Over 7,200 Human Penises Shipped Out of Nigeria: What is Chinese Doing With Nigerian Penises?

Shocking as Chinese authorities seize 7,221 human penises on cargo ship from Nigeria’s Lagos. 

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode says a ship from Nigeria has been impounded while it was trying to smuggle 7, 200 penises into the Asian country.

 

A total of 7,221 penises of African origin have been seized by the Chinese customs officers in what has now been tagged the world’s biggest seizure of human organs in history.

The organs which were hidden in a refrigerated freight container were seized when the ship harboured in the Shanghai Port following information from an anonymous informer who alerted the Chinese authorities.

The organs were packed in 36 boxes labelled as ‘plantains’ inside the refrigerated container on a ship which transited from Lagos, Nigeria and ship’s crew consisting of four Nigerians, two Malians and two Cameronese now being detained.

Speaking on the seizure, the spokesman of the Chinese General Administration of Customs, Li Wu, says an increasingly large number of armed groups in Africa use organ trafficking to finance themselves, making such seizures predictable.

“These organs are common commodities now, but they were certainly harvested in unsanitary conditions or contaminated at some point, so we can’t let them out on the Chinese market.”

Mr. Li says the organs were shipped from Lagos in Nigeria but may have only transited through that country and could possibly originate from elsewhere in Africa.

“We know that penises from Lybia and Sudan fetch a higher price than those from other African war zones, but can’t presume of their origin before the end of the investigation.”

Describing the organ’s value as high as illegal drugs, he said that “specimens of this size” usually fetched around $160,000 each on the black market, and its total value was more than US$1.15 billion, adding that similar seizures may become more common over the next few years as armed groups in Africa turn to organ trafficking to finance their military operations.

Human penises were seized in nine cases since 2002, but today’s find represents more than four times the amount seized by customs officers over the past 18 years.

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US sues Chinese firm over half-million ‘fake’ N95 masks

US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during an event about protecting seniors, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Washington.

The US Justice Department sued a Chinese company for selling nearly a half million fake and substandard N95 respirator to US buyers in April as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country. In a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the department said Guangdong-based King Year Packaging and Printing shipped three batches of purported N95 masks, needed to protect medical and other personnel from the coronavirus, to US buyers.

The company falsely claimed the 495,200 masks it shipped were met the N95 standard and also falsely claimed they were certified by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), according to the complaint. The complaint indicated the importer of the fake N95 masks paid more than $1 million for them.

“The charges alleged in this complaint show a blatant disregard for the safety of American citizens,” FBI agent Douglas Korneski, who investigated the masks deal, said in a statement. “Had it not been for the actions of the investigative team, this defendant would have put first responders, hospital employees, and other front-line workers directly in harm’s way with faulty equipment just to make a buck.” The Chinese company was charged with four counts of importing misbranded and substandard health products and making false to the US Food and Drug Administration. Each charge carries a maximum fine of $500,000, or if greater, twice what the company earned in selling the masks. 

[AFP]

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Africans no longer wanted in China – Abike Dabiri-Arewa

Chairman of the Nigerian in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Arewa, has alleged that Chinese want Africans out of their country.

Dabiri-Erewa made the claim while lamenting the alleged maltreatment of Nigerians in China.

She urged Nigerians in China to always demand for their rights.

Speaking during a town hall meeting of Nigerians in the United States, US, via zoom, over the weekend, Dabiri-Erewa said despite having many illegal Chinese migrants in Nigeria, none of them has been exposed to maltreatment.

The former lawmaker, however, assured that Nigerian government was making efforts towards addressing the situation.

She said: “The issue of China has been recurring and I have been to the Chinese Embassy a couple of times, putting into consideration what has been happening to Nigerians in China.

“I will be very realistic with the issue of Africans in China. What I am seeing is that they don’t want Africans in China.”

Dabiri-Erewa also called on Nigerians resident in China to obey the Chinese authority.

Appealing to them to stay out of trouble, Dabiri-Erewa called for peace and mutual respect in the world.

“It is still tough for Nigerians in China. Maltreatment is still going on and it has to be dealt with. Right now, there is a little of sanity, but we don’t know how long it will last, but there has to be a permanent solution to the issue of blacks being maltreated in China,” she added.

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WHO says no proof from US on ‘speculative’ Wuhan lab virus claims

 

The World Health Organisation, WHO, said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support “speculative” claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

“We have not received any data or specific evidence from the United States government relating to the purported origin of the virus, so from our perspective this remains speculative,” WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told a virtual briefing.

