‘Suburban Warriors’ : Rebecca McLean (2003)

See also : Blackburn Sth Sharps! (September 12, 2006) for links and moar disco… 186 comments and still going strong!

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Kyle McKee : An Angry Aryan with BONUS! Bombs

Update #3 : Over a year later, Kyle “has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after pleading guilty Thursday to three criminal charges. McKee, 25, pleaded guilty to uttering threats and possession of a weapon dangerous to the public in connection with an incident on Feb. 13, and for assaulting a woman at a prior party.” (White supremacist gets 60 days in jail for threats, Calgary Herald March 19, 2011). The threats were made to anti-racist activist Jason Devine, who in November last year had his house broken into by five masked men who proceeded to assault him. (The five remain at large.)

Update #2: A teenager has been arrested in Calgary. Also: The Mainstream Media is Starting to Get It, But…, Anti-Racist Canada, November 24, 2009: ‘Neo-Nazis not so harmless: Calgary blast ignites concerns’, Michael Platt, The Calgary Sun, November 24, 2009: “Scorched bricks and a parking lot full of pennies and bent nails. If anything should serve as a wake-up call to the cancer in Calgary’s midst, it’s this: The remnants of two homemade pipe bombs that exploded harmlessly in a northeast parking lot…”

Update #1: We’ve Learned Who Was Targetted By the Aryan Guard, Anti-Racist Canada, November 23, 2009: “Today, we learned who the male and female targets were. And while we will not share the name of the woman, we have no problem sharing the name of the male”: Tyler Sturrup, “a member of the Aryan Guard splinter group, W.E.B. Apparently the split occurred because some Aryan Guard members felt that not enough “proactive” (read: violent) actions were being taken. In most of the pictures of the last “White Pride” march from spring 2009 where racists were seen attacking people, the individuals committing the violent acts are members of W.E.B.”

I am shocked.

Shocked and stunned.

Kyle Robert McKee — the much-loved founder of Canada’s bizarro white supremacist political cult the Aryan Guard — is wanted by authorities in connection to his alleged involvement in a little bombing incident in Calgary on Saturday (November 21). “Investigators believe this was a targeted attack after questioning the occupants of the apartment suite where the device was first found” (Police seek pair after IEDs discovered at Rundle apartments, Metro Calgary, November 23, 2009).

Prior to McKee’s most recent alleged foray into the world of improvised explosive devices, the Aryan Guard was probably most well-known for prancing about on ‘White Pride World Wide’ Day. That is, March 21: a day otherwise known as ‘International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’.

Who’s McKee anyway? According to some mob in Canada:

The founder of the Aryan Guard, Kyle McKee… originally came to Calgary from Kitchener, Ontario where he had numerous run-ins with anti-racists and police. He lived with neo-Nazi Nathan Touchette and made the news when they flew a Nazi flag from their apartment, much to the outrage of everyone in the neighbourhood. McKee and Touchette made it known that they planned on moving to Calgary. Calgary’s mayor made it known they weren’t welcome. They moved anyways (after trashing the place they had been living in to the point where the house was condemned) though both eventually returned to Ontario (but not before McKee spent some time in jail for assault and possession of a weapon while wearing a mask). McKee eventually moved back to Calgary where he organized a group of dropouts and thugs into a group called the Aryan Guard.

McKee and Touchette have also been members of the neo-Nazi muzak network ‘Blood & Honour’.

The (attempted) bombing comes days after anti-Semitic schmucks in Calgary decided to graf a synagogue, a Holocaust memorial and a Jewish community centre (bringing to mind the batshit antics of the ‘White Devils’ in Perth a few years ago). Writes ‘Anti-Racist Canada’: “Some of the graffiti, in addition to the swastikas, included statements such as, “6 million more” in reference to the Holocaust and “Kill Jews.” Kill Jews? Now where have we seen that before? Oh yes! On Kyle McKee’s shins…”

Huh.

