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G20 Signs Declaration for International Vaccine Passport

Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked

• November 30, 2022

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The G20, a group of 19 nations — including the U.S. — plus the European Union, recently held their annual business meeting (B20) in Bali, Indonesia, where they declared that a digital vaccine passport, standardized by the World Health Organization, will be part of international pandemic prevention and response moving forward
• The rule for standardized international vaccine passports will be introduced as a revision to the international health regulations during the next World Health Assembly in Geneva
• The G20 recommendations also include the creation of guidelines for a globally coordinated response to crises, “enhanced by a technology-enabled ‘always-on’ global health infrastructure,” and a mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccines made by G20 members
• President Biden signed the declaration despite the promises made by his White House COVID-19 Response Team leader, Jeff Zients, who in April 2021 stated, "Let me be clear that the government is not now, nor will we be supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a [vaccination] credential”
• The fact that the COVID shots do not prevent spread of infection has now been established many times over. This alone proves that vaccine passports are not for the purpose of containing epidemics. An international vaccine passport is the gateway to complete totalitarian control, because the entire control grid around a person gets tied together by it

As noted by former U.S. Rep. Dr. Ron Paul in the video above, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab and other globalist leaders substitute truth with their own opinions. They decide what’s right and wrong; they decide what’s right for everyone. They dictate what’s "true" on any given day.

Anyone who disagrees with them is an "enemy of the state" — they being "the state" or, more accurately, the Deep State, the hidden power behind the apparent power of official government. Who are the members of this cabal? There’s no official membership list, but over time many of the individual players have become discernible.

The globalist cabal includes but is not limited to government heads, bankers and members of nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) and liberal think tanks around the world.

One way in which the cabal hides its undemocratic influence is by having its members in dozens of different organizations. When several organizations agree on an issue, it makes it appear as though there’s a majority view, a consensus. But in reality, it’s the same small group of individuals asserting their agenda.

G20 Green-Light International Vaccine Passports

The G20, a group of 19 nations — including the U.S. — plus the European Union, recently held their annual business meeting (B20) in Bali, Indonesia, where they declared that digital vaccine passports, standardized by the World Health Organization, will be part of international pandemic prevention and response moving forward.¹

Source: Council on Foreign Relations²

Part of the policy declaration³ reads:⁴

"We support continued international dialogue and collaboration on the establishment of trusted global digital health networks as part of the efforts to strengthen prevention and response to future pandemics, that should capitalize and build on the success of the existing standards and digital COVID-19 certificates."

The rule for standardized international vaccine passports will reportedly be introduced as a revision to the international health regulations during the next World Health Assembly in Geneva.⁵

What this means is that when the next pandemic is declared, only those who have this digital health certificate will be allowed to move about freely and travel internationally. And, of course, only those who have been appropriately tested and/or vaccinated will have a valid passport.

In addition to adopting an international digital vaccine passport, the G20 recommendations also include the creation of guidelines for a globally coordinated response to crises, "enhanced by a technology-enabled ‘always-on’ global health infrastructure," and a mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccines made by G20 members.

Schwab Tells Us What the G20 Are All About

Aside from key government leaders, high-profile globalists such as Schwab were also in attendance at the G20 meetings. In his B20 keynote address, Schwab highlighted the cabal’s agenda and goals:⁶

"What we have to confront is a deep, systemic and structural re-structuring of our world … [The] world will look differently after we have gone through this transition process."

Part of that worldwide restructuring of society that the WEF, the G20 and many other organizations are working in lockstep to achieve is the implementation of a global vaccine passport, which all of the G20 members have now agreed to. In the case of the U.S., President Biden signed the declaration despite the promises made by his White House COVID-19 Response Team leader, Jeff Zients, who in April 2021 stated:⁷

"Let me be clear that the government is not now, nor will we be supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential. There'll be no federal vaccination database, no federal mandate requiring everyone to obtain a single vaccination credential."

Basis for Vaccine Passports No Longer Exist

If you’re a rational person, you’re probably thinking, "But wait, the COVID jabs don’t prevent infection or spread, so there’s no basis for vaccine passports anymore." Indeed, this fact has now been established many times over. This alone proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that COVID vaccine passports have nothing to do with public health or safety.

