Sunday, February 06, 2022

It Was Never About A Virus

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.

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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

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Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

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Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

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If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

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“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”

 

(Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose wisdom we ignore at our own peril)

 

I know that; you know that, the ones who want the status quo know that:

Canada's chief public health officer says provinces are going to have to find a balance between containing the virus with public health measures and returning to a sense of normalcy as the Omicron wave continues to crest.

 

This liar: 

The only mention of mask-wearing recommendations listed in the timeline was on April 7th when a Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health issued a statement “supportive of wearing non-medical masks as an additional layer of protection.” 

However, Dr. Tam had repeatedly advised Canadians against wearing masks as far back as March. 

“Right now there is no need to use a mask for well people,” said Tam during a March 28th briefing. 

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“For me, a model is only as good as the data inputted and we need to know what the underlying assumptions and the data are. Why is their modelling so different from the modelling everywhere else?”

The Center for Disease Control in the U.S., for example, forecasts a decrease in cases over the same timeline as Dr. Tam’s graph shows the rocket ship-like trajectory.

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Canada’s chief public health officer Theresa Tam admits that there is no evidence vaccine passports work. 

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Blacklock’s Reporter says Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, is refusing to appear for questioning at the Commons ethics committee.

MPs had asked her to explain a data scoop that saw the Public Health Agency collect information on 33 million cellphone users.

“She refused to come before committee,” New Democrat MP Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, Ont.) said Monday.

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A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) document explaining why the agency approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine was removed from the agency’s website overnight.

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Fully vaccinated Canadians who experienced a COVID-19 infection should wait at least three months to get a booster shot after symptoms start or testing positive, according to Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI).

 

Why? It doesn't help.

 


Why not now?:

Prepare to delete QR codes from your phones. They will soon be useless.

On Facebook Live on Thursday evening, Premier Jason Kenney said: “Early next week the COVID cabinet committee will approve a plan for the careful lifting of public health measures, beginning with the Restrictions Exemption Program.”

He promised “a firm date to end the REP and do it in the very near future.”

 

 

They were never on our side:

 

 

So many memes:

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Waltz THAT, Australia:

 


Viruses are BIG business:

Fauci and Lane were “collecting royalties on an AIDS treatment they’re testing on patients using taxpayer money.” Both doctors “acknowledged they were unwilling to tell interleukin-2 patients about the royalties on consent forms until NIH developed its policy.” That policy had been in place since May of 2000 but not followed, so “hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients in NIH experiments made decisions to participate in experiments that often carry risks without full knowledge about the researchers’ financial interests.” 

The NIH did not implement the disclosure policy until 2009, “almost five years after HHS officials pledged to disclose such arrangements to patients.” So Fauci was indeed on the gravy train, and the NIAID-NIH bosses weren’t exactly up front about it. Taxpayers and unwitting participants in medical trials might dial back to Fauci’s first “treatment” for AIDS.

 

This Fauci:

There are so many lessons to be learned from missteps during this pandemic, such as the rushed vaccines, the damaging lockdowns, the denial of sound early treatments, the disregarding of natural immunity, and so on. In my opinion, the most important lesson is that we must get back to science that is fact-based, Objective Science. Any scientific conclusions must be vigorously debated based on raw data, and no one should be allowed to claim to represent science.

Facts and truth are stubborn. They are sometimes slow in coming, but they do bubble to the surface eventually. Dr. Fauci and company tried very hard to suppress the scientific investigation that SARS-CoV-2 might have escaped from a laboratory. Now, it has become an accepted possibility, after all attempts to find a natural origin failed.

 

 

Austria makes the flu shot the law:

 Austria is set to become the first Western democracy to impose a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on its citizens after its president signed the measure into law on Friday.

The law, which will come into power tomorrow, makes Covid vaccination mandatory for all adults except pregnant women and those with a medical exemption. 

Those who refuse to get the jab can face fines up to 3,600 euros (£3,050) after mid-March following an 'introductory phase' that will see a staggered roll-out.

President Alexander Van der Bellen's signature was the final step after the controversial bill that easily passed through Austria's parliament.

While the sense of urgency in Austria has largely evaporated, officials say the mandate still makes sense.

'The vaccine mandate won´t immediately help us break the omicron wave, but that wasn´t the goal of this law,' Health Minister Wolfgang Mueckstein said Thursday before parliament's upper house approved the plan. 

'The vaccine mandate should help protect us from the next waves, and above all from the next variants.'

Austrian cities meanwhile have seen demonstrations in which tens of thousands have protested mandatory vaccination on an almost weekly basis ever since the measure was announced in November.




Let's Follow the Money

The story so far:

The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe says it will stop payments to the organizers of Freedom Convoy 2022 and refund donors directly because the protest violates its rules on violence and harassment.

 

Yes, about that

The Freedom Convoy blockade at Parliament yesterday completed its sixth day amid MPs’ claims lawless truckers were attacking passersby on the streets of Ottawa. Preliminary data show police-reported street crime actually fell since the blockade began: “There have been no riots, injuries or deaths.”

 

Uh, that's theft:

GoFundMe says it won’t be giving the C$10 million ($8 million USD) raised to support the truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates to the organizers anymore, saying it will instead work with the organizers to send the funds to “established charities verified by GoFundMe.” ...

