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		<title>Joy Behar Receives Kneepads Via Rush Delivery for Obama Interview, Quickly Wears Them Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tylerderbun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ **Written by Doug Powers Rush Limbaugh will be pleased that the money he spent to Fed-Ex Joy Behar a pair of kneepads in time for President Obama&#8217;s appearance on The View didn&#8217;t go to waste. From Media Bistro : &#8220;You&#8217;ve really done a lot, I think,&#8221; Joy Behar, who now has her own talk show on HLN, said. &#8220;You&#8217;ve signed 200 plus laws since you&#8217;re in office, financial reform has taken place, you&#8217;ve got health care, two women on the supreme court&#8230; and yet the right wing, through Fox News and other outlets, seem to be hijacking the narrative. Where on your side is the narrative? Where is your attack dog to come out and tell the American people, listen, this is what we did?&#8221; &#8220;Joy, that&#8217;s your job,&#8221; the president joked, to which Behar shot back, &#8220;I do it! But I&#8217;m only one woman!&#8221; And Katie Couric is only one woman! And Diane Sawyer is only one woman! And Chris Matthews is only one woman! Obama has a point, though. The left-leaning press and select View dingbats were supposed to be his attack dogs, and they&#8217;re failing miserably &#8212; mainly because they don&#8217;t seem to be able to successfully complete their unenviable assigned chore of convincing Americans that what they&#8217;re being forced to buy is something they wanted in the first place. In a separate &#8220;Obama on The View&#8221; note, if any other president had said this , watch out. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe ]]></description>
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		<title>Hide-and-seek hypocrites on the Hill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tylerderbun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ My column today puts the DISCLOSE debacle in the broader context of the Democrats&#8217; reign of darkness. Underscoring the theme of theme of the column: The story from Fox Business on how the &#8220;financial reform&#8221; bill championed by Obama exempts the SEC from FOIA requests. The transparency farce continues. Always look under the Astroturf mat. Hide-and-seek hypocrites on the Hill by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 You know when a politician starts a sentence with &#8220;frankly,&#8221; he&#8217;s about to lie to your face. The same principle applies to campaign finance legislation dubbed the &#8220;DISCLOSE Act.&#8221; The voter&#8217;s instinctive reaction should be: What are they trying to hide now? Drafted out of public view with left-wing lobbyists and rammed through Congress after bypassing committee hearings , this bum bill would have been better named the CLOSEDDOOR Act. At a Rose Garden press conference on Monday, President Obama decried the influence of &#8220;shadow groups&#8221; on elections and urged the Senate to pass the &#8220;reform&#8221; sponsored by N.Y. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. But the loophole-ridden package exempts large nonprofits with 500,000 or more members. Behemoth labor unions get preferential treatment. Bradley Smith , former Federal Elections Commission chairman, noted that the law places radical speech-squelching restrictions on companies&#8217; ability to run independent political ads: &#8220;(I)f you&#8217;re a company with a government contract of over $10 million (like more than half of the top 50 U.S. companies) or if you&#8217;re a company with more than 20 percent foreign shareholders, you can&#8217;t even mention a candidate in an ad for up to a full year before the election. &#8230; There are no similar prohibitions for unions representing government contractors or unions with foreign membership.&#8221; GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell put it more starkly during Tuesday&#8217;s debate before the Senate cloture vote on the bill: The DISCLOSE Act, he said, is a &#8220;transparent attempt to rig the fall elections.&#8221; At bottom, McConnell diagnosed correctly, this is a jobs-protection bill for entrenched incumbents more interested in protecting their hides than protecting the Constitution. While the cloture vote fell three votes short of the needed 60 on Tuesday, Schumer vowed to resurrect the issue &#8220;again and again and again until we pass it.&#8221; In attacking Republicans who oppose this campaign finance Kabuki, Obama audaciously feigned alarm over the proliferation of fake grassroots groups with innocuous-sounding names. Special interests, he complained, &#8220;can hide behind a name like &#8216;Citizens for a Better Future,&#8217; even if a more accurate name would be &#8216;Companies for Weaker Oversight.