WHY MINORITIES WORLD OVER ARE AND WILL REMAIN POOR. …. THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED AGAINST YOU

By Ena Ofugara:
This article will attempt to show why minorities, from the blacks in America to the minorities in Nigeria are poorer and will remain so. I will indeed include Igbos as minorities as indeed the system is also rigged against them.
From time immemorial, all societies have developed means to keep others not like them beneath them. It has been done in the form of slavery, caste systems, Sarakunas and Talakewas, Royalty, noblemen feudal lords and serfs, Ogboni, Illuminati etc. The reasons for some to come together and oppress others have ranged from skin colour, to tribe, to religion and even to the possession of joysticks. Yes, rules that ensure male dominance and different set of rules governing men and women is no different from when there are different set of rules for whites and black. We must now streamline this article as it could be stretched to become a whole book.

In streamlining this article, we must immediately look at the US and wonder why the blacks seem to be never-do-wells. Yours truly have questioned and criticized the blacks for being in jail so much and not wanting to go to school etc. That was before my eyes became open to systemic racism. For the blacks, think about the head start whites have had over them. They came to the US just 400 years ago and to conditions that were beneath human. It is only recently that segregation ended but then has racism ended? Lacigreen explains how and why the blacks remain forever poor. She reminds of the REDLINING law of 1962 where the Federal Government of the US made 120 billion dollars available for people to get homes. The only snag, only whites could access this loans. Thus with this money, whites were able to get beautiful homes in the best areas, while the blacks, without such help, had to be quartered in the projects and that is the beginning of ghetto life. The whites and their fancy loans could invest in their dreams and grow while the blacks stayed poor and had to do crimes to survive which then leads to arrests and many children have to grow up without their fathers to nurture them. Thus begins the circle of failure. Now add this to laws that make crimes or actions of blacks receive more punishment, eg selling crack receiving ten times more punishment than selling cocaine and blacks being more easily searched and so caught more often with marijuana and illegal guns, even when whites do it too, and you begin to understand. Then add the fact that in the US they have background checks before employment which means if ten white kids and ten black kids are smoking weed, nine of the white kids will walk right past police officers and not be arrested while 8 of the black kids will be searched and convicted and that is 8 black men who may never find work again as they are now “ex-convicts”.

Furthermore in the US, I hear it is changing, but you can only go to public schools in your district or neighbourhood. This means that blacks who cannot afford to live in these white neighbourhood built by thoDelta newsroom logose government loans, must attend schools in the ghetto or projects. Now public schools are financed by taxes. The whites with all their loans are able to pay higher taxes so get to have better schools while the schools in the projects that majority of the blacks must attend, can never compare to the schools in the white areas, and so the whites are armed with better schooling and ready to compete with a black boy for the same space in a top company. Add white privilege to this where the white is usually employed first, and you will know why the black kid may just see his absolution as rap music, gangs and selling drugs (Majority of blacks do well in school and succeed in life. This is not intended to be an insult to them black folks. But I bet you understand what I am saying)

In Nigeria, the whites are easily represented by the Yorubas and Hausa-Fulani. (Don’t shoot me yet). They are the most populous tribe in Africa and have been and remain in positions of power to make policies and benefit from them. Now in 1972, the Federal Military Government headed by Gowon made the Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree which Obasanjo remade in 1977 as the INDIGENIZATION Decree. This law made it compulsory for all foreign companies to sell 51 percent at least of their shares to a Nigerian owner. That is, the almighty Royal Niger Company (later became UAC) that practically colonized us were forced to sell 51 percent of their company to Nigerians.
This sales were forced as said. But new Nigerian millionaires were about to be created. Mere civil servants became controlling share holders overnight as the federal government made it possible for banks to give loans to Nigerians to buy the white companies…at least controlling shares.