[AFP]

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Coronavirus: China bans consumption of wild animals

It’s official, China has banned the consumption of wild animals

More than 2,700 people have died as a result of the novel COVID-19, with another 81,000 cases confirmed across the globe.

And now, China’s government has officially banned the trade and consumption of wildlife in their ongoing efforts against COVID-19 epidemic that has taken over the world since 2020 began.

It’s an indisputable fact that China was the top market for the breeding and trading of wild animals.

The wildlife trade is even estimated to be a multibillion dollar industry.

According to the South China Morning Post, a government-sponsored report published by the Chinese Academy of Engineering found that China’s wildlife trade and consumption industry is valued at US$74 billion (520 billion yuan) and employs more than 14 million people across the nation.

More than half of those employees work in the fur and leather industry, estimated to be valued at US$55 billion (390 billion yuan), while the other half work in breeding farms or processing plants.

On Monday, February 24, China’s top legislative body, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, laid the groundwork to amend China’s Wildlife Protection Law in a move to permanently criminalize the consumption of wildlife and illegal wildlife trading. The new ban took effect immediately.

Although China does have existing laws regarding wildlife protection and conservation, it’s filled with loopholes as consuming wild animals and captive breeding was allowed for commercial purposes.

“There has been a growing concern among people over the consumption of wild animals and the hidden dangers it brings to public health security since the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak,” Zhang Tiewei, a legislative spokesman for the Legislative Affairs Commission, said to Reuters.

Zhang said the decision was made at the “critical moment for the epidemic prevention and control.

Crackdown after crackdown have been taking place across the nation after warnings that eating wild animals could pose several threats to the public health.

It remains to be seen how long this ban will last, however. After all, during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in the early 2000s, China held a similar ban too.

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China uses anti-malaria drug, plasma against coronavirus

By Sola Ogundipe

Chinese health authorities say an anti-malaria drug is effective in treating coronavirus patients. The authorities also report that blood plasma taken from recovered patients has been used to treat those who are critically ill.

Officials stated that the anti-malaria medicine was given to over 100 patients in clinical trials.

They said the patients’ conditions improved as a result. They added that there are no safety concerns with the drug.

The authorities said that a week after a 54-year-old man started taking the medication, the virus disappeared. Officials are reportedly planning to use it at medical institutions across the country.

They also said 11 seriously-ill patients were given the blood plasma. One of the patients was discharged from a hospital after recovering.

The conditions of the rest are improving and are calling on recovered patients to donate blood plasma.

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BREAKING: Head of Wuhan hospital dies of coronavirus

Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital

The head of a hospital in Wuhan today died of coronavirus, according to Chinese media.

Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital, is the first hospital leader to have ‘sacrificed’ in the fight against coronavirus, reported Red Star News.

The news comes after a 59-year-old nurse in the same hospital was killed by the virus last Friday.

Nearly 1,800 people across the world have now died from the killer coronavirus that is rapidly sweeping the planet.

And more than 71,430 have caught the virus, formally known as COVID-19, including 454 on a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan.

Ninety-five per cent of the 2,000 new cases recorded yesterday were diagnosed in Hubei, the deserted Chinese province at the centre of the crisis.

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U.S. awaits China’s approval to send in experts as part of WHO team

U.S. experts on infectious diseases, including government officials, are awaiting approval to enter China to help fight the coronavirus epidemic, having been included on a list proposed by the World Health Organization, a U.S. embassy spokesman told Reuters on Saturday.

China agreed to allow WHO to form a team of experts to travel to China to learn about the virus and find solutions to the outbreak, the spokesman said.

“The United States appreciates China’s efforts and continued coordination with public health officials across the globe,” he said in an e-mailed statement.

“These U.S. experts have extensive experience working with the World Health Organization on a range of infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics including Ebola, avian influenza, and SARS,” he added.

A WHO source in Geneva said that the agency was waiting to hear back from China on the proposed team, while a WHO spokesman said on Saturday he had no further update on the mission.

China’s foreign ministry said in a statement that it understood that the National Health Commission was in close communication with WHO on the specific arrangements for the team’s visit to China.

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More Chinese cities shut down as virus death toll rises

Millions of people have been ordered to stay indoors as China battles to curb the spread of a new virus that authorities said Wednesday has already killed nearly 500 people.

With more than 24,000 cases in China, a growing number of cities have been imposing a range of restrictions in recent days far from central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, as authorities struggle to contain the virus.

Global concerns have risen as more countries found cases that were not imported from China and 10 people tested positive for the virus on a ship quarantined off the coast of Japan.