&#8217;&#8221; Let me supply some more examples that won&#8217;t appear on Obama&#8217;s teleprompter anytime soon: How about &#8220;Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity&#8221;? That&#8217;s the front group White House senior adviser David Axelrod formed to shill for a massive utility tax hike championed by Commonwealth Edison in Chicago. Or how about &#8220;Americans for Stable Quality Care&#8221;? That was the government health care takeover-promoting special interest coalition funded by Big Pharma, the AARP, AMA and the Service Employees International Union. The group pitched in $150 million for pro-Obama health care ads to create the illusion of grassroots support. Or how about &#8220;Health Care for America Now&#8221;? That&#8217;s the 1825 K Street-based &#8220;grassroots&#8221; lobbying conglomerate funded by radical liberal sugar daddy George Soros and the brass-knuckled, purple-shirted bosses of the SEIU. Or how about &#8220;American Rights at Work&#8221;? That&#8217;s the far-left, pro-Big Labor lobbying group that Obama&#8217;s labor secretary, Hilda Solis, served as treasurer for while a congresswoman &#8212; a position she failed to disclose while lobbying for the Big Labor card-check bill she was sponsoring at the same time. Or how about the &#8220;American Public Policy Committee&#8221;? That&#8217;s the umbrella group for Beltway-based union and progressive lobbyists run by D.C. money-shuffler Craig Varoga, who is now harnessing Washington bucks to attack tea party activists. It&#8217;s the president&#8217;s biggest donors and advisers who perfected the art of Astroturf. Don&#8217;t be so modest, man. Team Obama and their allies on Capitol Hill have some nerve gnashing their teeth about transparency after two years of backdoor kickbacks , secret Big Labor deals , C-SPAN camera evasion , White House disclosure-ducking coffeehouse meetings , and sunlight-shirking holiday and midnight floor votes. And while they preached about America&#8217;s right to know and posed as crusaders for open access, Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate continued to stonewall on public hearings for health care rationing czar Donald Berwick &#8212; Obama&#8217;s recess-appointed head of Medicare and Medicaid. A White House spokesman called the battle over the DISCLOSE Act a &#8220;defining moment for the public.&#8221; Nah. It&#8217;s just another example of the Democratic majority&#8217;s endless hide-and-seek hypocrisy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Free Donald Berwick!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tylerderbun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Come on, Democrats. What are you so afraid of? Earlier this month, President Obama circumvented the Senate and recess-appointed health care rationing champion Don Berwick to head the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Democrats on Capitol Hill refuse to bring Berwick out for public hearings. Which closet at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have they locked Berwick in? It&#8217;s time to start a campaign: FREE DONALD BERWICK! More hide-and-seek games from the most transparent Democrat reign ever. Steven Ertelt at Life News and Connie Hair at Human Events : Like their counterparts in the Senate, House Democrats are refusing to hold a hearing on the recess appointment of rationing advocate Donald Berwick, whom President Barack Obama named to become the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Obama appointed Berwick without a hearing or vote in the Senate and, even though he complained about that, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus will not put together a hearing. Now, Connie Hair of the conservative newspaper Human Events reports House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin won&#8217;t hold one either. Both top Democrats are denying public hearings on Berwick even though he will be charged with helping lead the implementation of the new national health care plan Obama signed into law that concerns pro-life groups on abortion and rationing issues. Rep. Dave Camp, a pro-life Michigan lawmaker who is the leading Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, responded to Levin&#8217;s refusal to hold a hearing. &#8220;Apparently, House Democrats are really taking Speaker Pelosi’s &#8216;we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it’ style of governing to heart. Now, we have to hand the reins at CMS over to Dr. Berwick first so we can later find out what direction he will take Medicare and Medicaid,” he said, according to HE. “At a time when Democrats have implemented the most radical changes ever to the nation’s health care system, they are refusing to conduct the proper and necessary oversight required by the Committee,” Camp said. Commenter Rogue Cheddar: &#8220;They’re just rationing his public appear[a]nces, you know, to make the heart grow fonder.&#8221; *** Free Donald Berwick: A Disclose Act we can believe in! ]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Find the Most Underfunded 20?