plums all snug in my bed by the time u inquired... n was multi-task shopping/on phone/posting news instead of tackling anything strenuous earlier that evening

You see YOU keep yourself well rested, too!
- I mean, please, and thank you. : )

Ma'am, I hope you have retreated to your bed by now. Remember, we're in a marathon, not a sprint, and regular exposure to sleep is a REQUIREMENT for us who stand on the Wall and observe for the rest.


(Lest you consider my comment as one of a Pot--->Kettle thing, this is my second shift, having crashed around 8, and crawled out to get my meds)

(Ta Ta for now)
 

jward

passin' thru
Ann Vandersteel™️
@annvandersteel
Folks something significant is happening right now and the reaction from global leaders tells the story.

European heads of state are openly warning that the rules based international order is unraveling. What they are really reacting to is the United States reasserting its independence after decades of being bound to systems that diluted our authority and sovereignty.

The White House has now issued a memorandum pursuant to Executive Order 14199 directing federal agencies to withdraw the United States from dozens of international organizations conventions and treaties that no longer serve the interests of the American people. This follows the broader Defund Act effort which required a full review of where our money power and influence have been flowing for years.

This is a course correction. American taxpayer dollars are no longer being automatically routed into international bodies that operate without accountability and routinely push policies that undermine our constitutional framework. Decision making authority is returning home where it belongs.

This shift is about restoration of our republic. A sovereign nation governs itself. It does not outsource its laws its economy or its moral authority to unelected global institutions.

The same principle applies to what is unfolding in Venezuela. There is a deliberate effort to mischaracterize recent actions as regime change or imperial expansion. That framing misses the real objective.


Venezuela has long functioned as a major financial and logistical hub for transnational criminal networks tied into a larger global banking and laundering system. Those networks have helped fund destabilization operations narcotics trafficking and shadow finance pipelines that serve interests far beyond Venezuela itself. (Think Smartmatic, Dominion, Maduro / Chavez and CIA doing color revolutions in 72 countries over last 20 years, including here in the U.S.)

Disrupting that apparatus strikes at one of the financial engines that has supported the New World Order system for years. Weakening those channels limits the ability of non state and supranational actors to move money influence and power across borders without consequence.

This moment is about reestablishing lawful order rooted in national sovereignty. It is about restoring constitutional governance and ending the era where America was expected to bankroll and obey systems designed by others.

The anxiety coming from global elites is revealing. Power is shifting back to the people through their nation states. Change is happening....

The republic is reasserting itself and the world is adjusting to that reality.
 

jward

passin' thru
:hmm:
The SCIF
@TheSCIF

Former Nicolás Maduro security guard delivers a firsthand account of the advance technology used in the U.S. raid in Venezuela. State-of-the-art drones, massive firepower, but the Direct Energy Weapons were the most terrifying.

20 elite American soldiers, armed with cutting-edge technology, dismantled defenses and neutralized hundreds without a single casualty on their side. This isn't just a story of victory—it's a masterclass in modern warfare supremacy.

The Americans arrived undetected, Advanced electronic warfare systems completely disabled Venezuelan radars and other equipment.

Drones struck with lightning speed, obliterating bases and outpacing any counter-response. The guard notes Venezuela had "no technology to fight against drones," highlighting the asymmetric edge of U.S. unmanned aerial systems.

Most interesting, was the mention of Direct Energy Weapons, causing immediate incapacitation, with victims bleeding from ears, nose, and mouth.

This matches the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) or emerging directed-energy systems like the Active Denial System (ADS). and other electromagnetic and acoustic weaponry. If you follow me, this is nothing new and a taste of what we really have and are capable of.

The result? 20 operators vs. hundreds, equaling total domination.

"You think you can fight Americans? You don't even know what their weaponry is like." With President Trump eyeing Mexico's cartels next—"You're on the list too"

Don't FAFO with the USA!

rt 2m
View: https://twitter.com/TheSCIF/status/2009732400520077338?s=20
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
1h

NEW: Peter Doocy shows footage of himself being hit by an ‘Active Denial System,’ similar to what was allegedly used during Maduro’s capture.

According to an alleged witness account, Venezuelan soldiers started bleeding through the nose and vomiting during the capture.

“At one point, they launched something; I don’t know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,” a guard reportedly said.