Some 56 million people in Hubei have been under virtual lockdown since last week, with its capital Wuhan at the heart of the health emergency.

In Hangzhou, some 175 kilometres (110 miles) southwest of Shanghai, green fences blocked streets near the headquarters of Chinese tech giant Alibaba as a fighter jet circled overhead.

Alibaba, one of the world’s most valuable companies, appeared shut down, while deliverymen moved in and out of the nearby fenced-in residential areas to drop off groceries. Many people were also seen going out.

The firm is inside one of three districts where some three million people were told this week that only one person per household would be allowed outside every two days to buy necessities.

“Please don’t go out, don’t go out, don’t go out!” blared a message on a loudspeaker urging people to wear masks, wash their hands regularly and report any people who are from Hubei — a common fear in other parts of the country that people from the province might infect others.

At least three other cities in eastern Zhejiang province — Taizhou, Wenzhou and parts of Ningbo — have imposed the same measures, affecting some 18 million people.

Similar policies were encouraged by authorities in two cities as far as China’s northeasternmost province, Heilongjiang, and a handful of others along the east coast.

In Henan province, which borders Hubei, a district in the city of Zhumadian decided that only one person could leave each household every five days. Residents there have been offered cash rewards for informing on people from Hubei.

— Global jitters –

The disease is believed to have emerged in December in a Wuhan market that sold wild animals, and spread rapidly as people travelled for the Lunar New Year holiday in January.

The death toll has steadily increased, rising to 490 in China after Hubei reported 65 more people had died.

Most deaths have been in the province and officials have noted that the death rate, at around two percent, is below the mortality rate of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

The new coronavirus is from the same family of pathogens as the one that causes SARS, which killed some 800 people in 2002-2003.

The epidemic has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global health emergency, several governments to institute travel restrictions, and airlines to suspend flights to and from China.

United and American Airlines said Wednesday they have added Hong Kong to their China flight suspensions.

On Wednesday Japan said at least 10 passengers on a cruise ship carrying 3,711 people have the virus.

apanese authorities began testing those on board after a former passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong was diagnosed with the illness.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday advised Britons to leave China “if they can”, to minimise their risk of exposure to the virus.

– ‘Window of opportunity’ –

But the WHO said Tuesday that dramatic measures taken by China offered a chance to halt transmission.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the great majority of cases are in China.

“That doesn’t mean that it won’t get worse. But for sure we have a window of opportunity to act,” he said.

Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand all reported new infections not imported from China on Tuesday.

Two fatalities have been reported outside the mainland, in Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Semi-autonomous Hong Kong has closed all but two land crossings with the Chinese mainland.

As countries battle to keep the virus off their shores, the WHO chief accused wealthy countries of falling short on their duties in sharing data.

“Of the 176 cases reported outside China so far, WHO has received complete case report forms for only 38 percent,” he said.

AFP

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Coronavirus patients in Wuhan spit at doctors to spread disease

A South African teacher trapped in Wuhan, China has revealed that coronavirus patients in the coronavirus epicenter deliberately spit at health care workers to spread the highly contagious respiratory virus. Her explosive claims come amid the coronavirus scare that has taken over several parts of the world in recent weeks.

“I’ve heard shocking stories about infected people going out of their way to contaminate others by taking off their masks and spitting in doctors’ faces,” revealed the teacher, Jessica Bailing. “I saw one video of a man spitting on all of the buttons in an apartment elevator,” she added.

As the situation in Wuhan gets worse by the day, Bailing is now afraid to leave their home, worrying she might contract the deadly disease. “I covered myself from head-to-toe with gloves on my hands, glasses to cover my eyes and of course, my mask,” she said.

In Wuhan alone, figures show that cases of coronavirus have tripled in just three days. 6,100 have already been infected with the virus since the outbreak started a month ago, 133 of which have already died. However, leading scientists believe that the actual number of patients infected with coronavirus is far greater than the official toll.

Since coronavirus can be easily spread from one person to another through a sneeze or cough, the World Health Organization (WHO) considers this strain as highly contagious. The first cases of coronavirus were from China, particularly people connected to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan.

Today, the outbreak is already bigger than the SARS epidemic that infected at least 5,327 people around the world in 2003. On Wednesday, China’s National Health Commission said this could even get worse in the next 10 days. Aside from China, several other countries already have confirmed cases of the virus, including South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Canada, France, Finland, and the U.S.

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JACK MA DONATES £11M TO HELP TACKLE CORONAVIRUS

BY NANCY AKAHALU

China richest man, Jack Ma has announced through his foundation that he donated 100 million yaun( £11m) to help tackle coronavirus.

