28, 2011 Op-Ed, 674 words Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers We're chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse.

http://www.otherwords.org/articles/pay_up_corporate_tax_dodgers http://www.otherwords.org/articles/pay_up_corporate_tax_dodgersFebruary 28, 2011 Op-Ed, 674 words Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers We're chumps unless we force Congress to stop tax haven abuse.  By Chuck Collins Instead of cutting state and federal budgets, the United States should crack down on the corporate tax dodgers thumbing their noses at us. Across the nation, states are making deep cuts that will wreck the quality of life for everyone to close budget gaps that total more than $100 billion. But there's a more sensible option. Overseas tax havens enable companies to pretend their profits are earned in other countries like the  Cayman Islands. Simply making that ruse illegal would bring home an estimated $100 billion a year. The next time you read a story about some politician bemoaning that "there's no money" and "we have to make cuts," just point to artful tax dodgers in our midst. They include some of the banks that trashed the economy but gladly took our tax dollars to stay alive after the economic meltdown. Bank of America. Wells Fargo. Citigroup. Goldman Sachs took a $10 billion taxpayer bailout but then gamed its effective tax rate down to one percent through what its shakedown-artist executives call "changes in geographic earnings mix." Shame on them. Pay up. See that FedEx delivery van go by on the roads you paid for? Pay up FedEx! Don't pretend you're not making billions in the U.S. Don't lie and tell us you made all those profits on some island with more palm trees than people. We know the demand for coconut delivery isn't that big. These corporations are heavy users of our taxpayer funded public infrastructure and property rights protection systems. They use our regulated marketplace, call upon our law enforcement system and judiciary to remedy disputes. They're protected by U.S. police forces and firefighters. They enjoy all the privileges and benefits of tax-paying citizens. They just don't pay their fair share for them. So, ExxonMobil: the next time your gas station erupts in flames, why don't you call the fire department on the Cayman Islands? Or when someone  holds up the joint, how about calling the Luxembourg police, since that's where you claim your profits so you don't have to pay the taxes you owe Uncle Sam. Hey, Pfizer. Without our remarkable taxpayer-funded system of patents and intellectual property rights protections, everyone and their brother would be making Viagra and undercutting your sales of little blue pills. Pay up! Those of us who pay sales taxes and have income taxes withheld from our paychecks will bear the brunt of state and federal budget cuts in schools, public transportation, and recreational facilities. Our most vulnerable family members and neighbors will suffer thanks to cuts in mental health services, elder care, and Medicaid. Oh yes, and children. Arizona is cutting health care for 47,000 children. California, New York, and Mississippi are cutting K-12 education funding. Hey, kids don't vote. Nor do they have corporate lobbyists. An estimated 900,000 jobs will be cut, including teachers, firefighters, police officers, and medical first responders. Boeing, you want another contract for a taxpayer-funded military jet? Well, pay up! Pay up General Electric, Mattel, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco. Yes, we know you pay some taxes. But look these children who are losing their health insurance and teaching aides in the eye. Tell them you're paying your fair share. These global corporations will complain that forcing them to pay their fair share of taxes will "kill jobs." Let's be clear: the patriotic businesses that currently pay their taxes and have to compete against these tax dodgers are the employers we want. Forcing domestic banks, retailers, and manufacturers to have to compete against companies that can game the tax system undercuts U.S. jobs. The next time you're waiting longer for a bus or train than you should, or someone you know can't get timely mental health or drug treatment services, remember the tax dodgers. The next time your car hits a pothole or your kid's teacher loses her job, remember the corporations that are using armies of accountants to lower their tax bills. In a democracy, if we sit back and just grumble, we get what we deserve. We're chumps until we wake up and force our members of Congress to stop tax haven abuse. Chuck Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. http://www.ips-dc.org http://www.otherwords.org/articles/pay_up_corporate_tax_dodgers Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:04:37 -0400 http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/maceo_protests_at_deficit_talks_in_washington