“We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was…”

“We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
View: https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/2010432002877686077?s=20
 

jward

passin' thru
IS CUBA NEXT?? :hmm: Narrative shift suggests it could well be
Francisco Poleo
@FranciscoPoleoR
6h

So many things to consider in this post by Trump:

•Cuba sustained itself for years with Venezuelan oil and cash. In exchange, Cuba provided security and intelligence services to Venezuela’s last two dictators. That arrangement is over.
•Many Cuban security personnel in Venezuela were killed in a recent U.S. attack.
•Venezuela no longer relies on Cuban protection. The United States is now positioned as Venezuela’s security guarantor. The U.S. military is committed to protecting Venezuela.
•All Venezuelan oil and money flows to Cuba are to be cut off entirely.
•Cuba is urged to negotiate a deal before conditions worsen.
View: https://twitter.com/FranciscoPoleoR/status/2010352543491104799?s=20
 

jward

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Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman

BREAKING: Our enemies are LOSING THEIR MINDS!

President Trump just SLASHED oil and cash flows to communist Cuba, massive FAFO in full effect!

With Maduro GONE, Cuba is next on the chopping block. Another China puppet about to CRUMBLE!

The Iranian mullahs are already on the ropes, bleeding, desperate, and terrified.

This is what REAL America First looks like: crushing tyrants, starving dictators, and watching the dominoes fall!
View: https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2010347910056095857?s=20
 

jward

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Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez
@RepCarlos

I was born in Cuba & forced from home shortly after the Communist takeover.

Today, I represent my community in Congress.

Thank you, President Trump, first Venezuela & next is Cuba. We will be forever grateful.

Our hemisphere must be the hemisphere of liberty!
Francisco Poleo
@FranciscoPoleoR
6h

So many things to consider in this post by Trump:

•Cuba sustained itself for years with Venezuelan oil and cash. In exchange, Cuba provided security and intelligence services to Venezuela’s last two dictators. That arrangement is over.
•Many Cuban security personnel in Venezuela were killed in a recent U.S. attack.
•Venezuela no longer relies on Cuban protection. The United States is now positioned as Venezuela’s security guarantor. The U.S. military is committed to protecting Venezuela.
•All Venezuelan oil and money flows to Cuba are to be cut off entirely.
•Cuba is urged to negotiate a deal before conditions worsen.
View: https://twitter.com/FranciscoPoleoR/status/2010352543491104799?s=20
 

KFhunter

You have insufficient privileges to reply here
:hmm:
The SCIF
@TheSCIF

Former Nicolás Maduro security guard delivers a firsthand account of the advance technology used in the U.S. raid in Venezuela. State-of-the-art drones, massive firepower, but the Direct Energy Weapons were the most terrifying.

20 elite American soldiers, armed with cutting-edge technology, dismantled defenses and neutralized hundreds without a single casualty on their side. This isn't just a story of victory—it's a masterclass in modern warfare supremacy.

The Americans arrived undetected, Advanced electronic warfare systems completely disabled Venezuelan radars and other equipment.

Drones struck with lightning speed, obliterating bases and outpacing any counter-response. The guard notes Venezuela had "no technology to fight against drones," highlighting the asymmetric edge of U.S. unmanned aerial systems.

Most interesting, was the mention of Direct Energy Weapons, causing immediate incapacitation, with victims bleeding from ears, nose, and mouth.

This matches the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) or emerging directed-energy systems like the Active Denial System (ADS). and other electromagnetic and acoustic weaponry. If you follow me, this is nothing new and a taste of what we really have and are capable of.

The result? 20 operators vs. hundreds, equaling total domination.

"You think you can fight Americans? You don't even know what their weaponry is like." With President Trump eyeing Mexico's cartels next—"You're on the list too"

Don't FAFO with the USA!

rt 2m
View: https://twitter.com/TheSCIF/status/2009732400520077338?s=20

Put these in ICE vans?
 

Knoxville's Joker

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Well maybe wait till our war with the cartels gets going good n hot on our own streets eh?
...might now be a case of "too soon" LOL
These directed energy weapons have longer term health consequences. Not a liability the government wants to face domestically if widely used.

We have to be in full on revolt before the benefits of use outweigh the liabilities of use.
 

jward

passin' thru
SightBringer
@_The_Prophet__
⚡️Trump just pulled the pin on the Monroe Doctrine’s final phase.

This is imperial realignment in full view. No covert ops. No deniable interference. This is a hard declaration of hemispheric order backed by kinetic leverage and energy control. It signals not just dominance, but ownership. Venezuela isn’t being supported. It’s being folded in. Cuba isn’t being sanctioned. It’s being starved.

The language is apocalyptic by design. “ZERO.” “TOO LATE.” It doesn’t negotiate. It eliminates options. This wasn’t written for Cuba or Venezuela. It was written for everyone watching. Brazil. Argentina. Nicaragua. Mexico. It draws a new perimeter of control and makes clear that Trump sees any remaining leftist proxy structures in the Americas as living fossils.

He’s saying the empire is back and the leash is short.

