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Nepo-India Territorial Disputes Transformation by Dialogue Means
Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
March 2021 – A territorial dispute occurs when official government representative of one country release explicit statement(s) claiming sovereignty and integrity over a specific portion of territory that is claimed or administered by another country. It is an explicit contention between two or more nation-states over a specific piece of the terrestrial territory. The ‘Issue Correlates of War Project’ identifies over 800 territorial disputes occurred internationally since 1816.
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Yemen: World’s Worst Humanitarian Disaster Triggered by Deadly Weapons from US and UK
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
It is caused by air attacks on Yemeni civilians by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Rarely has the world denounced the primary arms merchants, US and UK, for the more than 100,000 killings since 2015 due mostly to air strikes on weddings, funerals, private homes, villages and schools. Over 130,000 have died from shortages of food and medical care.
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(Italiano) Obiettivo giustizia. Convegno per studenti e insegnanti delle superiori della provincia di Brescia. Dedicato a Romano Colombini
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
14 Mar 2021 – Dedicato a Romano Colombini presidente della Commissione Scuola ANPI «Dolores Abbiati» di Brescia. L’incipit è affidato alle parole forti e conflittuali di un dialogo fra Antigone e Creonte. Dal silenzio, con una sapiente dissolvenza in apertura, dal nero, la presentazione del casus. In poche parole si consuma la straziante quanto irrinunciabile, violazione della legge di Creonte da parte di Antigone.
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Workers
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Working
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Exclusive: US Counterterrorism Operations Touched 85 Countries in the Last 3 Years Alone
George Petras, Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo | USA TODAY - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – These globe-spanning operations have cost the U.S. in blood and treasure and had a massive impact on populations around the world. Newer nonmilitary threats from climate change to cyberattacks raise questions about the utility of holding on to hundreds of foreign bases and deploying tens of thousands of troops overseas.
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My Win-Win Solution for Prince Harry and the Royal Family
Diane Perlman | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 – Being born into or marrying into a Royal Family thrusts one into a double bind. Double bind theory regards the dilemma of being confronted with conflicting, irreconcilable demands — one negating the other. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. One can neither resolve the dilemma nor opt out of the situation.
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What Does an Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Jeremy Lent | YES! Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Unless we move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to a life-affirming, ecological civilization, we will continue accelerating toward global catastrophe. A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.
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Keep Victoire Ingabire in Your Hearts
Ann Garrison | Black Star News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – At the outset of International Women’s History Month, I’d like to ask Black Star News readers to remember and keep in their hearts one of the most courageous women I know, Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza.
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What Went Right This Week: The Power of the Grassroots, Rare Toads Breed and More Positive News
Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 -Grassroots green efforts were deemed crucial and the world’s oldest known wild bird was revealed to have hatched a chick, plus the week’s other positive news.
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Myanmar Junta Crackdown Likely Crimes against Humanity Requiring Coordinated International Response – UN Expert
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
11 Mar 2021 – “The people of Myanmar need not only words of support but supportive action,” said Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. “They need the help of the international community, now.”
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Women Who Build the Future: Vandana Shiva
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – We open the series “Women who Build the Future: Towards a Nonviolent Culture“, with Vandana Shiva‘s interview. The renowned physicist, thinker and activist proposes ecofeminism as a response to the current moment, in which the capitalist patriarchy is leading us to destruction and death, after having colonized nature, women and the future.
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Correct?
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
Or did you?
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The Sovietization of the American Press
Reporting by Matt Taibbi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021 – The transformation from phony “objectivity” to open one-party orthodoxy hasn’t been an improvement.
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France: Sarkozy Found Guilty of Corruption, Sentenced to Prison
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
1 Mar 2021 – Former French president handed one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence over corruption and influence peddling.
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Framing Dynamic Transcendence of Simplistic Cognitive Polarization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021 – History may well find it remarkable the extent to which the present period cultivates the pretence of the adequacy of binary distinctions. Arguably these have even been embodied in the technologies on which civilization is now so dependent. In the case of the computer, this is most evident in the on/off distinction of logic gates — ironically at a time when progress in quantum computing is revealing other practical possibilities.