Subject: FYI 10yr old Maceo Protests at Deficit Talks in Washington July 29, 2011 · By Lacy MacAuley http://www.ips-dc.org/staff/lacy                A 10-year-old's perspective of the debt ceiling debacle. http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/maceo_protests_at_deficit_talks_in_washington Rallies and demonstrations on the debt ceiling crisis are expected to roll through Washington throughout the weekend, as long as Congress, House Speaker John Boehner, and President Barack Obama fail to resolve the deficit crisis that threatens to take the U.S. and global economy down a notch. Tea partiers, flag-waving labor unions, peace activists, gun-loving libertarians,  and everyday Americans have all been showing up at the Capitol steps to have their say in the budget debacle. If Obama, Boehner, and Congress listened to the wisdom of 10-year-olds, and made the wealthy pay their fair share for this  budget, kids like Maceo wouldn’t inherit such a large debt burden for them to pay back through their taxes. Photo by Karen Dolan. Yesterday, 10-year-old Maceo Dolan-Sandrino was among the demonstrators. Maceo is from Maryland, just on the outskirts of Washington, the son of IPS Fellow Karen Dolan. He attended yesterday’s rally at the Capitol to oppose the cuts to our social safety net, services like healthcare and income assistance that many Americans rely upon through hard times. I thought it might be interesting  to get a 10-year-old’s perspective on the day’s events. I asked Maceo what he thought about the protest. At first, Maceo reported that he hadn’t really listened to anything, and that his feet had hurt. But when I asked him again, I got a different answer. “The protest was about how John Boehner was going to take away social security and how he was going to – um, it was something about the taxes,” said Maceo. “Planned Parenthood was there and they had signs that said, ‘Don’t take away our birth control.’” I asked Maceo if he realized that the United States was in debt, and that Obama, Boehner, and Congress were trying to decide  whether to borrow more money. In return, Maceo offered a surprisingly searing analysis. “It’s because the rich and wealthy people aren’t paying their fair share of taxes, and all of the big corporations are finding loopholes not to pay taxes, and then we don’t have enough money to pay our debts,” he said. I found this comment to be incredibly astute. As IPS Fellow Chuck Collins wrote in an article for OtherWords, “Overseas tax havens enable companies to pretend their profits are earned in other countries like the Cayman Islands. Simply making that ruse illegal would bring home an estimated $100 billion a year.” Making sure our government doesn’t tax the highest income brackets is another way the wealthy avoid paying their fair share of taxes.  Since 1970, “the top marginal tax rate on our richest has been halved, from 70 to 35 percent, and our rich have become phenomenally richer,” wrote Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez in an article this month on toomuchonline.org. And you can bet that this tax rate plunge had a lot to do with campaign contributions to friendly elected officials. Money talks, Congress listens. Unlike Obama, Boehner, or most members of Congress, Maceo intends to stick around for quite a while in order to help pay back the debt now being discussed in Washington. I asked Maceo about how he felt about our politicians leaving future generations to pick up the tab  after the government has had its spending frenzy. “I don’t feel good at all. No, I don’t think I’m going to have that money, because I know I’m going to have a family to take care of. So, I don’t feel good about that at all.” Maceo is a sharp kid. If Obama, Boehner, and Congress listened to the wisdom of 10-year-olds, and made the wealthy pay their fair share for this budget, kids like Maceo wouldn’t inherit such a large debt burden for them to pay back through their taxes. Tax the rich. For kids like Maceo. ... Disqus LoginAbout DisqusLike Dislike Glad you liked it. Would you like to share? Facebook Twitter Share No thanks Sharing this page … Thanks! Close Add New Comment Post as …  Showing 1 comment Sort by  Popular now Best rating Newest first Oldest first   Subscribe by email   Subscribe by RSS   Dolan Kl  1 day ago  smart kid! ;-) Flag Like ReplyReply Reactions   annaew_dc 1 day ago     From  twitter   9yr old told me similar. Maybe the cause is just that clear! MT @lacymacauley 10-yr-old Maceo wisdom on deficit ceiling.  http://htl.li/5QJqP   lacymacauley 1 day ago     From  twitter   NEW BLOG POST: 10-year-old Maceo offers wisdom on the deficit ceiling debacle. 