ECLIPSE OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

IBM and "The Eclipse Foundation" Control Obama in the Shadows to Block Out Our Fundamental Rights

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Aug. 06, 2014, Updated Aug. 08, 2014 | PDF

Fig. 1—President Barack H. Obama presides over the most secretive and massive government takeover of privacy and property in American history. Photo: Obeygiant.

(Aug. 06, 2014)—According to the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the People have the power. However, the People have been usurped by a surveillance culture where President Barack Obama and his political appointees are merely running the interference.

AFI researchers recently stumbled upon the key that unlocks the secret to Obama’s defiant confidence in the face of multiple scandals. The scandals themselves appear to be merely diversionary tactics to mask the real agenda.

The key was a 2001 “Eurotech, Ltd.” press release. The document was missing from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s official EDGAR website where it should have been. Nevertheless, it was stored in several library aggregators.

The Key

The Aug. 7, 2001 Eurotech, Ltd. (AMEX:EUO) press release announced:

“Professor James P. Chandler Joins Eurotech’s Crypto.com as Director and Principal Advisor.”

We reached out to Leader who said they had no knowledge of Eurotech. We then knew we had discovered something important, akin to a whistleblower.

Photo: Photography Life

Global Shell Games

Following the money trail, we discovered a convoluted tangle of Eurotech entity mergers; spin offs; reverse mergers; Cayman Island shell companies; surrogates; Chinese, Russian and Indian entities; brand name financiers; South African front men; name changes, missing public documents, disappearance of certain people’s names and backgrounds from the web, FOIA stonewalling, misdirection and doublespeak.

These trails wound through the secretive FISA Court, Justice Department, U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Circuit, district courts, Commerce Department, S.E.C., Patent Office, White House, three-letter agencies, Wall Street, Boston and Silicon Valley, then back onto Chandler’s doorstep.

Sounds like John Grisham fiction, doesn't it? Sadly, it is all too real, and all verifiable from public data. We will post just a few supporting items in this article.

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In 2000, Leader Technologies sought out well-respected patent attorneys to protect its invention.

A friend had introduced Leader to Major General James E. Freeze, US Army (ret.), the former #3 at the NSA.

Freeze introduced Leader to Professor James P. Chandler, III, former patent law professor at George Washington University and Harvard, and a member of President Clinton’s National Infrastructure Assurance Council.

In turn, Chandler introduced Leader to Fenwick & West LLP.

The Fox Agreed To Guard The Hen House

Freeze and Chandler joined the Leader board of directors. Chandler and Fenwick became Leader’s legal counsel. Leader believed these men would provide ample protection for their invention. The opposite occurred, in the name of national security.

IBM was Chandler’s client for intellectual property matters. David J. Kappos led IBM’s intellectual property legal division and was a Chandler collaborator.

In addition, a U.S. Department of Justice document has just surfaced that proves a deep relationship in 2001 between Chandler and then Assistant Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Eclipse’s Original Sin

On Nov. 29th, 2001, three months after the Eurotech/Chandler press release, IBM/Kappos founded “The Eclipse Foundation” to develop and promote royalty-free open source software. The founding members included numerous Fenwick & West LLP clients, including Red Hat and Merant. See Eclipse press release.

The Eclipse board minutes are online. On Dec. 4th, 2002, they stated:

“Eclipse 2.0 was primarily based on contributions of a single company.”

These minutes also discuss difficulties with the SWING protocol that was used in the Leader Technologies code. SWING is a method for displaying web pages that Leader chose initially, but Eclipse members wanted changed.

Eclipse became the catch basket for Leader Technologies’ source code as it came off the drawing board. That is illegal lawyer conduct. Your lawyer is forbidden from selling your secrets out the backdoor to cronies.

Eclipse code likely provided to Zuckerberg

On Feb. 4, 2008, Facebook launched. In his ConnectU deposition (the Winklevoss Twins), Zuckerberg was magically unable to remember the “other” sources for his platform ideas.

Facebook has consistently lied about Zuckerberg’s hard drives to mask the truth that Zuckerberg used The Eclipse Foundation code—Leader’s code. This helps explain why Paul Ceglia has become such a target of Eclipse surrogate, Attorney General Eric Holder. See previous post.

Zuckerberg was fraudulently misrepresenting his intentions to Ceglia in 2003. The only way out of that for the Facebook Cartel was to accuse Ceglia of Zuckerberg’s sins and make him prove a negative.  “When will you stop beating your wife?”

On Dec. 8, 2004, the Eclipse minutes stated:

“But not unexpectedly the Foundation has been unable to locate each and every contributor to the projects over the past three years” and proposed to “re-implement any functionality” not “re-contributed.”

“Unable to locate” indeed. “Re-implement any functionality?”

They lost track of their “single company” contributor. This is lawyer BS for theft.

Notice to IBM and The Eclipse Foundation:

AFI found your “single company” contributor!

Leader Technologies, Inc., Columbus, Ohio U.S.A.

Although the Eclipse documents eagerly identify their rapidly increasing membership, they never identify the single source of their founding code base.

All the evidence points to Chandler and Fenwick, and therefore Leader Technologies, as their source.

"Disappointing, Shocking News"

AFI asked Leader founder and inventor, Michael McKibben, if he was aware of any of this activity by his legal counsels Chandler and Fenwick. “No way,” McKibben said. “They came highly recommended for their professionalism and integrity.”

McKibben said, “Ever since the Facebook S-1 registration in 2012, we knew Fenwick was behaving badly, but did not know its origin or scope. Professor Chandler had introduced us to Fenwick, but we never for a minute suspected collusion.”

“This Eurotech press announcement is shocking. It shows that Professor Chandler was engaged in other activity in the same technology space as us without telling us. And, it was occurring at the same time we were perfecting our inventions. Professor Chandler and Fenwick knew everything as our trusted advisors.”

McKibben concluded, “We have always held Professor Chandler in high regard. In fact, one of my daughters interned with him for a summer. He once made a puzzling statement to me about sacrificing individual interests for the common good, but I never for a moment thought he was talking about sacrificing Leader’s interests. We were his client!”

