JAG Hangs Ukrainian Criminals – January 17, 2024


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By:Michael Baxter

The United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps on January 9 fulfilled its promise to execute Ukrainian presidential aid Andriy Yermak and Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, whom panelists convicted of espionage against the United States at Camp Blaz earlier this month.

The tyrannical twosome, who had temporarily enriched themselves with American taxpayer dollars, found themselves standing atop a pair of gallows at Camp Blaz early last Wednesday morning. JAG and the Office of Military Commissions had picked a Marine Corps NCO, Seargent Major Daniel A. Soto, a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, to oversee the hanging. To our knowledge, it marked the first time a non-officer orchestrated the demise of Deep State tyrants.

As he stood at the foot of the gallows, Soto was anything but shy about sharing his thoughts on the Ukrainian criminals. He called them mendacious thugs and dishonorable despots driven to criminality by unremitting greed and a disdain for lawful governance. He labeled them servants of the New World Order, acolytes to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the criminal Joseph R. Biden. Their exploitation of the innocent and “malum prohibitum,” Latin for a crime that is evil by its own nature, justified absolute punishment.

It appeared as though SgtMaj Soto had rehearsed his role in the execution.

He then relaxed his lexicon and simply called Yermak and Svyrydenko “slugs.”

“It seems precedent allows each of you final words,” SgtMaj Soto said. “If you have something to say, I hope they’re words asking for forgiveness. I can’t forgive you, but maybe the almighty can.”

Svyrydenko spoke first: “If I’m to die, I die for President Zelenskyy. Long live Zelenskyy,” she said in broken English.

Yermak said, “The future is inevitable. You cannot stop it. What’s begun cannot be stopped. I die for Ukraine and for the United States of Ukraine.”

“That’s what I was told to expect,” SgtMaj Soto said, gesturing to hangmen lingering behind the condemned on the platform.

The hangmen placed black sacks over their heads, doublechecked the ropes around their necks, and pressed buttons that swiftly ended the ordeal. Yermak and Svyrydenko dropped to their deaths, their times of death recorded at 10:57 and 11:03 a.m., respectively.

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Trump Rejects Ramaswamy as Potential VP, But….. – January 17, 2024


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By: Micheal Baxter

Last night, President Donald J. Trump informed Vivek Ramaswamy, who had just suspended his presidential campaign, that his name would not appear on the Republican ticket alongside Trump’s in 2024. In short, he squashed Ramaswamy’s hopes and dreams of being Trump’s vice president.

“I like you,” the president reportedly told Ramaswamy, “but you’re not a vice president.”

As reported yesterday, General Eric M. Smith almost had a second heart attack when he saw Trump and Ramaswamy figuratively hugging each other on stage at a rally in New Hampshire. The general’s deep reservations about Ramaswamy prompted him to immediately phone Trump to express his unease and once more caution Trump against selecting a VP with ties to the biomedical industry and past allegiances to Pfizer and the World Economic Forum. At the time of publication, the general hadn’t shared Trump’s reply with staff. However, a source in Gen. Smith’s office told Real Raw News that Gen. Smith later confided in staff, saying Trump shot down Ramaswamy’s vice presidential aspirations, for he had already tentatively picked someone else to join him at the White House—Tulsi Gabbard.

If true, Trump’s response obliquely affirms an article RRN published on October 11, 2022, titled “Trump Courts Gabbard for Future Cabinet Position,” published with quotes from people in Trump’s NYC offices after gabbard switched political parties.

“Gabbard is a Republican at heart,” Trump said of Gabbard at the time, according to sources.

Like Ramaswamy, Gabbard has been linked to the World Economic Forum, a globalist organization founded by the sinister Klaus Schwab. Her photo once appeared on the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader Website, and her critics have labeled her “controlled opposition.”

Our source didn’t share Gen. Smith’s reaction to the revelation, but White Hats will likely rebuke Gabbard as a potential commander-in-chief, should anything happen to Trump, based on her association with globalist organizations.

Again, Trump used the word “tentative,” meaning everything is in flux, and he is open to hearing arguments for and against Gabbard’s appointment.

In closing, our source hinted at whom some White Hats would prefer as vice president: Kari Lake.