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"There's a certain stench of hypocrisy." Gingrich should know something about the stench of hypocrisy. He stinks to high heaven from it. This hypocrite is the man who served his first wife with divorce papers while she lay in a hospital bed. He divorced his second wife after his screwing of a House staffer became public while he was Speaker  of the House and leading the GOP charge against Clinton.  This is the same Newt Gingrich who used  to take campaign volunteers back to his car and so they could give him blow jobs. Home / Print This Page / Email this page Sex scandals, blow jobs and the stench of hypocrisy October5,2006 7:53 AM  Rant 31 Comments. By DOUG THOMPSON Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the shameless hypocrite who left Congress under a cloud of ethical questions  and publicly chastised Bill Clinton while sneaking out on his wife and nailing a House Agriculture Committee staffer, is now claiming Democrats have bigger sex scandals than Republicans. "What we don't have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality," Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in  Greenville, SC, Wednesday. "There's a certain stench of hypocrisy." Gingrich should know something about the stench of hypocrisy. He stinks to high heaven from it. This hypocrite is the man who served his first wife with divorce papers while she lay in a hospital bed. He divorced his second wife after his screwing of a House staffer became public while he was Speaker of the House and leading the GOP charge against Clinton. This is the same Newt Gingrich who used to take campaign volunteers back to his car and so they could give him blow jobs. Just ask Ann Manning, a married woman back home in Georgia who admits to an affair with Gingrich. "We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her,'" says Manning. Dot Crews remembers Gingrich's failed campaign for Congress in 1974. "We would have won in 1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her (a young volunteer on Gingrich's staff) on the desk," Crews says. Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, remembers a football game in Gingrich's district. She was walking Gingrich's two daughters  back from the game and cut across the parking lot when she spied the Congressman's car. "As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down," Carter says. "Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then." I worked for Gingrich in 1992, raising money for GOPAC, his political action committee. During fundraisers at homes in the Washington  area, he would whisper something in the ear of a sweet young thing and they would disappear for 30-45 minutes. "Newt's getting a blow job," a female GOPAC staffer told me. "He likes blow jobs." At the Republican National Convention in Houston in 1992, a GOPAC volunteer was assigned to escort young women to a hotel room for quickie oral sex and stand guard outside to make sure the Congressman was not disturbed.  I found one of those women crying in the hotel bar afterwards. "He's a pig," she said. "He made me get down on my knees and fellate him and then turned his back to me and told me to leave as soon  as he came." So, I asked, "why did you do it?" "I work for him," she said. "I want to keep my job." When the Republicans were trying their best to impeach and convict Bill Clinton for lying about his oral dalliances with White House  intern Monica Lewinsky, Gingrich was stepping out on his wife and sampling the sexual pleasures of Calista Bisek, a long and lean Capitol Hill Blonde more than 20 years his junior.  He told friends he would read the Bible while waiting for her to finish singing each week at The National Cathedral, which I guess  gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: "Oh God, I'm coming!"  Gingrich dumped his wife and married Bisek but GOP insiders tell me he is still up to his old tricks with any woman who is willing. Gingrich is not the only tail chaser in the Republican Party. When he stepped down amid scandal, his first replacement, Rep. Bob Livingston of Louisiana, had to back out after admitting he cheated on his wife. Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana fathered a child out of wedlock and put his mistress on the House payroll. Even grandfatherly Henry J. Hyde, whom some suggest should replace current  House Speaker Dennis J. Hastert if he is forced out because of the Mark Foley Congressional page scandal, admitted to a long affair  in his younger days. Democrats have their whore hounds as well and neither party can claim any moral high ground when it comes to sexual hijinks, but it  is the Republican Party that claims to be holier-than-thou and preaches "family values." For Gingrich to now claim Republicans are somehow better than others when it comes to sex scandals is a bald-faced lie and the height of hypocrisy, even for Washington. And somebody in Greenville probably gave him a blow job before he left town. © Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill Blue Doug Thompson also publishes a personal web site at Blue Ridge Muse. We welcome reader comments. Unfortunately, because of problems from spammers and other disrupters we have been forced to discontinue our feature that allows direct posting of comments to articles. 