Nervous Bystanders,
Celia Farber: Israel Launches Missile Attack On Iran, Revolutionary Guard Chief, Military Chief, Nuclear Scientists, Civilians Among The Dead: Israel In Lockdown, Netanyahu Family Heads For Bunker
Rubio: "We Are Not Involved In Strikes Against Iran....Iran Should Not Target US Interests." Lindsey Graham Tweets: "Game On. Pray For Israel." Documentary On Iran's History & British Empire At Bottom https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/israel-launches-missile-attack-onWell, Duh: Iran Warns They'll Strike Israel's Nuclear Sites If their Own Are Attacked https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64949
White House envoy Steve Witkoff has privately warned top Senate Republicans that Iran's retaliation to an Israeli strike on its nuclear program "could overwhelm Israel's defenses and cause mass damage and casualties," Axios reports. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-fears-iranian-response-attack-could-overwhelm-israeli-air-defense
Unprovoked Israeli attack is called "war erupting": Iran's IRGC Chief Salami Killed In Major Israeli Attack As War Erupting
Israel confirms it has launched 'Operation Rising Lion' - which importantly Netanyahu in a televised address said "will continue for as many days" until the Iranian 'nuclear threat' is removed, and "as long as necessary". https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israel-launches-airstrikes-tehran-stock-futures-plunge-oil-and-gold-soar
Fresh reporting as well as new Friday statements by President Trump reveal that the US and Israel practiced deceptive diplomacy, as Israeli and American officials worked together to convince Iran that nuclear negotiations were progressing.
Yet all the while an elaborate Israel attack on Iranian nuclear sites was being planned, and Tehran was given a false sense of security, and ill-prepared for its defense.
Axios has reported that Tel Aviv was given "a clear US green light" to start bombing, according to two unnamed Israeli officials. The previously widely reported 'split' and spat between Trump and Netanyahu was a public ruse. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-israeli-deception-gave-iran-false-security-washington-gave-green-light
Yet all the while an elaborate Israel attack on Iranian nuclear sites was being planned, and Tehran was given a false sense of security, and ill-prepared for its defense.
Axios has reported that Tel Aviv was given "a clear US green light" to start bombing, according to two unnamed Israeli officials. The previously widely reported 'split' and spat between Trump and Netanyahu was a public ruse. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-israeli-deception-gave-iran-false-security-washington-gave-green-light
Just before the attack started, Netanhau survived by one vote: Netanyahu survives coalition collapse, strikes deal with ultra-Orthodox partners
Ultra-orthodox parties pushed for the dissolution of the ruling coalition up until an agreement was reached to exempt Yeshiva students from military conscription https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-survives-coalition-collapse-strikes-deal-ultra-orthodox Simplicius, SPECIAL BULLETIN: Israel Launches Major Strikes on Iran
The Israeli rogue state added another of its neighbors to the long list of regional nations it is currently bombing. From Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, international waters, and now Iran—Israel now bombs them all with impunity while crying out about its own ‘security’. The attacks are reportedly just the first stage of a long wave of aggression that will span days or weeks according to announcements from top officials:
NETANYAHU: WE ARE AT A DECISIVE MOMENT IN ISRAEL'S HISTORY NETANYAHU: ATTACKING IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, BALLISTIC MISSILES *NETANYAHU: STRIKES WILL LAST UNTIL THREAT REMOVED ...
..Hebrew sources: Air force attacks on Iran are divided into three main missions:
The nuclear project
Destruction of missile launch platforms
Elimination of senior regime officials
Israeli news:
Israeli Channel 14 citing an Israeli official: "We have a long and broad offensive plan for the days ahead - complex days lie ahead. The Iranians will respond, if the public is disciplined, there will be few casualties. We are at war." ...
..Netanyahu’s failures in Gaza had compelled him to act, as he saw his chances slipping away. It therefore does not surprise me that Israeli officials are now characterizing the beginning of this war as a critical juncture in the history of Israel. Netanyahu called it the ‘decisive moment in Israeli history’...The nuclear project
Destruction of missile launch platforms
Elimination of senior regime officials
Israeli news:
Israeli Channel 14 citing an Israeli official: "We have a long and broad offensive plan for the days ahead - complex days lie ahead. The Iranians will respond, if the public is disciplined, there will be few casualties. We are at war." ...