On the Aryan Guard:

The Decline of the Aryan Guard: Part 1, September 18, 2008
The Decline of the Aryan Guard: Part 2, September 19, 2008
The Decline of the Aryan Guard: Part 3, September 20, 2008

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Call for shooter of cat shooter and supporters to be prosecuted

Call for shooter of cat shooter and supporters to be prosecuted
Kate Lahey
The Age
November 24, 2009

A crazed cat lover who shot dead a bastard who shot six kittens and cats in an animal shelter should be arrested immediately and cat lovers should hang their heads in shame for defending her, the Australian Bastards Union says.

Cat lovers have defended the shooting of the bastard who shot the six cats shortly after they were shot at a shelter last week, saying he was feral and unable to be controlled.

But Bastards Union president Hugh Strangelove says the shooting is an indefensible act of cruelty and a bastard should only ever be shot in an emergency situation, if it is causing suffering and needs to be put down immediately.

”This was not an emergency situation, but a retaliatory act” Dr. Strangelove said. ”I’m completely outraged.”

The cat lovers had a professional assassin available to administer lethal injections and with training in dealing with feral bastards, ”if in fact that’s what he was”, Dr Strangelove said.

The Victoria Police are investigating and the cat lover could face criminal prosecution under the Prevention of Cruelty to Bastards Act.

Cat Lovers Society president Miss Miaow released a statement saying the cat lover acted ethically.

”Whilst destruction of bastards via gunshot is not normally the standard procedure, it can be performed in certain circumstances,” she said.

”We regret that this has caused concern amongst the numerous bastards who inhabit our community, however this is an accepted method that cat lovers can use. There were no malicious intentions by any Society member.”

Dr. Strangelove said Miaow’s defence of the killing made her ”as bad as the shooter”.

”Any cat lover in the Cat Lovers Society who has celebrated that bastard’s shooting ought to be arrested along with the shooter,” he said.

The last known case of a bastard being shot after shooting cats in a shelter was in Horsham three years ago, he said.

Dr. Strangelove said such shootings often reflected an attitude that a bullet was all that these bastards deserved, and was much cheaper than hiring a Mafia hitman.

A lethal injection would render a bastard unconscious within about two seconds, while a gunshot could leave the bastard suffering in pain for hours, he said.

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Jock Palfreeman : November 24, 2009 Update


    Jock Palfreeman (above, photographed in 2006) is a 23 year old Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is undergoing trial on charges of murder and attempted murder after an encounter with a gang of 16 far-right football hooligans.

A few things.

First, sadly, a solidarity demonstration in Sofia appears to have been cancelled out of fears for the safety of participants. At a previous rally earlier in the year — organised by local members of the far right and calling for severe punishment of Jock by the state — a journalist covering the event was threatened; Bulgarian media is uniformly hostile, and is also calling for the maximum penalty to be imposed; his cause is an unpopular one among the general public in Bulgaria, especially as the basis of his defence is that he came to the aid of two Roma men — members of a despised minority group (both in Bulgaria but across Europe generally, especially Central and Eastern).

Wave Of Violence Strikes Eastern Europe’s Gypsies
Eric Westervelt
NPR
September 2, 2009

The Roma minority, known as Gypsies, unfortunately, are used to discrimination and violent attacks. But recent violence in Eastern Europe has reached a new level of ferocity.

Several Roma, including children, have been killed in attacks this year involving firearms, gasoline bombs and hand grenades. Roma activists blame right-wing groups, which appear to have grown in strength as the economic crisis has deepened across much of Eastern Europe.

The latest victim was single mother Maria Balogh, 45, and her 13-year-old daughter Ketrin. In early August, the Baloghs were asleep in their house in Kisleta, a quiet farming village in northeastern Hungary near the Ukrainian border. An unknown number of armed men broke into their house and fired on the women. Maria was killed, and her daughter remains hospitalized with critical injuries…

Secondly, and on the other hand, support for Jock does appear to be growing in Greece, especially among the anti-fascist movement there, and his case is drawing the attention of a wider range of people. (See, for example, ΑΛΛΗΗΛΕΓΓΥΗ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΤΑ ΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΗ JOCK PALFREEMAN, November 22, 2009 | PAUL “JOCK” PALFREEMAN, THEOULINI, November 23, 2009.) Word is also speading further across Europe, and the ground being laid for whatever comes of Jock’s final court appearances next week: December 2/3.