Lawyer Ethics 101: duties to present and former clients require prior disclosure and written waivers

The attorney Rules of Professional Conduct require attorneys to disclose conflicts of interest before engaging in activity that is potentially competitive to their client, or former client.

Eclipse Controls The Social Web

Eclipse has defined the social web. It has almost 200 members. It’s a veritable Who’s Who of modern computing, including IBM, Facebook, Oracle, Computer Associates, Intel, Wind River, SAP, Motorola, IDG, Blackberry, Sybase, Hitachi, BEA, Adobe, HP, Borland, Toshiba, AOL, Cisco, Siemens, TIBCO, Google, Novell, NetApp, Rational, Texas Instruments, Red Hat, SAS, JPMorgan, NASA, Eurotech, Nokia, Compuware, Actuate, AMD and the U.S. Government.

The Eclipse Foundation Board Meeting Minutes, MEMBERSHIP LOGOS, Sep. 17, 2008

Fig. 2—The Eclipse Foundation Membership on Sep. 17, 2008.

The give-away of Leader’s invention spanned the globe, from the US and Canada to Europe, Russia and Asia.

Fenwick & West LLP represents many of these companies. Edward Snowden revealed that many of these companies provide a backdoor to the NSA.

This brings us full circle back to Chandler and Freeze, Leader Technologies’ first directors.

According to Congressional records, Freeze helped lead the NSA before meeting Leader. Chandler consulted to the NSA and Department of Justice before meeting Leader.

The Eclipse Foundation was founded by IBM and David J. Kappos. In 2009, Kappos was appointed by Obama as director of the Patent Office. Eric H. Holder, Jr.  was appointed Attorney General in 2009.

Goodbye privacy; hello surveillance state

One of Kappos’ parting acts as director of the Patent Office was to issue a secret administrative order to invalidate Leader’s patent using Patent Office cronies who were loyal to IBM, Microsoft and Xerox—dues-paying Eclipse members and collaborators.

Obama announced his candidacy in 2007 on Facebook, one of Eclipse’s beneficiaries.

The Eclipse Foundation members are providing most if not all the key programming, equipment and embedded systems to HealthCare.gov and the IRS.

Are you getting the picture?

Our international digital communications infrastructure is controlled by IBM and its crony Eclipse membership. The Facebook Cartel uses the Eclipse code.

This Cartel has established a multitude of off-shore Cayman Island shell companies to hide tens and maybe hundreds of billions of dollars that is out of reach of Congress and American law.

"The One People" of America have been robbed of their sovereignty

The People of the United States are no longer in control of their government.

Fig. 3—The Internet of Things. While this Chandler/IBM-driven schema sounds good in theory, the surveillance and death of privacy and property devil is in these details. The tech world is teeing up absolute power into the hands of the digital purveyor Cartel, in secret. Photo: Beacham Research / Cisco.

IBM through The Eclipse Foundation, along with the Facebook Cartel, is consolidating control of our global communications and transaction infrastructure, as we speak.

Obama’s job appears to be to orchestrate misdirection while the Eclipse members complete their work to establish digital control via their vision called “The Internet of Things.”

FYI, the same month that IBM produced this "Internet of Things" PowerPoint for an Eclipse board meeting, Russian oligarch Yuri Milner paid $100 million for a mansion in Silicon Valley. Milner financed his purchase by buying billions of dollars in private market Facebook stock, and selling the shares..... Milner's exploits were approved by cronies at the SEC and arranged by cronies at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs was Milner's partner in Moscow. Milner is a protégé of Obama's bailout director, Lawrence "Larry" Summers, along with Facebook's COO, Sheryl K. Sandberg, from the early 1990's when these plots were being hatched at Harvard and the World Bank.

Even your toaster will monitor you in the coming days… be careful about your breakfast conversations!

… from places like China and Russia where surveillance is a way of life, if the Cartel has its way.

Don't give them their way.

It's our country they are selling into digital slavery.

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US v. CEGLIA JUDGE HOLDS FACEBOOK STOCK AND PROTECTS ZUCKERBERG'S HARD DRIVES

Judge Andrew L. Carter failed to disclose his and Attorney General Eric Holder’s Facebook holdings

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Jul. 29, 2014 | PDF

Fig. 1—Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr., presides over the U.S. Government's forgery case against Paul Ceglia in U.S. v. Ceglia, 12-cr-876-ALC (S.D.N.Y. 2012). Ceglia is the man who sued Mark Zuckerberg for breach of contract. AFI believes this case to be fabricated by the Eric Holder-led Justice Department to protect Facebook and Holder's personal financial holdings and other economic and political interests, as well as those of his Facebook Cartel cronies.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder stepped into the middle of this case after a blistering deposition of Facebook's forensic experts by Ceglia's attorney in Ceglia's civil case against Zuckerberg. This obstruction prevented Ceglia's attorneys from having access to Zuckerberg's 28 Harvard hard drives and emails from the critical 2003-2004 period in question in the case. This is a egregious abuse of due process.

On Jul. 22, 2014, Judge Carter also blocked access to Zuckerberg's hard drives so that Ceglia could build his defenses. Notably, these hard drives have been protected by every judge in whose court they have been the subject of discovery. Also notably, every judge who has blocked access holds stock in substantial Facebook interests, yet has not recused himself/herself. Photo: WLCJ.

(Jul. 29, 2014)—On Jul. 22, 2014 Reuters reported that Mark Zuckerberg will be called to testify in U.S. v. Paul Ceglia. Whether he turns out to be the key witness for Paul Ceglia or the government remains to be seen. Readers are encouraged to read the Reuters coverage for background.

At the July 22nd hearing before District Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr., the judge denied Ceglia’s request for warrants to be able to review Zuckerberg 2003-2004 Harvard computer hard drives, emails, cell phone, email and bank account information. But these materials are directly relevant to the government accusations. Ironically, judges have allowed government and Facebook lawyers to practically ransack the same information from Ceglia.

Click here to read the arguments made by Ceglia’s lawyers to be given access to Zuckerberg’s information.

