“When Colonial Power Holds Hands With Empire: Judith Collins, Kristi Noem, and the Militarization of Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa” - 22 October 2025
The Heart of the Matter: A Dangerous Alliance Exposed
Kia ora e ngā ringa raupā, ngā pou tokomanawa o te iwi Māori. Kia ora e ngā ringa raupā, ngā pou tokomanawa o te iwi Māori. Warm greetings to those who toil, the foundational pillars of the Māori people.
Here’s what every New Zealander needs to understand right now. Our Defence Minister Judith Collins just travelled to Washington DC to cosy up to Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary. This wasn’t just a polite diplomatic meeting. This was Collins aligning Aotearoa with one of the most extreme, corrupt figures in American politics, a woman who killed her own puppy to prove she’s “tough,” who spent $172 million on luxury private jets while government workers went unpaid, and who champions Christian nationalist ideology that sees women as subservient and democracy as negotiable.[1][2][3]
But this meeting reveals something far more sinister than Collins’ poor judgment in choosing her mates. It exposes a web of connections between anti-Māori racism here at home, US imperial militarization of the Pacific, Christian nationalist extremism, and the surveillance state apparatus that treats our Pacific whānau as colonial subjects to be monitored and controlled. Collins meeting with Noem isn’t an isolated event. It’s a symptom of how deeply embedded New Zealand has become in an American imperial project that threatens the sovereignty, safety, and future of every Pacific peoples.[4][5][6]
Timeline showing Judith Collins’ record of undermining Māori rights, from the Dirty Politics scandal through to her current role facilitating US military expansion in the Pacific.
Background: Understanding the Players and the Game
To grasp why this matters, we need to understand who these people are and what they represent.
Judith Collins has a well-documented record of attacking Māori. In 2014, she was forced to resign as a minister after the Dirty Politics scandal exposed her collaboration with far-right blogger Cameron Slater to run smear campaigns against public servants. She fed information to Slater, who then published vicious attacks, including one targeting Simon Pleasants that led to death threats. During her 2021 opposition leadership, Collins launched a sustained campaign against what she called “racist separation,” attacking the proposed Māori Health Authority, Māori governance systems, and any policy recognizing Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Former National Party officials called her approach “at odds with National’s record on Māori” and a desperate attempt to gain poll numbers through race-baiting.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
As Minister now, Collins has continued this pattern. She cut Marsden Fund grants for humanities and social sciences research to focus only on “core sciences” that boost economic growth, a move that disproportionately harms Māori and Pacific scholarship. She chaired the Privileges Committee that suspended three Te Pāti Māori MPs for performing a haka in Parliament to protest the racist Treaty Principles Bill, then refused to update Parliamentary protocol to accommodate tikanga Māori.[9][15][16]
Kristi Noem represents something equally dangerous but from a different tradition. A former South Dakota governor, Noem gained national attention for killing her 14-month-old hunting dog Cricket, which she described as “untrainable” and “dangerous,” then shooting it in a gravel pit. She defended this in her memoir as showing she can make “tough decisions,” comparing killing animals to leadership. Trump appointed her Secretary of Homeland Security despite having no experience in national security, counterterrorism, or border protection. She is a Christian nationalist who sponsored a worship service in the South Dakota Capitol on her first full day as governor, featuring prayers that “the Holy Spirit absolutely takes over every corner and every crevice of this Capitol and of this state” and asking God to “kick out” any demons. As DHS Secretary, Noem has overseen mass deportations, with ICE arresting over 480,000 undocumented immigrants, many from Latin American and Pacific communities. Under her watch, ICE detention facilities have become sites of violence, including a sniper attack that killed detainees.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Then there’s Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Secretary of Defense whom Collins also met with during her Washington trip. Hegseth is a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), an extremist Christian nationalist sect founded by Pastor Doug Wilson. CREC preaches that women should not have the right to vote, that wives must submit to their husbands, and advocates for repealing the 19th Amendment. Wilson has stated he wants America to be “a Christian nation” and the world to be “a Christian world”. Hegseth shared a CNN video profile of Wilson with the caption “All of Christ for All of Life,” effectively endorsing this theocratic vision. The Pentagon confirmed Hegseth “greatly values many of Mr. Wilson’s writings and teachings”.[31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
The Issue: Militarization, Surveillance, and the Betrayal of the Pacific
When Collins met with Noem and Hegseth, she wasn’t just having friendly chats. She was deepening New Zealand’s entanglement in a US imperial apparatus that actively harms Pacific peoples. Let’s be crystal clear about what this means in practice.