It is important to note that this was 1972, two years after the Biafran War and Igbos yet to be integrated fully in Nigeria. They were a conquered people and their “rights” if any was due to the magnanimity of the Middle-belt Gowon. Still they could not access same loans, neither could many of the minority tribes. The only Urhobo man I know that benefited from this was Gamaliel Onosode. All of the Ernest Shonekans and many unknown Yorubas and Hausas became millionaires thereby, to the exclusion of Igbos and he minorities who were not positioned nor knowledgeable enough to make use of this opportunity, or perhaps it was not just there for them. Thus Nigeria had her first set of millionaires.
The children of these people were thus able to attend the Cambridges and Oxfords and Ibadan. They were able to become the creme de la creme. They were given visas at will and that is why you see whole streets in London being Yoruba. The Hausa-Fulani and their Sarakuna and Talakewa class system only allowed for Fulanis to truly go to school while Hausas and Kanuris did not embrace education that much.
Thus is the headstart for Yorubas and Hausas and how Yorubas became the most brilliant and civilized tribe, building on the fact that even before then they had the capital and cocoa and a brilliant Awolowo that steered them toward education. But for millionaires, this is how the true first set of legal millionaires came about.

Then the next set of millionaires arose. Oil had been found in Oloibiri in Bayelsa state. The Hausa Fulani shard these lands to themselves in the name of Oil Blocks and OML and OPLs. The Yorubas ran these companies. So between them all of the moneys in Nigeria were/are lodged. The Igbos were allowed top but not ownership levels. The Niger Deltans as minorities can be cleaners and rig workers. This is still in effect till date as in Chevron, no Deltan is in management staff till today. Between the Fulanis and some Northern minority tribes who joined the army and took coups like the the Theophilus Danjumas, they own the oil blocks and with it IMMENSE WEALTH. Again, Yorubas MERELY run these companies.

Now even when opportunities to become billionaires are thrown open to all as done by Obasanjo with telecoms, it is the Northerners in some kind of background arrangement with Yorubas that can own Globacom (rumours persist that it is owned by Babangida and Mike Adenuga is a veritable front. I cannot confirm)
Also when the racket of SUBSIDY began under babangida (or Abacha?) where a man sells to government and his profit is guaranteed, only one Igbo man (Uba) can make the list and it is by the grace of Obasanjo. Again, Northerners and Westerners own it all.
And when Goodluck Jonathan sells NEPA/PHCN most fairly, it is Northerners and the Yorubas that have the type of funds to bring foreign companies and partner them to own NEPA.

And yes, Igbos on the average may look like they have moneys, they do. But when we talk Dangote and Alhaji Alhaji (richest investor in South Africa) and Abacha and Babangida and Rilwan Lukman and Obasanjo and Mike Adenuga and Harry Akande money, those who really understand wealth will know what I am talking about. The Yoruba Family that brought Julius Berger, can never be poor. Yes there are a few rich Igbo men and Niger Deltans, but I am talking deep deep pockets, what Onos Ohwevwo calls GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
OPPORTUNITY LOST…NO CRUSHED

[b]In Goodluck Jonathan, a great opportunity presented itself. By celestial providence and goodluck, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan broke the glass ceiling placed on the Niger Deltan and Igbo man. He however forgot the first rule…BOW TO THE MASTERS OR LOSE OUT. .First he tried to remove a huge source of constant wealth for them…SUBSIDY PAYMENTS. The unsuspecting, nigh doltish Nigerian public fought him and kept it. The powers that be would never forgive him as they were to strike him back a few months to re-election when they ensured his repaired refineries could not work and that fuel was scarce for the voting public.

We saw giants from our sordid past and hitherto enemies….Babangida, Obasanjo, Atiku, Theophilus Danjuma, Buhari Dangote, etc all UNITE against a common enemy, the emerging minority. YES. 2016, Jonathan would have removed subsidy, issued OML and OPL and oil blocks to new set of people including Igbos and Niger Deltans etc etc. There was no way the majority was going to allow themselves be equalled by the minorities and Igbos. So a man who successfully sold NEPA when OBJ could not even sell Nitel without hitches nor sell the NEPA well, instead doing something something and changing it to PHCN which is ineffectual. They used wealth and press power and old structures they have built to make a man who have made trains run from Port Harcourt to Enugu, Port Harcourt to Markurdi, now Port Harcourt to Kano, Lagos to Kano etc to look a failure. They forget that all countries that grew grew because of the train network.