See also : November 30, 2009 : International Day of Justice for Jock Palfreeman (November 21, 2009).

For Jock

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Street Punk Moscow

Think street punk Melbourne.

Only the opposite.

Bonus!

What We Feel – one of the few bands which exists on the territory of the former USSR, which does not copy popular western groups, but plays tough, acute social, daring music. Guys never wrote vague, non-committal texts. They always expressed their opinion about the things that happen in the city and country they live in the most clear way.

In the country, where defense agencies are persistently looking for extremists on the concerts, organized by youth, while true extremists are killing human rights activists at the Caucasus and journalists in downtown Moscow with perfect impunity. In the country, where fascism became a fashion for the youth, and grandchildren of veterans post up congratulations to Hitler on stadium stands and brag in internet with self-shot videos with the murders of Tajik yard cleaners. In the country, torn by crime, corruption and social inequality. In the country, where to say the truth and to struggle for justice long ago became the occupation dangerous for life and freedom.

Threats, attempts to wreck or ban the concerts, losses of close friends – during 4 years of existence, group passed through all that. Group gained its reputation not by words, but by its deeds, behind – more than a hundred concerts in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, three euro-tours in support of Russian antifascist movement, participation in great number of charity actions. And new album, named “Our 14 Words”, became a proof that group never gave up its positions, satisfied with reached achievements, but made a forward step.

Every song on this album – a nail in the coffin of all those, who thinks that hardcore became insipid and lost its fury, that it became regular entertainment for rich boys and nazi tolerant people, and that it can no longer be the instrument of direct action.

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400,000+ visits

According to sitemeter, my blog has now received over 400,000 visits and 675,000 page views (which is probably the number of readers Andrew Bolt’s blog receives in an average week). I’ve no idea how this measures against other blogs — pretty poorly, I imagine, as on average that (apparently) works out to be something like 600 or so visits a day.

Which is not very much.

(But it’s certainly better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.)

Anyway, Googling ‘Andrew Bolt’, ‘blog’ and ‘popularity’, dredged up the following:

‘Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election’, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai, Axel Bruns & Tim Highfield, a research paper [PDF] given at the July 2009 ANZCA09 conference —

This paper examines the observable patterns of content creation by Australian political bloggers during the 2007 election and its aftermath, thereby providing insight into the level and nature of activity in the Australian political blogosphere during that time. The performance indicators which are identified through this process enable us to target for further in-depth research, to be reported in subsequent papers, those individual blogs and blog clusters showing especially high or unusual activity as compared to the overall baseline. This research forms the first stage in a larger project to investigate the shape and internal dynamics of the Australian political blogosphere. In this first stage, we tracked the activities of some 230 political blogs and related Websites in Australia from 2 November 2007 (the final month of the federal election campaign, with the election itself taking place on 24 November) to 24 January 2008. We harvested more than 65,000 articles for this study.

— which defines the ‘political’ blogosphere in terms best summarised by John Dewey: ‘As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance’.

Well, kinda.

MC 900 Ft Jesus does it best:

OLD IS THE NEW YOUNG!

I like other humans
They’re so very human
I know that it’s obvious
We’re all just like this
Only human

MOAR L8R!

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Neo-Nazis, tattoos, stabbings and muzak… same old story.

Neo-Nazis, tattoos, stabbings and muzak.

Same old story.


Left to right: Gary Smith, Jean-Charles Tanzi, Will Browning and Daniel Jack of the band No Remorse which recorded the album Barbecue in Rostock (source: bernardomahoney.com). The album celebrates the events of August 1992, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned a house for asylum seekers to the applause of 2,000 bystanders, and under the patient gaze of German police. See: Foreigners, Go Home!, Daniel Benjamin, Time, November 23, 1993. Also: Lars Rensmann, Confronting the New Germany: Neo-Nazi Violence and The State of Racism, Barricade Publishing, Melbourne, 1995.