New Zealand is a core member of Five Eyes, the intelligence-sharing alliance with the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Through the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), we conduct full-spectrum surveillance of our Pacific neighbours, including the Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati, and Solomon Islands. This isn’t limited surveillance. It’s what intelligence agencies call a “full take” of communications, meaning every phone call, text message, email, and internet browse from these islands is captured. The GCSB then filters this data for keywords and metadata, and passes intelligence on to other Five Eyes partners, primarily the United States.[4][38][39][40]
Think about what this means. We claim to be part of the Pacific family. We talk about Pacific-led regionalism and the Blue Pacific Continent strategy that prioritizes climate action and human development. Yet secretly, we’re spying on our Pacific whānau on behalf of American intelligence agencies. We have no knowledge of what the US does with this information. We don’t know if it’s used for “capture-kill operations,” as recent Inspector-General inquiries have suggested about foreign spy systems embedded in GCSB operations. We betray Pacific sovereignty and trust for the sake of maintaining our seat at the Five Eyes table.[5][6][41][42][4]
Collins is now pushing for New Zealand to join AUKUS Pillar II, the military technology-sharing agreement between Australia, the UK, and the US. While Pillar I focuses on nuclear submarines for Australia, Pillar II involves “advanced military technology development and trade” including AI, quantum computing, hypersonic missiles, and autonomous weapons systems. Pacific leaders have condemned AUKUS as neo-imperialism that violates regional commitments to anti-nuclearism and contradicts the Pacific vision of security centered on climate action rather than militarization.[43][6][44][45][46][47][48][49][5]
The US is also pulling New Zealand into expanding its Indo-Pacific “defence industrial base.” Collins quietly endorsed a US Statement of Principles in June 2024 committing New Zealand to help America expand weapons manufacturing across the region. The US wants to “unlock new sources of supply” for weapons and integrate allied defence industries with its own to “increase the purchasing power of the US defence budget”. Australia is already making guided missiles for America. New Zealand is being turned into a cog in the American war machine.[50][51]
All of this is happening while US military commanders tell Congress they need to “go fast to help prepare us for conflict” in the Indo-Pacific and while China rapidly expands its own military presence. The Pacific is being turned into a sacrifice zone, a future battlefield where our ocean, our islands, and our people become expendable collateral in great power competition.[6][41][5][50]
Summary table of Kristi Noem’s record, documenting why Judith Collins’ decision to meet with this Christian nationalist extremist raises serious questions about New Zealand’s trajectory.
The Analysis: Connecting Racism, Imperialism, and Christian Nationalism
These aren’t separate issues. They’re interconnected expressions of white supremacy, patriarchy, and empire. Let me break down the connections that the powerful don’t want you to see.