Click here to view the U.S. v. Ceglia docket.

Judge Andrew L. Carter’s Massive Facebook Conflicts of Interest

Sensing conflicts, AFI investigators began analyzing the background of Judge Andrew L. Carter. Here’s a now all too familiar pattern telegraphing control of Judge Carter by the Facebook Cartel:

1. Judge Carter is another Harvard graduate (1994).
   
   
2. Judge Carter was placed by President Obama in the Southern District of New York district court (2011) with U.S. Attorney Preetinder “Preet” Bharara, the prosecutor assigned to the Ceglia case, another Harvard graduate (1990).
   
   
3. Judge Carter holds up to $1,230,000 investments in at least 60 stocks in Facebook interests, three of which, Fidelity (3) and Vanguard (3) hold Facebook stock directly, not even through nested shells. Carter also has numerous holdings in Facebook's underwriters Goldman Sachs (3), JP Morgan (10), Morgan Stanley (4), and BlackRock (3).
   
   
4. Judge Carter holds Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX), along with Eric Holder and three Leader v. Facebook judges (John Roberts, Kimberly Moore and Evan Wallach). Contrafund holdings in Facebook may top $1 billion. Holder and Carter will benefit handsomely from decisions favorable to Facebook.
   
   
5. Judge Carter refused to allow access to Zuckerberg’s 2003-2004 emails and hard drives, even after Facebook’s own forensic experts, Bryan J. Rose and Michael F. McGowan, admitted that they contained information important to Ceglia’s defenses. See Rose deposition; McGowan deposition.
   
   
6. Facebook’s attorney in the Ceglia case, Gibson Dunn LLP, was also Facebook’s attorney in Leader v. Facebook. Even though Gibson Dunn had custody of the Zuckerberg hard drives, they lied to the court and said they were lost. However, they magically produced them just two days after the appeals ruling in Facebook’s favor.
   
   
7. U.S. Attorney Preetinder “Preet” Bharara who is prosecuting Ceglia used to work for Gibson Dunn LLP, Facebook’s attorney in the case, but has refused to disqualify himself.
   
   
8. Judge Andrew L. Carter holds large amounts of Facebook interests, yet also has failed to recuse himself.

Eric H. Holder and his U.S. Department of Justice minions are ignoring Paul Ceglia’s fundamental Constitutional rights in order to protect Facebook and the personal financial, political and commercial interests of his cronies.

All too sad for our republic. All too familiar.

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ERIC HOLDER EXPLOITS SECRET FISA LAWS FOR PERSONAL GAIN

While personally holding stocks in Facebook and telecommunications companies, Holder indemnified them for warrantless wiretaps of American citizens

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Jul. 02, 2014, Updated Jul. 25, 2014 | PDF

(Jul. 25, 2014 Update)—AFI Readers are encouraged to follow all the links contained in the last few posts. Become conversant with the evidence. We believe the dysfunction in Washington D.C. can be directly attributed to the hidden agendas of this cartel of federal officials, along with their Wall Street and Silicon Valley cronies. Experience shows they will try to divert attention with an endless stream of titillating news rabbit trails. However, readers should let those bullets fly where they will and stay focused on the duplicitous conduct of these individuals. These officials must be held to account for their grotesque violations of ethics laws. Whistleblowers are encouraged to do the right thing and step forward.

U.S. Justice Dept Fraud: Eric H. Holder holds stock in Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan

Jul. 16, 2004 Update—Eric H. Holder played the race card in the midst of his Wall Street

treachery with Citigroup, JPMorgan and Bank of America. He deflects his culpability for protecting his banker cronies with racial innuendo.

See Judge Napolitano on Holder: "This Is a Constitutional Crisis."

Healthcare.gov Privacy Alert:
Reid Hoffman, CEO, LinkedIn, (and Facebook director) admitted to veteran PBS interviewer Charlie Rose on Monday that

he advises the White House on HealthCare.gov integration (with the IRS?) Hoffman famously said that privacy is an "old people issue." Are President Obama and Eric Holder guarding American privacy, or selling it off to the highest LinkedIn and Facebook bidders? See Charlie Rose interview. See also comments below.

(Jul. 17, 2014 Update)—Attorney General Eric H. Holder just announced a $7b settlement with Citigroup over their 2008 bank fraud. He has already settled with JPMorgan for $13b, and has teed up Bank of America. However, Eric Holder personally holds 11 stocks in Citigroup, 10 stocks in Bank of America, and 11 stocks JPMorgan. Holder pledged to disqualify himself from such conflicts of interest. But instead, he has doubled down. Out of Holder's left pocket and into his right. Who will hold this lawless Justice Department accountable? Click here to see Holder's 2008 financial report in GoogleDocs or here for direct PDF download. (Includes an Excel spreadsheet to do your own analysis.)

FISA Judge Reggie B. Walton. Photo: PBS.

The American republic took a bullet from the FISA Court on Dec. 12, 2008 in a "Top Secret" opinion, signed by Reggie B. Walton, ceding near dictator powers to his friend, Eric H. Holder. See below.

More Facebook Cartel Corruption:
CA Judge Lucy H. Koh, another Harvard Facebook Cartel member, refuses to recuse herself despite stockholdings in litigants. Click here. Photo: Wikipedia.

Fig. 1—Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., President Barack H. Obama's self-proclaimed "wingman," has directed the greatest expansion of warrantless domestic surveillance against American citizens in history. Holder and the secret FISA Court he directs hold stock in every one of the telecommunications and Internet providers whom they have secretly indemnified, thus violating fundamental tenants of propriety and conflicts of interest law. Photo: Politico

July 4, 1776

What price freedom?

(Jul. 02, 2014)—Attorney General Eric H. Holder owns 66 stocks in the telecom and Internet providers to whom he has given immunity from prosecution for their participation in warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

Holder's 2008 financial disclosure shows holdings up to $22.4 million, including 14 directly in Facebook, and 106 in Facebook cronies like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, IBM, Microsoft and LinkedIn.

