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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. As the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein continues to

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expand in Europe, a Swiss bank that is owned by

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the Rothschild family has been searched by French investigators as

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they dig into allegations of corruption involving a French diplomat

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and in the documents that was linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

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And look, as far as I'm concerned, if you want

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to find the real culprits, the real people that enable

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Jeffrey Epstein, well you're on the right path because, in

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my opinion, it was a financial sector. I've been very

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clear about that from the very beginning. It's always the

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people that are paying the bills. And if you follow

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the money, inevitably it's going to end up in some

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banker's office, right, especially when we're talking about somebody like

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Epstein and the things he was involved in. And look,

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we're not talking about speculation. How many banks have paid

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through the ears. We're talking about close to a billion

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dollars in settlement money when it comes to crimes that

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were committed by Jeffrey Epstein while the banks either looked

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away or were implicit, and that goes for all the

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banks around the world, not just here in America, but

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the financial sector as a whole. Whether it's a dirtbag

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like Jeffrey Epstein or some cartel boss, they don't care

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all they care abouts the returns. So today we have

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an article from The Independent and the headline Paris offices

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a Swiss bank searched by authorities an Epstein related probe.

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This article was authored by Matthew Rosemain and McKinney Brice.

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The Paris offices, a Swiss bank Edmund the Rothschild were

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searched by French investigators as part of an investigation into

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alleged corruption involving a French diplomat named and documents linked

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to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Officials said on Tuesday. Meanwhile,

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Howard Lutnick is still living his best life. Huh. It's

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absolutely embarrassing. I have no idea how a guy like

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Howard Lutnick still has his job considering all of the

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fallout that we've seen around the world. For Howard Lutnick

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to still be in the position that he's in goes

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directly to the heart of just how rotten things are

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in America right now. I remember when I was a

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kid growing up, if you even had an allegation like

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this attached to you, your whole entire political life was over.

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Now they're just wearing it as a badge of honor.

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I mean, this rotten son of a bitch Lutnick. He

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just laughs every single time Epstein's name's brought up, right,

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like it's no big deal, Like, you know, what are

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you guys even talking about? Ah, this is just a big,

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gigantic hoax. It's all over blown. And that's why I

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lied about it. Oh, I lied to you about it

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because it's no big deal. And look, don't worry. I

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brought all my kids with me to the island, as

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if that makes it any better. Imagine bringing your kids

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to a convicted sex offenders island. And then you get

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defensive when people ask you about it, like, buddy, look,

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you're the Commerce secretary, why did you have your kids

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on Jeffrey Epstein's island? And furthermore, why did you feel

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it necessary to lie about it? That's really the big

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problem here, Not so much you went to the island.

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That's gross, but there's nothing criminal there. The fact is

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that he's a liar, and it fits the pattern for

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the rest of this administration. Unfortunately. Now they'll tell you

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that they're the most transparent administration in the history of

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the world, but the truth is they're the biggest liars.

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For Breece. Aiden's name appeared more than two hundred documents

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released by the US Justice Department. Aiden was a middle

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ranking French diplomat who was seconded to the United Nations

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from two thousand and six to twenty thirteen and later

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worked at the Bank. Well, we know that Epstein had

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a lot of ties to the UN certainly, something that

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he cultivated for a very long time, also to the CFR,

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the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission, because

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wherever power could be found, that's where Jeffrey Epstein would

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be hanging out. The dude was the biggest parasite, maybe

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in the history of parasites. These include emails that he

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alleged to have sent Epstein between twenty ten and twenty

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sixteen from his personal and UN accounts. And it's always

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the same story, right, Oh, well, we weren't really friends.

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We were just you know, talking about business. We were

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talking about whatever it might be, but it certainly wasn't

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a personal relationship. And then we find out that he

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was not only sending emails to the un account or

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the French account email account, but to the guy's personal account.

