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Canada Sprayed Teens with Agent Orange Until the 80s

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Jeff Neumann


Canada Sprayed Teens with Agent Orange Until the 80sAfter a Toronto Star investigation, the Canadian government has acknowledged that it used Agent Orange — the same cancer- and birth defect-causing chemical used by the U.S. military to clear the jungles of Vietnam — to clear brush from roadsides in Ontario between the 1950s and 1980s. Yes, until the fucking 80s!

So who was exposed to Agent Orange in Ontario? Oh, you know, just a bunch of kids and stuff:


Records from the 1950s, 60s and 70s show forestry workers, often students and junior rangers, spent weeks at a time as human markers holding red, helium-filled balloons on fishing lines while low-flying planes sprayed toxic herbicides including an infamous chemical mixture known as Agent Orange on the brush and the boys below.


"We were saturated in chemicals," said Don Romanowich, 63, a former supervisor of an aerial spraying program in Kapuskasing, Ont., who was recently diagnosed with a slow-growing cancer that can be caused by herbicide exposure. "We were told not to drink the stuff but we had no idea."


Hey kids, it's ok stand under that refreshing mist in the blistering summer heat, but don't drink it!

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Vandal Clothes Renaissance Painting of Venus

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Maureen O'Connor


Vandal Clothes Renaissance Painting of VenusFor the first time in the history of red spray paint in the vicinity of a poster girl's breasts, a vandal made a billboard less sexual. To advertise an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the billboard in Long Lake, MN featured a 16th-century Titian painting of Venus. The vandal painted a red tube top over Venus' breasts and commented, "Brrr!"

Venus has since been stripped naked again (see her titties here) though there was some dissent: Local prudes found her nipples disturbing, and museum officials thought the alteration was "funny." Apparently they had no say in the matter, though, because the billboard company has a policy against graffiti. Expect this billboard to become a hotspot for local Banksy wannabes, anyway. [Star Tribune, image via AP]

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Chaos Summer: Why Wisconsin is Only the Beginning

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Chaos Summer: Why Wisconsin is Only the Beginning

I’m going to bankrupt this country by any means necessary, and if you try to stop me or slow me down, I’ll shut the government down and blame it on you. If you try to stop me, you can kiss your political careers good-bye. Isn’t this essentially what Barack Obama and his allies in the U.S. Senate are saying to the Republican leaders in Congress?

One thing is certain: it’s not an idle threat. Obama and his allies control the executive branch of the government and the United States Senate. They also control the mainstream media. On top of that, they control the unions, which they are sending into the streets.

Our great nation is on the verge of bankruptcy. The national debt stands at $14 trillion. When the people cried out and demanded that Washington put a stop to the out-of-control waste and spending, Barack Obama instead responded by proposing a budget that, by his own calculations, doubles our already untenable debt over the next decade.

Americans wrongly assumed that Obama would change accordingly after taking his election “shellacking.” He said the day after the elections, “And I told John Boehner and Mitch McConnell last night, I am very eager to sit down with members of both parties and figure out how we can move forward together.” His compromising rhetoric worked to get Americans to back-off and lower their defenses.

In reality, when the Republican-led House of Representatives put forth legislation to cut our out-of-control deficit by $61 billion — a mere 3.7 percent of our deficit and a scant 0.4 percent of our national debt — Barack Obama and his allies in Congress threatened to shut the government down.

In the days that follow, more protests will break out in a number of states across the nation. It is only the beginning of a prolonged battle for the future of America.

Barack Obama and his allies heard the message voters sent in November loud and clear, and they are striking back. The chaos in Madison, Wisconsin, is precisely the future Barack Obama wishes for every state in the union. It’s the “change” he really promised when he campaigned in 2008, because only economic paralysis can pave the way for him to press forward with his extreme agenda.

If you believe that these Wisconsin protests are a local issue, you’re sorely mistaken. If you believe that these protests are, in actuality, about public-sector union employees demanding more of your hard-earned money during a time of extreme economic distress while the rest of the nation suffers, you’re still missing a huge part of the picture.

These protesters are being used. Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase “useful idiots.” These protesters are dupes. They are pawns in a very dangerous game that Barack Obama is playing with the United States of America. Barack Obama and his allies tell us that they are only supporting the Wisconsin demonstrations because they care about the teachers, because they care about the children, but the end result of Obama’s support for these demonstrations cannot be ignored.