An international vaccine passport is the gateway to complete totalitarian control, because the entire control grid around a person gets tied together by it.

Their purpose is not to prevent or contain pandemics. They’re a control mechanism,⁸ and a really important one. Vaccine passports are THE gateway to complete, totalitarian control of the populations of the world. The globalist cabal desperately needs everyone to have this passport, because the entire control grid around a person gets tied together by it. This is why fighting for informed consent is so crucial.

But how is the G20 getting around the obvious fact that the COVID passports are useless for their stated purpose? They ignore it, and instead stress that everyone also needs a digital identity, and this digital COVID certificate does both.

Outside their own circle, this rationale makes no sense whatsoever, but as noted by Dutch legal philosopher Eva Vlaardingerbroek, the fact that vaccine passports are sold based on a fraudulent premise is now "so obvious that they've thrown logic out the window."⁹

Their decisions make no sense, and they have no intention of making them sensible. They’re banking on being able to entrap us in their control system, at which point they’ll be able to tell you the moon is made of cheese and you’ll have no way of correcting them without losing everything.

Digital Identity Is Total Surveillance to Control You

As reported by Sociable:¹⁰

"In August, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 99-page guide book¹¹ on the implementation of digital documentation of COVID-19 certificates, aka vaccine passports, stating that ‘a health pass based solely on individual vaccination status may increase the risk of disease spread.’

This is because the COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ were never proven to prevent transmission nor infection, and it recently came to light in the European Parliament that Pfizer never even tested its product for stopping transmission. Despite this knowledge being publicly available, the B20 is still recommending proof of vaccination as a means to travel …

Vaccine passports, by their very nature, serve as a form of digital identity, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). A digital identity encompasses everything that makes you unique in the digital realm, and it is a system that can consolidate all of your most personal intimate data, including which websites you visit, your online purchases, health records, financial accounts, and who you’re friends with on social media …

[D]igital identity schemes can give governments and corporations the power to incentivize, coerce, or otherwise manipulate human behavior under a system of social credit. Digital identities can be used to determine what products, services, and information are available to us, and they can certainly be used by public and private entities to deny us that access."

Source: World Economic Forum¹²

In March 2021, Naomi Wolf, author of "The End Of America," warned that accepting digital ID will be the end of all freedom:^13,14

"I cannot say this forcefully enough: This is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned … Vaccine passports sound like a fine thing if you don’t know what those platforms can do.

I’m CEO of a tech company, I understand what this platform does. It’s not about the vaccine, it’s not about the virus, it’s about data. And once this rolls out you don’t have a choice about being part of the system. What people have to understand is that any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform with no problem at all."

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver has also issued a warning, saying:¹⁵

"Digital health or vaccine passports along with tracking and tracing apps present a serious threat to freedom. Vaccine passports and tracking apps are about collecting data and control. The vaccine passport is being promoted worldwide to limit a person’s ability to leave home, work, shop, dine, travel, attend a public event, or even worship.

COVID is being used to advance this dangerous threat to freedom. We must never accept vaccine passports or tracking apps as the new normal. The implications for freedom are significant."

Vaccine Passports Are Gateway for Complete Financial Control

When vaccine passports first became a topic of international discussions, many of us saw the writing on the wall and warned that such an implementation would become a tool for complete financial and physical control, and would automatically eliminate basic human rights and freedoms.

At the time, we were labeled crazy conspiracy theorists, but it didn’t take long before our worst fears were confirmed. Your vaccine passport will be your digital identity (as confirmed by the WEF), and to that digital identity they plan to add a programmable central bank digital currency (CBDC) and a social credit score. These plans are not a conspiracy theory. They’re out in the open.

When you add all of those ingredients together — vaccine requirements for maintaining a valid passport, a digital identity, a social credit score and programmable CBDCs — you end up with a control grid that will eliminate your freedom to live life according to your own desires.