 

However:

The GoFundMe fundraising platform said Feb. 5 it will automatically refund donations made to a trucker convoy in Canada protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates after backlash.

 

No word on the money Justin has or the money that Catherine McKenna lost:

In 1978, the Power Corporation formed the Canada-China Business Council with Prime Minister Trudeau’s support,” Schweizer writes, noting that the Canada-China Business Council was a key tool for Beijing to foster ties to powerful Canadian politicians to the benefit of the Communist Party.

“Trudeau and Desmarais guided Canada’s relationship with Beijing, with Trudeau as prime minister pushing closer relations with the regime while Desmarais cashed in on significant deals with Beijing’s elite,” Schweizer writes. “When Trudeau retired from politics, he went to work at Power Corporation, further nurturing those deals and becoming wealthy in the process.” ...

“In 2012,” Schweizer reports, “he [Justin Trudeau] outlined his support for a controversial energy deal involving the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation, which was seeking to acquire the Canadian energy company Nexen. There were concerns about the significant implications to national security and possible damage to ‘Canadian interests and values.’”

Trudeau justified his support for the deal in part because, according to Schweizer, “obviously, my family has historical ties with China.”

Trudeau also faced a barrage of criticism for depending on China for pivotal infectious disease supplies at the height of the first wave of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Trudeau’s government chose Chinese companies over Canadian ones to purchase masks, gloves, and other personal protective equipment. Outraging much of the population, Canada had to scramble to replenish its supplies of this equipment – buying it from China – because Trudeau gave away much of it in free “foreign aid” to China.

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After leaving GoFundMe, the convoy has raised an additional $3 million:

The Canadian “Freedom Convoy” raised more than $3 million on GiveSendGo after GoFundMe removed its campaign amid controversy over how the nearly $10 million would be handled.


This Is Not Going the Way They Hoped

The squealing minority who could do their public sector work from home, banged pots and pans and Instagrammed their third jabs must be stunned by what is happening: 

As an ongoing protest impeding travel to the United States border enters Day 8, police have been monitoring several other demonstrations taking place around Alberta Saturday in solidarity with anti-vaccine-mandate protesters in Ottawa.

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A video of farmers breaking through a blockade.

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Thousands gathered on the grounds of the Ontario legislature in Toronto on Feb. 5 to oppose COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates, as police barricaded vehicle access to the area.

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Why, Doug, you're shaking:

Demonstrators are set to converge on the legislature on Saturday in support of the Ottawa protesters. Premier Doug Ford appears to be crossing his fingers that they don't bring anywhere near the level of disruption as experienced in the downtown of the nation's capital.

"I just hope it's always a peaceful protest," Ford told Hamilton radio station 900 CHML on Thursday morning, when asked about what Toronto police are calling a planned demonstration. "If people want to come down and protest, God bless 'em. I understand their frustration. I really do." 

It's significantly different from the way Ford reacted to a 200-person anti-lockdown protest in the early months of the pandemic.

"We have a bunch of yahoos out in the front of Queen's Park, sitting there, protesting," Ford told a news conference in April 2020. "These people, they're absolutely irresponsible, it's reckless to do what they're doing. Personally, I think it's selfish."

 

Election in June, Doug.

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Really? Because when Caledonia was under siege and railway lines were blocked and pipeline building disrupted, no one arrested you lot:

linda manyguns, associate vice-president of Indigenization and decolonization at Mount Royal University, says she is offended by what has taken place over the past week at Coutts, Alta., as an impasse has complicated travel to the southern border for days.

"It's obvious that there is some sort of preferential treatment to some portions of society that can demonstrate and shut down borders," said manyguns, who uses only lower-case letters for her name to acknowledge the Indigenous struggle for recognition.

(Sidebar: you're not ee cummings. That should be E. E. Cummings.)

Demonstrators began parking their trucks and other vehicles near the Coutts crossing Saturday in solidarity with similar events in Ottawa to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and broader public health measures.

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Oh, cram it!:

An Algonquin elder from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg says truck convoy protesters in downtown Ottawa and their supporters, some of whom have been conducting First Nations ceremonies, are overstepping their boundaries.

"We don't know who these people are," said Claudette Commanda. 

"We never provided any permission for anyone to use any portion of our unsurrendered, unceded homeland for any of this kind of rally, gathering, protest or even ceremonies."


It's called freedom.

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More than 100 vehicles taking part in a protest convoy arrived in Quebec City Thursday night ahead of a rally planned this weekend in front of the National Assembly.

The first of several convoys expected to roll into the province's capital was comprised mostly of pick-up trucks, SUVs and cars — many of which were decked out with Canadian and Quebec flags. Earlier in the day, a handful of people were already at the protest site, sporting yellow vests and setting up signs. Local police say they got there by foot.

Organizers of a protest scheduled for Saturday say they are demonstrating in show of support for protesters who have been occupying Ottawa for nearly a week. They are demanding an end to public health measures, including provincial vaccine mandates, masks and restrictions.

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You do know what you can do with your tickets, right?:

Ottawa police said more than 450 tickets have been issued in connection with the anti-mandate protests in the city since Saturday morning.


 

Let's make something clear: YOU are cancelling important medical procedures and only you:

Two hospitals near Ontario’s legislature have cancelled a small number of appointments and Toronto police are shutting down nearby roads in anticipation of Saturday’s planned protest against COVID-19 measures.