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>supercop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Over on the home page, I take a look at 20 House races where a donation to a GOP candidate might make the biggest difference . The piece was partially inspired by readers who write in to me, saying they have a limited amount to donate and want to make sure they get the most "bang for the buck." Now, I don&#39;t endorse (nor do I have a hand in National Review &#39;s endorsements), nor do I think I&#39;m here to tell you who to vote for, and I figure the same thing goes for telling you which candidates deserve donations. You guys don&#39;t need me telling you how to spend your own money. (By the way, have you subscribed to the magazine and NRO Digital? Bought your tickets for the NR cruise? Donated to our fundraising drive? Sponsored our advertisers? Okay, other than that , I don&#39;t tell you how to spend your own money.) But not all races are created equal, and certain House races fit a certain profile -- a promising GOP candidate, a district with demographics that make a GOP win a possibility, and a Democratic incumbent with some vulnerabilities but with enormous cash reserves. In most of these cases, I would argue that the Republican challenger doesn&#39;t need to outraise the incumbent, just to]]></description>
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		<title>Britain Slowly Doing Away With Government Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As America slowly moves towards full government run health care, Britain, a country 1/40th the size of the USA in geography (#79 on the size chart, with the USA at #3) is moving away from single payer and government control, and has actual plans to do this Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health ]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the tax in tax-and-spend liberalism</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2010/07/25/putting-the-tax-in-tax-and-spend-liberalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>supercop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As they say in the military: BOHICA. On ABC&#8217;s This Week today, tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner championed the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and pooh-poohed the economic impact of tax hikes on the highest earners in the country. It&#8217;s &#8220; responsible &#8221; to punish the wealthy, he argued. Because after spending America into oblivion, Team Obama now wants to show the world that we are &#8220;willing as a country now to start to make some progress&#8221; on deficit reduction. On NBC&#8217;s Meet The Press, Geithner crusaded for raising the capital gains tax rate. Then, to show his commitment to fiscal responsibility, he said the administration is going to kick the can again on behemoth fiscal black holes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Speaking on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Geithner says he supports allowing the top capital gains tax rate to revert to 20 percent. It&#8217;s 15 percent now. He also addressed the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage buyers whose bailout has cost taxpayers $145 billion so far. The financial overhaul didn&#8217;t address their future. The Obama administration has said it wants to wait until next year to determine their future. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like the current form,&#8221; Geithner said on &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to bring fundamental change to that market.&#8221; Investor&#8217;s Business Daily makes clear that it is not just the &#8220;rich&#8221; who will pay for Obama redistributionism: Through the end of this year, the federal estate tax rate is zero — thanks to the package of broad-based tax cuts that President Bush pushed through to get the economy going earlier in the decade. But as of midnight Dec. 31, the death tax returns — at a rate of 55% on estates of $1 million or more. The effect this will have on hospital life-support systems is already a matter of conjecture. Resurrection of the death tax, however, isn&#8217;t the only tax problem that will be ushered in Jan. 1. Many other cuts from the Bush administration are set to disappear and a new set of taxes will materialize. And it&#8217;s not just the rich who will pay. The lowest bracket for the personal income tax, for instance, moves up 50% — to 15% from 10%. The next lowest bracket — 25% — will rise to 28%, and the old 28% bracket will be 31%. At the higher end, the 33% bracket is pushed to 36% and the 35% bracket becomes 39.6%. But the damage doesn&#8217;t stop there. The marriage penalty also makes a comeback, and the capital gains tax will jump 33% — to 20% from 15%. The tax on dividends will go all the way from 15% to 39.6% — a 164% increase. Both the