Their deep-rooted institutions of power made a man who built the biggest dams in Africa for electricity be called clueless. Today with him gone, in a week power is almost constant in many areas. They made a man who made Nigeria begin to feed herself with dry season rice production and a man who even at christmas food prices never increase to be called OLODO. Their media might made it possible for a leader whose SEC boss was so good she is now World Bank Vice President or so, and whose ministers like Shehu Aganga, and Minister of economy and finance Ngozi Okonjo Iwealla made Nigeria to an investment paradise and number one destination of FDI and whose policy moved Nigeria from being classified as poor to middle-earning to be hated by many.

They made a man whose corruption index from all international agencies showed he improved Nigeria and stopped systemic corruption enough to move us loads of notches above where ALL other presidents put Nigeria….that is, under Goodluck, Nigeria was considered so much less corrupt, yet the structure to this day is ensuring his administration is the most corrupt even when to wikileaks, they say something different and that he is by and large honest. Yes, a man whose policy led to the first black man owning a car company is called CLUELESS when the oneelected over him and his military allies destroyed even foreign car companies. A man brings back the car companies and even bigger ones like Nissan and A NIGERIAN owns a car company…FIRST BLACK MAN ON THE PLANET and a president who ensures this is called CLUELESS
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[b]That is the power of the majority. That is the power of those who lead. THAT IS THE SYSTEM. That is what Lauren Hill rages about in songs like “I GET OUT” which the system ensures she Lauren Hill fails. That is the system that imprisons the Wole Soyinkas till they learn to eat along and be quiet. That is the system that ensures NOTHING CHANGES. That is the system where for the Igbos and Niger Delta we must find a route to Europe through Morocco. That is the system that must bring forth Fred Ajuduas if he must feed, or turn people to “baby factory” just to survive. That is why CNN will show Osaro marching across the dessert to Europe. That is the system that YES to survive, you must KILL A LION EVERYDAY academically or in business to survive. And that is the system that if not well managed by this “new” leader Buhari who has not learnt how to hide bias and hate and oppression of the minorites and Igbos, he may …he may…. he may destroy the country and with it the SYSTEM…GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA….only perhaps more violent.[/b]

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As depressing as this article reads, the more articles like this the better.

I'm summary, the rich rip off the poor to get richer in Naija.. Rich don't care about poor ppl while the poor die and protect the rich

Nonsense.. this article must have been written by a typical black American.. always on the defensive, always race batting, playing the victim and looking for everything in society to blame for his failures but his own efforts and lifestyle. What do u have to say about the many minorities that took responsibility, worked hard and became successful? Read the biography of Dr. Ben Carson for example. He is a living example of what a black man can achieve if he refuses to be a victim and blame the 'system' for his predicament. The black community in America would never excel until black people themselves learn to do the following: 1) stop dropping out of school and complete their higher educations instead 2) stop selling and using recreations drugs 3) STOP HAVING CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK this is perhaps the biggest cause of poverty in the black community. A lady yet to graduate high school gets knocked up by some guy whose life isn't going in any particular direction..of course he bolts as he barely has enough to take care of himself let alone a woman and her kid as a result she drops out of school to take up menial jobs to raise her child condemning herself and her child to a life of poverty as a result and the circle continues with that child's own generation. 4) black entertainers also need to stop producing music and movies that encourage all the previous listed points. Now I am not denying that there is still racism in the world but the truth is it can only hold u back if u let it!

This is an article that opens the eyes of every *minorities* in this countries. This is the reason fiscal federalism will never be actualised in this country.


Cc candyrain, whynotthetruth, dearpreye, mogidi, francizy.

An eye opener for all *minorities*

I noticed that the easiest way of becoming popular on social media is by talking about , writing about and/or castigating the Igbos. This is because we Igbos have made it so. We can actually avoid a lot of crap online so that these people can get tired. It's not a big ideal, my people. We have over 300 tribes in Nigeria, and some foolish man is calling Igbos minority. We can actually stop making these fools popular. Yes, we can't have people talking about us and we popularise such articles. If we start avoiding such articles, it will do us a world of good.

Even Biafra, if we start ignoring everything Biafra, many people will get tired of talking about it. Personally I am tired of always reading about Igbos all the time on the Internet, for God's sake we have over 300 tribes in Nigeria, why always Igbos?