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Posted by: John Hanks October 5, 2006 8:27 AM I always thought Newt was a Buddy, you know a guy who goes to town and gets two blow jobs and comes home and gives you one. Wathing PBS last night really opened my eyes on The Young Republicans who grew up. You know the #1 man Abermoff the lobby King who partners with DeLay scamed money from the Indian Casinos, to get favors from the higher-ups in the White House.   These College "buddies" sure knew how to work the system along with little "Newt of Ethics" was the biggest HYPOCRITS of them all. So what we have learned from all this is politicians are human. Simply put that money breeds coruption, and these "crooks" lack of a better word, Owe there alligence to none, espeically the CONSTITUTION. I wondered how little Georgie Bush never got caught with his finger in the money box...Oh what a tangled web Posted by: anthny October 5, 2006 8:41 AM Has anyone else noticed the deafening silence from the “family values” (spelled: “homophobe”) wing of the Republican Party over all this? But, sadly, I’m not sure the price of admission to watch this three-ring circus is anywhere CLOSE to being worth what we are paying for it in taxes. Posted by: keith October 5, 2006 9:09 AM After being in the church for years and observing church goers for another 60 years I can only report that there is an obsession with sex in all of their values. Their list of Christians' sins stem from out- populating other sects and cults. Those Christians who discover they are gay simply have to hide and some even marry and produce children for a cover. Sadly a portion of their offspring are also gay. I'd lived so closely to the Evangelicals I tried to warn the GOP to step away from them and keep a successful agenda of limited government. I've attended revival meetings where people practically copulate in public in their mania for Jesus Christ. What I was not aware of were how many Christian families abused their own children. I discovered that when I went to work for a couple of "at-risk" teen groups. There is nothing more evil than taking advantage of one's clerks (male of female) but to abuse children is enough for me to step away from any lecherous Christians. We must protect our children since we haven't raised our own young women to stay out of trouble with these awful politicians. What these Republicans have taught us all is keep abortions legal!!! Posted by: Sandy Price October 5, 2006 9:40 AM At least the Clinton blow job involved a consenting adult, (Monica). In the Foley case the situation involves teenage pages. During the Clinton scandal we had to endure endless hours of sperm, cigar, stained dress descriptions. When will we the public be able to read the Foley emails? I could care less about cheating government officials, but the way Republicans carried on about Bill Clinton, I'm all for calling the R's out on their hypocrisy. And since when did alcoholism turn anyone into a pedophile. Foley used government property to try and lure young boys over to his boat house to ride his Johnson. Makes you wonder. Posted by: Dave Jelliff October 5, 2006 9:42 AM Well folks you are finally letting the real Newt be known - something us Georgians have known about him for years - but many of whom thought and some probably still do think - he walks on water. In my eyes he walks in the sewer. But does he have enough people fooled that they would actually want him for president? Oh dear God I pray not. Slime is slime is slime whether democrat or republican - libertarian - or anything else. But you know what I have found out in the many years I have lived - those who are yelling the most about the splinter in someone else's eye has an enormous plank to remove from their own and in time it all comes out and we see them for what they are. Glad the truth about Newt is finally coming out. Posted by: Eleanor  October 5, 2006 10:29 AM Oh one more thing - Calista honey don't get sick or get some disease cause Newtie will dump you like he did the other two. Posted by: Eleanor  October 5, 2006 10:31 AM These people are obsessed with sex just like hungry people on a diet with food. Their stand against abortion and contraceptives is really to punish women for having had sex, it has nothing to do with life.  