Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.
Former President Donald Trump on Friday announced a sizeable fundraising haul in the wake of his guilty verdict in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case.
A New York jury on Thursday found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records after a weeks-long trial. The verdict appears to have energized his supporters, however, as the campaign’s donation page crashed, evidently due to the volume of traffic.
The campaign on Friday announced it had brought in $34.8 million in small dollar donations, marking a near-doubling of its single largest day total on WinRed.
“From just minutes after the sham trial verdict was announced, our digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with support, and despite temporary delays online because of the amount of traffic, President Trump raised $34.8 million dollars from small dollar donors,” said Trump Campaign Senior Advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles.
“Not only was the amount historic, but 29.7% of yesterday’s donor’s were brand new donors to the WinRed platform,” they continued. “President Trump and our campaign are immensely grateful from this outpouring of support from patriots across our country. President Trump is fighting to save our nation and November 5th is the day Americans will deliver the real verdict.”
Trump faces sentencing on July 11 and is likely to appeal his convictions.
X and cable news network NewsNation are planning to host live town halls with former President Trump and independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., two sources familiar with the plans told Axios.
State of play: The pair have agreed in principle to separate live interviews as part of a new video series, titled “The People’s Town Hall,” per the sources, though the dates and locations have yet to be set.
The Biden campaign has not agreed to take part.
A spokesperson for the Biden campaign declined to comment. The Trump and RFK Jr. campaigns did not respond to requests for comment.
Why it matters: While every other social network in the country is retreating from politics, X is looking to lean in as part of its wider push into creator video.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said last week that X paid out over $50 million in ad revenue to creators since she became CEO last year.
The live feeds will be available to all X users globally.
Details: The new live town hall format will allow users to submit questions to debate moderators before the event and in real time, a source familiar with X’s plans told Axios.
Moderators will have final say over what is asked. Moderators for each event have not yet been determined, but they will likely include at least one NewsNation host, alongside other journalists.
X will create a live event page for each town hall to promote the live feed and curate conversations around the event.
Sources told Axios that Yaccarino approached NewsNation parent Nexstar about the concept. The idea, from her point of view, is to make X the destination in which everyday people can have a greater voice in the political process.
The big picture: The new venture comes as more campaign events shift to new platforms.
NewsNation, an upstart cable news network, hosted the fourth GOP presidential primary debate last December — its first major election event. That debate was watched by more than 4 million people across NewsNation and its sister network, the CW.
What’s next: Biden and Trump have agreed to participate in a June 27 presidential debate hosted by CNN.
RFK Jr. has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) about the criteria for reaching the debate stage.
Trump and Biden have both accepted invites from ABC News for a debate on Sept. 10, Axios has reported. Trump said that he also accepted a debate with Fox News in October.
The US aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (File photo)
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Yemen’s military spokesman says the country’s armed forces have targeted US aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea in response to deadly overnight attacks by America on the Arab country.
“The missile force and the naval force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a joint military operation targeting the American aircraft carrier ‘Eisenhower’ in the Red Sea,” said Yahya Saree in a televised statement.
“The operation was carried out with a number of winged and ballistic missiles, the hit was accurate and direct, thanks to Allah,” he added.
Saree said this was a response to aerial strikes by the US and UK on several targets across the Arab country, which he said targeted civilians in a “blatant violation of all international laws and a full-fledged war crime.”
The American and British warplanes attacked the Yemeni capital Sana’a as well as the governorates of Hudaydah and Taiz.
Yemeni officials say the attacks on Hudaydah targeted the Radio building and the Coast Guard facility and several commercial ships, killing at least 16 people and injuring 41 others.
The Yemeni spokesman vowed the country will not hesitate to respond directly to every new aggression on Yemeni territories, and that it will target all hostile American and British targets in the Red and Arabian seas.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have staged numerous pro-Palestinian strikes since October 7, when the Israeli regime began the Gaza war.