Holder even has stock in the Chinese and Russian social networks Baidu and Mail.ru, which are heavily owned by Goldman Sachs, Mogan Stanley, T.Rowe Price, BlackRock, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity and Vanguard, among others. Numerous senior Obama officials and judges are substantially invested in these mutual funds, including former Patent Office director, David J. Kappos, SEC Chair Mary L. Schapiro, and Commerce Sec'ys Rebecca M. Blank and Penny S. Pritzker (11.6 MB). Throw in Energy Sec'y Steven Chu, WH Counsel Nancy A. M. DeParle, WH CTO Aneesh Chopra and HHS Sec'y Sylvia M. Burwell for good measure. Do all members of the Administration hold this group of insider funds? No.

Equally telling, Holder now holds stock in Athenahealth, Castlight Health and CGI, Inc., the companies at the center of the Obamacare fiasco, and companies who are tapped into the IRS computer system. Athenahealth and Castlight Health were founded by White House chief technology officer, Todd Y. Park. Obamacare architect, Robert P. Kocher, MD is now a director of Castlight Health.

It is little wonder that Holder will not investigate the IRS and HealthCare.gov scandals that involve these companies. He owns stock in them.

According to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Holder has overseen the largest domestic surveillance program in American history.

Eric Holder feathers his financial nest

Every time Eric Holder secretly orders a communications provider to cooperate, he benefits financially since: (a) the government pays the provider, and (b) the government indemnifies the provider from prosecution for participation in the warrantless wiretapping.

This conflict of interest is forbidden by ethics laws and constitutes fraud.

Holder held stock in all the providers identified in the Snowden NSA disclosures: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, Century Link, T-Mobile. See also The Guardian.

Department of Justice Racketeering

Other federal officials involved with FISA also hold stock in the providers whom they indemnify and thus protect against damages:

1. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
2. Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence in 2008
3. Dennis F. Saylor, IV, FISA Judge
4. James E.  Boasberg, FISA Judge

A racketeer is “one who obtains money by an illegal enterprise usually involving intimidation” (Merriam-Webster). Given Holder and Co’s fraudulent concealment of their financial interests in the communications providers they were ostensibly regulating, these individuals were using the intimidation power of the state for personal financial gain. Such is almost a textbook definition of racketeering.

Obama: Do as I say, not as I do.

Fig. 2—Candidate Barack OBama spoke on Aug. 1, 2006 at The Woodrow Wilson Intl. Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He said the Bush administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.” He promised to give American intelligence agencies the tools to defeat terrorism without undermining the Constitution. He said, “That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime … No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient... The FISA Court works. The separation of powers works.” Hindsight says he did the opposite. Note how he said “the FISA Court works.” Freudian? YouTube Video: John Sexton / Illinois Channel.

Expansion of surveillance powers occurred on Obama's watch

On Dec. 12, 2008, five weeks after President Obama was elected to his first term, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court made a Top Secret” decision to dramatically expand the Bush-era Patriot Act electronic surveillance powers of the Executive Branch. Barack Obama had been against this in 2007 (Fig. 2), but he flipped his position 180 degrees as the election drew near.

Dictatorial Powers

The “Supplemental Opinion” gave the Attorney General power to seize, without a warrant, any user content from telecommunications and internet providers. Up to that point the warrants were limited to metadata (data about data, for example, the time, duration and phone numbers on a call, but not the call recording itself).

The American republic took a bullet from the FISA Court

Buried in the five-page ruling is the smoking gun legalese:

“the Court is persuaded that this objective is better served by the interpretation that the records sought in this case are obtainable pursuant to a section 1861 order.”

In short, the Attorney General was granted almost dictatorial powers with nearly unilateral control over the secrecy of his orders. Is Lois Lerner merely following a Holder gag orders?

See also "In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. by Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times, Jul. 5, 2013.

Supplemental Opinion, In re Production of Tangible Things From [REDACTED], Docket No. BR 08-13, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Dec. 12, 2008

Fig. 3—Top Secret FISA ruling giving the Attorney General almost dictatorial powers to order warrantless domestic wiretaps of American citizens, decided on Dec. 12, 2008. Buried in the five-page ruling is the smoking gun legalese that handed Eric H. Holder, Jr. almost dictatorial powers to do with impuntiy whatever he decides he wants to do ("section 1861"):

“the Court is persuaded that this objective is better served by the interpretation that the records sought in this case are obtainable pursuant to a section 1861 order.”

Source: www.emptywheel.net.

Harvard Memo: We know what’s best for you

The central role played by Harvard graduates in this scandal is now unmistakable.

Seven weeks after the secret expansion of the Attorney General's powers by the FISA Court, Harvard Law grad Obama appointed his Harvard Law friend, Eric H. Holder, Jr., as Attorney General. Both men had been mentored by Leader Technologies’ intellectual property attorney, Professor James P. Chandler, III. Chandler’s central role in these events is becoming evident. Chandler taught law at Harvard and worked closely with Holder when Holder was Assistant Attorney General in 2001, while Chandler was also representing Leader Technologies.

Concurrently, Obama’s new bailout chief, former Harvard professor and president, Lawrence Summers, was busy shuffling $33 billion in U.S. taxpayer bank bailout funds off to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and State Street Corp.

Harvard graduate and SEC chief counsel Thomas J. Kim, had just cleared the way for Facebook to sell billions of dollars in private stock while staying private in an unprecedented 12(g) waiver. Kim previously worked for Latham & Watkins LLP who represented Harvard graduate, James W. Breyer, when he was chairman of the National Venture Capital Association.

Goldman Sachs, led by Harvard graduate Lloyd Blankfein, then sent some of its newly-minted bailout money to their Moscow partner and Summers protégé, Yuri Milner. Milner and another Summers protégé and Harvard grad, Sheryl K. Sandberg, arranged for Milner to invest billions of these dollars into private Facebook pre-IPO stock, along with Fidelity Contrafund, Vanguard, T.Rowe Price, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and others. Summers also received upwards of $750,000 in Goldman speaking fees that year.