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Benjamin Fulford — January 15th 2024: Chabad human sacrifice exposed as Europe revolts and Texas declares civil war (Full Report) – January 17, 2024


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The Satanic Khazarian mafia is reeling and it is time to finish them off once and forever. The exposure of human sacrifice facilities in the basement of Chabad world headquarters in New York has made the whole world aware of what we are dealing with. European truck drivers, farmers and train conductors have shut down EU commerce in a move to remove KM slave governments from power. The State of Texas has declared war on the Washington DC slavers by closing the border and stopping the flow of children destined for torture and sacrifice. The Catholic Church Hierarchy in Latin America and Africa, where the vast majority of Catholics reside, has revolted against the rubber-masked fake KM puppet “Pope” Francis. Similar moves are being seen all over the world.

This is why the KM leadership gathering in Davos Switzerland this week says their theme is “Rebuilding Trust.” Translation: “How do we avoid being strung up from lampposts.”

What is happening is truly biblical in the literal sense of the word. That is because the world is removing from power an ancient cult of human slavers hiding behind monotheism.

Let us recall the moment Thutmoses came down from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments because that is the moment the Jewish people were enslaved. The so-called “god” who spoke to the pharaonic Hyksos human slaver Thutmoses demanded gold and silver, aroma oil, sheep skins died red (to hide bloodstains), etc. Since the God who created the universe would have no need of such things; we know we are dealing with human slavers. The first three commandments basically call for complete obedience, for keeping the human identity of “god” secret (make no graven images) and to not bad mouth “god.”

Having enslaved the Jews, this same “god” or Satanic human cult of slavers pretending to be “god” then, according to the bible, goes on 160 different killing sprees. For 107 of these, the bible provides numbers, giving us a total of 2,821,364 deaths. There are no numbers for the other 53 mass slaughters but, if you think of things like the flood that killed all of humanity except one family, then we know we are dealing with genocidal maniacs.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-did-God-kill-in-the-Bible-and-how-did-he-perform-those-killing

Thousands of years later they are still doing it; such as the World War II holocaust or burnt offering to Satan and the genocide in Gaza HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

The Satanic KM and their Jewish slaves have been expelled from well over a hundred places over the years for, among other things, their practice of kidnapping and torturing children to death in ritual sacrifices.

The exposure of hidden tunnels under Chabad headquarters revealed child seats, blood-stained child mattresses, blood-stained rags and a Mikveh (ritual bathhouse).

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Here is what a Mossad source had to say about a Mikveh:

“A Mikveh-bath is used to immediately purify oneself after experiencing ‘keri’, or ejaculation. According to the Torah, bathing in a Mikveh is required before being allowed to eat a “terumah”, or a “Korban” (slaughtered sacrificial offering).”

Why did Argentinian President Javier Milei choose, as his first visit abroad, to come to the Chabad HQ building in NYC? The answer seems to be he tortured a child to death, ejaculated and then ritually bathed himself before consuming the adrenachrome-infused blood of the child. If you see him, arrest him.

The tunnel discovered under Chabad HQ is part of a network that “runs all over the city to strategic locations. One is connected to a local Children’s Museum,” a non-KM Jewish source in New York says. They are used in child trafficking and Adrenochrome production, he says.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12941611/synagogue-tunnels-brooklyn-orthodox-jewish-770-eastern-parkway-chabad.html

Our friend and colleague Robert David Steele, head of Marine Intelligence -among other things- did much to expose this mass murder of children, as the video linked below shows.

He was later offered large sums of money by Sean Stone, the son of movie director Oliver Stone (whose JFK movie blamed everyone except Israel), to tour the US on bus and run for president. At the end of the tour he was intubated and murdered in a Florida hospital. In other words, he was paraded before the Christian slaves before being ritually slaughtered. Sean Stone arrived in Tokyo last week and tried to lure me into what I was warned was a trap. If you want justice for Robert Steele, arrest Sean Stone and take him in for questioning.

Getting to the bottom of this is vital because FBI statistics indicate these people have been torturing at least 40,000 American children to death every year, never mind those being smuggled in from overseas. As this letter offering native American children for sale for 10 dollars each in 1953 shows, this is not new.

A similar rate of murder takes place in Europe as the 60,000 missing Ukrainian children shows. Our sources tell us Japan has a quota of 16,000 children per year to be offered as sacrifices. You can be sure they are grabbing children from all over the world.

This means the entire cult must be arrested and taken in for questioning. Their children will have to be re-educated. To put a permanent end to this practice, we must take note of the Chinese Emperors and wipe out 12 generations of any family whose member is caught carrying out such an act in the future. This has to end NOW!