Women’s College Hospital said its urgent care clinic would not offer in-person appointments Saturday — though it opened an additional clinic on Friday — and Mount Sinai said it recommended its ambulatory clinics review appointments and reschedule non-urgent care.

 


Pączki!:


 

Maybe it's because Justin is hiding all the time:

A new survey shows that only a quarter of respondents approve of how the Liberal government has handled the trucker convoy protest against government-imposed COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.



Oh, that must burn:

Despite the Ottawa Police briefly raising the possibility of a military intervention to clear a stubborn holdout of Freedom Convoy truckers blockading their downtown, the Canadian Armed Forces have been quick to say they will be doing no such thing . A spokesperson for the Minister of Defence told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, “The Canadian Armed Forces are not involved in law enforcement in this situation, and there are no plans for such CAF involvement.” 

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Local towing companies are rejecting Ottawa police requests for help towing ‘Freedom Convoy’ trucks out of the downtown core, according to a senior police source.

The source told CTV News Ottawa that even if police decided to tow the trucks from the downtown streets they have been clogging up for the past week, they wouldn’t have enough tow trucks to do it.

Police outreach to tow truck companies across the city has been rebuffed, the source said.



The Desperation of the Bribed Press

Imagine an industry so imaginatively and morally bankrupt that it would take government money (read: taxpayer money) and characterise a popular movement fuelled by understandable discontent as anti-social and the handful of willfully blind counter-agents as "resistance". 

Imagine no more:

The mayor of utopian Seattle, during an outbreak of pure lawlessness, put the capstone on the folly by describing it as the beginning of “a summer of love.” A statement—let me coin a word—of such “dim-wititude” that it should be inscribed on granite and put outside the municipal offices under a bust of the mayor. Elsewhere in so many other cities there were nightly rampages, attempts to burn down police buildings, “occupations,” vast destruction of property, and mass looting. The works. ...

Here in Canada, we have had (as I am writing) six days of protest, in one city, and the dynamic is almost perfectly opposite. The protest has been actually not “mainly” but overwhelmingly peaceful, and the political and major press response, wildly alarmist and ominous.

Ottawa shops remain with their windows intact, no assaults on police stations or police being bombarded with sticks and stones, no “armed patrols” by the truckers telling people where they could go or not go, and a splendid number of rather endearing incidents that have failed to make it to national or local press.

 

Indeed:

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The Freedom Convoy blockade at Parliament yesterday completed its sixth day amid MPs’ claims lawless truckers were attacking passersby on the streets of Ottawa. Preliminary data show police-reported street crime actually fell since the blockade began: “There have been no riots, injuries or deaths.”

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The CBC yesterday clarified its claim the Kremlin was behind a Freedom Convoy truckers’ protest at Parliament Hill. The assertion was not factual, the Crown broadcaster said: “There is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, or perhaps even instigating it.”

 


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Protests over Canada’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for truckers have spread from Ottawa to Toronto and Quebec city in what police officials have described as “a nationwide insurrection”.

Thousands turned out to support the Freedom Convoy on Saturday, with Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly reporting that around 7,000 protesters and 1,000 vehicles had descended on the streets of the nation’s capital alone.

Some demonstrators rode through the city on horseback, with one rider seen waving a “Trump 2024” flag in videos and photos posted on Twitter.

The huge crowd was met by around 300 counterprotesters, with police warning that - even with all officers on duty and hundreds of other officers drafted in to help - they do not have enough manpower to close the blockade down.

 

But I was told that this was a "fringe minority".

Could Justin have been lying this whole time?

Hhhmmm ....

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For the second consecutive weekend, protesters opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic-related restrictions took to the streets of Metro Vancouver.

Unlike last weekend, however, the convoy met organized resistance in the City of Vancouver.



Those who hold leashes are definitely no better:

RCMP is disputing claims made by Premier Jason Kenney that their officers have been assaulted by truckers blockading the Coutts border crossing in southern Alberta.

“I am not aware of any assault on any of our officers,” RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters told the Western Standard.

“I can confirm there was a number of vehicles that breached our barricade north of the blockade. The vehicles drove in fields and in the divide between the highways and ended up travelling southbound in the northbound lanes causing a head-on collision.”

Peters said the vehicles were travelling “fast and dangerously” causing RCMP officers to have to react quickly to avoid the vehicles. 

 

Yes, about that: 


And they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.


Japanese Martyrs

We need that strength now:


 


Wednesday, February 02, 2022

Mid-Week Post

Your mid-week prediction of spring ...


Day five of the convoy protest and Justin still hasn't shown his face outside of his hiding spot.

 

 

Because "transparency":

Attorney General David Lametti spent nearly $123,000 in a legal bid to conceal records on the firing of Chinese scientists at a federal lab. The legal expenses included payments to unnamed third party lawyers: “Solicitor-client privilege is waived and only to the extent of revealing the total legal costs.”

Typical of the government, really

The Liberal government gave notice Tuesday that it will re-introduce Bill C-10, which has generated substantial controversy over fears it would infringe on freedom of expression, meaning it could be tabled as soon as Wednesday. ...

Scott Benzie, CEO of the Buffer Festival, which features online video, said, “You can’t use a broad term like professional content and write legislation without knowing who it’s actually going to affect.”