American and British warships have been carrying out attacks against the Arab Peninsula nation to force Yemen to stop its operations against Israeli vessels or those heading towards the ports lying in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Yemen has responded to those strikes by launching attacks on American and British assets in the Red Sea and other waters near Yemen.
On Thursday, Yemeni leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi vowed Yemeni forces will continue their military operations and escalate them “in quality and quantity” in support of Palestinians.
Yemeni rage
Also on Friday, the streets of Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, were filled with a sea of people expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause and advocating for sustained support for the Gaza Strip.
The participants commended the Yemeni military’s recent actions against vessels associated with Israel, the US and UK, especially the Yemeni forces’ strike on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier.
Amidst a display of Yemeni and Palestinian flags, the demonstrators carried signs that condemned the systematic eradication inflicted upon the Palestinian people by the US and Israeli forces.
Similar rallies were held across the Arab country, including the governorates of Sa’ada, Ma’rib, and Rayma.
Marking the 33rd consecutive week, these pro-Palestine demonstrations have become a regular occurrence in Yemen, beginning shortly after the initiation of Israel’s war on Gaza Strip.
Consumer Reports is continuing to sound the alarm on plastic chemicals in food, with the advocacy group again targeting General Mills for producing a range of products found to contain risky and unintended ingredients.
Advocates on Thursday delivered a petition signed by more than 30,000 to General Mills’ headquarters in Golden Valley, Minnesota, calling on the company to address potentially hazardous plastic chemicals in its food.
At issue are plasticizers, a chemical that makes plastic more flexible and resilient, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Studies have linked the substances to potential health risks including interfering with the production of estrogen and hormones, and diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and birth defects.
“Given that steady exposure to even very small amounts of these chemicals over time could increase health risks, we urge Annie’s and General Mills to immediately take the necessary steps to monitor and eliminate the presence of these chemicals across all of your brands,” the petition stated.
Thursday’s event follows tests by Consumer Reports earlier this year of 85 different foods. It found the highest concentration of phthalates — the most commonly used plasticizer — in a canned plastic product made by Annie’s Homegrown, an organic brand owned by General Mills. In addition to Annie’s Organic Cheesy Ravioli, other General Mills products found to contain the plasticizer included the Yoplait, Cheerios, Green Giant and Progresso brands.
In a letter sent to the company in February, Consumer Reports also alerted General Mills to “concerning” levels of phthalates in several of its products.
“We did test a variety of foods, and some of the highest concentrations were in General Mills’ products,” Brian Ronholm, director of food policy for Consumer Reports, told CBS MoneyWatch. The company needs to identify the source of the chemicals, which could stem from products supplied by third parties or during its production processes, Ronholm said.
Plastic chemicals wind up in food primarily through packaging and exposure to plastic and tubing, with conveyor belts and plastic gloves possible culprits, Ronholm noted.
“Food safety is our top priority at General Mills. All our products adhere to regulatory requirements, and we review our ingredients, packaging and suppliers on a regular basis to ensure quality,” a spokesperson for the company said in an email.
Plastic chemicals are nearly impossible to avoid, but consumers can limit their exposure by using glass instead of plastic storage containers and water bottles, Ronholm said. “There are no regulatory requirements at this point,” said Ronholm, who also urged federal regulators to devise rules covering the substances.
The Food and Drug Administration allows nine phthalates to be used in food production, but doesn’t permit the chemicals to be directly added to food, a spokesperson for the agency told CBS News. The FDA in 2022 requested information for scientific research on how phthalates are used in food, including the chemicals authorized for usage as a “plasticizer” — an additive in plastic food wrapping.
“The agency may use this information to update the dietary exposure estimates and safety assessments for the permitted food contact uses of these phthalates,” the FDA spokesperson said.
Hulscher, N., Cook, M., Stricker, R., & McCullough, P. A. (2024). Excess Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Mortality after COVID-19 Vaccination in King County, Washington. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.1665.v1
Hulscher et al from the McCullough Foundation led a team of investigators that relied on the annual data reports and integrated them with COVID-19 vaccination and population statistics. This is an ecological analysis without individual case record data, so only broad population level inferences can be made.