The Jews are in fact now trying to negotiate a surrender on behalf of the KM. The head of the Committee of 300 sent the following message to the Iranian leadership vis a vis the existential threat now facing Israel:

Whilst we recognize the legitimate concerns of Tehran and The Muslim People as a whole in the face of excessive aggression which is an expression of the existential struggles of The Jewish People troubled by internal struggles planted in Arab Lands we would respectfully ask that shipping routes would be protected and that thereafter meaningful (in person) discussions would resume amongst the three great faiths with a view to a lasting peaceful co-existing of us all. Salam E III R I

From an Asian perspective, all of the monotheistic religions -even those with a “good shepherd” leading the flock- are still human animal farms. As the saying goes, the sheep spends his life in fear of the wolf but it is the shepherd who kills him.

In any case, the long-term monotheistic plan to put all of humanity under the control of a single god king must end. The Asians are proposing a small village council for the world as a more benign alternative. This needs to be negotiated.

OK, now let us look more closely at the very intense activity in the world, especially the Western world, in the past week. The biggest sign is the mass public awakening about the KM and their WEF as this Fox News comment reflects:

The WEF is a fanatical political organization that uses fear and manipulation, like COVID hysteria, like the hoax of global warming, to really facilitate people thinking that somehow they’re the saviors, but all you’re doing is helping them accomplish their goal, which really is a global public-private fascist movement and fusion of big government, big tech [and] big money, to create a technocratic ruling elite, which conveniently is them. They want to create feudalism 2.0, in which we are serfs, and they are the lords ruling over us… That’s what they’re aiming for.

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The KM is still desperately trying to stay in power by murdering most of us and intimidating the survivors into submission.

They telegraph these intentions. We now have a third movie coming out this year about either a civil war, a nuclear holocaust, and/or a nationwide blackout. ISS is a movie about astronauts who witness a nuclear holocaust happening between Russia and America. 

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The KM propaganda outlet Google, for its part, is preparing for a “Sensitive Event.” A “Sensitive Event” is an “unforeseen event or development that creates a significant risk to Google’s ability to provide high quality, relevant information and ground truth.” In other words, expect more Covid 19 type censorship from Google following some new engineered disaster.

Also, the KM at Davos are talking about “disease X” that would result in “20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic.” This is followed by reports about a new lab-created disease out of China (Disease X) has a 100% fatality rate in humanized mice by infecting the nervous system.

This is linked to a WHO attempt to permanently enslave us with gene-altering vaccines, digital vaccine passports and digital slavery.

There is another X they are also pushing. NASA (Not A Space Agency) is predicting a massive solar eclipse on April 8th (the first day of the new year in the Jewish calendar) that will form an X over the New Madrid fault line that will likely create “a series of absolutely enormous earthquakes.” So they are basically threatening to hit the Christian US heartland with an earthquake weapon. The KM are also threatening once again to blow up Mt. Fuji in Japan.                                   

This by the way is what is happening in Hawaii months after it was hit with weather weapons.

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The US, Russian, Chinese and other space forces need to identify and destroy all earthquake weapons to prevent any more mass murders using this technology.

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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/14-things-that-everyone-needs-to-know-about-the-great-american-eclipse-of-2024/

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/

By the way, it is interesting to note Elon Musk renamed Twitter as X. This lends credence to claims that X is being used as a limited hangout of truth aimed at identifying aware people for future elimination as in “X marks the spot.” We admit Musk has recently been doing good by helping spread the truth to large amounts of people but, he definitely needs to be watched carefully. Musk is called the “richest man in the world” because he owns a tiny automobile company selling fatally flawed technology. 

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The reality is he is one of the top money launderers for KM funny money. The KM uses selected oligarchs to launder fiat money via the stock market. That is why more than half of U.S. households’ stock market wealth is held by the top 1%.

In any case, the KM thugs are also still desperately trying to kill most of us by starting World War III. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is the most obvious and has been covered exhaustively elsewhere so we will only touch on a couple of points. The first is that instead of starting WWIII, the Israelis are now being charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice. Russia has joined South Africa and many other countries in charging Israel with genocide.

https://tass.com/world/1731819

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The other is that only 9% of Israelis think they are winning their “war” in Gaza.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/surveys-show-gantz-holds-commanding-lead-over-netanyahu-as-war-approaches-100th-day/

Our sources say Benyamin Netanyahu and his KM backers have run out of money and were hoping to start WWIII to avoid bankruptcy. In a sign of this, Netanyahu tried to beg the United Arab Emirates for money last week and was told to “ask Zelensky.” “The notion that Arab countries will come in to rebuild and pay the bill for what’s currently happening is wishful thinking,” an Emirati official told Axios.

https://new.thecradle.co/articles/ask-zelensky-for-money-mbz-tells-netanyahu

A death warrant has been issued on Netanyahu so he is basically a dead man walking, intelligence agency sources say. Mossad sources say he has less than a month to live.

