Linda Kimball
Leftist progressive myths, socialism, psychopaths, and America's tyranny of evil
By Linda Kimball
"...avoid irreverent babble (delusions and empty philosophizing of those who reject Jehovah), for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness" (2 Tim. 2:16); "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." (Ephesians 5:11)
Leftist Progressive Utopianism's most enduring myth is the delusional and self-refuting multi-faceted notion that man is born good despite being the uncreated product of revamped and revitalized Babylonian evolutionary idolatry. (1) Even more incredible, man is somehow the slave of Jehovah (Psalm 83:18; Gen. 22:14) as well as of Biblically grounded Western tradition and culture even though God-hating Leftists claim He does not exist and sadistically ridicule those who worship Him as Lord and Savior. Yet according to these babblers, if human-apes of evolution are liberated from their slavery to the nonexistent God and Western tradition and culture, man's innate goodness will fully manifest itself.
In support of Leftism's most enduring delusion are three more. First, enlightened yet spiritually dead Leftist Progressive Utopians and the City of Man they are building are evolving ever upward toward apotheosis and a communist or socialist paradise on earth, a 'new' Babylon. Second, science, technology, and the divine life-making energy (serpent power) known as evolution have brought the enlightened yet morally depraved and deeply deluded 'Best and Brightest' to the brink of ending all suffering, in particular, death itself. And finally, enlightened reprobates are gaining control over evil. Reality says otherwise:
"Communism has been tried for more than 100 years by hundreds of millions of people, and the results are always the same: Its fruits are death, destruction, and despair. Its leading figures were cynical and sly men who masked their hatred of humanity with high-sounding words. By any measure, they were as dark and sinister as could be." (Dead End of Communism, The Epoch Times)
For more than 100 years, Leftist Progressive Utopianism has been a spellbinding force for modern Gnostic God-and-human hating power and vengeance seekers, the criminally minded, wishful thinkers, the emotionally unstable; rebellious, resentful, ungrateful youth and mean, nasty, empty-headed girls and queen bees:
"This weekend women across the country are dusting off their pussyhats for another march for women...These self-proclaimed defenders of women's rights hold on to their bottomless pit of hatred against the president despite their own leaders being exposed as exploiters of other women. These empty headed mean girls of every age bully conservative women and emasculate all the men in their lives then march to whine about their oppression. All the while ignoring honor violence, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, human trafficking and real oppression of women. These spoiled angry, unhappy and uninformed ladies of luxury, who wear pink hats and invisible blinders, epitomize the failure of the feminist movement." (Mean Girls, Nasty Women & Queen Bees, Dawn Perlmutter, Frontpage Magazine, Jan. 19, 2018).
C.E.M Joad, a 20th century philosopher, had been among the ranks of the spellbound and spent most of his life embracing Progressive myths and loudly proclaiming his distaste for the supernatural Triune God. However, the catastrophic events, genocide and other monstrous crimes against humanity committed by Marxist Communists and National Socialists empowered by Western Progressive financiers during the 20th century finally wore down Joad's misplaced optimism:
"...the power that...Left-wingers exercised was never their own power or communist power but...the power of the international financial coterie." (Dr. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p. 954)
As he witnessed so-called "enlightened" Progressives, Marxists and other like-minded disciples of depravity make the same stupid, discouraging and outright evil choices over and over again, commit the same hideous crimes against humanity over and over again, and rationalize their evil wickedness over and over again, Joad was forced to conclude that his faith in man was wrong and Progressive myths rendered utterly implausible by the catastrophic and genocidal events of the twentieth century.