“Approximately 98% of the King County population received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 2023. Our analysis revealed a 25.7% increase in total cardiopulmonary arrests and a 25.4% increase in cardiopulmonary arrest mortality from 2020 to 2023 in King County, WA. Excess cardiopulmonary arrest deaths were estimated to have increased by 1,236% from 2020 to 2023, rising from 11 excess deaths (95% CI: -12, 34) in 2020 to 147 excess deaths (95% CI: 123, 170) in 2023. A quadratic increase in excess cardiopulmonary arrest mortality was observed with higher COVID-19 vaccination rates. The general population of King County sharply declined by 0.94% (21,300) in 2021, deviating from the expected population size. Applying our model from these data to the entire United States yielded 49,240 excess fatal cardiopulmonary arrests from 2021-2023.”
These data are extremely worrisome given the rise in all-cause mortality observed in the United States that has been thoroughly investigated and reported by analyst Edward Dowd in his book “Cause Unknown”: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 & 2023. Hulscher and colleagues found despite a pandemic decline in county population, both cardiac arrest events and fatal outcomes increased with vaccination. These findings among many others strongly support removal of all COVID-19 vaccines from public use and immediate clinical and research programs to stem the tide of vaccine cardiac arrests as they occur over the years after injection.
Cyprus saw a “substantial, statistically significant,” increase in mortality from all causes in late 2021 and early 2022 following the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, TrialSite News reported last week.
Researchers from Cyprus, the University of Liverpool and Harvard University found that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, total deaths in the island nation increased 34.1% and 11.8% respectively. During the first quarter of 2022, total deaths increased 30.7%.
Cyprus began its COVID-19 vaccine rollout in December 2020, but the peaks in monthly vaccination rates occurred in May 2021 and December 2021 and were followed by jumps in the mortality rates.
“We concluded that excess mortality occurs in unprecedented levels in Cyprus,” the researchers wrote. “Our findings raise serious concerns regarding the potential impact of the vaccination campaign and other causes on mortality.”
The authors published their findings in the Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. Based on the association they identified, they said, “a detailed cause-specific investigation of such a significant excess number of deaths is warranted to explore the potential factors leading to this concerning and unexplained increase in population mortality.”
The researchers analyzed mortality data from 2016-2022, as reported by the Cyprus Ministry of Health to the European Statistical Office, or Eurostat. They also analyzed weekly data on COVID-19 vaccinations and related deaths collected during the pandemic by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
Using that data, they determined average all-cause mortality rates and excess deaths over time, deaths reported from COVID-19 and total COVID-19 vaccines administered for Cyprus by age group.
They compared excess deaths before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and examined how those numbers related to the vaccine rollout.
Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., all-cause mortality researcher and former physics professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada who was not involved in the study, told The Defender:
“There’s clearly a temporal association here between vaccines and excess all-cause mortality. This association is robust, it’s unambiguous, it’s clear, it’s in the data itself.”
He said the mortality rates and the association with the vaccine reported in the Cyprus study are similar to what his team found in their own analysis of Cyprus, which is part of a larger study not yet published.
However, to confirm what caused the deaths, Rancourt said, “You have to dig deeper as the authors correctly point out to find out what is really going on here,” Rancourt added.
Data on excess deaths in Cyprus
Epidemiologists use all-cause mortality — a measure of the total number of deaths from all causes in a given time frame for a given population — as the most reliable data for detecting and characterizing events causing death and evaluating the population-level effect of deaths from any cause.
Excess death, or excess mortality, refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what would be expected under ‘normal’ conditions.
Excess mortality is a “more comprehensive measure” of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality than the confirmed COVID-19 deaths because it captures deaths from other causes, like vaccines, treatment protocols or other factors that are attributable to the “overall COVID-19 crisis,” the authors wrote.