Barack Obama, through his support of the Wisconsin demonstrations, is essentially ensuring that no state that is attempting to balance its budget can do so. It’s not enough for him to bankrupt and indenture the federal government to our foreign creditors and our enemies abroad; he must bankrupt the states, as well. We’re not questioning Obama’s motives; we’re simply looking at the fruits of his actions.

Obama is not just giving these demonstrators rhetorical support. As Senator Jim DeMint recently noted, Obama’s “political machine, Organizing for America, is on the ground ginning up opposition to Wisconsin Republicans who are trying desperately to balance their budget. Make no mistake, the Democrat Party is bought and paid for by the unions.”

Of course, some of our elected officials are giving Obama the benefit of the doubt. They accuse him of a “lack of leadership;” but does Obama really lack leadership?

We believe the actual end-game is to bankrupt the United States of America. And by bringing this country to its knees, he can then remold it from the ground up and move it ever closer to socialism. Former Obama administration “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones put it this way: Revolutions are sold from the “top-down, bottom-up, and inside-out.”

“Top-down, bottom-up, and inside-out.” Are we in the midst of a political revolution?

by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Western Journalism

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Planned Parenthood’s New Record: More U.S. Abortions in 2009 Than Ever Before

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Planned Parenthood’s New Record: More U.S. Abortions in 2009 Than Ever Before

A new report the Planned Parenthood national abortion business recently released shows the embattled agency did more abortions in 2009 than it has done in any prior year. The report also shows it providing fewer pregnant women with non-abortion services.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America recently posted on its website what it calls its service numbers for 2009. This document, dated February 2011, shows Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide did 332,278 surgical abortions or abortions using the dangerous RU 486 abortion during in 2009.

That’s 2.5 percent more abortions than the September 2010 report the abortion business released covering 2008 and showing it doing 324,008 abortions, which was a 6.1 percent increase over the 305,310 abortions it did in 2007. The 2007 figure was itself a 5.3 percent increase over the 289,750 abortions Planned Parenthood did in 2006.

With approximately 1.2 million abortions done annually in the United States via surgical abortions or the mifepristone abortion drug, Planned Parenthood has increased its share of the abortion industry to 27.6 percent of all abortions done annually.

Planned Parenthood has been on the receiving end of significant negative publicity related to undercover videos showing its officials helping investigators posing as sex traffickers obtain abortions and STD testing for underage girls who are victims of the sex trade. The abortion business has defended itself in part by attempting to show that abortions constitute a small percentage of its overall services.

However, the new numbers make it more clear that women who are pregnant who come to Planned Parenthood receive only abortion services rather than help and support.

The new document the abortion organization posted shows Planned Parenthood provided prenatal services to merely 7,021 women and referred only 977 women for adoption services. These numbers were a 25 percent drop in prenatal care clients and a whopping 59 percent decline in adoption referrals from the 2,405 adoption referrals in 2008. The abortion business helped only 9,433 prenatal clients in 2008, down substantially from the 11,000 women it provided prenatal care to in 2007 — showing health care given to pregnant woman has fallen substantially over the years.

As a result, 97.6 percent of pregnant women going to Planned Parenthood are sold abortions while less than 2.4 percent of pregnant women received non-abortion services including adoption and prenatal care. That’s up from 96.5 percent of pregnant women going to Planned Parenthood getting abortions in 2008.

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BORN IN THE USA? Hawaii controversy over birth certificate guardian

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Hawaii controversy over birth certificate guardian

Senator challenges governor on firing of state's health department director

BORN IN THE USA?

By Jerome R. Corsi




© 2011 WorldNetDaily


State Sen. Sam Slom

Hawaii's Senate minority leader is accusing Gov. Neil Abercrombie of politicizing the state's health department by firing his nominee to replace Chiyome Fukino, a woman best known to the nation as Barack Obama's birth certificate guardian.

Sen. Sam Slom, the sole Republican in Hawaii's upper house, is denouncing Abercrombie's handling of the nomination of Dr. Neal Palafox to be the successor to Fukino as director of the state's health department. He said he is convinced Abercrombie asked Dr. Palafox to withdraw his nomination because the nominee fired two Hawaii health department employees who were politically connected.

"Palafox was determined to clean up the Hawaii Department of Health and he ran afoul of politics when the people he fired sought retribution," Slom told WND.

Slom does not believe that Dr. Palafox was fired for refusing to allow Abercrombie to search for Obama birth records.

"I have known Abercrombie for 50 years, back to when we were both undergraduate students at the University of Hawaii," Slom said. "Abercrombie was pro-communist and I was pro-American."