Joad concluded that it is because Progressives and their like-minded counterparts rejected
"...the doctrine of original sin that we on the Left were always being disappointed; disappointed by the refusal of people to be reasonable, by the subservience of intellect to emotion, by the failure of true Socialism to arrive, by the behavior of nations and politicians, by the masses' preference for Hollywood to Shakespeare and for Mr. Sinatra to Beethoven; above all, by the recurrent fact of war." (The Deadliest Monster, J.F. Baldwin, p. 97)
Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957), renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist concurs:
"The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behavior are those who think highly of homo sapiens....and who still cling to an optimistic belief in the civilizing influence of progress and enlightenment." (Ibid, p. 96)
Spellbinding progress and enlightenment myths were shown to be dangerous delusions in 1926 when Governor Theodore Christianson of Minnesota established the Minnesota Crime Commission to study crime and evaluate its causes. The commission eventually concluded that criminal tendencies were not the result of slavery to the Triune God and Western civilization as the Progressives claimed. In essence the Commission's findings agreed with Joad's conclusions upon his loss of faith in the Progressive myth. The Commission offered the following brutal observation:
"Every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it: his bottle, his mother's attention, his playmates' toys...or whatever. Deny him these and he seethes with rage and aggressiveness which could be murderous were he not so helpless. He's dirty; he has no morals, no knowledge, no developed skills. This means that all children, not just certain children, but all children, are born delinquent. If permitted to continue in their self-centered world of infancy, given free rein to their impulsive actions to satisfy each want, every child would grow up a criminal, a thief, a killer, a rapist."
The completely selfish and self-centered human can grow up to be far more evil than common delinquents. Their narcissism can become so inflated, their conscience so depraved and hardened and their will so given to evil that the Triune God gives them over to reprobate minds (Romans 1: 18-28). In clinical terms, they can become psychopaths.
Martha Stout has worked extensively with victims of psychopaths, and describes psychopaths as having no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what they do. Psychopaths have no
"...limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or – family. Imagine no struggles with shame – no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action (they take)." The concept of responsibility is unknown to them, "except as a burden others seem to accept – like gullible fools." They are not held back from any of their "desires by guilt or shame, and... are never confronted by others for (their) cold-bloodedness.... (They) are completely free of internal restraints, and...unhampered liberty to do just as (they) please, with no pangs of conscience..." (Political Ponerology, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, pp. 10-11)
Psychopathy: What Is It?
John Ray, M.A., Ph.D., summarizes some of the central characteristics of psychopathy as follows:
"He is not obviously 'mad.' he is often highly intelligent; he is unmoved by brutality (except to enjoy perpetrating it); he has no moral or ethical standards; he is deeply (but discreetly) in love with himself (narcissism) so secretly despises others and thinks they are fit only to be dominated and exploited by him and those like him; he is a great manipulator who loves getting others to do his bidding by deception or otherwise; he is the master of the lie and the false pretense but sees no reason to be consistent from occasion to occasion; he will say anything to gain momentary praise or admiration; his only really strongly felt emotions seem to be hate and contempt and he is particularly enraged by those who have what he wants and will be totally unscrupulous in trying to seize what others have for himself. But above all, the psychopath does not seem to be able to tell right from wrong and, as a result, does sometimes commit or connive at murders and other heinous crimes with what seems to be a clear conscience." (Leftism As Psychopathy, John Ray)
Because psychopaths hold other people in contempt and are without remorse they freely manipulate and use their intended victims for purposes of self-gratification. Other common characteristics include: moral relativism (no absolutes), an overwhelming sense of entitlement, parasitism, psychological and physical bullying, casual cruelty, pleasure at inflicting pain (sadism), insensitivity, dishonesty, pathological lying, aggression, impulsiveness, promiscuity, and irresponsibility.
Psychopaths as Omnipotent 'gods'
Omnipotence, in the case of Western "scientific and evolutionary" empowered psychopaths comes from imagining they possess power over the Holy Trinity and His Revealed Word so as to take for themselves the power of the Lord's own spoken Word. Leftist delusions are then,
" Interpreted and promulgated by the left in a quasi-divine manner as the secular word of God, which is why it is inimical to counter-argument and will not tolerate dissent. It has proliferated in various forms and guises, theories and practices, right up to the present moment." (The Left Will Always Be With Us, David Solway, American Thinker, Jan. 2018)
In this way they give their own words the active force of the Triune Gods creative words thereby allowing them to unweave and refashion creation, reinvent human beings, paganize Scripture, and creatively destroy the family and society as desired. Furthermore, they can decide who lives and who must die, what we may have or not have, how many children we may have, what we are allowed to know and not know and who the Official State Enemies are. This is a psychopath's power trip.