Even your diet can then be dictated by these megalomaniacs. They’re hell-bent on eliminating your ability to eat meat, for example. The whole world, especially the Western world, must transition to insect protein, they say. Meanwhile, you will not find meal worms and crickets on the menus at their globalist gatherings.¹⁶ No, insect protein is for the expendables.

COVID Is Used as a Path to Global Financial Surveillance

Once vaccine passports/digital identity and CBDCs are in place, the global cabal will be able to control your physical movements, behaviors and purchases based on how well you conform to their ideals, no matter how irrational, immoral, unethical, unfair or dangerous those may be. As reported by The Daily Sceptic:¹⁷

"It’s seemed evident for a while that the current fiat monetary system is, at best, unstable. At worst, it’s a Ponzi scheme whose time has expired. If that’s the case, I suspect the central bankers and 0.1% know this and might be prepared to usher in the new system before the old one collapses on itself — even as they loot it on the way down with the most significant wealth transfer in human history.

To anyone who pays attention to these trends, it seems evident that Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) will be that new system. Every indication is that CBDC’s arrival is imminent. [November 15, 2022], several global banks announced a partnership with the New York Federal Reserve to pilot digital dollars^18,19 …

From my vantage point, it’s impossible to overstate the risk presented by CBDC. Whether it’s a utopian vision based on good intentions or a sinister plot to crush our sovereignty, the result may be the same: control. A Central Bank Digital Currency has all the downsides of fiat money, plus the added layers of surveillance and programmability overseen by the state.

So many people on Team Reality have likely felt like dissidents over the last few years simply for challenging anything beyond the herd mentality … Imagine a monetary system with features baked-in to socially engineer how we live. For example:

•Health: ‘You didn’t take your booster … you’re not allowed in public spaces.’

•Energy: ‘You used your energy allotment this month … your electric car won’t start.’

•Food: ‘You ate too much meat this week … your money is only good for plants (or bugs).’

•Savings: ‘If you don’t take your rations soon … your money will expire at the end of the month.’

•Free Speech: ‘You shared info that we disagree with … our algorithm is fining you.’ (PayPal has already started doing this) …

As we saw with the lockdowns, China is the model emulated in the west. Like the creep towards health-related authoritarian measures, unelected globalists with financial interests lurk in the background …

If you have yet to notice, a primary theme of the last three-plus years (at least) is ‘freedom vs. control’, so it’s not hyperbole to suggest that the future must be decentralized if we want to ensure our children grow up in a free world."

Globalists Have Overplayed Their Hand

If there’s a silver lining in all of this, it’s that the globalist cabal — the "deep state" that pulls the strings of governments around the world, the hidden power that is making decisions that are devastating for the entire world — overplayed their hand during COVID, exposing their heinous ideologies and plans for all the world to see. As noted by Maajid Nawaz in an interview this past summer (video above):

"When dogma defines your behavior you’re no longer looking at reality … so you’re going to be less pragmatic … That leaves serious blind spots. You end up not seeing reality for what it is, and that is why they ended up overplaying their hand. They’re not looking to reality, they’re looking to their dream, their ideal, which is actually a nightmare.

One great thing that happened during COVID is they overplayed their hand. They exposed themselves … There’s now very little doubt, among those who have heard of the World Economic Forum, that it’s attempting to influence how we do government and politics …

Why do we have an unelected bureaucrat, and a foreign one at that, telling us how to live our lives …? It doesn’t make sense. But then we go further. Why do they all seem to be beholden to this unelected foreign bureaucrat? Why do they all appear to be doing this man’s bidding? … Why can’t they just say no?"

As noted by Nawaz, the government leaders who are not saying no to Schwab for some reason cannot say no, likely because they’ve been compromised. Compromising and blackmailing officials on behalf of the globalist cabal was Jeffrey Epstein’s specialty, and there’s no reason to assume their secrets died with him.

Those with cleaner records may have been threatened into compliance. I would add a third possibility, and that is that they’re in on it because they share the globalists ideals, which include not only top-down authoritarianism but also transhumanism and eugenics. A fourth possibility is self-preservation. They may simply want to secure their own position within the ruling echelon in the new world of "have it alls" and "have nothings."