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United States Counterterrorism Operations, 2018-2020
Watson Institute/Brown University | Costs of War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Feb 2021 – From 2018 to 2020, the United States government undertook what it labeled “counterterrorism” activities in 85 countries. The map illustrates countries in which the U.S. government conducted operations it explicitly described as counterterrorism, in an outgrowth of President George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terror.”
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Greater Awareness Needed of Delayed Skin Reactions to Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
Eurasia Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – Phase 3 clinical data from the Moderna vaccine trial did show delayed skin hypersensitivity in a small number of the more than 30,000 trial participants. However, the authors say the large, red, sometimes raised, itchy or painful skin reactions were never fully characterized or explained, and they warn clinicians may not be prepared to recognize them and guide patients on treatment options and completion of the second dose of the vaccine.
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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Independent Science News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk. The real threat to life, he said, is “not missiles, but microbes.” When the coronavirus pandemic swept over the earth five years later, he revived the war language, describing the pandemic as “a world war.” In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited.
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For the Sixth Time, Israel Razes a Disabled Palestinian’s Home
Gideon Levy and Alex Levac | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Mar 2021 – A disabled man watches as a bulldozer demolishes his home. There’s no way for Palestinians to build legally on their own land in Isawiyah. Almost all the construction there has been illegal, but the Jerusalem Municipality has chosen to single out this man.
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An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Colonization
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan | Science for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
March 5th is Palestine Environment Day. The Palestinian environment is being attacked from all fronts. This article is about the Environmental Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine. ~~ Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish.
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War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence chairman Eric Schmidt–technical advisor to Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, which he was formerly CEO of: “Never before in my lifetime have I been more worried that we will soon be displaced by a rival or more aware of what second place means for our economy, our security, and the future of our nation.”
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Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – The recent U.S. airstrike in Syria in the context of 20 years of U.S. and allied/NATO bombing in the Greater Middle East and the secrecy that has enveloped U.S. bombing since Feb 2020, when Trump stopped publishing monthly U.S. Airpower Summaries.
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ElephantsInTheRoom – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
The Real, Sad Reality
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Why Big Pharma Shouldn’t Have Any Control over COVID-19 Vaccines
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them to get away with it.
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Will 2021 Be Public Banking’s Watershed Moment?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – Just over two months into the new year, 2021 has already seen a flurry of public banking activity. Sixteen new bills to form publicly-owned banks or facilitate their formation were introduced in eight U.S. states just in Jan and Feb. Faced with the dire Covid-19 crisis, some lawmakers are starting to see publicly-owned banks as the key to ensuring an equitable economic recovery.
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John Stone | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
2 Mar 2021 – Government data show that, compared with the Pfizer vaccine, there have been 43% more reports of injuries related to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, including 77% more adverse events and 25% more deaths — but no red flags from UK regulators.
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Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
No comment…
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The Attack That Never Happened: Cuba and the U.S. Fantasy of Sonic Attacks
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Globetrotter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
5 Mar 2021 – They called it “sonic attacks,” “health incidents,” and “Havana syndrome.” In September 2017, the United States government decided to withdraw all nonessential personnel and their families from their country’s embassy in Cuba. This decision was based on alleged inexplicable noises whose causes were unclear.
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Picnic Video Exposes Both Faces of Israeli Apartheid
Jonathan Cook | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
17 Feb 2021 – Israel upholds a system of Jewish supremacy over the land, and it doesn’t matter whether those challenging its apartheid rule are Palestinian subjects without rights or “Arab” citizens supposedly with full rights.
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By Putting Big Pharma’s Patents before Patients, Doctors Will Further Erode Trust in Experts
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
2 Feb 2021 – It is not just that expert institutions have been captured wholesale by corporate elites over the past 40 years and that, as a result, knowledge, experience and expertise have been sidelined in favour of elite interests – though that is undoubtedly true. The problem runs deeper: these institutions were rarely as competent or as authoritative as we fondly remember them being. They always served elite interests.
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21 Feb International Mother Language Day
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Protection of Cultural Diversity: The UN designated 21 Feb as International Mother Language Day in a1999 resolution to promote cultural and linguistic diversity among peoples. The UN had also stated: “When languages fade, so does the world’s rich tapestry of cultural diversity”.
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Philosopher Martin Buber on What Trees Teach Us about Being More Human…
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
… and Mastering the Difficult Art of Seeing Others as They Truly Are – Contemplating the difference between objectifying and subjectifying the universe. I and Thou, I-Thou. Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber explores his 1923 existentialist masterpiece, laying out his visionary lens on what makes us real to one another.