If any genuine Igbo has any genuine concern to raise, there are better platforms like age grade meetings, townhall meetings, etc. We should stop washing our dirty linens in public.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

Udo diri umu Igbo.

slyfoxxjoe:
Nonsense.. this article must have been written by a typical black American.. always on the defensive, always race batting, playing the victim and looking for everything in society to blame for his failures but his own efforts and lifestyle. What do u have to say about the many minorities that took responsibility, worked hard and became successful? Read the biography of Dr. Ben Carson for example. He is a living example of what a black man can achieve if he refuses to be a victim and blame the 'system' for his predicament. The black community in America would never excel until black people themselves learn to do the following: 1) stop dropping out of school and complete their higher educations instead 2) stop selling and using recreations drugs 3) STOP HAVING CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK this is perhaps the biggest cause of poverty in the black community. A lady yet to graduate high school gets knocked up by some guy whose life isn't going in any particular direction..of course he bolts as he barely has enough to take care of himself let alone a woman and her kid as a result she drops out of school to take up menial jobs to raise her child condemning herself and her child to a life of poverty as a result and the circle continues with that child's own generation. 4) black entertainers also need to stop producing music and movies that encourage all the previous listed points. Now I am not denying that there is still racism in the world but the truth is it can only hold u back if u let it!

Ben Carson is only 1% of those that succeeded even in the face of govt sponsored suppression.

The author said a lot of truth here

Nature129:

I noticed that the easiest way of becoming popular on social media is by talking about , writing about and/or castigating the Igbos. This is because we Igbos have made it so. We can actually avoid a lot of crap online so that these people can get tired. It's not a big ideal, my people. We have over 300 tribes in Nigeria, and some foolish man is calling Igbos minority. We can actually stop making these fools popular. Yes, we can't have people talking about us and we popularise such articles. If we start avoiding such articles, it will do us a world of good.

Even Biafra, if we start ignoring everything Biafra, many people will get tired of talking about it. Personally I am tired of always reading about Igbos all the time on the Internet, for God's sake we have over 300 tribes in Nigeria, why always Igbos?

If any genuine Igbo has any genuine concern to raise, there are better platforms like age grade meetings, townhall meetings, etc. We should stop washing our dirty linens in public.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

Udo diri umu Igbo.

The igbos have kept silent since the end of the war that's why they found themselves minorities in the sharing of poliitical offices today. We need our voices to be heard more.

slyfoxxjoe:
Nonsense.. this article must have been written by a typical black American.. always on the defensive, always race batting, playing the victim and looking for everything in society to blame for his failures but his own efforts and lifestyle. What do u have to say about the many minorities that took responsibility, worked hard and became successful? Read the biography of Dr. Ben Carson for example. He is a living example of what a black man can achieve if he refuses to be a victim and blame the 'system' for his predicament. The black community in America would never excel until black people themselves learn to do the following: 1) stop dropping out of school and complete their higher educations instead 2) stop selling and using recreations drugs 3) STOP HAVING CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK this is perhaps the biggest cause of poverty in the black community. A lady yet to graduate high school gets knocked up by some guy whose life isn't going in any particular direction..of course he bolts as he barely has enough to take care of himself let alone a woman and her kid as a result she drops out of school to take up menial jobs to raise her child condemning herself and her child to a life of poverty as a result and the circle continues with that child's own generation. 4) black entertainers also need to stop producing music and movies that encourage all the previous listed points. Now I am not denying that there is still racism in the world but the truth is it can only hold u back if u let it!

Why the outburst?...it seems you didn't even finish reading this article...Ten millionaires in a state is better than five billionaires in a state...thanks

Niger Deltans should voice their unity with the Igbo more.
We are one, we are in the same poo.

Niger Deltans should learn to defend the Igbo as if their lives depended on it just like the Igbo fought for, supported, risked everything for GEJ.

We have to be one voice to end the exploitation going on in our land.

The major beneficiary of 'One Nigeria' are Yorubas because they had nothing before the war!

Imagine just one person from Lower Niger out of 33 persons owing an oil block.

God we need Biafra.

ECOTERRORS:
This is an article that opens the eyes of every *minorities* in this countries. This is the reason fiscal federalism will never be actualised in this country.