cap-gains and dividend taxes will go up further in 2013 as the health care reform adds a 3.8% Medicare levy for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and joint filers making more than $250,000. Other tax hikes include: halving the child tax credit to $500 from $1,000 and fixing the standard deduction for couples at the same level as it is for single filers. Tip of the iceberg. Be sure to click through for the rest of the tax tsunami to come. *** Via GOP leader John Boehner&#8217;s office: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered a 1-2 punch to America’s small businesses today by signaling that their taxes will soon go up. As The Wall Street Journal notes, these comments come “as a number of Democrats, including North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad and Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, have begun echoing calls by Republicans and some economists to extend the tax cuts for all earners… Many economists believe the recovery is too fragile to risk raising taxes anytime soon and that doing so could stall economic growth.” Both the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) have warned against such a tax hike. NFIB tax counsel Bill Rys said, “The businesses that are most likely to be hit by this tax increase employ about a quarter of the U.S. work force.” And, according to NAM’s data, 196,000 manufacturers – a full 68% of all American manufacturers – file taxes as individuals; these taxpayers had an average taxable of income well above $250,000, suggesting a large negative impact on manufacturers as well. At his weekly press briefing, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said that Americans are still asking ‘where are the jobs?’: “For 18 months, we’ve had a government that believes that change is only possible by passing 2,000-page, trillion-dollar monstrosities, and one after another. Americans are still asking the question ‘where are the jobs?’ and all President Obama has to offer them is more stimulus spending, more debt, higher taxes and more job-killing regulations. “The financial regulatory bill that the president signed this week is just another big-government power grab that will make it even harder to create jobs. It provides for permanent bailouts to President Obama&#8217;s Wall Street allies at the expense of small businesses and community banks across our country. Frankly, it&#8217;s just more of the same.” The Dems think class warfare will be a winner at the polls. No, really. More &#8220;show the world&#8221; rhetoric: In recent days, fiscal conservatives like Senators Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Evan Bayh of Indiana expressed support for extending the tax cuts at all income levels, at least temporarily. Senior administration officials said there was no interest in such a plan at the White House, which intends to have Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner lead an effort to make the case that continuing tax breaks for the rich will not help lift the economy, but eliminating them will help reduce the deficit. “We do not buy into the theory that because the economy is still recovering, extending tax cuts for the highest earners is a necessary or effective policy response,” said Gene Sperling, counselor to Mr. Geithner. “While we are supporting measures like small-business lending and tax cuts to spark growth,” Mr. Sperling added, “it is also important to show the world that we are following through on our commitment to long-term fiscal discipline.” *** Video flashback &#8211; The Taxman Cometh: My tax advice: Remember in November. ]]></description>
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		<title>Young Voters Slowly Abandoning Hope &amp; Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>supercop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ **Written by Doug Powers Could it finally be sinking in who exactly is going to be paying for all this alleged &#8220;free&#8221; stuff ? WASHINGTON &#8212; Young voters who had been enthralled by Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Yes, we can&#8221; message are now saying &#8220;Maybe not&#8221; &#8212; and are backing away from the president in a worrisome new poll for the White House. Obama is losing in a match-up against a generic Republican challenger by 37 percent to 34 percent among voters in the 18-34 age group, according to a stunning Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday. In March, voters in this group approved of Obama by 54 percent to 37 percent. &#8220;The youngest age group may be the most impatient and the most easily disillusioned among all age groups,&#8221; said Molly Andolina, a youth-vote expert and DePaul University political-science professor. &#8220;Easily disillusioned&#8221; is sociology-speak for &#8220;sucker.