Connection One: Domestic Racism Enables Imperial Violence
Collins’ anti-Māori politics at home and her support for US militarization abroad are two sides of the same colonial coin. When she attacks Māori Health Authority as “racist separation” or suspends Te Pāti Māori MPs for doing haka, she’s enforcing a worldview that says Indigenous peoples have no right to self-determination, no right to challenge state power, no right to exist on their own terms. This same logic underpins Five Eyes surveillance of Pacific nations. It assumes white-dominated states like New Zealand and America have the right to monitor, control, and violate the sovereignty of Brown and Black peoples “for their own good”. Both rely on the myth that the colonizer knows best, that Indigenous knowledge and governance are threats to stability rather than solutions to crisis.[7][9][10][15][4][42]
The Waitangi Tribunal found that Section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act, which required the state to honor Te Tiriti principles in child welfare, was precisely the kind of structural change needed to address state harm against Māori children. Yet the Coalition government is repealing it, with Collins’ party supporting ACT’s “colourblind, child-centric” policy that erases Māori identity from state care. Simultaneously, Collins pushes military policies that erase Pacific sovereignty from security frameworks, replacing Pacific-led visions with Anglosphere military alliances. See the pattern? Erase Indigenous identity. Deny Indigenous authority. Assert colonial control. Whether it’s children in state care or nations in the Pacific, the colonial state insists it alone has legitimate power.[15][41][50]
This explains why Collins can meet with Noem and Hegseth without seeing any contradiction. Noem oversees the deportation of hundreds of thousands of migrants, many from Pacific and Latin American communities. She uses Christian nationalist rhetoric to justify this violence, framing it as protecting “American homeland” from invasion. Hegseth belongs to a church that teaches women shouldn’t vote and that America should be a Christian nation. For Collins, these aren’t disqualifying extremism. They’re kindred spirits in the project of maintaining white, patriarchal, capitalist power against the rising demands of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and colonized peoples worldwide.[18][20][52][27][28][29][31][32][35]
Connection Two: Christian Nationalism Is White Supremacy With a Bible
The Christian nationalism embraced by Noem and Hegseth isn’t just personal faith. It’s a political ideology that seeks to establish white Protestant dominance as America’s organizing principle. As scholar Stephen Feldman documents, Christian nationalism today includes belief that America was founded as a Christian nation, that the Constitution rests on biblical principles, and that Christian values should guide law and policy. It rejects pluralism, frames religious freedom as Christian privilege, and treats challenges to Christian dominance as persecution.[53][54][55][31]
Noem’s 2019 inaugural worship service embodied this. Holding an explicitly Christian service in the Capitol, with prayers asking God to “take over” the state, sends an unmistakable message: non-Christians are outsiders, not full members of the political community. The Freedom From Religion Foundation pointed out that such services violate the Constitution’s separation of church and state and exclude the 30% of Americans who aren’t Christian. Noem doesn’t care. To her, America is a Christian nation, and those who disagree can leave or submit.[26]
Hegseth takes this even further. His CREC church teaches “complementarianism,” the doctrine that God designed men to lead and women to submit. Women can’t be pastors. Wives must obey husbands. Some CREC pastors openly advocate repealing women’s suffrage. The church also teaches that sodomy should be recriminalized and that same-sex marriage is an abomination. This isn’t fringe theology that Hegseth privately believes. He publicly endorsed it by sharing the CNN profile of his pastor and writing “All of Christ for All of Life”. The Pentagon confirmed he “greatly values” these teachings.[31][32][33][34][35]
Now ask yourself: what does it mean for America’s defense secretary to believe women shouldn’t vote and democracy should be governed by biblical law? What does it mean for Collins to meet with these people, discuss “defence issues including geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pacific,” and come away talking about expanded collaboration? It means New Zealand is aligning with a strain of American politics that is fundamentally authoritarian, patriarchal, and theocratic. We’re not partners with a democracy. We’re subordinates to an emerging Christian nationalist regime that views might as right and views Indigenous peoples as obstacles to God’s plan.[36][37][56][57]
Christian nationalism also has deep roots in white supremacy. The doctrine of Manifest Destiny that justified stealing Native American lands was Christian nationalist. The “Lost Cause” mythology that romanticized the Confederacy was Christian nationalist. The opposition to civil rights, to women’s liberation, to LGBTQ+ equality—all have been framed through Christian nationalist rhetoric claiming these movements violate God’s natural order. Today’s Christian nationalism continues this legacy, now focused on opposing immigration (read: keeping America white), opposing trans rights (read: enforcing patriarchal gender norms), and opposing what they call “woke ideology” (read: opposing any recognition of racism, colonialism, or structural oppression).[54][55][53]