He’s collapsing old illusions - of non-aligned states, of ideological coexistence, of multipolarity within the hemisphere. This is hemispheric unipolarism by force. It also sends a signal to external actors. Iran’s push through Latin America, China’s Belt and Road footholds, Russian trade routes - none of them are safe anymore. He’s not defending the Western Hemisphere.

He’s reclaiming it.

Trump is asserting that the U.S. military is the new social contract. That protection from thugs and internal predators now flows through alignment with the American security grid. Sovereignty now has conditions. Regimes that resist will be isolated, bled, or replaced.

This is map redrawing with oil as ink and force as pen.

Every move now operates under this gravity:
•Kill the Cuban intelligence export network.
•Collapse Venezuela’s dependency shell.
•Freeze out third-party footholds.
•Reassert narrative control over hemispheric legitimacy.

This is how 21st-century empires act. Not by invasion, but by removing the oxygen from rival ecosystems. By enforcing alliance through resource monopolization. By making sovereignty contingent on loyalty.

This post was a funeral for Latin Marxism.

And it was the opening shot of a re-Americanized hemisphere.
 

jward

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Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
5h

Page 174 and Update -

"The Venezuelan computer engineers didn't need software advice from Cuba. But Cuban experts helped the Venezuelan engineers to develop the election fraud system.

Specifically when it came time to build the poll books, Cuban intelligence agents sent out ten man teams with one Venezuelan to every province in the county (America).

Why are poll books important? They allow for the infusion of new voters, modification of data, or the possibility of identity theft. With poll books you can perform an analysis of voters' behavior and participation rates. Poll books facilitate the projection of needed numbers of mail-in ballots to tip an election, the preparation of substitute ballots, and allow observation of the behavior of voters in real time."
View: https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/2010390660692475904?s=20
 

jward

passin' thru
I dunno if this is at all true, but it's the kinda story that makes for good myths bout a man destined to have dozens built round him!

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86
“I will someday lead an army of exiles to overthrow Castro and become president of a free Cuba.”

Marco Rubio, age 12. His grandfather’s porch in Miami.

He wrote that in his 2012 memoir. Not rhetoric. A childhood vow, documented.

Today, Trump endorsed making it real.

Last week, 32 Cuban officers died in Rubio’s operation to capture Maduro.

Cuba has 4 days of oil.

Four days.

Every analyst is modeling this as foreign policy.

Wrong framework.

This is biography.

There is no interagency process for destiny.

There is no diplomatic off-ramp for a vow a man made to himself 50 years ago.

He’s not analyzing Cuba.

He’s completing himself.

February.
View: https://twitter.com/shanaka86/status/2010341529374851359?s=20
 

jward

passin' thru
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
·
3h
U.S. President Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he might block Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company in the United States, from investing in Venezuela after the company’s CEO called the country “uninvestable” during a White House meeting with oil executives last week, according to Reuters. “I didn't like Exxon's response,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to Washington on Sunday. “I'll probably be inclined to keep Exxon out. I didn't like their response. They're playing too cute.”
 

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
UHN Plus
@UHN_Plus
3h

Translated from Spanish
‼️ | Donald Trump announces that the United States is in direct talks with Cuba and promises to reveal the details soon, while assuring that he will especially protect the Cubans who were forced into exile and are now outstanding citizens.
rt 44
View: https://twitter.com/UHN_Plus/status/2010538838649680142?s=20

If correct things are definitely going to get "interesting"......
 

jward

passin' thru
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
·
1h
This is what many don’t realize, even if Maduro had made a deal with the Trump Administration - and I’m not saying he didn’t because there is still a lot of questions that need to be answered - him leaving Venezuela would still have likely required an operation similar to what see saw Saturday with the 160th and Delta Force. These Cubans weren’t just Maduro’s security, but also his handlers, if it looked like he was planning to flee the country or make a deal, he and his wife could have been killed by them under orders from Havana, Beijing and/or Moscow.
Empalados
@empaladosok
11h

Translated from Spanish
"The Cubans who were guarding Nicolás Maduro had a mission if the United States appeared: KILL HIM SO HE DOESN'T TALK. That's why the speed of the Delta Force attack and the type of weapon that immediately neutralized them"

-Ruckauf on the role of the Cuban guard in Venezuela.
rt <2m
View: https://twitter.com/empaladosok/status/2010679400891859290?s=20
 

jward

passin' thru
:hmm:
The SCIF
@TheSCIF

Former Nicolás Maduro security guard delivers a firsthand account of the advance technology used in the U.S. raid in Venezuela. State-of-the-art drones, massive firepower, but the Direct Energy Weapons were the most terrifying.

20 elite American soldiers, armed with cutting-edge technology, dismantled defenses and neutralized hundreds without a single casualty on their side. This isn't just a story of victory—it's a masterclass in modern warfare supremacy.