There was also an attempt by fake US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and top Marine General Eric Smith to stage some sort of massive false flag operation to blame on Iran and start WWIII. They were stopped, MI6 says. The cover story being put out is Austin is in the hospital for prostate cancer while Smith is having “heart surgery.”

These increasingly desperate attempts to kill enough people to stay in power reflect a loss of power.

For example, the United Nations has been forced to shutter its European HQ in Geneva due to electricity costs. The UN is being shut down all over the world because it has been proven to be corrupt, dysfunctional and not democratic. More than 50 nations have stopped making payments to it. The others are calling for drastic reform.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1852574/united-nations-europe-cost-crisis

The KM are also losing power in Europe. Germany has been completely shut down by the biggest protests in German history.

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With the help of the Alliance, the people are rising up against the globalists and their destructive policies. 

This is one of the things that triggered it. Unelected globalist technocrat, Bill Gates, at COP 28: “The issue of food systems and how with climate change, a lot of farmers aren’t able to grow their crops, which is a tragedy for them. We’ll talk about using innovation to absolutely solve that problem.”

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Globalist doublespeak translation: Due to our deliberate war on farmers, a lot of farmers aren’t able to grow their crops, which is a blessing for us, because it allows us to replace traditional agriculture with insect farms and fake meat laboratories, and assume total control of the global food supply, under the pretext of tackling “climate change”.

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World War 3 fears as Xi Jinping ‘purges China’s military and brings in generals willing to go to war in move that could lead to Taiwan invasion and drag US into global conflict’ ~ January 17, 2024


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Xi Jingping is purging China‘s military and bringing in generals willing to go to war in a move that could lead to an invasion of Taiwan and drag the Unites States into World War Three, military analysts have said.

The Chinese leader, seen by many as a dictator, is ‘trying to gain control of the military,’ Gordon Chang told Business Insider, adding: ‘I think that he is thinking that he needs officers who are prepared to actually fight.’

According to Chang, author of ‘China Is Going to War’, Xi feels ‘that many of China’s general officers don’t want to fight.’ As a result, he said, the Chinese premier sees ‘a force led by an officer corps that is ambivalent about going to war.’

China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory, and fears have grown in recent years that Xi is planning an invasion in the coming years, in the face of increasingly hostile rhetoric and simulated blockades of the island.

Beijing has never renounced the use of force to take what it views as a renegade province, and Xi has said that unification is inevitable.

But Beijing has also been involved in low-level clashes with India along their shared border, as well as disputes over nearby islands with Japan and the Philippines. 

Since taking power in 2012, he has overhauled Beijing’s military forces with a series of reforms while also cutting its personnel, working to improve military-civilian corporation and reshaping its structure.

EXCLUSIVEREAD MORE: Chinese invasion of Taiwan would leave 500,000 dead and have ‘ruinous’ impact on Britain’s economy with Taipei producing 90% of the world’s microchips, expert warns as island goes to the polls 

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On December 29, 2023, he dismissed nine senior offices in one go, a move that analysts and US intelligence suggested was to root out corruption.

Chang, however, told Business Insider that this theory misses the point ‘because if that were the case, all of them would be sacked.’ Instead, he believes that it was likely the officers who were struck off were reluctant to go to war.

He pointed to one example, that of Chinese Air Force General Liu Yazhou, who warned against an invasion of Taiwan.

In February 2022 he received a suspended death sentence. 

Joel Wuthnow, another expert on China, told Business Insider that the removals suggest Xi is ‘concerned ‘about the quality of people and equipment he has invested in over the last decade’ and that he fears he cannot rely on his military.

The publication reported that the nine dismissed commanders had been involved in China’s Rocket Force, which Wuthnow said would play a critical role in any military campaign ordered by Beijing.

China has been hostile to its neighbours in recent years.

It has become increasingly aggressive in the South China Sea, with its navy often coming into close contact with Filipino vessels.

Military officers and delegates wearing face masks leave after attending the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 3. Xi has purged military commanders in a move experts have said is to rid his forces of leaders who are reluctant to go to war

Military officers and delegates wearing face masks leave after attending the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 3. Xi has purged military commanders in a move experts have said is to rid his forces of leaders who are reluctant to go to war.

Beijing has also clashed with Japan over the disputed Senkaku Islands, using its fishing industry to bolster its claim.

There have also been clashes between China and India in the Galwan Valley in the Himalayas which has seen soldiers clashing with melee weapons.