“COVID-19 death data is notoriously not reliable,” Rancourt agreed.
Research also shows that the trends identified in Cyprus are consistent with broader regional and global trends, the authors said. Across the EU, the authors wrote, excess deaths increased in 2020 and continued through 2023, albeit at variable rates.
Cyprus, they noted, was one of the EU member states with the highest excess mortality — in 2022 it had the highest excess mortality rate in Europe, reaching 26.4%.
This was consistent with findings worldwide. For example, a study found the U.S. experienced substantial excess mortality during the pandemic. And the authors’ previously published research showed a substantial increase in mortality in Cyprus in 2021 compared to 2020, even when excluding deaths reported to be caused by COVID-19.
For their current study, the authors calculated the average all-cause mortality using pre-pandemic data from 2016-2019 and assessed how mortality deviated from that level. Before 2020, they found very little excess mortality.
They presented their findings in a series of tables and graphs.
Credit: E.C. Economidou, N. Markou, K. Prokopi, D. Avraam and E.S. Soteriades.
They found two peaks in vaccination across Cyprus’s population of 904,705 people. In May 2021, when the first peak happened, 42% of the population was vaccinated. In December 2021 at the second peak, 71% of the population was vaccinated. They found that after each vaccination peak, there was a higher rate of excess deaths, which was more severe after the second peak.
Credit: E.C. Economidou, N. Markou, K. Prokopi, D. Avraam and E.S. Soteriades.
They also noted that excess deaths remained low during the period between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus and the start of the vaccination campaign, only beginning to climb substantially after the vaccine was introduced.
Credit: E.C. Economidou, N. Markou, K. Prokopi, D. Avraam and E.S. Soteriades.
Overall there were approximately 3,000 excess deaths in 2021-2022.
High mortality rate in summer ‘unheard of’
Rancourt said there were a few interesting things in the data that the authors didn’t highlight. Cyprus typically has higher mortality in the winter and low in the summer, he said.
“It’s unheard of to have a high mortality in the summer. But in 2021, just after the main first wave of vaccination rollout, after a large number of vaccine doses had been given, there was a very large summer peak in excess mortality.”
Then, there was another peak in the spring and summer following the winter 2022 vaccine push.
In their study, the researchers again found that when they excluded the reported number of deaths from COVID-19, the increase in all-cause mortality persisted. This finding is also consistent with other studies, the authors reported.
The authors said their study was limited by their inability to explore what caused the documented excess mortality. They blamed a lack of access to detailed death certificates, which haven’t been made available to researchers.
“We call for official authorities to share information on diagnoses and causes of death from corresponding death certificates in order to further explore the underlying causes of these troublesome increased mortality findings,” they wrote.
They did note several issues identified in the existing literature that provide hypotheses about the causes of the rise in all-cause mortality and highlight “the concerns that the vaccination campaign may have contributed to this worldwide observed excess mortality.”
Many researchers have identified links between the toxicity of vaccine batches and adverse events, they noted. Rancourt and his team have linked the vaccine rollouts to unprecedented peaks in all-cause mortality in a study of 17 countries.
Rancourt said they are currently completing a study of 125 countries, including Cyprus, and their analysis of that country produced similar results to the current study.
Rancourt said his work demonstrated that there may be multiple causes of all-cause mortality from different pandemic-response-related practices, including vaccination and the application of different COVID-19 treatment protocols or the psychological stress of lockdowns and isolation.
However, frail, elderly and otherwise sick people were consistently most vulnerable to death.
Algeria proposed a draft to the UN Security Council (UNSC) on 28 May that demanded Israel “immediately halt its military offensive” in Rafah.
Amar Bendjama, Algeria’s UN ambassador, said, following a closed-door meeting of the 15-member UN bloc on Gaza, that the aid for the motion was to “stop the killing in Rafah.”
Algeria’s draft “decides that Israel, the occupying Power, shall immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in Rafah.”