What drives psychopaths is a ravenous hunger for making other people suffer. Just as normal humans enjoy seeing other people happy and thriving, the psychopath enjoys the opposite. As their hard- hearted lack of empathy results in blindness to the humanity of their victims this in turn permits victims to be sacrificed without remorse on the altar of malignant narcissism, for with the negation of humanity intended victims are no longer human beings but objects to be used, abused, tormented and discarded at will. This monstrous evil finds expression over and over in the writings of the sexual psychopath, the Marquis de Sade:
"The philosopher sates his appetites without inquiring to know what his enjoyments may cost others, and without remorse." (Libido Dominandi, E. Michael Jones, p. 26)
Paul Hollander's book "Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society" recounts what depraved Leftist intellectuals and apostate priests did for many decades in the Soviet era. To quote one Amazon reviewer:
"Political Pilgrims is the amazing story of how Western intellectuals embraced Marxist tyrants at the very moment their colleagues were rotting in prison cells, and the common people everyone claimed to be concerned for, were starving. The book relates how cultural and religious leaders from the West, including familiar names, visited the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other communist countries, and told the most appalling lies." (Ibid, Ray)
Among well-known psychopaths of the 20th century are Pol Pot, Hitler, Beatrice Webb, Margaret Sanger, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Kaganovitch, Stalin's brother-in-law and closest collaborator described Stalin as no longer human:
"Even when he exhibited some emotions, they all did not seem to belong to him. They were as false as the scale on top of armor...He was not human at all..." (Marx and Satan, Richard Wurmbrand, p. 53)
Milovan Djilas, Communist leader of Yugoslavia, perceptively described the mesmerizing satanic energy emanating from the 'no longer human' Stalin:
"Was it not so that the demonic power and energy of Stalin consisted in this, that he made the (Communist) movement and every person in it pass to a state of confusion and stupefaction, thus creating and ensuring his reign of fear..." (Ibid, p. 54)
According to Ray, prominent psychopaths of our own time include the average left-wing academic, George Galloway, Castro, John Kerry, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – prominent members of America's Progressive Ruling Class who,
"...prays to themselves as saviors of the planet and as shapers of mankind in their own image..." ("The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It" Angelo M. Codevilla p. xix)
For our generation of psychopaths there is no Holy Trinity, no Moral Law, no immutable Truth, no sin, and no fear of judgment and hell. Thus they are free to be evil: to think evil, speak evil and commit acts of evil since there is only sovereign willful 'self' who knows only personal selfishness, ambition, physical lust and hate.
A tyranny of evil has spread itself over and across our country like a vast dark wing and we cannot understand its' manifestations – its' seething hatred of God and America's middle class – particularly white Conservatives and Christians – or its' treachery, cruelty, sadism, pathological lying, obscenity, perversity, blasphemy, and deliberate corruption of our children unless we return to our Heavenly Father and the Biblical view of man:
".... the basic insights of the Christian faith provide the best insight we have into the nature of man and of the crisis we find ourselves in." (John Hallowell, The Conservative Intellectual Movement, George Nash, p. 53)
Man is not born good, as Leftist Progressives claim. Nor are man and society 'evolving' to some higher, more godlike spiritual state. This is pure fantasy from the pits of hell.
Without exception, evil cuts through the heart of every man and woman, thus no concept gives "deeper insight into the enigma that is man" than original sin. Evil is not just a "bad dream" or "an accident of history." Nor is it the "creation of a few antisocial men" but rather a "subtle, protean force," and original sin is a "parabolical expression" of this "immemorial tendency of man to do the wrong thing when he knows the right thing." (ibid)
As a people, and more importantly as Christians who should know better, we have allowed ourselves to forget this – to our peril.
2018@Linda Kimball
1.Rise of the Serpent-Powered 'Scientific Occult, Theocratic State' and its Infernal Spirituality
Linda writes on worldview and related subjects.