&#8221; Even &#8220;Obama Girl&#8221; was struck by reality a few months ago. This should give little comfort to conservatives, however. Unless the GOP fields worthy opponents, those disenchanted by the failure of rainbows, gumdrops and unicorns to materialize will have nowhere else to go but right back to the same people who continue to promise to deliver Shangri-La&#8230; eventually. But the current drop in youth support isn&#8217;t merely due to younger voters finally figuring out that Obama and the Democrats are using their credit card. There&#8217;s also what I call &#8220;The Peggy Effect.&#8221; Basically &#8220;The Peggy Effect&#8221; is this: Everybody who voted for Obama because of all the free stuff they’d be getting, such as the famed “Peggy the Moocher” (who was Obama’s freeloading answer to “Joe the Plumber”), have been running to their mailboxes for a year and a half now, and… pretty much nothing. No free mortgage; no free car; no free gas &#8212; hell, no free health care yet for that matter. It&#8217;s taking a toll on Obama&#8217;s approval ratings. Here’s Peggy back in happier times: Update: Obama tries to reel some of the disenchanted young lefties back into the Hope fold with this recorded message to the Netroots Convention in Vegas. JWF says: Basic theme of his message is to be patient, he&#8217;s working as hard as he can to screw things up. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe ]]></description>
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		<title>Some insurers stop writing new coverage for kids 
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - Some major health insurance companies will no longer issue certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday. ]]></description>
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		<title>Chamber of Commerce Prefers Rubio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>If Bush Did It</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I&#39;m not exactly surprised, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is endorsing Marco Rubio in Florida&#39;s Senate race. &#8220;We will endorse Marco Rubio because he has a record of standing up for the people of Florida during challenging economic times,&#8221; said Bill Miller, the U.S. Chamber&#8217;s senior vice president and political director who will attend the event with Rubio. &#8220;He is an invaluable leader who has a common sense approach to job creation and getting America back on the road to recovery.&#8221; &#8220;On issues ranging from competition in the health care industry, to lowering taxes, to reducing energy costs, Florida&#8217;s businesses and workers will have a tireless advocate in Marco Rubio,&#8221; Miller said. In total, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Associated Builders &#038; Contractors, the Associated Industries of Florida and the Club for Growth have all endorsed Rubio as the only candidate who will be a check-and-balance against the anti-jobs policies coming out of Washington and offer a clear alternative. Jim Geraghty ]]></description>
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		<title>Obamagasms on V-O Day at JournoList</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>supercop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ **Written by Doug Powers If you haven&#8217;t yet, be sure to check out the Daily Caller&#8217;s JournoList collection of various alleged journalists, reporters and others commenting about V-O Day &#8212; Victory for Obama &#8212; in the 2008 election. Before clicking the links and accessing the Obamagasms, cover yourself in plastic like you&#8217;re in the front row of a Gallagher concert just to be safe. Page 1 is here . Page 2 is here . These people make MSNBC&#8217;s Mr. Leg Thrill look like he had electile dysfunction that night. My personal favorite is from the author of What Liberal Media? The book, according to Amazon , is &#8220;Journalist Eric Alterman&#8217;s refutation of widely flung charges of left-wing bias.&#8221; Mr. Alterman&#8217;s response on election night 2008: &#8220;F&#8212;ing Nascar retards…&#8221; What liberal media? I&#8217;ll at least give a few of these folks credit for confining their full release to a message board and not doing it right there on national television like much of the mainstream media did on election night of 2008 and beyond . Update: When not busy cheerleading for Obama, some JournoList Obamaniacs were applying for the position of Plug-Puller-in-Chief on an upcoming Obamacare death panel : As reported in the Daily Caller, Sarah Spitz, producer of the KCRW public radio program “Left, Right and Center,” which is heard on a number of NPR stations across the country, wrote on JournoList that if she witnessed Limbaugh dying of a heart attack, she would “laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.” And they wonder why conservatives don&#8217;t want the left in charge of health care? **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe ]]></description>
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