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Michael Che | Saturday Night Live - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – Michael Che’s joke about Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign pokes fun at a regime that does little to hide its supremacist and anti-Palestinian policies.
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Is It Too Late for Secrets?
Janet Phelan | Activist Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – The recent publication by the Associated Press of high resolution satellite photos of “sensitive” Israeli nuclear sites has some people worried. As it turns out, however, they may be worried about entirely the wrong thing.
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The Age of Social Murder
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
2 Mar 2021 – The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
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What Went Right This Week: Empathy Ads, the ‘Right to Repair’ and More Positive News
Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
5 Mar 2021 – Billboards promoting empathy appeared in London, Europeans won the ‘right to repair’ and mountain hares were protected in Scotland, plus the week’s other positive news.
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CERN: Scientists Discover Four New Particles – Here’s why They Matter
Patrick Koppenburg and Harry Cliff | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
3 Mar 2021 – The theory of tiny particles isn’t complete. But new discoveries are helping scientists expand it. The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva has now found a total of 59 new particles, in addition to the Nobel prize-winning Higgs boson.
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Analysis of India’s Nuclear Weapons Program
Anum A. Khan | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
28 Feb 2021 – It is India, not Pakistan, with the oldest and fastest growing nuclear program. India enjoys the leverage over Pakistan regarding fissile material estimates because it started its fissile material production more than two decades earlier than that of Pakistan.
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(Italiano) Una crescente militarizzazione: rischi in più per la pace e anche per l’ambiente
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
3 Marzo 2021 – La relazione finale di una ricerca che era stata commissionata da un gruppo politico (il Left Group del Parlamento Europeo) ai ricercatori di due associazioni che da molti anni sono impegnate nel denunciare – dati alla mano – i rischi e i danni ambientali causati dalle attività militari: una crescente militarizzazione produce rischi in più per la pace e anche per l’ambiente.
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
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Coronavirus Global Data: 117,5M+ Infected; 2,6M+ Deceased; 93M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
On 8 Mar 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccinated: 177,614,405
Total Cases: 117,494,091
Deaths: 2,606,572
Recovered: 93,005,401
Cases Closed: 95,611,973
Active: 24,658,478
Bossa Nova Jazz (Music Video of the Week)
HDnatureTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Playlist Piano Instrumental Slow Music
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Why Is Brazil Such a Basket Case?—The Role of U.S. Covert Action
Aidan O’Brien | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
6 Mar 2021 – Covid-19, murder, evangelical Christianity, crime, environmental destruction, drugs, shantytowns, inequality, corruption, doesn’t matter what you pick, Brazil is a world leader in them all—and more.
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International Women’s Day 8 Mar 2021
Achim Steiner | UNDP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
This year’s International Women’s Day is like no other. As countries and communities start to slowly recover from a devastating pandemic, we have the chance to finally end the exclusion and marginalization of women and girls. But to do that, we need immediate action.
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How India’s Farmers’ Protests Could Upend the Political Landscape
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
3 Mar 2021 – For the past three months, Indian farmers and agricultural workers have been in the middle of a difficult struggle against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tens of thousands of them have gathered around the capital city of New Delhi; they say that they will not disband unless the government […]
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A Review of the National Strategic Plan: South Africa an Odyssey of Domestic Violence
Prof. Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
The Presidential Summit against Gender-based Violence and Femicide is primarily an outcome of the mobilisation efforts by women living in South Africa who, on 1 Aug 2018, marched to express their indignation against the increasing levels of gender-based violence and femicide in the country, coupled with the ineffective judicial system, over the past years.
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Corrupting Democracy One Dollar at a Time
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Commodifying Democracy is a Costly Failure in America – Everyday I receive ten to twenty times more appeals for money to support this or that political campaign than I receive any kind of serious substantive statement of explanation or concern. And because this storm has become so deadening, the language of most appeals is nearly always hysterical, wildly exaggerating good or bad marginal developments designed to create a sense of urgency on the part of recipients.
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Where Does Plastic Pollution Go When It Enters the Ocean?
Bruce Sutherland, Michelle DiBenedetto and Ton van den Bremer | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – Each bit of plastic takes a unique journey once it reaches the ocean. We’re trying to spot the patterns.