© Linda Kimball
January 22, 2018
"...avoid irreverent babble (delusions and empty philosophizing of those who reject Jehovah), for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness" (2 Tim. 2:16); "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." (Ephesians 5:11)
Leftist Progressive Utopianism's most enduring myth is the delusional and self-refuting multi-faceted notion that man is born good despite being the uncreated product of revamped and revitalized Babylonian evolutionary idolatry. (1) Even more incredible, man is somehow the slave of Jehovah (Psalm 83:18; Gen. 22:14) as well as of Biblically grounded Western tradition and culture even though God-hating Leftists claim He does not exist and sadistically ridicule those who worship Him as Lord and Savior. Yet according to these babblers, if human-apes of evolution are liberated from their slavery to the nonexistent God and Western tradition and culture, man's innate goodness will fully manifest itself.
In support of Leftism's most enduring delusion are three more. First, enlightened yet spiritually dead Leftist Progressive Utopians and the City of Man they are building are evolving ever upward toward apotheosis and a communist or socialist paradise on earth, a 'new' Babylon. Second, science, technology, and the divine life-making energy (serpent power) known as evolution have brought the enlightened yet morally depraved and deeply deluded 'Best and Brightest' to the brink of ending all suffering, in particular, death itself. And finally, enlightened reprobates are gaining control over evil. Reality says otherwise:
"Communism has been tried for more than 100 years by hundreds of millions of people, and the results are always the same: Its fruits are death, destruction, and despair. Its leading figures were cynical and sly men who masked their hatred of humanity with high-sounding words. By any measure, they were as dark and sinister as could be." (Dead End of Communism, The Epoch Times)
For more than 100 years, Leftist Progressive Utopianism has been a spellbinding force for modern Gnostic God-and-human hating power and vengeance seekers, the criminally minded, wishful thinkers, the emotionally unstable; rebellious, resentful, ungrateful youth and mean, nasty, empty-headed girls and queen bees:
"This weekend women across the country are dusting off their pussyhats for another march for women...These self-proclaimed defenders of women's rights hold on to their bottomless pit of hatred against the president despite their own leaders being exposed as exploiters of other women. These empty headed mean girls of every age bully conservative women and emasculate all the men in their lives then march to whine about their oppression. All the while ignoring honor violence, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, human trafficking and real oppression of women. These spoiled angry, unhappy and uninformed ladies of luxury, who wear pink hats and invisible blinders, epitomize the failure of the feminist movement." (Mean Girls, Nasty Women & Queen Bees, Dawn Perlmutter, Frontpage Magazine, Jan. 19, 2018).
C.E.M Joad, a 20th century philosopher, had been among the ranks of the spellbound and spent most of his life embracing Progressive myths and loudly proclaiming his distaste for the supernatural Triune God. However, the catastrophic events, genocide and other monstrous crimes against humanity committed by Marxist Communists and National Socialists empowered by Western Progressive financiers during the 20th century finally wore down Joad's misplaced optimism:
"...the power that...Left-wingers exercised was never their own power or communist power but...the power of the international financial coterie." (Dr. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p. 954)
As he witnessed so-called "enlightened" Progressives, Marxists and other like-minded disciples of depravity make the same stupid, discouraging and outright evil choices over and over again, commit the same hideous crimes against humanity over and over again, and rationalize their evil wickedness over and over again, Joad was forced to conclude that his faith in man was wrong and Progressive myths rendered utterly implausible by the catastrophic and genocidal events of the twentieth century.