The legislation may not even include such a definition; the broadcasting act update was always meant to set up the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission to regulate online platforms the way it does traditional media, with the details to be left to the CRTC to work out.

Benzie said leaving that definition to the CRTC, which has “zero institutional knowledge” outside the traditional broadcasting sphere which it currently regulates, “is troubling to say the least.”

He noted there’s a wide of range of potential definitions for professional content – for instance, if it’s limited to creators who make money from their posts, that could include someone who makes a dollar all the way to someone who may have dozens of people working for them. Their income can also come from outside sources, like crowd funding.

He said there was no way that a system could be implemented to track when something becomes professional content. ...

University of Ottawa professor Michael Geist, who was one of the biggest critics of C-10 in the last parliamentary session, said no other country regulates user-generated content the way that bill attempted to. He pointed out that in Europe, which has extensive regulations for online services, those regulations are based on platform, not content. That means large streaming services that decide on their content are regulated, but “services that rely on third parties for their content (i.e. user generated content)” are not.

He said regulating content when what the government wants to do is regulate platforms is “bad policy.”

“In fact, if there were efforts to distinguish between different types of content, it could cause enormous harm to Canadian creators who find themselves on the wrong side of the regulatory divide with their content de-prioritized and rendered harder to find. Pitting Canadian creators against each other is terrible policy,” Geist said.

He said the original bill raised a number of concerns, over the idea of regulating user-generated content, prioritizing and de-prioritizing content for “discoverability,” as well as “the enormous uncertainty caused by a bill that left so many specifics to a regulatory process that was likely to play out in the courts for years.”

Geist said that while “the government may tweak the bill, I fear that all three of the concerns may play out again.”

 

This bill, same as the old bill.

 

 

As of now, Erin O'Toole is no longer the Tories' official yes-man:

 

And all it took was a failed election and a convoy to oust him.

Now do Justin. 

 

 

Desperate to discredit a nation-wide movement:

A trucker blockade in southern Alberta at the United States border turned violent Tuesday after some protesters breached police barriers to join the demonstration and Mounties backed off out of concern for safety.

 

Yes, about that:


 

 So goes Canada, so goes Australia:

Reports of a 65yo woman knocked to the ground stirred further conflict with other campers including a man in his seventies who was pepper-sprayed in the eyes, having to be carried off by bystanders.

People were seen cheering the man as he was carried away for assistance and several from the crowd came to embrace him in emotional scenes as the man pleaded to 'hold the line' and to 'keep fighting'.

In a statement earlier in the day, police said:

"ACT Policing is engaging with protesters and campers who are located near the Patrick White Lawns adjacent to the National Library in Parkes.

"This afternoon (Wednesday, 2 February 2022) ACT Policing will ensure people at this location are aware they are parked and camping illegally and may be subject to fines and other penalties.

"Move-on orders may be issued in the coming days.

"The rights of people to peacefully protest is always acknowledged by ACT Policing, however when illegal actions take place, the people responsible will be dealt with in accordance with the law."

Many of those who attended the 'Convoy to Canberra' have established a camp on the grassed area where they have been united in a bid to have their messages heard by politicians.

The camp has been steadily growing since the convoy, led by truck drivers, made its way to the nation's capital on Monday morning.

Since then, waves of the convoy have made their way in trucks, buses, cars and motorcycles to protest in Canberra.



Over a thousand federal employees have been suspended for refusing to reveal their jabbed status:

Transport Minister Omar Alghabra’s department has suspended dozens of employees without pay for declining to disclose their vaccination status. The transport workers are among more than a thousand federal employees denied pay or benefits under a vaccine mandate: “Follow the science.” 

 

This science: 

At the end of December, the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) for Covid was around 0.3 per cent or one death in 333 cases, whereas the death rate for flu sits between one death in 1,000 and one fatality in 500, or between 0.1 and 0.2 per cent.

Previously in May 2020, the Covid case death rate culminated to as high as 15 per cent, accounting for one death in six cases.

However, millions of Omicron infection cases have turned into fewer death in the last few weeks.

It is very possible that, despite millions of Covid cases in December and January, winter mortality this year will not even come to a bad flu year.

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Lockdown measures used by governments worldwide to reduce the death toll from COVID-19 had little to no effect on mortality, according to three researchers who analyzed 24 studies.

The researchers, led by Steve Hanke, co-founder of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, screened 18,590 studies to select the 24 papers used for the final analysis.

They concluded that lockdowns in Europe and the United States pared the mortality from COVID-19 by 0.2 percent on average. Shelter-in-place orders reduced mortality by 2.9 percent on average, they found.

“While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted,” the researchers wrote.

“In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

 

 

The US deployed three thousand troops to eastern Europe:

President Joe Biden has approved the deployment of nearly 3,000 American troops to eastern Europe in the coming days amid a standoff with Russia over Ukraine in what the Pentagon said on Wednesday was signal of U.S. readiness to defend NATO allies.

The deployments are above and beyond the 8,500 troops the Pentagon put on alert last month to be ready to deploy to Europe if needed. Together, the moves aim to reassure jittery NATO allies in the face of a Russian military buildup near Ukraine while avoiding new deployments to Ukraine itself, which is not part of NATO.