We Now Know What They’re Capable Of

Whatever the incentive, the problem they now all face is the fact that they’ve prematurely exposed themselves and their plans. They’ve also exposed how far they’re willing to go. For example, we know they’re willing to seize your bank account and close down your ability to transact over something as minor as making a donation to a cause they don’t like or posting "wrong"-think on social media — and that’s without the benefit of CBDCs!

So, they’ve already shown us what they WILL do once CBDCs are in place. The only difference is that penalties can then be automated. Is this a world you want to live in? Is this what you want for your children and grandchildren? If not, it’s your duty to be the resistance.

Adults today are the last generation that will be able to prevent this global tyranny. If we do nothing, our children will be ensconced in a digital prison they won’t be able to break free from. So, we cannot leave it to them. It’s up to us. So, when CBDCs are rolled out, we must reject them, no matter how inconvenient that might be. When vaccine passports are rolled out, we must reject them, despite the limitations that might bring.

In 2021, countless people were coerced into taking the jabs because they wanted to travel, fearing travel bans for the unvaccinated would be permanent. Well, they weren’t, because enough people pushed back.

We may have to endure limitations if we refuse the coming international vaccine passport, but if enough people around the world refuse, the system won’t work, and those limitations will prove to be temporary. The only way any of the globalists plans can become permanent is if we do as we’re told and go along with them.

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Is It Time to Start Growing Your Own Food?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In an "unprecedented effort," researchers from the University of Washington analyzed decades of research on unprocessed red meat and found weak evidence that it is associated with six common health problems
• Uma Valeti is the cofounder of Memphis Meats, which is now Upside Foods. The company focuses on cultivated meat grown from cells extracted from an animal; the company has not produced a single product but is valued at $1 billion
• Investors in Upside Foods include Bill Gates and some of the largest companies in traditional meat production, who likely hope to be in on the ground floor of the industry that is designed to put them out of business
• While it may seem that the current push for fake food is incredibly shortsighted as it requires large amounts of electricity and uses animal serum to grow the cells, it makes more sense when you consider that it gives the elite greater control over the food supply, and therefore the population

Scientists from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) published a systematic review of the literature in Nature Medicine¹ in which they found weak evidence of any association between unprocessed red meat and several health conditions, including hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke.²

For decades, red meat has been vilified as being unhealthy, cancer-promoting and artery-clogging, but in 2019, a paper³ from Dalhousie University in Canada demonstrated that if there were health benefits from eating less beef, they were minimal. The New York Times wrote, “The new analyses are among the largest such evaluations ever attempted and may influence future dietary recommendations.”⁴

The researchers concluded that there was “low to very low” evidence that red meat triggered health problems. The publication date was November 19, 2019. Yet, the prerelease triggered a response before the publication date⁵ from organizations like the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society.

They came out against the paper stating it not only contradicted years of findings, but the data collected from over 4 million participants could “erode public trust in scientific research.” Also interesting is that the researchers did not differentiate between participants who ate CAFO beef or pastured, organically raised beef. Concerns raised around the study include the challenge CAFO production has on climate change and environmental pollution.⁶

It is crucial to note there are viable means of producing beef and poultry using regenerative farming and animal husbandry strategies that are not only humane but also protect the environment from the CO2 emission created by CAFO production and plant-based “meat” products.

As I have reported before, a Carbon Footprint Evaluation report⁷ for White Oak Pastures — an organic, grass fed livestock operation — shows that when you include enteric emissions, manure emissions, soil carbon capture, vegetation carbon, miscellaneous farm activities, slaughter and transport, and the total net carbon emissions, this type of beef production has a negative 3.5 kilos of carbon emissions per kilo of fresh meat.

This means an integrated, holistic system of regenerative farming is six times more carbon efficient than the average CAFO.⁸ The same cannot be said for GE soy, which is the basis for plant-based “meat” products. Data show GE soybean and corn farms are a primary source of water⁹ and air pollution.¹⁰

Decades of Data Show No Evidence Red Meat Is a Health Risk

Three years later, in what the Big Think¹¹ calls an “unprecedented effort,” scientists from the University of Washington analyzed decades of research on red meat and used a rating system that ultimately dispelled concerns. In a press release from the university, they summarized the study saying:¹²

“We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Moreover, we found no evidence of an association between unprocessed red meat and ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke.”