Joad concluded that it is because Progressives and their like-minded counterparts rejected
"...the doctrine of original sin that we on the Left were always being disappointed; disappointed by the refusal of people to be reasonable, by the subservience of intellect to emotion, by the failure of true Socialism to arrive, by the behavior of nations and politicians, by the masses' preference for Hollywood to Shakespeare and for Mr. Sinatra to Beethoven; above all, by the recurrent fact of war." (The Deadliest Monster, J.F. Baldwin, p. 97)
Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957), renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist concurs:
"The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human behavior are those who think highly of homo sapiens....and who still cling to an optimistic belief in the civilizing influence of progress and enlightenment." (Ibid, p. 96)
Spellbinding progress and enlightenment myths were shown to be dangerous delusions in 1926 when Governor Theodore Christianson of Minnesota established the Minnesota Crime Commission to study crime and evaluate its causes. The commission eventually concluded that criminal tendencies were not the result of slavery to the Triune God and Western civilization as the Progressives claimed. In essence the Commission's findings agreed with Joad's conclusions upon his loss of faith in the Progressive myth. The Commission offered the following brutal observation:
"Every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it: his bottle, his mother's attention, his playmates' toys...or whatever. Deny him these and he seethes with rage and aggressiveness which could be murderous were he not so helpless. He's dirty; he has no morals, no knowledge, no developed skills. This means that all children, not just certain children, but all children, are born delinquent. If permitted to continue in their self-centered world of infancy, given free rein to their impulsive actions to satisfy each want, every child would grow up a criminal, a thief, a killer, a rapist."
The completely selfish and self-centered human can grow up to be far more evil than common delinquents. Their narcissism can become so inflated, their conscience so depraved and hardened and their will so given to evil that the Triune God gives them over to reprobate minds (Romans 1: 18-28). In clinical terms, they can become psychopaths.
Martha Stout has worked extensively with victims of psychopaths, and describes psychopaths as having no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what they do. Psychopaths have no
"...limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or – family. Imagine no struggles with shame – no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action (they take)." The concept of responsibility is unknown to them, "except as a burden others seem to accept – like gullible fools." They are not held back from any of their "desires by guilt or shame, and... are never confronted by others for (their) cold-bloodedness.... (They) are completely free of internal restraints, and...unhampered liberty to do just as (they) please, with no pangs of conscience..." (Political Ponerology, Andrew M. Lobaczewski, pp. 10-11)
Psychopathy: What Is It?
John Ray, M.A., Ph.D., summarizes some of the central characteristics of psychopathy as follows:
"He is not obviously 'mad.' he is often highly intelligent; he is unmoved by brutality (except to enjoy perpetrating it); he has no moral or ethical standards; he is deeply (but discreetly) in love with himself (narcissism) so secretly despises others and thinks they are fit only to be dominated and exploited by him and those like him; he is a great manipulator who loves getting others to do his bidding by deception or otherwise; he is the master of the lie and the false pretense but sees no reason to be consistent from occasion to occasion; he will say anything to gain momentary praise or admiration; his only really strongly felt emotions seem to be hate and contempt and he is particularly enraged by those who have what he wants and will be totally unscrupulous in trying to seize what others have for himself. But above all, the psychopath does not seem to be able to tell right from wrong and, as a result, does sometimes commit or connive at murders and other heinous crimes with what seems to be a clear conscience." (Leftism As Psychopathy, John Ray)
Because psychopaths hold other people in contempt and are without remorse they freely manipulate and use their intended victims for purposes of self-gratification. Other common characteristics include: moral relativism (no absolutes), an overwhelming sense of entitlement, parasitism, psychological and physical bullying, casual cruelty, pleasure at inflicting pain (sadism), insensitivity, dishonesty, pathological lying, aggression, impulsiveness, promiscuity, and irresponsibility.
Psychopaths as Omnipotent 'gods'
Omnipotence, in the case of Western "scientific and evolutionary" empowered psychopaths comes from imagining they possess power over the Holy Trinity and His Revealed Word so as to take for themselves the power of the Lord's own spoken Word. Leftist delusions are then,
" Interpreted and promulgated by the left in a quasi-divine manner as the secular word of God, which is why it is inimical to counter-argument and will not tolerate dissent. It has proliferated in various forms and guises, theories and practices, right up to the present moment." (The Left Will Always Be With Us, David Solway, American Thinker, Jan. 2018)
In this way they give their own words the active force of the Triune Gods creative words thereby allowing them to unweave and refashion creation, reinvent human beings, paganize Scripture, and creatively destroy the family and society as desired. Furthermore, they can decide who lives and who must die, what we may have or not have, how many children we may have, what we are allowed to know and not know and who the Official State Enemies are. This is a psychopath's power trip.