A source familiar with the details said 1,700 would deploy from Fort Bragg in North Carolina to Poland and another 300 from the base to Germany. About 1,000 Germany-based troops would to head to Romania, the source said.

The Pentagon said it was not ruling out additional deployments beyond those announced on Wednesday.

 

How quick to make a show for Mr. Putin. 



Awful:

At least 24 people perished in a landslide in Ecuador's capital Quito, and 12 others were missing, Mayor Santiago Guarderas said on Tuesday, as rescue teams searched homes and streets covered by mud following the worst deluge in nearly two decades.

The torrential rains on Monday night caused a build-up of water in a gorge near the working class neighborhoods of La Gasca and La Comuna, sending mud and rocks down on residences and affecting electricity provision.

The country's disaster management agency said 48 people were injured.

"We saw this immense black river that was dragging along everything, we had to climb the walls to escape," said resident Alba Cotacachi, who evacuated her two young daughters from their home. "We are looking for the disappeared."

 

Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Not At All Quiet On the Eastern Front

 A slow-moving tinder-box:

Lithuania and Germany are in talks on increasing Germany's military presence in Lithuania "in light of current events", Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday.

Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops near the Ukrainian border while demanding a redrawing of post-Cold War security arrangements in Europe.

"We are talking about possibilities to expand, increase the German and the Enhanced Forward Presence forces in Lithuania, as we need to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO in light of the current events", Nauseda said at the Siauliai air base.

Germany is leading an international battlegroup of more than 1,000 soldiers in Lithuania, one of four Enhanced Forward Presence missions sent by NATO to the Baltic states and Poland in 2017 in response to Russia annexing Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.

A German Defence Ministry spokesperson said on Friday he was not aware of plans to increase German military plans in Lithuania.

"There are definitely contingent rotations coming up, but this would not lead to an increase. Of the reinforcement forces, it is not planned to send any to the battlegroup. I do not know anything to the contrary," he told reporters in Berlin.

Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said plans were already in place for additional allied troops to come to Lithuania, including where they would be deployed. He did not detail the plans.

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Latvian political leaders are pitching a plan to boost defence spending to better deter Russian expansionism, and are asking Canada and Western allies for military assistance to bolster the NATO alliance’s eastern flank.

Rising tensions between NATO and Moscow over the future of Ukraine have added fresh anxiety to long-standing fears among Latvia and its two Baltic state neighbours, Lithuania and Estonia, that they might be next if Kyiv falls under Russian control.

Latvia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Artis Pabriks and Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins are pitching the country’s parliament on raising military spending to 2.5 per cent of annual economic output from a 2.3-per-cent target. Latvia, with a population of 1.9 million, is spending about $1-billon on defence in 2022.

Mr. Pabriks said Latvia can’t properly equip itself alone so he’s been calling U.S. politicians. He said he would also like help from Canada, among others, if possible.

 

No, it's not possible.

Sorry.

Canada hasn't the means and Justin is a pansy.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rejected for now a Ukrainian request for weapons saying he believes a diplomatic solution is needed to handle Russian aggression.

 

In your hands?

Ukraine is screwed. 

You might as well have lied about whatever firepower you had lying around, Justin.

 


Yes, I Read It, Too

Why not just withdraw from the UN?:

The United Nations has announced that North Korea will chair the world disarmament forum which negotiated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, sparking calls by an independent monitoring group for the U.S., the EU, and UN chief Antonio Guterres to strongly protest, and for their ambassadors to walk out of the conference during the four weeks of the North Korean presidency, starting on May 30, 2022. 


We Don't Have to Trade With China

It's not like the Chinese government even cares about its own people:

Japan's parliament adopted a rare resolution on Tuesday on what it called the "serious human rights situation" in China, and asked the government to take steps to relieve the situation.

Japan has already announced it will not send a government delegation to the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, following a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott over concerns about China's human rights condition, although Tokyo avoided explicitly labelling its move as such.

Since taking office in October, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said on multiple occasions that Japan would not mince words with China when necessary, and in November appointed former defence minister Gen Nakatani as his aide on human rights.

The resolution, adopted by the lower chamber, said the international community has expressed concerns over such issues as internment and the violation of religious freedom in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tibet and Hong Kong.

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Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday urged their government to take action against a “serious human rights situation" in China, drawing a quick and angry rebuke from Beijing.

The resolution passed by Japan's lower house stopped short of naming China, but expressed “concern about serious human rights conditions including the violation of religious freedom and internment in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong" — all of which are ruled by China.

The parliamentary vote came days ahead of the Feb. 4 start of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Japan had announced a decision not to send a government delegation to the opening, following a similar U.S. move that cited China’s human rights abuses.

The resolution urged the Japanese government to further assess the human rights situation in China and cooperate with the international community to protect victims.

“Human rights hold universal values and are of a legitimate concern for the international community,” the resolution stated.

China denies allegations of human rights abuses, calling them the “lie of the century."

 

Oh, China. Just walk back. 

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Come on, Jeff. You're good for it:

Tang Mingfang was jailed after disclosing illegal work practices at a factory making Amazon products.

Tang says he was tortured during the police interrogation process that led to his conviction.

He has called on Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos to support an appeal against his conviction.

 


It's Just An Economy

No need to worry about it:

The federal government’s bumbling ineptitude has resulted in many missed opportunities, lowered living standards and contributed to Canada’s reputational decline. A case in point is the fact that Ottawa has impeded Canada’s potential to become a world leader in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, which would be a boon for the economy and help reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions.