It also expressed “grave concern” over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, “with the famine spreading throughout” the strip.
Algeria’s proposal also calls to condemn the “indiscriminate targeting of civilians, including women and children, and civilian infrastructure,” demanding that all parties must “comply with their obligations under international law … in particular with regard to the protection of civilians and civilian objects, and the imperative to cease depriving the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip of basic services and humanitarian assistance.”
The draft also calls for an “immediate ceasefire respected by all parties, and also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, and further demands that the parties comply with their obligations under international law in relation to all persons they detain.”
It also referred back to a ruling given by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that ordered Israel to immediately cease its military operation against Rafah.
The proposed draft also demands the “full implementation” of prior UNSC resolutions, such as 2712 from 2023, which called for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip”; 2720 from 2023, which called for “safe and unhindered humanitarian access” in and throughout the strip; and 2728 from 2024, which called for an immediate ceasefire during the month of Ramadan.
Diplomats claimed that the UN body could vote on this resolution within days.
Algeria’s draft follows multiple attacks on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah as Israel continues forward with its military operation.
An attack on Tuesday near Rafah killed at least 20 people, Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesman said four artillery shells targeted tents for displaced Palestinians in the coastal Al-Mawasi area.
On Sunday, Israeli warplanes opened fire on a designated safe area in Rafah, launching over six missiles on tents and killing at least 40 Palestinians.
To be passed, Algeria’s draft needs at least nine votes. Washington has so far protected Israel by vetoing three Gaza war resolutions and one granting Palestine full UN membership status.
Last week at a talk in Chattanooga, Tenn., a professor from Australia by the name of Ian Brighthope presented evidence, including from Dr. Peter McCullough, showing once again that vaccines cause autism.
In a “neutral tone,” Brighthope discussed Dr. McCullough’s research along with information from a 2019 corporate media report linking childhood injections to the symptoms commonly associated with autism spectrum disorder.
The 2019 report came from “Full Measure,” a weekly television news program aired every Sunday that is broadcast to about 43 million households.
“A respected pro-vaccine medical expert used by the federal government to debunk the vaccine-autism link, says vaccines can cause autism after all,” it was stated in the report. “He claims he told that to government officials long ago, but they kept it secret.”
“Meantime, CDC – which promotes vaccines and monitors vaccine safety – never disclosed that the government’s own one-time medical expert concluded vaccines can cause autism – and to this day public health officials deny that’s the case.”
A full transcript of the report, which you can also watch on YouTube below, is available here.
Vaccine-induced autism linked to gender dysphoria
Entitled “Who is Winning the Information War?” McCullough delivered his speech at the “Art of War” event. Toward the end of his speech, McCullough shared details about how the rise of vaccine-induced autism corresponds with a similar rise in gender dysphoria.
Back when McCullough was a child, autism was extremely rare – and there were a lot fewer vaccines administered back then as well.
“Autism was one in 10,000 when I was a kid,” he explained. “It’s now one in 36. It’s the biggest epidemic of childhood in U.S. history.”
While a small portion of this increase is due simply to increased screening and detection, there is still “a massive bona fide increase” that has no other explanation besides the massive increase in chemicals, i.e., vaccines and tainted food and water, that occurred during the same time period.
“It has been well demonstrated that if a child gets sick with a big round of shots and they have a seizure, there’s about a 40 percent chance that their brain is injured and that they develop autism,” McCullough said.
“There are 200 studies now linking excessive vaccination in childhood to autism.”
The problem is so serious that even the World Council for Health is urging parents to adopt a “common sense” approach to the ever-expanding childhood vaccination schedule. It is safer to just wait – and even better to just do nothing.
“Five studies show children who take no vaccines, none – they’re born healthy, they take no vaccines, they’re healthier than the kids who take the vaccines,” McCullough says.
“There are lower rates of food allergy … there are lower rates of asthma, allergic dermatitis, need for tympanostomy tubes, lower rates of attention deficit disorder, Asperger disease, lower rates of autism spectrum disorder … massive excessive vaccination is likely harming our children today.”