They do hate women., Gingrich and Falwell and the rest of them. Posted by: Lysistrata October 5, 2006 10:48 AM This is where hypocrisy has replaced real governance as a reason for power. Since Reagan stated that "government was the problem" the GOP has had to come up with a strategy to explain the greater and greater need for money and the power that feeds it. If you can't govern and don't want to what is your means of energising the votes to stay in power. You NEED hypocrisy to do that. You NEED to play the religous folk to take their money like TV preachers. The poor have paid for this hypocrisy with their money and dreams. The greedy rich (all wealthy people are not alike folks) just winked and paid off. The GOP knows they are hypocrits but that is the only card they can play. The fear game of Bush is just another wink, wink, nudge, nudge lie in it. Posted by: Thucydides2k  October 5, 2006 11:22 AM Doug, Thanks so much for your insight. And these pieces of human crap are our leaders? The whole system is rotten to the core. One must wonder - to what god do these people  pray? I'm not a religious man but I do indeed pray for the day when these vermin of Washington are swept away to the delousing stations of history where they belong. Posted by: Tim October 5, 2006 11:22 AM Am I to infer there are those, really, to whom these things come as a surprise? Power corrupts.....and you know the rest, I hope. Term limits, people - TERM LIMITS. Posted by: Joe Lawrence October 5, 2006 12:21 PM I agree that Gingrich is another form of slime, as Foley is. There is no party immunity from this. (Ques: Is it an ethical no-no for Libertarians?) Concerning "Conservative homophobia", if that means that I would rather kiss Ann Coulter than Doug Thompson, then I have it. Posted by: Fred Goepfert  October 5, 2006 12:55 PM I knew you couldn't stop the rant, Doug. Our federal government is so hopelessly screwed (pun intended) that any sane person has to scream sometime, somewhere. Keep the rants coming. Its nice to know that I'm not the only American thats outraged by the behavior of the power hungry elite that rule our nation. Posted by: Chuck October 5, 2006 4:23 PM Well, no, technically speaking, power doesn't corrupt at all. The corruption comes from total egotism. And total egotism, for whatever reason it does, has a rather intense craving for sadism to be going on. And we call this combination of total egotism and sadism "evilness" because it does evilness. (Well, duh-h-h...) For someone who doesn't have total egotism, there would never be any corruption problem. For that someone, power is simply something that needs to be used when it needs to be used to get done the things that need to be gotten done. Whereas for someone who is mentally ill with total egotism, power is used when it shouldn't be and used inappropriately to accomplish things that are dishonorable. It's the mental illness that causes the corruption, not power. About all I know about total egotism that it is an offshoot of personal opinionism... a personal opinion that one is more special, exalted, elite, more blah blah blah than others. How personal opinionism manifests in this particular way, I have absolutely no idea. It's so completely insane, though, because it's so completely untrue. But, that's why mental illness is called illness rather than mental health. Posted by: South Point Man  October 5, 2006 5:29 PM America, The Land Of Opportunity. You can be in the Congress or maybe even be President. Then you can get blow-jobs whenever you want. Only in America! Posted by: Fred Goepfert October 5, 2006 5:41 PM GOP, Group Of Pedophiles. nuff said Posted by: gerry o.  October 5, 2006 6:29 PM GOP = Gay Ol' Party LOL. Saddest thing about all this? This just gives the GOP and it's cronies (Dobson, et al) the ammunition to say Gays are evil. Sad. Posted by: Beady Eye Guy  October 5, 2006 7:01 PM Doug, I love you!! You always know how to make me smile...I just don't know why anyone does'nt exploit these phoney's. Is there  any truth to Bohemian Grove? Posted by: Mary G  October 5, 2006 7:30 PM i'll be much happier when i hear of the untimely deaths of them all. Posted by: Joe  October 5, 2006 9:38 PM Please link king george's name with some DNA so that we can get rid of him. Lieing doesn't count about anything except sex.... So please. Maybe we could take up a collect and hire someone to frame him. I do think that Monica framed Bill. Posted by: rbank  October 5, 2006 10:21 PM as the system comes-apart we the people stand in line and say nothing and don't watch. the time is coming when people will ask what happened to our rights, foley is just one of many who hate this nation and use people like pigs. do you know that the red chinese have execution buses? and this government has made a deal to sell cars from red china? here  and to you! ask not about what you can do but what can i do in the coming mass murder that this government and its rats are  planning for you! its your life and if the pigs in the one world "ideals" have anything to say your days are number. think freedom from evil doers inside our own government of rat and