Cc candyrain, whynotthetruth, dearpreye, mogidi, francizy.

An eye opener for all *minorities*

The so called majority are able to intimidate the minority simply because of the greed of individual elements in the minority which allows the principle of Divide & Rule to be possible... eg A Tinubu bastardized Afenifere because of personal political glory...An Ngige is ready to humiliate Ohaneze Ndi Igbo because of selfish political desire...etc
...Such has been and may sadly remain the story... thanks for the mention...

Very depressing....

We will still be talking this same thing without a strong united lower niger.

kelvin100:
Niger Deltans should voice their unity with the Igbo more.
We are one, we are in the same poo.

Niger Deltans should learn to defend the Igbo as if their lives depended on it just like the Igbo fought for, supported, risked everything for GEJ.

We have to be one voice to end the exploitation going on in our land.

The major beneficiary of 'One Nigeria' are Yorubas because the had nothing before the war!

Imagine just one person from Lower Niger out of 33 persons owing an oil block.

God we need Biafra.

well said, the dissenting voices among them should be allowed to dine with the *Majority* and let's see how their fate pans out

ECOTERRORS:
This is an article that opens the eyes of every *minorities* in this countries. This is the reason fiscal federalism will never be actualised in this country.


Cc candyrain, whynotthetruth, dearpreye, mogidi, francizy.

An eye opener for all *minorities*

Dear I'm just so short of words. How did we get ourselves into this mess?

I stopped reading this piece of sh!t when i got to the paragraph where he classified the Igbos as a minortiy. Lol. I am Nupe, a minority tribe, but we dont whine and cry like spoilt brats

This dishonest writer also refered to Theophilus Danjuma, Yakubu Gowon et al as being from a majority tribe, like serioulsy ?

Tafawa Balewa was a seyawa
Abacha was a Kanuri
Gowon is an Angas
Danjuma is a Jukun
Jonathan is an Ijaw

These people were/are from minortiy ethnic groups and they got to the zenith of their military/political careers. So therefore this article is DOA

KinkyAngela:
I stopped reding this piece os sh!t when i got to the paragraph where he classified the Igbos as a minortiy. Lol. I am Nupe, a minority tribe, but we dont whine and cry like spoilt brats

This dishonest writer also refered to Theophilus Danjuma, Yakubu Gowon et al as being from a majority tribe, like serioulsy ?

Abacha was a Kanuri
Gowon is an Angas
Danjuma is a Jukun

the NUPE's are all northerners and Islamic religeon and Hausa language is a unifying factor in the North.

The writer deeply and sincerely captured the unassailable truths as being occasioned in all systems.

Very depressing indeed.

The solution is simple: THE NIGER DELTANS MUST UNITE WITH THE IGBOS IN ORDER TO FORGE A VIBRANT BLOCK.

lalasticlala can you review this thread for frontpage.

ECOTERRORS:
the NUPE's are all northerners and Islamic religeon and Hausa language is a unifying factor in the North.

Nupes are natives of Kwara and Niger state. we are sandwiched between the two largest ethnic groups in west africa, Yoruba and Hausa. We dont grumble and complain like you lot because we know that they are better means to address injustice and marginalisation.

The more you igbos continue your play the victim card, the more you relegate to tribe to the back row

Rubbish write up.

Please mention the biggest Dam that Jonathan built? The writer is talking of rice production all year round and the press is a washed with the Rice Importation Waiver Scandal? The same president ordered the Minister of Finance to withdraw USD1billion from national coffers to finance his campaign, which was clearly stated by the same Finance Minister. What an achievement by a dumbo daft Drunken Master of Otuoke and his sycophants.

The same Railways privatisation you are praising Jonathan for was started by OBJ. OBJ drew the master plan and paid the first instalment to the Chinese. The same PHCN reform started under OBJ with the turnaround of Kainji Dam, building of Afam V and VI, olorunsogo Power plants and other IPPs. They were only completed under jonathan and he commissioned them.

The Airport renovation he is celebrating clearly showed that the contractors did shoddy jobs. i do not know know whether Enugu International Airport is an Airport or Waterport? PH Airport is already leaking. Same as MMA1. Why on earth should we celebrate such criminality?