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What Big Pharma’s Manufacturers of Fast-tracked Covid-19 Vaccines Don’t Want Doctors or Their Patients to Understand
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
7 Mar 2021 – The Actual/Absolute Risk Reduction [AAR] and the Number Needed to Vaccinate [NNV]: Truth-telling Statistics That Most Physicians Are Tragically Not Taught in Med School
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What It’s like to Be an ‘Official non-Jew’ in a Shamefully Ethnocentric Israel
Arkadi Mazin | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
4 Mar 2021 – Arriving in Israel 30 years ago, I never imagined my Jewish identity, worn so defiantly and proudly through the antisemitism-laced Soviet years, would be revoked by the Jewish state. And there are hundreds of thousands like me.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Negotiation means a joint undertaking by those in conflict with the aim of finding common interests that are acceptable to a large segment of the population. Thus, often an agreement must be more than a compromise. It must transcend the original negotiating positions to create a situation of positive peace–an advance in the welfare of much of the populations of the parties.
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Diane Perlman, PhD | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Analysis and Photo Essay – Moral outrage and mutual disparagement have devolved into a national sport. Tweets and opinion pieces make valid points criticizing the Conservative Political Action Conference for remaining a party of Trump, being a dangerous, fascistic, racist, white supremacist, golden calf-worshipping cult, using Nazi symbolism on their Odal Rune shaped stage, etc. I don’t entirely disagree.
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World Coronavirus Map
World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated Daily
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A Scientist’s Advice on Healing
Christy Ducker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Try to accept
this fat red hurt
is your starting point,
in the way a pen must be put to paper
in one particular spot,
Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.
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A German Court Punishes an International Crime Committed in Syria
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – The case is significant because it asserts the legal authority of a national court to impose accountability when the territorial sovereign is itself the culprit and international tribunals lack the means to pursue those most responsible for the commission of the most serious international crimes. In this instance, Russia and China vetoed an attempt in the UN Security Council to authorize allegations against Syria.
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Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat Participated in Covert UK Foreign Office-Funded Programs to “Weaken Russia,” Leaked Docs Reveal
Max Blumenthal | The Gray Zone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
20 Feb 2021 – New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
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A Human Approach to World Peace
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
There is unprecedented literacy, yet this universal education does not foster goodness, but only mental restlessness and discontent. The increase in material progress and technology did not succeeded in bringing about peace, happiness or in overcoming suffering… For renewal of human values and a lasting happiness, we need to look to the common humanitarian heritage of all nations. May this essay serve as an urgent reminder lest we forget the human values that unite us all as a single family on this planet.
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Nine Things That Need to Happen for New Inclusive Myanmar
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – Yesterday, millions of Myanmar’s people took to the streets in open defiance of the officially televised threats of a brutal crackdown by the Tatmadaw or military usurpers who thwarted their democratic aspirations with a pre-dawn coup of 1 Feb. Myanmar undergoing societally revolutionary moment with emerging new popular consciousness.
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The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
The Infinite Hotel is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. What if it’s completely booked, but one person wants to check in? What about 40? Or an infinitely full bus of people? Jeff Dekofsky solves these heady lodging issues using Hilbert’s paradox. Enjoy your stay!
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The ‘Vaccine Passport’ Agenda
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
22 Feb 2021 – Overall, medical aspects are only the operational level of the coronavirus pandemic: in countries where the median age of covid deaths is above 80 years, the public health impact of the pandemic will be quite limited and primarily related to serious cases of ‘long covid’. Indeed, even the WHO recently acknowledged that the coronavirus pandemic “wasn’t necessarily the big one”.
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Biden’s Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administration bombing the sovereign nation of Syria? Why is it bombing “Iranian-backed militias” who pose absolutely no threat to the United States and are actually involved in fighting ISIS?
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NASA: Applause for Perseverance Ignores Plutonium Bullet We Dodged
Karl Grossman | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
25 Feb 2021 – With all the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutonium—considered the most lethal of all radioactive substances (half-life of 24,100 years)—and nowhere in media was the NASA projection that there were 1-in-960 odds of an accidental release of the plutonium on the mission.