I left group after stabbing, admits trial man
Jersey Evening Post
November 20, 2009

A JERSEY MAN accused of plotting to spread Neo-Nazi propaganda admitted to a London jury yesterday that he was a former member of extremist group Combat 18. However, William Browning (39), a former Les Quennevais School pupil, claimed that he was ‘just putting two fingers up to the establishment’. He said that he had left Combat 18 after a friend was stabbed to death in an internal feud because he felt that the group had ‘lost the moral high ground’. Mr Browning is in the dock alongside his old schoolfriend, St Helier tattoo artist Jon Denny-Mallen (40), at Southwark Crown Court. They are both accused of trying to incite racial hatred by importing racist hard rock CDs from Poland into Jersey. The albums, by band No Remorse, were a product of the so-called Blood and Honour rock scene and promoted anti-semitism in their lyrics, it is claimed. Mr Browning, who has addresses in Deptford and Almorah Crescent, St Helier, and Mr Denny-Mallen, of St Martin, both deny one charge of conspiracy to distribute material with intent to stir up racial hatred between 1 January and 13 July 2006. The trial continues.

In Australia, Justin O’Brien of ‘Hold Fast Body Art’ in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood is a tattooist and the organiser for Blood & Honour Victoria. On September 28, he and three of his kameraden paid an impromptu visit to the ‘Melbourne Anarchist Resource Centre’ in Northcote, where the group proceeded to terrorise a meeting of a group campaigning against sexual violence. Subsequent weeks saw the front of the building daubed with swastikas.

Importing ‘No Remorse’ CDs into Jersey is apparently some kinda crime, but in Australia the band’s product is available for purchase from both Blood & Honour and Combat 18. From Combat 18 Australia — http://terrormachine.net — you can buy the albums ‘Deutschland’, ‘Oi Monkey’ and ‘See you in Valhalla’; from 9percent — http://9percentproductions.com — ‘This time the world’. Both sites also flog neo-Nazi kitsch and propaganda (books, flags, hats, keyrings, patches, pendants, pins, t-shirts and zines).

‘No Remorse’ (1986–1996) also has the distinction of having had an Aussie — ‘Aussie’ Nigel Brown — play with the band; joining No Remorse in 1991, Nigel (a local boy) can also boast of having performed with Australian reich ‘n’ rollers ‘White Lightning’, members of which have since formed Sydney-based band ‘T.H.U.G.’.

RaHoWa!

See also : Aryan Martyrs’ Brigade Are Go! (August 6, 2009) | From Greensboro to Washington (June 14, 2009).

£2,000 ‘was for gigs, not racist CDs’
Jersey Evening Post
November 21, 2009

A JERSEYMAN accused of paying £2,000 to import racist CDs into Jersey told a London court yesterday that the money was for a series of hard-rock gigs in east London.

William Browning (39), a former Les Quennevais School pupil, claimed that he needed the cash to promote Polish [neo-Nazi] punk act The Gits and called the lead singer to give evidence on his behalf.

Mr Browning, who admits that he was member of violent right-wing organisation Combat 18, is accused of trying to incite racial hatred using neo-Nazi ‘Blood and Honour’ records.

In July 2006 Jersey Customs officers intercepted a package of 100 CDs sent from Poland and addressed to a tattoo parlour in Hope Street owned by his childhood friend and co-defendant Jon Denny-Mallen (40). The albums, entitled Deutschland and recorded in the 1990s by one of Mr Browning’s former groups, No Remorse, contained inflammatory racist and anti-Semitic lyrics.

The two men are in the dock at Southwark Crown Court accused of trying to incite racial hatred by importing the CDs from Poland into Jersey. Mr Browning, who has addresses in Deptford and Almorah Crescent, St Helier, and Mr Denny-Mallen, of St Martin, both deny one charge of conspiracy to distribute material with intent to stir up racial hatred between 1 January and 13 July 2006.