McCullough also discussed the epidemic of sudden infant deaths, noting that 50 percent of them occur within a week of children “taking a battery of these shots.” Like with autism, the medical establishment refuses to acknowledge any connection between vaccines and sudden infant death syndrome.
Dr. Peter McCullough: Autism, Childhood Vaccines & The Plague Of Transgenderism (Excerpt)
Brighthope also recommends reading the book “Vaccines, Myths and Facts” by Wendy Daniel, which contains a wealth of additional information about childhood injections and what they do to the bodies of innocent little ones.
In this lecture Brier describes his experience mummifying a cadaver with the help of a surgeon friend. Owing to the absence of historical documentation, it was only in this way he could fulling understand the process.
The natron they used to dehydrate the corpse (for the 36 days recommended in Rhind Bengreal Papyri – see Egyptian Mummification: The Historical Record) from Wadi El Natrun in northern Egypt.* They obtained the frankincense and myrrh from Yemen and Sudan via a Cairo street market. Placing the body in an indoor tent heated to 105 degrees F, they covered it with 600 pounds of natron. After 36 days, their corpse had lost half its body weight, though there was still evidence of moisture in the larger muscle groups. After leaving it in the natron another 25 days, it was totally dehydrated.
The replica bronze** daggers they made were too dull to open the abdomen. Instead they used a blade an anthropologist friend flake out of obsidian for them. They had to increase the abdominal incision to three inches (instead of the 2 1/2 inches Herodotus describes – see Egyptian Mummification: The Historical Record) to remove the liver (the largest organ in the body. Leaving the heart intact, they filled the abdominal cavity with little packets of natron to facilitate further dehydration.
They found the only way to remove the brain was to use a nose hook to liquefy the brain and then hang the corpse upside down to let it run out the nose. They then used the hook to repeatedly stuff linen strips into the skull cavity until it came out clean.
*Natron is a naturally occurring mineral made up of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate and sodium chloride.
**Current evidence suggests it was the ancient Egyptians who first discovered the chemistry of combining two soft metals (copper and tin) to miraculously form a hard one (bronze). Our word chemistry derives from the Egyptian “kemit (the Egyptian word for Egypt), via the Arabic word “alchemy.”
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Chances are, if you’ve been keeping tabs on the COVID “coverup,: you’ve come across this story that began to unfold in 2022. There was a sudden spike in SIDS cases in Ottawa, Canada, where nine babies died shortly after their mothers received the vaccine. One detective, named Helen Grus, took it upon herself to investigate these incidents. Yet, simply for doing her job and delving into the vaccine’s possible role, she found herself suspended and vilified.The Ottawa police settled with one of the families who felt their privacy was breached, simply because a detective was determined to get to the bottom of their baby’s death, and that’s when Grus was suspended and her life was turned upside down.
Grus allegedly contacted the deceased baby’s father on Jan. 30, 2022 to ask about the mother’s COVID-19 vaccination status, according to police documents.
After a complaint was filed against Grus with OPS, Grus was suspended with pay on Feb. 4, 2022.
Lawrence Greenspon, the family’s lawyer, said the case was settled this week for an undisclosed amount.
“Parents are not put on this earth to bury their children,” he told CTV News Ottawa.
“When a tragedy happens, the family’s privacy must be respected.”
Greenspon said the family would like to thank the Ottawa Police Service for acknowledging their grief and recognizing the importance of privacy.
Now, she’s sharing her story, exposing the depths of the biased and dystopian ‘jab coverup.’ Why on earth wouldn’t we want to uncover any potential harm caused by this vaccine? When did people become such mindless, spineless jellyfish that they take the government’s word as gospel? It’s alarming to witness this transformation, especially at a time when our government and so-called ‘experts’ are so widely distrusted and disliked.
Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus was suspended for investigating 9 babies who died from SIDS after their mothers received covid Vaccinations.
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