The Americans arrived undetected, Advanced electronic warfare systems completely disabled Venezuelan radars and other equipment.

Drones struck with lightning speed, obliterating bases and outpacing any counter-response. The guard notes Venezuela had "no technology to fight against drones," highlighting the asymmetric edge of U.S. unmanned aerial systems.

Most interesting, was the mention of Direct Energy Weapons, causing immediate incapacitation, with victims bleeding from ears, nose, and mouth.

This matches the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) or emerging directed-energy systems like the Active Denial System (ADS). and other electromagnetic and acoustic weaponry. If you follow me, this is nothing new and a taste of what we really have and are capable of.

The result? 20 operators vs. hundreds, equaling total domination.

"You think you can fight Americans? You don't even know what their weaponry is like." With President Trump eyeing Mexico's cartels next—"You're on the list too"

Don't FAFO with the USA!

rt 2m
View: https://twitter.com/TheSCIF/status/2009732400520077338?s=20
I'm so old I remember when they told us it was just crickets that caused those Havana Syndrome-type symptoms :eek:

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
BREAKING:

The intelligence expert and Sasha Ingber writes that that the U.S. has captured a device believed to be linked to Havana Syndrome.

She writes that 4 sources (including two familiar with U.S. special operations) have informed her that the U.S. acquired the weapon "a number of months ago" during a raid by U.S. Special Forces in an unspecified operation.

The device is now allegedly in the hands of the Defense Department's Intelligence & Security unit.

Some Venezuelan soldiers have claimed that they experienced Havana Syndrome-like symptoms during the U.S. raid to capture Maduro.

It has long been speculated that the Havana Syndrome could be caused by some type of new directed-energy weapon (e.g., pulsed radiofrequency/microwave or acoustic energy) that could be gun-like and transportable.
View: https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/2010890641660858547?s=20
 

joannita

Veteran Member
Some Cubans suspect the number of Cuban guards killed trying to protect Maduro was in the neighborhood of 100, and say there were many who were injured, including guards who sustained burns. We will probably never know for sure..,
 

jward

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Agustín Antonetti
@agusantonetti
4h
Translated from Spanish
This is incredible. Delcy Rodríguez met in Caracas with the CIA director, John Ratcliffe.

In case anyone still had any doubts about who handed Maduro over.
View: https://twitter.com/agusantonetti/status/2012210985000468749?s=20




Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
3h

NOW - Trump says he will work with remnants of the Maduro regime so Venezuela does not turn into Iraq.
rt 44
 

jward

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DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
8h

NEVER BEFORE SEEN VIDEO of Maria Machado’s rescue from Venezuela before Maduro was captured.

She was secretly smuggled through guarded checkpoints by a Tampa-based nonprofit group of Special Operations Veterans called @greybullrescue
in Operation Golden Dynamite.

If Maduro’s guards spotted her, she could’ve been killed.

She was then brought to Oslo to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in person, which she’s now given to President Trump.

What an INCREDIBLE story of American skill, strength, and purpose.

God bless the Veteran heroes at @greybullrescue
and I hope y’all support them (QR code at end of video).

These Veterans absolutely deserve public praise for what they accomplished!!
rt 2m
View: https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/2012156628879953963?s=20
 

jward

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ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump
@BarronTNews_

Commentary account
WOW. María Corina Machado just STUNNED THE WORLD with what she told President Donald Trump as the reason for gifting him the Nobel medal.

“I told President Trump that 200 years ago General La Fayette gave Simón Bolívar a medal with the face of George Washington. Two hundred years later, we Venezuelans give President Trump the Nobel medal in return.”

Read that again.

History. Respect. Strength. America is respected again.
rt 1
View: https://twitter.com/BarronTNews_/status/2012143879785480458?s=20
 

jward

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Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
1h

VENEZUELA SAYS 47 SOLDIERS DIED IN U.S. RAID THAT TOOK MADURO

Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino says 47 of their soldiers were killed in the U.S. hit on Caracas that took Maduro, including 9 women.

That’s the first time they broke down the military deaths. Last week they just said 100 people died total.

Cuba says 32 of their troops were also killed in the same clash on January 3.

Their bodies were flown back yesterday.

Source: Reuters
 

summerthyme

Administrator
_______________
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
·
3h
U.S. President Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he might block Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company in the United States, from investing in Venezuela after the company’s CEO called the country “uninvestable” during a White House meeting with oil executives last week, according to Reuters. “I didn't like Exxon's response,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to Washington on Sunday. “I'll probably be inclined to keep Exxon out. I didn't like their response. They're playing too cute.”
Wait until he finds out that Mexico nationalized (read: stole) a 3 Billion dollar farm from Amway...

(It happened in 2022, but a court just ruled it legal...

Summerthyme
 
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