Jack Ma announced the donation on Thursday on social media platform, Weibo, stating:

‘The Jack Ma Foundation will exhaust our abilities to provide more help to the development and growth of medical science .’

Ma’s  said it had donated 100 million yuan to “support the development of a coronavirus vaccine.”

“We know that the battle between humanity and disease is a long journey.

This money will help various medical research efforts and help disease prevention,” it added.

The Corona disease has rampaged China and recorded about 170 death and 7700 infection.

Coronaviruses are a family of diseases which include the common cold and the virus which caused Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which originated in China in 2002 and killed nearly 800 people around the world.

Jack Ma announced the donation on Thursdayon social media platform, Weibo, stating:

‘The Jack Ma Foundation will exhaust our abilities to provide more help to the development and growth of medical science.’

Jack Ma is worth £32.9 billion and the owner of  E-commerce giants, AliBaba.

He  donated the money to scientists across the world who are working towards creating a vaccine for the coronavirus while £4.4 million of the money will go to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The World Health Organisation (WH0) emergency committee is expected to declare Coronavirus an international public health emergency any time from now.

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Chinese residents face jail if they slam country’s coronavirus response

Speaking ill of Beijing’s response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak could land China residents in jail.

WeChat, the Chinese social-media app, has warned its users that anyone who “spreads rumors” about the virus could be locked up for up to seven years.

Anyone who attempts to “disrupt social order” by posting information that doesn’t come from state-run media would face the penalty, the alert, issued Jan. 25, said.

Police in the city of Tianjin, this week, detained a man who criticized how authorities were handling the outbreak in a WeChat group he shared with friends, Vice reported on Thursday.

He was detained for 10 days for “maliciously publishing aggressive, insulting speech against medical personnel,” according to the website.

On Jan. 3, eight people in the city of Wuhan where the flu-like illness originated were arrested for allegedly “publishing or forwarding false information on the internet without verification,” AFP reported.

At least one of them was a doctor who had reported the existence of the new virus.

Wuhan authorities have been accused of initially covering up and ignoring the coronavirus. The mayor, Zhou Xianwang, offered to resign on Monday after admitting the city government’s disclosure of information about the disease had been “unsatisfactory.”

After citizens ripped Wuhan officials for detaining the doctor, China’s highest court stepped in and reprimanded police for silencing whistleblowers, The Washington Post reported.

“Rumors stop when information is public,” the Supreme People’s Court said Tuesday on social media, as it urged Wuhan officials to learn a “profound lesson.”

But China’s censorship machine has been taking down any information Beijing deems to be a “rumor.”

On Wednesday, authorities ordered that for an article that looked at how China’s economy would be affected by the World Health Organization declaring the virus a “global health emergency” to be scrubbed from the internet, according to China Digital Times, a California-based monitoring group.

Examples of other censorship include posts by families of infected people looking for help, of folks in quarantined cities documenting their day-to-day and those slamming the government’s handling of the crisis, according to Vice.

To counteract any criticism, state-media have been publishing gushing reports of Beijing’s response.

“Public perception will be shaped by the propaganda machinery,” Steve Tsang, the director of the China Institute at SOAS University of London, told The Washington Post.

“That machinery is going into overdrive right now to protect [Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s] reputation,” said Tsang.

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Public push to legalize same-sex marriage in China

Legalising same-sex marriage was among the top suggestions made by the Chinese public to lawmakers tasked with amending the civil code, a spokesperson for the top legislative body said.

The public push comes despite a recent crackdown in China on LGBT activists and the wider gay community, as well as censorship of content related to homosexuality in films and on social media.

Feedback from ordinary people was solicited in November by the Commission for Legislative Affairs ahead of its meeting next week to discuss updates to the civil code, which mostly deals with matters relating to marriage and family.

The parliamentary body received more than 237,000 online suggestions and 5,600 letters on the topic, said commission spokesman Yue Zhongming at a press briefing on Friday.

These messages requested the clarification of the “definition of close relatives, improving the shared debt obligations of spouses and legalising same-sex marriage”, Yue said.

He did not offer details on whether same-sex marriage will be included in the final draft of the civil code, which lawmakers are scheduled to discuss from December 23-28.

Although China decriminalised homosexuality in 1997, and officially removed it from its list of mental illnesses in 2001, same-sex marriage remains illegal.

In recent years, censors have muted discussions on the topic on social media, banned the portrayal of homosexuality in films and even prevented the selling of rainbow-themed items online.