When Noem uses DHS resources to create partisan videos blaming Democrats for the government shutdown, or when she justifies mass deportations as protecting the homeland, she’s deploying Christian nationalist framing. The homeland must be defended. The invaders must be expelled. God has chosen America, and America’s enemies are God’s enemies. This is the logic of crusade, not democracy. And Collins is signing us up for it.[58][59][60]
Connection Three: Surveillance Is Colonial Control
The Five Eyes alliance isn’t just about sharing information. It’s about maintaining Anglosphere dominance over the rest of the world, particularly over formerly colonized peoples. Edward Snowden, who leaked Five Eyes documents, called it “a supra-national intelligence organisation that does not answer to the known laws of its own countries”. He revealed that Five Eyes members spy on each other’s citizens to circumvent domestic legal restrictions, then share the collected data. If the US can’t legally spy on Americans, it gets Britain or New Zealand to do it, then shares the results. The law becomes meaningless.[38][40][61][62]
For the Pacific, this is devastating. Our islands produce the data. We have no say in how it’s used. Pacific leaders fighting for climate justice, for independence, for their cultural survival—all of them are potentially targets. The 2015 Snowden revelations showed GCSB was surveilling Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, French Polynesia, and Tonga. At the time, defenders claimed this was justified because “corruption, self-interest, and idiocy stalks their capitals”. That’s naked racism. It’s the same paternalistic colonial logic that justified every invasion, every theft, every genocide. We know better than them. We must monitor them for their own good. Trust us.[4][42]
But we can’t be trusted. The Inspector-General’s recent inquiry found that GCSB operated a foreign spy system for years without ensuring it complied with New Zealand law or government intelligence requirements. The system was used to process communications and identify remote targets, and was linked to US capture-kill operations. The inquiry couldn’t determine if GCSB inadvertently contributed to war crimes. Think about that. Our spy agency, operating in our name, potentially helped kill people, and neither we nor our elected representatives knew about it.[4]
This is what empire looks like in practice. Not soldiers marching. Not flags flying. Just quiet technicians in windowless rooms, processing signals, feeding data to algorithms, identifying targets. Then drones strike. People die. And the cycle continues, invisible, unaccountable, unstoppable.
Pacific scholar Dr. Marco de Jong argues this surveillance fundamentally contradicts New Zealand’s claim to be part of the Pacific family. We can’t profess Pacific-led regionalism while spying on Pacific nations for America. We can’t claim to respect Pacific sovereignty while capturing “every communication in the Pacific” and feeding it to Five Eyes. The hypocrisy is blatant. Yet Collins pushes for more—more integration with AUKUS, more defence industrial collaboration, more militarization of space.[46][47][49][42][50][63][4]
Connection Four: Neoliberalism and Military Keynesianism
There’s also an economic dimension to this that we can’t ignore. Noem’s $172 million purchase of luxury Gulfstream jets while TSA workers went unpaid during a government shutdown epitomizes neoliberal class warfare. The jets have “the most spacious cabin in the industry,” room for up to 13 passengers, and include specialized paint and cabin enhancements. Meanwhile, 61,000 TSA employees were forced to work without paychecks. Noem defended this by saying the funding “had already been allocated” and the Coast Guard needed new planes. But the Coast Guard originally requested $50 million for one jet. She bought two for $172 million. The excess isn’t a bug. It’s the point. Luxury for elites. Austerity for workers. This is neoliberalism distilled.[1][64][2][3]
New Zealand is following the same script. Collins cut Marsden Fund humanities grants to focus on “sciences” that boost GDP. The Coalition government imposed austerity on public services, cut thousands of public sector jobs, and slashed climate and social programs. Yet defence spending is surging. We’re committing $12 billion to the Defence Capability Plan. We’re joining US initiatives to expand weapons manufacturing. We’re integrating with AUKUS military technology. Money for missiles. Cuts for communities.[9][47][49][50][51][46]
This is military Keynesianism, the practice of using military spending to stimulate the economy and generate profits for contractors. The US does this openly. Its “defence industrial base” strategy aims to create “new sources of supply” for weapons and increase “purchasing power” for the Pentagon. Translation: spread weapons factories across allied countries so American defence contractors can profit globally while allies bear production costs. Australia is already making guided missiles. New Zealand is next in line.[50][51]
The Pacific becomes a market and a testing ground. RIMPAC exercises, where 29 nations’ militaries train together, use Hawaiian and Pacific waters to practice warfare. These exercises cause environmental damage, disrupt marine life, and reinforce militarization. But they’re also trade shows. Countries showcase weapons. Contractors make deals. The military-industrial complex expands. And Pacific peoples pay the price.[65]
The facade of diplomatic partnership conceals deeper imperial entanglements
Implications: What This Means for Māori and the Pacific
The implications of Collins’ Pentagon meetings extend far beyond diplomatic protocol. They represent a fundamental choice about who we are and what kind of future we’re building.