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The Dried-up Tree
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
A tree looks gorgeous when it is leafy and green
It provides us with twigs, clean air and oxygen
Birds build nests and lay their eggs in a green tree
…
So don’t bypass a dried up tree
Don’t avoid the lonesomeness of the elderly
Power as Subordination and Resistance as Disobedience: Nonviolent Movements and the Management of Power
Stellan Vinthagen | Asian Journal of Social Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
1 Jan 2006 – This text is a summary of chapter 6 in my dissertation in Swedish: Nonviolent Action: A Social Practice of Resistance and Construction. A preliminary version has appeared as a conference paper at the IPRA-International Peace Research Association conference and in Gandhi Marg Vol. 22, No. 2.
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Unless Miracles Happen, Iran Will Soon Be Bombed
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
The West-Iran conflict is extremely a-symmetric. It’s the West that historically sought to influence, change, threaten, demand obedience, and punish–with sanctions and more. It liquidated high-level politicians and scholars, shot down a civilian plane, demonised and excluded Iran. Not to speak of giving Saddam Hussein the chemical weapons and the green light for his war on Iran in 1980. Iran has not done similar harm to the West.
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Trump Administration Order Allowed Release of High-resolution Satellite Imagery of Israeli Nuclear Facility
Chaim Levinson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – A change to resolution limits of satellite imagery of Israel and the Palestinian territories, under a 1997 regulation enacted to protect Israel’s security interests, means more images of Israeli sites may be expected soon.
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Why I Support an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones and Drone Surveillance
Kathy Kelly | Covert Action Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
28 Feb 2021 – At a time in my life when I barely knew drones existed, a young Lebanese mother mourning the death of her six-year-old daughter, Zainab, helped me understand how monitoring by drones terrified her and her neighbors. It was the summer of 2006, during a war referred to as the Israeli-Hezbollah war.
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India Targets Climate Activists with the Help of Big Tech
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
27 Feb 2021 – Tech giants like Google and Facebook are aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists. The real threat that the toolkit represented to Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was always, at root, about the power of the farmers’ movement.
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Economic Value of Peace 2021: Measuring the Global Economic Impact of Violence and Conflict
Institute for Economics and Peace | Relief Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
27 Jan 2021 – This report estimates the economic impact of violence and conflict on the global economy. In 2019, it was estimated to be $14.4 trillion, the equivalent to 10.5 per cent of the global gross domestic product or $1,895 per person. The comprehensive methodology includes 18 indicators covering the direct and indirect costs of violence, and the expenditures to contain and prevent it.
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What Planet Is NATO Living On?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – The dangerously one-sided threat assessments on which NATO’s plans are based, the increased risk of nuclear war that they present, and the disconnect between NATO’s renewed Cold War against Russia and China and the views of people in NATO member countries.
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Confucius on Good Government, the 6 Steps to a Harmonious Society, and Self-Discipline as the Key to Democracy
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
Ezra Pound observed that China was tranquil and harmonious for as long as its rulers followed the teachings of Confucius, but dynasties collapsed into chaos and social catastrophe as soon as these principles were neglected. “Things have roots and branches… If the root be in confusion, nothing will be well governed.” — Confucius
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Starry, Starry Night (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
Don Mclean’s Moving Tribute Song to Vincent Van Gogh
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Assange’s Partner Exposes Ongoing Denial of His Legal and Democratic Rights
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
22 Feb 2021 – Assange is still being denied proper access to his lawyers and to crucial legal documents. In an online post last week, Stella Moris, the partner of Julian Assange and mother of his two young children, outlined the ongoing denial of the WikiLeaks founder’s fundamental legal and democratic rights, even after a British Magistrates’ Court ruled early last month against his extradition to the United States.
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Kizito Mihigo and the Struggle for Rwandan Truth and Reconciliation
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
17 Feb 2021 – A year ago Rwandan gospel singer Kizito Mihigo tried to flee Rwanda by crossing into Burundi. He had already spent four years in prison for recording a song in which he dared to say that the Rwandan Genocide was a tragedy for both major ethnicities, Hutu and Tutsi “Police apprehended Kizito at the Burundian border and days later reported that he’d hung himself in jail.”