– LGBT crackdown –

In April, a Beijing court dismissed an appeal against recently-enforced rules by the national media watchdog which ban gay content on film and television and describe homosexuality as “abnormal.”

Last year, China’s biggest online marketplace Taobao shut down shops selling rainbow flags and clothing with queer phrases — while gay scenes in “Bohemian Rhapsody”, a biopic on Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, were censored.

The government’s tightening grip on the queer community is also going offline.

For the first time in China, two LGBT groups in Guangzhou were shut down earlier this year for being “illegal organisations”, according to a government notice.

Many LGBT non-profits have struggled to legally register with the government, while those already registered can rarely publicly promote gay rights, according to NGOs.

News that lawmakers were considering revising the civil code to include same sex marriage sparked a heated debate online, with Chinese netizens divided on the issue.

“Legalizing same-sex marriage destroys the sanctity of the concept of marriage,” wrote one user, on China’s twitter, Weibo.

“There isn’t enough awareness about what same-sex marriage is, so even if it is legalised on paper, discrimination will continue,” wrote another.

Taiwan, an island that Beijing considers a breakaway province, legalised same-sex marriage in May, becoming the first place in Asia to do so.

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China, Burundi speak highly of mutual friendship

Source: Xinhua

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza (L, front) and Chinese Ambassador to Burundi Li Changlin (R, front) attend a ceremony to launch the China-aided state house in Bujumbura, Burundi, Sept. 27, 2019. The complex with a total construction area of about 10,000 square meters is located in the northeast of Bujumbura, some 9 km from the city center. It consists of the president's office building, rooms for guards and equipment, and watchtowers. (Photo by Evrard Ngendakumana/Xinhua)

BUJUMBURA, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- China is "a best friend" of Burundi, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza said Friday while Chinese Ambassador to Burundi Li Changlin called Burundi an all-weather friend.

Nkurunziza made the remark at a ceremony to launch the China-aided state house, a week after cutting the ribbon for another China-aided project Ruzibazi hydropower station.

The complex with a total construction area of about 10,000 square meters is located in the northeast of Bujumbura, some 9 km from the city center. It consists of the president's office building, rooms for guards and equipment, and watchtowers.

"All Burundian citizens should be glad about the inauguration of the state house, which is an extraordinary step of the country," Nkurunziza said.

The new state house, named after Burundi's first king Ntare Rushatsi who unified the country and fought against its enemies, helps Burundi stop renting the workplace of public institutions, and is a result of good relations and cooperation between Burundi and China, the president said.

He called on the Burundian people to consolidate independence and peace of Burundi, build cohesion, and work hard for future generations.

China is committed to working with African countries to build a closer China-Africa community of shared future, said Chinese Ambassador to Burundi Li Changlin at the ceremony.

In recent years, China-Burundi cooperation has been consolidated, said Li, noting that China has implemented various projects in all areas in Burundi including infrastructure, education, health and agriculture.

China sees Burundi as an all-weather friend, and expects to make due contributions to Burundi's development in all fields, he said.

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China-aided hydropower station project in Burundi to expand cooperation

Source: Xinhua| Editor: Xiaoxia

RUMONGE, Burundi, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The China-aided Ruzibazi hydropower station project located in Burundi's Rumonge province will expand bilateral cooperation, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza said Friday.

Nkurunziza made the remark when attending a construction commencement ceremony for the project held onsite.

The project, the largest China-aided project in Burundi so far, involves the building of a hydropower station with an installed capacity of 15 megawatt.

Extending congratulations to the Chinese people on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Nkurunziza said, "China has always demonstrated that it is a privileged and credible partner for the world in general and for Burundi in particular."

The Ruzibazi power station will possess a large proportion of the total installed capacity in Burundi and is very important to Burundi's future development, Burundi's Energy Minister Come Manirakiza told Xinhua ahead of the ceremony.

Burundi and China have conducted a lot of cooperation in the energy sector, he said, adding that bilateral economic cooperation is expected to yield more fruits.

The Ruzibazi power station will meet the needs of Burundi for power generation and future development, Chinese Ambassador to Burundi Li Changlin told Xinhua, noting that China has joined Burundi's construction in the sectors of agriculture, education and health.

Relations between China and Burundi are at the best time in history, and China stands ready to step up, within its capacity, assistance to Burundi according to Burundi's actual situation, Li added.

Mao Xueyan, who is responsible for the project's construction, said the Chinese side will meticulously organize the construction work in a scientific way and ensure the completion of the project on time with high quality, so as to benefit the Burundian people as soon as possible and contribute to the friendship between China and Burundi.

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