..We’ll have to wait and see if Iran mounts a response and how well-calculated or not it may be. We know Iran is risk-averse and did not want escalation, but at this point Israel has pushed it into a necessity to act or lose much deterrence credibility. The only question is whether Iran does another “show” strike to demonstrate its wrath, which does limited damage and seeks to signal de-escalation, or will Iran actually ‘go for the jugular’?
Israel-Iran live updates: Trump says it's unclear if Iran still has a nuclear program as Israel continues attack
Israel strikes Iranian nuclear facilities and kills top military commanders
Some 200 fighter jets took part in the strikes, the Israeli military says
Iran promises harsh response
U.S. President Donald Trump says unclear whether Iran still has nuclear program https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/live-updates-israel-hits-iran-nuclear-facilities-missile-factories-2025-06-13/
Iranian revenge will be served cold; just some drone attacks so far: Iran Vows To Continue Nuclear Activities Amid Threat Of More Israeli Strikes https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/over-200-israeli-warplanes-used-against-iran-trump-warns-even-more-brutal-attacks
Israeli Forces Slaughter 120 Palestinians in Gaza, Including Dozens Near Aid Site
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, 57 aid seekers were killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/11/israeli-forces-slaughter-120-palestinians-in-gaza-including-dozens-near-aid-site/
Israel’s interception of Gaza aid ship ‘violation of international law’: Amnesty https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250609-israels-interception-of-gaza-aid-ship-violation-of-international-law-amnesty/
Israel places two activists from Gaza-bound aid ship in solitary confinement
Israeli rights group Adalah says Brazilian volunteer Thiago Avila and French-Palestinian European Parliament member Rima Hassan were separated from others and kept in solitary confinement. https://trt.global/world/article/937e4a66e67a
Israel Deports Greta Thunberg, Eight Gaza Aid Flotilla Activists Remain Detained
Thunberg said she and the rest of the crew of the Madleen were 'illegally attacked and kidnapped by Israel' https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/10/israel-deports-greta-thunberg-eight-gaza-aid-flotilla-activists-remain-detained/
Israel Cuts Gaza's Internet Amid Soaring IDF Atrocities https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-cuts-gazas-internet-amid-soaring
Some 200 fighter jets took part in the strikes, the Israeli military says
Iran promises harsh response
U.S. President Donald Trump says unclear whether Iran still has nuclear program https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/live-updates-israel-hits-iran-nuclear-facilities-missile-factories-2025-06-13/
Caitlin Johnstone, After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-denying-massacring-civilians
According to Gaza's Health Ministry, 57 aid seekers were killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/11/israeli-forces-slaughter-120-palestinians-in-gaza-including-dozens-near-aid-site/
Caitlin Johnstone, Sky News Smears Greta Thunberg As A Nazi To Justify IDF Attack https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/sky-news-smears-greta-thunberg-as
Israeli rights group Adalah says Brazilian volunteer Thiago Avila and French-Palestinian European Parliament member Rima Hassan were separated from others and kept in solitary confinement. https://trt.global/world/article/937e4a66e67a
Thunberg said she and the rest of the crew of the Madleen were 'illegally attacked and kidnapped by Israel' https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/10/israel-deports-greta-thunberg-eight-gaza-aid-flotilla-activists-remain-detained/
Palestinian Authority Says Internet Down in Gaza After Attack on Fibre Optic Cable https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5153604-palestinian-authority-says-internet-down-gaza-after-attack-fibre-optic-cable
Israel Commits ‘Extermination’ in Gaza by Killing in Schools, UN Experts Say https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5152713-israel-commits-%E2%80%98extermination%E2%80%99-gaza-killing-schools-un-experts-say%C2%A0
Israeli bombing in Gaza ‘worse than ever’: UK doctor after latest mission
Victoria Rose, who has returned from her third humanitarian visit, recalls treating injuries that appeared to be ‘from the heart’ of explosions. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/9/british-surgeon-israeli-bombing-far-more-direct-hits-on-people-in-gaza
41 Israeli army personnel renounce military service, call Gaza carnage 'Netanyahu's survival war'
Forty-one Israeli soldiers have announced that they will not continue their military service, describing the ongoing genocide in besieged Gaza as a war fought to protect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political survival rather than to secure Israel or rescue hostages.