Even the blind knew Jonathan was worshiping corruption on his 2 kneels. Pension Scam Fraud, Stealer Oduahgate Scandal, Subsidy Mega-Fraud, oil theft and many wanton looting were the other of the day under the very nose of the supposed most powerful president in the world.

Yorubas work smart, rather than hard like jackal and we care less about any bastar.d. Anybody that is pained can jump inside the lagoon.

All those rubbish about American blacks are hogwash and utter bullshi.t. They should take full responsibility for their behaviour and actions. Likewise any other group mentioned in Nigeria in the write up. The same economic hardship facing a child in Abakaliki is the same that the one in Saki or Bodo or Ogoja or Kondunga and Kaura Namoda are all facing. Some just make it a point of duty to continually whine about it on a daily basis, while some take up the challenge silently and make something out of themselves despite the challenging, herculean and daunting situation.

ECOTERRORS:
This is an article that opens the eyes of every *minorities* in this countries. This is the reason fiscal federalism will never be actualised in this country.
Cc candyrain, whynotthetruth, dearpreye, mogidi, francizy.

An eye opener for all *minorities*

Hmmm, what can I say? When people say stuffs like Biafra will never succeed on it's own, I look back at Nigeria of over 50 years without anything meaningful to show for it's old age and then come to the conclusion that, it's better we try and fail than just sit and assume it won't work when we have our country. In all, I pray we aggitate and have our country peacefully rather than going to war because war will only cause more death, destruction and grief..

The main problems we have still lies with our politicians as most of them can sell their people for a token. If our politicians can have one voice like the people then you'd see this injustice crumble.

francizy:


Hmmm, what can I say? When people say stuffs like Biafra will never succeed on it's own, I look back at Nigeria of over 50 years without anything meaningful to show for it's old age and then come to the conclusion that, it's better we try and fail than just sit and assume it won't work when we have our country. In all, I pray we aggitate and have our country peacefully rather than going to war because war will only cause more death, destruction and grief..

[size=30pt]The main problems we have still lies with our politicians as most of them can sell their people for a token[/size] If our politicians can have one voice like the people then you'd see this injustice crumble.

You made some sense there

KingTom:




You made some sense there

Seconded

Another foolish article by a foolish fool who thinks triablism is a substitute for Good Governance.

KinkyAngela:
Nupes are natives of Kwara and Niger state. we are sandwiched between the two largest ethnic groups in west africa, Yoruba and Hausa. We dont grumble and complain like you lot because we know that they are better means to address injustice and marginalisation.

The more you igbos continue to play the victim card, the more you relegate to tribe to the back row

Every tribe played the victim card to get to the top.

The yorubas fought Abacha because of him hounding their sons into detention, they shouted to the ends of North pole and were even planning a civil war against the government of Abacha if not that the materminds were arrested in Contonu before they shifted their arms to Nigeria

The Hausas cried of marginalisation when Obj was in power, they started Sharia law to put Obj in check that they can destroy this country if OBJ doesn't toe their line.
During GEJ's government, we saw how Junaid Mohammed and El Rufai always reminded us how Muslims or Fulanis were being killed or marginalised.

During Yardua regime the Niger delta took their own wailing to another level by blowing up pipelines which made Yaradua to acede to their request and develop their region

The igbos need to wail and shout now, they need to engage in every legitimate means for their voice to be heard.

Let's not talk about the Nupes because I've talked about them in my former post

KingTom:




You made some sense there

LoL.. Where this man commot from? I been think say you don go sabbatical (with one calabar babe) oh..

atlwireles:
As depressing as this article reads, the more articles like this the better.

are you a Christian
please reread the parable of the 1,2 and 5 talents

blacks were not denied education
or scholarships so what the duck is their excuse for ghetto life

even if your a Muslim
we all know the story of the rabbit and the tortoise

so you can keep feeling entitled
or git yo' head in the game an' stop bitchingI

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mikolo80:
are you a Christian
please reread the parable of the 1,2 and 5 talents

blacks were not denied education
or scholarships so what the duck is their excuse for ghetto life

even if your a Muslim
we all know the story of the rabbit and the tortoise

so you can keep feeling entitled
or git yo' head in the game an' stop bitchingI

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