The researchers used statistical analysis to evaluate relationships between six health outcomes and the consumption of unprocessed red meat. The researchers also wrote that there is weak evidence that unprocessed red meat is associated with an increased risk of disease and mortality.¹³

The researchers also used a burden of proof risk function statistical analysis to evaluate evidence of risk between pairs of factors. The function translates to a star rating system that was developed by IHME¹⁴ using over 30 years of data quantifying risk factors:

• One-star rating indicate that there may be no true association between the behavior or condition and the health outcome.
• Two stars indicate a zero to 15% change in the likelihood of a health outcome.
• Three stars indicate at least a 15 to 50% change.
• Four stars indicate at least a 50 to 85% change.
• Five stars indicate a more than 85% change.

Based on these star rating categories, the researchers believe that unprocessed red meat paired against colorectal cancer, breast cancer, Type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease are two-star pairs.¹⁵ When unprocessed red meat was paired against ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, the analysis showed they were one-star pairs.

In other words, based on their data analysis, there was no true association between eating red meat and ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke and the likelihood of the other four health conditions being associated with eating unprocessed red meat was 15% or less. In a commentary about the study, Dr. Steven Novella, a Yale neurologist, theorized the risk of a high meat diet may lie in not eating enough vegetables. He wrote:¹⁶

“The evidence for a direct vascular or health risk from eating meat regularly is very low, to the point that there is probably no risk. There is, however, more evidence for a health risk from eating too few vegetables.”

‘No Kill’ Meat Unethical and Not Slaughter-Free

Uma Valeti¹⁷ is a cardiologist and the cofounder of Upside Foods, which cultivates meat "directly from animal cells to satisfy our cravings, our conscience, and our heart."¹⁸ Cultivated meat is grown from cells extracted from an animal through a needle biopsy.

These cells are then fed nutrients so they can grow into slabs of meat.¹⁹ After biologists, engineers, and biochemists spent years experimenting with the concept, they are now waiting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration to start selling these cultivated meat products to consumers.

NPR reporter Allison Aubrey toured Upside Foods’ 70,000-square-foot facility and signed a waiver before tasting a piece of chicken, a product that is not legal to sell yet in the U.S. She wrote:²⁰

“My first reaction: "It's delicious." (Isn't everything in wine-butter sauce?) And the texture was chewy, closely replicating the texture of chicken breast (minus bones, and tough bits or gristle.) "It tastes like chicken," I said, to which Valeti quickly replied, "It is chicken!"”

However, while the product may resemble chicken meat and the industry boasts that it is produced humanely, cultivating meat has relied on fetal bovine serum (FBS) as a growth medium. This serum is a blend of growth-inducing proteins usually made from the blood of animals.²¹

But it isn't just any blood. FBS is harvested from the hearts of unborn calves when pregnant cows are taken to slaughter. A paper published in 2002 describes it as “commonly harvested by means of a cardiac puncture without any form of anesthesia. Fetuses are probably exposed to pain and/or discomfort so the current practice of fetal blood harvesting is inhumane.”²²

A 2017 paper²³ described the challenges of scaling the growth of cultivated meat using FBS and discussed the growth medium under investigation:

“Most recently, releasates of activated human donor thrombocytes (human platelet lysates) have been shown to be one of the most promising serum alternatives when chemically defined media are not yet an option.

Additionally, new developments in cell-based assay techniques, advanced organ-on-chip and microphysiological systems are covered in this report. Chemically-defined serum-free media are shown to be the ultimate goal for the majority of culture systems.”