The soldiers from Israel's intelligence and cyber warfare units sent a signed letter on Tuesday to Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and other Cabinet members expressing their refusal. https://trt.global/world/article/0519c2727613
Report: Mike Huckabee Working To Keep Netanyahu in Power
The US ambassador has met with Israeli MKs who are threatening to dissolve the government over the lack of a haredi draft exemption https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/09/report-mike-huckabee-working-to-keep-netanyahu-in-power/
Over 300 UK Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning if they disagree with government's Gaza policy
Also bolstering Netanyahu: Canada, along with Australia, Norway, and UK, sanctions far-right Israeli Cabinet ministers
Trump Pressed Netanyahu To 'Permanently End Gaza War' In Phone Call
Israeli Navy Conducts Major Strikes On Houthi-Controlled Port For 1st Time
Iran publishes classified documents on Israel nuclear site https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250611-iran-publishes-classified-documents-on-israel-nuclear-site/
Putin spoke first at a meeting with government officials, but he didn’t refer to the airbase attack. Instead, it was one of the “criminal provocations”, as Lavrov said to Putin at the meeting – terrorist actions as other officials said. The Russian position would be not to make explicit the strategic consequences, and as Lavrov said, “not to fall into the trap of these provocations, which are clearly designed to derail the talks and continue arms deliveries from European nations.”
Nothing has followed from Rubio.
On June 3, Trump’s representative for the end-of-war negotiations, Keith Kellogg, was told to say on television that there had been a “[nuclear] triad attack” and that the rising “risk levels…are to me basically unacceptable.”
The next day Trump and Putin spoke by telephone. Trump acknowledged that “we discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides. It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace. President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.” https://johnhelmer.net/tell-and-consequences-is-not-a-war-game-neither-is-turn-the-other-cheek/#more-91810
The Hungarian government has launched a legal challenge against the European Commission’s decision to impose a daily €1 million fine over the country’s refusal to accept illegal migrants. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungary-sues-european-commission-over-eu1-million-day-migrant-fine
TEXAS LEGISLATURE JOINS GROWING MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REJECTION OF GLOBAL CURRENCY AGENDA
Transactional Gold and Silver Can Trump Central Bank Digital Currency Tyranny (No "capital gains" tax on $ devaluation against gold) https://sovereignty.substack.com/p/texas-legislature-joins-growing-movement
FBI Arrests Suspected NGO Face-Shield Foot Soldier In L.A. Riots
FBI's Patel Probes Far-Left NGOs Funding Anti-ICE Riots https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbis-patel-probes-far-left-ngos-funding-anti-ice-riots
Newsom Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment As Media Calls LA Riots 'Peaceful' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/media-calls-riots-peaceful-los-angeles-burns
Newsom Files Emergency Restraining Order After Trump Activates Additional National Guardsmen For LA Riots https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-orders-additional-2000-national-guardsmen-la-riots-continue
Federal Judge Denies Newsom’s Request to Restrict National Guard in LA https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/10/federal-judge-denies-newsoms-request-to-restrict-national-guard-in-la/
Only 68 Building Permits Issued for Pacific Palisades After Wildfires Destroyed 6800 Structures
Meanwhile, hundreds of Pacific Palisades residents are selling and leaving rather than rebuilding. https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/only-68-building-permits-issued-for-pacific-palisades-after-wildfires-destroyed-6800-structures/
Victoria Rose, who has returned from her third humanitarian visit, recalls treating injuries that appeared to be ‘from the heart’ of explosions. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/9/british-surgeon-israeli-bombing-far-more-direct-hits-on-people-in-gaza
Forty-one Israeli soldiers have announced that they will not continue their military service, describing the ongoing genocide in besieged Gaza as a war fought to protect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political survival rather than to secure Israel or rescue hostages.
The soldiers from Israel's intelligence and cyber warfare units sent a signed letter on Tuesday to Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, and other Cabinet members expressing their refusal. https://trt.global/world/article/0519c2727613
Celia Farber, "Gray Refusal:" 41 Israeli Intelligence and Cyber Officers Pen Letter Widely Published In Israeli Media Stating The Government's Orders Are "Now Illegal," And Have Lost "Public And Moral Legitimacy."
Admitting 20,000 Children Have Been Killed, Saying The "Kahanist, Anti-Democratic, and Messianic Elements" Are Working AGAINST The Living Hostages AND The State of Israel, (Also Held Hostage.) https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/gray-refusal-41-israeli-intelligenceThe US ambassador has met with Israeli MKs who are threatening to dissolve the government over the lack of a haredi draft exemption https://news.antiwar.com/2025/06/09/report-mike-huckabee-working-to-keep-netanyahu-in-power/
Staff's internal letter criticized UK's arms sales, Israel's alleged disregard for international law https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/over-300-uk-foreign-office-staff-told-to-consider-resigning-if-they-disagree-with-governments-gaza-policy-3703254
Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights,' says joint statement https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/canada-along-with-australia-norway-and-uk-sanctions-far-right-israeli-cabinet-ministers-3703257
In a Monday phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump told the Israeli leader that he must permanently end the war in Gaza.