In 2021, China admitted to losing four of its troops in the fighting.

But perhaps the most concerning flash point is Taiwan, which just on Saturday elected a new president who is opposed to reunification with China.

China has encroached on Taiwan’s air defence zone several times over the past five years, prompting fears that an invasion is on the horizon.

In September 2023, the Chinese military conducted its largest ever maritime war simulation. It included Beijing’s Shandong aircraft carrier as well as 20 other warships, while dozens of warplanes breached Taiwan’s airspace. 

Chang, however, told Business Insider that it is impossible to predict where a big flare-up could come from first, despite Xi increasing his war-like rhetoric.

In his New Year’s address to the nation, Xi said China ‘will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.’

Xi also reportedly told US President Joe Biden of his intention to take Taiwan.

Wuthnow, however, said that the Chinese leader is now more cautious about any assault on the island after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

He has seen how the war has shaken fellow autocrat Vladimir Putin’s position in Russia, and the West’s support for Kyiv.

China has been hostile to its neighbours in recent years, with flash-points occurring around Taiwan, the South China sea and on China's border with India

China has been hostile to its neighbours in recent years, with flash-points occurring around Taiwan, the South China sea and on China’s border with India

But Chang warned that all the conditions are in place for World War Three, with conflict spreading on multiple fronts across the globe.

He pointed to Ukraine, Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza along with military activity in the Read Sea (and fears that conflict could spread in the middle east), as well as insurgencies in Africa.

Chang pointed to the run-up to the Second World War in 1930s and how separate wars merged into what we now know as World War II.

‘The same dynamics exist today, and it’s entirely possible, and some people can even argue that it’s probable that these will merge into a global conflict,’ he said, predicting that a conflict in East Asia would drag in Western countries.

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Quantum mechanics model discovers hidden patterns in the stock market ~ January 17, 2024


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In the ever-evolving world of financial markets, understanding the unpredictable nature of stock market fluctuations is crucial. A new study has taken a leap in this field by developing an innovative quantum mechanics model to analyze the stock market.

This model not only encompasses economic uncertainty and investor behavior but also aims to unravel the mysteries behind stock market anomalies like fat tails, volatility clustering, and contrarian effects.

Analyzing stocks with a quantum model

The core of this model is quantum mechanics, a pillar of physics known for explaining the behavior of subatomic particles.

This study leverages these principles to model the dynamics of stock returns. Dr. Kwangwon Ahn, an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Yonsei University and the first author of the study, sheds light on this approach.

“Stock return drift results from an external potential representing market forces, pulling short-term fluctuations back to long-term equilibrium,” he explains.

In an intriguing twist, the study introduces a diffusion coefficient to measure stock return volatility. By solving the Schrödinger equation — a cornerstone of quantum mechanics — the researchers unearthed a power law distribution in the tail, a characteristic often observed in stock returns.

This power law distribution suggests that extreme events, like stock market crashes, occur more frequently than what a normal distribution would predict.

The researchers also discovered that the power law exponent, which indicates the ‘fatness’ of the tail, is inversely related to the diffusion coefficient and external potential.

Quantum theory and the stock market

What does this mean for the stock market? It implies that higher volatility and a slower reversion to equilibrium amplify herding behavior among investors, especially during times of uncertainty and information asymmetry.

The study goes further by testing this model with empirical data from the U.S. stock market. Using the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) and forecaster uncertainty as indicators for business cycles and economic uncertainty, respectively, they found a positive correlation between the power law exponent and the GDP growth rate, and a negative correlation with forecaster uncertainty.

This confirms their theoretical predictions and highlights the role of economic uncertainty in linking business cycles with herding behavior in stock returns.

Dr. Daniel Sungyeon Kim, the corresponding author and an Associate Professor of Finance at Chung-Ang University, emphasizes the broader implications of their work.

“Our study shows that quantum mechanics can be a useful tool to understand the stock market, a complex system with many interacting agents. We hope that our study can inspire more interdisciplinary research that combines physics and finance to explore the hidden patterns and mechanisms of the stock market,” he states.

The future of physics and finance

In a significant revelation, the study shows that economic uncertainty is the root cause of counter-cyclical herding behavior in stock returns.

This insight has profound implications for investors and policymakers alike, offering a new lens through which to view market dynamics and make more informed decisions.

In summary, this intriguing study challenges conventional methods of analyzing stock markets while blending the realms of physics and finance.

As we continue to grapple with the complexities of financial markets, such innovative approaches are not just welcome but necessary for a deeper, more accurate understanding of the forces at play.

The full study was published in the journal Financial Innovation.

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