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Chalmers Johnson: Portrait of a Sagging Empire
Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
21 Feb 2021 – Today, an oldie but goodie. Peering into the future is usually a perilous undertaking no matter who you are, which makes Chalmers Johnson’s final piece, just months before he died in Nov 2010, little short of remarkable. In terms of the American imperial project, he had a striking sense of just what might happen if we didn’t begin dismantling that empire (and all the global military garrisons and wars that went with it).
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(Italiano) La violenza nucleare è il motivo per cui viviamo nell’Antropocene
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Febbraio 2021 – Comprendo l’essenza del consenso emerso da questa discussione dell’eloquente scritto di Paul Raskin. Infatti si tratta di un’accettazione dell’Antropocene come un terribile avvertimento che la specie umana è destinata al disastro, se non all’estinzione, se la sua impronta ecologica non sarà notevolmente ridotta in un futuro relativamente prossimo.
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Travesty of Political and Economic Aspirations in the Nepali Republic
Kedar Neupane – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – Development observers and analysts, who followed decades of events, are neither optimistic nor encouraged by what occurred in Nepal. Perpetual political rhetoric only added to negative perception on political governance as factional interest groups continue to engage in street demonstrations. Surprisingly, leaders were labeling accusations and throwing innuendos on each other’s performance.
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US’ Attempts to Wall Itself Off from Terror Unleashed by Years of Its Brutal Intervention in Guatemala Are Cruel and Immoral
Daniel Kovalik | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – One thing Americans fail to understand is that wars and military interventions against other countries have profound effects that can last for many decades. The effects do not simply end with the signing of a peace treaty or the withdrawal of troops. There may be no better example of this than the case of US intervention in Guatemala beginning almost 70 years ago.
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The Spectre of Domestic Violence and Its Progeny: A South African Perspective
Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
25 Feb 2021 – This singular act of people staying at home resulted in an increase in generalised domestic violence and the birth of its progenies in the form of GBV-Gender Based Violence and VAWAC-Violence Against Women and Children. According to non-governmental organization, Amnesty International, GBV increased in at least five southern African countries during different Covid-19 lockdowns
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How Do You Define Peace?
Johan Galtung | Al Jazeera/The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
April 2012 – Is US global dominance in decline? We discuss the future of geopolitics with Prof. Johan Galtung.
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World Life Expectancy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
Country Health Profile: How does Coronavirus/Covid19 rank among other illnesses? Is it the most lethal? Welcome to World Life Expectancy. Find info, insights, numbers, statistics on health and causes of death. Updated daily.
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Moralizing AI Weaponry
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – The Congressional panel, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, recommends that the US military launch a major program to develop autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence software. Panel leader, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, wants $20-30 billion in the program. Vice-chairman Robert Work said: “It is a MORAL IMPERATIVE to at least pursue this hypothesis,” he said.
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BTI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
Why?
→ read full articleCoronavirus Global Data: 114,7M+ Infected; 2,5M+ Deceased; 90,3M+ Recovered
Worldometer and Avi Schiffmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
On 1 Mar 2021 12pm GMT:
Total Vaccines in Development: 199
Total Cases: 114,747,113
Deaths: 2,544,373
Recovered: 90,301,769
Cases Closed: 92,846,142
Active: 21,900,971
Democratic Republic of Congo: Need for Reconciliation, Bridge-Builders
René Wadlow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – The people in eastern Congo have lived together for many centuries and developed techniques of conflict resolution. However, the influx of a large number of Hutu, local political considerations, a desire to control the wealth of the area — rich in gold, tin and tropical timber — all these factors have overburdened the local techniques of conflict resolution and have opened the door to new, negative forces interested only in making money and gaining political power.
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Leaked Docs: OP. HMG Trojan Part 4 – Undermining Russia
Matthew Doer | Anonymous - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
4 Feb 2021 – This isn’t a conspiracy-theory but now it’s a conspiracy-fact, and perhaps it’s even the best-documented conspiracy in all of the world’s history. It’s laid-out in excruciating detail, but unfortunately leaves room to speculate or hypothesize who the people are at the very top. Is the Queen informed of this? Does she actually run it? If not, what is her opinion of this, which has been going on in her own name? Will the ‘news’-media probe to find out? Or will all of this just be buried?