Trump is said to have conveyed that the conflict should end "the sooner the better"; however, there's been no indication that Trump is willing to use the major leverage he has of cutting off US military aid to enforce this. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-pressed-netanyahu-permanently-end-gaza-war-phone-call
Trump is said to have conveyed that the conflict should end "the sooner the better"; however, there's been no indication that Trump is willing to use the major leverage he has of cutting off US military aid to enforce this. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-pressed-netanyahu-permanently-end-gaza-war-phone-call
Israeli Defense minister Israel Katz has warned Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis that they could face a complete naval and air blockade if they do not halt attacks on Israel. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-navy-conducts-major-strikes-houthi-controlled-port-first
A long term loan, perhaps supportive political theater: Russia to build eight nuclear reactors in Iran https://en.topcor.ru/60908-verojatno-za-svoj-schet-rossija-postroit-vosem-atomnyh-reaktorov-v-irane.html
John Helmer, TELL-AND-CONSEQUENCES IS NOT A WAR GAME, NEITHER IS TURN-THE-OTHER-CHEEK
In the game which Trump and President Vladimir Putin are playing over the negotiations to end the war in the Ukraine, the sequence and accumulation of words have begun to lose their meaning. This isn’t funny.
Russian sources confirm the conviction in the Kremlin that Trump knew of the plan of the June 1 nuclear airbase attack and approved it. When Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov telephoned Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the evening after the attack, it was tell-and-consequences. Lavrov told Rubio he was instructed to ask what the Americans had known; to inform him that whatever he said, the operation was a violation of Russia’s nuclear deterrence policy; and that accordingly it would have grave consequences. (In military escalation jargon as in hospital patient bulletins, grave is more serious than serious.) Lavrov said that the first consequence Russia expected from the US was public acknowledgement, and also public acceptance that Russian retaliation would follow. Lavrov also told Rubio that Putin expected to speak directly to Trump. Putin spoke first at a meeting with government officials, but he didn’t refer to the airbase attack. Instead, it was one of the “criminal provocations”, as Lavrov said to Putin at the meeting – terrorist actions as other officials said. The Russian position would be not to make explicit the strategic consequences, and as Lavrov said, “not to fall into the trap of these provocations, which are clearly designed to derail the talks and continue arms deliveries from European nations.”
Nothing has followed from Rubio.
On June 3, Trump’s representative for the end-of-war negotiations, Keith Kellogg, was told to say on television that there had been a “[nuclear] triad attack” and that the rising “risk levels…are to me basically unacceptable.”
The next day Trump and Putin spoke by telephone. Trump acknowledged that “we discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides. It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace. President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.” https://johnhelmer.net/tell-and-consequences-is-not-a-war-game-neither-is-turn-the-other-cheek/#more-91810
Alex Krainer points to the vast free-range outside the cramped chicken-coop: Life in the feedlot, or on God's green earth?