LNG is a booming business right now. It is the best hope of getting developing countries, where coal is king, to drastically reduce emissions. It’s one of the cleanest fuels around, it’s easy to transport long distances and it’s safe.

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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department said it has not yet finalized definitions to fulfill a promised ban on “inefficient” oil and gas subsidies. The work has been ongoing for seven years: “There is no simple set of words.”

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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department confirms more exemptions from renewable fuel regulations that would hike the price of gasoline and diesel. Exemptions were meant to “address affordability concerns,” said a briefing note: “The Clean Fuel Standard has been narrowed.”

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I suspect that the numbers are much worse:

The federal government ran a budget deficit of $73.7 billion for the April to November period of the current fiscal year.

The Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $232 billion in the same period a year earlier.

Program spending, excluding net actuarial losses, between April and November totalled $289.5 billion, down from nearly $386.4 billion a year earlier.

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The worst inflation scare in more than 30 years is adding a new uncertainty to Canadians’ financial future. 

Statistics Canada’s consumer price index rose at an annual pace of 4.8 per cent in December, the fastest since 1991.  

Households have noticed. For the first time in more than a decade, inflation is one of the top three concerns Canadians have about their retirement, according to RBC’s Financial Independence in Retirement Poll. 

Some 29 per cent of respondents said the rising cost of fixed expenses (rent, mortgage, food, etc.) is hindering their ability to save more money.

Worry seems to be more acute among younger people: 40 per cent for those aged 25 to 34 said inflation was beginning to pinch. A majority (85 per cent) of the younger age group is also the most worried about balancing saving for today with saving for the future.

According to Statistics Canada, costs have gone up in almost everything. Food prices rose 5.2 per cent from December 2020, while home and mortgage insurance costs climbed 9.3 per cent. Supply-chain disruptions also led to higher prices in durable goods such as passenger vehicles and household appliances.

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It’s not your imagination: Food is getting more expensive. Grocery prices have jumped 5.7 per cent over the past year, the sharpest increase in a decade. Bacon prices are up 19 per cent. Condiments have risen 10 per cent. And fresh fruit is up 5.6 per cent.

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Lies aren't cheap:

Subsidized newspapers face hard times without more federal concessions, a publishers’ lobbyist has written MPs. Jamie Irving of New Brunswick’s billionaire Irving family said dailies are in dire shape despite hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ grants: “News publishers are facing an existential threat.”

 

 

We Were Always At War With Eastasia

 ... say the Year Zero people:

The Trudeau government has committed itself to purging or rewriting hundreds of historical plaques and monuments commemorating Canadian history in a revisionist attempt to “decolonize” the country.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, this means that a tenth of federal historical landmarks erected since 1919 are going to be revised or completely removed.

The purges will include “major political figures” like Canada’s first prime minister Sir. John A. Macdonald, those “associated with Residential School history” and anybody “associated with the eugenics movement.” 

 

Like Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Tommy Douglas:

The proposal, known as the 1969 White Paper, was launched by one of Trudeau’s ambitious young cabinet up-and-comers, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Jean Chrétien. It was a monumental disaster. You can date today’s activism to the backlash generated by Trudeau and Chrétien. It makes educational reading for anyone wondering why so little progress was made between 1867 and 1969 — or today for that matter — or who thinks carting off a few statues and renaming some schools is a solution to anything.

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Mr. Douglas argues in his thesis that one of the key causes of poverty are subnormal families, ones that are mentally inadequate – “anywhere from high-grade moron to mentally defective” – of low moral character and/or a burden on the public purse.
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Historic references to Pocahontas will be removed from signage at an Alberta forest, managers at Parks Canada said yesterday. Removing other names considered dated or awkward will take time, said the agency: ‘We encourage Canadians to educate themselves on Canada’s brutal history.’

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Oh, my! The Narrative!:

Visible minorities earn as much as a tenth more than White men, Statistics Canada said yesterday. Minorities were also likelier to live in big cities, achieve university degrees and remain single without children: “More than 60 percent of Korean and Chinese men and more than 40 percent of Arab, West Asian, Japanese and South Asian men had a university degree compared with 24 percent of white men.”

 

I'm Sure It Is Nothing to Be Concerned With

 Indeed:

 

If Free Speech Was Banned, Justin Wouldn't Have Had to Run Away Like A Crying Little Girl

And he means to get censorship right this time around:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promised timeline for online hate reforms is nearly up, with experts saying it appears “unlikely” the government will table the bill before Feb. 3.


Only Little People Follow Laws

To wit:

The House of Commons ethics committee has called for a halt to the Public Health Agency of Canada‘s plans to collect data from millions of mobile phones as a way to understand travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The committee passed a motion Monday calling on the federal government to suspend plans to extend the collection of cellphone location data until its members are satisfied the privacy of Canadians will not be affected.

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Canada’s chief public health officer is refusing to appear for questioning at the Commons ethics committee. MPs had asked Dr. Theresa Tam to explain a data scoop that saw the Public Health Agency collect information on 33 million cellphone users: “That’s not a small thing.”


 

The Rolling Effect of Convoys

What delicious civil disobedience!:

CUPE Paramedics of Windsor-Essex criticized governments across Canada for supporting vaccine mandates on Thursday, borrowing some steam from the Truckers for Freedom Convoy and continuing the chapter’s defiance of the position of the national union. 