For Māori, this trajectory is existential. Te Tiriti o Waitangi promised partnership, protection, and Māori sovereignty. Instead, we got colonization, land theft, cultural suppression, and ongoing racism. The past decade has seen a resurgence of Māori political power—the Māori Party returning to Parliament, movements like Toitū te Tiriti mobilizing tens of thousands, Māori scholars and leaders articulating alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and colonial governance. This terrifies the settler state. Collins’ attacks on Māori Health Authority, on Section 7AA, on Te Pāti Māori MPs—these are attempts to crush this resurgence. Aligning with US militarization extends this logic internationally. If Māori can’t govern ourselves at home, then Pasifika can’t govern themselves abroad. If we accept surveillance and control of Pacific nations, we legitimize surveillance and control of Māori by the state.[7][9][10][15][66]
For Pacific peoples, the stakes are even higher. Climate change already threatens low-lying islands with extinction. Rising seas, intensifying storms, and disrupted food systems could make many atolls uninhabitable by century’s end. Pacific leaders have been clear: climate action is the single greatest security threat. The Boe and Biketawa Declarations, the 2050 Strategy for a Blue Pacific Continent—all prioritize climate over militarization. Yet AUKUS does the opposite. Australia commits $350 billion to nuclear submarines while refusing to fund its transition from fossil fuels or pay its fair share of climate finance. The US expands military presence across the Pacific while pulling out of climate agreements. New Zealand provides surveillance and logistical support. The message is clear: we’ll spend hundreds of billions preparing for war, but we won’t spend a fraction of that preventing the crisis that will actually destroy Pacific nations.[67][68][4][65][5][6][41][50]
Pacific resistance has been fierce. Indigenous activists occupied Kaho’olawe to oppose RIMPAC bombing. Anti-nuclear movements successfully pushed for the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty. Organizations like Protecting Oceania have mobilized against AUKUS and militarization. But they’re fighting a global superpower and its allies. When Hilda Halkyard-Harawira visited Kaho’olawe in 1984 to show solidarity with Kānaka Maoli opposing militarization, she understood this wasn’t just about one island. It was about defending Hawaiki, the ancestral homeland, from becoming a sacrifice zone. That fight continues today.[65][5]
The historical parallel is chilling. Just as the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, rendering islands uninhabitable and causing cancer and birth defects that persist generations later, today’s militarization threatens new forms of environmental and cultural violence. Nuclear-powered submarines cruising Pacific waters. Military satellites surveilling from space. Autonomous weapons systems trained in our ocean. Undersea cables tapped for intelligence. This isn’t security. It’s occupation.[69][70][71]
For Aotearoa specifically, we face a choice between two foreign policy visions. One path continues deeper integration with Five Eyes, AUKUS, and US military expansion. We become a willing appendage of American empire, providing surveillance, bases, weapons, and diplomatic cover for whatever violence Washington deems necessary. We sacrifice our independence, our Pacific identity, and our moral standing for the sake of being in “the club.” The other path asserts genuine independence. We pull back from Five Eyes surveillance of Pacific nations. We refuse AUKUS. We redirect defence spending toward climate adaptation and humanitarian capability. We lead Pacific-centered regionalism that treats our neighbors as equals, not intelligence targets. We honor Te Tiriti by letting Māori perspectives shape foreign policy, recognizing that Indigenous Pacific solidarity offers a better foundation for security than Anglosphere military alliances.
Collins has chosen the first path. In doing so, she’s choosing white supremacy over decolonization, militarization over climate action, empire over liberation.