But Slom adds he would be happy to use the Palafox case if it would permit him to open up to the public any birth records the Hawaii health department has.

"If Palafox serves as a shoehorn to get for the public any Obama birth records the Hawaii Department of Health has, I am all for doing so," he said. "I don’t understand why Obama has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep all his records from the public — not just his Hawaii birth records, but his passport records and his school records. All Obama's records should be public, including any Hawaii birth records that exist."







Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie


Slom said Abercrombie did conduct a search for Obama birth records – he wasn't sure if Abercrombie looked himself, or if he sent someone to search the records.

Slom repeated what he told the Hawaii newspapers — that there is no federal investigation against Palafox. He characterized that as a trumped up story to provide cover for the dismissal of Palafox. He said he met personally with Dr. Palafox and was prepared to vote to confirm his nomination as director of the Hawaii health department.

"Neil is a small man, about 5 feet 1 inch in height, with a huge ego," said Slom. "He thought he could come into office and do Obama a great favor by putting an end to Obama's birth controversy."

But the inability to produce any documents after vows to the New York Times and other news organizations have only added fuel to the fire. The dismissal of Dr. Palafox has also stirred rumors about a possible connection to the birth certificate drama.

The latest development comes as well-connected sources in Hawaii are warning that certain government officials in the state have been contemplating releasing fraudulent birth records for Obama in the run-up to the 2012 election. At least 11 states are currently considering legislation that would require future presidential candidates to prove constitutional eligibility by proving they are "natural born citizens."

Some of the bills under review in legislatures across the U.S. would require candidates to provide a long-form birth certificate – a document Obama has steadfastly denied the public and the press. His 2008 campaign offered only a certification of live birth, a short-form digital document that skeptics insist could be generated without an actual Hawaiian birth taking place. But the generation of the short-form document, by a simple affidavit from a family member, would have triggered the newspaper birth announcements that have been used by some to corroborate Obama's birth story.

The blogosphere is rife with speculation that Abercrombie dispatched Palafox as health director because he was unable to produce evidence supporting Abercrombie's repeated claims Obama was born at Kapi'olani Medical Center.

WND was unable to reach Dr. Palafox.

In a letter to Abercrombie dated last Friday, Slom said he has confirmed with federal sources that Dr. Palafox is not under any investigation, the reason Abercrombie's office claimed was behind the governor's request for dismissal.

"If he is indeed innocent, let's clear this matter up and allow the Senate to consider him for the position," Slom wrote to Abercrombie. "The Health Department has a number of problems and strong leadership is required."

The Hawaii Reporter published last Friday the complete text of Slom's letter to Abercrombie.

"As a member of the Health Committee who would be considering his [Palafox's] or another nomination, I am requesting additional information to determine whether or not he was falsely accused," Slom wrote Abercrombie. "It would be unfortunate to have these allegations hanging over him if they are not true."

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Radicals bringing campaign for Shariah to White House


The language of clerical sex abuse and cover up

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A recent Philadelphia Inquirer commentary written by a retired priest recognizes the docility of the response of Philadelphia-area Roman Catholics to the recent indictments of three priests for rapes of two boys ages 10 and 14 and of a priest in a supervisory position for child endangerment.

The author is spot on about Catholic docility. In Philadelphia, like elsewhere in the United States, there is no widespread, sustained, take-it-to-the-streets anger about priests raping 10- and 14-year-old boys. There is no strong anger like we have recently seen in Cairo, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, and the state capitol of Wisconsin. That kind of anger flows from something vital to the average person, namely a better quality of life or a fatter government retirement check, not something inconsequential, like the rape of the neighbor’s 10-year-old boy.

The Inquirer commentary is on the surface learned and sophisticated, but with further analysis is wimpy, effeminate, and tame. In other words it’s clerical. It uses limp language, indicating it was written by a priest who lacks cajones, which the clerical formation process is designed to suppress or eliminate.  The author doesn’t use direct, everyday, no-bullshit language that conveys the depth of the real problem.  This kind of learned but lukewarm writing is what one would expect from commentary by a retired priest in a “family newspaper,” where the use of direct, even vulgar language that conveys tough truth is verboten. The Philadelphia Inquirer is, one must remember, a mainstream American newspaper whose primary objective is to maximize profits by selling products and services to mainstream Americans. The Inquirer is not Bill Maher on HBO or Kathy Griffin on Bravo or YouTube.