“If you initially supported mandates, you’re forgiven,” said CUPE Paramedics of Windsor-Essex in a since-deleted eight-part Twitter thread on Thursday. “If you still support mandates, you may just be authoritarian and have a propensity for evil.”

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Ask them in summer:

A slim majority —  54 per cent of those polled — said they agreed with ending all restrictions and allowing Canadians to manage their own level of risk, while 32 per cent strongly agreed.

These sentiments, however, are subject to considerable division across the country. Data shows the provinces that agree most with ending restrictions are Saskatchewan (with 62 per cent), and Quebec (with 59 per cent). The majority of Atlantic Canada, 52 per cent, disagree with easing restrictions.

 

Why not be like Denmark? Haven't you the courage? Or will you blink like the Quebeckers did and end up not paying a stupid tax anyway? 

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It Was Never About a Virus

But something much larger:

 

Federal employees who declined vaccination say they have been ridiculed, harassed and threatened. Workers in a lawyers’ letter to the Treasury Board said suspending unimmunized staff without pay amounted to wrongful dismissal: “There are many reasonable and practical alternatives.”

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I'm sure that the convoy and the fact that it has taken nearly three years to flatten the curve of a flu virus no one really wanted to get on top of had nothing to do with anything:

The overarching goal of Freedom Convoy 2022 was for the federal government to declare the immediate lifting of all COVID-19 mandates across Canada.

It was, at root, a politically unrealistic demand, given that most mandates are imposed at the provincial level. But there is nevertheless a growing chorus of politicians and health experts now saying that it’s time for Canada to officially abandon extraordinary COVID-19 measures and “learn to live with” the virus.

“We have let our lives be controlled for the last two years in a significant amount of fear and now we are going to have to change some of that thinking,” Ontario’s top doctor Kieran Moore said in a public address last Thursday.

Moore added, “we can’t eliminate this threat, in fact, we have to learn to live with it.”

Eileen de Villa, medical officer of health for the City of Toronto, similarly said last Friday that residents should gird themselves for a future in which COVID-19 is managed like influenza.

“Some flu seasons are worse than others. We know it has impact on our health-care system, and yes, it does make a number of people sick, unfortunately, and yes, unfortunately some people do lose their lives to it,” she said, adding that Canadians must nevertheless “find ways of balancing other activities of life along with the control measures.”

The statements all point to Canada eventually treating COVID-19 as an “endemic” disease: A virus that is always present within the Canadian population, but can be controlled and contained without overly disrupting civil society.

 

Read: the jig is up. People are tired of the obfuscations, the scientism, the garments of social piety plastered across faces, that the every-expanding number of shots and boosters are ineffective against any virus but work perfectly if one wants one's heart enlarged, the obscene power-grabs, the squashed professional and academic careers ... Indeed, the Great Reset.


Also - oh, the government won't grant everything:

The Church of God in Aylmer and the Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo were charged in the spring of 2021 for various infringements of the public health restrictions put in place to help curb the spread of the virus.

Church leaders held in-person gatherings despite provincial prohibitions, getting fines and charges under the Reopening Ontario Act. 

Eric Adams, a constitutional law expert, isn't involved in the case, but spoke to CBC News on what can be expected during the hearing.

"The burden will be on the churches to demonstrate that their rights have been infringed by these public health measures, and they'll actually have an easy time doing that and the government won't dispute it," said Adams, a vice-dean with the University of Alberta law school.

 

Oh, I think it will. 

 

 

It's like Ontario wants to regress:

Dr. Gerald Evans, an infectious diseases physician and member of Ontario’s science advisory table, said three doses should now be the definition of fully vaccinated.

(Sidebar: yes, about that -  "The protection offered by the Oxford-Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine declines after three months of receiving two doses, a study says.

The findings – drawn from datasets in two countries – suggest that booster programs are needed to help maintain protection from severe disease in those vaccinated with Oxford-Astra Zeneca, experts say.

Researchers from Scotland and Brazil analyzed data for two million people in Scotland and 42 million people in Brazil who had been vaccinated with the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine.

In Scotland, when compared with two weeks after receiving a second dose, there was approximately a fivefold increase in the chance of being hospitalized or dying from Covid-19 nearly five months after being double vaccinated.

The decline in effectiveness begins to first appear at around three months, when the risk of hospitalization and death is double that of two weeks after the second dose, experts say.

The risk increases threefold just short of four months after the second vaccine dose. Similar numbers were seen for Brazil."



More:

Both NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca called for vaccine certificates to require third doses, saying it would help encourage more people to get boosters.

“With lives and livelihoods at stake, we cannot afford Doug Ford bungling another reopening,” Del Duca wrote in a statement this month.

“He needs to strengthen the vaccine certificate now to make sure this reopening is permanent, so that we can all get back to doing the things we love sooner, and so that businesses are not shut down again.”

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“On the truckers side, I’ve always supported truckers from day one,” Ford said. “But I support vaccinations. It’s very simple. That’s how we have been able to slowly get out of this [pandemic], and that’s how we’ll continue to slowly get out of it.”

 

You don't support them at all, Doug. 