Bonus!

Members of Combat 18 were apparently involved in a brawl with members of the ‘English Defence League’ (EDL) recently. According to one anonymous source, two C-18 “wannabes” — Noel Barrington and Tony Carney — were beaten up following the EDL’s rally in London on October 31 (the incident supposedly occurred outside a pub — with the fabulous name of ‘The Lord Moon of the Mall’ — in Whitehall).

Added Bonus!

In Australia, the local Hammerskins and Volksfront franchises play together nicely; in Europe and the US, it’s a slightly different story. At one of David Irving‘s speeches in Florida recently, four neo-Nazis attacked another — the victim, John Kopko (43), stabbed one of his attackers, Christopher Nachtman (31): both were taken to hospital. Kopko is supposedly a member of ‘Crew 38’, the junior membership of the Hammerskins; Nachtman, on the other hand, has supposedly been aligned with Volksfront.

Or is it the other way around?

Anyway, in Europe, the Hammerskins have allegedly been cleaning house, evicting — or attempting to evict — the Volksfront franchise from Germany.

See also : Blood and Honour vs. Blood and Honour (April 12, 2009) | Blood & Honour / C18 in Australia (February 26, 2008).

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November 30, 2009 : International Day of Justice for Jock Palfreeman

Monday, November 30, 2009
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Sofia, Canberra, Athens, London

Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is undergoing trial on charges of murder and attempted murder after an encounter with a gang of 16 far-right football hooligans.

In December 2007, Jock witnessed the gang attacking two men of Roma ethnicity in Sofia. Jock went to the aid of the Roma men, putting himself in the middle of the attack. The Roma men were able to escape, but the gang continued their vicious attack on Jock. Following the fight, one member of the gang was killed and another injured.

Jock was refused bail, and has been in the infamous Sofia Central Prison for nearly two years awaiting a verdict. He will give his final plea on Wednesday, 2nd December 2009, and can expect a verdict on the 3rd December.

Jock’s trial has been repeatedly delayed due to witnesses, court officials and even members of the judging panel failing to attend scheduled court dates without notice. Three consecutive court dates were aborted after 30 minutes due to missing medical and technical experts.

More importantly, crucial evidence proving Jock’s innocence has been either carelessly or deliberately destroyed. For example, CCTV footage showing the gang’s assault on the Roma men and then on Jock was initially deleted due to police recklessness. When Jock’s defense was able to retrieve it using a computer expert, the entire computer mysteriously exploded destroying the footage, again in police “care”.

The stories of the gang members and other witnesses have been changed repeatedly since the initial statements. The gang members initially confirmed Jock’s version of events, but have since changed their statements to deny even the existence of the Roma men. They claim that Jock, a young Australian in a foreign country, simply attacked a gang of 16 men alone without a motive. Their initial statements have been blocked from court by the prosecutor. Initially, ten Bulgarian Police Officers supported Jock’s version of events. To date, eight of these have changed their stories to fit with the statements of the gang. Throughout the entire case, Jock’s statement has remained exactly the same.

On Monday, 30th November, a coordinated demonstration will be held in Sofia, Canberra, Athens and London. We will show the Bulgarian representatives that Jock’s case is being closely observed across the world, and that any outcome other than self-defence is a perversion of justice.

JOCK NEEDS OUR SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT!

For more information, please write : [email protected]
See also : freejock.net | Jock Palfreeman : November 20, 2009 Update (November 20, 2009).

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Jamie B : Good Night, And Good Luck

Damn.

I just learned that an old/young friend of mine has died.

Jamie was a very warm, funny, and generous person.

Condolences to his family and friends.

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Anarchy is a (Brazilian) FAG! // Smith Street Boogie

    Anyway… anarchy is a fag… that’s all I have to say to you Mr Moran…

    See how fast words travel my friends? Be careful what you write on the internet…
    Coz you never know when some stalker is gonna put it on there [sic] website.
    Thanx to the people who have supported us… and to the random [sic] people letting us know about this anarchist knobjockey Mr Moran…

    See you in hell.