The FISA Court judges are appointed for a seven year term by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., another Harvard grad.  DC-based FISA Judge James E. Boasberg, is yet another Harvard man.

Within just a few months of the filing of the Leader v. Facebook patent infringement case (Nov. 19, 2008), Harvard man Eric Holder secretly ordered Facebook to turn over user content to the NSA. This activity began on Jun. 3, 2009, according to Snowden documents.

Holder colluded with Facebook and prejudiced Leader v. Facebook

Holder’s action prejudiced Leader’s case by throwing a blanket of Justice-Department-induced secrecy over Facebook’s lawsuit conduct. Case in point, Facebook stonewalled release of 28 Mark Zuckerberg hard drives and Harvard emails from 2003-2004 in discovery for more than a year before saying they had lost them. See Request for Congressional Intervention.

Justice is supposed to be blind, but in Leader v. Facebook the Justice Department played favorites without disclosing the conflict of interest to Leader. The Justice Department even hired Facebook's Cooley Godward LLP partner, Donald K. Stern, to advise them on replacing Judge Joseph J. Farnan whose pre-trial rulings were going heavily against Facebook.

One cannot imagine a more prejudicial circumstance.

For example, had Leader known about the Justice Department’s prejudice, Leader would certainly have opposed the recommendation of Obama nominee, Leonard P. Stark, to become the trial judge a month before trial. Every mistake of law in the case occurred after Holder/Stark's take over. Stark's silence about his conflicts is more evidence of this collusion.

This secrecy alone is grounds for a mistrial.

Fraudulent Concealment of Personal Financial Holdings

Eric H. Holder, Jr. holds at least 136 Facebook financial interests. Dennis C. Blair, Holder’s cohort and Director of National Intelligence, holds at least 20 Facebook interests. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. holds 187. Current FISA Judge James E. Boasberg holds 61. Current FISA judge Dennis F. Saylor, IV holds a whopping 344.

If we add in their telecom, media and non-Facebook interest holdings, Roberts holds 242, Holder 173, Blair 24, Boasberg 141 and Saylor 418. No matter how this data is sliced, these men hold stock in every major telecom, internet and media provider. They cannot make a decision regarding surveillance without benefiting themselves and their cronies.

Holder promised to be ethical

These holdings of Facebook interests were fraudulently concealed, not only from Leader Technologies, but from the American people. On Jan. 12, 2009, Eric Holder pledged to recuse himself if matters before him benefited him personally. Saylor, Blair, Boasberg and John Roberts pledged similarly.

By ordering Facebook to funnel user data to the NSA, Holder indemnified Facebook from wrongdoing. Such indemnities are valuable. They benefited the holders of stocks in those companies.

Holder had an ethical duty to either: (a) sell his Facebook financial interests before remaining involved in Facebook matters, or (b) disclose his holdings and disqualify himself.

The Justice Department conduct also compromised Facebook’s legal counsel. Those attorneys had a professional duty to disclose the conflicts inherent in their secret collaboration with the Justice Department

Snowden exposed fraudulent concealment by the Justice Department

The table below shows when telecom and Internet providers joined the NSA warrantless surveillance program. It also shows the number of stocks held in those companies by the federal officials (analyzed by AFI researchers from public disclosures).

Date Provider Joined NSA PRISM	Telecom / Internet Provider	Federal Official, Stockholder
		Eric H. Holder, Jr.	John G. Roberts, Jr.	Dennis F. Saylor, IV	James E.  Boasberg	Dennis C. Blair
		Atty. Gen.	Chief Justice	FISA Judge	FISA Judge	Dir. Nat. Intel.
early	Verizon	5	6	5	5	2
early	AT&T	3	2	2	4	0
09/11/2007	Microsoft	10	16	20	13	0
03/12/2008	Yahoo	5	8	16	3	0
12/03/2008	FISA Court issued a “Top Secret” 5-page  expansion of powers to allow capture of content and give sweeping, almost dictatorial powers to the Attorney General.
01/14/2009	Google	7	16	20	6	1
06/03/2009	Facebook	14	17	19	2	2
12/07/2009	PalTalk	0	0	0	0	0
09/24/2010	YouTube*	7	16	20	6	1
02/06/2010	Skype*	10	16	20	13	0
03/31/2011	AOL	1	1	0	4	0
10/__/2012	Apple	4	15	18	5	1
Unknown	T-Mobile	0	2	1	0	0
	TOTAL	66	115	141	61	7
*Skype was purchased by Microsoft. YouTube was purchased by Google.
Table 1: "Dates When PRISM Collection Began For Each Provider." produced by the National Security Agency (NSA), Top Secret disclosure by Edward Snowden. Published by The Guardian, June 06, 2013 (PDF). Also included are summaries of the stockholdings of federal officials in the providers identified in the Snowden documents, as disclosed in their annual financial disclosures. See also The Guardian online.

Risk indemnification and payment for services is valuable

Just because you are a federal official granted special powers of secrecy does not give you a license to use that privilege to benefit your personal stock holdings, and that of your cronies.

These men benefited personally by providing risk indemnity to companies ordered to participate in the PRISM program. These conflicts of interest have been fraudulently concealed.

Indeed, risk reduction increases a company’s value. Since the 2008 allowance of warrantless wiretaps, Holder and these judges have been lining their pockets under the FISA secrecy blanket.

Mutual Funds = Legalized Bribery, Collusion and Influence Peddling

AFI researchers have now studied hundreds of mutual funds held by these actors. Mutual funds are clearly being used to conceal investments in companies where value-enhancing favors are being solicited from the public officials who hold those stocks.

Facebook's largest shareholder and former chairman, James W. Breyer, Accel Partners LLP, appears to have led this scheme, with the help of a gaggle of unscrupulous law firms led by Fenwick & West LLP, Gibson Dunn LLP and Perkins Coie LLP, along with his mutual fund cronies at the National Venture Capital Association, where Breyer had been a director since 1999, and chairman in 2004-2005.