Living in an increasingly tightening, psychotic matrix in the West isn't the only way of life possible. This place here is our birthright. Trying to get into the crowded chicken coop: Hungary Sues European Commission Over €1 Million-A-Day Migrant Fine
Spartacus on the illusion of being separate 3D bodies in spacetime, Noetarchia Suprema - A Manifesto That Demands a Flying Saucer in Every Driveway
Let's try this again, one more time, for those in the back who still don't get it https://iceni.substack.com/p/noetarchia-suprema-a-manifesto-thatTransactional Gold and Silver Can Trump Central Bank Digital Currency Tyranny (No "capital gains" tax on $ devaluation against gold) https://sovereignty.substack.com/p/texas-legislature-joins-growing-movement
Protesting as cash-payment-day-labor: Jessica Rose, Find out about No Kings There are people that have a plan to destroy America. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/find-out-about-no-kings
FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News, "The FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for these riots" in Los Angeles. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-arrests-suspected-ngo-foot-soldier-la-riots
Under 13 minutes, with good, clear video clips: The Lucrative Business Behind the LA RIOTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caw_5TvyWoA
Democrat Judge Rules Against Trump Over Use Of National Guard In California Riots
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles, and has directed Trump to 'return control of the California National Guard to Governor Newsom.' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-judge-rules-against-trump-over-use-national-guard-california-riots
Full Marine Battalion Of 700 Deploying To Los Angeles As Protests Continue https://www.zerohedge.com/political/newsom-nightmare-ca-governor-faces-criminal-tax-evasion-warning-amid-la-riot-chaos
Meanwhile, hundreds of Pacific Palisades residents are selling and leaving rather than rebuilding. https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/only-68-building-permits-issued-for-pacific-palisades-after-wildfires-destroyed-6800-structures/
Watch the video. The Senator did not "lunge": Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was physically removed from a DHS press conference and placed in handcuffs on Thursday, after reportedly lunging at Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference in Los Angeles. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-am-senator-alex-padilla-democrat-lawmaker-deported-dhs-press-conference-placed
Celia Farber, First Ever Boeing Dreamliner 787 Crash Kills 242 Passengers on Air India Flight From Ahmedebad Bound For London: Appears To Be Dual Engine Failure Which Is Almost Impossible Statistically;
Many Pilots Observe That Flaps Were Not Raised, Preventing Climb. Murdered Boeing Whistleblowers Warned Over and Over That A Dreamliner Would Crash. NOW Will Boeing Be Prosecuted? https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/first-ever-boeing-dreamliner-787 Meryl Nass MD, Stop Congress and States from Issuing Liability Waivers to 16,000 chemicals regulated by the EPA. Do we want to treat pesticides like vaccines and invitesafety problems? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/stop-congress-and-states-from-issuing
YES! Senators To Propose Ban On Big Pharma Ads As TV Networks Stand To Get Wrecked https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/senators-propose-ban-big-pharma-ads
A flat graph means deaths are the same. A downward slope means deaths are being reduced. An upward slope means deaths are increased.
Steve Kirsch, COVID time series graphs show clearly the COVID vaccine kill people. That's why they keep the plots hidden from view. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/covid-time-series-graphs-show-clearly Sasha Latypova on the new turbocharged, special-vaccine-product, which I will avoid: Arcturus self-amplifying RNA: US approval expected this year.
saRNA platform Kostaive is already approved in Europe and Japan and is being tested in the US now. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/arcturus-self-amplifying-rna-shotsRFK Jr. has removed all 17 members of the CDC’s ACIP, citing decades of unchecked conflicts of interest and rubber-stamping unsafe vaccines. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-rfk-jr-orders-clean-sweep
Meryl Nass MD, AMA calls for Kennedy to be tarred and feathered. Okay, just chastised and investigated by the Senate. See both sides of the story
Secretary Kennedy touched the third rail in seeking a new look at vaccine science before adding yet more vaccines to the childhood schedule https://merylnass.substack.com/p/ama-calls-for-kennedy-to-be-tarred Meryl Nass MD, (I personally think Malone can do a good job here, and Kulldorf might be a good leader): The new slate of ACIP members, and what I know about 5 of them https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-new-slate-of-acip-members
This is different from the left-over iron microspherules in some vials: First Peer-Reviewed Study Documents Post-Vaccine Magnetism
Magnetism appeared months after mRNA injection—Pfizer “F” lots were disproportionately linked, with proposed mechanisms involving spike-induced iron metabolism disruption. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-first-peer-reviewed-studyKatherine Watt, There cannot be product liability exposure for manufacturers of products for which no physical, objective standards exist. https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/there-cannot-be-product-liability
The antibody shot will be marketed as Enflonsia and launched this coming RSV season to challenge Sanofi and AstraZeneca’s blockbuster Beyfortus shot. The drug’s clinical trial results posted on ClinicalTrials.gov included serious neurological adverse reactions. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-merck-rsv-shot-newborns-clinical-trials-showed-serious-adverse-events-death/
Nicolash Huscher MPH, 5 Evidence-Based Approaches to Healing from Vaccine Injury
From myocarditis to turbo cancer, emerging research offers hope for the millions injured by mRNA shots. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/5-evidence-based-approaches-to-healing Climate Physicist Anastassia Makarieva, In Focus: Green Oceans of the Blue Planet
Interview at the Technical University of Munich: Not only are forests more complex than is commonly realized, they also do more. https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/in-focus-green-oceans-of-the-bluePreferring Nature (Pictured in garden after a rain, in Palestine jersey)
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