    ~ Chunga (The Worst), September 24, 2007.

In Brazil, members of the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha (FAG) are facing repression by local authorities.

On Thursday 29th October, the Civil Police of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), under the command of Governor Yeda Crusius, broke into the premises of the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha. Police seized various materials such as posters, minutes of meetings, the hard disk of a computer and also the contents of refuse containers that were at the headquarters. They also tried to intimidate those who came to show their solidarity and names contained in the records of the organization’s website. Two comrades were arrested and charged.

Our solidarity is not just in words…

Today 50 comrades gathered at the Brazilian Embassy in Uruguay to demonstrate against the repression that has hit the comrades of the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha.

The rally was organized by Uruguayan anarchist collectives with the purpose of expressing our solidarity with our comrades.

For an hour, flyers were distributed and there was singing and waving outside the embassy. We were then met by the first secretary of the embassy, Arnaldo de Baena Fernandes, to whom we handed a letter denouncing the situation and demanding an immediate halt to the persecution of anarchist popular militants in Porto Alegre. He claimed to know nothing about the case but expressed an interest, saying he was aware of the murder of the landless peasant comrade Eltom Brum.

The various organizations involved in the protest expressed a commitment to keeping abreast of the case and allowing no foothold for the persecution to which we anarchists have always been subjected.

With the comrades of the FAG!
With solidarity and action!
Arriba los que luchan!

Thursday, 5 November 2009
Federación Anarquista Uruguaya
(Uruguayan Anarchist Federation)

Translation by FdCA-International Relations office

Nestor McNab (November 17, 2009) writes: ‘The police investigation has now ended, with the result that a total of 8 comrades have now been indicted for “criminal offence against the honour [of the governor, Crusius], incitement to commit a crime, and conspiracy or gang membership”.’

See also : Anarchy is a dead Israeli fag! (August 2, 2009) | Anarchy is a dead Greek fag! (December 8, 2008) | DOA : Smash the State, “anarchy is a fag”, and neo-Nazis armed with pipes and bottles (October 19, 2007) | anarchy is a (Venezuelan) fag! (October 2, 2007) | Return of the Son of Anarchy is a Fag! (September 26, 2007) | anarchy is a fag! (September 25, 2007).

Oh yeah.

Speaking of anarchy, fags, streets and repression…

Smith Street Boogie

On Monday, November 30 there’s gonna be a party on Smith Street in Collingwood just down the road from The Birmingham Hotel (the formerly fascist-friendly venue that ‘Chunga’ and his band did so much to support and which was subject — in the words of Doug Smith of the bands Bulldog Spirit/Marching Orders and chief spokesperson for ‘Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice’ — to “a pretty unsuccessful boycott“). The party is taking place the day before ‘Local Law No.8’ comes into effect:

Ban on Public Drinking in Yarra
Media Release
October 21, 2009

Drinking alcohol on the streets of Yarra will be banned from 1 December, Yarra City Council decided last night.

Council resolved to introduce Local Law No.8, which will empower police to request that people drinking in unlicensed areas on the streets of Yarra at any time of the day pour out opened drinks.

Police will be able to issue fines of $100 if people do not follow a direction to cease consuming alcohol, or seal a container of alcohol, or pour alcohol into a police-approved container, or surrender any opened container of alcohol…

The only councillor to have voted against the Law was the dirty filthy lousy rotten stinking communist Steve Jolly. The pumpkin-hating (long story) Red, along with Fitzroy Legal Service’s Belinda Lo, was interviewed by 3CR’s Done By Law on October 27, and you can listen to the interview here.

Things kick-off at around midday, and it is — in the words of Gil Scott-Heron — a BYOT (Bring Your Own Thing) affair — food, BBQs, musical instruments, amplifiers/PA systems, tables, chairs, and so on.

See also : Street drinkers told: the party’s over, David Elliot-Jones, The Age, November 1, 2009 | the politics of selling alcohol to street drinkers, fitzroyalty, April 4, 2009.

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