sell-outs who want buy your kids for sex, our congress is full of boy raping pigs.  don't fall for the global idea. Posted by: Fred Dawes  October 5, 2006 11:00 PM "Is there any truth to Bohemian Grove?" Answer: Yes. http://cremationofcare.com/illu_bohemian_grove.htm Publically, these nincompoops claim what "real christians" they are to placate and bamboozle the gullible. But privately, they are worshipping unto an ancient middle eastern demon deity with human sacrifice. Bizarre, grotesque, disgusting, but true. They claim they are just having fun and blowing off steam. But if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's a duck. If they are worshipping unto a demon deity, then that's what they are doing: worshipping unto a demon deity.  I'm not christian myself and no scholar on christianity, but I'm pretty, pretty sure this kind of stuff is severely frowned upon and not considered a part of christianity. Any of you who are christians, please feel free to jump in here and correct me that worshipping unto Molech with human sacrifice  is indeed an essential part of the christian practice... Posted by: South Point Man  October 6, 2006 3:59 AM Wow. Just makes me wanna be a Congressman! All that sex AND all the money you can carry away from the lobbyist's office too? Sheesh! Talk about the good life.... no wonder these guys would pimp their moms to get in there. Posted by: dave  October 6, 2006 7:32 AM republicans have done such a good job at mismanageing the gov't that now even less people beleive that it can do any good. this was all part of the plan of course, the gop hates government and thinks its only purpose is to help the investor class-  they've made it so dysfunctional. the gop has been in power in congress for over ten years and look any any major issue facing this country- healthcare -worse, education- worse,the economy -worse(except for investors) security-worse -every issue right down the line -worse! Why are they still in power - fears and smears! Posted by: the man  October 6, 2006 10:22 AM Molech is a Babylonian god used in Ba'al worship where people would sacrifice their children buy burning them alive or making them "pass through the fire" the bible condems Molech and this practice, 2Kings 23:10-Jeremiah 32:35. Posted by: Agent 86  October 6, 2006 10:52 AM The word in DC was that Newt's favorite BJ's were those provided by the pages solicited by his pals from Florida and Illinois-- Denny Dessert Hastert and Feel-em Foley. Then the three would all meet for a menage a Pentagon plus one. Debauchery almost unknown since the Roman Empire and the days of Caligula, or until Cheney came along blasting his pals with birdshot. Posted by: Bill Robinson October 6, 2006 9:25 PM But Newtie-boy has his nose up close with the Christian Right. He can be forgiven for his duplicity and his total lack of moral values. The whole bunch are self-righteous anarchists who should be sent to Afghanistan to live the life of a real Taliban. Posted by: len  October 7, 2006 8:06 AM Whether you are a volunteer or paid staffer for a campaign, having to give the candidate blowjobs to keep your position is not all  that different from pages humoring (as I believe many of them did) a congressman who is obviously interested in them sexually. The power imbalance makes it all inexcusable. And Clinton's dalliance with Monica was between consenting adults, as technically were the conversations between Foley and the pages.  The age-of-consent in Washington is 16, and pages must be 16 to participate in the program. Age-of-consent means a person can decide to have sex with any adult they choose to, and by extension that would include having sexually explicit conversations. They may be minors, but they are over the age-of-consent. If that's a contradiction, fine, but that's how it is. Foley isn't a  "pedophile," "child molester," or sexual harasser. The pages aren't "children," and the harassee has to tell the harasser to cool  it. Many of the pages didn't, for whatever reason. Let's keep it real here. Posted by: rrk1  October 9, 2006 6:38 PM I received a threatening anonymous call from a Gingrich goon because I protested his speech at hypocritical Catholic U. Posted by: M.  October 9, 2006 10:26 PM In response to Chuck, you're partly right. Power doesn't necessarilly corrupt. I prefer the rewrite of the adage proffered by Frank Hebert, author of the Dune series. Power attracts the corruptable. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptable. Posted by: tom  October 9, 2006 10:55 PM Perhaps the worst part is that the whole scandal over Foley has effectively distracted most people from the facts that we are still fighting a losing battled in Iraq, North Korea just went nuclear, and the middle class is going down faster than, well, Newt Gingrich's campaign staffers. 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