For example, Roberts, Holder and Saylor all hold Fidelity Contrafund, along with Leader v. Facebook Federal Circuit Judges Moore and Wallach. In fact, Holder and Saylor hold six Fidelity Funds in common, each of which holds Facebook stock. Fidelity was a big winner in the Facebook IPO.

Eric Holder―a fraud from Day 1

Eric H. Holder, Jr. walked into office knowingly holding stock in practically every telecom and Internet company that he indemnified. Since he did not disclose these conflicts of interest, as he said he would, his tenure as Attorney General has been fraudulent since Day 1.

Is it any wonder why whistleblower Edward Snowden does not want to come back to the U.S. and be tried in court by these people? Clearly, they have every interest in shutting him up.

Spread the word.

A free and democratic people cannot tolerate such abuses.

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PATTERN OF U.S. SCANDALS POINTS TO SHADOWY GROUP

Leader Technologies' former patent counsel advised Congress on Secrecy; people close to him are protecting Facebook and the IRS

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Jun. 20, 2014, Updated Jun. 26, 2014 | PDF

Fisa Court Judge Dennis F. Saylor, IV, is a card carrying member of the Facebook Cartel

Dennis F. Saylor, IV, FISA Judge, Harvard. Holdings. Photo: Mass Lawyers

Update Jun. 25, 2014—Click here to view Judge Dennis F. Saylor, IV's 2012 financial disclosure analyzed by investigators today reveals 72% of his up to $3.4 million financial holdings in Facebook interests. Surveillance authorizations issued by Judge Saylor authorizing any company in his financial portfolio, including Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Athenahealth, Castlight Health, CGI Group, Accenture, Xerox, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, State Street Corp. or any other financial holding is a conflict of interest. In addition, Judge Saylor holds Fidelity Contrafund, just like Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Eric H. Holder, Jr., Leader v. Facebook Judge Kimberly A. Moore, and an exclusive group of senior administration and judicial officials with insider knowledge of the Washington scandals.

Update Jun. 23, 2014
"Almost a Parallel Supreme Court"

In their hubris, FISA court knows what's best for America

Fig. 1—FISA Court has expanded its powers over our entire national communications infrastructure, unilaterally—without public debate. Does this conduct have the distinct odor of Harvard / Ivy League hubris? See the list of likely participants below. Photo: NewBoyPost (UK).

FISA Court Duplicity

James E. Boasberg, Judge, FISA Court, Yale. Photo: Wikipedia.

Click here for a list of the FISA Court judges. A quick review of Judge James E. Boasberg shows a mountain of conflicting interests in which his decisions affect his financial holdings. Click here for an analysis of his Facebook Cartel holdings alone. Bottom line, Judge B. has up to $2.1 million worth of reasons to make decisions favorable to the Facebook Cartel.

In fact, Judge B. holds some of the same T.Rowe Price Sci & Tech Fund shares as Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. that holds Facebook stock directly.

Roberts appointed Boasberg. No wonder they want to kill Leader Technologies.

On Jul. 8, 2013, a New York Times article titled "In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A." wrote about this shadowy group of lawyers who are taking over our national communications infrastructure, stating "[the FISA court] has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court, serving as the ultimate arbiter on surveillance issues."

Ask yourself, why would our U.S. judicial officals let these people get away with this abuse of the U.S. Constitution unless they were in on the hijacking?

The Times article continued, "In one of the court’s most important decisions, the judges have expanded the use in terrorism cases of a legal principle known as the “special needs” doctrine and carved out an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of a warrant for searches and seizures, the officials said."

This group clearly thinks they are above the law. Click here for PDF of this Times article.

Fig. 2—Fox News' Megyn Kelly interviewed Cleta Mitchell, attorney for Tea Party groups who were targeted by the IRS. Mitchell said "There's something crazy about this." Perhaps this latest blog post helps explain why the people driving the IRS cover-up are so "snippy." The perpetrators are secretly invoking national security secrecy with impunity and know they have the ultimate excuse for their actions. (Click on the image above to view the interview.) Photo: Fox News.

(Jun. 20, 2014)—Disgraced Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall R. Rader (see previous posts: Post 1; Post 2) and Senator Orrin Hatch have more in common than the fact that Rader worked for Hatch on the Senate Judiciary Committee—they were both advised on national secrecy by Law Professor James P. Chandler, III.

Like the hit TV drama 24, the following occurred between 8:00 and 9:00 am today. It just came to us, like Marshmallow Man, an oversized, obvious public spectacle.

Senator Orrin Hatch has weighed in on the latest revelations that the IRS has destroyed Lois Lerner's emails, despite the multiple laws that such destruction violates.

they can defy the law and succeed?

Who would have the temerity to authorize such destruction? Clearly, it is someone who is very familiar with our legal system, like a law professor who specializes in matters of national security. Perhaps this person is privy to little known laws, used only in secret, that justify such actions under the darkness of national secrecy.  

Perhaps this person, in secret of course, concocts legal theories based on these obscure state secrecy laws. Then, he recites those "findings" to unsuspecting IRS officials, who feel compelled to comply under threat of jail time for resisting.

Shadow National Security Government

Does Senator Orrin Hatch know about the activities of these people? Are they his friends? Is this group attempting to get ahead of the investigation by pretending to be scandalized by it? By feigning concern, he and others in Congress could learn what the investigators know and steer it in a different direction to suit their goals. Stranger things have happened in Congress.

Such actions would be those of a secret, shadow government that is not beholden to Congress or the People, but instead, it is led by a group of people who know they can break the law with impunity and excuse themselves under the cover of national secrecy.

Randall R. Rader, Disgraced Federal Circuit Chief Judge, linked to this group

Rader served as Senator Hatch’s chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the mid 1990’s during the passage of the Federal Trade Secrets and Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (EEA).

During those hearings over multiple years, leaders from every intelligence agency, law enforcement and the judiciary testified. Never before had such an august body of people focused on the subject of security and secrecy. This would have been an opportune time for individuals bent on seizing power to build a powerful, one-of-a-kind Rolodex and list of IOUs.

National Secrets invoked in IRS Lerner E-mail Destruction?