Broader Patterns: The Global Rise of Authoritarianism
Collins’ meetings with Noem and Hegseth aren’t isolated to US-NZ relations. They’re part of a global pattern of rising authoritarianism, Christian nationalism, and far-right politics. Trump’s second term has seen unprecedented concentration of power, with loyalists appointed to every key position, civil service gutted, and democratic norms shattered. Elon Musk heads a “Department of Government Efficiency” tasked with destroying federal agencies. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, is nominated for health secretary. And now Noem and Hegseth lead the security apparatus.[18][20][72][73][31]
Similar patterns emerge globally. In India, Modi’s Hindu nationalism targets Muslims and Christians. In Hungary, Orbán builds “illiberal democracy.” In Israel, Netanyahu’s far-right coalition expands settlements and occupation. In the Philippines, Duterte conducted extrajudicial killings. These aren’t separate phenomena. They’re interconnected movements of authoritarian nationalism, often with religious fundamentalism as a core component, aimed at consolidating power against democratic opposition, Indigenous rights, and progressive movements.
The common threads: hostility to pluralism, embrace of strongman leadership, scapegoating of minorities, militarization of security, and fusion of nationalism with religious identity. Christian nationalism in the US, Hindu nationalism in India, Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar—all follow similar playbooks. They claim the nation belongs to the religious majority. They frame minorities as threats to national security. They use state violence to enforce conformity. And they justify it all with divine mandate.
New Zealand isn’t immune. The Coalition government’s attacks on Te Tiriti, its cuts to public services, its embrace of “law and order” rhetoric, and its push for military expansion all echo these global patterns. We’re not full fascism yet. But the direction of travel is clear. Collins consorting with Christian nationalists accelerates this trajectory.
A Call to Resistance
We stand at a crossroads. Down one path lies deeper integration into American empire, continued betrayal of our Pacific whānau, escalating attacks on Māori, and complicity in Christian nationalist authoritarianism. Down the other lies genuine independence, Pacific solidarity, decolonization, and a future grounded in manaakitanga, kaitiakitanga, and whanaungatanga rather than surveillance, domination, and military might.
Judith Collins has made her choice. She’s chosen empire. She’s chosen white supremacy. She’s chosen to betray everything Aotearoa claims to stand for.
We don’t have to follow her.
The hīkoi mō te Tiriti showed us what’s possible when people unite to defend what matters. Forty-two thousand people marched on Parliament, including the Māori Queen, in one of the largest demonstrations in our history. They came because they understood: the Treaty Principles Bill, like all the Coalition’s attacks on Māori, represented an existential threat. That same energy, that same unity, that same clarity of purpose must now extend to challenging militarization, surveillance, and imperial alignment.[15]
The Māori Green Lantern Fighting Misinformation And Disinformation From The Far Right
Here’s what resistance looks like:
Expose the connections. Make it impossible to ignore how domestic racism and imperial violence reinforce each other. When Collins attacks Māori Health Authority, link it to Five Eyes surveillance. When she pushes AUKUS, connect it to suppressing Te Pāti Māori. Force people to see the whole system.
Center Pacific voices. Māori and Pacific peoples must lead this fight. Our liberation is interconnected. As Hilda Halkyard-Harawira understood in 1984, defending Hawaiki is defending all of us. Pacific-led organizations like Protecting Oceania are already doing this work. Support them. Amplify them. Follow their lead.[5][65]
Demand transparency and accountability. GCSB operates in secret. Five Eyes shares intelligence we never see. AUKUS negotiations happen behind closed doors. This is unacceptable in a democracy. Demand oversight. Demand public reports. Demand our representatives actually represent us, not imperial interests.
Build alternative visions. The Blue Pacific Continent strategy offers a framework. So does Te Tiriti partnership properly honored. We need detailed, practical alternatives to militarization—what would genuine security look like? How do we address climate change, economic justice, and sovereignty together? Māori and Pacific scholars have answers. We need to listen.[6][41][5]
Resist in every space available. Write to MPs. Protest. Organize communities. Challenge media narratives. Support Indigenous activists. Refuse complicity. The settler state wants us passive, accepting, grateful for scraps. We must be ungovernable.
This isn’t just politics. It’s survival. For Māori, for Pacific peoples, for everyone who refuses to accept a future of endless war, climate catastrophe, and authoritarian control. Collins and her cronies offer us that future. We must build a different one.
Kia kaha. Kia māia. Kia manawanui. Be strong. Be brave. Be steadfast.
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