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So how many people do you work with that you

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send emails to their personal account if you're not friendly

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with them. Now, of course you're going to send them

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work emails right on the work email account outlook, whatever

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it might be. But I'm sure you're not popping into

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their you know, proton mailbox or their Gmail box and

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sending them shit if you're not friends. So all these

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people that want to act like they weren't friends with

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Jeffrey Epstein, act like they weren't paling around with them,

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like they weren't accepting as so called generosity, they're lying

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they most certainly were. And I find it incredibly scrumptious

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that the emails are coming out now and proving it, because,

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like I always tell you, it's one thing for me

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to tell you, hey, look, this is what's going on,

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this is what they're saying, this is the kind of

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people that we're dealing with, And it's a whole ass

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other thing for you to see it yourself. Some of

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the emails that were reviewed by Reuters show the transfer

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of UN Security Council briefings and other confidential documents to

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Epstein during that period. Same shit with Mandelssohn and the

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same shit with Andrew. So for the people out there

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that don't think that Epstein was collecting confidential information from sources,

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what do you say to this? What do you say

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to mandelssh What do you say to Prince Andrew? So?

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Now we have three examples of that occurring. Is it

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still just a coincidence or is it a pattern? Now

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you all know what I think. It's certainly not a coincidence.

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It's a pattern. And Jeffrey Epstein's whole goal was to

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get as much information as possible because once you get

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to the level that these people are at, that's what

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the currency is information and whoever has the best information

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is going to come out on top, whether it's financially

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or otherwise. Aiden has denied wrongdoing, and his lawyer did

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not immediately respond to requests for The French Foreign Ministry

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said it had completed an administrative investigation, performing about thirty interviews.

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The ministry said all current and former staff members who

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had been summoned to its investigation had cooperated, adding that

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it was available to judicial authorities and was considering disciplinary proceedings. Well,

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that would be new, considering the financial sector never gets

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in trouble for anything, so it would be nice if

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they started to have to feel some consequences for their actions,

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you know, like the rest of us. The search was

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carried out on Friday in the presence of Arianne d Rothschild,

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the Swiss Bank's boss. A source close to the bank's

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head Edmund de Rothschild was cooperating fully with the justice

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system in the investigation led by the financial prosecutor, the

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same source said, adding that an internal inquiry had been

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launched as soon as suspicions emerged concerning the former employee

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who worked at the bank from two thousand fourteen two

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twenty sixteen O. A spokesperson for the bank declined to comment. Well,

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Epstein had a lot of connections to the house of

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Rothschild and to this bank, so I'm not shocked to

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see that this bank was raided over in France. Now,

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what's going to come of it? We have no idea,

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right nobody knows, but at least it's a good first step.

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And certainly a lot more than the Trump administration's doing.

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The investigations being led by officers from france Central Office

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against Corruption and Financial and tax Offenses, who questioned Aiden

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in a voluntary interview in late February. The French Financial

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Prosecutor's Office said it was investigating accusations of passive corruption

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of a foreign official and complicity in that crime, targeting

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Aiden in particular. When asked if it was looking into

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Epstein links with Geneva based Edmund of the Rothschild, Swiss

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financial regulator FINMA said it can considered all reliable information

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in its supervision and conducted in depth reviews when in

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doubt about the integrity of business activities. Oh yeah, that's

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exactly what the Swiss are known for, right, being tough

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on bankers. If we're relying on the Swiss to do

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anything here, we're in big trouble. Now. Look, Switzerland's a

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great place, certainly beautiful, and I'm sure it's a great

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place to live. But when we're talking about holding banks accountable,

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holding the financial sector accountable, Switzerland doesn't even enter the conversation.

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And there's a reason that so many people bank over

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in Switzerland, right, So I'm not exactly confident that they're

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going to be involved in any kind of regulatory process

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here or involved in blowing the doors open when it

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comes to Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. Swiss federal prosecutors

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did not immediately respond to a request for a comment

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on whether they were also investigating. A spokesperson for the

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Geneva prosecutor's office declined to comment on whether any measures

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were taken in the city. Arian De Rothschild also appeared

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in the files released by the US Justice Department in January,

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which showed that she kept a year's long personal correspondence

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with Epstein before his twenty nineteen arrest. After the files

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were released, a spokesperson for the bank said that Epstein

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was a business acquaintance of Dorothschild from twenty thirteen to

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twenty nineteen. Doroths Child had no knowledge of Epstein's conduct,

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The spokesperson said, of course, not everybody had amnesia. Nobody

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saw a thing, and as bankers, they certainly had no idea.

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So look, I think the big takeaway here is that

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we're just scratching the surface of what Epstein was up to,

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not only in America but over in Europe. So Like usual,

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we'll keep an eye on all of it and when

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we have some more information, we'll update the catalog. All

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the information that goes with this one can be found

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