Fig. 3—Professor James P. Chandler, III (center) pictured with participants from China in a National Intellectual Property Institute (NIPLI) Symposium hosted in Washington D.C. on Nov. 13, 2006. The delegation was led by Chen Benfa, Deputy Director General of Sichuan Provincial Intellectual Property Right Administration, and Wang Hong, Deputy Director General of De Yang Municipal IPR Administration. Photo: NIPLI.

The prime mover and author of the EEA was Professor James P. Chandler, III, President of the National Intellectual Property Law Institute and Professor Emeritus of intellectual property law at George Washington University.

After the passage of the Act, Professor Chandler advised the Department of Justice and the White House on prosecution of the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) for more than a decade. During that time he became Leader Technologies' patent counsel, along with Fenwick & West LLP, according to the Leader v. Facebook trial records, and confirmed by Leader officials.

These relationships among Professor Chandler, Randall R. Rader, Senator Orrin Hatch and the EEA have been verified by officials at the Government Printing Office.

Included among the U.S. Attorneys and judicial officials that Professor Chandler advised were Eric H. Holder, Jr., Leonard P. Stark, T. S. Ellis, III, and Preetinder “Preet” Bharara. David J. Kappos at IBM was a Chandler faculty member and client.

National Security—The Ultimate Excuse For Cover-up and Deception

Interestingly, the following list of friends of Professor Chandler are central figures in the Obama administration and litigation involving Facebook. President Barack and Michael Obama have over 53 million “Likes” and Facebook's illegitimate claims to "open source" technology are being cited as the justification to embed the Leader Technologies' inventions at HealthCare.gov and the IRS, under the direction of Obama's chief technology officer, Todd Y. Park.

1. Eric H. Holder (H) = Attorney General, Chandler faculty
2. Leonard P. Stark (Y) = District Judge, Chandler client
3. T. S. Ellis, III (H) = District Judge, Chandler faculty
4. Amy B. Jackson (H) = District Judge, Chandler client
5. PEETINDER "Preet" Bharara (H) = So. District of NY, U.S. Attorney, Chandler client
6. David J. Kappos (CA) = former Patent Office Director, IBM, Chandler client
7. Randall R. Rader (GW) = former Federal Circuit Chief Judge, Chandler faculty, client
8. Alan D. Lourie (H) = Federal Circuit Judge, Chandler client
9. Lawrence H. Summers (H) = Harvard President, Chandler campadre
10. Sheryl K. Sandberg (H) = Facebook COO, Chandler campadre
11. Todd Y. Park (H) = U.S. CTO, Chandler client
12. Thomas J. Kim (H) = S.E.C. Chief Counsel, Chandler client
13. Sylvia M. Burwell (H) = HHS Secretary, Chandler client
14. James W. Breyer (H) = Accel Partners, Facebook's largest shareholder, Chandler campadre
15. Ping Li (H) = Accel Partners, Facebook's largest shareholder, Chandler campadre
16. James Swartz (H) = Accel Partners, Facebook's largest shareholder, Chandler campadre
17. Mark Zuckerberg (H, sort of) = Facebook, Chandler fabrication
18. Mary L. Schapiro (GW) = SEC, Chandler client
19. Jamie Dimon (H) = JPMorgan, Chandler campadre
20. Lloyd Blankfein (H) = Goldman Sachs, Chandler campadre
21. Barack H. Obama (H) = President, Chandler client
22. Michelle L. R. Obama (H) = First Lady, Chandler client
23. Todd Y. Park (H) = U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Chandler campadre
24. John G. Roberts, Jr. (H) = Chief Justice, Chandler campadre
25. Elena Kegan (H) = Associate Justice, Chandler campadre
26. Antonin Scalia (H) = Associate Justice, Chandler campadre
27. Anthony Kennedy (H) = Associate Justice, Chandler campadre
28. Ruth Bader Ginsberg (H) = Associate Justice, Chandler campadre
29. Dennis F. Saylor, IV (H) = Judge, FISA Court, Chandler client
30. James E. Boasberg, (Y) = Judge, FISA Court, Chandler client
31. James P. Chandler, III (H, GW) = author, EEA

(H) = Harvard, (Y) = Yale, (GW) = George Washington, (CA) = Univ. of CA

Veritas

Fig. 4—Ironically, Harvard's motto is Veritas which is Latin for "Truth." The former Soviet Union's Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, also means "Truth." Question is: Whose Truth are these Harvard people foisting on America?

Score: Harvard—26 out of 31

What's wrong with this picture? See previous post "Global Surveillance Technocracy Uncovered."

Global Surveillance Agenda—IRS & HHS data required

Professor Chandler’s close relationships keep popping up at every point in what is clearly an agenda to establishment a global surveillance platform that gives the NSA a free access into the most intimate aspects of our lives. It is every security officer's dream who is willing to play fast and loose with the U.S. Constitution. The temptation to line one's pockets in the process, with the cooperation of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the Judiciary, the White House and some members of Congress, appears to be a collateral benefit that few have resisted.

Chandler & Harvard: kingpins or victims?

Perhaps Lois Lerner’s email disappeared because the information in them pointed to this shadowy group. Is Chandler the kingpin, or is the shadowy group using him? Perhaps this explains why these people act with such hubris—because they know they can cover-up all of their wrongdoing.

Tom Clancy couldn’t make this up. The facts don’t lie.

Whistleblowers at the IRS, HealthCare.gov and on Benghazi are encouraged to come forward.

These threats leveled against you to keep silent are unconstitutional. These folks are using the excuse of national security to line their pockets and those of their conspirators. You have no obligation to cover-up their sins. If you are afraid of retribution, post anonymous clues on blogs and websites. Point us in the right direction. Get moving!

For the preservation of the Republic, please come forward

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REMBRANDT V. FACEBOOK TRIAL ON "LIKE" BUTTON BEGINS; KANGAROO COURT #2?