What drives psychopaths is a ravenous hunger for making other people suffer. Just as normal humans enjoy seeing other people happy and thriving, the psychopath enjoys the opposite. As their hard- hearted lack of empathy results in blindness to the humanity of their victims this in turn permits victims to be sacrificed without remorse on the altar of malignant narcissism, for with the negation of humanity intended victims are no longer human beings but objects to be used, abused, tormented and discarded at will. This monstrous evil finds expression over and over in the writings of the sexual psychopath, the Marquis de Sade:
"The philosopher sates his appetites without inquiring to know what his enjoyments may cost others, and without remorse." (Libido Dominandi, E. Michael Jones, p. 26)
Paul Hollander's book "Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society" recounts what depraved Leftist intellectuals and apostate priests did for many decades in the Soviet era. To quote one Amazon reviewer:
"Political Pilgrims is the amazing story of how Western intellectuals embraced Marxist tyrants at the very moment their colleagues were rotting in prison cells, and the common people everyone claimed to be concerned for, were starving. The book relates how cultural and religious leaders from the West, including familiar names, visited the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other communist countries, and told the most appalling lies." (Ibid, Ray)
Among well-known psychopaths of the 20th century are Pol Pot, Hitler, Beatrice Webb, Margaret Sanger, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Kaganovitch, Stalin's brother-in-law and closest collaborator described Stalin as no longer human:
"Even when he exhibited some emotions, they all did not seem to belong to him. They were as false as the scale on top of armor...He was not human at all..." (Marx and Satan, Richard Wurmbrand, p. 53)
Milovan Djilas, Communist leader of Yugoslavia, perceptively described the mesmerizing satanic energy emanating from the 'no longer human' Stalin:
"Was it not so that the demonic power and energy of Stalin consisted in this, that he made the (Communist) movement and every person in it pass to a state of confusion and stupefaction, thus creating and ensuring his reign of fear..." (Ibid, p. 54)
According to Ray, prominent psychopaths of our own time include the average left-wing academic, George Galloway, Castro, John Kerry, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – prominent members of America's Progressive Ruling Class who,
"...prays to themselves as saviors of the planet and as shapers of mankind in their own image..." ("The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It" Angelo M. Codevilla p. xix)
For our generation of psychopaths there is no Holy Trinity, no Moral Law, no immutable Truth, no sin, and no fear of judgment and hell. Thus they are free to be evil: to think evil, speak evil and commit acts of evil since there is only sovereign willful 'self' who knows only personal selfishness, ambition, physical lust and hate.
A tyranny of evil has spread itself over and across our country like a vast dark wing and we cannot understand its' manifestations – its' seething hatred of God and America's middle class – particularly white Conservatives and Christians – or its' treachery, cruelty, sadism, pathological lying, obscenity, perversity, blasphemy, and deliberate corruption of our children unless we return to our Heavenly Father and the Biblical view of man:
".... the basic insights of the Christian faith provide the best insight we have into the nature of man and of the crisis we find ourselves in." (John Hallowell, The Conservative Intellectual Movement, George Nash, p. 53)
Man is not born good, as Leftist Progressives claim. Nor are man and society 'evolving' to some higher, more godlike spiritual state. This is pure fantasy from the pits of hell.
Without exception, evil cuts through the heart of every man and woman, thus no concept gives "deeper insight into the enigma that is man" than original sin. Evil is not just a "bad dream" or "an accident of history." Nor is it the "creation of a few antisocial men" but rather a "subtle, protean force," and original sin is a "parabolical expression" of this "immemorial tendency of man to do the wrong thing when he knows the right thing." (ibid)
As a people, and more importantly as Christians who should know better, we have allowed ourselves to forget this – to our peril.
2018@Linda Kimball
1.Rise of the Serpent-Powered 'Scientific Occult, Theocratic State' and its Infernal Spirituality
Linda writes on worldview and related subjects.
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