Also - RE: so-called vaccines:

Berenson noted that data from around the world show that people who are vaccinated but not boosted are at higher risk of Omicron infection than the unvaccinated.

Recent data from Scotland showed that COVID cases were highest among the double vaccinated and lowest among unvaccinated.

Berenson argues that the data clearly show that encouraging booster shots “for anyone—including the elderly—at this point is reckless, bordering on criminal.”

“mRNA Covid vaccinations and boosters need to stop worldwide while we figure out what is happening. Not next week. Not tomorrow,” he said.

What may be happening is known as antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), a phenomenon that increases the ability of a virus to enter cells and strengthen the disease.

Two of the world’s top virologists believe ADE is driving the pandemic.

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Considering the FDA, CDC, Anthony Fauci, and pretty much everyone else in healthcare who is beholden to Big Pharma has promoted jabbing pregnant women despite evidence that it dramatically increases the risk of miscarriage, this is an extremely evil move. As we previously reported, military data indicates a 300% rise in miscarriages in the first 10 months of 2021 compared to the previous five-year average.

This would seem to betray the notion that the data is “insufficient.” Moreover, they have mountains of data from the EUA Moderna Vaccine which is reportedly the exact same formulation as “SPIKEVAX.” But the FDA and Moderna are using a hideous loophole. By relabeling this “version” of the drug, any damning data collected regarding the current experimental jabs on the market are not counted in their safety studies.


As long as no one uses Ivermectin, right?

 

 

What can go wrong?:

Roughly $1.8 billion of the amount for the White House rollout came from the Department of Defense (DOD). The department awarded two contracts to the lab on Jan. 13 and Jan. 26, respectively, which would bring more than 354 million Chinese-made kits—or about a third of the total—to U.S. homes.



See, It's Alright When THEY Do It

Ahem:

Critics are calling on the federal government to introduce new rules for online fundraising campaigns after a fundraiser for this weekend's protest in Ottawa against vaccine mandates raised millions of dollars — in part from anonymous donors and people using fictitious names.

Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May said the GoFundMe fundraiser for the protest convoy raises concerns about whether such campaigns could be used by big businesses or foreign state actors to circumvent Canada's political financing rules.

"If this isn't worrying, it certainly exposes a possibility that is very worrying, which is that you can be not a political organization, not registered with Elections Canada but find the right kind of dog whistle and put up a GoFundMe campaign," she said.


I'll just leave this right here: 

In addition to lobbyists, foreign donors have also been giving more to the foundation in recent years. Chinese national Bin Zhang, who made a $200,000 gift to the charity following a cash-for-access Liberal fundraiser with prime minister Justin Trudeau, has been the focus of heated debate in the House of Commons. The gift, which was first reported by the Globe and Mail, counted as a domestic donation, since it was made by a company registered in Canada.

Under Elections Canada rules, only Canadian citizens and permanent residents can make federal political donations, but foreigners with an interest in Canadian public policy are free to donate to the Trudeau Foundation.  Foreign donations to the foundation have increased significantly in recent years.

 

I'm sure these things have nothing to do with anything:

The Department of Health paid a Chinese manufacturer for more than $11 million worth of vaccine syringes, according to Access To Information records. The disclosure comes ahead of Monday’s deadline to begin a federal boycott of China-made medical supplies at federal offices nationwide: “We’ve signed a contract for millions of syringes.”

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The federal government has trumpeted previous vaccine partnerships with a China-based company as one of the reasons why Canada was pinning its hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate from China early in the pandemic.

But The Fifth Estate has reviewed those partnerships and found that a collaboration with McMaster University in Hamilton stalled years ago and never resulted in an approved vaccine anywhere in the world.

That collaboration has been of little benefit to the university or Canada. Instead, both the company, CanSino Biologics, and McMaster are now independently racing to develop similar COVID-19 booster vaccines.

Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a former federal public servant who negotiated Canada-China science and technology agreements, said the CanSino-McMaster vaccine arrangement may turn out to be "a case study of what not to do in partnerships with China."

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China’s Winter Olympics “remain a priority for international diplomacy,” says a Department of Canadian Heritage briefing note. MPs voted unanimously to petition to relocate the Games from Beijing in protest over human rights atrocities: “I don’t think the athletes are concerned,” ...

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China buying a Canadian lithium mining company is part of a wider strategy by the Chinese to become “dominant in global high-tech manufacturing,” an analyst told a parliamentary committee Wednesday.

 

 

If My Workplace Was Surrounded By Thousands of Very Angry People ...

 ... I wouldn't try to anger them further.

But Justin's innate stupidity always gets the better of him. He truly believes that he will be insulated from a protest so massive that it has sparked international attention and imitation.

You're done, Justin:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from a secure location on Monday to denounce the thousands of truckers and their supporters rallying in Ottawa as “tinfoil hats” whose behaviour has disgusted him.

 

I'm disgusted by a racist groper who ruins a perfectly good economy because he believes that what his daddy meant him to do that, so ...

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“I think Erin O’Toole is going to need to reflect very carefully on how he’s walking a path that supports these people who do not represent truckers,” Trudeau said.

 

First of all, moron, people do support this very popular movement and secondly, you tried this childishly absurd tactic of blaming MP Girl Name for everything during the last election in which you received significantly less than previous ones. The truckers aren't made at him (or just him).

You're the one who ran away from them. 

 



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