Patrons of neighborhood bars and writers of blogs have no such constraints on the language they use. Like Maher and Griffin, they often use real-world, salty language to describe the mushy consciences of the Silent Catholic Majority. The members of this non-exclusive club, both clergy and laity, have outsourced their spirituality and critical-thinking skills to the Vatican in exchange for the Vatican’s guarantee of eternal life. This guarantee is reinforced weekly in a carefully controlled ritual where the “Faithful”  are served their dose of an unholy Kool Aid in exchange for donations that keep the barque of Peter afloat. What many of the Faithful fail to realize is that their donations support priests who rape their sons and daughters (mostly sons, for those of you who have been on another planet for the past decade) and the bishops who shield these monsters from criminal prosecution. You know the men I’m talking about: the men in charge, the men who wear dresses and funny hats, the men whom Mafia godfathers use as role models.

The real men in my neighborhood bar whom I remember from my misspent early years, would often, after drinking enough to lubricate their larynxes, use very direct language  when sharing their opinions about the big issues of the day.

If today they were discussing the current insanity called the Clergy Sex Abuse and Cover Up Crisis, they would call this clerical and lay Silent Catholic Majority wimps, pansies, pussies, whores, and suck-ups. They would say that members of this Silent Catholic Majority are more concerned about being buried in consecrated ground than in protecting little kids from pedophile priests who f— little boys. They would say that Catholics should send the bishops a message that this shit has gotta stop. Like right now.

Frank Douglas | Tucson, AZ | February 24, 2011

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Charlie Sheen Unleashes On TSA

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Charlie Sheen Unleashes On TSA

“Touch my children and I would eat your hands off your frikkin’ arms,” actor rages in response to train station grope-down of 9-year-old boy

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet.com

Thursday, February 24, 2011

UPDATE: Listen to the MP3 – the Sheen interview starts at the 2 hour mark.

Actor Charlie Sheen unleashed on the TSA during a wild radio interview on The Alex Jones Show today, raging that he would eat the hands of any TSA worker who tried to touch his children, in response to the story that TSA agents harassed travelers and groped children in Savannah train station earlier this month after the passengers had left the train.

Comparing the TSA to a Gestapo-like occupying force, Sheen stated, “Anyone who wants to ignore it deserves to have their privates fondled by some clown who worked at Wal-Mart seven minutes before that….losers and clowns and trolls all of them.”

“Touch my children and I would eat your hands off your frikkin’ arms,” Sheen raged.

Sheen made the comments in reference to an incident that occurred on February 13 that is making national news today, in which passengers who disembarked from a train at Savannah after their trip had ended were subjected to an airport style TSA grope-down as well as a metal detector wanding.

The video of the incident shows young boys being patted down and wanded by TSA workers in the train station.

“Indeed, this doesn’t make sense at all. Why search people after the train trip? What’s the logic here? Did the TSA got an alert that dangerous 9-year-old terrorists were coming in a train to Savannah? Perhaps it was TSA Surprise Training Time? Or maybe it was TSA Let’s Piss Off People Day again?” asks Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz.

Sheen slammed the TSA during the course of a rampaging interview with host Alex Jones in which the Two and a Half Men star broke his silence and directly confronted some of his detractors amidst endless media speculation about his private life and career.

Watch the clip of the TSA train station grope-down below.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.

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Tennesseeans Attempt to Make Not Robbing Banks a Felony

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Max Read


Tennesseeans Attempt to Make Not Robbing Banks a FelonyWorried about the ever-encroaching menace of Muslims practicing their religion? You may want to move to Tennessee, where State Sen. Bill Ketron (pictured) and state Rep. Judd Matheny are introducing a bill that would "make following the Islamic code known as Shariah law a felony, punishable by 15 years in jail." Nashville-based Imam Mohamed Ahmed wonders:


"What do you mean, really, by saying I can't abide by Shariah law?" he said. "Shariah law is telling me don't steal. Do you want me to steal and rob a bank?"


To which we say, yes, duh, because if Muslims think robbing banks is bad then we are 110 percent pro-bank robbery. This is how patriotism works! Muslims don't eat pork? Then from now on, Americans only eat pork. Muslims consider it a religious obligation to help the poor? Fuck the poor. Here's a quick guide to some of the other Shariah-sanctioned activities that would be felonized by Ketron and Matheny's law:


  • Giving money to the poor

  • Not gambling

  • Not eating pork and shellfish.

  • Staying sober

  • Not charging interest on loans

  • Dressing modestly

Print it out and keep it in your pocket! You wouldn't want to be arrested for following Shariah law.