— Eric Zuesse
“America Is Back” – Joe Biden’s US Foreign Policy
Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – The fact that the US can with impunity punish a third of humanity (39 nations) with illegal sanctions – what the UN calls unilateral coercive measures – is a measure of its hegemonic standing. These sanctions are a form of “hybrid warfare,” which can be just as deadly as outright war. Although Biden is reviewing the sanctions policy, considering the COVID-19 pandemic, he is expected to “keep using [the] US sanctions weapon but with sharper aim,” as reported by Reuters.
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No to the Privatization of the Brazilian Central Bank
Marcos Arruda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – Central banks are by nature public because they formulate and administer the country’s Monetary Policy and invest in the “real economy”, i.e. the part of the economy concerned with socioeconomic development and the production of goods and services. The CB does not have itself as an end but is a means to guarantee the adequate quantity of money and its circulation for the good of all.
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The Pine-eyed Boy Escapes from the Belly of the Dark Night in the Fish’s Tale
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
24 Feb 2021 – We are now living in a world where freedom has been replaced by dim grim grimaces of widespread depression and resignation as the shroud of solicitous neofascism descends upon us. Human freedom is under widespread assault. Free speech is being attacked. Censorship is widespread and growing. Flesh and blood life is being sucked into a whirlpool of “a universe of disembodied data.”
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WTO COVID-19 TRIPS Waiver Proposal
MSF Access Campaign | Médecins Sans Frontières – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
The COVID-19 TRIPS waiver as proposed appropriately addresses the legal barriers to maximizing production and supply of medical products needed for COVID-19 treatment and prevention. It is limited in time and the scope of application to cover COVID-19-related technologies during the pandemic. Countries that consider the waiver unnecessary for their national context can choose not to use it once granted without blocking the consensus process at WTO.
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Getting the Social Cost of Carbon Right
Nicholas Stern and Joseph E. Stiglitz | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
15 Fev 2021 – US President Joe Biden’s administration must put a high enough price on carbon pollution to encourage the scale and urgency of action needed to meet the commitments that it has made to Americans and the rest of the world. The future of the planet depends on it.
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You Be the Judge
johnny gas for labor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
No kidding…
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‘Held to Ransom’: Pfizer Demands Governments Gamble with State Assets to Secure Vaccine Deal
Madlen Davies , et al. | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments in Covid vaccine negotiations and has asked some countries to put up sovereign assets, such as embassy buildings and military bases, as a guarantee against the cost of any future legal cases, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.
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Michelangelo (6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
In his youth, Michelangelo Buonarroti had taunted a fellow student, and received a blow on the nose that disfigured him for life. Over the years, he suffered increasing infirmities from the rigors of his work; in one of his poems, he documented the tremendous physical strain that he endured by painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Political strife in his beloved Florence also gnawed at him, but his most notable enmity was with fellow Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was more than 20 years his senior.
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(Italiano) Le mani di Pechino su Israele: i miliardi investiti nel porto di Haifa e l’ispezione negata agli Usa. Il nuovo fronte di rivalità con Washington
Lorenzo Forlani | Il Fatto Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
27 febbraio 2021 – La Shanghai International Port Group, nell’ambito della Belt and Road Initiative, sta costruendo un nuovo terminal per container su un’area di 830mila metri quadrati, nel quale avrà diritto ad operare per 25 anni. Un’operazione che preoccupa gli Stati Uniti e che darà vita al “porto più avanzato del Mediterraneo”. Ma da Washington suona il campanello d’allarme.
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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Prize acceptance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for Civil Rights and Social Justice. King adhered to Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. In 1955 he began his struggle to persuade the US Government to declare the policy of racial discrimination in the southern states unlawful. The racists responded with violence to the black people’s nonviolent initiatives. (The Norwegian Nobel Institute)
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US Bombs Syria & Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on “U.S. locations” in Iraq, another nation the U.S. invaded and is illegally occupying. It is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. The U.S. is always necessarily the aggressor.
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Malaysia Deports 1,086 Myanmar Nationals Despite Court Order
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
23 Feb 2021 – Malaysia has deported 1,086 Myanmar nationals, despite a court order temporarily halting the repatriation amid concerns the group could be at risk if they are returned to military-ruled Myanmar.
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What Went Right This Week: Women Rise at FTSE Firms, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
25 Feb 2021 -The number of FTSE female directors was found to have doubled in five years, a bird missing for nearly two centuries reappeared and plans for a major UK gas power plant were shelved, plus the week’s other positive news.
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