In other words, the industry recognized the unsustainability of using serum from calves in an industry that claims to produce meat without slaughter and moved to human donor thrombocytes with the goal of creating a nonbiological, serum-free medium in the lab. At the close of 2021, Upside Foods announced they had achieved an animal component-free cell feed for the cultivated meat industry.²⁴

They achieved this with the help of biotech and pharmaceutical scientists. Upside Foods is not the only cultivated meat manufacturer waiting for FDA approval. SCiFi Foods,²⁵ based in San Leandro, California, also uses FBS, but they claim it is only used in research and development and not in the production of their commercial products.

SCiFi burgers are not just beef cells but are also combined with plant-based ingredients. Good Meat is a third alternative, which is already delivering cultured meat in Singapore.²⁶

Cultured Meat Costly to Produce and Raises CO2 Emissions

On another note, the production of cultured meat raises CO2 emissions in the environment as large amounts of electricity are required to maintain the stainless-steel tanks in which the meat cells are grown.

Additionally, it is costly to produce these chicken and beef planks. Bruce Friedrich of the Good Food Institute tracks investment trends and is a lobbyist. He spoke to NPR,²⁷ saying that until the price becomes competitive, it's likely that the products will have only a niche market.

The evidence is clear. There is a push to control the food supply and ensure that many people are unable to access real food. Cultured meat products have moved from harvesting cells from animals and using inhumanely acquired FBS as a growth medium to creating a “chemically-defined, serum-free” growth medium.

How long will it be before scientists get rid of the animals altogether and create meat cells in the lab? After all, scientists are also working on meat grown from human cells harvested from the inside of your cheek.²⁸ How much further will they push these sinister plans?

More Potential Problems With Cultured Meat

Cultured meat is different from the ultraprocessed synthetic plant-based beef products produced by Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and other companies. While researchers have tracked the many health dangers of ultraprocessed foods, the short-term and long-term problems associated with cultured meat have yet to be analyzed.

When you consider how quickly mRNA shots were brought to market and distributed to the population with little concern about the long-term health effects, it should come as no surprise that the industry and the FDA don't appear to be concerned about the long-term effects of eating meat products grown in large vats bathed in chemically defined growth medium.

This might be because experts estimate the industry will be worth trillions of dollars. Upside Foods was formally called Memphis Meat.²⁹ Along the way Valeti changed the name and won over investors including Bill Gates. The company, which has not produced a single product, is now valued at more than $1 billion.

Upside Foods has attracted other investors like Tyson and Cargill, which are some of the largest companies in traditional meat production, that likely hope to be on the ground floor of an industry designed to put them out of business.

Industrializing the global food system with fake foods and fake meat will ultimately threaten mankind's survival. Elitists are pushing for fake foods in the name of sustainability and going green, while it is clear that it is a key driver in a destructive environmental cycle.

While it may seem that the current push for fake food is incredibly shortsighted, it makes more sense when you consider that it gives the elite greater control over the food supply, and therefore the population. In 2021, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy’s Food Compass³⁰ was unveiled and called “a new tool to help consumers, food companies, restaurants, and cafeterias choose and produce healthier foods and officials to make sound public nutrition policy.”³¹

However, it's apparent that the ranking tool has some serious problems. Case in point: Frosted Mini Wheats scores three times higher than ground beef (87 out of 100, compared to 26), as illustrated in a graph posted on Twitter by independent journalist Nina Teicholz.³² It is unimaginable that ultraprocessed food would score higher than whole food.

Yet, it offers an excuse for people to eat poorly and rely on high-cost pharmaceutical drugs for their health. Evidence³³ continues to demonstrate that people eating the highest amount of ultraprocessed foods are likely to die sooner of cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease and have a higher rate of all-cause mortality.

Once living animals are eliminated and replaced with patented alternatives private companies will effectively control the food supply in its entirety, and they will be the ones profiting from it. By controlling the food supply, private corporations can ultimately control countries and entire populations. If we allow this trend to continue, biotech companies will eventually push farmers and ranchers out of the equation.

Looking down the road, it's easy to see that patented foods threaten food security — they don't strengthen it. When you shop for meat, look for a local organic farmer or Demeter (biodynamic) and American Grassfed Association (AGA) certified meats. These accreditations designate foods produced under high-quality, sustainable and environmentally sound practices.

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