[Tennessean; image via AP]

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Dog Killed in Police Raid on Wrong House

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Max Read


Dog Killed in Police Raid on Wrong HouseClick to viewAn attempted drug raid in Philadelphia ended badly on Wednesday night when a police officer entered the wrong home and shot and killed a dog that had bitten him on the ankle. It's hard to blame the officer for shooting an attacking dog (or the dog for attacking an intruder), but one would hope that when armed police are executing raids they could at least get the address right. [NBC10; video below]
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Amazing Discoveries™ Audio

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 Amazing Discoveries™ Audio


Browse library


Total Onslaught

Walter Veith



1Just Another Man57:16
2Where Jesus Walked92:08
3An Advocate For Our Time75:24
4The Mists of Time82:35
5The Man Behind The Mask91:15
6The Revelation of Jesus Christ87:59
7Seven Churches92:29
8Seven Seals86:56
9When Trumpets Sound84:25
10The Beast From The Bottomless Pit79:54
11The Secret Behind Secret Societies89:46
12Hidden Agendas93:14
13Battle of the Bibles87:08
14Changing The Word Part I and II37:42
15Changing The Word Part III93:08
16Revolutions, Tyrants and Wars91:47
17The Islamic Connection90:57
18The Crime of All Ages82:00
19Two Beasts Become Friends80:11
20The Wine of Babylon Part I58:03
21The Wine of Babylon Part II62:09
22A Woman Rides the Beast86:50
23A New World Order91:19
24The Mystic Realm of Death94:03
25The New Age Agenda91:18
26That All May Be One75:27
27Strange Fire Part I46:03
28Strange Fire Part II69:15
29The UN And The Occult Agenda87:32
30Battle of the Giants85:46
31A Stone to Rest Your Head90:41
32God's Guiding Gift67:24
33Earth's Final Warning83:07
34The Loud Cry86:03
351844 and the Final Onslaught78:38
36Signs and Wonders82:51
37History's Coming Climax65:56
38The Long Awaited Millennium71:27
39The Greatest Invitation Part I41:54
40The Greatest Invitation Part II62:01



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Pope Benedict XVI charged with crimes against humanity

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Pope Benedict XVI charged with crimes against humanity


Pope Benedict XVI - guilty of crimes against humanity?

 Charges against Pope Benedict XVI alleging crimes against humanity have been initiated at the International Criminal Court. Two German lawyers, Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel from the Pope's home state of Bavaria, have submitted a 16,500-word document indicting the Pope for various crimes against humanity.


Wednesday the Irish Times broke this potentially explosive story, detailing charges initiated against the Pope for crimes against humanity.

The charges were submitted to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Dr Luis Moreno Ocampo. The charges allege that Pope Benedict preserved and directed an institution responsible for the coercion, extortion and subjugation of its members.

Specific charges include endangering members health by forbidding the use of condoms, as well as enabling and promoting the sexual abuse of children by clergy.


Pope Benedict is charged with the "establishment and maintenance of a worldwide system of cover-up of the sexual crimes committed by Catholic priests and their preferential treatment, which aids and abets ever new crimes.” The allegation goes on:


Dr Joseph Ratzinger, as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of his church and as Pope, has up to the present day systematically covered up the sexual abuse of children and youths and protected the perpetrators, thereby aiding and abetting further sexual violence toward young people.


It remains to be seen whether or not the International Criminal Court will address the charges.

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Record number of asteroids spotted

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Record number of asteroids spotted

HONOLULU, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Astronomers using a telescope on the island of Maui in Hawaii said they discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids Jan. 29, the most ever found in a single night.

Scientists at the Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, said the record demonstration of the year-old telescope's capabilities was made possible by recent software improvements and refinements in observational techniques, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday.

In the past, the telescope had generated false detections that made it difficult to discern real and phantom asteroids, astronomers said.

During the Jan. 29 demonstration, the astronomers took four exposures, one after the other, to ensure accurate observation, Pan-STARRS project head Nick Kaiser said.

While the project receives funding from NASA and the U.S. Air Force for its asteroid-detecting activities, it is also involved in other studies, Kaiser said.

"We're not funded exclusively for this, but we thought we'd do it as a demonstration," he said. "We hope to generate more funding for (asteroid detection)."

While the chance of near-Earth asteroids actually colliding with Earth is remote, roughly a 1-in-1,000 chance, knowing their whereabouts will allow governments to act should the unlikely actually develop into a real threat, Kaiser said.

"It's like the risk developing a rare disease," he said. "The chance that it will actually happen is small, but the risk, whatever it is, is real. You want to find out if it will happen."

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