Judge T.S. Ellis III holds a mountain of Facebook interests; Fenwick & West LLP compromised Van der Meer by representing both sides and tainted Leader v. Facebook; Deep State duplicity abounds

Contributing Writers | Opinion | AMERICANS FOR INNOVATION  | Mar. 16, 2018, Updated May. 06, 2018 | PDF

Disgraced

Fig. 1—Randall R. Rader. Former Federal Circuit Chief Judge resigned in disgrace on Jun. 13, 2014 amidst the YFFL email scandal with Edward R. Reines, Weil Gotshal LLP. Judge Kimberly A. Moore was a former consultant to Weil Gotshal, yet has never disclosed her conflicts either.

Breaking News! 10:24 pm EDT
Rader quits the bench amid corruption scandal
According to The Wall Street Journal Law Blog just hours ago, former Federal Circuit Chief Judge Randall R. Rader quit the bench today, in the wake of his YFFL e-mail scandal ("Your friend for life -rrr") with backroom Silicon Valley crony Edward R. Reines, Weil Gotshal LLP. This event further validates the misconduct this site began uncovering in the wake of the Leader v. Facebook judicial corruption. A Leader v. Facebook mistrial seems inevitable. See our previous post for more links among the Rader resignation, David J. Kappos, the Patent Office and Leader v. Facebook. Note: Judge Rader and Judge Ellis are both faculty members of Professor James P. Chandler's National Intellectual Property Law Institute. Chandler and Fenwick & West LLP were both Leader Technologies' attorneys. The outlines of this white collar corruption are finally beginning to emerge.

Another Kangaroo Court?

Fig. 2—Judge T.S. Ellis, III presides over Rembrandt Social Media, LP v. Facebook, Inc. et al but failed to recuse himself due to his holdings of Facebook financial interests. An unbiased tribunal is impossible.

Canon 2 of the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges tells them to "avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety." Here we see both. Is that Lady Justice over Judge Ellis' shoulder breaking her scales in frustration?

Ellis and Rader are close associates of Professor James P. Chandler III (along with the USPTO's David J. Kappos, IBM, Microsoft, Boston Scientific and Fenwick), Leader Technologies' former patent counsel.

Photo: Nolo.

(Jun. 13, 2014)—ABC News reports: “Facebook infringed on patents held by a Dutch computer programmer who tried to launch a similar site called ‘Surfbook’ more than a decade ago, according to a lawsuit heard by a federal jury Wednesday.” Click here for the ABC News coverage.

ABC had earlier reported when this case was filed. See “Facebook Sued Over The “Like” Button, ABC News, on Feb. 13, 2013.

Rembrandt Social Media, LP v. Facebook, Inc. et al, 1:2013-cv-00158-TSE, filed Feb. 4, 2013.

More duplicity

Corruption #1: Judge T.S. Ellis III holds large amounts of stock in Facebook interests, including:

1. Goldman Sachs, Facebook underwriter
2. Morgan Stanley, Facebook underwriter
3. T.Rowe Price, holder of 5.2% of Facebook’s insiders shares at the IPO
4. BlackRock, a top 10 Facebook IPO mutual fund winner

Thomas S. Ellis, III, Financial Disclosure Report, Eastern District of Virginia, Rembrandt Social Media, v. Facebook, for Reporting Year 2010

Fig. 3—Judge Thomas S. Ellis, III, 2010 Financial Disclosure revealing large amounts of conflicting Facebook interests. The law is clear that there must be a presumption of bias when a judge holds stock in one of the litigants. The current charade being played in the Facebook Cartel to hide their holdings behind mutual funds is farcicle. In any event, Ellis doesn't even have that excuse since Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are Facebook's underwriters, and T.Rowe Price holds more than 5% of Facebook's stock. Click here to download this PDF.

Bottom line: Judge Ellis had a duty to recuse himself in Rembrandt v. Facebook, and did not.

Curiously, Judge Ellis was a faculty member in Professor James P. Chandler, III’s National Intellectual Property Law Institute (“NIPLI”). Professor Chandler was Leader Technologies’ patent attorney who introduced Leader to Fenwick & West LLP. Suspicion is growing that Chandler and Fenwick played on both sides of the ball in the Leader v. Facebook... and Rembrandt v Facebook.

Also reminiscent of Leader v. Facebook, Judge Ellis blocked one of Rembrandt’s damages expert witnesses from giving testimony at trial. In the Leader case, Judge Leonard P. Stark allowed Facebook to add the on-sale bar claim just one month before trial and prevented Leader from performing discovery, and simultaneously blocked Leader from getting expert testimony from Chandler. The Chandler testimony was blocked even though Chandler is a recognized expert on intellectual property law and had personal knowledge of the events that Facebook would raise. A Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office official told AFI investigators recently that Chandler and Stark worked together when Stark was an Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Corruption #2: Fenwick & West LLP

Fenwick & West LLP began officially representing Facebook in about 2006 in securities and patent matters. However, Fenwick was the attorney who filed the patent for Van der Meer back in 1998. Sound familiar? Fenwick represents one inventor whose patent magically emerges inside Facebook’s portfolio, repackaged as a Facebook patent. Ellis ignored the obvious duplicity and attorney misconduct, probably since Fenwick was Chandler's compatriot in what appears now to have been an organized effort to kill all "cloud" patents not controlled by the Cartel, led by Fenwick.

Did Fenwick seek a conflicts waiver from Van der Meer before representing Facebook?

Is Facebook using Fenwick’s knowledge of the Van der Meer representation against Van der Meer? Is the Pope Catholic?

Fig. 4—U.S. Patent No. 6,415,316 Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer, revealing Fenwick & West LLP (Facebook's current attorney) as Van der Meer's attorney in 1998. The law is clear that there is a presumption of bias when an attorney flips sides on the same matter. Click here to download this PDF.

Is Rembrandt v. Facebook  another corrupt court like Leader v. Facebook ?

Given Judge Ellis’ bias toward Facebook, can the Van der Meer family and Rembrandt hope for justice?

Or, will this be yet another kangaroo court masquerading as American justice?

Pass this post around and make sure people in Washington D.C. get educated on the profound conflicts of interest in this case. It appears that our justice system, attorneys and judges alike, are totally ignoring their duties to ensure to the American public that justice is blind.

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